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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. the grugq‏ @thegrugq Jan 20

      the grugq Retweeted John Garnaut

      If russian assets got rolled up, it would be incredibly bad internal security if it was the same guy who sold out the Chinese assets. A huge failure of compartmentation to have one guy know 20+ assets in a country plus multiple assets in another hard target country.https://twitter.com/jgarnaut/status/954554874686980096 …

      the grugq added,

      John Garnaut @jgarnaut
      "Some 20 CIA sources were executed by the Chinese government, two former officials said — a higher number of dead than initially reported ...Then an unknown number of Russian assets also disappeared, sources say." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/cia-china-turncoat-lee-may-have-compromised-u-s-spies-n839316 …
      15 replies 38 retweets 91 likes
    2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jan 20
      Replying to @thegrugq

      It's the tech, not the names. The tech betrayed assets in another country as well.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    3. the grugq‏ @thegrugq Jan 20
      Replying to @emptywheel

      Yeah. That’s the story they floating. But they say the tech was broken with the aid of a field officer who left in 2007 and it was sufficient to compromise assets in Russia ~5yrs later?

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jan 20
      Replying to @thegrugq

      I'll write why there's abundant evidence to support that later.

      3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    5. Eghosa Omoigui‏ @EghosaO Jan 20
      Replying to @emptywheel @thegrugq

      find it interesting that the CI teams from both agencies butted heads on if the leak was humint or sigint & it may turn out it was both.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. the grugq‏ @thegrugq Jan 20
      Replying to @EghosaO @emptywheel

      From the NBC article the PRC CI team only had to inspect one asset’s laptop and from that they’d crack the whole system. If Lee gave up a single asset between 2007-2010 they’d have been able to do that. They wouldn’t need him anymore.

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jan 20
      Replying to @thegrugq @EghosaO

      Right. Which makes the "shared with Russia" thing less compelling.

      7:50 AM - 20 Jan 2018
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        1. the grugq‏ @thegrugq Jan 20
          Replying to @emptywheel @EghosaO

          Yeah, that seems to be after 2012 or something... and I can’t believe that they were using a fucking laptop app to communicate. That breaks so many rules of spycraft. Especially in russia which is a hard target

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