Hillary Clinton is repeating the methodology of the Iran/Contra affair, using “black” funds to finance the operation to ensure President Correa is not re-elected.
I had two excellent sources for the news that the US/UK strategy against Julian Assange was to ensure the defeat of President Correa in Presidential elections next spring, and then have him expelled from the Ecuadorean Embassy. One source was within the UK civil service and one in Washington. Both had direct, personal access to the information I described. Both told me in the knowledge I would publish it.
Of course Assange is not the only reason Clinton wants rid of Correa; but it adds spice and urgency.
We now have completely independent evidence from Chile that this CIA operation exists, from journalists who were investigating a smuggling operation involving 300 kg per month of cocaine, organised by the Chilean army and security services.
The links to US intelligence emerged after an anonymous source from the Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia (ANI) told Panoramas News that the smuggling of 300 kilos of cocaine was in fact a highly sensitive CIA/DEA operation that would help to raise money to topple the government of Ecuador. The operation is similar to the one carried out by the Agency in Central America during the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980’s, the source said.
A few days ago I published information I had received that Patricio Mery Bell, the director of the news programme which broke the story, had been lured to a meeting with a young lady “informant” who had worked with CIA-backed anti-Cuban groups in Miami. She had then accused him of sexual assault (does any of that scenario sound familiar?) He was arrested and his materials had been confiscated. However I took the article down after jst a few minutes because I had received the information in emails from sources I did not know previously, and was unsure it could stand up. It does now appear that this is indeed true.
My Washigton informant had told me, as I published, that the funds for the anti-Correa operation were not from the CIA budget but from secret funds controlled by the Pentagon. This could not be done by CIA funds because, perhaps surprisingly, for the CIA to operate in this way is a crime in the United States.
Whether my informant knew or suspected that the “secret Pentagon funds” were drug money I do not know. They did not mention narcotics.
Am i the only one that wishes for some intelligent hasbara trolls-as opposed to the usual under-trained rookie fuckwits we usually have to educate??
Fathomable easily-yet still boring enough to have to rectify…
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Beyond a certain sophistication of disagreement you cant fairly call forum sh’nanigans. It becomes a nanigan to do so.
His challenge for uncontested proof of any CIA involvement in drug trafficking anywhere and ever -may stand.
His rendering of Craig Murray as just another blogger spreading gossip is conspicuously dismissive of Craig and his little blogs history.
I don’t expect you to prove your ‘negative’, Michal. But you have not addressed any of the ‘musings’ and speculation on just how, CIA can be separated from the drug trade, they admit they tolerated in numerous regions throughout the world, while somehow maintaining a distance. With so many detailed and specific references to ops with dates, names and places, it somehow escapes your slippery imagination, and you are, frankly, just too eager to debunk. All perception is selective. In your case, you exhibit not just selectivity, but myopia for your field-of-view.
Here’s another….http://thelastoutpost.com/video-3/ciadrugrunning/chiptatum.html
Dreoilin –
david rose, the journalist at daily mail, IS NOT johann hari. some debate goes on among journos on a blog that hari uses the pseudonym david rose to edit his own wikipedia page & such-like, and others post misinformed stuff from there. last i saw no-one had yet proven beyond reasonable doubt that hari was using the name, or if the rose involved was indeed another person.
Ms Clinton will, I’m quite sure, be President in 4 years. Think on that, puny citizens. Clinton Mk 2. This tells me everything I need to know about the current US political scene. Hopelessly corrupt. I’d say it was Banana Republic levels of corruption – but it’s much, much worse than that. The sheer sums involved are mind-boggling: billions just ‘lost’ in Iraq, trillions just ‘given’ to crooked bankers. Your average tin-pot dictator can only dream of such levels of corruption – not to mention brutality.
Glen Greenwald has a great article on the veneration of military types. I’ve no idea how he does this – his articles are very good, and also timely. I suspect, like others, that there is much more to this tale, and I also suspect, alas, we’ll hear almost none of it. Such is.
