Obama’s choice ..the SCHULTZ OPTION .. he didn’t know the NSA was listening to other leaders

We seem to always come the same point with this admin.

Liars or morons.

WSJ:

Obama Unaware as U.S. Spied on World Leaders: Officials

NSA Stopped Surveillance of Merkel, Others After White House Review

The National Security Agency ended a program used to spy on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a number of other world leaders after an internal Obama administration review started this summer revealed to the White House the existence of the operation, U.S. officials said.

Officials said the internal review turned up NSA monitoring of some 35 world leaders, in the U.S. government’s first public acknowledgment that it tapped the phones of world leaders. European leaders have joined international outrage over revelations of U.S. surveillance of Ms. Merkel’s phone and of NSA’s monitoring of telephone call data in France.

The White House cut off some monitoring programs after learning of them, including the one tracking Ms. Merkel and some other world leaders, a senior U.S. official said. Other programs have been slated for termination but haven’t been phased out completely yet, officials said.

The account suggests President Barack Obama went nearly five years without knowing his own spies were bugging the phones of world leaders. Officials said the NSA has so many eavesdropping operations under way that it wouldn’t have been practical to brief him on all of them.

Really?

1. I really HOPE Obama knew
2. I really HOPE this time he is lying
3. I really HOPE he is lying to Merkel and all the others, including Israel, BTW, and the NSA is continuing to monitor
4. I really wonder if Obama and his advisers, MEANING YOU JARRETT, have a clue how ridiculous they have needlessly made themselves