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.Spiegel Online International
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."
Fresh Leak on US Spying: NSA Accessed Mexican President's Email
Jens Glüsing, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark
The U.S.A. Government may just have lost any plausible deniability claim:
ReplyDeleteThe Narco and the Prez.
http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/the-narco-and-prez.html
"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."
ReplyDeleteMaybe the NSA suspected that President was linked to al-Qaeda or was running guns or something like that.