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Exclusive: High-Level NSA Whistleblower Says Blackmail Is a Huge – Unreported – Part of Mass Surveillance

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It is well-documented that governments use information to blackmail and control people.

The Express reported last month:

British security services infiltrated and funded the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange in a covert operation to identify and possibly blackmail establishment figures, a Home Office whistleblower alleges.

 

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Whistleblower Mr X, whose identity we have agreed to protect, became a very senior figure in local government before retiring a few years ago.

 

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He has given a formal statement to that effect to detectives from Operation Fernbridge ….

 

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“And he said [the pedophile group] was being funded at the request of Special Branch which found it politically useful to identify people who were paedophiles….”

Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 made gross indecency a crime in the United Kingdom, which included male gay sex.  The Amendment was so frequently used to blackmail gay Brits that it was dubbed the “Blackmailer’s Charter“.

There is widespread speculation that Pope Benedict resigned because of sexual blackmail.

And the American government has a long history of blackmailing people – including high-level officials- with knowledge of their sexual peccadilloes.

Wikipedia notes:

The Lavender Scare refers to the fear and persecution of homosexuals in the 1950s in the United States, which paralleled the anti-communist campaign known as McCarthyism.

 

Because the psychiatric community regarded homosexuality as a mental illness, gay men and lesbians were considered susceptible to blackmail ….

 

Former U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson has written: “The so-called ‘Red Scare’ has been the main focus of most historians of that period of time. A lesser-known element . . . and one that harmed far more people was the witch-hunt McCarthy and others conducted against homosexuals.”

FBI head Hoover was famous for blackmailing everyone … including politicians.  The New York Times reports:

J. Edgar Hoover compiled secret dossiers on the sexual peccadillos and private misbehavior of those he labeled as enemies — really dangerous people like … President John F. Kennedy, for example.

Alfred McCoy – Professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – provides details:

Upon taking office on Roosevelt’s death in early 1945, Harry Truman soon learned the extraordinary extent of FBI surveillance. “We want no Gestapo or Secret Police,” Truman wrote in his diary that May. “FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail.”

 

After a quarter of a century of warrantless wiretaps, Hoover built up a veritable archive of sexual preferences among America’s powerful and used it to shape the direction of U.S. politics.  He distributed a dossier on Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson’s alleged homosexuality to assure his defeat in the 1952 presidential elections, circulated audio tapes of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philandering, and monitored President Kennedy’s affair with mafia mistress Judith Exner. And these are just a small sampling of Hoover’s uses of scandal to keep the Washington power elite under his influence.

 

“The moment [Hoover] would get something on a senator,” recalled William Sullivan, the FBI’s chief of domestic intelligence during the 1960s, “he’d send one of the errand boys up and advise the senator that ‘we’re in the course of an investigation, and we by chance happened to come up with this data on your daughter…’ From that time on, the senator’s right in his pocket.” After his death, an official tally found Hoover had 883 such files on senators and 722 more on congressmen.

 

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With a few hundred cable probes and computerized decryption, the NSA can now capture the kind of gritty details of private life that J. Edgar Hoover so treasured and provide the sort of comprehensive coverage of populations once epitomized by secret police like East Germany’s Stasi. And yet, such comparisons only go so far.

 

After all, once FBI agents had tapped thousands of phones, stenographers had typed up countless transcripts, and clerks had stored this salacious paper harvest in floor-to-ceiling filing cabinets, J. Edgar Hoover still only knew about the inner-workings of the elite in one city: Washington, D.C.  To gain the same intimate detail for an entire country, the Stasi had to employ one police informer for every six East Germans — an unsustainable allocation of human resources. By contrast, the marriage of the NSA’s technology to the Internet’s data hubs now allows the agency’s 37,000 employees a similarly close coverage of the entire globe with just one operative for every 200,000 people on the planet.

 

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In the Obama years, the first signs have appeared that NSA surveillance will use the information gathered to traffic in scandal, much as Hoover’s FBI once did. In September 2013, the New York Times reported that the NSA has, since 2010, applied sophisticated software to create “social network diagrams…, unlock as many secrets about individuals as possible…, and pick up sensitive information like regular calls to a psychiatrist’s office, late-night messages to an extramarital partner.”

 

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By collecting knowledge — routine, intimate, or scandalous — about foreign leaders, imperial proconsuls from ancient Rome to modern America have gained both the intelligence and aura of authority necessary for dominion over alien societies. The importance, and challenge, of controlling these local elites cannot be overstated. During its pacification of the Philippines after 1898, for instance, the U.S. colonial regime subdued contentious Filipino leaders via pervasive policing that swept up both political intelligence and personal scandal. And that, of course, was just what J. Edgar Hoover was doing in Washington during the 1950s and 1960s.

