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CIA, FBI Launch Manhunt For WikiLeaks Source (cbsnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes CBS:
CBS News has learned that a manhunt is underway for a traitor inside the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA and FBI are conducting a joint investigation into one of the worst security breaches in CIA history, which exposed thousands of top-secret documents that described CIA tools used to penetrate smartphones, smart televisions and computer systems. Sources familiar with the investigation say it is looking for an insider -- either a CIA employee or contractor -- who had physical access to the material... Much of the material was classified and stored in a highly secure section of the intelligence agency, but sources say hundreds of people would have had access to the material. Investigators are going through those names.
Homeland security expert Michael Greenberger told one CBS station that "My best guest is that when this is all said and done we're going to find out that this was done by a contractor, not by an employee of the CIA."
Homeland security expert Michael Greenberger told one CBS station that "My best guest is that when this is all said and done we're going to find out that this was done by a contractor, not by an employee of the CIA."
1. Republican House Leader, Nunes received a document, it claimed Trump had been caught in dragnet surveillance of Russian agents in the US and abroad.
2. Nunes read that document in the Whitehouse, claiming it was a nearby security location. fellow patriot Republicans called bullshit.
3. The document came from Cohen-Watnick, a Michael Flynn man who works in the Whitehouse with sceurity clearance.
4. Nunes neglected to say it came from the Whitehouse and refused to name the source.
5. He presented it as third party confirmation that Trump had been spied on by the CIA, which in fact it came from the Whitehouse itself.
Do you remember the pee memos? They talked about a plan to get Trump elected with propaganda. And later on when it looked like he'd lose, the memos revealed the plan switched to claiming voter fraud to discredit the vote. We certainly had a lot of that propaganda here on Slashdot, and it also came out of Trumps mouth in co-ordination with that plan change.
Those plans have since been confirmed as real, yet another part of the intelligene briefing confirmed as fact:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-election-exclusive-idUSKBN17L2N3
Someone (...C-W) leaked the names of the sources for those pee memos to Putin, and he had those people arrested for treason. As a result Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergei Mikhailov and a few other (likely) US spies in Russia will die in jail.
Nunes did a deal. He insisted that CIA prevent these leaks (about Trump's various dodgy Russian connections), or he would block their security mandate budget. He's not really interested in seeing his friend Watnick in jail, he's more interested in preventing any more damaging Trump leaks. Look at this from his point of view, he claimed to have independent information, then a leak came out revealing he read it in the Whitehouse, then another leak revealed his source was from the Whitehouse, then another leak revealed it was a Flynn appointee.... he had to step down from the Trump inquiry because he was revealed as a liar. All due to leaks.
See, it's complicated.
... and not one goddam comment to use them on.
That surprises me.
Where is the observation that the fucking CIA has a special, tiny, secret cubbyhole where they store this shit and hundreds have access to it?
Apparently, the gubmint learned not one fucking thing from Manning and Snowden.
And, for fuck's sake, don't use the word "treason," when it's "espionage."
Treason has two major components that are missing in this context:
1.) A United States Citizen declaring war on the United States. Where's that goddam manifesto? The last time that happened was the Civil War when the Confederacy committed treason.
2.) Aiding the enemy. The United States does not have a list of enemies. The gubmint considered a list of enemies years ago, but it got complicated. There are guidelines, policies, procedures of law that go into effect for an official enemy.
Some of those enemies are allies of our allies. Also, "enemies" is a moving target. Also, any United States company who did any sort of business with an "enemy" would be charged with treason.
Obviously, America has morphed from a Republic to an oligarchy, and global business supersedes all other considerations.
The last list of enemies was World War Two.
Don't come at me with Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia.
We are not at war with any country.
We are at euphemistic police actions or peace-keeping with those countries.
Thank you very much.
I'm moving on to another Slashdot thread where some contributors need my help in getting the attention the readers deserve.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.