WikiLeaks and NSA committee: document could reveal informants

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25 points·aburan28··6 comments

"document could reveal informants"

Lets not forget this is the same talking point that has been pushed by the US government from the beginning. For some reason I expected Germany to be more honest, but clearly I'm just naive.

They are talking about the whistleblowers, not about others affected by the leak. So it is not the same talking point at all.

Oh... In that case I misunderstood the text. Google translate isn't great.

Could you expand on why the documents could reveal the whistleblowers?

The document package contained a document not available to the NSA commission but to some foreign affairs commission. Only very few people have access to documents of both commissions.

The more interesting part is: this leak was completely useless. Although the documents are not for the public, they're also not rated as a secret. This means that every politician with access is allowed to tell the press about it, only publishing is not allowed. As we have a useful opposition in Germany there was nothing new in the documents...

Yeah... it's just a matter of time until something like this will have a whistleblower shoot himself in the foot :-/

This makes me think that the claims to pursue informants/leakers is false. It also makes me believe that the purpose of the leak was to create an alibi to conduct a procedure that looks like a prosecution to intimidate potential leakers.

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