[rhegart]

According to the NYTimes they also killed over a 100 CIA assets in China. So we went in the dark for a while as the whole batch was compromised. We didn’t retaliate either. The Snowden thing wasn’t the cause of that but I bet the Snowden thing compromised other assets.

[wybiral]

It's interesting how much people still talk about metadata collection (protected behind the requirement of itemized FISA court approval) because "big mean US is evil" while ignoring events like this.

[vkou]

Events like what? That people committing capital crimes for money are being caught, and convicted of... Said capital crimes?

If you don't want to do the time, don't do the crime. You don't just stumble into being an informant for a foreign power.

[wybiral]

> Events like what?

Killing dozens of people in secret without a proper trial.

And the fact that it isn't an uncommon occurrence.

[clubm8]

>Killing dozens of people in secret without a proper trial.

To be fair, they also executed some of them in public ;)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...

>From the final weeks of 2010 through the end of 2012, according to former American officials, the Chinese killed at least a dozen of the C.I.A.’s sources. According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building — a message to others who might have been working for the C.I.A.

[boomboomsubban]

So like the disposition matrix? Except they aren't also killing thousands of innocents that just happen to be near the person being killed?