An apology to our allies.

[Bilge_Rat]

This is rich. Apparently, it was French and Spanish intelligence services that spied on their own citizens, then shared the data with the NSA:

NSA spy row: France and Spain 'shared phone data' with US

Spain and France's intelligence agencies carried out collection of phone records and shared them with NSA, agency says

European intelligence agencies and not American spies were responsible for the mass collection of phone records which sparked outrage in France and Spain, the US has claimed.

General Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency, said reports that the US had collected millions of Spanish and French phone records were "absolutely false".


"To be perfectly clear, this is not information that we collected on European citizens," Gen Alexander said when asked about the reports, which were based on classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor.


Shortly before the NSA chief appeared before a Congressional committee, US officials briefed the Wall Street Journal that in fact Spain and France's own intelligence agencies had carried out the surveillance and then shared their findings with the NSA.


The anonymous officials claimed that the monitored calls were not even made within Spanish and French borders and could be surveillance carried on outside of Europe.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...a-with-US.html

so now I'm confused, is someone supposed to apologise on behalf of France and Spain?