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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."
...phone roots you.
You are welcome on my lawn.
My comments on the leaks are:
Hahaha! Haha ha ha hahaha! Hahaha!! Ho ho hahaha! Hahahaha!
Poetic justice feels good.
They should look for someone that believes in the US Constitution as it was written, not re-interpreted. That'll be their boy. Someone appalled at how the CIA has been allowed to run amok and trample all over the freedoms guaranteed by that document.
The leaks are only metadata. The data stolen with the leaks is still secret.
Do not worry, CIA. The NSA has assured us that having our metadata stolen is nothing to be concerned over.
That they actually have a security breach rather than a "traitor".
Rule 35 of the internet: "If it can be hacked, it will be". - Charles Stross
In less than a decade, we've gone from identifying people as "whistleblowers" to labelling them as "traitors" in the mainstream news.
The war on truth has been lost. We are all defeated.
>> (random dude) told (podunk affiliate) that "My...guess is...(something)."
So...the talking heads get quoted now too? What's the point of including this speculation?
Just before the name of the perp is going to be released, there is going to be a hurried meeting with HR in order to reclassify him/her as a contractor and then deny all knowledge of them ever being an employee.
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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.
Mike Pompeo is CIA head appointed by Trump. He's trying to spin here the wikileaks source as being from the USA, trying to pin the blame on 'contractor' in friendly media. i.e. the FBI investigation into the Russian hacks, and the dump of that information to Assange, he's trying to sidetrack into a USA leak instead. Trying to pre-rule out Russia.
If he was investigating the leaks to Assange, he wouldn't be doing it in the press with a pre-assigned conclusion "i.e. contractor". He'd do it in secret and wouldn't tip his hand. So this is propaganda not investigation.
The 4th in particular is intended to protect Citizens, not protect the Government. The First amendment gives rights to whistle blowers, and as with the latter not to give protection to the Government. The 14th ensures that a State can not supersede the Federal Constitutional protections, so not relevant to the topic really.
The problem with people like you who belittle the Constitution as written, and who belittle people who believe that it was intended as written, is that you ignore all of the history that goes with the Constitution. You can find all of the wisdom in the Federalist and anti-Federalist papers (the latter not being what most people believe either). You must have a delusional belief that Government intrusion and abuse of power is something the founders never saw or thought about. As with the Federalist papers and the Constitution, history in this regard is your enemy. England was paying for information, paying informants, paying propagandists, jailing and killing people who spoke out publicly against the Crown's control, etc... The only difference between today and then is the medium, the methods and purposes are the same.
Your cute little pet names don't sway the arguments or change history.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I am the Milkman. My milk is delicious.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
The correct term is "witch hunt." A man hunt is when there is a fugitive on the loose and you have to find him. A witch hunt is what happens when you are looking for someone who isn't going to get a trial.
... 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.
I guess they've finally figured out what had been obvious to everyone else here for 20 years.
Ha ha ha. CIA's sooper dooper ultra mega topmost secret weapons weren't compromised by "a" contractor. They were compromised by dozens of contractors, possibly by all of them, and more than a few regular employees too. Most of them didn't publish on Wikileaks though. There's lots of fun to be had and money to be made with tech like that.
Well, except for that idiotic electoral college
Once again, a leftist/communist/progressive demonstrating a complete irrational ignorance of history. The reason for the Senate and Electoral college is to protect against tyranny by a minority of states with a higher population against a majority of states with less population. Why do you idiots continue to repeat propaganda when it's so easily disproved? Crack a damn history book instead of smoking it!
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
If there was any justice left in this country their datacenters would be [donated to furthering scientific research and education], and their directors sent to Camp X-Ray.
They haven't had the best track record with their employees recently ...
I'm glad I don't work there. Witch hunts suck.
The CIA has no domestic jurisdiction. Everyone crying "muh freedumbz" at the CIA misses the tiny little fact that the CIA is not the KGB and not going after domestic intelligence. That is the FBI's jurisdiction, and they would gut the CIA and wear their flesh like a coat before letting the CIA muscle in on their territory if the CIA actually even tried.
wow.. I GUESS he wasn't an expert in spelling then :P
... they just don't collect all the sensitive information in one place. Maybe they work more effective in the US, with eveyrthing available on a click. But it is muc more save with actual people involved.
Satanism is a religion too.
Not all 'religious values' are what you think they are.
Cult: A small, unpopular religion.
Religion: A large, popular cult.
to watch and listen what usual (fat, skinny, old, etc.) people do and say before these Samsung TVs... It should be a strenuous and traumatizing job, as what is seen cannot be unseen.
LOL, obviously this moderator has NO clue who the Beatles are.
Not the American People.
Must be talking about the Intelligence Community...
Is that the right CIA or the left CIA doing the manhunt? Don't tell me you believe there's only one.