“Trump accidentally revealed sensitive and classified information about the locations of secret military bases. Trump arrogantly spoke to an audience at a Colorado Springs rally today, when he said that the U.S. should not have to pay rent for its military base in Saudi Arabia. There’s just one problem with this. There isn’t supposed to be an American military base in Saudi Arabia … the location of that base was classified for a reason, and now that protection has been compromised” (BipartisanReport.com).For years, the Russians have used cyber espionage and disinformation to shape public opinion in the West. To undermine the EU. To destabilize Europe. To alter the outcome of an American election.
Last weekend, I asked a long-time friend who has been a former CIA agent assigned to Russia, recently retired. Here is his reply (shared with permission):
"absoFuckingLootly, it's same hybrid warfare from Kremlin playbook with yet another twist. What really disturbs me is my former friends of the right cozying up to Putin via Putin funded Trump. Exactly what you alluded to is terrifying to me... cause it appears to be working. The Russians have disinformation honed to a science at all levels, troll-farms to work on joe six-pack as he reads FB and the very very sophisticated FSB/GRU types working things like leaking timely emails. Russia is not a country... it's a slavic-mafia disguised as a country. If Trump wins we're fucked..."Postscript: For the next few weeks, I will be investigating this story (leveraging my contacts) and will probably be scarce awhile.
Closer to actual treason every day. Is it time to stop his security briefings yet? Of course it's never ever bad when they do it. How often are we hearing about the tens of millions of erased e-mails from the Bush White House? the deliberate exposure of a CIA operative during an undercover operation?
ReplyDeleteBut I'm not surprised at Russian involvement. Putin has got to love the idea of us ignoring our mutual defense treaties and I'm pretty sure he and his cronies have big bucks invested in Trumps real estate scams.
Anyway, have gun will travel: wire Fogg, Hobe Sound