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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

BLOOD FOR OIL AND OPIUM. AFGHANISTAN: THE UNWINNABLE WAR

HOW IT WAS ALL SET UP, FROM THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION THROUGH BUSH JUNIOR. THE PROMISE OF UNIMAGINABLE RICHES FROM AFGHANISTAN AND THE PROFITS OF AN UNWINNABLE "WAR".
THIS WAS PRE-9/11.
THIS WAS BEFORE BUSH JUNIOR CLAIMED 'WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION'.
IT BEGAN WHILE U.S. OIL COMPANIES NEGOTIATED WITH OSAMA BIN LADEN FOR USE OF HIS COMPANY'S HEAVY EQUIPMENT TO HELP LAY AN AFGHAN OIL PIPELINE FROM THE OIL-RICH CASPIAN SEA AREA, THWARTING RUSSIA'S PLAN FOR A MONOPOLY ON THE RICHEST SOURCE OF OIL ON EARTH.

ONE SMALL EXAMPLE:

The Washington Post reports, “The United States has quietly begun to align itself with those in the Russian government calling for military action against Afghanistan and has toyed with the idea of a new raid to wipe out Osama bin Laden. Until it backed off under local pressure, it went so far as to explore whether a Central Asian country would permit the use of its territory for such a purpose.” Russia and the US are discussing “what kind of government should replace the Taliban. Thus, while claiming to oppose a military solution to the Afghan problem, the United States is now talking about the overthrow of a regime that controls nearly the entire country, in the hope it can be replaced with a hypothetical government that does not exist even on paper.” [Washington Post, 12/19/2000, "Afghanistan Land Mine"]

It appears that all pre-9/11 plans to invade Afghanistan involved
attacking from the north WITH Russia. 



ABOVE: THE LITTLE-TALKED-ABOUT AFGHAN PIPELINE, FOR WHICH THOUSANDS HAVE DIED.  EXPECTED TO BE FULLY OPERATIONAL IN 2019, HALIBURTON, CHENEY'S OLD COMPANY, WAS INVOLVED WITH LAYING THE PIPELINE IN TURKMENISTAN AND WANTED THE CONTRACT FOR AFGHANISTAN. THIS ALL BEGAN IN THE 1990s.  

1991-1997: U.S. oil companies commit to $35 billion in future direct investments in Kazakhstan. It is believed at the time that these oil fields will have an estimated $6 trillion potential value. US companies own approximately 75 percent of the rights. These companies, however, face the problem of having to pay exorbitant prices to Russia for use of the Russian pipelines to get the oil out. [New Yorker, 7/9/2001; Asia Times, 1/26/2002]

SOLUTION? BUMP OFF RUSSIA.
November 1993: Enron Power Plant Creates Demand for an Afghanistan Pipeline

Oil company Unocal signs an $8 billion deal with Turkmenistan to construct two pipelines (one for oil, one for gas), as part of a larger plan for two pipelines intended to transport oil and gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and into Pakistan. Before proceeding further, however, Unocal needs to execute agreements with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Unocal will later open an office in Kabul, weeks after the Taliban capture of the capital in late 1996 and will interact with the Taliban, seeking support for its pipeline until at least December 1997. [Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, 2004, pp. 301-13, 329, 338, 364-66]

‘Kazakhstan alone may have more oil than Saudi Arabia. Turkmenistan is already known to have the fifth largest gas reserves in the world.’” [
Daily Telegraph, 10/11/1996]

Dec. 1995: The American Petroleum Institute asserts that the states bordering the Caspian Sea, north of Afghanistan, contain two-thirds of the world’s known reserves, or 659 billion barrels. Such numbers spur demand for an Afghan pipeline. [
Middle East Journal, 9/22/2000]

THE ONLY WAY TO GET THAT OIL OUT WAS THROUGH AFGHANISTAN.
June 23, 1998: Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney Discusses Importance of Oil Reserves in Caspian Basin

BUT THEN THERE WAS THE "CASH CROP" OF AFGHAN POPPIES..
WHOEVER CONTROLLED AFGHANISTAN WOULD GET A DOUBLE PRIZE...OIL AND OPIUM.


ABOVE: U.S. TROOPS GUARDING POPPY FIELDS IN AFGHANISTAN.
MORE THAN 90% OF ALL HEROIN PRODUCED COMES FROM AFGHAN POPPIES.
[ (6 July 2016).
Afghan Governor Wants Government To Control Poppy Crop (Radio broadcast). NPR. Quote occurs at 0:10.]

AFGHANISTAN TODAY, UNDER AMERICAN 'INTERVENTION', GROWS MORE POPPIES THAN EVER BEFORE.

In 2002, the country had about 74,000 hectares in poppy cultivation. In 2016, the number was over 200,000.

The
International Monetary Fund reported that in 2004, opium exports were equal to half of the country’s non-opium GDP.
This amounts to an export value of about $4 billion PER YEAR, with a quarter being earned by opium farmers and the rest going to district officials, insurgents, warlords, and drug traffickers.

"Opium Amounts to Half of Afghanistan's GDP in 2007, Reports UNODC" (Press release). UNODC. November 16, 2007.

WHILE THE TALIBAN CLAIMED TO WANT TO DESTROY THE POPPY FIELDS, WE NOW SEE THE TALIBAN CONTROLLING OPIUM PRODUCTION... WITH CONSIDERABLE HELP FROM THE U.S.            
Afghan Taliban Awash in Heroin Cash, a Troubling Turn for War
(A New York Times article.)



PERCENT OF AFGHANISTAN WITH HEAVY TALIBAN PRESENCE.

AMERICA AND THE TALIBAN, A 30-YEAR-OLD LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP.

Between 1995 and 1997, US support for the TALIBAN was even more driven because of its backing for the Unocal [pipeline] project.” He notes that many US diplomats “saw them as messianic do-gooders—like born-again Christians from the American Bible Belt.” [
Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 326] Selig Harrison, a long-time regional expert with extensive CIA ties, will later say that he complained at the time about how Pakistani ISI support of the Taliban was backed by the CIA. “I warned them that we were creating a monster.” [Times of India, 3/7/2001]

IN DECEMBER OF 1997, A DELEGATION OF TALIBAN LEADERS WAS INVITED TO TEXAS BY UNOCAL.
GEORGE W. BUSH WAS THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS AT THAT TIME.


The Taliban also visit Thomas Gouttierre, an academic at the University of Nebraska, who is a consultant for Unocal and also has been paid by the CIA for his work in Afghanistan.

