abcnews.go.com - 11/24/2008
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A former communications intercept operator says U.S. intelligence snooped on the private lives of two of America's most important allies in fighting al Qaeda: British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Iraq's first interim president, Ghazi al-Yawer. David Murfee Faulk told ABCNews.com he saw and ...
mcclatchydc.com - 11/20/2008
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WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed
the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from...
Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for ...
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Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq
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 ...
news.yahoo.com - 11/19/2008
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BAGHDAD Iraq's cabinet overwhelmingly approved a security pact
on Sunday that will enable a continued American military...
presence in Iraq for up to three more years, overcoming protests from hard-line Shiite nationalists and pressure from Iran to ...
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Iraqi cabinet votes to keep US troops - Yahoo! News
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Report: NSA Kept File On Tony Blair’s ‘Private Life’ And Intercepted Iraqi President’s ‘Pillow Talk’
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... But it wasn’t just ordinary Americans. In a new report today, Faulk tells ABC that during his time working for the government, “U.S. intelligence snooped on the private lives of two of America’s most important allies in fighting al Qaeda: British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Iraq’s first interim president, Ghazi al-Yawer”: ...
White House: Bush 'Doesn't Recall' Spying on Blair
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White House: Bush 'Doesn't Recall' Spying on Blair President Bush can't remember whether he spied on former Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to White House Press Secretary Dana Perino. Perino made the remarks at a Tuesday news conference when asked about an Army linguist who says he read an intelligence file about Blair's private life. The United States and Great Britain and a long-standing deal not to spy on each other's leaders. Read the exchange between Perino and a reporter below. Q A former NSA linguist is saying that the U.S. spied on Tony Blair. Do you have anything on that? MS. PERINO: I don't have anything on that. No, I ...
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