NSA is at it again. A German magazine published an article stating that the United States has been collecting information on the communications of allied leaders; including their Chancellor, Angela Merkel. The Chancellor says that her confidence in America has definitely been shaken. President Obama is claiming that he didn't know that the spying was going on, but this comment has drawn sharp criticism from both the right and the left. Democratic Senator Fienstein from California expressed her concern that Congress didn't know what the intelligence community was up to and that they should really involve themselves more in keeping an eye on them.
This story really irritated me because the United States is already hated by a lot of countries in the world, we shouldn't be spying on our allies. I don't necessarily believe that the President didn't know that this was going on, but if that's true there better be some pretty serious laws enacted to prevent this kind of crap from happening. If we are going to be spying on an ally, we better have a pretty freaking good reason to be doing so. Thus far, no credible reasons for the spying have come out. The NSA has received so much bad press you'd think they would calm down and take a step back for a while, but where is the fun in that? It'll be really interesting to see how Germany reacts to this breach, and to see if they are still our friend after this.
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