[lbo-talk] US spied on Blair

[James Heartfield]

Carrol wrote that the surveilliance of UK prime minister Tony Blair was "trivial. It has been standard practice for 60+ years for CIA,
NSA, DIA, etc. to gather intelligence information on evryone and everything."

Well, expected is not the same thing as trivial. You and I might know it, and the British public might have suspected it, but it is important for them to know specifically, rather than in general, that the US government spied on its most loyal ally like an enemy. Certainly the British papers were very interested.