He made the remarks after a Wednesday meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, insisting that the programs operated by the US secret service National Security Agency (NSA) were legal and limited.
The United States’ controversial Internet and phone surveillance programs have sparked alarm in Europe. “This is not a situation where we are rifling through, you know, the ordinary emails of German citizens or American citizens or French citizens or anyone else,” Obama said .... http://www.presstv.ir