Russian Spy Chiefs Met In U.S. With U.S. Intelligence Officials In January | Ra...

It appears that Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the FSB (former KGB), Igor Korobov, the head of the GRU (Russian Military Intelligence), and the  Sanctioned/Banned SVR (the Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency that hacked our 2016 elections) chief, Sergey Naryshkin, were-secretly - ushered into the U.S. to meet with CIA chief, Mike Pompeo, NRI chief Dan Coats (among other high-level U.S. Intelligence officials) at the end of January 2018.

What A Coincidence -this secret meeting took place just days before Donald Trump decided to - unilaterally  eliminate the Russian sanctions that the U.S. Congress had approved (with bipartisan support) in response to Russia"s interfering with our 2016 elections.

Please Note:  For that last person, Sergey Naryshkin - who has been banned since 2014 - to set foot on American soil would have required "special dispensation" from the U.S. Secy of State, Rex Tillerson.

Also worth noting:  This highly-unusual meeting wasn't even mentioned or acknowledged by the White House.  We only learned of it because Reuters picked up on the story while translating Russian state-run press coverage in which the Kremlin was boasting.

The FBI Is Actively Investigating Possible NRA-Russia Electoral Campaign Funding Funneling

FACT: The NRA spent between $30 Million and $55 Million in 2016 to get Donald Trump elected President.

That's three times more than they invested in Mitt Romney's presidential  campaign.

What I want to know is this:

*Where the hell did the NRA get such huge sums of money to throw around so carelessly?!

Surely not just from NRA membership dues and hat/t-shirt/bumper sticker sales...

Aren't you Curious?

What’s the Truth About the NRA’s Man in Moscow?

9/11: Explosive Evidence (PBS Documentary) And, How 9/11 Could Have Been Prevented

ICYMI:  It's become quite apparent that - following the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole and, after Alec (CIA) Station's infiltration of a "Terror Summit" held in Malaysia (sometime around 1998-99 and prior to 9/11) that...

Then-CIA Director George Tenet, two of his closest allies (Cofer Black, Richard Blee) and around 50 to 60 other CIA officials knowingly withheld urgent intelligence information from both the (G.W.) Bush and the Clinton White Houses, the FBI, as well as Immigration, the State and the Defense Departments on two known Al-Qaeda operatives (and, later, 9/11 hijackers)  - named al-hazmi and al-mihdhar - both of whom who had entered the United States a year and a half before the attacks and were living in San Diego under their real names.  (Source: Fmr. White House Counter-Terrorism chief,  Richard Clarke)

There was one honest FBI agent (on loan to CIA) with integrity (Doug Miller) who had learned of the CIA's knowledge of the two Al-Qaeda men's presence on American soil and who had, immediately, drafted a cable with the reasonable intention of informing the FBI of this dangerous situation.  Tragically, delivery of that cable was intentionally stopped by another CIA official (identified as Tom Wilshire). Supposedly, this was done because the CIA was hoping to recruit them (Fail.). *

(*In other words:  Had the CIA actually shared intelligence (Gasp!) with the FBI in a timely manner... then, the FBI possibly could have prevented 9/11...  and all of the chaos, mayhem, loss of rights & privacy, loss of life (mind you, there were massive losses of life in Afghanistan and Iraq) and the enormous debt.  Oh, wait... AND, the (previously non-existent) spread of Al-Qaeda.  ("Mission Accomplished!", huh?)

Oh yeah... and, later, that same cable was 'accidentally' withheld from the 9/11 Commission's investigations.  Go figure!

Fast forward to 2004: President George W. Bush awards George Tenet the U.S. Medal of Freedom...(sigh).

So...YES!  Without a doubt - No Matter How Painful They May Be To Learn - History and The Truth DO Matter!

And, I - for one -firmly believe You CAN Handle The TRUTH.

So... Check THIS Out...

