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Erdogan, Turkish intel worked "hand in glove" with ISIS in Syria, claims former emir

Nafeez Ahmed
Insurge Intelligence
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:44 UTC
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In an explosive interview, a former ISIS commander has claimed that the terror group cooperated directly with Turkish state intelligence agencies for years on areas of "common interest".

The source said that senior Turkish government officials had numerous meetings with ISIS representatives to coordinate activities and that this also involved providing support and safe harbour to foreign fighters in the country. President Erdogan "was working hand in glove with ISIS" according to the US government counter-terrorism consultants who interviewed the ex-ISIS official.

The relationship raises questions about Turkey's role as a NATO ally in the Syria conflict.

The source, who served as an ISIS emir for three years, Abu Mansour al Maghrebi, was interviewed by Professor Anne Speckhard, director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) and a long-time US government counter-terrorism consultant for NATO, the CIA, FBI, State Department and Pentagon, as well as by Dr Ardian Shajkovci, the ICSVE's director of research.

Although not all of al-Maghrebi's claims can be verified, most of them are corroborated by the claims of other whistleblowers and former ISIS personnel as previously reported by INSURGE.
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Chess

Lock her up! Lindsey Graham suggests Bill Barr may reopen Hillary investigation

Collin Rugg
I Love My Freedom
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 17:43 UTC
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In an interview given on Sunday, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham asserted that Attorney General William Barr was not happy about how the Hillary Clinton investigation was handled. He also mentioned that he is hoping that eventually, "there's a special counsel appointed to look at DOJ corruption and political bias."

"Nobody in the Clinton e-mail investigation went to jail for lying about the process, because there was no process," Graham said in an interview on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo. "And I know Bill Barr pretty well, and he's pretty upset about the way all this was handled. I don't know if he's going to have a special prosecutor to look at the probability of criminal misbehavior. I'm going to look at what happened from an oversight role, but I hope there's a special counsel appointed to look at DOJ corruption and political bias, because Mueller did his job against Trump. Nobody's really looked at the Clinton campaign, the FISA warrant abuse or the counterintelligence investigation, criminality yet - and somebody should."
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Brexit: Wales minister Nigel Adams quits over talks with Corbyn


BBC
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:42 UTC
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Nigel Adams had been at the Wales Office for only five months
A junior Wales Office minister has quit over the prime minister's decision to turn to Jeremy Corbyn to try to get a Brexit deal through Parliament.

Nigel Adams said the decision was a "grave error" and the UK would now "end up in a customs union" with the EU.

Mr Adams, who was also a government whip, said he believed the UK would have coped with a "managed no-deal".

He became the fourth Wales minister to have the job within 12 months when he took up the role last November.
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Bogus Trump-Russia Alfa Bank connections were created by Hillary supporter working with Fusion GPS and pushed by crooked Hillary

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:34 UTC
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A review of the data pertaining to the accusations in the phony Steele dossier about a Trump-Russia Bank connection discovered the sources used is most likely the same source the FBI used to obtain a FISA warrant to investigate the Trump-Alfa Bank connection.This person also just happens to be a radical Hillary Clinton supporter!

It's been more than two years since the 2016 election and Americans still don't really know the sources for the phony Steele dossier used by the FBI and DOJ to obtain FISA warrants to spy on candidate and then President Trump.

This nightmare for President Trump all started in June, 2016. After news broke that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked, a group of prominent computer scientists went on alert. The group of individuals, led by a Hillary supporter, started snooping around the Trump Tower computers to allegedly see if these servers had also been hacked.
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Bad Guys

Pat Buchanan: Trump should close NATO membership roster for good

Pat Buchanan
Townhall
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:28 UTC
An anti-NATO protester man waves a flag in downtown Belgrade
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When Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today, the president should give him a direct message:

The roster of NATO membership is closed. For good. The United States will not hand out any more war guarantees to fight Russia to secure borders deep in Eastern Europe, when our own southern border is bleeding profusely.

And no one needs to hear this message more than Stoltenberg.

In Tblisi, Georgia, on March 25, Stoltenberg declared to the world: "The 29 allies have clearly stated that Georgia will become a member of NATO."

As for Moscow's objection to Georgia joining NATO, Stoltenberg gave Vladimir Putin the wet mitten across the face:

"We are not accepting that Russia, or any other power, can decide what (NATO) members can do."

Yet what would it mean for Georgia to be brought into NATO?

The U.S. would immediately be ensnared in a conflict with Russia that calls to mind the 1938 and 1939 clashes over the Sudetenland and Danzig that led straight to World War II.

In 2008, thinking it had U.S. backing, Georgia rashly ordered its army into South Ossetia, a tiny province that had broken away years before.
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Bullseye

Orban to Juncker: Unveiling statue of Marx gives you no right to lecture others on xenophobia


RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:22 UTC
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Viktor Orban has hit back at claims made by Jean-Claude Juncker that he is racist, quipping that the European Commission head's appearance at a ceremony celebrating Karl Marx gave him no right to lecture others about xenophobia.

