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DNI Grenell: List of Obama officials involved in Flynn 'unmasking' now declassified

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© White House Photo/Pete SouzaSamantha Power • Susan Rice • Barack Obama
Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has declassified a list of former Obama administration officials allegedly involved in the "unmasking" of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's communications with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak during President Donald Trump's transition period, according to ABC News.

Grenell brought the list of officials to the Department of Justice last week, an unnamed official told the news outlet. No further details of the intelligence official's visit to the Justice Department are known.

In 2017, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice reportedly told the House Intelligence Committee she "unmasked" several Trump associates to find out why United Arab Emirates' crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, visited New York without notifying the Obama administration.

Samantha Power, Obama-era U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), is also believed to have made up to 260 requests to "unmask" U.S. citizens tied into surveillance of non-U.S. citizens, according to Fox News. She reportedly requested information seen in the days leading up to Trump's inauguration. Then-Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) later revealed Power testified that a portion of the "unmasking" requests made in her name were made by others.

Comment: Here is the ABC News video of Justice Department dropping Flynn case:

Meanwhile, the Justice Department does not intend to release the list of officials who requested unmaskings of the Trump campaign and administration officials and deferred to the ODNI for any further comment.

In addition, the department has been reviewing unmasking as part of U.S. attorney John Durham's broader review of the activities of investigators in 2016 and 2017 during the Russia probe.

Critics, including nearly 2,000 former DOJ officials, have argued the move was part of a pattern of Barr looking to undermine an investigation that was politically damaging for President Donald Trump. They want Barr to resign over his intervention in the case.

Susan Rice has admitted to "unmasking" names within intelligence reports to give her context for how they pertain to the overall briefing material in the President's Daily Briefing. With dozens of people with access to President Obama's PDB, Rice's unmasking of the intelligence report names gave dozens of people direct access to unmasked intelligence - including Obama officials who could, perhaps did, use the PDB for specific and intentional political purposes.



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Merkel: Claims hard evidence proves she was a Russian hacker victim, tries to mend ties with Russia

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© Reuters/Hannibal HanschkeGerman Chancelor Angela Merkel
Germany's chancellor has lamented what she claimed was irrefutable proof of a Russian "hacking attack" on her Bundestag office but said she is working day and night to fix relations with Moscow despite the "painful" incident.

Chancellor Angela Merkel accused Russia of carrying out an online intrusion into her Bundestag constituency office back in 2015, as she spoke to MPs on Wednesday.

"I can honestly say that it hurts me," she said of the alleged hack attack, claiming there is "hard evidence" that some unspecified "Russian forces" were behind the theft of data, based upon the results of a "properly done" investigation.

Still, Merkel said she is working hard to foster diplomatic ties between Moscow and Berlin "every day," even if the hacking activity doesn't make it any easier.

Russia denied the allegations when they first emerged back in 2015, and has continued to do so in the years since. However, Moscow is yet to comment on Merkel's fresh remarks.

Comment: Merkel paints herself as a passive victim of outrageous fortune against a backdrop where everyone is spied upon, including heads of state. And, she took the easy way out...blaming Russia.


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FBI 'accidentally' reveals name of Saudi official suspected of directing support for 9/11 hijackers in court filing

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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington.
The FBI inadvertently revealed one of the U.S. government's most sensitive secrets about the Sept. 11 terror attacks: the identity of a mysterious Saudi Embassy official in Washington who agents suspected had directed crucial support to two of the al-Qaida hijackers.

The disclosure came in a new declaration filed in federal court by a senior FBI official in response to a lawsuit brought by families of 9/11 victims that accuses the Saudi government of complicity in the terrorist attacks.

The declaration was filed last month but unsealed late last week. According to a spokesman for the 9/11 victims' families, it represents a major breakthrough in the long-running case, providing for the first time an apparent confirmation that FBI agents investigating the attacks believed they had uncovered a link between the hijackers and the Saudi Embassy in Washington.

It's unclear just how strong the evidence is against the former Saudi Embassy official — it's been a subject of sharp dispute within the FBI for years. But the disclosure, which a senior U.S. government official confirmed was made in error, seems likely to revive questions about potential Saudi links to the 9/11 plot.

It also shines a light on the extraordinary efforts by top Trump administration officials in recent months to prevent internal documents about the issue from ever becoming public.

Comment: The true perpetrators of 9/11 were not the 19 lowlife faces we know so well: they were a collection of high-ranking Israeli, Saudi and American nutjobs creating a "new Pearl Harbor" to catalyze their vision for a NeoCon century. That's the real reason the truth will never be allowed to come out, and why this investigation of the Saudi angle will go nowhere, despite Trump's initial promises to the 9/11 victims' family members. It goes too high up.


