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CIA Agent Charged With Leaking Classified Information To Journalists Including Photos From Guantanamo
The US Justice government reminds us that it still does exist. One wonders with the passage of the NDAA just what comparable lawsuits will look like when applied to regular US citizens charged with such crimes as talking to journalists and leaking photos from Guantanamo. Now we can all wait with bated breath as the DOJ i) finds where the MF Global money went, and ii) who is actually accountable. Or maybe not.
From the DOJ:
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former CIA officer, John Kiriakou, was charged today with repeatedly disclosing classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert CIA officer and information revealing the role of another CIA employee in classified activities, Justice Department officials announced.
The charges result from an investigation that was triggered by a classified defense filing in January 2009, which contained classified information the defense had not been given through official government channels, and, in part, by the discovery in the spring of 2009 of photographs of certain government employees and contractors in the materials of high-value detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The investigation revealed that on multiple occasions, one of the journalists to whom Kiriakou is alleged to have illegally disclosed classified information, in turn, disclosed that information to a defense team investigator, and that this information was reflected in the classified defense filing and enabled the defense team to take or obtain surveillance photographs of government personnel. There are no allegations of criminal activity by any members of the defense team for the detainees.
Kiriakou, 47, of Arlington, Va., was a CIA intelligence officer between 1990 and 2004, serving at headquarters and in various classified overseas assignments. He is scheduled to appear at 2 p.m. today before U.S. Magistrate Judge John F. Anderson in federal court in Alexandria.
Kiriakou was charged with one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act for allegedly illegally disclosing the identity of a covert officer and two counts of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly illegally disclosing national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it. Kiriakou was also charged with one count of making false statements for allegedly lying to the Publications Review Board of the CIA in an unsuccessful attempt to trick the CIA into allowing him to include classified information in a book he was seeking to publish.
The four-count criminal complaint, which was filed today in the Eastern District of Virginia, alleges that Kiriakou made illegal disclosures about two CIA employees and their involvement in classified operations to two journalists on multiple occasions between 2007 and 2009. In one case, revealing the employee’s name as a CIA officer disclosed classified information as the employee was and remains covert (identified in the complaint as “Covert Officer A”). In the second case, Kiriakou allegedly disclosed the name and contact information of an employee, identified in the complaint as “Officer B,” whose participation in an operation to capture and question terrorism subject Abu Zubaydah in 2002 was then classified. Kiriakou’s alleged disclosures occurred prior to a June 2008 front-page story in The New York Times disclosing Officer B’s alleged role in the Abu Zubaydah operation.
“Safeguarding classified information, including the identities of CIA officers involved in sensitive operations, is critical to keeping our intelligence officers safe and protecting our national security,” said Attorney General Eric Holder. “Today’s charges reinforce the Justice Department’s commitment to hold accountable anyone who would violate the solemn duty not to disclose such sensitive information.”
Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, who was appointed Special Attorney in 2010 to supervise the investigation, said, “I want to thank the Washington Field Office of the FBI and the team of attorneys assigned to this matter for their hard work and dedication to tracing the sources of the leaks of classified information.” Mr. Fitzgerald announced the charges with James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office of the FBI, and they thanked the CIA for its very substantial assistance in the investigation, as well as the Air Force Office of Special Investigations for its significant assistance.
“Protecting the identities of America’s covert operatives is one of the most important responsibilities of those who are entrusted with roles in our nation’s intelligence community. The FBI and our intelligence community partners work diligently to hold accountable those who violate that special trust,” said Mr. McJunkin.
The CIA filed a crimes report with the Justice Department on March 19, 2009, prior to the discovery of the photographs and after reviewing the Jan. 19, 2009, classified filing by defense counsel for certain detainees with the military commission then responsible for adjudicating charges. The defense filing contained information relating to the identities and activities of covert government personnel, but prior to Jan. 19, 2009, there had been no authorized disclosure to defense counsel of the classified information. The Justice Department’s National Security Division, working with the FBI, began the investigation. To avoid the risk of encountering a conflict of interest because of the pending prosecutions of some of the high-value detainees, Mr. Fitzgerald was assigned to supervise the investigation conducted by a team of attorneys from the Southern District of New York, the Northern District of Illinois and the Counterespionage Section of the National Security Division who were not involved in pending prosecutions of the detainees.
