How Snowden Has Sabotaged Spies Keeping Track On Terror: Fanatics Using Sophisticated Data Encryption To Avoid Detection After Learning About Techniques In Leaked Files

Ian Drury at the British newspaper the Daily Mail reports on the damage caused to British security by American spy and traitor Edward Snowden.

US traitor Edward Snowden has undermined British security by making it much harder for UK spies to fight terrorists, a report warns today.

Intelligence chiefs are increasingly concerned that they are struggling to track extremists, including those from Islamic State, after the fugitive leaked files stolen from GCHQ and the US National Security Agency.

Fanatics and organised crime gangs are using sophisticated new data encryption programmes to avoid detection after learning about spy agencies’ techniques, an independent surveillance review by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think-tank concluded.

Snowden’s disclosure of up to 1.7million classified files presented a ‘significant challenge’ to the authorities tasked with electronically tracking targets who ‘pose a risk to collective security’, experts found.

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Interpol: Islamic State Group Gains Support In Africa, Asia

Edith M. Lederer at the U.S. Justice Department released the below information:

United Nations (AP) -- A growing number of extremist groups from Africa to southeast Asia are shifting their allegiance to the Islamic State group, leading to greater risks for "cross-pollination" among conflicts beyond Syria and Iraq, the head of Interpol said Friday.

Jurgen Stock cited this shift as an emerging trend at a U.N. Security Council meeting along with changing travel methods being used by foreign fighters seeking to join groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaida.

Stock was a keynote speaker at a meeting attended by half a dozen ministers including U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to assess progress in implementing a U.S.-sponsored resolution adopted last September requiring all countries to prevent the recruitment and transport of would-be foreign fighters preparing to join extremist groups.

Johnson said the United States will be developing a new passenger data-screening and analysis system within the next 12 months which will be made available to the international community at no cost for both commercial and government organizations to use.

In a report obtained by The Associated Press on April 1, the panel of experts monitoring U.N. sanctions against al-Qaida said the number of fighters leaving home to join al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Iraq, Syria and other countries has spiked to more than 25,000 from over 100 nations. The panel said its analysis indicated the number of "foreign terrorist fighters" worldwide increased by 71 percent between mid-2014 and March 2015.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said most are young men motivated by extremist ideologies but he called for an examination of the reasons why more women and girls are joining the groups as well. He said he plans to present a plan of action to prevent violent extremism to the General Assembly later this year.

Islamic State Using Leaked Snowden Info To Evade U.S. Intelligence

Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times offers a piece on how NSA leaker Edward Snowden has aided terrorists.

A former top official at the National Security Agency says the Islamic State terrorist group has “clearly” capitalized on the voluminous leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and is exploiting the top-secret disclosures to evade U.S. intelligence.

Bottom line: Islamic State killers are harder to find because they know how to avoid detection.

Chris Inglis was the NSA's deputy director during Mr. Snowden’s flood of documents to the news media last year. Mr. Snowden disclosed how the agency eavesdrops, including spying on Internet communications such as emails and on the Web’s ubiquitous social media.

Asked by The Washington Times if the Islamic State has studied Mr. Snowden's documents and taken action, Mr. Inglis answered, “Clearly.”

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