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Obama to EU: Get Over It, Governments Spy on Each Other All the Time

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Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
July 2, 2013

President Obama remarked about the National Security Agency spying on EU diplomats and foreign nations by suggesting that governments spy on each other all the time and that the outrage expressed by France and Germany is blown out of proportion.

Obama said: “We should stipulate that every intelligence service – not just ours, but every European intelligence service, every Asian intelligence service, wherever there’s an intelligence service – here’s one thing that they’re going to be doing: They’re going to be trying to understand the world better, and what’s going on in world capitals around the world. If that weren’t the case, then there’d be no use for an intelligence service.”

French President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed that international trust between nations has been strained with the revelation of being under surveillance and that the US government must provide guarantees that this program would end.

Steffen Seibert, spokesperson for Merkel said that “bugging friends is unacceptable . . . we are no longer in the Cold War.”

Selbert asserted that “mutual trust is necessary” for nations to conduct business together.

John Kerry, US Secretary of State commented : “Every country in the world that is engaged in international affairs of national security undertakes lots of activities to protect its national security.”

Kerry could not say that the spying would stop “immediately” and proceeded to down play the severity of such behavior among nations proportion to be allies.

Speaking to the media in Germany, Kerry told reporters: “And all I know is that is not unusual for lots of nations. But beyond that I’m not going to comment any further until I have all the facts and find out precisely what the situation is.”

While trade talks resumed, Hollande said : “We cannot accept this kind of behavior between partners and friends…We know there are systems that need to be monitored, notably in the battle against terrorism, but I don’t think this risk exists within our embassies or the European Union. All the elements have been gathered to demand all the explanations. We want this to stop fast.”

Obama nonchalantly said : “When we have an answer, we will make sure to provide all the information that our allies want. [The US will] take a look at this article and figure out what they may or not be talking about. What we will do is communicate with our allies appropriately.”

While the NSA surveillance program is causing a stir among nations and leaders, Edward Snowden is exclaiming that Obama is “pressuring the leaders” of governments to participate in his extradition should be find asylum.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he would give asylum to Snowden if he would stop leaking sensitive information to the press. Putin views these actions as damaging Russia’s “American partners”.

Reports state that Snowden is “holed up in a transit area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport for more than a week, without documents that allow him to proceed through passport control, purchase plane tickets on outbound flights or even change currency or access foreign bank accounts.”

Snowden has written about his current situation, saying that the US government is “threatening his freedom and safety ‘for revealing the truth’. This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extra-legal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me.”

WikiLeaks has published Snowden’s letter wherein he asserts that Obama is using “citizenship as a weapon.”

Snowden continues: “Although I am convicted of nothing. It has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.”

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