U.S.-Germany Intelligence Partnership Falters Over Spying
By DAVID E. SANGER and ALISON SMALE, NYT
BERLIN — Nearly two months after President Obama assured Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany that the United States would never again target her cellphone, a broader effort to build a new intelligence relationship with Germany is floundering, with each side increasingly reluctant to make major changes in how it deals with the other.
American officials have refused to extend the “no spying” guarantee beyond Ms. Merkel, telling German officials in private sessions that if the White House agreed to forgo surveillance on German territory, other partners would insist on the same treatment.
“Susan Rice has been very clear to us,” one senior German official said, referring to Mr. Obama’s national security adviser. “The U.S. is not going to set a precedent.”
How aggressively to continue targeting the leaders of countries allied with the United States is one of the most delicate questions facing Mr. Obama as he weighs the still-confidential report of an outside advisory group that submitted 40 recommendations to him on Friday, including several dealing with spying on the United States’ closest allies and partners.
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BERLIN — Nearly two months after President Obama assured Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany that the United States would never again target her cellphone, a broader effort to build a new intelligence relationship with Germany is floundering, with each side increasingly reluctant to make major changes in how it deals with the other.
American officials have refused to extend the “no spying” guarantee beyond Ms. Merkel, telling German officials in private sessions that if the White House agreed to forgo surveillance on German territory, other partners would insist on the same treatment.
“Susan Rice has been very clear to us,” one senior German official said, referring to Mr. Obama’s national security adviser. “The U.S. is not going to set a precedent.”
How aggressively to continue targeting the leaders of countries allied with the United States is one of the most delicate questions facing Mr. Obama as he weighs the still-confidential report of an outside advisory group that submitted 40 recommendations to him on Friday, including several dealing with spying on the United States’ closest allies and partners.
(More here.)
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