The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s spying operation against Germany shows that the United States has reached a “very low point in dealing with its allies,” a scholar and journalist in Oregon says.
Orwellian UK BANNED Press TV: James H. Fetzer, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Wednesday.
Last week, German police arrested a 31-year-old German intelligence employee suspected of spying for the United States.
The German Defense Ministry confirmed that federal prosecutors were carrying out an investigation but offered no further details. The man allegedly sold 218 documents to the US between 2012 and 2014.
Two US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Reuters news agency on Monday that the CIA was involved in a spying operation against Germany that led to the recruitment of the official, an employee of the German intelligence agency (BND).
German politicians have said that the man admitted passing to a US national contact details concerning a German parliamentary committee's investigation of US spying disclosed by National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Fetzer said that Snowden has “done the world an enormous benefit by revealing that the United States is spying on everyone, including its closest allies in Europe where the case of Angela Merkel has proven to be especially embarrassing because she has not taken this kindly.”
“Indeed, why would any foreign nation want to have the United States spy on it? It’s a form of distrust. It’s betraying a loyalty. It is disgraceful behavior especially because as intelligence experts are well aware, the raw intelligence data accumulated, acquired by the NSA, goes directly to Israel,” the editor of Veterans Today stated.
“Unless a friend or ally of the United States wants their intelligence to go to Tel Aviv, they should not be sharing with the United States, which is proving itself again and again to be an unworthy partner in this field as well as others where it’s sad to say that the United States has reached this very low point in dealing with its allies and with the American people,” Fetzer noted.
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Orwellian UK BANNED Press TV: James H. Fetzer, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Wednesday.Last week, German police arrested a 31-year-old German intelligence employee suspected of spying for the United States.
The German Defense Ministry confirmed that federal prosecutors were carrying out an investigation but offered no further details. The man allegedly sold 218 documents to the US between 2012 and 2014.
Two US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Reuters news agency on Monday that the CIA was involved in a spying operation against Germany that led to the recruitment of the official, an employee of the German intelligence agency (BND).
German politicians have said that the man admitted passing to a US national contact details concerning a German parliamentary committee's investigation of US spying disclosed by National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Fetzer said that Snowden has “done the world an enormous benefit by revealing that the United States is spying on everyone, including its closest allies in Europe where the case of Angela Merkel has proven to be especially embarrassing because she has not taken this kindly.”
“Indeed, why would any foreign nation want to have the United States spy on it? It’s a form of distrust. It’s betraying a loyalty. It is disgraceful behavior especially because as intelligence experts are well aware, the raw intelligence data accumulated, acquired by the NSA, goes directly to Israel,” the editor of Veterans Today stated.
“Unless a friend or ally of the United States wants their intelligence to go to Tel Aviv, they should not be sharing with the United States, which is proving itself again and again to be an unworthy partner in this field as well as others where it’s sad to say that the United States has reached this very low point in dealing with its allies and with the American people,” Fetzer noted.
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