Turns out, after 5 years, the man just can't get anything right.

The good news (for Obama) is that he is not the only president of these United States to authorize spying on our friends;  the really bad news is that he did authorize such activities and has greatly increased this practice  . . . .  and our friends in Germany,  France and Brazil are furious.  In fact,  no president has supervised as large a “spy operation” as is currently the practice under the Slickmeister.  And there is a big, big difference between the motivations of Obama and his predecessors:  namely,  it is Obama-policy to control all information coming out of the White House and that cannot be done unless he knows what others are thinking.  

Problem:  the task of spying on everyone,  is simply to large a task to be anywhere close to effective  -  but who cares about results when you have Obama re-writing all of Central Planning.  I mean,  his plans for the Middle East look like hell;  ditto his domestic jobs policies;  ditto his environmental regulatory agenda;  ditto his demonstrative concerns for the Middle Class;  ditto his anti-gun agenda via Fast and Furious policies;  ditto his covert concerns regarding the national media;  ditto his use of the IRS in attacking opposition political groups in this country;   ditto his implementation of ObamaCare. 

From The Telegraph,  because the national media still will not be honest in its Obama coverage:   President Barack Obama was dragged into the trans-Atlantic spying row after it was claimed he personally authorised the monitoring of Angela Merkel’s phone three years ago. . . . . . . .  The president allegedly allowed US intelligence to listen to calls from theGerman Chancellor’s mobile phone after he was briefed on the operation by Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), in 2010.

The latest claim, reported in the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, followed reports in Der Spiegel that the surveillance of Mrs Merkel’s phone began as long ago as 2002, when she was still the opposition leader, three years before being elected Chancellor. That monitoring only ended in the weeks before Mr Obama visited Berlin in June this year, the magazine added.
Citing leaked US intelligence documents, it also reported that America conducted eavesdropping operations on the German government from a listening post at its embassy beside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, one of more than 80 such centres worldwide.