...It does refer to several GÇ£less valuable assetsGÇ¥ that remain within the megacorps, Caldari Navy, and State Protectorate.

How dare the Federation use espionage to gather information on our enemies! It's not like the State once convinced a high ranking admiral to hand them all information on our defenses and nearly cost us our home system!

The Senate isn't claiming any sort of credit whatsoever, I don't know where people are deriving that from.

The released information claims several high-level megacorp executives had been compromised by intelligence operatives, contributing to the destabilization of the Heth regime prior to the attack on Caldari Prime.

That said, I very much doubt that the Federation Senate can rightfully lay claim to Heth's downfall.

I suppose now that the Senate is claiming responsibility for destabilizing and ousting Heth,

Fredfred, I don't think a single person in this discussion has so far reacted to the disclosure of Federation spying with anything but, "Well, obviously."

Still, the Senate surely overstates the Federation's role in matters.

Wonder how long before the Provists cry out that Heth's removal was a Federal conspiracy and demand his reinstation...

Please identify where the Federation Senate is stating anything at all.

Anyone who has aided the Federation or its agencies, from CEO to janitor, should be shot, their assets seized, and their family dismissed and barred from further employment in the State.

I'll say only this: I'm usually sympathetic to Caldari causes.

But your nation declared war on ours, invaded our space, not the other way around - and forget the justifications or the casus belli, that's the way it happened. If it somehow comes as some sort of shock to you that the nation with the largest foreign intelligence agency in the world put in a hell of a lot of work running interference against a country ruled by a tyrant with delusions of genocide who broke every treaty his country ever signed to fight a war against us - well, then I'd say you have very little understanding of the way the world works.

Believe what you want to believe, criticise what you want to criticise. The Federation's not just going to lie down for any two-bit MTAC operator who wants to murder our citizens.

Nope. It's a leaked report. There is no statement from the Senate on this matter.

Let me spell it out. It's a report to the Senate from the Federal Intelligence Office. The Senate does not control the FIO; that's the role of the executive. However, it does have oversight over Gallente intelligence assets, but it's common knowledge the FIO hides the vast majority of its activities from legislature purview. Operational security, and all that.

This is the FIO claiming a contribution to Heth's downfall, not the Senate.

I have said it before and I will say it again, as often as it needs to be repeated. ANY discussion of who was in the right and who was in the wrong regarding our return to Caldari Prime that does NOT start with your Federation's decision that it can abandon any of it's high and mighty founding principles whenever expedient, practice collective punishment, attempt genocide and then drive a planetary population into a reckless diaspora halfway across the Cluster is a nonsense. You do NOT get to say that our REASONS don't matter - they mattered very much to us and if our return should have taught you ANYTHING it is that what matters to one side can be made to matter to the other too.

The Federation public and sub-leaders found the actions atrocious and appalling, considering the bombardment a disproportionate response to Nouvelle Rouvenor...

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The Ultra-Nationalist regime started to get paranoid of conspirators against them. The population was getting restless over the continued martial law and suspension of the Federal Charter and Constitution. The Federation military was forced to withdraw from occupied worlds and redeploy to Caldari Prime, meaning that the authoritarian grip on those planets was loosened. Anti-war protests began to erupt in locales where the Federation had withdrawn, or places that it had little presence to begin with, such as Intaki. Instability was looking to return as quickly as its gunpoint opposite had been established....

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With the heavy weight of authoritarianism lifted, voices began to emerge that would have been labelled dissident or traitorous under the previous government. While they still saw the Caldari as selfish and prideful, they nonetheless saw the Ultra-Nationalists as far more criminal than the Caldari could ever be. They vehemently disagreed with the bombardment of Caldari Prime, even going as far as to call it an attempt at genocide, and saw Duvailer and his irk as tyrants that must be punished for their actions in ruling the Federation. President Yiona was in sympathy with these individuals. The Ultra-Nationalists were outlawed and, within the military establishment, senior officers who were associated with the party were stripped off their command. This was not enough to please the masses, however. Duvailer and all his associates, both military and civilian, were arrested, to be put on trial by a special tribunal.

The tribunal was to be held in the partially-reconstructed city of Tovil, mostly as a symbolic gesture. On the tribunalGÇÖs staff included the President herself and various other high-ranking Federal politicians. The Ultra-Nationalist leadership included Luc Duvailer, former members of his cabinet, advisors, and ex-officers from the Federation military command at the time. They were charged with gross incompetence, failures of leadership, corruption, violations of Federal Law, and crimes against humanity.

Though the fact that Heth is out of power yet we still remain at war suggests something is going on, between one or both of us.

So until the war is ended, we continue to make big Caldari ships into little Caldari ships(components).

What is news is that infiltration to higher levels of the State's management occurred. That represents a clear counterintelligence failure, which should result in investigation and an improvement of security procedures.