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Besides, Snowden was never the “spy” he portrayed himself to be. An IT sysadmin with limited understanding of the signals intelligence information he stole and leaked, Snowden acted as cover for Moscow’s real star. A patsy, he was never the actual Russian mole inside NSA. That person or persons is still out there, presumably still functioning as Moscow’s penetration agent inside America’s most secret spy agency.
In fairness to NSA, the record of our Intelligence Community, indeed our whole government, in counterintelligence is nothing less than dismal. And it’s gotten markedly worse during Barack Obama’s two terms in the White House, with their unprecedented losses of America’s secrets to spies, traitors, and hackers. However, given the importance of NSA to our collective security—it’s the backbone of counterterrorism operations across the Western world, our vital shield against jihadism—it’s important that the agency at last starts getting serious about security. Catching some Russian moles would be a solid beginning.
A helicopter view of the National Security Agency January 28, 2016 in Fort Meade, Maryland. (Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Moles—that is, long-term penetration agents—are every intelligence service’s worst nightmare. Though rarer in reality than in spy movies and novels, moles exist and can do enormous damage to a country’s secrets and espionage capabilities. They’re what keep counterintelligence experts awake at night.
The recent appearance on the Internet of top secret hacking tools from the National Security Agency has shined yet another unwanted spotlight on that hard-luck agency, which has been reeling for three years from Edward Snowden’s defection to Moscow after stealing more than a million classified documents from NSA. As I explained, this latest debacle was not a “hack”—rather, it’s a clear sign that the agency has a mole.
Of course, I’ve been saying that for years. It’s not exactly a secret that NSA has one or more Russian moles in its ranks—not counting Snowden. Now the mainstream media has taken notice and we have the “another Snowden” meme upon us.
James Bamford, who’s written a lot about NSA over the decades, has taken up this meme. It should be noted that Bamford is less than a reliable journalist who’s known to embellish sources when notoutright fabricating them. That said, there’s no doubt that NSA has a penetration problem.
This shouldn’t be shocking news since the agency has suffered from moles since its birth in 1952. While many intelligence services have tried to steal secrets from NSA, only the Russians have been able to do so consistently. Kremlin penetration of NSA has been a constant. A brief historical sketch outlines the problem.
NSA was in fact founded in part due to a Russian mole. That was William Weisband, a long-term Soviet agent who penetrated the Army’s code-breaking service during World War II. At the beginning of the Cold War, Weisband did enormous damage, betraying top secret joint U.S.-British signals intelligence programs against the Soviet Union. He was arrested in 1950 and did a brief jail stint, but was never prosecuted for espionage. Setting a pattern, the newly born NSA covered up the embarrassing Weisband case, the details of which weren’t released to the public for half a century.
The record of our Intelligence Community, indeed our whole government, in counterintelligence is nothing less than dismal.
A decade later, two NSA mathematicians, William Martin and Bernon Mitchell, defected to the Soviet Union. They had coordinated their defection in advance with the KGB, and their appearance in Moscow for a press conference, where they spilled code-breaking secrets, was a black eye for the agency. In 1963, Jack Dunlap, an Army sergeant assigned to NSA, committed suicide when his spying for the Soviets was uncovered. The full extent of Dunlap’s betrayal remained mysterious, but the fact that Dunlap served as the NSA director’s driver led to uncomfortable questions.
The 1960s witnessed one Soviet mole after another inside the agency. From 1965 to 1967, Robert Lipka, a young Army soldier assigned to NSA, sold any secrets he could get his hands on to the KGB. Despite his low rank, Lipka had access to a wide array of highly classified information. His motive was purely pecuniary, and he was arrested after the Cold War, when KGB sources revealed Lipka’s betrayal.
There was another, more important mole inside NSA at the same time, but he was never officially identified. KGB sources pointed to a second Soviet penetration of agency headquarters that lasted for more than a decade, providing Moscow with reams of classified information, but that traitor’s identity remained murky. Agency leadership never showed much interest in finding that mole—or any.
They could not ignore the case of John Walker when it went public in 1985. A Navy warrant officer with debts and a drinking problem, Walker appeared at the Soviet embassy in Washington in 1967 and offered to sell code secrets to the KGB.
