To: lbryce
I would take this with a grain of salt. Merkel was not Chancellor in 2002. Maybe the Bush Admin was spying on her anyway, but I simply no longer believe a word that comes out of the Obama Admin. Especially when he’s blaming others for EVERYTHING.
2 posted on
10/26/2013 4:42:54 PM PDT by
originalbuckeye
(Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
To: originalbuckeye
I thought this wasn’t out of the US administration but a German report ??
9 posted on
10/26/2013 5:00:10 PM PDT by
erlayman
To: originalbuckeye
From Wikipedia
Following Merkel's election as CDU leader, she enjoyed considerable popularity among the German population and was favoured by many Germans to become Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's challenger in the 2002 election.Merkel's overall status within the EU as leader of Germany's Christian Democrat opposition party and as challenger for the German Chancellorship in 2002, I believe, definitely makes her a legitimate target of the NSA's spying efforts, and would seem to validate the report about being spied upon as far back as 2002.
10 posted on
10/26/2013 5:02:48 PM PDT by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: originalbuckeye; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
Exactly — she became Chancellor in 2005, and CDU head in 2000.
BTW, AFAIC, if the US gov’t were *not* spying on other gov’ts, it wouldn’t be doing its job.
24 posted on
10/26/2013 8:45:32 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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