“Germany's
BND intelligence agency spied on European politicians and companies
for the NSA for over a decade, Spiegel Online revealed. But an
internal probe showed that at least 40,000 of those spying requests
were against German and EU interests. Over the course of 10 years,
the NSA sent the BND thousands of so-called ‘selectors,' which
included IP addresses, emails, and phone numbers, Spiegel reported.”
“Several
times a day, the BND downloaded the NSA selectors into their
monitoring system and used them to spy on targets. The results were
sent to the German agency's headquarters in Pullach for evaluation,
and then to some extent to the NSA, Zeit Online revealed, adding that
the NSA sent about 800,000 ‘selectors’ to the BND in total. Among
the selectors were European politicians, whose names were not
revealed. It was mentioned that the list included French authorities.
Among the companies spied upon were the European Aeronautic Defence
and Space Company (EADS) and Eurocopter.”
“... it
wasn't until 2013, in the midst of the Edward Snowden revelations,
that an investigation into the spying activities took place. That
probe revealed that 2,000 of the selectors actually violated German
and Western European interests, with many used to spy on politicians.
However, those revelations were not reported to the Chancellor's
Office. Instead, one of the BND's department chiefs simply asked the
NSA to stop making such requests. But upon re-examination following
parliamentary request, the BND came to the conclusion that up to
40,000 selectors were actually directed against Western European and
German interests. The Chancellor's Office was notified of the
findings in March.”
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Speaking at PressTV network, a
political commentator has warned that Germany should be careful
over the spying feud with the US because Washington is likely to
blame Berlin for World War III as the European country was blamed
for World War I and II (!!!) [...] It is obvious that the
relations between the two allies have been damaged irreparably due
to NSA interceptions, but it seems that there is much more than
that because it appears that Germans are not willing to drop
Russian energy supply ...
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