[LINK] More NSA/GCHQ spying antics in Germany -- private companies

[Jan Whitaker]

This is from Der Spiegel:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/gchq-and-nsa-targeted-private-german-companies-a-961444.html

  'A' for Angela Merkel: GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies
Documents show that Britain's GCHQ intelligence service infiltrated 
German Internet firms and America's NSA obtained a court order to spy 
on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a 
special database. Is it time for the country to open a formal 
espionage investigation?

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  Classic Acts of Espionage

Monitoring companies and their employees along with the theft of 
customer lists are classic acts of economic espionage. Indeed, such 
revelations ought be a case for the German federal public 
prosecutors' office, which in the past has initiated investigations 
into comparable cases involving Russia or China.

So far, however, German Federal Public Prosecutor Harald Range has 
been struggling with the NSA issue. Some experienced investigators 
have had a problem applying the same criteria used to assess 
intelligence services like Russia's to those of the United States and 
Britain. Federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe have provided a preliminary 
assessment, but so far no decision has been made about whether the 
agency will move forward with legal proceedings.

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