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Report: German Intelligence Spied on Obama During Presidency
Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, secretly monitored telephone calls involving then-U.S. president Barack Obama while he was travelling aboard Air Force One, according to an investigation by the German newspaper Die Zeit. For several years, the wiretapping operation took advantage of weaknesses in the encryption of the aircraft’s communications, allowing the BND to intercept calls made on known frequencies. The monitoring was carr…
The service is also said to have wiretapped Hillary Clinton.
According to journalist Holger Stark of Zeit magazine, the Federal Information Service (BND) listened to former U.S. President Barack Obama. In the vice-president’s box “Build”- Paul Ronzheimer, Stark stated that the secret service benefited from the fact that encryption of US government aircraft was much more difficult than on the ground. “That’s why, Americans have been carrying from when talks that were poorly encrypted, with gaps, or almost …
Germany's foreign intelligence service (BND) regularly monitored the phone calls of then-US President Barack Obama without permission from Chancellor Angela Merkel, German media reported.
While Merkel lamented the NSA affair, the BND apparently heard for itself: after new revelations, talks were intercepted by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
It was revealed in 2013 that the Americans had been tapping the German Chancellor's mobile phone calls.
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