How Anonymous Just Fooled Donald Trump, the Secret Service, and the FBI

The Hacktivist Collective Known As... Anonymous:

Anonymous - once infamous, primarily, for their prankster ways - "just pulled a fast one on Donald Trump, his campaign staff, the Secret Service, and the FBI — in one brilliant and telling fell swoop.

On Friday, Anonymous announced it had released Trump’s personal information online — including such details as his cell phone number and Social Security number.  Backlash from the Trump front promptly followed, as well as an announcement from the Secret Service and FBI that an investigation had begun.

However, the information had NOT been hacked nor leaked.

In fact, everything Anonymous posted had been online — and available for anyone to see — for years."

And, mass hilarity ensued - Proving a much-needed point:

"Why law enforcement - at every level - was so quick to pounce on the NON-crime and effect arrest of those behind it 

— WITHOUT investigating whether a crime had even been committed —

paints a telling portrait of exactly the FASCIST tendencies Anonymous wished to prove."

BRAVO, Anonymous Family, BRAVO!

Read All About It, HERE:

How Anonymous Just Fooled Donald Trump, the Secret Service, and the FBI

FBI Uncovers Another of Its Own Plots. Senator Feinstein's Response: Censor the Internet! | The Daily Sheeple

Look Who's Wagging The Dog... Yet Again:

"As you may - or may not - have already heard, on Thursday, the FBI “uncovered” yet another of its own terrorist plots, the latest in a very long line of “terrorist plots” the FBI has “uncovered” — in which the details always show that it was an undercover FBI “informant” (often doing this to get off leniently for some other issue), who more or less goads hapless, naive people, into a “plot”  that had no real chance of ever happening.

This appears to be the same sort of thing."

FBI Uncovers Another of Its Own Plots, Senator Feinstein Responds By Saying We Should Censor the Internet | The Daily Sheeple

My New Anthem: "F the CC" By Steve Earle. Enjoy!

My new Anthem.

Only Complaint? Steve Earle didn't include "F**k the NSA!".

Enjoy!

"F the CC" - By Steve Earle

"I used to listen to the radio.  I don't guess they're listenin' to me no more.  And they talk too much but that's okay.  I don't understand a single word they say.  They piss and moan about the immigrants.  Don't say nothin' about the President.  A democracy don't work that way. I can say anything I wanna say.  So f**k the F.C.C..  F**k the F.B.I..  F**k the C.I.A.  Livin' in the motherf**kin' U.S.A...."

Police-Involved Shootings: A Shot In The Dark

Samantha Bee- of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - attempts to uncover the statistics about the excessive use of lethal force by America's police forces, only to discover that this data is mysteriously nonexistent.

But, on the brighter side, if you need to find out how many bicycles are stolen or homes are burglarized, that's no problem...

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Fox Cameraman Catches UFO And Endures Interrogation By FBI (Video)

"Look!  Up in the sky!  It's a bird!  It's a plane!  It's..."  a Rod!? 
(Not to be confused with "A-Rod".)

Back in 2002, a Fox-TV affiliate cameraman was filming airplanes at the Albany Int'l. Airport when he accidentally captured something curious flying among the clouds...

The object appears to be what has recently been referred to as a "rod".  Since the development and popularity of digital video, more and more lay people have been recording these objects.  They have been recorded flying around base jumpers and look like flutes with superior and anterior "wings" or "fins".  More and more people are supporting the idea that these are actually living, biological entities that have been living, unnoticed, in our upper atmosphere.

Apparently, the FBI took it seriously enough to take the man in for questioning and they interrogated him for 2 hours and gave him a polygraph test (they thought he faked the footage, even though he wasn't the one who brought it to their attention).  The footage has been expertly analyzed and declared genuine and the object seen flying behind a cloud in the video was really there.

It isn't an atmospheric disturbance.  It isn't the planet Venus.  It isn't a missile or other misidentified aircraft.  So, what is it?
I'm going with "fellow Earthling".

Here's the link to the Rense.com article on the FBI's involvement and confiscation of a copy of the tape as seen in the video: FBI Grabs Fox UFO Video

Video Link:
Fox Cameraman Catches UFO On Camera & Endures Hours Of Interrogation By FBI - August 22, 2014 [Video]

A (Whole New) Game of Tag | FBI | Fortean Times

Implants: They're not just about aliens anymore...

