German investigation of the cooperation between NSA and BND (I)

In Germany, a parliamentary commission is currently investigating the relationship between the NSA and the German foreign intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). Initially the hearings were about the main accusations made by Edward Snowden about NSA spying on countries like Germany and the experts only provided the usual statements that were already heard oftentimes since last year.

But recently the commission focussed on the cooperation between NSA and BND and a number of officials of the German agency were heard. Their statements provided very interesting details about how BND is operating and how they were cooperating with NSA. As all this is only in German, we will start providing summaries in English of the most interesting parts of these hearings.

http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/11/german-investigation-of-cooperation.html