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TNLib

(1,819 posts) Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:46 PM Mar 2017

U.S intel, law enforcement officials aware of CIA breach since late last year

Reuters

Why am I not surprised. They need to stop using contractors already.

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U.S intel, law enforcement officials aware of CIA breach since late last year (Original Post) TNLib Mar 2017 OP

Do republicans care that is is obvious Assange is revealing CIA secrets to help Trump? Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1

The whole thing is troubling TNLib Mar 2017 #3

I thought it had been out for years that TexasProgresive Mar 2017 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

1. Do republicans care that is is obvious Assange is revealing CIA secrets to help Trump?

Reply to TNLib (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:54 PM

Mar 2017

Probably by request from Trump?

In other words, Trump is asking for american intel secrets to be exposed.

Can you imagine, can you I M A G I N E if a democrat did this?

TNLib

(1,819 posts)

3. The whole thing is troubling

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:01 PM

Mar 2017

The week he accuses Obama of wiretapping Wiki Leaks publish CIA secret documents on hacking devices, that they've clearly had for some time.

It's not coincidental.

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)

2. I thought it had been out for years that

Reply to TNLib (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:54 PM

Mar 2017

Devices could be used to monitor. I remember when the wife of a mobster sued the FBI for recording her conversations by turning on the mic of her OnStar.

If the CIA didn't use this domestically I don't see a real problem. And I am sure that most who would be targeted are suspicious of "smart" devices.

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