• Britain's GCHQ (its intelligence agency) intercepted phone and internet communications of foreign politicians attending two G - 20 meetings in London in 2009. (businessinsider.com)
• The NSA monitored the phone calls of 35 world leaders and encouraged other government agencies to share their «Rolodexes» of foreign politicians so it could monitor them. (businessinsider.com)
Leonard goes on by stressing that it is particularly worrying that «Germany's leaders are now trying to treat foreign politicians who question German orthodoxy the same way they treat their own populists». (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)