Re: NSA being used to influence UN votes on Iraq

2003-03-05 Thread 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

Re: NSA being used to influence UN votes on Iraq

2003-03-05 Thread John Gilmore
JI questioned: 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 US found a similar

Re: NSA being used to influence UN votes on Iraq

2003-03-02 Thread John Ioannidis
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