"I am as frustrated and angry as anyone with the flawed launch of healthcare. gov. So, let me say directly to these Americans. You deserve better. I apologize." 

 

Secretary Sebilious faced hours of questions during that congressional hearing yesterday. Democrats and Republicans in Congress talked about the problems with the Obamacare website but that isn't the only controversy surrounding the new law. There's a big debate about the health insurance plans that Americans already have. Most Americans who have health insurance get it through their employers or government programs like Medicare but more than 15 million Americans have individual health coverage. When this law was proposed, President Obama and his administration said many times that Americans could keep their health care plans but people who work in the insurance industry say most of those Americans with individual plans will see changes or even cancellations.

 

Just the facts. The cold war has the story period that started after World War II. The main opponents were the United States and the former Soviet Union. Although other countries were involved as well, the cold war including spying between countries but it never developed into a direct military conflict. But it was over by 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.

 

One of the biggest symbols of the cold war was in Germany, the Berlin Wall. It split the city and the country in half, separating communist East Germany from democratic west Germany. The wall came down in 1989 and Germany reunited next year. Now, Germany says it's the victim of cold war tactics, spying and German officials want answers.  

 

NSA field station, Berlin T., a relic of US e. in the forests around Berlin. Now, a converse for a f. artists and backdrop for some of the best kite flying in the German capital. From this vantage point, right on top of the tiny island that was west Berlin. Every which direction you looked was east, the eastern block. This was one of the most important surveillance posts of the cold war. Now, if the allegations made in Germany's D. magazine are true, the United States has used an even more conspicuous location from which to gather intelligence. Though this time on its friends, that's its own embassy roof, a stone from government co. Germany's interior minister has promised to expel any US diplomat proven complicit in spying operations, including alleged eavesdropping on the chancellor's personal mobile phone. German are especially sensitive to the dangerous of state surveillance and the destructive nature of the society which spied on itself. The federal commission for the S. records, the secret police force of the former east Germany understands, perhaps, better than most why intelligence gathering needs controls.

 

"We have very direct historical link to what it means if the state did not respect the boundaries of privacy and the rights of its own citizens. So, the shadow of the past kind of lingers always when something as seemly not so dramatic to American like a wiretapping  of a cell phone happens."  

 

Delegates from the European parliament are already in DC demanding an explanation. Germany's top intelligence officers are set to follow. Trying to establish a mechanism whereby intelligence agencies operate within acceptable international frameworks while it`s holding to account counterparts who`ve reportedly failed to keep faith with the allies. Di., CNN, Berlin.