This story gives a whole, new meaning to the phrase: "I've got you under my skin."

And, so not in a good way...

Check out this unsettling article from Fortean Times:

A Game of Tag | FBI | Fortean Times

The Guy Hottel Memo On Roswell UFO Crash / Recovery From FBI Vault

The "Guy Hottel Memo".
Discovered in 2011.  Dated March 22, 1950.
Source: The FBI Vault (Yes, that FBI.)
(F.Y.I. ~ This is the most-viewed document in the FBI Vault.)

"The subject of the memo was anything but ordinary. It related a story told to one of our agents (Guy Hottel) by a third party who said an Air Force investigator had reported that three “flying saucers” were recovered in New Mexico. The memo provided the following detail:

“They [the saucers] were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots.""

Although the above description matches the descriptions provided (in 1947) by witnesses at the time of the Roswell Incident (multiple recovered craft; 3-ft. tall "alien" bodies recovered; fabric recovered), the FBI denies this document proves anything.

Of course they deny the facts presented.

It's the freaking FBI.  They deny Everything.

It's part of their job description.

Check it out for yourselves.

Here's a link to the single-page Guy Hottel Memo at the FBI Vault:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/march/ufos-and-the-guy-hottel-memo/ufos-and-the-guy-hottel-memo

Richard Dolan: UFOs and 9/11 (Understanding The 2 Greatest Conspiracies...

Richard Dolan: UFOs and 9/11 (Understanding The 2 Greatest Conspiracies Of Our Time)

Go ahead and groan, shake your heads and/or roll your eyes all you want...

Richard M. Dolan is an iconoclastic scholar with legitimate/significant educational credibility (MA in History/University of Rochester; BA/Alfred University; ‘Certificate’ in Political Theory/Oxford University; Rhodes Scholar Finalist).

So, go ahead and keep clinging to that fervent belief that we - the #1 Super-Power in the World - were caught with our pants down, unawares.  Do that - if you must.
And then, please, listen to his lecture with an open, critical mind.
Please.

Thank You.
)

FBI Finds Lotta Nada For 2 Out Of 3 FOIA Requests And... Wins The Rosemary Award! Congrats!

... And we wondered how the Feds could have missed the fact that two of the 9/11 terrorists were listed in the phone book?

The National Security Archive has just awarded the F.B.I. its Rosemary Award for the worst Freedom of Information Act performance by a federal agency.

What gives?

Well, the F.B.I. defends it's request results by saying that the seemingly excessive number of "no such records exist" responses are mostly due to a relatively recent new national pastime: that of filing a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Request for one's own file/dossier... when you are - more or less - Jane or Joe Law-abiding Citizen and therefore, they have no files on you.

Yeah... Sure... Sounds Reasonable to me.

Riiight.

Well I, for one, haven't filed a FOIA request for any F.B.I. files referencing myself. Nor do I know anyone who has... and admitted it, anyway.

But-
That's not to say that I haven't thought about doing it.
I did think about it, a few times in the past - when things were... uh, weird (long story - not here.).
But, I finally thought better of it.

A wise associate of mine had pointed out that:
a.) They - in all likelihood - have no file on you. And...
b.) If they don't... Why would you want to go and do something that might call unwanted attention to yourself?

Ahh, yes. Good ol' Logic. Gotta love it.

So, my two cents' worth:

1.) Don't File A FOIA Request on Yourself Because You're Bored... or because you've gotten paranoid due to all of the surveillance cameras... or because your initially innocent curiosity about those Conspiracy Theory-based websites has blossomed into full-blown Sleep Dep... Please.

2.) That said - If you happen to be someone who has a legitimate reason to file a FOIA Request with the F.B.I. or any other Federal agency... Be Specific... Be Very, Very Specific. They won't look for anything, for anyone or look anywhere that you don't specifically state in your Request.

