Chancellor Angela Merkel: Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Rousseff: The existence of the U.S. intelligence program that bugged the phones of leaders like Germanys Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, for example, significantly cooled relations with some of Washingtons key partners abroad. Merkel made her displeasure broadly known, and Rousseff blasted the United States at the United Nations. She cancelled a planned trip to the United States that was supposed to culminate in a coveted state dinner at the White House on Oct. 23, according to 660 News. But in a telephone briefing with reporters before the presidents speech, a senior administration official said he could not detail which leaders and WASHINGTON President Barack Obama called for the end of his governments control over masses of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans, and promised in a major and long-expected speech that U.S. intelligence would no longer be listening in on the telephone conversations of leaders of nations that are U.S. friends and allies. The leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance, Obama said Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.