Former C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta: “President Must Build ‘Loyalty’ With Intel Community”

Posted on February 20, 2017 by L

“Obviously, it’s not a good situation. Because there is a lack of trust between the president and the intelligence community, and between the intelligence community and the president. And, you know, every time he demeans the intelligence community or accuses it of leaks or accuses it of doing things that it’s not doing, that obviously impacts on the morale of that institution.”

Former C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta

Leon Panetta

Former C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that intelligence officers were withholding sensitive information from the President out of concerns that it could be compromised.  Former C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta discusses the news and the ‘leaks’. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Former Mossad chief: “Mike Flynn was very experienced. Maybe, he has been thrown under the bus.”

Posted on February 19, 2017 by L

“Maybe Flynn made a mistake even with no intention, but that can happen to anyone. I don’t think we need to worry that our intelligence will go to Russia.”

Former MOSSAD Boss Danny Yatom

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Former MOSSAD Boss Danny Yatom

 

Since the election of Mr Trump, various media have reported ‘rumors’ that Israel, the UK, Australia and some European countries might be reconsidering whether they could openly share intelligence with the Trump administration due to the President’s alleged close ties to Putin. So far, these rumors were swiftly dismissed by the experts. But the latest series of news raises to a higher level the issue of whether intelligence shared with the US IC could be leaked to Russia by some members of Trump’s cabinet. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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WHITE HOUSE: “The president did not yell at the CIA Director.”

Posted on February 19, 2017 by L

“The president did not yell at the CIA director.”

White House Spokesperson — Saturday 18 2017

Mike Pompeo waits to be sworn in as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 23, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Mike Pompeo waits to be sworn in as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 23, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal had reported that U.S. intelligence officials have kept information from Mr. Trump because they feared it could be leaked or compromised.  Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Who Tortured Giulio Regeni to Death? And Why?

Posted on February 18, 2017 by L

“On 7 January 2016, just a month after the union meeting, Mohamed Abdallah denounced Regeni to the authorities (…) because his questions were not about street vendors … and had other intentions. The Egyptian government placed Regeni under investigation, but decided after a few days that his research was of no interest to National Security”.

The Guardian

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Giulio Regeni

The death of this young man shocked and outraged Italians. Giulio Regeni was an Italian student who went missing in Cairo after speaking to trade union and opposition activists. His mutilated body was later found on the side of the road. He appeared to have been horribly tortured. Why was he murdered? Why a botched investigation? Was he a spy? For whom? Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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New Documents: Benghazi Had Nothing to Do With Protests

Posted on February 18, 2017 by L

“This document removes any further doubt that the State Department and the Obama administration knew immediately after the assault on Benghazi that it was a well-orchestrated terrorist attack and not a ‘spontaneous demonstration’ over a ‘hateful video,’ as the Obama administration repeatedly claimed. These documents show that the Benghazi scandal is not over … not by a long shot.”

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton

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Senator Rand Paul has always claimed that Hillary Clinton lied to Congress about the true nature of the CIA operation in Benghazi that was attacked by terrorists in 2012. Will we ever know the truth? Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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French Intel Agencies Need Four New Heads

Posted on February 17, 2017 by L

“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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Four French Intel Agency Directors are about to retire just when the country is preparing to elect a new President amid a series of serious political scandals. That is a lot of uncertainty on the horizon… Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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European States concerned about the Kremlin’s “information war”.

Posted on February 17, 2017 by L

“I would like to ask the head of MI5 if he also sees the hand of the Kremlin in the appointment of Boris Johnson as head of the Foreign Office.”

Maria Zakharova — spokeswoman for Russia’s foreign ministry.

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Maria Zakharova — spokeswoman for Russia’s foreign ministry.

According to European News media, Russia has launched a cyber-invasion of the old continent. “The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!” Follow us in Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz Just Confirmed ‘October Surprise Conspiracy Theory’

Posted on February 16, 2017 by L

“Mr Karrubi agreed in the second Madrid meeting to cooperate with the Reagan campaign about the timing of any hostage release. In return, he was promised that the Reagan Administration, once in office, would return Iran’s frozen assets and help them acquire badly needed military equipment…”

“During my research, I spoke to several of the former hostages. I was deeply moved by the response of one in particular. After listening to the evidence, he said simply: ‘I don’t want to believe it. It’s too painful to think about it.’ Painful it is. But the rest of us are obliged to think about it. Hard.”

Gary Sick — Retired Naval Captain who served on Ford’s, Carter’s, and Reagan’s National Security Council

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Vice President George H. W. Bush and other VIPs wait to welcome the hostages home

Harvard’s Law Professor Alan Dershowitz was explaining the ‘Logan Act’ and how it may apply to Michael Flynn’s discussion of sanctions with a Russian ambassador before taking office. Out of the blue, Professor Alan Dershowitz made an astonishing statement regarding the 1980 US Presidential campaign. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Pulitzer-prize winner Tim Weiner: “US Intel Agencies are targeting the top of this government.”

Posted on February 16, 2017 by L

“Mike Flynn has fallen farther faster than any powerful official in any government in the 20th Century, in America.”

Pulitzer-prize winner Tim Weiner

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

Journalist Tim Weiner, who won a Pulitzer Prize for investigating the CIA’s “black budget,” said the country is witnessing in real-time “a powerful counterintelligence investigation run by the FBI with the assistance of the CIA and the NSA that is targeting the top of this government.” Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today
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The search for the “Fifth Man” — Spooks and Chess Players

Posted on February 15, 2017 by L

“They began a mad search for enemies inside the organisation itself – seeking to find more hidden traitors who could be used to explain why MI5 kept failing to do its job properly.

It was the search for the “Fifth Man” – to go with the other four already exposed, Burgess, McLean, Philby and Blunt.”

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A story about the legendary — and sometime hilarious — incompetence of MI5 caught my attention. The whole piece is worth reading, but I will just focus on the following allegation: “The assistant of a MI5 Director was communicating with the Russians through his Correspondence Chess Games”.  Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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