Der Spiegel claims U.S. deployed PRISM and bugs to spy on EU
The Europeans are furious following revelations by Germany’s influential
Der Spiegel
magazine that the United States spied upon the European Union, not just
through its PRISM programme but by actually installing bugs in certain
EU buildings and EU offices in Washington.
The
magazine revealed that a document, dated September 2010, described
European allies as “target countries.” From the NATO headquarters in the
suburbs of Brussels, the U.S. systematically placed under surveillance
all the internal computer systems of the European Union as well as
telephonic and Internet traffic flowing out of the Justus Lipsius
building, which houses the Council of Europe. Bugs were planted in the
EU offices in Washington.
Martin Schulz, President of
the European Parliament, said he was “enormously worried and deeply
shocked” by the allegations of espionage in EU offices by American
agencies. “If these allegations prove to be true, it will be…
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