(Alan Crawford)
“Senator John McCain called on National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander to quit over the damage done to U.S.-German relations by revelations that the NSA may have tapped Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone. The disclosures and allegations meant it was time for a ‘wholesale housecleaning,’ including a personal apology to Merkel by President Obama, and repercussions for Alexander, McCain said in an interview with the German news magazine Der Spiegel published [Sunday]. ‘Of course he should resign, or be fired,’ McCain said when asked if Alexander should quit. It’s ‘conceivable’ that Obama didn’t know about the eavesdropping, ‘but the fact remains that he should have known it. Responsibility always stops at the president’s desk … Knowing how angry Angela Merkel was, he should have apologized.’”
I don’t disagree with McCain. I know there is a lot that the non-intelligence community doesn’t know or understand about how we spy on our friends and enemies but…somehow, it just doesn’t seem kosher. I believe that the President already did apologize to Ms. Merkel but if he hasn’t, he should.
