NSA Ghosts Danced Around Diana
December 10th, 2006But, as usual, there’s nothing to see here. Accidents happen… Never mind the involvement of an unknown number of intelligence agencies. Oh no. Never mind any of that. That was just a coincidence.
Note: There’s almost certainly a problem with the terminology used in the article. The article uses the following phrases:
- “The American secret service”
- “the US security service”
- “the surveillance arm of the US”
While I’m not completely sure, these are probably references to the U.S. National Security Agency (with tasking from CIA?) and not the U.S. Secret Service, which mostly handles physical security of U.S. government officials and counterfeiting issues related to U.S. currency and other financial instruments.
Is the British “free press” allowed to print the words “U.S. National Security Agency” or will that get them a DA-Notice?
Via: Observer/Guardian:
The American secret service was bugging Princess Diana’s telephone conversations without the approval of the British security services on the night she died, according to the most comprehensive report on her death, to be published this week.
Among extraordinary details due to emerge in the report by former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Stevens is the revelation that the US security service was bugging her calls in the hours before she was killed in a car crash in Paris.
In a move that raises fresh questions over transatlantic agreements on intelligence-sharing, the surveillance arm of the US has admitted listening to her conversations as she stayed at the Ritz hotel, but failed to notify MI6. Stevens is understood to have been assured that the 39 classified documents detailing Diana’s final conversations did not reveal anything sinister or contain material that might help explain her death.
I thought the controversy about D’s demise was a bunch of hogwash. She seemed to be a likable enough twit who met up with a little bad luck.
Now, I’ve got to wonder. Why in the world would anyone want to bug her phone? It boggles the mind. To hear cooing between her and Doji (sic), or maybe to hear her talking to her brats. I doubt seriously that her husband or mother in law ever called. So agian, I ask why?
I also consider this big news, because is seems so senseless. Too bad the press ignores it with just a yawn.
Oh well, move along now… nothing to see here.
there’s a great doco on dianas death.
The head of the french investigation is shown a picture of henri, dodi and diana in the tunnel taken from a car in front. He confirms that the picture is authentic and cannot explain it.
Why did it take an hour for the ambulance to get to the hospital 15 minutes away?
Why was the tunnel scrubbed clean and sprayed with detergent and open for traffic in the morning?
Why was evidence fabricated as to the driver being drunk?
She seemed like a nice person… pity she associated with the wrong people.
The only known thing that the U.s. would be checking on Diana would be her work against land mines.
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