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"Yesterday, I had the opportunity to make the case directly to the president of the United States by phone as to why I believe it is essential that he release the balance of the currently redacted and classified JFK assassination documents," Stone said. "A very good White House source - not the President - told me that the Central Intelligence Agency, specifically CIA director Mike Pompeo, has been lobbying the President furiously not to release these documents. Why? Because I believe they show that Oswald was trained, nurtured and put in place by the Central Intelligence Agency."
Stone said it wasn't clear what Trump will do. "He did not tip off his current decision," Stone said. "We're going to have to wait . . . but he was all ears. He took it all in . . . I think he's going to do the right thing." This morning it appears that Trump has decided to side with Stone over the arguments from the NSC and various other "covert" U.S. agencies.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been under increasing pressure amid his decision to tie up an expensive arms deal with German defense enterprises without consent of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported.Update (Oct. 21): German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government approved a deal to sell the Israeli Navy three submarines costing up to $1 billion each, overcoming reservations about dealing with Israeli officials closely connected to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing corruption charges.
In particular, Netanyahu is being accused of pushing the expensive submarine deal despite the opposition of the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
"I was strictly against the purchase of three more submarines," Defense Minister Mosche Jaalon wrote on his Facebook page.
Meanwhile, Israel has already received five German submarines, "partly financed by German taxpayers," the newspaper wrote.
The purchase price for Dolphin-class submarines is about 600 million euro.
"The Germans have given their approval to the deal," an Israeli official told Agence France-Presse Friday.See also: German submarine scandal: Israel PM Netanyahu in hot water as lawyer faces conflict of interest probe
Multiple clauses within the final contract sweetened the deal for Germany. Notably, they allow Germany to back out of the deal in the event that Israel's attorney general charges the prime minister or his closest aides for criminal wrongdoing, Jerusalem Online reports, citing local media.
Comment: Ruling the country for 41 years until his demise in October 2011, Gaddafi transformed Libya from the poorest nation on Earth into Africa's richest while attempting to unite and empower the whole of Africa. Despite the Western media's vilification, Gaddafi's efforts to improve life for his people were hardly those of a vicious dictator:
10 things you didn't know about Gaddafi's so-called dictatorship in Libya