We could not resist the attention-getting headline, even it is somewhat misleading. Ratzinger is not so much under house arrest as he is rather enjoying diplomatic immunity at the papal retreat in Rome, being severely restricted from future travel plans...
ITCCS: GUILTY!
Roman Church admits the Pope’s Guilt: Joseph Ratzinger to Evade Justice and Hide out in the Vatican for his own legal immunity and “protection”
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The Enhanced Interrogation of John Brennan
[Editor's note - there are a couple of additions since the first posting: especially items relating to Sibel Edmonds and James Robbins]
Never mind this love-fest...
WaPo: John Brennan's confirmation hearing for CIA director
The enhanced interrogations of John Brennan being pursued by independent investigators are yielding astonishing reports. In our exclusive of June 2011 - Compromised by Birth - we put Brennan at the clandestine heart of the so-called "birther" controversy, either as one who scrubbed Obama's passport record (Jerome Corsi's allegation) or, as we argued, one who exploits that record as blackmail against Obama to keep him in line with the "natsec" (short for national security community) agenda, of which Brennan has been a low profile but central player. Just how central he has been to so many of the CIA misadventures and atrocities of recent times is finally coming to light, thanks in large part to veterans of "natsec" itself, who, upon Obama's appointment of Brennan to be Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), have come forth to report what they know about Brennan, all of it unflattering at best, and quite sinister at worst...
Consortiumnews: Brennan’s Loose Talk on Iran Nukes
“Fraudulent” is the inescapably appropriate adjective to describe the pre-Iraq-war intelligence conjured up by those (first and foremost George Tenet) who did the bidding of George Bush and Tony Blair. Former CIA colleagues who served under Brennan before and during the Iraq war tell us that, since he was such a close confidant of Tenet, Brennan almost certainly knew chapter and verse about the deliberate corruption of the intelligence on Iraq. And yet, we have no indication that you [Feinstein et al] have investigated whether Brennan was part of that fateful conspiracy...
Most vociferously in opposition to Brennan's nomination has been Michael Scheuer...
Foreign Policy Journal: John Brennan as CIA chief would serve his own interests, not America’s
Scheuer accuses Brennan of essentially protecting Osama Bin Laden in the 1990s when Brennan was, in the words of George Tenet, “CIA’s senior officer on the Arabian Peninsula.” Scheuer relates this anecdotal joke to convey the tight relationship between Tenet and Brennan:
Indeed, there was a popular joke inside CIA in the 1990’s which ran something like: “Question: Why is George Tenet never photographed from behind? Answer: Because they have not found a way to dislodge John Brennan’s nose.”
Corroborating this account is another CIA vet Larry Johnson...
NoQuarter: John Brennan Must Be Stopped
Then we have former CIA and Sate Department analyst Mel Goodman who, in disputing Brennan's claims that he was somehow out of the loop on renditions and torture, stated on...
Democracy Now: "He Was The Agency" - Ex-CIA Analyst Questions Brennan Claim He Couldn’t Stop Waterboarding, Torture
He was the agency. He was on the seventh floor of the agency. He was an executive assistant to the director [Tenet] and to the executive secretary [A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard] of the CIA.
Given his position, moving from “CIA’s senior officer on the Arabian Peninsula” to the CIA's top echelon at Langley with Tenet and Krongard, and considering a series of evidences, beginning with the close relationship between Tenet and then Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar, conveyed in such revelations as an "all-night shmooze" of the two on the evening of Sept. 8, 2001 (related in David Ottoway's The King's Messenger, Pg. 154), and of Tenet, drunk in Bandar's pool, screaming about Jews (related in in Patrick Tyler's A World of Trouble); then considering - by Senator Bob Graham's account - Bandar's financial support of at least two of the 9/11 hijackers through his BAE/Al Yamamah account in the Riggs Bank (later taken over by HSBC, the bank Obama's justice department has deemed "too big to jail"); then considering George Tenet's direct role - by Richard Clarke's accusation - in preventing the interception of the same hijackers that Bandar was funding; finally, as relates to Buzzy Krongard, when we consider - according to Max Keiser - Krongard's proximity to the United Airlines 9/11 put options through Alex Brown and Sons' Baltimore office; Tenet's and Krongard's deputy dog - John O. Brennan - becomes, to say the least, a "person of interest" in the 9/11/2001 stand-down.
Very tantalizingly, in a series of interviews concerning Operation Gladio "Plan B," Sibel Edmonds reveals - based on her time of FBI wire-tap translating in 2001-02 - that there were meetings held from 1997 through 2001 in Azerbaijan that included Ayman al Zawahiri, Prince Bandar and unnamed U.S. officials. When questioned about those officials, she says that some of them hold both official and advisory positions in the current Obama administration, as well as positions on the boards of top defense companies. Brennan, as counter-terrorism "czar" or as CIA director, would fit that description. Edmonds's comments come at 5:25 in the video at...
