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By Arnaldo Galvao - 2013-09-05T03:00:00Z
Brazilian authorities have canceled a trip to the U.S. that was designed to prepare for President Dilma Rousseffs state visit next month in response to charges the U.S. spied on Latin Americas largest nation.
Brazilian officials originally scheduled the trip for Sept. 7 to 11 to organize the details of Rousseffs visit, according to a government official who is close to the president and asked not to be named because the information isnt official. He didnt know whether Rousseff would cancel her trip.
Brazils government wants the U.S. to respond this week to a report the National Security Agency used software to probe Rousseffs communications with several aides, Foreign Minister Luiz Alberto Figueiredo told reporters in Brasilia Sept. 2. The spying, if true, would be unacceptable, he said.
Its a warning shot, David Fleischer, a Brasilia-based political scientist, said in a phone interview. If the U.S. doesnt provide adequate answers, they may cancel the visit altogether ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-05/snowden-leak-said-to-derail-brazil-trip-ahead-of-visit-to-obama.html
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)No, we didn't need his kind of transparency.
David Krout
(423 posts)Sowwy.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Who's going to benefit? Russia, primarily . . . that bastion of human rights where he has decided to take up residence.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)struggle4progress
(118,308 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)How about you?
Do you condone spying by the Russians, Chinese, or other real or manufactured bogeymen? Allies? Should spies from other countries be pursued if they're just doing what "every" country does?
struggle4progress
(118,308 posts)in the world IMO -- on that point, I part company from idealistic anarchists and libertarians
I don't expect to live in the world I want to live in: the best I can hope in that direction is to attempt to leave the world in some respects better than it was when I arrived. I have bvery little stomach for military operations or realpolitik based on the projection of power -- but it also sometimes seems to me inevitable
I'm glad the Polish cryptographers had spent time working out the theory of the German Enigma machine before WWII began, and I'm glad the US worked out some of the Japanese codes before Pearl Harbor
"Spying" is a mixed bag, of course. IMO Valerie Plame seems to have been doing important work, of value not only for the US but for everyone who opposes nuclear proliferation. I won't claim to similarly approve of every covert agent
David Krout
(423 posts)struggle4progress
(118,308 posts)I'm not inclined to run immediately with whatever Greenwald says but rather prefer to study his claims a while before deciding what to think of them
David Krout
(423 posts)Are they Greenwald?
Now tell me if you believe the Brazilian Govt.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)For example, Brazil has very close relations with Cuba.
Rumold
(69 posts)economic espionage to benefit the 1%
its not that hard to figure out
frylock
(34,825 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)when Manning revealed Hillary Clinton tapped the phones of pretty much everyone at the U.N.
I'm also wondering when, if ever, we'll finally get to see the Russian stuff...