Understanding NSA boss James Clapper's France-spying "denial"

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@glippiglop

Regarding the Merkel incident, just from looking at the Echelon Wikipedia page I notice that the US has been accused of using it to steal German tech in the 90’s. And that’s just a publicly known example - who knows how much shady business these facilities generate. Has it really taken them 20 years to finally realise the full implications of this program?

You do realize that there still are a shitload of armed US troops in Germany, right?