Posted on 07/10/2014 12:28:28 PM PDT by shove_it
BERLIN — Germany’s relations with the United States plunged to a low point Thursday, with the government demanding the expulsion of the chief American intelligence official stationed here because, it said, Washington has refused to cooperate with German inquiries into United States intelligence activities.
“The representative of the U.S. intelligence services at the United States Embassy has been asked to leave Germany,” a government spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said in a statement.
German officials have been frustrated in their efforts to receive clarification from Washington since last summer, when it was reported that the National Security Agency had been monitoring the digital communications of millions of Germans. The government tamped down that uproar, but fury flared anew when it was revealed last fall that the N.S.A. had been monitoring Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone...
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Someone needs to tell Hitler every nation spies. All intelligence organizations do not like to be surprised. Deal with it.
“Smart diplomacy”. Every single nation in the world hates or has contempt for us.
Ve haff vays to deal mit diss.
Obama is busy spying on law abiding citizens, and obsessed with allies such as Merkel, while al Qaeda is spreading its’ tentacles throughout the Americas and he doesn’t say a word.
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