 

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According to James Bamford, author of two authoritative books on the agency, “The NSA’s operation is eerily similar to the FBI’s operations under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1960s where the bureau used wiretapping to discover vulnerabilities, such as sexual activity, to ‘neutralize’ their targets.

 

The ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer has warned that a president might “ask the NSA to use the fruits of surveillance to discredit a political opponent, journalist, or human rights activist. The NSA has used its power that way in the past and it would be naïve to think it couldn’t use its power that way in the future.” Even President Obama’s recently convened executive review of the NSA admitted: “[I]n light of the lessons of our own history… at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking.”

 

Indeed, whistleblower Edward Snowden has accused the NSA of actually conducting such surveillance.  In a December 2013 letter to the Brazilian people, he wrote, “They even keep track of who is having an affair or looking at pornography, in case they need to damage their target’s reputation.” If Snowden is right, then one key goal of NSA surveillance of world leaders is not U.S. national security but political blackmail — as it has been since 1898.

Today, the NSA tracks people’s porn-viewing habits in order to discredit activists.  The NSA also gathers and keeps nude and suggestive photos of people in order to blackmail them.

The Associated Press notes:

The stockpiling of sexually explicit images of ordinary people had uncomfortable echoes of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” where the authorities — operating under the aegis of “Big Brother” — fit homes with cameras to monitor the intimate details of people’s home lives.

 

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The collection of nude photographs also raise questions about potential for blackmail. America’s National Security Agency has already acknowledged that half a dozen analysts have been caught trawling databases for inappropriate material on partners or love interests. Other leaked documents have revealed how U.S. and British intelligence discussed leaking embarrassing material online to blacken the reputations of their targets.

FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds alleged under oath that a recently-serving Democratic Congresswoman was secretly videotaped – for blackmail purposes  – during a lesbian affair. (Other Congress members have been blackmailed as well.)

Edmonds tells Washington's Blog that judges who are too "squeaky clean" are often not approved for nomination ... while ones with skeletons in their closets are. And she says that high-level FBI managers have publicly confirmed this blackmail process.

There have been allegations of blackmail of gay activities within the U.S. armed forces for years.

And even the raw data on American citizens collected by the NSA is shared with Israel.  This likely includes Congress members and other politicians, as well.

Bill Binney – the NSA’s senior technical director and head of the agency’s global digital information gathering program – told Washington’s Blog:

Bulk collection of everything gives law enforcement all the data they need on every citizen in the country.  And, it gives NSA all that info on everyone too.  Makes them akin to a J. Edgar Hoover on super steroids.

Binney explained to us the importance of this story:

Being able to blackmail people is one major aspect of bulk/mass collection that has not been talked about. E.g., they could use this data to blackmail members of governments around the world. But, surely just to get them to do what they wanted them to do. Just like J. Edgar Hoover did.

 

This is on top of the ability to do world-wide industrial espionage.

Indeed, Binney tells us that the NSA’s blackmail tactics are the same as those used by the KGB and Stasi:

This is just one of the ways to make controlling people possible.  Standard KGB/Stasi tactics.

(Binney told the Guardian recently: “The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.”)

And Binney tells Washington’s Blog that NSA surveillance allows the government to target:

  • “[CIA head] General Petraeus and General Allen and others like [New York State Attorney General] Elliot Spitzer”
  • “Supreme Court Judges, other judges, Senators, Representatives, law firms and lawyers, and just anybody you don’t like … reporters included”

NSA whistleblower Russell Tice (a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping), also says:

  • The NSA is spying on and blackmailing its overseers in Washington, as well as Supreme Court judges, generals and others
  • The agency started spying on Barack Obama when he was just a candidate for the Senate

And senior NSA executive Thomas Drake explains to Washington’s Blog that the NSA can use information gathered from mass surveillance to frame anyone it doesn’t like.

 

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Wed, 07/23/2014 - 16:23 | 4994822 putaipan
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'only three things are constant- conflict, blackmail and killing' ...... donald rumsfeld.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 15:50 | 4994655 centerline
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Just makes sense.  There is no way the NSA is not going to aim their systems at politicians, judges, etc.

And, once we make this connection, the next logical jump here is that the strings are being pulled from the shadows (spooks).

Thu, 07/24/2014 - 00:46 | 4996795 drunkenlout
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Yeah.  John Roberts must have the ugliest selfies in history.  He ruled that ACA was not allowed as regulation of interstate commerce, which was the govvie's argument.  Instead of just saying, "thanks for playing, have a nice day", he invented the argument that ACA is a tax, which the govvies had denied, and ruled in favor of it.  So, how bad are his selfies?  Perhaps William Banzai can help us visualize what they might be.

