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Germany Won't Prosecute NSA, But Bloggers

Posted by samzenpus on from the who's-to-blame dept.

tmk writes: Despite plenty of evidence that the U.S. spied on German top government officials, German Federal Prosecutor General Harald Range has declined to investigate any wrongdoings of the secret services of allied nations like the NSA or the British GCHQ. But after plans of the German secret service "Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz" to gain some cyper spy capabilities like the NSA were revealed by the blog netzpolitik.org, Hange started an official investigation against the bloggers and their sources. They are now being probed for possible treason charges.

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  1. A bit of history by mseeger · · Score: 4, Informative

    The last time such accusations were leveled against the press the secretary of defense had to vacate his chair afterwards. (Spiegel-Scandal)

    The time before, it won the person publishing "state secrets" the Nobel Peace Price (Carl con Ossietzky)

    So the accusations against netzpolitik.org are rather honoring them in the eyes of those who know history.

  2. Re: So much stupid by pla · · Score: 4, Informative

    Which just goes to show a lot of indie media is composed of fucking retards

    It really doesn't fucking matter whether talking about a black or a white or a hispanic or an asian getting shot in the back by a cop, the "officer's pistol" didn't magically "discharge". The cop murdered a non-threat, plain and simple.

    And never mind the recent rash of suicides for traffic violations - I have to give them credit, that takes their disdain for the general population to a new low. They couldn't get much more blunt about how the feel about us short of literally pissing on us at every traffic stop. "Don't worry, I've marked you, the next one will pass you by".