By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives September 5, 2018
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“The FBI complaint against Aragoncillo stated that he had emailed to associates in the Philippines more than 100 sensitive intelligence documents that he had downloaded from the FBI's computer-based ACS case management system. (CFP)
“There have, moreover, been U.S. press reports, including a report by ABC, that Aragoncillo spied for the Philippines by downloading classified information from the computer systems of other U.S. agencies. (CFP) “Prior to joining the FBI, Aragoncillo was a U.S. Marine assigned to the Office of Vice President Al Gore, and reportedly used computers in that office to download classified documents from computer systems at the Pentagon and at the CIA.The FBI labeled Aragoncillo the first known case of espionage within the history of the White House. For over thirty-one months, from 1999 to 2001, Aragoncillo was assigned under Vice President Al Gore and then later under Vice President Dick Cheney (Wikipedia)
“The case of Aragoncillo can be compared to the earlier case of Robert Hanssen. The FBI complaint filed against Hanssen in February 2001 stated that Hanssen had made "extensive use" of the FBI's computer-based case management system to steal U.S. intelligence secrets for the Russians, and that he had also given the Russians a copy of a technical manual on the COINS II (Community On-Line Information System, 2d version), a software system used by various U.S. intelligence agencies to track the intelligence information they produce. A report by the washingtonpost.com in 2001 stated that Hanssen had also stolen U.S. intelligence secrets from the computer systems of other agencies such as the CIA, NSA, the Pentagon, and the White House. (CFP) “In both cases, the spies planted in the FBI had evidently been able to gather information by using the PROMIS-derivative software system underpinning all of these U.S. intelligence community database systems. “Reporting on the recent Filipino spy case, John Diamond of USA Today wrote: "after the Hanssen case, the FBI began a $170 million upgrade of its computer network. “Severe technical problems led to that upgrade having to be be scrapped, and only now is the FBI seeking bids for a new system, called Sentinel. The FBI has serious problems.”(The FBI did adopt the Sentinel program, but because of technological problems, scrapped it, too in 2005-- Wikipedia) The idea of the existence of Russian collusion had to be right under Mueller’s nose as FBI director when two spies were caught working at the bureau. Did Robert Mueller know Russian collusion within the FBI could lend credibility to the existence of Russian collusion when going after President Trump? Hello, Attorney General Jeff Sessions? Are you still there?
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Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.