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2011-02-21 Home Front: WoT

Man dupes CIA of $21 mn over anti-terror software

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Posted by gorb 2011-02-21 10:48|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Typical. Can fool the mandarins at CIA but the employees of a casino caught on straightaway.

Posted by gromky 2011-02-21 11:21|| 2011-02-21 11:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Shouldn't spy agencies have .. a penalty .. for people who mislead them like that?

They could start with a penalty for those who are so easily misled.

Posted by gorb 2011-02-21 14:01|| 2011-02-21 14:01|| Front Page Top

#3 He is awaiting trial in Nevada on unrelated charges of passing bad cheques worth 1.1 million pounds to Las Vegas casinos, the Mail said.

This sounds like one of those instances where someone got caught and came up with a "Do you know who you're dealing with" reply and then had to generate some sort of story to cover the ever growing long tale. As much as we'd like to feed our own preconceived bias, this spins too much to be bought on a MSM source.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-21 15:34|| 2011-02-21 15:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like the CIA was scammed on some whizbang super data mining program with built-in translators (which may never have existed). Or Montgomery might have been a contractor who just sold purported services.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-21 15:44|| 2011-02-21 15:44|| Front Page Top

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