The head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, is facing calls for his resignation.
A parliamentary commission is probing the just how much the head of the BND, Ernst Urlau, knew about the illegal monitoring of emails in 2006 between a journalist and an Afghan minister. MPs on the commission are demanding consequences for top-level personnel, including Urlau standing down. He has apologised to the reporter of the weekly news magazine, "Der Spiegel", but the intelligence service rejects claims German citizen held by US forces as terror suspect ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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