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The CIA is conducting a formal review to assess potential damages from uncategorized emails sent to the White House in early February. Sources familiar with the issue told CNN.
This is just one of several aftershocks from President Donald Trump’s push to bring jacka hammers to the federal government, including the CIA. The administration’s efforts to reduce labor and audit spending in the CIA and elsewhere have threatened to put some of the government’s most sensitive jobs at risk, and are familiar with internal deliberations and are now and formerly US Officials said.
Crossing the Washington River, senior career Treasury officials warn Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that grants Elon Musk’s efficiency access to Elon Musk’s government’s ultra-sensitive payment system to a 25-year-old computer engineer I submitted a note. CIA payments through it.
Also, on the 7th floor of the CIA (home to top leadership), some officers will be able to take foreign intelligence agencies to know that the buyouts already provided to mass shootings and staff risks. We are quietly debating how to create a group of dissatisfied former employees that may be. .
In summary, these actions are among career officials who say Trump’s efforts to quickly slim the US government may have put American secrets in the grasp of foreign spies and hackers. It emphasizes the depth of anxiety.
To comply with the executive order to reduce the federal workforce, the CIA sent the White House earlier this month all new hires who have been involved in the agency within two years to a very unusual email list. This is a list that includes CIA officers. It was prepared to operate under the cover via an unclassified email server.
The agency is currently considering some of the employees listed in previously scheduled emails to the White House for secret developments in sensitive locations overseas, sources say And because of the risk of their identity, sources may be exposed to the hackers of foreign governments who stated.
There are also concerns that there may be risks being revealed to some US embassy status that are actually being met by staff members of the CIA. role.
Internal reviews known as damage assessments not only do individual executives have risks when going to the intended post, but the position itself is compromised and the executives of the moving agency are no longer filled. We will almost certainly evaluate whether we can’t do it. said a former Intelligence reporting official.
“Your predecessor is in that position, as well as the five officers before them. Now the host country and enemy know that this person is the agent who goes to this position at the embassy. “We’re doing that,” said the former CIA officer, who spoke hypothetically. “They are now suppose that their predecessors have worked the same (and) inversely and found their collective footprint.”
“The location is currently burning.”
Meanwhile, as the CIA considers cutting staff, current and former intelligence agencies officials have said they have tried to exploit foreign intelligence such as China and Russia, where mass shootings are trying to exploit former employees who have been financially vulnerable or resented. They say it can provide a wealth of recruitment opportunities to report agencies. The Justice Department has indicted several former military and intelligence agency officials in recent years for providing US intelligence agency to China.
The agency has already fired more than 20 officers for work on diversity issues, many of whom are currently challenging to fire in court. The government is still considering additional cuts to comply with Trump’s orders to finish all diversity jobs across the federal government, the court’s application said. Sources also say the agency’s career officials are working on recommendations that probation staff who have been emailed to the White House should be denied. According to one of these people, the final number has not been determined yet. No one has been accused of fraud or fired for reasons.
However, unlike most other fired federal employees, all of them had access to classified information about the operation of the institution and trade.
“I’m going to end people who work for the Department of Agriculture. What’s the risk if I’m unhappy, but don’t have access to the classified information?” one US official said.
“You take the number of employees you intend to be reduced, and they have sensitive program knowledge. By definition, it’s insider risk,” the person said at the CIA and other intelligence agency. I did. “You’re just rolling the dice that these people respect their secret agreements and don’t volunteer for hostile information services.”
As a result, some executives are considering how to treat employees who have inevitably been fired or have chosen to opt for an acquisition.
The concept that those fired from the CIA, even for the cause, are not new to what they know to foreign governments, is not new, a new official noted. When the top assistant to the agency’s deputy director was charged with fraud in 2009 after he spent personal expenses on the agency’s credit card, he was basically expected to be unemployed. – A bidder familiar with this episode, now a former official, said when he was worried that he might offer himself the best.
But ultimately, the first official said there is not much that the agency can legally do to monitor former employees or mitigate risk.
Another official US sympathy for Trump’s efforts pointed out that the type of person who might do such a thing is the type that should be removed from that class.
But that doesn’t mean that the threat is unrealistic. And some current and former officials said there was self-harm.
“I don’t know if the administration actually understands (the risk) and even if they understand it, it’s not clear that they care,” the first official said. . However, the risk is “real.”
Career officials also moved to mitigate what they view as a potential anti-intelligent risk stemming from the work Musk Doge did.
When Bessent approved access for DOGE officials to the government’s payment system, the information officer immediately flagged the system as not being used for Social Security and Medicaid payments. It is also used to concentrate payments from intelligence communities, including CIAs, through substantial commercial entities that the intelligence community has partnered with in sensitive programs.
“Literally, every payment that the US government makes goes through that system. Every time. One, a source familiar with the issue told CNN.
According to a former Ministry of Finance official, access granted to individuals without training or experience in the system is to who receives the funds, what purposes, and for what purposes foreign intelligence reports. He said there is a risk of publishing the agency’s roadmap.
These concerns came directly to Bescent in a memo from senior career Treasury officials, according to three people with knowledge of the issue.
The memo included a series of risk mitigation proposals, all of which Bescent signed off, one of the people said.
The recent declaration of oath filed in court by a career Treasury official who oversees the information and security operations of the Bureau of Finance Services, “potential declarations including access to sensitive data elements, insider threat risks and other risks.” It provided a window into risk. Specific to user access to confidential IT systems.”
Joseph Joli, deputy commissioner for financial services transformation and modernization, also detailed the vast security infrastructure urgently built around Marco Erez, who granted “read-only” access to the system. .
This includes the provided laptop – a cybersecurity tool built at the sole entry point to Erez’s payment system. Laptop tools allowed security personnel to monitor “always continually logging” usage of Doge Engineer. Laptop security configuration blocked USB and large storage devices, prohibited access to cloud storage services, and monitored scripts or commands run by employees.
Data exfiltration detection has also been incorporated into the architecture to warn security personnel about their efforts to send sensitive types of data.
At the end of the work, Doge officials said, “to ensure that copies of the financial information created are properly destroyed and that there has not been any unauthorized access to the Bureau’s information or data during engagement. I agreed to provide the following. Court submission.
A senior financial services representative said, “We were fully aware of the risks presented by Mr. Erez’s work and tried to mitigate those risks as much as possible.”
Meanwhile, in Langley, there are almost a day of rumours that masked Doge Warriors, or Musk herself, appear, sparking speculation about whether they will actually be placed inside.
