That was the reaction of France's former intelligence chief as well: http://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squarcini-dcri-hollande-ayrault-merke

That was the reaction of France's former intelligence chief as well: http://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squarcini-dcri-hollande-ayrault-merkel-usa-obama http://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squarc... Bernard Squarcini, head of the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI) intelligence service until last year, told French daily Le Figaro he was "astonished" when Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he was "deeply shocked" by the claims. "I am amazed by such disconcerting naiveté," he said in the interview. "You'd almost think our politicians don't bother to read the reports they get from the intelligence services."