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German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010

First time accepted submitter pupsocket writes "Yesterday the German newspaper of record, Frankfurter Allgemeine, reported that the President told German Chancellor Merkel that he would have stopped the tap on her phone had he known about it. Today, another German paper, Bild am Sonntag, quoted U.S. Intelligence sources that the President had been briefed in 2010. 'Obama did not halt the operation but rather let it continue,' the newspaper quoted a high-ranking NSA official as saying."

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  1. what a joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IRS targeting conservatives? Nobody at the White House knew.

    Healthcare enrollment website has massive problems? The President didn't know.

    NSA tapping German Prime Minister's phone? The President didn't know.

    At some point, the American people have to start wondering if the President knows anything.

  2. About what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How do you know the US is the good guy. Unmanned drones killing women and children in the middle east, psychotic banks out of control, eugenics. You sound so emboldened and brash about ur choices considering ur country is becoming completely satanic..

    And bear in mind that China and Russia already have an alliance to protect themselves from u. If the EU (inclusing France and UK) joined that - both have nukes - your potential list of allies will have dwindled and you could be alienated internationally.

    However, I think u just don't get it. It's not about u or me. It's all a big charade by rich people globally, to hide pillaging from their own countries. And American people seem to be the biggest suckers of them all in this regard.

  3. Re:Credibility gap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you like your doctor you can keep him.
    If you like your insurance you can keep it.
    My administration will be the most transparent ever.
    This is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to stop video
    Gitmo will close by the end of my first term.
    The average family of four will see their health insurance lower by $2500 a year.
    If we pass my stimilus the unemployment won't go over 8%.
    The US is the country that invented the automobile video
    What you are not seeing with the NSA spying is abuses of their abilities.
    via Clapper... The NSA is not spying on millions of Americans
    I did call the attack on Benghazi a terrorist attack right from the beginning.

    I could go on all day. Its actually harder to find things he say that are truthful then lies. Not sure why it takes what has been going on recently for everyone else to start seeing this.

  4. Re: Credibility gap by JWW · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not just optimism and self deception, theres a great deal of narcissism and megalomania there too.