US secretly listens to Merkel's telephone calls - Merkel "not amused"

[Silent Hunter]

The German government's reaction is perhaps noteworthy though because it is among the most hypocritical in the world.

The German government is among the most hypocritical in the world.

I think he was talking about the old GDR, which defined mass surveillance.

As for the phone, does she really have the Bundesadler on the back of it? Seems a bit, I don't know... conspicious.

[Silent Hunter]

That'd be really mean. Citizens of Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and the ROC should have the right to live and work anywhere in the EEA+Switzerland, and vice versa.

Officials and employees of the U.S. government don't have a "right to work" outside of U.S. territory unless the respective government agrees to it.

Which is why the German government's reaction is pretty half-assed. I mean, they invited the spies who spy on them into our country in the first place.

German democracy:  Of the Germans, For the Germans, By the Allied Forces.

Germany was already a democratic country before the Nazis came along.