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Ratner became a staple of antiwar, anti-Bush events. More importantly, he filed a series of high-profile nuisance suits against the Bush administration, one of which attempted to have Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld arrested and tried for “war crimes” by German courts.

Ratner did this through a German law passed in 2002 letting war crimes charges against anyone, anywhere, be brought in German courts even if the cases had no relevant connection to Germany. As it happens, 2002 is the date the US allegedly began eavesdropping on Merkel according to Snowden/Wikileaks.

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The lawyer Ratner worked with in Germany using the 2002 law was Wolfgang Kaleck. Guess who Wolfgang later represented?

Edward Snowden’s Lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck on the Global ...
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/24/edward...

Wolfgang Kaleck is the general secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights—his new book is—Law Versus Power: Our Global Fight for …