09 December 2016

Obama Directs All U.S. Intelligence Agencies "Full Review" And "Deep Dives" Of Cyber Attacks And Foreign Intervention In 2016 Election To Report Before Leaves Office 20 January 2017 To Share Results With Lawmakers And Others

     Friday, 9 December 2016, WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Obama this past Tuesday, 6 December 2016, delivered a major national counterterrorism speech in the works for months recounting his administration's efforts and successes and referring to a 61-page report released the day before on Monday, 5 December 2016. The President spoke at MacDill Air Force Base, the Tampa, Florida home to both the U.S. Central Operations Command and the U.S. Special Operations Command each of which have undertaken operations central to Obama's role as Commander-In-Chief during the term of his Presidency and thus an appropriate venue to seek to defend his legacy in this area.
     Obama doubtless also now will wish to take whatever possible further opportunity arises to try to educate, inform and prepare his "unexpected" successor President-elect Trump. This dutiful most serious effort made perhaps to appear more casual and thus more palatable to Trump despite the extremely responsible President Obama's well-founded deep concern and probable consternation if not growing alarm as to what if any advice or intelligence no matter how compelling of which President-elect Trump cares to avail himself. Trump presently appears more committed to using his valuable transition time holding further "campaign" rallies of no apparent productive purpose rather than concerning himself overly with the nuances of intelligence he publicly has dismissed and national security daily briefings he has mostly missed not to mention apparently President Obama's long-prepared speech on United States counterterrorism efforts.
     The unusually reportedly unambiguous U.S. government intelligence that President-elect Trump has continued to disparage, discredit and dismiss despite it being of the most immediate and escalating public and congressional concern including as it further evidences broad ongoing cyberthreats to national security has already been warned of by the DNI and Department of Homeland Security both directly having taken the very rare step of specifically issuing statements calling out Russian highest-level government malfeasance before the election specifically identified as computer hacking and theft of and dissemination of confidential communications intended to damage Democrats in particular and/or otherwise interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential electoral process.
     This was accompanied by an unprecedented unspecified but definite retaliatory threat from Vice-President Biden nevertheless still followed by Russian meddling later affirmed by the NSA's Admiral Michael Rogers and now seemingly confirmed by every other U.S. intelligence agency as well as members of Congress particularly including those on intelligence committees requesting that confidential intelligence be declassified so that it can be made public. Even despite White House assurance as to the "integrity" of the election results now at least publicly as of today, President Obama himself who has said that he had previously spoken to Vladimir Putin and told him there would be "consequences" for and to "cut it out" as to Russian meddling in the 2016 electoral process Obama nevertheless also has found it necessary to put further steps in motion to more thoroughly examine the nature and extent of Russia's hostile actions.
     At an event today homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco informed reporters that President Obama has put these further steps in motion that will result in a report for distribution to lawmakers and "other stakeholders." She said that while working as a senior FBI official that she was aware of "malicious cyber activity" related to both the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections. Ms. Monaco said that in 2008 the FBI had notified then-Senator Obama's and Senator McCain's campaigns that their computer systems had been infiltrated by the Chinese. She said she did not know if the cyber attacks in the 2016 election just held had "passed the threshold" of the earlier attacks.
     Asked whether President-elect Trump had shown sufficient concern about the Russian hacking and interference, since he has not publicly retracted his complimentary mentions of Vladimir Putin during the campaign nor retracted his invitation for Putin to hack and steal Hillary Clinton's emails Ms. Monaco said it was "too early to tell" in Trump's incoming administration was sufficiently concerned about any threat from Russia.
     Another source from the Obama administration said the review was sparked in part by a demand from lawmakers for further information about what response had been taken against Russia. The lawmakers as previously reported in an earlier post here also requested that the Obama administration review information of the Russian election hacking and interference and determine what intelligence could be declassified so that it could be disclosed to the public.      
     Specifically President Obama now has directed all U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct a "full review" of cyber attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election. White House deputy spokesman Eric Schultz said that President Obama wanted a "deep dive" that would look back for a pattern of such behavior continuing over a period of several years. He said that President Obama wanted the review completed "under his watch." Schultz emphasized that "[t]his is a major priority for the president of the United States."
     Readers interested in more information about President Obama's counterterrorism speech reviewing efforts and successes through his administration as well as the current state of affairs and more can go to the first link below. Those readers interested in more information regarding the announcements and information from Obama administration officials and spokespersons giving some apparently new background on past presidential election hacking as well as the significant broad "deep dive" and "full review" announced today to be done by all United States intelligence agencies to deliver a report to President Obama before he leaves office to be shared with lawmakers and other "stakeholders" as well as unclassified information to be disclosed to the public can go to the second link below.
     Readers interested in more information on the above from the publication which hosted the event where the intelligence review of election tampering was announced by the Obama administration homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco can go to the Christian Science Monitor article at the third link below. Readers interested in watching a brief video of White House deputy spokesman Eric Schultz' press statement on the above with links to the accompanying Washington Post articles can go to the fourth link below.
   
