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2016-09-14 -Lurid Crime Tales-
DNI Declines Required Damage Assessment of Clinton's Leaked Email Secrets
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Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-14 07:56|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 So much for Intelligence Community Directive 732 (Damage Assessments).
Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-14 08:04||   2016-09-14 08:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, of course! It's a mathematical impossibility! Look -

Total damage = damage from others + damage from Hilly.

See? More complicated than Fermat's Last Theorem! Trickier than Rubik's cube!
Posted by Bobby 2016-09-14 12:43||   2016-09-14 12:43|| Front Page Top

#3 That's ridiculously naive, Bobby.

ODNI is in a tough position. Setting aside accusations of political impact, revealing such an assessment tells everyone else loads about means and methods. By assessing they reveal just where they have penetrated systems of hostile groups - and where they haven't.
Posted by Flineger Sneresh8946 2016-09-14 12:55||   2016-09-14 12:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Keep in mind that after Snowden, it's virtually impossible to tell what effects the Clinton emails had vs the effect of his treason, both to Russia and to China.

The only way you could tell for certain is when a very specific use of very contemporary information was made in an unambiguous way. Putin uses cutout groups of every kind, including Wikileaks but also various underground info flows.
Posted by Flineger Sneresh8946 2016-09-14 12:58||   2016-09-14 12:58|| Front Page Top

#5 And as former NSA counterintel guy John Schindler notes, it's quite likely NSA has an active Russian mole.

That agency is heavily divided with firewalls all over the place between people/programs. To do the assessment would require breaching those firewalls big time. Not something you want to do in any case but especially not if you suspect you've been compromised somewhere inside.
Posted by Flineger Sneresh8946 2016-09-14 13:00||   2016-09-14 13:00|| Front Page Top

#6 The mole idea gives me more comfort than the out of hand political appearance of avoiding the issue.

If there is a mole in NSA, keeping those firewalls and all of the red black compartmentalization in place is a VERY good idea.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-09-14 13:24||   2016-09-14 13:24|| Front Page Top

#7 My knowledge is 25+ years old, but I can recall some of the security compartmentation even back then.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-14 14:08||   2016-09-14 14:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Hillary is not liked by the intelligence community. One has to wonder if they aren't the source of the leaked emails.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-14 17:25||   2016-09-14 17:25|| Front Page Top

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