DHe SPD foreign politician Ralf Stegner has rejected the call for an investigative committee in the Taurus wiretapping affair. Such a committee is not appropriate, Stegner told the Berlin “Tagesspiegel” on Sunday. “The demand is opposition small-small.”
But of course it must be clarified how this propaganda success for Russian President Vladimir Putin could have come about, said the SPD politician. He criticized the Bundeswehr officers for “carelessly babbling” about a possible Taurus deployment in an unprotected medium.
Pistorius expressed reservations about the initiative
In the affair surrounding a conversation between air force officers that was intercepted by Russia about the possible use of Taurus cruise missiles by Ukrainian armed forces, CSU politician Alexander Dobrindt brought an investigative committee into play. The CDU foreign politician Jürgen Hardt also said that the question of such a committee arises.
Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) expressed reservations on Sunday about the possible establishment of a committee of inquiry. The question arises as to whether the process justifies a committee of inquiry with all its domestic political implications and everything that will then be discussed publicly, said the minister.
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