Chancellery investigated in hunt for WikiLeaks sources: reports [Germany]

TheLocal.de ^ | 21 April 2017 11:04 CEST+02:00

[Olog-hai]

German media reported on Thursday that Angela Merkel’s Chancellery has been included in an ongoing investigation into a recent WikiLeaks release of confidential documents.

Broadcaster NDR reported on Thursday that according to unnamed sources, public prosecutors in Berlin are investigating employees of the Chancellery in their search to find who sent confidential documents to WikiLeaks, but the sources stressed that the investigation does not necessarily mean that there is a concrete suspicion against any individual employee.

Government sources also told Reuters that the Chancellery had agreed weeks ago to the investigation against “unknown” persons, but added that there are no firm suspicions against Chancellery officials.

Spiegel had previously reported that the Bundestag (German parliament) was also under investigation. …

[dforest]

It wuz Russians. No investigation needed. /sarc

[Olog-hai]

Well, the “investigation” has to “confirm” that and all. And then the press will dutifully report.

[pepsionice]

I suspect that the investigation folks have a fairly good idea about who did it, and the ‘shoe’ will fall in the middle of this campaign period...likely leading to Green Party or Linke Party official within the Bundestag.

If you look at polling right now....the Greens are down to the lowest point of the past twenty years. If this connects back to one of their group...you might see them get less than 5-percent of the national vote in September, and thus not sit in the Bundestag for the next four years.