“Bogus” NSA memo may be true. . .

A British intelligence employee is under criminal investigation in connection with the leak of a National Security Agency memorandum calling for stepped-up eavesdropping on countries whose United Nations Security Council votes on Iraq could be crucial, police reported.

The investigation of a 28-year-old female employee of Government Communications Headquarters, known as GCHQ, appears to confirm the authenticity of the NSA memo printed last week in The Observer, a British newspaper.

An NSA spokesman declined to comment yesterday.

Count me in as one of the folks heaping scorn on the the newly proud Observer when this story broke. It now appears as if there is some truth to the memo although the jury is – as ever – out.