{"id":43220,"date":"2014-03-24T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_u-s-_scurries_to_shore_up_spying_on_russia\/"},"modified":"2014-03-24T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T15:30:57","slug":"wsj_u-s-_scurries_to_shore_up_spying_on_russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43220","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) U.S. Scurries to Shore Up Spying on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. military satellites spied Russian troops amassing within striking distance of Crimea last month. But intelligence analysts were surprised because they hadn&#8217;t intercepted any telltale communications where Russian leaders, military commanders or soldiers discussed plans to invade.<\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s vaunted global surveillance is a vital tool for U.S. intelligence services, especially as an early-warning system and as a way to corroborate other evidence. In Crimea, though, U.S. intelligence officials are concluding that Russian planners might have gotten a jump on the West by evading U.S. eavesdropping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though there was a warning, we didn&#8217;t have the information to be able to say exactly what was going to happen,&#8221; a senior U.S. official says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304026304579453331966405354\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. military satellites spied Russian troops amassing within striking distance of Crimea last month. But intelligence analysts were surprised because they hadn&#8217;t intercepted any telltale communications where Russian leaders, military commanders or soldiers discussed plans to invade. America&#8217;s vaunted global<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43220\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,149,200,144,151,479,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-russia","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}