Saturday, 10 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The FBI just has referred charges against Four Star General David Petraeus to the Department of Justice for federal criminal prosecution for disclosure of classified information in his capacity as Director of the CIA. The charges include allegations of his disclosure of classified information which Mr. Petraeus allegedly passed to his mistress Paula Broadwell while Petraeus was serving as Director of the CIA including from his in-house personal CIA computer.
The married General Petraeus previously was found by an internal CIA investigation to have used his personal CIA office computer protected by only by a very weak password (such as e.g, named after his dog "Spot") itself in violation of CIA policy to have spent his time exchanging romantic emails with Patricia Broadwell with whom Petraeus was having an affair. Petraeus upon disclosure of this activity was either fired or forced to resign as CIA Director.
The present CIA Director John Brennan among other things has been found to have ordered and/or conspired to commit acts of torture illegal under U.S. law and signatory international treaties and conventions the investigation of which Brennan and his CIA repeatedly have sought to obstruct by destroying and withholding evidence, claiming non-existent privileges seeking to impede and disrupt the investigation, lying to Congress and making false criminal charges against those sought with overseeing CIA activities which has turned out to be most likely a subterfuge while in fact Brennan and his CIA meanwhile actually have been hacking the computers of those on the Senate Intelligence Committee sought with CIA oversight among myriad other apparent criminal acts.
Mr. Brennan to date is still in office as CIA Director and not yet in prison for these illegal activities. He may also be responsible for the probable murder of Rolling Stones investigative reporter Michael Hastings most likely through a cyber car attack as related in a previous recent Ninth Amendment post. Michael Hastings was responsible previously for reporting on the contempt expressed by General Stanley McChrystal and his senior aides in days spent with them making derogatory remarks about their Commander-In-Chief upon the publication of which General McChyrstal's military career effectively came to an end much as his senior four star General Petraeus' has following his complete lack of discretion in using his personal CIA computer with totally inadequate password to make love talk with his mistress while supposedly directing the affairs of the CIA.
At the time of Mr. Hastings untimely death in a very suspicious single car accident a nearby video caught his Mercedes traveling at over one hundred miles per hour and swerving toward a tree before exploding in an horrific fireball which appeared to erupt before Hastings' car even hit the tree. Mr. Hastings on the day of his death had sent out frantic emails to all friends lacking his usual friendly salutations but expressing fear allegedly that "the FBI was following him". Later that day he was seen looking under his car before telling his wife that he was "on to something really big". Before he could tell anyone what that was Mr. Hastings was dead with his next investigative story scheduled to come out in just two weeks on CIA Director John Brennan. Although Rolling Stone announced it still would run Hasting's investigative report on Mr. Brennan on the originally scheduled date Rolling Stone in fact without explanation did not and never has subsequently.
Meanwhile the FBI further just now as related above has charged former CIA Director Petraeus with the above-described disclosure of confidential information pursuant to the earlier CIA internal investigation following which President Obama either fired or forced the resignation of Petraeus as CIA Director. With the newly leveled FBI charges referred to the Department of Justice four star General Petraeus reportedly now holds the ignominious distinction of being the highest ranking U.S. military official ever found to have been charged with criminal behavior of anywhere approaching such a serious magnitude.
To sum up General Petraeus served previously as Supreme Commander of United States and coalition forces over the entire Middle Eastern theater. Petraeus now facing possible indictment in his previous military position was senior to the later disgraced General Stanley McChrystal who as commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan was fired or forced to resign by President Obama in the wake of the publication of the almost certainly later murdered Rolling Stone reporter's account of his time spent with General McChrystal and his senior aides in which General Petraeus and his senior staff reportedly repeatedly made derogatory comments about their Commander-In-Chief President Barack Obama.
It is not known to the Ninth Amendment editorial board why the earlier CIA internal investigation did not result in CIA Director Petraeus' prosecution for passing of confidential information to Patricia Broadwell. Typically such an "internal" executive agency investigation would be performed by the agency's in this case CIA Inspector General (IG) who does not report to anyone in the CIA but to a separate and distinct IG hierarchy of outside officials.
