Didn't know that part. Thats an interesting twist. I could understand them working together against someone else but not against themselves. Must be part of that "Five eyes" cooperation thing Snowden was talking about.
And now the politicians finally realized what it means to give a foreign power access to your internet nodes. Sure we need the cooperation, but my guess is the politicians and the executive organs could not imagine the NSA would use this to harm our economy.
http://www.dw.de/airbus-to-press-charges-on-nsa-bnd-spying-c...
Airbus has both civilian and military development and production in Germany.
Is that more or less what has been going on?
And when the BND noticed that a few thousand of these selectors were succesfully installed, they informed the german chancellery who miracly done... nothing at all to protect us against industrial spionage.
And they dont care about all the other stuff the US is committing from germany, like conducting their drone wars which make germany a legal war target.
The check who were the targets, was a joke. There were literally millions of selectors and a quick check already delivered thousands of selectors which were directly against German interests.