US to Angela Merkel: no, you can't see your NSA file but we promise we aren't spying on you anymore

Xeni Jardin 1:29 pm Fri Apr 11, 2014

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The US is refusing to allow German chancellor Angela Merkel to see her NSA file, or obtain any answers to questions from Germany about US surveillance activities involving the European leader's communications. She is due to visit Washington and meet Barack Obama in three weeks. It will be her first visit to the American capital since documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden showed the NSA had been spying on her phone. theguardian.com.

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