Watching the watchers

Well, yes. And in the interest of presenting what happened accurately, let's take a little trip in the Wayback machine, back to that distant, mythical era, of which so little historical record apparently survives: 1998. Those of you with exceptionally long memories may recall what Spinsanity and Josh Marshall apparently do not: Saddam justified his lack of cooperation with the UNSCOM inspectors because, according to him, they were being used to spy on him. And you know what? They really were being used to spy on him. "United States officials said today that American spies had worked undercover on teams of United Nations arms inspectors," the New York Times acknowledged on January 7, 1999. And according to the Washington Post, the U.S. "infiltrated agents and espionage equipment for three years into United Nations arms control teams in Iraq to eavesdrop on the Iraqi military without the knowledge of the U.N. agency." (You can also read the cartoon I did at the time here.)
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