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1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report (nbcnews.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the heightened-security dept.

An anonymous reader writes from a report via NBC News: U.S. intelligence agencies have assigned more than 1,000 spies to security at the Rio 2016 Summer Games. NBC News reports: "The classified report outlines an operation that encompasses all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, including those of the armed services, and involves human intelligence, spy satellites, electronic eavesdropping, and cyber and social media monitoring. Areas of cooperation include vetting 10,000-plus athletes and 35,000-plus security and police personnel and others; monitoring terrorists' social media accounts; and offering U.S. help in securing computer networks, the review shows. 'U.S. intelligence agencies are working closely with Brazilian intelligence officials to support their efforts to identify and disrupt potential threats to the Olympic Games in Rio,' said Richard Kolko, a spokesman for National Intelligence Director James Clapper."

105 comments

  1. Be aware. We're everywhere. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Even watching this comment section. Our diligence knows no bounds.

    1. Re:Be aware. We're everywhere. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oshitty like to use the word "diligence" quite often. I guess it's a big word that makes him seem smart. Oh BTW... it looks like he's in the opening ceremony. I guess they couldn't get slim shady so they went with the next best.

  2. The great celebration of human idiocy.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    .....needs protection from another type of idiocy.

  3. Fuck Security by sexconker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about you hire 36,000 people to clean up the city and the water?

    1. Re:Fuck Security by NotInHere · · Score: 1

      Would even benefit the sportsmen. Not just the swimmers and those typically in contact with water. https://twitter.com/ArsalaiH/s...

    2. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      How about we stop this abortion of a "sporting" event that wrecks the finances of cities which host it.

      Millions spent for two weeks of watching amateurs compete in events that almost no one will remember a month later.

    3. Re:Fuck Security by alvinrod · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Indeed. Get rid of the IOC and permanently hold the games in Greece and allow open coverage of the events. Right now the Olympics is just an excuse to funnel gobs of money to a small group of people that have nothing to do with making the olympics successful or worth watching and who despite having this golden goose are so corrupt as to give FIFA a run for their money.

    4. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Rio is made by mostly leftwing supporters (including the elite, that loves some government incentives)

    5. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Rio is made by mostly leftwing supporters (including the elite, that loves some government incentives)

      Leftwing supporters, in Brazil? I bet you believe they're communists too.

    6. Re:Fuck Security by Karl+Cocknozzle · · Score: 2

      How about you hire 36,000 people to clean up the city and the water?

      Why not do both? Hey all, you cops--when there aren't any criminals to bust, how about you pick up some litter, put it in a trashcan? Maybe one of you knows how to drive a garbage truck? Perhaps haul away some of those piles of trash!

      It doesn't have to be police OR garbage collection, dammit--just have the same people do both jobs!

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    7. Re:Fuck Security by Karl+Cocknozzle · · Score: 2

      I've heard this before and it sounds like a wonderful idea. Plus, that's the traditional way to have the olympics, anyway! Everybody goes to Greece!

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    8. Re:Fuck Security by hey! · · Score: 0

      Clean water isn't as sexy as spies and blowing shit up.

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    9. Re: Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You would still need to find a place to host the Winter Olympics. I do like that the Olympics move around, as do the world championships for many of those sports. However, I'd prefer the Olympics be hosted in places where a lot of the infrastructure already exists. The same goes for the World Cup. It's unthinkable that Qatar is busy building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup while it could be hosted in the United States and have no new stadiums be built. Several European countries are more than capable of hosting the World Cup individually or as a joint bid without building any new venues. For the Olympics, many college venues could be used to host Olympic events, and that's actually happened in the past. For example, I believe the 1996 soccer events were hosted at Stanford Stadium in Athens, GA, which is a college football stadium that's been around for many decades. The problem is that many countries bid and make extravagant promises while not having anywhere close to the necessary infrastructure to host the Olympics. Then the countries run way over budget while not keeping their promises.

      Chicago would have been a much better host than Rio. Between the professional venues, Northwestern, some of the venues in and around Indianapolis, and venues in St. Louis, a lot of the infrastructure is already there. The IOC just wasn't interested, though, which is disappointing. The IOC could decide to award the Olympics to lower cost bids. That goes for the Winter Olympics, too. Sadly, places like Innsbruck, Albertville, Lillehammer, and Lake Placid will probably never get a chance to host again.

