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NSA Sent Coded Messages From Its Twitter To Communicate With Foreign Spies (gizmodo.com)
Matt Novak reports via Gizmodo: During the first Cold War, American and British spies would sometimes place coded messages in newspaper classified ads to communicate with each other. And according to new reports in the New York Times and The Intercept, the National Security Agency (NSA) has updated the tactic, using its public Twitter account to send secret messages to at least one Russian spy. That's just one relatively small detail in much more salacious articles about NSA and CIA agents traveling to Germany in an effort to recover cyberweapons that had been stolen from U.S. intelligence agencies. A Russian spy allegedly offered up the stolen cyber tools to the Americans in exchange for $10 million, eventually lowering his price to just $1 million. The Russian spy allegedly claimed to even have dirt on President Trump.
According to the reports, the unnamed Russian met with U.S. spies in person in Germany, and the NSA sometimes communicated with the Russian spy by sending roughly a dozen coded messages from the NSA's Twitter account. The one important question: Were the messages sent via direct message or were they sent out as public tweets? The New York Times report leaves some ambiguity, but according to James Risen in The Intercept they were very public.
According to the reports, the unnamed Russian met with U.S. spies in person in Germany, and the NSA sometimes communicated with the Russian spy by sending roughly a dozen coded messages from the NSA's Twitter account. The one important question: Were the messages sent via direct message or were they sent out as public tweets? The New York Times report leaves some ambiguity, but according to James Risen in The Intercept they were very public.
The Russian spy allegedly claimed to even have dirt on President Trump.
Who doesn't?
Have gnu, will travel.
The one important question: Were the messages sent via direct message or were they sent out as public tweets? The New York Times report leaves some ambiguity, but according to James Risen in The Intercept they were very public.
Of course they're public. The whole point is that no one can see who is receiving the messages. They're coded, of course, so only the intended recipient will know what they mean, but possibly even the sender doesn't know who that person is. If DMs were used, that would entirely defeat the purpose: might as well use a secure communications app. The points of classified ads in the past, or tweets today, is that they can be read anonymously, even from a public computer terminal without typing in any login credentials.
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Oh dear, you sad semi-literate Trumpie, you missed all the references (not one of them is Reddit). Here they are so you can improve your reading skills.
1) The Guardian - Trump Tower meeting with Russians treasonous, Bannon says in explosive book
2) NBC - A Panama tower carries Trump’s name and ties to organized crime
3) Global Witness - Narco-A-Lago: Money Laundering At The Trump Ocean Club Panama
4) The Guardian - Trumps Panama tower used for money laundering by condo owners, reports say
5) Sketchy Donald Trump Deal Eyed For Ties To Iran | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
6) The New Yorker - Donald Trump’s Worst Deal:
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
7) NPR - The New Yorker Uncovers Trump Hotels Ties To Corrupt Oligarch Family
8) Business Insider - Dossier author Christopher Steele: Trumps hotel and land deals with Russians need to be examined
9) New York Times - Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected’
10) The Washington Post - Trump’s company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators
11) Slate - An Intriguing Link Between the Mueller Investigation, Trump, and Alleged Money Laundering
12) GQ - Inside Donald Trumps Election Night War Room
13) Politico - Trump’s mob-linked ex-associate gives $5,400 to campaign
14) Raw Story - Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report
15) The Spectator - Forget Charlottesville - Russia Is Still The True Trumps True Scandal
16) McClatchy - Donald Trump and the mansion that no one wanted. Then came a Russian fertilizer king
17) New York Times - Tracking the Yachts and Jets of the Mega-Rich
18) McClatchy - Trump, Russian billionaire say they’ve never met,
There is plenty of evidence against Carter Page that we know about. The evidence we don't know about, which was used to get a FISA warrant against him, is in the Intelligence Committee Memo that the Democrats want to put out but Donald Trump refuses to allow. But as I said, what we know is plenty:
https://www.politico.com/magaz...
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