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"Angry And Embarrassed" France Calls US Spying "Unacceptable", Demands US "Repair Damaged Relations"
We were wondering where Obama got his idea to tax the rich, and now courtesy of last night's Wikileaks disclosure that the NSA had been spying on three consecutive French presidents in the period between 2006 and 2012, we now know: all it took was for Obama to eavesdrop to French socialist president Hollande (whose brilliant idea to impose a 75% tax on millionaires nearly crushed the French economy).
But while we joke, it is no laughing matter for the French government which, two years after a similar humiliating episode struck Germany, has to explain to the population why their biggest western "ally" had been spying on French presidents for over half a decade.
And as AP reports, "angry and embarrassed, France summoned the U.S. ambassador Wednesday to respond to the revelations by WikiLeaks that the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropped on three successive French presidents and other top officials.
The release of the spying revelations appeared to be timed to coincide with a final vote Wednesday in the French Parliament on a bill allowing broad new surveillance powers, in particular to counter terrorism threats.
Who would have thought that the only reason France needs to expand its broad spying measures is to be able to spy in retaliation on its own allies, and failing that, to at least catch the countless bugs that had been planted by the US.
The top floor of the U.S. Embassy, visible from France's presidential Elysee Palace, reportedly was filled with spying equipment hidden behind trompe l'oeil paintings of windows, according to the Liberation newspaper, which partnered with WikiLeaks and the website Mediapart on the documents.
As a result, French President Hollande, calling the U.S. spying an "unacceptable" security breach, convened two emergency meetings. The first was with France's top security officials, the second with leading legislators, many of whom have already voted for the new surveillance measure.
Hollande was to speak Wednesday with President Barack Obama on the issue. The NSA is expected to release the transcript shoftly after their conversation.
Further from AP on the released documents, they appear to capture top French officials in Paris between 2006 and 2012 talking candidly about Greece's economy, relations with Germany, and American spying on allies. While there were no huge surprises, the release of the documents late Tuesday angered and embarrassed French officialdom.
U.S. Ambassador Jane Hartley was summoned to the French Foreign Ministry. Hollande is also sending France's top intelligence coordinator to the U.S. shortly, to ensure that promises made after earlier NSA spying revelations in 2013 and 2014 have been kept, the spokesman said.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the U.S. must do everything it can, and quickly, to "repair the damage" to U.S.-French relations from the revelations, which he called "a very serious violation of the spirit of trust" between the allies.
Government spokesman Stephane Le Foll told reporters "France does not listen in on its allies." He added, "we reminded all (government) ministers to be vigilant in their conversations."
The U.S. Embassy had no comment on the WikiLeaks revelations.
The NSA of course promptly washed its hands of the whole affair: "U.S. National Security Council spokesman Ned Price released a statement Tuesday evening saying the U.S. is "not targeting and will not target the communications of President Hollande." Of course, Price did not address claims that the U.S. had previously eavesdropped on Hollande or his predecessors, Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac.
In other words, hurray for the "US Freedom ACT" according to which the actual spying going forward will be done by the private telecom companies themselves, so the state department can wash its hands of any such futures embarrassing incidents.
And while the pompous populist rhetoric promptly surged in the aftermath of the revelation...
Le Foll, who was heading Wednesday to Washington on a previously scheduled trip, said it wasn't a diplomatic rupture, riffing that France was sending not an aircraft carrier to the U.S. but a replica of the Hermione, the ship that carried General Marquis de Lafayette from France to America in 1780 to offer help in the Revolution.
But, he added, "when you see this between allied countries it's unacceptable and, I would add, incomprehensible."
... the punchline came from Prime Minister Valls who added ominously:
"If the fact of the revelations today does not constitute a real surprise for anyone, that in no way lessens the emotion and the anger. They are legitimate. France will not tolerate any action threatening its security and fundamental interests," he said.
Or else what? Sell the mothballed Mistral ship to Russia? Or, better yet, surrender?

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le horseshit
Hey France, welcome to the club.
-Amerika
french fried
Listening to French presidents was cheaper than phone sex, but every bit as good.
More theater for the dumbed down french masses. Nothing will change.
France will do as it is told. This is what is required of serfs.
Maybe so, but they'll do it in style, with an outrageous accent.
Maybe if they used a wooden badger...
Was he giggling under his outrage?
