MarvinMouse's Journal: EU bugged, United States Suspected

Here's a list of articles on the subject.

the BBC, Le Monde, Reuters, Yahoo, Canada.com, CNN, MSNBC,
New York Times, Canoe.ca, Cyberpresse, cbc.ca, IndyMedia

I will post more sources as they come. Feel free to post more sources you discover relating to this.

These are really hard to find on American sites, but they are there.

I haven't read all reports yet

[Iamthefallen]

But if the bugs have been there since the place was built in 94/95 as some claim, then:
A, Security is horribly poor. Ensuring phone lines are secure should be security 101.
B, Saying it was the U.S because of the current Iraq crisis would be ridiculous.

If they however are more recent, the U.S would be a prime suspect. It will be interesting to see what comes of this.

Idle Speculation

[lucasw]

A, Security is horribly poor. Ensuring phone lines are secure should be security 101.

Alternatively, security is good and the existence of the bugs were revealed recently for greater political effect. If there were no crisis worth affecting the outcome of, they wouldn't publicly reveal the quality their security to the party that did the bug planting...

It will be interesting to see what comes of this.

It would be interesting if history shows that disarmament would have been justified, but that the comb