As a German, I have suspected for a while that something like this had happened behind the scenes. I am surprised, though, that Sigmar Gabriel would admit it th

As a German, I have suspected for a while that something like this had happened behind the scenes. I am surprised, though, that Sigmar Gabriel would admit it this openly on the record. One the one hand, I am quite disappointed at the German government's lack of courage to stand up to the US. On the other hand, if I was Snowden, I would not go to Germany even if the government was on their knees begging me to come here, given the number of US soldiers and intelligence operatives stationed in Germany. So the whole question if Germany should offer asylum to Snowden seems kind of hypothetical to me.