The latest WikiLeaks reveal French leaders spied on by U.S. agencies include the nation’s sitting president who has demanded America answer to the reams of proof that it’s been engaging in unlawful espionage.
A day after those revelations were made -- and amid rigorous but frivolous denials from the White House’s National Security Council -- France’s livid head of state summoned America’s ambassador, Jane Hartley, for an emergency meeting this evening to discuss the numerous violations.
She’ll have a lot of explaining to do, though, because the recent Wikileaks disclosures leave little doubt that the NSA has been listening-in and intercepting France’s governmental communiqués since 2006, and didn’t cease its spying until 2012, at best.
The embarrassing “top-secret” document dump shows that the eavesdropping on “America’s oldest ally” involved some of the country’s most sensitive and urgent political matters, said Wikileaks, in an accompanying press release.
Those included "the global financial crisis, the Greek debt crisis, the leadership and future of the European Union, the relationship between the Hollande administration and the German government of Angela Merkel, French efforts to determine the make-up of the executive staff of the United Nations, French involvement in the conflict in Palestine, and a dispute between the French and US governments over US spying on France."
What’s more, "French readers can expect more timely and important revelations in the near future," promised WikiLeaks unapologetic founder Julian Assange, who added that people "have a right to know their elected government is subject to hostile surveillance from a supposed ally."
