What the heck does she have to do with spying on hispanics?
Um, you noticed who Vincente Fox has been palling around with lately. Besides Bush, I mean:
Posted on 02/15/2004 12:06:14 PM PST by janeta
A joint British and American spying operation at the United Nations scuppered a last-ditch initiative to avert the invasion of Iraq, The Observer can reveal.
Senior UN diplomats from Mexico and Chile provided new evidence last week that their missions were spied on, in direct contravention of international law.
The former Mexican ambassador to the UN, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, told The Observer that US officials intervened last March, just days before the war against Saddam was launched, to halt secret negotiations for a compromise resolution to give weapons inspectors more time to complete their work.
Aguilar Zinser claimed that the intervention could only have come as a result of surveillance of a closed diplomatic meeting where the compromise was being hammered out. He said it was clear the Americans knew about the confidential discussions in advance. 'When they [the US] found out, they said, "You should know that we don't like the idea and we don't like you to promote it."'
The revelations follow claims by Chile's former ambassador to the UN, Juan Valdes, that he found hard evidence of bugging at his mission in New York last March. The new claims emerged as The Observer has discovered that Government officials seriously considered dropping the prosecution against Katharine Gun, the translator at the GCHQ surveillance centre who first disclosed details of the espionage operation last March.
According to Whitehall sources, officials feared the prosecution would leave the Government and the intelligence services open to embarrassing disclosures. They were known to be concerned that the 29-year-old Chinese language specialist would be seen as a patriotic young woman acting out of principle to reveal an illegal operation rather than as someone who betrayed her country's secrets. They are also known to be worried that any trial would force the disclosure of Government legal advice on intervention in Iraq, described by one source as 'at best ambiguous'.
Gun has attracted high profile support, particularly in the US, where her case has been taken up by Hollywood stars, civil rights campaigners and members of Congress. Yesterday, Oscar nominee, Sean Penn, told The Observer that Gun was 'a hero of the human spirit'.
Aguilar Zinser also paid tribute: 'She is serving a noble cause by denouncing what could be illegal acts,' he said.
The operation by the US National Security Agency and GCHQ was revealed by The Observer last March, after a leaked memo showed US spies had begun an intelligence 'surge' on members of the UN security council in which they needed British help.
Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell last night called on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to clarify Britain's role: 'If the allegations that these operations had ministerial authority are well-founded, then it could hardly be more serious for the Government. There will be understandable uproar at the UN. On the other hand, if the eavesdropping took place without Ministers knowing, then the question is, who was in charge?'
The Mexican government confirmed last week that diplomatic letters were sent to Straw last December asking him to clarify whether GCHQ was involved in spying on its UN allies. They have yet to receive a response. The Foreign Office refused to comment on the new allegations.
But the revelations of the former Mexican ambassador will not go away as he is planning a book about his experiences at the United Nations.
Aguilar Zinser told The Observer that the meeting of diplomats from six nations took place about a week before the decision not to put the resolution to the vote. They were working on a draft document of a compromise solution when the American intervened.
'We had yet to get our capitals to go along with it, it was at a very early stage. Only the people in the room knew what the document said. The surprising thing was the very rapid flow of information to [US] quarters.
'The meeting was in the evening and they call us in the morning before the meeting of the Security Council and they say, 'We appreciate you trying to find ideas, but this is not a good idea." I say, "Thanks, that's good to know." We were looking for a compromise and they [the US] say, "Do not attempt it."'
Shiver me timbers!
This 'stuff' does NOT really go on in the real world of 'Wall Street'......or any 'other' stock/banking/exchange in the whole wide 'fat' world?
If NOT,....then exactly,...just what 'is' the U.N. for?
(The U.N. world, together, beating 'your' plowshears into 'Money-Bombs'....?)
"Just,....'Say No'."
/sarcasm
Apparently one which says (in effect) "The United States and her allies may not intefere with dictators stomping their blood-splattered jackboots into the faces of their people forever."
Nah, never make it over the border /sarcasm
What the heck does she have to do with spying on hispanics?
Um, you noticed who Vincente Fox has been palling around with lately. Besides Bush, I mean:
Elitists in the US wish to surrender our sovereignty to be subjugated by a UN bureaucracy. Global governance, finance, courts, military, surveillance, health care. If the UN is not in the best interests of the nation we should pull out. Trouble is the US delegation at the founding of UN Charter was full of Communist spies. But today we demonize McCarthy for speaking the truth. Today, he tear most of Hollyweird a new one.
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