Washington reportedly threatened to stop sharing intelligence with Berlin if it offered asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, or arranged for him to travel to Germany, according to a report by journalist Glenn Greenwald.
“They told us they would stop notifying us of plots and other intelligence matters,” German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said earlier this week, Greenwald wrote in the Intercept.
The vice chancellor, who is also head of the Social Democratic Party and the country’s economy and energy minister, delivered a speech in Homburg praising the journalists who worked on the Snowden archive.
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