Os vazamentos promovidos pelo senhor Edward Snowden continuam afetando governos, organizações e pessoas pelo mundo. No último mês, as notícias sobre o relacionamento entre a National Security Agency (NSA) e o serviço de inteligência externa alemão, o BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst), têm sido constantes nos jornais germânicos… O assunto ganha fôlego à medida que as eleições se aproximam. Há a efetiva possibilidade da oposição vencer em setembro nas urnas e um dos temas em debate é exatamente essa cooperação entre Berlin e Washington para invadir a privacidade dos cidadãos (!). Como se Frau Merkel não tivesse mais nada com que se preocupar…
Segue interessante matéria do Der Spiegel sobre o tema…
Merkel and the NSA: A Scandal That Just Won’t Die
As the election approaches, Chancellor Angela Merkel is working hard to dissipate anger over controversial surveillance by German and US intelligence agencies. But every time Berlin assures voters that all is well, its claims are discredited.Monday, August 5, was the day that the German government hoped would finally provide some relief in the ongoing surveillance scandal. That morning, a member of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, stationed at the embassy in Washington picked up four German officials at a local hotel. Driving in two dark sedans, they headed for Fort Meade in the state of Maryland, the headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA), which gathers military intelligence for the US Department of Defense.
The four were part of a high-ranking delegation that had landed in the US capital a day earlier. It included: Gerhard Schindler, the BND chief; Hans-Georg Maassen, his counterpart from the Cologne-based Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency; Klaus-Dieter Fritsche, a state secretary at the German Interior Ministry; and Günter Heiss, intelligence coordinator for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Continuar lendo
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