This what I mean by too much talk and not enough walk.
You are informed of this happening.... how? You believe a “source” at this late stage... from the “new york slimes”— a “source”. Welllll, of course it has to be true. Got news— it isn’t true. Brennan has been unable to be booked as contracted with msnlsdnbc network— since he now has no implied or actual “little bird” to tell tales for them.
I saw a lot of different things but the reality of most of that type of really highly classified information is that the parts that make something classified is generally so specific of a detail that even by the end of the shift I couldn't have relayed real secrets to anyone even under torture because it would be lost and scrambled in my mind amongst all the other details.
There are some secrets I remember. They were unusual and stood out. They were the kinds of things you really wanted to tell someone. That's also how you knew they weren't true. Yes, I sat there in my military SCIF reading things that I was suspicious of then and don't believe now.
One way to test a tire for a leak or a pipe for a leak is to pressurize it and see where stuff comes out. Information of that type cant be pressurized by increasing the flow through the system. When looking for that kind of leak the pressure has to come from within the leaker by increasing the desire to tell someone. One good way to find the information leak between point A and D is to tell false secrets so spectacular that someone HAS to say it if there is a leak at points B or C.
Maybe you know there is a leak in a pipe but it goes into a sea of liquid and you don't know where the leaked substance is flowing. One way to find the end point is to intentionally color the flow that is leaking then by observation you know where the leak is leaking to.
There were military personnel that were charged by the military to spy on the military. Every morning they wake up, say the Pledge of Allegiance and then put on their Boris hat and start spying in an effort to find out what enemy spies would find out if that enemy spy tried that same technique or method.
I have successfully retained that dyed pressure test (spectacular and fake information) to this day. Then again, Im nobody and was nobody. I remember an oath and don't believe Im above it and what it meant. Brennan and others on the other hand likely believe they are too important for such ploys to be played on them. Those types believe they are above such things as oaths and country.
This is a weakness and one that can be exploited.