2d ago

GOP rep says Russia and China are ‘laughing at us’ after NSA director firing

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Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a moderate Republican, slammed President Trump’s decision to fire the director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and his top deputy after demands from far-right influencer Laura Loomer, saying Sunday that China and Russia are “laughing at us” after that decision.

“I will tell you, this puts us back. It hurts us,” Bacon said in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”

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2d ago

GOP rep says Russia and China are ‘laughing at us’ after NSA director firing

thehill.com /homenews/house/5234895-trump-fires-nsa-leaders/

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Somehow, I don't thiink that is what caused them to start laughing at us.
- Fair. Shame the joke ain’t funny though. Personally, could use a good laugh right now.

They've been laughing since at least November. They couldn't have bought a better dumbass to help them if they tried.
- You really couldn't buy a better dumbass! No really, he's the greatest dumbass in history (and I know, I have the best people telling me), I hear people say all the time that this dumbass is just stupendous! That's just what people are saying, they say this dumbass, he's the most tremendous dumbass out there, way dumber than Canadian or Chinese dumbasses, they couldn't afford dumbasses like this one, not in communist Canada.

Foreign Intelligence agencies found a natural backdoor called incompetence you just need to find the right people.
- And with this administration, every random dart thrown is a bullseye.
  Edit: apparently I wasn't clear. They are all incompetent, so any random person in this administration will work for anything others want to push.

..."continued laughing"...

Not wrong but it’s the whole world and not for the reason they think

Is the whole world laugh crying emoji behind me?

those two in particular have been laughing at us since 2016.

Wow, you really think Putin runs a hostile work environment?

So, what's he going to do about it?
- He can't do much without some additional support from Republicans.
  So, all Don Bacon can do is get porky about it all.

They are laughing at us because of ALL trump's hires because trump has hired a pack of imbeciles with several of them being severely removed.

Well, you supported all the policies and leaders that got us to this point. If you don’t like it, do something about it. Your monkey, your circus.

OMG, the president made a decision that set us back and hurt us? Stop the presses!

Probably, but I think that’s unrelated

I'm ok with shuttering the NSA. It was just a domestic spying program from the jump. It never should have been allowed to exist. All that reactionary authoritarian post-9/11 bullshit.
- The NSA was founded in the early 50's not post 9/11.
  
  I’m fairly certain that they were not suggesting the NSA was created post 9/11, but rather that they got worse (especially with domestic spying) since 9/11.
  
  More disinformation from .ml, strange...
  
  Depending on how you want to frame it - the wiki article says 1917.
- Somehow I don’t think shuttering the NSA at the dawn of quantum encryption era is a wise move for American interests, domestic or abroad.
  
  You are under the mistaken impression that I give a fuck about "America's interests"
  I hate this fucking place. And I'm glad I get to live long enough to see it fall. We'll be irrelevant in a few years. Like post-brexit England.
  Can't trust us on any timetable longer than 4 years. The whole world rightfully hates us for nearly a century of warmongering and aggression. And that was before Chump's first term. His lunacy has just been nails in the coffin.
- After the disbandment of the U.S. Armycryptographic section of military intelligence known as MI-8, the U.S. government created the Cipher Bureau, also known as Black Chamber, in 1919. The Black Chamber was the United States' first peacetime cryptanalyticorganization.[25] Jointly funded by the Army and the State Department, the Cipher Bureau was disguised as a New York City commercial codecompany; it produced and sold such codes for business use. Its true mission, however, was to break the communications (chiefly diplomatic) of other nations. At the Washington Naval Conference, it aided American negotiators by providing them with the decrypted traffic of many of the conference delegations, including the Japanese. The Black Chamber successfully persuaded Western Union, the largest U.S. telegram company at the time, as well as several other communications companies, to illegally give the Black Chamber access to cable traffic of foreign embassies and consulates.[26] Soon, these companies publicly discontinued their collaboration. Despite the Chamber's initial successes, it was shut down in 1929 by U.S. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, who defended his decision by stating, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."[27]
  
  Stimson sounds like a smart man.
- it's not being shuttered; it's being refactored/redirected.

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