Tag: Germany

Germany: 16 million online accounts compromised

Washington Examiner · January 21, 2014 11:37 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government said that President Obama's pledge for new restrictions on mass surveillance by U.S. spy agencies so far offered "no answer" to Germany's concerns over spying. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

National Security

Germany says Obama’s spying pledges fail to address concerns

Bloomberg News · January 20, 2014 5:00 am

Germany’s planned clean-energy aid cuts hurt turbine makers

Bloomberg News · January 20, 2014 5:00 am

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama tells Germans that US won’t spy on Angela Merkel

Meghashyam Mali · January 19, 2014 5:00 am

Obama wishes Angela Merkel speedy recovery after injury

Washington Examiner · January 8, 2014 6:46 pm

Washington Secrets

New Corsi book says Hitler lived in Argentina — and U.S. knew

Paul Bedard · January 3, 2014 5:00 am

A German magazine lifted the lid on the operations of the National Security Agency's hacking unit Sunday, reporting that American spies intercept computer deliveries, exploit hardware vulnerabilities, and even hijack Microsoft's internal reporting system to spy on their targets. (AP image)

National Security

Report: NSA intercepts computer deliveries

Raphael Satter · December 30, 2013 5:00 am

New America concluded that the NSA's phone record collection program "has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism." (Photo: Thinkstock)

It’s not the Stasi, but the NSA is bad enough

Gene Healy · November 18, 2013 5:00 am

The Business of Europe . . .

Victorino Matus · November 18, 2013 5:00 am

The Good German

Philip Terzian · November 12, 2013 9:46 pm

Workers assemble Volkswagen Passat sedans at the German automaker's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

Beltway Confidential

Why Big Labor is targeting a Chattanooga Volkswagen plant

Sean Higgins · November 9, 2013 5:00 am

Protestors listen as National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander, center, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Susan Walsh)

National Security

German intel officials discuss NSA spying with US

Associated Press, Kimberly Dozier · November 5, 2013 5:01 pm