There was collusion to subvert the will of the American
voters in the 2016 election alright, but it wasn’t Russia it was Great
Britain. All of the ridiculous charges Theresa
May has made against Russia are lies, particularly the latest accusation that
the wily Russians chemically poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter
Yulia. The scurrilous, reckless lies of
the spy agencies are designed to incite World War III. These spy agencies must be held accountable
for their treasonous actions and there needs to be a dismantling the
intelligence juggernaut called the 5-Eyes.
From The Guardian:
Excerpt:
History of 5-Eyes – explainer
Partnership forged in wartime to
monitor enemy radio transmissions now scoops up data about ordinary citizens
During the second world war
intelligence officers from Britain and the US would crouch over bulky radio
transmitters listening in on crackling enemy exchanges. In the years since
then, communications technology has changed drastically – and intelligence
gathering is far easier in the digital age.
But despite the changes it is the
same agreement that still governs the sharing of signals intelligence between
Britain, the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada – known in shorthand as
the "5-Eyes" countries…
“In the days when the agreement was
put together, your main source of
signals was high-frequency radio that could be transmitted for several
thousand kilometres around the world, so you had a whole network of stations to
monitor HF radio…”
“As communications moved into much
much higher of the frequency spectrum with mobile phones and then cell phones, they moved into facilities that could
intercept those much shorter range signals, so there has been an evolution
which has matched the change in means of communications,” Ball says.
Intelligence gathering has
developed even further with digital communication interceptions, and as leaked NSA documents have shown,
Australia has been operating listening posts around the Asia-Pacific
region, passing data back to the US.
But high-frequency radio
transmissions are vastly different from the internet, in both form and purpose.
The executive director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, David Vaile, says the internet should not be seen as a
medium designed for this kind of mass data collection.
"With the vast amount of information
that's exposed online there is a greater need for more protection," Vaile
says. The original agreement was created
to share information about intelligence gathered on foreign countries, not domestic surveillance. But that
purpose and the scope of the intelligence being gathered also appears to have
changed…
The 1946 agreement specifically
related to "foreign intelligence", which is defined as "all
communications of the government or of any military, air, or naval force,
faction, party, department, agency, or bureau of a foreign country, or of any
person or persons acting or purporting to act therefor, and shall include
communications of a foreign country which may contain information of military,
political or economic value". It
specifically excludes the US, the British Commonwealth and nations, and the
British empire from the scope of this sort of information.
But we now know from documents
provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden that the NSA has been able to
retain vast amounts of data from Britain and other 5-Eyes nations, allowing information about ordinary
citizens to be caught up in the dragnet.
In a draft 2005 directive in the
name of the NSA's director of signals intelligence, the agency prepared policies that would enable spying on 5-Eyes
partners, even without permission of the other country: “[The March 1946
UKUSA agreement] has evolved to include a
common understanding that both
governments will not target each other's citizens/persons. However, when it is in the best
interest of each nation, each reserved the right to conduct unilateral Comint
action against each other's citizens/persons…
This shift in the agreement is what
Vaile says is one of the most serious risks, because it helps facilitate spying
on the citizens of other parties to the agreement. "If you actually did want to spy more on
the local people then it appears that with co-operation of the other partners
this is easier, because they would have the legal right in their own domestic
law to treat the citizens of the other countries as foreigners, and that appears to be where the rot has set
in."
Yep, that is where “the rot set in" and British and
American intelligence agencies began spying on ordinary citizens for political
reasons. After the 911 attacks took
place under W. Bush’s watch we were told we needed an Orwellian Homeland
Security Agency to coordinate our security efforts. It’s time to get rid of that boondoggle. From New Republic:
Excerpt:
Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security
The case for abolishing the
wasteful, incompetent, and abusive mega-agency has become especially urgent
under Trump.
The Department of Homeland
Security’s first problem is its name… “The word ‘homeland’ is a strange word,” Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld mused to his staff in one of his infamous “snowflake”
memos in February 2001. “‘Homeland’ Defense sounds more German than American.
Also, it smacks of isolationism,
which I am uncomfortable with.”
But after the September 11 attacks,
the George W. Bush administration rallied around the phrase to describe its
anti-terrorism efforts… The White House established an umbrella Office of
Homeland Security under former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, then proposed the creation of a massive,
Cabinet-level department by the same name to oversee the nation’s domestic
security.
It’s now been more than 15 years
since the U.S. government reorganized itself in response to a terrorist attack
committed by 19 people. International terrorism’s threat to the United States
has largely receded: Al-Qaeda is a remnant of its former self, and the Islamic
State has been largely defeated in Iraq and Syria. At the same time, the bloated Department of Homeland Security
turned into a boondoggle—an opinion shared across the political spectrum
for years.