Should that have been the case at hand it is not known why the IG would not itself have passed on to the Department of Justice ifs findings presumably encompassing the disclosure of confidential information to Patricia Broadwell. The CIA certainly when it does not wish to pass on information which might implicate it or support the case for the imprisonment of its officials or operatives has not hesitated quite broadly to assert the "defense" of it being confidential information especially of some sort putting persons or operations at serious risk if disclosed thereby making the veracity of the claim nearly impossible to gauge in real time even though the CIA by law is required to pass on such information to its overseers who themselves are expected to be just as capable as the CIA of keeping confidential information confidential.
In fact in the current case of the release by the Senate Intelligence Committee of a merely redacted summary of the CIA's responsibility for the illegal use of torture in the so-called "Torture Report" the CIA has without hesitation sought to make claims of "confidential" information not to mention fabricating a variety of other made up other non-existent privileges. Not to mention the CIA becoming virtually apoplectic at the prospect of the release of the so-called CIA "Panetta Report" rumored not only to detail much more damning inhumane illegal CIA torture and possibly other activities but further exposing that the CIA has repeatedly lied to Congress.
The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment just recently had occasion to learn from a Western al-Qaeda Yemen "recruit" the reason for his seemingly unthinkable decision that apparently hundreds or not thousands of Western recruits are making to join the ranks of al-Qaeda or ISIS. The prospect of joining either group appears to be very grim indeed. Yet the media pundits and "experts" now speak incessantly of the once esoteric but now commonplace explanation of "self-radicalization" being a major factor in recruitment. However the Western man the Ninth Amendment editorial board just recently heard offered neither the justification of a religious zealot or one caught up in some delusion of glory in joining one of these groups committing untold atrocities in some of the last places on Earth one would wish to live.
All the young man referred to as his justification for seeking to join one of these terrorist groups was as a response to his hatred of the CIA's criminal use of torture. Has it ever occurred to the CIA that keeping human beings imprisoned in horrid conditions uncharged and with no known release date while seemingly to them abusing them randomly at will torturing them at any time might be enough to make just about anyone even if they had not before hated Americans and the West as they have never hated before and in fact become "radicalized by CIA"? The CIA's torture "program" in the opinion of the Ninth Amendment editorial board has served no purpose based on credible sources but to perpetuate terrorism and keep terrorists supplied with an unending stream of recruits as the CIA has proceeded in absolute contravention of all the core principles embodied in the United States Constitution and worthy of a fascist state. The CIA's use of criminal torture is no secret any longer to the American people and never was to terrorist groups who received detailed reports of CIA torture from "detainees" who were released from CIA custody.
Finally the Ninth Amendment finds it curious that in the wake of the internal CIA investigation of Director Petraeus rather than the CIA IG it has ended up being the FBI that has referred charges against the CIA official rather than the IG provided that that is presumably within the purview of the IG. More broadly the Ninth Amendment must query if this means it would be the FBI charged with the task of taking into custody and charging CIA officials and operatives should that become necessary provided the CIA officials if facing the prospect of going to prisons so much more humane than their own will nevertheless go down shooting. On another front the Ninth Amendment has been somewhat confounded by the swift conclusion drawn by the FBI that North Korea was responsible for the Sony "The Interview' hack. This given the volume of illegal IT information unlawfully amassed by the NSA and its presumably top-notch cyber experts, not to mention the CIA's for that matter which agency if any would be expected to be in a turf war with the NSA over taking charge in cyber investigations.
In the realm of the acronymed "National Security" and law enforcement agencies could we be seeing a turf war breaking out with the somewhat sleeping FBI now emerging as taking a leading role considering that the CIA by law if not practice is restricted to overseas rather than domestic activities and as for the NSA who knows it would seem it has become a rogue agency somewhat distastefully turned to by others considering the stink attached to it but whose mission seems to be anyone's to guess but mostly to use the latest technologies to devise the latest way to break national and international laws with abandon.
