Will Google Control 2020 Election?

YouTube Screenshot of Project Veritas video featuring Google's
head of Responsible Innovation at Global Affairs Jen Gennai

Here's another investigative journalism piece we find revelatory

and critical to understanding the threat posed to our National Security 

by our "enemies from within"!

Project Veritas 

Reveals Google's 'Fairness' Efforts to 

Prevent 2016 From Happening Again

By TYLER O'NEIL 
24 June 2019
[Follow Tyler O'Neil on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil] 

Jenn Gennai

On 24 Jue 2019, Project Veritas released a powerful video revealing Google's liberal "Machine Learning Fairness" program, which a Google executive, Jenn Gennai admitted defined fairness in terms any supporter of President Donald Trump would disagree with.

Jenn also suggested that Senator (D-Mass.) Elizabeth Warren's  plan to break up Google is misguided because
only Google has the power to prevent "the next Trump situation."

She also expressed a goal with Google's algorithms — to prevent 2016 from happening again.

 Elizabeth Warren is saying that we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better, it will make it worse because now all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation. It’s like, a small company cannot do that,"

Liz Warren
[FauxCaHauntUs]

Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation at Google Global Affairs, told an undercover Project Veritas journalist in the video.

Jenn further asks
 "We're also training our algorithms if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?  2020, certainly on top of my old organization, Trust and Safety, top of mind, they’ve been working on it since 2016, to make sure we’re ready for 2020."

It is possible Gennai was referring to the Russian Fake News farms active during the 2016 election, a problem which Google and other Big Tech companies should combat. As for those algorithms, the Project Veritas video focused on Machine Learning Fairness, also known as ML Fairness.

Gennai admits that her definition of fairness cuts against the way Trump supporters would understand the term.

She lays out a very intersectional understanding of fairness and says in the video:
"My definition of fairness and bias specifically talks about historically marginalized communities. And that’s who I care about. Communities who are in power and have traditionally have been in power are not who I’m solving fairness for. 

Everyone is Equal!   But, Some
[e.g., Google] Are More Equal Than Others!

"Our definition of fairness is one of those things that we thought would be like, obvious, and everybody would agree to, and it wasn’t. There was the same people who voted for the current president do not agree with our definition of fairness.

"According to intersectionality, historically marginalized communities still face inherent biases against them and therefore in order for true fairness to be achieved, this inherent imbalance must be reversed. 

This means that fairness does not involve giving a white man and a black woman a fair shake, but rather shifting the playing field so the black woman has an advantage!

 Google Exec Boasted About Helping Hillary Clinton

 by Boosting Latino Turnout in 2016

According to a Google insider  

"Fairness is a dog whistle. It does not mean what you think that it means and you have to apply Doublethink in order to understand what they’re actually saying.

"What they’re really saying about fairness is that they have to manipulate their search results so it gives them the political agenda that they want. And so they have to rebias their algorithms."

As for that "rebiasing," it also explicitly involves news, according to Project Veritas.
The video shows leaked documents calling for Google to establish "a single point of truth" for news.

At PJ Media, an admittedly unscientific study found that 96 percent of Google search results for "Trump News" came from liberal sources.

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin & CFO Ruth Porat

Jenn Gennai admits in the video:
"We have gotten accusations on 'around fairness' is that we’re unfair to Conservatives because we’re choosing what we define as credible news sources and those sources don’t necessarily overlap with conservative sources so we’re getting accusations of fair from one side."

The Google whistleblower says
"They are not an objective source of information; they are a highly biased political machine that is bent on never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again."

In the video, Gennai says that
"... everyone everyone got screwed over in 2016. We all got screwed over in 2016. Again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so, we’re rapidly being, like, what happened there, and how do we prevent it from happening again?"

This is far from the first time that anti-Trump bias has been revealed at Google.

A Google executive bragged about efforts to boost Latino turnout "in key states" in 2016, expecting that voting bloc to pull for Hillary Clinton.

Employees at Google and other tech companies heavily favor Democrats in political contributions. A Google manager also blamed Trump's victory on "Fake News" and "Hate Speech."

PJ Media has reached out to Google for a response to the Project Veritas video, and will update this story with any response.

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Editorial Note:  

Deep State involvement?

Interestingly, the Russia, Russia, Russia anti-Trump meme was partially sponsored by the Co-Founder of Google, Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin [Серге́й Миха́йлович Брин], a Russian Jew born and bred in Soviet Union Moscow; miraculously, the family was granted official exit visas in 1977, "to leave the USSR" -- unusual since most folks were executed for trying to leave during that era. 

In fact, we, in US Military Intelligence [MI] smuggled Russian Jews out of the USSR in a covert "underground pipeline" at great risk to our existing Intelligence networks in the USSR and Europe - created over dozens of years; these  refugees, mostly with science backgrounds, were delivered to Brooklyn, NY, where they were to be debriefed by MI prior to their release to Jewish sponsors.  However, since the Jewish sponsors would immediately spirit the refugees away before the debriefings could even start, we shut the entire network down and advised the Brooklyn contingent to run their own exfil operation. 

Oddly, Brin received a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation, and later interned at Wolfram Research, developers of Mathematica.  Seemed money appeared from all directions to develop an embryonic start-up with Larry Page to develop a data search web crawler engine.

Once Google gained a public awareness foothold with the GoogleMail [GMail] application, things started taking off.  Then came Google Maps, which blossomed into the mysteriously dynamic and pristine - high-resolution satellite imagery "sold" to it by the Intelligence Community in 1990 under a program sponsored by then-President George HW Bush to sell Military technology to the Private Sector.  This new satellite imagery tool had been part of the National Reconnaissance Office [NRO] the very existence of which was highly classified until 2007 when we obtained permission from the NRO Director to publish its existence, location, and operational mission in the book we published: The Best of DC - Inaugural Edition [2007].  

The introduction to the public by Google came when it designated it's new product as "Keyhole" which stunned the Intelligence Community which was familiar with  the name Keyhole as half of the Talent-Keyhole designation for satellite imagery, classified well above Top Secret.  Suddenly, this Top Secret technology was part of the start up company called Google, and the product morphed into Google Earth.  Then again, the newer technology came with advanced satellites, which produced better imagery which linked to the National GeoSpatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) [formerly NGIC], the imagery products of which are particularly precise.  

[Nonetheless, Hillary's server was loaded with this TS/C material, which she "declassified" by cutting off the classification markings.  That used to be National Security violation, penalized by authorities with massive fines and very long prison terms - except Hillary has yet to be charged with any crime, so it must be ok now to release Top Secret Intelligence material.]

