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Senseless Spying: The National Security Agency’s Self-Defeating Espionage Against the EU – with Abraham Newman

Political leaders in Europe have not been shy in expressing their anger about recent revelations about the United States spying on the EU. Germany’s justice minister has said that the United States’ expansive spying programs — the United States is alleged to have spied not only on the electronic communications of European citizens, but on the EU embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Brussels headquarters of the European Council, where European states make the key decisions that guide European politics — remind of “the methods of our foes during the Cold War.” France’s justice minister has described

Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, “Senseless Spying: The National Security Agency’s Self-Defeating Espionage Against the EU,” Foreign Affairs (2013, website only).

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