While the Democratic Party and their water carriers in the media continue to whine and moan about the possibility of Trump team leaks to the Russians, they continue to ignore a much larger and far scarier story unfolding in China.
If you can remember back a few years, something took place during the Obama administration’s tenure that led to the exposure of the identities of more than 20 “secret” agents working with our government inside of China. That occurred in 2010, and to this day, the government still says it does not know how the data were revealed with the top two possibilities being a Chinese hack or a mole at the CIA leaking the information.
The hack story is believable in this age of weak security and constant data breaches — but that hardly explains why it took so long for the Chinese to bring down all of the agents. They slowly eliminated more than two dozen of them over the course of several years between 2010 and 2012 (and it seems that they may have continued unmasking our agents in the following years).
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According to the International Business Times:
Both the CIA and the FBI declined to comment on reports saying the Chinese government killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012 and dismantled the agency’s spying operations in the country. It is described as one of the worst intelligence breach in decades, current and former American officials told the New York Times.
Investigators were uncertain whether the breach was a result of a double agent within the CIA who had betrayed the U.S. or whether the Chinese had hacked the communications system used by the agency to be in contact with foreign sources. The Times reported Saturday citing former American officials from the final weeks of 2010 till the end of 2012, the Chinese killed up to 20 CIA sources.
The picture painted by the latest revelations is not pretty. Our intelligence community seems to have been in shambles during the Obama era as leak after leak caused embarrassment for America and death for those risking their lives to help us. Even worse, it seems that the same intelligence officials who were continually failing us throughout the Obama years are now undermining the Trump administration and still leaking important information to our enemies.
Cross-posted at Constitution.com