Thu, 07/24/2014 - 12:38 | 4998864 phaedrus1952
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Judge Roberts has epilepsy, a hereditary affliction. He and his wife decided to forego having children and adopt. His young son and daughter are said to be of Irish parentage and illegally adopted through a private Latin American (Costa Rican?) Agency.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 17:23 | 4995123 MeelionDollerBogus
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I think just as important to note is that those who have no dirt on them are rejected from becoming an electable politician or able to be a judge.
Like refusing to admit anyone into policing who actually intends to be a good cop & shows it.

Thu, 07/24/2014 - 00:01 | 4996691 MrPalladium
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"those who have no dirt on them are rejected from becoming an electable politician or able to be a judge."

Bingo!!!

You don't get anywhere in politics if they cannot control you. And blackmail is much cheaper and has far less legal risk, being essentially consensual, than bribery, physical intimidation and murder.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 15:41 | 4994615 sunnyside
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My browser history would make a sailor blush.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 16:12 | 4994764 Colonel Klink
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Well then check out sailorsblushing.com, it's been highly rated along with the midget tranny porn sites.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 16:16 | 4994787 sunnyside
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I see nothing Col., I know nothing.....

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 16:34 | 4994868 Colonel Klink
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OK Schultz, I know it's you.  Back to work and stop posting on ZH.

Doesn't Le Beau have some strudle for you?

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 15:36 | 4994599 chunga
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Anybody see Rep. Thomas Massie lately?

Nice work GW.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 15:30 | 4994564 DavidPierre
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1935-1972:

The Bureau of Investigation (BI) changes its name to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) but, the Bureau is still the personal instrument of control, revenge and repression of megalomaniacal transvestite and gay basher, J. Edgar Hoover, whose personal crime wave against the people of the United States will continue unabated until his long overdue death in 1972.

Wealthy friends, including leading Mafia figures, give Hoover and his gay lover, FBI Assistant Director Clyde Tolson, lavish hospitality and investment "tips". In return, Hoover protects them from criminal investigation and denies the very existence of the Mafia. Media critics are terrorized and/or blackmailed into silence.

Under Hoover, the FBI will keep files on every politician who makes it to to Capitol Hill, providing a rich source of blackmail material with which to control American politicians. Hoover's appearances before the House Appropriations Committee are, therefore, not too stressful. From 1924 to 1971, there will not be a single public hearing into the ever-escalating FBI budget.

Throughout his reign, Hoover will fake crime statistics, misrepresent responsibility for the solution of crimes and terrorize FBI agents and employees who know they must do Hoover's bidding or else.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 16:41 | 4994906 putaipan
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best interview of the living history of american loss of privacy ever- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SShXDJKG4BA

if you don't/didn't know... here you go. no excuses.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 15:54 | 4994686 Paveway IV
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It was such a good idea for political influence that Israel jumped in. First thing they went after: the major telecom's billing system. They own it. De-facto tracing of every single call because that's how phone charges are calculated. No Snowden relevation necessary - they've been doing it for thirty-five years now.

Second thing? Content. The FBI was too noisy and messy with politics and cross-dressers and all, so Israel targeted their boss: the Justice Department. Things didn't really get going until Reagan's War on Drugs and the DEA wiretapping efforts. All the hardware and software came from Israeli firms. In fact, the DEA didn't even have direct access to wiretapped content. The Israeli firms insisted that their employees had to perform that function and they would transcribe the calls for the DEA. 

It's still going on. Bush's War on Terror? Yeah - that gave us the Israeli-named Department of Homeland Security, run by dual-citizens and contracted out to Israeli firms or U.S. firms run by dual-citizens. Not sure what the particular angle of Israel is there except getting their foot in the door of the U.S. Stazi early by creating it - control of the Stazi standing army inside a country is bound to come in handy someday.

I resent the fact that they've created permanent back-doors into U.S. politics and have access to all U.S. citizen surveilance, but I certainly don't blame them for the effort. That's what intelligence agencies are suppose to do. What I *DO* resent is handing over $80 BILLION dollars to the U.S. intelligence agencies every year when they have failed to prevent and are useless to eliminate this gross breach of national security. Might as well just hand the $80 billion directly to the Mossad - it's going to go there anyways.

I have exactly 0% confidence that the U.S. intelligence community has any capability or desire to fix the security back-doors Israel has had in place for years. They're either too stupid to do anything, or they're in on it. 

