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Re:Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their countr... by filoeleven on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @01:10PM (#9493609)
That's not all the US is doing in Deutschland. "[T]he slides show that the facilities at Ramstein perform an essential function in lethal drone strikes conducted by the CIA and the U.S. military in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa."[0]

So it is not just spying on the EU that is being enabled by Germany's government, it is the entirety of the US drone program that is being used across the Middle East and north Africa. This program, operating as it does outside of declared war zones, is very probably illegal under German law.

[0]https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/ramstein/

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Re:Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their countr... by germanier on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @08:02AM (#9497984)
> This program, operating as it does outside of declared war zones, is very probably illegal under German law.

I highly doubt that as most German laws don't apply to US military stationed inside Germany (SOFA exemptions).

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