Germany turns up pressure in suspected US spy case

Re:Germany turns up pressure in suspected US spy case by sidcool on Monday July 07, 2014 @06:47AM (#7998130)

The conspiracy theorist in me tells me that this might be a staged drama by US-German authorities to instill confidence in German citizens. Or may be to deceive Russia.

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Re:Germany turns up pressure in suspected US spy case by qgi on Monday July 07, 2014 @07:15AM (#7998196)

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

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Re:Germany turns up pressure in suspected US spy case by sidcool on Monday July 07, 2014 @07:53AM (#7998305)

Well stated, who coined this one?

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Re:Germany turns up pressure in suspected US spy case by qgi on Monday July 07, 2014 @08:25AM (#7998404)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

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Re:Germany turns up pressure in suspected US spy case by iSnow on Monday July 07, 2014 @07:11AM (#7998188)

I doubt this is going to instill confidence. On the contrary, if this goes on, it could damage the German government and boost fringe parties.

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Re:Germany turns up pressure in suspected US spy case by sidcool on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @12:28AM (#8003002)

I mean in a way that the German citizens might think that their country is standing up against the mighty US.

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