"Die Zeit" reveals that German foreign intelligence, in a multi-year campaign, intercepted Barack Obama's phone calls while aboard Air Force One because the encryption was flawed. Angela Merkel didn't know about it.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2026-01/bnd-barack-obama-air-force-one-angela-merkel
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