Spionage: Obama stoppt Überwachung von Weltbank und IWF | ZEIT ONLINE

Spionage: Obama stoppt Überwachung von Weltbank und IWF | ZEIT ONLINE

Obama stops monitoring of World Bank and IMF

Even the World Bank and IMF have been probably spied on by the NSA, U.S. President Obama has apparently ended this. The language regime Washington recalls the case of Merkel.

U.S. President Barack Obama has apparently the NSA told not to spy on the headquarters of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Americans had no electronic monitoring measures are underway in the centers of both organizations in Washington familiar with the matter said a senior U.S. government official told Reuters.

The feds made ​​specifically no information about whether the intelligence agencies in the past, the World Bank and IMF had spied. A similar language regime , the U.S. government had recently responded to accusations that had been followed and the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel spying.

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Even as U.S. President Obama Monitoring the United Nations recently hired a similar language regime was used. The scope of the alleged Spähaktionen at the UN was never confirmed. However, it was through media reports, based on documents of Edward Snowden assisted, revealed that the U.S. spy at the UN.

Neither the World Bank nor the IMF took on those objections. Also, the NSA and the coordinator of the U.S. intelligence community were not willing to submit comments.

Previously, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had announced a change of course in the supervision by U.S. intelligence agencies. "In some cases, these actions have gone too far and we are going to try to make sure it does not happen in future," he said. Certain practices are run automatically and senior officials of the U.S. government had known nothing about it. "The president and I have learn a few things that have happened in many ways on autopilot, because the technology and skills are there."