Tapped and nodded off(Abgehört und abgenickt)

In the beginning, the denial was purely routine and fairly general. "Eavesdropping among friends, that's not possible at all," declared German Chancellor Angela Merkel last year, when the first reports of the blanket eavesdropping by the U.S. intelligence agency NSA made the rounds worldwide. In the ARD documentary, television and Grimme Prize winner Hubert Seipel explores the questions of when such intensive eavesdropping began and how long German politicians have known about it.