“When I briefed Tony Blair, it was quite clear that he felt this was a necessity, that there was a just cause, that we had to do something about this. How he portrayed that politically… I do not think he played it very well.”
Major General Tim Cross
Sir John Chilcot
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“What we do know is that government officials decided not to inform a lawfully constituted body, created by Congress and the president, to investigate one of the greatest tragedies to confront this country. We call that obstruction.”
Thomas H. Kean & Lee H. Hamilton — January 2, 2008, Chair & Vice-Chair of The 9-11 Commission
Moments after United Airlines Flight 175, with 56 passengers (including the 5 hijackers) and 9 crew members, struck the South Tower of the World Trade.
Why was the Central Intelligence Report, drafted by FBI Special Agent Douglas J. Miller, which contained information about the “Terror Summit” in Kuala Lumpur (January 2000) suppressed and not sent to the FBI? And why was Mark Rossini told to shut up about it?Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
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“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”
Mandela visiting Megrahi — aka the ‘Lockerbie bomber’ — in prison. Many thanks to my friend John Ashston who took the picture.
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission confirmed today (Tuesday July 4 2017) that it has received a new application to review the conviction in the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
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“While the challenges of modern day security are real, such proposals threaten the integrity and security of general purpose communications tools relied upon by international commerce, the free press, governments, human rights advocates, and individuals around the world.”
Human Rights Watch — June 30 2017
Last week, 83 civil society organizations and eminent individuals wrote a letter to the Ministers responsible for the Five Eyes Security Community to emphasize the importance of national policies that encourage and facilitate the development and use of strong encryption. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
German parliament report on NSA spying contains little consensus — Where is ‘Islamic State’ leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? — Memo in CIA’s Kissinger archive hints Jack Anderson was informing on Bob Woodward — Theresa May sitting on report on foreign funding of UK extremists
“I will never apologize for the United States — I don’t care what the facts are… I’m not an apologize-for-America kind of guy.”
George H. W. Bush — August 7 1988
On July 3 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by a missile cruiser fired from the USS Vincennes under the command of William C. Rogers III. “The shoot-down of Iran Air flight 655 was an accident, but that is not how it was seen in Tehran.” Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
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Tarik Chadlioui
