Here it is, to file away. 2019 Trump asks for list of our top spies.

[Grasswire2]

From Salon. Much more at the link.


https://www.salon.com/2019/08/03/trumps-white-house-issues-an-ominous-request-for-a-list-of-top-u-s-spies_partner/

he Trump White House has asked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to provide it with a list of top American spies at a time when President Donald Trump is looking to install a loyalist as his new intelligence chief.

The Daily Beast reports that the administration wants the ODNI to deliver an inventory of “all its employees at the federal government’s top pay scale who have worked there for 90 days or more,” although it has not offered an official justification for why it wants the office to do this.

[Botany]

1. NY Times, "Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants" (Oct. '21)

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WASHINGTON — Top American counterintelligence officials warned every C.I.A. station and base around the world last week about troubling numbers of informants recruited from other countries to spy for the United States being captured or killed, people familiar with the matter said.

The message, in an unusual top secret cable, said that the C.I.A.’s counterintelligence mission center had looked at dozens of cases in the last several years involving foreign informants who had been killed, arrested or most likely compromised. Although brief, the cable laid out the specific number of agents executed by rival intelligence agencies — a closely held detail that counterintelligence officials typically do not share in such cables.

The cable highlighted the struggle the spy agency is having as it works to recruit spies around the world in difficult operating environments. In recent years, adversarial intelligence services in countries such as Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan have been hunting down the C.I.A.’s sources and in some cases turning them into double agents.

snip

(That mother fucker was passing the information onto the Russians who passed it onto the Taliban and
our good friends the Pakistanis .... my guess)

The collapse of the American-backed government in Afghanistan means that learning more about Pakistan’s ties to the Taliban government and extremist organizations in the region is going to become ever more important. As a result, the pressure is once again on the C.I.A. to build and maintain networks of informants in Pakistan, a country with a record of discovering and breaking those networks.

[dalton99a]

4. +1

https://archive.ph/RCWFK

[erronis]

2. Sue Gordon was a consummate professional - that scared trump and his handlers

Good article a year later from NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/902345240/exclusive-after-quitting-last-year-senior-u-s-intelligence-official-now-talks

It's absolutely amazing how this petty little man could wreak so much havoc. Obviously had a lot of help, both external and internal.

[WarGamer]

3. Does anyone read the articles linked in posts?

Salon clearly says the WH requested the names of DNI employees with the highest Gov't "GS levels" or pay grades... looking for a new head of the DNI...

Actual real life Spies and Informants would not be on that list.

[ramen]

5. That adds up a bit better nt

[rso]

8. RSO

Precisely, these lists would only include the highest level US officials, none of who are in covert roles.

[stopdiggin]

9. +1. my take as well

Conflating this with 'outed' assets - is a misreading of what the story actually says. We may eventually get to a 'smoking gun' as far as Trump and security info and secrets. This isn't it.

[MOMFUDSKI]

6. I remember hearing

about the CIA admitting their “losses” were at an unusually high level and 2 plus 2 is 4. Bothered me at the time.

[stopdiggin]

10. losses were accelerating before Trump -(nt)-

[calimary]

11. Well, maybe now we know why.

AND

Now that we're talking about this, maybe a new story on CNN starts making a little more sense.

[twodogsbarking]

7. It is sickening to say the least.

[liberalla]

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