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Espionage: "The NSA has saved thousands of lives across Europe"

 

A week after the sensational revelations of the "World" on tapping the NSA (National Security Agency U.S.) in France, several U.S. lawmakers have spoken, Sunday, October 27, to defend the activities of the now highly controversial monitoring agency.

Asked in the evening on NBC, Rep. Peter King, who chairs the Subcommittee on the House against-terrorism and intelligence, said that the activities of the NSA had saved "thousands of lives, not just in the United States, but in France, Germany and across Europe," adding that Washington n ' spying "not for pleasure." "This is to gather valuable information that will help us not only us, but also Europeans," said the Republican, for whom Obama should "stop apologizing."

Peter King also accused Paris to do the same: "As for the French, they had better be quiet. They conduct operations (espionage, Ed) against the United States, its government and industry, "he started.

"If the French knew what it was, they applaud"

Another elected U.S. also stepped into the breach on CNN. The chairman of the Intelligence Committee of the House, Mike Rogers, said the revelations of "World" in which the NSA would have watched, in one month, 70 million conversations in France are "100% false". "If the French knew exactly what it was, they would lead the cheer and Champagne. It is a good thing, it protects the French, "he has argued.

Questioned the need to spy on allies, Mike Rogers cited the situation in Europe "in the 1930s, with the rise of fascism and communism." "We do not see it coming, it resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people," he argued, saying that the United States had decided to do not listen to friendly countries.

If U.S. lawmakers seek to put the extent of the monitoring programs of the NSA-to both U.S. citizens and foreign heads of state, several thousand Amer Ricans did not hesitate to express their anger Saturday at the Capitol in Washington. They called for a new law reforming programs NSA considered detrimental to the privacy.

Sixty million calls listened in Spain in a month In addition, the espionage of the NSA is now spreading to Spain.According to Monday's edition of the Spanish newspaper "El Mundo", the agency also touted more than 60 million phone calls in the Iberian Peninsula, between die December 2012 and January 2013

According to a document purporting to be from the former NSA analyst Edward Snowden and published by "El Mundo", the agency 'spied 60506610 phone calls "in Spain between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013. The paper said that the NSA "did not record the content of the calls, but the serial number of the phone, where they were, the number of phone SIM cards used and the duration of the call. " Ambassador of the United States, James Costos, will be asked to explain the alleged tapping of Spanish officials revealed last Friday in the press.

Disappointed to discover the new face of his "American friend", Berlin has decided, for its part, this week to send a delegation of intelligence officials in the United States to obtain explanations for the allegations of bugging the German Chancellor. At the same time, European leaders have demanded Washington a new agreement on the collection of information to preserve their alliance while continuing the fight against terrorism.