The cover story for this transfer of technology is that In-Q-Tel, a CIA sponsored private equity firm sponsored Google and Google Earth's development in 1999. Then again, In-Q-Tel must have also invested in a Time Machine to to back to 1990 to invest in developing the technology which Bush sold.  

Which leads us to the question of how deeply are the CIA and the Deep State intertwined?

Part 2 - Obama's Money Laundering: Chinese Global Domination?

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[NYT 09012011 - Matthew Wald]

We recognized the Solyndra debacle was an Obama scam, but, we never quite grasped the depth of the corruption involved, or, how it would eventually tie to the Deep State shift of global control from the United States to China.  While America was distracted by the Russia scandal, which has dominated world news for more than two years, we were distracted from the actual Economic and Military threat from China.  This is a long and convoluted thread; take the time to read it all the way to the end which should open your eyes to the big picture from which the Leftist Media has been distracting us, while China has been subverting us from within.

NSA Map: Chinese Cyber Assaults on US Economy

A secret NSA map shows the Chinese government’s massive cyber assault on all sectors of the US economy, including major firms like Google and Lockheed Martin, as well as the US government and military.

The map's red dots mark more than 600 corporate, private or government “Victims of Chinese Cyber Espionage” attacked over a five-year period, with clusters in America’s industrial centers. The entire Northeast Corridor from Washington to Boston is blanketed in red, as is California’s Silicon Valley, with other concentrations in Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, L.A. and Detroit. The highest number of attacks was in California, which had almost 50.

Some of you may recall the Solyndra debacle, in which Obama declared he was promoting private enterprise, and US manufactured Solar Panels, to create jobs.  He invested $527 Million in direct loans from the Federal Financing Bank under the 2009 Stimulus Package to Solyndra -- by-passing the normal scrutiny by the Treasury Department auditors.  Private investors, thinking this was a solid, federally-backed program, invested another $1 Billion.   After all, President Bush had blessed it in 2006, so what could possibly go wrong!

Be sure you deposit $500 Million to my off-shore account

Obama visited the company in 2010, proclaiming it was "... leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future" and had hired 1,100 workers.  Below the radar, though, the OMB watchdogs noted that Obama had "... bypassed key taxpayer protections in a rush to approve the funds."

As federal auditors and investors watched helplessly, Solyndra executives were funneling the cash to offshore banks through bogus invoices to "partner companies" which existed solely to create invoices for future auditor review.

By 2011, the company executives had safely transferred virtually all the cash to a variety of offshore banks; they then decried the Chinese competition as underpriced, and therefore, Solyndra was declaring bankruptcy and firing its 1,100 workers.

A flurry of "investigations" followed, but, with Tim Geithner running the Treasury Department, and Eric Holder at the Department of Justice,  and Bob Mueller heading the FBI, not much progress was made in following up with investigations, much less prosecutions.

So, you say, why reprise this scandal!
The depths of that corruption have already been plumbed, and there's not much to be done about it now except to wring our hands and say, "thank God Obama is out of office!"

But, wait, there's more!

Well, no one ever really created an audit trail on that $1.57 Billion.
But, we do know that Obama entered office with a net worth of less than $250,000, and left with an estimated net worth of several billion dollars.  We are told that he was a frugal man and saved his money, and invested wisely.

So, where did all the money go?

It seems the Solyndra cash, along with many billions of dollars from the stimulus packages were passed through shell companies to a variety of off-shore banks in the Caribbean, China, and elsewhere in the Pacific. [Other monies, directly from the NY Fed were transferred to European and Indonesian banks in 2008 by Tim Geithner - then President of the NY Fed.  

The total that Geithner transferred to China was $15 Trillion, rapidly boosting China's GDP from $6 Trillion to nearly $13 Trillion a few short years.

And, what did Obama do with all that cash? [see comments below for China's spending]
We're slowly unraveling that as reports emanate from Trump's Treasury Department.

Obama's lifestyle at our expense
[house is based on design of a commercial Phuket estate]

As luck would have it, Obama's CIA was managing Intelligence/ Interrogation operations in a remote part of Thailand, and, while visiting, Obama decided he needed a hideaway.

The house, on 400 acres, is in the Northeast section of Thailand, near Ubol Ratchatani, a former USAF air base during the Vietnam War.  USAID had modernized the infrastructure of the area, and it showed growth promise.

Ubol Ratchatani
Obama's Insurgent HQ 

So, Solyndra, using its ill-gotten gains, bought a comfortable house, accessible to a semi-private airport [constructed by the USAF, with other attributes we'll discuss below, to accommodate Obama's international aspirations.

This is a swell spot to vacation, and to manage his Shadow Government if things get sticky elsewhere.  During his time in office, Obama visited Thailand six times, and in 2017, visited there another four times.  It apparently appeals to him.

But, aside from the obvious comfort levels, what else would take Obama to this remote part of the world!

As we've noted frequently in the past, there's more to Obama than meets the eye.

Before entering US politics, Obama was reared in an Indonesian Muslim environment, and appears on the rolls as a Muslim student [complete with a UK birth certificate from Kenya (when it was a UK colony].

In  the US with his mother (whom he later ignored and condemned), he was tutored by his Communist "father", Frank Marshall Davis who inculcated young Barack with Communist doctrine.  Once in the US, it seems that Obama's employer, the Ford Foundation, may have prepped him for the US political system, greasing the skids for a Blitzkrieg rise to the Oval Office.
Essentially, Obama is a double edged sword -- as a Communist AND an Islamic radical.

So, what, you might wonder; 

we already knew most of that history.

If you take his background, and his aborted attempts to create a Socialist/Communist state in America, he is likely now on the same path on a global basis.  He has announced he would like to lead the United Nations [probably not a certainty at this point], but, what better background to start tweaking developing countries.

He attempted to create a totalitarian Communist state in the US, populated with Muslim Brotherhood operatives, Iranians, and Communists.  He and Hillary did their best to undermine and overthrow the governments in a number of countries, and was finally outed as a result of Hillary's Benghazi fiasco -- which became a conduit of weaponry for ISIS and al Qaeda.

You may recall that Thailand has been beset by chronic Communist protests throughout the past decade, with a highly critical world Press condemning the Thai Military Government for its aggressive posture against dissidents.

Reportedly, a recent raid on the compound [quickly vacated] produced encrypted laptops,  $200 Million in gold bullion, and dozens of crates of Chinese weapons and explosives.

