Listening to Barack Obama’s dire warnings about the danger posed by a Donald Trump Presidency takes irony to a new height if you consider what Obama is actually doing to endanger America. This headline in the Washington Post yesterday (Wednesday) caught my eye:
As Russia reasserts itself, U.S. intelligence agencies focus anew on the Kremlin
What???
Ignore the question of whether or not Russia is “reasserting” itself. Let’s just assume that is true. The real question out to be, “Why in the hell are we announcing this to the world?”
Here are some of the most salient parts of this article:
U.S. intelligence agencies are expanding spying operations against Russia on a greater scale than at any time since the end of the Cold War, U.S. officials said.
The mobilization involves clandestine CIA operatives, National Security Agency cyberespionage capabilities, satellite systems and other intelligence assets, officials said, describing a shift in resources across spy services that had previously diverted attention from Russia to focus on terrorist threats and U.S. war zones.
U.S. officials said the moves are part of an effort to rebuild U.S. intelligence capabilities that had continued to atrophy even as Russia sought to reassert itself as a global power. Over the past two years, officials said, the United States was caught flat-footed by Moscow’s aggression, including its annexation of Crimea, its intervention in the war in Syria and its suspected role in hacking operations against the United States and Europe.
So we have “US officials” talking directly to the press abut the need to “REBUILD” U.S. intelligence. Why does one tell the world that we are weak and blind? Is this just a political ploy to get more dollars out of Congress or is it a genuine admission that our intel capabilities have eroded under Obama?
Reporter Greg Miller goes on to provide information that is either classified or part of a deliberate deception:
Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, is believed to have 150 or more operatives in the United States, officials said, concentrated not only in Washington and at the U.N. headquarters in New York but in San Francisco and other major cities.
The CIA, by contrast, has at most several dozen case officers — the term for agency employees responsible for stealing secrets abroad — based in Russia, with several dozen more scattered across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states, former officials said.
Good Lord!!! Divulging this kind of information is akin to a poker player at a big dollar poker tournament showing everyone his cards. This is a monumental display of stupidity on the part of Obama’s so-called “intelligence officials.”
Not content to admit that U.S. humint capabilities suck when compared to what Russia is doing, these loquacious idiots go on to insist that our cyber capabilities are far superior:
Despite Russia’s high-profile cyber-exploits, current and former U.S. officials said Russia’s digital espionage capabilities are inferior to those of the United States.
One entry in the Snowden files refers to a National Security Agency program that “will attempt to penetrate the Russian intelligence services’ computer networks, increase access and gain expertise on all elements of Russia’s cyber programs, and strengthen the [intelligence community’s] ability to counter Russia’s potential to tap or disrupt the undersea and landline communication cables that carry sensitive U.S. data.”
Boasting and candor have no place when it comes to telling the public what our intelligence agencies are capable of doing (or not doing). This is not just professional misconduct. This borders on treason and underscores the clown show that Obama has created among the intelligence agencies.
I do not know if Trump could make things worse. Trump at least appears to understand that a President and his intelligence officials should not be out in public talking about what we are going to do and explaining how we are going to do it. At least Trump and his team seem to understand that old saying, “Loose lips Sink Ships.” That is not the case with the Obama team. Their lips are busy flapping in the wind and, in the course of events, are putting Americans at risk.
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