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| Barack Obama tells Angela Merkel that US is not tapping her
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 24-October-2013
3:57:3 AM |
| The German government said Wednesday that it had received information that the cellphone of Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany was under surveillance by U.S. intelligence services and that she had called President Barack Obama to make clear that such practices - if confirmed - were "completely unacceptable."
Steffen Seibert, the chancellor's spokesman, quoted her as telling Obama: "Between close friends and partners, which the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States of America have been for decades, there should be no such surveillance of the communications of a head of government."
He further quoted her as telling him: "That would be a grave breach of trust. Such practices must cease immediately."
It was the second time in three days that allegations of U.S. government surveillance threatened to cloud relations between Washington and close European allies. The consternation in Berlin followed a furor in France over reports in the Le Monde newspaper that U.S. intelligence had collected data on 70 million communications by ordinary French people in a 30-day period late last year and into January.
The White House issued a statement confirming that Obama and Merkel had spoken "regarding allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted the communications of the German Chancellor. the president assured the Chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of Chancellor Merkel."
The statement did not address whether those communications had been intercepted in the past.
Also Wednesday, James R. Clapper, the director of national intelligence in the United States, disputed some details of Le Monde's reports as misleading
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