Tuesday, 25 February 2014

NSA Bugged Top German Officials

The American Intelligence National Security Agency has arranges the surveillance on senior German government officials since Barack Obama ordered to stop its spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel. NSA already had lost the reputation for spying on technology companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, so it not surprise to hear Obama about the surveillance. Last year they detected the spying software’s on Markel phone, which shocked Germans. An interior speak person has denying the statement that Obama made. The US earns international displeasure after the leaks about the surveillance on German Chancellor, which president Obama never disclose.


TechCrunch published a full reportPart of the issue with this current leak is that it’s difficult to verify. The original NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, came out publicly and the NSA only months later admitted some details about the controversial phone record collection program. An anonymous source leaking information about much lower profile activity may not incentivize agencies to release details either confirming or denying Bild am Sonntag‘s claim. Certainly, this new leak will not help US-European relations. For a bit of levity. Germans are especially sensitive about snooping due to their experiences in the Nazi era and in Communist East Germany, when the Stasi secret police built up a massive surveillance network.


Berlin was also being accused for no spying deal with pentagon. German Foreign Minister is on the visit to America right now. He said that he doubt that such deal is made much effect on both country’s relationship. The Mass-circulation report says that there is over 320 people is on the NSA surveillance in Germany- Mostly from Political and Business backgrounds. But Washington said they did not spy on companies to gain business success to US corporations. 



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