Dear US Government, Why Can’t You Keep a Secret?

 

Dear Uncle Sam,

Forgive me for being so familiar with you, but since I worked for you for a number of years, perhaps you won’t mind. I know that you’re busy but something has been weighing on my mind for quite a while and I think it’s pretty important that I get an answer from you.

Sam, (can I call you Sam?) I’m really concerned that you cannot keep the secrets that affect our nation. And, lately, my concerns have increased on a daily basis. Yes, Sam, I understand that in an open society like ours, it is more difficult for the government to keep secrets and I believe that this is a good thing. When a government is too secretive, well, we know that bad things can happen. I wouldn’t change our form of government for all the tea in China. (Whoops, that might be an inappropriate comparison, but I’ll get back to that later.)

Sir, as you know, we’ve had problems keeping secrets in the past. Even in World War II we had difficulties. After our tremendous victory at the Battle of Midway, a headline in the Chicago Tribune blared: “NAVY HAD WORD OF JAP PLAN TO STRIKE AT SEA”. As it turned out, incredibly, a naval officer had casually shown a document to a reporter which did, indeed, show Japanese Admiral Yamamoto’s deciphered operations order. Naval Intelligence had spent years cracking Japanese codes and their efforts were almost completely undone by an idiotic officer and a reporter hungry for a scoop. To my knowledge, no one was punished for the incident. A second serious breach in security came when Kentucky Democratic Representative Andrew May, in a press conference, blurted out the highly secret information that the reason for U.S. Navy submarines’ success was that the Japanese were setting their depth charges to explode at too shallow a depth. Shortly after, the Navy lost 10 submarines and 800 men; losses attributed to May’s outburst. May was never punished for this. However, after the war, he was found guilty of war profiteering and served 9 months in a federal prison. (He was subsequently given a full pardon by President Harry Truman and remained active in Democratic Party politics while he practiced law in his native Kentucky. A building in a Kentucky state park is named after him.)

But, as you know Sam, security-wise, we really stepped in it during the development of our atomic bomb. In fact, we stepped in it so badly that Joe Stalin knew of our progress even before (then) Vice President Truman. Sir, we really did try; but despite our best efforts, traitors such as Julius Rosenberg and Klaus Fuchs insured that the Soviets would have their own atom bomb four years after we first exploded ours. It was a devastating failure on the part of our intelligence.

Sam, I’m sure that you remember the ’80s; a time in which we virtually hemorrhaged secrets to the Soviet Union. Thanks to the treasonous efforts of anonymous (Navy), Robert Hansson (FBI), and Aldrich Ames (CIA) we were rocked back on our heels. What is particularly galling about Hansson and Ames is that each one should have been detected in the early stages of their traitorous careers; each one had large houses and expensive cars, items that would have been impossible on their government salaries. A little bit of shoe leather would have found them out. Instead, because of sheer laziness and incompetence, both FBI and CIA counterintelligence relied almost solely on lie detector tests; tests that were easily defeated by practiced liars such as Hansson and Ames. As for Walker, he was caught only when his disgruntled wife dropped a dime on him. All three of these individuals should have been promptly executed. However, because our counterintelligence was so inept, they had absolutely no idea how much information had been divulged to our enemies. So, all three individuals were able to plea bargain their way out of the death chamber by agreeing to tell what secrets they had passed along. To this day, no one knows how many of our foreign intelligence assets were executed because of Hansson and Ames; today both are living off the taxpayer’s dime. As for Walker, he died in his sleep, in prison.

Sir, let’s spring ahead to our first Gulf War in 1991. The world watched as we tore through the supposedly formidable Iraqi military in 100 hours. There were billions of people watching but no one watched more intently than the People’s Republic of China. As they witnessed our display of “Shock and Awe”, only one thought crossed their minds, “If we go toe to toe with these guys, we’re going to have our derrieres handed to us”. (Or something to that effect.)

At that point, the Chinese made a strategic decision; since they could never match our ability to innovate, they would have to steal the technology that they needed. And, that is exactly what they have done. All of this leads me to an important question: Do you have a clear understanding of who our enemies are? It helps if you’re going to protect our secrets.