Sayonara sayanim siren ! Paula Kranz found the greeks weakpoint – ahh, the allure of anal , a mad dash along the Hershey Highway, all caution thrown to the wind !! But a Director of the CIA sending compromising emails via unencrypted email? I bet the Mossad have amusing pics of the old boy prancing like a frog on Kranz’s back ! BTW-the Benghazi rape pics,the well-timed attack on Dempsey aircraft in Afghanistan, the timing of the emails to Jill Kelley – could all be entirely innocent but nonetheless need to be investigated.
That Nadine Dorries person is a wag isn’t she? If you skimmed the headlines, you would think that the £40k fee for her appearance in the Australian nonsense was being donated to charity. No. It’s the equivalent of one month’s worth of her MP’s salary while she has taken leave of her constituents.
She loves a bit of foreign travel, In May this year she was seeing the delights of Israhell with other Conservative Friends of Israel.
http://www2.cfoi.co.uk/Delegations/RecentDelegations/ includes photos
28-31 May 2012: Delegation to Israel and the Palestinian Authority
Participants: Nadine Dorries MP, Rob Halfon MP, Stephen Hammond MP, Rebecca Harris MP, Phillip Hollobone MP, Sajid Javid MP, Mark Menzies MP, Sheryll Murray MP, Amber Rudd MP
CFI In May 2012, CFI led a business and security orientated delegation to Israel and the West Bank for nine Conservative MPs, two conservative commentators and three political advisors.
The busy itinerary included a briefing with Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon and an insightful cross-party meeting with Israeli MK’s.
Delegation with Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, at the Knesset
During a day-long visit to the south, the group travelled to the town of Sderot near the Gaza border to meet with the town’s Deputy Mayor, see the different type of rockets launched from Gaza and sample the local cuisine.
IDF Briefing at Israel-Gaza border
The group also had the opportunity to visit the Erez crossing point at the Gaza border where they received security and humanitarian aid briefings.
Whilst in Jerusalem, the MPs had the opportunity to explore the historic Old City and were given a tour of the security barrier by the architect of the barrier, Danny Tirza.
MPs following the route of the security barrier and visiting a section of the barrier constructed as concrete wall (only 5%)
On their visit to the Palestinian Authority, the delegation visited the Rawabi development, which is fast taking shape and is set to become the first Palestinian-planned town; before meeting with Palestinian businessmen and politicians.
CFI Delegation at Rawabi, West Bank
Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, hosted a briefing about the recently established UK/Israel Tech Hub and a private dinner during which he spoke warmly about the strengthening of the UK-Israel bilateral relationship, with record levels of trade and scientific exchange.
Other events on the visit included a tour around Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, a visit to electric vehicle company Better Place, a briefing session on Palestinian hate education and incitement with Palestinian Media Watch and dinner with renowned Israeli academic Asher Susser.
CFI Delegation holds memorail service at Yad Vashem
The MPs learned of the closeness of UK-Israel business ties during a visit to Elbit Systems, which provides the British armed forces with the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that play such a crucial role in intelligence-collection in Afghanistan.
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Nice one Nadine.
What is the agenda for Desmond’s Express with these continual scare weather forecasts?
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/357655/Coldest-winter-freeze-on-way
‘BRITAIN can expect the first big freeze of winter by the end of the month, sending temperatures plunging to -15C.
Forecasters warned last night that the entire country was set to shiver with bitterly cold winds, harsh frosts and snow, all likely to last into December.
This is the actual Met Office forecast for the period.’
UK Outlook for Friday 16 Nov 2012 to Sunday 25 Nov 2012:
Rain across the northwest of the UK will slowly spread southeast through Friday and into Saturday, with the far south remaining dry until later on Saturday. Fairly cloudy conditions expected ahead of the rain, with some brighter spells possible. Temperatures continuing to be around normal for November. Mixed conditions likely thereafter, with cloudy periods giving spells of rain, heavy at times, particularly in the north and west. Also some brighter spells, with a few showers, mainly to the north and west where they may be wintry over hills. Southern and eastern parts staying reasonably dry with rain generally short lived. Generally becoming colder again during the overnight periods, and also through the day in the north and west, with the south and east expected to see nearer to normal temperatures.
