Germany, Brazil Turn to U.N. To Restrain The NSA

United States President Barack Obama chairs a United Nations Security Council meeting at U.N. Headquarters in New York, N.Y., Sept. 24, 2009. Wikipedia

Exclusive: Germany, Brazil Turn to U.N. To Restrain American Spies -- Colum Lynch, Shane Harris and John Hudson, The Cable/Foreign Policy

Brazil and Germany today joined forces to press for the adoption of a U.N. General Resolution that promotes the right of privacy on the internet, marking the first major international effort to restrain the National Security Agency's intrusions into the online communications of foreigners, according to diplomatic sources familiar with the push.

The effort follows a German claim that the American spy agency may have tapped the private telephone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and dozens of other world leaders. It also comes about one month after Brazilian leader Dilma Rousseff denounced NSA espionage against her country as "a breach of international law" in a General Assembly speech and proposed that the U.N. establish legal guidelines to prevent "cyberspace from being used as a weapon of war."

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My Comment: Nothing is going to come out of the UN that will limit the NSA .... but it will be a media-political slap in the face of President Obama. As for  U.S. trust and credibility .... it is safe to say that in the eyes of America's allies it is in the toilet right now.