Sam, our relationship with the Red Chinese has always been, well, complicated. Starting with Nixon and Kissinger’s grand strategic plan, we have managed to delude ourselves into thinking that if we like them, they will like us back; that they will evolve into a society that resembles ours; and, most importantly, they will “play fair” in areas of international trade and other international norms. Suffice to say, that has not happened.

Although I might be a bit prejudiced, I believe that this country has met the Chinese more than halfway. From the time that we initially attempted to “normalize” relations between Red China and the US, we supplied them with military hardware and know-how. Of course, we didn’t give away our most cutting-edge technology but we gave them military assets that we should have never parted with. And, what did we get from them? In a word, nothing.

Sir, you should have taken to heart the ideas propounded in Unrestricted Warfare written in 1999 by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, two colonels in the People’s Liberation Army. In a sense, they were telegraphing their punch although it appears that you have learned not one thing.

To tell you the truth, I’m really getting sick and tired of having “experts” (especially in government) telling folks like me that we just don’t have the “nuance” to understand how we should be responding to the Red Chinese threat. Well, it seems to me that a fellow by the name of Neville Chamberlain had “nuance” coming out of his wazoo and it didn’t really do Great Britain much good. And, I’m getting equally tired of having these same “experts” cautioning us to be careful lest we “weaken the moderates”. This type of thinking was false concerning the Soviets; it was false concerning the Iranians, and it’s false concerning the Red Chinese. There are no “moderates” in the Chinese Communist Party. Sam, it’s way past time that you figured this out. (Lest we think that those two colonels were outliers, both were promoted after their book’s publication.)

Sam, Red Chinese expansion is growing on a monthly basis. Their “One Belt, One Road” initiative is a naked attempt to expand their economic and political influence. To a large extent, that expansion has been funded with US dollars. Still, there is a large segment within the US that refuses to see this; a segment that is so hungry for short-term profits that they cannot see the bigger picture. We have been playing checkers while the Red Chinese have been playing chess. In fact, we have a Presidential candidate, who is so monumentally stupid that he said,

China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man. They can’t even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the … west. They can’t figure out how they’re going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system…. They’re not bad folks, folks but guess what? They’re no competition for us.

Obviously, this person should not be permitted to handle sharp-pointed scissors let alone run for President. However, there are too many people who believe as he does.

In a sense, the COVID-19 outbreak was a “teachable moment” for all of us. When the Red Chinese threatened to take actions that would “plunge America into the mighty sea of coronavirus”, they left absolutely no question where they stand. Now, what do we do about it? Of course, there are hundreds of things that we can do economically, but what I am concerned about is what we need to do militarily.

Sam, the first thing we can do is patch up our woefully inadequate security. At this moment, the Red Chinese are learning of our military capabilities as fast as we are creating them. Do you think I’m exaggerating? Well, take a look at the new Chinese stealth fighter, the J-20. Does it look a bit familiar? Well, it should. It’s a copy of the F-22, our own stealth fighter made by Lockheed Martin. Not convinced? Take a look at the Chinese FC-31 fighter when it rolls off the assembly line; you’ll see that it’s a knockoff of Lockheed’s F-35. Unbelievably, some of the components of the F-35 are manufactured in Red China!

Why are we spending billions of tax dollars developing weapons that will be copied by the Red Chinese as soon as ours are deployed? We are at war! When is this going to be understood? Last year the Washington Post reported that, over the last 15 years, the Red Chinese have stolen over 50 terabytes of data related to our stealth fighters, radars, missiles and engines. That’s a lot of data, Sam. And, it tells me that you’re not taking the issue of security very seriously.

Let’s start with some basics and the most basic of them all is accountability. As I said, I was employed by you for a number of years. And, it was drilled into me, time and time again, that any lapse of security on my part would be very costly to me. Each time that I drew the assignment of “classified courier” I knew that those authentication codes and encryption tapes entrusted to me were to be handled with the utmost care. It’s no different for any other man and woman in uniform; mishandle classified information and suffer the consequences.

