“Reasonable is that the heads of state – when talking to one another – talk about how to deal with the issue, how serious to take the allegations and how to deal with them, to discuss the allegations, to clarify, to verify, or to resolve them. Reasonable is that those persons speak about the actual way of the one or the other side’s intelligence services’ conduct who possess the intensive knowledge of details of those issues.” (Undersecretary Seibert, Speaker of the German Government on NSA surveillance , Berlin, July 8, 2013)

Is this statement still compatible to any notion of democratic governance or a manifestation of a nascent world state expertocracy? Read my contribution to the Verfassungsblog: “Experten unter sich: Warum die Regierung findet, dass die Snowden-Affäre uns nichts angeht” (in German).