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NSA Secretly Continues Merkel Surveillance

posted by mattie_p on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-not-directly-spying-on-you dept.

Angry Jesus writes:

"German language magazine 'Bild am Sonntag' reports that, in response to Obama's recent order to stop spying on Angela Merkel and other heads of 'friendly' states, the NSA has instead ramped up spying on everybody Merkel communicates with. Cory Doctorow points out that this action demonstrates that the NSA is out of control and deliberately disobeying a presidential order with a level of duplicity worthy of a four year-old."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by jcd on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:50AM

    by jcd (883) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:50AM (#6438)

    Let's not compare Merkel to Godwin's subject. But I do agree that other nations should pretty much expect this. I'd be shocked if they weren't all doing the same thing to the US's political leaders, especially president. Talk about a high-value intel target.

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  • (Score: 1) by jimshatt on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:33AM

    by jimshatt (978) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:33AM (#6459)
    You'd expect there are equally high value targets with lesser risk of diplomatic commotion.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:32AM

      by frojack (1554) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:32AM (#6485)

      And also high value targets more likely to yield useful intelligence.

      I'd rather have surveillance of the Indian Prime Minister, or the Iranians or the Saudis or the Chinese.

      The Germans have played pretty straight with us, more so than even the Brits, and god know the French and Israelis.

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      • (Score: 1) by starcraftsicko on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:29PM

        by starcraftsicko (2821) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:29PM (#6860)

        The good news is, we almost certainly try to monitor their communications too. And the Germans, just in case.