European leaders are mad and President Obama knows it. After NSA leaker Edward Snowden broke the news that the U.S. is keeping tabs on leaders of European countries, even those who are U.S. allies, President Obama ordered a review of who we’re snooping on and why. Jen Psaki, a State Department spokeswoman, said, “We wanted to ensure we’re collecting information because we need it and not just because we can.”
Germany and France have demanded that the U.S. put a stop to eavesdropping on leaders, companies and law-abiding citizens. The U.S. already has a no-spying agreement with Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia. Read more at CBS News.
{Andy Heller-Matzav.com Newscenter}
Really Now
Every country does it or would do it if/when they can
When Sec. of State Stimson, Henry Stimson in 1928 abolished Americas codebreaking office, famously saying that Gentlemen do not read each others mail
the rest of the world laughed with mirth
( He was invoking, as D. Kahn pointed out, not diplomatic niceties but moral ones:
[Stimson] did not say Diplomats do not read each others mail but Gentlemen do not read each others mail. For actually his point was larger. Reading anothers mail was theft and therefore wrong, not just for diplomats, but for everybody. Gentleman exemplify mans moral obligations. At the root of Stimsons observation lay not a legalism but a Commandment: Thou shalt not steal.)
Hopefully, the review is window dressing and things will continue full steam ahead, as they are now.