US envoy called to Merkel office to discuss spy 'crisis'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office asked the US ambassador to come in Thursday to discuss new allegations of NSA spying, which threaten to drive a new wedge through transatlantic ties./ In the latest eruption in a nearly two-year rift over illicit espionage, a German government source said "US ambassador (John) Emerson was invited to the chancellery to talk", confirming a report by the Frankfurter Allgemeine daily that said Merkel's chief of staff Peter Altmaier had requested the meeting. The US embassy had no immediate comment, but ...
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