26, October 2013
NSA Spying
The diplomatic fallout of NSA spying continues. Last
month, President Dilma
Rousseff of Brazil cancelled a state visit after news reports that
the N.S.A. had intercepted messages her messages and had conducted espionage on
the state oil company, Petrobras. The German newsmagazine, Der Spiegel,
revealed the NSA had gained access to communications to and from President
Felipe Calderón of Mexico when he was still in office. The French newspaper, Le
Monde disclosed that a large number of French citizens private communications
had been captured by the NSA.
Angela Merkel, Germany’s
chancellor appears to be the latest victim. These invasive intelligence
gathering exercises has severely tarnished our nation’s image. More revelations are likely. Ebay founder,
Pierre Omidyar is planning to build a media platform to publicize new details
of Edward Snowden’s cache of documents. The spying activities of the NSA echo
the worst excesses of Nazi and Communist governments which we have always
excoriated. The NSA continues to make
doubtful claims of thwarting terrorist
attacks, the details which can never be revealed under the guise of protecting National
Security – how convenient! This is a
government agency that has been overfunded and has escaped any meaningful
government oversight.
It is time for James R.
Clapper, director of national intelligence, to resign failing which President
Obama should have him fired. He has lied to members of Congress, to the
American people and to our allies.
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