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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/26/us-spying-angela-merkel_n_4166326.htmlU.S. Spying On Angela Merkel's Phone May Date Back To 2002: Report
BERLIN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - 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.
here is a picture of Bush bugging his good friend
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Hey Angie, try complain' to your creepy massage buddy (Original Post)
ashling
Oct 2013
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Decaffeinated
(556 posts)1. Pretty sure he wouldn't care if she did...
Last one standing gets stuck with the bill....
delrem
(9,688 posts)2. Why didn't Pres. Obama know about something so critically important?
He's been president for a number of years and the spying seems to be universal.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)3. There's literally millions of critically important things. And there's only 24 hours in a day.
The President's primary job is to delegate, because there's far too much for any one person to manage. As a result, every president is not aware of millions of critically important things.