CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Sam Faddis) - How about we spend less time talking about compiling lists of spies and more time arresting them?
originally posted by AND Magazine
The New York Times reports that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to compile a master database of everyone we know or suspect of spying for a foreign power. The CIA and the FBI are responding by telling the DNI that is a terrible idea and will inevitably lead to the compromise of sources and operations. CIA and FBI are right. So is the DNI. The DNI is trying to get the CIA and FBI in the game and doing something about the massive counterintelligence threat in this country. The bet is that forcing CIA and FBI to actually come clean about what they know AND WHAT THEY DO NOT KNOW may spur them into action. One can see why thinking would run that way, because nothing else has worked to date. The CIA and the FBI are…Open