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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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