CIA snooped on Iraqi ex-president

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: A former communications intercept operator said that U.S. intelligence eavesdropped on private telephone conversations by two of America’s most important allies: British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Iraq’s interim president, Ghazi al-Yawer, according to the American ABC News. “David Murfee Faulk told ABCNews.com he saw and read a file on Blair’s ‘private life’ and heard ‘pillow talk’ phone calls of al-Yawer when he worked as an Army Arab linguist assigned to a secret NSA facility at Fort Gordon, Georgia between 2003 and 2007,” said the news organization. “In the case of the former Iraqi president, al-Yawer, Faulk says his ‘pillow talk’ phone calls were to his fiancé, whom he later married. Faulk says the calls were intercepted by operators in the NSA facility at Ft. Gordon, Back Hall, and posted on the computer system for others to read about and hear,” it added. Al-Yawer was President of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government between 2004 and 2005. SS (P) 1