A BBC regional correspondent says that “the proposal to build a pipeline across Afghanistan is part of an international scramble to profit from developing the rich energy resources of the Caspian Sea.” [
BBC, 12/4/1997

Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca—later to become a Special Ambassador to Afghanistan—testifies before the House of Representatives that until a single, unified, friendly government is in place in Afghanistan, the trans-Afghan pipeline will not be built. He suggests that with a pipeline through Afghanistan, the Caspian basin could produce 20 percent of all the non-OPEC oil in the world by 2010. [US Congress, 2/12/1998]

October, 1998: Julie Sirrs, a military analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), makes a second trip to Afghanistan.
Traveling undercover, she meets with Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud.
She claims, “Massoud told me he had proof that Unocal had provided money that helped the Taliban take Kabul.”
She also states, “The State Department didn’t want to have anything to do with Afghan resistance, or even, politically, to reveal that there was any viable option to the Taliban.” After two weeks, Sirrs returns with a treasure trove of maps, photographs, and interviews. [
ABC News, 2/18/2002; ABC News, 2/18/2002; New York Observer, 3/11/2004]

By interviewing captured al-Qaeda operatives, she learns that the official Afghanistan airline, Ariana Airlines, is being used to ferry weapons and drugs, and learns that bin Laden goes hunting with “rich Saudis and top Taliban officials”
[
Los Angeles Times, 11/18/2001]

When Sirrs returns from Afghanistan, her material is confiscated and she is accused of being a spy. Says one senior colleague, “She had gotten the proper clearances to go, and she came back with valuable information,” but high level officials “were so intent on getting rid of her, the last thing they wanted to pay attention to was any information she had.” Sirrs is cleared of wrongdoing, but her security clearance is pulled. She eventually quits the DIA in frustration in 1999. [
ABC News, 2/18/2002; New York Observer, 3/11/2004]

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) will claim that the main DIA official behind the punishment of Sirrs is Lieutenant General Patrick Hughes, who later becomes “one of the top officials running the Department of Homeland Security.” [
Dana Rohrabacher, 6/21/2004]

1999: US Ready to Fight For Oil, Especially in Persian Gulf and Caspian Regions

A top level US policy document explicitly confirms the US military’s readiness to fight a war for oil. The report, Strategic Assessment 1999, prepared for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and the secretary of defense, states, “energy and resource issues will continue to shape international security,” and if an oil “problem” arises, “US forces might be used to ensure adequate supplies.” Oil conflicts over production facilities and transport routes, particularly in the Persian Gulf and Caspian regions, are specifically envisaged.
[
Sydney Morning Herald, 5/20/2003]  

May 2001: US Army Sees ‘Military Implications’ for Caspian Sea Oil Pipelines
  
An article published in Military Review, which bills itself as “the professional journal for the US Army,” states, “the Caspian Sea appears to be sitting on yet another sea—a sea of hydrocarbons.… The presence of these oil reserves and the possibility of their export raises new strategic concerns for the United States and other Western industrial powers. As oil companies build oil pipelines from the Caucasus and Central Asia to supply Japan and the West, these strategic concerns gain military implications.”
[Peter Dale
Scott, "The Road to 9/11", 2007, pp. 20, 281]  

Dick Cheney and other Task Force officials meet with executives from Enron and other energy companies, including one meeting a month and a half before Enron declares bankruptcy in December 2001.

Two separate lawsuits are later filed to reveal details of how the government’s energy policy was formed and whether Enron or other players may have influenced it, but the courts will eventually allow the Bush administration to keep the documents secret.
[
Associated Press, 12/9/2002]

MAY 23, 2001: Zalmay Khalilzad is appointed Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Gulf, Southwest Asia and Other Regional Issues on the National Security Council. Khalilzad was an official in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. During the Clinton years, he worked for Unocal. [US Department of State, 2001]
He previously worked under Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and helped him write a controversial 1992 plan for US world domination. [
New York Times, 3/23/2003]
He was a member of the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century.
After 9/11, he will be appointed as special envoy to Afghanistan (see
January 1, 2002) and then US ambassador to Afghanistan.

AUG. 2, 2001: ALMOST TO 9/11:
Christina Rocca, Director of Asian Affairs at the State Department, secretly meets the Taliban ambassador in Islamabad, apparently in a last ditch attempt to secure a pipeline deal. Rocca was previously in charge of contacts with Islamic guerrilla groups at the CIA, and oversaw the delivery of Stinger missiles to Afghan mujaheddin in the 1980s.
[Irish Times, 11/19/2001; Brisard and Dasquie, 'The Forbidden Truth, 2002, pp. 45;
Salon, 2/8/2002]

THE PREDICTED ATTACK ON 9/11
August 2-3, 2001: Taliban Official Predicts US Will Invade Afghanistan by Mid-October, Possibly in Response to Major Attack Inside US

AND THAT IS HOW AFGHANISTAN BECAME A TARGET OF THE U.S. MILITARY...

IT WAS NEVER ABOUT A WINNABLE WAR.
IT WAS ABOUT PROFITS.
WE STILL HOPE TO PROFIT.
WE HAVE TO STAY UNTIL THE PIPELINE IS OPEN, THEN WE HAVE TO STAY TO GUARD THE PIPELINE, AND THEN THERE'S THOSE POPPIES....



DATA THE PENTAGON WANTED TO KEEP PRIVATE... THE TALIBAN RULES AFGHANISTAN.

THE LATEST STATS ARE [SORT OF] OUT...AMERICA WILL NEVER WIN A 'WAR' IN AFGHANISTAN.

AFTER A GAG ORDER WAS PLACED ON THE FACTS BEING MADE PUBLIC, THE PENTAGON HAD TO BACKTRACK AND THEN ALLOW "SOME" OF THE HARD-TO-COME-BY FACTS TO BE MADE PUBLIC.
ALMOST 50% OF AFGHANISTAN IS STILL NOT IN 'GOVERNMENT CONTROL'.
NOR WILL IT EVER BE.

THE 'GENERAL CONSENSUS' IS THAT WE (AMERICA) SHOULD PULL OUR TROOPS AND STOP THE MADNESS.

AMERICA, GO HOME
.

THE STATISTICAL IMPOSSIBILITY  IS "THE BIG STORY" AND THE RAW DATA CONFIRM WHAT MANY HAVE SAID FOR YEARS: 

Pentagon restricts release of Afghanistan war data - KCRG.com

Pentagon restricts release of Afghanistan war data | The Seattle Times

Pentagon: Gag Order on Afghan Data Was a Mistake

IT'S AN UNDECLARED WAR AGAINST A PEOPLE WHO DID US NO HARM, WHO DON'T WANT OR NEED OUR INTERFERENCE, AND IT'S BEEN CALLED FOR YEARS A WAR WE CANNOT WIN.

America's former envoy to Afghanistan: the war can't be won

We Can't Win in Afghanistan Because We Don't Know Why We're There: NY Times

Why America Can't Win the War in Afghanistan | The National Interest

Why we aren't 'winning' in Afghanistan - The Washington Post

The war America can't win: how the Taliban are regaining control : The Guardian, UK ...


