Posted on 07/01/2013 5:22:56 AM PDT by RummyChick
'Spying on allies is not unusual': John Kerry hits back at claim US bugged 38 foreign embassies as Angela Merkel brands it 'unacceptable'
Microphones were put in building and computers compromised as spooks targeted EU in Washington and UN offices in New York Secretary of State Kerry says bugging 'not unusual' in international relations Germany's Angela Merkel spokesman says 'bugging friends is unacceptable' Head of European Parliament demands 'clarification' from US, warning of rift Der Spiegel says 'strictly confidential' document was leaked by Ed Snowden
The US spying scandal deepened today as Secretary of State John Kerry said it is 'not unusual' for governments to bug the offices of their allies.
The extraordinary statement has angered leaders across the world after leaked documents revealed America spied on 38 foreign missions and embassies including the European Union's Washington nerve centre.
As outrage grew across the EU over the damaging revelations, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was first to lash out, declaring: 'Bugging friends is unacceptable.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said U.S. spying was ‘out of control, adding: ‘The U.S. would do better to monitor its intelligence services instead of its allies.’
Then we had better pardon Jonathan Pollard - because Kerry says it’s A-OK. /s
No, its not unusual, what is unusual is admitting it so cavalierly. Not a good thing to do, it tends to make your allies more into neutrals in the future.
Luxemburg should put their “money where their mouth is” and take Snowden. Otherwise, it’s just more of the globalist fake-ire food fight.
Satire?
...but other countries hate us because they hate Republican Presidents, not because of THIS crap, right?
other countries hate us because they hate Republican Presidents..Liberal definition- HATE: Respect. LOVE- What’s that dumbass up to now that will hurt us?
Jon Cary doesn’t think it is unusual to accept medals for nothing and fraternizing with the enemy while we are at war.
Now, someone tell me on what moral ground can Cary ever call or refer to anyone as a traitor? Cary has no moral ground to even speak. This is the reason someone like Merkel can take the high ground. He should shut up because his treacherous panties are showing.
The man has always been a disgraceful clown.
Obama spied on those who, when first elected president, gave him the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama might want to give back that Peace Prize since spying on your friends is a hostile act.
Isn’t it amazing that those of us with a minimum of common sense knew in 2008 that this guy was a fraud. Yet it has taken 6 years for the “leaders” of Europe to get it. What is it that they do NOT understand about this fraud?
That’s it exactly. What he should have said was something more along the lines of “I am shocked — shocked — to learn that my government is spying on our allies.”
And this tin-eared statement from America’s No. 1 diplomat.
Who spies on the spies who are spying on the spies?
Of course they spy on each other. Every major nation and many not-so-major nations employ spies. Spying is as old as organized human society.
Pot-Kettle Syndrome: when one nation complains that it is being spied on, while its spies are spying on the nations that are spying on it.
But does it pass the Global Test?
——Who spies on the spies who are spying on the spies?-——
Well, for me, I spy on Ziva David at every opportunity
So Snowden didn’t commit a crime by point it out.
Dear rest of the world,
We apologize for the complete and utter stupidity of our current leadership.
Our Obamadork is obviously the bottom line from which all mental activity should be judged, and our Secretary of State is a lying gigolo who couldn’t earn a bottle of beer had he not boinked a couple of gullible rich bimbos after pretending he was in the military.
They have taught me one thing, however....there are definite cases for abortion.
They have taught me one thing, however....there are definite cases for abortion
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I wholeheartedly agree with you. I have been of the opinion that “It is a shame that the parent(s) of a great majority of the PRO ABORTION types didn’t share the same view as their children.
I am starting to liken it to if BOTH parents drank and/or smoked, a good many of their children would eschew drinking and even ‘campaign’ against it.
Was the childhood of the PRO ABORTION types so bad they don’t want others to suffer the same fate?
Moochelle once stated ‘she was proud of America for the first time in her life’......(or some such tripe)
Moochelle, for the record, let me say, that due to you and yours and your cast of clowns, “I, am NOT proud of America - as a governing body - for the first time in MY life”. At least we could point to J Carter and say “Well, he was just a peanut farmer that happened to graduate from USNA, W was just a ‘country bumpkin’ rich kid, WJ Clinton was just a ‘kid’ from a small town who never really grew up, BUT you people have foisted the fact this current buffoon is the smartest man in the world, a better tie to the world in general because of his African roots”.
He hit the ground as an embarrassment and has really done nothing to prove he has learned ANYTHING but how to spend OUR MONEY.
The biggest shame/blame has to go the the American People, who not only got this fool elected ONCE, but TWICE and we sit here daily and ‘THEY’ continue to sell us down the river.
When ‘he’ made his tour of the GATES WHERE THE NEWLY SOLD SLAVES WERE PUSHED OUT TO THE SLAVE TRADERS, was any mention made of the help the Slave Traders received from the Natives on scene?
Truth be that seeing as BO’s father(?) was some sort of ‘connected’ in Kenya, chances are HIS ancestors were more tied up in the SELLING of fellow country (or continent) men/women than being sold.
If an “R” is ‘bad’ because his Great Great Great grandfather once worked for a person who may or may not have had slaves, why does a “D” get a pass when his/her Great Great Great Grandfather was a bootlegger, extortionist or even a slave trader or even lay claim to the fact ‘they’ were named after a person BEFORE he was born or became famous?
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