John Kirk (J. Kirk) Wiebe is a former senior intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency[1][2] and whistleblower on the matter of NSA mass surveillance of Americans. Kirk managed data collection, processing and analysis programs and has criticized the NSA's mass surveillance policies that continue today. Wiebe also agreed with Bill Binney's technical assessment that it was not true that the Russians had hacked the DNC's webserver in 2016.[3]
Wiebe is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and has supported TruetheVote's claims of election fraud during the 2020 United States presidential election.
Biography
editBorn in Chicago, Illinois, Kirk grew up in northern Indiana, near Lake Michigan. After graduating high school Weibe enlisted in the United States Air Force and spending four years with the intelligence branch from 1963 – 1967. After the Air Force Kirk attended Indiana University, receiving a master's degree in the Russian language in 1974. Kirk then took a position in the National Security Agency (NSA), retiring in October 2001[4]
Whistle blowing
editIn September 2002, Wiebe, along with William Binney and Edward Loomis, filed a request for the U.S. Defense Department Inspector General (DoD IG) to investigate the NSA for allegedly wasting "millions and millions of dollars" on Trailblazer[5] Loomis and Binney developed a competing system, ThinThread, which was shelved when Trailblazer was chosen instead.[6] The Whistleblower's complaint noted Trailblazer's ineffectiveness and unjustified high cost compared to their alternative ThinThread.[7] According to Wiebe, Trailblazer was the greatest intelligence failure in NSA history due to the loss of intelligence during the years Trailblazer was being developed.
Conspiracy Theories
editRussian Election Interference
editAs a member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Wiebe agreed with colleague Binney's view that the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Russia hacked the DNC's webserver in the 2016 presidential election was wrong, and that the Democratic National Committee e-mails were downloaded locally and leaked by an insider instead.[8][9]
The VIPS colleagues argued that the metadata in files associated with the DNC hack were altered to add Russian fingerprints, and that file transfer rate proved they were transferred locally.[10]
The memorandum from the VIPS colleagues was promoted by Breitbart and Fox News. President Donald Trump would then request Mike Pompeo to meet with William Binney.[11]
2020 US Presidential Election Fraud
editJ. Kirk Wiebe was involved in supporting TrutheVote's assertions about election fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election, primarily focused on dirty voter rolls that contained people who were not eligible to vote.
Wiebe would also go on to explain why voting integrity activist and business man Mike Lindell did not have the data required to prove election fraud.[12]
References
edit- ^ Page, Peter Eisler and Susan. "3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2023-12-23.
- ^ "Kirk Wiebe, an Air Force veteran and former senior analyst for the NSA, speaks during the Qanon …". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2023-12-23.
- ^ https://theintercept.com/2017/11/07/dnc-hack-trump-cia-director-william-binney-nsa/
- ^ American Accounting Association (2020-07-29). "Kirk Wiebe, Retired NSA Senior Intelligence Analyst, NSA Whistleblower (Mass Surveillance of Americans)" (PDF).
- ^ Hettich, Paul (2011). "What Would You Say? What Would You Do?". Eye on Psi Chi Magazine. 15 (2): 10–11. doi:10.24839/1092-0803.eye15.2.10. ISSN 1092-0803.
- ^ Shorrock, Tim (April 15, 2013). "The Untold Story: Obama's Crackdown on Whistleblowers: The NSA Four reveal how a toxic mix of cronyism and fraud blinded the agency before 9/11". The Nation.
- ^ "NSA Whistleblowers William (Bill) Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe". Government Accountability Project. Archived from the original on December 12, 2013. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ^ Ryan, Danielle (2017-08-15). "What if the DNC Russian "hack" was really a leak after all? A new report raises questions media and Democrats would rather ignore". Salon. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ Tani, Maxwell. "Conservative media figures are embracing a wild WikiLeaks conspiracy theory that the CIA hacked the DNC, and then framed Russia". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ Responding to anonymous whistleblowers (Report). Committee on Publication Ethics. 2013-01-01. doi:10.24318/z9gtpzca.
- ^ Risen, Duncan Campbell, James (2017-11-07). "CIA Director Met Advocate of Disputed DNC Hack Theory — at Trump's Request". The Intercept. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Blake, Aaron (2021-08-12). "The spectacular implosion of Mike Lindell". Washington Post.