National Security Agency secretly intercepting Aristide's phone calls, Clinton White House
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During the same time in October last year, amid mounting questions in the House about how the N.S.A collects information overseas, one U.S top spy master, James R. Clapper Jr., who is a director of the National Intelligence, testified before the House Intelligence Committee that the NSA maintains senior officials to conduct surveillance in foreign countries and White House had long been aware in general terms of the NSA's overseas eavesdropping. He further asserted that the European allies of the NSA assist the NSA even as they spy on U.S. officials. In October 2013, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel publicly asked for an explanation for the alleged spying by the US National Security Agency. She even called U.S President Barrack Obama to demand explanations over reports that the US National Security Agency was monitoring her mobile phone.
Mr. Clapper and the NSA Director, Gen. Keith B. Alexander both have argued on the occasion and said that such act of overhearing is a basic tenet of intelligence trade-craft. So it was there and will remain forever.
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