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Mike Flynn refuses to honor Senate subpoena for documents

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 18 May 2017 17:35 UTC
Mike Flynn
Just a few short days after receiving a subpoena from the Senate Intelligence Committee, requesting documents relevant to the Committee's investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election, AP reports that Senator Burr, the top Republican on the committee, says that Michael Flynn's lawyers say he will not honor subpoena.

Last week, in a joint statement from Committee chair Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and ranking member Mark Warner (D-Va.) the committee disclosed that it had first requested the documents in an April 28 letter to Flynn, but he "declined" to cooperate with the request.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today issued a subpoena for former National Security Advisor Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. The subpoena requests documents relevant to the Committee's investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election. The Committee first requested these documents in an April 28, 2017 letter to Lieutenant General Flynn, but he declined, through counsel, to cooperate with the Committee's request.
CNN also reported that the FBI had also issued subpoenas relating to Flynn's business records, so the ousted National Security Adviser is now at the center of both investigations, although as disclosed, he did not comply with the committee's earlier request.

And today we get confirmation from Senator Burr, via AP, that Michael Flynn's lawyers say he will not honor subpoena.
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US conducts drill aimed at destroying N. Korean weapons of mass destruction


RT
Thu, 18 May 2017 17:25 UTC
Devil Brigade 1st Armored Brigade Combat team
© Devil Brigade 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team / Flickr
American soldiers stationed in South Korea have completed the 'Warrior Strike 7' exercise, which includes a ship-to-shore air assault from a South Korean warship, according to the US Army.

The exercise took place at Camp Stanley in Euijeongbu, South Korea, and the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex near the border with North Korea, according to a Tuesday Facebook post by the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division.

The post also stated that the drill involved ship-to-shore air assault from the South Korean naval vessel Dokdo.
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Here we go again: State Department's latest holocaust claims against Assad based on old, debunked propaganda

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
Wed, 17 May 2017 00:00 UTC
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As the propaganda coming from Washington regresses to an even more infantile level each year, so does the danger of that propaganda being used to justify a greater American military involvement in the Syrian crisis which Washington itself created. Always ready to invoke the memories of Adolf Hitler, Nazis, and the Holocaust at every opportunity, the U.S. State Department is now claiming that not only is Bashar al-Assad controlling massive prisons where mostly innocent civilians are starved and tortured, but that he is operating crematoriums where the bodies of victims are destroyed, thus cheating the moral West out of having any actual evidence of Assad's "crimes against humanity."

This new round of propaganda is based upon the debunked Amnesty International report released in February, 2017, entitled "Human Slaughterhouse: Mass Hangings And Extermination At Sednaya Prison, Syria." The report contained great writing but it was totally devoid of actual evidence. In fact, the only evidence contained in those pages was satellite photos that showed a building that AM claimed was a prison. The photos thus showed the same thing that any American could have provided had they taken a picture of an American public school.

Still, the propaganda report was full of accounts gathered from "survivors" who themselves had been terrorist fighters or affiliated with terrorist groups and from other anti-Syrian pro-terrorist NGOs. This and the satellite photos were all they were able to produce. Now, however, the U.S. has more to add to the story - crematoriums. With Americans so seemingly impervious to subtlety, the Washington Post saw fit to point out the obvious - that the State Department briefing was "accusations of mass murder and incinerated bodies, evoking the Holocaust."

Comment: See also:

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Charles Shoebridge: 'South Koreans fear THAAD will make them more of a target'


RT
Thu, 18 May 2017 17:17 UTC
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor (R) is seen in Seongju, South Korea
© Lee Jong-hyeon / Reuters A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor (R) is seen in Seongju, South Korea
Suggestions the US could be asked to remove its THAAD missile system from South Korea may come as a shock to many that rushed it through thinking that once it is there, it would be accepted, explains security analyst Charles Shoebridge.

South Korea may send a recently installed and controversial missile defense system back to the US, "if it has not properly undergone domestic legal procedures," according to Woo Won-shik, the floor leader of the ruling Democratic Party.

The THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) system was deployed in the country last year as part of a deal agreed by the former US and South Korean leaders to counter the threat from Pyongyang.

But since South Korea's new president took office this month the device has become a major source of contention.

Things escalated when President Trump made a new call for Seoul to contribute $1 billion to the project.
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Chrystia Freeland exposed by Sergei Lavrov at Arctic Council: Drops 'Canadian democracy destabilization' charge against Russia

John Helmer
Dances With Bears
Sun, 14 May 2017 16:51 UTC
Chrystia Freeland cartonn and Sergei Lavrov
The first meeting of Canada's new Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland (lead image, left) with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) has backfired when Freeland addressed Lavrov in Russian, and Lavrov replied that speaking in Russian will soon be illegal according to a new law proposed by the Canadian-backed regime in Ukraine. "While Chrystia Freeland is free to speak Russian here in Alaska," Lavrov told the press, "in Ukraine, where Russian has long been a native language for a huge number of people, it could soon lose its standing and status."

On March 31, Freeland announced that she and Lavrov would be attending the Arctic Council meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, "and I would be absolutely prepared to have a bilateral meeting with Sergey Lavrov at Arctic Council if that works for both of our schedules." The Arctic Council, a group of eight Arctic Circle governments, six indigenous community representatives, and several government and organization observers, has been chaired for the past year by the US, and was winding up the American chairmanship at the Alaska session.

