On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:12:19 -0600 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
>
>
> "John E. Norem" wrote:
> >
> > #>
> > 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.
That sort of thing was going on during the Second World War as well. Espionage on allies is just as important to top decision makers as espionage directed at enemies. After all they have to know what allies are up to too.
>
> Carrol
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