New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA

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New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 2, 2013 @06:40AM from the keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer dept.

cold fjord writes "The Washington Post reports, 'The CIA found that among a subset of job seekers whose backgrounds raised questions, roughly one out of every five had "significant terrorist and/or hostile intelligence connections," according to the document, which was provided to The Washington Post by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The groups cited most often were Hamas, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda and its affiliates, but the nature of the connections was not described in the document. So sharp is the fear of threats from within that last year the NSA planned to launch at least 4,000 probes of potentially suspicious or abnormal staff activity .... The anomalous behavior that sent up red flags could include staffers downloading multiple documents or accessing classified databases they do not normally use for their work, said two people familiar with the software used to monitor employee activity.'"

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Snowden beware by jodido · 2013-09-02 06:45 · Score: 5, Insightful

If they can make Snowden out to be a terrorist, or a supporter of terrorism, or someone who knew a terrorist, or knew someone who knew a terrorist, they will try to justify assassinating him.
1. Re:Snowden beware by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-02 08:20 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  If they thought like you did, they wouldn't last long due to their evident idiocy. Shooting Snowden is the last thing the US is going to do
  Oh, it will be the Russian Mafia that does it, probably in a shootout accidentally happening in his vicinity. That will prove how foolish it was of him to flee the free and secure U.S.A. where he could have expected a fair trial, for a country like Russia where bad things happen.
2. Re:Snowden beware by hairyfeet · 2013-09-02 15:12 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Uhhhh...forget about the USA getting the UK to blow millions going after Assange and keeping him locked in that embassy like a caged animal? You seem to be under the mistaken belief the US gov gives a flying fuck WHAT you think, when IRL nothing could be further from the truth. In reality the US gov is trying to rip off the mob with the whole "lets make an example out of him" bit and they don't give a fuck what you think as they have the MSM being their very own Baghdad Bob to hand wave it all away.
  For those that believe the US gov is still the "good guys", or ever were for that matter, I present exhibit A and exhibit B. First exhibit A, a speech by Naomi Wolf outlining how many plays from the "dictator's handbook" that goes back to Lenin to El Duce to the Crazy Austrian are being used here and now and this was made in 2007, things are MUCH worse than when this was made. oh as an aside she is now on the watchlist, her crime? talking about what rights you have under the constitution....Hear that sound? That is the sound of the founding fathers spinning like tops in their graves.
  Exhibit B was made nearly a century ago, but read this speech and see how much it sounds like exactly what we are seeing now....
  "I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."
  Sound familiar? The only thing that has changed is which country is getting fucked and which corp gets rich off the blood of the soldiers. hell you have a government that ADMITS that Gulf Of Tonkin was a "non event" (read total false flag) yet not a single person gets arrested? hell the current AG with Fast & Furious tried to pull a false flag on the American people and got Americans and Mexicans alike killed and has been caught in repeated lies under oath...yet nobody even entertains the thought of hauling his ass to jail?
  If it looks like it, acts like it, and smells like it maybe we should call it what it is...fascism. The only difference between the fascism of today and the fascism preached by the crazy Austrian is that the Austrian forced the corps to bend to his will, in this new version the corps and the government are one. Please watch the Wolf video and see how many plays from the dictator playbook is being run here now, a place outside the rule of law where torture takes place, public humiliation of citizens for the purpose of instilling fear and obedience, a government that spies upon its own people as much if not more than it spies on others, I could go on but Ms Wolf says it much better than I do.
  
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The terrorists are already here. by bmo · 2013-09-02 06:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

