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So after the NSA fiasco, the right was demanding investigations, firings, and the impeachment of President Obama, among other things.
Now that Russia has been caught doing the same thing, will the right's hero Pootin get the same treatment?
Now that Russia has been caught doing the same thing, will the right's hero Pootin get the same treatment?
After months of taking grief for snooping on foreign leaders, the Obama administration found itself on the other side on Thursday after a private telephone call between two American diplomats appeared on the Internet in a breach that the White House tied to Russia.
A link to the secret recording was sent out in a Twitter message earlier Thursday by the account of Dmitry Loskutov, an aide to Russias deputy prime minister. Sort of controversial judgment from Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland speaking about the EU, the message said, clearly trying to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe.
Obama administration officials took that as confirmation of their suspicion that the conversation was intercepted or at least disseminated by Russias government, which has sheltered Edward J. Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor who exposed American eavesdropping of foreign leaders like Angela Merkel of Germany.