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Germany asks British ambassador to explain spying report
Reuters ^ | Tue Nov 5, 2013 5:30pm EST | (Berlin bureau)

Posted on 11/06/2013 12:12:00 PM PST by Olog-hai

Germany on Tuesday asked the British ambassador to come to the foreign ministry to discuss a newspaper report that a covert spying station was operating in Berlin with hi-tech equipment mounted on the embassy roof.

Documents leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden show that Britain’s surveillance agency is operating a network of “electronic spy posts” from within a stone’s throw of the Bundestag and German chancellor’s office, the Independent reported. …

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: edwardsnowden; espionage; eussr; nsa

1 posted on 11/06/2013 12:12:00 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“It wasn’t me!”


2 posted on 11/06/2013 12:13:52 PM PST by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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To: Olog-hai

I hope he had the balls to say.. “we spend a lot of money on our intelligence capabilities in the service of our national interests, just like you do. Now stop with the dying swan routine and start acting like adults”.


3 posted on 11/06/2013 12:33:17 PM PST by Natufian (t)
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To: Olog-hai

“WE DON’T TRUST YOU BUGGERS! WHAT PART OF BLITZ DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?” Buggers.


4 posted on 11/06/2013 12:52:10 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: Olog-hai

Brits:
“We, as you, collect the rays of sun, waves of radio frequency and the beautiful smells of our environs. Are there such things indiscriminately disseminated into the environment that you believe you and others do not actually have the freedom to appreciate for what they are? It’s surprisingly late at this point in time for your notice hereof, as we know you’ve done this very thing for many decades, even as your V2’s and bombers left so many of us dead and our things destroyed when your flights crossed into our homeland.”

HF


5 posted on 11/06/2013 1:21:37 PM PST by holden (Alter or abolish it yet?)
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To: Olog-hai

"Don't Mention the War!"

6 posted on 11/06/2013 2:15:55 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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