Posted on 03/27/2022 2:58:12 PM PDT by BusterDog
The House and Senate intelligence oversight committees are looking into hate speech that has flourished in spy agency chat rooms over the past five years, spokespersons there tell SpyTalk. The House Armed Services Committee is also “aware of these allegations and we are working with the relevant agencies to assess the claim," said Caleb H. Randall-Bodman, the panel’s spokesman.
Dan Gilmore, who worked in an administrative group overseeing internal chat rooms for the classified Intelink system for over a decade starting in 2011, says that by late in the third year of the Trump administration the system was afire with incendiary hate-filled commentary, especially on “eChirp,” the intelligence community’s clone of Twitter.
(Excerpt) Read more at spytalk.co ...
WHY does a secret agency need a chat room??
If you are a spy, and you are posting in the secret intra-agency spy chat rooms, don’t say the N word
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Government is staffed with idiots. It looks like it’s now full of retarded people.
When they say “pro-insurrection” they mean Black Lives Matter, right?
“WHY does a secret agency need a chat room??”
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Supposed to be for discussing insurrections in other countries, not the USA.
Intelligence, and all of its functional areas, requires coordination, input, and queries before formal meetings are conducted and documents are drafted.
Due to the intelligence community being spread out, it’s efficient to have chat rooms so that the right people can comment on a topic. It speeds things up, provides an informal forum to 360 an issue or event.
How else is the intel community going to plan and coordinate their lies?
Only ‘insurrections’ that I know of was our overthrow of Ukraine’s government (to install a US puppet) in 2014 and the attempt to overthrow Russia’s government.
I heard a bit about scott alans book on the deep state with covid. There isnt a good federal agency or department of.
Maybe this is an excuse for the deep state to purge pro-Trump patriots from the IC.
Another agency for the lefties to purge.
Our very, very expensive “intel community” has managed to do the impossible in an astonishingly short period of time.
They’ve proven themselves to be utterly incompetent at their stated mission, able to piss away eye popping amounts of money, become shot through with corruption, and become an existential threat to Constitutional government all at the same time.
You wouldn’t think it possible to be so bad at so many things all at the same time. And yet they are.
For the amount of money our “intel community” spends we should know the home address of every Russian conscript in Ukraine. Supposedly we have satellites that can tell how big a man’s pecker is when he takes a leak on the side of the road.
But if you ask these people “how many Russian tanks are there outside of Keiv right now” they, with a straight face, say “we don’t know.” They should all be fired for incompetence and the “leaders” prosecuted for malfeasance.
The real story of this entire Russia/Ukraine thing is how deep the rot in our “intelligence community” is.
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If you worked for any of these agencies and you even bothered to get into a “classified, internal network only” chat room, you are an idiot before you post anything! “Stay in your lane”, stay in your classified program niche and do not talk to anyone outside of it!
T H E T A L I B A N W I L L N E E D T W O Y E A R S T O T A K E K A B U L
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SpyTalk, the source, is another left-wing operation:
https://podcasts.apple.com › us › podcast › spytalk › id1560016782
“SpyTalk lives at the intersection of intelligence operations, foreign policy, homeland security and military strategy. Co-hosted by veteran national security journalist Jeff Stein and former star CNN homeland security correspondent Jeanne Meserve, the podcast will feature exclusives by SpyTalk’s roster of longtime reporters, news and profiles of US and foreign spymasters...”
That’s what it is. No one from the “intelligence community” would openly post their conservative opinions and mark themselves as a Trump supporter that thinks the election was rigged. This is a straw man to get license to find and remove closet conservatives.
My son and I listened to an “Espionage” podcast a couple days ago on Aldrich Ames. “Staffed with idiots” indeed.
From the Dan Gilmore mentioned in the article:
https://dangilmore.com/2022/03/10/why-i-left-the-intelligence-community/
Why I Left the Intelligence Community
Posted by Dan Gilmore March 10, 2022
I have worked for the Department of Defense (DoD) since 1992. The first eight years I was serving in the US Navy as a Cryptographic Technician (Communications). I was responsible for disseminating message traffic to and from our command at the Top Secret/SCI level.
In late 1996, I arrived at my last duty station, Naval Information Warfare Activity (NIWA), in Suitland, MD. It was here that I started to get trained in Information Technology (IT), and realized that I really loved computers.