According to the complaint affidavit, the investigation determined that no laws were broken by the defense team as no law prohibited defense counsel from filing a classified document under seal outlining for a court classified information they had learned during the course of their investigation. Regarding the 32 pages of photographs that were taken or obtained by the defense team and provided to the detainees, the investigation found no evidence the defense attorneys transmitting the photographs were aware of, much less disclosed, the identities of the persons depicted in particular photographs and no evidence that the defense team disclosed other classified matters associated with certain of those individuals to the detainees. The defense team did not take photographs of persons known or believed to be current covert officers. Rather, defense counsel, using a technique known as a double-blind photo lineup, provided photograph spreads of unidentified individuals to their clients to determine whether they recognized anyone who may have participated in questioning them. No law or military commission order expressly prohibited defense counsel from providing their clients with these photo spreads.
Further investigation, based in part on emails recovered from judicially-authorized search warrants served on two email accounts associated with Kiriakou, allegedly revealed that:
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Kiriakou disclosed to Journalist A the name of Covert Officer A and the fact that Covert Officer A was involved in a particular classified operation. The journalist then provided the defense investigator with the full name of the covert CIA employee;
- Kiriakou disclosed or confirmed to Journalists A, B and C the then-classified information that Officer B participated in the Abu Zubaydah operation and provided two of those journalists with contact information for Officer B, including a personal email address. One of the journalists subsequently provided the defense investigator with Officer B’s home telephone number, which the investigator used to identify and photograph Officer B; and
- Kiriakou lied to the CIA regarding the existence and use of a classified technique, referred to as a “magic box,” in an unsuccessful effort to trick the CIA into allowing him to publish information about the classified technique in a book.
Upon joining the CIA in 1990 and on multiple occasions in following years, Kiriakou signed secrecy and non-disclosure agreements not to disclose classified information to unauthorized individuals.
Regarding Covert Officer A, the affidavit details a series of email communications between Kiriakou and Journalist A in July and August 2008. In an exchange of emails on July 11, 2008, Kiriakou allegedly illegally confirmed for Journalist A that Covert Officer A, whose first name only was exchanged at that point, was “the team leader on [specific operation].” On Aug. 18, 2008, Journalist A sent Kiriakou an email asking if Kiriakou could pick out Covert Officer A’s last name from a list of names Journalist A provided in the email. On Aug. 19, 2008, Kiriakou allegedly passed the last name of Covert Officer A to Journalist A by email, stating “It came to me last night.” Covert Officer A’s last name had not been on the list provided by Journalist A. Later that same day, approximately two hours later, Journalist A sent an email to the defense investigator that contained Covert Officer A’s full name. Neither Journalist A, nor any other journalist to the government’s knowledge, has published the name of Covert Officer A.
At the time of Kiriakou’s allegedly unauthorized disclosures to Journalist A, the identification of Covert Officer A as “the team leader on [specific operation]” was classified at the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) level because it revealed both Covert Officer A’s identity and his association with the CIA’s Rendition, Detention and Interrogation (RDI) Program relating to the capture, detention and questioning of terrorism subjects. The defense investigator was able to identify Covert Officer A only after receiving the email from Journalist A, and both Covert Officer A’s name and association with the RDI Program were included in the January 2009 classified defense filing. The defense investigator told the government that he understood from the circumstances that Covert Officer A was a covert employee and, accordingly, did not take his photograph. No photograph of Covert Officer A was recovered from the detainees at Guantanamo.
In a recorded interview last Thursday, FBI agents told Kiriakou that Covert Officer A’s name was included in the classified defense filing. The affidavit states Kiriakou said, among other things, “How the heck did they get him? . . . [First name of Covert Officer A] was always undercover. His entire career was undercover.” Kiriakou further stated that he never provided Covert Officer A’s name or any other information about Covert Officer A to any journalist and stated “Once they get the names, I mean this is scary.”
Regarding Officer B, the affidavit states that he worked overseas with Kiriakou on an operation to locate and capture Abu Zubaydah, and Officer B’s association with the RDI Program and the Abu Zubaydah operation in particular were classified until that information was recently declassified to allow the prosecution of Kiriakou to proceed.
In June 2008, The New York Times published an article by Journalist B entitled “Inside the Interrogation of a 9/11 Mastermind,” which publicly identified Officer B and reported his alleged role in the capture and questioning of Abu Zubaydah – facts which were then classified. The article attributed other information to Kiriakou as a source, but did not identify the source(s) who disclosed or confirmed Officer B’s identity. The charges allege that at various times prior to publication of the article, Kiriakou provided Journalist B with personal information regarding Officer B, knowing that Journalist B was seeking to identify and locate Officer B. In doing so, Kiriakou allegedly confirmed classified information that Officer B was involved in the Abu Zubaydah operation. For example, Kiriakou allegedly emailed Officer B’s phone number and personal email address to Journalist B, who attempted to contact Officer B via his personal email in April and May 2008. Officer B had provided his personal email address to Kiriakou, but not to Journalist B or any other journalist. Subsequently, Kiriakou allegedly revealed classified information by confirming for Journalist B additional information that an individual with Officer B’s name, who was associated with particular contact information that Journalist B had found on a website, was located in Pakistan in March 2002, which was where and when the Abu Zubaydah operation took place.
