King Urges Obama to Stop Apologizing for NSA Phone Taps
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President Barack Obama should “stop apologizing” for the National Security Agency’s telephone-surveillance program that has “saved thousands of lives,” according to Republican U.S. Representative Peter King.
Disclosures of the extent of the NSA phone-monitoring have upset politicians from Brasilia to Berlin. European Union leaders said last week they would seek a trans-Atlantic accord on espionage after Der Spiegel magazine reported the NSA targeted German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone and Le Monde newspaper said the agency collected telecommunications data in France.