For the next 18 years, Walker passed the Soviets key materials for the Navy’s encrypted communications devices. Had the Cold War gone hot, the Soviets would have had an enormous advantage over the U.S. Navy. Thankfully that didn’t happen, but Walker’s betrayal did lead to the North Korean seizure of the USS Pueblo, an NSA spy ship, in 1968. That vessel was hijacked by Pyongyang to secure its top secret code machines for Moscow. One sailor died in the seizure and the Pueblo’s crew was kept prisoner North Korea for a year.
The last major Soviet penetration of NSA during the Cold War was Ron Pelton, a former agency analyst who started selling secrets to the KGB in 1980. Pelton betrayed highly sensitive signals intelligence programs to Moscow and was convicted of espionage in 1986 after Vitaly Yurchenko, a KGB officer who temporarily defected to the United States, tipped off the FBI about an NSA source selling secrets to the Kremlin.
Viewing NSA as the head of the Western intelligence alliance, the core of which are the Anglosphere “Five Eyes” countries (America, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), and which dates to Allied victory in World War II, there was no point during the Cold War where the Five Eyes system wasn’t penetrated somewhere by Soviet intelligence.
We therefore shouldn’t expect that anything’s changed, given NSA’s long history of paying insufficient attention to counterintelligence. In addition, we have specific information about a Russian mole—or moles—lurking inside the agency today.
In 2010, in an operation they termed Ghost Stories, the FBI arrested ten agents of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, who were operating in the United States. The Russians, many of whom were masquerading as third-country nationals, were what the SVR calls Illegals—that is, long-term penetration agents possessing no official ties to Moscow. This roll-up was a major counterintelligence success for Washington, yet it was treated in a semi-comical fashion by the media, which fixated on Anna Chapman, the fetching red-headed Illegal who liked to pose for the cameras.
In truth, Operation Ghost Stories produced important leads pointing to more SVR operatives in the United States, as yet uncaught. In particular, that Russian spy network opened up a trail to one or more moles lurking inside NSA. That was six years ago and there’s been no word of any Russian moles being arrested.
There are other indications of Russian penetration of NSA that had nothing to do with Snowden. An espionage case that got too little attention was that of Jeffrey Delisle, a Canadian navy junior officer who was arrested in 2012 for passing secrets to Moscow. He admitted his guilt, specifically that for almost five years beginning in 2007, he regularly sold secrets to GRU, that is Russian military intelligence. Upset over his wife’s infidelity and short of cash, the sad-sack Delisle, who was assigned to a Canadian intelligence center in Halifax, simply downloaded secrets on a thumb-drive, which he passed to GRU every month or so.
Most of what Delisle gave Moscow wasn’t Canadian information but belonged to Five Eyes, much of which came from NSA. Yet the most interesting part of the Delisle case is what GRU did not want from him. As one intelligence scholar noted:
Incredibly, GRU was uninterested in some of the best stuff Delisle could have provided, particularly in the technical and scientific fields, including information on how Canada and its allies protect coded communications. This puzzled Delisle, as well it might.
It would be difficult to overstate Moscow’s interest in how the Five Eyes countries encrypt their sensitive government communications. During the Cold War, the KGB referred to NSA as Target OMEGA, and for the Kremlin there was no higher-priority espionage target on earth. That’s because by penetrating NSA you get access not just to that agency’s signals intelligence, the richest espionage source on earth, you can also crack into the top secret communications of the United States and its closest allies.
If GRU wasn’t interested in that when Delisle offered it to them, the only explanation is that Moscow already had that very sensitive information. Which means Russia can listen in on anything it wants. The mole who gave this up could not have been Snowden. Between 2007 and 2012, when Delisle was spying for GRU in Canada, Snowden was working for CIA as an IT contractor, and then for NSA in Japan and Hawaii in a similar role. In that capacity, he did not have the access he needed to betray what the Kremlin already knew about Five Eyes code-making.
