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Fox News | 2-15-2004 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

I was just watching an interview on Fox News and this journalist was on a segment which they call "The Scoop" with Eric Shaun. Anyway, the man he was interviewing said he was going to break a story this week that the Republican Party is having the United Kingdom bug/tap phones at the DNC and their candidates. Apparently there is a loophole that allows the UK to do it for us and for us to do it for him but he is going to spread out more evidence that this is going on right now.

I expect this to become the next media feeding fenzy.

[My Favorite Headache]

Anyone care to add how this will not be a big story or some history behind this? My stomach about dropped when I heard this.

[My Favorite Headache]

Do it for THEM not him* Typo near the end there.

[Peach]

IF this is true, the GOP will lose EVERYTHING.

[cripplecreek]

Ive been watching too. The guy dis say this has been common practice for at least 50 years.

[dirtboy]

Anyway, the man he was interviewing said he was going to break a story this week that the Republican Party is having the United Kingdom bug/tap phones at the DNC and their candidates. Apparently there is a loophole that allows the UK to do it for us and for us to do it for him but he is going to spread out more evidence that this is going on right now.

The GOP has no standing or means to petition the UK to use Echelon against the Dems. Just the wording of this statement makes me believe it is pure Barbra Streisand.

[dirtboy]

The guy dis say this has been common practice for at least 50 years.

It's been common practice for the UK to snoop on US phone conversations and vice versa, and then exchange intel. However, that is a far cry from the GOP ordering the UK to spy on the DNC.

[My Favorite Headache]

Eric Shaun about had a cow when he heard this. It seems this journalist broke a story 10 days ago about China, Nuclear Weapons,and Oil in the mid-east and it made it to the front page of the Washington Post and Times today. It seems this man's credibility is bulletproof. Shaun was in shock.

[MinuteGal]

Let not your stomach be troubled, LOL. Political offices are regularly swept for bugs and taps. Unless there's a UK 007 planting exotic, undetectable spyware in the DNC offices every couple of weeks, our tummies are safe from tumbling.

Leni

[My Favorite Headache]

Correct. Which makes the fact that he is releasing what he calls "the most explosive story of his career ever", a little more than scary. Why would the GOP do such stupid crap?

[Peach]

I read we were having the UK bug the UN but have my doubts about bugging the DNC. Shades of Watergate...

IF this proves to be true, the GOP is even more stupid than anyone ever thought possible.

There will be NO excuse possible...

[dirtboy]

Let not your stomach be troubled, LOL. Political offices are regularly swept for bugs and taps.

This would be more along the lines of using UK Echelon communications intercept facilities to snoop on the DNC. No bugs in DNC offices would be involved.

[My Favorite Headache]

This is not going to be a story about the UK bugging the UN for us. This is a story that is going to come out about the GOP bugging the Democratic campaigns and DNC through the UK. Shades of Watergate indeed.

[stopem]

No we wont "lose everything" . Lets not panic folks there are a lot of important issues that need to be taken care of and we cant panic over every little thing we hear all the way till november.

Lets have faith in our party to know how to handle this.
If they need our help they will let us know and we are there for them.

[noexcuses]

What's to keep the DNC from having the UK bug the GOP?

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Possibly.

However we are not living in the age of Nixon's resignation.

We are living in the age of Clinton's perjury and win at all cost philosophy.

Do moral values still have affect on the determination of an election?

[My Favorite Headache]

I assume nothing. However, the story that is going to be released is about the GOP doing it..not the DNC.

[Peach]

I said IF this proves to be true...

And IF it does, President Bush is toast.

[dirtboy]

Which makes the fact that he is releasing what he calls "the most explosive story of his career ever", a little more than scary. Why would the GOP do such stupid crap?

Here's my take on what the "logic" of this story will be:

Echelon in the UK monitors all US calls.

The DNC makes phone calls in the US.

Therefore, Echelon is monitoring the DNC.

The White House has access to Echelon intercepts.

The White House is run by a GOP president.

Therefore, the GOP is telling the UK to bug the DNC.

Whereas, the reality is that this stuff has been going on for decades, and is independent of the GOP and the Dems, other than our reps keep allowing it to happen.

[ConsistentLibertarian]

"IF this is true, the GOP will lose EVERYTHING."

Yup.

[Lexington Green]

Perhaps the dems should be watched. Afterall, they have taken the enemy's side in the War on Terror.