AFGHANISTAN HAS LONG BEEN CALLED "THE GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES"... UNCONQUERABLE.

A BRIEF HISTORY:

THE PERSIANS GAVE UP ON CONQUERING AFGHANISTAN AFTER FOUR YEARS OF WAR (1709-1713), AND WERE DEFEATED AGAIN IN 1837.
BRITAIN GAVE UP TRYING TO TAKE AND HOLD AFGHANISTAN AFTER 3 WARS THAT LASTED FROM 1839 UNTIL 1919.
THE RUSSIANS GAVE UP ON 'CONQUERING' AFGHANISTAN AFTER 10 YEARS (1979-1989).

FEW REALIZE THAT THE USA ATTACKED AFGHANISTAN LONG BEFORE 9/11.
WHILE REAGAN BEGAN HEAVILY ARMING THE 'TALIBAN' IN THE 1980s, AMERICA DIDN'T SHOW UP PERSONALLY (AT LEAST NOT IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA ACCOUNTS) UNTIL 1998.

Operation Infinite Reach: AUGIUST, 1998: Cruise missiles were fired by the United States Navy into four militant training camps in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

HAD AFGHANISTAN FIRED MISSILES INTO AMERICA, WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AMERICA'S RESPONSE?

WHY RUSSIA GOT INVOLVED  
From 1933 to 1973 Afghanistan witnessed a lengthy period of peace and relative stability. It was ruled as a monarchy by King Zahir Shah, last Afghan king, who belonged to the Afghan Musahiban Barakzai dynasty. In the 1960s, Afghanistan held limited parliamentary elections. Zahir Shah was overthrown 'peacefully' by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan in 1973.

Khan transformed the monarchy into a republic with him becoming the first President of Afghanistan. He was supported by a faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), Afghanistan's communist party, which had been founded in 1965 and enjoyed strong relations with the Soviet Union.

By 1976, alarmed by the growing power of the PDPA and the party's strong affiliation with the Soviet Union, Daoud Khan tried to scale back the PDPA's influence. He dismissed PDPA members from their government posts, appointed conservative elements instead and finally announced the dissolution of the PDPA arresting senior party members.

LET THE ASSASSINATIONS AND COUPS BEGIN!

On April 27, 1978, the PDPA and military loyal to the PDPA, killed Daoud Khan, his immediate family and their bodyguards in a violent coup and seized control of the capital, Kabul.

The first communist leader in Afghanistan, Nur Muhammad Taraki, was assassinated by his fellow communist Hafizullah Amin. Amin was known for his independent, nationalist inclinations, and was seen by many as a ruthless leader. He has been accused of killing tens of thousands of Afghan civilians at Pul-e-Charkhi and other national prisons. 27,000 politically motivated executions reportedly took place at Pul-e-Charkhi prison alone

REAGAN'S "AFGHAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS" ARE CREATED: THE TALIBAN

The Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan on December 24, 1979.
Amin was deposed almost immediately and he and 200 of his guards were killed on December 27 by Soviet Army Spetsnaz.
He was replaced by Babrak Karmal.
After deployment into Afghanistan, Soviet forces along with government forces would begin to engage in a protracted counter-insurgency war with mujahideen fighters.
Some of those Islamic 'freedom fighters' would later transform into the Taliban according to Professor Carole Hillenbrand who stated: "The West helped the Taliban fight the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan".

REAGAN BROUGHT SOME OF THOSE OLD MUJAHIDEEN TO WASHINGTON, MADE A FEW VIDEOS OF AND WITH THEM, HELD AN INITIAL PRESS CONFERENCE WITH THEM IN A ROOM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE, PRAISED THEM TO THE HEAVENS AND EVEN DEDICATED A NASA SHUTTLE LAUNCH TO THEM...AND ARMED THEM TO THE TEETH.

"These gentlemen [Taliban] are the moral equivalents of America's Founding Fathers"
~President Ronald Reagan.
Mar 11, 1982
Reported in the New York Times, Videos on many news sites at the time. Find it on YouTube.

THE CIA DUBBED THE FUNDING OF THOSE AFGHAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS AS "OPERATION CYCLONE", AT LEAST FROM 1979 TO 1989.

Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA operations ever undertaken; funding began with $20–$30 million per year in 1980 and rose to $630 million per year by 1987.
Funding continued after 1989.

[SEE PETER BERGEN'S "HOLY WAR, INC", 2001 AND STEELE AND BARTLET'S
"THE OILY AMERICANS", 2008. ALSO SEE REIDEL'S "WHAT WE WON: AMERICA'S SECRET WAR IN AFGHANISTAN" PUBLISHED BY THE BROOKING'S INSTITUTION PRESS, BELIEVE IT OR NOT]

Ron Paul Had Accurate Conspiracy Theory: CIA Was Tied To Drug Traffickers...
Huff Post

"In 1988, while running for president on the Libertarian Party ticket, he highlighted yet another conspiracy theory, and this one doesn’t collapse under investigation: The CIA, Paul told a gathering of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, was involved in trafficking drugs as part of the Iran-Contra debacle.

Drug trafficking is “a gold mine for people who want to raise money in the underground government in order to finance projects that they can’t get legitimately. It is very clear that the CIA has been very much involved with drug dealings,” Paul said. “The CIA was very much involved in the Iran-Contra scandals. I’m not making up the stories; we saw it on television. They were hauling down weapons and drugs back. And the CIA and government officials were closing their eyes, fighting a war that was technically illegal.”

PAUL WAS PROVEN TO BE 100% CORRECT...IRAN/CONTRA AFFAIR. ARMS FOR DRUGS. 
REAGAN CLAIMED HE DIDN'T KNOW.
HE ALSO CLAIMED HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT CIA PILOTS AND AIRCRAFT WERE BRINGING COLUMBIAN DRUGS UP INTO THE UNITED STATES.
THEY WERE, AND A COULE OF CRASHED CIA PLANES LED THE PRESS TO THAT CONCLUSION.
STILL, REAGAN SAID...HE DIDN'T KNOW...

YES, 'THE WEST' HELPED CREATE THE TALIBAN AND FROM THE TALIBAN, WE GOT "AL QAEDA", AND FROM AL QAEDA WE GOT ISIS.

AFTER THE REAGAN LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE TALIBAN, WHAT HAPPENED?
THE TALIBAN THREATENED TO BURN THOSE POPPY FIELDS, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED, AND WANTED AMERICA OUT AFTER THE LAST RUSSIAN TROOPS LEFT IN 1989.
NO OIL, NO OPIUM FOR THE U.S., SO, WE LOOKED FOR WAYS TO BOMB THEM, FOUND BIN LADEN, AND THEN CREATED THOSE PATHS.
[See The Taliban's Opium War | The New Yorker]

WHEN AMERICA NEEDS A REASON TO INVADE ANOTHER NATION, BECOME ENGAGED IN CIVIL CONFLICT ANYWHERE ON EARTH, IT CAN SIMPLY CREATE AN "ENEMY", WHETHER IN REALITY OR JUST "ON PAPER".

