“Trump was trying to build his brand and Bayrock was trying to market it. It wasn’t clear who needed each other more. This was before the show, remember.”
Jody Kriss — Bayrock insider
A RICO lawsuit could open up yet another direction in which the Russia/Trump investigations may go. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
Psychologists Open a Window on Brutal C.I.A. Interrogations — Intel chiefs tell investigators Trump suggested they refute collusion with Russians — Russian Foreign Ministry Diplomat found dead in apartment — Trump: I did not record ex-FBI chief James Comey
Bruce Jessen and James E. Mitchell
“Either Director Pompeo had no idea what people in the C.I.A. reportedly knew about Michael Flynn, or he knew about the Justice Department’s concerns and continued to discuss America’s secrets with a man vulnerable to blackmail. I believe Director Pompeo owes the public an explanation.”
Senator Ron Wyden — Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Mike Pompeo being sworn in as director of the Central Intelligence Agency
By January 2017, Senior officials across the government became convinced that the incoming national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had become vulnerable to Russian blackmail. And yet, Flynn was allowed to listen to the President Daily Briefs (PDB) almost every day for the next three weeks. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The man was named by Belgian media as Oussama Zariouh and the mayor of Molenbeek said he was known for drugs offences but was not on any jihadist watch list. The prosecutor said there were indications that he had sympathies for so-called Islamic State.”
Oussama Zariouh
The man shot while trying to set off a bomb at Brussels Central Station on Tuesday night has been identified as a 36-year-old Moroccan. He was a resident of Molenbeek. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
Brussels bomb suspect was Moroccan and ‘known to police’ — Despite Concerns About Blackmail, Flynn Heard C.I.A. Secrets — Russian defence minister’s plane ‘buzzed’ by Nato jet — Trump, Russia and a Shadowy Business Partnership
Security is tight around Brussels Central Station
“Once NSO’s systems are sold, governments can essentially use them however they want. NSO can say they’re trying to make the world a safer place, but they are also making the world a more surveilled place.”
Bill Marczak — Senior fellow at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs
On Monday, Citizen Lab, along with a handful Mexican organizations, released a new report identifying 76 text messages designed to phish several targets and infect them with NSO’s sophisticated spyware known as Pegasus.
Several prominent journalists and activists in Mexico have filed a complaint accusing the government of spying on them by hacking their phones. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
Julian Assange cancels planned ‘special announcement’ — Otto Warmbier, US student sent home from N Korea, dies — Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets Mexican Journalists and Their Families — Former decorated Navy SEAL and CIA special agent is arrested for ‘being part of a DRUG RING smuggling marijuana from Colombia’
Julian Assange
“People who obstruct Justice are trying to hide something.”
Nick Akerman — Former Assistant Watergate Prosecutor
Former assistant special Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman says Trump obstructed justice. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
Finsbury Park attack: Theresa May condemns ‘sickening’ terror attack — Israel to sign intelligence-sharing pact with Europol agency — Azerbaijan: Spy Scandal Leaves Trail Of Dead Suspects — Former GCHQ Boss: We Can’t Stop Nation State Hacking And Espionage
‘The American section of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta has about 1,000 members—including 300 dames. They represent the vanguard of American Catholicism, the point at which the Vatican and the U.S. ruling elite intersect. The Knights of Malta comprise what is perhaps the most exclusive club on earth.”
Mother Jones 1983
William “Wild Bill” Donovan
This month, as the CIA celebrates OSS’s 75th anniversary, the Agency showcases some of the fine women and men who made up America’s first intelligence agency. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