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/us/politics/obama-in-major-national-security-speech-to-defend-counterterrorism-legacy.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/u-usa-election-cyber-idUSKBN13Y1U7

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2016/1209/Obama-orders-review-of-US-election-amid-Russian-hacking-concerns

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/obama-orders-review-of-cyber-attacks-on-presidential-election/2016/12/09/aa2b9e9c-be43-11e6-ae79-bec72d34f8c9_video.html

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02 December 2016

Declassify Secret Russia Role In U.S. Election Intelligence President Obama Urged To Disclose By Seven Intelligence Committee Senators In Open Letter

     Friday, 2 December 2016, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Seven Democratic senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee in an "unprecedented"  three sentence open letter to President Barack Obama obtained, shown and read verbatim yesterday to viewers by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow urged the President to declassify further intelligence concerning Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election so that the information can be disclosed to the American people. The senators apparently were familiar with the classified information but disclosed nothing in their short open letter which concluded by stating they would follow-up with specifics to President Obama through "classified channels" and thanking him for giving his attention to this important matter. The Republican senators on the committee declined to sign the letter.
     To date there have been rare direct public statements by two U.S. intelligence agencies before the election those being the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security specifically placing blame for cyberattack hacking interference attempts directed at the U.S. election as being perpetrated by the Russian state including particularly by targeting both the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of Hillary Clinton then feeding stolen and possibly altered emails through Wikileaks for internet release specifically to damage Ms. Clinton's campaign to the benefit of now President-elect Trump's campaign.
     Following the election Admiral Michael Rogers director of the National Security Agency delivered an emphatic public statement again emphasizing that to a certainty Russia was the state party responsible for attempts and/or interference with the U.S. election. Admiral Rogers gave the strong impression that he meant to warn the public that it should take the Russian threat seriously which has not necessarily been the case to date doubtless not helped as Mr. Trump largely has conveyed a lack of confidence or concern or even interest in the intelligence he has been provided on matters of national security in his position as President-elect.
     Also as previously reported here in an earlier post a "top official" with the "administration" provided on condition of anonymity for undisclosed reasons a brief written statement devoid of any detail but "defending the integrity" of the election. The warnings of intelligence officials now augmented by the senators' letter to President Obama strongly suggest that the White House is downplaying some matter of significant concern including by withholding information necessary for the American people to grasp its gravity. Nor has further information been forthcoming as to the unusual somewhat cryptic uncharacteristic quiet threat with a slight smile by Vice-President Biden during an interview before the election that the United States was going to (presumably) retaliate for cyberattack interference with the presidential election or possibly anything else assessed as an attack against U.S. interests essentially "in an appropriate manner in a time and a place of our choosing."
     Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul briefly interviewed in the video link below when informed of the senators' open letter to the President said that such an action was to his knowledge "unprecedented". Although not being privy to the classified information at issue as he has been out of the government for a couple years and now is a professor at Stanford University he stated that just given the fact that these senators had felt it necessary to take such an unprecedented action as the open letter urging the President's disclosure of some classified intelligence was "deeply disturbing" and indicative of something quite consequential of which the American people have not been apprised. Senator Wyden of Oregon who apparently was the lead senator on the letter would provide no information whatsoever about the letter nor to what it referred. Readers interested in more information can go to the first link below which shows an MSNBC video about this matter of about ten minutes length.
     Readers can go to the second link below if interested in more broader background on Russian covert influence efforts that a "senior intelligence official" yesterday told Reuters have been increasing in Europe in recent years as part of a larger campaign against the United States and other Western nations seeking to disrupt and discredit democratic institutions, nations and alliances such as NATO as well as noting the coordinated efforts of these nations to monitor and respond to these threats, including as described by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper in a September 2016 letter to Congress just made available to Reuters on 2 December 2016 asking that Congress not attempt itself to probe Russian covert influence attempts as there already are ongoing coordinated efforts with other nations with these efforts underway best left to U.S. and partner intelligence agencies to avoid duplication of effort and not risk disruption of already developed coordination between these nations' intelligence agencies.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senators-seek-to-declassify-info-on-russia-role-in-us-election-822587459996

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-intelligence-russia-idUSKBN13R2GB?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29

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23 November 2016

Vote Recount President Battleground States, Security Audits, Congressional Inquiries Urges Growing Chorus Of Nonpartisan Academics And Activists In 2016 Trump "Election" Over Clinton Turned On Only 55,000 Suspect Votes In Michigan, Pennsylvania And Wisconsin Irregularities Raised With DOJ While Director Of National Intelligence Declines To Confirm Security Of Vote Refers Press To Department Of Homeland Security Which Fails To Give Response UPDATE: NY Times: "Administration Statement" Defends "Integrity" Of Vote

     Wednesday, 23 November 2016, WASHINGTON, D.C. - A growing chorus of nonpartisan academics as well as activists reportedly have voiced strong concerns about alleged statistical irregularities in voting results in key battleground states Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin where a mere shift in 55,000 votes total would give the 2016 U.S. Presidential victory to Hillary Clinton making her the 45th President of the United States. Another group of analysts led by the Voting Rights Institute's founder John Bonifaz and Professor Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan's center for computer security and society also are calling for a review of the vote.
     Meanwhile The Washington Post dismissively reports that misinformation posted by others on social media urges recipients to deluge the Department of Justice (DOJ) with requests for an investigation of voting irregularities in the alleged Trump victory apparently based on what that publication emphasizes is a misconception that DOJ would initiate any investigation based on the volume of public outcry. The Post refers to a DOJ spokesman who unsurprisingly states (untruthfully) that DOJ operates strictly on the facts, evidence and federal statutes (although anyone paying attention especially now knows that DOJ acts based on the politics of those in charge and routinely among other things ignores laws and tailors tortured bogus legal opinions as ordered) although the Post further does note that DOJ would still initiate an investigation of this election based on evidence of election or voter fraud,  intimidation, discriminatory election practices or other violations of federal law.
     Reportedly presumably based on earlier United States unprecedented government statements including by Vice-President Joe Biden of unspecified coming U.S. retaliation apparently related to extremely rare pre-election public predictions by two U.S. intelligence agencies, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), although curiously not joined by Republican operative James Comey's rogue Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), based on their "confidence" that the Russian government directed hacking largely perpetrated specifically at the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign in particular as well as raising the possible but unlikely specter of direct election interference based on "scanning and probing" of some states' "election-related systems" traced mostly to servers of a Russian company (all of which "President-elect" Trump currently -- unless he changed his mind -- claims entirely to dismiss despite receiving most highly classified national security briefing on this matter) the press yesterday requested assurance that the Director of National Intelligence was confident that the actual election indeed had been secure.
     The DNI spokesman somewhat curiously declined to provide such an assurance on the security of the election on the seemingly specious grounds that "colleagues at the DHS" (which actually is one of the 16 national intelligence and security agencies under the DNI) were "best positioned to address this." The DHS however apparently was not aware that it was so positioned because when then dutifully approached the spokesman for the "colleague" DHS which was the only other intelligence agency to have given public notice of the Russian cyber election meddling somewhat oddly gave the press and therefore the public no response at all to a request for comment. The press was not then referred to any other agency at all presumably ending the U.S. intelligence agency wild goose chase at least for the day. Nor apparently did any unnamed source surface.
     Readers interested in more information regarding the above can go to the links below. The first link below is to an article from The Guardian which details growing concerns about the presidential election results from various quarters and actions being planned and/or taken by those concerned. The second link below is to a Washington Post article which on its face confirms that it is indeed the mere 55,000 votes described above on which the Trump "victory" depends which votes if shifted to Hillary Clinton would make her the President-elect. The Washington Post notably haughty article however is more focused on and preoccupied with sleuthing the source(s) of the social media pathways claimed to be misleading with the article effectively dissuading the general public which is unlikely to have hard evidence from raising any unsubstantiated outcry to DOJ. In furtherance of this objective it paternally even notes that it is not providing the People for unstated reasons with certain of the alleged DOJ phone number(s) to call circulating in social media.
     The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment observes as to the latter position that is not necessarily in concert with the masses nor the core values of the United States Constitution encompassing in particular unequivocally the unfettered right of the People to petition the State for a redress of grievances without regard to what branch or department the People may choose to petition and on what grounds. Furthermore as a practical matter should such petitioning reach an overwhelming crescendo which also may be augmented by the related fundamental core constitutional right of the People peaceably to assemble in as large a number as they may choose to participate in person in the petitioning of the State when that assembly has amassed to the point of occupying a large area of the People's capital we would suggest that it shall once again become apparent to any organ of the State that the will of a sea of the People outside its windows or walls as the case may be shall not and will not be ignored even if strictly speaking the People have not got exactly the "right department" nor recently reviewed the procedures in the most recently amended pertinent parts of the Code of Federal Regulations.
     Given the grave domestic damage and needless international bloodshed and unconstitutional warfare and other horrific disasters of the illegitimate administration which flowed from the 2000 non-election in the Bush/Cheney coup d'etat made a fait accompli by a partisan Supreme Court the majority of whose members have shown themselves to be either mentally incompetent, deranged, brain dead, suffering from Alzheimer's, demented, living on another planet, senile and/or all of the preceding, one might expect that should something significant come of the matter set forth in this post that the People will not again tolerate such a blatantly partisan inappropriate illegitimate unconstitutional interference with the People's fundamental right to choose the President of the United States.

     UPDATES: A more recent BBC article added as a third link below for interested readers further details that groups mentioned above including data analysts joined by some lawyers find the 55,000 Trump battleground state votes suspect because Trump inexplicably performed better and Clinton worse in those locations with electronic voting machines potentially vulnerable to hacking in contrast to those with paper ballots and optical scanners definitely not subject to hacking. As vote counting still continues Clinton's popular vote lead over Trump has been steadily increasing now surpassing two million votes. For interested readers further fourth and fifth links have been added below to two articles on this matter most recently now appearing in The New York Times the latter originating from the Associated Press.

     UPDATES: The Times more recently reports that faced with the growing likelihood that all three battleground state votes will be audited and/or recounted that (unidentified without explanation) "officials" in the "administration" defend the "integrity" of the vote. The Times curiously provided no information at all as to who or where those "officials" might be or as to why they are not identified. The Times further summarily refers to the Department of Homeland Security and "other intelligence officials" pre-election predictions discounting the possibility of Russian election hacking and essentially ignores that some other irregularity might turn up in recounts and/or audits even if the earlier predictions by the DHS and DNI prove correct. Interested readers can go to this more recent article added as a sixth link below. The Times the following day did then release a "U.S. Statement on Reliability of Election Results" it had been given by a "senior administration official" on the unexplained condition of anonymity which apparently was the source for the above-referenced article but not mentioned nor provided to the public until added by a link the following day by the Times. Interested readers can read the statement at the added seventh link below.
     The Times further also reported that unsurprisingly the Hillary Clinton campaign had joined the Jill Stein initiated vote recount in Wisconsin to the extent of paying lawyers to participate in oversight and would do the same if Ms. Stein's Green Party further initiated recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan, which has not yet completed its initial vote count. The Green Party's success in collecting what is expected to be seven million dollars in donations in a mere few days to fund recounts assuredly was made possible not mostly by Green Party supporters but by those holding out hope for a Clinton victory. Readers interested in more information on the Clinton campaign's "change of heart" to participate can go to the added eighth link below.
     The recount saga continues as more recently Trump supporters have joined the fray by mounting various challenges seeking now to stop the three state vote recounts in their tracks seemingly on the basis of whatever arguments they find most expedient in each of the different state venues and depending on what available procedures may be feasible in each state. Their motivation is unclear and their arguments as to the futility of recounts seemingly at odds with Mr. Trump's oft-repeated assertions of a "rigged election" and his more recent tweet(s) since apparently winning the election by electoral votes nevertheless claiming (without evidence) that he actually won the popular vote as well if one deducts the "millions" of fraudulent votes for Hillary Clinton who according to those who have been actually counting the votes now leads Trump by more than 2.5 million votes.
     So far as to the challenges the Trump supporters have mounted seeking to halt the three state vote recounts the different state election officials involved have all taken positions strictly without exception along partisan lines. Readers interested in more information can go to the added ninth link below. On Saturday, 3 December 2016, Jill Stein dropped a pending bid for a Pennsylvania statewide vote recount after Pennsylvania courts imposed a $1 million bond requirement to start a statewide recount which she criticized including on the grounds that petitioners were "citizens of ordinary means."
     Dr. Stein nevertheless as of Saturday evening had collected $6.9 million in donations to fund recount bids with further funds still being sought. A campaign for a much more limited recount of Pennsylvania votes in Philadelphia and other targeted areas rather than statewide is going forward. Meanwhile calling the bond requirement evidence of "antiquated" state law Jill Stein seemed to leave open the possibility of further plans for challenging the Pennsylvania vote stating that " [w]e will pursue every available remedy to ensure Pennsylvanians can trust what happened in this election." She also promised a forthcoming "major announcement" on this coming Monday morniing. Readers interested in more information can go to the tenth link below.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/hillary-clinton-election-vote-recount-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/11/22/the-department-of-justice-is-not-going-to-conduct-a-vote-audit-based-on-your-phoned-in-outrage/?utm_term=.0e7b3bfac178

