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Paul Ryan says Obama's cell phone could be tapped under NSA surveillance programme

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ANI Washington
Last Updated : Nov 03 2013 | 12:15 PM IST

US Senator Rand Paul has said the NSA spying has "gone too far" and is speculating about whether the agency has tapped into President Obama's cellphone.

The Kentucky GOP's comments came after revelations that the NSA about the NSA's spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the agency purportedly had access to the servers of Internet giants Yahoo! and Google.

According to Fox News, Paul made the comments during an interview with Bloomberg's "Political Capital with Al Hunt" and acknowledged being 'a bit' fastidious about the president's cellphone because it is almost certainly encrypted.

But he was using that extreme hypothetical situation to point out the NSA gets its authorization from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court so most anything is possible, the report said.

Paul said that the definition of overreach is 'everything the NSA has been doing over the last several years'.

He said that the agency's secret surveillance efforts needs to be "debated, and discussed" openly before the Supreme Court.

He also said that Obama not knowing about NSA surveillance on U.S. allies is "hard to believe.

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First Published: Nov 03 2013 | 12:07 PM IST

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