Obama's Call For Foreign Business Couldn't Come At Worse Time

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Obama's Call For Foreign Business Couldn't Come At Worse Time
General News 10/31/2013 at 15:24:44
By Sherwood Ross

When America's prestige abroad is in the gutter over National Security Agency's eavesdropping on world leaders, President Obama incongruously is urging foreign companies to do business here in the United States. Could his timing be worse?

Polls show his prestige at home is at an all-time low, so can you imagine the depths to which it has plummeted as foreign heads of state are howling over NSA's criminal spying on them? Some must know this is nothing new, that America has been spying on them for years through NSA's ECHELON system, in part to steal lucrative business contracts, and now Mr. Obama is asking for their business?

Two days ago, McClatchy News Service reported, "the storm battering Obama over the revelations of U.S. data-gathering and communications monitoring in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Brazil showed no sign of abating." NSA is charged with tapping the telephone conversations of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and 34 other world leaders, as well as millions of Europeans.

President Obama is contending he was in the dark about NSA's activities (pu-leeze!). The feisty McClatchy reporters say U.S. intelligence officials "pushed back..against assertions that Obama and his aides were unaware of the high-level eavesdropping" and are angry "believing the president has cast them adrift as he tries to distance himself from the disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that have strained ties with allies."

[Laelth]

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