Germany’s BND Intelligence Agency Has Been Spying for the NSA.

The Bundestag's NSA investigation committee has demanded lists of search terms Germany's intelligence service, the BND, allegedly spied on for Washington.
The committee is planning its first hearing with witnesses, amid allegations that the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) helped its US counterpart spy on European companies and institutions.
Two BND employees are expected to be summoned for questioning to determine "who knew what when and reported what to whom", the chairman of the parliamentary committee, Patrick Sensburg, told Tagesspiegel.
Across party lines, committee members are also calling for access to so-called "Selector Lists".
These include contested search terms that the BND allegedly spied on for the NSA while monitoring satellite communication data.
The deciding factor for Bundstag MPs is a list of around 2000 search queries that the two BND witnesses had additionally blocked as problematic after the Snowden revelations.
Christian Flisek, the Social Democratic Party's head in the NSA investigation committee, presented the German government with an ultimatum.
"I can understand that the federal government wants to coordinate with the Americans. But I expect the list with the selectors to be presented to us Flisek told Tagesspiegel.
The German government must reach a sovereign decision, he said. It must even act against the will of the United States, if necessary, in the event that the latter does not agree to provide the selector lists, Flisek warned.
If the German government does not grant the committee access, "then I assume there will be a joint lawsuit from all factions", Flisek indicated. The Green Party has already threatened to sue the government if it refuses to give the committee access.
But the committee's chairman Sensburg said such summon is not yet planned, just as no new interrogation is expected with BND president Gerhard Schindler.
The SPD's vice faction chairman in the Bundestag, Eva Högl, called for a reorganisation of the legal basis for intelligence service work. After all, she said, it concerns massive intrusions on the personal rights of those affected.
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