From
Rawstory. Many people around here have questioned the reliability of Rawstory. But myself, I like em alot, and I hope this pans out.
Holy shit:
"President Bush and other top officials in his administration used the National Security Agency to secretly wiretap the home and office telephones and monitored 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 war 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."
Personally Rumsefelds involvement lends even more credit to my tin-foil ideas about The Global Struggle on Violent Extremism. Take this from Lawrence Di Rita, Rumsfeld's spokesman:
"The president then said we were going to use all the means of national power and influence to defeat this enemy. We must continue to be more expansive than what the public is understandably focused on now."
Then theres Ari Fleisher in 2003 when questioned on U.N spying:
"As a matter of long-standing policy, the administration never comments on anything involving any people involved in intelligence," Fleischer said. "So I'm not saying yes and I'm not saying no."
You can read the article and gather what you may from it. But I read this...
"In his book "Plan of Attack," Bob Woodward, deputy managing editor of the Washington Post, said the administration was also spying on Hans Blix, the U.N. weapons inspector sent to Iraq to look for WMDs."
... and wonder if the same goes for Joe Wilson.
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