[prof.h.mandingo]

If you know anything about foreign affairs, every embassy spies on everyone in the host country. That is their main mission most of the time. This is not news and it makes us look stupid to be upset by it.

[pgkdan]

All governments spy on each other...allies or not. It just makes sense to know what the other players are up to. Spying is not the problem here. The problem is the expansive nature of the spying, the fact that NSA is spying on private citizens, both here and abroad and the fact that the NSA been tapping the private phones of world leaders. That is not ‘Business as Usual’ and it’s most certainly not naive to think that this crosses a huge line. obama is wrecking the image, honor and prestige of this nation abroad just as surely as he’s wrecking our economy, polity and rule of law here at home.

[dead]

I agree. The NSA is supposed to spy on foreign leaders - that's their number one freaking job.

Their number two job is to not get caught - which they are failing at right now.

And they excel at spying on the one group our constitution expressly forbids them from foisting their intrusions on - law-abiding US citizens in good standing.

Leave me alone, Angela Merkel's fair game.

[Bigg Red]

This is not news and it makes us look stupid to be upset by it.

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Exactly.