Merkel calls Obama over reports her phone may have been tapped by US

October 23, 2013

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s personal mobile phone may have been monitored by the US, according to a German government spokesman.

The White House was today scrambling to head off a major diplomatic incident after the German government said it had received information that US spies may have tapped Angela Merkel’s personal mobile phone for years.

In the most significant protest by a world leader since Edward Snowden began leaking details of the US’s global surveillance network, Mrs Merkel called Barack Obama and demanded his personal assurances she was not being monitored.

The president promised his German counterpart that US intelligence “is not monitoring and will not monitor” her communications but the White House did not explicitly rule out the possibility she had been bugged in the past.

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