German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden

siddesu sends this report from The Intercept: German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said this week in Homburg that the U.S. government threatened to cease sharing intelligence with Germany if Berlin offered asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden or otherwise arranged for him to travel to that country. 'They told us they would stop notifying us of plots and other intelligence matters,' Gabriel said.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:This is the cost incurred for outsourcing defen

[mi]

Defense from who, exactly?

From Russia, you Putinista asshole.

Re:Can't have it both ways

[Penguinisto]

Because, you know, some other president such as republican would not have done the same thing.

...no other president *period* has done "the same thing".

Seriously - only this self-centered jackass is so petty and unthinking, that he will willingly destroy carefully-built, carefully-maintained, and decades-old alliances, just over something that pissed him off.

Hell, he's currently doing that right now to Israel because he's currently all pissy over Netanyahu's recent re-election (why? Because Netanyahu and the US Congress made him look foolish over the White House's official position concerning the Iranian negotiations thing). I think the only reason he hasn't done it to the UK is because Cameron is an ideological buddy of his (IIRC, and only a guess, but the best one I can come up with at the moment.)

No seriously, it doesn't matter what party this guy is in... it's clearly and fast becoming evident that he's way incompetent for the job.