Clare Short

[aerocontrols]

But the response has been, well of course we have to do that. We would be mad not to, and I would expect my country to do just that, and Anan should assume that we are going to do it anyway, and everyone else does it doo.

Just don't say it.

You can't really be that dense.


Annan assumes that nations are trying to bug him. Revealing that he has been bugged (if Short is correct and not full of garbage) has compromised the bug.

Not "Just don't say that we're trying to spy"


But "Just don't tell the world where the bug is, so that the bug will be lost"

 

[E.J.Armstrong]

originally posted by Darat
Well this is a difference of opinion we have about her reasons for her actions. If this was a "moral" or a question of not agreeing with the government she was part of at the time I would have expected her to speak up about it long before now. The timing smacks of political revenge.

I guess it is possible for revenge and conscience to work hand in hand from time to time.

We were told the Blair was trying to alter the course Bush was originally embarked on by joining in dialogue with him but without success in some areas. I understand that Short also tried to persuade Blair without success in some areas and one of her claims is that Blair reneged on promises made to her.

 

[richardm]

Annan assumes that nations are trying to bug him. Revealing that he has been bugged (if Short is correct and not full of garbage) has compromised the bug.

Not "Just don't say that we're trying to spy"


But "Just don't tell the world where the bug is, so that the bug will be lost"

I believe that most of the bugging done in this instance was against telephone calls. In that case you don't usually need a physical bug in Annan's office, you just tune yourself into the wireless part of the transmission.

Interestingly enough, it was the realisation that the Germans were doing this to Churchill's calls to Roosevelt that resulted in the invention of the first scrambling device. This was a tape of random noise added to one end of the call. At the other end, an identical tape was played which was used to cancel out the original noise. Quite clever, really.

 

[iain]

I believe that most of the bugging done in this instance was against telephone calls. In that case you don't usually need a physical bug in Annan's office, you just tune yourself into the wireless part of the transmission.

Interestingly enough, it was the realisation that the Germans were doing this to Churchill's calls to Roosevelt that resulted in the invention of the first scrambling device. This was a tape of random noise added to one end of the call. At the other end, an identical tape was played which was used to cancel out the original noise. Quite clever, really.

It was a bit more than that (I think the apparatus at each end weighed several tons and filled a good-sized room) but it was very clever and very effective.

I would assume that the telephone calls from the UN would be scrambled, in which case it would not be possible to tune into the wireless part - you would have to be bugging one end or the other (unless you could break the encryption, which isn't too likely).