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Press TV has conducted an interview with James Fetzer, Professor Emeritus of the University of Minnesota Duluth, to talk about Berlin’s recent decision to set up counter-espionage measures after reports of Washington’s spying.

- First of all, I’d like to get your thoughts on Germany’s counter-espionage measures and also if you may explain why the United States did not agree to a no-spy treaty with Berlin?

- Well, the situation actually is not merely alarming, it’s catastrophic. If the reports we have from Richard Silverstein and from Stew Web, which originate with an Israeli security expert, are correct namely that there is an NSA [National Security Agency] satellite facility in Jerusalem and that Israel has access to all American intel which can include all the way down to launch codes from American missiles.

If I were a foreign country under this set of circumstances, I would undertake an immediate cessation of any intelligence-sharing with the United States, because if the United States has it Israel has it, and that means that every other nation cooperating with the US has its intelligence resources at the disposal of Israel, which is only going to use them and exploit them for the benefit of that nation itself. The situation is extraordinary.

- Professor Fetzer, Germany is obviously not the only country that was targeted by the US worldwide espionage program. Do you think what Berlin is doing now could set a precedent for other countries to follow suit?

- Absolutely. There is no doubt. No one can any longer, no nation can any longer have any confidence in the security of their intelligence shared with the United States.

The United States has been compromised and there is a succession of presidents who have to have known this to be the case. It apparently originated with George Herbert Walker Bush, but was obviously therefore been known to Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and to Barack Obama. They and their vice presidents and their military chiefs should be held responsible. If all of this is correct, it is the greatest act of treasons in the history of this nation. Individuals like admiral [John Marlan] Poindexter, General Alexander Clapper and the rest should be imprisoned, taken to custody, and prosecuted for betraying the nation’s most important secrets.

This puts the whole [Edward] Snowden episode into an entirely different light, because they have been lambasting him for revealing the NSA surveillance program, but what they are not themselves disclosing is that all American intelligence is now compromised with Israel.

It’s a disgusting situation. I could never imagine such a treasonous act in my entire life and I say that as a former marine corps officers who cares deeply about these matters.