Conspiracy Trump Pal Putin Jointly Threw U.S. Election To "Golden Shower" Criminal Trump Russia Conspirator Compromised FSB "Kompromat" Asset STEELE DOSSIER INTELLIGENCE PART CONFIRMED SOURCES VERIFIED

     Wednesday, 11 January 2017, WASHINGTON, D.C. / MOSCOW - The 35-page former MI6 agent Christopher Steele "dossier" of reports at the third link below was the original source material of a story broken by CNN on the headlined matter which dossier both CNN and the New York Times had refrained for some time from publishing for reasons set out for interested readers in the articles at the first and second links below. The dossier nevertheless as noted in those articles has been published in Buzzfeed with clear disclaimers that it is unconfirmed, unverified and "contains errors" but in any case has been in limited circulation including in addition to his private clients having been provided some time ago by Mr. Steele to the F.B.I. due to the magnitude of the concerns it raised.
     Mr. Steele since reportedly then blindsided by the Wall Street Journal without notice exposing him as the dossier author and in apparent fear for their well-being and/or lives immediately with family "went to ground" to some unknown location(s). More recently after some while out of sight Mr. Steele re-surfaced appearing in the press with no public comment on the above briefly stating only that he was returning to work presumably on other matters at his private London investigation business office.
     The dossier reports detail Russian concerted well-practiced and honed "intelligence" efforts including cyberattacks among other things to disrupt and eventually under the direct control of Vladimir Putin covertly illegally manipulate the United States electorate in a variety of assaults specifically intended to assist "Siberian Candidate" Donald Trump while harming Secretary Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The Russians allegedly were joined in their efforts including by "Siberian Candidate" Donald J. Trump and associates with Trump reportedly himself further previously having been classically "kompromat" (compromised) including by his Moscow and St. Petersburg recorded and videotaped sexual perversions with FSB and/or GRU prostitutes during Trump's past stays in Russia.
     Trump first countered inquiries mostly in familiar combative apparent denial "tweets" in which among other matters he has made reference to "fake news" and claims that nearly the entire U.S. intelligence community has engaged in tactics against him characteristic of a "Nazi" regime. Americans like others need be mindful that they reportedly increasingly have been exposed to sophisticated attempts intentionally to manipulate them among other things by a growing body of planted fabricated untruthful misinformation, propaganda, manipulated social media as well as strategic coordinated leaks of hacked stolen private communications which each reader should consider when evaluating the accuracy of asserted "information" such as the potentially devastating "Siberian Candidate" Trump unconfirmed dossier of reports relying on as yet unverified sources.
     The dossier of material from the series of reports prepared by Mr. Steele linked to below however apparently is that referred to as the source of a two-page addendum "summary" reportedly attached to the classified version of a recently publicly released Director of National Intelligence redacted version of a longer report on Russian cyber and other meddling directed with implausible deniability by Vladimir Putin intended to influence United States elections as part of Putin's larger schemes to disorganize the civilized Western world so as better to accommodate his obsession with the re-establishment of a Russian empire roughly as represented by the former Soviet Union .
     "Siberian Candidate" Trump senior counsel Kellyanne Conway said on last night's airing of the "Late Night With Seth Meyers" television show that "Siberian Candidate" Trump could not remember if he had read the two-page addendum. President Barack Obama in an interview on Air Force One with NBC's Lester Holt said he had not read it and could not an any case discuss classified information.
     Given that the above widely publicized facts including that the dossier already has been published by at least one much larger publication and doubtless republished many times since with reliably reported wide distribution the Ninth Amendment has determined that as the Steele dossier relates to an important matter of intense interest to a majority of the American people possibly involving corruption corroding the highest levels of the United States government and the integrity of the United States Constitution up to and including treason related to possible newly discovered further malfeasance and directed attacks from the rapidly re-emerging hostile Russian government it is proper and appropriate that it here be made available to interested readers for their own consideration at the third link below. Readers interested in more recent widely published information related to the possible identity of a significant source for the most salacious dossier information can go to the fourth link below.
     THE THIRD LINK BELOW IS TO THE DOSSIER OF REPORTS BELIEVED TO BE TRUTHFUL AND ACCURATE IN ALL OR IN PART. AS OF THURSDAY, 9 FEBRUARY 2017 NINE PRESENT AND FORMER SENIOR U.S. OFFICIALS FROM "NUMEROUS" AGENCIES HAVE CORROBORATED THAT DOSSIER INTELLIGENCE IS NOW PARTLY CONFIRMED AND ORIGINAL SOURCES PARTLY VERIFIED WITH AT LEAST SOME OFFICIALS FURTHER DISCLOSING THAT THAT INCLUDES EVIDENCE OF ONGOING PRE-ELECTION TRUMP CAMPAIGN CONTACTS WITH RUSSIAN OFFICIALS AND THE KREMLIN BUT NOT YET AS TO ANY DOSSIER REPORTS OF DONALD TRUMP PERSONAL "SALACIOUS" CONTENT. THE NINTH AMENDMENT CANNOT AND DOES NOT MAKE ANY CLAIM WHATSOEVER AT ALL TO ANY READER  AS TO THE OVERALL TRUTHFULNESS NOR ACCURACY OF THE DOSSIER NOR ANY SPECIFIC PART THEREOF.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/us/politics/trump-intelligence-report-explainer.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/index.html

