Change my view: What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If agents of the state have the right to look up citizens, then surely citizens have the right to look up agents of the state.
You assume that state and citizens are equal. One has right to set law, gather taxes, mandate force, conscript into army and spy. The other has right to remain silent (unless asked a question).
In a democracy, the actions of the state are actions of its citizens.
This sort of thing, if on a larger scale, might freak politicians out a bit and help get some privacy and security legislation on the table. Maybe.
or just greater consequences (fines, imprisonment) so even legitimate uses-cases (whistle blowers?) are scared to say anything.
live what you preach. if you have nothing to hide, politicians?
Only the far-right party was spared. This smells of Putin all the way.
If true, then this is the bigger story here. Meddling in other states via backdoor means.
Nope, also the known CIA agents from left parties were spared.
And the German is too good to be from Russian agents.
Can you elaborate, both on who the known CIA agents are, and that they were spared? Sources would also be appreciated.
Of course not. But it should be trivial to subtract the two known sets and check who is missing.
Care to provide the set of CIA agents? It's not known to me. I'd also be grateful for the set of doxxed politicians/people. I haven't tried digging for it yet, but my experiences with the media lead me to believe they won't bother to provide an actual list.
Which known cia agents?
You realize that most Russians speak at least two languages fluently. In fact, I usually have a better time talking to people with Russian accents in English than most other nationalities.
Yes, I do. But it's still easy to recognize native germans
To the downvoter: See, I was right.
This claim is... very detached from reality. Source: lived there for 20+ years.