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Posted on 10/23/2026 6:22:04 AM PDT by Twotone
Anonymous sources have exposed sensitive details of the Trump administration’s reported plans to establish a clandestine espionage program targeting China to legacy media, potentially revealing American intelligence strategies to foreign adversaries.
The Pentagon is reportedly developing a deep-cover intelligence operation that would embed American operatives within private-sector businesses to gather intelligence on China and other foreign adversaries, according to The Washington Post. Six individuals familiar with the initiative disclosed details about its leadership, capabilities and internal planning despite the program’s sensitive nature and the Pentagon’s denial of its existence.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond for comment.
The alleged new “non-official cover officer” program is being headed by Tom Rakusan. Rakusan’s background includes a 39-year career in the CIA in which he held a leadership position during the first Trump administration. Following his 2021 retirement, he worked at a private equity firm co-founded by now Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, the Washington Post alleges. He has now returned to the Pentagon as Senior Adviser to Feinberg, according to his LinkedIn page.
Several of the leakers appear to be former colleagues with personal grudges against Rakusan. One, a White House official during Trump’s first term, referred to him as a “pipe swinger.”
“Rakusan just wants to build his own CIA down in the Pentagon,” an anonymous former CIA official told The Washington Post.
A perceived turf war appears to be another motivation for individuals leaking to the press. The CIA’s non official cover program shrinking — with many officers retiring, and none applying to fill their roles. Historically, the CIA has also been wary of allowing other agencies to participate in human intelligence operations, the Washington Post alleges. If this program exists, the CIA may view it as a threat.
The Pentagon “has a lot of money and a lot of authorities and a lot of capabilities,” another former senior CIA official told the outlet, adding “And God bless ‘em.”
“This query appears to be built on information that is simply not true,” Pentagon deputy press secretary Jacob Bliss asserted in a statement received by the Washington Post. “Whoever is feeding you these claims are either badly misinformed or deliberately leading you astray to peddle their fantasies.”
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F idiots don’t realize that Trump is not Nixon.
F idiots don’t realize that Trump is not Nixon.
Find them and hang them!
:: The Pentagon is reportedly developing a deep-cover intelligence operation that would embed American operatives within private-sector businesses to gather intelligence on China and other foreign adversaries ::
One would be foolish to think that such a Pentagon program does not already exist.
It is a serious federal crime to reveal American intelligence strategies, secrets, or national defense information to foreign adversaries.
Federal Laws include:
• The Espionage Act (18 U.S.C. § 793 and § 794): It is illegal to gather, transmit, or lose national defense information with the intent or reason to believe it could be used to injure the United States or aid a foreign government. Under § 794, communicating or delivering this information directly to a foreign government or its agents carries severe penalties, including life imprisonment or the death penalty.
• Unauthorized Disclosure of Communications Intelligence (18 U.S.C. § 798): It is a federal felony to knowingly and willfully disclose, publish, or use classified communications intelligence, cryptographic systems, or intercept methods to unauthorized recipients.
Consequences and Penalties
• Imprisonment: Violations can result in multi-year prison terms, decades behind bars, or life imprisonment depending on the specific statute and whether it directly aids an enemy.
• Fines and Forfeiture: Convicted individuals face heavy financial penalties and mandatory forfeiture of any property or proceeds derived from the violation.
Hey, that’s not fair. China doesn’t spy on us. Why should we be spying on them? Right?
Just wait until the DSA takes the House.
Why are the receivers of the leaked top secret information immune from punishment for publishing the secrets?
Why are these people allowed to continue living?
Exactly...
And it was a lot easily to hoodwink the American public. There was trust in the fake media in Nixon’s era.
Why are the receivers of the leaked top secret info
immune from punishment for publishing US secrets?
I’m guessing they’re not covered by laws...... as we are.....
Moreover, they WANT our secrets.
This should be mandatory execution, to only of the leaker but also the one making it public. To me this is treason.
The first amendment does not protect you from sabotaging national security, am I right?
Throw the traitors at wapo in jail and if they don’t reveal the sources of the leaks, let them rot there forever to make an example out of them.
And yet Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are walking around (OK, staggering around) free as jaybirds ...
Well, they are very confident he's not Pinochet, which is all that matters to them.
Never let Patriotism get in the way of a vendetta
Wouldn’t such “leaks”, and the subsequent printing of such be deemed as sedition? Surely this thing does not have 1st amendment protections.
It is a serious federal crime to reveal American intel, strategies, secrets, or ntl defense information to foreign adversaries........And yet Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are walking around free as jaybirds ...
An outrage.
The First Amendment does not protect speech or actions that cross into conduct, assistance to foreign adversaries, or specific categories of criminal acts that threaten national security.
The First Amendment protects opinions and political debate, but it does not protect physical actions, sabotage, or conduct carried out under the guise of expression.
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