15 Tuesday Sep 2020
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In Venezuela…
VENEZUELA’S President says authorities caught a U.S. Marine-turned-CIA spy with ‘special weapons’ meant to target the nation’s oil refineries
President Nicolás Maduro said the U.S. spy was caught targeting a pair of refineries on the north Caribbean coast as the country is in the grips of a deep gasoline shortage.
Tom wouldn’t have gotten caught.
29 Saturday Aug 2020
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This DC suicide has weird written all over it.
Anthony Schinella, 52, the national intelligence officer for military issues, shot himself on June 14 in the front yard of his Arlington home. A Virginia medical examiner’s report lists Schinella’s cause of death as suicide from a gunshot wound to the head. His wife, who had just married him weeks earlier, told The Intercept that she was in her car in the driveway, trying to get away from Schinella when she witnessed his suicide. At the time of his suicide, Schinella was weeks away from retirement.
Soon after his death, an FBI liaison to the CIA entered Schinella’s house and removed his passports, his secure phone, and searched through his belongings, according to his wife, Sara Corcoran, a Washington journalist. A CIA spokesperson declined to comment for this story.
As NIO for military issues, Schinella was the highest-ranking military affairs analyst in the U.S. intelligence community, and was also a member of the powerful National Intelligence Council, which is responsible for producing the intelligence community’s most important analytical reports that go to the president and other top policymakers.
Up in the stuff. Newly married. About to retire. Plural passportS. Secret investigation. I’m sure there is absolutely nothing to see here.
26 Friday Jun 2020
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It’s back to Russia, Russia, Russia hype, and/or attempts to prolong the withdrawal from the empire’s longest war.
American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in Europe intended to destabilize the West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year.
Because that just makes perfect sense…
Spokespeople at the National Security Council, the Pentagon, the State Department and the C.I.A. declined to comment.
I imagine this whole idiotic story is nothing but their fictional comment. But hey, Boomer Cons love this kind of fantasy.
28 Friday Feb 2020
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CIA, conspiracy, DEA, murder
Given enough time, almost all conspiracy theories turn out to be fact. For years, some have suggested that the CIA is a major player both in organized crime and in the drug import business. A case from 1985 lends credence to the views.
Killed by a cartel. Betrayed by his own? US re-examines murder of federal agent featured in ‘Narcos’. Federal authorities assess new witness claims that a DEA official and CIA operative were tied to DEA agent Enrique Camarena’s 1985 murder in Mexico.
I’m sure there’s a lot of assessment going on, of the CYA variety. Why, again, do we have these alphabet agencies?
24 Monday Feb 2020
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I need not even consult Tom Ironsides on this one. More (and more and more) lies from DC.
Walder started at Langley in 2000, at the age of 21, eventually becoming an expert in al Qaeda and chemical weapons and interviewing captured terrorist associates in the Middle East. Although she didn’t exactly look the part of a Middle East scholar, Walder writes that she had been terrified of Osama bin Laden for years, having caught a harrowing television interview with him in 1997. Then the unthinkable happened: That very same man attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.
Bullshit.
Meanwhile, in the months after 9/11, Walder says, the White House was only interested in intelligence that linked al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein. The problem? There wasn’t any.
Then, “The Girl” left the CIA FBI. In the brief time that she was in the Bureau, she might have learned that OBL was never charged with anything related to 9/11 as, like Saddam, there was nothing to link him to it. BTW, the real masterminds are still out there.
12 Wednesday Feb 2020
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Big surprise there. The CIA owned the sole provider of encryption technology for decades. It’s called spying and they do it (did it) very well. Tom Ironsides mentioned something about this a few meetings ago.
Things are changing, with the Chinese poised to start doing the mass listening. That might be better for average Americans, as the Chinese, even with they hear your private conservations, etc., won’t be in much of a position to do anything about it other than target you with ads.
23 Thursday Jan 2020
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Leave it to the deep state to brag about useless torture.
Evidence garnered from the CIA’s interrogations already cannot be used in court; the defendants also want to exclude that from parallel FBI interrogations.
All the defendants are still in the preliminary phases of their trials, which have been stalled for years by complex rules, poor administration and legal maneuvers from both sides.
“Mitchell is a big part of the reason why the victims’ families still don’t have any justice,” said Amnesty International’s Julia Hall.
“Mitchell has said he is giving this testimony for the victims and families,” she said.
“However, it is in large measure because of the torture techniques that he himself created and used on the detainees that there has been delay after delay. Evidence extracted under torture can’t be used in these proceedings.”
Other than what has been deduced by outsiders, is there any evidence to support any part of the government’s 9/11 narrative and following wars? No.
21 Tuesday Jan 2020
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9/11, CIA, court, false flag
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — For the first time, the military commission that is preparing to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks, will focus almost exclusively on a subject that for years wasn’t allowed to be mentioned in the courtroom: torture.
On Tuesday, Mohammed is expected — also for the first time — to be in the same room with two CIA psychologists who, his lawyers say, tortured him. The encounter will occur at the start of the 40th series of pretrial hearings for Mohammed and four other defendants charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, in which hijacked jetliners were crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing 2,973 people and altering the course of history.
The five defendants were all captured in 2002 or 2003 and held in secret prisons overseas until they arrived at Guantánamo in late 2006. Mohammed, now 55, was captured in Pakistan and then taken to Afghanistan, Poland and Romania before being moved to Guantánamo. He was subjected to waterboarding and other brutal methods of interrogation that have now been the source of controversy across three presidencies.
2002 or 2003. That’s that speedy trial stuff right there! And, isn’t a little false flagging worth the torture? They had to alter the course of history after all.
03 Friday Jan 2020
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assassination, CIA, extra-legal, Iran, Iraq, lies, Trump, War
Didn’t even make it a full two days before the same shit started in earnest. Yay! A few things:
2020 So Far: There is an active deep state coup against Trump. Trump does nothing about it. Trump then uses the same arguments and equipment that he could easily use to put down the coup, to instead start WW3. Gonna cut this analysis short – I’ve done this hundreds of times before.
Y’all are going to lose a carrier.
UPDATE: Iran has already filled Gen. Soleimani’s position.
UPDATE: Lindsey Graham is a goddamned idiot:
OK, Done for now…
12 Thursday Dec 2019
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Not my words. Not Tom Ironsides’s. This, from a real CIA officer.
The essence of a coup, which some might refer to as covert action, is the hidden hand. One does not announce that a foreign power is overthrowing the government and installing a new government. One pulls strings as if from behind a curtain, making events that are all part of a carefully orchestrated plan appear disconnected, spontaneous and serendipitous.
As I read through the recently released IG report for the second time, as someone with a great deal of experience in military and intelligence matters, I see that hand everywhere.
Per the IG report, a single report is delivered to the FBI in the summer of 2016. It concerns a meeting between a cooperative contact of a foreign intelligence service and a junior level employee of the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos. The report relates what are frankly very amorphous comments by Papadopoulos concerning the Russian government and its alleged possession of information on Hillary Clinton.
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It’s like a combination of an evil version of Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand” and that wriggling spider hand from the Barrow-Downs. I imagine the fingers have initials like, I don’t know, “HRC” and “BHO.” Just guesses. Past time to designate the hand an enemy combatant and drone strike it.