    10. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Wait, who is "protecting" is back home with all these goons at some corporate event? Why are my tax dollars going to this shit?

    11. Re: Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Is that really a good deal for Greece? Even when venues aren't being used, they need to be maintained. When sports are added to the Olympics, it costs money to build new venues. I'm not sure Greece is in a good position to do that. It helps if other events can be hosted there or the public can use the venues.

      While many people believed that Athens was the right place to host the first modern Olympics, other cities were considered, including London. The Olympics were often hosted to coincide with international expositions like the World's Fair. The 1900 Olympics were chosen for Paris to coincide with the Universal Exposition. The 1904 Olympics were awarded to Chicago, but St. Louis was hosting the World's Fair that year. They threatened to create their own sporting event to upstage the Olympics if they weren't moved to St. Louis. Those Olympics were basically a sideshow to the World's Fair and lasted several months. They weren't particularly successful, but the Olympic park is still around to this day. It's a massive park compared with comparable parks in modern cities. The park is called Forest Park and is now home to many museums. In many respects, the Olympics still serve as expositions to the rest of the world, though it's just not explicit. That's a bit of a history lesson on why the modern Olympics move around and why countries throw so much money at them. In many ways, that hasnt changed in more than a century.

    12. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How about you hire 36,000 people to clean up the city and the water?

      Why not do both? Hey all, you cops--when there aren't any criminals to bust, how about you pick up some litter, put it in a trashcan? Maybe one of you knows how to drive a garbage truck? Perhaps haul away some of those piles of trash!

      It doesn't have to be police OR garbage collection, dammit--just have the same people do both jobs!

      Instead of pretending to be roadworkers and utility technicians they could actually do some work. Brilliant, except for one thing - they lack the ability (unless work means shoot it, ignore it, or misinterpret it).

    13. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      See, a 1000 spies is going to consist of some regular joe spies, manager spies, supervisor and junor spies. So while the intern spies are probably doing most the work the supervisors stand around looking useless or attend pointless meetings. See, these middle managers are all still doing important spy work by distracting people from the interns while the junoirs tie up the other junior spy agents working for other counties.

      Replicate this with a cleanup crew. You'll get maybe four or five guys with shovels working for a sub-sub-sub-contractor who needs to send everyone to Florida at the last minute to help out with a family emergency. And the supervisors will blow your budget on strategy and optimization luncheons even if the expenses from the senior engineer arguments^H^H^Hmeetings with vendors doesn't.

      You don't actually have to have corruption and criminal intent when you have humans managing humans. Ineptitude at communication alone will grind the most straightforward organization down into a bureaucratic morass. But at least with civic infrastructure you can physically see there is obvious jobs getting done or not.

      I think that the Rio Olympics achived exactly with the city and state governments wanted to do. It gave them a perfect reason to raze the favelas and pretend that homless, imigants and the poor don't happen for a few minutes. At least until a toilet backs up. (From the media reports on water quality it seems it would be hard to tell the difference between a Rio toilet that works and one that doesn't.)

      At least the World could get lucky and half the US intelligence industry come down with random sickness for a month after the games.

    14. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Who said they're from your country and therefore your taxes?

    15. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "US Intelligence Agencies have assigned...." regardless of who exactly they are, my US tax dollars are being spent to police an international corporate event.

    16. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey, sexconker. For once I agree with you. I am surprised, but in a good way.

    17. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How will the politicians leave their "legacy"?

      Often there is a lot of resistance from the general population around hosting these events, but the politicians want "something to be remembered by" and push forward.

      Perhaps they should fund their "Legacy" and not the taxpayers?

    18. Re:Fuck Security by dcw3 · · Score: 1

      So, why do you suppose those cities actually wanted the events? It wasn't forced upon them.

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    19. Re:Fuck Security by dcw3 · · Score: 1

      How many US citizens are attending. Don't they deserve some protection?

      Suppose we didn't and there was an attack, do you believe we wouldn't be sending people in to help? A couple of weeks of prevention is much less expensive than the alternative.

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    20. Re:Fuck Security by GNious · · Score: 1

      Might want to distinguish between "City Officials" and "City Inhabitants" there....

