NSA Says Diana Was Not Phone Target

[sabra]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6275524,00.html

NSA Says Diana Was Not Phone Target


WASHINGTON (AP) - America's secretive eavesdropping agency said Tuesday it had never targeted Princess Diana's telephone conversations for monitoring.

The statement by the National Security Agency comes amid media reports in London about secret recordings of Diana's telephone communications that apparently surfaced during the British investigation into her 1997 death in a Paris car crash.

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In a statement Tuesday, the National Security Agency said it had 39 classified documents containing references to Diana but had never targeted her for monitoring. Those documents were previously released in response to a Freedom of Information Request in 1998, the agency noted.

``As NSA has made clear in the past, the 39 NSA-originated and NSA-controlled documents referenced in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request in 1998 only contained references to the princess and she was never the communicant,'' said agency spokesman Don Weber. ``NSA did not target Princess Diana's communications. Furthermore, NSA has cooperated with the investigations into this tragic incident to the full extent of the law.''

[cboy4]

1. Oh well if the NSA says it, it must be true!

:eyes:

[endarkenment]

2. yeah it was those dangerous anti-landmine folks

those were some bad ass terrsts she was hanging with.

[Christa]

3. Yeah right.

[frylock]

4. well, that settles that..

the NSA wouldn't lie to us about such a thing, would they?

[Ian David]

5. Well you know, she WAS dating an Arab, wasn't she?

You gotta listen-in on all 'em Arabs 'cause they're all terr'ists.

On the other hand, Diana was also involved in a campaign against using land mines, so all those military contractors needed to know if they could blackmail her-- I mean, know if she was a terrorist threat.

Or possibly, someone at The NSA just thought it would be really cool to see if they could listen-in on Princess Di.

[Amused Musings]

8. From the english news

at the time she was dating this billionaire investor, Ted Forstman.

[Kagemusha]

6. Echelon can record without tapping a particular phone.

Just the nature of how it works. It focuses on keywords of communications passing through hubs. There's no reason the NSA would have required a tap on her particular cell phone or focused specifically on her to record her conversations.

[lovuian]

7. NSA just happened to be listening in It was an accident

She wasn't a target

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS

You listened into the Princess phone

probably reporting any info to the Royal family

How terrified they were of Diana