Wait a second. The NSA spyed on UN Security Council members

[LeftNYC]

and the President still has a job? Program was authorized by Condisleazy and Rummy was involved...IS there any doubt that Kerry's staff was monitored?

www.rawstory.com

[nini]

1. I just heard this.. .AMAZING

of course Kerry's campaign was bugged. I have no doubt about that.

[LeftNYC]

2. I must have been asleep

because this is old news...Reported in a London paper back in '03. Scant coverage, of course, over here.

[JuniperLea]

4. Electronic Watergate

n/t

[Mabus]

3. Didn't we find out this stuff with a British whistleblower?

Didn't one of the British whistleblowers already talk about bugging certain UN members before the Iraqi vote?

[LeftNYC]

5. yes...

but it didnt get any coverage over here, shocking I know...:sarcasm:

[cal04]

6. I believe we did and Condi was mentioned in this 2003 article

not sure why it wasn't a bigger deal then
here's another article from 2003


"We knew all along that senior UN officials and diplomats were under constant surveillance," Jim Paul of the New York-based Global Policy Forum, told Inter Press Service. "But the existing surveillance has raised bugging to new levels," he added.

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer refused to offer any comments on the story at a news briefing in Washington. The newspaper quoted a memo from the National Security Agency (NSA) in Washington advising senior US intelligence officials to ferret out information not only on how delegates would vote on a second resolution but to seek out "negotiating positions" and "alliances" among Security Council members. The plan includes interception of email messages and bugging home and office telephones of diplomats whose countries are represented in the Security Council.

"The existence of the surveillance operation, understood to have been requested by President George W Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, is deeply embarrassing to the Americans in the middle of their efforts to win over the undecided delegations," the Observer noted.

A Third World diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Inter Press Service that delegates have always remained vulnerable to secret US surveillance. "The United States is known for its dirty tricks not just in this country but the world over," he said. "But what's happening now is a sign of desperation because the United States is in a relentless search for votes. I wouldn't be surprised if most member states are turned off by the sneaky US attempts to invade the privacy of their homes."

US takes bugging at the UN to 'new levels'
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EC05Ak01.html

[OKNancy]

7. Yes, you and other LBN readers and contributors

know all about this. It's not new at all.
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A quick google gives us:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,910657,00.html

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0226-13.htm
Published on Thursday, February 26, 2004 by CommonDreams.org
UN Spying and Evasions of American Journalism
by Norman Solomon

Tony Blair and George W. Bush want the issue of spying at the United Nations to go away. That's one of the reasons the Blair government ended its prosecution of whistleblower Katharine Gun on Wednesday. But within 24 hours, the scandal of U.N. spying exploded further when one of Blair's former cabinet ministers said that British spies closely monitored conversations of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq last year.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/27/1538256

[LeftNYC]

8. I doubt the MSM will bring this up

as they will, once again, have to admit failure.

[cal04]

9. Just found this one MSNBC

The memo, leaked to The Observer newspaper, asked the British listening agency for help bugging delegates’ home and office telephones and e-mails. At the time, the United States was seeking to win Security Council backing for war in Iraq.

The Observer quoted the memo, dated Jan. 31. 2003, as asking British and American intelligence staff to step up surveillance operations “particularly directed at ... U.N. Security Council Members (minus U.S. and GBR, of course).”

Short was one of two Cabinet members to resign in protest to Britain’s participation in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Robin Cook, a former foreign secretary, resigned as leader of the House of Commons before the campaign began.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4378601/

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. What would happen if nations pulled their diplomats?

While everyone acknowledges that spying does take place, to have it out in the open like this, and spying done in gross violation of national law....

What would likely happen if nations start pulling diplomats from the UN?

[Disturbed]

11. Another example of Law Violation by a Bush Regime...

member that got swept under the the dirty carpet.

Is Amerika a Fascist State?