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
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Possibly leaked on orders of 0bama/Jarrett.
We used to hang people who did this.
We should start doing that again.
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Blinken hand-delivered them in a diplomatic pouch.
Warmongers who get rich from the deaths of others never want peace, and they will do anything to prevent real peace. Until our laws regarding espionage, treason, etc. are enforced and the guilty are punished to the fullest extent, nothing will change. The corruption in our national government is out of control.
Most likely. Method. Motive. Opportunity.
How much did Iran pay The Big Guy for the documents?
You want it to stop?
Think it’s dangerous for Americans?
It could have been ordered leaked, by the POTUS, or it was criminal event. If Biden ordered it, he should own it. If it was criminal and you want it to stop…
Then start hanging these people when you catch them.
Or Harris...
In the brain dead, rainbow, political Pentagon there appears to be at least one friend of America and Israel left. The regional war (best case scenario) Israel was about to start would have been a disaster for America and Israel. The idiots in DC have a couple more days to rethink the calamitous path we’re on.
Access. Who had access? Start there to find the turncoat.
Does Miley still have access?
How did Jarrett ever pass a security clearance?
We’ll need our republic back first.
How were they leaked? With glee, that’s how they were leaked.
“ The regional war (best case scenario) Israel was about to start …”
Iran started the war decades ago, Skippy.
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Dude! Get in line, we’re still working on who’s Cocaine was left in the White House…..
Spies are everywhere
I would like to believe that the leaks were meant to be a diversion but when you know what’s at stake for the democrats, you can’t ignore the fact that “by any means necessary” means exactly what it says.
The government uses “leaks’ to friendly reporters all the time. Especially when they want to get information out that would be illegal to do directly.
A leak of this type would usually be done if they want something being planned not to happen (such as when the leak over the Supreme Court ruling over roe v wade).
In this case they wanted to A) warn Iran an attack was being planed and/or B) hope to stop the attack before it could occur.
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