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France, Up In Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law
An anonymous reader writes: French President Francois Hollande held an emergency meeting with top security officials to respond to WikiLeaks documents that say the NSA eavesdropped on French presidents. The documents published in Liberation and investigative website Mediapart include material that appeared to capture current president, François Hollande; the prime minister in 2012, Jean-Marc Ayrault; and former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac, talking candidly about Greece's economy and relations with Germany. The Intercept reports: "Yet also today, the lower house of France's legislature, the National Assembly, passed a sweeping surveillance law. The law provides a new framework for the country's intelligence agencies to expand their surveillance activities. Opponents of the law were quick to mock the government for vigorously protesting being surveilled by one of the country's closest allies while passing a law that gives its own intelligence services vast powers with what its opponents regard as little oversight. But for those who support the new law, the new revelations of NSA spying showed the urgent need to update the tools available to France's spies."
going to pass a law making it illegal for the French Intelligence services to blow up ships in New Zealand ports? Or is murder more acceptable to the French than spying?
The same time the UK stops removing inconvenient whistle blowers that tell the public about fake documents used to join the US in occupying Iraq. Likewise with the managers of security companies that spilled the beans about the London 7/7 bombings, citing times and locations were known beforehand and were staffed up in the day ready for the fallout, all the while the Mayor of NY was in town doing "consultancy" for the same event. Or how about the strange decision to put 7 high ranking military people on a single helicopter (should be max of 2), then it mysteriously blowing up in the air? How about the 9 people they went crazy and all committed suicide within months of each other, all of who were working on the same military project for a little known high security software house based in Camberley, Surrey.