A mobile phone simulating a call to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and computer with a series of numbers is seen in this multiple exposure picture illustration taken in Frankfurt October 28, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach
Germany Asked U.S. About Monitoring Of Merkel But Got No Response: MP -- Reuters
(Reuters) - The German government asked the United States what information the National Security Agency had collected on Angela Merkel after monitoring her mobile phone for years but got no response, a German lawmaker said on Wednesday.
Omid Nouripour, a member of parliament for the opposition Greens, asked the German government in a formal parliamentary query if it had contacted Washington to discover what the NSA found out.
"I wanted to find out what the German government was doing about the NSA eavesdropping on her," Nouripour told Reuters.
In a reply dated April 7, an official in the interior ministry who was tasked with answering Nouripour's questions replied that the government had asked about any information on Merkel but received no answer.
"They didn't ask firmly enough," Nouripour said. "If you ask half-heartedly, you won't get answers. Merkel needs to keep pressing for answers."
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My Comment: On this issue it looks like both the White House and the NSA have made the decision to "not listen" to the Germans.
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