Topic: Bnd Spying

A report on the German intelligence agency (BND) spying on its own diplomats and allies, including French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. The hosts are intrigued by the mention of "trigger words" used by the BND for surveillance. This leads to a tangent about millennial "trigger warnings" on Tumblr, where users can set preferences to avoid content that might cause a "crisis."

German authorities arrested an intelligence employee suspected of spying for the United States, leading to a diplomatic crisis between Berlin and Washington. The suspect reportedly used a weather app on his laptop to transmit encrypted messages to American handlers while investigating a parliamentary committee looking into NSA surveillance. This incident further strains ties already damaged by Edward Snowden's revelations regarding the monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone.