heard from the washington post. ah that this individual, jack tachira is somebody that seems to hold anti semitic and racist views, and that s chatroom was partly at least founded for that , so i, you know, we ll find out more about that in the days and weeks to come. but i mean the other thing, congressman that that you haven t mentioned yet. not that you re going to shy away from it. is that this information, this classified information was reportedly on discord. for months, and i don t have to tell you because i don t know what you might know the answer. how many tens of billions of dollars the u. s intelligence community gets each year from the american taxpayer , but it really seems like there s there was a lot of people dropped the ball here. yeah, that s that s exactly right. you just touched on the third reason i want to light my hair on fire right now, which is, um, you know again, this wasn t exactly advanced tradecraft. these apparently were documents that were folded up stu
what was interesting was we saw a lot of examples where these group were demonstrating their ability to bounce back quickly, the ability to adapt to splinter to regroup and then start to flourish again even after a lot of defensive measures or some of the biggest takedowns that happen with law enforcement shutting down some of these groups. so we see their tradecraft constantly change whether they are leveraging things like multifactor authentication fatigue which is a relatively new term i guess you could say where they make calls acting like they are somebody else from the organisation to trick people into giving information all the way through to things like sim swapping where they try to do things like use techniques to take over a victim s phone so they can use that to carry out an attack. they are capable and always evolving. they are capable and always evolvinu. ~ ., ., they are capable and always evolving- evolving. what are your key ti -s for
investigators and purposefully gave them false information so they would travel far away in an attempt to corroborate his story. randi kaye, cnn. cnn s chief law enforcement and has been getting a lot of this reporting for us. he s a former and ypg deputy of intelligence and counter-terrorism commissioner he joins us now. some of the details that you first reported, i mean, he was googling how to disclose dispose of 150 pound woman s body. you would think that that is pretty poor tradecraft if you are planning to cover-up a crime. but i would also say, having been involved in actually very similar investigations, when people think they are race their search history or they delete things, there are forensic ways to find things that people think are long gone. so, it is not clear if efforts were taken to cover electronic
standpoint of the intelligence community. i say that, and i have to caveat that by saying we don t know the actual substantive content of any of these documents. but the classification ascriptions that have been assigned to them is very concerning. and the thing that the intelligence community will want to focus laser like on is if a sophisticated adversary obtained access to these documents, what could an adversary glean from them, particularly about sources, methods, and tradecraft? and this could be potentially very serious, particularly if it puts human intelligence assets, lives at risk. and that is a potential here, but again, we don t know the substantive content of these
you know, having spent 50 years or so in u.s. intelligence. and when i think about how how hard it is to collect sensitive information that our policymakers need and how important it is to protect sources, methods, and tradecraft, and when you see this rather cavalier approach to harb harboring this information, it is really appalling. so this is another case that is stunning but not surprising. and i think you spoke to this, about earlier about when you step back and think about the magnitude of what s potentially