Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying
It's a feel good.<p>The US has the most sophisticated undersea capability of any nation state. Tapping transatlantic cables is something at which its intelligence organs are experienced.<p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/news/spy-agency-taps-into-undersea-cable/115877" rel="nofollow">http://www.zdnet.com/news/spy-agency-taps-into-undersea-cabl...</a><p>It is but one of a long string of sea bottom operations which include Project Azorian, the Thresher and Scorpion investigations, Palomares and probably much that remains classified.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian</a><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)</a><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)</a><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash</a>