“I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more. Do not forget my example.”
Policarpa Salavarrieta — As she turned around to face the Spanish firing squad (November 14 1817)
“November 14 will be the Day of the Colombian Woman’ in honour of the anniversary of the death of Our heroine, Policarpa Salavarrieta.”
Colombia Law 44 — November 8, 1967
November 14 2018 — Policarpa Salavarrieta, also known as “La Pola,” was a spy for the Revolutionary Forces against Spain. She was captured by Spanish Royalists and executed for high treason on November 14 1817. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“Prison officials dropped the ball by transferring him to the notoriously violent Hazelton facility and mixing him with the general population. It’s like sending somebody to death row. (…)We all know that you can’t put somebody high-profile like Whitey Bulger there. It’s like throwing meat to a bunch of sharks.”
Joe Rojas — President of American Federation of Government Employees at the Fed Correctional Complex in Coleman, Florida
“[Special counsel Robert Mueller] is the guy who kept four innocent people in prison for many years in order to protect the cover of Whitey Bulger as an FBI informer.”
Alan Dershowitz — Harvard Law Professor emeritus
“Long before he became FBI Director, serious questions existed about Mueller’s role as Acting U.S. Attorney in Boston in effectively enabling decades of corruption and covering up of the FBI’s illicit deals with mobster Whitey Bulger and other top echelon informants who committed numerous murders and crimes.”
Coleen Rowley — Retired FBI special agent and Division legal counsel
“I have spoken to former IRA members who say it was common knowledge these paintings [Gardner Museum] were probably in hands of the organization.”
Arthur Brand — Dutch investigator and art adviser based in Amsterdam
“On the new morning of 18 March 1990, even the dogs in the streets of south Boston must have known that Whitey was involved in some way before, during, or after the robbery [of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum].”
Charles Hill — Former Scotland Yard detective turned private investigator
On November 14 2013, Whitey Bulger was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment, plus five years. Obviously, two lifetimes will go by quickly if a FBI informant is dropped in a prison filled with dangerous criminals working for the mafia. Whoever decided to transfer Bulger to the notoriously violent Hazelton facility knew that he would not survive very long. So, why was he sentenced to death? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
I also received information regarding an unauthenticated claim made by a Belgian pilot, “Beukels”, to Claude de Kemoularia in 1967 that Beukels shot down or otherwise forced SE-BDY to crash. In the course of my work, I was for the first time given access to the originals of De Kemoularia’s agendas, as well as many of his personal records, which appear to verify his meeting with “Beukels” and other mercenaries in 1967. I also reviewed De Kemoularia’s letters showing that he had gone to the French and Swedish authorities regarding Beukels’s claim much earlier than previously understood. However, without further information, I was not able to verify other aspects of the claim, including, most notably, the identity of “Beukels”.
Mohamed Chande Othman — UN Report A/71/1042
“It is unthinkable that there are no transcripts [of the intercepted messages] in the US archives and perhaps also in the UK archives. I suspect that there is so far undisclosed and highly pertinent information in the transcripts. When the US authorities replied to the Hammarskjöld Commission’s very precise request for transcripts, they said that they had ‘documents responsive to your request’ but claimed that they were secret. “The time is now long overdue – more than 50 years after this tragic event – for the US and the UK to conduct a complete review of records in their custody – including in particular still-classified records – and make them available to the United Nations.”
Lord Lea of Crondall — Chairman of the trustees who established the Hammarskjöld Commission
Letter to the UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, and the US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson
Dag Hammarskjold
November 14 2017 — Pressure is building on the British and American governments to respond to claims that they possess secret/classified information regarding the mysterious death of former UN secretary Dag Hammarskjold. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“Without PT/35(b), there would have been no indictment.”
Richard Marquise — FBI Agent who led the US side of the Lockerbie investigation
“The Lockerbie trial is the most disgraceful miscarriage of justice in Scotland for 100 years. Every lawyer who has read the judgment says ‘this is nonsense’. It is nonsense.”
Robert Black QC FRSE – Professor Emeritus of Scots Law in the University of Edinburgh and best known as the “Architect of the Lockerbie Trial”
“I regard the Lockerbie verdict against Megrahi as a ‘Grand Monument to Human Stupidity’. Indeed, the written opinion of the Lockerbie judges is a remarkable document that claims an ‘honoured place in the history of British miscarriages of justice.’ If the SCCRC Commission accepts the application for a full review, the infamous Zeist verdict doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of surviving.”
INTEL TODAY — July 5 2017
PT/35(b) is a small fragment of a timer circuit that was allegedly found among the debris of Pan Am 103 near the town of Lockerbie.
After many years of studies, I have come to the conclusion that PT/35(b) is a forgery that was planted among the debris to implicate Libya in the bombing of Pan Am 103 and to steer the investigation away from the original suspects.
