The NSA better have a good explanation and stop spying on other nation's head of state. This is nonsense. The NSA is way out of line.
Germany can actually evaluate the directives of the NSA up close and while it cannot change the policies of the agency, it can be educated to the focus and diligence of the program. If allies understand their involuntary involvement, they can protect Americans victimized by a National Security State now out of control.
The German national security has already been compromised by the fact Wall Street has information about the government, otherwise Snowden wouldn't have the information. I am quite confident Germany never authorized Carlyle to inspect their government computer records.
October 28, 2013, 12:00 am
Bild am Sonntag newspaper quoted US intelligence sources as saying that National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander had briefed Obama on the operation against Merkel in 2010.
"Obama did not halt the operation but rather let it continue," the newspaper quoted a high-ranking NSA official as saying.
News weekly Der Spiegel reported that leaked NSA documents showed that Merkel's phone had appeared on a list of spying targets since 2002, and was still under surveillance shortly before Obama visited Berlin in June.
As a sense of betrayal spread in many world capitals allegedly targeted by the NSA, the spying row prompted European leaders late last week to demand a new deal with Washington on intelligence gathering that would maintain an essential alliance while keeping the fight against terrorism on track.
Germany will send its own spy chiefs to Washington soon to demand answers....
This is pure paranoia. It is one thing to assess data to determine if there is viable terrorist threats, it is quite something else to place the information into huge storage facilities to live in perpetuity.
There needs to be legislation about the length of time our intelligence agencies can hold information beyond any chance it is viably purposeful.
The National Security Agency (NSA), which will lead operations at the facility, is the executive agent for the Director of National Intelligence. It is located at Camp Williams, near Bluffdale, Utah, between Utah Lake and Great Salt Lake, on the boundary line between Salt Lake County and Utah County to the south.
This level of paranoia is simply dangerous. It allows real threats like Dick Cheney to actually find his next Curveball and/or create it. There is no reason for this facility. It needs to be dismantled from government authority and allow the space to be leased by American companies in need of larger computer facilities.
Germany should make clear all it's information now in USA custody is to removed permanently from any computer storage facility and returned to the people of Germany. German computer experts need to be within the team that removes the data to verify there is no duplication. And, yes, allies are to understand the technology to be sure all information is disabled.
Germany can actually evaluate the directives of the NSA up close and while it cannot change the policies of the agency, it can be educated to the focus and diligence of the program. If allies understand their involuntary involvement, they can protect Americans victimized by a National Security State now out of control.
The German national security has already been compromised by the fact Wall Street has information about the government, otherwise Snowden wouldn't have the information. I am quite confident Germany never authorized Carlyle to inspect their government computer records.
October 28, 2013, 12:00 amBild am Sonntag newspaper quoted US intelligence sources as saying that National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander had briefed Obama on the operation against Merkel in 2010.
"Obama did not halt the operation but rather let it continue," the newspaper quoted a high-ranking NSA official as saying.
News weekly Der Spiegel reported that leaked NSA documents showed that Merkel's phone had appeared on a list of spying targets since 2002, and was still under surveillance shortly before Obama visited Berlin in June.
As a sense of betrayal spread in many world capitals allegedly targeted by the NSA, the spying row prompted European leaders late last week to demand a new deal with Washington on intelligence gathering that would maintain an essential alliance while keeping the fight against terrorism on track.
Germany will send its own spy chiefs to Washington soon to demand answers....
This is pure paranoia. It is one thing to assess data to determine if there is viable terrorist threats, it is quite something else to place the information into huge storage facilities to live in perpetuity.There needs to be legislation about the length of time our intelligence agencies can hold information beyond any chance it is viably purposeful.
The National Security Agency (NSA), which will lead operations at the facility, is the executive agent for the Director of National Intelligence. It is located at Camp Williams, near Bluffdale, Utah, between Utah Lake and Great Salt Lake, on the boundary line between Salt Lake County and Utah County to the south.
This level of paranoia is simply dangerous. It allows real threats like Dick Cheney to actually find his next Curveball and/or create it. There is no reason for this facility. It needs to be dismantled from government authority and allow the space to be leased by American companies in need of larger computer facilities.
Germany should make clear all it's information now in USA custody is to removed permanently from any computer storage facility and returned to the people of Germany. German computer experts need to be within the team that removes the data to verify there is no duplication. And, yes, allies are to understand the technology to be sure all information is disabled.