    21. Re:Fuck Security by dcw3 · · Score: 1

      Might want to consider that more than half of the cities running the Olympics have turned a profit. Sure there are some notable failures...doesn't make it so for all of them.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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    22. Re:Fuck Security by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 1

      A distributed Olympics might work better. Have venues all around the world, each hosting one class of sport every four years. No more need for bidding or for holding winter and summer Games at different times.

      Imagine pool sports in Los Angeles, equestrian events in Lexington, golf in Scotland, skiing at Bariloche, cycling in France, marine sports in Vancouver, and track in Kenya - all at the same time.

    23. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If US citizens are in so much danger, issue strong warnings via the State Department and then leave them to their own recognizance. Or better yet, just issue a travel ban. We should have already issued travel bans with rare exemption for all Zika-infested countries months ago, but we're too weak and stupid to actually do something like that, and now we're getting it in our own borders. So stupid.

      Hope those 1k operatives in Rio are going to get extra hazard pay for being forced to work in a hot zone.

    24. Re:Fuck Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ... I bet you believe they're communists too.

      Of course not, that would be ridiculous. They're clearly Socialists, which are absolutely, seriously, we totally aren't kidding here guys, not Communists. In the same way a fetus isn't alive until it develops into a Democrat voter, a Socialist could become a real Communist one day, and like the prenatal Democrat voter, both should be aborted with prejudice lest the feckless inherit the Earth.

    25. Re:Fuck Security by Alypius · · Score: 1

      Pfft. That would require that the illuminati and/or clinton foundation actually do something besides install monarchs.

  4. Smarter use of resources: rubber boats and nets by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 1

    If competitor safety was really the priority, wouldn't it be smarter to put them in little rubber boats with fishing nets to scoop the floaters out of the bay?

  5. NBC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    To what depths are left to fall?

    Discovered has the pit bottom been?

  6. Not even America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When did Rio become part of America?

    1. Re:Not even America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Technically it is South America. But still... 1000 spies at lets say $100 per hour for 3 weeks if they only work 8 hour shifts equals around $12,000,000.00. They probably won't catch anyone if something happens if it's run like the TSA. Most likely they'll be at the bar or titty shows.

    2. Re:Not even America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's not globalist thinking, dude. Get with the vision. Get with the One World.

    3. Re:Not even America by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      Given the past support, 1964 Brazilian coup d'état https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
      "Is Brazil the target of industrial espionage?" (17 October 2013)
      http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
      US allies Mexico, Chile and Brazil seek spying answers (1 July 2013)
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

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    4. Re:Not even America by dcw3 · · Score: 1

      So, how many incidents/lives is $12M worth? Even making the announcement that this is going on is a good preventive measure.

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  7. Too bad they can't eliminate the real threats. by Chas · · Score: 0

    Unsafe living quarters
    Polluted water
    Disease

    Sorry, only fucking IDIOTS went to Rio this year.

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    1. Re:Too bad they can't eliminate the real threats. by dcw3 · · Score: 1

      I can go to nearly any major U.S. city and find those as well. Maybe not to the degree we're seeing in Rio, but let's see how many people come out sick before we cast stones from our glass house.

      http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/24...

      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
      Housing is an important determinant of health, and substandard housing is a major public health issue.1 Each year in the United States, 13.5 million nonfatal injuries occur in and around the home,2 2900 people die in house fires,3 and 2 million people make emergency room visits for asthma.4 One million young children in the United States have blood lead levels high enough to adversely affect their intelligence, behavior, and development.5 Two million Americans occupy homes with severe physical problems, and an additional 4.8 million live in homes with moderate problems

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    2. Re:Too bad they can't eliminate the real threats. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Millions of people having fun at Rio right now might disagree with you. You don't have the faintest clue about Brazil, you fucking idiot.

    3. Re:Too bad they can't eliminate the real threats. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If there are any significant number of Americans that acquire diseases while attending some element of the Olympic games in Brasil this year, rest assured that the current administration will do what they can to cover it up (without actually doing anything substantive to deal with the infectious disease itself). Hooray more Zika!

