French President Francois Hollande didn’t take revelations that the U.S. spied on him and his predecessors well, issuing a demand to President Obama that Washington never again spy on France again. Politico,
The diplomatic row stems from revelations that the U.S. allegedly spied on presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Hollande as well as senior diplomatic and economic staff between 2006 and 2012, according to news organizations Mediapart and Liberation, which cited leaked documents from the U.S. National Security Agency obtained by Wikileaks…
While the U.S. Congress has curtailed the powers of its spy agencies with the 2015 Freedom Act, and France is not expected to take punitive measures beyond summoning the U.S. ambassador, the revelations generated anger and resentment at an ally often viewed as untrustworthy. Politicians of all stripes urged Hollande to take a stronger stand against the United States, including by asking ambassador Jane Hartley to leave the country, or by summoning home the French envoy to the United States.
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