And, let's be honest, even if you specifically request it... they still might not bother to do it. Be persistant.

Squeaky wheels and all.

Peace.
L.


(Circa: 1973. Rose Mary Woods, President Richard Nixon's secretary at her White House desk, demonstrates the "Rose Mary Stretch" which could have 'accidentally' resulted in the erasure of part of the Watergate tapes.)

(From: The Boston Globe)

F.B.I. Finds Nothing For 2 Out Of 3 Who Seek Records

By Michael J. Sniffen
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON D.C. — If information were a river, the FBI would be a dam.

Two out of every three people who ask for FBI records under the Freedom of Information Act are told by the bureau no such documents exist -- a failure rate five times higher than at other major federal agencies, a private study finds.

The FBI is using an outdated and deliberately limited search process to avoid full compliance with the records law, the National Security Archive asserts. The Archive is a private group that publishes declassified government documents and files many FOIA requests.

The Archive awarded the FBI its Rosemary Award for the worst Freedom of Information Act performance by a federal agency. Named for former President Richard M. Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, the award is given annually around Sunshine Week, when journalism organizations promote open government and freedom of information. Woods is best known for re-enacting her claim to have accidentally erased 18 1/2 minutes of a White House tape recording when she stretched to answer a phone.

"The FBI knowingly uses a search process that doesn't find relevant records," Archive director Tom Blanton said Thursday. "Not only does this woeful performance lead to unnecessary litigation, but the bureau apparently uses the same searches in its criminal investigations as well."

The Archive said FBI records show that over the past four years the bureau told 66 percent of requesters -- 37,342 out of 56,530 requests -- that it found no responsive records. The 33 large federal agencies that receive the bulk of all FOIA requests responded that way only 13 percent of the time on average, the archive calculated.

In 2008, only 89 requesters, 0.5 percent of the year's total, got everything they asked for from the FBI; 2,276, 13 percent, got part of what they sought.

David Hardy, chief of the FBI's FOIA section, has said the bureau checks FOIA requests against the names on an electronic index of its files.

The electronic index contains names of individuals, organizations, companies, publications, activities and counterintelligence programs. It includes the main name for each file and other names in the file -- or cross-references -- that case agents think might be useful in the future, but not all names in every file. The electronic index for searching only goes back to 1980s; earlier records have to be searched by hand on paper.

The FBI checks the main names on the index, Hardy has said. It does not check cross-reference names unless specifically asked to, and does not check the entire file. It won't look at paper or field office records unless specifically asked to.

Blanton said modern information systems use electronic search tools that scan the entire text of a document. "The FBI process, in contrast, is designed to send FOIA requesters away frustrated, and no doubt has the same effect on the FBI's own agents."

Hardy told The Associated Press on Thursday the indexing system is designed to support bureau investigations.

"The names our agents pick to put in the index mean something to our investigators," Hardy said. "We're not building a library. If you have something of meaning to the FBI, it's going to be there."

But Blanton responded: "No FBI agent is omniscient. They can't always know what names would be important to another field office or make or break an investigation in the future."

Two men who turned out to be Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist hijackers lived in San Diego and associated with an FBI informant before the attack, but if the agent only indexed the informant's name, they wouldn't find the two hijackers, Blanton said.

FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said "the reason for the huge number of no-records responses is that it's become a cult phenomenon to ask the FBI for records on yourself, and most people don't have FBI records."

But FBI searches frustrate other requesters. Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue wanted to know whether bureau documents showed a link between his brother's death in custody and the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.

Trentadue asked for a Jan. 4, 1996, message from FBI Director Louis Freeh's office to the Oklahoma City and Omaha, Neb., offices that discussed the federal building bombers (the FBI's OKBOMB case). His request supplied the correct date for the memo, the names of the sender and two recipients and a newspaper story with direct quotes from it, but the FBI told him no records matched his request.

Trentadue later found the very memo he wanted had been released to another FOIA requester, so he sued the FBI for a better search. Hardy told the court the FBI had used the search term "OKBOMB" to try to find the January 1996 message; bureau officials couldn't say why that search failed to produce the Freeh message, in which the first listed subject was "OKBOMB."

