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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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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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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Pentagon "Backpack Nuke" Spy Chief Undersecretary Of Defense Michael G. Vickers USD-1 Despite Career Of Failures Highest Civilian Military Intelligence Official "Quietly Retires" Under Obama New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter

     Sunday, 28 June 2015, WASHINGTON - Perhaps but doubtfully intentionally on the internationally recognized day on which Socialism is celebrated worldwide, on Thursday, 1 May 2015 United States Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD-1) chief Michael G. Vickers "quietly retired" from a position that most Americans including New York Times reporters apparently unsurprisingly have no idea is the highest-ranking civilian military intelligence position which oversees the Pentagon's $80 billion largest portion of the United States "intelligence community's" (publicly known) annual spying budget and also manages the nation's largest number of about 180.000 "intelligence people".
     Considering the responsibility of Vickers' position for imposing a major financial burden on the most unfairly heavily burdened taxpaying effectively chronically poverty-stricken portion of the country due to the government's obscenely wastefully unnecessary so-called "defense" spending not to mention the untold numbers of killings Vickers had overseen and ordered worldwide in the American people's name Vickers' reported departure from the Pentagon received very little publicity there with a low-key goodbye and curiously little coverage in the press.
     The New York Times article linked to below reporting Vickers' future plans simply confined itself to relate the uninformative news that Vickers himself provided that he intended to "sleep" claiming often having been woken up during his Pentagon service as Vickers told it on his special apparent "Batman"-type phone (reminiscent of the 1960's telephone drama "Batman" special red phone) presumably to authorize drone strike kills as well as other murders and so on which now allegedly had had its line "cut" along amusingly quaintly as told accidentally with his lined phone and cable service laughably claimed to have "cut him off" from the world as if he relied on technology for Pentagon communications from roughly a century ago.
     The Pentagon apparently had not heard this anecdote as it told the Washington Post at the same time that Vickers future assignments had not been ascertained although with his common drone strike kill experience he may find himself in some future assignment with the seemingly reassigned to disappearance CIA's "the Wolf" aka "Roger" aka "Mike" both of whom regardless of the atrocities for which they may have been responsible at least along with the CIA agent responsible for the "Argo" f*ck yourself mission have been portrayed in feature films although neither is known likewise to have received the "Intelligence" star.
     As to his curious career journey earning him such positions of enormous responsibility including for at least $80 billion of the taxpayers' money Vickers hardly distinguished himself in high school focusing his energy instead on lifting weights while maintaining a "gentleman's" (had he been attending Harvard which he did not) C+ average although a high school teacher oddly inexplicably did introduce him (according to the exceedingly sparse obviously slanted Wikipedia article also linked to below suspiciously seemingly poorly written by a friend) to the "realities of International Relations and the CIA's Secret War in Cambodia."
     The vision of the CIA's illegal activities killing foreigners in their homes overseas in undeclared war in a failed effort to achieve unobtainable objectives apparently resonated with Vickers and allegedly ignited a lifelong interest in Vickers in "International Relations" apparently as used in the loose sense by organizations such as the CIA as assassinating and killing people rather than as might be otherwise recognized in more established academic settings although Vickers would later use his contacts to get into these institutions for which he clearly was academically unfit in his "off years" to falsify a pedigree of "scholarship" much like a Bush might at Yale.
     Somehow being admitted to Pierce College where after being beat out for quarterback by Mark Harmon (later to become the star in the television drama "NCIS" and apparently enjoying a significantly more successful career at least by objective standards than Vickers) Vickers joined the Green Berets where he had the opportunity to prepare for his now "ideal occupation" of being in the C.I.A. Vickers reportedly scored 160 points on the Army's "Intelligence" test whatever that might be being the highest score possible and excelled at "Special Operations" training and hand-to-hand combat with many other similar extraordinary accomplishments apparently attributed to him in Wikipedia by an apparent admirer of equal academic ability given the misuse in this section of the Wikipedia piece of words more commonly confused by elementary school students such as the use of the word "through" for "throw".
     Sometime after this as a Green Beret during Cold War 1.0 Vickers reportedly either "volunteered to parachute" or depending on which version one prefers actually with a team infiltrated the borders of Warsaw Pact countries to place "backpack nukes" in those countries which as described in the Wikepedia article linked to below (there described under "suitcase nukes") were a later generation of portable nuclear weapons first developed by the C.I.A. and placed by Navy SEALS in North Vietnam in the early 1960's although never detonated. Although Vickers seemingly allegedly claimed his team actually "detonated" the weapons brought into Warsaw Pacts countries this seems an extremely unlikely claim as the portable nukes hidden in Warsaw Pact countries' populated or strategic areas might have been magnitudes more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and presumably someone would have noticed the large thermonuclear explosions with WWIII ensuing.
     (Today many do believe that the United States and the Russian Federation may still have powerful portable nuclear devices hidden in one another's countries left over from Cold War 1.0 near population centers as confirmed by one Russian spy defected to the U.S. but never found in the Shenandoah Valley that can be triggered on command of considerably more concern again as the United States and the Russian Federation effectively now have entered Cold War 2.0 with the "Atomic Clock" nearly as close to zero as ever. The portable devices reportedly incidentally also have been developed by the Israelis should this help calm anyone's nerves about global security.)
