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Senate investigator breaks silence about CIA's 'failed coverup' of torture report

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“People who played a significant role in this program, who are in the report, continue to play significant roles in sensitive programs at the agency,” said Jones, a former FBI counter-terrorism analyst.

Exclusive: Daniel Jones, the man at the center of landmark Senate report, goes public for the first time about the investigation that led to the CIA spying

The man at the center of the US Senate’s landmark investigation of the CIA torture program has gone public for the first time about an experience that led to the CIA spying on him as part of what he calls a “failed coverup”.

For six years, Daniel Jones was the chief investigator for the Senate intelligence committee’s inquiry into CIA detentions and interrogations carried out in the post-9/11 Bush era. Jones and his team turned 6.3m pages of internal CIA documents into a scathing study which concluded that torture was ineffective and that the CIA had lied about it to two presidents, Congress and the US public.

But before Jones’s investigation was released in December 2014, the CIA searched through Senate files on a shared, firewalled network that had been set up by the agency for Jones and his team to securely receive classified documents.

The CIA accessed Jones’s work and even reconstructed his emails, sparking an unprecedented clash between the agency and its legislative overseers on Capitol Hill.

Jones has broken his silence in an extensive series of interviews with the Guardian, expressing dissatisfaction with what he called a lack of accountability for torture at the CIA. He also says the agency, under the leadership of John Brennan was abetted in trying to silence criticism by Barack Obama, the president who banned torture as one of the first acts of his tenure.

“To me, it’s a huge lost opportunity. Here’s an administration that came in and did all the right things within a few days, shutting down the program … We were just never given a fair airing. No one from the White House would be briefed byGuardian US has re-investigated the six-year saga of the torture inquiry, whose work was eventually published in a 525-page summary. The examination of events between 2008 and 2014 relies upon interviews with people involved and declassified documents concerning both the use of torture and the network breach, which committee member Senator Ron Wyden flatly calls “spying on our staff”. us. They were briefed b

The Guardian’s findings, to be published in three installments starting today, include:

• How Jones was so afraid the CIA would destroy important evidence, that he covertly removed from a CIA location a classified document, later described as a “smoking gun” by a senator on the committee ;

• A decision that left the investigation of extradjudicial transfers of terror suspects into the hands of foreign intelligence services practically lost to history;

• One of Obama’s most senior aides insisted the Senate obscure a finding that some CIA interrogators who operated at black sites around the world after 9/11 had been accused of domestic abuse and even sexual assault;

• Senators were prepared to suppress the report amid national security concerns, until intelligence chief James Clapper provided the committee with a “farce” of an analysis predicting that its publication would lead to chaos and violence around the world.

Asked about the Senate-CIA spying episode, agency spokesman Ryan Trapani said: “CIA considered this a very serious matter and believed it was important to get to the bottom of what happened.”

“What the president has made abundantly clear is that some of the techniques described in the committee’s report were inconsistent with our values as a nation, which is why one of his first acts in office was to sign an executive order that brought an end to the program and prohibited the use of harsh interrogation techniques,” said Ned Price, a spokesman for the National Security Council.

The new revelations about torture and the Senate inquiry come at a time when the Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump, has pledged to require the CIA to perform “a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding” on terrorism suspects.

As the Obama administration’s various cabinet agencies have not even opened the full 6,700-page classified version of the report, critics fear that a government unwilling to grapple with the torture program will at some point return to it.

“The deeper, more endemic problem lies in a CIA, assisted by a White House, that continues to try to cover up the truth. I worry that an agency that has yet to acknowledge these mistakes could continue to make them under a new administration,” said Mark Udall, a former Democratic senator on the committee.

Jones, now a consultant in Washington for the Daschle Group and his own Penn Quarter Group, said that one of the report’s shocking findings was that the CIA misled not just George W Bush on torture, but also Obama.

“This is John Brennan’s CIA, Obama’s CIA,” he said. “They’re providing inaccurate information to the president of the United States in the present day.”

Tulsi Gabbard’s LGBT Views

It is true that Tulsi Gabbard’s parents have been anti-LGBT, but Gabbard didn’t let that become her own views and has a pro-LGBT rights record during her time serving in U.S. Congress.

Gabbard has since apologized for her prior role with a group that promoted conversion therapy. However, Tulsi Gabbard never supported conversion therapy and did not know what it was when she worked at her father’s traditional marriage firm when she was 17 years old. It takes a lot of digging to find one reference about this on the CNN website that the media outlet ran with.

Gabbard co-sponsored the Equality Act, which protects LGBT people from discrimination. She also co-sponsors the amending H.R.1244 – Equal Dignity for Married Taxpayers Act of 2019 which makes sure all taxpayer provisions apply to same-sex couples.

Then there’s HR 197, the Respect for Marriage Act that Gabbard co-sponsored, which repealed the anti-LGBT rights Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Gabbard also co-sponsored HR 1755, the Employment non-discrimination Act of 2013, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.

Tulsi Gabbard co-sponsored HR Resolution 208, the Equality for All Resolution which is another anti-discrimination bill regarding LGBT and encourages states to prohibit such discrimination and to reject laws that undermine nondiscrimination protections.

