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originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: burntheships
Yes you are right, I listened to the press conference this morning and that was talk about briefly.
originally posted by: FamCore
Nothin but crickets from the CIA though
originally posted by: theultimatebelgianjoke
a reply to: DerBeobachter
German prosecutor ‘looking carefully’ into WikiLeaks CIA files, could launch probe
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: burntheships
Well I guess the leaks are real and just now in the News, the CIA was reported into finding the mole that leaked the sensitive information.
originally posted by: burntheships
a reply to: DerBeobachter
Very interesting stuff there, thanks for posting.
Hope you get better in soon, and make it out of
surgery ok
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. intelligence officials suspect that Russian hackers who broke into Democratic Party computers may have deliberately left digital fingerprints to show Moscow is a "cyberpower" that Washington should respect.
Three officials, all speaking on condition of anonymity, said the breaches of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were less sophisticated than other cyber intrusions that have been traced to Russian intelligence agencies or criminals.
For example, said one official, the hackers used some Cyrillic characters, worked during Russian government business hours but not on Russian religious or political holidays."Either these guys were incredibly sloppy, in which case it’s not clear that they could have gotten as far as they did without being detected, or they wanted us to know they were Russian,"
originally posted by: burntheships
Well now then it appears that this is official news, the WikiLeaks publication
of the Vault 7 documents are authentic according to the Intelligence and Law
Enforcement Community.
And seeing a report coming in from AP about Wikileaks working
with Tech Giants? Something is giving me chills....
The CIA has not confirmed whether the documents - said to date between 2013 to 2016 - are real.
But one of its former chiefs was concerned by their publication.
"If what I have read is true, then this seems to be an incredibly damaging leak in terms of the tactics, techniques, procedures and tools that were used by the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct legitimate foreign intelligence," ex-CIA director Michael Hayden told the BBC. www.bbc.com...
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: burntheships
She really said that?
Clinton’s State Department was getting pressure from President Obama and his White House inner circle, as well as heads of state internationally, to try and cutoff Assange’s delivery of the cables and if that effort failed, then to forge a strategy to minimize the administration’s public embarrassment over the contents of the cables. Hence, Clinton’s early morning November meeting of State’s top brass who floated various proposals to stop, slow or spin the Wikileaks contamination. That is when a frustrated Clinton, sources said, at some point blurted out a controversial query.
“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike, according to State Department sources. The statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said. Clinton said Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, “walking around” freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the United States. Clinton was upset about Assange’s previous 2010 records releases, divulging secret U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan in July and the war in Iraq just a month earlier in October, sources said. At that time in 2010, Assange was relatively free and not living cloistered in in the embassy of Ecuador in London.