Comment by guelo

The NSA slides are highly damaging to American service providers, thus they are trying to be as forceful as possible in these statements. There are already European government officials calling for the discontinuation of American services and for the development of European alternatives. Making the matter worse is American official's arrogant short-sighted reassurances that the surveillance is for foreigners only. As the NSA called it "our home-field advantage", that these dominant global Internet companies are located here, could quickly be lost thanks to the hubris of our government.