NSA monitored former German leader Gerhard Schroeder's phone

Danny Palmer
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Latest revelations reveal more phone-tapping of world leaders by US spies

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has become the latest world leader to learn that he had his their calls monitored by the US intelligence service, the National Security Agency (NSA). T...

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