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...their infant daughter, she pleaded with the paparazzi, "Hold it, my baby needs some psychic space." By the count of three, however, the child had apparently recuperated, and rock-star wife and rock-star baby posed for the cameras. The only real downer of the night was rap star Snoop Doggy Dogg's arrest after the ceremony in a real-life murder investigation...
...apparent attempt to defuse tension over the issue, Vladimir Lukin, Russia's Ambassador to Washington, has been advocating a so-called zero-game agreement banning mutual snooping. At a recent Washington dinner party, Lukin turned to CIA director Robert Gates and asked, "So when are we going to get together and make some new rules for spying on each other?" Even as Washington decries Russian espionage activity, the U.S. itself continues to snoop. It spent $30 billion on espionage last year, and recently profoundly irritated Moscow by deploying the eavesdropping attack submarine U.S.S. Baton Rouge close to major Russian naval...
Perhaps not surprisingly, Yeltsin's Russian espionage establishment seems to regard its continued activity abroad as perfectly normal. All industrial countries engage in spying even against friends, officials in Moscow assert; moreover, Western agents continue to snoop after Russian military and space technologies. Following the discovery of the Russian spy ring in Belgium, the SVR calmly explained that Russia had, in fact, been spying. "We can't blame it on anyone else, least of all on the American counterintelligence service," said an SVR spokesman. Then, in a highly unusual tip of his hat to a onetime archenemy, he added...
...extreme case that captured headlines last week, a journalist's sources were stripped bare without the reporter even being notified of the search. In Hamilton County, Ohio, a prosecutor ordered a secret electronic snoop through the records of 35 million telephone calls made between March 1 and June 15 from 655,000 southwestern Ohio lines to find any potential corporate leakers who had called the home or office of Wall Street Journal Pittsburgh bureau reporter Alecia Swasy while she was researching stories that embarrassed Procter & Gamble, a major Cincinnati area employer...
Society's busiest busybodies are in the press, where, under cover of the Constitution, they expose, scold and ridicule public figures, and sometimes win Pulitzer Prizes for it. In the putative national interest, reporters have taken on the roles of mother superior, party boss, neighborhood snoop and cop on the beat. No one knows exactly what the moral code is, but anyone who runs for office, or otherwise pre-empts public attention, violates it at his peril...