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So how did Russia get the names of US agents, one former FSB and one current FSB, and one hotel cleaner, six days after Trump got the unredacted piss memo with the names of those agents in?

I'm not sure what your point is. The article here is about one intelligence failure, which was in 2011. You're asking about a different intelligence failure, six years later. The existence of one intelligence failure doesn't say much about the other one.

...There is ONE article by "Zach Dorfman and Jenna McLaughlin" and this is it. Just because you read it, don't assume its true.

Yes, it is one article. Once you read it, however, you see that there were earlier articles on the same leak which just didn't have the actual details.
https://www.pulitzer.org/files/2015/national-reporting/mcclatchy/10mcclatchy2015.pdf. (alternate source: https://www.kentucky.com/news/...) :

John Reidy, a former CIA contractor, recently cited his frustration with the inspector general’s handling of his case in his appeal to the new intelligence community panel. Reidy claimed he was demoted and eventually fired in retaliation after he tried to raise the alarm in 2007 on an “intelligence failure” by the spy agency. His lawyer McClanahan said he understood that “the intelligence failure involved U.S. government activity that was supposed to be covert but was done in such a bungled way that it was virtually guaranteed to be discovered.” CIA inspector general investigators didn’t interview Reidy until two years after he first went to them and then only after being directed to do so by the House Intelligence Committee, McClanahan said.

Or here: https://www.emptywheel.net/201...

he [Reid]described what by 2010 had become a “catastrophic intelligence failure[]” in which “upwards of 70% of our operations had been compromised.” The problem appears to have arisen because “the US communications infrastructure was under siege,” which sounds like CIA may have gotten hacked. At least by 2007, he had warned that several of the CIA’s operations had been compromised, with some sources stopping all communications suddenly and others providing reports that were clearly false, or “atmospherics” submitted as solid reporting to fluff reporting numbers. By 2011 the government had appointed a Task Force to deal with the problem he had identified years earlier, though some on that Task Force didn’t even know how long the problem had existed or that Reidy had tried to alert the CIA and Congress to the problem. All that seems to point to the possibility that tech contractors had set up a reporting system that had been compromised by adversaries

Or here: https://www.thestate.com/news/...

https://www.emptywheel.net/201...

a good take down of why this article is a piece of of propaganda

Taking any headings off of something that is supposed to be sent via secured channels, and transmitting it via non-secure methods is totally legit!

If the talking points contained no classified information, it's perfectly legit to strip off the security headers for transmission over a non-classified network. Hillary wouldn't be the first presidential candidate to reveal classified information.

http://www.businessinsider.com/did-ted-cruz-release-classified-information-during-debate-2015-12
https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/12/14/marco-rubio-leaks-classified-information-for-political-gain-again/

The Huffington Post was live updating the proceedings, and said this:

USA Freedom Act advances 77-17

In a stunning reversal from last week’s drama, the USA Freedom Act was passed by a vote of 77-17. The bill, which passed the House overwhelmingly several weeks ago will now move forward and is likely to receive a final vote on Tuesday.

The bill fell three votes short of the needed supermajority to advance last week but with the clock ticking on controversial provisions of the Patriot Act, supporters of NSA surveillance thought that the proposed reforms were better than letting the program expire entirely.

Rand Paul stated that the Freedom Act will likely get passed on Tuesday.

Wait... did we win or not? Isn't this just a 2-day repreive?

Please note this [1] is one of the bills being proposed (by the sitting Senate Intelligence Chair, no less):

The bill Senate Intelligence Chair Richard Burr released last Friday is bad enough for the way it expanded the existing illegal dragnet. I argued here Burr’s bill would give the Intelligence Community everything they lost in 2009 and 2011. [...]

So think about it - is this just a 2 day reprieve or 2 days so they can rollback more restrictions and make things worse than they are now?

[1] https://www.emptywheel.net/201...

Similarly, almost everyone agrees that ISPs have some responsibility to control network performance in a manner that guarantees the best service for the most number of people

"Almost everyone agrees"?

Were you asked? Because I wasn't asked. Was anyone here asked whether they agree? So where the fuck do you get off with "almost everyone agrees"? This is another one of those "Everyone means me and this one-eyed mouse in my pocket" situations, I think.

Besides which, the only responsibility my ISP has (and by "ISP" what we really mean is "one of two or three giant telecommunications corporations") is to provide sufficient bandwidth consistently. There is absolutely zero need for any of these companies to prioritize network performance. If I want to network performance prioritized, I will do it on my end, thanks. Just give me the fucking bandwidth and send me a bill. And for chrissake, DO NOT FUCKING TRACK ME: Keep your motherfucking "supercookies" off my devices.

https://www.emptywheel.net/201...

Hey, government! Will someone please fucking break up the telecoms again? They need to be broken into tiny pieces, and then in about 30 days broken into tiny pieces again just to show them we're serious. AT&T and Verizon should be like 50 different companies. And please kick every one of their C-level executives and boards of directors in the balls, really hard, just because. And declare them all common carriers and then we'll go have drinks.

If someone has physical access to your hardware, they're already in a position to do much worse. Encrypted drive? Let me just load this keylogger into BIOS mmm kay?

According to this, parole and time off could reduce his remaining sentence to as little as 8.3 years.

Which is still a shitload of time to have to sit in a prison cell, particularly if he's really trans and they won't let him transition.