Posted on 04/13/2017 9:26:49 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Russiagate’s latest celebrity is a former Donald Trump associate named Carter Page. Page, who worked for Merrill Lynch in Moscow and speaks Russian, is a banker and investor who early in 2016 was a part of the amorphous group that was advising Trump on foreign policy. There is no evidence to suggest that he was ever an insider with the Trump campaign—quite the contrary. The Washington Post reports that he made several efforts to meet directly with Donald Trump but that his entreaties were rejected.
So why the fuss? Page appears to have been a target of Russian intelligence for a time, even though he had no sensitive information to give anyone and the presumed relationship appears to have ended long before the 2016 campaign. The possibility that Page might have been some kind of Moscow-controlled agent of influence close to Donald Trump has nevertheless excited Democratic Party critics who have been looking for some solid evidence of Russian government subversion of America’s electoral process. It has also provided some insights into the never-ending spy vs. counterspy battle, while suggesting that the Obama administration was not quite a wide-eyed innocent regarding FBI investigation of anyone plausibly linked to Trump.
Bear in mind that intelligence officers make a living and get promoted based on the “scalps” they acquire, to use the CIA expression, which means recruitment of possible sources of information. Page was and is somewhat of an expert on energy issues and, by virtue of his time spent in Russia, something of a Russophile. The combination would be very attractive to a Russian case officer looking for a new asset, so it is perhaps no surprise that Page bumped into Russian diplomat Victor Podobny at an energy conference in New York. The two soon established mutual interests in energy-industry developments and Page, apparently looking for business and investment opportunities, eventually passed some unclassified papers he had prepared to the Russian.
The passage of documents is a key case-officer objective. The assumption is that once documents are provided by the target and suitable noises are made about how they could result in wonderful business opportunities, this will lead to receipt of papers that are more sensitive.
Read the rest: The American Conservative
Go straight young man. If you can't stop acting like a sissy, join the Marine Corps.
They will help you flush that crap out of your system.
You will come out the other end a real man...and proud of it.
You will become a killer...instead of a victim.
Good luck.
Ping!
Lol. Seriously?
Your answer to me is personal insults?
Look. Keep on living in your little fantasy world. Meanwhile, I will take your advice and stop reading this drivel.
When you have a news item about someone actually being indicted....ping me.
I won’t hold my breath.
I prefer Soros as a vulture instead of a majestic owl.
So do I, and $oreA$$ as a scruffy, battered and old vulture.
Some folks enjoy the hunt and some just want it to be over.
I post these threads for those who enjoy the hunt.
Yes, sometimes the hunter comes back empty handed. But that's part of the game.
We should hire this Brit Teenager, Kane Gamble, to hack and reproduce these classified documents!
British teen: Accessing classified documents was ‘kind of easy’!!!
Arutz Sheva ^ | 20/1/18
Posted on 1/20/2018, 2:39:10 PM by Eleutheria5
A 15-year-old British teenager accessed top secret US military reports by impersonating a CIA director.
Acting from his Leicestershire home, Kane Gamble posed as CIA Chief John Brennan, gaining access to passwords, personal information, contact lists, security details, and sensitive documents regarding US operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Gamble’s security attacks occurred between June 2015 and February 2016. In them, he targeted Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, FBI Director Mark Giuliano, former US President Barack Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and others. In addition to the security hacks, Gamble also harassed his victims and their families.
Impersonating Clapper, Gamble directed Clapper’s calls to be diverted to the “Free Palestine” organization, and used Clapper’s email to contact additional officials. He claimed to have the names of 1,000 FBI staffers.
Some of the information was later used to order an armed SWAT team to deploy to the home of Obama’s science and technology adviser John Holdren.
In the case of Johnson, Gamble listened to his voicemails, sent texts from his phone, and harassed his wife. He also persuaded call handlers at an internet giant that he was Brennan, in an attempt to gain access to the then-CIA director’s computers. Gamble succeeded in accessing Brennan’s AOL account, emails, contacts, and iCloud storage account, and took control of Brennan’s wife’s iPad.
Gamble also succeeded in accessing the private calls and emails of White House Deputy National Security Adviser Avril Haines and FBI Special Agent Amy Hess, and downloading videos to Hess’ computer.
“This has to be the biggest hack, I have access to all the details the Feds use for background checks,” court documents showed him as boasting at the time.
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