Obama 'not told of Merkel phone bugging'

BBC News ^ | 27 October 2013 | BBC

[Revolting cat!]

Gospodin Stalin didn’t know either, according to the Russkies who never lost relatives to the terror!

[Revolting cat!]

“I didn’t know,” is what my mother told my teachers when she was called to school. She wouldn’t lie. Who’s Odunga’s mom? Valerie?

[Kickass Conservative]

So, the headline about the Phone Tapping starting in 2002 cannot be blamed on President Bush because he wasn’t informed either.

[Jack Hammer]

“Alexander did not discuss with President Obama in 2010 an alleged foreign intelligence operation involving German Chancellor Merkel...”

BULL. SH*T.

[Joe Boucher]

bull shit
obammy is a liar.

[Hoodat]

They're lying. This could not have taken place without the President's OK. The President alone has the authority to order warrantless searches for matters of national security. The NSA could not legally have done this without the President's signature.

FIS Court of Appeals, 18 Nov 2002

[Hoodat]

Gen Keith Alexander never discussed alleged operations involving Chancellor Angela Merkel, an NSA spokeswoman said.

If this is true, then General Alexander needs to be brought up on charges. The President alone has the power to authorize this. If Alexander operated outside that authority, then he belongs prison.