German BND Listened to US President Barack Obama for Years

13 pointsposted a day ago
by belter

8 Comments

bigfatkitten

a day ago

If I were a German taxpayer and I learned that they weren’t doing this, I’d be extremely annoyed and wondering what they were spending my money on.

belter

a day ago

According to the article they did not have the permission from Angela Merkel.

At same time, its kind of ironic, since after the NSA document leaks by Snowden, Angela Merkel raised the issue of being spied on by the USA directly with Obama...

bediger4000

a day ago

Obama was security conscious enough to give up his Blackberry in 2009. What does this imply for Trump, who seemingly scorns security precautions and opsec?

belter

a day ago

mtmail

a day ago

Alt text: Photo of classified documents stored in one of President Trump's bathrooms.

belter

a day ago

Fun fact: During the Mar-a-Lago search, the FBI had to use agents with appropriate high-level security clearances. Some of the documents were so sensitive they were marked Top Secret/SCI. This is normally even more restricted level than just Top Secret.

bigfatkitten

17 hours ago

All FBI agents are cleared TS/SCI.

bediger4000

6 hours ago

Given that "SCI" stands for "sensitive compartmented information", I bet they had to find agents currently read into certain "compartments", or read new agents into those "compartments".