Woodward: U.S. Spied on Iraqi Prime Minister

[Newsjock]

Source: Washington Post

The Bush administration has conducted an extensive spying operation on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, his staff and others in the Iraqi government, according to a new book by Bob Woodward.

"We know everything he says," according to one of multiple sources Woodward, a Washington Post assistant managing editor, cites about the practice in "The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008," scheduled for release Monday.

The book also says that the U.S. troop "surge" of 2007, in which President Bush sent nearly 30,000 additional U.S. combat forces and support troops to Iraq, was not the primary factor behind the steep drop in violence there during the past 16 months.

Rather, Woodward reports, "groundbreaking" new covert techniques, beginning in 2007, enabled U.S. military and intelligence officials to locate, target and kill insurgent leaders and key individuals in extremist groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403160.html?hpid=topnews

[Ian David]

1. Actually, we spied on everyone except the terrorists, apparently.

I wonder how much of Bill O'Reilly's phonesex was recorded by Cheney?

[Ian David]

2. Bush locates his targets primarily through OpenSecrets.org n/t

[im1013]

3. We know about as much about the actual terrorists

as John McLiar knew about Sarah Stalin a week ago!

Nada

:evilgrin:

[Narkos]

4. More confirmation that the chimp lives in a bubble of his own fantasies n/t

[blossomstar]

5. Sorry, Woodward sucks

is totally a repug patsy. Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours...