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February 4, 2014

Germany: Hacker Group Accuses Merkel Gov't of Illegally Aiding U.S. Spying 
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In Germany, a hacker group has filed a criminal complaint accusing the
government of Chancellor Angela Merkel of illegally helping the United
States spy on Germans. Outcry in Germany previously erupted over news
the U.S. spied on Merkel's cell phone. But the Chaos Computer Club now
accuses Merkel's government of illegally collaborating with the National
Security Agency and its British counterpart. In a recent interview with
the German TV station NDR, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden described
the relationship between German and U.S. spy agencies.

Edward Snowden: "I would describe it as intimate. As a matter of fact,
the first way I described it in our written interview was that the
German services and the U.S. services are in bed together. They not only
share information, the reporting of results from intelligence, but they
actually share the tools and the infrastructure; they work together
against joint targets in services and there’s a lot of danger in
this."

 

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