Posted on 01/18/2023 10:41:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The news is full of tut-tutting about the terribleness of President Trump, and now Joe Biden, supposedly mishandling a few classified documents by having them in their possession, which is usually a matter of them wanting to write their memoirs, so far as we know.
Now a new book came out yesterday by James Bamford, called SpyFail, telling us how little care the FBI has taken with its own classified documents. Its clumsy maneuvers, bad personnel hiring practices, and misplaced priorities pretty well gave away the store of U.S. secrets targeting China.
According to BusinessInsider, which ran a long and interesting book excerpt by Bamford himself:
The FBI's website carries a stark warning. "The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China," it says, "are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States. Confronting this threat is the FBI's top counterintelligence priority." But far worse is the threat to the lives of scores of courageous Chinese agents who have volunteered to spy for the U.S. within their own country. Over the past decade, more than a dozen agents recruited by the CIA have been killed or imprisoned.
And it now turns out that it was an alleged Chinese spy within the FBI's own counterintelligence division who may have been largely responsible. A spy whose activities went undetected for upwards of two decades, until his quiet arrest in 2020. Currently in a Hawaiian jail, his little-known case is wrapped in layers of secrecy as he awaits trail. Now in his new book, "SPYFAIL: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence," author James Bamford peels back many of those hidden layers.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
the FBI has become the gestapo. it’s that simple.
An organization/bureaucracy always follows its culture and its leaders.
And FBI’s leaders focus on domestic politics
That’s why it must be dismantled, with necessary functions re-established elsewhere. Of course its politically corrupt, but its failing badly on true national security issues.
Peter Strzok was Deputy of Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Division.
One would think he would have spent his time chasing foreign spies in the USA.
But if you read his emails and texts, he is a pure bureaucratic hack and ass-kisser, focused on internal FBI politics - which boss said what, who is appearing on TV, who is meeting with whom, etc...
He also spent a lot of time flirting with his mistress and spewing the correct PC narratives of DC.
NOTHING he did had to do with “counter-espionage.”
Not just inside the FBI, but in the counterintelligence section! That’s the section that is supposed to be catching foreign spies. Obviously their background checks leave something to be desired.
Criticize our FIB?
“How dare you!”
Is his last name Hur?
Clinton was selling out the country to China back in 1992 and since and the FBI did not notice?
The same people Clinton hired are still in gov’t positions today.
Brennan was a young communist and a closet Muslim as the CIA director
True, but the CIA director is a political appointment, and after the Clinton years, background checks for political appointments were already meaningless.
true, in the 70s I was chasing SMLM around Germany and better dead than red was still a thing, Clinton screwed all that up.
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