{"id":62077,"date":"2015-09-30T09:32:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62077"},"modified":"2015-09-30T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:32:51","slug":"cia-yanks-spies-from-beijing-in-wake-of-opm-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62077","title":{"rendered":"CIA yanks spies from Beijing in wake of OPM breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/cia-pulled-officers-from-beijing-after-breach-of-federal-personnel-records\/2015\/09\/29\/1f78943c-66d1-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> reports that the immediate effect of the breach of government employees&#8217; personally identifiable information (PII) by Chinese hackers from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was the CIA pulling it&#8217;s intelligence agents from Beijing out of concern for their safety.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The counterintelligence risks of the OPM breach are significant, [Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr.] said. He noted that the intelligence agencies do not know specifically whose records were taken. But the scale of the compromise \u2014 more than 22 million individuals\u2019 records breached \u2014 \u201chas very serious implications .?.?. from the standpoint of the intelligence community and the potential for identifying people\u201d who may be undercover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately,\u201d he said, \u201cthis is a gift that\u2019s going to keep on giving for years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, this administration has made their &#8220;shift&#8221; of our military focus to the Pacific Rim, specifically because of China, and because of the feckless morons of OPM who can&#8217;t accomplish the simple task of protecting our PII from our enemies, we have no intelligence officers on the ground in China. <\/p>\n<p>Seems about right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that the immediate effect of the breach of government employees&#8217; personally identifiable &hellip; <a title=\"CIA yanks spies from Beijing in wake of OPM breach\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62077\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CIA yanks spies from Beijing in wake of OPM breach<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}