Posted on 06/16/2015 6:55:09 AM PDT by Rockitz
It's tough enough to be an undercover spy in the age of the Internet. China's hack of American personnel files just made it much, much harder.
The mega-hack of the Office of Personnel Management continues to get worse for Washington. Revelations of a second, even deeper intrusion into OPM servers bring distressing news that Pentagon employees, including intelligence personnel, are among the millions of Americans whose personal and security data have been compromised.
As The Daily Beast reported, this hack constitutes a disaster for Washington's counterintelligence operatives. Armed with very private information about the personal lives of millions of security clearance holders, foreign intelligence services can blackmail and coerce vulnerable officials. To make matters worse, foreign spies can use data purloined from OPM background investigations to head American mole-hunters off at the pass. For Beltway counterspies, the OPM breach will take decades to set right.
But there's an even more serious aspect of this compromise: the threat it poses to American intelligence operations abroad, particularly to officers serving under various false identities, or "covers," overseas. The Intelligence Community employs myriad cover mechanisms to protect the true identity of its spies posted outside the United States. Cover protects our officers and allows them to conduct their secret work without drawing as much attention to themselves. While many intelligence officers pose as diplomats, that is only one option, and some covers are deeper than others.
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I remember Mr. Hillary selling the technology for MIRVing missiles to China.
That's very short sighted.
Interesting; thanks.
You're right. I shoulda said I hope it ruins them ALL. Jackboot licking thugs anyhow.
Still waiting for you to enlighten me on how I don’t know what I’m talking about. But you’ve likely been sworn to secrecy, even if that means keeping important info about what are government is doing from the taxpaying Americans such as myself who fund it! I don’t think so. Only jackboot statist thugs hold secrets from the American public.
Let me guess, China is not as stupid and doesn’t connect personal government employee records to the net?
More likely we are dealing with blowback from the revelation that the US government was spying on every country on the planet. Atlas is shrugging.
Yep. Only them.
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