     What is particularly curious about Vickers' ever-advancing career is that it appears that almost all subsequent major covert military operations in which he participated or commanded in an intelligence capacity eventually proved to be spectacular failures ending in disastrous unforeseen consequences to the United States such as the creation and/or empowerment through funding and weapons supplies in the CIA's wildly expensive "Operation Cyclone" establishing the Taliban and al-Qaeda as obviously major later threats which succeeded in inflicting great harm to the U.S.
     Vickers bad judgment apparently continued after a lengthy sabbatical from "service" to the U.S. which later came to include later colossal failures such as the policies Vickers enthusiastically supported against Iraq now seen as being largely directly responsible for the circumstances allowing for the creation of ISIS incidentally totally unforeseen by Vickers both in his major "think tank" paper with web address below for interested readers as well as his Johns Hopkins' PhD. 1,000 page thesis on the need for aggressive action against Iraq presumably available upon request from that institution.
     In other words not very intelligent "Intelligence" at all with a remarkable inability to foresee the horrible consequences of the mistakes in which he played a leading role regardless of Vickers' alleged "perfect 160" score on his Army "Intelligence" test but seemingly more consistent with his high school C+ average suggesting he might have been better qualified for a less responsible position than the Undersecretary for Defense (USD-1) for which position President Obama unbelievably appointed Vickers after he was brought back into the federal government first for consultation by not-really-elected Cheney lapdog "President" George "litttle shrub" Bush after an apparent self-imposed period of decades of exile following his failures.
     It was during this period of exile that Vickers somehow got his Masters from Wharton followed by what sounds to be his bogus PhD. from Johns Hopkins with the adviser Eliot A. Cohen who sounds as if he should have been a certified lunatic apparently obsessed with the fanatical belief that the U.S. should go to war with Iraq simply because "Iraq had tried to assassinate Bush's father". This view which apparently deeply influenced Vickers in the writing of his 1,000 page PhD. thesis as well as his later "think tank" paper available as noted to interested readers somehow through the web address provided below.
     Vickers apparently after being taken care of at the private think tank was taken back into the federal fold of idiots willing to buy into the the Bush-Cheney obsession with attacking Iraq. Also of course actual cerebral intelligence clearly was not a qualification required for any senior position in the not-really-elected Bush-Cheney administration thus catapulting he new "scholar" Vickers in 2007 to the major Pentagon position of Assistant Undersecretary for Defense serving as adviser to the Secretary of Defense in such matters as "counter-terrorism" and other "operational activities". As mentioned above President Obama unbelievably retained him upon becoming President seemingly inconceivably naming him Undersecretary of Defense (USD-1) replacing James A. Clapper who became the Director of National Intelligence with blanket oversight of all intelligence operations.
     Vickers finally cemented his ineptitude in 2013 when along with the Snowden disclosures of the N.S.A. which he oversaw he appeared before the Armed Services Committee jointly predicting with the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency "future risks" that completely missed the imminent explosive emergence of ISIS. Previous to this Vickers was implicated but ultimately exonerated apparently for leaking information to the producers of the movie "Zero Dark Thirty" over which the CIA essentially required script-review authority over in order to make sure it implied torture was "successful" in the ongoing efforts of Bush-Cheney Administration including top CIA officials to avoid prosecution for war crimes against humanity in return for assisting the producers with the film much as the police chief of Los Angeles had years earlier in requiring pre-review of scripts of the television drama "Dragnet" in exchange for assisting the producers of that show with the use of official Los Angeles Police Department personnel and equipment. Interested readers can find more information on this in the appropriate link below.
     According to the Washington Post article linked to below for interested readers Vickers did state at a recent conference that there was not so much one over-riding security threat to the United States today but rather those caused collectively by Russia, Iran, North Korea, terrorism and cybersecurity risks. There apparently are those who might not agree as referenced in last Saturday night's airing of the HBO program VICE devoted to what has become known due to the growing threat of NATO conflict with Putin's Russian Federation as Cold War 2.0 which as noted is reflected in the least time remaining until nuclear annihilation on the infamous "Atomic Clock" since the time of the Cold War. In any case it looks as if Vickers may be batting close to .999 in wrong predictions perhaps making him a likely candidate for yet another top military security position in the disastrous case of "Latino"  Jeb Bush 2016 should he become the third Bush to seek to destroy the country whether by Presidential win or coup d'etat.
     Readers interested in the above can go to various links provided below for more information with commentary on certain links which appear either incomplete and/or to contain significantly different information from one another.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_G. Vickers - surprisingly little information on him in Wikipedia considering especially the last position in which he served, as highest ranking civilian, former Green Beret, special forces, CIA, Afghanistan operation Cyclone, Wharton business masters, and Johns Hopkins PhD under Eliot A. Cohen apparent Iraq war fanatic because Iraq tried to "assassinate Bush's father" and notably Vickers PhD adviser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_A._Cohen - Vickers PhD. thesis adviser appears to be an idiot fanatic for war against Iraq since 2001 including because Iraq tried to "assassinate Bush's father". Query how could Obama let Vickers continue in his Bush position then advanced in 2011. His credentials in Afghanistan sound ultimately like a failure and his PhD adviser an idiot for war in Iraq which Vickers later echoed in calling for smaller force as in Afghanistan to win in Iraq after it already clearly was a disastrous war started with lies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/us/a-secret-warrior-leaves-the-pentagon-as-quietly-as-he-entered.html?_r=0 - Vickers responsible for largest share of U.S. $80 Billion annual (claimed) intelligence budget which goes to Pentagon not to the CIA nor any other agency

