This is betrayal.
If I, an American, had had access to the secret documents given Der Spiegel I would have revealed them too. In a heartbeat. Which means I would be a traitor too. Oh well.
What's the term for someone, here an entity of the US government, that does what NSA did to Germany? You're not a traitor, you can only be a traitor to your own country, right? A "betrayer?" A "third-class partner" but First Class Betrayer? Is there Capital Betrayal? Maybe it's not against the law, at least domestic American law so there's no term for it. Is it against any international laws? Treaties, agreements, albeit with just a "third class partner?" I don't know. The specificity of laws is actually meant as protection of liberty: you can't be generally accused, and the punishment is similarly specific. So...So, if what NSA did to Germany is not violative of specific law, it could actually be worse for the US, there would be no circumscription on the German reaction.
Speaking of reaction, is the Idiot-in-Chief back from Africa yet? What did you mean, Mr. President, when you said these NSA programs had been "scrubbed" upon that benighted occasion when you inherited them from Bush43? Obama is not in control of official America, an America that is officially out of control.
If I, an American, had had access to the secret documents given Der Spiegel I would have revealed them too. In a heartbeat. Which means I would be a traitor too. Oh well.
What's the term for someone, here an entity of the US government, that does what NSA did to Germany? You're not a traitor, you can only be a traitor to your own country, right? A "betrayer?" A "third-class partner" but First Class Betrayer? Is there Capital Betrayal? Maybe it's not against the law, at least domestic American law so there's no term for it. Is it against any international laws? Treaties, agreements, albeit with just a "third class partner?" I don't know. The specificity of laws is actually meant as protection of liberty: you can't be generally accused, and the punishment is similarly specific. So...So, if what NSA did to Germany is not violative of specific law, it could actually be worse for the US, there would be no circumscription on the German reaction.
Speaking of reaction, is the Idiot-in-Chief back from Africa yet? What did you mean, Mr. President, when you said these NSA programs had been "scrubbed" upon that benighted occasion when you inherited them from Bush43? Obama is not in control of official America, an America that is officially out of control.
