Very interesting.
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General Keith Alexander, director of US' now infamous National Security Agency (NSA), will be on a quiet trip to India on Thursday, where he will meet national security adviser (NSA) Shivshankar Menon and other senior officials in the national security establishment. Both American and Indian officials are tight-lipped about the visit, so it is not immediately clear the trip's purpose.
India refused asylum to Snowden. India has been muted about the entire spying saga. The PM has gone on record to say he does not own a personal cellphone, which could have been tapped. Indian diplomats have said they work everywhere in the world in the belief that their conversations and electronic interactions would be under surveillance.
India and the US have enhanced intelligence cooperation in recent years, basically a dividend of the massive surveillance that Washington has mounted.
I'm sure we'd all like full details about this 'meeting', but of course, we aren't going to get any. I can make a few guesses, though.
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General Keith Alexander, director of US' now infamous National Security Agency (NSA), will be on a quiet trip to India on Thursday, where he will meet national security adviser (NSA) Shivshankar Menon and other senior officials in the national security establishment. Both American and Indian officials are tight-lipped about the visit, so it is not immediately clear the trip's purpose.
India refused asylum to Snowden. India has been muted about the entire spying saga. The PM has gone on record to say he does not own a personal cellphone, which could have been tapped. Indian diplomats have said they work everywhere in the world in the belief that their conversations and electronic interactions would be under surveillance.
India and the US have enhanced intelligence cooperation in recent years, basically a dividend of the massive surveillance that Washington has mounted.
I'm sure we'd all like full details about this 'meeting', but of course, we aren't going to get any. I can make a few guesses, though.
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