Sherlock

Durham moving 'full-throttle' on Russia probe review, top federal prosecutors involved: sources

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U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham is going "full throttle" with his review into the origins of the investigation into suspected Russia-Trump coordination in the 2016 election, with additional top prosecutors involved in looking at different components of the original probe, sources told Fox News.

Two sources told Fox News that Jeff Jensen, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri who was tapped by the Justice Department in February to review the case of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, is continuing to help with Durham's investigation even after the DOJ's move last week to drop the case against Flynn.

The sources told Fox News that interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy Shea is also assisting with components of the investigation.

"They farmed the investigation out because it is too much for Durham and he didn't want to be distracted," one of the sources told Fox News.

"He's going full throttle, and they're looking at everything," the source told Fox News.

The Justice Department declined to comment on Jensen and Shea's involvement.

Comment: Sit back and enjoy the show!


Syringe

US DOD awards $138 million towards production of 500 million pre-filled COVID-19 vaccine 'injection devices'

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Just when you thought that things couldn't get any stranger, two U.S. government agencies have taken things to an entirely new level. The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have just put out a press release that is absolutely jaw dropping, but so far hardly anyone is talking about it.

According to the press release, a 138 million dollar contract has been awarded to ApiJect Systems America for two projects known as "Project Jumpstart" and "RAPID USA". Apparently the goal of these projects is to have vast numbers of "injection devices" ready to go once a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available.

The following comes directly from the official website of the Department of Defense:
Today the Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announce a $138 million contract with ApiJect Systems America for "Project Jumpstart" and "RAPID USA," which together will dramatically expand U.S. production capability for domestically manufactured, medical-grade injection devices starting by October 2020.

Spearheaded by the DOD's Joint Acquisition Task Force (JATF), in coordination with the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the contract will support "Jumpstart" to create a U.S.-based, high-speed supply chain for prefilled syringes beginning later this year by using well-established Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) aseptic plastics manufacturing technology, suitable for combatting COVID-19 when a safe and proven vaccine becomes available.
Today, there are about 328 million people living in the United States. But the press release states that the plan is to produce "over 500 million prefilled syringes" in 2021:
The contract also enables ApiJect Systems America to accelerate the launch of RAPID USA manufactured in new and permanent U.S.-based BFS facilities with the ultimate production goal of over 500 million prefilled syringes (doses) in 2021. This effort will be executed initially in Connecticut, South Carolina and Illinois, with potential expansion to other U.S.-based locations. RAPID will provide increased lifesaving capability against future national health emergencies that require population-scale vaccine administration on an urgent basis.

Attention

DOJ's Flynn filings renew focus on 'unusual' Susan Rice email during transition

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Susan Rice
Russia probe files released as part of the Justice Department's move to drop its case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn are raising new questions about a mysterious Inauguration Day email sent by Flynn's predecessor in the Obama administration, Susan Rice.

An exhibit in the DOJ's motion to dismiss the Flynn case last week detailed a special counsel interview of former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. The interview indicated outgoing President Barack Obama was aware of Flynn's intercepted December 2016 phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition period.

The document noted Yates learned about the calls during a Jan 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting with Obama, Rice, then-FBI Director James Comey, then-CIA Director John Brennan, and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Comment: The Gateway Pundit had more to say about Sally Yates:
The Deep State was listening in on all of General Flynn's conversations with foreign leaders which was his job. They knew Russia had nothing on him. They knew this was a lie.

Crooked Sally Yates told Congress that the Logan Act was the first reason she intervened in the Flynn case — the reason FBI agents were sent to the White House to interview Flynn in the Trump administration's early days. The Logan Act has not been prosecuted in the United States for over 200 years. She knew this. Michael Flynn was innocent.

Sally Yates is a criminal and a liar.

We also know that a Deep State spy set up General Flynn. And Flynn not only reported his trip to Russia before he went, he also took training on how to act and then provided the intelligence community information upon his return on what he learned. All of this information has been kept quiet by the intelligence community for two years until early this year.

Yates hid this evidence from Congress.

So will Sally Yates ever face justice for lying to Congress?

Should Sally Yates be charged with perjury and leaking classified documents?


On Monday attorney Techno_Fog published more information on Sally Yates and her relationship with reporter Adam Entous who first published the Michael Flynn leak. Miss Yates could be in even more trouble if she is pegged as the leaker of classified information.