Steele Trump-Russia Dossier Original Unedited Reports: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russia?utm_term=.hw7qr18Kpx#.wlLpAWJqPa

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/who-is-source-d-the-man-said-to-be-behind-the-trump-russia-dossiers-most-salacious-claim/2017/03/29/379846a8-0f53-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.902085e97854

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Reject Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III U.S. Attorney General Nomination Urges A Statement From 1,424 Law Faculty At 180 Law Schools In 49 States

     Monday, 9 January 2017, WASHINGTON, D.C. - "STATEMENT FROM LAW SCHOOL FACULTY OPPOSING NOMINATION OF JEFF SESSIONS FOR THE POSITION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL" specifying the many grave concerns of the now listed 1,424 law professors from 180 law schools in 49 states compelling them to urge the United States Senate Committee On The Judiciary to reject the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be U.S. Attorney General for interested readers is at the first link below.
     Previously Jeff Sessions was only the second nominee for a federal judgeship in half a century to be rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee for full Senate consideration due to what Senators deemed to be his blatantly racist history including his actions in his official capacity in an Alabama U.S. Attorney's office with at least one Senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee further calling for him immediately to resign that position as he was a "disgrace" unfit to represent the United States government in any capacity.
     Currently the Senate Republican majority leadership seeks to rush through vital proceedings for Jeff Sessions along with a rash of other highly suspect and controversial "Siberian Candidate" Trump nominees for other Senate "Advice and Consent" positions without legally required full vetting largely reportedly delayed by many of the nominees' own failures to timely fully complete required financial and other disclosure questionnaires, provide other required information and then be subject to passing required full rigorous FBI background and Office of Government ethics investigations.
     Jeff Sessions reportedly has returned to the Senate Judiciary Committee grossly incomplete and illegally untruthfully answered questionnaires apparently seeking to obfuscate and mischaracterize his long racist history rather as an untruthful one of a civil rights champion. He as well has reportedly senselessly failed to disclose where specifically asked his previous extraordinary rejection by the Committee for full Senate consideration even to hold a federal judgeship.
     All Senators of course anyway are well aware of that which should be disqualifying infamous rejection on his record especially considering that he has demonstrated no succeeding redemption but rather continued to act consistently with his prior disqualifying actions for which he had been ejected amplified by his further positions including Jeff Sessions abysmal record of objection to unjust mandatory sentencing reductions being retroactive as well as his absolute rejection of any realistic solution for the challenges posed by originally illegal aliens who have been fully positively integrated into U.S. society including serving in this country's armed forces all of which are set out for interested readers in the second link below.
     Finally Jeff Sessions has a a long record he also cannot hide shedding further light on his "conscience" such as it is of unbridled enthusiasm while an Alabama attorney general in seeking and largely succeeding in brutally having as many defendants put to death as quickly as possible even when they were known to him and often recognized by appellate courts to be mentally retarded, mentally incapable by legally recognized subnormal intelligence, obviously insane, and other such totally incapacitated defendants.
     Jeff Sessions enthusiastic pursuit of the death penalty in violation of the U.S. Constitution further included prosecution of those represented by clearly inadequate state appointed counsel including one with only one year of legal experience, another defense counsel appointed and paid by the state $4.95 an hour who provided a totally inadequate legal defense commensurate with that pay rate, and many other death penalty defendants inadequately represented by State appointed defense attorneys who should have been recognized pursuant to the U.S. Constitution as currently ineligible for the death penalty under such circumstances with Jeff Sessions nevertheless enthusiastically without regard for the U.S. Constitution pursuing the death of all such defendants knowing that in every case with the full resources of the government at his disposal Jeff Sessions could bravely and boldly face State appointed defense counsel including for defendants facing the death penalty which counsel were paid no more than $1,000 in total by the State for providing the full legal representation of any person facing the death penalty. All were nevertheless relentlessly pursued by Jeff Sessions in his ongoing crusade for death by State of as many people as quickly as possible. Readers interested in further details can go to the Jeff Sessions the "Grim Reaper of Alabama" third link below.
     UPDATE: Jeff Sessions according to the editorial board of the New York Times "smooth-talked" his way through his first day Tuesday, 10 December 2017, of his first before the Senate Judiciary Committee with that editorial urging that readers should be "outraged" at the prospect of Sessions' being put in charge of the Department of Justice enabling him to attempt to engage in a 4-year dismemberment of the Obama Administration's accomplishments there.
     Sessions spent a long day Tuesday starting before the proceeding began strategically holding his cute grandchild in his lap before being fed hours of mostly softball garbage questions by Republicans on the Committee interspersed with colloquies about their state college football rivalries focusing on the Alabama "Crimson Tide" and interspersed with compliments about how well-behaved his grandchildren were listening to them spew their completely worthless questions or just statements of vapid observations such as what a "friendly" and "polite" colleague to them he had been in the Senate.
     Meanwhile the Republican senators spent most of the rest of their time doing things such as conveniently overlooking or even attempting to rehabilitate Sessions' receipt of awards from many suspect organizations as far as "justice" is concerned as well as Sessions unremitting praise in the press which he for some unfathomable reason even continued to expound upon to the Senators in the hearing room even after his most vigorous Democratic questioner Senator Al Franken of Minnesota pointed out that the individual Sessions so enthusiastically endorsed was a leading figure in what was identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "hate group". Sessions blandly observed that that organization was not the "final arbiter" on what groups qualified as "hate groups". The Republicans and others also showed no interest in pursuing his lies (or at least extremely misleading responses) and omissions on his Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire answers starkly observed by Senator Franken.
     Other than Senator Franken mentioned above the minority Democrats on the Committee mostly toothlessly questioned Sessions on some matters of concern to them most of which he dismissed as "hypothetical" or with his endless repetition that he was committed to "enforcing existing laws" if confirmed as U.S. Attorney General. Reportedly rapidly up and coming Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey (apparently "outraged" per the Times recommendation) is expected to make history in Sessions' continuing hearing by taking the unprecedented step of testifying in a Cabinet confirmation hearing against fellow Senate colleague Sessions and may be joined in testifying against Senator Sessions by Democrat Rep. John Lewis who has been described as a "civil rights icon". Readers interested in more information on the New York Times editorial on Sessions mentioned above can go to the fourth link below.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/167Ci3pVqwzOUe7_e7itlpew1qGcTo0ZD5dNICIbLQWA/pub

