“Michael Morell is not a person to be taken seriously for, by trying to act tough, he is simply taking the same line as Hillary Clinton, while angling for a high position under her administration.”
Ray McGovern — Retired CIA analyst
Ray McGovern — Retired CIA analyst
Mike Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, discusses the need to put pressure on Syria and Russia. The full conversation aired on PBS on August 8th, 2016. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Absent a search warrant, the government may not turn a citizen’s cell phone into a tracking device.”
U.S. District Judge William Pauley
Last month, U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan ruled that the rights of a defendant had been violated when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration used such a device without a warrant to locate his apartment. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“If our presidents would have just gone to the beach and enjoyed the ocean and the sun, we would’ve been much better off in the Middle East, than all of this tremendous death, destruction, and you know, monetary loss.”
Presidential Candidate Donald Trump
Panelists Tamir Pardo, former Director of the Mossad, and Michael Morell, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, joined moderator Graham Allison, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs for a discussion on the global threat posed by Islamic extremist groups. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“This person had obtained top-secret information and established contacts with our number one sworn enemy, America, and passed on our country’s most crucial intelligence to the enemy.”
Tasnim News Agency
Nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri
Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri has been executed on Wednesday August 3 2016. He was buried in the western city of Kermanshah. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“My training as an intelligence officer taught me to call it as I see it. This is what I did for the C.I.A. This is what I am doing now. Our nation will be much safer with Hillary Clinton as president.”
Michael J. Morell
John Brennan
Besides John Brennan — the current CIA Director since March 2013 — two serious contenders have emerged for the top job at the Agency. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Rendition was totally counterproductive”
Former CIA Officer Sabrina de Sousa
Abu Omar
De Sousa is not alleged to have kidnapped Omar herself, but is said to have “helped make false documents to mislead investigators”. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“Secret intelligence gives the Government a vital edge in tackling some of the most difficult problems we face… intelligence forewarns us of threats to our national security; helps the Government promote international stability; provides support and protection to our forces; contributes to our economic health; and strengthens our efforts against terrorism and serious crime.”
Prime Minister Tony Blair
The UK intelligence machinery includes the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the Security Service (MI5: Military Intelligence, Section 5), the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), as well as the Defence Intelligence (DI). Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“I continue to have a strong feeling that Hammarskjold’s death was not an accident.”
Richard Goldstone — Former chief prosecutor for the U.N. war crimes tribunals in Rwanda and Yugoslavia
Former chief prosecutor for the U.N. war crimes tribunals in Rwanda and YugoslaviaFormer chief prosecutor for the U.N. war crimes tribunals in Rwanda and YugoslaviaU.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to propose reopening an inquiry into allegations that former U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld was assassinated by a South African paramilitary organization supported by the CIA and British intelligence and Belgian mercenaries. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“We were dragged along by a French enthusiasm to intervene, and the mission then moved from protecting people in Benghazi, who arguably were not at the kind of threat that was then being presented… Indeed, on the basis of the evidence we took, the threat to the people of Benghazi was grossly overstated.”
Crispin Blunt — chairman of the UK parliamentary committee
A further insight into French motivations was provided in freedom of information disclosure by the United States State Department in December 2015. Besides self-interests, Sarkozy’s plans were driven by a desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production, as well as the fear that Gaddafi would establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar, which was seen as a direct threat to France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“President Obama’s approach has bought Israeli more time than any military strike — on Iranian nuclear facilities — ever could.”
Meir Dagan — Former director of the Mossad
Meir Dagan — Former director of the Mossad
Meir Dagan initially served as a National Security Adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Dagan became Director-General of Mossad in August 2002. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
