The Federalist: More than 70 foreign nationals working as spies for the CIA in Iran and China were systematically identified and slaughtered in the past decade, due to a ridiculously weak web-based system the CIA used to communicate with foreign assets it couldn’t reach directly. This according to a devastating November 2 report in Yahoo News written by journalists Zach Dorfman and Jenna McLaughlin (center-left, but generally trustworthy).
Although the Iranian roll-up occurred in 2011, and the Chinese rout occurred from 2010 to 2012, the CIA did not remedy the root cause of the problem in its transient messaging scheme until 2013, when Yahoo reports teams of co-opted staffers worked around the clock to dismantle the compromised system.
Based on at least one analysis, it looks like a simple internet search using the command “InURL” and other readily available search tools revealed to Iranian and Chinese intelligence agencies a network of interconnected web sites that ultimately led back to CIA official servers. Iranian intelligence appears to be the first to have discovered and used the easy exploit, so simple as to be hardly describable as a hack, then passed the methodology on to others.
What’s more, it’s been public knowledge for years that the CIA had ample warning that something was amiss as early as 2006. Former CIA employee, then CIA contractor John Reidy had noticed agent compromises and pointed out the problem with the system to the agency at that time, ultimately taking his concerns to the CIA’s internal security apparatus and the office of its inspector general. Reidy was subsequently transferred, had his clearance restricted, and ultimately fired from his next contractor position in what appears it may be an act of petty bureaucratic revenge.
Reidy did not let the matter go, but in an extraordinary (although heavily redacted) appeal of the case he’d initially laid before the CIA to the newly created Intelligence Community Inspector General’s office, Reidy yet again detailed the problems he had identified, the assets he feared were blown and possibly killed, and the implications of both for future human intelligence source security. By that time, it was far too late. more here
Communist John Brennan’s hands are all over this … as is Commie Obamie’s & Val-Jar-Jar’s
… along w/ minions Samantha Powers, Lynch, Holder, Susan Rice, et. al.
Let me see, who was potus all those years ago?
How does anyone know what or where the security failure occurred.
Was it because they were reading the hildebeast’s server, or was it the incredibly incompetent fraudstien’s spy on staff for 20 years, or the hack of the democrats computers under the abysmally ignorant debbie the wassermutt schulz?
No investigation, no resolution and no news exposure because the MSM and the swamp in DC is totally in the tank for the crooked and incompetent democrats.
As I remember, Joe Biden was neck deep in this.
Another one of Obama’s legacies.
2 years with a super majority, lost yesterday. Who really lost?
All the fcuktards who voted, including me.
If these fcuktards wanted change, it would have happened during the last super majority.
It’s all the same game, only slightly subdued. They all suck each other’s cocks!
I adore PDJT, but we’re here again. These fcuktards use us daily. Like Mortimer and Randolph Duke.
I quit that kind long ago, because, I’m worth more than $1 and a snapchat filter!
And yet the super CIA spy is alive, strutting about advertising her CIA street cred to defeat Dave Brat. Maybe she was just a rear eschelon nobody.
You get what you deserve VA7
FOOK U pHENRY…. i am completely agog that that bitch intervened….. Phuck her bs bonifieds and phuck her cia creds…. She embraces the wonton murder of the unborn and has bragged about being a phookin spook…….. I NO LONGER EMBRACE VIRGINIA!!!!!! FUCK YOU AND WHATEVER HAPPENS HERE>>>>>>>>
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
You mean it took the whole CIA to accomplish what Hillary does on her own?
Both the CIA + FBI have been at best bad, and at worst anti American, for 17 years. They should both be destroyed. All fired! Buildings remodeled to parking structures! They both have been anti America for so long that there are so few “good” folk there that the problems can not be “solved”!