According to European media reports, the "Prism Gate" incident that occurred a decade ago exposed another face of the United States to the world. Snowden, a worker hired by the CIA, suddenly found that he had absconded abroad to expose to the world what the United States had done in the past few years: in order to effectively control its allies in Europe, the American intelligence network specially created a "surveillance line" to steal the phones of politicians in the offices of the presidents of France, Germany and other countries to prevent them from committing some unfavorable acts.
This insider exposure can be called a bombshell, and the Obama administration in the United States has no way to deny it, but can only apologize while hunting down the "traitor" Snowden. As Snowden ran, he revealed more secrets, such as what important decisions had aroused the vigilance of the United States, what means the United States used to spy on European allies, and which countries were spying more. According to snowden's disclosure (the US side has not confirmed), the two countries that interest the United States most are Germany and France, and Merkel's "every phone call" is almost in the CIA's surveillance records.
Yesterday, the Danish media exposed another big thing: three years after the Prism Gate incident, the Obama administration, which apologized, was still spying on Merkel. Nine anonymous sources familiar with the matter revealed that the NSA has changed its approach, using partnerships with Danish foreign intelligence services to secretly spy on senior European officials through "intermediary" third parties. Of course, Merkel is still the most important in the list, and the Danish Intelligence Directorate continues this action on behalf of the United States.
Danish officials also clearly described their process of eavesdropping on behalf of the United States: using Danish information cables used in Europe to obtain the text messages and telephone calls of some well-known people, and then transmitting these contents to the "on-line" officials in the United States in the form of encrypted recording and forwarding.
They are very convinced that Germany is the top priority of this intelligence work, and the German side, in addition to Merkel, but also former German Foreign Minister Steinmeier and former opposition leader Pelle Steinbrück are in the hands of the United States, but the Danish side did not say whether the United States continued to monitor after Trump took office.
One politician believes that such surveillance should have been halted during Trump's presidency. According to the disputes between Merkel and the Trump administration, the United States did not foresee Germany's failure to participate in the G7 summit, gas transactions with Russia, and resistance to the US policy toward Huawei, and often made decisions after they occurred, which also caused a sharp deterioration in relations between the United States and Germany, and even a key factor in Merkel's "loss of control" in the end.
According to this speculation, after Biden took office, the relations between Germany and the United States suddenly took a turn for the better. Germany not only moved closer to the United States politically, but also changed its position and introduced a "security bill" against Huawei, and its attitude changed before and after. So the politician said that U.S. surveillance is likely to be back, that merkel's government is still under Biden's control, and that he is concerned about the "Anonymous Danish Officials" who exposed the matter, even though the exposure was during the Obama era, and may also cause resentment in the current Biden administration.