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/opinion/what-are-you-hiding-jeff-sessions.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

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Prosecute Trump Felony Violations Of Logan Act The "Siberian Candidate's" Action To Defeat U.S. Foreign Policy In Russia, China, Israel And Elsewhere

     Monday, 2 January 2017, Washington, D.C. - The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment urges all appropriate federal prosecutors to do their sworn duty and immediately without delay initiate all necessary steps to commence the federal criminal felony prosecution of "Siberian Candidate" Donald J. Trump including for several of "Siberian Candidate" Trump's indisputably known violations of the "Logan Act" 18 U.S.C. § 953 the current text of which federal statute is set forth in its true and correct entirety below.

     This statute officially entitled "[p]rivate correspondence with foreign governments" provides that any private U.S. citizen who without U.S. authority in any way communicates with any foreign government with intent to influence the measures or conduct of that foreign government in relation to any "disputes or controversies" or to "defeat the measures" of the United States is in violation of the statute and shall be fined or imprisoned for not more than three years or both.

     "Siberian Candidate" Donald J. Trump indisputably has been and is in violation of the statute on its face because he currently continues to be and at all times before the present has been a private U.S. citizen unauthorized to act in any capacity for the United States government. Moreover it is axiomatic that "Siberian Candidate" Donald J. Trump's statutory violation(s) extend(s) to any other private U.S. citizen who attempts to act and/or has or conspired to act as set forth in the statute on "Siberian Candidate" Trump's behalf "directly or indirectly" including without limitation for example all Trump's co-conspirators. former and present employees, agents, campaign workers, volunteers, friends, colleagues. advisers, donors, contributors and those appointed and/or to be nominated for a position in any currently expected "Siberian Candidate" Trump presidential administration.

     "Siberian Candidate" Trump's felony violations of this statute are well-documented by his own widespread publication and communication of them to the public including federal prosecutors and widely known including without limitation his illegal and damaging intentional and highly dangerous interference with the United States "one China" policy in place since the administration of President Jimmy Carter, as well as his direct public invitation to and encouragement of the criminal Russian government's military and espionage intelligence agencies under orders from the highest official levels of the criminal Russian Government hostile to the United States to continue to engage in hostilities against the United States by committing both themselves and on their behalf by third parties the illegal theft and hostile to the United States release of the private communications of "Siberian Candidate" Trump's campaign opponent and by extension the private communications of a United States' major political party with "Siberian Candidate" Trump fully aware of his encouragement of the criminal Russian Government's continuing hostilities against the United States with the hostile intent of threatening both the United States' voting public/s and others' confidence in and the bedrock Constitutional integrity of the United States domestic democratic political and electoral institutions and processes.
     These hostilities against the United States including by the highest criminal official levels of the hostile foreign Russian government's direction and participation in intolerable active hostilities to interfere, influence, and invade the sanctity of the United States' presidential election cry out not for thoughtless encouragement from mindless criminal "Siberian Candidate" Trump but for fully justified and doubtless globally supported massive hostile retaliation by the United States including but not limited to against the highest levels of the criminal Russian government whose actions continue to include those meant to irrevocably damage the highest levels of the United States government and thus must be responded to with just and overwhelming retribution.