Corbett Report: Sibel Edmonds Answers Your Questions on Gladio B
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On Brennan's place in the British-Saudi axis...
LaRouchePAC: Brennan and Obama, British-Saudi Assets?
What LaRouchePAC misses however is Brennan's connection to British intelligence via Damien Perl's Global Strategies Group that we uncovered in Compromised by Birth II.
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There is also the matter of 9/11/2012 stand-down in Benghazi, leading to the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, in which Brennan plays an even more central role. Such is the charge levied against Brennan in a recent E-book, Benghazi: The Definitive Report, by Jack Murphy and Brandon Webb. By this account, Stevens is said to have been at odds with the policies pursued by Brennan and Obama, including the overthrow of Qadaffi to begin with, and the spiriting of weapons from Libya into Syria, operations which Stevens was likely to obstruct; hence he as well as then DCI David Petraeus were kept out of the loop of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Maghreb run by Brennan himself. One of those military operations (mind you, long after the NATO mission had officially ceased) targeted a high level Al Qaeda operative in retaliation for which the Benghazi attack is said to have occurred. Since the State Department and CIA were unaware of the JSOC operations, they were hence unprepared for the likelihood of retaliation by the Al Qaeda affiliated Ansar al Sharia.
It is noteworthy that, as Murphy and Webb write, while "Stevens likely helped consolidate as many weapons as possible after the war to safeguard them..." his better judgement against their proliferation was overruled as "Brennan exported them overseas to start another conflict." This then is very much a gun-running (and not just gun-running, but very likely shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile-running) operation like that of Fast and Furious. So it should come as no surprise, though it was news to us, that as LaRouchePAC reports:
John Brennan Linked Through Kevin O'Reilly to Operation Fast and Furious
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Finally, on a less than serious note, courtesy of Glenn Beck's site...
The Blaze: EX-FBI AGENT CLAIMS OBAMA’S CIA NOMINEE IS REALLY A SECRET MUSLIM RECRUITED BY SAUDIS
But who knows? It is evident that Brennan was a bit miffed at challenges to his interpretation of the Islamic concept of jihad during a meeting with the editorial staff of The Washington Times...
WH counter-terrorism adviser Brennan storms out of TWT offices
James Robbins later revealed on facebook that he had received threats from the White House, from somebody apparently acting on behalf of Brennan. Robbins does not reveal the nature of the threats (likely they were in reference to his career opportunities) and he doesn't seem to take them very seriously; perhaps however given Brennan's attitude towards press freedom as argued in a college thesis, he should...
WhoWhatWhy: John Brennan In Grad School - Destroying Democracy Helps Save It
Never mind this love-fest...
WaPo: John Brennan's confirmation hearing for CIA director
The enhanced interrogations of John Brennan being pursued by independent investigators are yielding astonishing reports. In our exclusive of June 2011 - Compromised by Birth - we put Brennan at the clandestine heart of the so-called "birther" controversy, either as one who scrubbed Obama's passport record (Jerome Corsi's allegation) or, as we argued, one who exploits that record as blackmail against Obama to keep him in line with the "natsec" (short for national security community) agenda, of which Brennan has been a low profile but central player. Just how central he has been to so many of the CIA misadventures and atrocities of recent times is finally coming to light, thanks in large part to veterans of "natsec" itself, who, upon Obama's appointment of Brennan to be Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), have come forth to report what they know about Brennan, all of it unflattering at best, and quite sinister at worst...
Consortiumnews: Brennan’s Loose Talk on Iran Nukes
“Fraudulent” is the inescapably appropriate adjective to describe the pre-Iraq-war intelligence conjured up by those (first and foremost George Tenet) who did the bidding of George Bush and Tony Blair. Former CIA colleagues who served under Brennan before and during the Iraq war tell us that, since he was such a close confidant of Tenet, Brennan almost certainly knew chapter and verse about the deliberate corruption of the intelligence on Iraq. And yet, we have no indication that you [Feinstein et al] have investigated whether Brennan was part of that fateful conspiracy...
Most vociferously in opposition to Brennan's nomination has been Michael Scheuer...
Foreign Policy Journal: John Brennan as CIA chief would serve his own interests, not America’s
Scheuer accuses Brennan of essentially protecting Osama Bin Laden in the 1990s when Brennan was, in the words of George Tenet, “CIA’s senior officer on the Arabian Peninsula.” Scheuer relates this anecdotal joke to convey the tight relationship between Tenet and Brennan:
Indeed, there was a popular joke inside CIA in the 1990’s which ran something like: “Question: Why is George Tenet never photographed from behind? Answer: Because they have not found a way to dislodge John Brennan’s nose.”
