French president threatens to block EU trade negotiations with the US amid bugging scandal

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Keep this short, this is getting worse, brace for ‘ye old impact people. This is bad

 

French President Francois Hollande has said allegations that the US bugged European embassies could threaten a huge planned EU-US trade deal.

He said there could be no negotiations without guarantees that spying would stop “immediately”.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said he did not know the truth of the claims but sought to down play them.

Meanwhile, Russian and US security agencies are reportedly discussing how to deal with the man behind the leaks.

Former CIA-analyst Edward Snowden is believed to be at an airport in Moscow, seeking a destination safe from the US where he is wanted for prosecution over the leaking of thousands of classified documents.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and US’s President Barack Obama have ordered the chiefs of their respective agencies, FSB and FBI, to find a way out of the impasse, a senior Russian official said.

‘Disturbing news’

The allegations that US security services bugged EU missions and the embassies of friendly European countries – including the French, Italian and Greek embassies – were published at the weekend by Der Spiegel in Germany and the Guardian in Britain.

 

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23125451  (With Video) BBC, Fairly reliable, all over the World’s press today, America POLITICIANS playing a very Dangerous game here. Spying on everyone including anyone who lives in the USA. This is going to make relations bad, Russia and USA falling out over this Whistle Blower as it is about the NSA.

Links:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23123964

http://news.sky.com/story/1110386/snowden-changes-his-mind-on-asylum-in-russia

http://news.sky.com/story/1110130/spy-row-eu-checks-its-premises-for-us-bugs

http://news.sky.com/story/1109739/snowden-spying-claims-us-bugged-eu-offices

 

This is ALL connected. all ties in, kept it short in hope of discussion

 

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