MADAyuMadyan - Ketua-ketua perisik atas Amerika menghadapi Kongres
pada hari Selasa atas tuduhan segar Amerika Syarikat telah mencuri dengar
pemimpin Eropah dan rakyat. Ketua
Keith Alexander, pengarah Agensi Keselamatan Negara, akan muncul sebelum
risikan jawatankuasa Senat untuk menjelaskan mengapa ia tidak dimaklumkan.
Keterangannya
akan meliputi program NSA dan perubahan yang berpotensi untuk Perisikan Asing
Pengawasan Akta yang mengawal selia mencuri dengar elektronik.
Sasaran
yang paling menonjol nampaknya telah menjadi Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel,
yang telefon bimbit didakwa ditoreh oleh NSA. Pendedahan telah memaksa Barack
Obama menjanjikan pembaharuan untuk memastikan NSA disimpan di bawah kawalan.
Dalam
temu bual televisyen Amerika Syarikat Presiden Amerika Syarikat itu berkata: “mereka
yang terlibat dalam pelbagai keseluruhan isu-isu dan kita memberikan mereka
hala tuju dasar, tetapi kita telah melihat keupayaan mereka terus berkembang
dan berkembang dan sebab itu saya memulakan kini kajian untuk memastikan apa
yang mereka mampu lakukan tidak bermakna apa yang mereka perlu lakukan.”
Satu
delegasi Parlimen Eropah juga di Washington untuk mencari jawapan kepada
operasi pengumpulan maklumat yang mana satu MEP digambarkan sebagai “pecahan
amanah”.
Buruh
British MEP Claude Moraes berkata: “Amanah perlu dibina semula Kita perlu
memahami mengapa jenis aktiviti pengawasan ini besar-besaran yang berlaku dan
apa jenis amanah yang perlu dibina semula.”
US spy bosses face Congress amid spying rift
with Europe . . .
America's
top spy chiefs face Congress on Tuesday over fresh allegations the United
States has been eavesdropping on European leaders and citizens. General
Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, will appear
before a Senate intelligence committee to explain why it was not informed.
His
testimony will cover NSA programs and potential changes to the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act, which regulates electronic eavesdropping.
The most
prominent target appears to have been German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose
mobile phone was allegedly tapped by the NSA.
The
disclosures have forced Barack Obama to promise reforms to ensure the NSA is
kept under control.
In a US
television interview the US President said: "they're involved in a whole
wide range of issues and we give them policy direction, but we've seen their
capacity has continued to develop and expand and that's why I'm initiating now
a review to make sure what they are able to do doesn't necessarily mean what
they should be doing."
A
European parliament delegation is also in Washington in search of answers to
the intelligence gathering operation which one MEP described as a
"breakdown in trust".
British Labour MEP Claude
Moraes said: "Trust has to be rebuilt. We need to figure out why this kind
of mass surveillance activity is happening and what kind of trust needs to be
rebuilt."
