The Crimea Blame Game Turns To Edward Snowden
WASHINGTON U.S. intelligence officials in leaks to news organizations and quiet conversations in Washington have begun to blame Edward Snowden for their failure to anticipate Russian aggression in Crimea.
But several current and former intelligence officials said that the U.S. failure to see into Vladimir Putin's plans is profound and long-running, and that there is little evidence that Snowden's leaks allowed Russia to evade U.S. intelligence more effectively than it had already been doing.
"The Snowden leaks had nothing to do with Ukraine," Fred Fleitz, a former senior CIA analyst, told BuzzFeed on Monday.
"Russia could have pulled this off without Snowden," said another former CIA analyst.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/carlomunoz/the-crimea-blame-game-turns-to-edward-snowden?s=mobile
blm
(113,082 posts).
bemildred
(90,061 posts)And that delusion of grandeur is reflected in the over-reaching one sees so evidently in both the Snowden/NSA case and the Ukraine debacle. In neither case does it seem to have occurred to anyone to think about what might go wrong.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)To close the information gap, U.S. spy agencies and the military are rushing to expand satellite coverage and communications-interception efforts across Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic states.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11784056