Besides, Snowden was never the “spy” he portrayed himself to be. An IT sysadmin with limited understanding of the signals intelligence information he stole and leaked, Snowden acted as cover for Moscow’s real star. A patsy, he was never the actual Russian mole inside NSA. That person or persons is still out there, presumably still functioning as Moscow’s penetration agent inside America’s most secret spy agency.
In fairness to NSA, the record of our Intelligence Community, indeed our whole government, in counterintelligence is nothing less than dismal. And it’s gotten markedly worse during Barack Obama’s two terms in the White House, with their unprecedented losses of America’s secrets to spies, traitors, and hackers. However, given the importance of NSA to our collective security—it’s the backbone of counterterrorism operations across the Western world, our vital shield against jihadism—it’s important that the agency at last starts getting serious about security. Catching some Russian moles would be a solid beginning.
John Schindler is a security expert and former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer. A specialist in espionage and terrorism, he’s also been a Navy officer and a War College professor. He’s published four books and is on Twitter at @20committee.
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СКР возбудил дела против глав Минобороны и Генштаба Украины
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СКР заподозрил глав Генштаба и Минобороны Украины в применении запрещенных методов ведения войны, против них возбуждены дела. Ранее Киев уведомил высокопоставленных российских чиновников о подозрении в преступлениях против нацбезопасности
Следственный комитет возбудил уголовные дела против министра обороны Украины Степана Полторака и начальника Генштаба Украины Виктора Муженко, а также других высокопоставленных чиновников. Об этом сообщили в пресс-службе СКР.
В отношении них возбуждено уголовное дело по ст.356 УК РФ (применение запрещенных средств и методов ведения войны). По версии следствия, Киев неоднократно нарушал трехстороннее соглашение, заключенное с самопровозглашенными Донецкой и Луганской народными республиками об отводе вооружений и прекращении огня.
В СК утверждают, что украинские военнослужащие осуществляли прицельные артиллерийские обстрелы объектов гражданской инфраструктуры, не являющихся военными целями, с применением тяжелых видов вооружения, имеющих высокие поражающие свойства. В результате частично и полностью было разрушено более 183 объектов гражданской инфраструктуры и жизнеобеспечения юго-востока Украины, погибли семь гражданских лиц, 74 — причинен вред здоровью различной степени тяжести, в том числе семи несовершеннолетним.
В комитете подчеркнули, что получили достаточные данные, что указанные противоправные действия совершались по приказу высшего военного руководства Украины, в том числе Полторака, Муженко, экс-командира Сухопутных войск ВСУ Анатолия Пушнякова, действующего командира Сухопутных войск ВСУ Сергея Попко, командующего Нацгвардии Украины Юрия Аллерова.
«Ход расследования находится на контроле у п редседателя СК России», — добавили в ведомстве.
Ранее украинская генпрокуратура завела уголовное дело в отношении министра обороны России Сергея Шойгу и еще 17 высокопоставленных российских чиновников. По словам главы ведомства Юрия Луценко, все подозреваемые объявлены в государственный розыск, готовятся ходатайства в суд о предоставлении разрешения на их задержание.
Среди лиц, которым были вручены уведомления, — советник президента России Сергей Глазьев, бывший полномочный представитель президента в Крымском федеральном округе Олег Белавенцев, министр обороны России Сергей Шойгу и два его заместителя, а также еще десять генералов из числа высшего командного состава Вооруженных сил России.
В июле 2014 года против Шойгу на Украине возбудили уголовное дело, обвинив его в «организации участия неустановленных лиц в незаконных вооруженных формированиях на территории Украины». Фигурантами дела также стали руководитель Пограничной службы ФСБ Российской Федерации Владимир Кулишов и глава агентства «Россия сегодня», журналист Дмитрий Киселев.
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After a pre-dawn barrage of heavy artillery and airstrikes, Turkey sent tanks and special forces into Syria on Wednesday to help clear a border town of Islamic State militants,
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A U.N. envoy says everything is up for discussion in an intensified phase of ongoing talks aimed at reunifying ethnically divided Cyprus.
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Turkish tanks have crossed into Syria as part of Turkey's military operation to drive militants from so-called Islamic State, out of northern Syria.