Corroborating this account is another CIA vet Larry Johnson...
NoQuarter: John Brennan Must Be Stopped
Then we have former CIA and Sate Department analyst Mel Goodman who, in disputing Brennan's claims that he was somehow out of the loop on renditions and torture, stated on...
Democracy Now: "He Was The Agency" - Ex-CIA Analyst Questions Brennan Claim He Couldn’t Stop Waterboarding, Torture
He was the agency. He was on the seventh floor of the agency. He was an executive assistant to the director [Tenet] and to the executive secretary [A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard] of the CIA.
Given his position, moving from “CIA’s senior officer on the Arabian Peninsula” to the CIA's top echelon at Langley with Tenet and Krongard, and considering a series of evidences, beginning with the close relationship between Tenet and then Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar, conveyed in such revelations as an "all-night shmooze" of the two on the evening of Sept. 8, 2001 (related in David Ottoway's The King's Messenger, Pg. 154), and of Tenet, drunk in Bandar's pool, screaming about Jews (related in in Patrick Tyler's A World of Trouble); then considering - by Senator Bob Graham's account - Bandar's financial support of at least two of the 9/11 hijackers through his BAE/Al Yamamah account in the Riggs Bank (later taken over by HSBC, the bank Obama's justice department has deemed "too big to jail"); then considering George Tenet's direct role - by Richard Clarke's accusation - in preventing the interception of the same hijackers that Bandar was funding; finally, as relates to Buzzy Krongard, when we consider - according to Max Keiser - Krongard's proximity to the United Airlines 9/11 put options through Alex Brown and Sons' Baltimore office; Tenet's and Krongard's deputy dog - John O. Brennan - becomes, to say the least, a "person of interest" in the 9/11/2001 stand-down.
Very tantalizingly, in a series of interviews concerning Operation Gladio "Plan B," Sibel Edmonds reveals - based on her time of FBI wire-tap translating in 2001-02 - that there were meetings held from 1997 through 2001 in Azerbaijan that included Ayman al Zawahiri, Prince Bandar and unnamed U.S. officials. When questioned about those officials, she says that some of them hold both official and advisory positions in the current Obama administration, as well as positions on the boards of top defense companies. Brennan, as counter-terrorism "czar" or as CIA director, would fit that description. Edmonds's comments come at 5:25 in the video at...
Corbett Report: Sibel Edmonds Answers Your Questions on Gladio B
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On Brennan's place in the British-Saudi axis...
LaRouchePAC: Brennan and Obama, British-Saudi Assets?
What LaRouchePAC misses however is Brennan's connection to British intelligence via Damien Perl's Global Strategies Group that we uncovered in Compromised by Birth II.
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There is also the matter of 9/11/2012 stand-down in Benghazi, leading to the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, in which Brennan plays an even more central role. Such is the charge levied against Brennan in a recent E-book, Benghazi: The Definitive Report, by Jack Murphy and Brandon Webb. By this account, Stevens is said to have been at odds with the policies pursued by Brennan and Obama, including the overthrow of Qadaffi to begin with, and the spiriting of weapons from Libya into Syria, operations which Stevens was likely to obstruct; hence he as well as then DCI David Petraeus were kept out of the loop of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Maghreb run by Brennan himself. One of those military operations (mind you, long after the NATO mission had officially ceased) targeted a high level Al Qaeda operative in retaliation for which the Benghazi attack is said to have occurred. Since the State Department and CIA were unaware of the JSOC operations, they were hence unprepared for the likelihood of retaliation by the Al Qaeda affiliated Ansar al Sharia.
It is noteworthy that, as Murphy and Webb write, while "Stevens likely helped consolidate as many weapons as possible after the war to safeguard them..." his better judgement against their proliferation was overruled as "Brennan exported them overseas to start another conflict." This then is very much a gun-running (and not just gun-running, but very likely shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile-running) operation like that of Fast and Furious. So it should come as no surprise, though it was news to us, that as LaRouchePAC reports:
John Brennan Linked Through Kevin O'Reilly to Operation Fast and Furious
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Finally, on a less than serious note, courtesy of Glenn Beck's site...
The Blaze: EX-FBI AGENT CLAIMS OBAMA’S CIA NOMINEE IS REALLY A SECRET MUSLIM RECRUITED BY SAUDIS
But who knows? It is evident that Brennan was a bit miffed at challenges to his interpretation of the Islamic concept of jihad during a meeting with the editorial staff of The Washington Times...
WH counter-terrorism adviser Brennan storms out of TWT offices
James Robbins later revealed on facebook that he had received threats from the White House, from somebody apparently acting on behalf of Brennan. Robbins does not reveal the nature of the threats (likely they were in reference to his career opportunities) and he doesn't seem to take them very seriously; perhaps however given Brennan's attitude towards press freedom as argued in a college thesis, he should...
