Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

Post by scrollop » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 2:08 PM UTC

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I think this is actually the opposite of the correct conclusion—just look how influential Patreus cheating on his wife was ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal ). I seriously doubt that Kash Patel doesn't have a bunch of skeletons to dust off and show the world; the man is a weirdo (much like the rest of the administration). EDIT: I actually misread the comment; I think we're likely in agreement. My bad.

I don't know, these days skeletons seem to be treated as funny decoration and we're in a permanent state of Halloween.

Post by sysguest » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 2:16 PM UTC

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well by that logic, you can argue every top gov officials who didn't sign up for https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ is incompetent, BECAUSE NSA IS part of the government ? dude at least you should have brought an internal recommendation memo targeted all fbi people, not "but fbi has this and this division..." lets say your college have astrophysics and other big departments. Are you really expe…

>well by that logic, you can argue every top gov officials who didn't sign up for https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ is incompetent I would, yes. Maybe a director in the Small Business Administration is lower on the target list of gov officials that would need to be concerned, but certainly anyone in the Departments of Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, State, Transportation, Treasury, and pr…

Post by eszed » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 2:17 PM UTC

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I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. But it feels million years away. It's interesting to wonder how you get out of a spiral of incompetence and border-line (to be polite) corrumption at the highest level. Putting those people in charge was quick ; sure, a future administration could put them out quickly enough ; but how long will there be decently skilled people willing to take those position…

Referencing Hillary’s email would be kinda silly. She self hosted the email account she used for official government business. It was loaded with classified information. This guy, while incompetent, had his personal email hacked. Important distinction.

Post by testaccount28 » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 2:21 PM UTC

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Was it equally grave when Colin Powell did the same thing?

Yes. That man lied us into the Iraq war. He is a traitor.

Post by whoiskevin » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

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honestly, look internally. after the plane from qatar. after the son-in-law's real estate dealings. after the visible-to-everyone kalshi and oil futures bets frontrunning the administrations announcements. for you to still feel the need to frame things as "border-line (to be polite)" is, in and of itself, the perfect example of the overall problem. take your inability to draw a clear-as-day conclusion and state it pl…

"no politics" is the immune response to the social-media-fueled, conspiracy-theory-driven "we are the good guys, you basically deserve to die" craze. Both sides are culpable here. In the US, both parties were literally claiming that the elections were stolen (Republicans in 2020, Democrats with the since-debunked 2016 Cambridge Analytica scandal). Other countries had different issues, but the shape of the problem was…