The German secret service wiretapped then-President Barack Obama for years, Die Zeit reports. The German intelligence service monitored the American president’s conversations on his plane. Notably, it did so without government authorization. The wiretapping only occurred when Obama made calls from his Air Force One aircraft. The BND knew which twelve frequencies the president was using and was able to bypass the encryption of those conversations because it was prone to errors. The conversations were not monitored continuously, but they were monitored regularly. The tremors were incorporated into reports about the United States, which were also accessible to then-Chancellor Angela Merkel and her cabinet. The wiretapping stopped in 2014, when Merkel’s government ended it.
BlackCat159 on
Did they find out why he wore that tan suit and ate that hamburger with Dijon mustard??? 🤔
cannot_allocate on
Bad of Germany, but also slightly and unusually baller of them
scrndude on
Wasn’t the US wiretapping Angela Merkel at the same time?
Bayley78 on
Hot take: this is good and every ally should do it
Exita on
Good on them. Kind of par for the course for any decent foreign intelligence service to at least try this sort of thing.
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The German secret service wiretapped then-President Barack Obama for years, Die Zeit reports. The German intelligence service monitored the American president’s conversations on his plane. Notably, it did so without government authorization. The wiretapping only occurred when Obama made calls from his Air Force One aircraft. The BND knew which twelve frequencies the president was using and was able to bypass the encryption of those conversations because it was prone to errors. The conversations were not monitored continuously, but they were monitored regularly. The tremors were incorporated into reports about the United States, which were also accessible to then-Chancellor Angela Merkel and her cabinet. The wiretapping stopped in 2014, when Merkel’s government ended it.
Did they find out why he wore that tan suit and ate that hamburger with Dijon mustard??? 🤔
Bad of Germany, but also slightly and unusually baller of them
Wasn’t the US wiretapping Angela Merkel at the same time?
Hot take: this is good and every ally should do it
Good on them. Kind of par for the course for any decent foreign intelligence service to at least try this sort of thing.