It is Time for the USA to Grow and Lighten Up
4 min readMar 2, 2024
Eleven years ago, specifically in 2013, Edward Snowden, a CIA contractor revealed documents which implicated that the USA’s National Security Agency (NSA) had, for upwards of 10 years, been listening on the erstwhile German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conversations with other world leaders on her phone. For articles on the event, see here, here, and there.