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

[JDPriestly]

11. The size of it is nowhere near the size of the US program.

The paper alleges the data is being stored on three basement floors of the DGSE building in Paris. The secret service is the French equivalent of Britain's MI6.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23178284

Three basement floors. Not like an entire huge fort in Utah.

Le Monde reported that they had already investigated and reported on the French program.

Do you have any evidence that France has the communications of our government under surveillance? I haven't heard of that.

I do not approve of what France is doing to its citizens, but then France does not have our Bill of Rights. The government has not entered into a covenant with citizens that is quite like ours.

Religious freedom is also defined to permit what we would consider barriers to the free practice of religion. But I would be surprised if France snoops on our government and businesses in the US the way we are snooping on theirs.