Who’s watching the watchers?
An investigation is under way after it emerged a museum’s security camera was used to spy on the private Berlin flat of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
German newspaper Bild am Sonntag first reported the camera had been turned towards the flat, opposite the renowned Pergamon Museum of antiquities. The camera on the museum’s roof is supposed to ensure its artefacts from ancient Rome and Troy are safe. But bored security guards used it to peek into Chancellor Merkel’s flat.
A security guard used the camera’s powerful zoom to hone in on Mrs Merkel’s husband, Joachim Sauer, who was sitting on the sofa watching television.
It was hardly compromising stuff, but the implications raise obvious security concerns and the police are now investigating.
Now, if you could do this with the White House…?
If you could get a camera zoomed into a White House window you would probably catch Jeff Gannon down on Karl Rove.
What was Jeff doing in the White House when there were no press conferences? Why was he given a press pass? Maybe it made it easy to get him in to perform “services”?
Oh, we don’t really need to go on about the Log Cabin Republicans.
I do wonder sometimes if Dubya does facial exercises in private to make himself look more like Alfred E. Newman.
The more pertinent question I have is why the Chancellor of Germany has to live in a flat (which as far as I know is another name for an apartment) instead of a house? Seems like a potential security problem, like the security guards and their camera but worse.
Mr. Bush’s politics aside, I suspect anyone viewing the residential regions of the White House would soon feel they were watching Ozzie and Harriet reruns. Or maybe Leave It To Beaver. Or, in a racy moment, Happy Days.