Schumer to Senate Dems. Threatens end of legislative filibuster of GOP confirms nominee: “Let me be clear: if Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans move forward with this, then nothing is off the table for next year. Nothing is off the table.”
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Eyewash
CIA slang
The CIA’s mission regularly involves carrying out operations that are designed to deceive foreign governments and other adversaries. But officials said that eyewashing is fundamentally different in that it is aimed at an internal audience — sowing misinformation among the agency’s rank and file.
Beyond the internal distrust implied by the practice, officials said there is no clear mechanism for labeling eyewash cables or distinguishing them from legitimate records being examined by the CIA’s inspector general, turned over to Congress or declassified for historians.
I don't know who would know what the exact story is. Or what is a story
“The classic use of an eyewash is if you have a garden-variety source and all of a sudden he gains access to truly sensitive information,” the former official said. “What you might do is have a false communication saying the guy got hit by a bus and died. The large number of people aware of this source suddenly think he is dead. But the continuing reporting on that source and from that source gets put into a very closed compartment that few would know about.”
Federal law makes it a criminal offense when a government employee “conceals, covers up, falsifies or makes a false entry” in an official record. Legal experts said they knew of no special exemption for the CIA, nor any attempt to prosecute agency officials for alleged violations.
In one case, officials said, CIA operatives in Pakistan issued a cable that attributed the death of a senior member of al-Qaeda to a surge in tribal violence in northwest Pakistan, when in fact the militant had been killed in a drone strike.
So the whole "YOUTUBE VIDEO CAUSED BENGHAZI" thing was a "eyewash"
What a cunt
19 SEPTEMBER 1864—THIRD BATTLE OF WINCHESTER #CivilWar Maj Gen Philip H. Sheridan commanded the U.S. Army of the Shenandoah to destroy the Valley’s abundant resources. On 19 Sep, they clashed in a day-long series of battles with the confederates ending in a union victory.
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References to eyewash — a term that dates to the 19th century — have surfaced in books on espionage as well as an article on the CIA’s website. In a mission depicted in the movie “Argo,” agency operatives posed as filmmakers in an effort to rescue U.S. personnel who had evaded capture in the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Iran. A CIA article on the operation describes phony artist renderings of a supposed movie set as “good ‘eyewash’ ” to help sell the ruse.
But officials said that while eyewashing may help guard against Ames-like penetrations, it is largely aimed at planting misinformation among presumably loyal but lower-ranking employees who might inadvertently reveal classified information to friends or colleagues.
By issuing an eyewash cable and moving subsequent communications into “restricted handling” channels, the former official said, “I can take the distribution from 500 down to five.”
In some cases, the ensuing confusion is almost immediate. The former U.S. intelligence official said he had “seen instances where an eyewash cable goes out and people who need to be in the new-and-smaller compartment come rushing in in a panic and say, ‘This terrible thing has happened.’ And you say, ‘Hang on’ ” and reveal the truth.
So, Gina has been busy then huh
Nadler indicating he'd like to expand the Supreme Court if McConnell pushes through a nominee in a "lame duck session."
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