WhoWhatWhy: John Brennan In Grad School - Destroying Democracy Helps Save It
Sunday, February 24, 2013
FEMEN campaign for Berlusconi
Berlusconi's flagging campaing for re-election receives a big boo...st in its final hours...
Voice of Russia: Femen girls in nude Berlusconi greeting (VIDEO)
The three women pulled off their clothes, remaining only in jeans, as soon as the former prime minister appeared at the polling station.
They shouted "Basta Berlusconi" ("Enough with Berlusconi"), the same slogan was painted on their bare upper bodies.
The activists broke through a line of journalists at the polling station at the Dante Alighieri School and tried to reach Berlusconi, but they were immediately seized by bodyguards and dragged away.
The three women, Inna Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko and Elvire Duval-Sharle, were quickly detained by police. The women resisted as officers struggled to put jackets and handcuffs on them and seat them in a police car.
The 76-year-old politician’s reaction to the incident was calm...
Indeed, because he knows that more bare breasted femmes means more votes for Berlusconi, and more votes for Berlusconi means more bare breasted femmes... The average Italian male understands this, but do these alleged feminists comprehend the dynamic here? It might just be enough to put Berlusconi over the top.
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More femme-provocateur news....
Leftwing Christian: BOOBS, PUSSIES, AND THE HYPOCRISY OF FRANCE
RT: Boob job - FEMEN activist reveals topless protesters’ $1,000 salaries
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Update
The campaign effort didn't work out for Berlusconi, who lost by a narrow margin, thanks in large part to the campaign of the self-described clown Grillo. For the ins and outs of Italian politics, see Webster Tarpley...
After Fifteen Months of Monti’s Austerity Rule, Italy Votes; Right-Wing Demagogue Grillo Rides Wave of Chaos
Briefing Di Tarpley Per Le Elezioni
Voice of Russia: Femen girls in nude Berlusconi greeting (VIDEO)
The three women pulled off their clothes, remaining only in jeans, as soon as the former prime minister appeared at the polling station.
They shouted "Basta Berlusconi" ("Enough with Berlusconi"), the same slogan was painted on their bare upper bodies.
The activists broke through a line of journalists at the polling station at the Dante Alighieri School and tried to reach Berlusconi, but they were immediately seized by bodyguards and dragged away.
The three women, Inna Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko and Elvire Duval-Sharle, were quickly detained by police. The women resisted as officers struggled to put jackets and handcuffs on them and seat them in a police car.
The 76-year-old politician’s reaction to the incident was calm...
Indeed, because he knows that more bare breasted femmes means more votes for Berlusconi, and more votes for Berlusconi means more bare breasted femmes... The average Italian male understands this, but do these alleged feminists comprehend the dynamic here? It might just be enough to put Berlusconi over the top.
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More femme-provocateur news....
Leftwing Christian: BOOBS, PUSSIES, AND THE HYPOCRISY OF FRANCE
RT: Boob job - FEMEN activist reveals topless protesters’ $1,000 salaries
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Update
The campaign effort didn't work out for Berlusconi, who lost by a narrow margin, thanks in large part to the campaign of the self-described clown Grillo. For the ins and outs of Italian politics, see Webster Tarpley...
After Fifteen Months of Monti’s Austerity Rule, Italy Votes; Right-Wing Demagogue Grillo Rides Wave of Chaos
Briefing Di Tarpley Per Le Elezioni
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Assassin in Chief
It came from the most unlikely of sources (in so far as NBC and MSNBC have been to Obama what FOX was to Bush)...
Eliminating dissent? Or was Kyle executed in order to cover up an attempted character assassination?
Examiner: SEAL sniper being sued by Jesse Ventura found murdered
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Another likely assassination, though in this case the "persons of interest" would be associates of the Bushes (which could include Obama), as the target was one Phillip Marshall, a former CIA/DEA pilot and author of books on 9/11 and Iran-Contra (in which he was an unwitting participant as a flyer out of Mena, Arkansas with notorious CIA drug-runner Barry Seal who, incidentally, was assassinated on this day in 1986, and is regularly cited as a denizen of the Bush and/or Clinton body count). In the case of Marshal, the "black bag" operation was particularly vicious, as he was "suicided" after allegedly murdering his teenage son and daughter and dog...
Santa Barbara Review: Phillip Marshall Wrote About a Conspiracy; Was He the Victim of One?
Wayne Madsen seeks to connect this to the murder mystery of Sarai Sierra in Istanbul the same weekend, as Marshall's ex-wife was also in Istanbul at the time of the murder. The connection is unclear, but his observation in conclusion is worth noting...
WMR: Is there a connection between alleged double murder-suicide in California and dead American woman in Turkey?
