By Jaime Ortega.
The United States credibility is suspended on a thin rope. A few countries have expressed their miss trust, as a few documents show signs of global leadership espionage.
Tension rises for alleged espionage conducted by the United States. According to revelations of the former contractor of the CIA, Edward Snowden, the United States spyed on different world leaders. The leaked document exclusively reveals to British newspaper ‘The Guardian’, that the National Security Agency (NSA) monitored the telephone conversations of 35 world leaders, after an officer from another department of the U.S. government provided the numbers.
According to the document, a mysterious government agent who is not identified, gave the NSA – 200 confidential phone numbers. The very agency officials encouraged them to share this information to carry out their political surveillance system.
This revelation increases the suspicions of leaders such as the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has called President Obama himself to request an explanation of the alleged wiretapping to which she was subjected. Also the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, has openly criticized the U.S. government for its surveillance program.
Presidential spokesman Jay Carney, has come out against the allegations to indicate that “America is not listening to other countries conversations or hear Merkel communications.”
The document published by the British newspaper dating back to October 2006 was referred to the intelligence directorate (SID). Its objective was to explain to the U.S. government how officials alternate with other world leaders and other politicians who could help the NSA with their contacts.
Germany and France now hold bilateral meetings with the U.S. Administration ” before the end of the year” to demand an explanation for the spying scandal, which in recent years had been carried out on at least 35 world leaders, including German Chancellor , Angela Merkel.
In a makeshift document at the meeting, Heads of State and Government of the Twenty-eight countries support the initiative led by the two countries and invites other countries to join voluntarily. The text, as reads the European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy in a press conference, said that the relationship between the two blocks “must be based on respect and trust, including the secret services .”
