Merkel and the NSA. Der Spiegel reports:

‘In June, German Federal Prosecutor Harald Range opened an official investigation into allegations the NSA spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone. So far, though, he hasn't made much progress.

The US signals intelligence agency has ignored all questions submitted by Range's investigative authority. And Germany's own foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), hasn't provided any further assistance.
SPIEGEL first drew the German government's attention to the actions in the autumn of 2013 when it reported on information from an NSA database entry about the tapping of Merkel's phone. "That's why I asked the reporters at SPIEGEL to answer questions about the document or to provide it to us. But the newsmagazine, citing the right of the press to refuse to give evidence, did not comply", the federal prosecutor said during his annual press conference in Karlsruhe on Thursday. He seemed frustrated.’

Read the article here.

That the federal prosecutor appeared to be frustrated is not a big surprise in this case. That he wants Der Spiegel to provide him with the necessary documents because the German secret service is unwilling or incapable to cooperate with its own government is a tad more surprising.

We may conclude once again that the German secret service and the NSA are buddy-buddy. Probably the German secret service feels more loyal to NSA than to the German chancellor.