[The Thai government reportedly confiscated the estate under the provisions of the ASEAN Declaration to Joint Action on Counter Terrorism.]

That is not an aberration in either case, since the Communists have tried to overthrow the Thai Government since the mid-1950s.

NE Thailand Insurgency

Thailand was strengthened as a US ally during the Vietnam War, all the time fighting a Chinese  Communist insurgency supplied via Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in the Northeast, and a Muslim insurgency at the border with Malaysia.

So, here, we get a two-fer. 

The insurgency in NE Thailand was headquartered right across the Cambodian border from Sisaket during the Vietnam War, while supplies and cadre crossed the river from Laos [via a North Vietnamese Binh Tram (logistics unit)] to operate near Ubol and Nakhon Phanom [NKP](another US air base)].

Obama's Mansion is strategically positioned

It was a viable and dynamic insurgent movement, with cadre recruited locally and trained in China, from which they would return to the region to recruit local villagers.

Mr Obama's Mansion is/was perfectly located to coordinate future insurgent paramilitary operations in this region already prepped for a renewed political offensive.

While in office as POTUS, Obama appointed Glyn Davies as his Ambassador, who immediately upon arriving, began supporting dissidents and supporting enemies of the Thai state.  This was in tune with the unwelcome UN involvement in Thailand which drew extreme criticism.
[and you'll recall how well UN involvement in the internal affairs of South Africa worked out.]

At the conclusion of the Vietnam War, a few stray bombs released from US F4s found their way across the Cambodian border, setting off more than 300 secondary explosions, incinerating insurgent soldiers, food stores, and weapon/ammunition stocks -- and essentially ending the insurgency.

What we learned later was that Henry Kissinger, in a 1972 letter to Chou en Lai, assured China that the US had no further interest in the region and would not interfere in a Chinese Communist incursion.  At the same time, Henry shut down all existing and clandestine Intelligence networks, some of which dated back to World-War-2 OSS nets.

Without those established nets, it would be difficult to monitor the flow of political activists and insurgent cadre and combatants as they flow in from China to be guided by Obama -- and Soros.

To tie all this information together,
Solyndra used the cash it siphoned from the US federal loans and private investors to acquire a number of real estate properties scattered about in Southeast Asia, valued at over $800 million. 

Given Trump's interest in these matters, we expect him to encourage other Southeast Asian countries to employ the ASEAN Declaration to Joint Action on Counter Terrorism.

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Editorial Notes:

1) I have some relevant knowledge of this situation as I served as the Regional Intelligence Advisor to the Thai Communist Suppressions Operations Command [CSOC (Now ISOC)], coordinating the Counter-Insurgency operations, in another lifetime.

2) Update 1MAY2019]: 

I visited Thailand recently and learned that, after Kissinger [in Nixon's name] ordered all US troops out of Southeast Asia, and simultaneously, shut down all US Intelligence operations [covert and clandestine], his Domino Theory almost succeeded in placing all of Southeast Asia in Communist hands. 

By 1975, virtually all US forces had departed, as had all Intelligence officers, so, an event which could have sparked World War 3 was not reported in Intelligence Circles - although Kissinger was likely fully aware.  

PRC forces from Yunnan assembled in northern Laos
and invaded the Chiang Rai region with infantry, armor,
and combat air support in 1975 - but were defeated.

Coincidentally, in 1975, the Peoples Republic of China [PRC] invaded northern Thailand from Yunnan Province, via Laos and Burma, near Chiang Rai.  

Thai Defense forces and the Nationalist Chinese [KMT], along with Hmong tribesmen, and a few Australian Military advisors, fought the PRC forces for three years, suffering thousands of casualties [a memorial exists today, with the names of all the casualties, at the site of the battles.

Eventually, the PRC withdrew, and left Thailand, only to support insurgent organizations to undermine the Thai government. 

[As an aside, some may remember the movie "Apocalypse Now" which described the hunt for, and assassination of Colonel Kurtz - whom the DS designated as a devil.  The movie portrays hundreds of bodies hanging from the swamp trees of Kurtz's camp ; those were Khmer Rouge, who had slaughtered, at random, millions of Cambodians merely because they were educated.  

On the positive side, "Colonel" Kurtz, was an advisor to the Mountain People, who were guerrillas fighting to keep Southeast Asia from succumbing to communism.  Watch the embedded video, all the way through the commentary after the Movie extract; it gives you an idea of what war is really like, and how it affects honorable men.]

Currently, the PRC is attempting an economic takeover of all Southeast Asia by investing, with loans to build national infrastructures, constructing dams for hydro-electric power, high speed rail, improving ports -- all with the trillions of dollars funneled to China via Indonesia in 2008 by Timothy Geithner while he was President of the NY Fed [he is currently a financial advisor to the PRC].  

Water remains a critical issue as China's plans for dams to furnish hydro-electric power throughout the region will flood farmland and/or cut off vital water supplies to farmers.  

In Laos, farmers complained that the Chinese routinely open and close dam spillways, sending tidal waves ten to 15 feet high roaring down rivers, inundating farms and wiping out crops.  

Additionally, since dams have been built in a hurry with little or no oversight, several of  have collapsed, causing death and destruction downstream.

Although the improvements are welcome, the governments of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar (Burma) are uncertain how they will repay these loans, which if unpaid, will result in the PRC seizing infrastructure assets and surrounding land.



The Third Prong on this economic threat, Chinese control of ports in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore.  As a part of what is now called the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road [MSR], it is clear that China's expansion strategy focuses on controlling regional ports, as well as those around the world.  

A fourth prong, though little known and yet to be accomplished enterprise is the Kra Canal, which will cross southern Thailand opening a sea lane from the South China Sea to the Andaman Sea, bypassing the Malacca Strait -- a maritime choke point adding enormous distance to maritime traffic between the two seas.  



The canal has considerable merit, 
but the reality is that China will control that conduit at the expense of Thailand, and the rest of Asia.

Global strategists have dubbed China's expansion into these sectors as the "Debt-Trap Diplomacy" - offered up as helping local economies through the "Belt and Road Initiative", but in reality, these huge developmental loans serve little to improve local life, but instead choke national economies with massive debt for unsound projects to secure Chinese access to resources or local markets. 

Cash strapped countries end up turning over their ports, their land, and their resources to China (just as Venezuela turned over its oil industry to China) when they can't meet their debt payments.  

In essence, China uses economic leverage in place of Military force to conquer target countries.  
The strategy is Wei Chi, or encirclement; in this case economic domination of regional and global ports cripples the ability to resist Chinese domination.  

