German authorities are investigating a second spy case
reportedly involving the U.S., a week after the arrest of a German
intelligence employee cast a new shadow over relations between
the two countries.
Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that police raided properties
in the Berlin area on "initial suspicion of activity for an
intelligence agency." They did not elaborate or specify what
intelligence agency was involved, but said they had not made an
arrest.
"We have investigations in two cases of suspected espionage, a
very serious suspicion," government spokesman Steffen Seibert
told reporters in Berlin. He declined to provide further details,
citing the ongoing investigations.
The daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported, without naming sources,
that the man being investigated worked at Germany's Defense
Ministry and is suspected of spying for the United States. Die Welt
newspaper reported, also without naming sources, the man was a
soldier in the German army who had aroused the suspicion of
Germany's military counter-intelligence agency because of his
close contacts to alleged U.S. spies.
Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Uwe Roth declined to confirm
the reports, but said the case fell "into the ministry's area of
responsibility" and that Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen had
been informed.
State Department officials traveling with U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry in Beijing had no immediate comment.
Last week, a 31-year-old German intelligence employee was
arrested on suspicion of spying for foreign powers since 2012.
German media have reported that he spied for the United States
and came to authorities' attention when he recently offered his
services to Russian officials in Germany by email.
The case has frayed relations between Berlin and Washington,
which were already strained by reports last year that the National
Security Agency spied on Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone.
The U.S. ambassador to Berlin was summoned to the Foreign
Ministry on Friday after news of that case broke. He was asked to
help clarify the case.
Ambassador John B. Emerson was at the ministry again
Wednesday for a meeting with a senior official, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Martin Schaefer said. U.S. Embassy spokesman Peter
Claussen said the meeting had been arranged on Tuesday at the
embassy's request.

source: www.foxnews.com/world/2014/07/09/germany-investigating-second-spy-case-reportedly-involving-us/

Germany is a worthy ally, If care is not taken the West will lose Germany to Russian. After all the German chancellor speak Russian fluently and the Russia President speaks German fluently. The relationship between these two nations is growing by the day. They have a lot of companies operating in Russia and buys much of Russia gas. Germany is shouldering the most burden from all these back and forth sanctions thrown by Europe and Russia. In the near future i sense that they would ditch EU and America for a stroger relationship with Russia.

You spy on your friends and spy more aggressively on your enemies.
It's called "keeping an eye on things" in intelligence circles every who can does it only a foolish head of state will actually seek to stop it.
I use the term foolish because you can be sure the intelligence brass will never really follow that other even though they tell you otherwise.
Throughout history for the most part, intelligence agencies have a different notion of what is in a country's best interests from the political leadership of that country.This stems from many reasons but most prominent among them is the age old notion among spy's and soldiers that: politicians serve for short term(s) but patriots serve for lifetimes.
Obviously the variation from this trend is in dictatorship states where the dictator is the all in all.

Idrismusty97: Germany is a worthy ally, If care is not taken the West will lose Germany to Russian. After all the German chancellor speak Russian fluently and the Russia President speaks German fluently. The relationship between these two nations is growing by the day. They have a lot of companies operating in Russia and buys much of Russia gas. Germany is shouldering the most burden from all these back and forth sanctions thrown by Europe and Russia. In the near future i sense that they would ditch EU and America for a stroger relationship with Russia.

Yes Germany is a worthy bt may not be ready to take a stand that wil not favour.infact,being at the middle pays more.

Idrismusty97: Germany is a worthy ally, If care is not taken the West will lose Germany to Russian. After all the German chancellor speak Russian fluently and the Russia President speaks German fluently. The relationship between these two nations is growing by the day. They have a lot of companies operating in Russia and buys much of Russia gas. Germany is shouldering the most burden from all these back and forth sanctions thrown by Europe and Russia. In the near future i sense that they would ditch EU and America for a stroger relationship with Russia.

Spot on! But incase of a WWIII, Germany won't pick sides. It is not in their best interest to choose between the US/EU and Russia when 55% of their energy comes from Gazprom. The US- German relationship was severed when the German BND found out that they're being spied on and frau Merkel let the US know that you do not spy on your friends.