CIA’s not-so-secret secret

[Will E Worm]

Panetta: loose lips on CIA’s not-so-secret secret

One of the U.S. government’s worst-kept secrets is the CIA’s program to hunt and kill suspected terrorists with armed drones. Everybody knows the CIA does it. The agency, however, refuses to publicly acknowledge the covert program, a fig leaf that has obscured the CIA’s operations and limited official accountability.

So ears perked up Friday when Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta not once, but twice made cracks about the agency’s fleet of unmanned Predator drones while visiting troops in Italy.

Panetta, who served as CIA director prior to becoming Pentagon chief in July, jokingly told an auditorium full of sailors at the U.S. naval base in Naples that he was enjoying his new job because of all the firepower at his disposal.

“Obviously I have a hell of a lot more weapons available to me here than I had at the CIA,” he said. “Although the Predators aren’t bad.”

A few hours later, during a stop at the Sigonella Naval Air Station in Sicily, Panetta made another reference to the CIA’s armed drones.

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The drones they want to use in America to watch you and possibly kill Americans.

 

[Will E Worm]

Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet

A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.

The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.

“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”

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They could never be compromised and possibly piloted by a hacker.

Federal Government: Oops!

 

[zdenka]

Missiles are go!! It's time to kill some home grown terrorists hehe

 

[Will E Worm]

Missiles are go!! It's time to kill some home grown terrorists hehe

The only type of "homegrown" terrorists I will agree with are people like Bill Ayers. Or, subversive, anti-American, originations like the SPCLA.

 

[Facetious]

What else would you expect for an academician less any previous intelligence background on his resume?

Dammit! That's two inexperienced people filling top security positions ... Panetta (CIA) and Neapolitano (DHLS)!!!! God help U.S.!!!! If it wasn't so serious it would be funny!:

I think that barry understands that he can better control the goings on in cabinet positions by appointing individuals who lack experience in the areas of work for which they were appointed, in other words, if you lack experience, you tend to be less of an authoritative figure, a less than authoritative appointment will tend to be a yes-person... get it?

 

[busaguy79]

They won't get me as long as I got my nifty foil hat on!!

 

[Ulysses31]

U.S. drones that killed American Al Qaeda boss 'infected by virus' amid fears terrorists are logging their every move

* Predator and Reaper drones 'hit by mysterious keylogger virus'
* Infection thought have spread via crews' removable hard drives
* Fears tracking logs may be on public internet and available to terrorists
* Drone use has been suspended while security specialists investigate
* Experts at Nevada base believe virus is most likely accidental malware
* Drones have killed more than 2,000 people since Obama was elected

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rs-terrorists-logging-move.html#ixzz1a9DxqjTc