In November of 1999, I was honorably discharged from the Navy. I accepted a position with Compaq as a government contractor to NSA. I had the same clearance that I had in the Navy, but since I was a dirty contractor, I had to have a full scope polygraph. Basically, they go through every little thing you’ve ever done, and make you put it on record. . .
I’ve been on four contracts at NSA since 1999. I joined my last contract on February 8th, 2010, working for an organization named Intelink. You can read the Wiki page about the organization, but I can sum it up for you: We basically took what was popular on the Internet and recreated it on government systems. My first project with Intelink was to help create a YouTube clone called iVideo that we used to help share videos containing mission intelligence to users all over the world. . .
There was no moderation or enforcement of our ToU. Management would try to get involved, then upper management would say otherwise. It was easier to ignore the problems than to address them. That made it easier for trolls to get more and more powerful.
Fast forward to late 2020. Hate speech was running rampant on our applications. I’m not being hyperbolic. Racist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamaphobic, and misogynistic speech was being posted in many of our applications.
On top of that, there were many employees at CIA, DIA, NSA, and other IC agencies that openly stated that the January 6th terrorist attack on our Capitol was justified.
By this time, I had been contacted by more than a few government employees at many different IC agencies, who were concerned about the content that Intelink was allowing to be hosted. Most of these people had been long time supporters of Intelink, having been there when we first started. On the other hand, some of them were brand new to the IC, and brought a new viewpoint to what should and should not be allowed on a government system.
Again and again, I was contacted via instant messaging, emails and phone calls, asking what was being done to stomp the hate speech. I could only reply “My government leadership has acted on each ticket as they see fit”. I couldn’t tell my customers whether or not I agreed with my gov’t leadership, because said gov’t leadership were my bosses.
Let’s give you all an example of what happens on an official IC social media application.
One of the many Intelink ToU offenders – we’ll call him Fred – posted something incendiary. He was trying to start a flame war, and he knew it. He had a history of doing it, and I had a history with this user. Fred then replied to another user, complaining that he was being picked on, or harassed, but he’s “A bigger man than that” and that he wouldn’t submit a ticket because that’s a sign of weakness.
I replied to Fred and reminded him that he had submitted multiple tickets to us (Intelink) about people harassing him. I meant to point out his hypocrisy, but I abused my authority by exposing internal ticketing information. I didn’t see it as a big issue. Apparently it was. That was unprofessional, and I should not have done it. Someone submitted a ticket complaining to my management about it, and I was told not to disclose information from our internal systems to external customers. . .
A contractor at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), who I will refer to as Ava, is a non-binary, African-American, disabled veteran. They reached out to me and provided me with documentation on multiple violations of our ToU on many of our services. They submitted tickets to our ticketing system, and had conversations with my government management on how to deal with the offending personnel.
Ava was even interviewed by the IC COO, and featured on the ODNI website and they focused on how hate speech has seeped onto the high side. Ava then sent an email on the high side to the IC COO, cc’d me, with the subject line of “Virtual Introduction”. The body was essentially introducing me to the IC COO and that I was someone that could help in squashing hate speech in the government IT spaced.
This freaked me out.
I’m a contractor, and the IC COO is WAAAAAY above my pay grade. I immediately forwarded that email to my company and government supervisors, letting them know that I did NOT instigate the email, and that I did NOT reply in any way.
I was told to not reply, and that my government management would take care of it.
That weekend, Ava texted me, and they said that my government management was extremely unhappy that the ODNI was involved.
That’s putting it mildly. . .
On July 9th, 2021, I was called into a meeting with my company team lead, and he said “We’re going to have to let you go”. I asked why, and he said, “You were told to not give internal information to folks outside the organization, and you did”.
They had chatroom transcripts of what I had said to people outside my organization in reference to internal information in our ticketing system. Keep in mind, all this information is completely unclassified. The information I was providing these government employees was for them to take to their own agencies’ Inspector General. They didn’t trust Intelink to do the right thing, so they were taking their complaints to the next level.
I don’t have any proof of any other reason why I was fired other than what I was told, but I don’t believe it for a second. I’ve been a contractor since 1999, and I’ve seen folks fired for nothing, and I’ve seen folks kept on after committing felonies. I believe I was fired because I made someone look bad.
In late September of 2021, my company submitted my resume to the same group that Intelink was part of. I was informed that my resume was immediately refused based on my name, due to what had happened in July.
I was blacklisted. . .
Of course, the steady drumbeat of hate and hoax on the so-called news media is still okay.
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