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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> dewayne-net@warpspeed.com [mailto:dewayne-net@warpspeed.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Hendricks Dewayne<br><b>Sent:</b> April 24, 2015 8:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net<br><b>Subject:</b> [Dewayne-Net] NSA spied on EU politicians and companies with help from German intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>NSA spied on EU politicians and companies with help from German intelligence<br>Spies failed to check properly what was being passed across to the US.<br>By Glyn Moody<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Apr 24 2015<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/nsa-spied-on-eu-politicians-and-companies-with-help-from-german-intelligence/">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/nsa-spied-on-eu-politicians-and-companies-with-help-from-german-intelligence/</a>><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#414141'>Germany's intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has been helping the </span><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ueberwachung-neue-spionageaffaere-erschuettert-bnd-a-1030191.html"><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>NSA spy on European politicians and companies</span></a><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#414141'> for years, according to the German news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i>. The NSA has been sending lists of "selectors"—</span><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/new-snowden-leak-details-widest-reaching-nsa-digital-surveillance-program/"><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>identifying telephone numbers, e-mail and IP addresses</span></a><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#414141'>—to the BND, which then provides related information that it holds in its surveillance databases. According to the German newspaper <i>Die Zeit</i>, the NSA sent selector lists several times a day, and </span><a href="http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2015-04/ueberwachung-bnd-half-nsa-wirtschaftsspionage-europa"><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>altogether 800,000 selectors have been requested</span></a><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#414141'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:21.75pt;max-width: 100%'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#414141'>The BND realized as early as 2008 that some of the selectors were not permitted according to its internal rules, or covered by a 2002 US-Germany anti-terrorism "Memorandum of Agreement" on intelligence cooperation. And yet it did nothing to check the NSA's requests systematically. It was only in the summer of 2013, after Edward Snowden's revelations of massive NSA and GCHQ surveillance, that the BND finally started an inquiry into all the selectors that had been processed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:21.75pt;max-width: 100%'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#414141'>According to <i>Der Spiegel</i>, investigators found that the BND had provided information on around 2,000 selectors that were clearly against European and German interests. Not only were European businesses such as the giant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EADS"><span style='color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>aerospace and defense company EADS</span></a>, best-known as the manufacturer of the Airbus planes, targeted, so were European politicians—including German ones.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:21.75pt;max-width: 100%'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#414141'>However, the BND did not inform the German Chancellor's office, which only found out about the misuse of the selector request system in March 2015. Instead, the BND simply asked the NSA to make requests that were fully covered by the anti-terrorism agreement between the two countries. According to <i>Die Zeit</i>, this was because the BND was worried that the NSA might curtail the flow of its own intelligence data to the German secret services if the selector scheme became embroiled in controversy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:21.75pt;max-width: 100%'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#414141'>The information about this activity has finally come out thanks to a long-running <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/snowden-blocked-from-traveling-to-germany-testifying-to-parliament/"><span style='color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>committee of inquiry</span></a>, set up by the German Bundestag (federal parliament), which has been trying to get to the bottom of the NSA activities in Germany, and of the BND's involvement in them. The committee's investigation suggests that as many as 40,000 of the selectors were targeting European and German interests—far more than the 2,000 found by the BND.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:21.75pt;max-width: 100%'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#414141'>There is likely to be considerable political fallout from the latest news. Because of the way the affair has been handled, with the German Chancellor kept in the dark for years, it is widely expected that the head of the BND, Gerhard Schindler, will be forced to resign. News that the BND has been actively helping the NSA to spy on European companies and politicians will also deepen the public's already considerable anger at <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/germany-accuses-us-of-spying-on-chancellor-angela-merkels-phone/"><span style='color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>US surveillance of Germans</span></a>, first revealed by Snowden's leaks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:21.75pt;max-width: 100%'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#414141'>That, in its turn, could make it even harder to persuade them to accept the huge US-EU trade agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors, known as the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ttip/"><span style='color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership</span></a> (TTIP). The Germans are already the leading skeptics: <a href="https://stop-ttip.org/"><span style='color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>over a million of them</span></a> have signed an online petition calling for the TTIP talks to be halted, while <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/18/us-trade-protests-germany-idUSKBN0N90LO20150418"><span style='color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>thousands took to the streets</span></a> earlier this month to protest against the proposed deal.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>