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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It would be great of the NSA supported America and not the Deep State.
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I would be a little careful with that. Applied to the FBI and the CIA and at least the office and staff of the Director of National Intelligence you are spot on.
But I don’t see the level of leaking and political activism coming out of NSA that we all see on a regular basis coming from the rest of the Intelligence Community.
Remember, this is the organization tasked with collecting electronic communications. I think they are world class when it comes to that basic task.
So I’m hopeful you are wrong about the Deep State connection. But I wouldn’t bet my life on that either.
I assume you mean "communication". Autocorrect strikes again?
Seems to me the NSA has quite a lot of computer power, but maybe are they too bogged down capturing every text, email, and phone conversation of every US citizen.
Maybe their priorities are off just a bit.
The chicoms are going to look and feel really stupid when there is either nobody with any money to buy their chit or nobody wants it anymore or some combination of the two.
When that happens the next step for their leaders is to fight off the revolution by the people.
If we had a CIA that was actually working for the US they would help orchestrate a change of power in China.
Hindsight is wonderful. Have you never ignored some bit of information, then realized later that it was the missing piece in your puzzle?
> Comma??? I assume you mean “communication”
Yes! (Or “comms”). Posting by phone is dangerous.
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