The Associated Press reported a story that the United Stated monitored over 60 million calls in Spain. A Spanish newspaper ,El Mundo, published a documentary on Monday that said the United States spied on over 60 million phone calls in one month. A graph titled "Spain-Last 30 days" which depicted the call traffic between December 10, 2012 and Jan. 8, 2013. The document says the NSA monitored the numbers and durations of the calls, but not the content. El Mundo said the Metadata System the US used could monitor e-mails and text messages, but that was not shown on the graph. The document used for the documentary was one leaked by Edward Snowden, who, if you can remember, has asylum in Russia from the United Stated for information leaking.
Last week there was a report in the French newspaper, Le Monde, reported a similar story of allegations that the US had been spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone. The same story was reported in a German magazine, Der Spiegel. US Ambassador James Costos, was summoned to Spain last week to discuss the United States targeting with Foreign Ministry. Afterwards the Ministry called on the US to hand over all information from the "supposed eavesdropping carried out in Spain.
I understand that when you are leading a country and you are concerned for there wellbeing, sometimes you might have to do things that aren't as ethical as we'd like them to be. But my concern is why are spying on our allies? Last I knew they were there so we could trust them and depend on them. This is a bad reputation for the US to have. These countries are very angry with what the Government has been doing, and rightfully so. We would be very upset if England or somebody was spying on us. We would feel exposed and violated. I know that we aren't the only country to be doing this. It's just sad that this is what it has come to.
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