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Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by jyounker »

mc32 wrote: post #102
close04 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> look how influential Patreus cheating on his wife was Those times have passed. I'll restate what I said in a comment some days ago: >> 50 years ago the press was "impeaching" presidents. Today presidents are "impeaching" the press The current strategy is "keep the outrage hose on full blast and eventually people get desensitized". It works.

The press was stupid. They were doing stupid gotchas like swiftboats, fake reports on GWB (Dan Rather), but couldn’t care less about things like the CIA and the crack cocaine connection[1], or lots of other things the government gets away with (including Clappers total information awareness unconstitutional surveillance efforts) The press is always carrying water for someone but that someone is rarely the public unle…

* The Swiftboat thing was completely an ad campaign if I remember correctly. I remember most media covering it as BS.

* The contents of Dan Rather report on GWB was true. There was one document which was sketchy, but the whole report didn't hinge on the one document from an officer's office. (E.g. Ex-senator Ben Barnes's interview is reasonably indicting: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-barnes-on-bush/)

  The media did fall down though. Only one outlet went to the the Officer's
  secretary (who was still alive) to ask if she had typed the document.
  She looked at it and said (summarizing here) that it wasn't the document
  she typed, but it was the same contents.
What's interesting is how easily the media is distracted. What's even more concerning though, is that when the more centrist major media has tried to be less gullible, they've been vilified. (E.g. trying not to be suckered by miraculous appearance Hunter Biden's laptop.)

It's a mess, and the only way out of it is probably limits own media ownership.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

leereeves wrote: post #491
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #464

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All cleared citizens are subject to warrantless search at any time by the FBI, some for the remainder of their life. You don't have to be a suspect to fall within their panopticon.

> All cleared citizens are subject to warrantless search at any time by the FBI, some for the remainder of their life. That claim deserves a source.

It's buried in EO12333

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by Amezarak »

esseph wrote: post #536
Amezarak wrote: post #489

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If you’re talking about Trump, you may remember that E Jean Carroll won a lawsuit against him. She’s walking the earth and continuing to live a public life. And again, millions of dollars are available from settlement funds if Epstein was involved, there’s already some of the best lawyers in the country begging to represent you, and there’s people volunteering to pay for your security needs. You’re also ignoring the…

> And of course if anything was released from super secret “the files” they’re definitely still covering up, they’d become publicly known. They've been caught trying to do Trump related reactions at least three times now.

You misunderstand my point. I’m saying that if there are any credible accusations in “the files” beyond those well-documented ones against Epstein and Maxwell, then the accusers would be known publicly anyway when they’re disclosed.

The whole thing falls apart the moment you examine the actual evidence and think about it. It’s really disappointing that smart people on even this forum get wrapped up into this junk.

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Post by carefulfungi »

esseph wrote: post #540
LtWorf wrote: post #498

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USA cannot do a full scale invasion without major internal unrest.

If the newest batch of 10,000 is approved, we're up to 17,000 combat troops deployed for this. (Marines there as of Mar 27, another 3,500 in about two weeks, and then at least 1 battalion of the 82nd Airborne, plus another 10,000 requested) I have heard other units getting pre-mobilization / warnings. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2026-03-27/82nd... (This would not nearly be enough troops for large sca…

Fwiw, peak deployments to Afghanistan was ~100k troops. Iran is ~2x the land mass and population.

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Post by acuozzo »

stingraycharles wrote: post #360
acuozzo wrote: post #195

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You think so? Peers, in my experience, have an even greater impact, especially between the ages of 10 and 25.

And it’s your upbringing that has the biggest impact on who your peers will become.

My parents were great, but if we were forced by circumstance to live in the worst parts of the US (e.g., Appalachia), then no amount of having a "good upbringing" would shield me from having a peer group which would routinely put it to the test.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by windexh8er »

bergoid wrote: post #429
phtrivier wrote: post #408

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…

>I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. HRC's secret email server and the leaked Kash Patel emails couldn't be more different. The first one is, in the words of a federal District of Columbia judge: "one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency". [1] The second one is the malicious leaking of some private emails. These emails are frankly none of our business (unless you are part…

> HRC's secret email server and the leaked Kash Patel emails couldn't be more different.

