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Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone
cold fjord writes "According to a report in the Miami Herald, 'Chancellor Angela Merkel has called President Barack Obama after receiving information that U.S. intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone. Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert said Merkel made clear in Wednesday's call that "she views such practices, if the indications are confirmed ... as completely unacceptable" and called for U.S. authorities to clarify the extent of surveillance in Germany.' Der Spiegel has some information on Germany's own "PRISM" project. White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Obama 'assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor' her communications. He didn't mention anything about past communications. This news follows allegations of U.S. surveillance of the Presidents of Mexico, and France. Yesterday the LA Times noted, 'French authorities are shocked — shocked — to learn that the American government is spying on French citizens. The Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador to the Quai D'Orsay to inform him that what's going on is "unacceptable," and President Francois Hollande claimed to have issued a stern rebuke to President Obama in a phone conversation.' Up until now, Merkel had been reluctant to say anything bad about the U.S. over the NSA leaks."
I am shocked. Shocked! That a country--any country--would spy on a foreign head of state.
What a world we live in
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Actually, just like how bin Laden supposedly communicates through his blinking in his videos, Obama and Clapper probably set up something similar for their covert communication based on how Clapper rubs his face when he's lying.
When GWB gave her a backrub, he must have been secretly planting a bug.
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Obama had one reply to Merkel, like Superman to Lois Lane:
"They're pink..."
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Really? Would you say its safe to assume Germany is tapping the white house?
This has been done for hundreds if not thousands of years. Even Bill Clinton was accused of secretly tapping at least one of his interns.
--- Nothing to see here, move along.
President Obama 'assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor' her communications.
The NSA had informed him that she was going to ask him if she was being monitored.
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
Perhaps Dubya was trying to let Merkel know at that G8 dinner party in 2006 — one way or another — maybe not that night, and maybe not by him, but someday, she was going to get "tapped" by a US President.
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
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