A US official tells Reuters that President Obama has ordered the National Security Agency to curtail all eavesdropping on the United Nations headquarters, as part of an ongoing review of US surveillance procedures. The news comes just days after European leaders had moved to take action against US surveillance, with a resolution against the spying expected to come to a floor vote in the United Nations later this year.
"The United States is not conducting electronic surveillance targeting the United Nations headquarters in New York," a senior Obama administration official told Reuters. However, a separate official reported recent briefings in which White House aides specifically asked the NSA to cease certain monitoring programs covering...
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