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mylye2222

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Wed Jun 24, 2015, 02:47 PM Jun 2015

#FranceLeaks.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/06/24/uk-france-wikileaks-president-idUKKBN0P40Q820150624

Apparently it is not much talked in the USA.

French paper Libération got Wikileaks new revelations on NSAs surveillance.

Our last three presidents, Sarkozy, Chirac and incumbent François Hollande had allegadly been spied both on their profzssional and private phone conversations, from 2006 till 2012.

This morning Président François Hollande has summoned a Spécial Défense Council and has called Obama to be sure the practices has stopped.

Apparently the listening station was not in other place than United States Embassy in France, wich stands on Place de la Concorde, a few blocks away from Elysee Palace itself, Assemblée Nationale, the Quai d Orsay and Ministry of Interior. Precisely on the last embassys level, built on its roof between 2004 and 2005 and the SCS station is hidden between faked windows in trompe l'oeil so that people mistakes it with banal offices.

Ambassador Jane Hartley has also been summoned to Quai d Orsay by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius to reaffirm practices had stopped in 2012.

Thre French governement it outrages as apparentl American constitution forbids US to spy allies. But French people took it woth humour.

Dozens of tweets majes fun of it with kind of jokes like "Poor NSA guys, forced to listen to Sarkozy s gross langage" and "Did you lost youe home keys and dont know where or when? Just SMS "NSA" and send it to any number you wish!"

NSA Looks like a "state in the state" Obama should take measures. Quikly if possible.
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#FranceLeaks. (Original Post) mylye2222 Jun 2015 OP
Sorry, but the US Constitution does not address spying on allies. FSogol Jun 2015 #1
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