As the NSA details continue to leak, I'm looking for one in particular. In most Western countries, the intelligence services are forbidden from spying on their own citizens. I'm guessing, and its only a guess, that one of the many functions such services carry out is to spy on each other's citizens and exchange the information, thus avoiding the prohibition on domestic spying. Again this is only speculation, but it would explain some of the bizarre behavior around Edward Snowden. European governments are condemning US spying on the one hand, but embarrassingly intervened with the Bolivian President's flight home on the other. Spain, Portugal and France covered themselves in shame over this incident. If they are so pissed off about US spying, why would they risk serious international embarrassment over this flight? Because there is a lot more to this story than we know now. Being seen as American lapdogs is a very poor political position, especially in France. Possibly the incident was a result of American diplomatic pressure, but I doubt it. Something more fundamental is going on. Given the leaks of the last month, I think that something will come out.
