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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."
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.
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.
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.
... 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.