After The New York Times article was published, Kiriakou sent several emails denying that he was the source for information regarding Officer B, while, at the same time, allegedly lying about the number and nature of his contacts with Journalist B. For example, in an email dated June 30, 2008, Kiriakou told Officer B that Kiriakou had spoken to the newspaper’s ombudsman after the article was published and said that the use of Officer B’s name was “despicable and unnecessary” and could put Officer B in danger. Kiriakou also denied that he had cooperated with the article and claimed that he had declined to talk to Journalist B, except to say that he believed the article absolutely should not mention Officer B’s name. “[W]hile it might not be illegal to name you, it would certainly be immoral,” Kiriakou wrote to Officer B, according to the affidavit.
From at least November 2007 through November 2008, Kiriakou allegedly provided Journalist A with Officer B’s personal contact information and disclosed to Journalist A classified information revealing Officer B’s association with the RDI Program. Just as Journalist A had disclosed to the defense investigator classified information that Kiriakou allegedly imparted about Covert Officer A, Journalist A, in turn, provided the defense investigator information that Kiriakou had disclosed about Officer B. For example, in an email dated April 10, 2008, Journalist A provided the defense investigator with Officer B’s home phone number, which, in light of Officer B’s common surname, allowed the investigator to quickly and accurately identify Officer B and photograph him. Both Officer B’s name and his association with the RDI Program were included in the January 2009 classified defense filing, and four photographs of Officer B were among the photos recovered at Guantanamo.
In the same recorded interview with FBI agents last week, Kiriakou said he “absolutely” considered Officer B’s association with the Abu Zubaydah operation classified, the affidavit states. Kiriakou also denied providing any contact information for Officer B or Officer B’s association with the Abu Zubaydah operation to Journalists A and B prior to publication of the June 2008 New York Times article. When specifically asked whether he had anything to do with providing Officer B’s name or other information about Officer B to Journalist B prior to the article, Kiriakou stated “Heavens no.”
As background, the affidavit states that sometime prior to May 22, 2007, Kiriakou disclosed to Journalist C classified information regarding Officer B’s association with Abu Zubaydah operation, apparently while collaborating on a preliminary book proposal. A footnote states that Journalist C is not the coauthor of the book Kiriakou eventually published.
Prior to publication of his book, The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror, Kiriakou submitted a draft manuscript in July 2008 to the CIA’s Publication Review Board (PRB). In an attempt to trick the CIA into allowing him to publish information regarding a classified investigative technique, Kiriakou allegedly lied to the PRB by falsely claiming that the technique was fictional and that he had never heard of it before. In fact, according to a transcript of a recorded interview conducted in August 2007 to assist Kiriakou’s coauthor in drafting the book, Kiriakou described the technique, which he referred to as the “magic box,” and told his coauthor that the CIA had used the technique in the Abu Zubaydah operation. The technique was also disclosed in the June 2008 New York Times article and referred to as a “magic box.”
In his submission letter to the PRB, Kiriakou flagged the reference to a device called a “magic box,” stating he had read about it in the newspaper article but added that the information was “clearly fabricated,” as he was unaware of and had used no such device. The affidavit contains the contents of an August 2008 email that Kiriakou sent his coauthor admitting that he lied to the PRB in an attempt to include classified information in the book. The PRB subsequently informed Kiriakou that the draft manuscript contained classified information that he could not use, and information regarding the technique that Kiriakou included in the manuscript remained classified until it was recently declassified to allow Kiriakou’s prosecution to proceed.
Upon conviction, the count charging illegal disclosure of Covert Officer A’s identity to a person not authorized to receive classified information carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, which must be imposed consecutively to any other prison term; the two counts charging violations of the Espionage Act each carry a maximum term of 10 years in prison; and making false statements carries a maximum prison term of five years. Each count carries a maximum fine of $250,000.
A complaint contains only allegations and is not evidence of guilt. The defendant is presumed innocent and is entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
The government is being represented in court by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Iris Lan (Southern District of New York) and Mark E. Schneider (Northern District of Illinois), and Justice Department trial attorney Ryan Fayhee of the Counterespionage Section of the National Security Division. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Owings (Eastern District of Virginia) will assist in the matter under local court rules.
