The German intelligence gave their American counterparts 1.3 million ‘metadata’, including calls, text messages and e-mails per month.
“The Americans are prepared to negotiate a mutual agreement of non-espionage.” These words are the ones chosen by Angela Merkel back when it was discovered that the NSA had been spying on everyone all over the world, including Merkel herself.
The head of the German Government spoke in September 2013, at the outbreak of the scandal that surrounded US intelligence. Then she sought to defend her position in the elections of that same month and wanted to show her toughness to a matter that infuriated potential voters.
The problem was that, as we now know, President Barack Obama never intended to offer Merkel a non-espionage agreement of the type announced by Merkel.
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