Spying Scandal Piles Pressure on Merkel Over Extent of NSA Links
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel came under renewed pressure over the trans-Atlantic surveillance scandal after a report that German intelligence cooperated closely with the U.S. National Security Agency.
Germany’s BND Federal Intelligence Service, led by Gerhard Schindler, pushed for a looser interpretation of privacy law and German counterintelligence agents were given access to NSA spy software, news magazine Der Spiegel reported yesterday, citing documents among those exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.