I said that we had to have leakers in order for these "Hacks" to have happened.

Someone gives up information and It comes out as a hack on Wikileaks.

Like Laundering propaganda

Very troubling. So many traitors!

It is almost enough to give one hope..

The policy of the US should be the same as the Constitution.
We believe in democracy. We will help other nations to achieve that goal.' We believe
in humanity. We will help other nations to be safe. Period. No profit. Just values.

Spying gets us information that, if used properly, can prevent wars.

That needs to be the battle cry of the Democratic party. No profit. Just values.
The polar opposite of the repukes.

Lot of 'em. All over. Chopping at the roots of all that is good and green.

All those secrets are part of policy precisely because people started chopping at our roots, primarily Nazis and Russians.

The Russians. Now they are the Biggest Secret. Well, used to be.

Vladimir has earned his nation a world of well-deserved hurt.

Politically, I don't think any of us (at least here) have any particular quarrel with the Russian People, who most certainly deserve better than the self-appointed oligarch who runs their government.

cia wanted to catch the mole before they blew the whistle.

makes sense.

The thought was that it was probably a contractor with the US Government.

Dump cheering them on.

This is a factual part of history and is worse than the Rosenbergs selling nuclear secrets to the Soviets!

This is a firing squad offense. Sometimes death is the answer.

Supporting the death penalty is an anti-liberal/progressive/Democratic position if there ever was one.

I love it when people come along and unilaterally decide on necessary credentials to be liberal, progressive or democratic.

you don' get to decide.

I'll amend my earlier position:

Being against the death penalty is a prerequisite for being a decent human being.

...but you're entitled to your opinion, as long as you recognize it as such.

operative gets into the CIA. Wow, just wow. So many ppl can be compromised - where did our integrity and pride go.

Sad, US Air Force veteran

A traitor is someone who sells secret information to or works for an enemy. A whistle blower exposes secrets. Was Serpico a traitor? Was Daniel Ellsberg a traitor?

...but I'm just trying to get to 10 posts so I can start a thread and introduce myself. So there's that.

I would assume you have a work around for such mundane problems.

to foreign adversaries.

I thought they were a quasi-news organization.

And if you don't believe our intelligence agencies (and European agencies) about that, then think: when have you EVER heard of Wikileaks posting documents harmful to Russia?

Even Mike Pompeo, who used to applaud Wikileaks, has changed his opinion since being educated in his new position heading the CIA.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/us/politics/mike-pompeo-cia-wikileaks.html?_r=0

WASHINGTON — In his first speech as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo, the former Republican congressman who once applauded disclosures by WikiLeaks, attacked the group on Thursday as a stateless hostile intelligence unit eager to do the bidding of Russia and other American adversaries.

“WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service,” Mr. Pompeo said. To support his assessment, he cited how the group had encouraged followers to join the C.I.A. and steal secrets, and how “it overwhelmingly focuses on the United States while seeking support from antidemocratic countries.”

conspiring to create a One World Government. Now we know it was a ruse. A projection. The right wingers are the ones wanting a One World Right Wing Government. They always talk about how many "Christians" were being murdered by terrorists not mentioning that the majority were of other faiths. Their vision is to partner with Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, on and on and on to compromise oil and any other types of the world economies they could use to keep the poor and non educated down and controlled. How better to do that through propaganda and the controlling mechanism of Religion and the fear of death and the afterlife that comes with it. Hillary was right about the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Not as it relates to just taking the Clintons down but to take down and marginalize the left as a threat to the world.

The massive military power of the US is all they need to use as a lever to do this.

There are conspiracies and the Trump criminals have proven it is.

and hung out to dry. However, I am worried that the hooplah surrounding this news will be a shiny distraction while the other rats try to jump ship.

there's really no way to know for sure, given the Byzantine and corrupt character of our govt and especially intelligence agencies. we are generally misled at every turn.

motive is everything. enlisting foreign help for political gain would be quite a find.

We may never know, because we may not want to admit it, or inform the public.

It's a spook's game, after all.

career public servants, rather than having contractors involved.
The fact that such sensitive info is entrusted to contractors, seems like an ill-advised extension of the lunatic desire to privatize everything.
Thinking of you, Ed Snowden.....