Globe

America Is Spying On Its Allies Again

|| By FITSNEWS || German chancellor Angela Merkel summoned American diplomats to her office this week – demanding answers to the latest allegations of U.S. eavesdropping on foreign governments. Here we go again … Merkel’s summons – which included U.S. Ambassador John B. Emerson – was issued after Wikileaks posted a list of…

|| By FITSNEWS || German chancellor Angela Merkel summoned American diplomats to her office this week – demanding answers to the latest allegations of U.S. eavesdropping on foreign governments.

Here we go again …

Merkel’s summons – which included U.S. Ambassador John B. Emerson – was issued after Wikileaks posted a list of German telephone numbers allegedly subjected to the National Security Agency (NSA)’s snooping operation.

“The United States National Security Agency has been massively targeting phone numbers of top German ministers and public officials responsible for commerce, finances, economics and agriculture – including even Angela Merkel’s personal assistant,” the website claimed.

The website referred to the phone numbers as a “high-priority NSA target interception list demonstrating economic and political espionage against Germany for almost two decades.”

Wow …

U.S. president Barack Obama assured Merkel in 2013 that America wasn’t tapping her cell phone – and wouldn’t in the future.

Among the intercepted communications?  Conversations between German officials over how to deal with the financial crisis in Greece.

“Today’s publication further demonstrates that the United States’ economic espionage campaign extends to Germany and to key European institutions and issues such as the European Central Bank and the crisis in Greece,” Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said.

Frankly we shouldn’t be surprised the federal government is spying on its allies.  After all it’s still spying on us … in the name of “freedom.”

***

Related posts

US & World

Amanda Cunningham: The Reach For Freedom

Amanda Cunningham
Globe

Letter: About That Semiconductor Guest Column …

FITSNews
Globe

Joe Biden Dials It Back In Ukraine

Will Folks

12 comments

CNSYD July 2, 2015 at 11:51 am

WOW! Captain Renault is shocked to learn that the US is doing its due diligence when dealing with foreign governments whether friend or foe. This is ground breaking news. Next you will tell me that other governments, whether friend or foe, do the same thing.

Reply
idcydm July 2, 2015 at 3:53 pm

It’s never happened in the history of civilization, this is something new.

Reply
sparklecity July 2, 2015 at 11:53 am

Hells Bells, , our “allies” spy on us just as much as we “spy” on them and Israel is one of the worst offenders.
Look at all the high profile espionage cases since the 80’s—– a number of them (if not most) were accomplished by the Israelis.
All nations/countries “spy” on one another
It’s the world’s 2nd oldest profession!!!!!!!

Reply
erneba July 2, 2015 at 12:10 pm

Barrack Obama is the kind of person that would fart in church and then point toward his children.

Reply
stumpknocker July 2, 2015 at 12:31 pm

more like you would fart in a church and claim it was Obama’s fault

Reply
erneba July 2, 2015 at 12:40 pm

Yuk, yuk

Reply
shifty henry July 3, 2015 at 7:31 am

At Heathrow Airport in England. A 300-foot red carpet was stretched out to Air Force One and President Bush strode to a warm but
dignified handshake from Queen Elizabeth II. They rode in a silver 1934 Bentley to the edge of central London where they boarded an open 17th century coach hitched to six magnificent white horses.
As they rode toward Buckingham Palace, each looking to their side and waving to the thousands of cheering Britons lining the streets, all was going well.

This was indeed a glorious display of pageantry and dignity.

Suddenly the scene was shattered when the right rear horse let rip the most horrendous, earth-shattering, eye-smarting blast of flatulence, and the coach immediately filled with noxious fumes.

Uncomfortable, but maintaining control, the two dignitaries did their best to ignore the whole incident, but then the Queen decided that was a ridiculous manner with which to handle a most embarrassing situation.

She turned to Mr. Bush and explained, “Mr. President, please accept my regrets. I’m sure you understand that there are some things even a Queen cannot control.”

George W., ever the Texas intellectual and gentleman, replied, “Your
Majesty, please don’t give the matter another thought. You know, if you hadn’t said something I would have assumed it was one of the horses.”

Reply
MashPotato July 4, 2015 at 3:24 am

Classiest fart joke ever…

Shifty, I’ve picked up a few stories from other parts of the web that I think you’ll enjoy. I’m waiting for the right time to post them! I couldn’t keep them a secret any longer.

Reply
shifty henry July 4, 2015 at 9:04 am

The best ones are when there is a lead-in where you can drop in an appropriate joke/story. The KKK jokes I got (only a few) are from a joke site in England! Most of them are too stupid, nasty, or senseless to use. What happens to me is that late in the evening when I am multi-tasking I’ll come across a lead-in to a joke site and I’ll start laughing and saving jokes. One evening I found one that kept me up for over an hour saving jokes — I think it was called something like “a joke walks into a bar” (a skeleton walks into a bar and orders “a beer, and a mop”. There is a lot of original funny stuff posted here that I’ll save.

Reply
General Porter Alexander July 2, 2015 at 3:38 pm

We started spying on Germany when the Neo-Nazi’s started using Confederate flags in lieu of National Socialist German Workers’ Party flag.

It’s what the public wants.

Our government also spies on Stone Mountain, all phone calls going in/coming out.

Reply
euwe max July 2, 2015 at 8:04 pm

Spying on Americans is as American as Nixon pie.

Reply

Leave a Comment