Papadopoulos: Undercover Agent Who Tried to Seduce Me Was CIA, Not FBI Read Newsmax: Papadopoulos: Undercover Agent Who Tried to Seduce Me Was CIA, Not FBI | Newsmax.com

Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos said Friday that The New York Times’ report on an informant for U.S. intelligence was with the CIA, not the FBI as the newspaper claimed.

The Times reported that in 2016, the FBI sent a woman named Azra Turk, who posed as a Cambridge University research assistant, to question Papadopoulos, who was at that point working on the Trump campaign. She met him at a London bar, where she asked him directly if the Trump campaign was working with Russia.

“I agree with everything in this superb article except ‘Azra Turk’ clearly was not FBI. She was CIA and affiliated with Turkish intel. She could hardly speak English and was tasked to meet me about my work in the energy sector offshore Israel/Cyprus which Turkey was competing with,” Papadopoulos tweeted on Friday.

He told Fox News the day before that he “immediately thought she was an

Embassy Killings in Libya, the Stench of CIA/Mossad “False Flag”

Oh Crap



Real Intelligence Reports at Total Odds with Reported News—————

by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

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Investigations by me, published yesterday on Press TV’s website, cited “Reverand” and “Doctor” Terry Jones as the source of the videos cited for instigating violence across the Middle East.



Our investigation into Jones past showed him to be a trained CIA asset with direct ties to the Mossad. He served in Germany for years as an organizer for the CIA under the highly secret “Gladio” program until expelled by the German government. You can be a CIA agent, even a terrorist bomber but in Germany, if you buy a mail order PhD, it is a crime. “Dr.” Terry Jones would have been better off had he called himself “Agent” Terry Jones.

VT offers its heartfelt condolences to the family of Ambassador Stevens and the families of the other Americans lost in Libya.

Here is an MSNBC clip covering their “day late” discovery of Jones at the heart of what is a conspiracy, not only to cause unrest but as a cover for assassinations of US diplomats by highly trained special operations teams.

Poland’s secret CIA prisons

And tomorrow is September 5TH and the world is watching, Poland.
The question has been asked “was the applicant (Mr Al Nashiri) detained in a secret detention facility in Poland? …[was he] subjected to torture … while in U.S. custody on Polish territory?” and the European Court of Human Rights is demanding an answer.

An American diplomatic cable dated December 13th 2005 reads: “[The] rendition and ‘CIA prisons’ issue will continue to dog the Polish government, despite our and the Poles’ best effort to put this story to rest.” The existence of “black sites” in “East European countries” where the CIA practised torture was revealed at the time by the Washington Post. Later Human Rights Watch specifically named Poland along with Romania. Back then the authorities in Warsaw denied everything : no sites, no torture, just “speculation”.

Four years into the investigation in Poland and nine years since the alleged tortures, neither government acknowledges anything much about what amounted to American-Polish complicity in violating basic and inalienable human rights. However, many institutions did their own research on rendition and CIA prisons and none of their conclusions has ever been challenged. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the UN’s Committee Against Torture, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Inspector General of the CIA, Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw are all in agreement that “stuff happened”.

According to these sources, between December 2002 and September 2003, the CIA flew

Mexico Shooting: Probe Into U.S. Officials Shooting Reveals Key Details

Two U.S. officials shot and wounded by Mexican federal police just south of the capital were CIA officers, security sources say, and the attack could badly hurt U.S.-Mexico cooperation in a war against drug cartels if found to be a deliberate ambush.

The pair of experienced officers were on their way to a Mexican Marine base on Friday, working with local authorities on a training mission, when federal police riddled their armored van bearing diplomatic plates with bullets.

The men, traveling with a Mexican Marine captain, were wounded and taken to a hospital for treatment, though their injuries were not life threatening. Television footage showed the vehicle strafed with bullet marks, its tires and rear window shot out.

A dozen federal police officers detained and questioned over the attack have been ordered held in custody for 40 days, and in initial statements to federal prosecutors they claimed they confused the Americans for criminals.

However, eyewitnesses at a bend in the road outside the small town

US ends investigation of terror detainees' deaths without charges

No charge.......Only the lowly

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it has ended a lengthy investigation into the CIA's interrogation and treatment of prisoners without bringing any criminal charges.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the investigation into the deaths of two suspected terrorists who died in CIA custody -- one in Iraq and another in Afghanistan -- was ended without charges because "the admissible evidence would not be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt."

