Sunday, December 12, 2004
Tap All of Their Phones
IAEA Leader's Phone Tapped (washingtonpost.com): "Although eavesdropping, even on allies, is considered a well-worn tool of national security and diplomacy, the efforts against ElBaradei demonstrate the lengths some within the administration are willing to go to replace a top international diplomat who questioned U.S. intelligence on Iraq and is now taking a cautious approach on Iran. "
I suppose we are to read this and be aghast at our nosey intelligence agencies. I'm not. I'm proud that we were on top of this man and others to make sure they were working in the world's interest and not their own as other departments in the U.N. seem to have. Another prudent point to remember would be that this man seems ever anti-american. Not just his antagonism over Iraq, but just his overall reluctance to side with the U.S. on much of anything.
I suppose we are to read this and be aghast at our nosey intelligence agencies. I'm not. I'm proud that we were on top of this man and others to make sure they were working in the world's interest and not their own as other departments in the U.N. seem to have. Another prudent point to remember would be that this man seems ever anti-american. Not just his antagonism over Iraq, but just his overall reluctance to side with the U.S. on much of anything.
