The leaders of
Germany, France, and other E.U. countries are really angry over NSA spying. Apparently, we have been monitoring their leaders phones. It's one thing to spy on your enemies. Tapping the phones of your friends is just paranoid and unethical. Paranoid and unethical pretty well describe the Obama administration.
Fallout from allegations that the United States' National Security
Agency monitored the phone calls of world leaders and French citizens
continued Friday, as relations between America and its European allies
hit new lows.
After reports emerged that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile was monitored by the NSA, her chief of staff said Berlin presented Washington with an ultimatum:
The United States would sign a "no spying" deal with Germany and
France, as it has with the United Kingdom, doing away with mutual
espionage.
Germany, meanwhile, is planning to send its top spy chiefs
to Washington for talks with officials at the White House and the NSA
about the spying allegations. A government spokesman said Friday the
heads of the foreign and domestic intelligence agencies would “push forward” the investigation into claims Merkel's phone was under surveillance.
Perhaps they remember
Obama lies during his June 19, 2013 speech at the Brandenburg Gate:
"Our current programs are bound by the rule of law, and they're focused
on threats to our security -- not the communications of ordinary
persons. They help confront real dangers, and they keep people safe here
in the United States and here in Europe," he insisted. "But we must
accept the challenge that all of us in democratic governments face: to
listen to the voices who disagree with us; to have an open debate about
how we use our powers and how we must constrain them; and to always
remember that government exists to serve the power of the individual,
and not the other way around."
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