Thursday, December 23, 2010

Precisely

Look Out, WikiLeaks:CIA Sending in WTF

Dec 22, 2010 8:04 PM EST

The U.S. intelligence community has an official response to the massive WikiLeaks document dump -- WTF.

It's not what you think.

WTF is the acronym for the newly formed WikiLeaks Task Force, a project launched by the CIA to determine how the leak of hundreds of thousands of cables and files will affect intelligence operations.

Though the title might encapsulate a widely shared government attitude toward the diplomatic debacle, the CIA is actually fairly confident about its standing in the wake of the security breach as it continues to investigate the impact.

"The CIA has had strong, longstanding measures in place to protect classified information," CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood said.

CIA communications generally were not a part of the document cache made public by WikiLeaks. The agency has experienced a touch of vindication, after having resisted post-Sept. 11 efforts to increase information-sharing on a Pentagon communications system known as SIPRNet.


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LOL I doubt this passed the drawing board without someone seeing the implication.

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