Year 2013. Edward Snowdenformer analyst for the CIA and the United States National Security Agency, uncovers the espionage of the administration of Barack Obama to the chancellor Angela Merkel with the help of Danish intelligence.

Snowden revealed reports to the press that claimed that the US intelligence apparatus was tapping into communications and collecting data from world leaders, friendly countries in which even their secret services have been cooperating for decades.

The scandal was such that it received its own name: ‘Operation Dunhammer‘. The reaction of the then German chancellor was forceful, calling this espionage “among friends” “unacceptable”. These eavesdropping occurred between 2012 and 2014, with the United States also spying on its European allies.

This scandal tarnished relations between the two great transatlantic allies. Now, ten years later, it seems that things have not changed much, especially after hearing about the case of the US spies who captured CNI agents arrested for leaking secret information.

Then, it was said that the now president of the United States, Joe Biden, was “deeply involved” in this scandal. After all, he was Obama’s right-hand man.