ANOTHER THING FEW AMERICANS REALIZE OR READILY ADMIT IS HOW FAR BACK WE HAVE DONE SIMILAR THINGS...

"Since at least the 1940s, the American government has organized and supported insurgent armies for the purpose of overthrowing some presumably hostile foreign regime. In Italy, the United States helped pit the Corsican and Sicilian mobs against the Fascists and then the Communists. In China, it aided Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang in its struggle against Mao Zedong’s communist forces. In Afghanistan, it once backed the mujahedeen in their fight against the Soviet Union and today backs warlords in opposition to the mujahedeen.

All of these and other U.S.-supported groups profited, or still profit, heavily from the drug trade.

One of the principal arguments made by the Drug Enforcement Administration in support of the global drug war is that the illegal drug trade funds violent, stateless organizations. The DEA refers specifically to al Qaeda and the Taliban, but the same method of fundraising has long been used by other violent, stateless actors whom the United States befriended.

Douglas Farah was in El Salvador when the San Jose Mercury News broke a major story in the summer of 1996: The Nicaraguan Contras, a confederation of paramilitary rebels sponsored by the CIA, had been funding some of their operations by exporting cocaine to the United States." 
[EXCERPTED FROM THE BOOK "“This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America.”]

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

AFRAID THAT AMERICANS WOULD REMEMBER REAGAN'S PRAISE OF THE NOBLE MUJAHIDEEN, THE CIA CREATED "AL QAEDA", THEN "ISIS", AND IN SYRIA, AT LEAST, THE USA ARMED THEM BOTH TO OUST ASSAD.

FROM THE L.A. TIMES, MARCH, 2016:In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA

AUG. 2017, NEWSWEEK:U.S. Military Battles Syrian Rebels Once Supported by CIA


CONTROL OF THE "TWO Os", OIL AND OPIUM, WAS, AND STILL IS, AT STAKE.
THE PROFITS ARE JUST TOO ENORMOUS FOR US TO BACK OUT.


IN THAT "WAR ON DRUGS", AMERICA IS BLOODY WELL GOING TO TAKE ALL THE POPPY FIELDS 'PRISONER' THAT WE CAN MANAGE TO SCORE. THOSE OPIUM POPPIES MUST BE UNDER U.S. CONTROL, AS WELL AS ALL THE OIL WE CAN GATHER IN THAT SMALL AREA OF THE WORLD.

[Main sources for the above history: (1) Neamatollah Nojumi's The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region; (2) Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Robert D. Kaplan ; (3) a PDF document "Genocide and the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan"; (4) "The September 11 Sourcebooks Volume VII: The Taliban File". George Washington University. 2003; (5) "Afghanistan". Political Chronology of Central, South and East Asia. 2003]

U.S. SPREADS OUT INTO SYRIA...
Operation Timber Sycamore was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supported by various Arab intelligence services, most notably that of Saudi Arabia.

Launched in 2012 or 2013, it supplied money, weaponry and training to rebel forces fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian Civil War. According to U.S. officials, the program has trained thousands of rebels.
President Barack Obama secretly authorized the CIA to begin arming Syria’s embattled rebels in 2013.

AND THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS WHAT GOT OUR AMBASSADOR KILLED IN BENGHAZI!
However, the CIA had been facilitating the flow of arms from Libya to Syria "for more than a year" beforehand in collaboration with "the UK (United Kingdom), Saudi Arabia and Qatar."

"FLOW OF ARMS FROM LIBYA TO SYRIA..."
WE GATHERED THOSE ARMS THAT WE'D GIVEN TO LIBYAN 'REBELS' TO KILL GADDAFI AND WE SHIPPED THEM THROUGH BENGHAZI TO SYRIA.

BUT JORDAN WAS ALSO INVOLVED.


According to American and Jordanian officials, weapons shipped into Jordan by the CIA and Saudi Arabia were routinely stolen by Jordanian intelligence officials in the General Intelligence Directorate (Jordan) and sold on the black market.
The magnitude of the theft amounted to millions of dollars, and FBI officials state that some of the stolen weapons were later used to kill two American contractors, two Jordanians and one South African at a police training station in Jordan.
[Arms received via Timber Sycamore have flooded Middle Eastern black markets with heavy weaponry.

Jordanian officials state that Jordanian intelligence officers who stole the program's weapons used the profits to purchase luxury items, with knowledge of superior officers. The thefts were halted after months of complaints by the American and Saudi governments.

A 2017 study by Conflict Armament Research found that external support for anti-Assad Syrian rebels "significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons available to [ISIL] forces," including "anti-tank weapons purchased by the United States that ended up in possession of the Islamic State within two months of leaving the factory." However, the study found no instance in which U.S. arms supplied to the Kurdish– and Arab–led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to fight ISIL ended up in ISIL's arsenal.

[SEE (2017-12-14).
"The U.S. bought weapons for Syrian rebels — and some wound up in the hands of ISIS terrorists". USA Today.]

AND YET WE TURN ON THE KURDS EVERY CHANCE WE GET?

THE U.S. HAS OPENLY BUDGETED AND SPENT OVER $120 BILLION ON JUST THE "RECONSTRUCTION" OF AFGHANISTAN SINCE WE BEGAN BOMBING THE HELL OUT OF IT IN 2002.
HOW MUCH MORE HAS BEEN SPENT THERE UNDER THE PENTAGON'S "SLUSH FUND" MAY NEVER BE KNOWN.

IF YOU READ HERE MUCH, YOU MAY RECALL MY WRITING ABOUTT RUMSFELD'S 'SLIP OF THE TONGUE' WHEN HE MENTIONED OVER $2 TRILLION MISSING FROM PENTAGON ACCOUNTS JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS BEFORE THE ACCOUNTING SECTION OF THE PENTAGON WAS DESTROYED IN THE 9/11 ATTACKS.
NICE COINCIDENCE, YES?

RON PAUL AND ALAN GRAYSON, FROM THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS, GRILLED THE FED OVER THE ENORMOUS 'MISSING' AMOUNT OF $9 TO $10 TRILLION IN 'ANONYMOUS' FOREIGN "LOANS", GOT NO ANSWERS.
NOBODY KNOWS WHERE AMERICAN MONEY GOES, NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL.

HOW MUCH WOULD OUR CURRENT FEDERAL DEBT BE IF WE HAD THOSE $11-12 TRILLION DOLLARS BACK?

WAR IS NOT ONLY HELL, IT IS VERY COSTLY, IN BOTH ARMS AND LIVES LOST.

