White House on the back foot over CIA role in German spying scandal

Germany already taking counter-measures as CIA maintains silence over alleged recruitment of German intelligence official The White House was forced to defend its increasingly fraught relationship with Berlin on Monday as the Central Intelligence Agency maintained a conspicuous silence about new allegations linking it to a spying scandal involving a German intelligence official. Reuters quoted two US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, who told the news agency that the CIA was involve...