     "Siberian Candidate" Trump/s current public encouragement both of Israel and the criminal hostile Russian government to "hold out" until his apparently expected but currently non-existent administration takes office with "Siberian Candidate" Trump's stated current criminal actions directly both to "influence the measures and conduct" of those countries contrary to official existing United States government "disputes or controversies" with those countries, as well as "Siberian Candidate" Trump's present actions directly to "defeat the measures" of the United States government all clearly violate the statute.
     These include those articulated and demonstrated by the United States in the United Nations as to Israel which "Siberian Candidate" Trump actively attempted to sabotage by communicating to Israel that they should and could be ignored, likewise "Siberian Candidate" Trump's positive encouragement of continuing hostile criminal Russian government actions and conduct threatening the United States national security by communicating messages directly contrary to the present most serious official retaliatory signaling including by the United States current imposition of publicly announced further sanctions against the Russian government including the United States expulsion of Russian "diplomats" determined to be Russian spies acting under diplomatic cover.
      Criminal "Siberian Candidate" Trump's repeated statutory violations further are evidenced by his intentional interference with the United States observance of the critical "one China" policy mentioned above which in addition to seriously threatening sensitive China relations directly also is especially significant because its recognition further serves to help maintain China as the United States sole viable conduit with any semblance of some apparent measure of control over the entirely isolated most unpredictable highly militarized extremely dangerous nuclear weapon delivery capability determined hostile nation of North Korea.    

     In addition to the above indisputable publicly known "Siberian Candidate" Donald J. Trump criminal violations of the Logan Act which most readily come to mind are at least several others which have been reported and confirmed. Doubtless there are others known to the United States government and undoubtedly further violations which will come to be known to the United States government and perhaps the public in the coming weeks unless criminal "Siberian Candidate" Donald J. Trump's illegal and dangerous conduct is brought to an immediate halt as one component of the imminent initiation by federal prosecutors of criminal proceedings against "Siberian Candidate" criminal Donald J. Trump for his many brazen violations of the Logan Act.

     The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment most strongly believes and emphatically urges the immediate commencement of all viable official legal actions that may be brought against "Siberian Candidate" criminal Donald J. Trump be brought now in the less than two weeks before "Siberian Candidate" criminal Trump expects to be sworn into office facilitating any subsequent criminal prosecutions as soon as possible such that the day of "Siberian Candidate" criminal Trump's expected taking of office may never take place. 

     It should be frighteningly apparent to any conscious sane society that criminal "Siberian Candidate" Trump is far too disturbed to hold the United States presidential authority enabling him to be the sole individual given the singular legally unstoppable authority with or without any counsel whatsoever to initiate the launch sequence of any and all of the United States vast nuclear arsenal which after four minutes will be final and irreversible, as from the very moment that criminal "Siberian Candidate" Trump widely recognized even by members of his own party as perilously unfit were to take office the United States as well as the entirety of human civilization living around the globe immediately would face the most dangerous absolutely unacceptable imminent risk of catastrophic unpredictable total nuclear annihilation threatening all humankind and life the earth has ever known.  

     God Bless America.

True and correct current text of the Logan Act:

1. U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 45 › § 953

18 U.S. Code § 953 - Private correspondence with foreign governments

Current through Pub. L. 114-38. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)

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Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 744; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

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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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NSA Manhattan Spy Hub Listening Post Code-Name "Titanpointe" Operated In "Extremely Willing" Longtime NSA "Fairview" Spying Pal AT&T Nuke-Proof "Long Lines Building" Monolith At 33 Thomas Street NSA Vast Surveillance Of UN, IMF, World Bank, 38 Countries And "Skidrowe" Rooftop Satellite Intercept

NSA "Titanpointe" Surveillance And "Skidrowe" Satellite Intercepts, AT&T Long Lines Bldg., 33 Thomas St., NY, NY

For more information on The Intercept investigative article and accompanying documentary film "Project X" both detailing evidence and scope of NSA programs at 33 Thomas Steet interested readers can go to the link below:

   

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/nyregion/national-security-agency-said-to-use-manhattan-tower-as-listening-post.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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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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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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