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Zoonart
(11,897 posts)I knew this kind of confirmation was coming and will continue to dribble out about all of these traitors, but seeing it in black and white is another thing.
I think I know now how Diane Feinstein felt after her secure intelligence briefing.
bucolic_frolic
(43,476 posts)yes, she was shocked by the full realization of what she learned
We've had spies, and espionage, McCarthy era, the Red Scare,
the XYZ affair, Civil War era traitors ... but not in my knowledge
at the highest levels of government, and in the executive branch
and White House no less.
It does have implications, it is nauseating, but a country must
protect itself.
Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)But his actions yesterday proved that even espionage and treason are not enough to sway him or his cohorts from placing the Republican Party over national security, over honest governance, and over the will of the American people.
If only the so-called patriots in America would see this for what it is and NEVER vote Republican again in their lives.
They are shoulder-deep in Putin's poo.
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)needs to take a dirt nap. The old fool was stammering & repeating hisself yesterday questioning Yates. Me thinks like his leader in chief he has some dementia too.
dalton99a
(81,700 posts)furtheradu
(1,865 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)whether directly or indirectly.
crazylikafox
(2,763 posts)until I opened your OP.
Well, one can wish....
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)would not surprise me.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,651 posts)mercuryblues
(14,556 posts)mercuryblues
(14,556 posts)If the feds want to get flynn, go after his son.
traitorous piles of maggot shit
flyingfysh
(1,990 posts)Is there some verifiable report that we can send people? Without a link to a known source, it will be hard to convince anyone.
lark
(23,191 posts)Off with all of their heads - metaphorically speaking of course.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,069 posts)PatSeg
(47,741 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)By JENNIFER MCDERMOTT | The Associated Press | Published: August 11, 2014
PROVIDENCE, R.I. A U.S. Naval War College professor has resigned following an investigation into a complaint that he took a racy photo that wound up online.
John Schindler voluntarily resigned his post as a professor of national security affairs, effective Aug. 29, a college spokeswoman said Monday. The former National Security Agency intelligence analyst has been on administrative leave since late June.
A May text message conversation with a photo of a penis and Schindler's name atop it was circulated in June on Twitter. It was unclear who sent it and who posted it.
A blogger sent a complaint to college administrators in Newport, and the college's president ordered an investigation.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/navy-professor-resigns-after-racy-photo-inquiry-1.297789
Journalists opposed to the surveillance state are accused of sensationalism and withholding context. But unlike our critics, we're eager for the whole truth to out.
Conor Friedersdorf Dec 3, 2013
Who has done more than anyone else to increase public understanding of what the National Security Agency does? A top-10 list would have to include James Bamford, its first and most prolific journalistic chronicler, and Glenn Greenwald, a primary recipient of classified documents leaked months ago by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Over the weekend, I engaged in a back-and-forth with a former NSA employee who harshly criticized both (and me, too) with words that illuminate how some insiders view the press and the national-security state.
His name is John R. Schindler. In his own words, he is a "professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where hes been since 2005, and where he teaches courses on security, strategy, intelligence, terrorism, and occasionally military history." He previously spent "nearly a decade with the National Security Agency as an intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer," and he is "a senior fellow of the International History Institute at Boston University and is chairman of the Partnership for Peace Consortium's Combating Terrorism Working Group, a unique body which brings together scholars and practitioners from more than two dozen countries across Eurasia to tackle problems of terrorism, extremism, and political violence." In addition, his blog has some smart commentary on it.
He is certainly a surveillance-state expert. In comparison, I started writing regularly about surveillance in June when the Snowden story broke. If we're going by the dictionary definition, Schindler is correct that I am a neophyte, "a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief." As Schindler and I interacted on Twitter, a predictable divide opened up between his followers, who are generally supportive of the surveillance state, and mine, who are more skeptical of it. Highlighting parts of our exchange* will permit me to better explain what it is that many of us "outsiders" find so frustrating about how "insiders" treat this subject.
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That brings me back to Schindler, who I follow, and who retweeted the following:
Rafal Rohozinski @rohozinski
Analysis of Snowden disclosures is ~100% context-free. Wish media would investigate rather than reporting slide decks as if they were fact.
5:49 PM - 30 Nov 2013
This is factually inaccurate. Numerous news organizations have spent untold sums attempting to investigate the context of Snowden's leaks. They have added lots of context beyond reproducing slide decks. (To cite one typical example, see Barton Gellman in this story, augmenting his analysis of leaked documents with independent verification from intelligence sources. Also see much of what Marc Ambinder writes.) And while there's been a lot of flawed journalism on this subject, as on all subjects, many commentators have been more unfair to Snowden and Greenwald than the NSA. Richard Cohen puts himself in that category!
More: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/how-surveillance-state-insiders-try-to-discredit-nsa-critics/281941/