Merkel-Handy: Grüne wollen Spähskandal im Bundestag behandeln - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Merkel-Handy: Grüne wollen Spähskandal im Bundestag behandeln - SPIEGEL ONLINE

How can explain the possible spying Germany Chancellor of phones? Greens and the Left pushing for an investigation in the Bundestag. Interior Minister Friedrich asks for information from the U.S. Embassy. The SPD sets even to interview whistleblower Snowden as witnesses.
Berlin - The alleged spying on the phone of the Chancellor has the Green Party leader to view Katrin Göring-Eckardt be in the Bundestag topic. The affair must be evaluated parliament, said Göring-Eckardt in "Germany Funk". "I now want to know what is actually happening." Also need to clarify what the German services had known about it.

There must also be a public debate about the consequences. "I can not imagine that we are now more cheerful me negotiate the Free Trade Agreement," the MP said, referring to the negotiations between the EU and the United States.

On Friday requested the parliamentary secretary of the Greens, Britta Haßelmann, a special session of Parliament. In a letter to President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert, she wrote: "As the 18th German Bundestag has been no committees, to a parliamentary referral, however, can not be omitted, and in the light of the increased public interest in the investigation of monitoring affair is the convening of the Bundestag to required a special session. "

Oppermann considering testimony from whistleblowers Snowden

The Left had already pushed for a committee of inquiry to the affair. The rest of the Union from not basically said Group CEO Michael Grosse-Brömer. "If a reference to the Bundestag is detectable, we like to talk about it," he said of the "Leipzig People's Daily". First, however, were the United States on train.

Greens and the Left have under the current rules did not have enough votes to set up a committee of inquiry alone.

The Chairman of the Parliamentary Control Panel of parliament, Thomas Oppermann (SPD), is considering claims to do, listen to former U.S. intelligence officials Edward Snowden in the current Spähaffäre as witnesses. In the ZDF program "Maybrit Illner" he said, the U.S. informant was "an obvious valuable tools", especially for information about a possible monitoring of the Chancellor's phones.

The green intelligence expert Hans-Christian Stroebele called on the federal government again, Snowden "here in Germany to offer asylum or even witness protection."

German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) has called for rapid clarification of the USA. In an interview with the newspaper "Bild"-Zeitung Friedrich demanded by the U.S. ambassador to Germany, John B. Emerson, the release of information. "We have an indication that the mobile phone of the Chancellor was bugged -. Verify the we we have asked the U.S. ambassador to give us information," said Friedrich.