Was he giggling under his outrage?
Was he giggling under his outrage?
Nope, they found a plausible, good enough politically, official reason to stand against USSA interest to transform Europe into a radioactive oblivion.
Every country spies on every other country, it's just the way it is, but nothing like a little fun in the news cycle.......
Are you not entertained?
The vassals were offended that the special services of Washington (as the owner) does not believe in the slavish devotion of vassals.
I swear, that trompe l'oeil trick gets 'em every time!
Trompe whut? Why don't the French speak English, damn it!
Just kidding. Real puzzler: Why don't the English speak American?
Hollande is quite the angry little manlet.
Hollands is all sizzle and no steak.
$50.00 says this is staged by Hollande to make him not look like a Yankee bitch. Nothing like more faux outrage a la Merkel...
Or, better yet, surrender?
Ah, the 'ol French surrender jokes !
This kind of ugly disdain and nasty jokes come from the firm refusal of the French to join America in Irak, in 2003. Since France refused to go to Iraq, American warmongers and neo-cons made French army look like cowards – as a punishment. Surrender jokes are the left overs of the 2003 Bush hate fest against the French.
But History has proved the French were right, and that the WMD were only a dirty trick to serve as a pretext.
Nevertheless, the hate of American warmongers against France remains still there, well alive, even in ZH.
This stale hate still shows through "innocent good jokes" about the “surrender monkeys” and their white flag … As for the rest, the French can be proud of their Military History which remains despite these stupid jokes the best military record in Europe.
Sell the Russians the ship .....you weenies.
The French would rather pay the non-delivery penalties, then sell the ship to China, which will pass it along to Russia. And somehow they'll still make money on it when the USSA makes up the difference. guess who is the net loser?
Trust but verify......and I would not trust the French
Face reality pal. The US has no friends, only paid for bitches or countries knuckling under to US economic or military pressure.
How can we trust the US? The US has no friends, no allies, only ennemies or vassals …
The hegemon of this world spies on everybody - 97 billion pieces of intelligence collected a month per Snowden and that was years ago.
Either you are the hegemon's target or you are the hegemon's vassal - so you will be spied upon in any case.
Wake the fuck up, France, You have always been America's vassal.
A snapshot of the Boundless Informant data, contained in a top secret NSA "global heat map" seen by the Guardian, shows that in March 2013 the agency collected 97bn pieces of intelligence from computer networks worldwide.
100 billion here, 100 billion there, pretty soon you're talkin' about about something a touch beyond narrow, 'targeted' data collection.
Besides, vassal Germany aids in NSA spying on France:
BND helped NSA spy on German, European interestsA German media report has implicated Germany's foreign intelligence agency in helping the NSA target European interests. The revelation has prompted politicians to call for an end to the collaboration.
http://www.dw.com/en/bnd-helped-nsa-spy-on-german-european-interests/a-1...
I hope they were spying on me last week and can tell me where I put my remote. It's not between the couch cushions.
If that's a common problem in your house, I'd suggest asking your cable company to add al jazeera to your subscription package.
For the youngsters out there.....vassal= biotch.
US and Repair in the same sentence is asking for trouble. US repairs problems by blowing it up then rebuilding. It is the only way they know how to repair. Be very careful France what you wish for.
Throw these deadbeat French out of Europe already.
Boy, when will Europe get fed up with being humiliated by the USSA masters?! When will Europe finally grow some balls?! Germany "investigated" this matter and swept it under the rug... this is totally disgusting. One would hope the French have more backbone and are less compromised, but who knows... this is getting really surreal - USSA is losing NOTHING in this confrontation between Russia and Europe and they ignited this mess... fucking unbelievable behavior from the Europeans!
#frenchlivesmatter
#frenchprivacywhat'sthat?
"One would hope the French have more backbone and are less compromised,"
Yeah, one could hope.......
When will Amerikans get tired of being sold out by CON-GresZ and obola every day?
They will just fire up a new false flag every month to steal more freedums away from the sheep.
They won't grow any balls as long as Uncle Sham keeps throwing bags of money at them to keep them well pruned.
never.
I guess we could give them a boatload of white sheets.
Confederate Flags.....there has to be a bunch of those in some WalMart warehouse
Le fools
...and give us gold bullion at the official (1971) exchange rate for our dollars, too!
Called the ambassador in for a tongue lashing. Like sending a strongly worded letter.