It was Sally Yates who "flagged" General Flynn's completely innocent call with the Russian ambassador as "highly significant" and "potentially illegal."


So was Sally Yates the leaker? And will she ever be prosecuted for perjury?
A little more about Rice and Yates:


Biohazard

Germ warfare: The Pentagon's silent killers

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In light of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, which has caused rapid and substantial harm to many nations and lives of their citizens, analysts are reluctantly starting to look at the possibility that certain countries may resort to the use of biological weapons capable of causing mass deaths. Germ warfare is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents, such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi, that are biological in origin with the intent to kill people, animals and plants. Designing microorganisms that cause disease and means of spreading them among target populations are all part of biological warfare.

In the military, the concept of weaponizing germs has existed for a long time. After all, epidemics that happened during wars resulted in substantial losses of troops, and this, in turn, had a significant impact on the way the conflict unfolded as well as its outcome. For example, during the Vietnam War, US troops lost more (approximately 3-fold) servicemen to disease than during military operations (injuries and deaths). Epidemics among civilian populations away from battlefields also had very negative consequences, resulting in serious issues in manufacturing and logistics sectors and, overall, problems in governance.

Hence, it is not surprising that the United States — responsible for unleashing more armed conflicts than any other country in recent years and for launching numerous military interventions in regions all over the world — has been constantly ramping up its research into biological warfare, mainly through the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). One of the key aims of its biological technologies branch is to conduct studies on germs.

Comment: The Pentagon's weaponization of insects (among other things) is extensively documented:


Sherlock

French prosecutors open sex assault probe into ex-president d'Estaing

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© Stéphane de Sakutin, AFPIn this file photo taken on October 14, 2014, former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing is pictured during the opening of the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE) at Le Bourget, Paris.
French prosecutors said Monday they are opening an investigation into ex-president Valery Giscard d'Estaing over allegations by a German journalist that he sexually assaulted her after an interview in 2018.

The investigation follows claims by reporter Ann-Kathrin Stracke that Giscard d'Estaing, 94, repeatedly grabbed her buttocks in his Paris office.

Giscard d'Estaing, France's oldest surviving former leader, served as president from 1974 until 1981, when he lost out on re-election to Francois Mitterrand.

Stracke, 37, told AFP last week she had filed charges against the former leader, claiming he had placed his hands on her backside three times while they posed for a photograph together in December 2018, when he was 92.

Gold Coins

Germany has dealt a blow to the EU

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A judgement in Germany's constitutional court will have huge ramifications for the future of the EU.

If you ever visit Karlsruhe, you could easily mistake the building housing the Bundesverfassungsgericht (BverfG), the highest German constitutional court, for the refectory block of some dreary new university. Dreary or not, on Tuesday that court took a major decision which trenchantly and welcomely upheld national democratic principles, and thereby tossed an enormous potential spanner into the EU machine.

At stake was the European Central Bank's (ECB) purchasing of national bonds to inject liquidity into the EU economy, essentially taking over the bad debts of states like Greece. Such a scheme, while of course promoted as a magnanimous and statesmanlike EU gesture, relied heavily on the support of German taxpayers and Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank. Some 1,700 taxpayers had sued in the German courts to prevent this from happening. The German courts, following a well-established EU procedure, then asked the EU Court of Justice (the CJEU) whether the plan was EU-compliant. That court, in a dense and at times opaque judgment, said it was.

Comment: See also: EU dictatorship: ECB given ultimatum over €2 trillion stimulus scheme by Germany's top court UPDATE


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Bill Gates: 'I wish I had done more' to call attention to pandemic danger

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© Alex Wong | Getty ImagesMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates participates in a discussion during a luncheon of the Economic Club of Washington June 24, 2019 in Washington, DC.
In the months since the novel coronavirus started spreading across the world, Bill Gates has been one of the most outspoken public figures with regards to the global response to the pandemic.

However, Gates says he wishes he had "done more" to warn the world about the potential dangers of a global pandemic before coronavirus became one of the biggest public health issues in decades. The pandemic has already killed nearly 290,000 people globally, including more than 80,000 in the U.S.

"I wish I had done more to call attention to the danger," Gates said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Monday.

Comment: This is, more or less, Bill Gates' passive-aggressive way of saying "I told you so". In reality, Gates is likely pleased as punch about how the coronavirus nonsense went down. With every tick of the death meter, his soon-to-be-blockbuster vaccine gets a few more thousand sales. As long as people are terrified and sold the idea that the vaccine is their only hope, Bill stands to profit immensely.

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