The two cases include the highly publicized case of Manadel al-Jamadi, who died in a shower stall at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq while in CIA custody. Several U.S. soldiers, who were photographed with al-Jamadi's body, packed in ice inside a body bag, were later prosecuted and convicted in military courts for prisoner abuse.

The investigation spanned more than four years. It began

News of the Day From Across the Globe

Oops, look what I found

Mexico shooting: Mexican officials say two Americans wounded in an attack by federal police on a U.S. Embassy vehicle are employees of the CIA who have returned to the United States. U.S. officials won't confirm which agency the men worked for

Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA

And just like that an understanding is born,
Journalism was our only resource of being able to "check the power"
The conglomeration of network communications (think the likes of Rupert Murdock here) has ensured the fact that we shall never have that ability to "power check" again, without a fight every step of the way, in trying to do so.

Mark Mazzetti's emails with the CIA expose the degradation of journalism that has lost the imperative to be a check to power

The rightwing transparency group, Judicial Watch, released Tuesday a new batch of documents showing how eagerly the Obama administration shoveled information to Hollywood film-makers about the Bin Laden raid. Obama officials did so to enable the production of a politically beneficial pre-election film about that "heroic" killing, even as administration lawyers insisted to federal courts and media outlets that no disclosure was permissible because the raid was classified.

Thanks to prior disclosures from Judicial Watch of documents it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, this is old news. That's what the Obama administration chronically does: it manipulates secrecy powers to prevent accountability in a court of law, while leaking at will about the same programs in order to glorify the president.

But what is news in this disclosure are the newly released emails between Mark Mazzetti, the New York Times's national security and intelligence reporter, and CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf. The CIA had evidently heard that Maureen Dowd was planning to write a column on the CIA's role in pumping the film-makers with information about the Bin Laden raid in order to

CIA Report: Security Lapses Led to Afghanistan Bombing

http://politics.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/10/25/cia-report-security-lapses-led-to-afghanistan-bombing.html

How is it 9 years after 9/11, the same excuse can still be used for the reason an attack occurred?
Communication is still, after the poring of billions upon billions of dollars into the efforts to advance the technological uses of it, is still failing to make it up to the proper channels to be of any use in saving lives?
Who the hell is running this dog and pony show that this kind of ineptitude still continues to this day?
No documentation as well as management oversight?
Is this a contracted out position?
Dime to a dollar says it is.
And if it is, there can be no doubt about it, that people died directly due to the use of outsourcing by our government to pad the coffers of another Corporate favor fulfilled.


An internal review of the events leading up to the suicide attack against a CIA base in a remote part of Afghanistan last year has revealed a string of security and communications lapses in the weeks before the incident, which took the lives of seven agency employees. The bomber, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, was a Jordanian doctor who had convinced his CIA handlers that he could get close to top al Qaeda leaders.

Though al-Balawi had provided truthful and useful information in the past, that story was just a ruse to lull the Americans into a false sense of security. When al-Balawi arrived last year to meet with CIA officers for the first time in person at a remote base near Khost, he was not searched at the gate and proceeded to detonate an explosive vest near a group of officers assembled to greet him. "There wasn't a single point of failure that led to this incident," says a senior counterterrorism official who has read the report.

But in retrospect, some things could have been done differently. Three weeks prior to the attack, for example, a CIA officer in Amman had heard warnings that al-Balawi may be laying a trap, but those suspicions failed to pass far enough up his chain of command, the review found.

The review also confirmed what has long been known inside the CIA: that elementary security precautions, such as searching visitors to the base for weapons and explosives, were not followed. "These missteps occurred because of shortcomings across several agency components in areas including communications, documentation, and management oversight,"

Revealed: After Baghdad massacre, Blackwater split into 30 shell companies

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/revealed-blackwater-formed-30-shell-companies-suck-taxpayer-money/


Why do we need a private company to load missiles? What exactly is there left for military enlistees to do anymore, if jobs like that are outsourced to private companies?
And since when can't the CIA provide their own in house security?



The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported Friday.

The newspaper said that it was unclear how many of the created companies got American contracts but that at least three of them obtained work with the U.S. militaryand the CIA.