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Its scoops have rattled the Saudi foreign ministry, the National Security Agency and the U.S. Democratic Party. But WikiLeaks’ spectacular mass-disclosures have also hit hundreds of average people — including sick children, rape victims and mental patients — who just happened to find their personal information included in the group’s giant data dumps, The Associated Press has found.
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The presidents of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have signed an accord to create a joint force to combat the region’s street gangs.
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Moles—that is, long-term penetration agents—are every intelligence service’s worst nightmare. Though rarer in reality than in spy movies and novels, moles exist and can do enormous damage to a country’s secrets and espionage capabilities. They’re what keep counterintelligence experts awake at night.
The recent appearance on the Internet of top secret hacking tools from the National Security Agency has shined yet another unwanted spotlight on that hard-luck agency, which has been reeling for three years from Edward Snowden’s defection to Moscow after stealing more than a million classified documents from NSA. As I explained, this latest debacle was not a “hack”—rather, it’s a clear sign that the agency has a mole.
Of course, I’ve been saying that for years. It’s not exactly a secret that NSA has one or more Russian moles in its ranks—not counting Snowden. Now the mainstream media has taken notice and we have the “another Snowden” meme upon us.
James Bamford, who’s written a lot about NSA over the decades, has taken up this meme. It should be noted that Bamford is less than a reliable journalist who’s known to embellish sources when notoutright fabricating them. That said, there’s no doubt that NSA has a penetration problem.
This shouldn’t be shocking news since the agency has suffered from moles since its birth in 1952. While many intelligence services have tried to steal secrets from NSA, only the Russians have been able to do so consistently. Kremlin penetration of NSA has been a constant. A brief historical sketch outlines the problem.
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For more than three years, lobbyist Jim Slattery worked in Washington to secure the release in Ukraine of the imprisoned political rival of the country's then-president. He said he had a sense that there were people secretively working on the other side. Slattery's hunch was right.
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Fake Syrian passports designed for use by members of the Islamic State trying to enter Europe have been found in refugee camps in Greece during an investigation by the law enforcement agency of the European Union.
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Official: FBI Probing Cyber Breach of NY Times Journalists
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FBI investigating possible cyberbreach of New York Times reporters' email accounts
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A new poll published by UPI on Wednesday shows that the support for US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has grown for the second day in a row and reached 47.24 percent, less than one percentage point behind the 47.98 percent of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The poll was conducted in cooperation with the CVoter research agency among 1,795 people, among whom 1,259 said they were likely voters.
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US Investigates Suspected Russian Hacking of American Journalists by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
U.S. authorities are investigating what they believe is a series of Russian intelligence cyberattacks targeting information collected by journalists at The New York Times and other news organizations. The security breaches have been detected over the past several months, U.S. news organizations reported Tuesday. The attacks are thought to be part of a broader campaign targeting the Democratic Party, which is in the midst of trying to ensure former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's election as president. U.S. authorities say the cyberattacks appear to be targeting American organizations outside government agencies, such as Washington think tanks and news organizations, to gain an understanding of the current American political scene in the weeks before the quadrennial presidential election on November 8. Clinton principal rival is Republican Donald Trump. Information collected by key journalists could provide links to their sources or offer hints about possible unpublished stories related to Russia. Shortly before last month's Democratic National Convention that nominated Clinton for president, the information-sharing group WikiLeaks released more than 19,000 emails from computers at the party's national headquarters in Washington. WikiLeaks has declined to say who its source was, but U.S. experts say they believe the hacking was carried out by Russians. Some of the hacked emails showed party officials favored Clinton's nomination over that of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who engaged her in a spirited, monthslong campaign before ending his run for the White House and endorsing her. Trump recently suggested that Russia ought to hack into Clinton's computer to see whether its agents could find 33,000 emails that Clinton said were private in nature from her days as the State Department chief from 2009 to 2013 and had been deleted. A day later, after critics attacked Trump's suggestion that a foreign government meddle in the U.S. presidential campaign, he said he was being sarcastic.
