This evidence suggests that compartmented units of the Russian intelligence services... are using novel pulsed microwave weapons of different sizes and capacities to attack U.S. personnel. washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense… (no paywall)
FBI Hostage Rescue Team callsign aircraft seems headed to New Orleans. The quick reaction team is always on four hour readiness to move. Considering when attack took place, looks like they are moving en masse with all the gear. Going cell hunting...
IMO, there are five problems with the Jeffrey Goldberg leak. 1) Talk about military operations that, if compromised, would have involved threat to mission/U.S. naval aviator lives. Only Goldberg self-censorship avoided compromise of Top Secret planning/operational insights. 1/5
"It's not just the polling data. Outlining growing GOP confidence in his potential, in the last fundraising cycle, James outraised Stabenow by a 2-to-1 ratio." washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/john-j…
5) Hillary Clinton emails server was, contrary to media spin, very bad. But so is this. And any conservative spin saying otherwise will be ludicrously hypocritical. 5/5
Scooplet- An armed U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris‘s protective detail fought unarmed with other detail agents on Monday morning. The incident occurred at Andrews AFB, shortly before Harris arrived.
2) Using an encrypted app that, while good, can be penetrated by China, Russia, Israel, France (at minimum). One device+app penetrated, the chain penetrated. If mil. ops talk, presumably also other stuff. Foreign intel. will now aggressively see what else can be fished. 2/5
3) Why not govt secure comms? To avoid federal record laws? Maybe not… govt secure can be laborious/not user friendly. But all primaries on Goldberg chain have secure comms 24hours a day. And if govt/dod employees must avoid high sensitivity convos on apps, why not bosses? 3/5
4) Talk about internal administration debates/foreign policy on Europe etc. would be NOFORN/Top Secret. And talk of other officials as delegated reps. allows follow on hostile intelligence service targeting. 4/5
#BREAKING: A Chinese scholar at @UMich tried to smuggle a biological pathogen into the U.S. characterized as a potential agricultural terrorism weapon that can be used for targeting food crops, feds say.
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