- In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed a world-wide data dragnet by NSA: a US intel agnecy.
- In Oct ‘13 it was also revealed that NSA monitors the cellphone of the German Chancelor, Angela Merkel.
- Obama has given Merkel personal assurances that the NSA is no longer monitoring her phone.
- In July ‘14 it was learned that a US spy in a German intelligence agency had been selling secrets to the US gov’t.
- Germany asked the CIA station chief to leave the country and summoned the US/German ambassador.
- Germany has also created a committee in their Lower House of Parliament to investigate all this.