President Obama's policy on assassinating American citizens anywhere in the world has been authorized by what are called "elastic" Department of Justice criteria. Four Americans are now dead with Turkey being a common factor. Because of his policies, Mr. Obama now owes the nation a full explanation of "what he knew and when he knew it" every time an American dies from suspicious causes at home or abroad. The Marshall-Sierra deaths call for an immediate "what they knew and when they knew it" explanation from Mr. Obama and the architect of America's torture, kidnapping, and assassination policies, John O. Brennan, nominated by Obama to head the CIA.
Madsen, following up on the Murphy, California side of the story, concludes that Phil Marshall had something that someone was willing to kill to obtain, noting that Marshall was currently working on a new book, telling a friend that "You're not going to believe the stuff I'm going to have in the next book."
Madsen, who was on site Feb. 13, notes that a stack of empty bankers boxes were found at the front door. Subsequently the premises was broken into and then visited by Marshall's estranged inlaws, who were said to have made "quite a mess." It is unclear whether the inlaws or the Sheriff currently possesses Marshall's computer. In either case, the fate of his unfinished, final book is not looking good.
In other deaths with opportunistic timing, Paraguay's populist president has been "aviated" into the netherworld...
Economist: The last caudillo - Lino Oviedo’s death may help the Colorados return to power
Will the Bush family finally cash in on that investment made some years ago...?
FourWinds10.com: BEAUTIFUL PARAGUAY - THE BUSH'S LIKE IT - WONDER WHY?
NBC (Michael Isikoff): Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans
The raw report (courtesy Secrecy News)...
While much of what it tells us is nothing new, certain details are brought to light demonstrating that the program is potentially far more insidious than one might have thought. For instance, as concerns the notion of "immanent threat," Glenn Greenwald notes in...
Gaurdian: Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens
The memo claims that the president's assassination power applies to a senior al-Qaida member who "poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States". That is designed to convince citizens to accept this power by leading them to believe it's similar to common and familiar domestic uses of lethal force on US soil: if, for instance, an armed criminal is in the process of robbing a bank or is about to shoot hostages, then the "imminence" of the threat he poses justifies the use of lethal force against him by the police.
But this rhetorical tactic is totally misleading. The memo is authorizing assassinations against citizens in circumstances far beyond this understanding of "imminence". Indeed, the memo expressly states that it is inventing "a broader concept of imminence" than is typically used in domestic law. Specifically, the president's assassination power "does not require that the US have clear evidence that a specific attack . . . will take place in the immediate future"...
One might have inferred the policy as such, however, synthesizing previously known administration efforts on a. pursuing "preventative detention" legislation, whereby the assumed but evidentially undiscovered proclivity to terrorism is enough to warrant detention; b. using loose criteria - "all military-aged males in a strike zone" - for identifying terrorists as adequate not just for capture but for killing; and c. the already executed policy (known to have occurred deliberately in one case and collaterally in two, including that of a minor) of drone assassination of U.S. citizens outside of judicial or congressional oversight.
It should come as no surprise then that Obama is indeed assuming dictatorial powers in the very arbitrary sense that the word "dictator" implies; and we can only bemusedly smile at the bewildered dismay of his otherwise supportive hopium tokers succumbing to the cognitive dissonance that these facts induce. Now having broken through the partisan blood-brain barrier and shafting into the very heart of the Obama-zombie echo-chamber - MSNBC - we shall see how the old adage, "Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite," pans out for 21st Century America.
Discouragingly, there is a tendency to fish for apologies, excuses, and allowances that really it's not as bad as it looks. Even Scott Shane, co-author of many of the New York Times pieces on these matters, including most recently: Drone Strikes’ Risks to Get Rare Moment in the Public Eye; Mr. Shane was recently heard on NPR confabulating...
I don't think it's that [President Obama is] bloodthirsty and really enjoys trying to put people's names on lists to be killed. I think there's a certain wariness — probably a proper wariness — that any president would have towards agencies. Agencies kind of want to do what they're good at doing, or what they're job is.
So certainly, according to what we've heard, both the CIA and ... the element of the military that does these strikes are pretty aggressive. They want to find targets and kill them, and so I think the role of the White House — the role that President Obama assigned to the White House — was, and to himself, was really one of restraining the agencies...
Indeed, restraining these agencies from people like Stanley McCrystal...
Reuters: Retired general cautions against overuse of "hated" drones
Shane drones on...
...double-checking the agencies, making sure that at this sort of broader strategic, political level, that there was good judgment being exercised, that you weren't taking a shot in a very marginal situation or for a marginal gain and risking a big backlash that would put the United States in a worse position.
It is extraordinary that this is the same guy who previously described for us Brennan and Obama deciding whether or not to kill a 17 year old girl...
This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years...