The Hungarian prime minister was responding to comments made by Juncker to Italian television on Sunday over the ongoing feud between the pair. Juncker said that while he didn't care about being placed on billboards critical of the EU by Orban's Fidesz party ahead of EU elections in May, he was bothered by Orban's xenophobia and hostility towards foreigners. The EC president added that Orban's particular brand of nationalism and disregard for others leads to war.

Hitting back at the claims, Orban told local media: "Someone who unveiled a statue of Marx shouldn't be lecturing anyone about xenophobia," adding that the "master of xenophobia" was none other than Karl Marx.
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Bullseye

Mueller has found no collusion: It's time for Trump to pardon Michael Flynn

H.A. Goodman
The Federalist
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:05 UTC
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Michael Flynn was framed so certain unethical officials could eventually set up Trump. Now that we know there was no collusion, Trump should pardon Flynn.

According to a House Intelligence Committee report in 2018, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe stated the agents who interviewed Michael Flynn "didn't think he was lying." Like McCabe, former FBI director James Comey testified to Congress that Flynn did not lie to FBI agents.

After the Mueller report confirmed no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, in addition to no obstruction by President Trump, it's important to remember that former FBI agent Peter Strzok interviewed Flynn. Yes, the same Peter Strzok who texted he had spoken about an "insurance policy" (referring to the Russia probe) with McCabe and told FBI lawyer Lisa Page "we'll stop" Trump from winning the election.

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Flashback Is Trump administration clearing the way for Assange release?

C. Mitchell Shaw
The New American
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:38 UTC
assange protest embassy
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The Trump administration has laid the groundwork for clearing the biggest obstacle keeping WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (shown) from leaving the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange has been in exile there since August 2012 and has feared leaving, since the U.S. government has considered him a criminal suspect for his role in publishing classified documents detailing sometimes criminal actions by U.S. federal departments and agents.

In a tweet last week, WikiLeaks pointed out that the U.S. government has "decided to close its eight year long grand jury proceedings against @WikiLeaks (expanded in 2017 to cover our series on the CIA)." The WikiLeaks tweet was a reference to a statement made by State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert during a press conference on January 2. Speaking about Iran, Nauert said, "We support a freedom of the press. When a nation clamps down on social media, we ask the question, 'What are you afraid of?' What are you afraid of? We support the people of Iran, and we support their voices being heard."

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Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: Assange has 'physical proof' that Russia did not hack the DNC
Rohrabacher has not been able to discuss the Assange meeting with President Donald Trump so far, due to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 election, he told Breitbart.

"I've been waiting because I know that we're not going to give this special prosecutor any more ammunition than he needs to try to destroy this president," he said, according to the Washington Times.
Now that Mueller has turned in his report, which vinidicate Trump of collusion charges, perhaps there will be some positive movement in Assange's plight.

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Blackbox

'Inadequate training & certification?' Senate panel seeks answers from FAA over Boeing 737 crashes


RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:52 UTC
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The Senate transportation committee is seeking answers from the FAA after a number of whistleblowers alleged that the agency inspectors who'd evaluated the Boeing 737 Max had lacked proper training and valid certifications.

"In light of recent 737 crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, the committee is investigating any potential connection between inadequate training and certification of Aviation Safety Inspectors who may have participated in the FSB evaluation of the 737 MAX," Sen. Roger Wicker, chairman of the Senate committee on commerce, science and transportation, wrote to the Federal Aviation Administration's Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell on Tuesday.

After reviewing available documents and information obtained from whistleblowers, Wicker assessed that the FAA might have been aware of these deficiencies as early as August 2018, two months before the first deadly accident with the brand-new plane. The committee believes that potential lack of training "may have led to an improper evaluation of the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS)," which resulted in two fatal crashes of the Boeing flagship aircraft, last October and in March of this year.

In light of this, Senator Wicker asked Elwell to answer a number of questions concerning the allegations and what actions the FAA has taken to address the "potential deficiencies." While Elwell has yet to issue a response to the letter, the civil aviation watchdog did note that it "welcomes external review of our systems, processes, and recommendations."

After a total of 346 people were killed in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes within a five-month period, the company is currently working on a software fix for the plane's flight control systems. Investigators believe the MCAS system - which adjusts the tail to keep the plane's nose level in flight - are to blame for the tragedies. Until the issues are resolved, Boeing's best-selling jets remain grounded worldwide.
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Windsock

Hot air? Trump claims wind turbine NOISE causes cancer in latest anti-green energy remark


RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:43 UTC
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© REUTERS / Joshua Roberts
During an 80-minute speech at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) US President Donald Trump made the rather outlandish claim that the noise created by wind turbines causes cancer. Twitter was not impressed.

"Hillary wanted to put up wind, wind... If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations your house just went down 75% in value," Trump said at the committee's spring fundraising dinner in Washington, DC on Tuesday evening.

"And they say the noise causes cancer, you tell me," he added.
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