Internet blows CIA cover (It's easy to track America's covert operatives)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 3/11/06 | John Crewdson

[frankjr]

Bush haters in CIA only only concerned about protecting "desk jockey" Valarie Plame.

If you want to read the entire article and it asks you for an ID and password, get one here: http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.chicagotribune.com

[TexasCajun]

At Langley, Employees line up for their turn on the state-of-the-art computing technology!

[ASA Vet]

Wow! That looks so much more capable than my machine.
Maybe I should upgrade.

[madtier1]

those 8080/8088 processors were great for their time!

[Diver Dave]

Hey, I had one of those XT's. 4mgs mem, 30 mg hard drive, DOS. - long ago sent to the dump.

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

I know they're not a real intel agency, but since we've provide them product it's kind of interesting watching them self destruct.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

BTTT

[txzman]

"Hey, I had one of those XT's. 4mgs mem, 30 mg hard drive, DOS. - long ago sent to the dump"

Yep - EGA was the cat's pajamas. Remember hours of fun playing Chuck Yeager's Air Combat on my NEC 10 MHz AT. Man was I proud of that screamin' demon machine! With a hard drive even! LOL.

[InterceptPoint]

Here was my first real computer.I do believe it was a 16 bit machine.

[SpyGuy]

If the editors at the Tribune were true patriotic Americans, they would have turned over their research to the CIA, had their staff sign confidentiality agreements, and quietly canned the story. Instead, they published it.

The traitorous anti-American bastards should be shot.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Oh for crying out loud.

SHUT UP, JOURNALISTS.

Stop publishing information useful to our enemies!!!

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Can we shut down the Tribune, right after the offices of the New York Times are raided?

[frankjr]

Also in the article:

"..."How do you establish a cover for them in a day and age when you can Google a name ... and find out all sorts of holes?"

In Plame's case, online computer searches would have turned up her tenure as a junior diplomat in the U.S. Embassy in Athens even after she began passing herself off as a privately employed "energy consultant.""

[kingu]

Never saw one of those Ti-99's.. Just had a TI-99/4a from Fedco and B.Y.T.E magazine so I had programs to type in...



Wow, that takes me back..

[RichInOC]

Well, it's definitely blowing...

[Eagleami]

lol - the memories. I paid a pretty penny way back for one of the first Lisa Mac's.

[TexasCajun]

I knew I started something... :)

[frankjr]

This is the first "portable" I used at work. It was a joy traveling on the plane with this Compaq. It had to weigh at least 30 pounds.

[Cicero]

Several "front companies" set up to provide cover for CIA operatives and its small fleet of aircraft recently began disappearing from the Internet, following the Tribune's disclosures that some of the planes were used to transport suspected terrorists to countries where they claimed to have been tortured.

Translation: It wasn't the internet that exposed these operatives, it was the Chicago Tribune.