Hardy told AP the law requires reasonable, not exhaustive, searches. "If we were to try to chase down every name with a full text search, the entire Russian army couldn't finish the work in a timely manner," Hardy said. "We think our system is reasonable."

Hardy said the FBI now has the shortest pending times for FOIA requests in its history, no backlogged requests older than three years and fewer than 1 percent older than two. But Blanton said the FBI's average response times of 109 days for an expedited request and 374 days for a complex request are still among the highest in government.

Blanton said the FBI has avoided processing requests by demanding privacy act waivers from any living individual referenced. He said the bureau stopped a student journalism project on the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan by requesting a privacy waiver from al-Qaida leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a U.S. prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"We are supposed to use common sense and waive that rule," Hardy said. "But we correct our errors. We're processing the Pearl documents now."

Risen & Edmonds: Not As Appreciated As Woodward & Bernstein... Yet.

Bless the Beasts and the Children and...

The Whistleblowers!

For Where would we all be without Them?

If it were left up to the current deluded, delusional and deep in denial/"I don’t remember" Administration...

...Well, let’s just say that... if Light represents Truth...
We’d still be stumbling and fumbling in complete and absolute darkness... grasping for some solid semblance of a Fact (... or one of those thousands of White House emails which "went missing"... and somehow didn’t make it into the Presidential Record... It’s Funny how the state-of-the-art systems in place to make sure all Presidential communications are entered into Permanent Record - something instituted after Watergate and the missing 18hrs. of tape - suddenly and without warning or anyone noticing... stopped working exactly at the times that serious communications were going on..
Like when CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity was being intentionally leaked and when Former Incompetent Attorney General Gonzalez became a Bush finger puppet and used his position to facilitate the firing of US Prosecutors who were pursuing cased against Republican officials...

Gee, I hope they got that bug out of the system...

I betcha it’ll be working just fine...
... As soon as GWB and his Cabinet of Corruption are out)

Anyway... The Whistleblowers.

Here are two names of two Americans who honestly deserve to be awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom...

They Love America.
They Believe in what America has always Stood for and Will Stand for Again...
As soon as...

These two Americans... in spite of it creating a real risk to their own freedoms and/or lives (one was fired from her job)... made a choice between being Sheeple and Being People... They saw that our leaders and some of those who had the responsibility to keep us safe were doing us wrong... and they took the initiative to let us know about it.

These two Americans are sooo much more deserving of The Medal of Freedom than ...
those "... bargain-basement Flying Karamazov Brothers of disastrous international politics..." - as Robert J. Elisberg described them - Tommy Franks, L. Paul Bremer and Former CIA Chief George Tenent.

But, considering who’s at the helm... can’t say as I’m surprised he gave it to them...
Maybe George believes that by doing so, he somehow makes the whole Iraq Fiasco - from inception to invasion to the Hundreds of Billions of Your Tax Dollars being poured into the Bottomless and Un-Accounted for Money Pit that Iraq is today...
(While here, in California, Hundreds of School Teachers are getting Pink Slips (firing notices) due to Trickle-Down Budget Cuts of - by comparison - a scant few $ Million)
look like less of a concocted and conspired-for War Crime.

Psst... Georgie?... It doesn’t.

Remember these two names:
James Risen and Sibel Edmonds...
Maybe even nominate them for a Medal...
(Once You-Know-Who is Gone, Baby Gone.)

I, for One, am looking forward to that moment...
More than I ever looked forward to Christmas Morning and the unwrapping of gifts.

Peace.
L.

(From: Bill Moyer’s Journal)

Government Secrecy and The Press

You may not know James Risen’s name, but you probably know his work: He’s one of the NEW YORK TIMES reporters who broke the story of the Bush administration listening in to phone calls and reading email, without search warrants. That story infuriated some conservatives. A popular blog accused Risen and his co-author of treason for revealing sensitive information, and pundit William Bennett said the reporters deserved jail time.