So why then do politicians such as Sandy “Socks” Berger and his boss, Hillary Rodham Clinton walk away from flagrant security violations? Why does a convicted security leaker have his/her sentence commuted? Why are members of congress allowed to leak information from classified briefings without fear of punishment? Why do congressional staffers treat classified data as little secrets to be shared over cocktails? Do they know what an Essential Element of Information (EEI) is? Do they even care?

When you address these questions, Sam, then take a look at cybersecurity and try to understand why I’m so concerned. Let me ask you this: Are you familiar with PLA Units 61398 and 61486? How about Russian Units 26165 and 74455? North Korean Bureau 121? How about the Iranian Cyber Army? You should be, Sam, because they’re eating our lunch. And, they’re doing it with such ease that the North Koreans, evidently tiring of hacking into our systems with such ease, have hired themselves out to third parties interested in their services.

It’s hard to imagine, Sir. This is the United States. We’re supposed to be the world leader in computing; systems design, networking, hardware, software, you name it. But, in the area we need it most, security; we’re getting our butts kicked all over the yard.

Federal government systems, state government systems, private companies (both large and small); none have been safe from state-sponsored hackers, especially those that I mentioned, above. And, the Federal government appears to be helpless. In fact, the government is so helpless that after the OPM hack of 2015, your Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper simply shrugged his shoulders and said, “You kind of have to salute the Chinese for what they did.” No Sam, we shouldn’t have “saluted” the Chinese for what they did; we should have realized that they were our enemy, not a valued trading partner. Oh, and one more thing: Clapper should have been fired on the spot and run out of Washington, D.C. on a rail for his response.

Now, we hear that a $10 billion contract has been given to Microsoft for a “Cloud Computing” project. Sam, at the rate the federal government has been protecting its data (and secrets), the Red Chinese (and probably others) will be part of that “Cloud” before it’s even deployed.

So there it is in a nutshell, Sam. Now what are you going to do? I’m just an old curmudgeon but let me give you a few unsolicited suggestions:

  1.  Enforce the existing laws that we have on the books concerning security. And by “enforce” I mean exactly that. A politician who disregards laws pertaining to security should be treated exactly the same as an E-3 in the military.
  2. Prosecute fully, each and every act of espionage and/or treason. When it is called for, the application of the death penalty should not be avoided.
  3. Place entry restrictions on Chinese citizens coming to this country. A good first question for their visa interview should be “Are you or your parents members of the Chinese Communist Party?” No, this is not a form of “McCarthyism”; it’s an entirely reasonable question.
  4. Give the country of Red China no more than 30 days to remove their “Confucius Institutes” from this country. They are little more than propaganda factories here in this country and they may be linked to incidents of espionage. Some colleges and universities may howl because the Chinese are paying them millions to put them on campuses but that’s too bad.
  5. Step up surveillance of Chinese citizens working in areas that grant them access to classified materials/projects. This is the job of FBI counterintelligence. I know that they will scream that they just don’t have the “manpower” to adequately monitor all threats but here’s an idea: they could free up a great deal of “manpower” if they would just take all the deskbound “commandos” such as Peter Strzok that have been trying to take down President Trump and reassign them to field work. Heck, I won’t even argue if Strzok needs to take Lisa Page along during his overnight “stakeouts.” Also, I noticed this week that the Justice Department has declined to prosecute a senior FBI intelligence analyst who was fired from the bureau after admitting to possessing child pornography. The Bureau would say only that the analyst had held a “supervisory role.” Here’s another idea for additional “manpower.” How about getting some of these porno-surfing agents out of the office and putting them to work doing some real investigatory activity?
  6. Get some real expertise to fight Red Chinese hackers (and those in other countries). I see that we now have a U.S. Cyber Command, composed of 13 separate entities. I hope that this will be adequate but when I think of the 17 intelligence agencies that were utterly clueless before 9/11, well, you can see my lack of enthusiasm. Will these 13 agencies be paralyzed by the same bureaucratic inertia that killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11? I hope not.
  7. Most Importantly: Sam, I want you to go to the blackboard and write, “Red China is My Enemy”. Now, I want you to repeat that 499 times or at least as many times as you need to understand that we are in a conflict. There’s a line in Michael Pillsbury’s The Hundred-Year Marathon that reads, “It’s easy to win a race when you’re the only one who knows it has begun.” Sam, the Red Chinese know we’re in a conflict; do you?

