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FakeNoose

(41,701 posts)
8. The Yahoo News article addresses that question
Mon Sep 16, 2019, 09:17 AM
Sep 2019

Further quote from the OP:

While the Russians may have developed this capability by themselves, senior counterintelligence officials also feared that someone from within the U.S. government — a Russian mole — may have helped them, said former officials. “You’re wondering, ‘If this is true, and they can do this, is this because someone on the inside has given them that information?’’ said another former senior intelligence official.

Mark Kelton, who served as the chief of counterintelligence at the CIA until he retired in 2015, declined to discuss specific Russian operations, but he told Yahoo News that “the Russians are a professionally proficient adversary who have historically penetrated every American institution worth penetrating.”

This remains a core worry for U.S. spy hunters. The number of ongoing espionage investigations into U.S. government personnel — at the CIA, the FBI and elsewhere — including those potentially recruited by Russia, “is not a little, it’s a lot,” said another former senior counterintelligence official.


It seems the FBI must assume that the Russians can hear everything, can hack everything.
This is a full-on war.



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Imagine what they can do today now they have the ultimate agent. gordianot Sep 2019 #1
Now it seems they can just stop by the Oval Office to get our top secrets from 45! usaf-vet Sep 2019 #2
We'll know when it's too late. czarjak Sep 2019 #3
I'm afraid you are right. usaf-vet Sep 2019 #4
: ( n/t MBS Sep 2019 #9
I'm pretty sure Jared Kushner hand delivers all secrets directly to Putin FakeNoose Sep 2019 #7
literally uponit7771 Sep 2019 #20
Did Russia have inside help in this hack? Botany Sep 2019 #5
The Yahoo News article addresses that question FakeNoose Sep 2019 #8
Thanx Russia is way deep into our government Botany Sep 2019 #10
easier to list those not in Gangsters Of Putin Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2019 #23
FYI Botany Sep 2019 #25
thanks! I missed that righteous rant! Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2019 #26
Dana Rohrbacher comes to mind. He was against the Ilsa Sep 2019 #11
Dana Russiabacker? I'd never believe it ProfessorPlum Sep 2019 #18
The Russian HACK and infiltration of the 2016 election is the biggest act of war Baltimike Sep 2019 #6
And we have many here who continue to deny that. They say Russia is not our enemy. triron Sep 2019 #15
those interlopers have said that from jump Baltimike Sep 2019 #17
"They are doing it as we sit here, and they expect to do it during the next campaign" dalton99a Sep 2019 #12
We've been at war with russia for many years... Javaman Sep 2019 #13
K&R Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2019 #14
Gee, I feel the 2020 election is in safe hands. BSdetect Sep 2019 #16
Did you feel like the 2016 election was? Nt hughee99 Sep 2019 #19
Not after I saw the first returns from FL. Something was up right there. BSdetect Sep 2019 #21
My point was, if you think Russia didn't have any problem hughee99 Sep 2019 #22
Clearly trump knew the russians were helping him. BSdetect Sep 2019 #24
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