UK Outlook for Monday 26 Nov 2012 to Monday 10 Dec 2012:
As is usual, there are uncertainties in the forecast for this period, but there are signs that the changeable conditions will continue through the start of this forecast period. There is also a signal for temperatures to be close to or just below the seasonal average. Into December, although there are no strong indications that any particular weather type is going to dominate, on balance colder, drier conditions than at present are favoured, rather than milder, wetter weather, especially across the southern half of the UK.
Issued at: 0227 on Mon 12 Nov 2012
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Helen Boaden has been instructed to ‘stand aside’ from her job, whatever that means.
I had been looking at her details on the BBC website and noticed that she is a trustee of the Stephen Joseph Theatre Trust in Scarborough. It is the location for Alan Ayckbourn’s plays.
4. Outside activities/membership of voluntary/statutory organisations
Organisation
Type of work/membership
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
Trustee (voluntary and unpaid)
Checked to see if there was any Savile connection.
The other trustees are:
http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=253606&SubsidiaryNumber=0&TID=11252361
Ben Franklin (head honcho CIA Office for Craig Murray Operations)
12 Nov, 2012 – 2:53 am
Ben, that he made up a bunch of names, places and times means little when he can’t even maintain consistency in his own story. Names, places and times enable you to verify whether something is true – what good is all that if you’re going to just ignore the internal discrepancies eg. in the time he claims to have spent in active service x assignments he claims to have done? But it’s some hilarious stuff: “he had volunteered to plead guilty on a felony charge in order to discredit himself. This was part of Tatum’s strategy of survival”
PS: Or another example yet, the POW lists from where he’s absent.
Gardening leave for Director of News Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20294283
Replaced by Fran Unsworth and Ceri Thomas.
“Cognitive bias?” wrt Craig Murray, Michal? Is that a comment from the other side of the looking glass, perhaps? Oh, and I do not pretend to be “a great scholar on the subject”, just the ‘man on the Clapham bus’, or, if you want it in American parlance, ‘an ordinary Joe’. But thank you for your discourse.
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Here’s an interesting site, people. Check it out.
http://geopium.org/303/drug-trafficking
David Rose, incidentally, has done some very good stuff on torture and extraordinary rendition. I have spolen to him on the phone, and he certainly seemed to exist! I haven’t read the piece in question, but I would not dismiss it out of hand because it does not indict any Tories you wanted indicting.
Is this the same David Rose ?…
http://www.searchlight.org.uk/o-hara/tricks.html
No idea. But he did a whole series of excellent stuff in the Mail about torture like this on Miliband’s lies on Binyam Mohammed:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1138809/DAVID-ROSE-How-I-Miliband-admit-truth-torture.html
You can hear him talk here with the brilliant Scott Horton on Anti-War Radio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbpY3cABVXs
He is not Johann Hari and he is a good journalist
Re: Petraeus.
Justin Raimondo has some very interesting background on the Petraeus affairs. It seems an FBI whistle blower leaked that Petraeus was the subject of an FBI investigation to the Republican Eric Cantor. Petraeus himself was informed of the investigation 25/26 October. Cantor’s chief of staff waited until Oct 31 to inform the FBI of the leak. Lots of links to the usual subjects.
“So who would have an interest in getting rid of Petraeus? Here’s where the Cantor connection comes in. The tip by an anonymous “FBI employee” that wound up in Cantor’s office two weeks ago came through Rep. David Reichert, Republican of Washington state, who has a friend who knows the whistleblower. Cantor then spoke to the whistleblower directly, who put him in touch with FBI Director Mueller. ”
Raimondo’s final statement: “When Cantor pledged to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he and his fellow Republicans “will serve as a check on the administration” in regard to the President’s policy toward Israel, he was clearly aligning himself with a foreign leader against American interests as perceived by the White House. But would he really go this far — deliberately taking down a key figure, one beloved by Republicans, in order to keep his promise to Netanyahu?”
Read this for full details:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/11/11/a-covert-affair-petraeus-caught-in-the-honeypot/
Yonatan,
Except that I can think of no reason Israel might want rid of Petraeus. Almost every single member of Congress has made rabidly pro-Israeli statements, so anything leaked to a Congressman can be connected in that way. Actually what is really silly is anybody resigning over their sex life.
This
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2011/09/hari-rose-wikipedia-admitted
combined with this
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-a-personal-apology-2354679.html
seems to link Johann Hari to at least the pen-name ‘David Rose’.