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38087150

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/vote-count-hillary-clinton-trump.html

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/11/23/us/politics/ap-us-election-recount-push-.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/us/politics/hacking-russia-election-fears-barack-obama-donald-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/us/politics/us-statement-on-reliability-of-election-results.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/us/politics/clinton-camp-will-join-push-for-wisconsin-ballot-recount.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/us/trump-recounts-wisconsin-michigan-pennsylvania.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/us/jill-stein-pennsylvania-recount.html

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11 November 2016

Trump Is Russia's "Useful Fool" C.I.A. Former Director Charges As U.S. Spy Community Dreads Briefing Tweeting Trump On Nation's "Deepest Secrets"

       Friday, 11 November 2016, WASHINGTON, D,C. - UPDATED - While former CIA acting director Michael Morrell asserts that Russian former KGB/FSB Vladimir Putin "has cleverly recruited" President-elect Donald Trump as an "unwitting agent of the Russian Federation" it appears that Putin's actions and words vis-a-vis the "post-truth" Trump are more predictably opportunistic than "clever" better described as consistent with Putin's routine modus operandi of thinly veiled but tenuously deniable essentially obvious "covert" attempts to leverage Russia's increasingly limited resources by intruding on including by often brutal disruption of world affairs.
     Such attempts including with disinformation, propaganda and "fake news" regularly are sought to be obscured consistent with decades-known former Soviet practices with which previously KGB/FSB Putin is well indoctrinated as he deploys them going to any length to again make Russia appear to be a meaningful player including even so far as to committing atrocities on a global scale as deemed necessary in this pursuit. Meanwhile Putin in order to survive can only succeed personally by continuing to distract the Russian people with cheap propaganda from the unfolding domestic economic and social disaster he has overseen and ignores at home even as Putin himself has operated his faux "democracy" in actuality a kleptocracy by means of which Putin has stolen and enriched himself at the expense of the Russian people robbing them of former State industry assets in an amount reportedly estimated to be at least $252 billion. These may turn out to be a rather unmanageable amount of stolen funds to hide indefinitely from western intelligence agencies assessing "retaliatory measures" including repatriating the funds or at least exposing their existence to the Russian people from whom they have been stolen.
       Putin's "clever" bromance with Trump has been called out by many ranging from late-night television host comic monologues to an unusually stark unambiguous public calling out of Putin cyber-meddling hacks made by U.S. intelligence agencies. These include the Department of Homeland Security ("intelligence" notably no longer applying to self-righteous FBI Director James Comey (who Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) calls a "Republican operative" who cost Hillary Clinton the presidential election) and his rogue FBI "Trumpland") and further including even the rare public definitive statement of Russian malfeasance by James R. Clapper Jr. Director of National Intelligence who oversees them all. Trump nevertheless ignored and in fact rejected the warning of the Nation's most knowledgeable intelligence officials. Trump relied instead on his "gut" completely uninformed by any meaningful knowledge of foreign affairs and blissfully unencumbered by any context one might assume informed the usual United States president gained from, e.g., reading something more than the "Breaking News" at the bottom of the FOX-TV screen.
       Trump certainly has not hidden his admiration and astoundingly naive belief that his "soul mate" Putin regardless of his growing portfolio of atrocities and  increasingly vast human rights abuses probably is a great guy with whom Trump and his staff of cronies actually may have more, perhaps a lot more, in common than the American people might even suspect. Russian diplomats already certainly have wasted no time even as early as yesterday trying to broadcast that information, misinformation and/or disinformation. Who knows or even really cares at this point given Trump's own profoundly troubling campaign statements including publicly encouraging Russia to spy on the United States in order for Trump to gain some perceived political advantage over his rival on the basis of stolen information. (Call to mind any past criminal Republican U.S. president?)
       Moreover former NSA (1999-2005) and CIA (2006-2009) director Michael V. Hayden goes so far as to identify Trump as what the Soviets called a "polezni durak" which means the "useful fool, some naif, manipulated by Moscow, secretly held in contempt, but whose blind support is happily accepted and exploited".  Hayden admits that that is a "pretty harsh term" but concludes that it is the "most benign interpretation of all this that I can come up with right now". President-elect Donald Trump reportedly this week has commenced briefings by United States intelligence analysts with a "read-through" of the President's Daily Brief providing Trump with the same "sensitive compartmentalized information" (SCI) being the United States most highly classified information of real-time top level intelligence and national security developments including operations and capabilities which are reported by U.S. intelligence analysts to President Barack Obama each day.                
       Concerned readers interested in more information as to why the United States intelligence community "dreads" providing Trump with more detailed intelligence and national security information including the Nation's "deepest secrets" can go to the Washington Post links below. The first link provides more detailed information on the scope and depth of the intelligence and national security communities' fears about Trump and the reasons therefor. The second link is to former NSA and CIA director Hayden's opinion piece in that same publication. Both links further provide additional links to more information on and related to this matter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/with-trump-about-to-learn-the-nations-deepest-secrets-a-sense-of-dread-in-the-intelligence-community/2016/11/09/e4206810-a676-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop_b

