The last three French presidents and their closest advisers were spied on by the United States, at least from 2006 to 2012, according to the WikiLeaks documents, which contain no startling revelation, disclosed Tuesday by Mediapart and Libération .
The Elysee has indicated, following a Defence Council convened by President Francois Hollande, that France would not tolerate ” no jeopardizes involving its security “after the revelations about American espionage, according to a statement from the presidency. “The commitments were made by US authorities”, including the end of 2013, “it must be remembered and strictly respected,” the Elysee which condemns “unacceptable facts.” A parliamentary meeting will also take place at 12:15 with twenty parliamentary leaders at the Elysee “to the point” on American plays, is it has learned from its surroundings.
House White said Tuesday night that she did not target the communications of French President Francois Hollande and she would not do so, after the publication of information that the United States spied the last three French presidents. “We do not target and we will not be targeting the communications of the President Hollande,” he told AFP Ned Price, spokesman for the National Security Council (NSC), without elaborating on the operations that have been conducted in the past. “In general, we do not lead to foreign surveillance operations unless there is a specific objective of national security and validated,” he has also said in a statement. “This applies to ordinary citizens as world leaders”.
Listens Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande by the US intelligence agency NSA in themselves constitute the main information delivered by the two media. The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, however, said Tuesday that further revelations would come soon.
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Nicolas Sarkozy’s entourage said that former president thought “these methods of” spying “unacceptable in general, and more particularly between allies.” The Jacques Chirac’s entourage declined to respond “at this stage”.
These documents classified “Top Secret”, consist mainly of five reports of the agency of the NSA, based on the “communication interception”. They were destined to the US “intelligence community” and to officials of the NSA, according Liberation. They emanate an office identified as that of “Summary services”, the “service syntheses.”
The most recent document dated 22 May 2012, a few days after the inauguration Francois Hollande. It reports of secret meetings to discuss a possible Greek exit from the eurozone. “Holland is very worried about Greece,” wrote the NSA, which also states that the head of state had found German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom he had met in Berlin on the day of his inauguration, May 15, 2012 , “obsessed with the ‘Fiscal Compact’ and especially Greece she dropped it, he said, and move more.”
Another revelation, President Hollande, after meeting with Angela Merkel, contacted the SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel and invited him to Paris so they could talk. His then-Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, advises him to keep the event secret to avoid “diplomatic problems” if the Chancellor were to learn that Paris met German opposition without his knowledge.
“France will now take hold”
As for Nicolas Sarkozy, the NSA said, after the financial crisis of 2008, he “believes that Washington now considers some of his advice” . “According to him, this is the first time that the United States did not act as leaders in the management of a global crisis and France will now take the hand,” writes the NSA.
“Sarkozy sees himself as the only one who can solve the global financial crisis”, also believes the US agency. She says it also plans to appeal to the Russian then President Dmitry Medvedev for “a possible joint initiative” in the Middle East, but “without the US”.
March 24 2010, the NSA forwards the report of a conversation between the ambassador of France in Washington, Pierre Vimont, and diplomatic adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace, Jean-David Levitte. The purpose:. The themes that the French president wants to address during its scheduled maintenance on March 31 with Barack Obama
“This goes with the”
“The exchange shows Paris is well aware of American espionage, “writes Mediapart . Contacted by Mediapart , Jean-David Levitte did also not “surprised”. “When I was ambassador to the UN and in Washington, then in my duties at the Elysee, both from Jacques Chirac to Nicolas Sarkozy that, I always assumed that I was listening. This will with function … Once we built this, we adapt its practices, “said the diplomat.
Finally, the NSA says how Jacques Chirac gave orders to Philippe Douste Blazy (he was responsible for supporting the appointment of Norwegian Terje Roed-Larsen as UN Secretary General Assistant) showed that he perceived his foreign minister as having a “tendency (…) to make misrepresentations and inappropriate “.
The former NSA consultant, Edward Snowden, had made revelations in 2013 on a broad telephone conversations monitoring system and communication via the internet in Germany, up ‘to a mobile phone of the Chancellor for many years.
(With AFP)
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