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
The married General Petraeus previously was found by an internal CIA investigation to have used his personal CIA office computer protected by only by a very weak password (such as e.g, named after his dog "Spot") itself in violation of CIA policy to have spent his time exchanging romantic emails with Patricia Broadwell with whom Petraeus was having an affair. Petraeus upon disclosure of this activity was either fired or forced to resign as CIA Director.
The present CIA Director John Brennan among other things has been found to have ordered and/or conspired to commit acts of torture illegal under U.S. law and signatory international treaties and conventions the investigation of which Brennan and his CIA repeatedly have sought to obstruct by destroying and withholding evidence, claiming non-existent privileges seeking to impede and disrupt the investigation, lying to Congress and making false criminal charges against those sought with overseeing CIA activities which has turned out to be most likely a subterfuge while in fact Brennan and his CIA meanwhile actually have been hacking the computers of those on the Senate Intelligence Committee sought with CIA oversight among myriad other apparent criminal acts.
Mr. Brennan to date is still in office as CIA Director and not yet in prison for these illegal activities. He may also be responsible for the probable murder of Rolling Stones investigative reporter Michael Hastings most likely through a cyber car attack as related in a previous recent Ninth Amendment post. Michael Hastings was responsible previously for reporting on the contempt expressed by General Stanley McChrystal and his senior aides in days spent with them making derogatory remarks about their Commander-In-Chief upon the publication of which General McChyrstal's military career effectively came to an end much as his senior four star General Petraeus' has following his complete lack of discretion in using his personal CIA computer with totally inadequate password to make love talk with his mistress while supposedly directing the affairs of the CIA.
At the time of Mr. Hastings untimely death in a very suspicious single car accident a nearby video caught his Mercedes traveling at over one hundred miles per hour and swerving toward a tree before exploding in an horrific fireball which appeared to erupt before Hastings' car even hit the tree. Mr. Hastings on the day of his death had sent out frantic emails to all friends lacking his usual friendly salutations but expressing fear allegedly that "the FBI was following him". Later that day he was seen looking under his car before telling his wife that he was "on to something really big". Before he could tell anyone what that was Mr. Hastings was dead with his next investigative story scheduled to come out in just two weeks on CIA Director John Brennan. Although Rolling Stone announced it still would run Hasting's investigative report on Mr. Brennan on the originally scheduled date Rolling Stone in fact without explanation did not and never has subsequently.
Meanwhile the FBI further just now as related above has charged former CIA Director Petraeus with the above-described disclosure of confidential information pursuant to the earlier CIA internal investigation following which President Obama either fired or forced the resignation of Petraeus as CIA Director. With the newly leveled FBI charges referred to the Department of Justice four star General Petraeus reportedly now holds the ignominious distinction of being the highest ranking U.S. military official ever found to have been charged with criminal behavior of anywhere approaching such a serious magnitude.
To sum up General Petraeus served previously as Supreme Commander of United States and coalition forces over the entire Middle Eastern theater. Petraeus now facing possible indictment in his previous military position was senior to the later disgraced General Stanley McChrystal who as commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan was fired or forced to resign by President Obama in the wake of the publication of the almost certainly later murdered Rolling Stone reporter's account of his time spent with General McChrystal and his senior aides in which General Petraeus and his senior staff reportedly repeatedly made derogatory comments about their Commander-In-Chief President Barack Obama.
It is not known to the Ninth Amendment editorial board why the earlier CIA internal investigation did not result in CIA Director Petraeus' prosecution for passing of confidential information to Patricia Broadwell. Typically such an "internal" executive agency investigation would be performed by the agency's in this case CIA Inspector General (IG) who does not report to anyone in the CIA but to a separate and distinct IG hierarchy of outside officials.