But it is literally no different than what the Trump administration did [0] after all of their finger pointing. Idiocracy runs deep across both political camps.

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/federal-officials-n...

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Post by demosito666 »

esseph wrote: post #540
LtWorf wrote: post #498

Earlier quoted context omitted.

USA cannot do a full scale invasion without major internal unrest.

If the newest batch of 10,000 is approved, we're up to 17,000 combat troops deployed for this. (Marines there as of Mar 27, another 3,500 in about two weeks, and then at least 1 battalion of the 82nd Airborne, plus another 10,000 requested) I have heard other units getting pre-mobilization / warnings. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2026-03-27/82nd... (This would not nearly be enough troops for large sca…

This is all fine and well, but misses one little detail: drones. In the past conflicts US troops were more or less unreachable for the enemy unless they were advancing on the ground in a challenging terrain like dense jungles or mountains, where an enemy could ambush them. Other then that, US had air superiority, overwhelming firepower and excellent reconnaissance.

After the war in Ukraine things are very different. US troops are not safe as long as they are reachable by an FPV done, i.e., the enemy has to only make it ~20km to US positions. Given the area and terrain in Iran this will be happening all the time. So any troops positioned on Iran's territory will be under constant attacks by FPV drones. This means heavy casualties.

But even if the US forces will manage to clear the FPVs, this is still not enough, because there are dozens of other types of winged long range drones, the most famous being of course Shahed. They are less precise and not so deadly for the troops. They are also much easier to intercept. But that means that you effectively can't set up a safe stationary base, because it will be attacked by hundreds of drones from hundreds of miles away 24x7. There is not enough interceptors to stop that.

This means that a new approach will have to be used by US armed forces which they never tried before. This guarantees heavy losses on the initial stage which will raise a real political shitstorm back home. It looks like the current administration doesn't particularly care about that, but chances are they will not be able to contain the consequences.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by demosito666 »

carefulfungi wrote: post #544
esseph wrote: post #540

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the newest batch of 10,000 is approved, we're up to 17,000 combat troops deployed for this. (Marines there as of Mar 27, another 3,500 in about two weeks, and then at least 1 battalion of the 82nd Airborne, plus another 10,000 requested) I have heard other units getting pre-mobilization / warnings. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2026-03-27/82nd... (This would not nearly be enough troops for large sca…

Fwiw, peak deployments to Afghanistan was ~100k troops. Iran is ~2x the land mass and population.

IRGC is also 10x more advanced than whatever forces were in Afganistan.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by stevenicr »

bjourne wrote: post #415
nixon_why69 wrote: post #78

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I'd like to chime in and say that that Kash Patel, while completely unprofessional and incompetent, is way less of a weirdo than the rest of the administration. His scandals are all about shirking job responsibilities to party and sightsee. That's not great from the FBI director but its way more normal than the rest of them.

90% of US media is not aligned with the Democrats and as such they do not possess the same power to manufacture outrage as the Republicans do.

I can't tell if this a sarcastic statement or you believe this to be true.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by esseph »

Amezarak wrote: post #543
esseph wrote: post #536

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And of course if anything was released from super secret “the files” they’re definitely still covering up, they’d become publicly known. They've been caught trying to do Trump related reactions at least three times now.

You misunderstand my point. I’m saying that if there are any credible accusations in “the files” beyond those well-documented ones against Epstein and Maxwell, then the accusers would be known publicly anyway when they’re disclosed. The whole thing falls apart the moment you examine the actual evidence and think about it. It’s really disappointing that smart people on even this forum get wrapped up into this junk.

> You misunderstand my point. I’m saying that if there are any credible accusations in “the files” beyond those well-documented ones against Epstein and Maxwell, then the accusers would be known publicly anyway when they’re disclosed. The whole thing falls apart the moment you examine the actual evidence and think about it. It’s really disappointing that smart people on even this forum get wrapped up into this junk.

Did you know that Epstein's hard drives were removed by a private investigator, and that the FBI and DOJ never had them to begin with? They were removed before they were searched by law enforcement.

https://abcnews.com/US/house-oversight-panel-seeks-testimony...

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-safe-diamond...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/27/epstein-private-...

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