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U.S. intel agencies may change how they monitor social media, chatrooms after missing leaked U.S. documents for weeks
NBC News ^ | April 13, 2023 | Carol E. Lee, Ken Dilanian and Dan De Luce

Posted on 04/13/2023 6:12:02 PM PDT by John W

The Biden administration is looking at expanding how it monitors social media sites and chatrooms after U.S. intelligence agencies failed to spot classified Pentagon documents circulating online for weeks, according to a senior administration official and a congressional official briefed on the matter.

The possible change in the intelligence-gathering process is just one potential shift as officials scramble to determine not only how the documents leaked but also how to prevent another damaging incident.

President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin were briefed about the disclosure last week, administration officials say, but the secret documents appeared online in early March on the Discord social media app, according to Bellingcat, the open-source investigative group. Some documents may have appeared as early as January, the group said.

The president and other officials were dismayed when they learned the documents had been online for at least a month.

“Nobody is happy about this,” said the senior administration official.

The administration is now looking at expanding the universe of online sites that intelligence agencies and law enforcement authorities track, the official said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; defunddhs; ministryoftruth; privacy; spying; surveillance
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To: McGruff

FBI van
LOL


41 posted on 04/14/2023 3:36:57 AM PDT by SisterK (the final variant is communism)
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To: John W

“U.S. intel agencies may change how they monitor social media, chatrooms after missing leaked U.S. documents for weeks”

yeah, that’ll help ... much quicker in identifying when the horse got out of the opened barn door ... of course, that means the horse DID already get out ... seems like it would be much better to figure out how to keep the barn door shut so the horse didn’t get out in the first place ... sigh, and all of those tens of billions spent in identifying when the horse got out instead of keeping the bard door shut ...


42 posted on 04/14/2023 3:39:06 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: HollyB

Never let a manufactured “crisis” called, go to waste.


43 posted on 04/14/2023 3:43:26 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: Openurmind

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44 posted on 04/14/2023 3:45:14 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: Openurmind

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45 posted on 04/14/2023 3:48:42 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: elpadre
DOD is in a CYA mode. Congress and the public must hold their feet to the fire. It’s time to re-organize an organization gotten to big, fat, careless and clumsy. They need to be lean and mean!!!

They will ask for more money to monitor everything and both parties will approve it. The opposite of "lean and mean."

46 posted on 04/14/2023 4:23:46 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: John W

RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENCE ARE ...FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES...

MISSING IN ACTION.

Let’s face it, they are ACTIVISTS more than PATRIOTS.


47 posted on 04/14/2023 6:02:20 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: John W; Jim Noble
Motus in fine velocior - Things speed up toward the end
~Jim Noble
48 posted on 04/14/2023 6:11:34 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: foundedonpurpose

Ping. You were right.


49 posted on 04/14/2023 6:16:35 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: gandalftb
But, how did he manage to get hard copies of all that intel off the base to his home, where he photographed the pages of intel?

That's the smoking gun.

He didn't.

50 posted on 04/14/2023 6:46:19 AM PDT by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: PGR88
Here we go - they are promoting the “restrict act”

Timing couldn't be more obvious. They won't say "We don't have time to read it." They will just ignore the evil parts.

51 posted on 04/14/2023 7:38:32 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: John W
expanding how it monitors social media sites and chatrooms

Add heuristics like "gun," "constitution," "rights," to the AI, make convictions easier, and ask for more money.

52 posted on 04/14/2023 7:46:27 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Jim Noble

Yup, some of the pictures show a background of his home’s granite countertop.


53 posted on 04/14/2023 1:53:10 PM PDT by gandalftb
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To: gandalftb

I mean, he didn’t take them off the base.

One of those documents was a CIA eyes only document which was never on no base.


54 posted on 04/14/2023 2:02:52 PM PDT by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: gandalftb

I mean, he didn’t take them off the base.

One of those documents was a CIA eyes only document which was never on no base.

He’s a cutout. Whether he knows or not remains unclear, so far.


55 posted on 04/14/2023 2:20:45 PM PDT by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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