Fitting this comes out today – considering we posted this earlier.
(Via WeaselZippers) Apparently the NSA has been bugging the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, since 2002. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, President Barack Obama told Merkel on Saturday that he would have stopped the bugging had he known about it.
#Handygate: @BarackObama knew since 2010 that Merkel's phone was spied by NSA @BILD am SONNTAG #BamS pic.twitter.com/tLgzro1IPO
— Alexandre Lafleur (@boulevard_blum) October 26, 2013
However, Bild is reporting that not only did Obama know about the bugging, but that he himself personally ok’d it in 2010, and stepped up surveillance on Merkel, calling for a “comprehensive dossier” on her. According to Bild: (continue reading)