New Probe Reveals NSA Targeted Entire Staffs of EU Governments

‘A German government-sanctioned special investigation has exposed a “clear breach” of intelligence-sharing agreements—including illegal surveillance of European authorities—between the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its German counterpart, known as the BND.

The news magazine Der Spiegel reported (German) the development on Friday, after having seen a copy of the 300-page report from former federal judge Kurt Graulich, who was appointed by Chancellor Angela Merkel in July to investigate the NSA’s activities within Germany. Graulich is due to formally submit the report next week to the German Parliament.

In examining a list of so-called “selectors” or “catchwords” given to the BND by the NSA, Graulich uncovered a “surprisingly large number” of European targets said to have been disallowed by Germany’s BND on the grounds that they violated European or German interests. The list of 39,000 keywords—many of them email addresses and phone numbers—included government institutions in two-thirds of all EU member states and commercial enterprises, according to a translation of Der Spiegel’s reporting.’

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