United States caught spying on senior German officials a week after espionage against

Then, last summer, Germany identified two government employees suspected of passing secrets to the USA, leading the German government to order the top USA intelligence official in the USA Embassy in Berlin to leave Germany.

One document shows that the NSA and its British counterpart snooped on the conversations among German leadership as they dealt with Greece’s economic crisis in 2011. It described how the German government planned to negotiate a European Union bailout plan for Greece. The report also cites Meyer-Landrut’s belief that a resolution to the Greek crisis would require greater private-sector involvement. But the number is “still active”, according to the Sueddeutsche report, and now rings through to the office of the powerful current finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble.

The NSA targeted ministers, staff members and groups working on G7 and World Trade Organization meetings.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office asked the United States ambassador to come in Thursday to discuss new allegations of NSA spying, which threatened to drive a new wedge through transatlantic ties.

“Beyond that, the cooperation between German and American intelligence services that is essential for the security of our citizens is burdened by such repeated incidents”, Mr Seibert added.

In fact, the latest list shows the spying focused more on economy issues, rather than on security.

The revelation of this latest information on spying has created a significant political uprising in Germany.

United States Ambassador to Germany, John Emerson.

The spying scandal was compounded by allegations that the German BND foreign intelligence agency helped the NSA and tracked other European targets on behalf of the NSA.

BERLIN, July 2 The German government is taking the latest reports on US spying attacks on senior government officials seriously and authorities are analysing their contents, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

Without question, DER SPIEGEL has broken many stories that have frustrated the USA intelligence community, including the “extraordinary rendition” of Mohammed Haydar Zammar to Syria, where he was allegedly tortured; the WikiLeaks files, and the Snowden information.

The new documents include 69 telephone numbers that are still in use, indicating that the spying could be ongoing. Data tapped from Europe was only to be used in instances of a clear terror threat.

Finally, Merkel believed that action must be taken to enact a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT); doing so next year, she assessed, would be a major step toward achieving some balance in relief for banks.

Seibert said Germany’s relevant authorities were now investigating the alleged widespread surveillance revealed by WikiLeaks.