Report: US spied on Blair, Iraqi president

[kpete]

Source: Raw Story

Report: US spied on Blair, Iraqi president
John Byrne
Published: Monday November 24, 2008

It's not just warrantless wiretapping anymore.

The National Security Agency spied on British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Iraq's first interim president Ghazi al-Yawer, according to a report Monday.

A former Army Arab linguist at the NSA told ABC News that he saw and read a file on Blair's "private life" and listened to "pillow talk" phone calls of Iraq's first president while working at a secret NSA facility in Georgia.

Last month, David Murfee Faulk and another former military intercept operator assigned to the NSA facility "triggered calls for an investigation when they revealed U.S. intelligence intercepted the private phone calls of American journalists, aid workers and soldiers stationed in Iraq," ABC News' Brian Ross reported Monday morning.

Faulk told the network he saw Blair's file in 2006, but refused to provide details, other than saying it had information about Blair's personal life. Intelligence services and governments sometimes keep files on elected officials -- known as control files -- in order to blackmail or force the hands of governments.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Report_US_spied_on_Blair_Iraqi_1124.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. Serve Blair right; but worrying!

[BunkerHill24]

2. We were spying on everyone to find out where the missing WMD's were

.....it's a foregone conclusion.

[OGpoopin]

5. lol

i hope that's a joke

[Sequoia]

3. Hey Blair, that's what friends are for.

Be a lab poodle, agree and you still get spied on. And here you thought Bush was your buddy and then find out he was sticking a knife in your back all along.

[Tempest]

4. And yet when the president of Bolivia made this claim

Numerous Du'ers claimed he was just paranoid.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3610209

[davidinalameda]

7. Tony Blair-president of Bolivia

which one would provide more information

hmmm-that's a hard one

[Hissyspit]

6. .

[emad]

8. Tony Blair bugged by US spies former security agent claims

Source: Mirror

By Anton Antonowicz Us Correspondent 25/11/2008
US listened to PM's calls Personal details on file

US spymasters snooped on Tony Blair's private calls, a former security agent claims.

He said the former Prime Minister was given the codename Anchory by America's National Security Agency which listened to and taped his personal phone chats.

A file on Mr Blair, now a Middle East peace envoy, was compiled at the world's biggest listening post - NSA HQ at Fort Gordon, Georgia.

Former Navy communications operator David Murfee Faulk told ABC News that he saw a file in 2006 on the "private life" of Mr Blair.



Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/11/25/tony-blair-bugged-by-us-spies-former-security-agent-claims-115875-20922693/

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A damning indictment? Maybe this is a spelling mistake story ....bugged or ...er....buggered?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. This report provides too many...

Opportunities for real comedy gold. The problem is that such gold could make the Rude Pundit blush and reliably offend just about anyone here. So I am just gonna take a pass, in the interest of peace in our time. ;-)

[MineralMan]

10. Having been a Russian linguist for the USAF and NSA,

I doubt the veracity of this story. It was a long time ago, back in the late 60s, but I doubt that the compartmentalization has changed that much. I also doubt that the penalties for disclosing stuff from the NSA have changed very much, either.

Both things were very strictly enforced in my day. I doubt that has changed.

This sounds like bullshit to me.

[emad]

11. Having worked for the UN Security Council for nearly 30 years I

would say that whatever classified material the NSA holds on Blair is a drop in the ocean compared to what NATO military intelligence dossiers contain.

[emad]

12. See this: Tony Blair friend in bribery probe

From The Sunday Times
April 27, 2008
Anna Mikhailova and David Leppard


A billionaire businessman friend of Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson is the subject of a criminal inquiry into alleged bribery and corruption involving a Middle Eastern royal family.

Victor Dahdaleh, a Jordanian-born tycoon who lives in London, is being targeted in an inquiry by the US Department of Justice into alleged fraud against a company owned by the Bahraini royal family.

A spokesman for Dahdaleh, who is in his sixties, said the tycoon was “saddened” by the allegations and would be “vigorously contesting” them.

The claims have emerged from a commercial dispute, nicknamed “the aluminium wars”, between the American company Alcoa, one of the world’s largest metals firms, and Aluminium Bahrain (Alba)


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3822557...


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