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Green interior policy spokesman Wolfgang Wieland regards the findings from the WP article "alarming". The government might even be guilty of cognisance. It has to be cleared if Schily told his friends "to go on" like an accomplice or if he told them "not to do it ever again."
Indeed: What did the government know? And what did the Green ministers, in the first place: Foreign minister Joschka Fischer, know? I wonder how the information flow in my last government worked. Did everyone have his own private connections to foreign ambassadors? Did no one share any information with chancellor Schröder? How come that the Minister of the Interior simply arrogated foreign policy decisions?
It is good to see that the Greens have found their opposition role quickly, but I am still wondering if Joschka Fischer knew about these things - or if he did not know (which also would not shed the best light upon his foreign office administration).