As the tenth anniversary of 9/11
approached, in a paper for the libertarian Cato Institute, David Rittgers
argued that the department’s unusually
broad mandate is a recipe for waste and inefficiency. “This arrangement has
not enhanced the government’s competence,” he wrote. “Americans are not safer
because the head of DHS is simultaneously responsible for airport security and
governmental efforts to counter potential flu epidemics.”
Matt Mayer, a Homeland Security
official under President George W. Bush, argued in 2015 that DHS has too much responsibility. “It
goes without saying that I observed up-close the dysfunction, turf battles, and
inherent limitations in an entity that does so much,” he wrote in Reason
magazine…
Rittgers and Mayer both called for eliminating DHS and
distributing its responsibilities among various independent agencies… But the
last year has seen the emergence of a deeper problem than mismanagement. Under
Trump, some of the department’s agencies have turned openly abusive towards
vulnerable members of American society. The case for abolishing DHS has never
been more urgent…
Homeland Security has been
incompetent, wasteful, redundant, and abusive—and Congress knows it. The result was a sprawling new federal
bureaucracy. In its current form, DHS
employs almost a quarter-million people and doles out tens of billions of
dollars in grants and programs each year…
In all these efforts, DHS has been either incompetent, wasteful,
redundant, or abusive—and Congress knows it…
But lawmakers are hesitant to cut
funding for a department designed to fight terrorism, and reports of wasteful
spending abound… A damning 2012 Senate
Homeland Security Committee report found that the 77 fusion centers scattered
across the United States “often produced
irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence reporting to DHS, and
many produced no intelligence reporting whatsoever.”
Funny that the 5-Eyes never detected the chatter that was occurring
before the 911 attacks. But then Tony
Blair and George W. Bush were planning on attacking Iraq before the 911 attacks
took place. It was Tony Blair who
provided the “sexed up” intelligence report on Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent
weapons of mass destruction. No one ever
paid a price for the British intelligence lies.
Now Theresa May is claiming Vladimir Putin poisoned the Skripals with
the weapon of mass destruction Novichok.
From Executive Intelligence Review:
Excerpt:
Former British Diplomat Craig Murray Debunks Russia Nerve Agent
Allegations
March 15, 2018 (EIRNS)—Former
British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray has debunked the allegations
about a Russian poison nerve agent on his website, using sources he says he
cannot disclose now. However, he charges that “The Novichok Story Is Indeed Another Iraqi WMD Scam,” as the headline
of his blog reads.
Basically, the U.K. government is
claiming that former Russian GRU turned MI6 double agent Sergei Skripal was
killed by “Novichok,” a substance no one
has ever seen and whose existence is even doubted, so that if indeed it was
used, this would be the first time, and British experts wouldn’t be able to
identify it. Furthermore, they should have delivered a sample to the
Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), of which the U.K.
is member.
He summarized his conclusions as
follows:
·
Porton Down [the U.K. government laboratory
dealing with chemical weapons] has acknowledged in publications that it has never seen any Russian ‘Novichoks.’
The U.K. government has absolutely no ‘fingerprint’ information, such as
impurities, that could safely attribute any sample to Russia.”
·
Until now, neither Porton Down nor the world’s
experts at the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) were
convinced ‘Novichoks’ even exist.
·
The U.K. is refusing to provide a sample to the
OPCW.
·
‘Novichoks’ were specifically designed to be
able to be manufactured from common ingredients on any scientific bench. The
Americans dismantled and studied the facility that allegedly developed them. It is completely untrue only the Russians
could make them, if anybody can.
·
The
Novichok program was in Uzbekistan, not in Russia. Its legacy was inherited
by the Americans during their alliance with [Uzbek President Islam] Karimov,
not by the Russians.”
Yep, same bullsh*t different day. This collaboration of the British and
American intelligence seems to be clownish at best. If there were a free press in either country
they wouldn’t be able to get away with this crap. This is just another attempt to start
WWIII. From Paul Craig Roberts:
Excerpt:
Lies Can Lead To War
Notice that the governments of the US, UK, France, and Germany did not require any
evidence to decide that the Russian government used military-grade nerve gas to
attack two people on an English park bench and a UK policeman. It makes no
sense. There is no Russian motive.
The motive lies in the West. It is
the latest orchestration in the ongoing demonization of Russia. The demonization is a huge boost to the
power and profit of the military/security complex and prevents President Trump from
normalizing relations. The military/security's budget and power require
a major enemy, and Russia is the designated enemy and will not be allowed to
escape that assigned role.
The false accusations against
Russia are damaging the Western countries that make and support the accusations. There has never any evidence provided for
any of the accusations. Consider them: the Malaysian airliner, Crimea, the
polonium poisoning of a Russian in the UK, Putin's alleged intention to restore
the Soviet Empire, Russiagate and the stealing
of the US presidential election, other charges of election theft or
interference. The current Skripal poisoning. Accusations abound, but never any
evidence. Eventually even insouciant Western peoples begin to wonder about the
transformation of evidence-free accusations into truth.
