The news that Germany’s BND intelligence service regularly shared classified information with the NSA is the latest in the country’s ongoing debate about surveillance. The story reached a climax when the American CIA station chief was asked to leave Berlin in July after the revelation, the year prior, that the US had tapped German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone. Though much of the outrage is clearly genuine, some groups in Germany are doing their best to egg it on.
The extent of German outrage is perplexing to many Americans, as is American ambivalence about the matter to many Germans. Most coverage …read more
Source: European Voice
