Angela Merkel , theChancellor of Germany , talk to Barack Obama on Wednesday eventide to demand explanation over reports advise that the NSA has been monitoring her nomadic phone .
agree to the Guardian , sources exact that Merkel , the headspring of the German government activity , was “ livid ” over the report . What ’s more , leaning on German intelligence service and investigations by the German news weekly Der Spiegel , she was apparently win over that the claim were “ utterly actualise ” .
That conviction of belief wasenough to see her call Obama , recount him that she expected the Americans “ to supply information over the possible scale of such eavesdropping practices against Germany and reply to questions that the Union government asked month ago . ”
The White House has insisted that Merkel ’s phone has not been tapped . “ The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communication theory of the chancellor , ” a White House spokesman explained . Whether that ’s enough to lenify Merkel remains unclear , but clearly the NSA slaughter is n’t doing a great deal for US - European relations . [ The Guardian ]
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