German Chancellor Angela Merkel phoned President Obama demanding to know if the NSA had hacked her mobile phone and was listening in. This follows reports from a few days ago that President Hollande of France also called the White House demanding to know if the NSA were surveilling millions of French people's communications. By the time Obama leaves office, will we have any friends at all? Guardian: The furore over the scale of American mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden shifted to an incendiary new level on Wednesday evening when Angela Merkel of Germany called Barack Obama to demand explanations over reports that the US National Security Agency was monitoring her mobile phone. Merkel was said by informed sources in Germany to be "livid" over the reports and convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated. The German news weekly, Der Spiegel, reported an investigation by German intelligence, prompted by...(Read Full Post)