Westerwelle bestellt US-Botschafter in Auswärtige Amt ein - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Berlin - What happens on Thursday in the German-American relations an exceptional act: Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle ordered in the afternoon the local U.S. ambassador John B. Emerson in the Foreign Office .
The've Westerwelle led last night with a view of the reports of a possible cell phone spying by Chancellor Merkel, it said on Thursday morning from circles of the Foreign Ministry told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Westerwelle will meet him in person," was explicitly stated. This too is a sign of how seriously the government takes the process: Typically, the view of the Federal government - as in the case of the recent protests in the Syrian government - presented by subordinate diplomats of the Office of the respective ambassadors.
But in this case Westerwelle will meet themselves on the new U.S. ambassador who resides with his family in the German capital until the middle of August. Also for the U.S. diplomats therefore not a common occurrence in his so far short presence in Germany.
Merkel speaks with Obama
As it was out of circles of the Foreign Office further, should in the discussion of Westerwelle "incomprehension and indignation of the German side of the reported processes of interception under closest partners to be made clear." The processes need to be understood, must also be checked whether the previous information and assurances of U.S. intelligence had been right, it was said out of office.
Cause of the unusually sharp reaction of the federal government is a current SPIEGEL request in the course of a search . Following a review by the Federal Intelligence Service and the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology, the government stopped the suspect apparently plausible enough to confront the U.S. government so that.
The Chancellor himself had complained directly on Wednesday with U.S. President Barack Obama. Merkel has made it clear "that if the information should materialize such practices clearly disapproved of and sees as completely unacceptable," said her spokesman Steffen Seibert.
Control committee of the Bundestag convenes today
There are also the Parliamentary Control Committee (PKG) of the Bundestag convened. Its chairman Thomas Oppermann (SPD), said on Thursday in Berlin, he had scheduled a special meeting shortly: 14.00 clock. "Anyone who listens to the chancellor, who also hears from citizens," said Oppermann. The secret which meets PKG is responsible for the control of intelligence activities.
Oppermann further stated that he saw through the current process's own concerns about the interception confirms especially the U.S. secret NSA. "The NSA affair is not finished. Elucidation is only the beginning", the SPD politician also contradicted previous estimates of Head of the Chancellery Ronald Pofalla (CDU). "The monitoring activities of the NSA has gone completely out of control and is apparently beyond democratic control," Oppermann added.
"Naivete and anti-Americanism"
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A little premature of the Interior declared the NSA affair ended for all charges against the United States was eliminated. Now the outrage is great. An overview of the quotes of the federal government. 