CIA Rushing to Judgement. Again

Posted on April 11, 2018 by L

“We must not allow last year’s mistakes to cloud our judgment today.”

CIA Director Mike Pompeo

“It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.”

Jean de la Bruyère

“A people always ends by resembling its shadow. ” — Rudyard Kipling

Michael “Mike” Baker is a former covert operations officer with the CIA. His recent interviews on Fox News regarding the Muenster van attack and the alleged chemical attack in Syria demonstrate that some people never learn from their past mistakes. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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20 Years Ago — The Good Friday Agreement (April 10 1998)

Posted on April 10, 2018 by L

“Compromise is when people come together and say, ‘listen, this is the dilemma, this is the difficulty, this is what is unsaleable to my people’ and let us try and find a way out.”

Bertie Ahern

“The Good Friday Agreement is a work of genius that’s applicable if you care at all about preserving democracy.”

Bill Clinton

“In Northern Ireland, these were ordinary men and women but after 700 days of failure, they joined in one day of success and they changed the course of history.”

Former US Senator George Mitchell

Tony Blair, George Mitchell and Bertie Ahern

The anniversary conference is taking place at Queen’s University, Belfast. The panel discussion is chaired by former US Senator George Mitchell, who also chaired the 1998 talks. The Good Friday agreement committed the participants to “exclusively democratic and peaceful means of resolving differences on political issues”. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson : “The Syrian Chemical Attack Story Is A Hoax”

Posted on April 10, 2018 by L

“Assad’s military has gained a decisive advantage over the rebels and he had just scored a major diplomatic victory with the Trump administration’s announcement that the U.S. was no longer seeking ‘regime change’ in Syria. The savvy Assad would know that a chemical weapon attack now would likely result in U.S. retaliation and jeopardize the gains that his military has achieved with Russian and Iranian help. (…) But logic and respect for facts no longer prevail inside Official Washington, nor inside the mainstream U.S. news media.”

Robert Parry

April 10 2017 — Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson — Former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell — does not believe the official narrative of the ‘Syrian chemical attack’. Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi agrees and describes the story as nothing short of a “sham”.  Colonel Wilkerson believes that Trump attack on Syria was driven by domestic politics. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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CIA Director Nominee — Haspel’s Record Will Be Declassified… ‘As Much As Possible’

Posted on April 10, 2018 by L

“We want to declassify as much as possible without jeopardizing someone’s what we call sources and methods. Every effort will be made to explain fully what her role was.”

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats

“I resigned as Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo after I was directed to use evidence derived partly through Haspel’s torture program. Rather than being held accountable, those like Bybee, Bradbury & Haspel who OK’d torture moved up. Those who spoke out against torture did not.”

Colonel Morris Davis — Former Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor/Colonel (ret)

“Gina [Haspel] has her defenders. Some on the left. Some who are very reputable people. They depict her as being very competent, thorough, and professional. But no one ever accused the Nazis of being sloppy, inept, and amateurish. They were accused of war crimes.”

Larry Beinhart

Gina Cheri Haspel (born October 1 1956) is an American intelligence officer. She joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1985. In February 2017 she was appointed by President Donald Trump as Deputy Director of the CIA. Gina Haspel has been named by President Trump to be the next CIA director, replacing Mike Pompeo.

On Wednesday April 4 2018, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said  that he expects to “declassify as much as possible” from the background of CIA Director Nominee Gina Haspel.

Yesterday (Monday April 9 2018 ), more than 50 former senior U.S. government officials — including eight former CIA directors or acting directors, three former directors of national intelligence and two former secretaries of state — sent a letter to the Senate intelligence committee to support her nomination.

The letter does not address the questions regarding Haspel’s involvement in the CIA torture programme and the subsequent destruction of evidence (81 videotapes).

According to anonymous sources, the letter was drafted because these former US officials are concerned that media coverage focused on Haspel’s role in the ‘black sites’ detention program and the CIA “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” rather than on the full range of her career. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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One Year Ago — Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Debunks The Alleged Syria Chemical Attack

Posted on April 9, 2018 by L

“A source told me that Pompeo had personally briefed Trump on April 6 about the CIA’s belief that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was likely not responsible for the lethal poison-gas incident in northern Syria two days earlier — and thus Pompeo was excluded from the larger meeting as Trump reached a contrary decision.”

Robert Parry – Consortium News

Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern

April 9 2017 — Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern explains what he has learned from his sources about how the Syrian “chemical attack” actually went down. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Did a “Novichok” programme ever exist?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by L

“Sir, Further to your report (Poison Exposure Leaves Almost 40 Needing Treatment, Mar 14), may I clarify that no patients have experienced symptoms of nerve-agent poisoning in Salisbury and there have only ever been three patients with significant poisoning. Several people have attended the emergency department concerned that they may have been exposed. None had symptoms of poisoning and none has needed treatment. Any blood tests performed have shown no abnormality. No member of the public has been contaminated by the agent involved.”

