NSA has tapped 35 Heads of State

There are not that Angela Merkel telephone conversations were listened to by the NSA eavesdropping. According to the Guardian, 34 other heads of state have suffered the same fate.

Numbers 200 officials were sent to the NSA.

The scandal Prism never stops making waves. This is again in the Guardian that we learned October 24, 2013 that an official of the U.S. administration had forwarded the phone numbers of 35 world leaders at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that placed on listening. The British newspaper relies again on documents forwarded by Edward Snowden.

This new revelation comes as Germany shows shocked by revelations about a possible monitoring cell of Chancellor Angela Merkel in the United States. In response to the outrage of Berlin, Jay Carney, spokesman for the White House has refused to say whether Washington had actually spied in the past communications Angela Merkel.

According to the new documents revealed Thursday by the British newspaper, the NSA"monitored the telephone conversations of 35 world leaders after an official of the U.S. administration sent him phone numbers," wrote the Guardian.

Monitoring has yielded few results

In this internal document dated 27 October 2006, the NSA "encourages senior executive branches that counts among its" clients "as the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon, share books address with the agency. " By itself, a senior, including the identity or function are revealed, conveyed "200 numbers, including 35 world leaders," without anyone knowing where it is, welcome the NSA officials in the document. They argue, however, that monitoring these numbers gave only little results.

The Guardian said he questioned the Obama administration on the new document, but it did not wish to speak. At his daily briefing, held before the Guardian, Jay Carney said pass "review of how we gather intelligence data to make to achieve a balance between the security concerns of our nationals and allies, and concerns everyone on the protection of privacy. "