Snowdon is a dummy

The reason they are doing it is to protect your right to do so.

Frank Apisa wrote:

The reason they are doing it is to protect your right to do so.

Thank you!

Germany, and here our capital Berlin, will honour this as well: the "Alexanderplatz" (the largest public square and a big transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin) will be re-named after NSA's Keith Brian Alexander in "Alexanderplatz". Because the district 'Mitte' as well as the state of Berlin are short of money, the old street signs won't be changed ...

Why do you play this silly and irrelevant game with Apisa Walt?

Can't you see that he is treating us like mental defectives? His "saving lives" tripe was blown out of the water by my last post.

Yes. From here.
Known are
a) the US-embassy in Berlin (because to neighbourhood of the Chancellery and ministeries)
b) Wiesbaden Army Airfield shortly (that has been done until today from various other locations, most famously in Frankfurt close to the main post office [because there's the German Commercial Internet Exchange )
(I'd posted photos of those two a couple of months ago)

It is impossible to search both facilities - in Wiesbaden, even the cement comes from the USA ...

I suspect every country does the same thing.

Do you have any reason to suspect otherwise?

Frank Apisa wrote:

I suspect every country does the same thing.

Do you have any reason to suspect otherwise?

Thanks to the "Snowden documents", quite a few locations are known.
Do you know any in the USA, where foreign agencies spy on Americans and the US-government?

To answer your questions: yes, many countries do so.

But I didn't suspect that such was done within allied countries.

But: look before you leap! We Germans really don't have a good reputation due to our history.

I always look before I leap...and I would guess that our intelligence community understands that countries spy on each other...and would not be aghast to find that Germany spies on us. I doubt they would be surprised in any way to discover that several countries are spying on us right this moment...from their embassies in this country.

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But I didn't suspect that such was done within allied countries.

Okay...you didn't. But with respect, Walter, that was a bit naive of you.

Frank Apisa wrote:

I always look before I leap...and I would guess that our intelligence community understands that countries spy on each other...and would not be aghast to find that Germany spies on us. I doubt they would be surprised in any way to discover that several countries are spying on us right this moment...from their embassies in this country.

That will be so, too.
But I'm glad, Frank, to have heard that the US-spying is on us and our government is only done to secure our liberties.

Other countries spy for business reasons, military reasons, expansion, war, or just as a habit.

Frank Apisa wrote:

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But I didn't suspect that such was done within allied countries.

Okay...you didn't. But with respect, Walter, that was a bit naive of you.

I've already admitted to be naïve. But I'm in good comapany, I think.

I used the word "only?"

Or did you just add that in order to have your comment make sense?

Frank Apisa wrote:

I used the word "only?"

Or did you just add that in order to have your comment make sense?

Neither. It happened due to a literal translation of colloquial German. (Mostly, I don't think in English but in German.)

But honestly, whatever the reasons are that US-agencies spy on our chancellor, our government, 320 leading persons and normal German citizens' email and phone calls - I really had never before got the idea that by such my liberties can be secured.

But actually, this really avoids that when wake up in the morning, we suddenly live in a Nazi country, a communist state or are governed by terrorists.