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Amid Ire At U.S., Germany Does Its Own Domestic Spying
Revelations of widespread U.S. spying on foreign Internet communications put a damper on President Obama's first state visit to Berlin. The German chancellor and other officials there say they want to know more about what the NSA is looking at.
Yet the backlash has been more muted than expected. One reason is that the German government is doing similar surveillance.
At a recent news conference in Berlin, Obama tried reassuring Europeans that the controversial Prism program is not violating people's civil rights.
"This is not a situation in which we are rifling through ordinary emails of German citizens or American citizens or French citizens or anybody else," Obama said.
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