Germans Rejected: US Unlikely to Offer 'No-Spy' Agreement -- Melanie Amann, Hubert Gude, Jörg Schindler and Fidelius Schmid, Spiegel Online
Senior German intelligence officials met with their NSA and CIA counterparts in the US last week to start trust-rebuilding efforts between the estranged allies. While a "no-spy" agreement seems unlikely, Merkel might learn what Snowden could still reveal.
Hans-Georg Maassen, president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany's domestic intelligence agency, and Gerhard Schindler, director of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the country's foreign intelligence agency, had a great deal they wanted to discuss last Monday when they entered the square, black building in Fort Meade, Maryland, that is headquarters to America's National Security Agency (NSA). The two German emissaries had quite a few questions concerning the American wiretapping that has caused such damage to sensitive German-American relations. Since when was Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone monitored, they wanted to know, and has that surveillance truly ended? Which members of the government were or still are affected by the NSA's spying program? And how can trust be rebuilt?
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My Comment: The Americans are not going to offer a "no-spy" proposal to the Germans .... Germany is a critical U.S. strategic partner and ally in Europe .... and as a result the Americans are going to always want to know where the Germans stand on an issue and/or on a policy.
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