The NSA Is Not The Only One Who Is Listening In On Phone Calls

Eavesdropping and Troublemaking -- Max Boot, Commentary

The European political class seems to have interrupted their bout of indignation at NSA eavesdropping to express indignation over a phone call between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt in which Nuland is heard saying: “[It] would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and have the UN help glue it, and you know f*** the EU!”

And how is it that we have come to listen to Nuland’s private phone call on YouTube? No one is exactly sure but all the signs point to the Russian intelligence service, the FSB, since the audio was first highlighted in public by a Russian official and posted with Russian subtitles. As Nuland herself noted, “It was pretty impressive tradecraft. [The] audio quality was very good.”

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My Comment:  These American diplomats should have known better .... you are in Russia's backyard .... always assume that your calls and internet correspondence is being monitored.

Update: Leaked call on Ukraine made on unencrypted cellphones -U.S. officials -- Reuters