NSA SPYING ON "FRIENDS"

The NSA has been spying on Brazil and Mexico.  Brazil has been particularly upset with the Obama administration for allowing this to occur.  If you spy on friends, don't get caught. . .but historically this is not something new in espionage.

"I feel a mixture of amazement and indignation. It seems like there are no limits. When the phone of the president of the republic is monitored, it's hard to imagine what else might be happening," Ferraco told reporters in Brasilia. "It's unacceptable that in a country like ours, where there is absolutely no climate of terrorism, that there is this type of spying."

Brazilian Justice Minister Eduardo Cardozo told the newspaper O Globo that "if the facts of the report are confirmed, they would be considered very serious and would constitute a clear violation of Brazil's sovereignty."

"This is completely outside the standard of confidence expected of a strategic partnership, as the U.S. and Brazil have," he added.

The BBC report on the spying.