Merkel NSA phone tapping

My inter­view today for RT about the Ger­man pro­sec­utor’s decision to stop the invest­ig­a­tion of the NSA tap­ping Chan­cel­lor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone, and much more:

End of Merkel NSA Spy Probe Case on RT Inter­na­tion­al from Annie Machon on Vimeo.

Germans end investigation into Merkel phone tapping

My recent inter­view on RT about the end­ing of the invest­ig­a­tion by the Ger­man author­it­ies into the appar­ently illeg­al bug­ging of Chan­cel­lor Angela Merkel’s phone, plus more on the wider com­pli­city of the Ger­man intel­li­gence services:

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More NSA spying in Germany — RT interview

In the wake of what appears to be anoth­er NSA leak­er, it has been repor­ted that, while Angela Merkel’s phone is appar­ently off-lim­its, her close polit­ic­al circle is now being targeted.

Last week­end the Bild am Son­ntag news­pa­per in Ger­many repor­ted that a seni­or NSA oper­at­ive had made these claims. This report has been repeated in media around the world.

While we have yet to see any cor­rob­or­a­tion, this may indeed indic­ate that more staff in the glob­al intel­li­gence com­munity are find­ing the cour­age to speak out about eth­ic­al con­cerns in the wake of the Snowden dis­clos­ures last year.

Tapping on

No guar­an­tee NSA will stop spy­ing on Ger­many or Merkel from Annie Machon on Vimeo.