Filed under: "But you're not supposed to spy on allies!!!111"
THE most under-reported story of 2017...
BND apparently spied on foreign journalists
For almost three years, the NSA's investigation committee met in the Bundestag , last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), the last witness. In the summer the final report will be ready. In all these years, the mass surveillance of the US service and later the uncontrolled spy action by the Federal Intelligence Service ( BND ) were concerned . A question was only a marginal question for the parliamentarians: did the German ministry spell journalists?
Documents that the SPIEGEL could now see provide a clear answer: Since 1999 the BND has monitored at least 50 telephone and fax numbers or e-mail addresses of journalists or editors around the world with their own so-called selectors.
Among the spy targets were, for example, more than a dozen connections of the British BBC in Afghanistan and the headquarters in London. In addition, editors of the international program BBC World Service were monitored. A connection of the "New York Times" in Afghanistan was on the list as well as connections of mobile and satellite telephones of the news agency Reuters in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bnd-bespitzelte-offenbar-auslaendische-journalisten-a-1136134.html
Greenwald and Snowden were unavailable for comment, naturally... Remember the good old days when Germany was supposedly 'above' all this, and Berlin was considered a safe haven by all the privacy bros and gals flocking to live there?
