A general view Of the large Former Monitoring Base Of the U.S. Intelligence Organization National Security Agency (NSA) during Break Of dawn in Bad Aibling South Of Munich, July 11, 2013 . . .

Pemandangan umum bekas pangkalan pemantauan besar perisikan Amerika Syarikat organisasi National Security Agency (NSA) semasa cuti subuh di Bad Aibling selatan Munich, 11 Julai, 2013. Canselor Angela Merkel telah mempertahankan kerjasama Jerman dengan perisikan Amerika Syarikat, menolak perbandingan teknik dengan yang digunakan dalam komunis Jerman Timur dalam usaha untuk meredakan ketegangan sehari sebelum ceramah mengenai isu berduri di Washington. (A general view of the large former monitoring base of the U.S. intelligence organization National Security Agency (NSA) during break of dawn in Bad Aibling south of Munich, July 11, 2013. Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended Germany's cooperation with U.S. intelligence, dismissing comparisons of its techniques to those used in communist East Germany in an attempt to ease tensions a day before talks on the thorny issue in Washington. REUTERS/Michael Dalder (GERMANY - POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)