美已停止對外國領導人的電話監聽

A leading U.S. newspaper says U.S. President Barack Obama went nearly five years without knowing that his own spies were bugging the phones of world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and that the program has now ended.

The Wall Street Journal, in a report Monday citing anonymous U.S. officials, says President Obama learned of the snooping after ordering an internal review a few months ago.

The newspaper account says the review uncovered the U.S. National Security Agency had tapped the phones of 35 world leaders, and that the NSA ended most of the program after the White House learned of the operation.

Officials said the NSA has so many eavesdropping operations under way that it would not have been practical to brief the president on all of them.

However, the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag quoted an unnamed official of the NSA as saying President Obama received an NSA briefing in 2010, informing him that U.S. spies were monitoring Chancellor Merkel's mobile communications.

The NSA has since denied the president ever discussed alleged operations involving Chancellor Merkel.美國一家大報說，美國總統奧巴馬在將近五年時間裏不知道本國情報人員監聽外國領導人的電話，其中包括德國總理默克爾。報道還說，監聽項目現在已經停止。

華爾街日報在星期一發表的一篇報道中援引未透露姓名的美國官員的話說，奧巴馬數月前下令進行內部審查時，才得知外國領導人的電話受到監聽。

華爾街日報說，在審查過程中發現美國國家安全局一直對35位外國領導人進行電話監聽，而在白宮得知這一行動後，國安局就停止了大部分監聽行動。

有關官員說，國安局實施的監聽行動非常多，全部向總統彙報是不切實際的。

但德國《星期日圖片報》援引未透露姓名的美國國安局官員的話說，奧巴馬總統2010年曾收到國安局的簡報，通知他美國情報人員在監聽默克爾總理的移動電話通訊。

美國國安局否認奧巴馬總統曾討論據稱涉及監聽默克爾電話的行動。