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WikiLeaks’ reveal of CIA hacking trove has feds on mole hunt
Fox News ^ | 03/08/2017 | Cody Derespina

Posted on 03/08/2017 11:13:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Whose name is next to be added to the notorious list of government leakers?

The CIA is trying to answer that question right now.

A day after WikiLeaks released what it alleged to be the “entire hacking capacity of the CIA,” the focus Wednesday began shifting to just who gave the stunning surveillance information to the anti-secrecy website.

“There is heavy s--- coming down,” said a veteran cyber contractor for the intelligence community who previously worked in the breached unit, the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence.

The contractor told Fox News that CCI has long maintained an internal database of information -- accessible to anyone with proper credentials or security clearance -- that seemed to be dumped in total to WikiLeaks. In its news release on the disclosure, WikiLeaks said CCI had more than 5,000 registered users, a number alternatively referred to as “absurd” and “a bit high” by security experts who spoke to Fox News. The CIA declined comment to Fox News.

The FBI opened a federal criminal investigation into the WikiLeaks disclosure on Wednesday, Fox News confirmed. As the probe gets underway, experts said there’s a typical incident response playbook they would use to narrow down the massive pool of suspects.

“They’re going to try to do some forensic work because those documents probably have been changed [over time], so that enables them to narrow down the period to when they were taken,” said Alex Yampolskiy, the CEO of SecurityScorecard. “Once you say ‘this seems like it was a snapshot from this particular time,’ then they can look at audit logs of who had access to the document during that time frame.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: bhocia; cci; cia; fbi; first100days; mole; trump; trump45; wikileaks
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1 posted on 03/08/2017 11:13:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The mole hunt is understandable for this, but is there one going on to figure out how Trump’s conversations with the Australian and Mexican PMs, FROM THE White House ITSELF, were transcribed and made public?


2 posted on 03/08/2017 11:15:33 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind
RE: Feds on mole hunt


3 posted on 03/08/2017 11:15:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Pearls Before Swine
The Mole


4 posted on 03/08/2017 11:16:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Was my thought, too.

The President has his private conversations leaked, FBI/CIA says, ho hum...

CIA stuff gets leaked, OUTRAGE and full court press!

5 posted on 03/08/2017 11:19:05 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: grobdriver

That’s what I was thinking. “Who leaked this about our crimes?” No outrage at what is being done to the public, even from Fox.


6 posted on 03/08/2017 11:26:54 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I hope he/she doesn’t get caught.

The CIA/FBI are REALLY worried about this but couldn’t give a #### about Trump being tapped because most are traitors from the obummer era.

The CIA is the KGB for obummer.

Dismantle the whole damn thing and make in a branch of the FBI


7 posted on 03/08/2017 11:29:01 AM 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: SeekAndFind

Fedzilla always protects itself.

Fedzilla is hazardous to the health of the citizens.


8 posted on 03/08/2017 11:31:01 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is what happens when a culture of “OK” leaks and “Not OK” leaks is encouraged. Also, it is obvious that there is selective criminal enforcement of the law. Things are really screwed up these days.


9 posted on 03/08/2017 11:31:49 AM PST by Religion and Politics (It's Morning in America)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s been done by 2 Presidents before. It’s time to dissolve the 16 intelligence agencies and create 2 new ones devoid of the corruption and autonomy they are steeped in. Nobody shares info and they are too busy with mischief.

I would suggest merging all 16 into 1 and announcing a six month period for the people to submit their resumes for consideration in the new agency (with separate domestic and international branches).
At the end of the grace period, the deadwood and corrupt people leave and those with approved resumes stay.


10 posted on 03/08/2017 11:35:51 AM PST by BuffaloJack (The Democrats haven't been this aggitated since Lincoln took away their slaves.)
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To: Luke21
The CIA spends billions of tax dollars to learn how to hack everything and then they give it away for free after losing control of it. This is ridiculous. I really think the last regime is afraid of the American people finding out what they were up to over the last 8 years.
11 posted on 03/08/2017 11:37:53 AM PST by peeps36 (Obama = the skidmark on America's underwear.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

The mole hunt just proves that what Wikileaks has is the real deal. Let that really sink in. They are spying on everyone one of us. Every American. I hope they never find who leaked this. I don’t have the words to express how angry I am about this. We live in a total police state.


12 posted on 03/08/2017 11:38:25 AM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: BuffaloJack

sounds like a plan
drain the swamp


13 posted on 03/08/2017 11:39:24 AM PST by ptsal
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To: SeekAndFind

Comey says we are peasants with zero rights to privacy, ha! But him and the FBi should not be criticized or observed by Trump!

Fck these people. The Obama narcissistic Union talk continues on


14 posted on 03/08/2017 11:47:49 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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15 posted on 03/08/2017 12:01:02 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: SeekAndFind

I remember going to a briefing room in the basement of the CIA HQ shortly after the Aldrich Ames affair was announced. We walked by pallet after pallet of floppy disk drives that had been taken out of computers in the building.

After the French uploaded a Trojan into an F16 on a thumb drive, we could use thumb drives. After B/C Manning used a personal “music” CD to steal his files, we couldn’t take audio CDs out of SCIFs.

I wonder what barn door will be closed this time!


16 posted on 03/08/2017 12:31:27 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: SubMareener

The issues are not the issues

The whistle blower is the issue.


17 posted on 03/08/2017 12:32:35 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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18 posted on 03/08/2017 12:50:04 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Funny that. A day after the Wiki leaks the FBI/CIA is all over this like peanut butter. But what leads do they have on the leaks that are designed to frustrate the Trump Administration?


19 posted on 03/08/2017 1:36:44 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: SeekAndFind

I have no doubt that the CIA been hugely infiltrated by Islamic sympathizers and lefties these last 8 yes.


20 posted on 03/08/2017 1:37:09 PM PST by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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