Video - Obama assures Merkel her phone will not be monitored, says White House.

Video - Obama assures Merkel her phone will not be monitored, says White House.

White House spokesman Jay Carney confirms that US president Barack Obama has spoken with German chancellor Merkel after allegations that her phone had been tapped. Obama has assured Merkel that her phone is not currently being tapped and will not be in future. The outrage in Berlin came days after President Francois Hollande of France also confronted Obama with reports that millions of French people's calls have been monitored.Read the full story here.

Hmmmm......Obama in Sweden: Hmmm.......Obama in Sweden: “And I can give assurances to the publics in Europe and around the world that we’re not going around snooping at people’s emails or listening to their phone calls. 

What we try to do is to target very specifically areas of concern. 

Having said that, what I’ve said domestically and what I say to international audiences is with changes in technology, with the growth of our capabilities, if our — if our attitude is, because we can do it we should go ahead and do it, then we may not be, you know, addressing some of the legitimate concerns and dangers that exist anytime we’re talking about intelligence gathering and surveillance.”