But recently the company was awarded a $100 million contract to provide security for the agency in Afghanistan, prompting criticism from some in Congress. CIA Director Leon Panetta said that the CIA had no choice but to hire the company because it underbid others by $26 million and that a CIA review concluded that the contractor had cleaned up its act.

Last year, Panetta canceled a contract with Xe that allowed the company's operatives to load missiles on Predator drones in Pakistan, and shifted the work to government personnel

Judge Rules CIA Can Withhold Info about Illegal Methods

http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Judge_Rules_CIA_Can_Withhold_Info_about_Illegal_Methods_100726

So the CIA can now do what it wants to who it wants without question.
This was a very dangerous precedent to set considering what the definition of terrorism now is in the United States.

A federal judge has backed CIA efforts to conceal information about treatment of detainees, even if the suppressed records contain details about illegal activity on the part of the intelligence agency.


U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that he was unwilling to “second-guess the CIA Director regarding the appropriateness of any particular intelligence source or method,” while rejecting the American Civil Liberties Union’s request to obtain records related to the treatment of detainees, those who died in U.S. custody and the names of anyone kidnapped and sent to secret prisons.

TARNISHED GLORY: THE MYTH OF "SPECIAL OPERATIONS"

http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9762

Can America afford to continue with our current special operations command, be it CIA or JSOC or whatever the flavor of the day, if even a single of the seemingly endless charges made are true?

Is blocking investigations meant to protect America or to facilitate our own "evil doers?"



WHEN DID "SPECIAL OPS" BECOME KIDNAPPING, DRUG DEALING, TORTURE and POLITICAL DIRTY TRICKS

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

What does "Special Ops' mean? Why would a special operations command, JSOC, be answerable to our Vice President, a mentally unstable draft dodging hack from the oil industry? Why would the CIA outsource its most secret projects to Blackwater, a GOP mercenary group with the worst reputation of any firm the US has ever done business with?

Years of kidnapping and torturing people based on mistaken identity, intelligence that is ALWAYS WRONG, chasing dead men, invading wrong countries and picking out allies that are gangsters, con men and drug dealers isn't an accident, its policy. Now we are told Blackwater, the CIA, MI-6, the Mossad and RAW work together, not only against Iran but in friendly nations also. The stories we are told are that some of what is done is contracting for commercial clients and foreign governments and not anything involving fighting terrorism or protecting anyone, in fact, much the opposite. When is a mercenary a gangster? Are these missions or are they capers or hits?

Blackwater has become the punching bag for the press of late. With accusations of close ties to the CIA and charges of murder and gangsterism floating around after years of more than empty accusations of massive incompetence, their name is abused most.

Are they the only ones? When "private contractors" are involved in terrorism against US allies, the real scandal few are talking about in the US, and Blackwater's name is brought up, is it really them or someone else? There are dozens of companies involved, not just "Blackwater."

We now know that Blackwater alone has an endless web of secret fronts making it impossible to trace what is done and for whom. Other companies are doing the same, all unaccountable to the United States or her allies.

CIA cancels Blackwater drone missile-loading contract

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8409358.stm

Lol me thinks Prince got a little to cocky. And why isn't the Air Force loading the drones?

The CIA has cancelled a contract with US private security firm Blackwater for its operatives to load bombs onto drone aircraft in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

CIA Director Leon Panetta wanted such work to be done by the organisation's own employees only, officials said.

The New York Times revealed the existence of the secret contract with Blackwater, renamed Xe, in August.

On Thursday, the paper also reported that Xe employees had been involved in "snatch-and-grab operations" in Iraq.

The Evil Empire By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.rense.com/general88/evil.htm


The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that "our" government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate. Voters will vent their frustrations over their impotence on the president, which implies a future of one-term presidents. Soon our presidents will be as ineffective as Roman emperors in the final days of that empire.

Obama is already set on the course to a one-term presidency. He promised change, but has delivered none. His health care bill is held hostage by the private insurance companies seeking greater profits. The most likely outcome will be cuts in Medicare and Medicaid in order to help fund wars that enrich the military/security complex and the many companies created by privatizing services that the military once provided for itself at far lower costs. It would be interesting to know the percentage of the $700+ billion "defense" spending that goes to private companies. In American "capitalism," an amazing amount of taxpayers' earnings go to private firms via the government. Yet, Republicans scream about "socializing" health care.

