Former British cabinet Minister Clare Short claims that the British government spied on UN chief Kofi Annan.
The BBC's Nick Assinder (no really, that's his name) asks the rather lopsided question: Have Short's spy claims hurt Blair?. Why start with the assumption that spying on this collection of criminals and bigots is a bad thing?
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 26, 2004 11:27 AMAfter the obfuscation and denial and refusal to furnish any detailed records of the UN's Oil for Palaces shenanigans with Iraq, the very least a responsible tax-paying nation can do inside that organization is gather all the information it can.
Otherwise, the taxpaying Government is failing in its fiduciary duties to its citizens, and the chances of reform to the corrupt dealings by the UN are minimized.
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on February 26, 2004 11:35 AM