Yesterday's online edition of Der Spiegel contains 17 screens of outraged quotes by European leaders

[markpkessinger]

...over the NSA spying on our allies. This is a big deal, folks, and the administration had best stop worrying about Snowden and the leaks, and start worrying about how it is going to re-establish trust with long-standing allies.

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/quote-gallery-europe-reacts-to-nsa-spying-fotostrecke-98595.html

[Catherina]

1. You gotta wonder just how outraged they are if they repay Snowden

by rejecting all his asylum requests and denying President Evo Morales permission to fly over their airspace because Snowden might be on board.

I think the lost trust is a big deal too but the global 1% is sticking together.

[Purveyor]

2. I think the 'global 1%' has finally unraveled Snowden's discoveries and they are scared shitless.

They are hunting Snowden as if he were Osama bin Laden.

The intensity of the hunt says it all...

[morningfog]

4. We're in a slight holding pattern right now. Russia will only let Snowden stay as long as he doesn't

keep releasing info so as to harm the US. Clearly a message made it to Russia.

And, other countries won't consider his asylum request unless and until he is at their border or on their soil. So, he is having a hard time getting out of Russia and won't release more info until he gets out of Russia.

[Purveyor]

8. Or Russia realizes that some of their double-agent spies will also be exposed with the uncensored

release of the Snowden data...

[morningfog]

9. Good point.

[kardonb]

16. outeage

sooo phony ! You don't for one minute believe they don't spy on us , do you ?

[LuvLoogie]

3. Seriously! No one cares about Snowden!

He's the Kim Kardashian of geopolitical intrigue! Get over yourselves, already!

[morningfog]

5. LOL. No one except heads of states from multiple continents.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Thanks for the chuckle :)

[sabrina 1]

7. The US Government seems to care a whole lot about him. They SHOULD care about the

American people learning how their own government is spying on them and start doing something about stopping it. Snowden isn't the issue to those who care about this democracy so to go to such lengths to try to silence him indicates that those who tell US we 'that if we have nothing to hide we have nothing to worry about' have something pretty serious to hide themselves.

[markpkessinger]

11. +1 n/t

[countmyvote4real]

21. +2

[Iliyah]

10. No

[DirkGently]

12. Shhh. It's totally blowing over. Er, old news. Um, pole dancer!

[markpkessinger]

20. Oh, right -- I keep forgetting!

[dionysus]

13. ffs.. everyone that can afford an intelligence service keeps tabs on everyone, even their allies. nt

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

14. no one spys on everyone though, even the stasi never had that capability

this is a totalitarian's wet dream

[dionysus]

15. it's just technology, we're not the only ones doin it.

it's just reality. we happen to have the biggest budget to do so.

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

18. We are the only ones doing it on this scale - technology has a cost

and no one else could afford this kinda scale.

It's ILLEGAL, too.

[DeSwiss]

17. On the First Day of Freedom my true love sent to me.....

17 Outraged Leaders
16 Pissed-offed Parliments
15 Frantic Frenchies
14 Gnashing Germans
13 Bonker Belgians
12 Drummers Drumming
11 Pipers Piping
10 Lords-a-Leaping
9 Ladies Dancing
8 Maids-a-Milking
7 Swans-a-Swimming
6 Geese-a-Laying
5 Gold-en-Ringgggsssss.........
4 Colly Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree..........

- K&R

[sibelian]

19. Ooooh, dear.

Starting to look like a bit of a mess.