The American Trojan Horse William Pfaff

The American Trojan Horse
 William Pfaff
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/snowden_leaks_reveal_american_trojan_horse_in_europe_20130702/

            Paris, July 3, 2013 – I am surprised that in the Snowden affair no one I’ve yet seen has quoted the American statesman Henry L. Stimson.  He was twice  [1911-1913 & 1940-1945] U.S. Secretary of War (we had such a cabinet officer in an America less abandoned to hypocrisy) and once Secretary of State [1929-1933].  In the last-named office he closed down Washington’s post-World War I code-breaking service, saying “Gentlemen do not read others’ mail.”  I suppose the difference between a time when the country was governed by gentlemen and the present day is so colossal as to make such a sentiment impossible to credit.
            In France, and at the European Parliament, at the present time, there is discussion about granting Edward Snowden political asylum in one of the member states or by the EU (necessarily minus the U.K., given Britain’s longstanding collaboration with NSA communications interception), or to establish some form of internationally guaranteed asylum available to those persecuted in their own countries for having performed what internationally is regarded as an act of courageous public service.
            Something like this is not entirely impossible.