Germany Opens Investigation Into NSA Tapping Merkel's Phone

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Germany Opens Investigation Into NSA Tapping Merkel's Phone
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Germany's attorney general opened an investigation into reports that the U.S. National Security Agency bugged German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone, according to multiple reports released on Wednesday.

Harald Range, Germany's top prosecutor, will go forward with a case against "persons unk**wn" after a report (http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/merkel-calls-obama-over-suspicions-us-tapped-her-mobile-phone-a-929642.html) surfaced last October showing the NSA may have tapped the chancellor's phone.

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At the time, Merkel said the allegations would be a "grave breach of trust (http://mashable.com/2013/10/23/angela-merkel-obama-phone-tap/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)" if they proved to be true. U.S. President Barack Obama said at the time that he would **t permit his nation's surveillance abilities to infringe on its alliances, but relations between the two countries have been awkward since the revelation Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/04/germany-investigation-nsa-merkel-phone-tapping/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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