An embarrassment for Hollande but otherwise not newsworthy as nothing substantial will change.
True, at least superficially, but there's an accumulative effect to all this. An underlying schism is growing and will soon develop into an outright rift as the global financial system continues to collapse.
Not until there's war in the streets of Paris and other EU capital cities. There is no political solution to what is happening in the world today.
Of course there is. In fact, more than 168 nations, working with the BRICS themselves, have been rapidly forming the appropriate political (economic ) response during the last few years. An entirely different trading system is being put into place that bypasses the petrodollar completely.
But, 'war in the streets of Paris'? What good would that do anyone?
Only balls in Europe are in Rossiya
What do you expect from fighters for homo pride?
Vassalhood is humiliating.
Zey geet zee beeg frisson like zees. Il faut comprendre.
Wow - did you see that cartoon? Who wants to think that our great nation's freedom of speech would allow for a cartoon showing 3 presidents hanging from the washington monument tipped over on its side.
The US isn't even a shadow of what it used to be.
I thought that was some sort of tv or cell phone tower in France in the cartoon....then again.....what do I know?
How about a tit for tat?
Have the French demand Obummer returns his Nobel Peace Prize?!
Ridiculous. It's okay for the authorities to surveil their populations but god forbid they spy on one another. Why would they be surprised?
Lift the sanctions against Russia, and deliver the Mistrals. That will get US very angry.
If you don't spy on your allies you are a fool and a moron. Rhetoric aside, it's business as usual.
Keep your enemies close and your friends closer.
Being good little vassals of the u.f.s.a I don't see what their complaint is.
They lost their sovereignty with the EU, No longer have their own money, and destroyed their ship building industry by not delivering already paid for ships so what's the fuss?
Once a great and respected nation, now a whimpering loser doing whatever the master says, just like the other losers in the EU,,, with the exception of the Reich.
What the hell is Germany doing that's different? I ain't seeing it.
The Reich is probably the most "compromised" nation on the continent. Only reason they are in the "core" of the union in the first place is because Frenchies and their pals made it a condition for unification.
Like Hollande and the French government give a shit. They are all in on Big Brother.
If Sarkozy does not react on this, you are right.
And we learned something (more).
France will still keep on buying Microsoft, Cisco, Apple and Google/Android products.... Even with all the NSA back doors built in...
French love a good back door
Fuck you France! We'll spy on you and the rest of the world and there is not a damn thing you can do about it because you made a deal with the devil. Deal with it fuckers.
Who's 'we'?
The live,streaming web-cam on YouTube,showing Hollnde getting pounded up the ass by his Arabic gardener,should have been proof enough that something was amiss..
The fundamental risk is your insolvent gravy train bank account holdings. You can contact Obama to apply for a EBT card. Fuck you Eurotrash.
Everybody hates the CIA and NSA and Goldman Sachs too.
No doubt us ambassador ' Suckus Dickus the third' gave French counterpart a 'Heads Up' in the ongoing anal arena.
And promised that he personally would 'withdraw' in such a manner that
Sphincter damage would be minimal.!
France will bend over and take it in the ass like a good little vassal state.
The European Union slave plantation zones are having a continuity influx.
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What national security? France, like many Western European nations, has already become a third world dumping ground thanks to the predatory and destructive ethno-oligarch enemies inside the gates. Hope your short lived delusion of victory has been worth it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229643/This-isnt-Britain-fought...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2596907/Army-600-000-migrants-li...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/65628/Secret-plot-to-let-50million-Afri...
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-20680565
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_LjvSIBKVc
Isolation, ye cometh.
ROFL!
The only thing worse than being an enemy of the USSA is to be an ally of the USSA.
.
From "America: Australia's Dangerous Ally":
The relationship with America, which has long been regarded as beneficial, has now become dangerous to Australia’s future. We have effectively ceded to America the ability to decide when Australia goes to war. Even if America were the most perfect and benign power, this posture would still be incompatible with the integrity of Australia as a sovereign nation. It entails not simply deference but submission to Washington, an intolerable state of affairs for a country whose power and prosperity are increasing and whose national interests dictate that it enjoy amicable, not hostile, relations with its neighbors, including China.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-australias-dangerous-ally-11858
Note to France and every other country on the planet:
Q: Why will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?
A: Because there’s no American embassy there.
