{"id":53636,"date":"2014-07-10T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53636"},"modified":"2014-07-10T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:50:07","slug":"us-caught-spying-on-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53636","title":{"rendered":"US caught spying on&#8230;Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know, with all of the problems that we have with folks around the world, why are we wasting our money and time to spy on some of our allies&#8230;especially Germany? From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/german-investigation-of-us-espionage-widens\/2014\/07\/09\/8829d518-0791-11e4-a0dd-f2b22a257353_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal prosecutors in Germany said police had searched an apartment and an office in Berlin in a probe that is apparently focused on a suspect with ties to the country\u2019s military. The raids came days after an employee of Germany\u2019s foreign intelligence service was arrested and accused of selling secrets to the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have investigations in two cases of suspected espionage, a very serious suspicion,\u201d Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for the German government, told reporters in Berlin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s because we have so many allies in the world these days, we don&#8217;t need anymore. A few months ago we learned that the US intellegence people were listening to German Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s phone conversations and now this. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/07\/07\/us-germany-usa-spying-idUSKBN0FC06P20140707\">Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to intelligence and political sources, the man admits passing documents to a U.S. contact.<\/p>\n<p>Those include information about a parliamentary committee looking into allegations by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that Washington carried out major surveillance in Germany, including monitoring Merkel&#8217;s phone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know, with all of the problems that we have with folks around the world, why &hellip; <a title=\"US caught spying on&#8230;Germany\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53636\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US caught spying on&#8230;Germany<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}