Obama advisor: Pipeline deals could see US spy on EU leaders

[jakeXT]

BRUSSELS - Major economic deals, which look as if they could cause “difficulties” for the US, are a legitimate reason to spy on EU leaders, a US intelligence oversight panelist has said.

“If Germany were making an economic deal for a gas pipeline in a way that would cause large international difficulties, that might be a reason to try to prevent a bad outcome,” Peter Swire, a professor of law and ethics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, told journalists in Brussels on Friday (24 January).

He noted that he was speaking in a personal capacity.

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The professor is one of five authors who recently drafted 46 recommendations on how to reform US intelligence.

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http://euobserver.com/justice/122879