Discussion: Ex-NSA Agents Helped UAE Spy On Prominent BBC, Al Jazeera Journalists

Move along, nothing to see here…

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We really need to get our country back.

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From Reuters:

Jassim Bin Mansour Al-Thani, a media attaché for Qatar’s embassy in Washington, said “the government of Qatar does not request, ask, or enforce on Al Jazeera any agenda whatsoever.” Al Jazeera “is treated like any other respected media outlet.”

and:

The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its embassy in Washington did not respond to requests for comment. The NSA declined to comment. A Department of Defense spokeswoman declined to comment.

and our former ambassador:

Dana Shell Smith, the former U.S. ambassador to Qatar, said she found it alarming that American intelligence veterans were able to work for another government in targeting an American ally.

Ms. Smith has a little bit of catching up to do.

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Spies? Treasonous? Sharpen up the bone saws?

I sure hope they didn’t reveal any classified information from their former employment to their new bosses.

Well, they’re revealing methodology and capabilities just by doing this work…

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I’m shocked, shocked.

Usually the ex-spooks work for us or close allies like Britain… But I guess UAE has the big $$$

Gotta love it when our national security apparatus produces filthy mercenaries.

Gotta love it even more when those mercenaries put their training - training that was paid for by our tax dollars - into the service autocratic regimes.There should be laws against this sort of thing (or do such laws already exist?).

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Yeah. How about Gen. Flynn working with the Russians who targeted America, not just “an American ally”?

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If there were laws against US persons providing support for autocratic regimes, at least half the American statesmen you’ve heard of would have been found guilty and sentenced accordingly.

Just think about Henry Kissinger (if you can stand it).

More generally, there’s a reason why every American president and every Congress has refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

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“…Gotta love it when our national security apparatus produces filthy mercenaries…”

That was my thought when I read this. Professional military types from every country have become mercenaries over the years But intel types? Probably has happened more than we know.
I don’t have data, but I recall few years back when some former CIA types hired on to some country in Africa. It turned into scandal.