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Fresh Leak on US Spying: NSA Accessed Mexican President's Email
Der Spiegel ^ | Oct 20, 2013 | Jens Glüsing, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark

Posted on 10/22/2013 2:13:16 PM PDT by bkopto

The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. It hacked into the president's public email account and gained deep insight into policymaking and the political system. The news is likely to hurt ties between the US and Mexico.

The National Security Agency (NSA) has a division for particularly difficult missions. Called "Tailored Access Operations" (TAO), this department devises special methods for special targets.

That category includes surveillance of neighboring Mexico, and in May 2010, the division reported its mission accomplished. A report classified as "top secret" said: "TAO successfully exploited a key mail server in the Mexican Presidencia domain within the Mexican Presidential network to gain first-ever access to President Felipe Calderon's public email account."

According to the NSA, this email domain was also used by cabinet members, and contained "diplomatic, economic and leadership communications which continue to provide insight into Mexico's political system and internal stability." The president's office, the NSA reported, was now "a lucrative source."

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Mexico
KEYWORDS: cultureofcorruption; espionage; fastandfurious; mexico; nothingtoseehere; nsa; obama; obamascandals; obamunism; wiretapping
More international egg on jugears' face.
1 posted on 10/22/2013 2:13:16 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: bkopto

Ay Caramba!!!


2 posted on 10/22/2013 2:14:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: bkopto; Revolting cat!; GeronL

What difference does it make? President Obama ran guns to narcoterrorists in Mexico, guns that have been traced to the murders of thousands. And there has been no military response from our southern border.


3 posted on 10/22/2013 2:14:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: bkopto
This is going to be a little embarrassing for Obama, but to me, this is supposed to be who the NSA spies on.

Not me, my kids and my mom.

4 posted on 10/22/2013 2:15:05 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

You are right.


5 posted on 10/22/2013 2:20:57 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: a fool in paradise
And there has been no military response from our southern border.

Well, there sort of has been - the troops just invade one Chevy at a time.

6 posted on 10/22/2013 2:22:49 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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(from the article)" ..in May 2010, the division reported its mission accomplished.
A report classified as "top secret" said: "TAO successfully exploited a key mail server in the Mexican Presidencia domain
within the Mexican Presidential network to gain first-ever access to President Felipe Calderon's public email account."

Three and a half years of international spying marked " Top Secret".. imagine the level of trust .
Maybe this will make it into the World Court for international accountability and responsibility .
Pass the popcorn .. I am sure there is more comming .

7 posted on 10/22/2013 2:35:48 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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Hey!

It's ok if Obama does it says America's libtards!

8 posted on 10/22/2013 2:39:09 PM PDT by TexasCajun (Creepy-Ass Cracka -- Don't Call Me Cracker)
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To: bkopto

next bombshell...
they are recording every email, text, phone call and internet search on every person in the world. including all world leaders.....


9 posted on 10/22/2013 3:24:51 PM PDT by nixonsnose (you never know how much pee splatters until you are standing at the urinal in flip flops.)
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[Yet according to the leaked NSA documents, the US also monitored email and telephone communications at Petrobras, the oil corporation in which the Brazilian government holds a majority stake. Brazil possesses enormous offshore oil reserves.]

Around that time George Soros bought a 22 million share stake in Petrobras and Obama loaned Brazil $2 billion for deep-sea drilling. Of course since that time Petrobras—through mismanagement and political interference—has dropped in production and profits.

10 posted on 10/22/2013 10:57:50 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: bkopto
The reporter couldn't resist one dig at the end of the article:
In response to an inquiry from SPIEGEL concerning the latest revelations, Mexico's Foreign Ministry replied with an email condemning any form of espionage on Mexican citizens, saying such surveillance violates international law. "That is all the government has to say on the matter," stated a spokesperson for Peña Nieto.

Presumably, that email could be read at the NSA's Texas location at the same time.


11 posted on 10/23/2013 8:15:41 AM PDT by WildSnail (The US government now has more control over the people than the old Soviet Union ever dreamed of)
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