Stephen Davies — Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (Letter to the Times)

“Never on the territory of the USSR in Soviet times or in the times of the Russian Federation on its territory have there been studies conducted under the code name Novichok. It was neither patented, nor used as a symbol or a code. Once more, as this is the key thing: the word Novichok has never been used in the USSR or in Russia as something related to chemical weapons research. This word was introduced and used for poisonous materials in the West.”

Maria Zakharova  — Russia Foreign Ministry spokeswoman

“In recent years, there has been much speculation that a fourth generation of nerve agents, ‘Novichoks’ (newcomer), was developed in Russia, beginning in the 1970s as part of the ‘Foliant’ programme, with the aim of finding agents that would compromise defensive countermeasures. Information on these compounds has been sparse in the public domain, mostly originating from a dissident Russian military chemist, Vil Mirzayanov. No independent confirmation of the structures or the properties of such compounds has been published.”

 Dr Robin Black — Former head of the detection laboratory at Porton Down

Russian chemist Vil Mirzayanov

The report by Paul McKeigue, Jake Mason and Piers Robinson on the novichok nerve agent was lauded by Dave Collum — Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cornell University — as the most definitive work so far. Their work was initially posted on Prof. Tim Hayward’s blog. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — PUTIN : “95% of the World’s Terrorist Attacks Are Orchestrated by the CIA.”

Posted on April 8, 2018 by L

“95% of the world’s terrorist attacks are orchestrated by the CIA. The St. Petersburg metro bombing must be investigated with this in mind. If the CIA have Russian blood on their hands, they will forever regret stirring the Russian bear from its peaceful slumber.”

Vladimir Putin — President of the Russian Federation

“Putin has become a symbol of national sovereignty in its battle with globalism. That turns out to be the big battle of our times. As our last election shows, that’s true even here.”

Christopher Caldwell — How to think about Putin

Vladimir Putin — President of the Russian Federation

April 8 2017 — Russia – St. Petersburg — During an extraordinary meeting, Vladimir Putin has accused “the US ‘Deep State’ and the radical Islamic groups they sponsor” to destabilize key regions in the world. Putin also suggested that the CIA could have played a hand in the bombing of the St. Petersburg Metro. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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The Skripal Case — Russian Spy’s Niece Denied Visa to Visit Her Relatives

Posted on April 8, 2018 by L

“We have refused a visitor visa application from Viktoria Skripal on the grounds that her application did not comply with the Immigration Rules.”

Home Office spokesman

Viktoria Skripal, the niece of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal poisoned in Salisbury, has been denied a visa to come to the UK. MI6 and the CIA have been discussing the possibility of providing the Sergei and Yulia Skripal with new identities and relocating them to the US. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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Inside the Intrigue of ‘Russia’s Cyberattacks’ [UPDATE April 2018]

Posted on April 8, 2018 by L

“Looks like Sergey [Mikhailov] and Ruslan [Ruslan Stoyanov] were looking for various “scapegoats” who were easy to track down and who had a lot of criminal evidence collected against them, and then reported them to iDefence through Kimberly [Zenz]. This was done so that iDefence could get some publicity for themselves by turning this into a global news story. Then the matter was reported by US intelligence to Russia, and then got on Sergey’s desk who made a big deal out of it and then solved the case brilliantly gaining favors with his bosses. iDefence at the same time was getting huge grants to fight russian cyberthreats.”

 Russian businessman Pavel Vrublevsky

shaltayboltay

On December 4 2016, the Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested Ruslan Stoyanov, the former head of Kaspersky Lab’s Computer Incident Investigation Department. On the same day, they also arrested  three FSB officers: Colonel Sergey Mikhailov, his colleague Major Dmitry Dokuchaev, both senior officers of the 2nd Operational Management of FSB Information Security Center, as well as Georgy Fomchenkov. The four men are detained on charges of high treason (Art. 275 of the Russian Criminal Code). Here is their story. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Robert Hannigan Steps Down As GCHQ Boss

Posted on April 7, 2018 by L

“Technology and the internet are overwhelmingly brilliant things for human progress. Unfortunately there will always be people who want to abuse the latest technology. And it’s our job to deal with that dark side.”

Robert Hannigan — Former GCHQ Director

An aerial image of the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Credit: BRITISH MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

April 7 2017 — Mr Robert Hannigan steps down as GCHQ boss. Jeremy Fleming, formerly Deputy Director of MI5, takes over. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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