Lies, Spies, and Allies

by anderson

U.S. Snooped on Tony Blair, Iraqi President

A former communications intercept operator says U.S. intelligence snooped on the private lives of two of America's most important allies in fighting al Qaeda: British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Iraq's first interim president, Ghazi al-Yawer.

David Murfee Faulk told ABCNews.com he saw and read a file on Blair's "private life" and heard "pillow talk" phone calls of al-Yawer when he worked as an Army Arab linguist assigned to a secret NSA facility at Fort Gordon, Georgia between 2003 and 2007.

Well, how else are you going to know that your allies are really your allies?  By what they say in public?  Please.

Besides, you can understand the generalized concern the NSA might have regarding someone who would take "intelligence and facts" and fix them around the preordained policy of another country, and then scapegoat his own intelligence services when it turned out that the "facts" used to justify an illegal war were completely fictitious.  Swirl in the highly suspicious death of a compatriot and respected weapons inspectors who was making a stink about phony intelligence, and, why, you have all the traits of a conniving, murderous, lying sack of shit.

I mean, who could trust a guy like that?