Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Merkel compared NSA to Stasi in heated encounter with Obama

Via Bill

 Angela Merkel, with Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble

In an angry exchange with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel has compared the snooping practices of the US with those of the Stasi, the ubiquitous and all-powerful secret police of the communist dictatorship in East Germany, where she grew up.

The German chancellor also told the US president that America's National Security Agency cannot be trusted because of the volume of material it had allowed to leak to the whistleblower Edward Snowden, according to the New York Times.

More @ The Guardian

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