The German gov't argues that the public has no right to know the grounds for public (sic) policy decisions, revealing at-once the charade of 'democracy'
You are totally right. International relations must be protected, the „experts“ must be protected, dealings with suppliers must be protected. What about the protection of the people living in this country?
Many thanks again for one more of your very insightful posts.
Just to avoid misunderstandings as currently two FOIA requests are going on. The one is with regard to the "RKI Files". These are the minutes from internal RKI-meetings discussing the issues related to SARS-CoV-19. As we already learned, 'internal' has to be seen with some caution. The FOIA related to your last post is with reagrd to the minutes of a different body, the "Corona ExpertenInnenrat" (sic!). This was a Group of … experts … and was called by the German Government directly and is different and in principle separated from the RKI. However, Mr. Wieler, Head of RKI at those times, was also a member of this ExpertInnenrat but nobody else from RKI. This ExperInnenrat was aktiv between December 2021 till April 2023 (when it stopped working)- i.e. completely under the current Scholz-Government.
The so far released RKI Files - although still partly blinded - are covering the period from January 2020 till April 2021 and thus under the reign of the Merkel-Government. So, in Terms of role, time,and responsibility rather disjunct activities. Of Course, both of them are of utmost interest and still discussed in court.
This is a good point, and I should have been more precise here; the redacted RKI Files from 2020 until April 2021 have been released, and Dr. Haffner is fighting for their un-redacted release. In a separate filing, he is also seeking to get the RKI Files from the current gov't released, hopefully un-redacted, too.
This was exactly my point. Dr. Haffner is fighting for the un-redacted release of the "Corona ExpertInnenrat" after he achieved the redacted release. The (still redacted) RKI-files were released based on a FOIA-requirement from Paul Schreyer, one of the publishers of the „Multipolar-Magazin“. The fight to get them completely un-redacted is still ongoing. The role of Christian Haffner with regard to the release of the RKI-files is unknown to me, but I see them as independent threads.
You are totally right. International relations must be protected, the „experts“ must be protected, dealings with suppliers must be protected. What about the protection of the people living in this country?
Not 'just' that.
If gov't can claim (whatever) trumps the rights of the sovereign people, the latter are no more citizens but subjects.
Many thanks again for one more of your very insightful posts.
Just to avoid misunderstandings as currently two FOIA requests are going on. The one is with regard to the "RKI Files". These are the minutes from internal RKI-meetings discussing the issues related to SARS-CoV-19. As we already learned, 'internal' has to be seen with some caution. The FOIA related to your last post is with reagrd to the minutes of a different body, the "Corona ExpertenInnenrat" (sic!). This was a Group of … experts … and was called by the German Government directly and is different and in principle separated from the RKI. However, Mr. Wieler, Head of RKI at those times, was also a member of this ExpertInnenrat but nobody else from RKI. This ExperInnenrat was aktiv between December 2021 till April 2023 (when it stopped working)- i.e. completely under the current Scholz-Government.
The so far released RKI Files - although still partly blinded - are covering the period from January 2020 till April 2021 and thus under the reign of the Merkel-Government. So, in Terms of role, time,and responsibility rather disjunct activities. Of Course, both of them are of utmost interest and still discussed in court.
This is a good point, and I should have been more precise here; the redacted RKI Files from 2020 until April 2021 have been released, and Dr. Haffner is fighting for their un-redacted release. In a separate filing, he is also seeking to get the RKI Files from the current gov't released, hopefully un-redacted, too.
This was exactly my point. Dr. Haffner is fighting for the un-redacted release of the "Corona ExpertInnenrat" after he achieved the redacted release. The (still redacted) RKI-files were released based on a FOIA-requirement from Paul Schreyer, one of the publishers of the „Multipolar-Magazin“. The fight to get them completely un-redacted is still ongoing. The role of Christian Haffner with regard to the release of the RKI-files is unknown to me, but I see them as independent threads.