Republicans and Democrats saw opportunities to create new sources of campaign contributions by privatizing as many military functions as possible. There are now a large number of private companies that have never made a dollar in the market, feeding instead at the public trough that drains taxpayers of dollars while loading Americans with debt service obligations.

Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?_r=1

Is there anybody we don't give a paycheck to?

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.

The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai’s home.

The financial ties and close working relationship between the intelligence agency and Mr. Karzai raise significant questions about America’s war strategy, which is currently under review at the White House.

Bombshell report on CIA interrogations is leaked

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/22/cia-interrogation-report-leaked

How much is to much and how far are you really willing to overlook it


Findings suppressed since 2006 detail death threats against prisoners and other methods that may constitute tortutre

CIA interrogators threatened a captured al-Qaida leader with a power drill and a pistol in what was described as a mock execution, according to a long-suppressed report due to be released on Monday.

Details of the report by the spy agency's inspector general have emerged in the Washington Post and Newsweek. The full findings on the CIA's interrogation programme are to be made public after a federal judge upheld an appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union for their release.

The report is understood to describe mock executions where interrogators tried to get detainees to talk by firing a gun in an adjoining room to pretend another prisoner had been killed.

According to leaked information from the report, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was threatened with a drill and gun during his detention at one of the CIA's so-called black site prisons after his capture in 2002. He was subjected to the near-drowning technique known as waterboarding, as were two other al-Qaida leaders.

Nashiri, who remains in detention at Guantánamo Bay, has been accused of masterminding the 1999 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors.

Sources familiar with the report told the Washington Post that Nashiri was threatened with death or grave injury during his questioning. A CIA officer showed Nashiri a gun and suggested he would be shot, and a power drill was held near Nashiri's body and repeatedly turned on and off. US law on torture prohibits a US national from threatening anyone in his custody with imminent death.

The disclosures come as the CIA faces intense scrutiny. The US attorney general, Eric Holder, has been examining

The Cia, Siberia And The $5m Bar Bill

The Cia, Siberia And The $5m Bar Bill

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/08162009...ill_184851.htm

A FEDERAL COURT CASE REVEALS A BIZARRE TALE OF POST-9/11 OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

A History of CIA Atrocities

http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/his...atrocities.htm


The following timeline describes just a few of the hundreds of atrocities and crimes committed by the CIA. (1)

CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a deal: "We'll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us." The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination. These efforts culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing dictator. The CIA trains the dictator’s security apparatus to crack down on the traditional enemies of big business, using interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be "communists," but almost always they are just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses follow.

This scenario has been repeated so many times that the CIA actually teaches it in a special school, the notorious "School of the Americas." (It opened in Panama but later moved to Fort Benning, Georgia.) Critics have nicknamed it the "School of the Dictators" and "School of the Assassins." Here, the CIA trains Latin American military officers how to conduct coups, including the use of interrogation, torture and murder.

The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations. (2) Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls this an "American Holocaust."

The CIA justifies these actions as part of its war against communism. But most coups do not involve a communist threat. Unlucky nations are targeted for a wide variety of reasons: not only threats to American business interests abroad, but also liberal or even moderate social reforms, political instability, the unwillingness of a leader to carry out Washington’s dictates, and declarations of neutrality in the Cold War. Indeed, nothing has infuriated CIA Directors quite like a nation’s desire to stay out of the Cold War.

The ironic thing about all this intervention is that it frequently fails to achieve American objectives. Often the newly installed dictator grows comfortable with the security apparatus the CIA has built for him. He becomes an expert at running a police state. And because the dictator knows he cannot be overthrown, he becomes independent and defiant of Washington's will. The CIA then finds it cannot overthrow him, because the police and military are under the dictator's control, afraid to cooperate with American spies for fear of torture and execution. The only two options for the U.S at this point are impotence or war. Examples of this "boomerang effect" include the Shah of Iran, General Noriega and Saddam Hussein. The boomerang effect also explains why the CIA has proven highly successful at overthrowing democracies, but a wretched failure at overthrowing dictatorships.

The following timeline should confirm that the CIA as we know it should be abolished and replaced by a true information-gathering and