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Now then: This is interesting. Excerpt:
A person believed to be among the highest-ranking defectors ever to the United States from the People’s Republic of China has been working with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for months, sources inside the intelligence community have told RedState on condition of anonymity. The defector has direct knowledge of special weapons programs in China, including bioweapons programs, those sources say.
The information provided to RedState corroborates and clarifies Thursday evening’s reporting by journalist Adam Housley.
RedState’s sources say that’s partially true. FBI Director Christopher Wray was “ambushed” with the information, they say, and Langley was also unaware. Sources say DIA leadership kept the defector within their Clandestine Services network to prevent Langley and the State Department from accessing the person, whose existence was kept from other agencies because DIA leadership believes there are Chinese spies or sources inside the FBI, CIA, and several other federal agencies.
Did you get that last?
Here, in case you missed it: Sources say DIA leadership kept the defector within their Clandestine Services network to prevent Langley and the State Department from accessing the person, whose existence was kept from other agencies because DIA leadership believes there are Chinese spies or sources inside the FBI, CIA, and several other federal agencies.
Yes, that’s right. We are now at a juncture where our Imperial intelligence-gathering agencies don’t trust each other.
Granted, it has always been the standard practice to compartmentalize sensitive information like this. “Need-to-know” applies, after all. But the stated reason here – if it’s corroborated, so far this is all hearsay from an anonymous source – is that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) didn’t trust the other alphabet soup agencies specifically because they were worried about Chinese spies or sources inside those agencies.
Normally I would think that this all sounded a bit paranoid, but we just had a Congressman who was found to have been sleeping with an actual by-gosh Chinese agent for some time, and not only is he still in office but still holds all his privileged committee assignments. If that doesn’t show how deep the rot has gone in the Imperial City, I don’t know what does.
It’s still early on this latest business. But it will be interesting to see what develops.
