Revelations of CIA spying on NATO-ally France ‘a nuclear bombshell’
RT.com
17 Feb, 2017
One would think the French should be a lot more ‘cheesed off’ at us than we might be at Russia, especially given that the French and the US are allies, said geopolitical analyst Charles Ortel. Nikola Mirkovich also contributed his thoughts.
On Thursday, WikiLeaks released classified documents on CIA spying during the 2012 election in France, reportedly targeting the current and former French presidents.
RT: Do these revelations surprise you?
Nikola Mirkovich: No, they don’t. We know that for a long, long time – US intelligence has been meddling in the affairs of foreign countries, even with foreign countries that are officially friends within NATO, or other international organizations. So this is no surprise at all.
Just remember a couple of years ago they were eavesdropping on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s telephone. And we know there had been a scandal a couple of years ago as well with eavesdropping on French defense. So I don’t think it is a big surprise for people who have been following the CIA, its interactions with other countries, especially in Europe these past years.
RT: How do you think the US was going to use the information?
NM: Europe is a touchy subject for the US. The European economy is not doing well; the EU – which had been built originally by the US, which has been, I would say, ideologically supported by the US at the beginning – is not doing so well. There are new movements all across Europe, which are coming around, which are gaining towns, cities, regions, maybe in some cases countries as well. So they want to know what is going on. They are trying to get information. They want to know who their allies are eavesdropping, trying to get information.
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