{"id":11280,"date":"2013-10-23T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11280"},"modified":"2013-10-23T18:49:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T18:49:58","slug":"us-may-have-targeted-angela-merkels-cellphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11280","title":{"rendered":"US may have targeted Angela Merkel&#8217;s cellphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a style=\"text-align: justify;\" href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/spycell1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11285\" alt=\"German Chancellor Merkel holds a BlackBerry Z10 smartphone featuring high security Secusite software at the booth of Secusmart during her opening tour at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/spycell1.jpg\" width=\"312\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/spycell1.jpg 312w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/spycell1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 85vw, 312px\" \/><\/a>German Chancellor Angela Merkel complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday after learning that U.S. intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone, and said that would be &#8220;a serious breach of trust&#8221; if confirmed, her government announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The White House denied that the U.S. is listening in on Merkel&#8217;s phone calls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The German government said it responded after receiving &#8220;information that the chancellor&#8217;s cellphone may be monitored&#8221; by U.S. intelligence. It wouldn&#8217;t elaborate but German news magazine Der Spiegel, which has published material from NSA leaker Edward Snowden, said its research triggered the response.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement the chancellor made clear to Obama in a phone call that &#8220;she views such practices, if the indications are confirmed &#8230; as completely unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Merkel said among close partners such as Germany and the U.S., &#8220;there must not be such surveillance of a head of government&#8217;s communication,&#8221; Seibert added. &#8220;That would be a serious breach of trust. Such practices must be stopped immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said &#8220;the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Merkel raised concerns over electronic eavesdropping issue when Obama visited Germany in June, has demanded answers from the U.S. government and backed calls for greater European data protection. However, Wednesday&#8217;s statement was much more sharply worded and appeared to reflect frustration over the answers provided so far by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Merkel called for U.S. authorities to clarify the extent of surveillance in Germany and to provide answers to &#8220;questions that the German government asked months ago,&#8221; Seibert said. &#8211; Breitbart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday after learning that U.S. intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone, and said that would be &#8220;a serious breach of trust&#8221; if confirmed, her government announced. The White House denied that the U.S. is listening in on Merkel&#8217;s phone calls. The German government said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US may have targeted Angela Merkel&#8217;s cellphone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3,10],"tags":[7108,7110,5974,7111,3355,7109],"class_list":["post-11280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-united-states","tag-german-chancellor-angela-merkel","tag-mobile-phone","tag-president-barack-obama","tag-serious-breach-of-trust","tag-surveillance","tag-u-s-intelligence"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/spycell.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11280"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11289,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions\/11289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}