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Originally Posted by MaDalton
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the other thing to consider is how obama is reacting/responding to the reveal. i am not posting this as a "if you do, we can too" example, i am posting it to suggest that it makes sense that germany is also snooping on usa and this entire thing can blow up into a big deal or more likely, all nations involved will decide it's better to drop it or the whole thing will turn into a massive shit storm for all nations involved.
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"The United States government will respond appropriately to the European Union through our diplomatic channels, and through the EU/U.S. experts' dialogue on intelligence that the U.S. proposed several weeks ago," the DNI office said in a statement. "We will also discuss these issues bilaterally with EU member states. While we are not going to comment publicly on specific alleged intelligence activities,
as a matter of policy, we have made clear that the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations."