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CIA agrees to partially declassify 'Godmother of torture' Haspel documents


RT
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:29 UTC
CIA documents
© Saul Loeb / AFP
The CIA announced Tuesday that it will allow senators mulling the nomination of Gina Haspel as director to review classified information from her long and controversial career with the agency.

"The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) remains committed to transparency with the full Senate by providing a complete picture of Deputy Director Haspel's 33-year career at CIA," reads a letter from the agency to Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM), obtained by The Hill. The CIA offered no further explanation as to what details from Haspel's career would be covered in the release, as much of her time with the agency has been spent undercover.

Along with Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), Heinrich had been demanding the agency declassify information, so that members of the public and senators not on the Senate Intelligence Committee could properly weigh her nomination as the agency's new director.

The CIA has argued that certain details must remain classified, to protect officers who were involved in the agency's detention and interrogation program.

Comment: See also: How convenient: Torture report modified to save CIA Nominee Gina Haspel

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Vader

John Bolton still thinks the slaughter of 1 million Iraqis was a good idea

Dahr Jamail
truthout
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:26 UTC
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The illegal 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq has, thus far, left approximately 1 million Iraqis dead. That is roughly 5 percent of the total population of that country.

If a foreign military superpower invaded and occupied the US and annihilated 5 percent of the total population here, that would be 16,300,000 dead US citizens.

President Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, still thinks the mass destruction of Iraq was a good idea.

"We are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction [WMDs] and production facilities in Iraq," Bolton said in 2002 while he served as President George W. Bush's under secretary of state for arms control and international security. He did everything he could to prompt the launch of the US invasion -- under the pretext of WMDs that never existed.
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Saudi FM: 'Qatar leaders must contribute troops to Syria or lose US support and be toppled'


RT
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:21 UTC
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis (C) is greeted by military dignitaries as he arrives at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis (C) is greeted by military dignitaries as he arrives at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar April 21, 2017
Riyadh appears to be trying to bully regional rival and fellow US ally Qatar into going to war in Syria, with the Saudi foreign minister citing the US leader's call for "wealthy" nations to stump up and send boots to the ground.

In his interpretation of US President Donald Trump's appeal to the affluent states in the region, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir issued a thinly veiled threat to Doha, arguing the Qatari government will not last a week after the US cuts off its military support.

Qatar must "send its military forces (to Syria), before the US president cancels US protection of Qatar, which consists of the presence of a US military base on its territory," Jubeir said on Wednesday, as cited by the ministry's media center.

Should the US withdraw some 10,000 servicemen currently stationed at Al-Udeid air base near Doha, the government "would fall there in less than a week," Jubeir argued.

Comment: Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir's statement, in which he said that Qatar should send troops to Syria to ensure US military aid, is nothing but blackmail, Russian Federation Council (upper house of parliament) Defense and Security Committee member Frants Klintsevich told reporters on Wednesday.
Al-Jubeir's statement followed another one made by US President Donald Trump, who pointed out that "we've spent $7 trillion in the Middle East and we've got nothing for it. Nothing, less than nothing."

"The Saudi foreign minister's statement is nothing more but blackmail," Klintsevich said. "Saudi Arabia is pushing Qatar to take illegal actions," he added.

At the same time, he was doubtful that the United States really planned to withdraw from Syria any time soon, despite Trump's statements. "Saudi Arabia probably wants Qatar to join the operation alongside the US and not take its place, which is even stranger because Riyadh cannot but understand that it will only increase chaos and lead to new needless deaths," the Russian senator said, adding that in his view, the Saudis actually had other goals "that they prefer not to talk about."
See how sovereignty works in the 'West'?!

The Saudis don't do so good at subtlety and just spit out orders to other nominally 'sovereign' countries: 'You do what we say, or we exterminate you'.

They all believe they can stop the structural changes taking place in the Middle East, which is already a reality. Gulf royal troops will probably end up manning the US bases in northeast Syria.

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Chess

Republican House Rep Mark Meadows claims he has evidence fmr AG Lynch coordinated with Comey to end Clinton investigation

Eren Moreno
Truthfeed
Sat, 21 Apr 2018 17:06 UTC
meadows lynch comey
The tables are officially starting to turn against the Deep State as GOP lawmakers gain more and more evidence against them.

Mark Meadows told Fox News on Thursday morning that his team has obtained documents to build a "growing body of evidence" that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch coordinated with the FBI to end the Hillary email investigation.

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The U.S. Role in the Destruction of Syria

David Ray Griffin
Sott.net
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:19 UTC
Editor's note: The text below that is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of David Ray Griffin's book: "Global Chaos," of Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World constitues perhaps the most complete condensed and objectively true description of the causes of the 7 year long war in Syria. It is well worth taking the time to read it.
Syrian soldier liberated Syria
In Syria, the goal of creating chaos has succeeded in spades. Mnar Muhawesh wrote: "[F]oreign powers have sunk the nation into a nightmare combination of civil war, foreign invasion and terrorism. Syrians are in the impossible position of having to choose between living in a warzone, being targeted by groups like ISIS and the Syrian government's brutal crack- down, or faring dangerous waters with minimal safety equipment only to be denied food, water and safety by European governments if they reach shore."
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Vader

Crooked Hillary gives speech supporting efforts to crack down on conservative new outlets

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 16:54 UTC
killary
We are well into 2018 and Hillary Clinton is still complaining about her failed 2016 presidential bid.

