Diana was bugged by secret service in US ( Bill Clinton President )

The Evening Standard UK ^ | 11-12-2006

[AmericanMade1776]

American intelligence agencies were bugging Princess Diana's telephone over her relationship with a US billionaire, the Evening Standard has learned.

She was even forced to abandon a planned holiday with her sons in the US with tycoon Teddy Forstmann on advice from secret services, who passed on their concerns to their British counterparts.

Both US and British intelligence then forced Diana to change her plans to stay with Mr Forstmann in the summer of 1997, saying it was too "dangerous" to take her sons there.

Instead the princess took the fateful decision to take a summer break with Harrods owner Mohamed Fayed. This ultimately led to her going to Paris with his son Dodi, where they died in a car crash.

The revelation from independent inquiries by the Evening Standard comes as it emerged that Princess Diana's phone was bugged by US intelligence agencies on the night she died without the permission of the British secret intelligence services.

Authoritative leaks say the extraordinary revelations will be published this week by Lord Stevens and is bound to raise fresh questions about conspiracy theories.

The US secret service was monitoring Diana's friendship with the controversial financier Mr Forstmann for some weeks.

[AmericanMade1776]

Was Bill Clinton a Peeping Tom President armed with Secret Service information?

[mockingbyrd]

Bush monitoring terrorists. Clinton monitoring Diana. So not surprised.

[AmericanMade1776]

Not Surprising..but still just as disgusting.

[Starrgaizr]

Clinton simply wanted to make a move on her.

[KarlInOhio]

The whole thing was a horrible misunderstanding. XXX-42 saw her on television and said "I'd tap that" which the Secret Service misinterpreted.

[Suzy Quzy]

Webb Hubbell said that his job was to find out WHO killed Kennedy, so maybe Woolsey's job was to find out who Diana was sleeping with so that Clinton would know who his competition was.

[newcats]

I'm callin' BS on this one.

[Suzy Quzy]

What does Forstman do? Why is he controversial?

[smonk]

some people want to president so they can do something. some people want to be president just so they can be something.

some people wanted to be president because he could score major chicks.

[Young Werther]

Does a Bubba Bear defecate in his own nest?

[IN Farm Girl]

Might Hillary have been behind this? Was she jealous? Or did she just not care who Billy Jeff was boinking (or thinking of boinking)?

[kcvl]

Bill & Hillary Clinton spied on more people than just Diana. But you will never hear any 'reporter' ask either of them about it.

Remember they also audited people. But all we hear about is President Bush uses gestapo tactics. At least, he is targeting TERRORISTS unlike the Clintons!

Don't hold your breath waiting for ANYONE from the press to ask the Clintons why they were SPYING on Princess Diana (and why the information they gathered is a NATIONAL SECURITY RISK and can't be released)!!!

[sgtbono2002]

Agreed, Clinton probably wanted to make a hit.

[Izzy Dunne]

Was Bill Clinton a Peeping Tom President armed with Secret Service information?

Does an ursine specimen defecate forestially?

[AmericanMade1776]

Directors of the Secret Service during the Clintoon Years.

Eljay B. Bowron (1993 - 1997)
Lewis C. Merletti (1997 - 1999)

[MadIvan]

I'm not a big Diana fan, but the idea of Weird Bill having porno Peeping Tom tapes of her is too much for me to stomach.

Regards, Ivan

[kcvl]

Might Hillary have been behind this?

Maybe some gutless 'reporter' will ask her highness that question but I wouldn't hold my breath.

[Dante3]

Why bother to bug an airhead such as Princess Diana? Maybe she had personal contacts with persons hostile to US?

[DCPatriot]

As stupid as those words look on screen...it is a conservative's wet dream if it turns out Bubba was trying to blackmail her for a Lewinsky.

Don't forget....they met at a White House function or something like that.

The official story out now says converations cannot be made public for "extreme national security".

IOW....Hillary's presidential aspirations.

/removes tinfoil hat.... ;^)

[AmericanMade1776]

Lewis Merletti

A 25 year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service, Lewis C. Merletti served as the agency's 19th Director. Before becoming Director, Merletti served as assistant director in the Office of Training, where he was responsible for the curriculum, methodology, and content of training for all Secret Service employees. He served in the Presidential Protective Division under three Presidents, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. As Special Agent in Charge of Presidential protection during the Clinton Administration, he was ultimately responsible for the physical security of the President and First Family. Merletti has extensive experience with complex criminal investigations, major task force operations, and Secret Service counter-terrorist operations. He testified before Congress on many occasions, and also briefed the President, other top government officials, and world leaders, on a regular basis regarding security as it relates to worldwide situations. He has supervised security arrangements for the visit of the President to hostile environments such as the DMZ, Cartajena, Columbia, Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield, Israel, Syria, Kuwait, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Prior to joining the agency, he served three years in the United States Army and completed a tour of duty with the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam. His numerous military honors include the Bronze Star, Good Conduct Medal, Combat Medical Badge, Certificate of Achievement of Meritorious Performance, and Parachute Jump Wings. Today, Merletti is responsible for all stadium operations and is directing the design and deployment of security for the entire Cleveland Browns operation, including the new Cleveland Browns Stadium, and the team's Berea training facility and offices.