I can't think of any other reason besides economic hacking activities for tapping into Angela Merkel's (or Dilma Roussef's, or any other head of state) cellphon

I can't think of any other reason besides economic hacking activities for tapping into Angela Merkel's (or Dilma Roussef's, or any other head of state) cellphone. So yeah, we do play this game too, at a different scale. Not petty IP theft, but geopolitical buggery.