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White House Cyber Chief Says Snowden Damage Will Be Felt for Decades
Free Beacon ^ | March 28, 2014 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 03/30/2014 5:00:28 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

Damage to U.S. national security caused by NSA contractor Edward Snowden will take decades to repair, the White House official in charge of cyber security said Friday. Snowden’s treachery is especially grave because he exposed how all the parts fit together—the blueprints for how America’s most significant intelligence enterprise actually works—which is also the blueprint for how to defeat it,” she said.

“So what does this mean in real terms? It means that the president may not have the intelligence he needs to have for crucial decisions. Nor will the Congress. We may not see threats we should have seen, never mind opportunities. It means that there may be future attacks that we do not see coming, which otherwise might have been prevented,” Van Cleav said in an email.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nationalsecurity; nsa; snowden; surveillance
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Like we've done such a great job stopping terrorism as it is??
1 posted on 03/30/2014 5:00:28 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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Obama’s damage will felt for decades.


2 posted on 03/30/2014 5:01:40 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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uh huh. This is basically going to be their excuse for EVERY national security disaster from this day forward.

Every one.

Nothing is ever THEIR fault.

Economy? Bush’s fault.
Failure to contain Russia? Bush’s fault.
Terror attacks? Bush’s fault. Oh, and Snowden too.

Loss of 4th Amendment freedoms? Snowden’s fault. Bush approved it too.

Buildup of Russian allies in this hemisphere? Bush. Snowden.

Obamacare rollout? Web designer’s fault. Bush, too.

Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing is ever Obama’s fault.


3 posted on 03/30/2014 5:06:10 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: MeshugeMikey

Exactly.

I have always considered Gertz as a good source of information, but NSA is a joke, although a very very bad joke.

They did not foresee the Boston bombing.

They have no information that helps solve the flight 370 question, they had no idea Putin was going to make a move on Crimea.........on and on.

Flapper did not even know of the bus bombing in England until he was told about it during a congressional hearing on TV.

A very embarrassing spectacle on TV.


4 posted on 03/30/2014 5:07:19 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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It means that the president may not have the intelligence he needs to have for crucial decisions.

You cannot blame Snowden for obama's LACK OF INTELLIGENCE!

5 posted on 03/30/2014 5:07:31 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: ilovesarah2012

HERE HERE!

The Whitehouse Cyber Expert of course knows nothing of that!!

who asked him anyway?


6 posted on 03/30/2014 5:08:04 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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So, let’s get this straight; the all mighty, massive, intrusive, super secret, trillion dollar, spy agency was taken down by someone that supposedly worked there for only mere days and was a low level employee?

Come again?


7 posted on 03/30/2014 5:09:55 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: old curmudgeon

Nope they were far too busy looking for CLINGERS..to make any inroads in securing this nation from the mooselim menace.

The National WHAT? Agency!


8 posted on 03/30/2014 5:09:57 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: ilovesarah2012

It’ll be longer than that.


9 posted on 03/30/2014 5:09:59 PM PDT by sasquatch
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"It means that the president may not have the intelligence he needs to have for crucial decisions."

Sometimes, the jokes write themselves...

10 posted on 03/30/2014 5:10:10 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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White House Cyber Chief Says Snowden Damage Will Be Felt for Decades

Just like Jimmah Carter and Persia.

5.56mm

11 posted on 03/30/2014 5:10:18 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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ahaha I DO appear that these people are doing some of that there Freudian Slippin and Slidin....

” the president may not have the intelligence “

Seen as a treasonous statement by some...and a monumental understatement to the rest of us.


12 posted on 03/30/2014 5:12:05 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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In my lexicon concerning odumbo it is a Fraudian slip.


13 posted on 03/30/2014 5:13:05 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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I see the actual damage as being truth telling or as Fiendstenn (d-CA) says ... don’t check me ... that’s treason.


14 posted on 03/30/2014 5:13:13 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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I well remember the chants of “Down..Down Down with the Shah” repeated endlessly in San Francisco’s Financial District oh those many years ago....

Jimmy was there with them in spirit...


15 posted on 03/30/2014 5:13:48 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: DJ Frisat

Haha, DJ, thanks for pointing that joke out.


16 posted on 03/30/2014 5:14:03 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: old curmudgeon

The NSA’s mission is the same as that of the IRS-destroy dissent inside of America. Remember Obama’s campaign promise to “get revenge” and “punish his enemies”?


17 posted on 03/30/2014 5:15:09 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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Snowden’s treachery is especially grave because he exposed how all the parts fit together—the blueprints for how America’s most significant intelligence enterprise actually works—which is also the blueprint for how to defeat it,” she said.

I don't know what Snowden's intent was, but in this day and age, there's a twisted solace in knowing that someone exposed a blueprint for defeating "America’s most significant intelligence enterprise".

I am offended that I should even think this way.

18 posted on 03/30/2014 5:17:23 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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You cannot blame Snowden for obama's LACK OF INTELLIGENCE!

I blame Snowden for treason.

19 posted on 03/30/2014 5:17:52 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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Fraudian Slip It IS!

My favorite line here was:

"..the president may not have the intelligence he needs to have for crucial decisions."

The President's mind is on pleasing his Muslin Brothers and Golf!
20 posted on 03/30/2014 5:18:47 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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