Spain launches legal inquiry into U.S. spying allegations

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Spain's public prosecutor launched a preliminary inquiry on Tuesday into reports that United Nations intelligence had spied on million of its citizens.
Attorney General Eduardo Torres-Dulce authorised an information gathering process after El Mundo newspaper reported on Monday that the U.S. had tracked more than 60 million Spanish phone calls, his office said in a statement.
Spain summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday to discuss the allegations, which are similar to reports of U.S. spying in France and Germany that have caused a rare diplomatic upset between Washington and its European allies.
Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said if the reports were true it would break the ``climate of trust’’ between the two countries.
El Mundo published a graphic it said was a National Security Agency, NSA, document showing the U.S. agency had spied on 60.5 million phone calls in Spain between December 10, 2012 and January 8 this year. It said the document was part of papers obtained from ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
On a visit to Lithuania on Tuesday, Garcia-Margallo stressed Spain's close ties with the United States and said negotiations over a European free-trade agreement would not stop.
``We work very closely with U.S. on security, we have some common topics where our positions are the same,’’ he told a news conference.

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