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Report: NSA Listened In On Blair's Personal Calls
Did U.S. intelligence listen in on the personal phone calls of Tony Blair and former Iraqi president Ghazi Al-Yawer?
That's what David Murfee Faulk, a former Arab linguist who worked at a secret NSA facility, has told ABCNews.com. Murfee Faulk says he saw and read a file on Blair's "private life" and heard "pillow talk" exchanged between Al-Yawer and his then-fiancee.
The U.S. and Britain have pledged not to collect information covertly on each other, several former intelligence officials told ABCNews.com -- though this would by no means be the first time the U.S. was found to have done so.
Last month, Murfee Faulk and another former worker at the NSA facility revealed to the news network that the agency had listened in on private calls made by American journalists, aid workers, and soldiers stationed in Iraq. A Senate panel has said it is investigating those claims.
Josh
Zachary
Well this might explain such absolute loyalty in the face of British Intel that said no WMD's but US wants to for it anyway.
In Britain they love salacious, naughty-taughty extra-marital stuff.....
almost Hooveresque one might say...
November 24, 2008 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder what we have on Blair. I always knew their was some reason that he was such a willing partner.
November 24, 2008 11:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Blair was a willing partner because Bill Clinton asked him to be. If you thought Hillary was a war hawk, check out the article Bill Clinton wrote to the british newspaper entitled "Trust Tony's Judgement" when the British people we screaming not to get involved in Iraq. It is truly eye opening.
November 24, 2008 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tony Blair was the governor to the George Bush accelerator petal immediately post 9/11. Thanks to Tony's involvement, there was at least a modicum of diplomacy immediately preceding the invasion of Iraq.
Had W not had the hindrance of being forced to coordinate with the brits, there is no telling what he might have done.
November 24, 2008 1:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
our taxes at work, folks...
As long as we continue to elect people who vote for more money going into the defense budget ($400 billion/year, not including the two wars) we will come closer and closer to losing any and all of our freedoms. One of these days we will no longer have to worry about voting machines and chads, 'cause they will no longer be needed... those in power will decided to just stay in power...
And both the Dems and Reps are working hard to be the ones at the top when this occurs...
November 24, 2008 12:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow! Do you work out with track stars or NBA players? I'd like to know because that was an incredible leap you just made... No Such Agency was spying on Tony Blair and the problem is our ever-increasing defense expenditures?!?!?! Amazing!
Look everybody: Johnny Doughey can fly!
November 24, 2008 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's not wrong per say. He's just incredibly off-topic. And paranoid.
November 24, 2008 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it really tinfoil-hattish, given these revelations, to suspect that domestic political espionage (Kerry 2004, for example) was also done at NSA???
I think it is reasonable to at least investigate this possibility after Obama takes office, and I am NOT a habitual conspiracy theorist.
November 24, 2008 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bush is a deviant? What a surprise!
November 24, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
WHY? WHY? WHY? do people continue to be surprised at any action/activity/procedure/whatever committed by GWB and his keeper Dickie?
The man's a closet drunk! DRUNKS LIE, CHEAT, STEAL, . . . do anything.
Now he's going to pardon himself and his henchmen.
WHY CONTINUE TO ACT LIKE HE'S SOME FINE CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN WHO GOT CAUGHT UP IN HISTORY.
KEEP DANCING AMERICA. . . THE PIPER CAN WAIT.
November 24, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink