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the German Government - Spiegel online: LINK ¤ SPIEGEL ONLINE

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• "on a German public TV station - interviewers asked - about the NSA !"

 

 

 

 

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• "what data - exactly - in Germany ?!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "Angela Merkel answered - "the interior minister - was clearly"  !"

 

 

 

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• "that there was no industrial espionage - against German companies !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "but the chancellery - was sloppy in exercising the oversight - over the BND !"

 

 

 

 

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• "( the NSA - via the BND ! ) - ( economic espionage ! )"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "German companies - politicians - and institutions !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the basis were - search terms - so-called - selectors ! - ( provided by the - NSA ! )"

 

 

 

 

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• "lists - had been downloaded from their servers - each day !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "with a sum of 4.6 million - such terms downloaded - in a year !"

 

 

 

 

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• "BND technicians - fed the selectors into the system - the results were forwarded to them !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "then the BND asked its staff - took a closer look - at the search terms !"

 

 

 

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• "a specialist sat down at a computer - and began combing the selector data !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "used the abbreviations - that were common in email addresses - of diplomats !"

 

 

 

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• "ambassadors - and employees - and German government authorities !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "tested the abbreviations - "diplo" - and "bundesamt" - or "federal office"  !"

 

 

 

 

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• "and the abbreviation - "gov" - which was used as part of the email addresses - of the governments !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "he immediately found the terms - in 12,000 - selectors !"

 

 

 

 

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• "the staffer found - email accounts for EU institutions - and those of other governments !"

 

 

 

 

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• "and companies - such as - EADS - or Eurocopter !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "this had been known - by the German government - internally since 2005 !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "it had indications for years - in January 2010 - information reached the chancellery !"

 

 

 

 

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• "the recipient was Guido Müller - the chief official in charge of the BND - at the chancellery's department 6 !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the memo carried the subject line - "status report on BND signals intelligence - and NSA"  !"

 

 

 

 

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• "they monitored - German targets !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "another incident - should had made the chancellery suspicious ! - ( about the conversations of - German government officials ! )"

 

 

 

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• "in 2011 - the top CIA official - told chancellery officials - that a senior staffer !"

 

 

 

 

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• "had been trying to plant - "good stories" - in the media !"

 

 

 

 

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• "and he called a group leader - in department 6 a - "suspected mole"  !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "( how could he know - that ?! )"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the BND itself - estimated there had been - 40,000 !"

 

 

 

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• "suspicious search parameters - against German interests !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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the German Government - Spiegel online: LINK ¤ SPIEGEL ONLINE

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• "in previous years - persons from the BND had noticed - some oddities !"

 

 

 

 

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• "about the so-called - "selector lists"  !"

 

 

 

 

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• "IP addresses - mobile phone numbers - or email accounts !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "in the NSA investigative committee - the Greens - and the Left Party !"

 

 

 

 

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• "filed an official request - to obtain evidence - at the BND !"

 

 

 

 

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• "the project group charged with supporting - the parliamentary investigative committee !"

 

 

 

 

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• "once again - looked at the - selectors !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "they discovered fully - 40,000 - suspicious search parameters !"

 

 

 

 

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• "included - the German governments - and German companies !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the NSA investigative committee - concluded that they acted - directly under the Germans' noses !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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