“The US
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has ordered a review
of cooperation between the National Security Agency (NSA) and the
German intelligence agency BND, Bild newspaper reports. Citing an
unnamed source in US intelligence, Bild says Clapper is unhappy with
Berlin's 'inability to contain secret data'. According to the report,
the Bundestag committee on investigating the recent secret service
scandals handed some secret documents to the media.”
“Now,
the US secret services are reviewing the areas in which cooperation
with the BND can be reduced or ended altogether, the paper reports.
Several joint projects have already been canceled, it says. Both the
German government and the US embassy in Berlin refused to comment on
the report.”
“In
April, German media reported that over the past decade, the BND
helped NSA in spying all over Europe. [...] The public outrage over
those allegations and the subsequent investigation cost Chancellor
Angela Merkel about a third of her approval rating. In late April,
her government was accused of lying to parliament saying it had no
knowledge of Washington's surveillance activities in Germany.”
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