Affidavit:
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His name was John Kiriakou....
Wow great job.
http://silverliberationarmy.blogspot.com/
here's another whistle blower. Warning: Very graphic
http://static.everdot.org/ebooks/english/Cathy_OBrien__Mark_Philips_-_Tr...
Looks like we have a candidate for indefitine detention. After being stripped of citizenship, of course.
If you are a "stateless" person will anyone care about the torture?
yeah...when they strip you of your citizenship...who the fuck owns you then?
in case anyone wonders, the "magic box" locates turned on cell phones world wide: http://www.terrorismwatch.org/2012/01/us-charges-former-cia-officer-with...
@ Comay Mierda, Transformation of America is a great read.
Cathy O'Brien speaks of her CIA mind control existence and how these programs were and are being perpetrated under the illegal 1947 National Security Act even today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rUnC7uV5yY&feature=related
I have harbored a tiny hope that some in the CIA are like us; they signed up for the right reasons and are shocked and disgusted by what is really going on and would topple this bitch if they thought they could.
Project Mayhem.
http://cryptogon.com/?p=27162
GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul said his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, has been detained by security at the Nashville airport.
takin'em down, one-at-a-time
until . . . http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-Solzhenitsyn-200-Years-Together-18.html
“There’s been a coup, have you heard? It’s the CIA coup,” stated Paul. “The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They’re the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. … And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. … And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They’re in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators … We need to take out the CIA,” he added.
-Ron Paul
Secrets of the CIA
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/secrets-of-the-cia/
"they signed up for the right reasons and are shocked and disgusted by what is really going on"
Correct.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. All these "rulers of fools" think their temporary earthly positions of power make them out to be the masters of the universe when in truth they are nothing but mere mortal men who are about to reap the whirlwind.
They so foolishly think to themselves "nobody sees what we do" when their darkest deeds are being revealed as the Ancient of Days will not be mocked by the likes of carnal men.
like the language. hope your right.
I have harbored a tiny hope that some in the CIA are like us;
crying in the wilderness . . . like you, Knowingwhat you don't want to know
Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, is a contributing editor to The American Conservative and executive director of the Council for the National Interest.
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/01/18/creating-american-terrorists/
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2011/11/30/neocons-preoccupied-with-islamic-conspiracy-theories/
harboring fear
noam chomsky, indeed
The sick part (and there are many) is that Fitzgerald was the one prosecuting Libby for obstructing during the investigation for the CIA agent Plame disclosure. After the jury convicted (and before his sentence was reduced to nothing but money and disbarment by the executive) the jury (rightfully so) were amazed and pissed off that Libby was the only one being prosecuted given the clear facts and trail to the top.
While Libby was awaiting sentence (the one he never got) a friend of mine wrote this letter to the judge:
The Hon. Reggie B. Walton
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse
333 Constitution Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
Re: United States v. Libby
Dear Judge Walton:
I read on the Washington Post’s website that Mr. Libby’s attorneys are soliciting letters to be sent to the court in advance of the scheduled sentencing hearing. I am quite sure that there are plenty of people who can genuinely say nice things about Mr. Libby.
It is important, however, to keep in perspective what Mr. Libby did, and continues to do. He was convicted because he lied to the FBI and to the Grand Jury in order to obstruct a federal investigation. His efforts in this regard have in fact proven to be successful in that the FBI and the Special Prosecutor have not been able to determine anything other than that there was a conspiracy to expose the identity of CIA operative. The full details of that crime will likely never be known nor will responsible individuals be prosecuted because of people like Mr. Libby.
Moreover, and for purposes of sentencing, special attention should be drawn to the fact that the crime is ongoing. Mr. Libby has never spoken out and actually said that he forgot his conversations with the press, that he was wrong or that he “misremembered” that he betrayed a CIA operative. Mr. Libby was found guilty of obstructing justice, and he is continuing to do so by not correcting the record and by not cooperating with the Special Prosecutor’s investigation. He is not only remorseless, but he continues to further the efforts of those who would conceal the original crime.
Mr. Libby worked for the public. As a member of the public, I resent the fact that he obstructed and continues to obstruct an investigation into the truth.
I respectfully request that the court sentence Mr. Libby at the high end of the standard range
Greek or Romanian name. He probably loves the Democrat's Chicago Allah. Strip him of citizenship and send him back to f****ng Greece.
cogent and charming. you go boy. great pic too.
The Government is The Problem
lawless government is the problem, imo. it's shades of gray but we're into deep charcoal at this point:
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=26210
This is a job for 'Action Jackson'...
