Summary
U.S. intelligence has found that Russia and China are actively recruiting recently fired or at-risk federal employees, particularly those with security clearances.
The effort coincides with the Trump administration’s mass layoffs in the federal workforce. Foreign intelligence officers are using LinkedIn and other platforms to identify potential recruits.
Officials warn this could expose critical U.S. secrets, but the administration has dismissed concerns.
Meanwhile, internal layoffs at the CIA and Pentagon may further increase vulnerabilities, with some terminated employees already challenging their dismissals in court.
Europe and Canada should be having a field day recruiting disgruntled employees.
The brain-drain is going to be serious in the US in the coming years if there is no civil war or world war.
Europe and Canada should be having a field day recruiting disgruntled employees.
I hope so. Better them than Russia or China.
Career officials at the CIA have been quietly discussing that risk and how to mitigate it in the recent weeks, current and former intelligence officials previously told CNN. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard earlier this week suggested that those discussions represented a “threat” made by disloyal government employees — rather than a clinical warning of the potential risks posed by President Donald Trump’s aggressive cost-cutting strategy — and that those involved should be penalized.
She wants to penalize people for trying to mitigate the risks caused by needlessly penalizing people?
She just showed the world how horrible at her job she will be. Our intelligence services will take decades, or longer, to recover. Assuming this nightmare ever ends.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
This still boggles the mind, given the long-standing suspicions around her connections to Russia.
You can’t make this shit up.
No one could have seen this coming. /s
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