"John E. Norem" wrote:
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> gathered surveillance data on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
> <http://www.upi.com/topic/Tony_Blair/> while he was in office, a
> whistleblower alleges.
This is trivial. It has been standard practice for 60+ years for CIA, NSA, DIA, etc. to gather intelligence information on evryone and everything. Nothing at all new in this. When I was with NSA it exchanged information with British sources AND spied on those sources at the same time. That was under Truman and Eisenhower.
Carrol