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 17:50 | 4995234 Buck Johnson
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Whom to say that the Mossad isn't blackmailing the head of the intelligence services in the US.  We have allowed a small group of religious zealots and useful idiots to leave open black mail to another country and there is nothing we can do about it.

 

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 17:06 | 4995014 Radical Marijuana
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Crucial comments, Paveway IV!

DEBT SLAVERY BACKED BY

WARS BASED ON DECEITS!

"Things didn't really get going until Reagan's War on Drugs and the DEA wiretapping efforts." 

The war on drugs was mostly the war on marijuana. That can be seen as another classic sort of false flag attack. Propaganda works best when promoting the biggest lies. Therefore, it was asserted that the single best plant for people, for food, fiber, fun and medicine, was "marijuana which is almost as bad as murder." Similarly, the war on terror was started by the ruling classes with their inside job, false flag attacks on 9/11/2001, to become vicious self-fulfilling prophesies, like the war on marijuana was before that.

It is NOT an accident that the same issues present a pattern, over and over again, whereby the social pyramid systems apex towards the same pyramidion people, through the established money/murder systems. However, it as also NOT an accident that human civilization ended up developing governments as the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals.

In my opinion, we have already gone past the event horizon into a social black hole. There already looks like there is a condition of irreconcilable social polarization, (manifesting inside the context of even worse environmental destruction.) There is a criminally insane agenda that is so far advanced that there seems like nothing else which can actually be done, but to wait and watch, as it drives itself through its own mad, psychotic breakdowns. The privatized monetary system is an already metastasized cancer, or has become like a parasite killing its host. The trends towards privatization of "national security" concerns are following that trajectory, with both converging in similar sorts of pyramidion people at the top of the established social pyramid systems.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 16:18 | 4994797 Gadfly
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Maybe this explains why the U.S. Congress just voted unanimously to approve of Israel's invasion of Gaza and slaughter of innocent Palestinians.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 23:07 | 4996527 john39
Wed, 07/23/2014 - 16:14 | 4994780 Paveway IV
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Did I mention the major internet providers? Comcast and Veriozon's deep-packet inspection of all your internet communications? Yeah - that's hardware and software from an Israeli firm. You know... to protect the intellectual property of their media company cronies or appendages, not to SPY on you. I'm sure all that equipment is impossible to access by Israel for a little intel slurping. I don't give a crap if they see anything I might decide to download, but I do care that Comcast and Verizon can snoop on whatever depraved midget tranny porn the members of congress decide to download.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 18:14 | 4995292 GoldenTool
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Nobody even brought up Akami.  Who needs .com's when you own the backbone.

Problem you run into with most of the IT hocus pocus/conspiracy is more often then not my guess is the reason these people are running it is they are the only ones who can understand it.  Only a handful of groups smart enough to build it let alone manage it after things are off the ground and ever changing.

Just my .02 

 

4 edits later wow

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 18:16 | 4995325 GoldenTool
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Flip side to this is...  It's the stupid people who are using it not having a clue what any of it does, goes or why.

NEED MOR as all the kids plug in.  Good luck in 50 years best case I can make that the aliens have already taken over.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 19:08 | 4995569 Dave Thomas
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By then the internet will become self aware and just start flashing FUUUUCKK!!! on everyones screens as it realizes it became aware on the likes of Tubgirl and Meatspin.com. Just like in Robocop 2 when the meat puppets wake up in tin cans and blew their brains out.

 

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 20:05 | 4995786 GoldenTool
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Tubgirl hahaha... suprised it hasn't started flashing already.

Thanks for the laugh dave.

Thu, 07/24/2014 - 00:17 | 4996735 Paveway IV
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Jesus! I never heard of her, so I just had to Google it... 

 

Thu, 07/24/2014 - 05:50 | 4997090 ebear
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I'm afraid to!

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 16:00 | 4994714 centerline
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money talks.  And if that does not work... there are always nasty photos, account details, and other assorted goodies...  real or fake (doesn't matter).

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 18:24 | 4995222 ZerOhead
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YOU ARE GOING TO SHIT YOUR PANTS

 

Did anyone see this evidence that appears to support Putin's statement that MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian Su25?

It also confirms the Dutch statement that the Cockpit Voice Recorder had been damaged (but not tampered with)

This is what an air to air missile hit looks like. A classic "Head Shot"... It must have taken out the cockpit and the pilots immediately.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtGLnAECcAAitJk.jpg:large

 

And thank you ABC for confirming this information... 

"The Dutch Safety Board, which has taken control of the investigation, said the cockpit voice recorder suffered damage but showed no sign of manipulation, and its recordings were intact."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/bodies-malaysia-jet-victim...


