If Bush were doing this, it would be on the front page of the New York Times and the top story on every network for months on end.
They (the Europeans) HATE us, they really hate us, and its 0bama’s fault.
BTW, Their opinion of Bush has evolved, They all love Bush
In all fairness, a LOT of chickens are coming home to roost because of Snowden.
His latest revelation is going to sting. He is going to release the list of foreign intelligence services that were all in favor of the NSA spying on their citizens and political leaders.
Once foreign governments find out that their own intelligence agencies were betraying them and their people, there are going to be a LOT of unemployed spooks.
And they aren’t going to be rehired by those countries radically improved counter-espionage intelligence services.
If they trusted Obama before, then they are as stupid as 52% of American voters. The education will do them some good.
Merkel has learned to never let a crisis go to waste.
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we ... [blah, blah, blah] ... restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.Obama 2008
Way to go, genius!
Seriously, though, this was going on way before Obama. In 1990 Stansfield Turner (former director CIA) wrote an article that explained how, in a post-Cold-War world, US intelligence services would be maintained at Cold War levels to engage in political and economic espionage of both friendly and competitor governments, foreign companies and other commercial interests. US intelligence services did not do much good vis-a-vis Islamic terrorists, but have done a bang-up job of alienating heretofore cooperative nations, provoking competitor nations, and usurping the basic rights of American citizens.
If they ever trusted Obama, they are foolish. If they thought that the US having this petulant brat in the White House would curb high tech exploitation from our intelligence services, they haven’t paid attention to the whole antichrist thing, or caught the drift of Orwell.