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FBI prepares for new hunt for WikiLeaks’ source
Washington Post ^ | March 7 at 6:55 PM | Devlin Barrett

Posted on 03/07/2017 6:55:06 PM PST by kevao

The FBI has begun preparing for a major mole hunt to determine how anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks got an alleged arsenal of hacking tools the CIA has used to spy on espionage targets, according to people familiar with the matter.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deepstate; fbi; molehunt; shadowgovernment
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The IC has been leaking like sieve for months, AGAINST our duly-elected president, and nobody gave two shakes. Seems now that the FBI really does have procedures in place for a "major hunt" for leakers. Who would have known?
1 posted on 03/07/2017 6:55:06 PM PST by kevao
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To: kevao

I thought it was “da Rooskis”.


2 posted on 03/07/2017 6:55:56 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: kevao

WTF?!?! TRUMP!!! FIRE THOSE MOTHER #####ERS!!! I DONT GET IT!

But I dont pretend to know enough to question why he hasn’t fired them.

He may have good reason. He knows one or two things I don’t.


3 posted on 03/07/2017 6:56:59 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: kevao

Juan and Grahamnasty did it.


4 posted on 03/07/2017 6:58:27 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: kevao

MacLame said it was the Russians so that has to be true


5 posted on 03/07/2017 6:58:48 PM PST by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
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To: kevao

Leaks are only good when they leak them.


6 posted on 03/07/2017 6:59:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: kevao

< spy photos hated by whiny f*ggots >


7 posted on 03/07/2017 7:01:02 PM PST by gaijin
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To: kevao

Fake newspaper.


8 posted on 03/07/2017 7:01:35 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: kevao

I wouldn’t be surprised if obama himself ordered the leak, if only to weaken Trump.


9 posted on 03/07/2017 7:04:30 PM PST by matt1234 (Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
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To: kevao

Did the FBI finish with Weiners’ computer? Figure out if anybody hacked H->’s server full of gov’t secrets? They sure don’t seem to be able to get to the bottom of any series cases.


10 posted on 03/07/2017 7:05:04 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: kevao

I didn’t know that the FBI was responsible for investigations related to the CIA. WTF?


11 posted on 03/07/2017 7:11:01 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Paladin2

Maybe Anthony Weiner is the leaker.


12 posted on 03/07/2017 7:11:05 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: kevao

https://twitter.com/Zanting/status/839258860804136960


13 posted on 03/07/2017 7:11:14 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: kevao

Just NOW preparing to do their jobs?

How reassuring!


14 posted on 03/07/2017 7:11:29 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!)
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To: kevao

Step #1) Leak to CIA outlet WaPo.....


15 posted on 03/07/2017 7:12:22 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: kevao

fbi: The gang that couldn’t shoot straight.


16 posted on 03/07/2017 7:13:24 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: kevao

Wait a minute...I thought they said they weren’t commenting to the Press on this story


17 posted on 03/07/2017 7:18:09 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: kevao

Wait a minute...I thought they said they weren’t commenting to the Press on this story


18 posted on 03/07/2017 7:18:13 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: kevao

Wikileaks is merely the messenger, and the information THEY obtained appears to be only some of the information that the CIA leaker has already released into the wild to others besides Wikileaks.

The real question is whether the FBI was unaware of these massively damaging leaks and only knows of the leaks now because of Wikileaks exposure. If so, then Wikileaks is a hero.

The second question is whether the CIA itself was unaware of these leaks or if they were covering them up. Either way, Wikileaks is a hero here as well.

If WaPo was a REAL newspaper rather than merely being a propaganda arm and cheerleader for the Dem party, it would have pointed out that the two questions above are the real crux of the matter.

Also, the Wikileaks Press Release about this is a fascinating read:

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

Among other things, your Samsung Smart TV is spying on you, and the CIA has stolen Russian Federation hacking tools and have used themselves to hack into various systems to steal data and at the same time leave bona fide fingerprints that “the Russians did it”.

Wikileaks has noted:

“The CIA’s Remote Devices Branch’s UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques ‘stolen’ from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.”

“With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the “fingerprints” of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from.”

Now, what was that again about “Russian” hacking, WaPo?

BTW, I wonder if the FBI has a clue that much of the “Russian hacking” they have been investigating may very well have been done by the CIA? If not, they do now!


19 posted on 03/07/2017 7:19:03 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Cold War Veteran - Submarines

It was probably MacLame


20 posted on 03/07/2017 7:19:26 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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