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Full title: German Helicopter Flies Low Altitude Over US Consulate to Check for Surveillance Gear, Warn US on Spying
1 posted on 09/11/2013 1:17:10 PM PDT by lowbridge
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Full Title: Obama substantially Changes America


2 posted on 09/11/2013 1:21:02 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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Obama making really sure the Germans totally LOVE us, I see.

How’s that Russian RESET BUTTON coming, btw..?

And now about Iran..?


3 posted on 09/11/2013 1:22:52 PM PDT by gaijin
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Throw your Nobel Peace Prize at them, Barry.


4 posted on 09/11/2013 1:24:54 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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The police? This is a political move. The police don’t have the equipment to detect spy equipment. The way to do it is to set up a broad range antenna and scan the spectrum while focusing on likely targets. Likely targets are windows and plastic or fiberglass domes on the roofs. It is unlikely an embassy would have such radiating equipment because it needs to be in a location where it can hit a target of interest.

More likely, satellite phone emissions and transfer towers would be targeted. They might bounce microwaves or lasers off individual windows, but that wouldn’t be done from an embasy. They need plausible deniability.

Spying as suggested in the article is extremely unlikely.


5 posted on 09/11/2013 1:26:24 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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Still kicking themselves over losing the Battle of Stalingrad, I betcha.


7 posted on 09/11/2013 1:41:24 PM PDT by JoeTheGeorgian
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It's the biggest consulate in the world. It used to be a US Army hospital. Check it out on Wikimapia.
8 posted on 09/11/2013 1:47:19 PM PDT by cynwoody
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“an unnamed official claimed Germany wanted to send a message that eavesdropping technologies would not be tolerated on its soil”

Totally bogus since the US maintains NSA/NRO/DIA and other assets on German soil with the cooperation and joint operation of the German military and government.


9 posted on 09/11/2013 1:49:52 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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I’m thinking that several dozen million candle watt spot lights trained on that helicopter would deter future such “visits”


10 posted on 09/11/2013 1:52:01 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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I saw this story on Drudge yesterday and I had a good laugh! There are still many US military bases in Germany to do all kinds of stuff from.

I spent several TDY’s at Tuefelsberg in Berlin as a trainer teaching cryptography.

The facility is closed now. Here’s a picture:

I also taught the same classes at Bad Aibling outside of Munich:

I spent half my military career around giant "golf balls". Germany had/has a lot of them!

11 posted on 09/11/2013 1:54:57 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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Every country has always spied on every other country. Germany can’t say they aren’t spying on the US.


13 posted on 09/11/2013 2:21:19 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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They don’t need us to save them from the Russians anymore. + Barry is alienating them on purpose.


14 posted on 09/11/2013 2:30:02 PM PDT by glorgau
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How things change...


16 posted on 09/11/2013 3:22:39 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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