An award-winning former newspaper reporter and author in Philadelphia believes the United Nations can not weaken the US National Security Agency’s “disturbing” massive international surveillance programs.
“I don’t think the United Nations will be able to do something about it,” Walter Braschan told Press TV on Saturday.
The Guardian reported on Thursday that the NSA has monitored the telephone conversations of 35 world leaders, based on documents revealed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Germany and Brazil, along with 21 other countries are drafting a UN General Assembly resolution that would demand an end to excessive spying and invasion of privacy by the NSA.
The US will ignore the resolution even though it “always says that it believes in the rule of law and they are a member of the United Nations,” Braschan said.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have both condemned the widespread spying by the NSA.
General Assembly resolutions are non-binding, unlike resolutions of the 15-nation Security Council. However, the resolution would be one of the strongest condemnations of US spying programs to date.
“This whole NSA thing really disturbs me,” Braschan said. “I really don’t like the idea of a government spying on individuals without court jurisdiction and that’s really what’s going on in the “United States.”
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Source: Press TV