U.S. Intelligence Bugged EU Offices in Europe, America
Europeans pissed
Senior European officials expressed concern Sunday at reports that U.S. intelligence agents bugged EU offices on both sides of the Atlantic, with some leftist lawmakers calling for concrete sanctions against Washington.
The president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, said he was "deeply worried and shocked about the allegations of U.S. authorities spying on EU offices" made in a report published Sunday by German news weekly Der Spiegel.
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Ya know, it would be nice to have some news organizations in the US that looked at the administration with just a bit of skepticism, like those German and English papers do.