Gentlemen do not read each other's mail...

[bill.stewart@pobox.com (Bill Stewart)]

At 07:57 PM 10/24/2013, Jim Bell wrote:
>According to White House spokesman Jay Carney, the United States "is 
>not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor."

Which is NSA-speak for "has monitored the chancellor and will again 
but for now is only monitoring other officials of the German 
government, not her."

And of course gentlemen don't read each others' mail, but she's a 
lady, so she's fair game.