Gabbard co-sponsored HR 1199 which addresses LGBT-based bullying in schools.

She also co-sponsored HR 683, The Military Spouses Equal Treatment Act (MSETA). It provides the same family benefits to lawfully-married lesbian and gay service members and veterans as are already provided to service members and veterans with different-sex spouses, regardless of where they live. It also included LGBT couples as “spouses” for the purposes of Titles 10, 32, 37 and 38 of the United States Code.

Tulsi Gabbard has also been involved with other bills. She has allocated funding for LGBT housing, advocated to end harassment in schools, and advocated for privacy rights.

Gabbard co-sponsored HR 2119 and HR 1981, which bans conversion therapy.

Why did Tulsi Gabbard Meet with Assad? Let's Hear it From Her.

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Washington (CNN)Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday called Syrian leader Bashar Assad a "brutal dictator" as her previous comments about the leader face increased scrutiny following a breakout performance at Wednesday's Democratic presidential debate.

"He's a brutal dictator. Just like Saddam Hussein. Just like Gadhafi in Libya," the congresswoman from Hawaii, who's an Iraq War veteran, told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "Prime Time."

"The reason that I'm so outspoken on this issue of ending these wasteful regime-change wars is because I have seen firsthand this high human cost of war and the impact that it has on my fellow brothers and sisters in uniform. I will do anything and everything that I possibly can to stop sending our men and women in uniform into harm's way, fighting in these wasteful, counterproductive wars."

Gabbard has faced criticism for her controversial meeting with Assad in 2017 and her subsequent refusal to call him a war criminal. She said at the time of her meeting with Assad that she thought it was "important that if we profess to truly care about the Syrian people, about their suffering, then we've got to be able to meet with anyone that we need to if there is a possibility that we can achieve peace."

When asked about Assad during her CNN town hall in March, Gabbard said, "I think that the evidence needs to be gathered and, as I have said before, if there is evidence that he has committed war crimes, he should be prosecuted as such."

After Gabbard confronted Sen. Kamala Harris on the Californian's record as a prosecutor Wednesday night, Harris labeled her an Assad "apologist."

"I can only take what she says and her opinion so seriously," Harris said, adding, "I'm prepared to move on."

Gabbard said Thursday that her comments on Assad stem from a skepticism she developed as a soldier.

"I know the cost of war in a way that none of those other people on that stage last night can understand," she said. "So yes. I will always ask the tough questions. I will ask for the evidence."

In 2007 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meeting with Syria's leader Assad

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi challenged the White House on Mideast policy, meeting with Syria's leader Wednesday and insisting "the road to Damascus is a road to peace." The Bush administration criticized the visit, saying she was following a road lined with victims of terror.

Vice President Dick Cheney said Pelosi was rewarding a "bad actor" in the Mideast. The tough White House response highlighted the clash between the administration and congressional Democrats, who have stepped up their push for change in U.S. policy in the Mideast and the Iraq war.

Washington accuses Syria of supporting terror for its backing of the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. It also says Syria is fueling Iraq's violence by allowing Sunni insurgents to operate from its territory and is destabilizing the Lebanese government.

The Historic Meetings Between U.S. Presidents and World Dictators

President Obama and President Putin of Russia

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Presidents Trump and Putin meet at G20

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Hoover meets Hitler

The Fuhrer told Hoover his country couldn’t afford to provide personal liberties.

Five years after his presidency, Herbert Hoover traveled to Europe to receive humanitarian awards in 1938. While there, he met with Nazi leader Adolph Hitler for 40 minutes at the Reich Chancellery. The former president also stayed at Nazi minister Hermann Göring’s hunting lodge.

During his visit, Hoover expressed to Hitler his dismay at the persecution of Jews in Germany and spoke in favor of personal liberty. The dictator replied that unlike America, his country could not afford such liberties.

Roosevelt meets Stalin

“Let’s shoot the top 50,000 German officers,” Stalin told Roosevelt and Churchill.

Three of the most powerful men met over the future of the planet during World War II. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill worked with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in leading the Allies against the Axis Powers. Roosevelt and Churchill agreed in 1943 to open a second front against Germany, and Stalin committed to enter the war against Japan.

The three met again in 1945 toward the end of the war. Inside a bedbug-ridden Crimean palace, under the influence of vodka, Stalin convinced Roosevelt and Churchill to make concessions about Poland’s borders. Stalin agreed to allow free elections in Eastern Europe, but he never came through on this promise. Due to this, Roosevelt was criticized as naïve.

Kennedy meets Khrushchev

“He just beat the hell out of me,” Kennedy said after the summit.

In the early stages of the Cold War, confrontations with the Soviet Union dominated President John F. Kennedy’s foreign policy. Tensions brewed as he awaited a 1961 summit with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Other world leaders warned Kennedy not to be bullied by Khrushchev — yet that was exactly what happened.

Kennedy told the dictator he would consider it an act of war if the Soviets interfered with the U.S.’ access rights in West Berlin. Nevertheless, Khrushchev then signed a treaty with East Berlin that nullified the rights of any third parties occupying the city. Kennedy reacted by beefing up America’s defense budget, and the Cold War escalated.

