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What's more, the US and Germany have Cold War era agreements that basically allow the US to do whatever they damn well please. Sure, they cancelled the one was
by pluma 12y ago
What's more, the US and Germany have Cold War era agreements that basically allow the US to do whatever they damn well please.
Sure, they cancelled the one was made public (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/germany-nixes-surveillance-pact-us-britain http://bigstory.ap.org/article/germany-nixes-surveillance-pa...) but considering Germany was founded under US/British occupation, I would be surprised if there weren't less public agreements that state more or less the same. After all, the German government was paranoid about the Soviets at the time, so they were happy to have the US handle everything.
- MatthiasP 12y agoThose cold war agreements always came with one important constraint: That the US would not use those facilities on German ground to spy on Germany.
- mercurial 12y agoThinking that agreements mean anything to services whose sole purpose consists of breaking foreign countries' laws in order to gain strategic, tactical and economic advantage over these countries is wishful thinking. Especially if the aforementioned Germans have the wrong ethnicity or the wrong religion.