Re: the Signal communications spillage. Let's keep in mind this was a US strike against the Houthis, an Iranian backed terrorist organization. This event might to be a prelude to larger events in the area. Iran is the locus of almost all Middle East conflict. There is reportedly an assemblage of significant US forces in areas that could strike Iranian and Houthi resources.
Joe Biden reversed the designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization one day after assuming office. Afterwards the Houthis in tandem with Iran conducted a build up that first reduced the opposition, there were three factions involved in Yemen civil war, and then armed the Houthis with modern missiles. Biden further attempted to reconstitute the insane Iranian JCPOA deal where Iran got nuclear weapons after 10 yrs. Biden also trashed the Saudis who were in a state of war against the Houthis and not doing well. Biiden completely stopped all diplomatic, military and economic connection with the Saudis to placate the NY Times. The Saudis backed away from the Houthi conflict after loss of US support under Biden. Loss of the Saudi Arabian alliance was a huge disaster and a strategic loss of a once reliable ally and we're still paying for what Biden and his goof-balls Jack Sullivan and Anthony Blinken have done.
I've been to this area many times. I know the Bab el Mandab area- sailed through it, communicated with shore operators there, there's a small island at the choke point, worked out of Djibouti many times before and after the Houthis became more dominant in Yemen. I've personally seen the weapons that Iran was smuggling to the Houthis, back in the day.they were using dhows, small boats, and now are more inclined to use commercial aircraft since they reliability controlled at the Saana and Aden airports after the Saudi war wind down (they use 4 airports to bring in Iranian arms and are trying to use shipping containers, while the centuries old fashions dhow smuggling is still in play).
The Iranian JCPOA that Obama and then Biden supported would give the Iranians free path to refine nuclear weapons grade material - originally around 2025. Most sane people believe that the Shiite Iranian mullahs would use nuclear weapons against Israel if they had the opportunity. Open source information indicates the Iranians have enough 60$ refined uranium to produce at least 8-10 nuclear weapons from added refinement, but we should expect they have more hidden reserves and would be able to ramp up to 2 or 3 dozen weapons. They have at least two delivery vehicles for nuclear warheads, the North Koreans gave the Iranians prototypes of liquid fueled nuclear capable missiles, Tapodong, and the Iranians have also since followed up on producing hypersonic glide missiles about the same time N Korea began producing them (Shabab-3 BM the Sejuil and Fatah HSGM). The Israelis' do not have the strike legs to carry out a protracted conflict against Iranian, but have shown their defenses to be a house of cards.
There's something snakey going on within our own intelligence resources regarding Iran and going back to the early part of the Obama administration.
The sad part about the Signal App issue is that it has taken away from the success of the operation they were talking about. Houthi’s need to be taken down and made inoperable.
The cause of the breach, a one-time spillage, is simply wrong person (called "info addees" in comms parlance) was added to the text message. That's it. There is a true question, not a political haymaker is that the use of smartphones used to be limited to SECRET level content as maximum, and TOP SECRET was transmitted, received and stored in physically secured areas where there was little chance of signal compromise and several layers of protection for access. In a real TS environment (including SCI content) you would not be able to add a recipient that was not already approved to receive such comms. There is an inherent vulnerability to secure wireless connectivity found in smartphones and old PDA's, the signal can almost always be intercepted,the distribution lacks strict controls, and the encryption is the stand alone protection. The reasons for use of so-called secure smart phones by "Critical Sensitive billets" (or our big dog persons) is convenience and that opens up vulnerabilities and limitations. The requirements to send-receive TOP SECRET/SCI/KEYHOLE level is more onerous and the laziness of our senior players comes from their use of smartphones to conduct business. I my day we used smartphones to communicated that you needed to go to a secure place to see other stuff.
The Democrats have nothing of any consequence in the way of truthful ideas, so this is their only bone to chew on. This incident contrasts with the Hillary Clinton four year compromise of Sec of State communications. Hillary didn't use her home brew unsecured personnel computer for just convenience, it was for CONCEALMENT. Example: Hillary claimed she had no emails or texts related to a the Uranium-One deal where about 1/5th of the US's uranium production was transferred to Russian control and the intermediary, a Canadian named Frank Giustra, who previously owned the company that the US transferred the Uranium to, gave the Clinton Foundation about $131 million dollars at the time. About the same time Bill Clinton received $500,000 from a Russian investment bank for a 45 minute speech. Hillary claimed she had no communications on the matter when presented with a subpoena. Hillary used the CFIUS sham as partial cover, but a 1st year detective could see the corruption. The corruption on this matter is tied to the illegality of HIllary's home brew unsecured computer server. There's much more in the back drop of this story.
