France, Germany And Brazil Have Surveillance Agencies Too

President Francois Hollande summoned the U.S. ambassador Charles Rivkin to explain the United states’ actions. France’s Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls has already called the fact that the NSA, according to Le Monde newspaper, collected 70.3 million pieces of French telephone data in the span of a month “shocking.”

France is the latest U.S. ally to show its displeasure with the NSA’s tactics, joining others such as Germany and Brazil. What these official condemnations fail to mention, however, is the fact that each of these countries are currently engaging in their own rounds of espionage – both abroad and at home.

France was called out for collecting the same sort of data that the U.S. has been, but against its own citizens. France’s General Directorate for External Security (DGSE), according to the report, works to gather nearly all data transmissions that come in and out of France.

Germany also made clear its rage at being the target of NSA spying. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was reported in June to be preparing to confront President Obama over the issue. Embarrassingly enough for Merkel, German Federal Intelligence Service, aka Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) also benefited from the NSA’s data. “NSA’s also has held several multilateral technical meetings] with BND…to improve the [Federal office for the Protection of the Constitution]’s ability to exploit, filter, and process domestic data accesses and potentially develop larger collection access points that could benefit both Germany and the U.S.”
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is furious with the National Security Agency’s actions, after reports that her own emails were being read. As a result, the Brazilian government is considering proposals that would require foreign businesses to keep their servers in Brazil if they want to operate within the country.

The Hayes Brown is trying to reach the people of the United States that have a negative opinion about the NSA’s actions. His argument is very sound and he backs up what he is talking about with an evidence; but he makes the case simpler than it really is. Of course the foreign countries are going to take steps to be at the same level if another country is spying on them. The thing I don’t understand is why the NSA is spying of our long time ally’s. In my opinion the NSA should stop spying on our friends before war breaks out, and we have no ally’s to fight beside. click here to read more