(1) Perhaps you can show us where did the Germans agree for the US to spy on thier government on their soil.
(2) Can you offer some of the examples you are referring to?
(1) The only thing I have quickly at hand is this interview in a quite solid German Newspaper. I have seen more, but would have to look for it and scan it.
Historiker Foschepoth im Interview: "Die USA dürfen Merkel überwachen" | ZEIT ONLINE
This interview was not to my knowledge contradicted and, though, it is treated back burner there have been a few mentions even on DLF, a public station in the last couple of days.
(2) The incidence go way back and have become worse and more frequent.
- During the Cold War the German government supported Eastern countries financially and made the export of large amounts of energy from Russia possible. The funds helped the Soviets prolong their reign, maintain their weapons development and deployment longer and raised the total costs of the Cold War for everyone else.
- One such incident was the scandal that became known as Auschwitz in the Sand. At that time a German company was building a chemical weapons factory for Qaddafi. American intelligence found this out and asked Kohl (then Chancellor) to abide by the law and put an end to the project. The Americans kept asking for action for 2 years and finally went public. The reaction from Kohl was nasty, anti American and loud, demanding "gerichtsfähige Beweise" (proof that would stand up in court. After five days of shouting Germany went into a cooling period and the export and contracting was stopped.
- Much against the expressed warnings of the White House Genscher weighed in on the side of the separatists in Yugoslavia and helped ignite the revolt that brought the ethnic cleansing that forced the US to intervene.
- Germany was instrumental in inviting Turkey into the EU. When, after the Turks had expended enormous political capital on harmonizing to EU demands, Germany told the Turks (in spite of the warnings from Washington of the anger this would cause in Turkey) that they were no longer wanted as members, though, they did not stop the entry process. This has angered the population that feels slighted and to a degree pushed the country in the way of Islamism. This is a project yet developing.
- German companies are widely admitted to have exported the technology to build chemical weapons to Syria. These exports had to be allowed by government.
- Germany sold crucial instruments that made the Iranian nuclear program possible.
- When Saddam was resisting the Security Council demand he show what had become of the WMD that the UN inspectors had seen before 1995 he was supported by Schröder (then Chancellor) combined with Putin and Chirac, who left him with the impression that the UN would not be able to use the force implied in resolution 1441 (number out of memory) as two of the triplet were veto members. He also was able to believe that there would not be a further resolution so that Bush would be unable to follow up his ultimatum in his speech before the General Assembly. This was all the more so as two major powers in NATO were loudly taking action to prevent force. It was widely held at the time that Chirac would have taken France out of the equation, when most of the EU members signed a letter in support of intervention, but could not risk loosing face, which Schröder's persistence would have meant. Schröder, of course, had to go on, as he had whipped the voters into a rage (which still persists and is part of the problem we see today) against Bush's policy in order to get the votes he needed in the general election. This left Saddam with the impression he could continue to play his game. Simple aplied game theory at work.
- In Afghanistan Germany grabbed a then quiet area for stationing. At the time it was openly discussed that this was to avoid casualties, a point that later caused friction with die smaller countries like Holland. The major job the German contingent signed up for was to train the police force. They did nothing for years. The reasons given here in Germany were that it was too dangerous to send police officers from Germany, there was no legal method to recruit officers, the few officers to go were not allowed to accompany the trainees into dangerous areas.... Finely the US was forced to shoulder a good part of the program and the Germans helped. The program was way behind scheduled by that time and the numbers of police hardly reached the crucial level and much too late, allowing criminal activities to dig in and leaving a security deficit that continues to this day.
There is more, but that must suffice.