Japan: US Intelligence Agency Wiretapping: We Need Rules that Won’t Invite Distrust

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This is an age in which communications can be intercepted at any time, in any place. It is crucial to base one's diplomacy on this premise.

US Intelligence Agency Wiretapping: We Need Rules that Won’t Invite Distrust
Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan
By Editorial
Translated By Taylor Cazella
1 November 2013
Edited by Gillian Palmer

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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who supervises all U.S. intelligence agencies, testified before Congress, saying, "To seek out the intentions of heads of state is the very basis of an intelligence agency."*

There are also reports that the NSA has spied on 35 world leaders. We can say that the NSA spying on foreign heads of state has been acknowledged as fact.

This wiretapping has invited distrust among allied nations in regard to the U.S.; there will also be negative diplomatic consequences. The Obama administration must make every possible effort to move toward reconciliation with Germany and others.

Although, it's probably impossible to expect the U.S. to curb its spying practices. And if it did, there would be a danger.