What do leaders and peoples of the
few independent and sovereign countries think when they see a signed condemnation of Russia for poisoning a
long-retired UK double-agent without a scrap of evidence by the political
heads of the four major Western countries? What do the Chinese think? The
Iranians? The Indians?
We know that the Russians are beginning to think that they are being set up by
demonization for invasion, as was Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad, Yemen,
and the attempt on Iran. It is finally dawning on Russia that all these
accusations are not some kind of mistake that diplomacy can straighten out,
but, instead, the setting up of Russia for military attack.
So many lies spread by British and American intelligence it’s
hard to keep up. Oh, and that dodgy
dossier of British Intelligence lies that was given to John McCain to bring an
FBI eager to publish was just a bunch of hooey.
It was all part of the collusion between British intelligence and the
FBI to launch a witch hunt against President Donald Trump. From The Federalist:
Excerpt:
REVEALED: Peter Strzok Had Personal Relationship With Recused Judge In
Michael Flynn Case
Text messages obtained by The
Federalist show that Peter Strzok and
Lisa Page conspired to collude with Judge Rudolph Contreras, a FISA judge who
presided over Michael Flynn's guilty plea and was later removed from the case.
Newly discovered text messages
obtained by The Federalist reveal two
key federal law enforcement officials conspired to meet with the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judge who presided over the federal
case against Michael Flynn. The judge, Rudolph Contreras, was recused from
handling the case just days after accepting the guilty plea of President Donald
Trump’s former national security adviser who was charged with making false statements
to federal investigators.
The text messages about Contreras
between controversial Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) lawyer Lisa Page
and Peter Strzok, the senior FBI counterintelligence official who was kicked
off Robert Mueller’s special counsel team, were deliberately hidden from
Congress, multiple congressional investigators told The Federalist. In the
messages, Page and Strzok, who are rumored to have been engaged in an illicit
romantic affair, discussed Strzok’s personal friendship with Contreras and how to leverage that relationship in
ongoing counterintelligence matters.
“Rudy is on the [Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court]!” Page
excitedly texted Strzok on July 25, 2016. “Did you know that? Just
appointed two months ago.”
“I did,” Strzok responded. “I need
to get together with him.”
“[He] said he’d gotten on a month
or two ago at a graduation party we were both at.”
Contreras was appointed to the top
surveillance court on May 19, 2016, federal records show.
The pair even schemed about how to set up a cocktail or dinner party just so
Contreras, Strzok, and Page could speak without arousing suspicion that
they were colluding. Strzok expressed concern that a one-on-one meeting between
the two men might require Contreras’ recusal from matters in which Strzok was
involved.
“[REDACTED] suggested a social
setting with others would probably be better than a one on one meeting,” Strzok
told Page. “I’m sorry, I’m just going to have to invite you to that cocktail
party.”
“Have to come up with some other
work people cover for action,” Strzok added.
“Why more?” Page responded. “Six is
a perfectly fine dinner party.”
It is not known whether the
proposed party happened as planned.
While working as one of the top
counterintelligence officials at the FBI, Strzok
reportedly took part in the FBI’s interview of Flynn on January 24. Flynn
later pleaded guilty to one charge of providing false information to federal
investigators. Strzok later left the FBI
to join Mueller’s special counsel team, which obtained the indictment of
Flynn.
Flynn’s guilty plea was accepted in
federal court by Contreras on December 1, 2017. The New York Times reported the
next day that Strzok, who left the FBI
to work for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian
interference in the 2016 election, had been removed from the case by
Mueller due to inappropriate text messages between Strzok and another federal
official, now believed to be DOJ attorney Lisa Page.
On December 5, 2017, Sen. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a
letter to FBI director Christopher Wray demanding text messages from Strzok as
well as any notes he took regarding his interviews with Flynn. Contreras was recused from the Flynn
case on December 7, 2017, and the case was reassigned to Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan, according to federal court documents.
Neither Contreras nor federal
judiciary officials have publicly indicated the reason for Contreras’ removal
from the case. Contreras’ office declined to comment on inquiries asking about
his relationship with Strzok, or why he
was not recused from the Flynn case until after he had accepted Flynn’s guilty
plea…
Hmmm, so Strzok, the senior FBI counterintelligence official
set up Flynn how much more corrupt could the FBI get? That is just the tip of the iceberg. The whole Mueller investigation is a set up
to remove America’s elected President and replace him with one more liking to
British Intelligence, the FBI and CIA. The
set up began in July right around the time that the British government was planning
on banning Trump from Britain. Oh there
was collusion in America’s 2016 Presidential election alright, but it wasn’t
between Trump and Russian President Putin, it was between the British
government and Obama’s FBI and CIA.
Nice.
By Patricia Baeten
