BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- A NSA spokesperson has denied German media’s report that President Barack Obama was personally informed of US phone tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phones.

The NSA chief said he did not discuss with Obama in 2010 an alleged foreign intelligence operation involving Merkel. Meanwhile, Germany’s interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich is pressing for "complete information" from Washington. He said if the Americans intercepted cellphones in Germany, they broke German law on German soil." He added wiretapping is a crime and "those responsible must be held accountable."

(Source: cntv.cn)