Wanting War
by Mark Engler

We now know, from disclosures in Britain and from senior officials at the United Nations, that United States and British intelligence aggressively spied on U.N. diplomats—from Kofi Annan and Hans Blix to allies from Mexico and Chile—to prevent any delay of an invasion of Iraq. As more nefarious details of the spying have come to light, it has become increasingly clear why U.S. news agencies that thus far have been uninterested in probing these revelations should take another look. The story raises important questions about whether the American public will have a chance to examine the full record of how our country was led to war.

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