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Questions Not Asked: “Has Obama Been/Is Wiretapping & Listening-in to his High Military Officers?” Why not? How do we know?

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:12

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Questions Not Asked: “Has Obama Been/Is Wiretapping & Listening-in to his High Military Officers?” Why not? How do we know?

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…then upon finding out an officer would not make a loyal comrade in a Fascist or Marxist Amerika they are terminated on trumped-up charges for a trivial matter. Is there a coup under way?

Obama left increasingly isolated as anger builds among key US allies

Merkel the latest to rebuke Washington over NSA spying while US relationships in the Middle East are also unraveling

Dan Roberts and Paul Lewis in Washington

theguardian.com, Thursday 24 October 2013 16.04 EDT

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Obama met Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday to reassure him over anxieties around US drone attacks. Photograph: Rex Features

International anger over US government surveillance has combined with a backlash against its current Middle East policy to leave President Obama increasingly isolated from many of his key foreign allies, according to diplomats in Washington.

The furious call that German chancellor Angela Merkel made to the White House on Wednesday to ask if her phone had been tapped was the latest in a string of diplomatic rebukes by allies including France, Brazil and Mexico, all of which have distanced themselves from the US following revelations of spying by the National Security Agency.

But the collapse in trust of the US among its European and South American partners has been matched by an equally rapid deterioration in its relationships with key allies in the Middle East. MORE>>