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IS Threat to Russia Growing with Syria Bombing Campaignby webdesk@voanews.com (Daniel Schearf)
Islamic State's claim of responsibility for an attack on Russian police in the Moscow region last week raises concerns about the terrorist group's possible plans for targeting the Russian capital. Russian authorities say the two men involved, armed with a gun and two axes, were killed after clashes with police at a traffic post outside the city. Islamic State, via the Amaq news agency, said the attack was revenge for Moscow's yearlong bombing campaign in Syria. "Russia as a target is growing in value as Russia is more deeply involved, and actively involved, in supporting the [Bashar al-] Assad regime, supporting the Iranians in the field there," said Moscow-based defense analyst Pavel Felgenhauer. Russian authorities are playing down the attack's significance and the IS claim. TASS, the official Russian news agency, quoted a law enforcement official as saying links with extremists were being investigated, but no such links had been found. Russian investigators are focusing on two possible explanations for the violent attack, reported TASS: It could have been either an attempt to take the policemen's weapons or an act of revenge because of conflict with the policemen. Moving toward Moscow? Acknowledging an IS attack would mean accepting that Moscow is vulnerable, according to Felgenhauer. "If and when they will be ready, I don't know. But I'm sure they're working on mega terrorist attacks … and to try and do it in Moscow — not the Russian provinces, not the North Caucasus," Felgenhauer said. "A major terrorist attack in Moscow is going to cause the most possible political splash compared with any attack in any other part of Russia." IS and affiliated groups have claimed attacks on Russia in the past, including the bombing of a passenger plane from Egypt last year that killed more than 200 Russian tourists. Russian media reported at least two fatal bombing attacks on police in Dagestan this year claimed by IS-affiliated groups. But this was the first IS-claimed attack near Moscow. "While the attack was hardly especially significant or successful, the very fact that IS is beginning to have traction with discontented Muslims in Russia is a dangerous sign," said Mark Galeotti, senior research fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague. "In some ways, IS tends to spread virally, so once some are affected, others are more likely to follow." Russian IS fighters Russian officials say hundreds of Russian citizens have left the country to fight with Islamic extremist groups in Syria, including IS. Reports that Russian officials helped radicals leave the country to participate in foreign wars seem plausible, Felgenhauer said. "There has been a very noticeable decrease of terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus as the bad guys moved into Syria, were fighting there, many of them killed there, and less of the radicals [are] left here in the Russian Federation," he said. "The kind of extremist philosophies IS espouses have relatively little support amongst Russia's Muslims, outside the North Caucasus," Galeotti noted, "while the country's security apparatus remains formidable. It is inevitably a concern, but not yet at least a serious threat." But there are concerns that Russian fighters could return from Syria with the aim of spreading the violent ideology at home. "This is a definite worry and, to be blunt, one of the reasons why Moscow is so eager to see them killed beforehand in the battlefields of Syria," Galeotti said. While Russian authorities claim they are attacking IS and other terrorists in Syria, they are targeting anyone in opposition to Assad. There is no question that Russian security forces are taking the potential threat from IS seriously, Galeotti said. "It may be that whereas al-Qaida was once these fighters' greatest inspiration, IS will replace it," he said. "There are concerns about wider radicalizations — in Tatarstan, among Central Asian migrant workers — but these are still largely no more than potential threats. "The fighters of the North Caucasus remain the number one challenge to Moscow today," Galeotti concluded. "If there are no attacks, no major attacks, then they are effective," Felgenhauer said, when asked how prepared Russia's security forces are to prevent further IS attacks. "If there is an attack, God forbid, then there was a lapse in security."
