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In reply to the discussion: Al Gore: Edward Snowden's 'Important Service' [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)I would be very surprised if our allies were not fully aware of our efforts in that regard. All part of being allies in the war on terrorism.
Angela Merkel got in trouble with her own people because she was doing to them what the NSA does to us--and maybe also to them. Because of that, she made a brief, half hearted noise about her personal cell being monitored-to show her people that she was in the same boat as they were. However, it was very half hearted, and brief, and only after she got flap from her own people.
At that, she only ever mentioned her personal cell. Not a word about her entire government's phones being monitored (web use, too). So, clearly, she knew about that all along. Given that, she would have been a fool to assume her personal cell was sacred. And Angela is nobody's fool. I would not even be surprised if she had cleared her half-hearted and soon dropped complaint about her personal cell with us before she went public with it.