Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying
It's a feel good.The US has the most sophisticated undersea capability of any nation state. Tapping transatlantic cables is something at which its intelligence organs are experienced.http://www.zdnet.com/news/spy-agency-taps-into-undersea-cabl...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.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorianhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash