Snowdon is a dummy

Anger? Another one of you bull **** without any evidence for it. Your conclusions are often WRONG. Give it up!

With mystery enveloping a German intelligence service employee accused of spying — reportedly for the United States — German officials and commentators on Sunday angrily demanded a response from Washington, warning that an already troubled relationship was at risk of deteriorating to a new low.
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President Joachim Gauck, whose role is largely ceremonial but who increasingly speaks out on daily matters, told German television that if it turned out that the United States had been spying on Germany, “then that is really a gamble with friendship, with a close alliance.”

“Then we really have to say, Enough,” Mr. Gauck added.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, on a trip to China, kept silent on the matter, although reporters traveling with her cited unidentified people in her circle as saying she was “surprised” and “disappointed” at the suggestion that an American intelligence agency had recruited a German agent. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, traveling in Mongolia, was quoted in the German news media as saying that “if the reports are true, then we are not talking about something minor.”

The United States “should fully explain the matter as soon as possible,” Mr. Steinmeier added.

Perhaps the most striking sign of the strained relationship was Germany’s decision to summon the American ambassador, John B. Emerson, to the Foreign Ministry on the Fourth of July, just before the American Embassy’s holiday party for hundreds of guests. The newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported that the ambassador had smiled and greeted guests, but that the tension was noticeable: “It was as it has so often been recently when official America meets official Germany. The facade was perfect, but behind it there was little accord.”

An American whom Germans did hear from during the weekend was Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Berlin to promote the German-language edition of her recent book, “Hard Choices,” about her years as secretary of state. While carefully skirting judgment on the new espionage scandal, she emphasized at a Saturday reception at the ambassador’s residence that the relationship between the United States and Germany was valued, and should not be “sidelined, downgraded or destroyed.”

At an appearance on Sunday, she said, “Let’s find out what the facts are,” noting that relations “should not be put at risk.”

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As an American I am sad that my nation once the beacon of freedom for the rest of the world is now the one nation to be avoided in setting up new internet security companies.

Leading conservative (sic!) lawmakers of the CDU/CSU are now demanding to declare US-agent, who are accredited diplomats, personae non gratae, which is the most serious form of censure which one country can apply to foreign diplomats ...

No problem. Break off diplomatic relations entirely if you think that is the proper reaction.

Frank wrote,

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No problem. Break off diplomatic relations entirely if you think that is the proper reaction.

Your extreme views goes beyond the pale.

Frank wrote,

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No problem. Break off diplomatic relations entirely if you think that is the proper reaction.

Your extreme views goes beyond the pale.

What you fail to see is that your hypothetical was not necessary; not even realistic.

cicerone imposter wrote:

Frank wrote,

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No problem. Break off diplomatic relations entirely if you think that is the proper reaction.

Your extreme views goes beyond the pale.

You'e correct, c.i. . Neither did someone suggest such nor did I write so. (And I don't think that the quoted poster knows at all what I think.)

What is remarkable is that Germans almost equally approved of cooperating with Russia and the United States. The team had expected Germans to clearly favor cooperation with the transatlantic partner. What we see here, Paulsen argues, is "latent anti-Americanism on the one hand and the effect of the negative US image after the Iraq War and the NSA spy scandal on the other."

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What is remarkable is that Germans almost equally approved of cooperating with Russia and the United States. The team had expected Germans to clearly favor cooperation with the transatlantic partner. What we see here, Paulsen argues, is "latent anti-Americanism on the one hand and the effect of the negative US image after the Iraq War and the NSA spy scandal on the other."

Source: Germans voice US frustrations in policy poll

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Washington was aware of the report that a German double agent had spied for the US, but said he could not comment on intelligence matters.

"We are committed to making sure that we resolve this issue with the Germans appropriately," Earnest said.
"This is an intelligence matter," Earnest said. "It's a matter that is under investigation by the German law enforcement authorities, so I'm not in a position to comment on it from here."