{"id":12649,"date":"2014-01-17T16:10:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T16:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12649"},"modified":"2014-01-17T16:10:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T16:10:44","slug":"the-americans-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12649","title":{"rendered":"The Americans lied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bnd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12650\" alt=\"bnd\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bnd-300x134.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bnd-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bnd.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last summer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised her citizens a pact which would prohibit U.S. spying on German citizens. But since then, Washington has shown little interest in pursuing such a treaty. Now, officials in Germany fear the deal is dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Failed talks? Hardly. The negotiations &#8220;are continuing,&#8221; says Germany&#8217;s foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). &#8220;We are still talking,&#8221; says the German government. In other words, nothing has yet been decided. The No-Spy deal is still alive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the statements coming out of Berlin and Pullach, where the BND is headquartered, reek of forced optimism. Nobody wants it to look as though efforts have been abandoned toward a deal which would see the U.S. agree to swear off spying operations in Germany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet despite the assertions, most of those involved are slowly coming to the realization that a surveillance deal between Washington and Berlin isn&#8217;t likely to become reality. The U.S. government is still digging in its heels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday, the German daily S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung quoted one source who is familiar with the talks as saying &#8220;we won&#8217;t get anything.&#8221; The paper also reported that the US is refusing to promise that it won&#8217;t monitor members of the German government and other politicians in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No surprises here.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Der Spiegel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised her citizens a pact which would prohibit U.S. spying on German citizens. But since then, Washington has shown little interest in pursuing such a treaty. Now, officials in Germany fear the deal is dead. Failed talks? Hardly. The negotiations &#8220;are continuing,&#8221; says Germany&#8217;s foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Americans lied&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3,10],"tags":[3790,51,3030,8051,8052,3145,3355],"class_list":["post-12649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-united-states","tag-bnd","tag-germany","tag-nsa","tag-pullach","tag-spying-on-german-citizens","tag-stasi","tag-surveillance"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bnd.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12651,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions\/12651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}