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US Tracked Merkel's phone since 2002.
Posted: Oct 27, 2013
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... How can this be, since Merkel wasn't chancellor until 2005? ;
Merkel was not chancellor until 2005, so why - would the US bug her phone in 2002? nm
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She was leader of the CDU - opposition party
[ In Reply To ..]who had been active in German politics ever since unification, including having served as minister of Environment and Nuclear Safety. She was a high profile figure in German politics, was elected first female leader of the Christian Democratic Union in 2000 and brought the party to victory shortly thereafter. She became the recognized favorite to challenge Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in the 2002 election.
I guess the only ones who know the real reasons for this decision would be W and Cheney, the founding fathers of the warrantless surveillance program and experts on illegal spying activities.
According to the Economic Times, Obama knew - of the organizations spying
[ In Reply To ..]on German Chancellor Angela Merkel – and approved of the efforts, a National Security Agency official has reportedly told a German newspaper.
The Economic Times writes the “high-ranking” NSA official spoke to Bild am Sonntag on the condition of anonymity, saying the president, “not only did not stop the operation, but he also ordered it to continue.”
The Economic Times also reports the official told Bild am Sonntag that Obama did not trust Merkel, wanted to know everything about her, and thus ordered the NSA to prepare a dossier on the politician.
The account could mean difficulties for the White House, given another report claiming Obama told Merkel during a telephone conversation last Wednesday he was not aware of the NSA’s spying.
The Economic Times cited Frankfuter Allgemeine Zeitung in writing that when Merkel called Obama last week to alternately complain -- and get an explanation -- about the NSA surveillance, the president assured her he wasn’t aware of the campaign regarding her, and would have halted it, had he known.
The unnamed NSA official's allegations delve deeper into a Saturday report, published by the German magazine Der Spiegel, claiming the U.S. spy agency has monitored Merkel’s phone since 2002, or even before she rose to her country’s chief executive position and was only an opposition leader.
Another high ranking anonymous souce scandal brewing - in never-never land?
[ In Reply To ..]I'm sorry. Mr. Anybody's-Guess thinks Obama doesn't trust her and wants to know everything about her? Does that sound even remotely feasible? Just because someone said that doesn't make it true, other than the fact that someone said it. Did the ET report on the source's political persuasions? Is he/she for impeachment or against it? Did the article speculate about how then first-term state Senator Barack Obama D-Illinois exerted his behind-the-curtain influence on the sitting POTUS and VPOTUS to tap Merckel's phone?
You don't have to believe it, but it's being reported - in foreign newspapers, you
[ In Reply To ..]would do best not to stick your head in the sand whether you agree or not.
I believe General Alexander who denies ever discussing it - with President Obama
[ In Reply To ..]That's the guy Mr. Anybody's Guess claims in his fabrication informed the POTUS of the program. I think he probably knows better than the unnamed "source" what he did and didn't do, don't you?
Phony outrage from Europe, they all do it. America - broke the cardinal rule
[ In Reply To ..]of espionage; they got caught.
No Germany won't have to answer awkward questions - about why they cooperated
[ In Reply To ..]with the NSA
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