“There is a wonderful book that you might read… And the title of it is from a quote from Winston Churchill: ‘In time of war, the truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’ ”
US Secretary of State George P. Shultz (03/10/1986)
Time — really — flies when you’re having fun! Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“There is some concern that ISIS could use Libya as a springboard to go into Europe.”
Michael Maloof — Former Pentagon Official
General Khalifa Haftar
More than five years ago, Libya’s ex-leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was killed by the rebels who pinpointed him in drainage pipes after a NATO air strike hit his convoy outside his hometown of Sirte. Since then, the country has been in chaos. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Traditionally, Senate concerns itself with the quality of legislation, compliance with the constitution and international agreements, and the question whether citizens’ rights are upheld. The dragnet surveillance bill fails on all counts.”
Bits of Freedom
AIVD Headquarters — Zoetermeer
On Wednesday (July 12 2017), the Dutch Senate passed the bill for the new Intelligence and Security Services Act. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Exactly the same forensic scientists who produced the wrongful conviction of Guiseppe Conlon, the Maguire family and of Danny McNamee, and had been stood down for the role they played. Yet here they were. Without them, there wouldn’t have been a prosecution, far less a conviction in Lockerbie.”
“What shocked me most was that I thought that all that had been gone through on Guildford and Birmingham, the one thing that had been achieved was that nobody would be convicted again on bad science. But yet in the Lockerbie case, it isn’t just the same bad science, it is the same bad scientists.”
Gareth Peirce — Solicitor for the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six
In the Name of the Father is a 1993 Irish-British-American biographical courtroom drama film co-written and directed by Jim Sheridan. It is based on the true life story of the Guildford Four, four people falsely convicted of the 1974 IRA’s Guildford pub bombings, which killed four off-duty British soldiers and a civilian. Gareth Peirce (Emma Thompson), a campaigning lawyer who has been investigating the case on behalf of Giuseppe, has a breakthrough when she tries to access Giuseppe’s file and is able to look instead at Gerry’s. She finds vital police documents in the file that are marked “Not to be shown to the Defence”. During the course of their appeal, the production of these documents leads to a triumphant scene in court when Peirce produces the evidence that the police have been lying throughout about the existence of a witness who had provided Conlon with an alibi during their initial investigation. This leads to the overturning of the verdict and immediate release of the Guildford Four.
A self-confessed IRA bomb maker who has said he was part of the group responsible for the Birmingham pub bombings has issued an apology. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The message that this scenario sends to civilian government employees serving this country on tours of duty abroad is a potentially demoralizing one.”
U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell
Former CIA Officer Sabrina de Sousa
Former CIA officer Sabrina de Sousa is back to Italy where she is expected to serve a three-year sentence. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The truth is cruel. Agents of the French secret service sank this boat. They were acting on orders.”
Prime Minister Laurent Fabius — September 22 1985
Fernando Pereira died aboard the Rainbow Warrior.
The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior — codenamed Opération Satanique — was a bombing operation by the “action” branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE), carried out on 10 July 1985. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“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
Mandela visiting Megrahi — aka the ‘Lockerbie bomber’ — in prison. Many thanks to my friend John Ashston who took the picture.
Ten years ago, a few brave men began to blog about one of the most disgraceful miscarriages of justice: The Lockerbie Case. Here are some of the quotes I have collected over the years. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“My first son was my 1993 World Trade Centre bombing baby. I call my second son my “Khobar Towers baby” (born shortly after the 1996 bombing of a military housing complex in Saudi Arabia); my third child, a daughter, is my “African embassy bombing baby” (she arrived a few weeks before the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania); and my fourth, another son, is my “9/11 baby”. My fifth child, a girl, was my “Fallujah baby”.”
Gina Bennett –Veteran CIA analyst
Jane Burrell was a CIA officer, and her death—only 110 days after CIA was officially established the previous September—makes her the first CIA officer to die while employed by the Agency.
Mother, Daughter, Sister, SPY panel is featuring women in the intelligence world: Jonna Mendez (CIA), Melissa Mahle (CIA), Sandy Grimes (CIA), Rollie Flynn (CIA), Alison Bouwmeester (CIA), Kristin Wood (CIA), Jill Singer, and Kathy Smith. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
” ‘The Contractor’ is not the story of one man called Raymond Davis who shot three Pakistanis in Lahore in 2011 and how he, literally, got away with murder. It is actually a story of love and hate between the US and Pakistan. It is the story of a forced marriage between the CIA and ISI, both intelligence agencies, which hasn’t ended in a divorce yet. Truth is, the two partners in the ongoing war against terror hate each other so much, but they can’t say goodbye for a variety of reasons.”
Hamid Mir — Pakistani Journalist
Former CIA operative Raymond Davies
Pakistan intelligence and security officials reacted angrily over the release of a memoir by former CIA contractor Raymond Davis. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“I think any normal, conscionable man would have to consider carefully doing something like this. I deliberated with great, soulful torment about this, and obviously I concluded that it could be done safely or I wouldn’t have done it.”
Dr John Bruce Jessen
Drs. Jessen and Mitchell
The two psychologists who proposed interrogation techniques — widely viewed as torture — are part of a lawsuit filed on behalf of former C.I.A. detainees. Deposition videos, obtained exclusively by The New York Times, reveal new insights into the enhanced interrogation program and the CIA officials behind it. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
