Russia and China aren’t making much of an attempt to cover up their desire to recruit disgruntled federal employees. Especially ones who worked in the intelligence agencies. Reports are surfacing that both of America’s enemies are cuddling up to “those who have been laid off due to significant job cuts.”
Recruit new spies
You really can’t blame America’s enemies for wanting to recruit new spies. We would be doing it to them if the shoe was on the other foot. Instead, it’s up to Uncle Sam to grow some eyes in the back of his head and set a few traps.
Conservatives are of the opinion that anyone chopped out of the diversity departments is mentally unstable. We know they all hate President Donald Trump and they’re seeking revenge for losing their easy and overpaid jobs.
“Anonymous sources familiar with recent U.S. intelligence data” leaked to the press that “foreign adversaries, including Russia and China, have recently instructed their intelligence services to intensify efforts to recruit U.S. federal employees working in national security.”
They think they might be able to get their hands on another Reality Winner.
“The primary focus is on those who have been dismissed or feel they may soon be fired.” They get a bonus if they can recruit someone with security clearance.
They’re also especially interested in disgruntled employees “who may have valuable information about U.S. critical infrastructure and vital government bureaucracy.” Vlad and the Pooh Bear aren’t even trying to hide their scheme.
Aggressive efforts
The insiders who went running to the press with the sensitive information claim that “at least two countries have already created job recruitment websites and have begun aggressively targeting federal employees on LinkedIn.”
Anyone China or Russia can recruit on a website should be easy to spot and catch. Especially with Elon Musk and his nerd herd running amok all through the federal bureaucracy.
One of the leakers stuffed a “partially redacted copy of a document” in their pants and handed it to reporters. It has a “U.S. Navy Criminal Investigative Service” logo on the letterhead and spells out that “the intelligence community” has assessed “with high confidence” that we’re being fished.
“Foreign adversaries,” the report notes, “have attempted to recruit federal employees and capitalize on Trump administration plans for mass layoffs.”
They’re dredging through profiles on LinkedIn, TikTok, RedNote, and Reddit. “It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see that these cast aside federal workers with a wealth of institutional knowledge represent staggeringly attractive targets to the intelligence services of our competitors and adversaries,” one of the leakers observed.
Musk and his DOGE team are giving our adversaries an Olympic sized swimming pool of unemployed bureaucrats to recruit from.