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/former-cia-chief-trump-is-russias-useful-fool/2016/11/03/cda42ffe-a1d5-11e6-8d63-3e0a660f1f04_story.html?tid=a_inl

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10 October 2016

CIA Medical Torture "Legacy Of Damaged Minds" NY Times Documents CIA Guilt Mengelian Atrocity War Crimes And Crimes Against Humanity UPDATE

       Monday, 10 October 2016, NEW  YORK, NY - The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment provides interested readers with yet further gruesome evidence documented firsthand in the extensive New York Times articles linked to below of some of the resulting ghastly often apparently permanent psychological damage to victims directly caused by torture crimes against humanity largely committed by criminally insane CIA career psychopaths such as Alfreda Bikowsky perpetrating a covert sick depraved criminal enterprise initially under the auspices of those such as notably the notorious head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center, drone mass murderer and principal architect of the CIA kidnapping, detention and torture criminal conspiracy namely the still as yet unprosecuted Michael D'Andrea aka "the Undertaker" aka "the Wolf" aka "Mike" aka "Roger".
        The CIA clearly criminal program of glaring basic human rights abuses encompassed many deeply disturbed others at every level down to some remaining on site eventually lacking any meaningful oversight at all thus left to descend into the "heart of darkness" inspired to commit further self-devised criminal atrocities with no apparent consequences at Guantanamo and CIA global "black site" secret kidnap torture prisons ostensibly in and under the direction of the Bush/Cheney administration with the culpability including up to the highest DoD officials and further atrocities committed by the DIA all in violation of domestic and international laws, treaties and conventions. To date none of those involved have been prosecuted under the Obama administration nor in any other proceeding.
       All responsible, conspiring and/or connected to including as accessories may be brought to justice and prosecuted in various jurisdictions, countries and tribunals including without limitation the International Criminal Court for the remainder of their lives.

UPDATES: For interested readers see added second link below to more recent New York Times article detailing inadequate psychiatric care of "detainees" at Guantanamo due among other things to requirement that doctors ignore all evidence of ongoing effects and evidence of torture of "patients". Interested readers may also go to a more recently added third link below detailing how CIA doctors contributed to CIA torture practices by actually developing enhancements to torture practices such as waterboarding which exposed CIA victims to actual near-drowning that risked death. The op-ed piece relates that the CIA withheld information of CIA doctors participation in torture in direct contravention to their Hippocratic oath.
     The documentation finally was released pursuant to an ACLU lawsuit with an example document accessible in the body of the piece. It notes that no CIA physician ever objected to the torture practices their only contributions to be to make the torture worse. Because of the delay in this information becoming public CIA physicians up until its release have been spared the excoriation to which psychologists who participated in designing the worthless CIA torture program have been subjected. The CIA torture program caused untold human suffering and death while yielding absolutely no intelligence whatsoever of any use in fighting terrorism or preventing a single terrorist act but did succeed in making all involved including CIA psychologists and also CIA physicians the new evidence shows subject to prosecution for torture as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity for the remainder of their lives.
     Interested readers also may go to the new fourth link below to a 3 November 2016 New York Times entire editorial board opinion arguing that the U.S. should join the ICC also providing more information on the ICC and noting that the United States "shamefully" was one of only seven countries in the world to reject and refuse to join in the 1998 "Rome Statute" which is the foundational document of the ICC with jurisdiction over atrocities such as genocide and other crimes against humanity which have failed to be prosecuted at home.
     Although President Clinton had finally signed it before leaving office the U.S. Senate did not ratify it. Later after 9/11 when the George W. Bush administration adopted the practice of among other things perpetrating torture in violation of U.S. domestic law and international treaties and conventions to which the U.S. is a signatory party the not-really-elected Bush-Cheney administration "actively sought to undermine the ICC".
It gave specious reasons but actually doubtless sought to destroy the ICC out of self-centered perhaps well-founded fears that its own administration members and co-conspirators up to and including, e.g., Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bikowsky and others would be further subject to prosecution by the ICC for what they clearly knew to be their torture atrocities among other things comprising crimes against humanity.
     The U.S. Congress also tried to seal the deal by passing a bill barring any U.S. cooperation with the ICC even authorizing the use of force to "rescue" any American on trial before the ICC. The manifest acts of kidnapping, torture and murder as well as other blatantly unconstitutional unlawful atrocities of the United States condemned worldwide up through and including the Obama administration have marked a new era for a new millennium in U.S. history gravely damaging the United States moral authority globally as well as threatening the very foundational principles of its system of government .
     Those grossly thoughtless of long-term consequences blindly vengeful U.S. government knee jerk responses obviously have played right into the hands of terrorist groups seeking to discredit the United States as hypocritical and unworthy of any claims as a beacon of moral integrity in the eyes of other countries. All the while incrementally itself planting the seeds of destruction domestically as the State adopts and/or practices now merely on the pretense of contrived knowingly bogus legal authority if any at all steadily incremental encroachments on domestic liberties as claimed necessary to secure but ironically actually threatening to destroy the core values of the U.S. Constitution which alone has graced the United States with its continuous unparalleled in modern times strong and prosperous continuity of existence for nearly two and one half centuries.
     The fifth link below for interested readers with further links therein is to a letter published in the New York Times from the U.N. and European Union Director of the Global Justice Center supporting and urging demands that the United States join the International Criminal Court (ICC). ICC jurisdiction already extends to citizens of all countries including even the United States whether ICC member or not where those individuals are charged with committing genocide and other crimes against humanity in any ICC member countries such as, e.g., in those which have "hosted" CIA black sites operated by U.S. citizens.

