Earlier this week we read about the German Public Prosecutor opening up a treason investigation.
Within hours, the investigation was halted. And now the public prosecutor lost his job over it.
Looks like this Slashdot commenter foresaw accurately what would happen, based on a very similar past incident:
Also at the BBC and Deutsche Welle.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:38PM
Maybe YOU read about it earlier this week, but I didn't see any stories on it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by gman003 on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:45PM
Not at Soylent at least - I was going to complain about having links to the Other Site's stories instead of ours, but apparently we never posted anything on this.
(Score: 2) by nyder on Tuesday August 04 2015, @09:38PM
Not only did I read about, but the people clearly said this was going to happen.
You want to lose your prosecutor job in Germany? Bring up treason charges against the press.