Standard Disclaimer: If you Frenchies absolutely feel the need to have an American presence close by, may I suggest the Island of Elba.
what is france
marcel mar so
panto mimes
and dirty under pants
silk absoluto mom
le specs
la tough
we are strong
we are frenchie men
we sell you guns only dropped once
no firings
are tanks have the finest reversing gears on der planet.
are holland slays der bitches wid his manly ape cock.
holland keeps his french and his israel strong
like le specs
all profit go to rabbi zion
I see London, I see France, I see Hollande's underpants.
Yawn. As if the French don't spy on the US and every other European country. The only thing they are mad about is they know our technology is better and more pervasive.
wtf is this theatre ? Is it not commonly assumed that all the big countries spy on each other, more or less ?
The French know that very well I think. Non-story
And to the Germans : try not to allow the American embassy such a central location in Berlin
Marine Le Pen said ...........?
Dominque Strauss-Kahn said ........?
and the NSA blushed
I'd imagine that "Angry and Embarrassed" is the French default position when describing Hollande.
Hollande and barry ass sex partners
Who do we send for diplomatic hugs since Horseface Kerry fell off his scooter?
There is always big ears himself or if he's not available cankles is available.
Weren't the French down on their collective knees blowing Obamao in 2008?
Americans are spying because France had an Arab-centric foreign policy which the Israeli lobby AIPAC wanted to turn around. They did with the Charlie Hebdo false flag. Beware the scourge!
https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/israel-the-scourge-o...
you have to get away from the idea that Israel, or Jews, or the Bible, are the mystical ontological center of the universe.
They are not.
The Bible is a book written by deluded and pre-scientific men, some of them quite mentally ill, some quite racist.
It has prophecized nothing but caused endless misery and suffering.
The New Testament, or most of it, was likely written/compiled under Roman influence - the sun deity aspect cannot be over-looked - "Zeitgeist" The Movie covers this roughly well as does "Caeser's Messiah"
Magic and prophecy, reported, was certainly not limited to the Hebrews or Levant, there are plenty of creation myths, plenty of old books.
The focus on the hebrew bible and new testament and the false notion of prophecy is not going to help you - I promise - see this world any better.
In fact, to hold the bible as sacred text or "magick" is to be ensnared in their web.
The bible is, for the most part, insane gibberish, and those who worship it, in essence as more of an idol than anything, are in fact trapped in a 'spell'.
The Creator did not write or inspire the old testament.
The demiurge did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge
Once you dwell on this, and finally understand it - you will have the experience of coming out of a dark cloud... escaping from a broken spell.
Then - work for peace.
the point, my good man, is to stop Armageddon.
To *stop* it.
"Racist?" STFU...otherwise I would have given you an up arrow. Did I say STFU already? Racist? can you hear me vomiting? Prog Savant, eh?
I spy with my little eye.......something French.
France: a lesson in WTF?
Did these spy people hear much ‘terrorist’ chatter from any of these three French presidents ?
I would think not.
Or did these spy people get any pictures of naked first ladies ?
I would think so.
You literally, literally, literally could not make this s**t up could you ?
Later press conference: whereby French embassador said that his 'penetrating' meeting with U.S. Counterpart had achieved a 'Sementing' of further encounters to bond our two 'Cuntries' together and that the 'KY' agreement of mutual 'relief' had not been compromised and that the 'Lubrication' process of detente willy proceed!!.
Frace is a joke
The French are so arrogant. They don't even realize the US won't even repair the damage with its own citizens.
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Acting!
....genius!!
Thank you!
Communists spying on socialists.
Hollande is only concerned that it'll come out that he is the only president of France not to have had an affair while in office.
"French socialist president Hollande (whose brilliant idea to impose a 75% tax on millionaires nearly crushed the French economy)"
Aw, come on. It didn't crush anything since it was only campaigning BS. One voted in, Hollande never brought the subject up again.
Why don't you bloody 'Murikins ever try to KNOW what you're talking about, if only once?
Proper NWO partner decorum frowns on overhearding each other? WTF, I'm crestfallen by this faux pau.
The French butthurt is code for racism against our black pig in human skin Maximum Leader.
BarackHomObamma : We screw everyone, even our poodles.
(and some to oblivion)
In New Delhi, India , The American Center at K.G. Marg is actually a spying center which records all internet & phone calls.