France in the NSA's crosshair : phone networks under surveillance

[JDPriestly]

7. I seriously doubt that the French government wastes its taxpayers' money collecting

70 million bits of data on personal, business and government calls in the US and other countries.

No way. They are smarter than that. They know how to figure out what is going on without all that paraphernalia.

This NSA spying program is a boondoggle of enormous proportions. Some of it is useful but for the most part it is is a huge waste of money. Meanwhile, we are still burning fossil fuels and ruining the planet.

We are not setting our priorities in a sensible way. It's a problem of values.

How does the fact that we read the e-mails of leaders of our allied countries help keep us safe?

I think it does precisely the opposite. This is particularly true of the French and Germans who I know, having lived in those countries, pride themselves on the alliances they have with the US and with Canada in particular.