Foreign Policy

Of course the NSA bugged UN headquarters in New York. Why do you think the US wants the UN in the US? They're hunting terrorists, don't you know. The UN wants us to believe they're naive, and they might be.

"The global agency says international treaties protect offices, missions from spying."

But laws are for serfs, not rulers. UN personnel might have thought they were part of the club, like Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers plutocrats, only to find out, painfully suddenly, they weren't. US rulers think UN personnel, like European rulers, are privileged subjects of the empire, not equals.