Germany has been
caught spying on John Kerry
Der Spiegel have said that the German foreign intelligence
agency recorded at least one of John Kerry’s phone conversations after
“accidentally” picking up the phone call. German officials have condemned the
U.S. for past surveillance carried out on the German population. BND (Germany’s
Federal Intelligence Service) intercepted Kerry’s Middle East negotiations with
the Israelis, the Palestinians, and other Arab states last year.
German security agents have also been accused of tapping a
conversation held between Hillary Clinton and former U.N. chief Kofi Annan
regarding negotiations in Syria. The conversation was tapped in 2012 when
Clinton was Secretary of State and was later destroyed. German media
retrieved the information from documents passed to the CIA by one of its
informants inside the BND.
Regional broadcasters NDR said on Friday “apparently, phone calls
by US politicians and from other friendly nations have been repeatedly recorded
and submitted to the respective BND President as instructed”. A discovery
of documents showed the German government had ordered the BND to spy on NATO
partner states, these countries were not named. However, Der Spiegel revealed
on Saturday that the BND had been spying on Turkey since 2009. The German
government supposedly reviews its espionage program every four years but did
not modify its priorities after the Edward Snowden-NSA scandal
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