USA NSA Bugged European Union Offices, Computer Networks

[arista]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/29/nsa-european-union_n_3521820.html?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=World

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2013/06/29/hi-eu-flag-rtr3b0he-6col.jpg



Feck Me
Barack is turning into a Nixon
covert spy

[United States bugged European
Union offices
and gained access to EU internal
computer networks,
according to secret documents cited
in a German magazine on Saturday,
the latest in a series of exposures
of alleged U.S. spy programmes.
Der Spiegel cited from a September 2010
"top secret" document of the U.S. National
Security Agency (NSA) which it said fugitive
former NSA contractor Edward Snowden had
taken with him and which the weekly's
journalists had seen in part.
The document outlines how the NSA
bugged offices and spied on EU internal
computer networks in Washington
and at the United Nations, not only
listening to conversations and
phone calls but also gaining access
to documents and emails.
The document explicitly called
the EU a "target".
A slew of Snowden's disclosures in
foreign media about U.S. surveillance
programmes have ignited a political
furore in the United States and abroad
over the balance between
privacy rights and national security.]


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/30/nsa-spying-europe-claims-us-eu-trade

[arista]

http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2013/6/30/245625/default/v1/guardian-1-329x437.png
mondays front page

[lostalex]

Yea, and i bet no European countries are spying on other EU countries or the US, right?

Wow, you mean spies are actually SPYING!!!

shock/horror. :bored:

[Tom4784]

The main difference is is that other countries aren't incompetent at spying and they aren't causing international incidents every other day.

[lostalex]

The main difference is is that other countries aren't incompetent at spying and they aren't causing international incidents every other day.

sorry, which international incidents are you referring to?

OMG there's a man sleeping at a russian airport, such a HUGE international incident.

is that what you mean? someone get that man a snuggie, it's an international INCIDENT according to Dezzy!

meanwhile there are massive protests/riots in Brazil and Egypt, but OMG an American is hiding out in a Russian airport, that's WAY more important i guess.

HUGE INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT. :bored:

[Jenn-CityIVLyfe]

Well it's more the idea that it's getting press coverage

[billy123]

They should be punished for it by the U.N. and sanctions brought against them as they would with any other country violating international law.
But it wont happen the U.N. are gutless.

[Tom4784]

You seem a little bit upset, perhaps you should step away from the computer for a while.

Anyway back on topic, that one man in a snuggie managed to make a mockery of the US's intelligence agencies and caused the most powerful country in the world to be pissed off at America. This EU stuff is just embarassing for them.

The government really needs to look at their covert operations since they haven't really grasped the 'covert' part it seems.

[Jenn-CityIVLyfe]

Yeah. I'm a bit embarrassed for us tbh

[lostalex]

You seem a little bit upset, perhaps you should step away from the computer for a while.

Anyway back on topic, that one man in a snuggie managed to make a mockery of the US's intelligence agencies and caused the most powerful country in the world to be pissed off at America. This EU stuff is just embarassing for them.

The government really needs to look at their covert operations since they haven't really grasped the 'covert' part it seems.

really? betraying someone's trust makes a mockery of them? The fact that he has still yet to show any illegal activities by the US shows how naive he was.

If you want to call yourself a whistleblower, you have to have something to blow the whistle on.

Why has he still not provided anything that shows the US doing anything Illegal?

OMG, the US spy agencies are spying on people, who ever would have known!!??

When is he gonna leak something that we didn't already know about?

[Tom4784]

really? betraying someone's trust makes a mockery of them? The fact that he has still yet to show any illegal activities by the US shows how naive he was.

If you want to call yourself a whistleblower, you have to have something to blow the whistle on.

Why has he still not provided anything that shows the US doing anything Illegal?

OMG, the US spy agencies are spying on people, who ever would have known!!??

When is he gonna leak something that we didn't already know about?

It makes a mockery of them because the things that's been revealed about their practices flies in the face of the ideals that America was built on.

Your blind patriotism is quite worrying, there's nothing sadder then a person willing to defend the violation of their own rights for a misplaced love of the piece of land they just so happen to be living on. You should be outraged at your government for all their recent failures, not going into full-on 'murica mode.

[the truth]

It makes a mockery of them because the things that's been revealed about their practices flies in the face of the ideals that America was built on.

Your blind patriotism is quite worrying, there's nothing sadder then a person willing to defend the violation of their own rights for a misplaced love of the piece of land they just so happen to be living on. You should be outraged at your government for all their recent failures, not going into full-on 'murica mode.

100% agreed, well put:wavey: