Instead of trying to soothe international fears of the NSA global surveillance schemes, the Obama Administration is angrily lashing out at Europe for its attempts to counter the surveillance, insisting it’s totally not fair.
The office of the US Trade Representative hit out at the Deutsche Telekom proposal to create an EU-centric communications system to cut the NSA out of the loop on intra-European phone and email conversations. Both Germany and France are said to be on board in a big way for the plan.
The US is claiming the move would be a “violation” of international trade laws, and would put US technology companies, particularly those that have been revealed to be in league with the NSA, at an “unfair” disadvantage to European companies.
The US Trade Representative office was similarly riled by Canada’s own internal email system, which aimed to store data inside Canada to prevent NSA snooping. They argued that with everything moving to the “cloud” these days the Canadian move was damaging to the market leaders, who are not coincidentally all US companies involved with the NSA Prism program.
US says "EU’s NSA-Proof Communications System Violates Trade Laws".
Yes Mr. Obama. Same way as putting a new lock on your door violates natural laws of thieves to steel.
OMG!
Is there anyone he's not trying to start a fight with right now?
Israel…
US leaders really don't seem to care how ridiculous their arguments appear to those outside the Washington DC – City of London – Tel Aviv circuit. Are the theft of industrial secrets and economic espionage not against Trade Law, or is that considered "just doing business"?
Originally Stephen Decatur, in an after-dinner toast of 1816–1820:
“Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but right or wrong, our country!”
Later stated by, and often attributed to, Carl Schurz, 1872.[1]
“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”
Wenn ameikanische “Behörden” die Welt abhören ist alles richtig.
Will mann sich dagegen wehren wird man sofort als Terrorist abgestempelt.
Seit bekanntwerden das die US-Botschaft in Berlin die Bundesregierung abhört hätten alle US-Einrichtungen (Botschaften, militärischen Einrichtungen geschlossen werden müssen und alle deren Mitarbeiter ausgewiesen werden müsse. Ich weiss das die NSA mithört.
Liberal Logic !