Posted on 10/30/2013 10:00:03 AM PDT by onyx
Edited on 10/30/2013 10:10:14 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Rome — US secret services allegedly eavesdropped on cardinals before the conclave in March to elect a new pope, Italian weekly magazine Panorama claimed Wednesday.
"The National Security Agency wiretapped the pope," the magazine said, accusing the United States of listening in to telephone calls to and from the Vatican, including the accommodation housing cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio before he was elected Pope Francis.
The allegations follow a report on surveillance website Cryptome which said the United States intercepted 46 million telephone calls in Italy in December 2012 and early January 2013.
Among those, "there are apparently also calls from and to the Vatican," Panorama said.
"It is feared that the great American ear continued to tap prelates' conversations up to the eve of the conclave," it said, adding that there were "suspicions that the conversations of the future pope may have been monitored".
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Not surprised.
Awesome!
I bet they eaves drop on the makers of popular TV shows to find out who’s going to die.
Oh, well this makes sense because tacking guys who wear silk robes and red slippers IS A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY!!!!!!!!
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If you recall, there was a collection of all electronic devices, prior to the conclave.
They would have to have held a glass to the door.....
Not surprised.
Then again the pope is also a head of state (the vatican) and his cardinals are also vatican government representatives.
Did they have a “bug” in the Sistine Chapel?
Marxist Muslim, all the way.
land lines.
lasers on windows.
easy peasy.
Piece of cake. I saw Tom Cruise do it.
Well, we do have to track all terrorists don’t we?
Spy on the Pope... Why not?
The U.S. Government and it’s spy agencies have no problem spying on law abiding American citizens, bugging their cell phones, hacking their land lines, monitoring their emails, seizing their records, targeting specific individuals, groups and bugging the phones of our allies?
what’s up...
Spy on the Pope... Why not?
what’s up??
A laser beam aimed a wind pane would pick up the vibrations of the glass from far away...................
Just a thought. It brings new meaning to the new pope not wanting to change his residence.
Did any of the eavesdroppers place bets in the London book on who the Pope would be? Would it be insider trading if they did?
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