The NSA chief was challenged by James Carew Rosapepe, who served as an ambassador under the Clinton administration, over the monitoring of the German chancellor Angela Merkel's phone.
One curious aspect of the furor over monitoring of the German chancellor's cellphone is that perhaps no European leader is as conflicted by the pitfalls and possibilities of digital technology as Ms. Merkel.
Now, though, there are revelations that have raised international concerns about the N.S.A.'s surveillance work: that it monitored the phones of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leaders of other allies.
McCain also spoke to the news weekly about reports, prompted by research by the magazine, that the US had been monitoring the cellphones of German chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders.
And it takes mass action by the people to stop these dirty secret wars". The event, which followed new revelations by Snowden that the U.S. monitored the phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders in 35 countries, provided a chance for protesters to express their frustration with all surveillance -- including international surveillance.
And thus he was assigned to operational intelligence, monitoring the rail movements of German forces.
—"This idea, that somehow every president is looking at the raw intelligence and figuring out what sources those are, is just not the case," on whether he knew that the National Security Agency was monitoring the phone calls of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
As a monitoring instrument, the Institute of German Dentists started to collect epidemiological data on oral health in Germany in 1989 in West Germany (DMS I) [ 12], followed by a supplementary survey in the newly-formed German states in 1992 after reunification (DMS II) [ 13].
Last week the German magazine, Der Spiegel revealed that the US embassy in Berlin had a structure on its roof that was used by a special unit of the National Security Agency NSAA) to monitor the mobile phone conversations of German officials, including Merkel, in nearby government buildings.
The details of an intelligence accord with Germany — which German officials seem more enthusiastic to negotiate than their American counterparts — are unlikely to be revealed publicly, or to end the suspicion that the American monitoring of scores or hundreds of German leaders has been discontinued.
