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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: 1) by quacking duck on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:14AM

    by quacking duck (1395) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:14AM (#6608)

    At the risk of invoking Godwin, I seem to recall a former head of the German state for whom we only wish we could have had such surveillance.

    You probably mean surveilling them during wartime, but that would've automatically excluded them from being a "friendly" state and Obama's pledge of surveillance immunity wouldn't apply, the actual parallel would be surveillance *before* the war started.

    In which case, nothing different would've happened. A sizeable number of Americans (and others, but this story is about the NSA) unfortunately agreed with this German head of state's policies in general before active hostilities started, but European powers were in appeasement mode and the USA had an isolationist policy in place. Pre-WWII Germany wasn't exactly shy about stating their intentions.