     UPDATES: More recently two CIA secret prison torturees and the representative of a third torturee who was murdered by the CIA after lengthy torture by being short-chained to a wall and frozen to death at a CIA "black site" have succeeded as of late November 2016 in advancing a lawsuit filed in October 2015 in Washington Federal District Court in Spokane against the pair of notorious CIA contractor "Torture Psychologists" Drs. James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen together paid over $80 million by the CIA to design and evidence now released shows actually participated directly in the worthless unconstitutional and blatantly illegal under federal and international law and treaties CIA post-9/11 depraved torture atrocity program.
     The extensive illegal brutal CIA (as well as DIA and "freelancers") torture yielded no actionable intelligence of any value whatsoever as extensively documented in the 2014 Senate Torture Report which indisputably established the CIA pervasive worthless criminal barbaric use of illegal torture for years which further passed the threshold for findings of war crimes and/or crimes against humanity.
     It seems highly unlikely the not-really-elected "Vice-President" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney who as validated by his own tax returns sought to and did wrongly vastly augment his personal wealth through control of and/or deep involvement in criminal conspiracies for profit abusing the power of his office all the while taking every possible opportunity his position afforded him to perpetrate for his own enrichment U.S. government international contract fraud and blatant rip-offs as well as atrocities for profit which have even eventually culminated in murder and other most serious criminal convictions and sentences for a few of his lawless associates while Cheney "served" (himself) under the Bush/Cheney administration but nevertheless somehow missed the opportunity to acquire his share of the inevitable spoils of this CIA torture program he after all championed as well "and would again". Given his reliably horrendous record which makes his disgraced party predecessor Spiro Agnew look like a rank amateur choirboy Cheney doubtless would see his own profit from the CIA torture program of unimaginable human suffering to be no less than one more instance of his entitlement which suggests that even if not yet found out it may well still prove to be so.
     None involved yet have been subjected to any prosecution shielded domestically to date illegally and immorally by President Obama and DOJ although various courts and tribunals still have jurisdiction over all involved from the very BushCheney top to bottom in the CIA torture program for years of heinous criminal actions which cry out for justice to be served under domestic and international law, conventions and treaties including by the International Criminal Court which is but one venue where they all will remain subject to international arrest and prosecution without limitation for the remainder of their lives.
     The instant case is significant particularly because it may serve as a precedent for civil justice to CIA torture victims as it has gone forward this far since filed despite objections to this federal court proceeding by DOJ which to date however has not derailed the case by having it summarily dismissed asserting the much abused made up by the Executive Branch actually non-existent under actual law so-called "state secrets" bogus privilege. It is one of several bogus privileges often wrongly claimed by the State merely with the rote essentially unchallengeable assertion of a proceeding being a threat to "national security". That often suspect claim itself in reality appearing nowhere as a privilege under statutory law but nevertheless used to force a legal proceeding to an immediate conclusion requiring no show of evidence or support at all.
     Readers interested in more information about the above lawsuit can go to the sixth link below including links to newer CIA documentation of torture unwillingly made public as a result of an ACLU lawsuit as well as including a description of a book just being published written by Dr. Mitchell long excoriated by his former colleagues and most of the rest of the world including terrorists that would like to kill him in which he seeks to rehabilitate his reputation, exonerate himself and convince readers of his innocence despite having designed and actually participated in the CIA torture program while seemingly wrongly characterizing both his prior actually very limited relevant experience and downplaying the grave nature of and his responsibility for and participation in the resulting CIA worthless criminal torture he designed. For good measure apparently to win over even more skeptical readers Dr. Mitchell reportedly also asserts in his book that he actually got only a very little (unspecified amount) of the over $80 million of taxpayers' money the CIA paid to just him and his partner Dr. Jessen to design the less-than-worthless CIA torture program. Perhaps tellingly very early on before implementation it was called by the one apparently experienced CIA official in this area who then promptly left the agency "a train wreck waiting to happen".
     Putative "President-elect" Trump who reportedly does not read promised in his campaign to revive "waterboarding and worse" even when informed that it constituted torture and also repeatedly has proven consistently not to provide any useful nor actionable "intelligence" results nevertheless replied "[t]hey deserve it anyway" still may have difficulties should he attempt to revive it for reasons that interested readers can find by going to link seven below. Josef Mengele heinous medical war crimes and crimes against humanity have been specifically analogized including on the floor of the U.S. Senate to the CIA deceptive inclusion of its "doctors" and psychologists in the medical atrocity designing of and participation in the CIA perpetrated barbaric unconstitutional and domestic and international unlawful "torture program" war crimes and crimes against humanity as set forth for interested freaders in the link eight below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/world/cia-torture-guantanamo-bay.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=nytmm_FadingSlideShow_item&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/world/guantanamo-bay-doctors-abuse.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=image&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/opinion/doctors-should-stand-against-trump-reviving-torture.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/opinion/a-stronger-court-for-crimes-against-humanity.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/opinion/the-international-criminal-court-and-the-us.html?mabReward=A2&recp=8&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/us/lawsuit-aims-to-hold-2-contractors-accountable-for-cia-torture.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/us/politics/trump-waterboarding-torture.html?ribbon-ad-idx=19&rref=us&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&pgtype=article

http://soc.culture.jewish.narkive.com/CtpLagS6/mengelian-experiments-conducted-on-guantanamo-inmates