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We have been brought to assume the worst about this president. Enough so that we should question whether the assassination policy has any constraints at all, and whether the methods include the CIA's more traditional "black bag" modus operandi, even with the president himself participating in the PSYOPS. A case in point, on the morning of Feb. 2, the White House issued a dubious photo of Obama demonstrating his purported marksman skills...
This Ain't Hell: Saturday steaming bowl of Skeet
Curious timing, as later that day, top rated Navy SEAL sniper, Chris Kyle, was gunned down in Texas...
The memo claims that the president's assassination power applies to a senior al-Qaida member who "poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States". That is designed to convince citizens to accept this power by leading them to believe it's similar to common and familiar domestic uses of lethal force on US soil: if, for instance, an armed criminal is in the process of robbing a bank or is about to shoot hostages, then the "imminence" of the threat he poses justifies the use of lethal force against him by the police.
But this rhetorical tactic is totally misleading. The memo is authorizing assassinations against citizens in circumstances far beyond this understanding of "imminence". Indeed, the memo expressly states that it is inventing "a broader concept of imminence" than is typically used in domestic law. Specifically, the president's assassination power "does not require that the US have clear evidence that a specific attack . . . will take place in the immediate future"...
One might have inferred the policy as such, however, synthesizing previously known administration efforts on a. pursuing "preventative detention" legislation, whereby the assumed but evidentially undiscovered proclivity to terrorism is enough to warrant detention; b. using loose criteria - "all military-aged males in a strike zone" - for identifying terrorists as adequate not just for capture but for killing; and c. the already executed policy (known to have occurred deliberately in one case and collaterally in two, including that of a minor) of drone assassination of U.S. citizens outside of judicial or congressional oversight.
It should come as no surprise then that Obama is indeed assuming dictatorial powers in the very arbitrary sense that the word "dictator" implies; and we can only bemusedly smile at the bewildered dismay of his otherwise supportive hopium tokers succumbing to the cognitive dissonance that these facts induce. Now having broken through the partisan blood-brain barrier and shafting into the very heart of the Obama-zombie echo-chamber - MSNBC - we shall see how the old adage, "Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite," pans out for 21st Century America.
Discouragingly, there is a tendency to fish for apologies, excuses, and allowances that really it's not as bad as it looks. Even Scott Shane, co-author of many of the New York Times pieces on these matters, including most recently: Drone Strikes’ Risks to Get Rare Moment in the Public Eye; Mr. Shane was recently heard on NPR confabulating...
I don't think it's that [President Obama is] bloodthirsty and really enjoys trying to put people's names on lists to be killed. I think there's a certain wariness — probably a proper wariness — that any president would have towards agencies. Agencies kind of want to do what they're good at doing, or what they're job is.
So certainly, according to what we've heard, both the CIA and ... the element of the military that does these strikes are pretty aggressive. They want to find targets and kill them, and so I think the role of the White House — the role that President Obama assigned to the White House — was, and to himself, was really one of restraining the agencies...
Indeed, restraining these agencies from people like Stanley McCrystal...
Reuters: Retired general cautions against overuse of "hated" drones
Shane drones on...
...double-checking the agencies, making sure that at this sort of broader strategic, political level, that there was good judgment being exercised, that you weren't taking a shot in a very marginal situation or for a marginal gain and risking a big backlash that would put the United States in a worse position.
It is extraordinary that this is the same guy who previously described for us Brennan and Obama deciding whether or not to kill a 17 year old girl...
This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years...
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We have been brought to assume the worst about this president. Enough so that we should question whether the assassination policy has any constraints at all, and whether the methods include the CIA's more traditional "black bag" modus operandi, even with the president himself participating in the PSYOPS. A case in point, on the morning of Feb. 2, the White House issued a dubious photo of Obama demonstrating his purported marksman skills...
This Ain't Hell: Saturday steaming bowl of Skeet
Curious timing, as later that day, top rated Navy SEAL sniper, Chris Kyle, was gunned down in Texas...
Eliminating dissent? Or was Kyle executed in order to cover up an attempted character assassination?
Examiner: SEAL sniper being sued by Jesse Ventura found murdered
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Another likely assassination, though in this case the "persons of interest" would be associates of the Bushes (which could include Obama), as the target was one Phillip Marshall, a former CIA/DEA pilot and author of books on 9/11 and Iran-Contra (in which he was an unwitting participant as a flyer out of Mena, Arkansas with notorious CIA drug-runner Barry Seal who, incidentally, was assassinated on this day in 1986, and is regularly cited as a denizen of the Bush and/or Clinton body count). In the case of Marshal, the "black bag" operation was particularly vicious, as he was "suicided" after allegedly murdering his teenage son and daughter and dog...
Santa Barbara Review: Phillip Marshall Wrote About a Conspiracy; Was He the Victim of One?
