[steve50]

We (the US and the Brits) were supposedly tapping the UN during the run up to the war with Iraq too.

I hear the Brits are trying to put that whistleblower in jail. Seems reporting the crime is a more serious matter than performing it.

[kingu]

In regards to British and/or American spying on the members of the security council prior to votes about Iraq...Seems reporting the crime is a more serious matter than performing it.

You've lost me somewhere along the line. When did it become a crime to spy on a NGO, or whatever the UN is classified as this week? Isn't it the duty of our, and British, security agencies to spy on any place that holds those who might be threats to our country?

Such things are usually distasteful when exposed, but vital to our national interest. The only one who committed a crime was the young woman in England who decided to report on secret communications.

Everyone else was doing the jobs that we pay them to perform.