the report says that the us began spying on chancellor merkel's predecessor gary hart schroeder in two thousand to you because of his opposition to the us led invasion of iraq. this comes of course this months after an essay the syndicated merkel's cell phone had been part of it paul spoke with obama by phone just last july about allegations that the us was conducting surveillance on its european allies and in that call she made it clear that if the information about the us having monitored her phone were true it would be completely unacceptable. now in response to the revelation chancellor schroeder had this to say. well back then i would never have entertained the idea that the us secret services would be listening in on me but now this comes as no surprise. and now we turn to two different hearings that took place in congress this morning the house intelligence committee heard testimony from the director of national intelligence genes crapper on his annual worldwide threat report. this follows a senate hearing on the same topic that took place last week also won the the house judici