Posted on 12/11/2017 2:21:41 PM PST by IVAXMAN
Did you see on Kristinn’s thread she applied and got a ham radio license within a month of dossier publication? She was the cutout, doin’ the comms.
Yes, Josh jumped the gun on my article and posted the screen image of the document before I was ready to publish.
That is very interesting.... but I don’t know much about ham radio — would she really need to get a license if she was going to do something secretive, especially as a CIA person? I suppose it might give her some protection legally but could also draw attention, as it has if someone now has noticed the FCC license she got. Wonder who thought to look for that?? It didn’t occur to me.....
ahh I hope you can forgive him, it all seems to be coming out well..... hoping James Rosen continues to pursue all of this. Especially with McCabe suddenly cancelling on the House Intel Committee testimony!! Clearly he doesn’t want to be confronted with some very inconvenient questions.
Ham radio operators would out you for broadcasting without valid call sign. They have highly effective scanners. They would hear you. The govt has really really effective scanners. They would hear you too just harder to trace back unless you where using your call sign. The ham license seems like a problem for the criminal comm angle.
She got a valid call sign. A commenter posted it on Kristinn’s thread at the GP.
However, outside of the govt, highly doubtful there would be a digital record of your transmissions in content or participants.
thanks. i wonder what the date of the session announcement was.
lots of interesting comments on CTH about all of this.
here is one:
safvetblog says:
December 12, 2017 at 2:17 am
Quoting SD above: “One way to ensure secure communications with parties external to the U.S. would be the use of HAM radio operations. You simply establish the frequency to use, and the time of the conversation, and presto. That’s it. “Red-Dog-One to Red-Dog-Two, come in?” etc.”
The class of Ham license she has only allows operations on bands from 10 meters up through VHF/UHF. In these years of low sunspot activity, opportunities for external-to-U.S. communications in these bands are rare, and occur randomly. Not too good for trying to set up clandestine communications. Also, HF (long-haul) ham frequencies are well known and also well within the capabilities of NSA to intercept.
She might have better luck using VHF/UHF, but unless you use a repeater (which is like using a bull horn in a football stadium), point-to-point communication is restricted to line-of-sight. There are repeater networks that are cross-linked through the internet, but again, they are open for all to hear. There are digital ham radios available now, but none of them come with built-in encryption unless they have been modified by someone with a lot of technical know-how. IMHO, her getting a ham license could be nothing more than her wanting to get involved in a new hobby. Why would she pick a medium of communication that is by nature open for all to listen in? Better to stick with burner cell phones… The timing of her license could be suspicious, but is there any evidence that Steele also has a license?
One other thing – one doesn’t need a ham license to purchase ham radio equipment. Not even to just listen – the license is permission to transmit. Of course, one could just bootleg your communications, but then why apply for and get a license, which is a public record of your capability?
BTW. I have been an active ham for >60 years…
it would be stupid for the CIA not to monitor short range ham radio frequencies in the greater metro DC area ... yes?
bkmk
Your observations are very good re “why would the Russians back someone with very little chance of winning”?
A couple of thoughts, since I said my column was a “supposition”, not necessarily “reality”.
Suppose the Russians knew more about Trump’s chances and Hillary’s weaknesses than most of our esteemed political pundits and pollsters?
Sometimes the play both sides against the middle, but also want to give their favorite an advantage (unbeknownst to them). Hillary was not a “threat” to the Russians or Red Chinese. She and Bill had sold out to Red China in the 90’s, along with Al Gore, so the Russians knew she would sell out to the highest bidder.
Then they realized that she was a fool re what happened with Benghazi (and that Obama, despite being a Marxist, was a weak-willed 3rd rate leader). This gave them the go-ahead to do whatever they wanted to re influencing American politics.
Did they succeed re “hackings”, disinformation, “Dossiergate” etc.? I don’t know. If they were successful, we wouldn’t know it. That’s how the KGB worked (as does its successor in name only). We still haven’t decoded all the Venona papers, 72+ years after they were first intercepted. Now that is GOOD encryption!
We still don’t know how many Soviet spies were in the US government from the 1930’s - early 50’s, including another possible set of two undiscovered rings (Observations of the late FBI undercover agent Herb Philbrick, one of my mentors). And there is circumstantial evidence that at least one spy ring could have existed in the National Bureau of Standards since 1938/39. There are names and links, but no documented evidence in the public so far. Just odds and ends documents, decades later admissions, business working relationships, and govt contracts. involving CPUSA membered companies. LONG STORY YET TO BE FINISHED.
Just remember one thing - “If someone tells you something cannot be done, you’d better be prepared for it to be done”.
We lost a number of soldiers and Intell guys in Laos because of that thinking re our “secret” observation and monitoring post on a supposedly unclimbable mountain. The NVA did climb that side no one was supposed to be able to, and overran our operation, killing Americans and possibly capturing one or more, who never were found.
If it can’t be done, someone will do it!
This applies esp. to both Russian and Red Chinese intelligence and disinformation operations.
Interesting... Nellie Ohr got a HAM radio license in May 2016 and lives a short distance away from the CIA:
No, it's time to call it what it really is - Obama and Clinton era holdovers burrowed into out government's intelligence and law enforcement agencies
It’s so vexing that this man was appointed to this position at this point in history. We need a fighter, a spirited, justice seeking individual.
Sending code messages with a HSAM license is a big issue.
Codebreakers all monitor her transmissions 24/7
bkmk
HSAM = HAM...early morning fat finger syndrome.
She is reportedly not a very nice person and she certainly doesn’t seem like anyone special. So why have so many put aside their integrity and honor to prop up Hillary, how did the woman become so powerful? I just do not get it.
That is very interesting.... but I don’t know much about ham radio — would she really need to get a license if she was going to do something secretive, especially as a CIA person? I suppose it might give her some protection legally but could also draw attention, as it has if someone now has noticed the FCC license she got. Wonder who thought to look for that?? It didn’t occur to me.....
The Ham license is definitely odd. Why get one now? It’s not like she likely has a background of tinkering with radios or building electronics.
It would provide for essentially untraceable transmission of covert info as the broadcast wouldn’t be to anyone specific. One could prearrange for broadcasting a coded message at a certain time of day. The code itself could be hidden in a seemingly innocuous phrase instead of some cryptic sounding number string.
Perhaps they didn't care some much about Brennen and other friendlies at the CIA hearing the conversation.
Perhaps they were more concerned about the NSA and Mike Rodgers.
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