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Posted on 10/26/2013 12:49:27 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
The United States may have bugged Angela Merkel's phone for more than 10 years, according to a news report on Saturday that also said President Barack Obama told the German leader he would have stopped it happening had he known about it.
Germany's outrage over reports of bugging of Merkel's phone by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) prompted it to summon the U.S. ambassador this week for the first time in living memory, an unprecedented post-war diplomatic rift.
Der Spiegel said Merkel's mobile telephone had been listed by the NSA's Special Collection Service (SCS) since 2002 - marked as "GE Chancellor Merkel" - and was still on the list weeks before Obama visited Berlin in June.
In an SCS document cited by the magazine, the agency said it had a "not legally registered spying branch" in the U.S. embassy in Berlin, the exposure of which would lead to "grave damage for the relations of the United States to another government".
From there, NSA and CIA staff were tapping communication in the Berlin's government district with high-tech surveillance.
Quoting a secret document from 2010, Der Spiegel said such branches existed in about 80 locations around the world, including Paris, Madrid, Rome, Prague, Geneva and Frankfurt.
The magazine said it was not clear whether the SCS had recorded conversations or just connection data.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Okay, okay, you caught us. We promise we won’t do it again.
I’m really hoping this report is well off base. If true this is just vile.
“”( barry soetoro) told the German leader he would have stopped it happening had he known about it.”””
And he gets away with saying stuff like that. So once again it is clearly W’s fault. /s
Obama’s propaganda machine never sleeps!
you knew this was coming. the bystander president does no wrong.
Absolutely, Bushes fault!
Shut the whole NSA operation down until we have a responsible leader in the White House.
Someone who can tell who the real enemy is.
We have muslims who support terrorism holding positions in the Obama administration while he has the NSA watching innocent Americans and our allies.
I call BS. Merkel has only been Chancellor since 2005.
lol. the obamites get an F in history.
Ch. Merkel knows he’s a child king and has no means of being honest or responsible.
They think we’re stupid for electing this guy.
So will our progeny. They’re not going to read archives of FR, they’ll think, ‘why did they do this to us?’ - debt, severe reduction of their population, out of control college costs, brainwashing of their peers, etc.
OBINGO..OBINGO..OBINGO..OBINGO..OBINGO..OBINGO..OBINGO..
YOU GET THE PRIZE
IIRC I saw copy of a document purporting to be THE DOCUMENT YESTERDAY.
If the NSA was tracking her private phone before she was PM and while she was the head of her political party there is a BIG BIG problem.
we shall see
Needs repeating :Someone who can tell who the real enemy is ."
*Special*, indeed.
“”( barry soetoro) told the German leader he would have stopped it happening had he known about it.”””
Just like everyone else barry just learned about it in the news.
It’s very probable that the NSA tracks all world leaders when they can. It’s probably a side benefit of some global traffic control system and not something they have meetings about. It would be available data if they wanted to assemble a report on any leader. (Five trips to Moscow in two years, for example, might correlate to a sudden geopolitical shift we should know about.)
Know Nothing Good For Nothing President
Ah, you can always count on Barack Hussein Obama, when the going gets rough, to blame Bush.
All of Europe should threaten to lock up Bammy if he tries to appear there again.
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