Why are we spying on Germany?

[amandabeech]

37. Perhaps the poster is referring to our spying on East Germany before it was absorbed

into the FRG after the Berlin Wall came down.

It really hasn't been that long since the wall came down, and Chancellor Merkel and her birth family were involved with the GDR system. In fact, I believe that she and her family moved from west to east during the height of the cold war. That may make some people, particularly older people, in our spying services a bit nervous particularly since she seems closer to Putin than our other European friends.

However, in my opinion, the level of spying that we apparently pursue with Germany seems to be not nearly worth the problems that accrue when we are caught. I would say the same things for our spying in countries with whom we are actually friendly, but not with those with which we are frenemies.