CIA & Torture — Gina Haspel Thailand Cables Declassified

Posted on August 11, 2018 by L

“These cables confirm the findings of the Senate Intel report, and show why the release of a nominee’s FULL record before confirmation is absolutely necessary. We shouldn’t rely on restricted & incomplete records to evaluate nominees – whether to the Cabinet or the Supreme Court.”

Senator Dianne Feinstein — Twitter (August 10 2018)

“11 cables withheld during Haspel’s confirmation to be CIA Director reveal the brutal and ineffective torture she oversaw.”

 Marcy Wheeler  (emptywheel) — Twitter (August 10 2018)

“Torture remains an unconscionable act ordered by immoral cowards and carried out by the timid whose wicked souls seek the thrill of power wielded over the defenseless. Torture drains the honor of a nation. Torturers stain the soul of a nation.”

Steven Kleinman — Former Intelligence Officer

Gina Haspel sworn in as Director of the CIA

Newly released cables obtained by the National Security Archive detail torture techniques the CIA used to interrogate Qaeda captives at a secret prison in Thailand. These cables were written by the current CIA Director Gina Haspel who oversaw these interrogations while she was the chief of Station in Thailand. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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CIA Directors [DCI and D/CIA] — Test your “Spy Knowledge” with our Quiz! [2018]

Posted on August 10, 2018 by L

“With the benefit of hindsight and my experience as a senior Agency leader, the enhanced interrogation program is not one the CIA should have undertaken. The United States must be an example to the rest of the world, and I support that.”

Gina Haspel — CIA Director

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How much do you know about spy agencies? Take this quiz to find out your knowledge of the CIA Directors. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Remembering Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 [USTICA – June 27 1980]

Posted on August 9, 2018 by L

“We still hope the truth will come out. We know that very probably the plane was struck down by a missile. Too many people have been keeping this secret for too long but we will not give up until we know everything that happened.”

Daria Bonfietti

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The remains of Itavia Airlines flight 870

When the passenger jet crashed, the immediate theory was that it was a tragic accident caused by some kind of mechanical or structural failure. Then, there was the suggestion that terrorists could have planted a bomb, but that theory was also rejected. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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The Dark Past of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller — The Bulger Gang, Lockerbie, Anthrax… An Exceptional Failure All Round.

Posted on August 8, 2018 by L

“Robert Mueller was chosen as Special Counsel not because he has integrity but because he will do what the powerful want him to do. Mueller didn’t speak the truth about a war he knew to be unjustified. He didn’t speak out against torture. He didn’t speak out against unconstitutional surveillance. And he didn’t tell the truth about 9/11. He is just ‘their man.'”

Coleen Rowley — Retired FBI special agent and division legal counsel

“The wrong guy was the only guy. Worse, all those who failed to name the actual culprits, thanks to incompetence or intent, face no interrogation. Increasingly, Lockerbie resembles a political-management precursor to our manipulated post-11 September, 2001 world: pick your villain, pick your story, then bend your laws, your politics, and your media to fit Democracy.”

Ian Bell — Trust no-one, believe nothing (August 4 2007)

“In respect of the Lockerbie case, a country, a whole people, a justice system, and the truth were sacrificed in order that the status quo between Edinburgh and London (indeed Washington) was preserved and maintained. Not the status quo around the symbolic political union between the two nations, but the status quo inherent at a far deeper level than the superficial, as I say symbolic, distinctions made in public. The UK and the West’s foreign policy, and the historical perceptions created whether with regards to Libya, Iraq or Iran, are as strategic in their political motivations as they are the very essence of our notions of the noble empire and its ‘democracy’.”

‘Eddie’ (McKechnie) —  (August 5 2015)

Robert Mueller was assistant attorney general in the United States in 1991 when indictments were issued for the two Libyan suspects, Megrahi and Al-amin Khalifa Fimah. A young Mueller is explaining the importance of PT/35(b), a small fragment of a circuit timer that was allegedly found among the debris of Pan Am 103 near the town of Lockerbie. Today, we know that PT/35(b) is a forgery that was planted to blame Libya for the tragedy.

MSM commentators systematically describe Robert Mueller as a stellar and credible law enforcement figure. I find it hard to understand how a man who bungled major investigations — from Lockerbie to the 2001 Anthrax Attacks — is hailed for his impeccable character by much of Official Washington, Democrats and Republicans alike. All this mythological nonsense could hardly be further from the Truth. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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US Political Analyst : Pompeo Represents US Deep State; Seeks to Undermine Trump

Posted on August 7, 2018 by L

“You know this term ‘deep state’ has been thrown around. I’ll say this. The employees who worked with me at the CIA nearly uniformly were aimed at achieving the president’s objectives and America’s objectives.”