Wayne Madsen seeks to connect this to the murder mystery of Sarai Sierra in Istanbul the same weekend, as Marshall's ex-wife was also in Istanbul at the time of the murder. The connection is unclear, but his observation in conclusion is worth noting...
WMR: Is there a connection between alleged double murder-suicide in California and dead American woman in Turkey?
President Obama's policy on assassinating American citizens anywhere in the world has been authorized by what are called "elastic" Department of Justice criteria. Four Americans are now dead with Turkey being a common factor. Because of his policies, Mr. Obama now owes the nation a full explanation of "what he knew and when he knew it" every time an American dies from suspicious causes at home or abroad. The Marshall-Sierra deaths call for an immediate "what they knew and when they knew it" explanation from Mr. Obama and the architect of America's torture, kidnapping, and assassination policies, John O. Brennan, nominated by Obama to head the CIA.
Madsen, following up on the Murphy, California side of the story, concludes that Phil Marshall had something that someone was willing to kill to obtain, noting that Marshall was currently working on a new book, telling a friend that "You're not going to believe the stuff I'm going to have in the next book."
Madsen, who was on site Feb. 13, notes that a stack of empty bankers boxes were found at the front door. Subsequently the premises was broken into and then visited by Marshall's estranged inlaws, who were said to have made "quite a mess." It is unclear whether the inlaws or the Sheriff currently possesses Marshall's computer. In either case, the fate of his unfinished, final book is not looking good.
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In other deaths with opportunistic timing, Paraguay's populist president has been "aviated" into the netherworld...
Economist: The last caudillo - Lino Oviedo’s death may help the Colorados return to power
Will the Bush family finally cash in on that investment made some years ago...?
FourWinds10.com: BEAUTIFUL PARAGUAY - THE BUSH'S LIKE IT - WONDER WHY?
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Pedos in High Places
Queen Beatrix of Holland announces that she will abdicate on April 30 - on Walpurgisnacht no less, the same day that Adolf Hitler "abdicated" in 1945. Ostensibly, this is simply on account of her advancing years. Other matters, however, are perhaps motivating her to flee the public eye, as pedophile rings associated with Holland's justice minister unfurl...
Arrest Demmink: Accused pedophile Joris Demmink is honored by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and the Dutch government at his October 31 retirement ceremony
Demmink Child Molester Hearing Washington
Klokkenluideronline: PANIEK OVER BEATRIX-DEMMINK
Not just on the continent, of course, as there are plenty of pedos in Britannia...
PAKALERT PRESS: THE PAEDOPHILE RING THAT ENCIRCLES BRITISH POLITICS
Express: JIMMY SAVILE WAS PART OF SATANIC RING
Mirror: Child abuse cops seize VIP list: Politicians, MI5 agent, Royal aide and pop stars all named
If it seems that elected officials have become increasingly unresponsive to the will of their constituents over recent decades, one might say that this is due to a tendency for pervy flotsam to rise to the top. Those whose interests are necessarily opposed to that of the general public have found that the fetishes of politicians are quite useful in bending policy towards their will, particularly when their moments of flagrante delecti are captured on video (search our Sovereigns of Porno posts for a few examples). The more monstrous the perversion, however, the more bendable a politician will be. So, for instance, in spite of the massive demonstrations in Britain on the eve of the 2003 Iraq war, Tony Blair was unswayed. Perhaps his participation in certain activities on the island of Jersey would go some way to explaining his poodle-like subservience to the war machine...?
Aangirfan: Jersey; top people; a cover-up?
Meanwhile, stateside, there seems to be a confluence of similar activity particularly in Connecticut. Commenting on our CT Snuff Circuit post, "Silvija" - a frequent contributer to the daily chat rooms at the Wayne Madsen Report - wrote...
I have some dirct knowledge of that... I worked in the NGO world a number of years ago and spent some time with the big intel NGOs in the exact corner of SH and know some of the big guys there. There is a very large intel front there which has direct founding roots in Op Paperclip, ties to the biggest names in the history of CIA, Pappy Bush and the other big intels and logistical facilitators from the Vatican end also...they had a man there whom I knew well. He was a prolific serial rapist who raped everywhere we went. Young women for sure but allegedly more than that. Someone from Bill Clinton's inner circle warned me about this in private and said he does more than just his endless rape sprees around the world. He was involved in this CT snuff thing. This man is dead now, died quite recently. I always kept an eye on him, even years after I walked away from it all. In the deep state stuff this NGO was involved in, there were only 2 people in the chain of command between him and GHWB, a massive direct connection to Pappy for sure. Not the official CIA structure but there is a shadow structure, a working construct of the black ops stuff. That hierarchy. I cannot say I personally know what GHWB Bush does. But I know for sure that someone only 2 people under him was a serial offender of for sure major rape sprees around the world but allegedly also snuff and this was a warning from another insider. They always protected him. Until the day he died and still do. Ther was a recent NYT 1/4 page obit singing the praises of this man as he was under humanitarian cover and NYT sang that song of...we lost one of our great humanitarians.... Pretty eye-popping to get this inside glimpse of things. And that is just one tiny glimpse of this monstrous structure. But yes, there is a culture of deeply entrenched institutionalized pedophilia, rape and snuff there and CT is one of the nerve centers for sure. Creepy place.
