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Maybe he should have asked Germany. They seem pretty mad at the U.S. listening in on all their phone calls and hacking their leaders' private communications. H
by themartorana 11y ago
Maybe he should have asked Germany. They seem pretty mad at the U.S. listening in on all their phone calls and hacking their leaders' private communications.
How does that get him out of the UK though?
- alfiedotwtf 11y agoThe BND are in bed with the NSA: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intelligence-agency-bnd-under-fire-for-nsa-cooperation-a-1030593.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intellige...
- atmosx 11y agoAfter what WikiLeaks revealed about Khalid El-Masri[1] it would be a poor choice. "In May 2004, the US Ambassador to Germany, Daniel R. Coats, convinced the German interior minister, Otto Schily, not to press charges or to reveal the program." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri
- allendoerfer 11y agoYeah, no. His chances would be much better in France. La Grande Nation has at least some pride. The German government could not care less about the US spying on us. They are of course trying their best to please the press but while the US is highly dependent on its German bases they would never do anything substantial to anger the US. And there is no pressure on them to change that: The two big parties form a coalition and while the smaller one (SPD) tries to benefit from the scandal, truth is that their members oversaw the agencies in the last big coalition. There was a parliamentarian commission, which investigated the Snowden scandal. They tried to interrogate him but not even that was possible let alone asylum for him.