* * * Debate Policy - Political Message Board Thread * * * -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Thread : Under Obama, the CIA Suffered a 'Catastrophic' Disaster Started at 11-05-2018 03:24 PM by jimnyc Visit at http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?t=64749 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 1] Author : jimnyc Date : 11-05-2018 03:24 PM Title : Under Obama, the CIA Suffered a 'Catastrophic' Disaster I believe the entire country suffered a catastrophic disaster under Obama. :rolleyes: --- Under Obama, the CIA Suffered a 'Catastrophic' Disaster This story, which broke on Nov. 2, got mighty little attention from the national media. I wonder why: (https://www.yahoo.com/news/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html) 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. Now, who was president back then? 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. Rest - https://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/under-obama-the-cia-suffered-a-catastrophic-disaster/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Downloaded from Debate Policy - Political Message Board (http://www.debatepolicy.com) at 03-29-2024 01:30 AM.