Posted on 10/15/2015 5:08:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The German intelligence service has spied on European and American embassies in ways that may have been beyond its mandate, German media ARD and Spiegel Online reported on Wednesday (14 October).
The Bundesnachtrichtendienst (BND) reportedly targeted French and US institutions and eavesdropped on them to acquire information about countries like Afghanistan.
The news follows reports in April that the BND spied on France and the European Commission on behalf of the US’ National Security Agency (NSA). But according to the new reports, BND also spied on allies on its own initiative. …
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
Everyone does it - was surprised at the faux outrage about the NSA listening to Merkel’s phone calls. Of course they do! The Germans listen to ours along with the Brits, French, Russians, Chinese, Israeli’s, Japanese, etc etc.
Everything’s fair game in allied espionage.
Bundesnachtrichtendienst. There. I said it. :)
So they did to us, what we did to them? I’m a loyal U.S. American, but I have a hard time justifying anger over this.
SIGINT - it’s what’s for dinner
It’s a surprise that a FIS spied on other nations? Who writes this crap?
Federal Intelligence Service. But I supposed could be literally translated as Federal News Service.
Jeez, the BND German intelligence service, was involved in collecting intelligence. How shocking! Who would have thought that...so unexpected! :^)
If I need a sarcasm tag on that, the reader is on the wrong site.
About two years ago I was in a foreign country (not Germany) doing some work for their navy. The whole Snowden thing was fresh and the politicians were making a lot of anti-US noise. The navy people shrugged. They said “That’s just politicians talking. In the street, nobody cares. In the military we all understand that nations do this and if we could do it you, we would. In fact, maybe we do.”
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