US spy sell-off as Berlin brushes off privacy invasion scandals

A former German intelligence officer has reportedly sold the identities of three and a half thousand German spies operating abroad – to another, unnamed, foreign agency. The same man was unmasked last summer as a CIA double agent at the center of a spy scandal between close allies the US and Germany. In Berlin, the Parliament is continuing hearings on how America’s National Security Agency spied on Germany. But as RT’s Peter Oliver found out, the government is trying to downplay the whole thing.