US kept spying data from Blair

[sabra]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2383230,00.html

US kept spying data from Blair

TONY BLAIR was angered by America’s refusal to share intelligence on Iraq with Britain, according to a revealing new book by Bob Woodward, the veteran journalist who exposed the Watergate scandal.

The prime minister protested to President George W Bush about the way intelligence was routinely marked NOFORN (no foreigners), denying access to the US’s closest ally.

In State of Denial, published tomorrow, Woodward reveals that raw intelligence gathered by British operatives in Iraq and fused with the Americans’ own data was stored on the classified Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET).


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Bush confided in Blair about his frustration with the course of the Iraq war, telling him that the Americans were doing “such a lousy job of communications” that he was tempted to just “give this thing to the UK”.

During the first Iraqi elections in January 2005, Blair stepped in to help the country’s then leader, Iyad Allawi, when Bush refused to allow the US embassy or the CIA to “pick winners”.

[Greeby]

1. Sorry Woodward, don't buy it

Tony is like Shrub, he does what Cheney tells him to do or else

[acmavm]

2. If that's true than Poodle is a bigger fool thand anyone's given him

credit for being. He's not even a good lapdog.

[sweetheart]

6. He was *desperate* for economic credibility

Blair was a sucker for "the economy" pitch from clinton to bush, and with it,
was willling to go headlong in to the dotcom collapse, and headlong in to the iraq
war. What blair has proven decisively, is that the UK is a ruled colony of american
elites, and that when we re-elect the tories, we'll punish labour, no matter that the
locals far overenumerate the conquorers.

The elites of all nations belong to the same american-suck-suck teat, and no leader of
a G-7 nation, let alone tony bliair, has the balls to stand up to his addiction to
the teat. Too bad he didn't choose weed, and less people'd be dyin'

[1932]

3. "Bush wouldn't allow US Embassy or CIA to pick winners"???

Is that why Challabi ended up in the government even though he got less than 1% of the votes? The election winners weren't picked, but the people who got to rule after the election were picked?

[Kagemusha]

4. Hey, they were gonna hand the whole thing to Chalabi, no election

If Bush really, really wanted that to go down, it would have.

Small mercies.

[struggle4progress]

5. Cain't share what ya ain't got.

[crossroads]

7. Ain't that the truth! nt