Reply #5: Not sure what you mean. Each sovereign nation is responsible

[sabrina 1]

for identitity verification of its own people. Where would the U.S. get the authority to do what was actually espionage, against law written specifically to prevent such spying on U.N. member nations? The U.S. has no right to spy on other U.N. members.

We know why they were doing and are doing it. Under Bush it was to see who was going to oppose their war resolutions and then use the info to try to influence them. The U.S. always likes to get its own way at the UN. Remember Bush trying to bully the world and WE hoping against hope that some of those UN member nations would not vote for Bush's war in Iraq?

If they were trying to get such personal information about individuals from other countries, the fear is they could have intended to use it to smear anyone who does not support U.S. interests.

But, regardless of how they used it, they broke two laws. The law that forbids spying on UN members, AND our own laws against the use of the State Dept for the purpose of espionage.

Something has to be done about the lawlessness of this country. That is made very clear by what we are seeing in the released documents. How completely lawlessness this country has become. How absolutely unconcerned our government is about anyone, including its own people.