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The German government says 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.
A statement from Seibert said the German government "has received information that the chancellor's cellphone may be monitored by American intelligence." The government wouldn't elaborate but news magazine Der Spiegel, which has published material from NSA leaker Edward Snowden, said its research triggered the response
European lawmakers on Wednesday called for the suspension of an agreement that grants U.S. authorities access to bank data for terror-related investigations, marking a sharp official rebuke of Washington's surveillance programs.
The European Parliament's resolution, adopted in a 280-254 vote with 30 abstentions, is not binding. The agreement could only be suspended by a two-thirds majority of the 28-nation bloc's member states.
The resolution followed leaks by Edward Snowden alleging the U.S. National Security Agency targeted the Belgium-based system overseeing international bank transfers, known as SWIFT.
The measure's opponents said cancelling the agreement would jeopardize a powerful law enforcement tool that allows investigators to analyze money flows related to terrorist activities. The supporters maintained the alleged spying grossly violated the so-called Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) agreement and thereby voided it.
sikko45
reply to post by muse7
and if you monitor someone who has contact with the POTUSA....then YOU will be monitored...thats called checks and balances...there always a bigger fish.
muse7
sikko45
reply to post by muse7
and if you monitor someone who has contact with the POTUSA....then YOU will be monitored...thats called checks and balances...there always a bigger fish.
bigger fish?
Yeahhh ok
elouina
Well good timing bozo... Make enemies with the entire world and then cut your military. This here is rife with conspiracy.
matafuchs
We are being exposed by every country there is.
i.dailymail.co.uk...
Angela Merkel waded into the row, saying: 'If it is confirmed that diplomatic representations of the European Union and individual European countries have been spied upon, we will clearly say that bugging friends is unacceptable.
'We are no longer in the Cold War.'
Meanwhile, Martin Schulz, president of the EU Parliament, told French radio the United States had crossed a line.
He told France 2: 'I was always sure that dictatorships, some authoritarian systems, tried to listen ... but that measures like that are now practiced by an ally, by a friend, that is shocking, in the case that it is true.'
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CryonicAngel
reply to post by matafuchs
Agree, dont think this is on Obama. Look at the man lately, looks like #. A man with sleepless nights and tons of worries. The man looks like he aged 20 years in just 5.