Fear that fired spies could betray U.S.

[bannork]

According to a report from Politico's Amy Mackinnon, Elon Musk and DOGE staffers having a free hand in firing has had the end effect of putting "hundreds of intelligence and national security officials who had access to reams of classified information" on the street.

Ex-CIA officer James Lawler remarked, "What we have done is we have created a ripe set of targets for our adversaries."

Kevin Carroll, a former CIA case officer, agreed and added “You’re absolutely creating a counterintelligence risk,” he said. “Not by letting people go, but the manner in which you’re letting people go.”

  Hundreds of officials with access to highly sensitive information have been fired or placed on administrative leave across the federal government. The Pentagon announced Tuesday that it was forging ahead with plans to cut some 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs. A slate of top national security officials at the FBI and Department of Justice have also been removed from their posts.

'A ripe set of targets': Intel experts sound alarm that fired spies could turn on U.S.

 

[TedG]

2 hours ago, bannork said:

According to a report from Politico's Amy Mackinnon, Elon Musk and DOGE staffers having a free hand in firing has had the end effect of putting "hundreds of intelligence and national security officials who had access to reams of classified information" on the street.

Ex-CIA officer James Lawler remarked, "What we have done is we have created a ripe set of targets for our adversaries."

Kevin Carroll, a former CIA case officer, agreed and added “You’re absolutely creating a counterintelligence risk,” he said. “Not by letting people go, but the manner in which you’re letting people go.”

  Hundreds of officials with access to highly sensitive information have been fired or placed on administrative leave across the federal government. The Pentagon announced Tuesday that it was forging ahead with plans to cut some 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs. A slate of top national security officials at the FBI and Department of Justice have also been removed from their posts.

'A ripe set of targets': Intel experts sound alarm that fired spies could turn on U.S.

 

 

I guess they're not true Americans. 

[Walker88]

5 hours ago, TedG said:

 

I guess they're not true Americans. 

You mean like the guy who stole hundreds of highly classified documents, including those that noted the identities of foreign clandestine assets in hostile nation, and kept them in his country club where anyone---foreign or US---could join and have access? Or the guy who tried to overthrow the 2020 election and still lies about it being "stolen"? Or the guy who pardoned terrorists who beat and bear sprayed 140 police and threatened to hang the Vice President?

 

That is what you call a "true American"?

 

That guy also ordered the firing of anyone who investigated the 6 Jan 2021 terrorists. I bet those fired DoJ and FBI folks see that the US to which they took an oath no longer exists, so they might as well use the classified knowledge as a 401K.

 

 

[jerrymahoney]

1 hour ago, Walker88 said:

You mean like the guy who stole hundreds of highly classified documents, including those that noted the identities of foreign clandestine assets in hostile nation, and kept them in his country club where anyone---foreign or US---could join and have access?

Chinese woman arrested at Mar-a-Lago had device to detect hidden cameras, officials say
Yujing Zhang "lies to everyone she encounters," Assistant U.S. Attorney Rolando Garcia told judge during a bond hearing.

 

April 9, 2019, 9:55 AM GMT+7
By Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Chinese woman recently arrested at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club lied repeatedly to Secret Service agents while carrying computer malware unlike anything a government analyst had ever seen and had more than $8,000 in cash at her hotel room, along with an electronic device that detects hidden cameras, federal authorities told a judge Monday.

 

He said the FBI is investigating whether Zhang is a spy.

 

Zhang was arrested March 30 after Secret Service agents said she lied to gain admission to the president's Palm Beach resort and was found to be carrying two Chinese passports, four cellphones, a laptop computer, an external hard drive and a thumb drive containing the malware.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chinese-woman-arrested-mar-lago-had-device-detect-hidden-cameras-n992301

[SunnyinBangrak]

2 hours ago, Walker88 said:

You mean like the guy who stole hundreds of highly classified documents, including those that noted the identities of foreign clandestine assets in hostile nation, and kept them in his country club where anyone---foreign or US---could join and have access? Or the guy who tried to overthrow the 2020 election and still lies about it being "stolen"? Or the guy who pardoned terrorists who beat and bear sprayed 140 police and threatened to hang the Vice President?

 

That is what you call a "true American"?

 

That guy also ordered the firing of anyone who investigated the 6 Jan 2021 terrorists. I bet those fired DoJ and FBI folks see that the US to which they took an oath no longer exists, so they might as well use the classified knowledge as a 401K.

 

 

The classified documents you refer to were not "stolen" and have all been returned to Trump with a grovelling sorry sir. Pls keep up.

 

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/01/trump-classified-documents-returned

 

Note, the classified documents stolen by your man Biden and stored on the floor next to the corvette in Hunters crack den(the gold standard of safe storage is it 88?) were NOT returned and never will be.