Loyally yours,

@CACrabtree

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  1. DonG (skeptic) Coolidge
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    I’ll give the FBI and CIA credit for their secretiveness regarding FISA abuse and collaborating with Russian intelligence on smearing Trump.  I am sure the Chinese know all the details, but the American people are in the dark.  So, there is that. 

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  2. Fritz Coolidge
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    Excellent, albeit depressing, summary of the historical leakiness and casual attitudes of those responsible for national security where it counts. But it is easy to slough off responsibility where there is seldom any accountability.

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  3. The Scarecrow Thatcher
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    I want to comment, but now I am too angry and depressed. Mostly angry.  Give me a minute.

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  4. I Walton Member
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    The virus the Chinese generously gave the world is a good excuse to shut them out.  Since Trump was focused on the Chinese and trying to get along with the Russians, the entire Democratic Party apparatus ignored China and focused on Russia.   Maybe personal  health threats will get their attention  but the Democrats now like the idea of replacing the smaller players in the market economy with unemployment, big players who fund Democrats and government  so even that looks like it won’t work.

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  5. Roderic Coolidge
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    CACrabtree: When the Red Chinese threatened to take actions that would “plunge America into the mighty sea of coronavirus”, they left absolutely no question where they stand.

    Wait … what?

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  6. Jerry Giordano (Arizona Patrio… Member
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    Great post.

    One quibble.  I think that the Nixon/Kissinger strategy was quite wise in the early 1970s.  Splitting the ChiComs from the Soviets was a good thing.

    Then the Wall fell, and the country elected a sweet-tongued draft-dodging Leftist.  There is plenty of blame to put on W, too, who I generally liked, though W at least had the excuse of two wars to deal with.  Then we got a sweet-tongued radical Leftist who was probably an actual Commie himself, though he was sly enough to hide it.

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  7. Skyler Coolidge
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    Amen.  

    I’ve said for almost 25 years that our relationship with China is like being married to the mob.   I hope corona helps us get a divorce.  

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  8. Headedwest Coolidge
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    Jerry Giordano (Arizona Patrio… (View Comment):

    Great post.

    One quibble. I think that the Nixon/Kissinger strategy was quite wise in the early 1970s. Splitting the ChiComs from the Soviets was a good thing.

    Then the Wall fell, and the country elected a sweet-tongued draft-dodging Leftist. There is plenty of blame to put on W, too, who I generally liked, though W at least had the excuse of two wars to deal with. Then we got a sweet-tongued radical Leftist who was probably an actual Commie himself, though he was sly enough to hide it.

    This is an important point.  Until Clinton, we were cautiously friendly with China, but trade relations were somewhere between nonexistent and tightly controlled.  Gee, doesn’t that seem like a smart position from today’s perspective?

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  9. Skyler Coolidge
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    Headedwest (View Comment):

    Jerry Giordano (Arizona Patrio… (View Comment):

    Great post.

    One quibble. I think that the Nixon/Kissinger strategy was quite wise in the early 1970s. Splitting the ChiComs from the Soviets was a good thing.

    Then the Wall fell, and the country elected a sweet-tongued draft-dodging Leftist. There is plenty of blame to put on W, too, who I generally liked, though W at least had the excuse of two wars to deal with. Then we got a sweet-tongued radical Leftist who was probably an actual Commie himself, though he was sly enough to hide it.

    This is an important point. Until Clinton, we were cautiously friendly with China, but trade relations were somewhere between nonexistent and tightly controlled. Gee, doesn’t that seem like a smart position from today’s perspective?