Perhaps you are not familiar with the Lockerbie case or your memory may be a bit fuzzy about this extraordinary affair that began three decades ago. Therefore, before discussing the properties of PT/35(b) and what it implies for the case, I have written a summary of the Lockerbie investigation and trial which you might find useful.
To mark the 30th Anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy, INTEL TODAY will re-post one of our best Lockerbie stories every Wednesday until the end of the year. We would like to know what you think. Please, take this poll and encourage your friends to participate.
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On this day (November 14 1991), the Lord Advocate (Lord Fraser of Carmyllie) and the acting United States Attorney General (William P Barr) jointly announced that they had obtained warrants for the arrest of Abdelbasset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah. I believe that the indictment was broadcast live both in the US and the UK. If you have a video recording of this event, please contact me. I would like very much to have a copy of Robert Mueller’s presentation during the indictment. I want to hear what he said about PT/35(b). Thank you. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana — Philosopher, poet and novelist
“In 1945, most French people thought that the Soviet Union deserved the most credit for Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II — even though the Soviets didn’t play much of a role in France’s liberation, relative to the US and Britain. By 1995 and 2004, however, the French had changed their minds, and were crediting the US as the biggest contributor to victory in Europe.”
Vox — June 2014
April 20 2018 — On 13 Apr 2018, 2565 UK adults were asked that question: “Who do you think played the most important role in defeating the Nazis during World War 2?” Results were weighted to be representative of the GB population. These results are simply baffling. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_TodayContinue reading →
“CIA Director John Brennan seems to have concluded that with his patron/president gone, he (Brennan) will be “thrown under the bus,” as smart people say – and do – in Washington. If the Trump administration folks are as vindictive as Brennan fears (and he has given them lot to be vindictive about), there is much to blame Brennan for, including serious crimes.”
Ray McGovern — Former CIA Analyst (January 12 2017)
Former CIA Director John Brennan
November 13 2017 — Former CIA Director John Brennan says President Trump criticized him — as well as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former FBI Director James Comey — because the President was trying to delegitimize the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“The Paris attacks prompted intense scrutiny of ineffective and convoluted governance in Belgium, where a vast majority of the attackers had ties.”
New York Times — December 24 2016
“We must accept to live with the idea that other attacks are likely, that other attacks will happen. The potential actors are already here.”
Alain Winants — Former Head of the Belgian State Security Service
The November 2015 Paris attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that took place on Friday November 13 2015 in Paris, France and the city’s northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
Benedict Baron (Director General of MI5 / Michael Gambon ) — You’re going to read this and you’re going to think, “Hold on. The Americans are meant to be our allies.”
Johnny Worricker (MI5 analyst / Bill Nighy) — I’ve never suffered from that delusion.
Page Eight — British political thriller (2011)
The Special Relationship is an unofficial term often used to describe the political, diplomatic, cultural, economic, military, and historical relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. The term first came into popular usage after it was used in a 1946 speech by Winston Churchill. A comment from Churchill’s grandson caught my attention this weekend. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“Without Bill Binney, there would be no Ed Snowden.”
Edward Snowden
“You may wish to ask CIA Director Mike Pompeo what he knows about this. Our own lengthy intelligence community experience suggests that it is possible that neither former CIA Director John Brennan, nor the cyber-warriors who worked for him, have been completely candid with their new director regarding how this all went down.
Mr. President, we do not know if CIA’s Marble Framework, or tools like it, played some kind of role in the campaign to blame Russia for hacking the DNC. Nor do we know how candid the denizens of CIA’s Digital Innovation Directorate have been with you and with Director Pompeo. These are areas that might profit from early White House review.”
William Binney — Former NSA Technical Director for World Geopolitical & Military Analysis; Co-founder of NSA’s Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center
November 11 2017 — William Binney claims the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election is false, and that the DNC e-mails were leaked by an insider instead. On October 24 2017, Binney met with CIA Director Mike Pompeo for a one hour-long meeting. As the news of that meeting broke, the US media are calling Binney a conspiracy theorist. Make no mistakes. Binney is a great mind and a remarkable individual. Shame on the US media for attacking “A good American.” Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”
Voltaire — Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville (May 16, 1767)
“Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
Oscar Wilde — Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories
“It feels like it’s going to be more difficult to mock Trump’s administration. They’re already going out and doing the comedy. It’s not something you can make fun of. It’s tricky and it’s really tricky now as satire has become reality. We were really trying to make fun of what was going on last season but we couldn’t keep up. What was actually happening was way funnier than anything we could come up with. So we decided to just back off and let politicians do their comedy and we’ll do ours.”
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone
The South Lawn of the White House and the Atlas cedar tree covered with snow
People have argued that political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. [Tom Lehrer] Others believe that satire is not dead. It is alive and living in the White House. [Robin Williams] Here is a joke and two very real stories. I will let you decide… Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
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