A US intelligence official has been charged with espionage offenses following an investigation into the leak last month of highly classified documents detailing Israel’s plans for military attacks on Iran.
Asif W Rahman, who works for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will appear in court in Guam on Thursday charged with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The newspaper said FBI agents arrested Rahman in Cambodia on Tuesday following his indictment last week in federal court in Virginia.
In October, the White House said it was “deeply concerned” by the unauthorized release of the papers, attributed to the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and National Security Agency, which were published on the Telegram messaging app.
Did Israel become the 51st state when I wasn’t looking? How do Israel’s plans for regional genocide count as US national security documents?
I get your point, but intelligence agreements break down if countries start letting their personnel leak information.
Canada has access to sensitive US intelligence. What do you think would happen if someone in CSIS leaked it?
Like, Israel bad, it was probably ethically correct to leak it, but I think your line of reasoning isn’t fantastic from an actual argument perspective. It was a tweet sized, easily consumable expression of disagreement, and I can appreciate that art for what it is.
CSIS isn’t even well known because they’re either dependent or it’s because most people don’t even know Canada has a security agency.
That’s not the only one here.
This is the super duper secret one:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Security_Establishment
And there’s another I’ve heard about, but can’t recall right now.
Canada is involved in some shady shit, to be sure.
How is how well known they are relevant? Would that make a leak more or less palletable? Are you familiar with the “five eyes”?
I wonder what CSIS does? Don’t know what Canada considers threats.
kagis
Man, the US think tank CSIS dominates the Canadian intelligence agency CSIS in search results.
Okay, here’s their jobs page.
https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/csis-jobs/available-jobs.html
And their language people:
CSIS is looking for individuals with the following language proficiency:
- Arabic
- Mandarin
- Russian
- Punjabi
- Urdu
- Hindi
Mmm. So Middle East, China, Russia, and India/Pakistan.
EDIT: Looks like India/Pakistan only made the list recently. Using Archive.org to go back to 2018:
The Service is looking for individuals with the following language proficiency:
- Arabic
- Somali
- Farsi
- Mandarin
- Kurdish
- Sorani
- Russian
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/secret-cold-war-plan-included-mass-detentions-1.962421
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROFUNC
Canada continues to cooperate with the CIA today, allowing ghost planes to land and refuel in Canada, en route to delivering prisoners to suspected CIA black sites.[6] The Canadian counterpart of the CIA is the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and its agency heavily cooperates with the CIA.
Oh, so now we care about “willful retention of national defense information”?
Cool! Do Trump next, cause that was fast.
I appricate him for slowing down the third world war, but let’s be honest here, it is around the corner. How else are the poor billionaires going to afford to be on tRumps cabinet.
What’s the point, the incoming commander is just going to sell those secrets anyway.
