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German Prosecutor Fired over Treason Investigation

posted by takyon on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the independent-judiciary dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @08:53PM (#218116)

    I don't get it.
    NSA can spy.
    german intelligence wants to do the same.
    bloger gets wind, blows the whistle and gets accused of treason.
    the accuser gets fired.
    -
    seems correct, but maybe the privacy eating gangrene should be amputated a bit more higher up, maybe above the neck, were normally "intelligence" is located?

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