Ex-Stasi boss green with envy over NSA’s domestic spy powers
A still-standing portion of the former Berlin Wall and a guard tower.
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For Wolfgang Schmidt, it was just bad luck that he was 20 years too late and living on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain.
The former head of the Stasi, which was East Germany’s secret police force, betrayed a fair bit of envy about the powers enjoyed by his former Cold War nemesis in the aftermath of revelations about the extent of the National Security Agency’s surveillance powers. “You know, for us, this would have been a dream come true,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with…
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