Reagan meets Gorbachev

When they finally signed a peace treaty, they began calling each other “Ron” and “Mikhail

In three Cold War-era meetings, President Ronald Reagan felt fostering a personal relationship with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was the key to breaking down tensions. Both countries sought to cut the total number of nuclear weapons. Reagan emphasized similarities between the two superpowers as well as between him and Gorbachev.

A sticky point for Gorbachev was his request that Reagan limit his pet “Star Wars” project, which set out to shield the U.S. from nuclear attacks through space technology. Reagan refused to consider this, which complicated the talks. The two finally signed a missile treaty in 1987.

George W. Bush meets Crown Prince Abdullah

Next: A former American president visited Kim Jong Il in recent history.

Clinton meets Kim Jong Il

Clinton didn’t smile in the official photograph, and he warned his aides not to smile either.

In 2009, former President Bill Clinton met with former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, seeking release of two U.S. journalists imprisoned in North Korea. Officials in Pyongyang welcomed Clinton with flowers and hearty handshakes. After exhaustive talks, the North Korean dictator granted a pardon to Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

“We were told that we were going to a meeting,” Ling recalled after flying home with the former president. “When we walked through the doors, we saw standing before us President Bill Clinton.”

Obama meets Mubarak

Two years after hosting Mubarak, Obama supported his removal from power.

President Barack Obama hosted Hosni Mubarak at the White House in 2009. The military dictator had ruled Egypt since 1981 with a record of police-state torture. Obama’s purpose in the summit was to help achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinian people.

While the two met once more, Obama did an about-face in 2011 when he called for a transfer of power from Mubarak amid Egypt’s Arab Spring protests. After weeks of violent demonstrations, his regime was overthrown.

Tuesday, 26 May 2015

U.S. Intel: Obama Coalition Supported Islamic State in Syria

Written by Alex Newman

A newly released intelligence report from the Pentagon shows that the U.S. government knew that supporting jihadists in the fight against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would produce a fundamentalist Islamic State in Eastern Syria — and that Obama’s supposed “anti-ISIS” coalition knowingly backed ISIS and other Islamic terrorists for precisely that purpose. The heavily redacted Defense Department report, obtained by watchdog Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, shows once again that, contrary to the false narrative peddled by the establishment press, the rise of the savage terror group known as ISIS was actually deliberate policy. Now, the fruits of that plot are becoming clearer as the body count continues to skyrocket.

Even the left-stream media is now acknowledging that Donald Trump “has a point” when he blasts Hilary and Obama for creating ISIS.

“Hillary Clinton is vulnerable. ISIS did gain strength during her time as Secretary of State,” said ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz.

The report appears to have originated from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in Iraq, well before their intelligence product was tarnished by political interference from top commanders in 2014 aimed at diminishing the threat from ISIS.

Here’s what the report, originally stamped SECRET, actually says:

AQI, through the spokesman of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), Abu Muhammad al- Adnani… is calling on the Sunnis in Iraq, especially the tribes in the border regions (between Iraq and Syria), to wage war against the Syrian regime…

Opposition forces are trying to control the eastern areas (Hasaka and Der Zor) adjacent to the Western Iraqi provinces (Mosul and Anbar), in addition to neighboring Turkish borders. Western countries, the Gulf States and Turkey are supporting these efforts… [emphasis mine]

There is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern Syria (Hasak and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want…

It is no secret that the United States was supporting the Syrian opposition in 2012 and even until very recently. In December 2012, thanks in large measure to the active lobbying of Mrs. Clinton and U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, Obama declared that the United States considered the opposition as “the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.”

What was secret until the release of this August 2012 defense intelligence report is that the United States knew that the Syrian opposition was dominated by al Qaeda in Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq, groups that merged and morphed into what today we call ISIS.

Some of America’s enemies, such as Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran, have also accused the United States of creating ISIS – but as a tool for encroaching on Iran’s efforts to dominate the Muslim world. In fact, Obama and Hillary’s policies have simultaneously favored Iran and its rise to regional dominance, standing aside as Iran filled the vacuum in Iraq with its own militias and allowing Iranian troops and weapons to flow onto battlefields in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Libya and beyond.

Other documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that the United States was also complicit with arms shipments from Benghazi to the jihadi rebel groups in Syria.

These particular shipments were distinct from the more publicized case of al Entisar, a Libyan fishing vessel that arrived in Iskanderiyah, Turkey, crammed with weapons in late August 2012.

The shipments described in this recently declassified document were sent directly to small Syrian ports under rebel control and included RPG grenade-launchers, sniper rifles, and ammunition for 125mm and 155mm howitzers.

As I revealed two years ago, the U.S. backed arms shipments to ISIS and its allies in Syria appear to have been run out of the White House by then-counterterrorism advisor (and current CIA director) John Brennan. Running the clandestine arms shipments outside official channels allowed Obama and his allies – including Mrs. Clinton, who supported the arms shipments – to withhold that information from Congress.

Friday, November 29, 2019

Senate investigator breaks silence about CIA's 'failed coverup' of torture report.