Members of Switzerland’s parliament are demanding the ouster of US diplomats who are believed to be involved in illegal spying activities out of their Geneva embassy, a revelation which came out of a WikiLeaks cable from 2005.
The cable, released by Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, cited US embassy officials “checking out” a Middle Eastern-looking couple on the grounds that they were near the embassy and had the word “Islam” on a sign inside their car.
The Swiss Justice Ministry is investigating the program, and says there is evidence of the same sort of widespread surveillance out of the Geneva embassy as the US was found to be conducting in Norway and Denmark.
However while Norway eventually conceded that certain of its officials had secretly approved of the spying (while not telling the officials launching the investigation), Swiss officials say the US approached them on the possibility of launching such operations and was rebuffed at least twice. The evidence now is that they decided to go through with it anyhow.
"the US approached them on the possibility of launching such operations and was rebuffed at least twice. The evidence now is that they decided to go through with it anyhow."
What else would one expect of a country that murders OTHER PEOPLES CHILDREN for profit………
Tries captured 15yo CHILDERN as WAR CRIMINALS for defending themselves………
Yes!!!!!! About freaking time someone in Europe and treated the US government the way they would have treated the Soviets for doing the same thing!
Probably it is only in Switzerland, in all of Europe, you will find officials actually honouring their duties to their own citizens above the US government.. The US spying in Denmark was of course routinely allowed as well! The same was the case with their communication spyings earlier, and they also were allowed in spite of official prohibitions, to anchor up in Copenhagen with nuclear weapons, or land a plane also so armed routinely in Greenland. Of course the cold war was in place then. Now it is not, but the abuse continues with the whore-politicians developed by modern spin and lies.
Maybe the Swiss should just put a 200-foot high concrete wall with a lead core around the US embassy.
Maybe the world should that wall around the entire US.
So, are the Swiss so stupid as to believe that it was only a few of the US diplomats that were engaging in this behavior? Have the Swiss not read the WikiLeaked memo in which Madam Shillary instructed all the employees of the State Department to spy on foreign dignitaries and steal their personal information including DNA? Do they really think that if they kick just a few of them, the ones that replace them won't be the same? If so, the Stoopid Award of the decade should go to Switzerland. If they want to make an example and stop this kind of behavior going forward, they should kick all the diplomats out of Switzerland and sever relations with the US.
I seriously think thids is the beginning of the end for America as a superpowe unless the American people stop it NOW.
They never leaqrn from history, the Soviet Union had the best spy apparatus in the world and they were very successful, where is their empire now?