    4. Re:Too bad they can't eliminate the real threats. by Chas · · Score: 1

      Fuck, they've got CRE down in the water there! Basically it's a bacteria that's resistant to antibiotics that are generally considered "drugs of last resort".

      And while CRE may not kill you itself, if you're a CRE carrier, and something else compromises your immune system, you're in SEVERELY deep shit!

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  8. Start the betting pools by GrumpySteen · · Score: 1

    By the end of the Olympics, how many of those spies will have been...
    1) mugged
    2) murdered
    3) raped
    4) infected with Zika
    5) infected with an STI/STD
    6) infected with something that comes from fecal matter

    1. Re:Start the betting pools by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      By the end of the Olympics, how many of those spies will have been...
      1) mugged
      2) murdered
      3) raped
      4) infected with Zika
      5) infected with an STI/STD
      6) infected with something that comes from fecal matter

      Only if your dick-sucking mother is in town.

    2. Re:Start the betting pools by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      She was supposed to be, but a last minute abortion made her miss her flight.

  9. Brazilian revolt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    20 billion invested with only 4-4.5 billion return, the Brazilian people should get rid of the government stooges who okayed this olympic boondoggle. Oh wait, that's already happening. What a mess.

  10. "vetting 10,000-plus athletes" by Punto · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many of them got denied credentials to participate in the olympics as a result of this vetting. Which is not necessarily bad, except whenever someone wins at any of the competitions, they don't get to say they're the best in the world anymore, they get to say they're the best best out of a hand picked group that was selected for reasons that may or may not be related to their athletic abilities.

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  11. And yet there's already been a shootout by guises · · Score: 1

    Despite all of that apparently there's already been a shootout over a busload of basketball reporters, with six fatalities. Link

    1. Re:And yet there's already been a shootout by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

      The 2016 Summer Olympics are scheduled to begin today, but for some it has already began with a bang.

      Good grief. That's rather bad taste considering six people died.

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  12. Nice excuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    For a tax payer funded vacation.

  13. Highly classified by rfengr · · Score: 1

    Highly classified...my ass. So how does NBC know about it then, as do thousands of other people?

    1. Re: Highly classified by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It was in hillarys email.

    2. Re:Highly classified by dcw3 · · Score: 1

      Because no operation that big doesn't leak out. And, it was likely leaked on purpose.

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  14. Say What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Since when do spies protect anything? lol You almost got me there.

    1. Re:Say What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If they're doing their job correctly, you'd never know about it. People like to point to incidents and the failures, but you'll never know about the successes.

  15. Agents aren't spies. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    "Spying" general indicates undercover work. It would be ridiculous to have 1,000 undercover agents for the Rio games. They might be monitoring communication networks, but that can be done from lots of places.

    1. Re:Agents aren't spies. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Only in the movies.

      noun
      1.
      a person who secretly collects and reports information on the activities, movements, and plans of an enemy or competitor.

  16. Much ado about nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There isn't really much you can steal at the Olympics, or much value in disrupting it unless you like having instant worldwide enemies

    1. Re:Much ado about nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't think shoplifting will be at the top list of things the security services will be concentrating on.

      " much value in disrupting it unless you like having instant worldwide enemies" Ta da! You win the prize for the most idiotic comment of the day. The Olympics only come around every four years and no self respecting group of psychopaths want to waste the opportunity to spread their ideology of hate world wide. They do not even have to visit each individual country since representatives from each country will already be in the same location.

      Now personally I think everyone should just stop the expensive and time consuming process of trying to protect their citizens. There are almost 6 Billion people in the world and if terrorists attacks resulted in killing 1 million people per year that's not so bad. That many people die off every day from old age, illness, accidents, and misadventures of all types. One additional benefit would be the silencing of everyone bitching and moaning about the security services trying to do their jobs. And if a semi-large terrorist attack does occur anyone who stands up a complains about the government not preventing it should be summarily executed in an effort to clean up the human gene pool. Face it. The rot has set in and it is spreading around the world 140 characters at a time.

    2. Re:Much ado about nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sure, if you want to scare the shit out of a bunch of geriatrics, the only people who actually watch the Olympics.

    3. Re:Much ado about nothing by dcw3 · · Score: 1

      BZZZZT! 52% of viewers are between ages 25-54.

      http://hub.coxmedia.com/h/i/21...

