Document details aggressive surveillance of Security Council members

[G_j]

repost: A stroll down memory lane. So King George, was this to protect the American people?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html

Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war

Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members

Martin Bright, Ed Vulliamy in New York and Peter Beaumont
Sunday March 2, 2003
The Observer

The United States is conducting a secret 'dirty tricks' campaign against UN Security Council delegations in New York as part of its battle to win votes in favour of war against Iraq.

Details of the aggressive surveillance operation, which involves interception of the home and office telephones and the emails of UN delegates in New York, are revealed in a document leaked to The Observer.

The disclosures were made in a memorandum written by a top official at the National Security Agency - the US body which intercepts communications around the world - and circulated to both senior agents in his organisation and to a friendly foreign intelligence agency asking for its input.

..more..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1158352,00.html

Blix: I was a target too

Chief UN weapons inspector believes he was bugged

Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
Saturday February 28, 2004
The Guardian


The United Nations spying row widened yesterday when its former weapons inspector, Hans Blix, told the Guardian he suspected both his UN office and his home in New York were bugged in the run-up to the Iraq war.

In an exclusive interview, Mr Blix said he expected to be bugged by the Iraqis, but to be spied upon by the US was a different matter. He described such behaviour as "disgusting", adding: "It feels like an intrusion into your integrity in a situation when you are actually on the same side."

He said he went to extraordinary lengths to protect his office and home, having a UN counter-surveillance team sweep both for bugs.

..more..

[killbotfactory]

1. Hans Blix is a terrorist

Standing in the way of our good and just war.

[Supersedeas]

8. so, do you have a problem with spying--that means you are against us

[ClintonTyree]

2. Looks like a beeline to a ..........

totalitarian regime to me! These guys will do anything, and I mean ANYTHING to achieve their twisted, evil agenda.
This bunch has to go. Thus bunch has to go SOON! :grr:

[liberal N proud]

3. Remember when the US built a new Embassy in Moscow and everyone

was up in arms because the Russians had it bugged?
Why is it now ok for our government to spy on other with in the borders? We are now as low as we always made out Russia to be.

[DELUSIONAL]

4. Exactly WHY the names of the spied upon MUSt be made public

[G_j]

5. Exactly , are we supposed to just accept

that Bush is a more honest human being than Nixon who spied on his enemies?
Are we to assume that 'destroy your opposition' Karl Rove would not spy on the perceived enemies of the Bush admin?
We are supposed to just take their word for it?
A word that has been proven duplicitous and dishonest over and over again? A word that is now discredited and worthless?

just trust them?

[G_j]

6. ~~

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

7. (I can't imagine NSA don't as well) UK 'spied on UN's Kofi Annan'

26 February, 2004

British spies listened in to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's office in the run up to the Iraq war, former UK cabinet minister Clare Short says.

Ms Short said she had read transcripts of some of Mr Annan's conversations.

She said she recalled thinking, as she talked to Mr Annan: "Oh dear, there will be a transcript of this and people will see what he and I are saying."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3488548.stm

to which the Torygraph responds - duh! UKUSA ensures everyone is spied upon! Especially the UN! People like Short or Katherine Gun (the GCHQ whistleblower of the security council spy story) are just naive fools who really should just shut up. I mean honestly, our spooks are our saviours - we should just trust them implicitly because "it is essential that their activities are protected from the eyes of the public."

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/29/wun29.xml

[G_j]

9. great, thanks

I've been sending this story to various media folks, in case they forgot.
Seems to me this should be discussed in the context of the recent revelations.