From a military perspective, this high-speed rail could deliver troops and weapons system quickly and efficiently throughout Southeast Asia from Kunming to Singapore in a matter of hours.  Controlling internal waterways through dams allows for domination of the regional agriculture, and, control of ports means China declares what is imported or exported - thus controlling the economies of these countries. 

What the PRC could not seize through Military aggression, they are slowly seizing through economics.  
  
It seems that the Deep State's emissaries [i.e., GHW Bush, Clinton, G W Bush, Obama, and Kissinger] were routinely visiting the region from 1990-2016 to ensure China was not meeting any resistance in its expansion, and they would all profit immensely with China in control.  

Why have we not heard of these issues?  

Well, it's been reported, but the Obama cabal generated a great deal of noise and attention on the Russia, Russia, Russia meme to distract us from the Chinese economic - and Military threat.

Ultimately, the strategy has been to undermine the US to provide the PRC with full control, regionally, and eventually, globally.

Give that some thought as you listen to the Deep State Media continue the hysterics over Trump's alleged connections to Russia, Russia. Russia!

Trump Cancels Pelosi's Scheme

White House - If Taheb's Rocket Attack Gone As Planned
[Independent Sentinel]

News Media hasn't given much coverage to the Georgia man, Hasher Jallal Taheb, who planned to assault the White House, and kill the POTUS.

Conveniently, Pelosi decided to skip the State of the Union event by creating a CODEL [Congressional Delegation] this week to visit Brussels, Cairo, and Afghanistan; that would have given her, and leading Democrats an alibi - had Trump been killed, enabling Nancy to ascend to the Oval Office once Pence had been removed -- a separate scheme we'll discuss later.

DAILY CALLER

Trump allowed Nancy's CODEL to board the USAF bus, but then advised that, given the government shut-down, he could not allow Nancy to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on such a trip at Taxpayers expense, but suggested she and her Congressional colleagues remain in Washington to negotiate a budget settlement.

Lots of scheming going on here.
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UPDATE: 26JAN2019
According to the Leftist Media, "Trump folded"
In reality, the potential of an Air Traffic Controllers union sick-out portended a major air traffic disruption which would impact the national economy.  Trump compromised to ensure government employees would not be inconvenienced more than they already have, and also to buy time while he created his next move.  

However, it would not be out of the realm of reality to fire all the Air Traffic Controllers at LaGuardia and replace them with non-union employees, just as Reagan did in 1981; this would likely gain Trump solid backing from voters who are sick of the union tactics. If they work, they get paid; if they call in sick as a protest -- they get fired!
On 22 October, 1981, the Federal Labor Relations Authority decertified PATCO; it can happen again.

Currently, Trump can, and likely will  employ these options:
a) Create a State of the Union event at a sports venue to which he can invite the public [tens of thousands] as he has to his rallies.
b) Create an Executive Order in response to a "National Emergency" to shift existing funds from DOD to the Corps of Engineers to build his National Defense Wall -- much the same as President Eisenhower used DOD funds to build his National Defense Highway [aka: the Interstate Highway system] when Congress denied him funds.

Trump can, and likely will, deny Pelosi future use of the USAF transportation she has used in the past at nearly $200,000 per trip.  That money can be used to build part of the wall, perhaps with her picture emblazoned on it facing Mexico to terrify the Migrant Caravan.

This entire episode has served to publicize the abject corruption of Pelosi, and the inability of even dedicated Democrats to work with Trump to rebuild America.

If Congress does not pass a budget to Trump's requirements, he can, and likely will shut the government down once again -- and perhaps arrest Pelosi.


UPDATE [23JAn1018]:  
Speaker Pelosi announced she won't allow Trump use of the House Chamber 
to deliver the State of the Union address:

Speaker Pelosi

It may come as a surprise to Ms Pelosi, but delivering the State of the Union [SOTU] address is merely a courtesy for the Congress and the Supreme Court. According to the Constitution, there is not even a requirement for the annual address, but rather: 

"The President, shall from time to time, give to the Congress information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."

Given Ms Pelosi's edict, President Trump could fill a local sports arena with citizens, Congress and the Supreme Court, complete with big screen videos of Schumer, Pelosi, and Hillary all giving sincere speeches on the "NEED FOR A WALL!"  

This SOTU will the first in recent history to be delivered outside of Congress, and perhaps, the most entertaining!
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BACKGROUND:

Courier Flight -- for Congressional Vacations

A CODEL has traditionally been a family vacation trip for Congresspersons and their families to visit pleasure spots around the world, like Cairo and Brussels. The massively expensive flights are aboard US Air Force passenger planes, officially designated "Courier Flights" which have passenger accommodations equivalent, or superior to commercial airline First Class accommodations, complete with US Military personnel serving as flight attendants.

Those become bureaucratic and security nightmares for the US Embassy in each country as the Embassy staffs are then tasked to take the CODEL members on shopping trips and sightseeing tours. CODEL members are each issued a bag of local currency for spending money.

Endless Briefings

Essentially, the visit shuts down all operations of the Embassy planning for the visit, hosting the visit, and then writing reports on the visit for both the State Department as well as responding to demands by Members and Senators, plus shipping all the CODEL purchaseS back to the US on USAF planes to avoid US customs.




But then we have Afghanistan, the final destination of the CODEL, which would affect both the Embassy as well as the Military personnel stationed there -- who are attempting to draw down their force.

Green Zone Expands Exponentially
Still Vulnerable

The CODEL has to be hosted, requiring tons of preparation, both administrative and security by both the Embassy and the Military. While this mass of US politicians and their families prance around the Kabul Green Zone with a huge escort of US and Afghan troops, other security has to be ramped up to its highest level since the visitors would be a prime target.

Resources devoted to this security would be ground based troops, air surveillance, constant AC-130 monitoring, NSA monitoring, Army Security Agency monitoring, heightened Military Police monitoring, and a host of other asset employment.


Notably, the Taliban detonated a bomb in the Green Zone in May, 2017, killing hundreds, and destroying the German Embassy.

A CODEL consisting of a herd of self-important US politicians would offer a high visibility target, the destruction of which would provide the Taliban an extraordinary propaganda prize. 

Notably, Pelosi and Schumer condemned Trump for publicizing the CODEL's destinations, particularly Afghanistan, claiming such publicity endangered them.


That would presume that local news organizations in Europe and the Middle East would not have already been alerted to the visit by their own diplomatic corps and politicians who would be making highly visible preparations for such a visit to toady up to US legislators for financial hand-outs.