War has directly resulted in the deaths of 149,000 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan between 2001 and 2014, according to estimates in a report released by Costs of War project at Brown University's Watson Institute.

PLEASE NOTICE THAT WORD "DIRECTLY". 
WHAT ABOUT "INDIRECTLY"? 
IS ANYONE COUNTING THOSE WHO "INDIRECTLY" DIED FROM MIDDLE EAST WARS WE WERE INVOLVED IN?


As of June 29, 2016, ALMOST 2 YEARS AGO, according to the U.S. Department of Defense casualty website, there were 4,424 total deaths (including both killed in action and non-hostile) and 31,952 wounded in action (WIA) as a result of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

SOME OF THOSE WOUNDED LATER DIED.
SOME WHO LIVED TO COME HOME FROM THAT SANDLOT HAVE SINCE COMMITTED SUICIDE OR DIED OF ILLNESSES CONTRACTED IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
THESE ARE NOT COUNTED AS WAR DEAD.
THEY SHOULD BE.


THE OPIUM POPPY FIELDS STILL FLOURISH, U.S. MILITARY GUARD THE FIELDS AND THE HARVEST OF THE OPIUM.

U.S. Marines protect Afghan's poppy fields

"The Marines of Bravo's Company 1st Platoon sleep beside groves of poppies.
Troops of the 2nd Platoon walk through the fields on strict orders not to swat the
heavy pods ...
But the Obama Administration remains intent upon protecting the poppies so that
the Afghan farmers and local drug lords can reap the benefits."

 IT IS SAID THAT THE CIA IS INVOLVED IN FLYING THAT OPIUM OUT OF AFGHANISTAN VIA SEVERAL ROUTES, SUCH AS THROUGH PAKISTAN, EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA.       

Heroin Dealer in Chief. Afghanistan, Source of 90% of The World's Heroin...

Aug 22, 2017 - US military and CIA-chartered airplanes fly from US-occupied Afghanistan to US every week. People getting on military and CIA planes aren't searched. People getting off military and CIA planes aren't searched.
   
Nov 20, 2017 - The US invaded Afghanistan largely to restore the heroin industry and it is now making about $1.5 trillion every year from this business.

THAT PRESS TV BIT IS A REAL STRETCH, BUT EVEN MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAS ASKED IF  THE "WAR ON DRUGS" JUST MAY BE THE USA FIGHTING THE TALIBAN FOR CONTROL OF THE 'CASH CROP' AND FOR A ROUTE FOR THE PIPELINES OF BOTH OIL AND OPIUM.

WHAT DIDN'T THE PENTAGON WANT THE PUBLIC TO REALIZE?
WHY THE GAG ORDER ON DATA?

The auditing agency, established by Congress and known as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, revealed the new gag order in a three-month assessment of conditions in Afghanistan released overnight.

The restrictions seemed to contradict previous Pentagon assertions that it was striving to be more transparent about the U.S. war campaigns across Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. 

FACT: ALMOST HALF OF AFGHANISTAN IS CONTROLLED BY THE TALIBAN OR "OTHER FORCES". AND THE AFGHAN PEOPLE APPARENTLY WANT IT THAT WAY.

AP
National Security

January 30, 2018

"The auditing agency, established by Congress and known as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, revealed the new gag order in a three-month assessment of conditions in Afghanistan released overnight.

The restrictions seemed to contradict previous Pentagon assertions that it was striving to be more transparent about the U.S. war campaigns across Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. 

Over the years, the SIGAR auditing effort has revealed many dubious practices by the U.S., including instances of contractor fraud. Since January 2016 it had published data on the number of governing districts controlled by Kabul, the number controlled by the Taliban, and the number that are contested.

John F. Sopko, head of the auditing organization, expressed disappointment that the Pentagon initially had forbidden release of the data on relative control of the governing districts.

Sopko wrote that historically, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the government has been falling since his office began reporting on it, while the number controlled or influenced by the insurgents has been rising — “a fact that should cause even more concern about its disappearance from public disclosure and discussion.”

“The number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports_and for the American public of how the 16-year-long U.S. effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,” he added.

Sopko said in his report that the Pentagon also classified or otherwise restricted information that his organization had previously reported publicly, including such “fundamental metrics” of the Afghan military and police performance [such] as Afghan casualty figures and most measurements of the battlefield capabilities of the Afghans military.

In response to the release of the report, Navy Capt. Tom Gresback, coalition spokesman, said Tuesday that about 56 percent of the country’s 407 districts are under Afghan government control, 30 percent are contested and 14 percent are under insurgent control.

“It was NOT the intent of Resolute Support to withhold or classify information which was available in prior reports,” Gresback said in an email. “A human error in labeling occurred.”

Late last year, a Pentagon report said the Afghan government has control or influence over 60 percent of the population, while insurgents had control or influence over approximately 10 percent of the population, with the remainder contested."

"FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD...."
THERE'S "GOLD" TO BE HAD ALL ALONG THAT YELLOW PATH: OPIUM AND OIL.


ANYONE READING THIS CAN FIND THE FACTS, CAN SEARCH, RESEARCH AND DISCOVER THE TRUTH...IF TRUTH IS WHAT YOU SEEK AT ANY AND ALL COST.

THREE FAIR READS....BUT THERE ARE VOLUMES OUT THERE:


(2003).
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History.

Steve Coll, "Anatomy of a Victory: CIA's Covert Afghan War" Washington Post, July 19, 1992


Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden

WE CAN CONTINUE TO PRETEND WE NEED TO BE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND OVER 100 OTHER PLACES IN MILITARY FORCE AROUND THE WORLD, OR WE CAN STOP ALLOWING CONGRESS TO FUND THE PENTAGON'S AND WALL STREET'S MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL WAR MACHINE FOR THE PROFITS OF THE ELITE WHO HAVE ALWAYS MADE MONEY ON WAR, ON ECONOMIC DEPRESSIONS, ON 'CRASHES' OF OUR ECONOMY.

CONGRESS DOESN'T RULE AMERICA, NOR DOES ANY PRESIDENT.
WE DO...WE, THE PEOPLE.

IF WE FAIL TO DEMAND OUR SOVEREIGN RIGHT TO THAT CONTROL, WE HAVE ONLY OURSELVES TO BLAME.




__________________________

WE LEARN OR WE PERISH.
The Tea Room owes much to the incredible website "History Commons".
It holds a wealth of information, documentation, TRUTH.
For a timeline leading up to 9/11, every American should read thoroughly every word and every link they offer.





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Saturday, January 27, 2018

FISA COURT, STAR CHAMBER TO PRESIDENTS, THE FBI AND NSA.. #RELEASETHEMEMO


 
ABOVE, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TED POE (R-TX), OCTOBER 4, 2013.

