Smoking-Gun Memo on NSA’s U.N. Surveillance?
Your tax dollars at work (again!). The Observer is running the story about a secret surveillance operation that the U.S. is running against key U.N. members: specifically, non-British Security Council members, whose votes on behalf of a U.S. invasion of Iraq we would dearly love to buy, extort, or otherwise add to our column. So let’s bug the delegates’ home phones, shall we? Maybe one of them is secretly gay, or has a mistress, or something. Update: In actually reading the memo, I’m not sure the “dirty tricks” label can really be made to stick. Maybe the part about bugging “domestic comms” is spooky enough to raise the hackles of British leftists, but in America we typically save the term for more creative knavery.
March 3rd, 2003 at 2:05 pm
Excellent way to instill trust and establish good political ties — spy on the person. After all, that means we’re showing concern for their safety, right?
Bush’s policy regarding ANYTHING foreign is like watching a special olympian in a chess match. Sure they think they’re winning, but they don’t understand that the goal of the game ISN’T to chew on the pieces…