Re:Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11
by pydry on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:57AM
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And exposing one CIA agent exposes others. Basic opsec.
Bellingcat looks suspiciously like it was "adopted" as a public front for CIA to release intelligence they want out there publicly using parallel construction.
Not necessarily a "bad" thing but I've yet to see them release something the CIA wouldn't either be either happy or ecstatic to see in the public domain ("Russia shot down an airliner you say???").
Idk do you know of any examples of them using "open source data" to expose an undercover CIA agent for instance? Expose a an American war crime like wikileaks did with collateral murder? I can't and I'd be shocked if they actually did in the future.
Re:Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11
by simoom22 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:34AM
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I'm quite sure the CIA's first choice would be to deny any association and convince the media to downplay it, which they certainly have the leverage to do, especially in this age of fast news.
Yes? "CIA agent goes rogue and kills Ronald McDonald" is bad PR for the US and the CIA in particular, of course they would emphasize that the agent was not acting under their orders. Organizations like Bellingcat (Who Murray calls warmongering propagandists by the way) make it increasingly difficult to get away with secrecy, people will find out so you have to separate yourself from the controversy.