Bennett may get his wish. A federal prosecutor has asked a grand jury to look into a book that Risen wrote. It details not only warrantless wiretapping but also how, when it came to covert operations in the Middle East, the Administration made "mistake piled on mistake" caused an "espionage disaster" and was "operating in the blind" when it came to Iran.

Risen was subpoenaed to tell a grand jury who he talked to about Iran — in other words, to reveal his anonymous sources. So far, the reporter has refused to talk. And recently, his lawyer moved to quash the subpoena. Some veteran investigative journalists wrote letters in support of that motion. One of them told me that if Risen is forced to testify, the public will be the real loser. Here’s why: Anonymous sources have a lot to lose if their identities are revealed because a lot of them are powerful or prominent. So, if the Federal government can force a reporter like Risen to reveal their identities, those sources will clam up. There’d be more corruption and wrongdoing in Washington that the public would never learn about.

Administration officials seem not to mind keeping the public in the dark.

But for muckrakers and whistleblowers, it’s getting harder and harder to expose corruption and wrongdoing.

Take the case of former FBI agent Sibel Edmonds: She blew the whistle on massive incompetence at the Bureau — sloppy translations, missed messages from terror suspects. She even alleged that insiders were leaking secrets to foreign agents. She lost her job for it.

Just after Congress got interested in her story — and a bipartisan group of Senators said they found her claims credible enough to warrant an investigation — the administration retroactively classified everything that she knew, pretty much shutting down any chance of an investigation. U.S. journalists have found it nearly impossible to look into her claims. Over the past year, there’s been only one article on her in a major newspaper, and it simply announced that she’d won a freedom-of-speech award. Meanwhile, the TIMES OF LONDON has published three stories — just this year — digging into her claim that Administration officials sold secrets to foreign governments.

Sometimes the Administration’s efforts to squelch critics seem downright petty: Reporters for the Web site TALKING POINTS MEMO, for example, led the way in showing how the Administration encouraged federal prosecutors to go after Democrats, but go easy on Republicans. So the Department of Justice kicked the web site off of its press list. A small thing, sure, but it rankled one member of the House enough that he asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey about it at a hearing. Mukasey’s response? "I don’t know."

Recently, the Department of Justice reinstated TALKING POINTS MEMO to its press list — right around the same time that the web site won an award for its reporting on the Department of Justice.

So, Administration officials stonewall lawmakers and try to silence critics — or just make their jobs harder. That’s not news. But this time, a reporter could go to jail. The irony in James Risen’s predicament is that he was one of the reporters who revealed that the Administration could never have secretly listened in on phone calls, or read emails, without help from big telecom firms — the conglomerates that supply most Americans with phone or Internet service. After the article appeared, civil-liberties advocates filed lawsuits against the conglomerates trying to hold them accountable for helping the Administration break the law. Just recently, the Senate voted to grant those telecom companies immunity from the lawsuits — to let them off the hook — while the reporter who’d exposed them fought to stay out of jail.

Rick Karr is a correspondent for BILL MOYERS JOURNAL.
Published on February 28, 2008.

****Update****
House Passes FISA Amendments Act
March 14th, 2008 by Jesse Lee

The House has just passed the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 3773, to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes, by a vote of 213-197-1. The revised House legislation to amend FISA grants new authorities for conducting electronic surveillance against foreign targets while preserving the requirement that the government obtain an individualized FISA court order, based on probable cause, when targeting Americans at home or abroad. The House bill also strongly enhances oversight of the Administration’s surveillance activities. Finally, the House bill does not provide retroactive immunity for telecom companies but allows the courts to determine whether lawsuits should proceed.

And lil ol’ Me says: "Yippee Kai Yay... M.F.!"
Thank You, US House of Representatives!... and Shame on You, US Senate... Get Up, Stand Up and Do The Right Things For the Right Reasons For All of Us... George is outta here in less than a year... No More Going Along to Get Along... Or... You’re Fired!
L.