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Islamic State Prepares to Fight a War From the Shadowsby webdesk@voanews.com (Sharon Behn, Jeff Seldin)
From the outside, the Islamic State terror group’s self-declared caliphate appears to be unraveling, its cities lost and its fighters fleeing. There is growing concern, however, that what seems to be a fraying proto-state is actually an enemy force that is fanning out, sacrificing territory and battles now so it can wreak havoc on its home turf in years to come. The warning signs for the strategic shift by IS have been visible for months, showing up in the way its fighters have retreated from former strongholds and in the way it appears to be setting up its defense of Mosul, the group’s capital in Iraq. While IS fighters there are expected to battle to the very end, the group’s best and most effective forces most likely will not be among them. Losing leadership “Many of the top commanders have already left,” David Witty, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel and former adviser to the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service told VOA. More could soon follow. “In previous battles, large numbers of IS fighters have not been captured,” Witty said. “They will be ready to escape with somewhere around 50 percent of their strength.” Atheel Alnujaifi, a former governor of Nineveh province who now heads Iraq’s National Mobilization Front and its approximately 4,000 fighters, believes the strategic retreat is well underway. “The information coming from inside Mosul says that most of the foreign fighters are leaving,” Alnujaifi said during an interview last month. “I don’t think that more fighters will come.” U.S. military officials admit the number of fighters left to protect Mosul, a force once thought to be possibly 12,000-strong, may have been reduced by half. “Somewhere between 5,000 or so fighters are inside Mosul,” former Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Colonel Chris Garver told Pentagon reporters earlier this month. Other analysts argue that the number of IS fighters in and around Mosul is higher. Growing IS trend Still, there is growing concern that the overall trend is part of an IS strategy to melt into the background. “They’ve had a very long time to ensure their support zones are intact, and they are deeply entrenched,” warned Patrick Martin, Iraq research analyst with the Institute for the Study of War. Already, IS has seen success in reigniting its insurgent capabilities in areas it has lost to other military forces. One such example is Iraq’s Diyala province, initially cleared of IS in early 2015. But since then, the number of IS terror attacks has steadily increased, forcing Iraqi security to start all over again. “The long game is that ISIS is intent on keeping some of these attack-and-support capabilities in recaptured areas without necessarily the intent of controlling terrain,” Martin said, using an acronym for the terror group. U.S. officials also worry IS will escape through black market and criminal networks that have already profited from the terror group’s exploits. “Smuggling networks have been key to their ability to get material in and out of their territory,” Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam Szubin told the August issue of the CTC Sentinel. “You’re talking about smuggling routes that have existed for centuries, in many cases millennia,” he said. “These middlemen are civilians, and they are not going to be who the military is looking for in terms of striking against ISIL.” Civilian population There are also expectations that some IS fighters will try to hide among the civilian Sunni population escaping the conflict into camps and towns around Iraq and Syria. "After significant coalition operations to liberate cities, ISIS fighters often flee in convoys intermixed with civilians,” said Nicholas A. Glavin, a senior researcher at the U.S. Naval War College’s Center in Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups. He said the tactic, whether deliberate or coincidental, prevents coalition airstrikes from eliminating IS fighters as they flee. Once intermingled with the civilian population, it can be nearly impossible to root them out, as IS’s predecessor, al-Qaida in Iraq, showed from 2003 to 2011. Even with thousands of U.S. troops on the ground, there were neighborhoods that were never actually cleared of al-Qaida militants. Now, it may be even more difficult. “ISF [Iraqi Security Forces] are not good at isolating urban areas,” said Witty, the retired Army Special Forces colonel. “The option to escape will always be there.” And once IS fighters have escaped, officials fear the loose but resilient support networks will enable them to lie dormant and undetected until an opportunity presents itself. “It’s very difficult to root them out in one sweep,” said Martin of the Institute for the Study of War.
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FBI investigates whether Russia hacked New York Times reporters, US says by Associated Press in Washington
Authorities do not believe the entire newspaper was compromised, US official says amid investigation into Democratic National Committee leak
The FBI is investigating cyber intrusions targeting reporters of the New York Times and is looking into whether Russian intelligence agencies are responsible for the acts, a US official said Tuesday.
The cyberattacks are believed to have targeted individual reporters, but investigators don’t believe the newspaper’s entire network was compromised, according to the official, who was briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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First on CNN: FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others
CNN Investigators so far believe that Russian intelligence is likely behind the attacks and thatRussian hackers are targeting news organizations as part of a broader series of hacks that also have focused on Democratic Party organizations, the officials said. Russian Hackers Reportedly Target The New York TimesFortune Russia suspected in cyber attacks on US news outletsNew York Post Russian Hackers Are Attacking New York Times JournalistsGizmodo all 46 news articles » |
