Tyb
We’ll look who’s on the front page of CNN this AM.
Leon Panetta.
https://www.cnn.com/
Oh man, media bringing out all the ex-intel guys today.
There's more to American support of Ukraine than what Biden's telling us
Here’s what we know, and what we don’t know, about what lies beneath the battle for Ukraine.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged an additional $800 million in aid to Ukraine, following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s calls for a U.S. or NATO-led no-fly zone. It would be understandable, but a mistake, to think American support is limited to what we can see. Ukraine playing the role of David against Russia’s Goliath is impressive optics, but it’s not happening in a vacuum.
It would be understandable, but a mistake, to think American support is limited to what we can see.
From my experience as head of counterintelligence at the FBI, I know that it’s likely that U.S. spies and spy-catchers have been hard at work providing Zelenskyy with advantages that may never see the light of day. We may never know the secrets regarding this silent war for Ukraine, and I’m OK with that.
Here’s what we know, and what we don’t know, about what lies beneath the battle for Ukraine.
First, here at home, we’ve learned that 12 officials assigned to the Russian mission to the United Nations were expelled from the U.S. for conduct outside the scope of their diplomatic duties, which means they were likely intelligence officers previously identified by the FBI as spying for Russian President Vladimir Putin. What we don’t know is the story behind the decision to expel them, or, more interestingly, to not expel the multiple Russian intelligence officers working here under both diplomatic and nonofficial cover positions.
At the FBI, decisions to declare foreign intelligence officers “persona non grata” include the need to retain those officers who have been recruited, and are secretly working for the U.S., or those officers whose communications are successfully compromised. In these scenarios, that likely means Putin’s counterintelligence team is working overtime theorizing which spies of theirs in the U.S. haven't been expelled because their expulsion would constitute a loss for the U.S. intelligence community.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/biden-s-pledge-help-ukraine-goes-beyond-what-he-s-n1292135
> Victims of hypnosis and programming are still victims. Gotta have love and patience, fren.
You’re right, I know.
Just frustrating, as everyone here is well aware.
o7.