“The guy is filming [the funeral] on a smartphone — that tells us he’s going to send that file to someone, right? We had the NSA hit that phone very hard.”
Anonymous Belgian counterterrorism officer
On Monday, BuzzFeed News reported that Belgium had called in the NSA in order to catch Europe’s Most Wanted Man: Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving accomplice of the Paris attacks. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“I’ve got fresh evidence 13 CIA senior officers helped in Turkey Failed Coup. I will divulge the names in the coming days.”
Donald Trump — 15 August 2016
A Turkish criminal court issued an arrest warrant for Muhammad Fethullah Gülen
In a message posted on August 15, Trump claimed that he had evidence that the CIA was involved in the July 15 2016 attempted coup. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“Just hours before he was due to receive a classified briefing from members of US intelligence agencies, Presidential candidate Donald Trump declared that he will not employ the ‘standard’ intelligence community figureheads because he does not trust them owing to previous ‘catastrophic’ failures.”
When asked by Fox News if he trusts intelligence, Trump responded : “Not so much from the people who have been doing it for our country.” Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Michael Morell is, in fact, a product of Washington groupthink and a major beneficiary of Establishment politics, the very tradition that Hillary Clinton represents. (…) The national security industry that Morell is part of runs on fear. His current lifestyle and substantial emoluments depend on people being afraid. And the Russians and Iranians are inevitably behind it all.”
Philip Giraldi — Former CIA Analyst
Philip Giraldi — Former CIA Analyst
Philip Giraldi believes that former CIA acting Director Michael Morell’s recent bluster on the ‘Charlie Rose show’ deserves a bit of a fact check. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Mr Anderson’s report demonstrates how the bulk powers contained in the Investigatory Powers Bill are of crucial importance to our security and intelligence agencies. These powers often provide the only means by which our agencies are able to protect the British public from the most serious threats that we face.”
Prime Minister Theresa May
David Anderson Q.C. — Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation–has just published the : “REPORT OF THE BULK POWERS REVIEW”. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“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
Richards J. Heuer
Accurate intelligence judgments do not solely rely on the abundance and accuracy of the information. Indeed it has long been known that rigorous analysis of the information is at least as important as the gathered material in order to reach accurate intelligence estimates. Follow us on Twitter:@INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“There have been only two kinds of CIA secret operations: the ones that are widely known to have failed—usually because of almost unbelievably crude errors—and the ones that are not yet widely known to have failed.”
Edward Luttwak
On July 19 1981 President Ronald Reagan met with French President Francois Mitterrand in Ottawa, Ontario at an economic summit. Mitterrand informed Reagan about the “Farewell Dossier”.
Not everyone will agree with Ed Luttwak’s analysis which is undoubtedly a tad unfair. Follow us on Twitter:@INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Then Baghdadi asked each commander to bring in some of his fighters. Abu al-Atheer, the MSM commander, invited Belgian, Dutch, and French fighters who were under his command to the occasion.”
Foreign Policy — August 16 2016
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Three Belgian citizens — all from the city of Vilvorde — attended the April 2013 meeting during which ISIS was created. According to Belgian Newspapers — quoting the mayor of Vilvorde — these individuals were known as radical elements since 2012. The mayor said that one is dead and a second is rumored to be dead. Follow us on Twitter:@INTEL_TODAY
“While the court must limit its analysis to the four corners of the complaint, the skeptical reader may wish to know that the public record supports many of the allegations [in the family’s suit], farfetched as they may sound.”
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg — Frank Olson Case
‘StrangerThings’
The Guardian just published the plot of season one of ‘Stranger Things’. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“BlueLine Grid is designed to help cops, firefighters, and EMTs work together.”
Jack Weiss — Company’s president and cofounder
In-Q-Tel was formed specifically to funnel technology from Silicon Valley to American intelligence agencies.The venture capital fund, which is public about its CIA ties, invests in companies that are able to create products specifically for the spy and government world. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
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