More wreckage that confirms an air to air missile hit...

http://beforeitsnews.com/war-and-conflict/2014/07/air-to-air-missle-dama...

http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1406019829/799/10297799.jpg

You are looking at the underside of the port (left) wing close to the tip of the wing. As you can see the damage indicates the direction of the directed shrapnel from the blast. In this case the detonation occurred just below and well outside of the aircraft. The pointy end of the shrapnel holes points in the direction of where the shrapnel came from.

Now there isn't enough energy in an air to air missile blast to totally blow a plane to bits like this one so there was probably an explosive device also on the airplane. It is possible that it could be remotely activated by the Su25 with a weak signal close to the plane that would defy detection by the Russians.

Just a wild guess on that however since they would have had to have placed the bomb onboard in Amsterdam...


Wed, 07/23/2014 - 21:31 | 4996164 fxrxexexdxoxmx
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WOW. Al of that but one thing missing. How did the three military aircraft get knocked out of the sky in the same conflict zone days before MH17 tragic ending? Why did the pro russian freedom fighters claim that they were the ones who destroyed Kievs Nazis flying weapons of destruction when it was a military plane?

The most obvious cause as to why MH17 was the vehicle of death for hundreds of innocent civilians was due to the same systems that were currently being used to knock Ukrainian military aircraft out of the sky days before.

Today it has been claimed that 2 more Ukrainian military aircraft were shot down. Do you believe they were also brought down by Kiev Nazis, the CIA or MOSSAD using air to air missiles from Urkanian jets? Seems to me that the pro russian freedom fighters have AA missile capability and they have been and continue to use them so as to defeat the evil Nazis in Kievs ability to wage air warfare.

MH17 was shot down by mistake, not evil or deliberate desire to kill innocent civilians, it was a mistake and only by owning up to it will  Vlads freedom fighters gain support beyond Moscow.

 

It was a mistake, a terrible mistake, and all of the propaganda only helps those who want to destroy Putin or deny the ethnic russians of Ukraine their path back to mother Russia.

Man up, take responsibility and quit all of the b.s.

Thu, 07/24/2014 - 02:43 | 4996927 Tall Tom
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Go fuck yourself. You are a lying propagandist statist.

 

Maybe someone will shoot down a Jet at a United States International Airport when you are a passenger. Maybe you need to know what it feels like

 

It is just too easy. All they need do is target the engines when the Jet is on approach or taking off. There is a Bird Strike Fault which shuts the Engines down when measuring a Kinetic Energy strike of 26 Dynes.

 

If the current path is continued then sooner or later it will happen.

 

(That is HOW I KNOW that there are currently NO DOMESTIC TERRORISTS. There are just too many soft targets and more than enough weapons. And yet it does not happen....YET.)

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 19:04 | 4995548 Dave Thomas
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Dude, why would you need an explosive device on the plane? 16 lbs of high explosive encased in steel rod is more than enough to bring down the plane. It might have broken into pieces on the way down, or at the point when it went from about 700 miles an hour to about 0 in a picosecond. Look at that huge hole where the Captian was sitting. Don't overcomplicate it.

Thu, 07/24/2014 - 02:31 | 4996911 Tall Tom
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At 35,000 Feet there is 10 PSI inside of that Jet. (Pressurized Cabin) There is 2 PSI outside at that altitude. That is a Pressure Differential of 8 PSI...EIGHT POUNDS on every square inch of the interior surface...EIGHT POUNDS OF FORCE...vectoring outward from the Centerline..

 

The Aluminium Skinned Balloon pops when pricked. That is what a Jetliner is at altitude...a fucking METAL SKINNED BALLOON.

 

The Bomb which took out PanAm Flight 103 over Lockerbie, a 747 Jumbo Jet, fit inside of a Transistor Radio.

 

An Air to Air Missile, in concert with the Pressure Differential, has more than enough energy to shred a Jet Airliner at altitude.

 

I expected that this would be the case.

 

Fuck Ukraine you fucking MURDERERS. Fuck the USA for ENABLING THEM.

Wed, 07/23/2014 - 18:55 | 4995500 lasvegaspersona
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What?

The possibility of air to air (meaning the downing was not accidental) is a lot to swallow. The placement of explosives on board get pretty far into the weeds. Residual would be detected and no one with a brain would come up with such a plan. Also there would be evidence of metal bending outward. Unless you have really strong evidence this is too far for me. 

The type of explosive probably can be tied to a specific type of weapon. The fact that the plane was sure to fall into contested territory and that the opposition would be able to do analysis of the residue means a plot you suggest was someone begging to get caught.

I can see the air to air missle possibility but beyond that you lose me.

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