US 'kept an eye on French presidents' - Wikileaks

US 'kept an eye on French presidents' - Wikileaks

The US National Security Agency (NSA) kept an eye on French Presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande in 2006-12, WikiLeaks says. 

The informant site refers to "top mystery knowledge reports and specialized records" from the NSA. 

The US declined to remark, while Mr Hollande arranged a protection chamber meeting on the issue for Wednesday, an associate told the AFP news office. 

The NSA was before blamed for keeping an eye on German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 

On Tuesday, Wikileaks said it started distributed the documents under the heading "Espionnage Elysee" - a reference to the French presidential royal residence. 

It said the mystery records "get from specifically focused on NSA observation of the correspondences" of the three French presidents and also French priests and the diplomat to the US. 

One of the records, dated 2012, is about Mr Hollande examining Greece's conceivable way out from the eurozone, while another - from 2011 - affirms that Mr Sarkozy was resolved to resume peace talks in the middle of Israel and the Palestinians, potentially without US association. 

It is indistinct whether the material originates from information stolen by previous NSA foreman Edward Snowden, the BBC's security journalist Gordon Corera says. 

The WikiLeaks documents have now been distributed by France's Liberation every day and the Mediapart investigative site. 

In light of the claimed releases, National Security Council representative Ned Price said: "We are not going to remark on particular insight claims. 

"As a general matter, we don't direct any outside insight observation exercises unless there is a particular and accepted national security reason. This applies to conventional subjects and world pioneers alike." 

Independently, the French presidential helper told AFP that Mr Hollande would hold a protection committee meeting "to assess the way of the data distributed by the press on Tuesday evening and to reach valuable determinations". 

German outrage 

The assertion that the US had kept an eye on Germany's Chancellor Merkel emerged from records spilled by Mr Snowden about extensive scale US reconnaissance in 2013. 

At the point when the charges were made the White House made no out and out refusal, yet said Mrs Merkel's telephone was not being pester at present and would not be in future. 

The charged spying stunned popular sentiment in Germany, with Mrs Merkel saying that "spying between companions simply isn't on". 

German media later reported that Germany's national knowledge organization had kept an eye on top French authorities and on the EU's central station for the benefit of the US. 

There were additionally reports that German knowledge had spied on telephone calls by US Secretary of State John Kerry and his antecedent Hillary Clinton. Anonymous German government sources said the rings had been picked inadvertently. 

Recently, Germany dropped its examination in the asserted tapping of Mrs Merkel's telephone, saying there was insufficient confirmation to legitimize legitimate activity.

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