This
is one of the great scandals of the Obama administration–really, of the
post-war era. But our Democratic Party media, fearful of what may be
coming in next year’s presidential election, have consistently
downplayed it. The Los Angeles Times reports: “Foreign spies use hacked
data to identify U.S. intelligence agents.”
Foreign spy services, especially in China and
Russia, are
aggressively aggregating and cross-indexing hacked U.S. computer
databases — including security clearance applications, airline records
and medical insurance forms — to identify U.S. intelligence officers
and agents, U.S. officials said.
Russia
and China have repeatedly carried out acts of war against the United
States, perhaps emboldened by the knowledge that our administration
doesn’t like America any better than they do.
At least one clandestine network of U.S. engineers
and scientists
who provide technical assistance to U.S. undercover operatives and
agents overseas has been compromised as a result, according to two U.S.
officials.
And yet, as best we can tell, the Obama administration has done nothing
to retaliate, even though our own technical capacities are, if we ever
were to use them, far greater.
The Obama administration has scrambled to boost
cyberdefenses for
federal agencies and crucial infrastructure as foreign-based attacks
have penetrated government websites and e-mail systems, social media
accounts and, most important, vast data troves containing Social
Security numbers, financial information, medical records and other
personal data on millions of Americans.
Counterintelligence officials say their adversaries
combine those
immense data files and then employ sophisticated software to try to
isolate disparate clues that can be used to identify and track — or
worse, blackmail and recruit — U.S. intelligence operatives.
This is a very big problem. Is Barack Obama concerned about it? Or is
his attention devoted entirely to fomenting race hatred in the United
States? National security is, apparently, the least of his concerns.
Asked whether adversaries had used this information
against U.S.
operatives, [William Evanina, a top U.S. counterintelligence official]
said, “absolutely.”
U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity,
say China and
Russia are collecting and scrutinizing sensitive U.S. computer files
for counterintelligence purposes.
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