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Can NATO Find A Way To Contain Russia?

Posted: September 3, 2014 at 2:47 pm

Pro-Russian rebels prepare their weapons in the eastern city of Donetsk on Aug. 31. Russia's role in Ukraine has raised tensions between Russia and NATO to their highest level since the Soviet breakup more than two decades ago. Mstislav Chernov/AP hide caption

Pro-Russian rebels prepare their weapons in the eastern city of Donetsk on Aug. 31. Russia's role in Ukraine has raised tensions between Russia and NATO to their highest level since the Soviet breakup more than two decades ago.

Ever since the Cold War ended, the armies of NATO and Russia have been moving warily toward each other while their political positions keep moving farther apart.

Twelve eastern European countries have joined NATO since the Soviet breakup, and NATO is now on the verge of creating a rapid-reaction force for the region. Russia has sent troops into two former Soviet republics, Ukraine and Georgia, that have relationships with NATO, but not membership.

Every time one side makes a move, the other gets jittery. As a result, Russia-NATO relations are at their lowest point in more than two decades.

Is there a way for NATO to safeguard eastern Europe without making Russia feel threatened?

Right now, everyone is talking tough.

"Both Russia and the West seem cognizant that, like the edgiest moments of the Cold War, miscalculation is the greatest peril the danger that one side will inadvertently escalate the crisis, triggering a spiral of reprisals. Yet they are pushing nonetheless," Steve Levine, a long-time Russia watcher, writes in Quartz.

The current crisis over Ukraine is exactly the kind of confrontation that NATO has sought to preempt. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, NATO countries no longer faced an obvious threat and the alliance lacked a clear-cut mission. In redefining itself, NATO moved eastward and tried to persuade Russia this was not an attempt to undermine Moscow.

To allay Russian concerns, the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997 stipulates that NATO won't put nuclear weapons or permanently base combat forces in eastern Europe.

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Former NSA Chief Says JPMorgan Hack May Be a Warning

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Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Gen. Keith Alexander (Ret.), former director of the NSA, comments on the escalating situation in Ukraine. He speaks with Trish Regan on "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg)

Hackers who stole gigabytes of data from JPMorgan Chase & Co. may have been trying to send a message that U.S. financial institutions can be disrupted, the former director of the National Security Agency said.

The FBI is investigating the cyberattack on JPMorgan and whether other banks were penetrated in retaliation for U.S.- backed sanctions on Russia, according to people familiar with the investigation who asked not to be identified because the probe is still underway.

Graphic: Data Breaches in the U.S.

Keith Alexander, the NSA director from 2005 until last March, said he had no direct knowledge of the attack though it could have been backed by the Russian government in response to sanctions imposed by the U.S. and EU over the crisis in Ukraine.

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How would you shake the United States back? Attack a bank in cyberspace, said Alexander, a retired U.S. Army general who has started his own cybersecurity company to sell services to U.S. banks. If it was them, they just sent a real message: Youre vulnerable.

As NSA chief and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, Alexander tracked and tried to thwart international hackers, giving him knowledge of their tactics. He was head of the NSA in 2008 when the country of Georgia was invaded by Russia and experienced a series of disruptive cyberattacks believed to be the work of Russian hackers.

Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency and former commander of U.S. Cyber Command, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in Washington, on June 3, 2014. Close

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NSA Surveillance: Supreme Court Could Debate Data Collection Program After ACLU Lawsuit

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The U.S. Supreme Court could soon be asked to decide the constitutionality of the federal government'smassive data collection of phone records after two lawsuits challenging the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance program have begun to inch forward in federal circuit court for the first time. The American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy rights groups have denounced the NSA'sdata collection program, first revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden last summer.

"The phone-records program under which the NSA collects a record of the calls made by millions of Americans every single day is perhaps the most sweeping surveillance operation ever directed against the American public by our government," Alex Abdo, an ACLU staff attorney, said in astatementTuesday. "It raises profound questions about the role of government in a democracy and about the future of privacy in the digital era. And it threatens our constitutional rights in ways unimaginable by the founders of our country."

The NSA stores information about calls received and made on major U.S. telephone networks, including the time and length of the calls. The government claims it uses the information to track terrorist suspects.

ACLU lawyers called the surveillance program unconstitutional Tuesday in an oral argument before theSecond U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. The DC Circuit Court is set to hear arguments in a similar case on Nov. 4. The surveillance program has previously been debated in district courts. An appeal in either circuit court case could come before the Supreme Court.

The U.S. government argued in court papers that the ACLU and other groups suing over the data collection program lack legal standing because they cant show their telephone data was reviewed by the NSA. The ACLU lawsuit was filed in June 2013, days after Snowden disclosed the program.

Members in both houses of Congress have proposed laws to overhaul the data collection program,but they are unlikely to be acted on this year, said the Wall Street Journal.

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State's first gun sales tax holiday set for this weekend

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Mississippi's first gun sales tax holiday is set for this weekend.

Gov. Phil Bryant signed the Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday into law last year. It allows for the tax-free sales of guns, ammunition and certain hunting supplies on the first weekend of September.

Click here for guidelines and a list of eligible and non-eligible items.

"With dove season underway and deer season less than a month away, this weekend is a great time to take advantage of this tax break," said Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves. "Mississippians love to hunt, and this sales tax holiday makes it a little less expensive to enjoy the outdoors. I'm thankful for the support of the National Rifle Association on this effort and many other strong Second Amendment protections we've recently passed."

This year's holiday runs from 12:01 a.m. Friday through midnight Sunday.

Mississippi voters will consider declaring hunting and fishing a state constitutional right during the Nov. 4 General Election.

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