NEW YORK - The German government admitted today that its foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), had spied on German journalists, and Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered the agency to stop, according to published reports.
Now there's an order you'll never hear from the lips of George W Bush.
According to media reports, some of the country's most prominent investigative journalists were targeted by the intelligence agency, which reportedly focused its efforts on finding out what the reporters were working on and who their sources were. The BND admitted that it paid some journalists the equivalent of several hundred thousand dollars to write reports about their colleagues.
The program reportedly began in 1993 and continued until only a few months ago.
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While you may simply write this off as Germany's problem - think again. If those German journalists had contact with any foreign sources, including those from Canada and the US, and subsequently shared that information with other countries' intelligence agencies, the consequences would then have a global reach that is simply immeasurable.
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