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xanax aluid The White House also has been under considerable fire from European allies over revelations based on Snowden documents that the NSA monitored phone calls of foreign leaders over the past decade, including those of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Though collecting intelligence on “leadership intentions” is what Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. has called “a basic tenet” of intelligence work, the White House is expected to add a new level of review of such collection to assuage allies, sources said.