The forced landing of the Bolivian president’s plane in Vienna has exposed European governments’ protests against massive surveillance by the US intelligence agency NSA as a sham.
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All the other European governments behaved much like the French. Although the public is indignant about the massive data interception being carried out by the United States, not one European government is willing to grant Snowden asylum.
Even the scandalous treatment of the Bolivian president did not lead to a murmur of protest in the European capitals.
When the CIA used European airspace to kidnap alleged terror suspects in order to torture them (so-called “extraordinary renditions”), quite different standards applied. Not a single government made claim to their sovereignty to close their airspace, although the flights were clearly illegal.
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For example, the daily Le Monde revealed on Thursday that the French foreign intelligence service DGSE (General Directorate of External Security) “systematically collects the electromagnetic signals from computers and phones in France, as well as the exchange [of data] between France and abroad.”
“The whole of our communications system is spied upon,” writes the newspaper. “The politicians know it, but secrecy is the rule: this French Big Brother works in secret. It defies all control.” Full story...
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All the other European governments behaved much like the French. Although the public is indignant about the massive data interception being carried out by the United States, not one European government is willing to grant Snowden asylum.
Even the scandalous treatment of the Bolivian president did not lead to a murmur of protest in the European capitals.
When the CIA used European airspace to kidnap alleged terror suspects in order to torture them (so-called “extraordinary renditions”), quite different standards applied. Not a single government made claim to their sovereignty to close their airspace, although the flights were clearly illegal.
(...)
For example, the daily Le Monde revealed on Thursday that the French foreign intelligence service DGSE (General Directorate of External Security) “systematically collects the electromagnetic signals from computers and phones in France, as well as the exchange [of data] between France and abroad.”
“The whole of our communications system is spied upon,” writes the newspaper. “The politicians know it, but secrecy is the rule: this French Big Brother works in secret. It defies all control.” Full story...
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