03.07.2013 - 14:11 [ Glenn Greenwald / Guardian ]

James Clapper, EU play-acting, and political priorities

So these EU states are perfectly content to allow a country – when it‘s the US – to use their airspace to kidnap people from around the world with no due process. But they will physically stop a plane carrying the president of a sovereign state – when it‘s from Latin America – in order to subvert the well-established process for seeking asylum from political persecution (and yes: the US persecutes whistleblowers).