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Did the NSA bust China's coronavirus cover-up?
Washington Examiner ^ | March 20, 2020 | Tom Rogan

Posted on 03/23/2020 4:54:52 AM PDT by billorites

What does the National Security Agency know about China's effort to conceal the crisis of its original coronavirus outbreak?

I'd suggest quite a bit.

The first point to note here is that China is now the NSA's primary intelligence target. Driving Pacific region operations out of its Hawaii cryptological center, the NSA focuses on collecting the form and content of Chinese government communications. That priority targeting effort befits Xi Jinping's campaign to displace the U.S.-led international order and China's increasingly hostile stance to U.S. military operations in the Indo-Pacific.

But the first clue that the NSA has figured out quite a bit about the Chinese government's actual response to the coronavirus, aside from the regime's lies, comes from top Trump administration officials.

These officials are the NSA's top consumers and are entitled to the most highly classified intelligence community reports. We already know that Chinese officials blew their December 2019 window to control the virus by refusing to allow access to Western medical officials, failing to instigate an effective quarantine, and deflecting responsibility during that period. But it wasn't until late January that President Trump started regularly talking about the outbreak in relatively concerned terms. That shift suggests the issue had, by January, become a significant element of Trump's daily intelligence report. It is likely that Trump was then warned that the risk of a global pandemic was growing.

So, how did the alarm get raised?

Well, NSA has ways of collecting and analyzing communications weeks or months after they were first sent. That capability includes scenarios in which what was said was originally ignored by the NSA. This would explain why Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo weren't more alarmed in early January.

It would also fit with how intelligence operations work that the January alarm was raised

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1 posted on 03/23/2020 4:54:52 AM PDT by billorites
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I’ve been saying that there had to be people watching the crematoriums ramp up. I could imagine a guy looking at a monitor, watching satellite images of the trucks lined up stacking bodies. You can’t really hide that from space.


2 posted on 03/23/2020 4:59:28 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: billorites

No Comment.


3 posted on 03/23/2020 5:00:40 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: billorites

“was originally ignored by the NSA. This would explain why Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo weren’t more alarmed in early January.”


4 posted on 03/23/2020 5:01:37 AM PDT by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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To: billorites

bump


5 posted on 03/23/2020 5:04:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: billorites

It would be great of the NSA supported America and not the Deep State.


6 posted on 03/23/2020 5:08:10 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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COVID19 Files – Scientific Investigation On Mysterious Origin Of Coronavirus
https://greatgameindia.com/covid19-files-scientific-investigation-on-mysterious-origin-of-coronavirus/

I think this by some Indian guys. There’s no love lost between India and China.


7 posted on 03/23/2020 5:09:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: \/\/ayne

Just say no to Chinese Huawei 5G, belt and road extortion.

Now that they have blamed us for the Wuhan virus, lets bring our supply chain home.

Make Manufacturing American Again MMAA


8 posted on 03/23/2020 5:12:08 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman ( p)
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It would be great of the NSA supported America and not the Deep State.

Admiral Rogers, head of the NSA when President Trump was elected, was the intelligence agency head which was *not* part of the deep state soft coup attempt.

9 posted on 03/23/2020 5:12:30 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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“was originally ignored by the NSA. This would explain why Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo weren’t more alarmed in early January.”

Deep State NSA just doing their part to screw Trump. After Admiral Rogers retired, it must have gone down hill quickly.


10 posted on 03/23/2020 5:15:48 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 2 Ti)
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This came out in January after several other incidents. The Chinese are finally being seriously targeted by our gov’t & the Canadians.

US charges three researchers with lying about links to China
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51288854

Securing the U.S. Research Enterprise from China’s Talent Recruitment Plans
https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/securing-the-us-research-enterprise-from-chinas-talent-recruitment-plans-111919

Chinese researcher escorted from infectious disease lab amid RCMP investigation

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-escorted-from-infectious-disease-lab-amid-rcmp-investigation-1.5211567

Questions Surround Canadian Shipment of Deadly Viruses to China
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/questions-surround-canadian-shipment-of-deadly-viruses-to-china-66254


11 posted on 03/23/2020 5:17:44 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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Agreed but how many mid-level managers and employees are Deep State? We just don’t know.


12 posted on 03/23/2020 5:19:41 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: billorites
Well, NSA has ways of collecting and analyzing communications weeks or months after they were first sent.

If the can't do it real-time, or even close to real-time, what the heck good are they?

13 posted on 03/23/2020 5:20:59 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Never let a crisis go to waste...you can do things you thought you could not do before.)
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“was originally ignored by the NSA. This would explain why Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo weren’t more alarmed in early January.”

Yep, sounds like NSA backpeddling to cover up yet ANOTHER failure.

14 posted on 03/23/2020 5:21:04 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Fresh Wind
If the can't do it real-time, or even close to real-time, what the heck good are they?

They're here to spy on Americans. The "national security" aspect is a scam.

15 posted on 03/23/2020 5:22:15 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: nuconvert

Marked for later, thanks.


16 posted on 03/23/2020 5:43:45 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of soup.)
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balderdash

The comment is baseless


17 posted on 03/23/2020 5:47:19 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Fresh Wind

This is clearly, or as clearly as I wish to express it openly, referring to comma captured in a general sense that were correlated to this situation more recently.

Have to wait on quantum computing to get the speed you’re looking for...


18 posted on 03/23/2020 5:53:18 AM PDT by No.6
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To: billorites

unless I missed something, somewhat of a disappointing article. All that to say is was suspicious that provincial officials were replaced the other month. That’s all he had to write the article about?


19 posted on 03/23/2020 6:03:59 AM PDT by griffin
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To: billorites

This is good speculation. I like it.

But the author should have been more clear in the headline or in the first paragraph that it’s only speculation with no evidence, not even circumstantial.


20 posted on 03/23/2020 6:12:09 AM PDT by edwinland
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