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I call parallel construction.
by TacticalCoder 4y ago
I call parallel construction.
- newZWhoDis 4y agoAlternatively, the “leak” is a controlled disclosure of realistic misinformation. The “leaker”‘s real life identity then “goes to jail” for 30 years and they work for the government in clandestine services under a new identity. This tactic confuses the enemy, and has the side benefit of scaring your own into being more careful with real classified docs. If I was unethical enough to work for the security apparatus, the above is definitely something I would do.
- Yoric 4y agoIf you haven't watched the TV series _The Bureau_, you should. That's the kind of plots they're using.
- flavius29663 4y agoI was thinking like that too. Many many "leaks" are intentional. For this one to work, you would have to convince the Russian secret services, a pretty high bar. Usually, leaks just have to pass a sniff test, or not even that, people can just glance over the factual basis for the leak if it's convenient for their world view (e.g. FBI leaking photos from Trump's raid)
- photoGrant 4y agoNone of the way any of this has played out has told me it’s nothing more than major, major chess.
- evol262 4y agoThe vast majority of intelligence assets are analysts or sigint, not James Bond-ish operators who can discard identities and their family/friend/etc like a Scooby Doo mask. This is not a plausible thing.
- dragonwriter 4y agoYeah, what they actually did was probably follow WaPo's investigation, which found and publicly announced who it was first, and worked back from that very quickly. (This is mostly a joke, but...)
- kube-system 4y agoDiscord gave the FBI his home address.
- ahahahahah 4y ago[flagged]