The White House will halt surveillance of U.S. allies, according to the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, reflecting a major shift in policy.
The move comes in the wake of revelations that the U.S. has been spying on world leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and appears to include any surveillance of allied foreign leaders.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), an Obama administration ally and one of the National Security Agency’s strongest defenders on Capitol Hill, issued a scathing critique of the NSA’s spying on allies, and said her committee will initiate a “major review into all intelligence-collection programs.”
Ms. Feinstein, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, said in a statement that she regards it as “a big problem” that President Barack Obama wasn’t aware that Ms. Merkel’s communications had been a focus of the NSA surveillance...
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