Rules For Spies -- The Economist
America will not and should not stop spying. But a clearer focus and better oversight are needed to restore trust
THE first rule of spying is not to get found out. Stealing a foreign country’s secrets necessarily involves telling lies and breaking their laws. Now America seems to have been caught at two types of spying in Europe, and it looks dreadful.
The first charge is that it has tapped the mobile phone of Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor—one of up to 35 world leaders it has apparently been bugging (see article). The second is that it hoovers up vast amounts of information about European citizens’ communications: collecting haystacks in case it later needs to look for needles. News of both has come from Edward Snowden, a former contractor for America’s National Security Agency (NSA) who has taken refuge in Russia.
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My Comment: A balanced European view on the NSA surveillance program.
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