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  17. Is anyone watching? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is there anyone left who gives a rat's ass about this sham?

    1. Re:Is anyone watching? by dcw3 · · Score: 2

      You cared enough to whine about it.

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  18. Brazil acceptance by manu0601 · · Score: 0

    I would have thought that Brazil would be fed of with US spies after Snowden's leak showed US spied on Brazil president Roussef...

  19. "offering U.S. help in securing computer networks" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    'Cause you know, they're so successful at securing their own.

  20. this article might do harm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Making a huge deal about how protected it claims to be might be an incentive for those looking to make a very public demonstration or statement.

    If it was a "meh" thing, then it might mean less. If everyone is rehearsing in their minds "there is going to be no terrorist event here" then the actual occurrence of one becomes an "i was wrong" moment and amplifies the effect.

  21. What a gigantic waste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Eff the worthless Olympics. We should pull out and let the "world community" pay.

    1. Re: What a gigantic waste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Umm, that's exactly what 'we' already do. We 'pull out' just in time to bust a huge nasty load on whatever country, leave, then have someone else to clean up the sticky mess everywhere.

  22. Re: Smarter use of resources: rubber boats and net by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The US actively tries to protect Americans in other countries. That goes for any American citizen. If you run into trouble in another country, the American embassy can try to step in on your behalf. The State Department is most directly involved, but other agencies can get involved if appropriate. A lot of Americans are in Rio, including the athletes, their families, broadcasters, and fans. It's reasonable that the US would try to ensure the safety of those people. Sometimes it's also just the right thing to do, to help other countries.

  23. 1000+ spies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    darn you really are determined to catch Russian atheletes taking dugs aren't you? Afraid your atheletes off season drug taking regime\programs might not return enough gold medals this time?

  24. Watch out for LA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    LA is one of the few finalists for the 2024 Olympic games. I can only hope LA fails.

    1. Re:Watch out for LA by buddyglass · · Score: 1

      LA apparently turned a profit in 1984. But it's an outlier. That article also suggests there's some gain in the host country's equity markets relative to the rest of the world.

  25. If the US has 1000 Spies in Brazil, by Pauldow · · Score: 1

    Then who's left here in the US to spy on us?

  26. Re:don't question it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    They are there to protect Americans. Either from terrorism or street crime.

  27. WTF... by jxander · · Score: 1

    We have 17 intelligence agencies??

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    1. Re:WTF... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      To put it in context, most of these agencies are sub-components of a larger federal agency. The DoD has 9 intelligence agencies, 5 of which are service-specific intelligence arms. While there is some overlap, each of the 17 agencies has a different focus area. You also have the question of Title 50 vs Title 10 authorities which governs what civilian and what military intelligence organizations can do.

    2. Re:WTF... by jeti · · Score: 1

      Office of the Director of National Intelligence

      Independent agencies
      - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

      United States Department of Defense
      - Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
      - National Security Agency (NSA)
      - National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
      - National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
      - Twenty-Fifth Air Force (25 AF)
      - Army Military Intelligence (MI)
      - Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA)
      - Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)

      United States Department of Energy
      - Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI)

      United States Department of Homeland Security
      - Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)
      - Coast Guard Intelligence (CGI)

      United States Department of Justice
      - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
      - Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of National Security Intelligence (DEA/ONSI)

      United States Department of State
      - Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)

      United States Department of the Treasury
      - Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI)

      Source

  28. novamente by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    não trabalho com espírito de porco. então te fode helea, vê se enfia cocaína no cú e morre, porque eu senti nojo quando saí do banheiro e vi essa cara podre.

  29. Re: Smarter use of resources: rubber boats and ne by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No that is not always true. I have gone to places where the State Department reached out to me and told me that I was "a fucking idiot." They also told me that I was entirely on my own.

    Err... I would log in but I am not supposed to be online. They should use better wireless passwords.

  30. What BS by frovingslosh · · Score: 0

    What a load of BS. We have fewer than 1000 "athletes" there. So that would be more than one protector per athlete. If we do that then everyone who leaves the country should get a government provided personal bodyguard, more than one when going to hostile nations. The Olympic committee is making a fortune on the games (with little or no accountability where that money goes), they should be providing any security that the host nation can't or won't (or provide security FROM the host nation in some cases).

