Oh, I am not thinking like a lawyer. The Bild report could be wrong and Obama still be a liar. The gravaman of Merkel's phone call to Obama was that Obama said he hadn't known that he/U.S. was bugging her phone. The Bild report today was that Obama had lied to Merkel because he had known, Alexander had told him. NSA said Alexander never told Obama. That is a flat contradiction of Bild's Alexander-to-Obama report but it does not contradict the gravaman of the initial story. Obama could have known from a source other than Alexander. The question is "What did the President know and when did he know it"-to borrow from Watergate; not from whom he learned it. The answer still admits to only two conclusions about Obama that I can see: He lied; he's a disengaged fool. Tell me if I missed any other conclusions.