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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (96004)	11/29/2010 10:07:48 AM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224718

Ann...Three cheers for Hillary..if there is one organization that should be spied on it is IMO the UN...wonder if hussein obama agrees with Hillary? WikiLeaks: US diplomats 'have been spying on UN leadership' American diplomats have been running a spying campaign against the United Nations leadership and representatives of permanent members of its security council, including Britain, according to documents released by WikiLeaks. By Toby Harnden in Washington 28 Nov 2010 telegraph.co.uk A classified directive under the name of Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, in July 2009 called for email addresses, phone, fax and pager numbers, credit card details and frequent-flyer numbers for UN personnel. Technical details about the communications systems used by top UN officials, including Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General, such as passwords and encryption keys involved in UN communications were sought. It also demanded "biographic and biometric information on UN Security Council permanent representatives" from Britain, China, Russia and France. Similar instructions were issued by Condoleezza Rice, Mrs Clinton's predecessor in the Bush administration. The directive appears to push the boundary between diplomacy and espionage and could breach the 1946 UN convention on privileges and immunities which states that the "premises of the United Nations shall be inviolable". It told diplomats to gather biometric information "on key UN officials, to include undersecretaries, heads of specialised agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG [secretary general] aides, heads of peace operations and political field missions, including force commanders". Intelligence on Mr Ban's "management and decision-making style and his influence on the secretariat" was requested. The secret "national human intelligence collection directive" was sent to US missions at the UN in New York, Vienna and Rome as well as 33 embassies and consulates, including those in London, Paris and Moscow. Spies acting under "diplomatic cover" are commonplace but most American diplomats are not spies and the revelation that they are involved in clandestine activities could seriously damage US diplomacy. American diplomats are often accused of being spies and the Clinton directive means they will come under greater suspicion, making it difficult for them to build trust, and could even face expulsion. The directive could be a result of Washington's intelligence agencies being overstretched. Diplomats are not normally trained in carrying out clandestine activities. At the UN, the intelligence-gathering activities involved all the main intelligence agencies, including the CIA, FBI and Secret Service as well as the State Department under the title "collection requirements and tasking".