Let us be the last to refer to the story published in the UK’s Observer that on the night she died Princess Diana’s phone conversations were being monitored by US intelligence and that the report that’s partially based on those intercepts will shatter a lot of conspiracy theories regarding her death.
The reality-based community doesn’t draw the same conclusions from that that I, and perhaps you, do. Exhibit, Susie at Suburban Guerilla:
We were bugging Princess Di the night she died – which seems to indicate some rather widespread wiretapping, which also makes you wonder why Dear Leader didn’t know about 9/11, since lack of this program (apparently already in existence) was blamed for “tying our hands.â€Â
Well, gee–apparently under then-President Clinton, surveilling Princess Diana was vital to the national interest.
That’s a rather far-fetched conclusion Susie-Q has jumped to.
Well ofcourse it was important! The entire Echelon program was to cull info to get Bubba dates! Who didn’t know that?
What the hell is she talking about? The program that was lacking involved calls from terrorists into and out of the United States. We’ve always been able to spy on people overseas, including the neurotic bubbleheaded ones.
And you have no idea how unutterably delicious I would find the (documented) revelation that Bill Clinton put bugs in Diana’s bedroom, especially if they were video ones.
Regards,
Ric
Don’t be so hard on Susie – it’s not like she screwed up recent history/timelines….really recent history….really, really recent, like last Administration history…
It is difficult for me to imagine George Bush taking a prurient interest in someone else’s wife. That is just one of the reasons I find myself so much more comfortable with Bush in power than I felt when his smutty little boy predecessor had his finger on the button.
Does this mean that some functionary in our overly efficient intellegent services made a decision that either Diana or Dodi or both represented a security risk or would be a source of valuable information?
And to think that we had so many intellegence failures during the 90’s…
“….[than] I felt when his smutty little boy predecessor had his finger on the button.”
– It would be hard to say whether Slick Willey ever got his fingers on Di’s button….But I suppose anythings possible with that dude….
I feel so…so…Dirty.
That scamp! :*
Nah!! It wasn’t Bill who was bugging Di…it was Hillary!!!!!!!! Everybody should know that she likes comfortable shoes
Tried to comment over at SG to set the record straight, but sadly I received this automated message:
Evidently, the name Jeff G sets off some kind of leftwing spam alert.
Anyway, my comment echoed some of the comments made here and pointed Ms Susie toward some more substantial discussion of the NSA / FISA controversy.
That comment, which may or may not appear eventually (will it be deemed “trolling” or “inflamatory” or “hatemongerish”?), read as follows:
The complexities and utter gymastic like twists and turns of BDS fueled logic that had to go into the creation of susie’s statement just boggles my mind!
Has any one of these Fascist America promoters taken even the tiniest step to compare and contrast Bubba’s wide ranging use of wiretaps and warrantless searches to present day practices? It is more than tiresome that the far left (and who didn’t shudder when they were presented with the “Draft Gore 2008” at Sub Gur) exists in their little octagonal bubble worlds where wifty ideals and visions of imperialists and evil capitalists spinning demonic webs of TORTURE AND CIVILIAN CASUALTIES AND OPPRESSED PALISTINIANS AND HOT SOD trump all desire to understand some of the most basic facts of history.
Sometimes it feels like pure ideology and other times like laziness. Why be bothered when “fighting the good and rightious fight” is more important than, well anything, including any sense of perspective.
Jeff, I think that you have been elevated to permanant spam filter alarm on many of these sights. Congrats, man, as every web writer should have the opportunity to be placed as a political boogeyman!