Posted on 10/26/2013 4:36:46 PM PDT by lbryce
The US government may have been monitoring German chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone for more than 10 years, according to a report by Der Spiegel based on internal documents from the National Security Agency (NSA).
President Barack Obama told Merkel that he was not aware her phone was being bugged, or he would have stopped it. However, he declined to say whether her phone had been monitored in the past. A separate report in Die Welt said the number of Merkel's Nokia 6120 Slide was listed in leaked NSA documents, although she's since switched to a BlackBerry Z10 smart phone.
The White House assured Merkel that her phone is not being tapped now. But today's report suggests that the surveillance went back as far as 2002, when Merkel was the head of her political party, the Christian Democratic Union. She became chancellor in 2005.
(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...
The truth being an utter anathema to all that I loathe about Obama, the spying seems to be going on longer than we ever imagined. Despite having seen it expressed in mocking sarcastic reference myriad of times, I find myself incapable of saying that it's you-know-who's fault.
Comments made by the Sociopath-in-Chief about what he's only just discovered (yeah, sure whatever you say, we absolutely believe you, BUWHAHAHAHAHA) merely makes him out to be the duplicitous, lying, SOB, world's laughing stock, he's proven himself to be.
I would take this with a grain of salt. Merkel was not Chancellor in 2002. Maybe the Bush Admin was spying on her anyway, but I simply no longer believe a word that comes out of the Obama Admin. Especially when he’s blaming others for EVERYTHING.
WOW! Hot stuff. Did Putin call her for a date?
In other words: “Bush’s fault.”
Ring.....ring.....ring
“Guten Tag!”
“Pantpantpant.”
“Barack! Is that you again?”
“No Angie. It’s me, Joe Biden.”
“Don’t you have anything better to do than make dirty phone calls to me?”
“Putin’s line is busy.”
Naturally, our totally ignorant president was ignorant about the spying, just as he only knows what he reads in the papers. What a flop of a leader.
Seems no end of what this government will do.
The constitution does not rein them in.
The law does not rein them in.
Common decency does not rein them in.
I fear we are all in for ‘interesting times’ ahead.
I thought this wasn’t out of the US administration but a German report ??
Merkel's overall status within the EU as leader of Germany's Christian Democrat opposition party and as challenger for the German Chancellorship in 2002, I believe, definitely makes her a legitimate target of the NSA's spying efforts, and would seem to validate the report about being spied upon as far back as 2002.
“No one is more frustrated by these phone taps than me...” - Barack Hussein Obama. Voyeur In Chief.
Lol.
Second, you're the first person I've come across that is aware of the Chinese proverb of interesting times as that of being a curse. Most everyone thinks, as it seems to imply, that to live in interesting times is something to aspire to.
LOL! Bush did it!
Don’t LOOK at me! It was the Joos! \Barack
the headline says Merkle’s phone was bugged.
The story says it may have been.
which is correct?
the headline says Merkle’s phone was bugged.
The story says it may have been.
which is correct?
I would have to agree.
I can't buy that Bush ordered Merkel's personal phone tapped. Would he have wanted intelligence about the German government's direction and policies? Hell, yes. But that can be done without tapping the leader's personal phone.
On the other hand, I believe every one of these taps was ordered by Obama. And they were not ordered in the interest of national security. Instead, I believe the driving forces behind the order were a.) his curiosity, b.) the possibility of gaining a political edge for himself and c.) "I won...and I can do it."
Megalomania, the relentless compulsion to accumulate, facilitate power and control, where absolute power corrupting absolutely, is the primary characteristic of the Sociopath's persona.
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