New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA 250
cold fjord writes "The Washington Post reports, 'The CIA found that among a subset of job seekers whose backgrounds raised questions, roughly one out of every five had "significant terrorist and/or hostile intelligence connections," according to the document, which was provided to The Washington Post by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The groups cited most often were Hamas, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda and its affiliates, but the nature of the connections was not described in the document. So sharp is the fear of threats from within that last year the NSA planned to launch at least 4,000 probes of potentially suspicious or abnormal staff activity .... The anomalous behavior that sent up red flags could include staffers downloading multiple documents or accessing classified databases they do not normally use for their work, said two people familiar with the software used to monitor employee activity.'"
Snowden beware (Score:5, Insightful)
The terrorists are already here. (Score:5, Insightful)
Look at who signed this.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/experts-obama-here-what-do-syria_751267.html [weeklystandard.com]
The same old bunch of neocon bastards that lied us into Iraq as far back as the "Open Letter to Bill Clinton back in 1998.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm [newamericancentury.org]
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm [newamericancentury.org]
And really, read the rest of the PNAC site.
PNAC morphed into the Foreign Policy Initiative
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about/staff [foreignpolicyi.org]
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about [foreignpolicyi.org]
Even during Mitt Romney's candidacy Mittens had a fucking wb page *titled* "new american century* with much of the above philosophy basically cut-and-pasted. Which shouldn't be surprising since his foreign policy "brain trust" consisted of FPI bastards. Up to and including Dan Senor (FPI and PNAC alum) on Meet The Press saying that we should bomb Iran back then.
Read. It's not conspiracy theory when it's from their own mouths.
I wouldn't put it past these bastards to hire someone to detonate a sarin bomb in Damascus to gin up an excuse for an invasion. And now they're wondering what the fuck to do now that the President just said "Well, we should have Congress' input on this."
Fuck these guys for wanting to get us involved in another war where there is no winning, just more death.
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BMO
Except ... (Score:5, Insightful)
The anomalous behavior that sent up red flags could include staffers downloading multiple documents or accessing classified databases they do not normally use for their work, said two people familiar with the software used to monitor employee activity.
Except, apparently, one Edward Snowden. Which means for all of the paranoia, someone still got through.
What about the other Snowdens that aren't whistleblowers but real, actual spies?
This is another reason the NSA et al are foolish to dismiss Snowden as a threat, another reason why he should be embraced as a hero for shining light on a serious problem!
Peace,
Andy.
Re:Better use for NSA capabilities: Watch Congress (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The terrorists are already here. (Score:5, Insightful)
I wouldn't put it past these bastards to hire someone to detonate a sarin bomb in Damascus to gin up an excuse for an invasion. And now they're wondering what the fuck to do now that the President just said "Well, we should have Congress' input on this."
Looking at his actual record, Obama is more George Bush that George Bush was . He's owned and controlled by the same people who own and control Congress. I'll give you a hint; it's not the American people. I wouldn't be surprised if the sarin wasn't released to benefit and promote our political agenda at home (NSA, etc.) as well as our foreign policy. He just wants it all wrapped up nicely with Congressional approval to deflect responsibility.
Terrorists (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:And in other news (Score:5, Insightful)
I'd be surprised if terrorists were not trying to infiltrate the CIA.
Frankly.... i'd be surprised if they have not already succeeded.
THAT is what makes me as nervous as hell about the NSA spying on Americans through service providers.
Leaks like Snowden are proof that whatever they gather might eventually get in the wrong hands one way or another.
One person's interest in monitoring the public looking for possible terrorists links, Is another person's blackmail material, once the bad guy infiltrators get ahold of Americans' private data
Re:No need for that anymore... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Snowden beware (Score:2, Insightful)
If they thought like you did, they wouldn't last long due to their evident idiocy. Shooting Snowden is the last thing the US is going to do
Oh, it will be the Russian Mafia that does it, probably in a shootout accidentally happening in his vicinity. That will prove how foolish it was of him to flee the free and secure U.S.A. where he could have expected a fair trial, for a country like Russia where bad things happen.
Re:Except ... (Score:5, Insightful)
So you are in favor of courtesy notes from burglars then?
Flawed analogy. Burglars steal your property. Snowden "stole" things that belonged to the people of the United States, and then gave them the access that they'd been denied to their own property! Oh, that's right, it was being kept secret for "our protection" (and the bureaucracy protecting itself - the main reason for government secrets).
Re:Except ... (Score:5, Insightful)
An an anecdotal example, when my great-grandmother died, I was five. My parents inherited a small ladies handgun (22 short semi) from her. I did not know, it was kept secret. It was not locked, just stored on the back of a closet shelf under some shoe boxes. One day at 11 or 12, I noticed two identical shoe boxes in my parents closet were sitting at different heights. Being the curious soul I was, I investigated, and found the handgun in a box with a small amount of ammunition. Playing with it later nearly blew my hand off.
Secrecy gives a false sense of security, and also promotes lies and egos. It does not further security.
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