Posted on 11/26/2008 5:50:25 AM PST by SJackson
U.S. intelligence officials kept a file on former Prime Minister Tony Blair's "private life", a former U.S. Navy communications operator said yesterday.
David Murfee Faulk, who worked at a listening post in Fort Gordon, Georgia, told ABCNews.com he saw the file on Blair in 2006.
But he refused to provide details of the contents of the file, held in an intelligence database called Anchory, other than to say it was a file on his "private life" and included information of a personal nature.
Whistleblower Faulk said he heard "pillow talk" phone calls of Iraq's first inter impresident, Ghazi al-Yawer, a key U.S. ally, when he worked as a U.S. Army Arab linguist assigned to a U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) facility at Fort Gordon, Georgia, between 2003 and 2007.
While not illegal to collect information on foreign leaders, the U.S. and the UK have pledged "not to collect on each other", several former U.S. intelligence officials told ABC.
The NSA works closely and shares data with its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
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Maybe the author of this article would like it better if the US was ‘surprised’ by every official of foreign governments, if something bad should come out later.
I think this guy is a linguist-blower!
Mr. Faulk has a big mouth and is looking for his 10 minutes in the spotlight. Since it isn’t illegal, why is he referred to as a “whistleblower”? In his position at a listening post and the security clearence he had to have to work there he could be prosecuted for divulging even that information.
Which is worse, Mr. Faulk?
Spying on a foreign leader?
Or spying on a foreign leader and then blabbing about it?
Given Cherie Blair’s association with mobsters, I’d say this was a very good idea. Blair could easily have been the target of blackmailers, as was bubba.
I don't care if the US gathers data on foreign leaders. I care greatly if the people responsible for the privacy and secrecy of that data blab about.
faulk-er!
....they said with crossed fingers. Of course we keep tabs on our allies and vice versa. Every sovereign nation has its own interests.
If this guy is active duty or ever has been active duty, he should be busted, fined and converted to a seaman recruit. Then he should go to the oldest rustbucket in the fleet, given a pair of knuckle busters and have a bitter Boatswain Mate stand over him until all the rust is gone.
Whistle blower? More like “Big Mouth”?
A whistle blower is someone who exposes something wrong in government. This guy is just blabbing to feel like a big shot.
And should be shunned by every military person he knows.
Loose lips sink ships.
Let's see, who don't we spy on? Maybe Luxembourg.
Let's see, who don't the Brit's spy on? Maybe Luxembourg.
Let's see, who don't the French spy on? Maybe Luxembourg.
Let's see, who don't the Russians spy on? Maybe Luxembourg.
Let's see, who don't the ... spy on? Maybe Luxembourg.
Get a grip.
I’m sure we spy on Luxembourg.
Luxembourg is the world’s second largest investment fund center (after the USA), the most important private banking center in the Eurozone and Europe’s leading center for reinsurance companies.
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I’ll bet he was there when Klinton POTUS.
What a loser. You don’t think the Brits were doing the same thing to W? Its part of the game.
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