Anyone who has been assigned to a Military base targeted by a CODEL can verify the insane levels of preparations required for such a visit, which would entail disclosure to Afghan counter-parts and contractors, many of whom are covert operatives of the Taliban.

ANALYSIS:
As a final note, rumor has it that all the conversations of the CODEL entrapped on the USAF bus were recorded as it left the Capitol, and then, following the release of Trump's letter to Pelosi, the bus circled the Capitol repeatedly before releasing the passengers from the bus.

Armored Train Minimized Potential Damage

Some of those recorded conversations revealed the expectation that Trump would be killed during their absence, bringing back memories of the derailing of the Train taking Republican politicians and their families to a conference near Richmond.

The train was derailed by a dump truck which ran head-on into the train, driven by a local fellow who had "mental problems".

Damage to the train was minimized by the fact that the train was armored, which kept the entire trains from derailing and rolling downhill; it reduced injuries and prevented the probability of many deaths. Some folks believe the Democrats and Deep State engineered that train wreck in the hopes of wiping out the Republican leadership -- but, that has yet to be resolved.

The President has skilled advisors thoroughly familiar with coup plotting; an excellent chess player, he's well ahead of the Democrat and RINO schemers who wish to topple him as they destroy the US.

Time to Restructure the Intelligence Community?

[The link to this story has now been removed from the Internet]

General [ret] Mike Flynn has run up enormous legal bills defending himself against the Democrats' and Media onslaught which accused him of collusion with the Russians, bordering on Treason.

This campaign against him consisted of baseless accusations which alluded to his past international business dealings which were not illegal in his status as a private sector businessman, nor were such discussions illegal in his role as a National Security Advisor since such discussions are, and always have been, de rigueur in a diplomatic/national security scenario; or even in a Presidential Campaign scenario [Mitt Romney met with both UK and Russian Intelligence representatives in his Presidential campaign, and the Media was fully knowledgeable of those meetings -- but said nothing.

I promise to lie through my teeth
I'm protected by Hillary!

Brennan feared Flynn would recommend the dissolution of the CIA's Directorate of Operations [DO] as it had morphed into a covert, rogue "nation changing" tool of the New World Order [i.e., A Global Government], and had downgraded and essentially eliminated its Clandestine Service [NCS].   

The reformulated NCS became a rudderless, unsupervised covert operation, often using Military SpecOps units to carry out CIA missions which were unsanctioned [e.g., Benghazi], leaving many of our soldiers dead in foreign countries; the standard excuse used for these deaths was that they had committed suicide.


DIA's Clandestine Service [DCS] had displaced CIA's Clandestine Service and recruited and deployed officers with superior educations, training, Military background, and sophistication -- while CIA's case officers and Station Chiefs left a great deal, including integrity, to be desired [evidenced by Benghazi].  Brennan, an analyst, was assigned as a Station Chief as a checkmark to becoming Director of the CIA.  He was regarded by field agents as a bumbling idiot, matching his reputation as a an analyst -- but, he served Bush and Obama well as their puppet.

Perjury is in my nature, so screw you, Congressman!
I'm protected by Hillary!

 Clapper is/has been regarded as a sleaze, as we've noted in the past regarding his role as US Pacific Command J2 where he blocked our efforts at identification and recovery of US POWs still held in Vietnam during the 1980s; he nearly destroyed DIA's analysis capability as he reorganized the independent analysis divisions, abused his position as DNI Director and weaponized the DNI into a political tool, using NSA and other IC resources to undermine Flynn and Trump, and Conservative politicians using blackmail and threats against families to achieve their goals. Congress demanded his resignation based on his blatant perjury during his testimony before Congressional Committees [he did not resign until the end of the Obama Administration.  

Clapper continues to manage companies with Intelligence Community agencies which have non-compete contracts, and obscure IDIQ contracts -- all of which need to be investigated, and perhaps terminated.  We highly recommend all these contracts be terminated, and the companies and their officers/employees have their security clearances terminated -- with full disbarment from any contact with any member of the Intelligence Community.

[Following 9/11, we established the DNI [Directorate of National Intelligence] to eliminate and replace the DCI [Directorate of Central Intelligence]  since the DCI was also the Director of CIA and controlled all the IC; too much power in a single seat.] 

Both Clapper and Brennan need to be brought up on a variety of charges, not the least of which would Treason.

CIA Surveillance Exposed by Wikileaks

Note the original publication date of this blogpost

was 2017.

Since Assange is again under major attack, with the objective 

to ensure his incarceration and/or death, I've been asked to republish this blog post which includes significant revelations  which we can assume are included among his more recent drops from, among others, Entheos.

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The original blog post follows:

Normally, we try to refine reports such as this; however, this report in its raw form 

contains so much credible information of immediate import that we will publish 

as is, with exceptional areas highlighted with bolding and color.

Very briefly, this ties in with the "wire-tapping" issue, to which we have alluded 

as a euphemism rather than actual.  Reading this report will give the 

reader a better idea of the vulnerabilities we face in using any type 

of communication; kudos again to Mr Snowden and to Mr Assange for  

introducing us to these issues and displaying both CIA and NSA's methodologies.

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Wikileaks Analysis

Disclosures include: 

1) CIA management by-passed encryption on phone and messaging services such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram.  

2) CIA hackers can penetrate Android phones and collect audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.

3) CIA can [and did] engage in “false flag” cyber-attacks to portray Russia as the assailant. 

4) The CIA’s Remote Devices Branch’s [UMBRAGE] group, collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques ‘stolen’ from malware produced in other state,s including the Russian Federation.

CIA malware targets iPhone, Android, smart TVs

CIA malware and hacking tools are built by EDG (Engineering Development Group), a software development group within CCI (Center for Cyber Intelligence), a department belonging to the CIA's DDI (Directorate for Digital Innovation). The DDI is one of the five major directorates of the CIA (see this organizational chart of the CIA for more details).

[ED Note: 

The DDI was originally the analytical division of CIA, and was highly regarded.  That function was replaced by the Digital Innovation Directorate]

EDG MALWARE OPS

The EDG is responsible for the development, testing and operational support of all backdoors, exploits, malicious payloads, trojans, viruses and any other kind of malware used by the CIA in its covert operations world-wide.

Your TV is never really off

The increasing sophistication of surveillance techniques has drawn comparisons with George Orwell's 1984, but "Weeping Angel", developed by the CIA's Embedded Devices Branch (EDB), which infests smart TVs, transforming them into covert microphones, is surely its most emblematic realization.

