The most delightfully lighthearted and ironic scene in the film Casablanca is when Claude Rains, as the seemingly easygoing corrupt police chief, says to Humphrey Bogart, the enigmatic night club owner, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.”  The croupier then hands him his winnings from the gambling table. No one dares accuse Chancellor Angela Merkel or other German government officials of similar hypocrisy, but the shock and stress they experienced on learning that information had been divulged to American intelligence agents have a theatrical air.  Calling them unprecedented acts, the German government has made much – too much – of the allegations that two German officials have given information and documents to, if not spied for, the United States.  Were crocodile tears shed? The two officials are not major figures.  One of the accused is a German foreign intelligence service officer said...(Read Full Article)