NSA being used to influence UN votes on Iraq

[Adam Back]

Why is US secret service eavesdropping and dirty tricks against UN
votes on Iraq news worthy?

Because it's an attempt to pervert the political process, and sabotage
the political representation of other UN member countries.

I'm sure it is a little more than delegations bothering to protect
their comms; there is plenty of room in physical bugs, black bag jobs,
political bribery, and even potentially individual blackmail whatever
crypto the delegates may be using.

Adam

On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:49:53PM -0500, John Ioannidis wrote:
> Why is this even newsworthy?  It's the NSA's responsibility to provide
> sigint and comint.  Furthermore, if the delegates are not US citizens,
> and at least one end of the communication is outside the US, they are
> not even breaking any laws in doing so.
> 
> If the delegations can't be bothered to protect their own
> communications, it's their tough luck if they get intercepted.

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