The attack against Samsung smart TVs was developed in cooperation with the United Kingdom's MI5/BTSS. After infestation, Weeping Angel places the target TV in a 'Fake-Off' mode, so that the owner falsely believes the TV is off when it is on. In 'Fake-Off' mode the TV operates as a bug, recording conversations in the room and sending them over the Internet to a covert CIA server.

In October 2014, the CIA was looking at infecting the vehicle control systems used by modern cars and trucks.  

[ED Note: 

Recall here the Cash for Clunkers program, forcing vehicle owners to upgrade to modern vehicles with computers which could be hacked by CIA as an auto control mechanism.

Hacked computer leaves driver with no control

The purpose of such control is not specified, but it would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations. 
 [There have been a number of single vehicle "accidents" causing the deaths of prominent individuals.]

[This is a personal issue since my SUV's computer stopped functioning at 70 MPH, leaving me without control of steering or brakes; fortunately a State Trooper was on the scene to assist.]

The CIA's Mobile Devices Branch (MDB) developed numerous attacks to remotely hack and control popular smart phones. Infected phones can be instructed to send the CIA the user's geolocation, audio and text communications as well as covertly activate the phone's camera and microphone.

MDB Remote Hacking of Your iPhone

Despite iPhone's minority share (14.5%) of the global smart phone market in 2016, a specialized unit in the CIA's Mobile Development Branch produced malware to infest, control and exfiltrate data from iPhones and other Apple products running iOS, such as iPads. CIA's arsenal includes numerous local and remote "zero days" developed by CIA or obtained from GCHQ, NSA, FBI or purchased from cyber arms contractors such as Baitshop. The disproportionate focus on iOS may be explained by the popularity of the iPhone among social, political, diplomatic and business elites.

A similar unit targets Google's Android which is used to run the majority of the world's smart phones (~85%) including Samsung, HTC and Sony. 1.15 billion Android powered phones were sold last year. "Year Zero" shows that as of 2016 the CIA had 24 "weaponized" Android "zero days" which it has developed itself and obtained from GCHQ, NSA and cyber arms contractors.

These techniques permit the CIA to bypass the encryption of 

WhatsApp, 

Signal, 

Telegram, 

Wiebo, 

Confide  

Cloackman 

by hacking the "smart" phones on which they operate to collect audio and message traffic 

before encryption is applied!

CIA malware targets Windows, OSx, Linux, routers

The CIA also runs a very substantial effort to infect and control Microsoft Windows users with its malware hacking tools. This includes multiple local and remote weaponized "zero days", air gap jumping viruses such as 

"Hammer Drill" which infects software distributed 

on CD/DVDs, infectors for removable media such as USBs, systems

 to hide data in images or in covert disk areas 

( "Brutal Kangaroo") and to keep its malware infestations going.

Many of these infection efforts are pulled together by the CIA's Automated Implant Branch (AIB), which has developed several attack systems for automated infestation and control of CIA malware, such as "Assassin" and "Medusa".

Attacks against Internet infrastructure and web-servers are developed by the CIA's Network Devices Branch (NDB).

The CIA has developed automated multi-platform malware attack and control systems covering Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux and more, such as EDB's "HIVE" and the related "Cutthroat" and "Swindle" tools, which are described in the examples section below.

CIA 'hoarded' vulnerabilities ("Zero Days")

In the wake of Edward Snowden's leaks about the NSA, the US technology industry secured a commitment from the Obama administration that the executive would disclose on an ongoing basis — rather than hoard — serious vulnerabilities, exploits, bugs or "zero days" to Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other US-based manufacturers.

Serious vulnerabilities not disclosed to the manufacturers place huge swathes of the population and critical infrastructure at risk to foreign intelligence or cyber criminals who independently discover or hear rumors of the vulnerability. 

If the CIA can discover such vulnerabilities so can others.

The US government's commitment to the Vulnerabilities Equities Process came after significant lobbying by US technology companies which risk losing their share of the global market over real and perceived hidden vulnerabilities. 

The government stated that it would disclose all pervasive vulnerabilities discovered after 2010 on an ongoing basis.

"Year Zero" documents show that the CIA breached the Obama administration's commitments. 

Many of the vulnerabilities used in the CIA's cyber arsenal are pervasive and some may already have been found by rival intelligence agencies or cyber criminals.

As an example, 

specific CIA malware revealed in "Year Zero" is able to penetrate, infest and control both the Android phone and iPhone software that runs or has run presidential Twitter accounts. 

The CIA attacks this software by using undisclosed security vulnerabilities ("zero days") possessed by the CIA but if the CIA can hack these phones then so can everyone else who has obtained or discovered the vulnerability. 

As long as the CIA keeps these vulnerabilities concealed from Apple and Google (who make the phones) they will not be fixed, and the phones will remain hackable.

The same vulnerabilities exist for the population at large, including the US Cabinet, Congress, top CEOs, system administrators, security officers and engineers. By hiding these security flaws from manufacturers like Apple and Google the CIA ensures that it can hack everyone at the expense of leaving everyone hackable.

Cyberwar programs are a serious proliferation risk

Cyber 'weapons' are not possible to keep under effective control.

While nuclear proliferation has been restrained by the enormous costs and visible infrastructure involved in assembling enough fissile material to produce a critical nuclear mass, cyber 'weapons', once developed, are very hard to retain.

Cyber 'weapons' are in fact just computer programs which can be pirated like any other. Since they are entirely comprised of information they can be copied quickly with no marginal cost.

Securing such 'weapons' is particularly difficult since the same people who develop and use them have the skills to exfiltrate copies without leaving traces — sometimes by using the very same 'weapons' against the organizations that contain them. 

There are substantial price incentives for government hackers and consultants to obtain copies since there is a global "vulnerability market" that will pay hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars for copies of such 'weapons'. 

Similarly, contractors and companies who obtain such 'weapons' sometimes use them for their own purposes, obtaining advantage over their competitors in selling 'hacking' services.

Over the last three years the United States intelligence sector, which consists of government agencies such as the CIA and NSA and their contractors, such as Booze Allan Hamilton, has been subject to unprecedented series of data exfiltrations by its own workers.

A number of Intelligence Community members not yet publicly named have been arrested or subject to federal criminal investigations in separate incidents.

Uploaded 50 TB of NSA data

Most visibly, in 2017, Harold T. Martin III pled guilty to 20 counts of mishandling classified information. The Department of Justice alleged that it seized some 50,000 terabytes of information from Harold T. Martin III that he had obtained from classified programs at NSA and CIA, including the source code for numerous hacking tools. 

