Russia's New Ability To Evade NSA Surveillance Is Either A Crazy Coincidence Or Something Much Worse
Michael Kelley Mar. 24, 11:00 AM
Sorry for these HUGE photos, it's all that I could find in Business Insider and I thought they caught some looks on his face and in his eyes, that you do not see OFTEN or actually.. . .NOT at ALL. Snowden's photograph on his new refugee documents granted by Russia seen during a news conference in Moscow August 1, 2013.
The Obama administration is "very nervous" about Russia's recent ability to hide communications from U.S. eavesdropping equipment while commandeering Crimea and amassing troops near Ukraine's border, a U.S. official told The Wall Street Journal. [ http://games.cnn.com/games/mahjongg-dimensions/mahjongg-dimensions.aspx ]
"This is uncharted territory," the official added.
The Journal reports that U.S. officials don't know how Russia hid its plans from the National Security Agency, which spies on digital and electronic communications.
Russian leaders either "deliberately avoided communicating about the invasion or simply found a way to do so without detection by the U.S.," the Journal said.
It's also unclear if the Kremlin's new camouflage is part of a larger trend that could affect America's ability to deter Russia.
"All military combat operations depend on NSA contributions," Robert Caruso, [ https://twitter.com/robertcaruso ] a former assistant command security manager in the U.S. Navy and a consultant, told Business Insider when discussing documents potentially accessed [ http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-and-military-information-2014-3#ixzz2wsJka8pV ] by Edward Snowden. "[The Department of Defense] depends on NSA and the Defense Information Systems Agency to secure all its networks, and others networks too."
Some officials doubt that the U.S. could have done much differently as Russian special forces began a slow takeover [ http://www.businessinsider.com/russias-crimea-takeover-in-3-photos-2014-3 ] of the strategic Black Sea peninsula, but the inability to see the developments has them concerned nonetheless.
U.S. spy agencies and the military are now implementing a "surge" of assets to expand satellite coverage and communications-interception in the region, the Journal reports.
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