Why don't they just take him out and shoot him?
In psy-op warfare sometimes it is best to make an example. This case has as much to do with the "crime" as it does with the NDAA and why it is necessary for the freedoms of 'Merca.
Exactly! This is just another form of state terrorism. Beat to bloody hell those who try to expose the machine in order to keep the rest in line.
"Be afraid. Be very very afraid dear sheep" is the underlying message.
""Be afraid. Be very very afraid dear sheep" is the underlying message."
I certainly have no fear of man nor the schemes of men nor the folly from the midst of these "rulers of fools".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravedestruction/sets/72157629000345505/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravedestruction/sets/72157628090245369/
but then neither you nor i have had the rat cage lowered on our head (yet).
http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/1984-23.html
exactly
mr montaigne
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears
To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave
I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older
Saying is one thing and doing is another
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass
etc__ htttp://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17241.Michel_de_Montaigne ___now knowing more than enough to do something about
Fear is the mind killer - F. Herbert
I think that they know that the more examples they create, the more holes and rebellion (organizaed and not) they create. It will only become harder for them to detect and harder for them to fight.
But, if the goal is to create rebellion then they are on the right track.
It sure seems like that's their objective. I tend to think they would prefer us to turn our guns on each other though. It's a little cleaner for them that way.
Real easy concept. Foment dissent.....giving them a reason to crack down on the dissent.
"Hey, they made us do it. You know, to maintain civil order. The same civil order we are undermining with our psyops and financial destruction. We're just doing it for the kids. Our kids of course, not yours. Now shut up and get back in the freaking (bread) line."
foment dissent . . .
preemptively
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-Solzhenitsyn-200-Years-Together-18.html
But I thought that whistle blowers were supposed to be celebrated.
Phew.. thank god, America is now safe and this enemy combatant can be detained indefinitely without due process.
"Legally," we must wait until March 3rd.
THEN we will all be NDAA safe. s/
Americans won't be truly safe until the Bill of Rights and the Constitution have been completely overturned, the Internet reduced to showing I Love Lucy reruns, and permanent martial law declared.
Also needed:
The Minestry of Truth.
and,
The Minestry of Silence..
/sarc
It is expected that when there is an unjust government that has kept secrets to protect the unjust and corrupted, people must make a choice to be corrupt or use their own moral compass and reason ...
He must have wondered where his loyalty should lie.
Now he has been disclosed...and I expect soon will have a visitor...or two
The CIA has its 'Magic Box,' and the American Sheeple, under the direction of the Main Stream Media Proxy of the Ministry of Mistruth & Injustice, line up in orderly fashion, single file, to board the 'Magic Bus.'
Green sharts, Unicorn pheromones & Elf farts.
I think you'd like this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsZUSP1p20s
"Green sharts, Unicorn pheromones & Elf farts."
Wasn't that a Donovan tune?
October, 2004: Google acquires CIA-linked company
Google has acquired Keyhole, Inc., which has a database of 3-D spy-in-the-sky images from all over the globe. Their software provides a virtual fly-over and zoom-in with one-foot resolution. Keyhole is supported by In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm funded by the CIA, in an effort to "identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge information technologies that serve United States national security interests."
In 2003, Keyhole's CEO John Hanke was quoted in an In-Q-Tel press release: "Keyhole's strategic relationship with In-Q-Tel means that the Intelligence Community can now benefit from the massive scalability and high performance of the Keyhole enterprise solution."
The spooks in Washington now had another hook into Google, Inc. Then in mid-2005, Rob Painter joined Google as Senior Federal Manager. He came straight from In-Q-Tel, where he had been Director of Technology Assessment.
http://www.google-watch.org/jobad.html
IN-Q-TEL ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN KEYHOLE
NIMA Uses Technology to Support the Conflict in Iraq
June 25, 2003
Mountain View, CA
In-Q-Tel, a private nonprofit venture funded by the Central Intelligence Agency, today announced a strategic investment in Keyhole Corp., a pioneer of interactive 3D earth visualization. The investment, made in February 2003, was In-Q-Tel's first engagement with a company on behalf of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).
http://www.iqt.org/news-and-press/press-releases/2003/Keyhole_06-25-03.html
Data Mineing is HUGE business for the Global Elite. 1984 Orwellian times have been here for quite sometime.
Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen presents his groundbreaking series on Barack Obama’s true origins. Madsen will share the bombshell revelations and extensive information from the following three articles– and even more that has not yet been revealed. Tell your friends, family and contacts to tune in and learn the truth.
Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen has discovered CIA files that document the agency’s connections to institutions and individuals figuring prominently in the lives of Barack Obama and his mother, father, grandmother, and stepfather. The first part of his report highlights the connections between Barack Obama, Sr. and the CIA-sponsored operations in Kenya to counter rising Soviet and Chinese influence among student circles and, beyond, to create conditions obstructing the emergence of independent African leaders.
President Obama’s own work in 1983 for Business International Corporation, a CIA front that conducted seminars with the world’s most powerful leaders and used journalists as agents abroad, dovetails with CIA espionage activities conducted by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham in 1960s post-coup Indonesia on behalf of a number of CIA front operations, including the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ford Foundation. Dunham met and married Lolo Soetoro, Obama’s stepfather, at the East-West Center in 1965. Soetoro was recalled to Indonesia in 1965 to serve as a senior army officer and assist General Suharto and the CIA in the bloody overthrow of President Sukarno.
http://www.infowars.com/bombshell-barack-obama-conclusively-outed-as-cia-creation/
Biden "outs" super-secret Seal Team 6 and not a peep...
Anything goes for a bump in the polls.
Remember Valerie Plame!
I"m assuming they'll pin that on him too (Scooter told him).
same happened to jessica lynch's rescuers! pat tillman!
When is someone going to leak those Bin Laden photos?
You mean the ones from when he died in 2001 of liver failure? How convenient he was shrink weighted down, shrink wrapped and then dumped into a sea which had a depth of 12,000 fathoms just like Muslim tradition requires for a proper burial...
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My suspicion is that (REDACTED).
Further more, I fear (REDACTED).
Finally, what I am really worried about is (REDACTED).
This case looks like a damned algebra equation.
Hey, you guys are missing Barton Biggs on boomberg... His is bullish unless we see trouble in Europe.
CIA, FBI ALL THE TELL US IS LIES...
WHEN I SAY IT THEy GET ALARMED...
BECAUSE IM LOUDER THAN A BOMB...
Public Enemy
fuck the US bank controlled Government!!!!!!!!
"9-11 is a joke in your town." Was Flavor Flav a soothsayer or what? Yeaaahhh Boi!!
al CIAeda
nuff said
Al CIA-duh - (Noun)
A division of an intelligence agency or entity who's primary purpose is to create the illusion of, or appearance of, a real threat for the purpose of consumption by the general population, while conducting clandestine operations which are often in opposition to the benefit, needs, or desires of the general population.
So where are the thousand of prosecutions against all the fraudulent mortgage loans and Wall Street repackaging of these that are guaranteed by our dear Fannie and Freddie who's losses aren't reported on the US Govt. balance sheet. The banksters rule with impunity to the law.
Look up Barney Frank's ass, they might be there.
How about photos from a sight seeing trip to beautiful Quantico VA?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravedestruction/sets/72157629000345505/
Are you trying to get on "the no fly list"? This America - you can't take pictures of public buildings anymore.
Thanks for the heads up but it really doesn't matter at this particular point in time for me or for them.
How about photos of this see-bird?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravedestruction/6737225901/in/photostream
You might enjoy this local news video:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/dhs-funded-taser-drone-launched-in-texas.html
Thanks HD
How about photos from the lovely neighborhoods of our former home in Santa Clara CA that was just a few blocks from the local mosque?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravedestruction/sets/72157628090245369/
Just another sign of the rot from within. Seems the more rot that you have, the more outgassing there will be.
pods
i did not know that leaking info is illegal. We have on daily bases leaked info on the market that can move market 100B+ up and down. How come that's legal and this is illegal?
And i have a Q to fellow ZHers, since all the leaked info for the market is bases on anonymous sources. Can the MSM ( FT for example) just come up with their own story and advance their own propping or shorting the market?
Since their illegal sources are never revealed, there is no way to prove it if there was a such a conversation to begin.
And I see most of the time it goes like this…. This information was leaked from a high government official or negotiator anonymously since the person has not been authorized…..
If that mother fucker was not authorized- should he be prosecuted? We need Steve Jobs on those bastards… He would show them the consequences of leaking info.
prosecute the whistleblowers, watched a doc. on Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Nixon went after him with a grand jury indictment, looking at 115 years in prison, if it weren't for Watergate bust.
Also, Manning is still being held without charge or trial for his whistleblowing.
Pretty birdies in the trees in this photo...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravedestruction/6746169089/in/set-72157629...
fuck the cia
How about a rare photo of the latest UAV Spy-Drone the CIA-Hawk?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravedestruction/6751156587/in/photostream
DOJ was just going to let this case go, but they found out this guy downloaded an episode of "Two and a Half Men" off a torrent - now Biden and Dodd want him to get the chair.
