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Like you said, everyone spies on everyone. After the revelations the Germans probably turned up the heat to find an American spy and embarrass us further.
Lets be careful about firing folks who do the kind of jobs we wouldn't, for pay probably less than their talents because something goes wrong.
Mornin WN. :2wave: This guy was trying to break to the Russians to and our NSA peeps testifying Thursday before this panel. Now we are caught spying on this panel. Unreal.:doh
Anger over reports German double-agent spied for US.....
But several German media outlets said the suspect was working for a US intelligence agency, and had at least once reported on the parliamentary panel examining claims by fugitive US intelligence official Edward Snowden.
According to public broadcaster NDR, the man was initially arrested on suspicion of seeking contact with Russian secret services and, in questioning, apparently admitted having handed information to a US agency. Investigators did not rule out that the suspect had given false information, said NDR, which worked closely with two other media organisations on the initial report.
At clandestine meetings in Austria he sold secret documents to US agents for 25,000 euros ($34,000), it claimed, adding that in searches of his and his partners' homes investigators found at least three documents related to the parliamentary panel, among other things.
"Should this suspicion be confirmed, it would be outrageous" and require "tough diplomatic consequences", opposition Green party lawmaker Konstantin von Notz told business daily Handelsblatt. News weekly Spiegel Online quoted senior Social Democrat lawmaker Thomas Oppermann as saying that, should the suspicions be confirmed, "that is an unheard attack on our parliamentary freedom".....snip~
http://news.yahoo.com/german-agent-suspected-spying-us-131812591.html