First time accepted submitter pupsocket writes “Yesterday the German newspaper of record, Frankfurter Allgemeine, reported that the President told German Chancellor Merkel that he would have stopped the tap on her phone had he known about it. Today, another German paper, Bild am Sonntag, quoted U. S. Intelligence sources that the President had been briefed in 2010. ‘Obama did not halt the operation but rather let it continue,’ the newspaper quoted a high-ranking NSA official as saying.”… First time accepted submitter pupsocket writes “Yesterday the German newspaper of record, Frankfurter Allgemeine, reported that the President told German Chancellor Merkel that he would have stopped the tap on her phone had he known about it. Today, another German paper, Bild am Sonntag, quoted U. S. Intelligence sources that the President had been briefed in 2010. ‘Obama did not halt the operation but rather let it continue,’ the newspaper quoted a high-ranking NSA official as saying.”
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