German(BND) Employee Arrested Spying For US! Bill Binney Testifies To Bundestag NSA Committee

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German Double-Agent caught...

Former NSA mathematician and technical director, William Binney testified to the German National NSA Committee: NSA 'totalitarian,' ex-staffer tells German parliament
"German companies are increasingly worried about economic espionage which is rising dramatically. The head of Germany's domestic intelligence service said recently he had no indication of economic espionage by Western services."

The 'ALL KNOWING NSA/US GOVERNMENT' wants to know all facets of Binney testifying and the German Security Committee meet.

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German intelligence employee arrested on suspicion of spying for US on Bundestag NSA committee

A member of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has been detained for possibly spying for the US. The 31-year-old is suspected of giving a US spy agency information about a parliamentary inquiry of NSA activities.

German media said on Friday that an employee of the country's foreign intelligence agency (BND) was being held in police custody under the suspicion of espionage. The information was reported by public broadcasters NDR, WDR and the news daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.
According to initial reports, authorities apprehended a 31-year-old member of the BND on Wednesday.
Germany's Federal Prosecutor confirmed the following day that he had been arrested on the "strong suspicion" of spying activities.
During questioning, the suspect reportedly told investigators that he had gathered information on an investigative committee from Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag. The panel is conducting an inquiry into NSA surveillance on German officials and citizens.
A spokesperson for the Federal Prosecutor's office declined to provide further details about the case, according to news agency AFP.
German-US relations have been on the rocks since revelations of mass surveillance not only on German citizens, but also on Chancellor Angela Merkel and other politicians made headlines last year.
'Not something we take lightly'
Chancellor Merkel's spokesperson, Steffen Seibert, confirmed on Friday that both she and the investigative committee had been briefed on the situation.
The chancellery would wait until police had concluded their investigation before taking action in the case, which Seibert described as "very serious."
Espionage is "not something we take lightly," Seibert told reporters in Berlin.
It was not immediately clear whether the German chancellor had discussed the incident with US President Barack Obama on Thursday night during a telephone call about the crisis in Ukraine.

Ex-NSA staffers testify

On Thursday, the first American insiders provided testimony before the Bundestag's newly formed NSA inquiry committee.


William Binney, the former NSA technical head, accused the NSA of having a "totalitarian mentality" and wanting "total information control" over citizens in breach of the US constitution. It was an approach that until now the public had only seen among dictators, he added.

T
he second former NSA staffer, Thomas Drake, also alleged the NSA was exercising the ultimate form of control. According to Drake, almost all data transited Germany was accessed by the NSA and Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND.


Among the questions the Bundestag committee wants answered is whether German intelligence services had worked with the NSA.

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July 5, 2014 10:20 Espionage affair NSA Committee Alleged double agent outraged German policy

The committee of inquiry to clarify the NSA spying - and was apparently spying itself. The case of a suspected double agent ensures bipartisan outrage. Critics speak of "treason".

• Ironically, the NSA committee of inquiry should have been the victim of espionage. A BND employee should have passed many documents to American services
• The case of the alleged double agent ensures all parties outrage
• Ex-BND chief sees reliability of the Secret Service in danger

BND will have passed many documents to Americans

At the Federal Intelligence Service ( BND ) is for two years a spy for the U.S. intelligence community have worked. Particularly serious allegations that this secret papers also said to have passed through the NSA investigation committee of the Bundestag. The Committee should clarify not only the role of the NSA, but also of the BND in the affair of the global monitoring of communication channels.
According to information from the committee chairman Patrick Sensburg (CDU), there are but "no evidence that documents the committee of inquiry have been himself spied" that it was rather "documents that should be submitted to the committee of inquiry - from government institutions and authorities," said Sensburg in Germany radio.
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The Attorney General had let the 31-year-old German arrested on Wednesday because of the strong suspicion of intelligence agents work . The BND to have been repeatedly questioned by the U.S. Secret Service and at least once over the activities of the NSA Committee of Inquiry into the United States have reported. According to information from the Bild newspaper the man had stolen a total of 218 BND secret documents between 2012 and 2014 and stored on a USB stick.
Alleged double agent provides cross-party criticism

While the committee chairman Sensburg against hasty demands warned by the consequences of the affair, and exhorted to await the results of the Attorney General, the U.S. spy affair worries about the NSA Board of Investigation on party lines for outrage.

