After 43 Years, Activists Admit Theft At FBI Office That Exposed Domestic Spying - NBCNews

[MADem]

60. Sure, I don't disagree with you there. But my point is, Randy has access to

SCIF-like facilities, where he can discuss these concerns with others who have the level of clearance that twerp gets as a consequence of his subcommittee assignment. I think he's not stupid, even if he is an asshole--and this is an issue where, had Eddie gone to HIM rather than Hong Kong, he could have made some serious hay--beyond his teabagger base-- while the sun shone. He could have been the lectern-pounder; the finger wagger, the looker-askancer. All he has to do is talk to a LOT of people with his same level of clearance, in detail, in a classified setting, then do a little judicious, domestic leaking, and we're off to the races and this is a matter that is being discussed, publicly, on the domestic stage. And this could have been done without having the names of US operatives and assets out there in the "Snowden ether," perhaps already plucked to earth by Pootie's clever hackers, or the intrepid soldiers working at PLA Unit 61398 who are quite skilled at getting what, and where, they want. And of course, Eddie would be a rock star--not a lightning rod. I suspect he'd rather be the former. I also suspect this shit didn't work out how he thought it might.

I'm not talking about "operatives" like that American attache at the embassy who does a little work on the side, I'm talking about that Lieutenant Colonel who is inside the adversary's military, that mid-level staffer at the foreign government leadership level, that NGO schmuck who might know a little stuff that we might want to know, people like that, who are having little chats with our team and perhaps saying more than their governments might like. Those people get killed if they get found out, they don't do a nice five to seven in a Club Fed, or even a harsher solid twenty in a maximum security facility.

Of course, the horse has long left the barn, but that would have--even with the introduction of a teabagger asswipe (because ES liked those guys) at the center of the story--been infinitely preferable for all concerned, I think, than what he's doing, which is pooping out a little revelation here, a little revelation there (latest up to bat--Israel--while Kerry is trying to work a deal in that regiion) just to call the attention back to himself. With every petulant little "I Have a Secret" dump he does, he chains himself inexorably to Pootie.

He'd better be careful, though. Pootie would give up Eddie in a Moscow minute (I'm convinced that his guys have already gotten everything they want from Ed, even if Ed thinks otherwise) in exchange for any valued Russian asset who was caught spying over here--after all, in Pootie's eyes, they are Brave and Loyal Russians, and ES is just an American Traitor.

We've regressed to the John LeCarre days--I suppose a Cold War is better than a hot one, but make no mistake, we're back to those "Good Old Bad Old Days." We have been for awhile, as evidenced by the Anna Chapman, et.al. "illegals" swap. I think we'll see more of this, not less, because, messy as it is, HUMINT has value to confirm the reality we learn from all of the Keyhole-type and hacker-technical intrusions we might make. They know it, too, and that's why THEY do it as well. The only one who didn't figure this out was Eddie.