http://www.govexec.com/defense/2015/04/pentagon-intel-chief-retires-citing-no-wrongdoing-zero-dark-thirty-leak/111514/  - Vickers denies on "retiring" allegations of leaking information for "Zero Dark Thirty" re which there are other CIA-prroducer conference calls and meetings re CIA review of script for film. Vikkers admits he missed ISIS threat. Makes clear his future plan is not just to "sleep".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuke - Vikker was Green Beret responsible for placing portable nuclear weapons in Warsaw Pact countries during Cold War 1.0. Were these actually not yet placed as New York Times reports or already placed as indicated in Wikepedia article link internally here.  Claims his Green Beret teams infiltrated Warsaw Pack countries with "backpack nukes" to detonate them.

https://fas.org/irp/congress/2013_hr/022713vickers.pdf -Unclassified report by Vickers and head of DIA in early 2013 complains of "budget cuts" to defense and intelligence while reporting over 100, 000 employees and list current national security risks for Armed Services Committee in open hearing and completely miss coming threat of ISIS with no mention at all of ISIS, its formation or even recognizing a potential for its formation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/03/1c9/mike-vickers-longtime-senior-intelligence-official-and-former-cia-strategist-to-leave-pentagon/ - Vickers spent from 1980s to 2006 out of work perhaps because of involvement with massive buildup of future Taliban and Al-Qaeda funded by CIA and DOD in obsession to drive USSR from Afghanistan in massively long-term failure Operation Cyclone. Vickers later oversaw DIA, NSA and other "intelligence" agencies. His departure follows by just a month the appointment by Obama of new Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. Obama kept Vickers as a holdover from the Bush Administration.

Vickers "Think Tank" Paper:

file:///home/chronos/u-7a51b375f12f0369d925e36ea5039d09383d6cb2/Downloads/2004.12.01-Revolution-in-War.pdf - go to this address for Vickers' paper at CSBA about predictions of future warfare and budget-economic issues (in conservative think "how to get rich off war" tank)

http://www.muckety.com/Michael-G-Vickers/165727.muckety - Vickers has more connections to influential people than 93% of Americans according to this source perhaps explaining his later "higher education" and official appointments.

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