    Bill Clinton gave them our ballistic missile technology, for the stated reason that it was unfair that they didn’t have it.  

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  10. Paul Stinchfield Member
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    8. Stop teaching schoolchildren that America is evil and that our enemies are merely innocent victims.

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  11. Ontheleftcoast Inactive
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    DonG (skeptic) (View Comment):

    I am sure the Chinese know all the details, but the American people are in the dark. So, there is that.

    Russiagate: Cui bono? 

    Maybe it is just a coincidence that the coup attempts are intended to hamstring the administration of the first president to try to make the US national interest a priority in US policy towards China.

    That said, we did affirmative action to ourselves. 

    Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, announced in June that he would no longer participate in scientific conferences that showed insufficient “attention to inclusiveness.” Mr. Collins challenged his colleagues in the biomedical field to join his boycott of predominantly male scientific panels, or “manels.” Never mind if the most cutting-edge researchers working to decode the RNA of a particularly pernicious virus might happen to be white or Asian men.

    On Jan. 30, CNN blasted President Trump’s coronavirus task force for being too white and too male. Would Mr. Collins have turned down an invitation to participate on that team unless Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or another white male scientist was replaced by a Native American epidemiologist? His challenge would suggest so.

    Antimeritocratic preferences are ubiquitous throughout the sciences—in student admissions, awarding of grants and scholarship money, and hiring and promotions. In February, Harvard’s dean of sciences announced that he would be hiring two junior STEM faculty based on their ability to “strengthen diversity, inclusion, and belonging” in the sciences division. Cornell University gets about 2.5 times as many male as female applicants to its undergraduate engineering program. Yet women enjoy a 300% admissions advantage, resulting in an admitted class that is equally split between the sexes. That rebalancing doesn’t reflect women’s superior math qualifications; in fact, women have lower average math scores than men.

    Science education is being watered down in the hope of graduating more women, blacks and Hispanics. Do we want the best molecular biologists and pharmacologists working on a cure for Covid-19? Or do we want the best female, black and Hispanic molecular biologists and pharmacologists working on it? Sometimes the same person will occupy both categories. But when that isn’t the case, it is reckless to treat sex and race as superior qualifications. Given existing disparities in math and science skills, proportionality in STEM can be widely achieved only by lowering standards.

    If we are in a war, as our leaders tell us, we should act like it. Diverting scientists’ attention, time and funding away from research and toward identity politics is a decadence that we can no longer afford. Reviving the economy will be as urgent a task as fighting the pandemic. Yet an early Democratic version of last month’s $2 trillion relief package required corporations to bulk up their diversity bureaucracies if they want aid. The only qualifications that should matter for both science and private enterprise are knowledge, insight and drive.

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  12. Ontheleftcoast Inactive
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    Headedwest (View Comment):

    Jerry Giordano (Arizona Patrio… (View Comment):

    Great post.

    One quibble. I think that the Nixon/Kissinger strategy was quite wise in the early 1970s. Splitting the ChiComs from the Soviets was a good thing.

    Then the Wall fell, and the country elected a sweet-tongued draft-dodging Leftist. There is plenty of blame to put on W, too, who I generally liked, though W at least had the excuse of two wars to deal with. Then we got a sweet-tongued radical Leftist who was probably an actual Commie himself, though he was sly enough to hide it.

    This is an important point. Until Clinton, we were cautiously friendly with China, but trade relations were somewhere between nonexistent and tightly controlled. Gee, doesn’t that seem like a smart position from today’s perspective?

    (Wearing a mask, of course. )*Cough* *cough* Loral *Cough* *cough* 

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  13. Ontheleftcoast Inactive
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    Here are a couple of today’s Worldometer graphs for China:

     

    On both graphs, both the x axis and y axis are based on lies. The scale on the x axis should begin in November 2019, if not even earlier.

    So the tail on the left ought to be longer. How steep should it be? We don’t know.

    What we do know is that not only did the CCP cover up however many deaths COVID-19 actually caused, they covered up how long it took to get to the first couple of thousand deaths.