The Obama administration has aggressively prosecuted, rather than protected, whistleblowers. It's classic Chicago politics: intimidate, harass, and bog down any opponents in the courts rather than engage them on the level.
http://www.salon.com/2011/05/16/whistleblowers_6
In one case, the DOJ became an enforcer in trying to silence a corporate whistleblower. A Canadian court gave the DOJ a stiff rebuke on this one.
http://www.salon.com/2011/06/06/cisco_law_enforcement/
Just another day in the Most Transparant Administration in the History of American PoliticsTM
MsCreant -
Bush conducted a MAJOR housecleaning at the CIA, after he installed Porter Goss at CIA chief, getting rid of all such parties as you describe. I.e., anyone with integrity, an inner moral compass, loyalty to America rather than Dick Cheney, honesty about Iraq's WMDs, etc..
lol...arrested for embarrassing Washington would be more accurate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdguU9PxzLQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZc8cWIyLPE
Either a public hanging, or pivate death via a military firing squad, would be justice.
The real problem is the lack of quotes in the names of most federal agencies.
Department of Justice should be Department of "Justice"
Enviornmental Protection Agency should be Enviornmental "Protection" Agency
Department of Defense should be Department of "Defense"
Etc.
John Kiriakou, you have been backtraced.
DOJ is not for American people, only protects the rights of our enemies.
Spy vs. Spy - one of the all-time best cartoon strips.
We do not treat our CIA agents very well... look at poor Saddam.
Rumsfeld should be ashamed of himself... he too sold some pics of fat, smelly, naked arab men and didn't get in any trouble at all... but they were from his personal collection...
Meanwhile, shit like this goes unpunished:
A Marine accused of killing 24 unarmed Iraqi women and children pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty on Monday, reaching a deal that will mean a maximum of three months confinement and end the largest and longest-running criminal case against U.S. troops to emerge from the Iraq War.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MARINES_HADITHA?SITE=AP&SECTIO...
This has all become so utterly disheartening.
...and when this guy comes back to America he can just go about his business.
Actually, he will be actively recruited.
It's always good to see the DoJ engage in a case that doesn't matter to anyone, except the status quo. (You know, the gatekeepers.)
We've handed them thousands of cases of financial fraud. Nothing. But we'll for goddamn sure protect the identity of "Journalist B" or "Officer A" or whoever, while the likes of Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Richard Armitage, and Dick Fucking Cheney roam free.
What a fucking banana republic this is.
Exposing war crimes gets you thrown in jail.
Committing war crimes gets you a slap on the wrist and a pat on the back.
America is lost.
· "The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that from the CIA's inception in 1947 to 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations."
Throw in another 2 million from 1987 to 2007, interpolated from the above estimate.
"At least 869,720 people have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since the U.S. and coalition attacks, based on lowest credible estimates." So let's call that another 1 million.
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That makes 9 million total.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSQQlQ66bVg&feature=g-all-a&list=PL90C6104675B05EAC&context=G2ea7379FAAAAAAAALAA
CIA Agent Explains How Al-Qaeda Doesn't Exist
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=520
http://www.ajcongress.org/site/PageServer
The problem is that the CIA is the TIP OF THE SPEAR for the military industrial complex which is owned by banking interests (oligarchs). By the time the reports get to the president the truth is unrecognizable and full of lies (not to mention our presidents for decades now have been props for the oligarchs). How can you trust banks and a military who have no interest in a free republic, when there only interest is geo-politics and global domination for corporate profit here and overseas.
The CIA has become one of the worst ruled agencies on the earth and is totally out of control and always has been. Any agency who’s is willing to sacrifice the lives of people at home through false flags and abroad for corporate profit should be brought to justice. This is unacceptable behavior. Its obvious there’s no real push for peace only profit and slavery, the establishments peace plan is enslaving the world so they (oligarchs) can have total power and peace for themselves. True peace is bringing the troops home. By Fixing the flimsy foreign policy that is run by corrupt institutions. Throwing out all the illegal legislation and TRULY freeing people at home and overseas If they were going to be freeing other countries they would be setting up Constitutional Republics overseas that give true power to the people, not a puppet democracy controlled by U.S. and offshore corporate interests dominated by illegal military activities and oppression of every sort.
