President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama: BERLIN - The German government has obtained information that the United States may have monitored the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel and she called President Barack Obama on Wednesday to demand an immediate clarification, her spokesman said, according to Reuters. "She made clear that she views such practices, if proven true, as completely unacceptable and condemns them unequivocally," the statement read and By Noah Barkin In a strongly worded statement, the spokesman said Merkel had told Obama that if such surveillance had taken place it would represent a "grave breach of trust" between close allies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.