Idiots. You don’t pass a bill authorizing you to spy on your allies, you just do it. That way, when you get caught, you can say “oh that is illegal, these spies went rogue!”
Come on, there must be a word for “plausible deniability” in German? Probably something like hackenschnickelfreutzenshimming?
Back in 2013, the meme out of Germany was “you don’t spy on allies”.