{"id":1641,"date":"2012-09-29T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2012-09-29T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T18:23:00","slug":"the-pueblo-parallel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"THE PUEBLO PARALLEL"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo was boarded by the North Koreans.\u00a0 The ship was confiscated and crew members were held hostage. Some wondered how a U.S. intelligence ship could be captured by a North Korean sub-chaser and three torpedo boats.\u00a0 The answer, unfortunately, is that we had another administration that sent people into hostile territory with totally inadequate security.<\/p>\n

The Pueblo did have guns and ammunition, but the ammunition was stored below deck, the machine guns were unmanned and they were wrapped in cold weather tarpaulins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rules of engagement were:<\/p>\n

(…) Defensive armament (machine guns) should be stowed or covered in such manner so that it does not cause unusual interest by surveyed units. It should be used only in the event of a threat to survival (…)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The American people were never told the truth about the USS Pueblo.\u00a0 The loss of this ship was a devastating blow to our national security.\u00a0 I was working for the NSA at the time, and I heard people say that this would set our intelligence efforts back 50 years.\u00a0 The most dangerous secret held by any intelligence community is to reveal what we know about the other side.\u00a0 I personally doubt that Commander Lloyd Bucher knew the true value of that ship.\u00a0 Access to intelligence is granted on a need-to-know basis, and it\u2019s likely a majority of the crew on that ship did not know.\u00a0 That would be consistent with my own experience, where the pilot of the aircraft flying us over enemy territory was not cleared to know anything about our activities in the back of the plane.\u00a0 If he did know, he probably would have risked losing the entire crew before surrendering that ship.\u00a0 Fortunately, in the case of the USS Pueblo, we did get these people back.<\/p>\n

There are some people who do know the truth about the USS Pueblo.\u00a0 The following link provides a hint:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.usspueblo.org\/Aftermath\/NSA_Museum.html<\/a><\/p>\n

For those who want to know the whole story, following is a link to an official NSA report on the event that was only released in 2010:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/32745614\/National-Security-Agency-The-capture-of-the-USS-Pueblo-and-its-Effect-on-SIGINT-operations<\/a><\/p>\n

The conclusion in this report is jaw dropping:<\/p>\n

..the compromise, at least to the North Koreans, of information concerning the cryptologic community collection, processing and reporting operations and techniques on a world-wide basis is without precedent in the U.S. cryptologic history.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is really the first time I have ever discussed what I knew about the Pueblo incident, because this was so highly classified.\u00a0 I am only writing this limited amount now because the full NSA report has been released.<\/p>\n

The assault on our Consulate in Libya has the potential to be almost as damaging.\u00a0 The Obama administration already compromised National Security in its rush to exploit the death of Osama bin Laden.\u00a0 If they had just kept this quiet for even a few days they might have rolled up al Qaeda operatives all over the world.\u00a0 Just think about it.\u00a0 They captured Osama bin Laden\u2019s computers and his documents intact.\u00a0 It was a priceless opportunity to harvest this information before al Qaeda even knew we had it.\u00a0 Instead, the President of the United States couldn\u2019t wait to rush to the nearest microphone and spike the football.<\/p>\n

But if the following article is accurate, that may pale in comparison to the damage done by our failure to provide adequate security for the Consulate in Benghazi.\u00a0 Although the death of a U.S. Ambassador is a real tragedy, we lost a lot more than that.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/libya\/9563831\/US-consulate-attack-in-Benghazi-disrupted-major-intelligence-operation.html<\/a><\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know what documents were compromised.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know what cryptologic devices and codes were compromised.\u00a0 There are already reports that the terrorists got lists containing our \u201cfriends\u201d all over Libya.\u00a0 Odds are many of those friends are now desperately trying to stay alive.\u00a0 One will note that they have basically evacuated our Embassy in Tripoli.\u00a0 Part of the reason may be that our entire intelligence operation in Libya was compromised.<\/p>\n

In some ways, the Obama administration was extremely lucky.\u00a0 There was a second attack, an apparent ambush, probably designed to capture critical personnel.\u00a0 According to this report 30 \u201cindividuals\u201d were rushed out of Libya and spread to hidden locations all over Europe.\u00a0 It sure looks like we came very close to losing another group of highly trained intelligence operatives, like we did during the Pueblo incident.\u00a0 Yet it does not appear as though the administration even bothered to secure the Consulate after the event.\u00a0 A CNN reporter casually walked through the debris and found the Ambassador\u2019s personal diary.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t get any worse than that.<\/p>\n

This is far worse than Watergate.\u00a0 In Watergate the White House was covering up an idiotic attempt to spy on the DNC.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps the real question is why did anyone care?\u00a0 Is there anyone na\u00efve enough to think that both political parties aren\u2019t spying on each other?\u00a0 I mean Democrats got caught monitoring Newt Gingrich\u2019s cell phone and Clinton allegedly let the NSA eavesdrop on Strom Thurmond.\u00a0 But this isn\u2019t about politics, it is about national security.\u00a0 It is about an ongoing effort to stop al Qaeda.\u00a0 This effort may have been seriously compromised by the gross negligence of this administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is zero chance we will learn the full truth about this disaster before the election.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t learn the full truth about the Pueblo for 42 years.\u00a0 But one would hope that somehow enough of the story will reach sufficient people to eliminate the risk of re-electing Barack Obama.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n

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