On Friday and Saturday, the U.S. president, Barack Obama, sent two separate messages intended to reassure the heads of state and allied Government underwent a sophisticated electronic surveillance by the National Agency for American Security (NSA). On Friday, Obama said in Washington that the NSA does not monitor more to friends and political leaders promised on Saturday in the German news program Heute Journal, that the NSA would never hear the latest from the German Chancellor Angela Merkel while he was president.
On Monday, the German newspaper Bild suggested that the U.S. president could not have told the truth on Friday in Washington and have deceived the Chancellor with his promise not to spy on her. According to the daily, the NSA would have stopped listening mobile Chancellor, but the Agency has a sophisticated surveillance program that controls all electronic communications Merkel hits with his closest advisers.
The program reflects the name " Fingerprint Communications " and is able to assess and analyze all electronic communications made by the Chancellor, including phone calls and email. The information collected by the NSA is sent directly to the Oval Office, according to Bild, which claims to have obtained information from several anonymous NSA agents.
" In preparing this electronic fingerprint phone numbers and addresses with which a head of government communicates are collected," a NSA agent to Bild. " Then who observed that number or address is communicated. This ' communication samples ' to which we can turn to at any time occur."
The result provides a new and disturbing light in the dark tunnel of electronic espionage starring the NSA and caused a justified protest of several leading U.S. friendly countries, including Chancellor Angela Merkel. According to the stakeholders consulted by the Bild, the NSA is able to control all traffic information produced in the chancery when Merkel must make a major foreign policy decision without directly spying Chancellor.
" When the data collection has been carried out for years, electronic fingerprints are as accurate as we know, every time the government makes an important decision that advisers were involved in it," says an agent. " On the eve of a summit of the G -8 we can monitor, for example, all communications made ​​by important members of the delegation."
Bild 's revelations call into question the claims of Obama himself and may unleash a new protest from the German federal government, which has held Obama's decision to impose restrictions on espionage intelligence services. Merkel 's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said that " in Germany German law is applicable" and admitted that Berlin needed "more time " to analyze in detail the words of the U.S. president.
On Saturday, Obama gave a rare interview to Heute Journal news program in order to repair relations with Berlin, which were damaged when espionage activities conducted by Washington citizens and leaders of the European Union met, including mobile phone spying Chancellor Merkel.
"I can not damage this relationship with surveillance measures that obstruct our communication of trust," Obama said, according to an official version of the string. "As long as I'm the president of the United States, German Chancellor not have to worry about this problem. Whether not always have the same opinion on foreign policy is not a reason to wiretap."
But Obama stressed that his country's intelligence services continue collecting data and recalled that U.S. capabilities on espionage are superior to all other countries. "By definition, these services have the task of finding out what people are planning, what goes on in their minds, their goals. This supports our diplomatic and political goals," Obama said, to justify the work of the NSA controversy.
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