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Spying on Tony Blair

Has the United States cheated in its "special relationship?" In an interview with ABC News, a former communications intercept operator says he read a file on Tony Blair's private life while assigned to a secret NSA facility in Fort Gordon, Georgia, between 2003 and 2007. While it's common practice for intelligence agencies to collect information on foreign leaders, the U.S. and Britain have a long-standing pact against it. "If it is true that we maintained a file on Blair, it would represent a huge breach of the agreement we have with the Brits," a former CIA official told ABC News. Though the NSA maintains that it obeyed the law, the agency’s inspector general is investigating the allegations.

Posted at 2:38 PM, Nov 24, 2008
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