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German Firestorm Rises about Angela Merkel’s Lies
by Eric Zuesse / May 11th, 2015
The news-report further says: “Publicly, the Federal Government still gives the impression, a no-spy deal will come. Regarding the status of the negotiations, the Government refers to the confidentiality of the talks.” In other words: this lie continues, and “the talks” are imaginary — that’s just another lie from the Chancellor’s office.
The next day, on Saturday May 9th, Der Spiegel headlined, “Lüge über No-Spy-Abkommen: SPD fordert Erklärung von Kanzleramt,” or “Lie about No-Spying Agreement: SPD demands Explanation from the Chancellery,” and Spiegel revealed that Merkel’s chief official who was handling this matter had said just days before the 22 September 2013 parliamentary elections: “Clearly, for electoral reasons, an untruth must be told.”
On Sunday, May 10, the Suddeutsche Zeitung, a normally pro-Merkel magazine, bannered, “No-Spy-Abkommen: SPD wirft Kanzleramt Täuschung vor,” or “No-Spying Agreement: SPD accuses Chancellery of deception,” and reported that the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party, and the Left Party all intended to raise the issue of this ongoing lie by the nation’s leader in the coming political campaign season.
Already, Spiegel had run a major news story, on May 4, “America’s Willing Helper: Intelligence Scandal Puts Merkel in Tight Place,” detailing instances in which the Obama Administration and the George W. Bush Administration before it, had used this snooping in order to obtain commercial advantage for U.S.-based firms against firms that are based in Germany. For example: “By 2010 at the latest, the Chancellery had received indications that the NSA had attempted to spy on European firms, including EADS, the European aerospace and defense company that is partly owned by German shareholders.” Moreover, “It appears that the terms of the agreement [that the U.S. had signed with Germany back in April 2002 not to spy on German companies] were largely forgotten,” or, at any rate, they were ignored by the U.S. Government — and this still is the case.
The next day, on Saturday May 9th, Der Spiegel headlined, “Lüge über No-Spy-Abkommen: SPD fordert Erklärung von Kanzleramt,” or “Lie about No-Spying Agreement: SPD demands Explanation from the Chancellery,” and Spiegel revealed that Merkel’s chief official who was handling this matter had said just days before the 22 September 2013 parliamentary elections: “Clearly, for electoral reasons, an untruth must be told.”
On Sunday, May 10, the Suddeutsche Zeitung, a normally pro-Merkel magazine, bannered, “No-Spy-Abkommen: SPD wirft Kanzleramt Täuschung vor,” or “No-Spying Agreement: SPD accuses Chancellery of deception,” and reported that the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party, and the Left Party all intended to raise the issue of this ongoing lie by the nation’s leader in the coming political campaign season.
Already, Spiegel had run a major news story, on May 4, “America’s Willing Helper: Intelligence Scandal Puts Merkel in Tight Place,” detailing instances in which the Obama Administration and the George W. Bush Administration before it, had used this snooping in order to obtain commercial advantage for U.S.-based firms against firms that are based in Germany. For example: “By 2010 at the latest, the Chancellery had received indications that the NSA had attempted to spy on European firms, including EADS, the European aerospace and defense company that is partly owned by German shareholders.” Moreover, “It appears that the terms of the agreement [that the U.S. had signed with Germany back in April 2002 not to spy on German companies] were largely forgotten,” or, at any rate, they were ignored by the U.S. Government — and this still is the case.
Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/05/german-firestorm-rises-about-angela-merkels-lies/