tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/24/2008
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Did U.S. intelligence listen in on the personal phone calls of Tony Blair and former Iraqi president Ghazi Al-Yawer?
That's what David Murfee Faulk, a former Arab linguist who worked at a secret NSA facility, has told ABCNews.com. Murfee Faulk says he saw and read a file on Blair's "private ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/21/2008
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JONES FOR NSA?.... There haven't been too many
rumors about who's likely to serve as the National...
Security Advisor in the Obama White House, so it was interesting to see Gen. James Jones' name come up today. President-elect Barack Obama...
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Jones for NSA?
guardian.co.uk - 11/25/2008
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US intelligence officials kept a file on former
prime minister Tony Blair 's "private life", a former...
US navy communications operator claimed today. David Murfee Faulk, who worked at a listening post in Fort Gordon, Georgia, told ABCNews.com he saw ...
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US intelligence 'kept files on Tony Blair's private ...
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... intercepted the private phone calls of American journalists, aid workers and soldiers stationed in Iraq. Faulk says his top secret clearance at Ft. Gordon gave him access to an intelligence data base, called "Anchory," where he says he saw the file on then-British prime minister Tony Blair in 2006. Faulk declined to provide details other than to say it contained information of a personal nature. Surveillance on foreign heads of state is not especially uncommon, but as Zachary Roth reminds us , "the U.S. and Britain have pledged not to collect information covertly on each ...
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