How Were Crucial Intelligence Documents Leaked to Iran?

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-22 11:30:44 | Updated at 2024-10-22 13:23:16 2 hours ago

How Were Crucial Intelligence Documents Leaked to Iran?
American Thinker ^ | 22 Oct, 2024 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

Posted on 10/22/2024 4:12:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The leak of high-classified U.S. intelligence documents to the Iranian regime last week has triggered a much-needed counter-intelligence investigation to identify the source -- either a mole who has betrayed their country, or a cyber-hack.

The documents, which bore Top Secret/NOFORN and compartmented intelligence headers, described U.S. satellite spying on Israeli airfields as the IDF conducted exercises believed to foreshadow a massive airstrike on Iran.

The NOFORN designation means that the document cannot be shared with foreign nationals other than members of the "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing arrangement the United States has crafted with the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

While the possibility exists that the materials were hacked from the highly-protected SIPRNET, the government's internal data base of highly-classified materials, there have been no public reports of any hacks of the SIPRNET by external actors.

Insiders, including former Army Private Bradley Manning and NSA contractor Edgar Snowden, have divulged reams of material from U.S. government classified holdings, but the government accused both of them of espionage, not hacking.

Last year, the Justice Department arrested a 21-year-old National Guard employee in Massachusetts in connection with the leak of more than fifty Pentagon documents, many of them classified, to a social media platform called Discord.

Those documents included U.S. assessments of the war in Ukraine, reports of Mossad disaffection with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and intelligence reports on Iran's negotiating strategy with the International Atomic Energy Agency, all of them embarrassing to the United States.

In the fall of 2022, Department of Justice investigators uncovered at least ten classified documents in Joe Biden's private office that included intelligence memos and briefing materials on Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom. Biden was never prosecuted for the security breach, even though most of the documents dated from his tenure

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: jihad

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1 posted on 10/22/2024 4:12:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber

To: MtnClimber

Possibly leaked on orders of 0bama/Jarrett.

2 posted on 10/22/2024 4:12:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

To: MtnClimber

We used to hang people who did this.

We should start doing that again.

3 posted on 10/22/2024 4:17:18 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)

To: MtnClimber

Blinken hand-delivered them in a diplomatic pouch.

4 posted on 10/22/2024 4:19:21 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)

To: MtnClimber

Warmongers who get rich from the deaths of others never want peace, and they will do anything to prevent real peace. Until our laws regarding espionage, treason, etc. are enforced and the guilty are punished to the fullest extent, nothing will change. The corruption in our national government is out of control.

5 posted on 10/22/2024 4:19:23 AM PDT by Rlsau1

To: MtnClimber; Liz

Most likely. Method. Motive. Opportunity.

6 posted on 10/22/2024 4:20:28 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)

To: MtnClimber

How much did Iran pay The Big Guy for the documents?

7 posted on 10/22/2024 4:22:59 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Cats For Trump 2024!)

To: MtnClimber

You want it to stop?
Think it’s dangerous for Americans?

It could have been ordered leaked, by the POTUS, or it was criminal event. If Biden ordered it, he should own it. If it was criminal and you want it to stop…

Then start hanging these people when you catch them.

8 posted on 10/22/2024 4:23:06 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan

To: MtnClimber

9 posted on 10/22/2024 4:23:48 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and Corey Comperatore!)

To: MtnClimber

In the brain dead, rainbow, political Pentagon there appears to be at least one friend of America and Israel left. The regional war (best case scenario) Israel was about to start would have been a disaster for America and Israel. The idiots in DC have a couple more days to rethink the calamitous path we’re on.

10 posted on 10/22/2024 4:27:03 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )

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