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bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 09:19 PM Apr 2017

CIA, FBI launch manhunt for leaker who gave top-secret documents to WikiLeaks

Source: CBS

WASHINGTON -- CBS News has learned that a manhunt is underway for a traitor inside the Central Intelligence Agency.

The CIA and FBI are conducting a joint investigation into one of the worst security breaches in CIA history, which exposed thousands of top-secret documents that described CIA tools used to penetrate smartphones, smart televisions and computer systems.

Sources familiar with the investigation say it is looking for an insider -- either a CIA employee or contractor -- who had physical access to the material. The agency has not said publicly when the material was taken or how it was stolen.

Much of the material was classified and stored in a highly secure section of the intelligence agency, but sources say hundreds of people would have had access to the material. Investigators are going through those names.

The trove was published in March by the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-fbi-on-manhunt-for-leaker-who-gave-top-secret-documents-to-wikileaks/

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pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
3. It's helping the Russians and other US adversaries, that's who this will help.
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 10:31 PM
Apr 2017

Not ordinary Americans.

paleotn

(17,778 posts)
5. You mean like this guy?
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 11:02 PM
Apr 2017


I hope the traitors get the same sentence as Aldrich Ames and a nice cell right next to his. For the fact that you can write such dribble, without fear of your butt being thrown in jail just for posting it, thank the US Intel services, among others.

 

JCanete

(5,272 posts)
9. he did fly off the handle and made some assumptions, but your characterization of government, left
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 02:02 AM
Apr 2017

unchecked, is just as absurd. We can thank no such agency without American whistleblowers and without an American public that is thankfully, most of the time, in favor of checking authoritarianism and abuse of power with daylight.

That said, there is absolutely such a thing as being an actual traitor who divulges classified information for reasons having nothing to do with keeping our government honest to its citizens. I'd be interested to hear how things unfold with this particular leaker before I pass judgement.

paleotn

(17,778 posts)
12. Not unchecked....
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 09:21 AM
Apr 2017

In that I agree with you. If intelligence agencies step out of line constitutionally, we need whistle blowers. Divulging what our government is doing is understandable in certain situations. How we do it is quite another thing. Divulging methods and / or sources to foreign advisories, reducing our intelligence community's ability to do their jobs, goes well beyond the pale and must be punished to the full extent of the law.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. It's not black and white, Chris. Remember 9/11?
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 06:12 AM
Apr 2017

Now, remember all the other devastating terrorist attacks in the U.S. since then? NOT, right?

Btw, WMD now include cyber attacks by both highly funded state operations and independent antisocial hacker weenies who every single day are probing all levels of our interconnected systems for infrastructure frailties, inserting digital bombs, trying to identify and access critical straws they can pull. Then there are man-made EMPs.

People are actually now a lot more likely to die of dehydration or starvation after one of those than from a nuclear attack. Experts feel it's a matter of when, where, and how badly a major attack succeeds. Not if.

Here's a fun little U.S. Army illustration of one of the more worst-case scenarios, one that would almost certainly have to be carried out by a rogue nation. The sophistication required to pull off a good strike is actually rather reassuring. Would a rather primitive high-alt nuc launched from a tanker off one of our coasts by ISIS do as much damage as they hoped?

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
11. You should open up your house to him/her then and give a safe haven
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 08:51 AM
Apr 2017

Just be sure to let Putin know where you live so he can have his peeps come pick him up...

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
4. Hope they nail the SOB.
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 10:32 PM
Apr 2017

True to my old-school hippie roots, I used to be implacably opposed to intelligence agencies. Not anymore. Since watching the shitstorm of the last American election I've decided that somebody needs to stand between democracy and tyranny. They are the shock troops of fourth generation information warfare, and they're all we've got, so I wish them well.

Go @20committee!

SunSeeker

(51,367 posts)
7. Wikileaks stopped being an "anti-secrecy organization" when it became Putin's propaganda laundry.
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 11:29 PM
Apr 2017

Fuck them. And fuck the traitor who did this. Hope they find and prosecute the scumbag.

tirebiter

(2,520 posts)
8. it serves as another diversion
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 11:41 PM
Apr 2017

Somehow I think Pompeo doesn't mean what we would mean when he says it serves the Russians.

We have different priorities for what to focus on. What was uncovered is that the previous administration was being reeeeeaaaly careful to not stop on American privacy. The British have no 1st or 4th amendment which gave Steele license to follow trails to Page, Flynn, Manafort, etc.

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
15. I wonder if someone in Congress could be the leaker? After all if one or more of them was involved
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 11:45 PM
Apr 2017

collusion with Russia to help Trump with the election then its not to hard to imagine them being willing to sell secrets to Russia either.

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