When senior European Union officials recently went to America to seek answers about Edward Snowden's claims of wholesale snooping, including on eu institutions, they were told to mind their own business. Didn't the visitors know how much spying was done by their own members? Britain, too, warned the European Commission that security matters were outside its remit. The Eurocrats' only consolation is that the world's spooks still think them important enough to be spied on.
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