Should that have been the case at hand it is not known why the IG would not itself have passed on to the Department of Justice ifs findings presumably encompassing the disclosure of confidential information to Patricia Broadwell. The CIA certainly when it does not wish to pass on information which might implicate it or support the case for the imprisonment of its officials or operatives has not hesitated quite broadly to assert the "defense" of it being confidential information especially of some sort putting persons or operations at serious risk if disclosed thereby making the veracity of the claim nearly impossible to gauge in real time even though the CIA by law is required to pass on such information to its overseers who themselves are expected to be just as capable as the CIA of keeping confidential information confidential.
In fact in the current case of the release by the Senate Intelligence Committee of a merely redacted summary of the CIA's responsibility for the illegal use of torture in the so-called "Torture Report" the CIA has without hesitation sought to make claims of "confidential" information not to mention fabricating a variety of other made up other non-existent privileges. Not to mention the CIA becoming virtually apoplectic at the prospect of the release of the so-called CIA "Panetta Report" rumored not only to detail much more damning inhumane illegal CIA torture and possibly other activities but further exposing that the CIA has repeatedly lied to Congress.
The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment just recently had occasion to learn from a Western al-Qaeda Yemen "recruit" the reason for his seemingly unthinkable decision that apparently hundreds or not thousands of Western recruits are making to join the ranks of al-Qaeda or ISIS. The prospect of joining either group appears to be very grim indeed. Yet the media pundits and "experts" now speak incessantly of the once esoteric but now commonplace explanation of "self-radicalization" being a major factor in recruitment. However the Western man the Ninth Amendment editorial board just recently heard offered neither the justification of a religious zealot or one caught up in some delusion of glory in joining one of these groups committing untold atrocities in some of the last places on Earth one would wish to live.
All the young man referred to as his justification for seeking to join one of these terrorist groups was as a response to his hatred of the CIA's criminal use of torture. Has it ever occurred to the CIA that keeping human beings imprisoned in horrid conditions uncharged and with no known release date while seemingly to them abusing them randomly at will torturing them at any time might be enough to make just about anyone even if they had not before hated Americans and the West as they have never hated before and in fact become "radicalized by CIA"? The CIA's torture "program" in the opinion of the Ninth Amendment editorial board has served no purpose based on credible sources but to perpetuate terrorism and keep terrorists supplied with an unending stream of recruits as the CIA has proceeded in absolute contravention of all the core principles embodied in the United States Constitution and worthy of a fascist state. The CIA's use of criminal torture is no secret any longer to the American people and never was to terrorist groups who received detailed reports of CIA torture from "detainees" who were released from CIA custody.
Finally the Ninth Amendment finds it curious that in the wake of the internal CIA investigation of Director Petraeus rather than the CIA IG it has ended up being the FBI that has referred charges against the CIA official rather than the IG provided that that is presumably within the purview of the IG. More broadly the Ninth Amendment must query if this means it would be the FBI charged with the task of taking into custody and charging CIA officials and operatives should that become necessary provided the CIA officials if facing the prospect of going to prisons so much more humane than their own will nevertheless go down shooting. On another front the Ninth Amendment has been somewhat confounded by the swift conclusion drawn by the FBI that North Korea was responsible for the Sony "The Interview' hack. This given the volume of illegal IT information unlawfully amassed by the NSA and its presumably top-notch cyber experts, not to mention the CIA's for that matter which agency if any would be expected to be in a turf war with the NSA over taking charge in cyber investigations.
In the realm of the acronymed "National Security" and law enforcement agencies could we be seeing a turf war breaking out with the somewhat sleeping FBI now emerging as taking a leading role considering that the CIA by law if not practice is restricted to overseas rather than domestic activities and as for the NSA who knows it would seem it has become a rogue agency somewhat distastefully turned to by others considering the stink attached to it but whose mission seems to be anyone's to guess but mostly to use the latest technologies to devise the latest way to break national and international laws with abandon.
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
