France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report

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By Adrian Croft and Arshad Mohammed LUXEMBOURG/PARIS (Reuters) - France summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday after a report in Le Monde newspaper underlined the scale and breadth of alleged spying on French citizens by the U.S. National Security Agency. Le Monde said the agency recorded 70.3 million items of French telephone data between December 10, 2012 and January 8, 2013 and had collected tens of thousands of French phone records. Its targets appeared to be individuals suspected of links to terrorism, but also people tied to French business or politics, the paper said. ...




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