Fury in Iraq as Bob Woodward claims US spied on Niuri al-Maliki »
Posted By gamahuche 10 months, 1 week ago in NewsIraq is demanding an explanation from the United States after allegations that
US intelligence agencies have been spying on Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi
Prime Minister and other government officials.
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gamahuche10 months, 1 week ago
Silly of the Times to misspell Woodward..
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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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gamahuche10 months, 1 week ago
No official response yet from al-Maliki but
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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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berkeley10 months, 1 week ago
they're crazy to even imagine we're not spying.
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we spy on everybody. during the prelude to the iraq war, we even spied on everyone on the united nations security council.
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SonOfTheMask10 months, 1 week ago
That's true, berkeley, although there's a difference between spying and intelligence gathering, I think.
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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.
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berkeley10 months, 1 week 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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miklkit10 months, 1 week 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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Tcaros10 months, 1 week 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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Radiofreeeuropa10 months ago
They spy on everyone. why not Iraqis?
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If you have Macafee antivirus you'll be amazed how many incoming pings on ports are from the DOD.
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inverse10 months, 1 week 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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