"
The United States doesn’t have the Star Chamber (as England did) , but we have the NSA – the National Spy Agency, as I call it –and the FISA courts, the 21st century descendants of the Star Chamber.
NSA and the spy courts violate the Constitution in the name of security. Warrants under FISA are general warrants where NSA can seize phone records , NSA can seize credit card bills and utility bills. And we are learning now that they seize not only phone data but that NSA seizes bank records.

Also, the judges are far from being independent.

They meet in secret – just like the Star Chamber did. They can’t even keep the records of the proceeding. Those are turned back over to the government. There are no witnesses present – just like in the Star Chamber. There’s no lawyers present for anybody – just like in the Star Chamber.

The NSA and the FISA courts – the Star Chamber courts – have shut down the Constitution. Now it’s time to shut down the unlawful surveillance and intelligence gathering by these courts on American citizens."
"JUST LIKE IN THE STAR CHAMBER..."

The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC, also called the FISA Court after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) is THE most secretive court in America, possibly, in the world.

Obama packed the court during his two terms and ALL
of those appointees REMAIN THERE TODAY.

Ditto for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review which was also created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to review applications that were denied by the FIS Court.
The Court of Review is comprised of three judges, one of whom is designated as the presiding judge, named by the Chief Justice of the United States from the U.S. district or appellate courts.
Judges serve a maximum of seven years and are not eligible for redesignation.

SURPRISE!
THE DECK IS STACKED AGAINST OLD TRUMP, RIGHT?
THE FISA COURT IS PACKED WITH OBAMA APPOINTEES, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THE FBI ARE BOTH PACKED WITH OBAMA/CLINTON LOYALISTS, EVERY DEMOCRAT AND MAYBE 1/3rd OF GOP CONGRESSMEN WANT TO SEE HIM OUSTED, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, FORMER HEAD OF THE CIA, HATES HIM, AS DO OTHERS IN THE CIA, GINSBERG HAS DERIDED HIM FROM THE 'SUPREME COURT' AND WON'T ATTEND HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, HIS MOST TRUSTED AND LOYAL FRIENDS HAVE BEEN RUN OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE, SOME OF HIS FAMILY MEMBERS ARE ABOUT TO BE, MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS DEAD-SET AGAINST HIM...
ALTHOUGH HE SEEMS TO HAVE A MUTUAL 'LOVE AFFAIR' WITH THE MILITARY, HE HAS THE CHANCE OF A SNOWBALL IN HELL OF SERVING OUT HIS TERM.


I find it quite laughable that in 2013, the New York Times was dead-set against this court, but now seems to defend it.

See
"In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A"

For about 30 years, the court was located on the sixth floor of the Justice Department's headquarters, down the hall from the officials who would argue in front of it.
The court was moved to the District's federal courthouse in 2009 after Obama became president.

And what a "courtroom it is!

"
First, the workers encased the room in reinforced concrete. Then came the thick wood-and-metal doors that seal into the walls. Behind those walls they labored in secret for two years, building a courtroom, judge's chambers and clerk's offices. The only sign that they were done came recently, when biometric hand scanners and green "Restricted Access" placards were placed at the entrances.

Serious planning to move the court began in 2005, when a new wing was added to the District's federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue NW. By 2007, workers were tearing out old grand jury rooms and redesigning the structure under rigid security standards, said Lamberth, now chief judge of the District's federal court. He said the move would come in March but declined to provide the exact day, citing security reasons.

The FISA court's chief judge, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, rarely grants interviews and declined to comment on the court's move. The court's spokesman, Sheldon Snook, also declined to comment. Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman, declined to comment on the move, calling it an internal court matter."

Maybe you remember this?
June 5, 2013:
"NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily – Exclusive: Top Secret Court Order Requiring Verizon to Hand Over All Call Data Shows Scale of Domestic Surveillance under Obama"

How about this?
June 27, 2013:
"NSA Collected US Email Records in Bulk for More Than Two Years under Obama – Secret Program Launched by Bush Continued 'Until 2011' – Fisa Court Renewed Collection Order Every 90 Days – Current NSA Programs Still Mine US Internet Metadata"

And, on the same day, this?"How the NSA Is Still Harvesting Your Online Data – Files Show Vast Scale of Current NSA Metadata Programs, with One Stream Alone Celebrating 'One Trillion Records Processed'"

And this?"Fisa Court Oversight: A Look Inside a Secret and Empty Process – Obama and Other NSA Defenders Insist There Are Robust Limitations on Surveillance But the Documents Show Otherwise".

Or this?
December 21, 2005:
"Spy Court Judge Quits In Protest – Jurist Concerned Bush Order Tainted Work of Secret Panel".
Gasp! Surely not, right? (wink, wink)
CREATED DURING THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION, INTRODUCED/SPONSORED BY SENATOR EDWARD (TED) KENNEDY.

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY.


04/20/1978 Senate Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #128 (95 FOR-1 AGAINST).

10/12/1978 House House agreed to conference report, roll call #897 (266 FOR-176 AGAINST).


"Requires each application for any order approving electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes to be approved by the Attorney General and to include among other information:
(1) the identity of the officer making the application;
(2) the authority conferred on the Attorney General by the President and the approval of the Attorney General to make the application;
(3) the identity, if known, of the subject of the surveillance;
(4) the fact and circumstances justifying belief that the target of surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power;
(5) a description of the type of information sought and a certification by one of specified Federal officers that such official deems the information sought to be foreign intelligence information, and information which cannot feasibly be obtained by normal investigative techniques;
(6) a statement of the period of time for which the surveillance is required; and (7) a statement of procedures to be taken to minimize intrusion into the privacy of United States persons.

Directs the judge to enter an ex parte order as requested or as modified approving the electronic surveillance if he finds that the criteria specified have been met. Allows issuance of orders to approve surveillance for 90 days or the period necessary to achieve its purposes, whichever is less. Permits extensions of orders upon application for an extension made in the same manner as required for an original application.

Authorizes the Attorney General, upon a reasonable determination that an emergency situation exists, to authorize the emergency employment of electronic surveillance if the appropriate judge is informed by the Attorney General of such authorization at the time it is made and if an application is made as soon as practicable but not more than 24 hours after authorization.

Requires, in the absence of a judicial order, that surveillance terminate when the information sought is obtained, when the application for an order is denied, or 24 hours after authorization, whichever is earliest.

Directs the Attorney General to retain applications and orders for electronic surveillance for at least ten years.
Prohibits the use or disclosure of any information concerning any United States person acquired from a disapproved emergency surveillance in any manner by Federal officers or employees without the consent of such person.


Allows the Government to use such information to protect the life or the physical safety of a person, upon the approval of the Attorney General.
Authorizes electronic surveillance, not targeted against the communications of any particular person, by officers, employees, or agents of the United States in the normal course of their official duties.

