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by local_yokel 2895 days ago
How should Germany have answered the Obama-sanctioned eavesdropping on Angela Merkel's phone?
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Obviously Germany should sue Obama and a group of his accomplices.

[added] I see double, down-voting standards. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

We all agree that criminals should be charged, and that someone who organizes and benefits from criminal activity is criminal too.

As America charges GRU agents, and thus targets their boss Putin, the same should be done for known actions by NSA agents, and their boss Obama at the time.

I am assuming the downvotes are for you lack of distinction between two.

Eavesdropping and spying, even amongst allies, is basically an open secret or just an activity everyone assumes the other is doing.

Actively influencing an election is much more serious and not something you would expect your allies to be doing in your country. If Obama was doing that to Germany then I expect there would have been a real shit show.

I don't know whether the US has done it in Germany. They definitely did it in Israel.