President Barack Obama personally authorised the phone tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile because he wanted to 'know everything' about the world’s most powerful woman, it was claimed on Sunday. Bild newspaper in Germany - which also reported surveilance on the phone of her predecessor Gerhard Schroeder who opposed the war in Iraq - called US denials of eavesdropping 'diplomatic lies' as new documents from the Nation security Agency in Washington suggest the bugging against the politicians began at least ten years ago, during the Bush administration. Bild quoted a secret intelligence source saying the president was informed in 2010 about the operation against Merkel by NSA boss Keith Alexander and he sanctioned it.
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Bild newspaper in Germany called US denials of eavesdropping 'diplomatic lies' as new documents emerge
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They quote a secret source which claims Obama not only sanctioned the operation against Mrs Merkel but extended it
@placeholder politicians together with spy chiefs are scheduled to fly to the USA this week for talks with their counterparts about the snooping programme.