Freeland has been publicly misrepresenting the record of her meetings with Russian government officials for the past six months, according to this report.
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Outclassed and desperate, US revives debunked Syria slaughterhouse story through CIA-run Washington Post

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer Report
Tue, 16 May 2017 17:06 UTC
sednaya prison photos
In February 2017, the US would attempt to leverage an Amnesty International report claiming to detail unfolding atrocities at Sednaya prison in Syria.

While painting a picture of torture, neglect, and even mass executions, Amnesty forgot to include any actual evidence to corroborate its claims. The only actual evidence included in a report that otherwise consisted only of alleged interviews and 3D models of the prison made in London, was a picture taken from outer space by an imaging satellite.

The satellite image itself revealed nothing besides a building resembling a prison.

The report's release and leveraging by the US came just ahead of another round of talks aimed at stemming the catastrophic 6 year conflict. The move by the US was a bid to give Washington and its regional allies extra leverage at the negotiating table. And now - months later - and just when the US is in need of more leverage, the Sednaya story has once again been revived.

The US State Department not only has repeated previous and discredited claims drawn from the Amnesty International report, it now claims the prison includes a crematorium facility - an oblique attempt to link the current Syrian government with historical arch-villains like Germany's Nazis.

Comment: See also: Amnesty International 'evidence' of Syria crematorium relies on fabricated artist depiction

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Comey already testified under oath that Trump admin didn't obstruct investigations - on May 3rd


GotNews.com
Wed, 17 May 2017 16:44 UTC
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© Wikimedia CommonsSen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) in November, Former FBI Director James Comey
Former FBI Director James Comey testified under Senate oath May 3rd that the Trump administration had not pressured his agency to halt any investigation for political purposes. Comey admitted that the FBI has always been free to operate without political interference—flying in the face of Democrats' paranoid delusions about Russia and President Donald J. Trump, and exposing for what it is a new political witch hunt Wednesday by enemies within the president's own Justice Department.

On Wednesday, DOJ appointed a special prosecutor, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, to drum up more hype about Trump's imaginary "collusion" with Russia during the general election.

On May 9th, President Trump fired Comey, who has spent 15 years shilling for Hillary Clinton.

Videotaped testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee blows apart the phony narrative New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt wove on Tuesday, which resulted in Mueller's appointment. Schmidt's only sources were anonymous. They claimed that on Feb. 14th, the day after National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned, Trump had asked Comey to end an investigation into Flynn's connections to Russia.

Comment: And here is the C-SPAN video:



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Lavrov mocks US media, says they're behaving like Soviet-era newspapers


Associated Press
Thu, 18 May 2017 16:39 UTC
Lavrov razotkriva duboko miješanje Njemačke, Francuske i Britanije u izbore u SAD-u
© Evgenij Biyatov / Sputnik
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday mocked U.S. news reports suggesting President Donald Trump inappropriately shared sensitive intelligence with him about terror threats involving laptops on airplanes.

Without directly confirming the details of their conversation, Lavrov said he didn't understand what the "secret" was since the U.S. introduced a ban on laptops on airlines from some Middle Eastern countries two months ago.

He joked that some U.S. media were acting like communist newspapers in the former Soviet Union and not offering real news.

"There used to be a joke in the Soviet Union that there was a newspaper, Pravda, so called Truth, that there was no 'izvestia' or news in there," Lavrov said. "Truly, I get this impression that many U.S. media are working in this vein."
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Experts say NSA spy-tool leakers likely included U.S. insider

Tim Johnson
McClatchy
Thu, 18 May 2017 16:37 UTC
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© Dita Alangkara APPatients waited near a queue number dispenser affected by the “WannaCry” attack at Dharmais Cancer Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday. Global cyber chaos followed a weekend ransomware attack.
Cybersecurity experts believe the hacker who leaked the potent software tool that powered last week's global ransomware attacks is an American - perhaps a disgruntled insider in the U.S. intelligence community.

Such a finding would raise the stakes for halting The Shadow Brokers group, which has bedeviled the National Security Agency with releases of its hacked weaponized cyber exploits for months.

One of those leaked NSA tools allowed extortionists to spark havoc last Friday by encrypting the hard drives of more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries, the largest such cyberattack ever to hit the globe. The attackers demanded $300 or more to unlock each computer.

The NSA did not respond to a request for comment.
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Leaked docs reveal staff at Australia's Manus Island Detention Center planned to coerce refugees into relocating or returning home


Sputnik
Thu, 18 May 2017 16:35 UTC
manus island detention center
© Flickr/ Greens MPs
Leaked documents showed that security staff and managers at Australia-run detention center on the Manus Island had a plan to coerce refugee seekers into either accepting relocation to Papua New Guinea or abandoning their protection claims and returning home, The Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday.

According to the documents obtained by the newspaper, the plan, drafted in 2016, outlined attempts to push those officially recognized as refugees to first accept resettlement to the East Lorengau transit center and then to Papua New Guinea, while forcing people without refugee status to return to their home countries.
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