Look at who signed this.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/experts-obama-here-what-do-syria_751267.html
The same old bunch of neocon bastards that lied us into Iraq as far back as the "Open Letter to Bill Clinton back in 1998.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
And really, read the rest of the PNAC site.
PNAC morphed into the Foreign Policy Initiative
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about/staff
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about
Even during Mitt Romney's candidacy Mittens had a fucking wb page *titled* "new american century* with much of the above philosophy basically cut-and-pasted. Which shouldn't be surprising since his foreign policy "brain trust" consisted of FPI bastards. Up to and including Dan Senor (FPI and PNAC alum) on Meet The Press saying that we should bomb Iran back then.
Read. It's not conspiracy theory when it's from their own mouths.
I wouldn't put it past these bastards to hire someone to detonate a sarin bomb in Damascus to gin up an excuse for an invasion. And now they're wondering what the fuck to do now that the President just said "Well, we should have Congress' input on this."
Fuck these guys for wanting to get us involved in another war where there is no winning, just more death.
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1. Re:The terrorists are already here. by caballew · 2013-09-02 07:11 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I wouldn't put it past these bastards to hire someone to detonate a sarin bomb in Damascus to gin up an excuse for an invasion. And now they're wondering what the fuck to do now that the President just said "Well, we should have Congress' input on this."
  Looking at his actual record, Obama is more George Bush that George Bush was . He's owned and controlled by the same people who own and control Congress. I'll give you a hint; it's not the American people. I wouldn't be surprised if the sarin wasn't released to benefit and promote our political agenda at home (NSA, etc.) as well as our foreign policy. He just wants it all wrapped up nicely with Congressional approval to deflect responsibility.
Except ... by six025 · 2013-09-02 07:06 · Score: 4, Insightful

The anomalous behavior that sent up red flags could include staffers downloading multiple documents or accessing classified databases they do not normally use for their work, said two people familiar with the software used to monitor employee activity.
Except, apparently, one Edward Snowden. Which means for all of the paranoia, someone still got through.
What about the other Snowdens that aren't whistleblowers but real, actual spies?
This is another reason the NSA et al are foolish to dismiss Snowden as a threat, another reason why he should be embraced as a hero for shining light on a serious problem!
Peace,
Andy.
1. Re:Except ... by ebno-10db · 2013-09-02 09:11 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  So you are in favor of courtesy notes from burglars then?
  Flawed analogy. Burglars steal your property. Snowden "stole" things that belonged to the people of the United States, and then gave them the access that they'd been denied to their own property! Oh, that's right, it was being kept secret for "our protection" (and the bureaucracy protecting itself - the main reason for government secrets).
2. Re:Except ... by wbr1 · 2013-09-02 10:30 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Exactly this. Protection through secrecy, like security through obscurity just does not work over the long haul.
  An an anecdotal example, when my great-grandmother died, I was five. My parents inherited a small ladies handgun (22 short semi) from her. I did not know, it was kept secret. It was not locked, just stored on the back of a closet shelf under some shoe boxes. One day at 11 or 12, I noticed two identical shoe boxes in my parents closet were sitting at different heights. Being the curious soul I was, I investigated, and found the handgun in a box with a small amount of ammunition. Playing with it later nearly blew my hand off.
  Secrecy gives a false sense of security, and also promotes lies and egos. It does not further security.
  
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Re:Better use for NSA capabilities: Watch Congress by wbr1 · 2013-09-02 07:11 · Score: 4, Insightful

If they do, do you think it would be used for the people? No, it would be used as leverage to further their own agenda by pulling the congress critter's strings.

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Terrorists by cphilo · 2013-09-02 07:33 · Score: 3, Insightful

I think the problem is EVERYTHING is labeled Top Secret and everything is a terrorist group. Is this going to embarrass Senator X? Label it top secret. Twenty years in the future, this fact MIGHT be pertinent. Label it Super Top Secret. Annoyed with someone? Label him a terrorist. Annoyed with a situation. Must be terrorists. In the rush to cover their governmental asses, everything must be labeled top secret and everyone must be spied on, because, ya know, they might become a terrorist someday. Land of the Free, as long as you do not upset anyone in power: corporate, military or government.
Re:And in other news by mysidia · 2013-09-02 08:01 · Score: 4, Insightful

I'd be surprised if terrorists were not trying to infiltrate the CIA.
Frankly.... i'd be surprised if they have not already succeeded.
THAT is what makes me as nervous as hell about the NSA spying on Americans through service providers.
Leaks like Snowden are proof that whatever they gather might eventually get in the wrong hands one way or another.
One person's interest in monitoring the public looking for possible terrorists links, Is another person's blackmail material, once the bad guy infiltrators get ahold of Americans' private data
Re:No need for that anymore... by t4ng* · 2013-09-02 08:17 · Score: 4, Insightful

All depends on your perspective. To people outside the US, the CIA is the most well funded and brutal terrorist organization in the world!