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| US ended Angela Merkel spying |
| US ended Angela Merkel spying program: report
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 28-October-2013
8:55:24 AM |
| The National Security Agency stopped spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders after the White House learned of the snooping, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
President Barack Obama learned of the electronic surveillance in an internal review he ordered at mid-year, the Journal reported, citing unnamed US officials.
The review showed that the NSA had tapped the phones of some 35 world leaders. The White House ended programs tracking several of the leaders including Merkel, according to the Journal.
Some programs have been scheduled to end but have not yet been terminated, the Journal said.
Officials told the Journal that there are so many NSA eavesdropping operations that it would not have been practical to brief the president on all of them.
Obama was "briefed on and approved of broader intelligence-collection 'priorities,'" but deputies decided on specific intelligence targets, the Journal said.
"These decisions are made at NSA," the unnamed official told the Journal. "The president doesn't sign off on this stuff."
Ending a surveillance program is complicated because a world leader like Merkel may be communicating with another leader that Washington is monitoring, officials told the newspaper.
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