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How Were Crucial Intelligence Documents Leaked to Iran?
American Thinker ^ | 22 Oct, 2024 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

Posted on 10/22/2024 4:12:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The leak of high-classified U.S. intelligence documents to the Iranian regime last week has triggered a much-needed counter-intelligence investigation to identify the source -- either a mole who has betrayed their country, or a cyber-hack.

The documents, which bore Top Secret/NOFORN and compartmented intelligence headers, described U.S. satellite spying on Israeli airfields as the IDF conducted exercises believed to foreshadow a massive airstrike on Iran.

The NOFORN designation means that the document cannot be shared with foreign nationals other than members of the "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing arrangement the United States has crafted with the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

While the possibility exists that the materials were hacked from the highly-protected SIPRNET, the government's internal data base of highly-classified materials, there have been no public reports of any hacks of the SIPRNET by external actors.

Insiders, including former Army Private Bradley Manning and NSA contractor Edgar Snowden, have divulged reams of material from U.S. government classified holdings, but the government accused both of them of espionage, not hacking.

Last year, the Justice Department arrested a 21-year-old National Guard employee in Massachusetts in connection with the leak of more than fifty Pentagon documents, many of them classified, to a social media platform called Discord.

Those documents included U.S. assessments of the war in Ukraine, reports of Mossad disaffection with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and intelligence reports on Iran's negotiating strategy with the International Atomic Energy Agency, all of them embarrassing to the United States.

In the fall of 2022, Department of Justice investigators uncovered at least ten classified documents in Joe Biden's private office that included intelligence memos and briefing materials on Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom. Biden was never prosecuted for the security breach, even though most of the documents dated from his tenure

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


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To: MtnClimber

The NOFORN designation means that the document cannot be shared with foreign nationals other than members of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing arrangement the United States has crafted with the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.


NOFORN means NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION which includes the “5 Eyes” clique. If it could be shared with them, the NOFORN designator would not be included in the classification title.


21 posted on 10/22/2024 5:04:49 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Obama

This is the price we pay for allowing a non-natural born citizen to usurp the Presidency


22 posted on 10/22/2024 5:04:51 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: MtnClimber

Doesn’t take an ace detective to figure this one out…..


23 posted on 10/22/2024 5:16:49 AM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: MtnClimber

My hope is that Israel anticipated this and planned accordingly.


24 posted on 10/22/2024 5:21:10 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: MtnClimber

My guess is that the top levels of the administration include numerous Iranian agents. Anyone ever heard of John Kerry? Somebody should check into him, for starters. Then there are important officials in high places.


25 posted on 10/22/2024 5:32:23 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Rope...invest in rope futures.


26 posted on 10/22/2024 5:41:54 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70
"My guess is that the top levels of the administration include numerous Iranian agents."

I heard years ago that most of the agents in the CIA were foreigners with no allegiance to the USA in any way shape or form... (?)

27 posted on 10/22/2024 5:51:26 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: MtnClimber

VALJAR...betcha


28 posted on 10/22/2024 5:54:30 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: MMusson

General Miley is the first person who comes to mind yet why would he do it to fellow DEMONcrats?


29 posted on 10/22/2024 6:04:56 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.i)
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To: MtnClimber

The American intelligence community has been infiltrated by America’s enemies and internal subversives who hate America. It’s time to clean house at these agencies and weed out the bad operators.


30 posted on 10/22/2024 6:12:26 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: jerod
> The American intelligence community has been infiltrated by America’s enemies and internal subversives who hate America.

You can thank FDR for that.

31 posted on 10/22/2024 6:30:42 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: MtnClimber

sham investigation! They need to be looking at the White House and the current residents. They might even find more cocaine.


32 posted on 10/22/2024 6:31:19 AM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Who knew that an elected official is a demi-god waiting to happen?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Agree, there was no leak.

It was a Deliberate and Intentional Passing of Intel.


33 posted on 10/22/2024 6:32:22 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Lurker

I am 100% in agreement. These people should be hanged by the neck.

This happens now so commonly, many incidents we don’t know about, from people who have life-long top secret security clearances like Brennan, Comey, McCabe, Milley (!!!!!) and STROZK of all people, not to mention the brains-for-mush still in office Biden who shouldn’t even still be in office...

Those security clearances are their cash cow.

But we don’t prosecute for Treason any more. When Jane Fonda and John Kerry were involved with North Vietnam and weren’t both prosecuted, that announced the end of the prosecution of Treason, unless of course, you are a conservative.


34 posted on 10/22/2024 6:44:22 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Flag_This
"My hope is that Israel anticipated this and planned accordingly."

Indeed. Another thought. Did Israel/Mossad do this as disinformation to throw Iran off stride?

35 posted on 10/22/2024 6:45:45 AM PDT by buckalfa (They say nothing is impossible, yet I accomplish nothing every day.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

This is the most likely. Look no further.


36 posted on 10/22/2024 6:46:35 AM PDT by Fireone ("and dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." G. Washington 1783)
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To: philman_36; Zathras; MMusson

See my post above. There are thousands of people out there with security clearances all the way to the top who still have them.

I understand there are reasons for some of this, but people like McCabe, Clapper, and Brennan (not to mention Strozk) still having a security clearance?

Really?


37 posted on 10/22/2024 6:49:51 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: SecondAmendment

That must be why Frank Capra hated him... That man who was an Italian immigrant loved America more than life itself and and he produced some of America’s most patriotic and pro-American movies... But he knew FDR and he knew FDR was a hypocrite.

I’d like to think that Capra picked Lionel Barrymore for the part of Mr. Potter in ‘It’s a wonderful life’ not only because he was a great actor... But also because Barrymore was wheelchair bound and the evilness of that Potter character in his wheelchair wouldn’t be lost on those who knew Capra’s views on FDR.


38 posted on 10/22/2024 6:51:14 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: MtnClimber

I think we are forgetting the visceral hatred John Brennan, James Clapper have for Donald Trump. These guys are snakes, frankly much more powerful than Obama or Jarret. Be assured, John Brennan is the “go to” guy for anything nefarious.


39 posted on 10/22/2024 7:00:53 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: MtnClimber

My first guess raht thar.


40 posted on 10/22/2024 7:03:20 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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