On Sunday, Crooked Hillary lashed out at alternative media coverage of the 2016 presidential election then praised efforts to crackdown on conservative outlets .

Hillary Clinton attacked alternative media during a speech at Pen America World Voices Festival on Sunday.

Clinton's speech was primarily focused on the media climate under President Trump and cited analysis from Harvard and Columbia Journalism Review to argue the media's 'false equivalency' in its coverage of the 2016 presidential election was "corrosive" and had a "leveling effect that opens the door to charlatans."

Hillary laments how the political coverage was influenced by the right-wing media ecosystem and other factors to depart from normal journalistic standards.
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Bell

Why a Wall Street plaintiff's law firm filed the DNC RICO lawsuit against the Trump campaign

Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:52 UTC
Michael Eisenkraft

Michael Eisenkraft, Law Partner at Cohen Milstein
If there's any plaintiff's law firm in America that should know racketeering when it sees it, it's Cohen Milstein. It's sued the major Wall Street banks repeatedly with a solid win rate for colluding to rig pretty much anything that trades. On Friday, in the same Federal District Court where its Wall Street actions are litigated, the Southern District of New York (SDNY), it filed its bombshell RICO lawsuit on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The lawsuit does not name President Donald Trump as a defendant but it does name prominent members of his presidential campaign, including his son, Donald Jr., and son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and advisers, Roger Stone and George Papadopoulos are also named, as are the Russian intelligence service, Russian Federation, several Russian operatives, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.

The lawsuit charges that "In 2015 and 2016, Russian intelligence services hacked into the DNC's computers, penetrated its phone systems, and exfiltrated tens of thousands of documents and emails. Russia then used this stolen information to advance its own interests: destabilizing the U.S. political environment, denigrating the Democratic presidential nominee, and supporting the campaign of Donald J. Trump ('Trump'), whose policies would benefit the Kremlin."

Comment: Of relevance:

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Dollar

'Fixing' the terrorist problem they created: US sets up $110 million drone base in Nigeria

Jude Egbas
Pulse.ng
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:46 UTC
drone base nigeria
© Associated Press
The US base for drones against extremism in the Sahel. Agadez, Niger
The United States Air Force is building a multi-million dollar base for armed drones in Niger.

This base will serve as a new front in America's battle against the growing extremist threat in Africa's vast Sahel region, including the Boko Haram insurgency, the Associated Press reports.

The Niger Air Base 201 is expected to be functional early next year.

The base which lies a few miles outside Agadez, Niger, was built at the request of the Nigerien government.

AP writes that the sophisticated base will eventually house fighter jets and MQ-9 drones transferred from the capital Niamey.

Comment: The U.S. needs to be there because terrorism. The terrorism is there because U.S. The U.S. needs to be there because terrorism. The terrorism...

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MIB

Witness says House Democrat IT tech Imran Awan was Pakistani spy

S. Noble
Independent Sentinel
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:31 UTC
wasserman shultz awan
© Facebook / Reuters
Imran Awan (L), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (R)
Daily Caller reporter Luke Rosiak is investigating the case of the family of Pakistani IT techs working for the Democrat House members. One of those techs was Imran Awan, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's IT tech. He also worked on almost all Democrat House member computers. One key witness says Imran was a spy who gave their classified data to Pakistani intelligence.

Imran and his family had access to the computers of most of the Democrat House members and had a lust for money by all accounts. He accessed unauthorized classified data, transferring it from the congressional computers to an outside server.

Imran Awan saw to it that his unqualified family members also got high-paying no-show jobs in the congressional offices of Democrat members.

Imran was arrested last year for bank fraud as he attempted to flee the country. His wife already left and was in Pakistan.

Nothing much has been done and there appears to be no FBI probe, at least not one of any import.

Comment: More on the Awan scandal:

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Putin to micro-president Macron: FUKUS strike on Syria "seriously" violated international law


Sputnik
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:26 UTC
putin macron
The presidents of Russia and France discussed on Monday by phone the situation in Syria after an airstrike carried out by the United States, France and the United Kingdom in response to an alleged chemical attack in the city of Douma near Damascus, the Kremlin spokesman said.

Speaking with his French counterpart, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that the US-led coalition's strikes against Syrian targets at the beginning of April were conducted in violation of international law and have complicated the situation in the Middle Eastern country.

He also noted the importance of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) conducting a thorough investigation on the ground in Syria.

French President Emmanuel Macron, for his part, has expressed Paris' readiness for a dialogue with all parties involved in the Syrian political settlement, particularly Russia, according to the Elysee Palace.


Comment: That sounds pretty lame after acting like the U.S.'s slave in the FUKUS strikes...


France was one of the states from the US-led coalition, along with the United States and the United Kingdom, that carried out on April 14 a missile attack on a number of targets in Syria, including facilities in Barzeh and Jamraya, amid reports of an alleged chemical attack in Douma.
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