Statement of ex-NSA employee BND as "vermiform appendix of the NSA"

Former NSA employee raise in the NSA investigation committee serious allegations against the BND: So the Germans also have information for the U.S. drone war comes - and thus potentially violating the Basic Law.
The SPD-ordinator in the NSA Committee, Christian Flisek, told Bayerischer Rundfunk, the suspicion should confirm, that would be a "scandal" and "attack on parliamentary democracy." This would have consequences, both in the field of intelligence cooperation as well as in the field of politics.
The domestic policy spokesman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Stephan Mayer (CSU), told the Bild newspaper, the suspicion should prove true, that would be "a huge breach of trust in the transatlantic relationship." The CSU politician Hans-Peter Uhl added in the newspaper: "The exchange of information between friendly intelligence services is common but it is done in a cooperative and non-criminal manner.."
The Green Group Coordinator of the NSA investigation committee, Konstantin von Notz, told the Ruhr Nachrichten when bewahrheite the suspicion that it was a "monstrous task". "It can not be accepted if the NSA committee to educate the fishing expeditions of millions of Germans, is even pried." Such a process would have consequences.
The Left Party sees the Chancellor's Office the responsibility. "All fingers point to the Chancellor's Office and its boss," the party chairman Bernd Riexinger told the Rheinische Post. "The BND is on the Atlantic blind eye," he said. If the counterintelligence functioning public nor to the specimens of the Cold War, the question of political responsibility for a faulty control agency. Riexinger demanded that the federal government had the Americans now "the teeth show" and across party lines "take a stand against this attack on his freedom," the Parliament.
Ex-BND president sees reliability of the intelligence endangered

The former BND President Hans-Georg Wieck said the Central German newspaper, the operation affects the reliability of the Federal Intelligence Service. The BND is an instrument of the federal government.
"And the federal government is not a vassal government of the United States or any state.'s Why is such a breach of trust treason." First true of those arrested, however, the presumption of innocence.

Germany arrests 'double agent' suspected of spying for US

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A man reported to be an employee of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the United States, it emerged on Friday.

The German Federal Prosecutor's office said in a statement that a 31-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of being a foreign spy and investigations were continuing. Der Spiegel magazine and the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung said that the man worked for Germany’s foreign intelligence service, known by its German acronym BND.
German authorities summoned the US Ambassador John B. Emerson following the arrest, “in connection with an investigation by the federal prosecutor,” the German Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The US envoy “was asked to help in the swift clarification” of the case, it added.
The case risks further straining ties between Berlin and Washington, which were damaged by revelations last year of mass surveillance of German citizens by the US National Security Agency, including the monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone.
The man, who is German, has admitted passing contact details to an American about a special German parliamentary committee set up to investigate the spying revelations made by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, two lawmakers with knowledge of the affair told Reuters.
Both lawmakers are members of the nine-person parliamentary control committee, whose meetings are confidential, and which is in charge of monitoring the work of German intelligence agencies.

"This was a man who had no direct contact with the investigative committee ... He was not a top agent," said one of the members of parliament, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The suspect had offered his services to the United States voluntarily, the source said.
Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said: "We don't take the matter of spying for foreign intelligence agencies lightly."
When asked whether Merkel had discussed the issue with President Barack Obama during a phone conversation on Thursday night, he merely said they had talked about foreign affairs.
Germany is particularly sensitive about surveillance because of abuses by the Stasi secret police in communist East Germany and by the Nazis. After the Snowden revelations, Berlin demanded that Washington agree to a "no-spy agreement" with its close ally, but the United States has been unwilling.

218 documents thought stolen


Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and the broadcasters WDR and NDR reported that the alleged spy was first detained on suspicion of contacting Russian intelligence agents. He then admitted he had worked with Americans.

Daily newspaper Bild said in an advance copy of an article to be published on Saturday that the man had worked for two years as a double agent and had stolen 218 confidential documents.
He sold the documents, three of which related to the work of the committee in the Bundestag, for 25,000 euros ($34,100), Bild said, citing security sources.

Opposition lawmakers called for diplomatic consequences if the allegations should prove true.
The head of parliament's committee investigating the NSA affair, Patrick Sensburg, said its members had long feared they might be targeted by foreign intelligence agents and had taken special measures.

The US embassy in Berlin, the State Department in Washington and the White House all declined to comment.