Posted on 04/16/2023 5:39:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON—The classified documents that investigators say were leaked by a junior member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard indicate the extent to which U.S. spy agencies rely on clandestinely intercepted communications to keep tabs on their adversaries and allies alike.
In vivid examples, the documents track foreign governments’ military movements, diplomatic efforts and clandestine weapons sales, as well as debates in friendly capitals and more.
The powerful eavesdropping program that enables some of that intelligence gathering is due to lapse at the end of the year. To persuade Congress to renew the program, Biden administration officials had been debating whether to declassify intelligence formally to show how the tool protects the U.S.
The alleged leaker might have forced the issue.
One of the documents describes how Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs planned to mollify Beijing after Chinese companies were excluded from the Mideast country’s 5G cellphone-network rollout. Another document indicates that personnel from the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company under economic sanctions by the U.S., met with Turkish contacts to purchase weapons for use in Africa. A third says North Korea was conducting instrument checks in advance of an intercontinental ballistic missile launch.
These documents and dozens of others in the cache tell the intended readers—senior government policy makers and military officers—that the findings are based on a “signals intelligence report.” Signals intelligence is the art of intercepting electronic communications, from phone calls to emails to radar pulses.
“This is such a vivid illustration of the technological capabilities of the U.S. government in this area,” said Glenn Gerstell, former general counsel at the National Security Agency, which conducts electronic eavesdropping and code breaking.
One of the U.S. government’s primary eavesdropping tools is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
This is not news. Every country spies on every other country, and any country that thought otherwise would be naive beyond measure.
When my wife was alive, I assumed she checked my smartphone on a regular basis, even though I gave her no reason to mistrust me, and I was right. International spying on allies is simply wife-checking-on-husband writ large.
It boils down to industrial espionage. The CIA and FBI etc have become a business. They own Meta, Arsebook, Amazon penis image, etc. When you see it you can not unsee it.
Out of all the stories this is a non-story. Of course we do...and they do us.
Out of all the stories this is a non-story. Of course we do...and they do us.
The crooked tech cronies give the government whatever info they want anyway
Why wouldn't allies be upset that we don't trust them enough not to spy on them? Or that American hegemony is dependent upon that kind of tactic even with nations that we're supposed to trust?
Waht was news was the FBI and CIA using FIVEYES to spy on American citizens and presidents - well one of them.
Meanwhile, reported by war correspondent Viktor Baranets.Still top secret information?
“ The bodies of 160 NATO officers remain in a bunker in Ukraine
The bodies of 160 NATO officers were left in a bunker in Lviv Region in Ukraine after a Russian Kinnzhal missile attack. This was reported by war correspondent Viktor Baranets.
◼️ According to the author, the bunker belonged to a reserve command post of the former Precarpathian military district. It was located about 100 meters underground. Representatives of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry, General Staff of the Armed Forces, and NATO officers were at the headquarters.
🪖 The Russian servicemen decided to attack the bunker with a supersonic Kinnzhal missile after receiving information about preparations for a counterattack.
🇷🇺 The KINJAL cannot be shot down by air defense systems. The missile’s explosion killed more than 200 officers, with only 40 bodies recovered so far.”
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/42124
We live under the most pervasive and intrusive domestic spying regime in the world has ever seen. The American people are target number one, the rest of the world target number two. They aren’t looking for military threats, or terrorist threats, they are looking for business advantage information. When they look at us, they are looking to suppress dissent, or anyone that could rise up and challenge them. The East Germans Stasi existed for 40 years. In that 40 years they accumulated between 900 million and 1 billion pages of information in their archives. Back of the envelope math has the NSA CIA doing that every day or two here in America .
I kind of have my doubts that 160 NATO officers could just vanish and they could hide that. Unless it was some sort of mix of Poles, Lithuanians, etc.
For the war cheerleaders, more:
“Russian hypersonic missiles “Dagger” destroyed a secret bunker with 200 officers of NATO and the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The military departments of the USA, Great Britain, Poland and some other NATO countries prefer not to stutter even a word about what happened in early March near Lvov. And when corrosive journalists, who got wind of the terrible state of emergency, ask generals and politicians questions about it, they receive either “know comments” or crafty references to “ignorance” about what happened in response. But nevertheless, the “awl from the bag” still begins to crawl out. Information is increasingly leaking into the Western and Ukrainian press, as well as into social networks from various sources, which are very well matched in detail and allow us to present a reliable scenario for an extremely painful drama (even tragedy) for NATO and its allies.
NATO officers’ bunker
And the scenario looks like this. Near Lviv, at a depth of a hundred meters, there was a reserve command post of the former Carpathian military district. This secret facility, well protected and equipped with modern communication systems, was chosen by NATO generals and colonels when, with the outbreak of hostilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass (2014), they decided to move to the Ukrainian rear, where it was more convenient to advise the Kiev allies and develop plans of operations together with them. The secret underground point also instilled a sense of security in the “consultants” even after Moscow, with the start of its special military operation, promised to strike at decision-making points. In fact, it was a joint command and control headquarters, consisting of NATO representatives, as well as officers of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of its armed forces. In addition, this headquarters was very tightly covered by air defense systems, which further added to its “inhabitants” confidence in their safety.
