Blix--"He Bug Me"

This is getting ridiculous: Bloomberg UK reports:

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Hans Blix's conversations were bugged by the U.S. or the U.K. whenever he was in Iraq while working as the chief weapons inspector for the United Nations, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported today, citing Australian officials familiar with their country's intelligence service.

Is there anyone working for the UN that ISN'T being bugged? You know, it's one thing for the idiot John Birchers of the world to cast sinister aspersions over the mission of the United Nations--I've come to expect such foolishness from their shallow minds. Speaking of shallow, I can't even say I'm all that surprised that Bush, President as Moron, would allow this: to quote Chris Floyd, "[Bush has] always shuffled, shifted, skulked and told lies, like some kind of nightmare reanimation of Richard Nixon's corpse. (Indeed, the main wormtongues at Bush's ear--Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld--learned their dark arts in the Nixon White House)."

And, while the paragraph above begins with obviously a rhetorical question, the last line of the Bloomberg article provides an answer: Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali today said he was told he was being bugged while in office by UN members in what was a 'tradition.'

Complete stupidity, if you ask me. Bugs are easy to detect, can often be used against the people who planted the bug, and rarely provide enough intelligence to justify the risk of planting. About the only thing you CAN do is plant one on yourself, then invite the press over to see you 'discover' it, as Karl Rove did about ten years ago when running the gubernatorial campaign of one George W. Bush...