Category Archives: Germany

Merkel Seems to Know Every Trick in the Book

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Muller

German Chancellor Angela Merkel who has arrived in Washington to meet President Obama and talk about the crisis in the Ukraine has at least tried to calm down expectations that whistle-blower Edward Snowden can be invited to the parliamentary Inquiry … Continue reading →

Posted in Germany, surveillance, USA | Tagged Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Dierks, Edward Snowden, Harris & Cooke, Jeffrey Harris, NSA mass surveillance, Parliamentary Inquiry Court, Rubin, Winston | Leave a comment

Dubious Company

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Muller

Based on documents which had been leaked by Edward Snowden to reporters of the Guardian and Washington Post in June last year in Hong Kong, Der Spiegel reports today, among other widespread spying activities in Germany, about a top secret list (apparently … Continue reading →

Posted in Germany, surveillance, USA | Tagged Angela Merkel, Edward Snowden, GCHQ, Holger Stark, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, NSA, total surveillance | Leave a comment

Another Friendly Leak?

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Muller

Just in order to put Germany in its place? Yesterday, Germany’s leading tabloid BamS had reported that, after President Obama had banned in January U.S. eavesdropping on leaders of close U.S. allies, including Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, NSA has right now switched … Continue reading →

Posted in Germany, surveillance, USA | Tagged Angela Merkel, BamS, Barack Obama, Edward Snowden, Ewen MacAskill, friendly leaks, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Thomas de Maiziere | Leave a comment

Troubled German-American Relationships And the Upcoming War With Iraq

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Muller

Yesterday, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had been wiretapped by NSA in late 2002 when former President George W. Bush had been angered by Schröder who had publicly made sure that Germany’s transatlantic loyalty has its … Continue reading →

Posted in Germany, surveillance, USA | Tagged George W. Bush, Gerhard Schröder, Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Joschka Fischer, mass surveillance, NSA, Tom Lantos | Leave a comment

No ‘Plausible Deniability’ Anymore

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Muller

Immediate comments debunking litany-like claims by President Barack Obama about aim and scope of overall inoffensive NSA’s mass surveillance, made in carefully staged public speeches such as yesterday’s State of the Union Address, by those who have access to Edward … Continue reading →

Posted in Germany, UN, USA | Tagged 2009 UN Climate Summit, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Edward Snowden, mass surveillance, plausible deniability, SOTU | Leave a comment

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