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Former taoiseach John Bruton's castigation of Washington in The Irish Times over alleged spying on the European Union is, on the face of it, surprising but also an admission about political news management.
Bruton is the EU's former ambassador to the US and chair of the Financial Services Body at the IFSC - an organisation which represents the interests of many of the US's biggest finance houses, so it may appear surprising that he would take such a strong line.
During the Iraq War, we were constantly told by the FF-led government that a failure to co-operate with the Washington would offend US corporations and lead to lower levels of Foreign Direct Investment from that quarter.
