U.S. bugged Schroeder when he was German chancellor: paper

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[gooblah]

BERLIN (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) bugged the phone of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder from at least 2002, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday, compounding the most serious row between between the allies in a decade.

[Gene Eric]

Yay, more Snowden fallout... /s

[pierrem15]

Kanzler Gazprom is surprized the Amis bugged his phone?

The constant stir about the NSA in the German press really makes me think Snowden's shenanigans were a very clever dezinformatsia campaign by Putin to cause trouble in NATO.

[RicocheT]

This is the kid that plays the piano in the “Peanuts” cartoons, right?

[cartan]

So maybe you guys can tell us: Is he actually dyeing his hair or not?

[WayneS]

Okay.

[dead]

The NSA is supposed to bug foreigners, not US citizens.

[lavaroise]

When you murder Litvienko and others who have evidence Putin bombed the apartment buildings, you understand why we have the following Ice Breaker issues in America:

Truthers

Obama

Snowden (who is now claiming Americans want to murder him ... like they poisoned ... Litvienko

One of the terrorists walking out the Theater attack in Moscow is currently serving in the DUMA

[pierrem15]

Snowden is still alive only because the Russians continue to find him useful-- as soon as that stops, they'll find a way to off him and blame the US.

Snowden is a first class political idiot, unfortunately somewhat typical of smart autodidacts, their psychological instability is why the national security apparatus should never hire them or accept them from contractors.

[jeffc]

Oh, I see!!! It's still Bush's fault.

The Left can rail against Bush for being Prez when a foreign leader is spied on, and then use that very same incident to justify their (P)rez doing it.

Liberalism is a mental disease, but the US psychiatric organization has decreed it, like homosexuality, to be a "lifestyle" to be celebrated.....

[publiusF27]

The NSA is supposed to bug foreigners, not US citizens.

That's how I see it, and yes, that means all foreigners.

I expect foreigners (all of them) to try to tap our government's communications too, and I expect the NSA and CIA to try to stop it.

If Snowden had revealed that we are NOT listening to foreign leaders, I'd say we should just fire the NSA for not doing their job. His big revelation on foreign intelligence gathering seems to be that we are doing it. Wow. Earth shattering.

The mass collection of phone, email, text message and other domestic communications is both unnecessary and dangerous to liberty. It was also illegal and the NSA apparently knew it would be better to ask forgiveness than permission from the FISA court.

“For the first time, the government has now advised the court that the volume and nature of the information it has been collecting is fundamentally different from what the court had been led to believe,” John D. Bates, then the surveillance court’s chief judge, wrote in his Oct. 3, 2011, opinion.

They knew what they were doing was wrong and misled the FISA court to hide it. Snowden knew what they were doing was wrong and ruined his own life to expose it. History will decide who were the heroes and who were the villains.

[lavaroise]

Indeed. He is a pawn. As all spy traitors think they are in charge of things and invaluable, they never realize that Putin would be so happy to see him poisoned by an American.

[lavaroise]

.. besides, Snowden did not reveal anything new to the public we did not suspect about the NSA. Obama is the real spy. It makes him look good.