Budget Documents Detail Extent of U.S. Cyberoperations

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/world/americas/documents-detail-cyberoperations-by-us.html

By DAVID E. SANGER
The New York Times
August 31, 2013

WASHINGTON -- Newly disclosed budget documents for America's intelligence 
agencies show how aggressively the United States is now conducting 
offensive cyberoperations against other states, even while the Obama 
administration protests attacks on American computer networks by China, 
Iran and Russia.

The documents, obtained by The Washington Post from Edward J. Snowden, the 
former National Security Agency contractor, and described by the paper in 
its Saturday editions, indicate 231 such operations in 2011, a year after 
the first evidence emerged of an American- and Israeli-led cyberattack 
against Iran’s nuclear-enrichment center.

That number suggests that President Obama was not deterred by the 
disclosure of the Iranian operation, which became evident because of a 
technological error, and is pressing ahead on using cyberweapons against a 
variety of targets.

The Post did not publish the documents. Last week, it said it had withheld 
most of the 178 pages of documents at the request of government officials 
because of the sensitivities of the spying operations they describe.

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