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" Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say Jason Leopold Print This | Email This President Bush and other top officials in his administration used the National Security Agency to secretly wiretap the home and office telephones and monitor private email accounts of members of the United Nations Security Council in early 2003 to determine how foreign delegates would vote on a U.N. resolution that paved the way for the U.S.-led war in Iraq, NSA documents show. Two former NSA officials familiar with the agency's campaign to spy on U.N. members say then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice authorized the plan at the request of President Bush, who wanted to know how delegates were going to vote. Rice did not immediately return a call for comment. The former officials said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also participated in discussions about the plan, which involved "stepping up" efforts to eavesdrop on diplomats."

12/28/2005 6:50:51 AM

link?

12/28/2005 6:58:53 AM

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/After_domestic_spying_reports_U.S._spying_1227.html

12/28/2005 7:08:29 AM

That place is as credible as esgargs's sex life.

12/28/2005 8:16:14 AM

FEDERAL AGENTS MAD CAUSE I'M FLAGRANT
TAP MY CELL AND THE PHONE IN THE BASEMENT

12/28/2005 9:03:52 AM

um.... i would be mad if they DIDN'T wiretap the un

12/28/2005 9:31:30 AM

LOUD NOISES!

12/28/2005 9:37:44 AM

No offense or anything, but I've got a hunch that nearly every country that has a functioning intelligence agency is spying on the United Nations. If this somehow shocks or offends you, then you are one of the most politically naive people I've ever met.

12/28/2005 9:56:01 AM

well you have to understand that pryderi thinks the normal push-and-pull between the branches of government (re. wiretaps) is an impeachable offense

12/28/2005 10:04:45 AM

Im going to have to agree with redguard on this one. Having worked at a foreign diplomatic mission, it very quickly becomes clear that any telephone conversations not made on secure lines are likely being monitored as well as any conversations made outside of secure areas. This will come as No surprise to the diplomats at the UN since they have lived with this reality for the duration of their foreign service careers.

12/28/2005 10:32:52 AM

Not to move the conversation away from its current anti-pryderi-naivete slant, but isn't this [old] also?

I could have sworn this first got reported like 3 months after we invaded Iraq...

12/28/2005 10:56:58 AM

we should leave the UN

12/28/2005 3:52:38 PM

Whoever picked out this particular QT 4 me did a piss poor job at it.

12/28/2005 4:21:55 PM

http://rawstory.com/




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12/28/2005 4:55:49 PM

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"No offense or anything, but I've got a hunch that nearly every country that has a functioning intelligence agency is spying on the United Nations. If this somehow shocks or offends you, then you are one of the most politically naive people I've ever met."

No kidding.

12/28/2005 7:23:44 PM