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11 September 2016

Revoke Obama's Nobel 2009 Peace Prize For Blocking Prosecution Of Bush / Cheney Officials, CIA, DIA Torturers War Crimes And Crimes Against Humanity

     Sunday, 11 September 2016, WASHINGTON, D.C - The Ninth Amendment editorial board holds this truth to be self-evident that the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize wrongly awarded to undeserving United States President Barack Obama must be revoked as Obama has refused to surrender it at the Nobel Committee's request that he voluntarily return it for his absolute failure to prosecute a single one of the Bush/Cheney torturers detailed here in previous posts including without limitation former not-really-elected President Bush and Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney as well as all responsible including conspiring members of their administration and of the CIA, the DIA and all other responsible parties acting falsely and clearly repugnant to and in bad faith under the claimed authority of the United States Constitution in the commission of acts of torture war crimes and crimes against humanity as unequivocally documented without limitation in the Senate Torture Report  in clear violation of domestic and international laws and treaties and conventions for which they may be prosecuted at any time for the remainder of their lives.
     Moreover Barack Obama has actively protected and shielded the guilty parties obstructing justice having given personal assurances of non-prosecution to CIA former directors and others including as documented by Leon Panetta and preventing his appointed Attorneys General Eric Holder, Jr. and Loretta Lynch from bringing any prosecutions against a single one of the above torturers ordering the complicity of the United States Department of Justice in this profoundly damaging failure to enforce the law and prosecute these crimes thus severely diminishing the moral authority of the United States in the global community and forever undermining domestically and internationally the core values of and in clear contravention of the founding principles of the United States Constitution.
     Should Obama not remedy this unconscionable course of action obstructing prosecution of those known to have committed crimes against humanity and war crimes before the end of his term as President of the United States such also will be his legacy tainting his other acts during his tenure in office just as will be his commission of and untruthful denial of and his administration's attempts to cover up its responsibility for mass murder of innocents worldwide including U.S. citizens by drone strike kills.

UPDATE:  Readers interested in more information on the above as well as related details of Obama's extensive failures to correct but rather protect and expand on vast unconstitutional illegal atrocities of the Bush/Cheney administration and also leave as his legacy the stronger danger of further clearly unconstitutional illegal atrocities including torture under unfounded bogus "legal" theories concocted on demand by DOJ complicit hack scum significantly more likely under future administrations can go to the link below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/us/politics/harsher-security-tactics-obama-left-door-ajar-and-donald-trump-is-knocking.html

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27 January 2016

NEW UPDATE Senate Torture Report Outrage Feds Illegally Bury 6,700 Pages Unread As DOJ Flunky Sheep Hacks Dutifully Cite Bogus FOIA Issue Prevent Even Top Officials Reading Report Of Atrocities - National Archivist Chokes On Sham DOJ Specious Non-Issue Is Torture Report A "Federal Record" As New Republican Senate Intelligence Chair Burr Demands Return All Existing Torture Report Copies Vows To Toss All Unread In "Wastebin Of History" - Unable To "Pry" Herself "From DOJ's Grip" Obama Pardon Attorney Abruptly Resigns - NEW UPDATE: 2017 Released Documents CIA Brutal Thai Black Site Torture With Disorientation Drugs As Judge Royce C. Lamberth Demands 2014 Senate Torture Report Be Produced To Federal D.C. District Court For Preservation