The US government reportedly failed to note or effectively respond to a number of issues with Martin's security practices and behaviors over a period of 10 to 20 years!

Once a single cyber 'weapon' is 'loose' it can spread around the world in seconds, to be used by peer states, cyber mafia and teenage hackers alike.

US Consulate in Frankfurt [covert CIA hacker base]

In addition to its operations in Langley, Virginia the CIA also uses the US consulate in Frankfurt as a covert base for its hackers covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

CIA hackers operating out of the Frankfurt consulate ( "Center for Cyber Intelligence Europe" or CCIE) are given diplomatic ("black") passports and State Department cover. The instructions for incoming CIA hackers make Germany's counter-intelligence efforts appear inconsequential: 

"Breeze through German Customs because you have your cover-for-action story down pat, and all they did was stamp your passport"

Your Cover Story (for this trip)
Q: Why are you here?
A: Supporting technical consultations at the Consulate.

Two earlier WikiLeaks publications give further detail on CIA approaches to customs and secondary screening procedures.

Once in Frankfurt CIA hackers can travel without further border checks to the 25 European countries that are part of the Shengen open border area — including France, Italy and Switzerland.

A number of the CIA's electronic attack methods are designed for physical proximity. 

These attack methods are able to penetrate high security networks that are disconnected from the internet, such as police record database. In these cases, a CIA officer, agent or allied intelligence officer acting under instructions, physically infiltrates the targeted workplace. The attacker is provided with a USB containing malware developed for the CIA for this purpose, which is inserted into the targeted computer. The attacker then infects and exfiltrates data to removable media. 

[ED Note:  Some of you may recall that this CIA team was arrested and shipped to Gitmo for trial after being monitored manipulating the 2020 election results.  They are currently enjoying the Cuban sunshine from their cells.]

For example, the CIA attack system Fine Dining, provides 24 decoy applications for CIA spies to use. To witnesses, the spy appears to be running a program showing videos (e.g VLC), presenting slides (Prezi), playing a computer game (Breakout2, 2048) or even running a fake virus scanner (Kaspersky, McAfee, Sophos). But while the decoy application is on the screen, the underlaying system is automatically infected and ransacked.

CIA increased proliferation risks

In what is surely one of the most astounding intelligence goals in living memory, the CIA structured its classification regime such that for the most market valuable part of "Vault 7" — the CIA's weaponized malware (implants + zero days), Listening Posts (LP), and Command and Control (C2) systems — the agency has little legal recourse.

The CIA made these systems unclassified.

Why the CIA chose to make its cyberarsenal unclassified reveals how concepts developed for military use do not easily crossover to the 'battlefield' of cyber 'war'.

To attack its targets, the CIA usually requires that its implants communicate with their control programs over the internet. If CIA implants, Command & Control and Listening Post software were classified, then CIA officers could be prosecuted or dismissed for violating rules that prohibit placing classified information onto the Internet. 

Consequently the CIA has secretly made most of its cyber spying/war code unclassified. 

The US government is not able to assert copyright either, due to restrictions in the US Constitution. Thus, cyber 'arms' manufactures and computer hackers can freely "pirate" these 'weapons' if they are obtained. The CIA has primarily had to rely on obfuscation to protect its malware secrets.

Conventional weapons such as missiles may be fired at the enemy (i.e., into an unsecured area). Proximity to or impact with the target detonates the ordnance including its classified parts. Hence military personnel do not violate classification rules by firing ordnance with classified parts. Ordnance will likely explode. If it does not, that is not the operator's intent [thus evidence of US involvement is available to investigators.]

Over the last decade US hacking operations have been increasingly dressed up in military jargon to tap into Department of Defense funding streams. For instance, attempted "malware injections" (commercial jargon) or "implant drops" (NSA jargon) are being called "fires" as if a weapon was being fired. However the analogy is questionable.

Unlike bullets, bombs or missiles, most CIA malware is designed to live for days or even years after it has reached its 'target'. CIA malware does not "explode on impact" but rather permanently infests its target. In order to infect target's device, copies of the malware must be placed on the target's devices, giving physical possession of the malware to the target. 

To exfiltrate data back to the CIA or to await further instructions the malware must communicate with CIA Command & Control (C2) systems placed on internet connected servers. But such servers are typically not approved to hold classified information, so CIA command and control systems are also made unclassified.

A successful 'attack' on a target's computer system is more like a series of complex stock maneuvers in a hostile take-over bid or the careful planting of rumors in order to gain control over an organization's leadership rather than the firing of a weapons system. 

If there is a military analogy to be made, the infestation of a target is perhaps akin to the execution of a whole series of military maneuvers against the target's territory including observation, infiltration, occupation and exploitation.

Evading Forensics and Anti-virus

A series of standards lay out CIA malware infestation patterns which are likely to assist forensic crime scene investigators as well as Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Nokia, Blackberry, Siemens and anti-virus companies attribute and defend against attacks.

"Tradecraft DO's and DON'Ts" contains CIA rules on how its malware should be written to avoid fingerprints implicating the "CIA, US government, or its witting partner companies" in "forensic review". 

Similar secret standards cover the use of encryption to hide CIA hacker and malware communication (pdf), describing targets & exfiltrated data (pdf) as well as executing payloads and persisting in the target's machines over time.

CIA hackers developed successful attacks against most well known anti-virus programs. These are documented in AV defeats, Personal Security Products, Detecting and Defeating PSPs and PSP/Debugger/RE Avoidance. 

For example, Comodo was defeated by CIA malware placing itself in the Window's "Recycle Bin". While Comodo 6.x has a "Gaping Hole of DOOM".

CIA hackers discussed what the NSA's "Equation Group" hackers did wrong and how the CIA's malware makers could avoid similar exposure.

Examples:

The CIA's Engineering Development Group (EDG) management system contains around 500 different projects (only some of which are documented by "Year Zero"), each with their own sub-projects, malware and hacker tools.

The majority of these projects relate to tools that are used for penetration, infestation ("implanting"), control, and exfiltration.

Another branch of development focuses on the development and operation of Listening Posts (LP) and Command and Control (C2) systems used to communicate with and control CIA implants; special projects are used to target specific hardware from routers to smart TVs.

Some example projects are described below, but see the table of contents for the full list of projects described by WikiLeaks' "Year Zero".

UMBRAGE

The CIA's hand-crafted hacking techniques pose a problem for the CIA. 

Each technique it created formed a "fingerprint" that can be used by forensic investigators to attribute multiple different attacks to the same entity.