Specifies that such electronic surveillance shall be solely to: (1) test the capability of electronic equipment; (2) determine the existence and capability of electronic surveillance equipment being used by persons not authorized to conduct such surveillance; and (3) train intelligence personnel."

It was originally comprised of seven district judges from seven circuits named by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve a maximum of 7 years.

In 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act (section 208) amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to increase the number of FIS Court judges from seven to eleven, "of whom no fewer than 3 shall reside within 20 miles of the District of Columbia."

BEFORE FISA
In the time immediately preceding FISA, a number of courts squarely addressed the issue of "warrantless wiretaps". In both United States v. Brown, 484 F.2d 418 (5th Cir. 1973), and United States v. Butenko, 494 F.2d 593 (3rd Cir. 1974), the courts upheld warrantless wiretaps. In Brown, a U.S. citizen's conversation was captured by a wiretap authorized by the Attorney General for foreign intelligence purposes. In Butenko, the court held a wiretap valid if the primary purpose was for gathering foreign intelligence information. 
In a 2006 opinion, Judge Richard Posner wrote that FISA "retains value as a framework for monitoring the communications of known terrorists, but it is hopeless as a framework for detecting terrorists.
[FISA] requires that surveillance be conducted pursuant to warrants based on probable cause to believe that the target of surveillance is a terrorist, when the desperate need is to find out who is a terrorist."

UNENDING AMENDMENTS

2008, UNDER BUSH 2:
H.R. 6304 (110th): FISA Amendments Act of 2008
LOOKS LIKE THE DEMOCRATS HAD BACKED OFF THEIR APPROVAL AND THE GOP BEGAN TO LOVE FISA.

2013, UNDER OBAMA:
S. Rept. 113-119 - FISA IMPROVEMENTS ACT OF 2013 | Congress


SEE
It looks like Obama did spy on Trump.From the BBC:
"Then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the congressional investigations "have not been provided with all of the information".

Mr. Spicer has cited comments made on Fox News by former judge Andrew Napolitano, who said "three intelligence sources" had told Fox News that President Obama had used the British spy agency GCHQ to install wiretaps.

He said the White House was "not passing judgement" on such reports, but they needed looking into."

BRITISH SPY AGENCY?
LIKE THE SO-CALLED EX-BRIT SPY CHRISTOPHER STEELE, WHOM THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN PAID OVER A MILLION DOLLARS TO PROVIDE A DOSSIER ON TRUMP?

SEE
Former British spy paid more than £125,000 to detail Donald Trump Russian Ties

HE MAY HAVE GOTTEN ONLY THAT MUCH, BUT TEAM CLINTON/THE DNC PAID OUT $1.02 MILLION TO THE FIRM THAT ACQUIRED THE "DOSSIER".

AS THE TELEGRAPH, UK, REPORTED ON JANUARY 5, 2018,

British ex-spy behind lurid Trump dossier should be criminally investigated...

"It has since emerged the dossier was part-funded by the Democratic Party.

The former British spy who compiled a dossier of lurid claims against Donald Trump should be criminally investigated, two powerful Republican senators have demanded.

The congressmen argued that Christopher Steele had lied about his contacts with journalists regarding the dossier when interviewed by federal investigators.

The demand came in a letter from the senators to the Justice Department – the first known criminal referral from Congress over the Russian election meddling scandal.
A spokesman for the Department of Justice declined to comment on the reports."

THE CLINTON TEAM PAID STEELE, WHOM SOME HAVE SUGGESTED MAY HAVE BEEN A DOUBLE-AGENT?
YES.

"
Altogether, Fusion GPS claimed it was paid $1.02 million in fees and expenses by the law firm Perkins Coie. The firm was hired by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee."

The dossier is evidence the Clinton campaign successfully secured and published opposition research from a foreign spy based on Russian government sources during the campaign, Republicans say.

IS COLLUDING WITH A BRITISH EX-SPY WITH CLOSE TIES TO RUSSIA ANY DIFFERENT THAN COLLUDING WITH RUSSIA?

"Rumours of an order granted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act have been circulating for some time.

On 7 November - the day before the country went to the polls - former British MP
Louise Mensch reported the order was approved in October.
According to Ms. Mensch, it was issued in connection with a private server and activity between two Russian banks.
She also mentions - like Mr. Trump in his tweets - that an earlier order had been turned down.

In January, the BBC's Paul Wood - writing in the wake of claims the Russian government had compromising material on Mr. Trump -
said he also knew of the Fisa order.
The Guardian
also mentioned the order at about the same time."


SOMETHING MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAS BARELY MENTIONED:

Bill Browder, a proponent of the Magnitsky Act, a 2012 U.S. law aimed at punishing human rights abusers in Russia, has accused Fusion GPS (whom the Democrats paid for dirt on Trump) of taking money from the Russian government and contributing to a campaign against the law in the spring and summer of 2016.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is now investigating whether the firm violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).


SO, DID OBAMA AND CLINTON BOTH INTERACT WITH FOREIGN AGENTS (BRITS, AND STEELE THEN INTERACTED WITH RUSSIANS) TO DEFEAT TRUMP?
DID THEY HIRE A COMPANY WHO WAS TAKING MONEY FROM RUSSIANS?
ISN'T IT ILLEGAL AS ALL HELL TO DEAL WITH FOREIGN AGENTS AND TO NOT REVEAL IT?



FISA REAUTHORIZED IN 2018, UNDER TRUMP:
House votes to reauthorize FISA despite Trump's confusing tweets .

WELL, YEAH, TRUMP WAS AND IS CONFUSED ON MANY THINGS.
HE IS NO POLITICIAN, HE IS NOT WELL READ, HE DOES NOT GRASP THE WORKINGS OF THE CORRUPT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BUT, COMING IN AS A CORRUPT BUSINESSMAN, HE MAY AGREE WITH SOME SHADY FEDERAL POLICIES
.
House Extends Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Safeguards
.
LOOK AT THE TABLE BELOW. NOTICE ANYTHING ODD?
IN MOST YEARS, THERE ARE MORE REQUESTS APPROVED THAN THERE ARE REQUESTS MADE.

HOW CAN THAT BE?
WHO IS MAKING UNLISTED REQUESTS THAT GOT APPROVAL?
LOOK AT THE MODIFIED REQUESTS AND WHO WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE WHEN MODIFICATION REQUESTS BEGAN IN EARNEST.
LOOK AT THE FEW REQUESTS THAT WERE DENIED.
I WONDER WHO THE LUCKY PEOPLE WERE WHO ESCAPED THOSE REQUESTS.