Less of the monstrous variety, and more amusing, but also in Connecticut...
Pix11: Monsignor Meth’s shocking secret life: He allegedly bought porn shop, cross-dressed and had rectory sex
Update: February 13
...which brings us to another high-level abdication: Pope Benedict XVI, aka Joseph Ratzinger, apparently in response to a diplomatic note received February 4 from an unnamed European nation informing the Holy See of an impending arrest warrant for charges of complicity in child torture and trafficking...
ITCCS: Pope Benedict resigned to avoid arrest, seizure of church wealth by Easter
David Icke: Resigning Ratzinger Covered Up Global Child Abuse - Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Arrest Demmink: Accused pedophile Joris Demmink is honored by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and the Dutch government at his October 31 retirement ceremony
Demmink Child Molester Hearing Washington
Klokkenluideronline: PANIEK OVER BEATRIX-DEMMINK
Not just on the continent, of course, as there are plenty of pedos in Britannia...
PAKALERT PRESS: THE PAEDOPHILE RING THAT ENCIRCLES BRITISH POLITICS
Express: JIMMY SAVILE WAS PART OF SATANIC RING
Mirror: Child abuse cops seize VIP list: Politicians, MI5 agent, Royal aide and pop stars all named
If it seems that elected officials have become increasingly unresponsive to the will of their constituents over recent decades, one might say that this is due to a tendency for pervy flotsam to rise to the top. Those whose interests are necessarily opposed to that of the general public have found that the fetishes of politicians are quite useful in bending policy towards their will, particularly when their moments of flagrante delecti are captured on video (search our Sovereigns of Porno posts for a few examples). The more monstrous the perversion, however, the more bendable a politician will be. So, for instance, in spite of the massive demonstrations in Britain on the eve of the 2003 Iraq war, Tony Blair was unswayed. Perhaps his participation in certain activities on the island of Jersey would go some way to explaining his poodle-like subservience to the war machine...?
Aangirfan: Jersey; top people; a cover-up?
Meanwhile, stateside, there seems to be a confluence of similar activity particularly in Connecticut. Commenting on our CT Snuff Circuit post, "Silvija" - a frequent contributer to the daily chat rooms at the Wayne Madsen Report - wrote...
I have some dirct knowledge of that... I worked in the NGO world a number of years ago and spent some time with the big intel NGOs in the exact corner of SH and know some of the big guys there. There is a very large intel front there which has direct founding roots in Op Paperclip, ties to the biggest names in the history of CIA, Pappy Bush and the other big intels and logistical facilitators from the Vatican end also...they had a man there whom I knew well. He was a prolific serial rapist who raped everywhere we went. Young women for sure but allegedly more than that. Someone from Bill Clinton's inner circle warned me about this in private and said he does more than just his endless rape sprees around the world. He was involved in this CT snuff thing. This man is dead now, died quite recently. I always kept an eye on him, even years after I walked away from it all. In the deep state stuff this NGO was involved in, there were only 2 people in the chain of command between him and GHWB, a massive direct connection to Pappy for sure. Not the official CIA structure but there is a shadow structure, a working construct of the black ops stuff. That hierarchy. I cannot say I personally know what GHWB Bush does. But I know for sure that someone only 2 people under him was a serial offender of for sure major rape sprees around the world but allegedly also snuff and this was a warning from another insider. They always protected him. Until the day he died and still do. Ther was a recent NYT 1/4 page obit singing the praises of this man as he was under humanitarian cover and NYT sang that song of...we lost one of our great humanitarians.... Pretty eye-popping to get this inside glimpse of things. And that is just one tiny glimpse of this monstrous structure. But yes, there is a culture of deeply entrenched institutionalized pedophilia, rape and snuff there and CT is one of the nerve centers for sure. Creepy place.
Less of the monstrous variety, and more amusing, but also in Connecticut...
Pix11: Monsignor Meth’s shocking secret life: He allegedly bought porn shop, cross-dressed and had rectory sex
Update: February 13
...which brings us to another high-level abdication: Pope Benedict XVI, aka Joseph Ratzinger, apparently in response to a diplomatic note received February 4 from an unnamed European nation informing the Holy See of an impending arrest warrant for charges of complicity in child torture and trafficking...
ITCCS: Pope Benedict resigned to avoid arrest, seizure of church wealth by Easter
David Icke: Resigning Ratzinger Covered Up Global Child Abuse - Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
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