    The US has no legal authority here. Consider how we would react, next time we host the games, if the Russians, the Chinese, North Korea and every Muslin nation decided to send their security forces or their spies with their athletes.

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    1. Re:What BS by dcw3 · · Score: 1

      We have fewer than 1000 "athletes" there.

      554 actually. And I'm sure the went all by themselves.

      OOPS....
      Original estimates had about 200,000 Americans expected to attend the Rio Games, but a senior U.S. official said that number is now closer to 100,000

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  31. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS STORY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't believe anything spies say. BEAUHD had the whole front page full of rat stories and honeypot bait today.

  32. #%#% FUCK YOUR LIES %#%# by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    >U.S. intelligence agencies have assigned more than 1,000 spies to security at the Rio 2016 Summer Games.

    Number is a guaranteed lie. Do you think they tell NBC how many?

    >"The classified report outlines an operation that encompasses all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, including those of the armed services, and involves human intelligence, spy satellites, electronic eavesdropping, and cyber and social media monitoring.

    Classified info on NBC News? no. Disinformation. yes. Involving a bunch of categories of how they use your tax money to take over your country? yea, we get that already. Social and cyber media monitoring? yes, all of facebook is monitored.

    >Areas of cooperation include vetting 10,000-plus athletes and 35,000-plus security and police personnel and others; monitoring terrorists' social media accounts; and offering U.S. help in securing computer networks, the review shows.

    Vetting athletes? Liars, vetting athletes. A miracle headcount thanks to NBC breaking classified news story. nope. The only fear mongers that use facebook are the spooks and FBI. spooks are CIA, why do they call them that? they scare. what is terror? scaring. what is terrorism? nothing it is a media buzzword ideology. errorism is not a word either. nor is errorist.

    >U.S. intelligence agencies are working closely with Brazilian intelligence officials to support their efforts to identify and disrupt potential threats to the Olympic Games in Rio,' said Richard Kolko, a spokesman for National Intelligence Director James Clapper."

    The odds of Brazil letting US spies just run around in their country are zero. Total bullshit lie story, as expected from any spy. You can not be a spy unless you are a liar. So as for Richard Kolko and especially James Clapper, fuck anything and everything they say. Anything referencing them just deem it bullshit. They fucking lie. You pay them too if you are American, and they not only lie thanks to your taxes but spy on you.

    This article is also in the news at this moment:
    >https://www.yahoo.com/tech/fbi-chief-calls-national-talk-over-encryption-vs-010621007.html?nhp=1

    >SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The FBI's director said Friday the agency is collecting data to present next year in hopes of sparking a national conversation about law enforcement's increasing inability to access encrypted electronic devices.

    The public are not asking for any of this. The public didn't ask for 9/11 WTC attacks either, but that didn't stop George Bush Sr. and King Abdullah of oil-rich Saudi Arabia from choreographing the false flag. Every lie since then has arrived at what you have now. Bankrupt country and totally confused populace.

    James Comey is one pure utmost shit garbage asshole fucking liar. The Bureau (Hi BEAUHD) he runs is full of moles. The FBI are the opposite of protecting USA. All data is leaked internationally daily. To call the story in this thread legit you would have to pretend the "17 intelligence agencies" don't all piss in the same pot. They can call them selves 9000 groups of 2 or whatever. The names don't matter. They all listen to the CIA. The FBI and CIA don't trust each other AT ALL. The CIA think they are king shit and the FBI think they are bigger. They import drugs, pull of false flags, rob you blind, pretend they need your iPhone terrorisms. Total fucking dickheads. Even if you walked in like caring about protecting America's freedoms for some cash, you won't think like that after day 1.

    Fuck you BurEAUHD. Fuck all your bait stories. Fuck you Slashdot. Snitchdot. Honeypotdot. Assholedot. Fuck your moms for screaming when you were born.

  33. BEAUHD = Bureau Head. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ur.

  34. FBI BurEAU HD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ur.

    ur.

  35. EASY TO SPOT A RAT. BurEAU HD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/08/05/0329246/popular-bittorrent-search-engine-site-torrentzeu-mysteriously-disappears

    Read all comments in that thread from earlier today.

