With low IQ, atheistic, self-serving political hacks like this in charge, its hard not to root against the CIA
Posted on 10/20/2022 9:07:57 AM PDT by elpadre
Reuters recently published a new story about one of the worst US intelligence failures in decades.
From about 2010 to 2013, dozens of CIA informants in China, Iran, and elsewhere were captured and executed, imprisoned, or turned into double-dealing agents. In Iran and China, almost the entire CIA network in two of its highest priority countries has reportedly been exposed.
Some in the US government appear to have tried to place much of the blame on the betrayal of CIA operative Jerry Lee , who was later prosecuted and pleaded guilty to spying for the Chinese government. But Lee’s alleged espionage could not explain the disclosure of all these sources.
In a series of articles published by the New York Times, Foreign Policy and Yahoo! News, another explanation emerged: the striking weakness of source protection within the CIA itself.
There were several omissions in the basics of the trade (which included sending newly recruited to meetings in places known to be closely monitored by foreign intelligence agencies). But most disastrous was the (not so) secret communications system that the CIA used to maintain relationships with these sources. Even if there were no mole, it seems hard to believe that this sloppy system could have eluded the sophisticated counterintelligence capabilities of the Chinese and Iranian governments for a long time.READ ALSO
In essence, the CIA created a system for embedding a messaging feature hidden in the search box of hundreds of cheaply manufactured fake websites. The word “hidden” should be used here in an extended sense – a new Reuters report provided over three hundred sites and showed that even a cursory glance at their publicly available HTML source code revealed labels such as “message”, “create” and “password” . And because the agency purchased domain names in bulk, the websites ......
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“..In essence, the CIA created a system for embedding a messaging feature hidden in the search box of hundreds of cheaply manufactured fake websites. The word “hidden” should be used here in an extended sense – a new Reuters report provided over three hundred sites and showed that even a cursory glance at their publicly available HTML source code revealed labels such as “message”, “create” and “password” . And because the agency purchased domain names in bulk, the websites were assigned IP addresses sequentially, making it almost trivially easy to identify the entire network once a few of the agents were located...”
The left is running them. Ergo, standard results. I never thought I’d reach a time when there is virtually no portion of the government that I respect. And as a retired officer who had a wonderful career - this includes the woke joke of a military currently donning clown costumes and feigning competency.
This is a Babylon Bee fake news article isn’t it?
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2022/10/19/america-is-alarmed-the-cia-is-losing-agents/
Maybe it’s because the CIA is concentrating on recruiting perverts and leftists (actually the same thing).
...I mean, we all know about the FBI...
Obama.
Obama, Clinton, and Bidens have turned national defense into a joke.
I never understood why Lee (and a few other ones I’ve forgotten their names—-Aldrich Ames was 1) were not executed.
I mean if their betrayal costs the lives of Americans and costs hundreds of millions as well as endangering national security. How worse could it be and why even keep capital punishment on the books?
And is this country still worth putting your life on the line for? The CIA serves the Deep State, not the US.
This is what happens when you recruit diversity over stone cold intelligence officers with experience. CIA relied on the government credit card and no-experience college kids: which leads to sophomoric operations.
DIA is in the same mess, but add in 20 years of incompetent women screwing their way up to the GG-15 ranks in record fashion.
I would quit too. It must be demoralizing to have to post that much idiotic Ukrainian propaganda on Free Republic all day.
I’m going out on a limb and suggesting it was either an outsourced contracting firm, or a diversity hire, responsible for the compromised websites.
I don’t know if it is fake news or not. But check out this verifying story: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spies-iran/
Yeah, but their inclusion and equity numbers are WAY up! Maybe even have a perfect ESG score. /s
Weird, I’m not alarmed.
With low IQ, atheistic, self-serving political hacks like this in charge, its hard not to root against the CIA
There’s honest work at Jiffy Lube.
The CIA is the epitome of the deep state. They work for themselves and their agency, not America. They can shovel we are patriots crap until the cows come home, I’m not buying it anymore, their actions say otherwise.
They have screwed up time and time again and got thousands of GI’s killed, wounded and disabled for life as well as thousands of American citizens. No one is ever demoted, fired, prosecuted.
Throw in the fact that they love to meddle in internal politics and you have a disaster in the making. Truman screwed the pooch creating these dillweed’s.
As for it being an alarming failure, really you just come to that conclusion this late in the game?
This level of slovenliness is deeply shocking and inexcusable for a spy service with the resources and experience at the disposal of the CIA. But there are additional layers of hypocrisy and bitter irony that have been less discussed.
The episode coincided with the Justice Department intensifying its war on whistleblowers.
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The CIA is yet another government agency rotting from the inside, but doing everything it can to protect itself from anyone who dares call attention to the rot. The result of the rot and ineptitude in this case is a bunch of dead CIA agents... and no one is held responsible. Rinse and repeat.
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