Spying among friends
The NSA’s eyes in Europe
Flashback to the autumn of 2013. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, stands before dozens of journalists at the beginning of a European summit in Brussels. They all want to hear what she has to say about the claims that the National Security Agency (NSA) tapped her mobile phone.
The chancellor, dressed in her customary monotone fashion, says a few words that will resonate in Germany and abroad. “Spying among friends is not at all acceptable,” she declares, as Washington and Berlin face one of their biggest crises of trust in recent times.
The chancellor, dressed in her customary monotone fashion, says a few words that will resonate in Germany and abroad. “Spying among friends is not at all acceptable,” she declares, as Washington and Berlin face one of their biggest crises of trust in recent times.
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