Germany has stated the U.S. NSA is operating without limits and is out of control.
Update 4/27/14 - Drudge has it on his page today. This information was out almost 20 days ago, which is obvious as I put it on the blog on 4/9/14 and the Guardians article on Drudge is the 10th.
Merkel, the German Chancellor has been denied the information they compiled on her from the tapping of her phone.
They have ignored Germany's request of information since last October.
Merkel is coming to the U.S. on May 1st and will be meeting with Obama. They will hold a joint press conference after the meeting. I will find it very interesting if she says something. Can you imagine the humiliation that would cause Obama.
When you take everything that is happening into account, the U.S., I believe has lost it's credibility and standing throughout the world. I believe many leaders around the world, won't mind seeing the U.S. go down. I believe there are many countries that will follow Russia's lead in dropping the Petro dollar, once Russia does. Right now they don't want the wrath of the U.S. upon them. But once the path is cleared the dollar will be gotten rid of as the currency exchange for oil.
I believe Snowden needs to release all the information he has of what the U.S. has done and how far they go in surveillance of their own citizens besides the world leaders. It is time for the full truth to come out.
Portions From article:
Germany's interior ministry reportedly approached the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) last October to ask for the file’s content, amid revelations the NSA had been tapping the chancellor’s mobile phone.
But in a written response to parliamentary questions from the Green Party, the German government said: "The United States has not revealed the relevant information to the German government."
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed in October that the NSA had been tapping Merkel's mobile phone.
"If two-thirds of that which Edward Snowden claims or that which is attributed to him as a source were to be true, then I would come to the conclusion that the United States is operating without limits," de Maizière said in the interview.
The Obama's administration has also refused to enter into a mutual "no-spy" agreement with Germany, in part because Berlin is unwilling or unable to share the kinds of surveillance material the Americans say would be required for such a deal.
Merkel is intensely aware of the importance of the surveillance controversy for her domestic audience, and is planning to voice Germany's concerns privately with White House officials and leading senators. She will also be "forthright" in confronting the issue if she is asked by reporters during a press conference with Obama, according to a well-placed source with knowledge of the trip.
The news comes amid growing German frustration with the US and UK governments' failure to yield basic information about their surveillance activities. Earlier this week, interior minister Thomas de Maizière told Der Spiegel that the US response to the affair remained "inadequate".
In Germany, the aftermath of the Snowden revelations continues to be debated with vigour. On Wednesday, the head of a parliamentary inquiry into NSA surveillance resigned over a disagreement as to whether Snowden should be invited as a witness. Green and left politicians insist that the whistleblower should be invited to give testimony in person, but panel chairman Clemens Binninger, of Merkel's Christian Democrats, was more sceptical, arguing that most of the key information was already out in the public realm.
Academics at Rostock University, meanwhile, have voted to award Edward Snowden an honorary doctorate. Members of the philosophy faculty said they wanted to reward Snowden's "civil courage" and his "substantial contribution to a new global discourse about freedom, democracy, cosmopolitanism and the rights of the individual".
Its a blag, they don't have a file.
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