US intelligence listened to Princess Diana's calls before crash

[Killarney]

LONDON (AFP) - US intelligence listened to Princess Diana's telephone calls without British approval on the night she died in a Paris car accident, The Observer has said, citing findings of a long-awaited report.

The surveillance arm of the US government admitted to Lord John Stevens, who led an independent probe that confirms the crash was an accident, that it had listened to her conversations while she stayed at the Ritz Hotel, it said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061210/wl_afp/britainroyalsdianaus_061210030243

[Redstone]

1. And we should care about this, why?

Redstone

[Killarney]

2. You don't find it curious? I think it's strange.

Why would the U.S. be bugging Princess Diana's calls? It's just weird.

Oh, and you're rude. :)

[Clark2008]

20. Because she was dating a rich Arab?

:shrug:

P.S. I'm not saying that's a reason or an excuse, but given the fact that our government has wanted to find a boogyman since the end of the Cold War, it's a possibility.

[Sydnie]

3. I find it a bit unsettling that we were listening in on her calls

don't you? I mean ... she was involved in the land mine issue. Just what was the interest we had in her comings and goings if not for that effort?

[Taxloss]

7. The fact that she was in love with a Muslim?

It's rumoured that she planned to marry him, and it has even been suggested that she was carrying his child. The last notion is almost certainly untrue; whether she planned to marry Dodi I suppose we will never know.

As good as any other suggestion I feel.

Frankly it's getting hard to find someone who ISN'T bugging the Royals - the Royal editor of the News of the World is about to go to prison for bugging the Princes, and there seems to be another wiretap/security breach scandal every week.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Because once again, peoples genitals were more important than

Bin Laden!!!

[Sydnie]

6. Maybe not the genital angle this time

Maybe the land mine issue?

[Bluebear]

11. Glad you're OK with it. nt

[windbreeze]

15. Perhaps we should care about this because....

every time we hear another one of these stories about who they were listening in on...it proves once again, that there was absolutely NO excuse for 9/11 to have ever happened...
windbreeze

[lectrobyte]

19. It's probably only interesting to me in that it seems to validate the

notion that every call you make on anything is probably recorded by some intelligence agency.

[Vanje]

23. Becuse it violated someone's civil rights

...and leads me to wonder : Who's privacy WOULD'NT they invade?

[nicknameless]

5. Violating laws at home AND abroad. n/t

[TomInTib]

8. That is just bizarre. Had to be the Fayed thing.

US Intel would be highly interested in Fayed, Senior's financial dealings.

You can bet your ass that we were tapping the whole bunch of them.

[cassiepriam]

9. Biggest question is why were we listenig......

What is up with that?

[Bluebear]

13. Would love to know! nt

[cassiepriam]

16. See post no 10....

says we help other countries spy on its own citizens,
a way around privacy laws.

How nice.

[mzmolly]

24. "No explanation for the alleged eavesdropping was given."

I too would like to know why.

[cassiepriam]

26. Yes raises quite a few questions doesn't it?

I wonder if she knew the Americans were spying on her?
She was aware the Brits were....

[peacetalksforall]

10. The structure behind Echelon is that the U.S. spies for the British

and the British spy for the U.S. and the circle expands to five or six when Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (and/or Israel) are included in the circle of cross spying. The reason is to avoid getting around the laws of each country.

This says that the people behind these governments have no regard for your privacy which is your soul.

Make a list of ten reasons the British would be listening to her in her hotel room with her boyfriend/finance.

And yes, it was the British, using the U.S. to (repeat) get around Britis law.

They say the Echelon countries can read your newspaper over your shoulder via their little Echelon satellites. Why not do something as simple as bugging a room or clicking in their cell phones? Why?

Were they just measuring time? How would you write the plot? With each month that goes by we know more about what they are capable of. Where did they stop?

[majorjohn]

12. Makes sense, Thanks! n/t

[Pachamama]

14. Isn't that referred to as a "Circle Jerk"?

:shrug:

I think its creepy to think that the US was listening in to her calls...makes me think its all been happening for a very long time unbeknownst to us all....

[cassiepriam]

17. I am beginning to think that much of this crap has been happening

forever, we are just finding out about it...

Maybe that was why poppy was sobbing the other day.
The cover has been blown big time on all the covert crap.

[Killarney]

18. Interesting.

[rman]

22. An implication is that at the highest level, intel agencies work together.

In effect there's one large global intel agency.

Only recently there was the case of a US agency blowing up a madrasah in Pakistan, where initially the Pakistany intel agency ISI took responsibility, later to reveal it was done by the US.

Sunday Times
US carried out madrasah bombing
November 26, 2006
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2471863,00.html

[Octafish]

21. What a coincidence.

In the world of spies, it's near-impossible to tell who's working for whom.

Why "our" guys wanted to know what Diana was up to may be tied to a favor for the British royals or the Saudi Roils or just to bank some blackmail B-roll -- or for something completely different.

[bobbie]

25. Holy fuckin' crap, she was murdered. This clinches it.

I guess our NSA and British "intelligence" worked together on this one. International cooperation. Ain't it grand?

[Redstone]

27. Folks, I asked that question because Echelon was listenng to EVERYONE's call.

And still is. It was NOT a commentary on her, nor on her relationships with anyone else.

Understand?

Redstone