There’s an article in the Guardian about Petraeus which goes into some of the complications:
“Petraeus scandal timeline scrutinised as Congressional hearing looms”
Congress questions FBI delay in reporting affair, as details of ‘harassed’ second woman emerges
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/11/timeline-petraeus-scandal-benghazi-hearing
also an article on the possible use by the UN itself of evidence obtained by torture
UN ‘may use torture evidence to impose sanctions on terror suspects’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/nov/11/un-torture-evidence-terror-suspects
I wrote:
“There’s an article in the Guardian about Petraeus which goes into some of the complications:”
Should have been a break before that. Obviously nothing to do with Johann Hari or David Rose!
Only in our ‘democracy’ can this take place.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/12/kent-man-arrested-burning-poppy
I would say that it is a type of action that happens in a fascist state.
Breaking News BBC:
Muslim cleric Abu Qatada will not be deported to Jordan, after he won his appeal at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac).
“I haven’t read the piece in question, but I would not dismiss it out of hand because it does not indict any Tories you wanted indicting.”
Was that addressed to me Craig? I don’t want anyone indicted only the guilty. But this whole kerfuffle at the BBC seems to dragging attention away from getting justice for the abused.
The piece in the Mail was a hatchet job on Messham.
Messham may well have psychological problems, or some difficulty in remembering details from so long ago. Or he may have been misled by the police, who after all, gave him the name of that peer. One way or another, attacking him or any other victim of abuse does NOT seem the way to go, with such a filthy scandal on the cards.
And every single comment I saw on Twitter was disgust at the article in the Mail.
@ John Goss 11 Nov 9.58am
Thanks for the link to that Absent Justice vid about Talha Ahsan. It’s heartbreaking to hear how his parents cannot keep from weeping, and to think that vid was recorded in March and now we all know how the story ended… Talha’s brother is very sweet, isn’t he? Did you know that the presenter, Asim Qureshi, was himself interviewed by Julian Assange in his World Tomorrow series for RT, along with Asim’s co-founder of Cage Prisoners, Mozzam Begg, a month or so after this vid was recorded?
Suhayl 11 Nov 7.26pm – Goran Rudling was last seen in a brief reappearance on Craig’s “Why I’m convinced Anna Ardin is a liar” thread, but then was the victim of an – um, shall we say unfortunate – leak of his own… He’s not been seen since. Poor man. If you want a good giggle look for a post by Duqu with links to ‘Samtycke-Leaks’ and ‘Not-Interested-in-Sex-Re-Goran-Rudling-on-Assange’. Hilarious.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/09/why-i-am-convinced-that-anna-ardin-is-a-liar/comment-page-5/#comments
I suppose this thread is a good place to let anyone who’s interested know that a lot of new evidence about the Swedish sex case has emerged in Guy Sim’s new book Julian Assange in Sweden – what really happened (download for $3/many formats available here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/233304 ) and is, with the help of some Swedish folk visiting from the Flashback forum, being picked over and analysed in great detail on the latest page of Craig’s “Why I’m Convinced that Anna Ardin is a Liar” blog. Anyone who wants to update themselves on the latest re unravelling the Swedish investigation should check it out:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/09/why-i-am-convinced-that-anna-ardin-is-a-liar/comment-page-5/#comments
[Jon/Mod: links fixed upon request]
Craig, are you talking about the same David Rose who facilitated the rubbishing of the child sex abuse enquiry in Jersey?
Abu Qatada wins appeal against deportation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20295754
Iain Overton resigns from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Breaking News The Bureau of Investigative Journalism confirms Iain Overton’s resignation, saying any role by it or its officers in the Newsnight McAlpine story was “strictly contrary to the fundamental principles and standards of the Bureau”.
Can’t keep up. Keep the heads rolling but nearer Whitehall preferably.
Sorry Doug you were there earlier on Abu Qatada. Hague, Cameron and May must be seething.
Iain Overton resigns from BIJ.
Whistleblower hunted after secret client list of HSBC Jersey reveals gangsters, celebrities, bankers, doctors and oil executives.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9666393/HSBC-probing-loss-of-client-data-in-Jersey.html