  36. Looks like somebody got made. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No wonder now why all of the spy news on Slashdot lately. Also so many Microsoft stories. And as the poster above points out, they posted a social engineering thread which is basically a federal honey pot.

    Slashdot you are wrong for this.

    1. Re:Looks like somebody got made. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well I have had it. I can not believe that Slashdot is a honeypot spy site now. FBI? seriously? I will never use my account again.

  37. EFF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I am looking for how to anonymously share this with the EFF. This can not be tolerated. This is too much. I am very pissed. This is way overboard.

    I may not ever read /. again.

  38. hahahahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    wow. 1000+ agents, and 17 US intelligence (evidently totally lack of) agencies to protect whom from the 45,000+ different viruses, microbes, and other things that intelligence agencies have no control/say/influence over? amazing.

  39. "Protecting" by Tablizer · · Score: 0

    Like spammers who "protect" us from missing out on Great Deals.

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  40. Too bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's too bad that over 1,000 US spies and the collaborative efforts of 17 intelligence agencies are helpless to prevent our athletes contracting and bringing home third world diseases. Our people are literally swimming in feces down there. But hey - letting the third world host an Olympic Games is just oh so progressive. Let us not forget it is the duty of all good progressives to blind ourselves to reality and pretend they're doing a bang up job.

  41. Re:It's sad to see the Republicans attack... by dcw3 · · Score: 1

    Really? How many cheating scandals have there been in the Olympics. I can think of several w/o even doing a search.

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  42. Re: Smarter use of resources: rubber boats and n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Do a Reddit ama please

  43. Re: Smarter use of resources: rubber boats and ne by dcw3 · · Score: 1

    I have gone to places where the State Department reached out to me and told me that I was "a fucking idiot.

    Most likely because you didn't pay attention to the warnings they post about the places you went to. If you ignore them, what do you expect them to do for you?

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  44. E-sports @ the Olympics! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Easier to protect. None of that 'going outside' stuff of all those legacy sporting events. Ooooo. Let's do a *virtual* e-sports! So no travel, no fecal coliform, no zika. And, oh yeah, no Russian PEDs save the Adderall and Red Bull. And none of that energy sapping 'training' needed to maximize VO2.

    E-shot put, e-sailing, e-running e-swimming....

    More seriously, someone(s) seriously either got paid a la FIFA or this is one of those 'feel sorry for the kinda 3rd world nation' United Nations kinda moves. This is sad. All that said, the Olympics represent the pinnacle of human sporting achievement. Competition is 'natural' in most or a lot of us. Shame the forum was so poorly selected as a showcase of that achievement.

  45. Re: Smarter use of resources: rubber boats and ne by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Even more likely he's just making shit up and rarely leaves his moms basement let alone the country.

  46. What a dumbass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    All countries send protection for their athletes since Black September in 1972. You would be naive to think otherwise. Our intelligence agencies are lending a hand at the request of the Brazilian Government. That kind of apparatus would not be possible without cooperation between nations. More critical thinking, less tinfoil.

  47. You learn something new every day by hyades1 · · Score: 1

    All this time, I thought "Brazilian Cluster-fsck" was just an expression.

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  48. Re: Smarter use of resources: rubber boats and n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I Am A Slashdot Anonymous Coward, AMA!

    Verification

    I'll be here for a couple of hours before I fuck-off back to the basement, so don't forget to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock smoking teabaggers.

  49. Re:WHO IS PAYING? by ls671 · · Score: 1

    You have to be Donald.

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  50. the u.s. does not have a thousand spies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The 500 morons that are running the ussa into the ground don't know how to spy on anyone. Their view of the world and reality are two completely different things.

    We know that all we hear from the fbi and nsa are Big Obvious Lies, so they have less credibility and justification than Hitler.

    The police are too obtuse in their execution (and Execution) to be subtle enough for spy work. 5 minutes in, and 200 of the 1000 spies would have shot an unarmed citizen for no reason.

    We The People know the u.s. is too stupid and inept to have even 20 useful spies. We have leaders that lie to cover the fact that they are incompetent.

    They are all so incompetent that We The People know all about the aforementioned issues, and they are no aware that we are aware.

    Useless and Corrupt Leadership: Its what the ussa does best! Long live the oligarchs.