Operation Paperclip was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) program used to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany for employment by the United States in the aftermath of World War II (1939–45). It was executed by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), and in the context of the burgeoning Soviet–American Cold War (1945–91), one purpose of Operation Paperclip was to deny German scientific knowledge and expertise to the USSR[1] and the UK.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
NYT reports Paperclip CIA Nazi link
Deborah Dupré
Human Rights Examiner
November 15, 2010
The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century
The Justice Department report, describing what it calls “the government’s collaboration with persecutors,” says that O.S.I investigators learned that some of the Nazis “were indeed knowingly granted entry” to the United States, even though government officials were aware of their pasts. “America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became — in some small measure — a safe haven for persecutors as well,” – New York Times
The New York Times obtained the full 600-page Justice Department, report without the many redactions, on Operation Paperclip and has reported about it on November 13 calling the most damning aspect of it the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement with Nazis brought into the US.
The strong Nazi history in the United States has been suppressed until the NYT report that states, “Scholars and previous government reports had acknowledged the C.I.A.’s use of Nazis for postwar intelligence purposes. But this report goes further in documenting the level of American complicity and deception in such operations.”
The report names some of the most infamous Nazi scientists and doctor responsible for the Jewish holocaust and then brought to the US: Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death at Auschwitz, Arthur L. Rudolph, and Otto Von Bolschwing, “an associate of Adolph Eichmann who had helped develop the initial plans “to purge Germany of the Jews” and who later worked for the C.I.A.”
The NYT report reveals that only some 300 of the 10,000 Nazis brought into the US were ever deported and that the “Justice Department itself sometimes concealed what American officials knew about Nazis in this country…”
http://www.infowars.com/nyt-reports-paperclip-cia-nazi-link/
Allen Dulles as lawyer and international finance specialist for Sullivan & Cromwell, a Wall Street law firm in New York (1927-1941). While there, he worked with top Nazi industrialists and played a pivotal role in promoting U.S.-Nazi corporate relations. Allen worked with Prescott Bush (grandfather of George Walker Bush) and George Herbert Walker (Prescott’s father-in-law) who ran Union Banking Corporation for the Nazis. Allen was legal counsel for Standard Oil and the Nazi’s I. G. Farben, co-owned by the Rockefellers. (Other U.S. millionaires allied to the Nazis were: William Randolph Hearst Sr., Andrew Mellon, Irenee du Pont, Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan. Morgan, du Pont and others were even involved in a Fascist plot to overthrow the U.S. government in 1934.)
President Roosevelt, realized Dulles was a traitor, and Some Dulles-linked firms, like Bush’s Union Banking Corp., were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act (1942)
Dulles helped in the development of the CIA (1947), became its deputy director (1951) and its director (1953-1961).
Nazi shadows that have worked or been employed by the CIA include, Brigadier General Reinhard Gehlen
Chief of the Third Reich’s “Foreign Armies East.” Klaus Barbie (“the Butcher of Lyon”), Otto von Bolschwing (the holocaust mastermind who worked closely with Eichmann) and, SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny
crock0'shit?
if slewie were an intel officer and had a coupla guys who were gonna leave the agency, this would be a heluva play to stage w/ them on the way out, wouldn't it?
this reads to me like a cautionary tale for investigative journalists, anyhow
"photos from guantanimo"? well, i can't wait to see them, can you? Hahahaha!
<*hut! hut! hut!*>
Wow, not charged with treason. But then again look who's running the country...
Once again story is hiding something... This guy worked for the CIA between 1990 and 2004 but revealed classified operations to two journalists on multiple occasions between 2007 and 2009.
Um. Hello huge 3-5 year accurate information gap!
L0L!!!
as you may have deduced, i idin't read too much of the spook press release and the spook "case"
...well, ya know he had some photos from when he was a spook...
so, either this guy is as dumb as a rack0'hammers, or something else is operating...
yes, 5 years, but if he had some heavy duty stuff from early bush/cheney/anneCoulter daze...there's that need to proect against those pesky international tribunals...
there is simply no way to really know anything in these situ's except the propaganda, given the running score since dreyfuss
Check your premises, no need to possess a time machine to explain this...
Guantanamojo..........I have no idea what that means but declare the word public domain and used here first at ZH.
WTF is Guantanamo anyway? a US navy base in Cuba? What is that? a lease like Hong Kong, is it near the bay of pig's?How fucking unlikely is that?
Fideo Castro recognized leases to the imperial dogs after his popular peoples revolution and the bay of pigs and numerous CIA assasination attempts? How convenient, smells like bullshit to me.
Of course I will be banned from posting soon under NAPA, (No Alchoholics Posting Act).
This is the USA and we have our constitution, but we also have the Guantanamojo, we can put a Guantanamojo on you.B.S. in the 3rd degree.