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2021-10-07 Government Corruption
The CIA Blames Incompetence for Losing Dozens of Agents but Is That the Real Story?
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Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-07 04:59|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 BBC - Abu Zubaydah: Top US court to rule on test case over state secrecy

There are obvious long-term operational security risks involved in running such programs.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-07 05:23||   2021-10-07 05:23|| Front Page Top

#2 The CIA used deliberately second-rate computers to protect its servers storing China agent information. The Chinese easily broke and and rolled up the CIA's entire operation.

Good job, deep state. This is why we trust you with secrets that you swear you can't tell us.
Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-10-07 06:04||   2021-10-07 06:04|| Front Page Top

#3 No mention about security risks associated with CA Senator Spy convicted Driver, a Congressman’s Chinese spy side piece, President's corrupted Crackhead Son with ties to questionable foreign contacts….
Posted by Airandee 2021-10-07 06:37||   2021-10-07 06:37|| Front Page Top

#4 AP - CIA creates working group on China as threats keep rising

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA said Thursday it will create a top-level working group on China as part of a broad U.S. government effort focused on countering Beijing’s influence.

The group will become one of fewer than a dozen mission centers operated by the CIA, with weekly director-level meetings intended to drive the agency’s strategy toward China. The CIA also announced that it would ramp up efforts to recruit Chinese speakers and create another mission center focusing on emerging technologies and global issues such as climate change and global health.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-07 08:10||   2021-10-07 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 The damage occurred back in Obama's first term -- when Biden was VP and Crackhead was doing deals with Chinese front organizations. Peter Schweitzer reported in 2011 that Crackhead's business partners -- including two convicted criminals -- arranged for the Chinese Communist front company officials to meet with Biden in the White House in that year.

Seems reasonable to conclude that the Chinese accessed Crackhead's communications and various laptops at least a decade ago -- probably when his corrupt dad became VP if not earlier, and certainly by the 2000's.
Posted by Sheba tse Tung4690 2021-10-07 09:06||   2021-10-07 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, we all know the CIA is incompetent. They proved that 20 years ago
Posted by Chris 2021-10-07 09:41||   2021-10-07 09:41|| Front Page Top

#7 The group will become one of fewer than a dozen mission centers operated by the CIA

In other words, org chart expansion.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-07 10:28||   2021-10-07 10:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Joe Biden's brother-in-law asked Hunter Biden to help him secure a business license in China, emails show
Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-07 11:19||   2021-10-07 11:19|| Front Page Top

#9 #3 No mention about security risks associated with CA Senator Spy convicted Driver, a Congressman’s Chinese spy side piece, President's corrupted Crackhead Son with ties to questionable foreign contacts….
Posted by Airandee

Somebody's been paying attention.
Posted by jpal 2021-10-07 12:24||   2021-10-07 12:24|| Front Page Top

#10 They don't have to be the sharpest tools in the crayon box. They only have to stay a step or two ahead of the idiots in Congress who should have shut them down shortly after the Bay of Pigs.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-10-07 13:50||   2021-10-07 13:50|| Front Page Top

#11 It has been widely reported that the C.I.A.’s covert networks in Communist China have been largely rolled up.

They have been rolled up since the 1940's. The CIA finally acknowledged it in 1985, and have been trying (unsuccessfully) to fix it ever since.
Posted by Zenobia7251 2021-10-07 15:00||   2021-10-07 15:00|| Front Page Top

#12 To be honest, there are certain cultural challenges.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-07 16:55||   2021-10-07 16:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe our counterintelligence operators such as Strok spent too much time playing games with his paramour and with the Russia, Russia, Russia fraud to notice real intelligence threats.
Posted by JohnQC 2021-10-07 17:17||   2021-10-07 17:17|| Front Page Top

#14 ^Or, maybe, CIA just got a real good deal on a lot of Chinese computers.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-10-07 17:21||   2021-10-07 17:21|| Front Page Top

#15 I bet climate change meetings got them.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-07 18:57||   2021-10-07 18:57|| Front Page Top

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