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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 08:40 AM Jun 2014

Germany investigates alleged NSA Merkel phone tap

Source: Miami Herald / AP

BERLIN -- German federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into the alleged monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone by the U.S. National Security Agency, they said Wednesday.

Chief Prosecutor Harald Range has been mulling for months whether to open a formal probe of the Merkel allegations that emerged in October. The revelations cooled relations between Berlin and Washington, prompting Merkel to accuse the U.S. of a grave breach of trust and President Barack Obama to pledge he would not allow America's massive communications surveillance capability to damage relations with Germany or other close allies.

Range's office said he opened an investigation Tuesday into persons unknown regarding Merkel's phone, a move that could again complicate matters diplomatically.

"Extensive preliminary investigations have established that sufficient factual evidence exists that unknown members of U.S. intelligence services spied on the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel," Range's office said.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/04/4157286/germany-investigates-alleged-nsa.html#storylink=cpy

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Germany investigates alleged NSA Merkel phone tap (Original Post) dipsydoodle Jun 2014 OP
This is why she didn't pick up for 'phone-a-friend' muriel_volestrangler Jun 2014 #1
They're worried about phone taps??? DeSwiss Jun 2014 #2
What took you so long? Kelvin Mace Jun 2014 #3
 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
2. They're worried about phone taps???
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 10:04 AM
Jun 2014
- With hundreds of military bases within a stone's throw, and Obama asking for $1 billion more just for Europe, them listening to your phone conversations, while important, pales in comparison.

K&R

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"What would you think of a man who not only kept an arsenal in his home, but was collecting at enormous financial sacrifice a second arsenal to protect the first one?

What would you say if this man so frightened his neighbors that they in turn were collecting weapons to protect themselves from him?

What if this man spent ten times as much money on his expensive weapons as he did on the education of his children?

What if one of his children criticized his hobby and he called that child a traitor and a bum and disowned him?

And he took another child who obeyed him faithfully and armed that child and sent it out into the world to attack neighbors?

What would you say about a man who introduces poisons into the water he drinks and the air he breathes?

What if this man not only is feuding with the people on his block but involves himself in the quarrels of others in distant parts of the city and even in the suburbs?

Such a man would clearly be a paranoid schizophrenic... with homicidal tendencies."


~Robert Anton Wilson
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