One Year Ago — Former CIA Director Panetta : “Trump should apologize to Obama.”

Posted on March 20, 2018 by L

“It is really important that we investigate just exactly what they[‘The Russians’] did, whether there was any collusion involved.”

Former CIA Director Panetta — Interview at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington.

Leon Panetta

March 20 2017 — Former CIA director under the Obama administration Leon Panetta said on Monday (March 20 2017) that U.S. President Donald Trump should “apologize” to former President Barack Obama over Trump’s allegation that Obama “wiretapped” his election campaign. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Former CIA John Kiriakou: “She Tortured Just for the Sake of Torture”

Posted on March 19, 2018 by L

“We did call her Bloody Gina. Gina was always very quick and very willing to use force. (…) Was it moral, and was it ethical, and was it legal? I think the answers to those questions are very clearly no. But Gina and people like Gina did it, I think, because they enjoyed doing it. They tortured just for the sake of torture, not for the sake of gathering information.”

Former CIA John Kiriakou

“There is no question that during her career, Haspel participated in and helped develop the program that our own government has labeled torture. Though there have been the typical suggestions that she was ‘simply following orders,’ Glenn Carle, a former CIA interrogator, has described her as one of the architects, designers, implementers and one of the top two managers of the [Enhanced Interrogation Techniques program] and a true believer, by all accounts, in the Global War in Terror paradigm. This does not sound like someone who was simply ‘following orders.’ This sounds like someone who was giving them, which I would argue is far worse. (…) I simply do not believe she should hold the post to which she has been nominated.”

US Senator Rand Paul

Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou personally knew CIA director nominee Gina Haspel when he worked at the CIA. But their careers have taken very different paths over the past decade. Haspel, who was directly involved in torture at a secret CIA prison in Thailand, has been promoted to head the agency. Kiriakou, who blew the whistle on the torture program, ended up being jailed for 23 months. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Remembering Ronald Maddison (23 January 1933 – 6 May 1953) [Porton Down]

Posted on March 19, 2018 by L

“Nerve agents including Sarin and VX are manufactured by the British Government in Porton Down, just 8 miles from where Sergei Skripal was attacked. The official British government story is that these nerve agents are only manufactured to help develop effective medical countermeasures and to test systems.”

Former UK Ambassador Craig Murray

Leading Aircraftman Ronald Maddison

Ronald George Maddison was a twenty-year-old Royal Air Force engineer who died as the result of exposure to nerve agents while acting as a voluntary test subject at Porton Down, in Wiltshire, England. The British government finally consented to an inquest into his death, half a century after the event. In 2004 the inquest decided that he had been ‘unlawfully killed’ by his own government. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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On This Day — The Great Gardner Museum Heist (March 18 1990)

Posted on March 18, 2018 by L

“This [$10m] reward demonstrates the commitment of the museum and its board of trustees to the recovery of these important works. We are the only buyer for these works and they belong in their rightful home.”

Steve Kidder — President of the Gardner museum’s board (January 2018)

“I have spoken to former IRA members who say it was common knowledge these paintings were probably in hands of the organization.”

Arthur Brand — Dutch investigator and art adviser based in Amsterdam

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt (1633)

On 18 March 1990 two men posing as police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole 13 famous artworks by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Degas, walking away with art today valued at $500m. The case was never solved. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — UK : GCHQ denies wiretapping Donald Trump

Posted on March 17, 2018 by L

“Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct ‘wiretapping’ against the then president-elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”

GCHQ spokesman

GCHQ Headquarters: “The Doughnut”, in the suburbs of Cheltenham

March 17 2017 — GCHQ, Britain’s communications intelligence agency, has issued a statement denying it wiretapped Donald Trump in the weeks after he won the US election. Follow us on  Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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The Strange Case of the Russian Spy Poisoning [Sergei Skripal]

Posted on March 17, 2018 by L

“If the Russians had wanted to kill him, they had ample opportunity to do so during the years when he was imprisoned or the eight years he lived in retirement in Salisbury. If they did wish to kill him, it is not a very credible that they would do so very publicly and by a means that could not be bought off the shelf in the local pharmacy. The handling and the administering of these very dangerous substances require professional expertise. The obvious candidates for the attempted murder are therefore government agencies, but which government is the unanswered question.”

James O’Neill — Barrister at Law and geopolitical analyst

Applying the principle of cui bono – who benefits? – to the case of Sergei Skripal might lead investigators away from the Kremlin as the prime suspect and towards Western intelligence agencies, argues James O’Neill. Continue reading →

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Hanns-Joachim Gottlob Scharff — “Without Torture”

Posted on March 16, 2018 by L

“Everyone at the CIA in the post-Sept. 11 era was simply doing what they were asked to do in the aftermath of a crisis.”

General Michael Hayden — former NSA and CIA Director

“The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.”

The United Nations International Law Commission

Many believe that the Senate intelligence committee should not confirm Gina Haspel as the new CIA director considering that she oversaw the agency’s torture and rendition program, which arguably ranks among some of the bleakest chapters in American history. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden suggests that she was just following orders. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Salisbury attack — Joint statement from the leaders of France, Germany, US and the UK

Posted on March 15, 2018 by L

“I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gasses.”

Winston Churchill

Former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Viktorovich Skripal and his daughter Yulia

The leaders of France, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom have issued the following joint statement on the attack which took place in Salisbury, UK. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — UK: Prime Minister Theresa May appoints Sir Adrian Fulford as Investigatory Powers Commissioner

Posted on March 15, 2018 by L

“I’m pleased to announce the appointment of Lord Justice Fulford as the first Investigatory Powers Commissioner. He brings a wealth of experience in the judiciary and expertise in matters of law which will be crucial to his vital role scrutinising the use of investigatory powers, as part of a world-leading oversight regime.”

Prime Minister Theresa May

Sir Adrian Fulford — UK Investigatory Powers Commissioner

Sir Adrian Fulford will be responsible for overseeing how the UK intelligence agencies operate under the new Investigatory Powers Bill. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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CIA Director Mike Pompeo Top 10 Lies — #2 : “In its September 1974 issue, Counterspy publicly identified Richard Welch as the CIA Chief of Station in Athens.” [UPDATE]

Posted on March 15, 2018 by L

“Today, there are still plenty of Philip Agees in the world, and the harm they inflict on U.S. institutions and personnel is just as serious today as it was back then. They don’t all come from the Intelligence Community, share the same background, or use precisely the same tactics as Agee, but they are certainly his soulmates.”

CIA Director Mike Pompeo

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987 (Attributed)

In this semi-serious series running the gamut of dramatic emotions, we shall look into obviously incorrect statements made by the current Director of the CIA. Some of these stories will make you laugh, others will make you upset. We hope that all will make you think.

LIE #2 — On April 13 2017, CIA Director Mike Pompeo  delivered his first public speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

While mainstream media have mostly reported that Pompeo denounced WikiLeaks as a “hostile intelligence agency”, nobody has yet pointed out that Pompeo clearly distorted historical facts to suit his narrative.

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