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2017-08-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-

IT staffers may have compromised sensitive data to foreign intelligence

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-20 12:13|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Any competent counterintelligence (CI) damage assessment would immediately default to a compromise of data and recommend corrective actions. This is not rocket science.

We are now learning that USG data had been taken from the Congressional networks and placed on outside servers. And, since the IT staffers (Imran Awan and family members) also worked for members of the Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committee members, the probe is also looking into the compromise of classified information.

It is also reported the Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) has hired legal counsel in the matter.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-20 12:23|| 2017-08-20 12:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Any competent counterintelligence (CI) damage assessment would immediately default to a compromise

Competent counterintelligence damage assessment personnel were likely assigned..... to other duties.

Posted by Pappy 2017-08-20 12:57|| 2017-08-20 12:57|| Front Page Top

#3 How long until we discover that Pakistani ISI made significant financial contributions to the DNC ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-20 12:58|| 2017-08-20 12:58|| Front Page Top

#4 ISI made significant financial contributions to the DNC ?

Money passed through from Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Saudis or ????????

Posted by AlanC 2017-08-20 15:42|| 2017-08-20 15:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Depends on who also bankrolls the Muslin Brotherhood.

Posted by Pappy 2017-08-20 16:04|| 2017-08-20 16:04|| Front Page Top

#6 counterintelligence(CI) damage assessment was outsourced to Pakistan. (I wish I could confidently say /s)

Posted by Glenmore 2017-08-20 16:57|| 2017-08-20 16:57|| Front Page Top

#7 counterintelligence(CI) damage assessment was outsourced to Pakistan. (I wish I could confidently say /s)

Our top men in Abbottobad are now at work on it, Top men, they've never let us down in the past, I can assure you of that.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-20 17:05|| 2017-08-20 17:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Is there any intelligence worthy of compromise in Congress?

And...

Is there any intelligence (cerebral) in Congress?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-08-20 17:26|| 2017-08-20 17:26|| Front Page Top

#9 The Aman's were funneling data to an 'off-site' server where they could access it from any location. Has a familiar ring to it, does it not ?

No need to meet with your Case Officer, or fiddle with time consuming foreign travel, PM (personal meetings), dead letter drops, just provide him or her 'off-site' access and voila !

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-20 18:01|| 2017-08-20 18:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Investigators now suspect that sensitive US government data — possibly including classified information — could have been compromised and may have been sold to hostile foreign governments that could use it to blackmail members of Congress or even put their lives at risk

Not inclined to agree with the 'blackmail' angle. Far easier to use it to determine US plans, policies and ops in various interest points like A-stan, Arabian peninsula, South China Sea, Indian subcontinent, et cetera. Might also be of use to various and sundry lobbyist outfits and interest groups (foreign and domestic) that deal with Congress.

Posted by Pappy 2017-08-20 19:18|| 2017-08-20 19:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Not inclined to agree with the 'blackmail' angle.

Concur! 'Blackmail' no, long-term foreign espionage (you help us - we help you), highly probable.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-20 19:44|| 2017-08-20 19:44|| Front Page Top

#12 The amounts of money paid to people with no real experience or existing relevant business, even after they were no longer able to perform their job, points to blackmail IMO.

Although with material that predates access to the Congressional systems, which in turn indicates foreign intelligence involvement.

Posted by phil_b 2017-08-20 20:12|| 2017-08-20 20:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Well paid intelligence sources and known double agents would be my guess. It is D.C. after all.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-20 20:16|| 2017-08-20 20:16|| Front Page Top

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