"This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: October 31, 2013
An earlier version of this article misstated a word in the name of the party that Angela Merkel led a dozen years ago as a rising star of German politics and continues to lead today. It is the Christian Democratic Union, not the Christian Democratic Party. An earlier version also misspelled part of the name of the German weekly in which Helmut Schmidt, a former German chancellor, discussed the National Security Agency spying scandal. It is Die Zeit, not Die Ziet. And an earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the person who said on behalf of the French government that “the N.S.A. director’s denials do not seem very plausible.” The person who commented, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, is a woman, not a "spokesman."
Correction: October 31, 2013
An earlier version of this article misstated a word in the name of the party that Angela Merkel led a dozen years ago as a rising star of German politics and continues to lead today. It is the Christian Democratic Union, not the Christian Democratic Party. An earlier version also misspelled part of the name of the German weekly in which Helmut Schmidt, a former German chancellor, discussed the National Security Agency spying scandal. It is Die Zeit, not Die Ziet. And an earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the person who said on behalf of the French government that “the N.S.A. director’s denials do not seem very plausible.” The person who commented, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, is a woman, not a "spokesman."
