{"id":1819107,"date":"2023-01-22T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T14:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1819107"},"modified":"2023-01-22T09:10:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T14:10:06","slug":"james-bamford-the-american-intelligence-community-has-no-accountability-so-how-can-it-keep-us-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-bamford-the-american-intelligence-community-has-no-accountability-so-how-can-it-keep-us-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bamford: The American Intelligence Community Has No Accountability \u2014 So How Can It Keep Us Safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjames-bamford-the-american-intelligence-community-has-no-accountability-so-how-can-it-keep-us-safe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1819107&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><br \/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The revelation that President Biden had stacks of classified documents stashed in his garage \u2014 alongside jugs of anti-freeze and piles of cleaning rags \u2014 comes as little surprise.\u00a0 My work on a new book has been ongoing for several years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spyfail-Saboteurs-Collapse-Americas-Counterintelligence\/dp\/1538741156\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=30L82LDV1MLDB&#038;keywords=spyfail+james+bamford&#038;qid=1673887383&#038;sprefix=Spyfail%2Caps%2C68&#038;sr=8-1&#038;tag=nypost-20&#038;asc_refurl=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/21\/with-no-accountability-how-can-us-intelligence-community-keep-us-safe\/&#038;asc_source=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">\u201cSpyFail,\u201d<\/a> that examines the collapse of the country\u2019s counterintelligence and security operations. Barack Obama&#8217;s and Biden&#8217;s disastrous records are unmatched. The National Security Agency&#8217;s hyper-secret, highly classified staff was able to bring out more than half of a billion pages of documents that were classified at least top secret. Some of these documents dealt with nuclear weapons. This was the end of it. <em>After<\/em> the supposed crackdown following the million or so documents removed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, also on Obama and Biden\u2019s watch.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet another insider of the NSA<strong> <\/strong>was able to steal nearly all of the agency\u2019s highly dangerous cyberweapons \u2014 the tech equivalent of loose nukes \u2014 and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3107948\/nsa-hacked-top-cyber-weapons-allegedly-go-up-for-auction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> put them up for auction on the internet<\/a> 2016 In 2016. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/kim-jong-un.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kim-jong-un-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Jong Un and family\" class=\"wp-image-25407288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/kim-jong-un.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/kim-jong-un.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/kim-jong-un.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>North Korean intelligence secretly attacked Sony Pictures, taking millions of confidential documents as well as unreleased films, at Kim Jong Un&#8217;s request. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">KCNA VIA KNS\/AFP via Getty Image<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was the worst cyberattack in world history, yet the NSA didn\u2019t have a clue as to how to stop it. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, it was a young American vacationing in London who found a temporary solution. \u201ckill switch.\u201d The cyber thief gave many clues but the counterintelligence agents never got close to him. As a result, he continued to sell the NSA\u2019s cyberweapons to whatever government or terrorist would pay for them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were also the foreign moles in Obama\/Biden. While FBI counterspies searched under every rock for Russian spies, they totally missed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/05\/us\/politics\/indictment-uae-influence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two top foreign moles within Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign<\/a>. Both were secretly working for the government of the United Arab Emirates with orders to insert themselves into Clinton\u2019s inner-circle, collect intelligence, and pass on pro-UAE influence. And thanks to millions of dollars in dirty money passed to Clinton\u2019s campaign, they were enormously successful. Clinton granted the spies permission to host Bill Clinton and her at the private residence of one of them, as well as another party in Las Vegas, for a $2 million dollar demand. \u201cHad a terrific meeting with my Big Sister H,\u201d The spy used a code to identify Hillary to write his spymaster. \u201cYou will be most delighted!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/robert-philip-hanssen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"808\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/robert-philip-hanssen.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Hanssen\" class=\"wp-image-25407347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/robert-philip-hanssen.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1616 1616w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/robert-philip-hanssen.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1212 1212w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/robert-philip-hanssen.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=808 808w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/robert-philip-hanssen.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=404 404w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/robert-philip-hanssen.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Robert Hanssen, FBI Counterintelligence Supervisory Agent, was in fact a highly-paid Russian agent who sent bags-loads to Moscow with secrets.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is amazing that neither the FBI counterspies, nor the Secret Service were able to detect the spy in the entire campaign. The other was a serial child abuser with multiple arrests. The other spy was a professional con artist who would be eventually charged with embezzling the public of more than $100 millions. The discovery of the two men came about by chance, almost a year after the campaign ended. While one was arrested, the second managed to escape the FBI and seek asylum in Lithuania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is important to ask why Clinton was not investigated for conspiracy. It seems hard to believe that a former secretary of state didn\u2019t know that the two odd characters were foreign agents.\u00a0They poured millions and even millions of dollars into her campaign coffers six months in a row for endless spin, questions, and face-time with her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/hillary-clinton-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/hillary-clinton-01.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Clinton\" class=\"wp-image-25407379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/hillary-clinton-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/hillary-clinton-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/hillary-clinton-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The FBI completely missed two foreign moles within Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign. Both were working in secret for the government of United Arab Emirates.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The US also suffered the worst corporate cyberattacks in US History, including the most severe loss of classified documents, cyber weapon theft, and penetration of a presidential campaign. Sony Pictures was secretly attacked by North Korean intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/12\/03\/sonys-hackjob-has-movie-studios-scrambling-for-answers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stealing millions of confidential documents and unreleased films<\/a>. Yet as the attack was secretly taking place, an oblivious James Clapper, America\u2019s top spymaster, was having dinner in North Korea with the man conducting the operation, North Korea\u2019s top spy master. The operation was discovered only after the destruction of tens of thousands upon dozens of Sony computers all over the globe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/michael-hayden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/michael-hayden.