Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say

quote[President Bush and other top officials in his administration used the National Security Agency to secretly wiretap the home and office telephones and monitor private email accounts of members of the United Nations Security Council in early 2003 to determine how foreign delegates would vote on a U.N. resolution that paved the way for the U.S.-led war in Iraq, NSA documents show.]

For all the spying going on, this administration still has less than a lackluster record on intelligence.