     Wednesday, 27 January 2016, WASHINGTON, DC - One reasonably at this late date might not only increasingly wonder but moreover have steadily growing strong concerns as to why the vast majority of Americans, since the December 2014 release of the executive summary of the Senate Torture Report, long revered as a courageous tough heroic and principled People demonstrating their valor time and again even to the ultimate sacrifice to preserve the greatest nation on earth the United States in its uncompromising principles of a just humanity unflinchingly prepared to prove itself when necessary by decisive action in its role as a bedrock foundation of moral authority to the world, yet now continue to sit back complacent virtually silent seemingly uninterested or even oblivious after well over a  year has passed since December 2014.
      Since then the American people as well as the citizens of the world have heard and seen no substantive U.S. government response whatsoever to the nearly 7,000 page December 2014 Senate Torture Report extensively documenting the totally ineffective, deeply sick, inhuman, barbaric, grotesque, deranged, bloodthirsty, psychotic, demented, psychopathic, depraved, sociopathic, monstrous, mengellian, sadistic, horrific, criminally insane CIA Torture Program carried out by morally bankrupt CIA criminal employees and later unsupervised maniac "torture contractors" under orders of equally guilty morally bankrupt and conspiring criminal Bush/Cheney Administration and CIA and DIA officials as well as DOJ officials in brazen violation of U.S. and international laws, treaties and conventions for any and all crimes above committed also including conspiracy, accessories before and after the fact, obstruction of justice, RICO "Kingpins", felony murder for the death of a "detainee" chained naked to a freezing cold floor overnight and doubtless many others for which there is clear irrefutable evidence to support DOJ and other prosecuting authorities.
     For those readers interested the United States government bureaucratic stonewalling distorting delaying denying diverting misinformation disinformation runaround shuffle apparently is in full swing hoping to waste so much time procrastinating by means of endless Kafkaesque contrived bureaucratic especially hack DOJ lawyer created bogus semantic complications that no one will care anymore to read or act on the Torture Report's findings as everyone will have died of old age. Presently single disk copies of the entire Report are at least the Ninth Amendment understands to be in the safes of the Senate Office Building (with the Panetta Report) as well as those safes of DOJ, DOD, CIA, FBI, and the State Department with DOJ having forbidden anyone even senior officials including at DOJ to read it. Thus to date absolutely no value at all permitted perhaps the most valuable painstaking exhaustive report of all time just for starters for IC executive review and improvement of clearly badly ailing and backfiring intelligence tactics and operations.
     For those readers still with us and interested the most recent limited Senate CIA torture program report public information facts identified by the Ninth Amendment are concisely and clearly detailed in the National Security Archive link below. Finally to our outrage and disgust DOJ reportedly has ordered held tight eyes unseen the major evidence of United States torture crimes against humanity a gift to officials of almost 7,000 pages possibly never to be read direct from DOJ's endless maze of contrived interminable illegal bureaucratic limbo shuffle grasping at any imagined specious legal basis or better yet just from thin air its next new latest devised legal privilege, analysis or justification.
     Had the Nazis won World War II one could have expected a similar silence concerning the millions upon millions of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and other "inferior races" who were victims of the holocaust as well of course of the lack of any punishment and probably congratulations to the very many domestically who were responsible daily for carrying out the evil deeds therefore leaving them programmed to repeat as necessary. 
     The Ninth Amendment adamantly maintains that already the State has let too much time pass sending the world the very wrong message that the United States alone can and will do whatever the hell it wants whether globally kidnapping and brutally torturing other nations' citizens or holding humans indefinitely uncharged, untried and unconvicted. And as for those responsible for these atrocities breaking U.S. and International laws, treaties and conventions if unpunished their actions remain in the name of all U.S. citizens, but unsurprisingly no one could have captured the need more directly for dealing with the torturers under the appropriate judicial system as Dick Cheney when asked about the just-released Senate Torture Report. "Aw, phooey, I'd do it again in a minute."
     Well we are sorry to report that our copy of the disk we got in a trade with a Senate staffer just met on the Metro (still being followed by CIA convinced he stole the Panetta Report that the CIA obviously gave away by accident) which disk would already be in the hands of and problem of the New York Times but for one complication. Unfortunately through a strange and unlikely unusual series of events the Senate Torture Report disk fell into the hands of a careless "friend" who thinks Bill Clinton is still President and pretty much has lost everything since then including the new "dynamics" of the present century such as the significance of the disk. Anyway he copied it over with Black Sabbath's Paranoid. At least it was newly remastered and high definition. . . . 
     Just to be perfectly clear the preceding paragraph is fictitious humor parody and satire. It is not true nor purporting to be true. It does however suggest the intriguing question of who out there has an unknown copy of the Senate Torture Report disk. In this modern technological world reason always dictates that someone was careless or acted intentionally somewhere along the way causing a slip-up. Clearly the federal government cannot bury the Senate Torture Report forever, even if "found" to fall under FOIA or the shocking conclusion is reached that it is not a "Federal Record". Moreover, the new Republican Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Richard M. Burr has demanded every copy of the disk back from the Obama administration so he can throw them away "as a footnote in the wastebasket of history". 
     Could not either a FOIA exemption or just a big "TOP SECRET" stamp attempt to bury it from the American people for a long time to come as suggested in the below link? If so is this the kind of document that should be submitted covertly to the New York Times for daily publication like The Pentagon Papers? The Times presumably can afford another trip up to the Supreme Court for prior restraint, but how are the chances with this Court compared with the one formerly faced in the above case?
     The Ninth Amendment absolutely does not intend nor is the above any sort of legal advice whatsoever nor is any provided here in any way whatsoever nor does it purport to be. Persons seeking legal advice always must consult with a duly licensed legal practitioner in good standing which the Ninth Amendment in no way holds itself out to be in any way whatsoever. Finally the following question remains open: Given the deranged evil horrors perpetrated under the Bush administration shared with the public just in the executive summary of the Senate Torture Report and the 500 page summary what in the world could be hidden from the American people in the remaining 6,500 pages?
     UPDATE: The New York Times 19 January 2017 (the final day of the Obama administration) article added as a new second link below reports that the C.I.A. just has released more never before publicly seen documents provided to that newspaper and the Washington Post particularly concerning some of the earliest harshest use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" (torture) being mischaracterized as less harsh than they actually were by on-site C.I.A. torturers including at a black site in Thailand, as well as serious evidence raised about the sheer incompetence of C.I.A. personnel in the misapplication of totally unsuccessful bogus brutal torture techniques perpetrated on humans designed at a cost to the C.I.A. of over $80 million by ethically bankrupt hack "torture psychologists" James Mitchell and J. Bruce Jessen.
     The newly released documents also publicly reveal information about the use of drug torture including for "disorientation" of those kidnapped and tortured by the C.I.A. (previously falsely denied unsurprisingly for the past 15 years by the lying C.I.A. per its routine practice of lying to the public and those attempting to oversee it), as well as other newly released information about the massively inhumane worthless torture travesty perpetrated by the C.I.A. in the wake of its failure to prevent the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks for which attacks the C.I.A.'s own Inspector General since has found the agency specifically to be the responsible U.S. government party due to its dismal total lapse in foreseeing and preventing the attacks because of the agency's deeply entrenched culture of waste, fraud and abuse and completely misguided use of huge amounts of taxpayer provided resources not otherwise just completely squandered.
     Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered that a copy of the 2014 Senate Torture Report be turned over to the Court for safekeeping amid concerns that the incoming Trump administration will try along with Senate Intelligence Committee Republican Chairman Burr to recall and destroy unread all full copies of that report with Judge Lamberth harshly rejecting objections by the Obama administration that President Obama has already assured its preservation by including one copy in President Obama's National Archive submissions for his Presidential library with the Court insisting that a full copy be produced to the Court for safekeeping.
       
Link to National Security Archive blog "Unredacted" with links to main site and above Times article:


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