Mike Pompeo — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a representative of the so-called “deep state,” seeking to undermine President Donald Trump’s initiatives and obstruct his policies, according to E. Michael Jones, an American political analyst and former professor in Indiana. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Remembering Hiroshima (August 6 1945)

Posted on August 6, 2018 by L

“I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. (…) I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth. (…) I would see people building a bridge, or they’d be making a new road, and I thought, they’re crazy, they just don’t understand, they don’t understand. Why are they making new things? It’s so useless.”

Richard Feynman — Nobel Prize in Physics (1965)

Seven  decades after the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the real reasons behind the decision still divide historians. Recently declassified documents from the time suggest the nuclear strikes may have been performed not out of military necessity but to intimidate the USSR Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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MEDINT — US Psychiatrist : “Trump Mental Health Urgently Deteriorating”

Posted on August 6, 2018 by L

“As an intelligence officer working with a team of physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists, you will assess the physical health of foreign leaders and terrorists.”

CIA advertisement –- Published in ‘Journal of the American Medical Association’

“NSA’s MEDINT operations extracting pattern of life (PoL) from MEDINT; identification of all recurring, and therefore predictable, patterns of behavior that constitute the specific treatment regimen for a target’s medical illness; medications, medical tests, medical surgical treatments, hospital, and doctor visits.”

NSA slide revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden

“For example, if they detected high levels of amino acid Tryptophan ( in faeces), they concluded that person was calm and approachable. But a lack of potassium in poo was seen as a sign of a nervous disposition and someone with insomnia.”

Former Soviet agent Igor Atamanenko

Dr. John Gartner, Founder of Duty To Warn and co-editor of “Rocket Man: Nuclear Madness and the Mind of Donald Trump,” speaks about the mental health conditions he believes Donald Trump has, which would justify his removal from the Presidency under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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US National Whistleblower Day — The Psychology of Whistleblowers : How The Accused And Their Accusers Face Off

Posted on August 5, 2018 by L

“Whistleblowers are unlikely to look to others or to aspects of the situation for cues to appropriate behavior. Instead, their behavior is consistent across situations because they rely on their own attitudes and beliefs, which include a strong endorsement of universal moral standards as a guide.”

In Praise Of Difficult People: A Portrait Of The Committed Whistleblower

“When the other side is powerful, the whistleblower hardly stands a chance of surviving the conflict unscathed (…)  Unfortunately, most whistleblowers are naive about the precautions they should take, the amount of evidence they must bring forth, and the fact that virtually no one will be on their side when the case gets underway.”

 Joan E. Sieber  — The Psychology of Whistleblowing

“All too frequently the government claims that publication of certain information will harm national security, when in reality, the government’s real concern is about covering up its own wrongdoing or avoiding embarrassment.”

New York Times reporter James Risen

July 30 is US National Whistleblower Day. In her paper, published in Science and Engineering Ethics in 1998, Joan Sieber — Professor Emerita of Psychology at California State University, Hayward — contends that there are seven “psychological processes involved” in whistleblowing: fundamental attribution error, false consensus, self-serving bias, self-presentational concerns, motivational concerns, need for a sense of control, and the “irrational” belief in a just world. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Robert A. Levinson — FBI Statement on Anniversary of His Disappearance [UPDATE]

Posted on August 4, 2018 by L

“We share our deepest sympathy with his family which has suffered from his absence for over a decade. We will not rest until the Levinson family is whole again. Iran committed to cooperating with the United States to assist us in bringing Robert Levinson home and we call on Iran to fulfill this commitment.”

Heather Nauert  — State Department Press Secretary (March 9 2018)

Robert Levinson is pictured with his daughters in 2006, about seven months before his kidnapping

March 9 2018 marks the eleven-year anniversary of Robert Levinson’s disappearance from Kish Island, Iran. The FBI has offered a $5 million reward for any information that could lead to his safe return. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Two Years Ago — Hillary’s Email Reveals Truth about Libya Bombing : Oil and Golden Dinar

Posted on August 3, 2018 by L

“We were dragged along by a French enthusiasm to intervene, and the mission then moved from protecting people in Benghazi, who arguably were not at the kind of threat that was then being presented… Indeed, on the basis of the evidence we took, the threat to the people of Benghazi was grossly overstated.”

Crispin Blunt — chairman of the UK parliamentary committee

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August 3 2016 — A further insight into French motivations was provided in freedom of information disclosure by the United States State Department in December 2015.  Besides self-interests, Sarkozy’s plans were driven by a desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production, as well as the fear that Gaddafi would establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar, which was seen as a direct threat to France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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