What did Powell know about the spying

[cal04]

Britain helped America to conduct a secret and potentially illegal spying operation at the United Nations in the run-up to the Iraq war, The Observer can reveal. The operation, which targeted at least one permanent member of the UN Security Council, was almost certainly in breach of the Vienna conventions on diplomatic relations, which strictly outlaw espionage at the UN missions in New York.

Translators and analysts at the Government's top-secret surveillance centre GCHQ were ordered to co-operate with an American espionage 'surge' on Security Council delegations after a request from the US National Security Agency at the end of January 2003. This was designed to help smooth the way for a second UN resolution authorising war in Iraq.

The information was intended for US Secretary of State Colin Powell before his presentation on weapons of mass destruction to the Security Council on 5 February.

Sources close to the intelligence services have now confirmed that the request from the security agency was 'acted on' by the British authorities. It is also known that the operation caused significant disquiet in the intelligence community on both sides of the Atlantic.



http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1143672,00.html

[kaygore]

1. Powell is a white want to be. He is a useless dog

licking the dirty asses of its neocon masters. He is shameless and a worthless piece of sell out shit as was his son as head of the FCC. There must be a special hell for people like him who could be shining examples to others but who chose to be shams.

[Dr Fate]

2. Perhaps Powell HIMSELF was spied on & black-mailed.

As well as other would-be mavericks/dissenters in the GOP.

Not to mention the DEMs and various media, military and CIA critics of Bush.

[me b zola]

3. I beleve that there is a good chance that he was spied on

He came out a couple of days ago with his bizzar statement that he didn't know why bush* didn't use the FISA court, but in the end he believed that bush* was within the law when he spied.

Since Powell left the administration he has acted like he wanted to put as much distance as he could between himself & bush*. But I believe that this is the second time that Powell has come from out of the blue to co-sign for the WH. Creepy.