GOP has British Intelligence bug Democratic Political Candidates?

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This is a freeper thread report on a Fox news report.

FOX NEWS 11:25am EST 2-15-2004

Fox news is interviewing John Loftus, Formers Justice Department Prosectutor who states that he has an inside scoop that "the Republican Party has asked the British Secret Service to bug phones of American political Candidates. "

FOX NEWS Eric Shawn: "It's a very serious and very shocking story."

JOHN LOFTUS: "That allegation seems very storng of that is the case. Why would any political party want to bug someone else?

It's a juicy way of running a smear campaign behind the works. We have been doing that for about 50 years and it started with president Roosevelt. He had signed a secret treaty with Britian in 1943 that let them each set up listening posts on each other's soil with no search warrants. It's a great little scheme. "

"So the British can use American computers to bug American politicians, and the Americans can use British computers to bug British politicians and each side can truthfully say that they aren't spying on their own citizens. They are just trading information under the table."

ERIC: How widespread is this. Members of the Security Council admitted to me that they are being bugged and that it wasn't surprising, they expected that.

JOHN: "What congress doesn't realise is that this is meant to favor one party only. In 1978 Carter tried to ban taping without a court order. So the bill is that the NSA cannot target american citizens, but not other countries from doing it. "


All's fair in love and war (politics).

2 posted on 02/15/2004 11:38:41 AM EST by Galtoid



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078599/posts

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1. What is meant by "favor(s) one party only"?

Do they mean on political party, or one party as in, the U.S. is one party, the U.K. is one party?

Of course, I don't care if benefits both parties or not- it's clearly unethical and immoral, even if it's somehow technically legal.

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2. The guy alleges just the GOP benefited from this agreement

Not sure if there is any truth to this at all, but strange that the first place I see it being discussed is on FR after they saw it on Faux.