CIA Director Mike Pompeo defends ‘State Secrets Privilege’ in high profile torture case

“Many details surrounding the program remain highly classified due to the damage to national security that reasonably could be expected to result from disclosure of that information. For this reason, the CIA has withheld or objected to the disclosure of certain information implicated in discovery in this case.”

CIA Director Mike Pompeo

Vice President Mike Pence swears in Mike Pompeo as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Vice President’s Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House, Jan. 23, 2017. Pompeo’s wife Susan holds the Bible for the swearing in. (White House Photo by Ben Applebaum)

Last week, the Central Intelligence Agency formally asserted the ‘State Secrets Privilege’ in order to prevent disclosure of seven categories of information concerning the ‘Enhanced Interrogation Techniques’ program, and to prevent the deposition of several CIA officers involved in the  post-9/11 controversial interrogation program. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading

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Is Belgian ISIS Jihadist Osama Atar the ‘Mastermind’ of the Paris and Brussels attacks?

“Abdelhamid Abaaoud [a Belgian-Moroccan killed by police five days after the November 13 atrocities] was only a go-between, not a senior figure. We know the mastermind [of the Paris Attacks] but I will remain discreet on this point.”

DGSE Director Bernard Bajolet

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Belgian ISIS Jihadist Osama Atar aka ‘Abu Ahmad’

A Belgian-Moroccan jihadist operating in Syria is believed to have organized the deadly attacks on Paris and Brussels. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: ‘Vault 7’ dump reignites debate about deadly car crash of Michael Hastings

“The CIA was also looking at infecting the vehicle control systems used by modern cars and trucks. The purpose of such control is not specified, but it would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations.”

WikiLeaks — Vault 7

Journalist Michael Hastings (January 28, 1980 – June 18, 2013)

WikiLeaks’ revelations that the CIA was attempting to remotely hack vehicles have reignited a conspiracy theory: Did the Agency assassinate journalist Michael Hastings? Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading

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UK Boris Johnson: ‘No Evidence Russia trying to disrupt UK democracy’

“We have no evidence that the Russians are actually involved in trying to undermine our democratic processes at the moment.”

Foreign Minister Boris Johnson

NCSC Head Ciaran Martin

Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) — part of the GCHQ spying agency —  has written a Cyber-Security report urging the leaders of political parties to protect themselves against potential cyber attacks. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading

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The NSA Four: “We Warned the American People about Naked Surveillance, but No One Listened”

“Today, we see unfolding before our very eyes a Constitutional crisis of monumental proportions, one that threatens the very foundations of our nation’s system of governance.”

Former NSA Kirk Wiebe

Former NSA Kirk Wiebe

What follows is an article written by former senior NSA official and whistleblower Kirk Wiebe. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading

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National Security Advisor McMaster: “More information does not equate to better understanding”

“Do You Really Need More Information? The US Intelligence Community invests heavily in improved intelligence collection systems while managers of analysis lament the comparatively small sums devoted to enhancing analytical resources, improving analytical methods, or gaining better understanding of the cognitive processes involved in making analytical judgments.”

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Richards J. Heuer

Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster

Lt. General H.R. McMaster — the newly designated National Security Advisor to President Trump — is known to be a brave soldier and a man who never hesitated to ‘speak truth to power’. General McMaster  is also a brilliant intellectual who knows a few things about ‘Intelligence’. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading

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CIA Statement on Claims by Wikileaks

“I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.”

President John F. Kennedy.

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

 

Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks began its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7” by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency. Here is the official CIA statement regarding the claims made by WikiLeaks. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading

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Italian Intel Agencies: ISIS Terrorism Risk “increasingly acute”

“Fundamentalist terrorism is spreading to a worrying degree in other areas, such as Southeast Asia, Afghanistan and Sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Balkans.”

DIS — Annual Report 2016

Italy’s Intelligence System for the Security of the Republic

The 2016 annual report by the Italian Department of Intelligence and Security (DIS) emphasized that the risk of fundamentalists who want to conduct the jihad directly on Italian territory is becoming “increasingly acute”. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading

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Sean Spicer just told a whopper about Foreign Agent Mike Flynn

“SERIOUS ISSUES — Flynn has potentially problematic connections to foreign governments. His consulting firm has financial ties to Turkey… which perhaps explains why he said that he would extradite Fethullah Gullen… It has become evident that he has some confirmation-type problems.”

Intel Today — November 17 2016

Michael Flynn, Trump’s National Security Advisor, and Jill Stein attending the Russian State owned TV Gala as Putin’s guests (December 2015)

Mar 9, 2017 — At the White House press briefing, Fox News’ John Roberts asked Sean Spicer if President Donald Trump was aware that Mike Flynn was working as a foreign agent when he appointed him NSA. The White House press secretary answered that he did not believe that this information was known. This is no true as it was actually well known — prior to his appointment as NSA — that Flynn’s consulting work benefited the government of Turkey. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading

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The Untold Story of the Four NSA Whistleblowers — Documentary

“Trailblazer was canceled in 2006 and remains one of the worst failures in US intelligence history. But the money spent on this privatization scheme, like so much at the NSA, remains a state secret to this day.”

Former NSA Thomas Drake, William Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe and Edward Loomis have endured years of legal harassment for exposing the waste and fraud behind a multibillion-dollar contract for a system called Trailblazer. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading

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