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German security recorded Clinton conversation: media
(Reuters) - German security agents recorded a conversation involving Hillary Clinton while she was U.S. Secretary of State, media reported on Friday, a potential embarrassment for Berlin which has lambasted Washington for its widespread surveillance.
Clinton's words were intercepted while she was on a U.S. government plane, Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and German regional public broadcasters NDR and WDR said, without giving details of where she was or when the recording was made.
The respected broadsheet quoted German government sources saying the conversation had been picked up "by accident" and was not part of any plan to spy on Washington's top diplomat. The fact the recording had not been destroyed immediately was "idiocy", said one of the sources.
Both Germany's government and a spokeswoman for the National Security Council at the White House declined to comment on the reports on Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/15/us-germany-usa-spying-idUSKBN0GF1RV20140815?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter
Did Germany just get outed for spying on a senior official from an ally nation? Why, I'm appalled...I'm outraged at such a flagrant breach of trust...Don't they know you can't spy on your allies?
Can I expect an apology from Chancellor Merkel? Or is electronic surveillance still only evil when the U.S. does it? Isn't Germany the country that Snowden is continually pimping his "expertise" to in an effort to strike an asylum deal??
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