No Espionage Story

Back in 2013, as all the Snowden talk came out in Germany.....everyone was hyped for dumping on the US, and the NSA.

Naturally, the Germans wanted to get to the bottom of all this business.  They had a truth-commission, and then they turned over everything to the Federal Prosecutor's office.

Now?

As of today....the office says they will NOT investigate the possible collection of telephone data by British and American news services.  Reason?  No evidence of  espionage by the NSA in Germany.

I sit mostly amused.

From the summer of 2013 to 2016, I would take a guess that over three-hundred reports were hyped up and given by ARD (public Channel One) and ZDF (public Channel Two) in Germany over the NSA spying accusation.  From TV chat forums?  I would take another guess that over twenty hours of public chatter was accomplished by the two public networks about the evil NSA and how the truth-commission and Prosecutor's office would 'deliver'.

Nothing came out of all that chatter.  It's an amazing thing.  'Experts' being dragged in....Green Party folks yanking on both the CDU and SPD 'chains'....the Linke Party trying to make this topic number one for the second half of 2013, and the whole thing just stops at this point.

The average German?  They lost attention back in the spring of 2014.  Most saw nothing much to affect them.  If the NSA was spying on anyone....it was basically Merkel.  It didn't affect the public.

The NSA folks? They have to be sitting there and wondering....boy, how did we dodge that one?  But they safely made it.  The end of the story?  I'm not that sure.  Maybe there's another Snowden out there, or some idiot NSA guy trying to get Merkel's recipe for chocolate cake.

UPDATE: If you did watch ARD or ZDF (public TV in Germany) last night....5 Oct....you would have watched added commentaries by both news groups over how this decision by the Federal Prosecutor was totally wrong.  Whatever 'silver bullets' they carried over this topic....were expended last night.  They went back to all their 'experts' used since the summer of 2013 and hyped up the talk one final time.