Spying on the Germans: so what?

GERMAN CHANCELLOR Andrea Merkel and the entire German government appear outraged at discovering that the United States of America has been eavesdropping on German telephone conversations for years, including some which involve Chancellor Merkel herself. According to a spokesperson from the Washington based National Security Agency, requesting anonymity, the NSA first began considering monitoring German telephonic intercourse when an unnamed source reported that the German Chancellor herself visits social media websites, makes the acquantaince of new "friends", then often subsequently engages in telephone conversations with them, and occasionally travels to undisclosed locations to meet them, all at government expense. The German government vehemently and vociferously denied any such activity within the German Chancellory, and suggested that the tendency of the American government to engage in rumor mongering and reputation destruction strategies was at the core of the current controversy. A delegation of German representative from the Department of the Interior is reportedly en route to Washington, far out over the Atlantic, theoretically vulnerable to a stike by a drone fired from either a ship at sea or any number of different aircraft. Assuming this delegation arrives safely in Washington, it will be escorted by the FBI to an undisclosed location for formal discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency concerning a possible willlingness on the part of the American surveillance community to accept responsibility for its use of international "information gathering methods". Since it appears unlikely that anyone within the American government will be willing to accept such responsibility, chances seem good that the German delegation will be invited, with all due diplomatic protocal, to return to Europe with all due haste. An unconfirmed source within the U.S. State Department was quoted as saying that the Germans are obviously making much ado about nothing, since it is widely known that the American surveillance community monitors anything and all things, particularly within the U.S. itself, as the American public has recently been informed, this information having been released to the public without the consent of the United States government.