posted July 07, 2017 11:28 PM            

Leave it the leftist loons at Politico to feel sorry for leakers.

Poor babies are "fearful".

posted July 08, 2017 12:07 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
There has been at least one leak per day, and they should all go to prison.

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posted July 08, 2017 08:28 PM            

Susan Rice, on the Marxist Messiah's White House staff requested the "Unmasking" of Michael Flynn's name, then, his name was leaked to the idiot press.

Can you spell F E L O N Y?

The substance of a phone conversation between President Trump and the Prime Minister of Australia was leaked to the idiot press..within hours.

Can you spell F E L O N Y?

The substance of the phone conversation between President Trump and the President of Mexico was leaked to the idiot press..within hours.

posted July 08, 2017 08:37 PM            

Jwhop at least furnished some old ones. Is it not possible to answer a question without hostility around here? This is not a court of law but a supposed discussion board.

posted July 09, 2017 12:32 AM            

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Who is in a positron to hear a private phone call from the Oval Office? Who entrusted them with that access?

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Try this on for size.

Bureaucrats and high level staff working at the NSA who have access to every phone call and every email.

posted July 09, 2017 09:43 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Reality Winner was denied bail and brought to court in shackles. That's what happens when you betray your country.

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posted July 10, 2017 08:34 AM            

A lot of (electronic) ink is being used regarding anonymous leaks from the Trump White House, some of which have disclosed classified information, and, in at least one case, undermined a critical intelligence relationship with a key ally. There appears to be little question that the Trump White House is far leakier than any in recent history. This is due in large part no doubt to the number of Obama administration holdovers waging an ideological guerrilla war against their new boss. These are the "anonymous sources" that the Washington Post, the New York Times, and CNN cite as they conduct their ongoing agitprop campaign against the President.

This has led to an interesting situation. First of all, the Trump team has decided to actually do something about these leaks -- many of which are federal felonies. More on this later. Second, many of these leaks have been inaccurate, misleading, or flat out wrong. The most recent, promulgated by CNN and based on a single anonymous source, predicted that President Trump would not address Russian meddling in our election, with President Putin. It turns out that according to Secretary of State Tillerson, who was in the room, that was the first thing Trump brought up with Putin. This, just another in a long series of mainstream media self-inflicted wounds damaging their credibility with the American public. These leaks, meant to undermine President Trump and his agenda, have instead showcased his seemingly effortless ability to quickly turn the tables on the media at will.

However, Trump expertly playing the media is not the only thing going on here. Which brings me back to my first (and main) issue, White House leaks and leakers. As I mentioned above, the Trump administration has decided to go hard after leakers, especially those leaking classified information, some of which has already compromised sources and methods.

Trumps leaks crackdown send chills through security world appeared in Politico on July 7, 2017:

One U.S. official voiced concern over even talking to superiors about a benign call from a reporter. The agency this official works for had started limiting staff access to information, they said, and it would make it far easier to figure out who was talking to people in the media.

There was suspicion, the official said, that the agency was even tracking what they printed, to keep tabs on what information they were accessing.

Any "official" who has been leaking should be concerned, and here's why. One method the Trump administration is likely using to identify these leakers is called "the canary trap," a term coined by Tom Clancy in his novel Patriot Games. The canary trap is a method for organizations (including many intelligence agencies and private businesses) to determine who is improperly providing information to those not eligible to receive it. They do this by "leaking" certain information, often false, and then following it to see who ends up with it and how they did so.

The method cited in Patriot Games applies to documents. Each copy of a sensitive document is printed with slightly different punctuation, word usage, etc. to make it unique. If a reporter quoted certain parts of the document, that uniqueness would identify the document and the one person who had given it to the reporter. This process can be partly automated now by use of computer synonym generators.

Although coined by Tom Clancy, the technique has a long history in intelligence circles. When U.S. forces were attempting to determine when and where the next Japanese attack would take place in the Pacific, a group of Navy codebreakers under Captain James Rochefort who in turn worked for Admiral Chester Nimitz used a different version of the technique to determine that the Japanese Navy's next target was Midway.

Rochefort's team had broken a significant part of the Japanese Naval Code leading them to believe the Japanese had an upcoming operation against "AF." However, the team wasn't sure what "AF" stood for. Hoping the Japanese would intercept it and react, Rochefort got permission to have the U.S. forces on Midway Island send a false message over an unencrypted administrative channel, that Midway's water purification plant was broken. Later, the U.S. crypto element intercepted a Japanese encrypted message stating that the water purifier on AF was broken, thus identifying "AF" as Midway.

posted July 10, 2017 08:46 PM            

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Let's hope the canary trap leads to many canary cages.

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