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Obama: US, Germany ‘not perfectly aligned’ on NSA

By Washington Examiner
Published May 2, 2014 5:02pm ET
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Obama: US, Germany ‘not perfectly aligned’ on NSA
President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for their joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 2, 2014. Obama and Merkel are putting on a display of trans-Atlantic unity against an assertive Russia, even as sanctions imposed by Western allies seem to be doing little to change Russian President Vladimir Putin's reasoning on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) | Charles Dharapak

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (AHN’-geh-lah MEHR’-kuhl) say their countries are still working on an agreement on privacy and U.S. spying.

That’s due to revelations from former NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Snowden’s documents showed the NSA targeted Merkel’s own cellphone and caused an uproar in Germany.

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