China rolls up nearly everything the US was running:
The Chinese government “systematically dismantled” CIA spying operations in China starting in late 2010 and killed or imprisoned at least a dozen CIA sources over the next two years, The New York Times reported Saturday.
The newspaper cited 10 current and former U.S. officials, who described the intelligence breach as one of the worst in decades. They spoke on condition of anonymity.
The report said U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies scrambled to stem the damage, but were bitterly divided over the cause of the breach. Some investigators were convinced there was a mole within the CIA, while others believed the Chinese had hacked the covert system the CIA used to communicate with its foreign sources. The debate remains unresolved, the paper said.
The CIA, which declined to comment to the Times, also declined to comment Saturday to The Associated Press.
The number of CIA assets lost in China rivaled those lost in the Soviet Union and Russia as a result of the betrayals by both CIA officer Aldrich Ames and FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who were arrested in 1994 and 2001, respectively, the report said. As many as 20 CIA sources were killed or imprisoned in China over a two-year period, the Times said, citing two former senior U.S. officials.
Investigators suspected a former CIA operative of being a mole, but failed to gather enough evidence to arrest him and he is now living in another Asian country, the report said. Those who rejected the mole theory attributed the losses to sloppy American tradecraft in China.
Someone on the Free Republic thread pointed out something interesting:
Let´s see…..
-Obama appoints Clinton as Sec of State late Jan 2009.
-Clinton almost immediately begins using her ´private´ server-in-the-bathroom for her Sec of State emails.
-Several foreign countries (presumably including China) find and hack into this server.
-Obama establishes the practice of receiving the Presidential Daily (intelligence) Briefing on a tablet computer, and sends copies to various admin officials, presumably including Clinton, on her unsecured server, enabling the Chinese to read the Presidential Daily Briefing every day, likely before Clinton bothered to read it.
If the Chinese had access to the PDB through Clinton’s server, it does not strain credulity to think it played some role in burning all those agents, and getting them killed. Feeding info, which would be so juicy it would definitely make it to the PDB, to potential leakers, would be an excellent way to figure out where your leaks are. If it shows up on Hillary’s server on the PDB the next day, then you have your leaker.
Hillary really should have been locked up. But what really defies belief is that she almost became President.
Spread r/K Theory, because we want it to show up in the PDB one day
