NEW YORK – On Tuesday, the New York Times and Washington Post publicly identified the U.S. government’s prime and only suspect in the leaks of CIA documents to the transparency organization WikiLeaks.
U.S. authorities have identified a suspect in last year’s “Vault 7” leaks of CIA hacking and electronic surveillance tools used in foreign espionage operations, reports the Washington Post.
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Donald Trump, background, speaks at the CIA in Langley, Va. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
The floor of the main lobby of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
The whistleblowing site WikiLeaks is back with yet another Vault 7 series related document. This one is called “Cherry Blossom” program which gives a glance at the wireless hacking capabilities of The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Julian Assange (left) with American linguist, philosopher Noam Chomsky on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (Photo: Yui Mok/PA)
Source : Consortium News, le 14/03/2017
Typiquement, les médias grand public américains réagissent à la fuite majeure sur les secrets du renseignement US par une recherche de l’auteur plutôt que de se pencher sur les révélations troublantes, comme le remarque Jesselyn Radack après la publication de “Vault 7”.
Par Jesselyn Radack
The CIA tool purportedly relies on Microsoft Office to track leaked documents and the whistle-blowers that release them. (Photo: Nigel Treblin/AP)
As the latest installment of it’s ‘Vault 7’ series, WikiLeaks has just dropped a user manual describing a CIA project known as ‘Scribbles’ (a.k.a. the “Snowden Stopper”), a piece of software purportedly designed to allow the embedding of ‘web beacon’ tags into documents “likely to be stolen.”
(MPN) In his first speech as CIA Director, Mike Pompeo delivered a strong invective against the pro-transparency organization WikiLeaks, accusing the group of acting as a “non-state hostile intelligence service.” The aggressive rhetoric came amid Wikileaks’
