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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs It Fair To Say Trump & McConnell Have Declared War Against the CIA & NSA?
and our entire National Intelligence apparatus (that includes SEVENTEEN AGENCIES) while depending the the FBI to carry their water?
Cause that's what it looks like. In the short term, it may work out for them
In the long term? My money is on the CIA and NSA and the rest of our National Intelligence.
It is not just the CIA who prepared the information regarding Russian interference and hacking of the DNC AND the RNC/Republicans.
The FBI, unfortunately decided to play games.
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Despite all the news being generated by the change of power underway in Washington, there is one story this week that deserves top priority: Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. On Tuesday, the director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Michael Rogers, was asked about the WikiLeaks release of hacked information during the campaign, and he said, "This was a conscious effort by a nation-state to attempt to achieve a specific effect." He added, "This was not something that was done casually. This was not something that was done by chance. This was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/will-congress-investigate-russian-interference-2016-campaign
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The FBI covered up information about Russia seeking to tip the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trumps favour, a senior Democrat claimed on Saturday, after reports emerged about spy agencies investigations into hacks of US political parties.
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A secret CIA analysis found that people with connections to the Russian government provided emails, hacked from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clintons campaign, to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks in the final months of the election, according to a Washington Post report published late Friday.
The FBI had this material for a long time but Comey, who is of course a Republican, refused to divulge specific information about Russia and the presidental election, Reid told MSNBCs AM Joy on Saturday. Comey testified to Congress in July that he was no longer a registered Republican, though he belonged to the party most of his life.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/10/fbi-russia-trump-election-harry-reid-james-comey-wikileaks
dhill926
(16,373 posts)investigate the shit out of the sleazebag...
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Russian intel has penetrated into the highest level of the FBI FFS!
Where is the outrage?? When are the congressional hearings starting? (SNORT...NEVER of course!)
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Rogers
Director Of The NSA Goes ROGUE, Travels To Meet Trump Amid Calls For His Ousting
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/20/director-of-the-nsa-goes-rogue-travels-to-meet-trump-amid-calls-for-his-ousting/
Turmoil at Pentagon in Transition to Trump Administration
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/11/26/turmoil-at-pentagon-in-transition-to-trump-administration.html
The chairman of the House intelligence committee want top administration officials to explain whether they are trying to oust the current head of the nations cyber force, the National Security Agency.
California GOP Rep. Devin Nunes is the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He sent a letter Saturday to the two men who lead the Pentagon and the nations coordinated intelligence agencies, asking them to explain why media reports claim administration officials are trying to oust Admiral Michael Rogers, who runs the nations combined cyberdefense and cyberwar agency.
Ashton Carter is the Secretary of Defense, and James Clapper is departing as director of national intelligence.
House Chairman Jumps into Fight Over Adm. Michael Rogers at NSA
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/21/rep-devin-nunes-calls-dci-clapper-pentagon-chief-carter-capitol-hill/
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)who came up with the info. It was his agency who had the information. He was the guy who apparently showed up to work for once to talk to a reporter.
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FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Part of the problem was his unwillingness to give up running NSA and only running Cybercommand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command
In the last decade and a half the information security apparatus has become a bureaucratic nightmare as every law enforcement and military agency has created a "cyber" or "info" department to defend against attacks, intercept information, and/or attack adversary information systems and connected infrastructure (such as uranium enrichment centrifuges).
You have no less than 17 agencies in the "intelligence" business, and Cybercommand is part of US Stratcom, which includes all branches of the military.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Strategic_Command
So you can probably find some department in some agency that will tell you anything you want with the prospect of getting more budget and resources.
Most of the actual brains would be in government contractors, since the government employee pay is too low to attract first rate technical people. Even then, contractors work on billable hours and consequently lard their bills by staffing projects with large numbers of mediocre talent. The best talent work for finance, communications, software and computer/networking hardware corporations.
Baitball Blogger
(46,769 posts)nini
(16,672 posts)..this is going to get very interesting.
markbark
(1,563 posts)Maybe "Agent Orange" should ask JFK what happens when you piss off the CIA.
Oh, wait....
TheBlackAdder
(28,230 posts).
I expect major CIA defunding efforts to commence after he gets in office.
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