US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics

lol

>The intelligence seems to confirm what was previously a hypothetical fear for current and US officials: that the mass firings could offer a rich recruitment opportunity for foreign intelligence services that might seek to exploit financially vulnerable or resentful former employees. The Justice Department has charged multiple former military and intelligence officials for providing US intelligence to China in recent years.

>>Career officials at the CIA have been quietly discussing that risk and how to mitigate it in the recent weeks, current and former intelligence officials previously told CNN. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard earlier this week suggested that those discussions represented a “threat” made by disloyal government employees — rather than a clinical warning of the potential risks posed by President Donald Trump’s aggressive cost-cutting strategy — and that those involved should be penalized.

I bet Tulsi is gonna hand pick those with the most knowledge to hand over to Putin and Xi. Can’t wait for every pipeline and power grid to get hacked

Who could have predicted this!

Thank God we didn’t lay off staff required to maintain our nuclear stockpile.