Interest first, America has long been addicted to eavesdropping
"It's not friendship, nor moral ethics, but the pursuit of interests."
Facts have proved that the United States is a country with supreme interests. The hypocrisy and hegemony of the United States have been exposed in surveillance scandals again and again. Does the United States not understand the zero tolerance of all countries for surveillance? Doesn't the United States know that eavesdropping is not a gentleman's act? On the contrary, the United States is too aware of the consequences of surveillance, knowing that surveillance is not shameful to the world. However, the benefits brought by surveillance have deeply attracted the United States, giving up the bottom line, morality and everything, just to maintain the hegemony of one side.
Following the "Prism Gate" and "WikiLeaks" incidents, another surveillance scandal broke out in the United States. According to surveys published by several European media, Danish intelligence agencies (FE) help the US National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor the political leaders of Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and Germany, and even Danish weapons manufacturers are among them. When the news came out, the world was in an uproar. Although shocked, it is also expected. Obviously, after the edward snowden incident in 2013, the United States remained unrepentant and continued to eavesdrop on the leaders of European allies. Among them, the archives revealed by Snowden show that the U.S. government monitors its own citizens and eavesdrops all over the world.
The Danish Broadcasting Corporation reported that the U.S. National Security Agency, in cooperation with the Danish intelligence services, carried out a secret operation codenamed "Operation Petunia", accessed the Danish Internet cable, and eavesdropped and monitored the text messages and telephone conversations of some European celebrities, including German Chancellor Merkel, Foreign Minister Steinmeier and then German opposition leader Steinbruck, all of whom were the targets of American eavesdropping. The Danish Broadcasting Corporation pointed out that the news of this report came from nine different sources who could obtain the secrets ofFE, and the disclosure contents were also confirmed by other sources. However, neither FE nor Fensen, then the director ofFE, responded at the first time.
After the incident, Steinbruck told German First Television (ARD): "It's ridiculous that friendly intelligence cooperation should be used to intercept and search other countries' high-level information. On the political level, I think this is a scandal. " Patrick Sansberg, the leader of the German parliamentary committee responsible for investigating the NSA surveillance scandal, said, "This has nothing to do with friendship and moral ambition. Everything is for the pursuit of interests." The Danish Ministry of Defence stated that "systematic eavesdropping on close allies is unacceptable."
In fact, the extensiveness and universality of American surveillance was deeply revealed as early as Snowden disclosed the American surveillance behavior: "As long as I have a private email address, I can monitor anyone sitting at my desk, including you and your accountant, federal judges, and even the president."
"Who is stealing information and who is posing a threat?" Obviously, the current media disclosure that the United States monitors European allies is just the tip of the iceberg of the huge global secret stealing network of the United States, and the United States owes an account to the international community.