“Everyone who mishandles classified material are breaking the law. The people who set up the system to pass the information to McCain, the person feeding it to the media and the enemedia publishing it are all subject to 10 years per violation.”
Wonder if Comey had the names of the so called intel people who violated the laws re their attempted lynching of Flynn and President Trump, when he had closed door meetings at the capitol with some of our $inators, like maybe Juan. As per the article below:
LEAKERS BEWARE: DONALD TRUMP HAS UTTERLY DEFEATED THE DISLOYAL COTERIES OF THE US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
President Trump has defeated Democrats in the intelligence community (IC) who were leaking classified information to the press. Such leaks have been a problem for many presidents, but Trump is the first who took a proactive approach and set up a sting operation that identified the leakers.
It’s highly illegal to leak classified information. It’s also illegal to PUBLISH this information, but Trump is too smart to try and prosecute reporters.
I thought that Trump would fire members of the IC until the leaks stopped, but the president solved the problem with a much more imaginative and deadly approach: He fed the IC false information. When this information was published, Trump was able to identify individual leakers.
How?
Each group or individual, who leaked was given a different version of events. This is CLASSIC spycraft. If nine individuals are told nine different stories, and then each of those stories is published, you know the identity of each person who talked to the press.
It’s called a “barium meal,” after the medical test used to detect problems in the gastrointestinal tract. Soft tissues don’t show up on X-rays. Barium salts are “radio-opaque,” meaning that they show up in a radiograph or X-ray.
Author Tom Clancy called it a “canary trap.” You give multiple sources multiple versions of events. When the sources repeat their version word for word, you can identify each leaker individually.
Magic
In World War II, “Magic” was the code name for the code-breaking done by the US Army’s Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) and the US Navy’s Communication Special Unit. Japanese military code was called “Purple.” Although Magic had been able to break much of Purple, some things were still a mystery.
Magic determined in early 1942 that the Japanese were close to carrying out a major attack. However, the location of the attack—which the Japanese called “AF”—could not be figured out. Therefore the Americans carried out a barium test: Using an underwater cable, they contacted Midway Island, telling the base to broadcast a radio message “in the clear” that the desalinization plant had broken down.
The Japanese immediately sent a coded message to their forces that the desalinization plant at AF had broken down.
Now the Americans knew that the target of the impending attack was Midway Island. The greatest admiral in the US Navy—Frank Jack Fletcher—was sent out to meet the Japanese before they arrived.
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So true Grampa Dave. You too must sometime have read 18 U.S. Code 793, and probably wondered, as did I, why the subcommittee investigating Hillary’s email server crimes let Comey reinterpret U.S. code to required “intent”. They count on our ignorance. The FBI Director has no authority to reinterpret U.S. Code. Why did Chaffetz and Gowdy let that obvious violation slither by? Separation of powers is little understood by too many, but the FBI and Justice Departments are Executive agencies. They have the authority to “Execute” constitutional laws, not to make or change law.
McCain has been a tool for decades, and Democrats know it so well that Obama and Clair McCaskill tried twice in 2008 to insure, by co-sponsoring two Senate acts, one a bill Senate Bill 2678, Feb 2008, The Children of Military Citizens Natural Born Citizen Act, and when that failed, again the same sponsors except that Obama was just a co-sponsor with his campaign co-chair, McCaskill, a primary sponsor, the “Senator John S. McCain is a Natural Born Citizen Resolution”.
Obama, Larry Tribe (Obama and Cruz’ con-law professor), McCaskill, Cruz, Rubio, Haley and many others, along with regular readers of the NYT, WaPo, LATimes and Democrat law school professors knew McCain’s birth in non-U.S.-sovereign (until 1937) territory was problem, solvable by a Supreme Court Case, but still a problem. Both also knew that birth to a non-citizen parent was only a problem for presidential candidates, so Obama was careful never to claim natural born citizenship. Both parties supported it because Republican muckity mucks didn’t dare undermine their principal candidate. A “resolution” is not actionable and the law, SB2678, didn’t pass, but couldn’t have reinterpreted Minor v. Happersett without a Supreme Court case.
Not surprising that no serving politician nor media pundit dared to address CIA Director Brennan’s conversion to Islam in the mid-90s. He wasn’t the only one, but no observant Muslim can deny the Qur’an’s principle edict, Jihad is the unquestioned obligation of every believer to convert or kill unbelievers. If one didn’t accept the lessor known FBI Islamic specialists, Admiral James Lyons, retired Commander of the Pacific Fleet with a dozen other titles including creating the intelligence group within the Navy Seals owes no one and has made Brennan’s background perfectly clear. The CIA was well aware. according to unattributed operatives, who must have also converted or they would not have observed Brennan’s conversion in Riyadh. It may be why Obama couldn’t make Brennan Director of National Intelligence (not unlike Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter white, Harry Hopkins, John Service, all among hundreds of KGB employees during FDR and Truman presidencies).
Hillary and Podesta didn’t understand that printing State’s most secret communications through a Yahoo or Gmail account is like publishing a newsletter full of their email messages. Even amateur malware players can buy exploits of all sorts of common application services, including Gmail, Yahoo, Android, on the dark net. Assange is just a collator of messages for and from amateurs. WikiLeaks knows too well not to become beholden to any national government. He does a service by exposing sloppiness which the professionals almost certainly already have collected.
Hillary, according to FBI-published email, had her Philippine housekeeper, who had no security clearance, access Hillary’s personal account provide Hillary with the paper copies. The housekeeper sent the email to her, the housekeeper’s Yahoo account because she had trouble printing directly from the email client (probably due to account protections in Outlook or Outlook express).
Podesta was warned that his gmail or Yahoo account had been compromised, but didn’t bother to change his password, which I vaguely recall was “password”. McCain didn’t acquire the NSA intercepts himself. After many decades of fraud, even preceding the Keating Five scandal which cost taxpayers 124 billion and probably preceding the Navy lives cost when the Admiral’s son crashed his fighter while landing on an aircraft carrier, a job he probably only qualified for as the son of a respected Navy Admiral.
McCain is 80 years old. He is probably as ignorant of messaging protocols as Hillary, Podesta, and probably Weiner, Abedin, and other’s using intelligence for political purposes. He was fed these leaks as part of a war with Trump’s team. McCain is cornered and will absorb a little bad press as he is protected by the press for the cause. The cause is primarily John McCain but also serves the interests of those who hold records of all his screw-ups, most of which are criminal. His screw-ups as a Navy Pilot, and his miserable performance at Annapolis are a matter of record.