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Re: the Signal communications spillage. Let's keep in mind this was a US strike against the Houthis, an Iranian backed terrorist organization. This event might to be a prelude to larger events in the area. Iran is the locus of almost all Middle East conflict. There is reportedly an assemblage of significant US forces in areas that could strike Iranian and Houthi resources.
Joe Biden reversed the designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization one day after assuming office. Afterwards the Houthis in tandem with Iran conducted a build up that first reduced the opposition, there were three factions involved in Yemen civil war, and then armed the Houthis with modern missiles. Biden further attempted to reconstitute the insane Iranian JCPOA deal where Iran got nuclear weapons after 10 yrs. Biden also trashed the Saudis who were in a state of war against the Houthis and not doing well. Biiden completely stopped all diplomatic, military and economic connection with the Saudis to placate the NY Times. The Saudis backed away from the Houthi conflict after loss of US support under Biden. Loss of the Saudi Arabian alliance was a huge disaster and a strategic loss of a once reliable ally and we're still paying for what Biden and his goof-balls Jack Sullivan and Anthony Blinken have done.
I've been to this area many times. I know the Bab el Mandab area- sailed through it, communicated with shore operators there, there's a small island at the choke point, worked out of Djibouti many times before and after the Houthis became more dominant in Yemen. I've personally seen the weapons that Iran was smuggling to the Houthis, back in the day.they were using dhows, small boats, and now are more inclined to use commercial aircraft since they reliability controlled at the Saana and Aden airports after the Saudi war wind down (they use 4 airports to bring in Iranian arms and are trying to use shipping containers, while the centuries old fashions dhow smuggling is still in play).
The Iranian JCPOA that Obama and then Biden supported would give the Iranians free path to refine nuclear weapons grade material - originally around 2025. Most sane people believe that the Shiite Iranian mullahs would use nuclear weapons against Israel if they had the opportunity. Open source information indicates the Iranians have enough 60$ refined uranium to produce at least 8-10 nuclear weapons from added refinement, but we should expect they have more hidden reserves and would be able to ramp up to 2 or 3 dozen weapons. They have at least two delivery vehicles for nuclear warheads, the North Koreans gave the Iranians prototypes of liquid fueled nuclear capable missiles, Tapodong, and the Iranians have also since followed up on producing hypersonic glide missiles about the same time N Korea began producing them (Shabab-3 BM the Sejuil and Fatah HSGM). The Israelis' do not have the strike legs to carry out a protracted conflict against Iranian, but have shown their defenses to be a house of cards.
There's something snakey going on within our own intelligence resources regarding Iran and going back to the early part of the Obama administration.
Rollie,
The sad part about the Signal App issue is that it has taken away from the success of the operation they were talking about. Houthi’s need to be taken down and made inoperable.
The cause of the breach, a one-time spillage, is simply wrong person (called "info addees" in comms parlance) was added to the text message. That's it. There is a true question, not a political haymaker is that the use of smartphones used to be limited to SECRET level content as maximum, and TOP SECRET was transmitted, received and stored in physically secured areas where there was little chance of signal compromise and several layers of protection for access. In a real TS environment (including SCI content) you would not be able to add a recipient that was not already approved to receive such comms. There is an inherent vulnerability to secure wireless connectivity found in smartphones and old PDA's, the signal can almost always be intercepted,the distribution lacks strict controls, and the encryption is the stand alone protection. The reasons for use of so-called secure smart phones by "Critical Sensitive billets" (or our big dog persons) is convenience and that opens up vulnerabilities and limitations. The requirements to send-receive TOP SECRET/SCI/KEYHOLE level is more onerous and the laziness of our senior players comes from their use of smartphones to conduct business. I my day we used smartphones to communicated that you needed to go to a secure place to see other stuff.
The Democrats have nothing of any consequence in the way of truthful ideas, so this is their only bone to chew on. This incident contrasts with the Hillary Clinton four year compromise of Sec of State communications. Hillary didn't use her home brew unsecured personnel computer for just convenience, it was for CONCEALMENT. Example: Hillary claimed she had no emails or texts related to a the Uranium-One deal where about 1/5th of the US's uranium production was transferred to Russian control and the intermediary, a Canadian named Frank Giustra, who previously owned the company that the US transferred the Uranium to, gave the Clinton Foundation about $131 million dollars at the time. About the same time Bill Clinton received $500,000 from a Russian investment bank for a 45 minute speech. Hillary claimed she had no communications on the matter when presented with a subpoena. Hillary used the CFIUS sham as partial cover, but a 1st year detective could see the corruption. The corruption on this matter is tied to the illegality of HIllary's home brew unsecured computer server. There's much more in the back drop of this story.
“You know I love ya more than my luggage!” Who said it and in what movie?
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