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Makes sense. Couldn't Germany/E.U also claim to deny sharing information with the U.S?

Yes, the U.S has the best intelligence agency in the world, but Europe is closer to most hostile nations in the world. If EU said 'no sharing info with the US', wouldn't that be a much larger problem than the other way around?

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Yeah, France shared information about Moussaoui, Russia shared information about Tsarnaev, so it's hard to imagine U.S. withholding similar kind of information in similar situations, so it was probably a bluff.

But still, that's playing hardball.

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