Merkel and Obama outside the White House. White House photo by Pete Souza
Merkel Compared NSA To Stasi In Heated Encounter With Obama -- The Guardian
German chancellor furious after revelations US intelligence agency listened in on her personal mobile phone
In an angry exchange with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel has compared the snooping practices of the US with those of the Stasi, the ubiquitous and all-powerful secret police of the communist dictatorship in East Germany, where she grew up.
The German chancellor also told the US president that America's National Security Agency cannot be trusted because of the volume of material it had allowed to leak to the whistleblower Edward Snowden, according to the New York Times.
Livid after learning from Der Spiegel magazine that the Americans were listening in to her personal mobile phone, Merkel confronted Obama with the accusation: "This is like the Stasi."
The newspaper also reported that Merkel was particularly angry that, based on the disclosures, "the NSA clearly couldn't be trusted with private information, because they let Snowden clean them out."
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My Comment: This story is being covered extensively in Europe .... not so in the U.S.. Makes you wonder (again) to what extent will the U.S. media go to protect this President.
Update: This is not surprising .... US-Germany Intelligence Partnership Falters Over Spying -- New York Times
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