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The CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran.
Yahoo News ^ | November 2, 2018 | Zach Dorfman and Jenna McLaughlin

Posted on 02/14/2019 10:58:52 AM PST by detective

In 2013, hundreds of CIA officers — many working nonstop for weeks — scrambled to contain a disaster of global proportions: a compromise of the agency’s internet-based covert communications system used to interact with its informants in dark corners around the world. Teams of CIA experts worked feverishly to take down and reconfigure the websites secretly used for these communications; others managed operations to quickly spirit assets to safety and oversaw other forms of triage.

“When this was going on, it was all that mattered,” said one former intelligence community official. The situation was “catastrophic,” said another former senior intelligence official.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 2013; cia; iran; obama; spies; spooks; witt
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From around 2009 to 2013, the U.S. intelligence community experienced crippling intelligence failures related to the secret internet-based communications system, a key means for remote messaging between CIA officers and their sources on the ground worldwide. The previously unreported global problem originated in Iran and spiderwebbed to other countries, and was left unrepaired — despite warnings about what was happening — until more than two dozen sources died in China in 2011 and 2012 as a result, according to 11 former intelligence and national security officials.

The disaster ensnared every corner of the national security bureaucracy — from multiple intelligence agencies, congressional intelligence committees and independent contractors to internal government watchdogs — forcing a slow-moving, complex government machine to grapple with the deadly dangers of emerging technologies.

The article is from 11/2018 but it is very relevant today. It is a good overview of how the Obama administration deliberately betrayed America's intelligence assets and betrayed our country.

1 posted on 02/14/2019 10:58:52 AM PST by detective
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obama obama obama....lock that POS up!


2 posted on 02/14/2019 11:01:07 AM PST by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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Was this all caused by that woman intelligence operative that defected????


3 posted on 02/14/2019 11:01:39 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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I heard someone did a, “reply to all” on a sensitive distribution list and it killed them ALL.


4 posted on 02/14/2019 11:02:38 AM PST by gaijin
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yes nobama and his team of mslim infiltrators not to forget the treasonous brennen at the very top - when is that sob going to be hung dammit!


5 posted on 02/14/2019 11:02:57 AM PST by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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Monica Elfriede Witt, an exemplary Air Force counterintelligence agent who had studied Persian and carried out covert missions in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. But by mid-2013, Ms. Witt had become disillusioned with the government — why, exactly, remains a mystery — and had left the military. Thoughts of betrayal consumed her, federal prosecutors now say, until she finally acted on them at the Iranian Embassy in Kabul...


6 posted on 02/14/2019 11:03:36 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Valerie “Dr. Zera” Jarrett built this!


7 posted on 02/14/2019 11:04:06 AM PST by montag813
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Gee, could the AWAN FAMILY have had anything to do with this???


8 posted on 02/14/2019 11:04:26 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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scrambled to contain a disaster of global proportions: a compromise of the agency’s internet-based covert communications system used to interact with its informants in dark corners around the world.


Welcome to the CIA Clandestine Communications Portal!

LOGIN:

Account Name: spy123
Password: password


9 posted on 02/14/2019 11:04:50 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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She didn’t defect until fall 2013.

The China stuff was a different spy, caught earlier.


10 posted on 02/14/2019 11:05:29 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Obama the Muslim Spy and don’t forget Kerry the Total Swine


11 posted on 02/14/2019 11:05:33 AM PST by butlerweave
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And wasn’t BRENNAN in charge at CIA then???


12 posted on 02/14/2019 11:05:36 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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Problem began in Iran in 2009. Who was president and CIA director, while the compromised comm system was being ignored? Anything to do with the agent who defected to Iran?


13 posted on 02/14/2019 11:07:32 AM PST by jimtorr
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From what I understand (and remember reading) the info that China got was from Hillary’s private server that they were reading in real time. They were one of the entities that had hacked into her server.


14 posted on 02/14/2019 11:07:35 AM PST by JCM
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How many times did we tell them use bcc.


15 posted on 02/14/2019 11:08:26 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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No.
It was because of the universal access server of HRClinton.

:: two dozen sources died in China in 2011 and 2012 as a result ::

That would be 12 USA citizens compromised and executed by the PRC for espionage. Revealed by PRC’s unlimited access to that server. Obtained for a price, payable to the Clinton Foundation.


16 posted on 02/14/2019 11:08:47 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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Anyone who thinks Hillary's private server wasn't secretly hacked by foreign agents is a fool.........

All the information they got would have been blackmail material had she gotten elected.........

17 posted on 02/14/2019 11:09:38 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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“Was this all caused by that woman intelligence operative that defected????”

It appears that she was one small player in the overall treason by the Obama administration.

She participated in it, but it was far bigger than just one person.


18 posted on 02/14/2019 11:10:07 AM PST by detective
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19 posted on 02/14/2019 11:10:31 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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“She didn’t defect until fall 2013.
The China stuff was a different spy, caught earlier.”

She defected to Iran in 2013, but it is almost certain that she was giving Iran information for years before that.

That being said, she was only one small part in the overall Obama administration treason.


20 posted on 02/14/2019 11:12:45 AM PST by detective
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