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  gamahuche2 months, 2 weeks ago

  Silly of the Times to misspell Woodward..
  But the meat is there - or appears to be.
  Not all of Woodwards "disclosures" have survived the closest scrutiny but I strongly suspect that this one is accurate.
  In fact I'd astounded if the US were NOT spying on him.
  All's fair in love and war - but this war is not supposed to be against the Iraqi government.

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  gamahuche2 months, 2 weeks ago

  No official response yet from al-Maliki but
  FTA
  A senior aide to Mr al-Maliki expressed regret at the spying allegations if they were valid.
  
  “If it's correct I feel sorry because the relation between Iraq and the United States should be on a level of trust and of co-operation rather than of spying and a lack of trust,” Sadiq alRikabi told The Times.

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  berkeley2 months, 2 weeks ago

  they're crazy to even imagine we're not spying.
  
  we spy on everybody. during the prelude to the iraq war, we even spied on everyone on the united nations security council.
  
  read james bamford if you want more details.

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  SonOfTheMask2 months, 2 weeks ago

  That's true, berkeley, although there's a difference between spying and intelligence gathering, I think.
  
  Spying is gathering information from actual human assets or surveillance. Intelligence gathering takes publicly available data and combs through it for information. I know I'm splitting hairs to a certain degree, but "spying" on your allies is different than gathering intelligence about your allies.
  
  Of course, all the major powers spy on each other and their allies, nothing new there, to your point that Iraqi officials would surely suspect that we have "spies" in place there.
  
  Thanks for the article gamahuche.

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    berkeley2 months, 2 weeks ago

    i accept your distinctions. but in the case of the security council, we bugged telephones, and rooms, in the weeks before the vote. that's not really publicly available stuff. some of the countries involved discovered they were being bugged, and released their findings years later.

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  miklkit2 months, 2 weeks ago

  Of course our government is spying on their government. Our government has been spying on we the people for years. They tap our phone lines, tap into cell phone conversations, and monitor our internet use and emails. What makes the Iraqis, or anybody else, think they are being treated any different.

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  Tcaros2 months, 2 weeks ago

  We need to reign in some of this crap. That is the reason we have the problems around the world.

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  lbrtyordeath2 months, 2 weeks ago

  Is anyone really surprised?

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    Radiofreeeuropa2 months, 2 weeks ago

    They spy on everyone. why not Iraqis?
    If you have Macafee antivirus you'll be amazed how many incoming pings on ports are from the DOD.

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  pcknowledge2 months, 2 weeks ago

  So????????? Why do some people here have a problem with spying?
  Bush is showing the Iraqis 1 example of what a Democracy is and does!
  Get over yourselfes, pleez.
  Go visit the library, but pleez remember you only get access to a limited selection of books, cause Palin said so.

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    inverse2 months, 2 weeks ago

    It is probably legal according to our law. As an occupier, we need to spy on them to keep our troop and our investment safe. It has no much to do with democracy, but has everything to do with our power. The problem in a long run is that other powers could catch up with us and do what we do to others to us.

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