Maasuntil the head rolled against Range
One of the rules of business that for every one scandal must be found which bears political responsibility. In the case of high treason charges against "Netzpolitik.org" it is the Attorney General.
08/04/2015, by GÜNTER BANNA , BERLIN
A story from the early days of the chancellorship of Helmut Kohl - against almost to the day exactly 30 years ago. A Regierungsdirektor at the Federal Office for Constitutional Protection, Hans Joachim Tiedge was gone to East Berlin. Ironically, for the counter-intelligence he had been in charge, and because problems with the beer consumption it was rumored, a scapegoat search has been explored in terms of who was aware of it. Just his old boss at the Protection of the Constitution, Heribert Hellenbroich, who had just taken up his work as President of the Bundesnachrichtendienst? Or the relevant department in the interior ministry, and hence even Friedrich Zimmermann, the influential Minister of the Interior? The debate went back and forth. The late Hellenbroich, so he has told it again, became carbon summoned. Se was the CDU member Hellenbroich as a modernizer within the meaning Kohl. But the chancellor had opened to him: One must go. Zimmermann can not be. Because of the CSU. So he had to go. It should have been a short conversation. The President of the German intelligence services know that the success or dismissal may even are just one wrong word.
Hans-Georg Maassen, the incumbent President of the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution (BfV), knows that. He is an experienced man. He seeks to optimize the public relations of the BfV. But he also - even in of the Cologne Green MPs Volker Beck support - to make sure that secret remains what is secret. "If security clearance violate their obligation of professional secrecy, must the employer, especially since the domestic intelligence Protection of the Constitution, to pursue the. Therefore, to a criminal complaint against persons unknown for betrayal of state secrets by Maaßen nothing wrong ", Beck had said on Sunday.
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Since it was a long - run through press releases - struggle between Maassen and Harald Range, the Karlsruhe-based Federal Attorney General. Only superficially dealt with the controversy over the investigation in terms of disclosure of secrets and freedom of the press. It was no longer so much about the independence of the judiciary. Since Thursday last week it was - not least because of the public excitement - especially to the question of who was to blame, who is fit to be a scapegoat - and who had to go. Range because he had initiated the investigation?Or Maaßen because he had been the instigator? That the two supervisors Minister did not want to come into consideration, Thomas de Maizière went without saying. (As interior minister Maassen "chief") and Heiko Maas (as Minister of Justice of "superior" ranking, SPD) had linked arms itself. From afar from their holiday in South Tyrol out German Chancellor Angela Merkel had informed, they stand by Maas. Thus also to de Maizière.
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Monday morning it's been. Long ago the diminutive term had established, in the matter to the investigation against the Internet blog "Netzpolitik.org" operated the authorities a "Black-blame game" - the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the federal ahead. Calls for his resignation began circulating. In Germany radio called Christian Flisek, SPD member of the Bundestag and NSA specialist of his group with a different justification for the withdrawal order. "We have the Lord Attorney General repeatedly asked during the last years of our work in the committee of inquiry, to provide us with example documents of the inquiry committee, logs, similar. Then he told us he would have done this long ago. That was by no means the case. "Flisek called is a second case. "The attorney general has occurred in the Legal Affairs Committee and has said he has in things NSA a calculation concept. Then we asked him that he could still imagine the times in familiar Coordinators Round in all abstractness, because he can not talk specifically about investigations. As has turned out, such a determination concept does not exist "His conclusion:". There is, so to speak, what now the deciding factor was in power politics, rather the last thick straw that broke the camel's back ".
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