Though there’s been some effort to calm President Francois Hollande down enough to at least get him from making headlines with complaints, the Obama Administration has made it clear they are totally unrepentant about the revelation of blanket NSA surveillance of French citizens and politicians.
The White House statement boils down to “all nations spy,” insisting that President Obama had already addressed concerns at the UN General Assembly, and that the broad surveillance is based on “legitimate security concerns.”
Even the concession that the recording of 70.3 million French phone calls in a single month raised “legitimate questions” was quickly abandoned, with officials insisting that the reports in Le Monde had “distorted our activities,” even though they made no attempt to dispute any of the specifics of the report.
Secretary of State John Kerry, in Paris today, even went back to the old terrorism defense, insisting that the surveillance was vital “because there are lots of people out there seeking to do harm to other people.” It is noteworthy, however, that the surveillance leaks recently have centered almost entirely on NSA targeting of major foreign businesses and politicians from allied nations, not al-Qaeda.
No it doesn't look bad at all, it looks awful, it looks like taking the people's freedom and watching peoples bedroom like a psycho sick maniac. If you want to spy for the economic aspects of spying, or a political matter and etc, where in hell people's privet phone calls got to do with what NSA or USG is looking for, where in the hell peoples email NSA can find informations about either matters.
USA is a police state already, next step was showing it as one and showing it to the world that: yes we spy, yes we can spy on you all: the question is, what are you going to do about but it. Sue us! in what court, ICC we own that, subprime court, they don't have jurisdiction over NSA, which is another way saying that USA is a militarism regime playing by the rules of such.
“In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
To lie well is one thing, but to be so arrogant as to not really care if one's lie is believable leads inevitably to a backlash– something America's leaders have never dealt with very well.
NSA man hunt — Dissident kill list
So, what is the highest priority of both NSA surveillance and the Obama assassination list? For Obama is perpetuating pure corruption as the head of a most satanic and greedy Empire and the only way to squelch rebellion is to kill off all the leaders of any group that in any way opposes Empire expansion.
“all nations spy”…
Well, yes, they do. The issue here is that when dragged into the sunshine of public exposure, the act, especially between "allies" and "friends" and "partners" becomes, let's say, pornographic. In the light of day it is disgusting and not the least bit "friendly." But, in the dark, back alleys of geopolitical maneuverings, it is a fact that all countries participate in. So, yes, all nation's spy. It's just that when the one that is caught in the act has a self-proclaimed high morale standing, that "beacon on a hill" for the rest of the world to strive to emulate, the rest of the world realizes that the charade of professed friendship and trust is solely patina without substance. The foreign governments who have in the past lived with the little Machiavellian challenges from the US must now answer to their own citizens who are less likely to appreciate the machinations of the rubes from across the sea.
If nothing else comes of the exposure by Snowden, the era of unquestioning morale leadership by the US is critically damaged and until the underlying framework of how the US works with other nations changes, it will stay that way.
There's a big difference between "spying" and surveilling entire populations.
Most nations try very hard mot to get caught.