TShaffer: Hayden’s ‘Absolutely Correct’ that WikiLeaks Dump Makes Us Less Safe

‘This damaged our ability as a nation to do the hard work of espionage and other information operations’

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SHAFFER: "I do. This is the area I've worked called tentacle operations. What he’s saying is absolutely correct. These vulnerabilities are not necessarily known to the public. Hackers and criminal enterprises may know them. But we don’t want the bad guys to know that someone is looking for them. The use of these things against U.S. citizens needs to be looked at. But as General Hayden says, we need to use effective tools and procedures, and technology is ambivalent to the user. This is not about technology, it’s about how we use it. This damaged our ability as a nation to do the hard work of espionage and other information operations."

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