President Obama, You would be wise to Clean House....TONIGHT!

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41. You have it reversed. The outrage on the outside is for show. German Intelligence, the BND is every

bit as aggressive as the NSA and CIA.

There is a German document in Wikileaks that details a 2006 collaboration between the BND and Germany's media to identify media sources and provide coverage. Germany is planning to invest $130 million over the next 5 years in its own online Surveillance program.

When not doing press conferences, privately, the governments in Europe are non-plussed.

Edited to add: http://www.dw.de/germany-also-profits-from-us-british-spying/a-16916837

Germany also profits from US, British spying

Public outcry has emerged over British and American monitoring of global communications. But the German government has so far been reserved in its criticism, partly because the country receives data from such monitoring.

"The topic of commensurability is important" in any imperative to gather information - that was the extent of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's criticism with regard to the Prism spying program during US President Barack Obama's visit to Berlin last week.

Merkel has reason to limit her criticism on the topic. Although the fact that large parts of Internet communication are being monitored was known necessarily known to the general public, the chancellor was unlikely to have been surprised.

German spies have also been sniffing around online - and on a large scale, not just in cases of concrete suspicion. The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is legally allowed to rifle through up to 20 percent of the communication between Germany and other countries, and monitor certain Internet search terms.