Spies like US

So in the last few weeks, it transpires that the USA is pretty much spying on anyone and everyone in the "war on terror".  This includes hacking into the mobile phones of the presidents of countries that are allied to them.  It's hard to see how listening to Angela Merkel's phone conversations and messages is going to set back a terrorist group in any way.  And the sheer volume of the data being collected, over 70 million phone records in just a 30 day period in France, belies any notion that this can be limited to known or suspected individuals.  Little wonder then at the resultant backlash from the French, German and Spanish governments.

What's more intriguing in this climate, is the absence of any noise whatsoever from our Government.  Do we not have questions?  Do we already know it's happening and are quite happy about it?  I can't believe that even the most pro-US administration could accept the Prime Minister's phone being routinely hacked.  Maybe we naively assume that it couldn't be happening here.

I think we should at least be asking.