Summary

Russia and China are reportedly targeting recently fired or vulnerable U.S. federal employees for recruitment, CNN reports, citing intelligence sources.

They aim to exploit mass layoffs under Trump and DOGE, especially looking for individuals with knowledge of critical infrastructure.

Recruitment efforts include social media outreach on LinkedIn, TikTok, and Reddit.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard condemned the report, calling affected employees “disloyal.” A CNN source warned that ignoring the issue could have serious national security consequences.

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    16 hours ago

    so… Russia and China are looking at things like US infrastructure, Social Security and health care and are saying “we need to learn how they did this, at all costs”?

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    I’d like to see links, or at least screenshots, to these supposed outreaches, looong before we start accusing people who would apparently be warning us of such recruitment efforts as disloyal. Sounds like it’s just fElons trying to justify their past imbecilic actions by post dating the firings with “and they’re disloyal, too!”

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    Loyalty works both ways. Hopefully the fired workers put their country first, even if it abandoned them.

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    Thats actually pretty brilliant. Fire a bunch of important people/piss them off and take away their income then swoop in and offer these important and knowledgable people money for information and/or access. Who wouldn’t be disgruntled after all this BS?

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        There’s a movement here, started by the worst of the techbro ceos, (I won’t name it) who want to bring a doge style purge to Canada.

        If the conservatives win they will fire hundreds of thousands of fed employees. Canada, will also be lost.

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    Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard condemned the report, calling affected employees “disloyal.”

    “Beatings will continue until morale improves.”