Angry Europeans Confront Washington on Magazine’s Surveillance Report

NEWSMAX: …Der Spiegel reported on its website on Saturday that the National Security Agency had bugged EU offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks in the latest revelation of alleged U.S. spying that has prompted outrage from EU politicians.

The magazine followed up on Sunday with a report that the U.S. Secret Service taps half a billion phone calls, emails and text messages in Germany in a typical month and has classed its biggest European ally as a target similar to China.

Der Spiegel cited a September 2010 “top secret” document from the NSA which it said Snowden had taken with him and which the weekly’s journalists had seen in part… (more)

EDITOR: Are we doing these things because they are needed for our security or because we have the capacity to do them? Have the technicians raced ahead without regard for our democratic principles.