NSA spying may have gone too far: Kerry
In the clearest sign yet of a growing chasm between the U.S. intelligence community and the Obama administration, Secretary of State John Kerry this week admitted that the covert global surveillance programmes of the National Security Agency (NSA) may have gone “too far” and some of this spying happened “on autopilot”.
Mr. Kerry, who delivered the remarks during a teleconference broadcast from London, suggested that the NSA’s tapping of Internet and phone communications worldwide, including of allies such as Germany and France, may have been conducted without the knowledge of senior administration officials “because the technology is there and the ability is there”.
“We are going to try to make sure it doesn’t happen in the future,” he said, days after a wave of anger engulfed U.S.-Germany relations following revelations that the NSA may have been tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel’sphone since 2002.
With France and Italy joining the chorus of sharp criticism, Mr. Kerry’s remarks came days after President Barack Obama appeared to put distance between the White House and the spying programmes.
Earlier this week White House Spokesperson Jay Carney said, “The concerns raised by our allies cause us concern too,” adding that Mr. Obama was “supportive of the idea that we need to make some reforms”, and that he hoped to “provide greater oversight and greater transparency as well as more constraints on the authorities that exist”.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/in-some-cases-us-spying-has-reached-too-far-kerry/article5304234.ece
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Everyone does it. Move along.
Oh but Snowden traitor patsy idiot nothing new Greenwald icky attention seeker...
Really? That is such a fucking cop out response. I appreciate that Mr Kerry is saying that we need to dial it back, but this level of snooping shouldn't even be AVAILABLE to "autopilot" functions. I shudder to think what else Mr Autopilot is doing.
Like, hey the autopilot just flew us into the side of a mountain.
But everything is cool.
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