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Several German news sources are how much President Obama about the US spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The 'Spiegel' magazine that the USA's National Security Agency (NSA) started Ms Merkel's mobile telephone in 2002, under the George W. Bush administration. It President Obama that the tap was still in place as early as 2010, before he Berlin in June of that year to tell Germans of the warm friendship that between their two countries. A newspaper reported that the contents of Ms Merkel's SMS messages and phone calls straight to the White House. The US Embassy in Berlin was as a base for the surveillance.
The spying allegedly when former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in office. US intelligence sources were suspicious of his refusal to the second Iraq War. Obama told Ms Merkel last week that he had not of the bugging. However, a media report an NSA official who said Mr Obama the programme to be . A document from the NSA warned of "grave damage for relations" if its spying programme was . Ms Merkel is shocked that the USA may have in the sort of spying she thought was a relic of the Cold War. She was also on in the former East Germany, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.