Probably for this reason, the sense of vigilance was also lost - sometimes dozens of cars gathered at the entrance to the headquarters even in broad daylight, which did not go unnoticed by our space, aviation and undercover intelligence. And by the beginning of March, the Russian General Staff already knew that both in the “dungeon” and in Kyiv, the development of an offensive plan for the Armed Forces of Ukraine was in full swing. It only remained to determine the most advantageous moment to strike at the lair of the NATO “branch” in the Lviv region and carefully work out the flight tasks of our hypersonic “Daggers”. And, of course, to thoroughly (up to a minute) calculate the take-off time of the Kinzhal carriers (MiG-31 fighters), the launch line of these missiles (without entering the enemy’s air defense zone) and the “instant” of hitting the target.
“Daggers” completed the task
Why were the “Daggers” chosen? Yes, because such a bunker is invulnerable to conventional missiles. And there was no point in sending bombers for strikes even with 1.5-ton or five-ton bombs: the Ukrainians could shoot down the planes, and hitting the “peg” would hardly have happened. And launched even from a distance of 2 thousand kilometers, the “Dagger” (warhead - 500 kg!) Goes to the target at a crazy speed (10 or even 15 times faster than sound!) - while there are no such air defense systems in the world that could intercept it. And also the “Dagger” is a high-precision, sniper weapon - it has a deviation from the center of the target - only 1 meter! He jumped into the “well” of the entrance group for many tens of meters, and after him another ... And this, consider, a ton of explosives!
“The catastrophe of NATO forces in Ukraine”
Of the “teachers and students” who were in the dungeon, no one survived. And there were more than 200 of them. Including, say some “informed” Western journalists, several American generals and senior officers. And also - British, Polish, Ukrainian.
And here is the very “awl from the bag”, which I already mentioned. The Greek portal Pronews, which is close to the Ministry of Defense of its country, claimed that “dozens of foreign officers were killed when the Kinzhal hypersonic missiles hit the joint Ukrainian-NATO command and communications center. This was “a disaster for NATO forces in Ukraine.”
And that is not all. Some Kiev sites have also blabbed: after the emergency, representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were called to the carpet at the US Embassy, where they were reprimanded “for the poor security of the control center”, and at the same time handed over a list of the dead senior and senior American officers and ordered “to get them at least from underground.” The corpses of those who died from explosions and suffocated in a frenzy are still being dug up ...
So far, according to the “leaks” in Ukrainian social networks, it can be judged that only 40 bodies have been recovered from under the ruins of the destroyed center. The rest of the dead are still buried under the rubble.
Officially
And here it is impossible not to recall that on March 9, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a modest message on its official Telegram channel stating that in response to the terrorist actions organized by the Kiev regime in the Bryansk region on March 2, the Russian army launched a massive “retaliation strike.” The ministry emphasized that the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system was used.
By the way, this “retribution strike”, according to the director of the Institute for the Study of National Crises Nikolai Sorokin, had other consequences. He believes that the destruction of the “think tank” of the upcoming Ukrainian offensive could well slow it down. This version has its own reason. The offensive is still delayed. Maybe, according to ritual custom, they wait 40 days from the date of death? ...
But why are the capitals of the NATO countries keeping quiet about the terrible state of emergency? Most likely because they are “ashamed” to admit a biting slap from Moscow. Or because it could be an open recognition of the active participation of NATO troops in the hostilities against Russia”
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As for your assumption that it couldn’t be hidden, you are dead wrong. When I was a DOS “ advisor”, ( country not to be mentioned), I was advised my capture ( I would be reported as a “tourist “) or death would not be reported to even my family ( a missing “tourist”). You have absolutely no idea what.so.ever how a person’s existence can be totally scrubbed from this planet by our .gov….
No it’s not new. It became public that the US was listening to Angela Merkel’s phone calls.
Remember when Obama stalked Merkel...lol
And then there’s these balloons that Biden let cruise over all our facilities.
Maybe, but in this day and age, it’s hard for me to imagine 160 westerners vanishing without someone noticing they no longer hear from their husband, son, brother, etc.
Reserving judgement.
How did a very low ranking EM in the NG have a need to know this TS SCI INFO?
Not surprised as they eavesdrop on every single us citizen.
The government has no right to keep info such as this from the public.
Exposed so many lies
Our troops are in country fighting beside the Ukrainians.
GOV SAID WOULD NEVER HAPPEN!
Plus gov says Ukraine winning, and 100k Russian troops killed
Lies!
30k or so, more Uke troops killed than Russians
Let’s get more leaks so the spokes ppl can lie lie lie and try CYA and be EXPOSED as the lying traitors they are.
Love seeing them squirm while piling lies on lies!
They are so transparent in ways they DO NOT WANT!
Leaders are PATRIOTS in cases like this.
If Biden flunkies won’t tell the truth, We The People MUST!
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