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German Prosecutor Fired over Treason Investigation

Accepted submission by at 2015-08-04 18:40:56
Digital Liberty

Earlier this week we read about the German Public Prosecutor openig up a Treason Charge:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/07/31/0035248/germany-wont-prosecute-nsa-but-bloggers [slashdot.org]

Within hours, the investigation was halted. And now the public prosecutor lost his job over it.

Looks like this commenter foresaw accurately what would happen, based on a very similar past incident:

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7768021&cid=50221095 [slashdot.org]


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