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US-German relations strained over spying scandals (video)
After two German intelligence and military officials were accused of being American spies, Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government have requested that the top CIA official in the country leave. Although considered extremely close allies with a strong working relationship, the US and Germany have suffered a series of setbacks over the past year.
In addition to the latest spy arrests, the country was outraged when the world learned that the National Security Agency had eavesdropped on the communications of the public and top government officials, including Merkel. RT’s Ameera David discusses the impact these revelations have had with NSA employee turned whistleblower, William Binney.
“We are in jeopardy of losing our democracies – all of us!”
William Edward Binney is a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) turned whistleblower who resigned on October 31, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency. He was a high-profile critic of his former employers during the George W. Bush administration, and was the subject of FBI investigations, including a raid on his home in 2007.
Binney continues to speak out during Barack Obama’s presidency about the NSA’s data collection policies, and continues interviews in the media regarding his experiences and his views on communication intercepts by governmental agencies of American citizens. In a legal case, Binney has testified in a affidavit that the NSA is in deliberate violation of the U.S. Constitution.
This is a special keynote Bill Binney gave in Munich, Germany in January 2014 during the Handelsblatt-Tagung “Strategisches IT-Management”.
Source: http://dutchamazingnewsblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/us-german-relations-strained-over-spying-scandals-video/
