Angela Merkel's call to Obama: are you bugging my mobile phone?

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Germany sees credible evidence of US monitoring of chancellor as NSA surveillance row intensifies

The furore over the scale of American mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden shifted to an incendiary new level on Wednesday evening when Angela Merkel of Germany called Barack Obama to demand explanations over reports that the US National Security Agency was monitoring her mobile phone.

Merkel was said by informed sources in Germany to be "livid" over the reports and convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.

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Angela Merkel's call to Obama: are you bugging my mobile phone?

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