This is analogous to finding the same distinctive knife wound on multiple separate murder victims. The unique wounding style creates suspicion that a single murderer is responsible. As soon as one murder in the set is solved then the other murders will also find likely attribution.  

The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.

With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from.

UMBRAGE components cover keyloggers, password collection, webcam capture, data destruction, persistence, privilege escalation, stealth, anti-virus (PSP) avoidance and survey techniques.

Fine Dining

Fine Dining comes with a standardized questionnaire i.e., menu that CIA case officers fill out. The questionnaire is used by the agency's OSB (Operational Support Branch) to transform the requests of case officers into technical requirements for hacking attacks (typically "exfiltrating" information from computer systems) for specific operations. The questionnaire allows the OSB to identify how to adapt existing tools for the operation, and communicate this to CIA malware configuration staff. The OSB functions as the interface between CIA operational staff and the relevant technical support staff.

Among the list of possible targets of the collection are 'Asset', 'Liason Asset', 'System Administrator', 'Foreign Information Operations', 'Foreign Intelligence Agencies' and 'Foreign Government Entities'.      

          Notably absent is any reference to extremists or transnational criminals. 

[As an aside, CIA can designate you as an Extremist or a Transnational Criminal]

The 'Case Officer' is also asked to specify the environment of the target like the type of computer, operating system used, Internet connectivity and installed anti-virus utilities (PSPs) as well as a list of file types to be exfiltrated like Office documents, audio, video, images or custom file types. The 'menu' also asks for information if recurring access to the target is possible and how long unobserved access to the computer can be maintained. This information is used by the CIA's 'JQJIMPROVISE' software (see below) to configure a set of CIA malware suited to the specific needs of an operation.

IMPROVISE

'Improvise' is a toolset for configuration, post-processing, payload setup and execution vector selection for survey/exfiltration tools supporting all major operating systems like Windows (Bartender), MacOS (JukeBox) and Linux (DanceFloor). Its configuration utilities like Margarita allows the NOC (Network Operation Center) to customize tools based on requirements from 'Fine Dining' questionairies.

HIVE

Hive solves critical problems for CIA malware operators

HIVE is a multi-platform CIA malware suite and its associated control software. The project provides customizable implants for Windows, Solaris, MikroTik (used in internet routers) and Linux platforms and a Listening Post (LP)/Command and Control (C2) infrastructure to communicate with these implants.

The implants are configured to communicate via HTTPS with the web-server of a cover domain; each operation employing these implants has a separate cover domain and the infrastructure can handle any number of cover domains.

Each cover domain resolves to an IP address that is located at a commercial VPS (Virtual Private Server) provider. The public-facing server forwards all incoming traffic via a VPN to a 'Blot' server that handles actual connection requests from clients. It is set up for optional SSL client authentication: if a client sends a valid client certificate (only implants can do that), the connection is forwarded to the 'Honeycomb' tool-server that communicates with the implant; if a valid certificate is missing (which is the case if someone tries to open the cover domain website by accident), the traffic is forwarded to a cover server that delivers an unsuspicious looking website.

The Honeycomb toolserver receives exfiltrated information from the implant; an operator can also task the implant to execute jobs on the target computer, so the toolserver acts as a C2 (command and control) server for the implant.

Similar functionality (though limited to Windows) is provided by the RickBobby project.

See the classified user and developer guides for HIVE.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why now?

WikiLeaks published as soon as its verification and analysis were ready.

In February the Trump administration  issued Executive Order 13800 calling for "Strengthening the Cybersecurity of federal networks and critical infrastructure". 

Redactions

Names, email addresses and external IP addresses were redacted in the released pages (there were 70,875 redactions in total).

1. Over-redaction: Some items may have been redacted that are not employees, contractors, targets or otherwise related to the agency, but are, for example, authors of documentation for otherwise public projects that are used by the agency.
2. Identity vs. person: the redacted names are replaced by user IDs (numbers) to allow readers to assign multiple pages to a single author. Given the redaction process used a single person may be represented by more than one assigned identifier but no identifier refers to more than one real person.
3. Archive attachments (zip, tar.gz, ...) are replaced with a PDF listing all the file names in the archive. As the archive content is assessed it may be made available; until then the archive is redacted.
4. Attachments with other binary content are replaced by a hex dump of the content to prevent accidental invocation of binaries that may have been infected with weaponized CIA malware. As the content is assessed it may be made available; until then the content is redacted.
5. The tens of thousands of routable IP addresses references (including more than 22 thousand within the United States) that correspond to possible targets, CIA covert listening post servers, intermediary and test systems, are redacted for further exclusive investigation.
6. Binary files of non-public origin are only available as dumps to prevent accidental invocation of CIA malware infected binaries.

Organizational Chart

The organizational chart corresponds to the material published by WikiLeaks.

Since the organizational structure of the CIA below the level of Directorates is not public, the placement of the EDG and its branches within the org chart of the agency is reconstructed from information contained in the documents released so far. It is intended to be used as a rough outline of the internal organization; the reconstructed organization chart is incomplete and that internal reorganizations occur frequently.

Wiki pages

"Year Zero" contains 78,18 web pages with 943 attachments from the internal development groupware. The software used for this purpose is called Confluence, a proprietary software from Atlassian. Webpages in this system (as in Wikipedia) have a version history that can provide interesting insights on how a document evolved over time; the 7,818 documents included these page histories for 1,136 latest versions.

The order of named pages within each level is determined by date (oldest first). Page content is not present if it was originally dynamically created by the Confluence software (as indicated on the re-constructed page).

What time period is covered?

The years 2013 to 2016. The sort order of the pages within each level is determined by date (oldest first).

WikiLeaks obtained the CIA's creation/last modification date for each page but these don'tt appear for technical reasons. Usually the date can be discerned or approximated from the content and the page order. If it is critical to know the exact time/date contact WikiLeaks.

What is "Vault 7"

"Vault 7" is a substantial collection of material about CIA activities obtained by WikiLeaks.

When was each part of "Vault 7" obtained?

Part one was obtained recently and covers through 2016. Details on the other parts will be available at the time of publication.

Is each part of "Vault 7" from a different source?

Details on parts will be available at the time of publication.

What is the total size of "Vault 7"?

The series is the largest intelligence publication in history.

Isn't WikiLeaks worried that the CIA will act against its staff to stop the series?

No. That would be certainly counter-productive.

Has WikiLeaks already 'mined' all the best stories?

No. WikiLeaks has intentionally not written up hundreds of impactful stories to encourage others to find them and so create expertise in the area for subsequent parts in the series. They exist; search for them.