    So we saw all those sick, dying, and dead people and thought that this was a brand new epidemic, rather than one that had been cooking for a while. That would have been a whole other kettle of bats than what we are actually facing.

    We were also harmed by the assumptions that China was behaving like the US would have, and that the WHO is a responsible organization rather.

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  14. MichaelKennedy Inactive
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    The OPM fiasco was another Obama led “diversity” operation. He boasted that he had appointed the “first Hispanic female” administrator, after which she hired a Chinese national to run the database.

    Victor Suvarov defected from the GRU in 1978 and, when asked why he chose the British rather than the US, answered that the CIA leaked like a sieve.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Suvorov

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  15. CACrabtree Coolidge
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    MichaelKennedy (View Comment):

    The OPM fiasco was another Obama led “diversity” operation. He boasted that he had appointed the “first Hispanic female” administrator, after which she hired a Chinese national to run the database.

    Victor Suvarov defected from the GRU in 1978 and, when asked why he chose the British rather than the US, answered that the CIA leaked like a sieve.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Suvorov

    Great point.  After the Aldrich Ames fiasco, the CIA found that it couldn’t recruit foreign intelligence sources.  Geez, I wonder why?

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  16. CACrabtree Coolidge
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    Paul Stinchfield (View Comment):

    8. Stop teaching schoolchildren that America is evil and that our enemies are merely innocent victims.

    Excellent.  There was a post, here, this week about the “Howard Zinn” school of American History.  It’s discouraging that some teachers are actually using this in their “lessons”.  It’s also interesting that he was a political science professor at Boston University where the vacuum-brained Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supposedly received her degree.  I believe that Zinn died before she entered college but I suspect that his ideas (and faculty selections) were still a part of BU.  Stupidity has a way of replicating at a very high rate.

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  17. Paul Stinchfield Member
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    CACrabtree (View Comment):
    Stupidity has a way of replicating at a very high rate.

    Change “stupidity” to “mendacity”: It does not matter how thoroughly you refute a leftist idea, because the left does not care about truth and will go on telling the same lies over and over and louder and louder. This mendacity is one of the reasons that leftists should not be teaching children.

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  18. Ontheleftcoast Inactive
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    MichaelKennedy (View Comment):

    The OPM fiasco was another Obama led “diversity” operation. He boasted that he had appointed the “first Hispanic female” administrator, after which she hired a Chinese national to run the database.

    Victor Suvarov defected from the GRU in 1978 and, when asked why he chose the British rather than the US, answered that the CIA leaked like a sieve.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Suvorov

    Diana West puts Obama in context:

    According to this priceless report in The Guardian from November 30, 2017, Chinese state media described the meeting between Barack Obama and Xi, which took place two weeks after President Trump’s state visit to Beijing, as a meeting of “veteran cadres.” 

    If you are a lifelong communist, “veteran cadre” is a term of veneration. 

     

     

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  19. CACrabtree Coolidge
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    Ontheleftcoast (View Comment):

    MichaelKennedy (View Comment):

    The OPM fiasco was another Obama led “diversity” operation. He boasted that he had appointed the “first Hispanic female” administrator, after which she hired a Chinese national to run the database.

    Victor Suvarov defected from the GRU in 1978 and, when asked why he chose the British rather than the US, answered that the CIA leaked like a sieve.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Suvorov

    Diana West puts Obama in context:

    According to this priceless report in The Guardian from November 30, 2017, Chinese state media described the meeting between Barack Obama and Xi, which took place two weeks after President Trump’s state visit to Beijing, as a meeting of “veteran cadres.”

    If you are a lifelong communist, “veteran cadre” is a term of veneration.

     

    Interesting.  In October of 2018 Reuters reported that,

         “Cybersecurity experts said former President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping had reached an understanding in 2015 on cyber espionage but  the agreement appeared to be withering away.” 

    Yeah, right.  Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge, Xi’s your uncle.  What a total empty suit Barack Obama is.  Who in the world actually believes a word he says?

     

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