美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-10-30（在线收听） |
German Chancellor, A., says spying among friends is never acceptable. In this case, the friends she's talking about is the US government. This involves an organization called the NSA, the National Security Agency. Its mission is to help defend the country. Part of that it does that. According to the NSA website, it's to gather information that American's enemies want to keep secret. Germany, France and Mexico aren't considered enemies. They are allies. Usually, the US communicates with them through diplomacy, direct communication but the NSA has been accused of spying on all three: eavesdropping on cell phone, hacking emails. Chancellor M. says the US needs to reestablish trust. One more day, one more revelation of alleged US spying on the close ally. This time Germany said it received information the NSA monitored the personal cell phone of German leader, A. Signaling the seriousness of charge, Chancellor M. and President Obama personally spoke about the issue on the telephone.
"I can tell you that the president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor. The ... greatly values of our close cooperation with Germany on a board range of shared security challenges."
The White House did not specify, however, if such monitoring has taken place in the past. On Monday, it was France revealed to be in the cross air of the NSA. The French Newspaper, L., reporting that in the 30 days from Dec 10th, 2012, the Jan 8th, 2013. The NSA allegedly intercepted over 70 million phone calls in France and that would be nearly 3 million intercepts per day. The director of National Intelligence said in the statement, that report was false; though it did not specify how. By then, the French Foreign Minister has already blasted the American policy of widespread surveillance.
"This kind of practice is between partners that violate privacy totally unacceptable."
Documents were released by Edward Snowden have now revealed NSA surveillance of the communication of a long list of close US allies, including Germany, England, Brazil, Mexico and the European Union.
"When you look at American's soft power, its message and its relationships with these countries, how embarrassing is this?"
"It's always awkward. I mean what you have here is the situation where either as someone sees the hand in cookie jar or a strong evidence the hand has been in the cookie jar? Every time this happens, it's going to be awkward conversations."
When each of the surveillance cases is broken, involving in American allies, the administration is made 2 points. One, that all country spying on each other and two, that they are conducting a review of this surveillance to get a better balance between security concerns and privacy concerns. But, the administration has yet to say what that review has found or what changes it may bring. Jim S., CNN, Washington.
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