FISA warrant requests for electronic surveillance


YearNumber of FISA
Applications Presented
Number of FISA
Applications Approved
Number of FISA
Applications Modified
Number of FISA
Applications Rejected
1979219920700
1980331932210
198143143300
198247347500
198354954900
198463563500
198558758700
198657357300
198751251200
198853453400
198954654600
199059559500
199159359300
199248448400
199350950900
199457657600
19951869769700
199683983900
1997474974800
199879679600
1999588688000
200061005101200
2001793293440
200281228122800
2003917271724794
20041017581754940
20051120742072610
20061221812176731
20071323712370864
2008142082208321
20091513291320142
20101915111506140
20112016761789300
20121617891788400
20132115881588340
20142413791379190
2015251457145680527
2016261485140131034
 

SEE HOW FEW WERE DENIED?
YET THE COURTS' JUDGES HAVE TAKEN EXCEPTION TO BEING CALLED "THE RUBBER STAMP COURT" OR A STAR CHAMBER?
THEY'RE BOTH.


FINALLY, THE NUNES FISA MEMO THAT ALL AMERICANS SHOULD BE ABLE TO READ BUT WHICH MAY NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY.
IT ALLEGES GROSS ABUSE BY THE FISA COURT, THE OBAMA JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, FBI AGENTS AND OTHERS WHO WERE COLLUDING TO KEEP TRUMP OUT OF THE OVAL OFFICE.


A FAIRLY ACCURATE ARTICLE FROM TOWNHALL:
 "The four-page document details alleged abuses that are said to be akin to the activities of the KGB. Some lawmakers said it could lead to deep changes within the DOJ. Democrats have pushed back saying it’s a political stunt, aimed at undermining the credibility of the FBI. There’s speculation that the Obama administration used the unverified Trump dossier as the basis to secure FISA warrants to spy on members of the Trump campaign and transition team.

The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel
wrote in her op-ed yesterday that it appears the FBI/DOJ have engaged in a sustained campaign to drop a depth charge on the House GOP and pressure Donald Trump into blocking the memo’s release. It’s a game of sabotage."


IF BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WEREN'T SCARED THEY'D GET DIRT ON THEM WHEN "NAMES ARE NAMED", WE'D SEE THE MOUNTAIN OF DIRT CONTAINED IN THIS MEMO UNLOADED ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE TOMORROW.

SOME HAVE CALLED ITS CONTENTS SHOCKING TO THE CONSCIENCE, OTHERS SAID IT WAS WORSE THAN WATERGATE, STILL OTHERS LIKEN THE AGENCIES INVOLVED TO THE KGB.
.
SEEMS THE "STOP TRUMP" TEAM WENT WAY TOO FAR. 

THE DOJ'S AND FBI'S PART IN THE 'NOT TRUMP" SCHEME...
 

The latest batch of text messages between Strzok and Page, who were involved romantically, revealed their private conversations regarding Clinton -- and their concern about being too tough on her during the investigation into her private email system use. The text messages indicate they were wary of a backlash from Clinton if she were to win the presidential election.

"It doesn’t appear anyone wanted her charged," House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

WHILE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF THOSE TWO FEDERAL AGENTS' (THEY WERE LOVERS, BTW, ONE IN THE DOJ, ONE IN THE FBI) TEXTS AND EMAILS WERE REPORTED "LOST", THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT APPEARS TO HAVE JUST FOUND THEM...ON THE TWO AGENTS' PHONES.

THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN RELEASED ARE DISTURBING.
THE "STOP TRUMP" MOVEMENT MAY HAVE CROSSED THE LINE AND MOVED TOWARD SOME PROPOSING THE ASSASSINATION OF A U.S. PRESIDENT, WHICH SOME ARE SUGGESTING.

LOOKING BACK AT THE ATTEMPTED MILITARY COUPS AGAINST FDR AND OBAMA, THE ASSASSINATIONS OF JFK AND BOBBY KENNEDY, NOTHING WOULD SHOCK ME ALONG THAT LINE.

MUELLER, A HOLD-OVER FROM OBAMA DAYS, WOULD BE EXCUSED, THE "RUSSIAN PROBE" WOULD MOST LIKELY BE SHUT DOWN AS EX-FBI AGENTS HAVE SAID IT SHOULD BE, AND THE END OF THE GAME OF "DUMP TRUMP" MIGHT BE IN SIGHT.

TRUMP, STILL CLUELESS, INITIALLY WANTED THE MEMO RELEASED...

Trump broke with Justice Dept, called for release of memo

BUT HE WILL DOUBTLESS BE "HANDLED" AS ALWAYS BY THOSE AROUND HIM WHO STILL OWE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FORMER ADMINISTRATION, OR WHO ARE FEARFUL DIRT WILL BE DUMPED ON THEM.

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE...LIKE THE U.S. PRESIDENT BEING A MERE PUPPET CONTROLLED BY THOSE WHO OWN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND CALL ALL THE SHOTS.

BECAUSE OF THE APATHY AND SHEEP MENTALITY OF THE AMERICAN 'VOTERS', THIS DRAMA WILL SIMPLY PLAY OUT, TRUMP MAY STAY IN POWER AT LEAST ANOTHER YEAR, THEN IT WILL BE THE DEMOCRATS' TURN TO PLAY 'KING', REPEAT, REPEAT, AD INFINITUM, AD NAUSEAM.

THE UTTER HYSTERIA IS SO HIGH IN D.C. RIGHT NOW THAT I WOULDN'T DOUBT SOME CONGRESSMAN OFFING TRUMP HIMSELF.
MAYBE SOMEONE FROM TEAM HILLARY WILL GO FOR IT?


SLOG ON, LITTLE SHEEP...THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE IS NEAR.
PARTY, PARTY, PARTY.







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A  P.S.:

THESE ARE THE 13 PRESIDENTS I HAVE WATCHED IN MY LIFETIME...ALL HAVE VIOLATED THEIR OATH OF OFFICE, ALL HAVE BEEN MANIPULATED BY THAT HIGHER POWER THAT OWNS THEM, ALL HAVE SUCCUMBED TO BEING PUPPETS AND NONE WERE FLAWLESS OR EVEN "GOOD" PRESIDENTS. NO, NOT ONE.

WHEN ONE MEASURES THEM AGAINST THEIR SWORN CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES, OR EVEN THEIR WORTHLESS CAMPAIGN PROMISES, ALL FAILED.
-- Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
-- Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
-- Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
-- Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
-- James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
-- Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
-- George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
-- William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
-- George Walker Bush, 2001-2009
-- Barack Hussein Obama, 2009- 2017
-- And now Donald John Trump 2018-?

AND CONGRESS?
MORE WORTHLESS THAN THE PRESIDENTS THEY HATED.


IF WE CONTINUE VOTING FOR TRAITORS, PUTTING THEM BACK IN OFFICE AGAIN AND AGAIN, WE CAN EXPECT NOTHING BUT CRIMES OF TREASON FROM THOSE 'ELECTED'. 
THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM HAS DESTROYED THE CONSTITUTION AND CREATED A NATION RULED BY TREASON.






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