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Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents
Foreign Policy ^ | August 18, 2018 | Zach Dorfman

Posted on 09/03/2018 12:48:08 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall

"It was considered one of the CIA’s worst failures in decades: Over a two-year period starting in late 2010, Chinese authorities systematically dismantled the agency’s network of agents across the country, executing dozens of suspected U.S. spies. But since then, a question has loomed over the entire debacle.

How were the Chinese able to roll up the network?

Now, nearly eight years later, it appears that the agency botched the communication system it used to interact with its sources, according to five current and former intelligence officials. The CIA had imported the system from its Middle East operations, where the online environment was considerably less hazardous, and apparently underestimated China’s ability to penetrate it."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

Sounds like a cover story to distract from Hillary’s open server.


21 posted on 09/03/2018 2:35:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

Hell of a Story to cover for Hillary Selling State Secrets to the Highest Bidder.


22 posted on 09/03/2018 2:52:39 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
Unlikely that the comms system itself was compromised. There's probably not going to be an email with the technical details of the system. However a network of contacts can be compromised if one of them is compromised. Someone here pointed out in a previous thread that the Chinese can send different bits of information to different individuals and see which bits show up in Hillary's email.

That way they are taking advantage both of Hillary's lack of secure email, but also her susceptability to information leakage.

23 posted on 09/03/2018 2:55:36 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: G Larry

And the Chinese contribution to the Clinton Foundation was.......
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Enough to get them full and complete access to EVERY State Dept. email that reached the top levels... Clinton became richer ... people died.

Seriously the government mandated backdoors in all chips/firmware and software to allow themselves unfettered access to spy on the people is just as big a problem... How long does it take to reverse engineer a backdoor built into a router?


24 posted on 09/03/2018 4:13:04 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
I am voting tomorrow in Massholechusetts; however, there are some good Conservatives such as Geof Diehl and Scott Lively (I read one of his books). I am worried about November though. If what you say is true, and I believe it is, then these "millions of voters" support the sick cult that the Democrat party has become. Maybe consorting with Lucifer admirer Saul Alinsky has so twisted their brains that the act in the awful way that they do -- be it Antifa, black lives lies matter; etc.

The lib/commies strike me as those gruesonme Mexican cultists who take the brains from kidnapped, Christian, American college students to use in their voodo like rituals.

25 posted on 09/03/2018 4:52:22 PM PDT by Stepan12 (It is Civll War right now..)
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To: Stepan12

I saw that horror on ID last year.

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26 posted on 09/03/2018 4:57:29 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

Mark Kilroy was such a good kid :(


27 posted on 09/03/2018 5:11:19 PM PDT by Stepan12 (It is Civll War right now..)
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To: Stepan12

One of the most horrifying crimes I had ever heard of-——and I’m a true crime buff.

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28 posted on 09/03/2018 5:13:26 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

The botched CIA Communications System was called sHrilary’s email server.


29 posted on 09/03/2018 5:27:33 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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