Breaking United Nations Protocol, Brazil Lambastes US for NSA Spying Thalif Deen - Inter Press Service
go to original September 26, 2013

It didn't take long for the recent NSA leaks to dog President Obama and the United States at Tuesday's UN General Assembly debate in New York City. The very first speaker of the day was Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who devoted a third of her speech to bashing the NSA's mass global surveillance operations. (RTAmerica)

UNITED NATIONS - Throwing diplomatic protocol to the winds, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched a blistering attack on the United States for illegally infiltrating its communications network, surreptitiously intercepting phone calls, and breaking into the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations.

Departing from a longstanding tradition of closed-door diplomacy on bilateral disputes, she dropped a political bombshell on a room overflowing with world leaders, foreign ministers and ambassadors from 193 countries sitting in rapt silence.

Justifying her public criticism, she told delegates Tuesday that the problem of electronic surveillance goes beyond a bilateral relationship. “It affects the international community itself and demands a response from it.”

Rousseff said recent revelations concerning the activities of a global network of electronic espionage have caused indignation and repudiation in public opinion around the world.

But in Brazil, she said, “The situation was even more serious, as it emerged that we were targeted by this intrusion.”

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