Posted on 10/31/2013 12:35:07 AM PDT by TexGrill
Meanwhile, a Japanese news agency says the NSA asked the Japanese government in 2011 to help it monitor fibre-optic cables carrying personal data through Japan, to the Asia-Pacific region.
The reports, carried by the Kyodo news agency, say that this was intended to allow the US to spy on China - but Japan refused, citing legal restrictions and a shortage of personnel.
The White House has so far declined to comment on Monday's claims about US spying in Spain, published in the newspapers El Pais and El Mundo.
It is alleged that the NSA tracked millions of phone calls, texts and emails from Spanish citizens between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013.
The allegations follow German media reports that the US was bugging Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone for more than a decade - and that the surveillance only ended a few months ago.
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“Now, if they’d have asked us to surprise attack one of their naval bases, we’d have been all over that in a Tokyo minute!”
It might even be a good way for Japan to instigate more enmity between the U.S. and China.
I don’t have the slightest problem believing it. Nick. Japanese distrust of the US government under the Obama administration is as strident has it has been in the entire postwar era.
Obama is not simply disliked by the Japanese government, he is actively loathed. They are not about to do him or the US any favors that are not covered by ironclad treaty.
When O said he was going to have a transparent administration, people and countries never thought he was talking about them.
I agree with you on this one. Obama isn’t trusted here in the Asia-Pacific region. They know he’s a habitual liar and often betrays his allies in the Asia region. Japan learned their lesson the hard way after supporting Obama’s so-called red line on Syria. Tokyo got burned big time on that one.
I am conflicted on this, but we need to bring back US jobs from China.
Now.
Make stuff right here in America.
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