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1. A short thread.
I will never forget Feb 20, 2001. I remember the second half of that day more clearly than nearly any other day in my adulthood.

I will never forget the somber mood of Attorney General Ashcroft as he moved purposefully to the podium in the press room at main justice that day, accompanied by FBI Director Louis Freeh. Both men, from the first moment visible appeared troubled & somber.

At that moment i knew our world had changed again, for the worse. Director Freeh & AG Ashcroft had been personally overseeing one of the most important #NATSEC cases in US history. The arrest of #FBI Senior Supervisory Agent, Counter Intelligence Division, Soviet Analytical Group, Robert Hanssen.

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/robert-hanssen
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1. A short thread. I will never forget Feb 20, 2001. I remember the second half of that day more clearly than nearly any other day in my adulthood. I will never forget the somber mood of Attorney General Ashcroft as he moved purposefully to the podium in…
2. What I remember about Hanssen from those who knew him was that bob’s intelligence was rarely rivaled or matched; and he was absolutely cunning. He was also one of the most paranoid people in the world.

I can remember feeling as though i was going to fall over from shock & that i couldnt breathe when i heard the word. The announcement came on a tuesday. A sunny, cold, bitter tuesday. But bob had been in hard bargaining for going on 3 days since his arrest on a cold Sunday afternoon, Feb 18, 2001. His only words during his apprehension were ‘guns wont be necessary’.

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2. What I remember about Hanssen from those who knew him was that bob’s intelligence was rarely rivaled or matched; and he was absolutely cunning. He was also one of the most paranoid people in the world. I can remember feeling as though i was going to…
3. It was with absolute horror that i would learn of the true nature & the damage of Hanssen’s betrayal. He was among the top three spy hunters in the us intelligence community whos sole purpose was to hunt down russian moles buried inside the US Govt- and he was the most highly placed and damaging mole soviet intelligence had ever recruited. He had access to or oversaw every FBI counter intelligence investigation, and many of them launched & run by other agencies. Including the CIA.
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3. It was with absolute horror that i would learn of the true nature & the damage of Hanssen’s betrayal. He was among the top three spy hunters in the us intelligence community whos sole purpose was to hunt down russian moles buried inside the US Govt- and…
4. By the time CIA officer Aldrich Ames was arrested on February 21, 1994 he had already turned over the names of over 50 CIA assets inside the Soviet & later Russian govt. all of them either disappeared or were later publicly revealed to have been executed.
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4. By the time CIA officer Aldrich Ames was arrested on February 21, 1994 he had already turned over the names of over 50 CIA assets inside the Soviet & later Russian govt. all of them either disappeared or were later publicly revealed to have been executed.
5. What we didnt know and what it would take 15 years to peel back the layers of the onion to reveal was that Special Agent Robert Hanssen was used by his KGB & later RVS handlers to steer investigations, including suspicions that Hanssen covered up evidence of Aldrich Ames .
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7. Fast forward to today: how did an open communist with deep family ties end up as CIA director w/o any suspicion?
8. Because Andrew McCabe , then head of Counter Intelligence division, was protecting Brennan. The same Andrew McCabe who made unauthorized unreported trips to europe to meet w oleg Deripaska who is closely connected to Russian intelligence & the president of russia.