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Hayden\" class=\"wp-image-25407469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/michael-hayden.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/michael-hayden.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/michael-hayden.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>NSA Director Michael Hayden missed the 9\/11 terrorist attacks and then declared that Saddam Hussein had weApons of mass destruction \u2014\u00a0before being promoted to deputy head of the Office of Director of National Intelligence.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ap<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not only is the FBI deficient in finding foreign spies, it can\u2019t even keep them out of its own counterintelligence force. The bureau has been infiltrated regularly by Russian and Chinese moles for nearly 40 years, leading to the tragic deaths and imprisonment of many clandestine agents. \u201chard target\u201d countries. Robert Hanssen, FBI Counterintelligence Supervising Agent (1979 &#8211; 2001) was an agent. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/06\/i-risked-my-life-to-expose-my-boss-as-a-russian-spy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">highly paid Russian agent,<\/a> Moscow was sent a lot of secrets. In February 2001, he was finally captured. He was finally arrested in February 2001, less than a month after he had been captured by Chinese intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/17\/former-cia-officer-accused-of-selling-state-secrets-to-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">allegedly recruited a former CIA officer, Alexander Ma<\/a>He applied to the FBI, and was soon a highly-paid mole for China. Assigned to the Bureau\u2019s Counterintelligence Division in Hawaii, a critical office focused on China, Ma would simply fly to Shanghai every few months with a briefcase packed full of FBI and CIA secrets. Many identified key US agents, yet it wasn\u2019t until 2020 that Ma was finally arrested. He is currently in custody and awaiting trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the Obama administration miss dangerous spies, moles and cyber thieves but it also was unwitting that four former agents were missing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/montenegro-us-executive-testifies-in-trial-of-attempted-coup-suspects\/29275041.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went to work for a political party planning a violent Russian-backed coup <\/a>A friendly European country is about to join NATO. In 2016, a former CIA officer and three former FBI agents were hired by Montenegro\u2019s \u201cDemocratic Front\u201d which was conspiring with Russia\u2019s GRU spy agency to overthrow the Montenegrin government. The American agents were to act as the front\u2019s \u201cexfiltration team\u201d If the coup goes sideways, which happened, it was reported. The agents were allowed to return to the US without any embarrassing investigations, arrests or Congressional hearings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/mike-rogers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/mike-rogers.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Rogers\" class=\"wp-image-25407425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/mike-rogers.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/mike-rogers.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/mike-rogers.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>For the loss of millions upon millions of top-secret documents, Mike Rogers, Director of the NSA, paid no professional cost. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/james-bamford-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/james-bamford-01.jpg\" alt=\"James Bamford\" class=\"wp-image-25407536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/james-bamford-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/james-bamford-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1152 1152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/james-bamford-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=768 768w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/james-bamford-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=384 384w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/james-bamford-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>James Bamford is the author. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">James Bamford<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The FBI and intelligence community have been completely unreliable, leading to dangerous and devastating security breaches. After NSA Director Mike Rogers, a 3-star admiral, lost hundreds of millions of top secret documents and most of the agency\u2019s cyberweapons, he paid no price, keeping his stars, job and salary intact. <\/p>\n<p>Former NSA Director Michael Hayden also experienced the same fate. He, after missing the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, managed to mislead the world by declaring that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Instead of being fired, he was promoted to the position of deputy head of Office of Director of National Intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>For allowing the FBI to be infiltrated for more than 40 years by Russian and Chinese spies, no FBI directors were fired. In most corporate offices, such disasters are not tolerated. And until there\u2019s accountability, there will likely be more spies, moles and saboteurs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>James Bamford is the best-selling author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Puzzle-Palace-James-Bamford\/dp\/0395312868\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&#038;qid=1673888080&#038;sr=8-1&#038;tag=nypost-20&#038;asc_refurl=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/21\/with-no-accountability-how-can-us-intelligence-community-keep-us-safe\/&#038;asc_source=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">The Puzzle Palace<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Body-Secrets-Ultra-Secret-National-Security\/dp\/0385499086\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3H696OB9B43X0&#038;keywords=body+of+secrets+james+bamford&#038;qid=1673888113&#038;sprefix=Body+of+Secrets%2Caps%2C67&#038;sr=8-1&#038;tag=nypost-20&#038;asc_refurl=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/21\/with-no-accountability-how-can-us-intelligence-community-keep-us-safe\/&#038;asc_source=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Body of Secrets <\/a>Other books on intelligence. His most recent is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spyfail-Saboteurs-Collapse-Americas-Counterintelligence\/dp\/1538741156\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3IMILHEECULN&#038;keywords=spyfail+james+bamford&#038;qid=1672848101&#038;sprefix=spyfail%2Caps%2C56&#038;sr=8-1&#038;tag=nypost-20&#038;asc_refurl=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/21\/with-no-accountability-how-can-us-intelligence-community-keep-us-safe\/&#038;asc_source=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">SpyFail: Spies, Moles, Saboteurs and the Collapse of America\u2019s Counterintelligence.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revelation that President Biden had stacks of classified documents stashed in his garage \u2014 alongside jugs of anti-freeze and piles of cleaning rags \u2014 comes as little surprise.\u00a0 My work on a new book has been ongoing for several years. \u201cSpyFail,\u201d that examines the collapse of the country\u2019s counterintelligence and security operations. Barack Obama&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1819110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[8049,4123,15975,5458,5985,4786,5334,3819,3618,6551],"class_list":["post-1819107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-accountability","tag-american","tag-bamford","tag-bongino","tag-community","tag-intelligence","tag-james","tag-report","tag-riot","tag-safe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1819110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}