US President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to speak about former CIA Director John Brennan three days after he revoked the latter's security clearance.
18.08.2018 - Trump Slams Ex-CIA Chief Brennan as 'Political Hack Who Cannot Be Trusted'
Trump Slams Ex-CIA Chief Brennan as 'Political Hack Who Cannot Be Trusted'
"Has anyone looked at the mistakes that John Brennan made while serving as CIA Director? He will go down as easily the WORST in history & since getting out, he has become nothing less than a loudmouth, partisan, political hack who cannot be trusted with the secrets to our country!" Trump stated on his Twitter account.
Trump bashed John Brennan days after the latter's security clearance was revoked. Speaking about the move, Brennan called it a politically motivated decision, taken by Trump in order to silence others as the president becomes more desperate to protect himself.
Explaining his decision, Trump stated that the former intelligence official was using his status to make unfounded and outrageous allegations against the president and his administration, adding, "Any benefits that senior officials glean from consultations with Mr. Brennan are now outweighed by the risks posed by his erratic conduct and behavior."
Meanwhile, American media outlets have been quick to suggest that the Trump administration was also reviewing the security clearances of Obama-era US officials including former FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Following these reports, 60 former CIA officials warned the president yesterday that the US would be "weakened if there is a political litmus test applied before seasoned experts are allowed to share their views." A similar stance was voiced the day before by 12 former CIA directors and their deputies, who criticized Trump for what they called "ill-considered and unprecedented" action against Brennan, allegedly to "stifle free speech."
17.08.2018 - US Congressman: Russiagate 'Simply Not a Concern of Normal Americans'
US Congressman: Russiagate ‘Simply Not a Concern of Normal Americans’
Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) penned a scathing opinion piece on Thursday calling out Democrats and the “anti-Trump” media for their hysterical and xenophobic approach to Russia.
The op-ed, entitled "Russia Hysteria Undercuts Our Values, Impedes Relations," argues that hysteria over Russia "is yet another example of the disconnect between Beltway talking heads and the American people. Hard-working Americans — including constituents in my Kentucky district — care about jobs, paying the bills, putting food on the table and leaving this country a better place for their children."
The "alleged ‘vast Russian conspiracy,'" Massie says, is "simply not a concern of normal Americans."
Massie notes how the only so-called proof proffered to the public on Russiagate is special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russian nationals (accused of acting as internet trolls and stealing identities to do so) and 12 Russian intelligence officers (alleged to have hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016).
Indictments, of course, are not conclusive — they are allegations. As the saying goes, a good prosecutor can could get an indictment against a ham sandwich.
Massie argues that's basically what was done to Russian national Mariia Butina, accused of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the US. "Russophobic rhetoric seems to have turned into a witch hunt, as President Trump calls it," Massie said.
The evidence against Butina is "thin on substance," he writes. Her crime? That she "genuinely hoped for improved Russia-US relations.
Unlike many accused of violent crimes, Butina (who has not been accused of harming anyone) was denied bail, and is now reportedly being held in solitary confinement in federal prison until her trial," Massie wrote.
Greater threats than that of Russia? "Porous borders," the national debt and "radical Islamic terrorism." While it seems true that terrorism is a more pressing threat to the US than Russia, that one also is often overblown.
16.08.2018 - Ex-CIA Officer: Russiagate Proponent Bill Browder 'Should be in Jail'
Ex-CIA Officer: Russiagate Proponent Bill Browder ‘Should be in Jail'
The only way to topple Bill Browder's anti-Russia narrative is to get both the mainstream media and members of the US Congress to start looking into the US financier's claims and publicly question them, Philip Giraldi, a former CIA case officer and US Army intelligence officer, told Sputnik.
Browder established Hermitage Capital Management, an investment fund and asset management company, in the late 1990s in Moscow with fellow co-founder Edmond Safra. The company was a thriving business up until November 2005, when it was blacklisted by Russian officials for being a national security threat to the country.
Two years later, Browder's company was raided by Russian authorities, who obtained several documents, including some relating to three of his holding companies. According to Browder, the seized paperwork allowed these so-called corrupt officials to claim a rebate of $230 million from the Russian state treasury.
Sergei Magnitsky, an accountant for the company, was later arrested and jailed over the matter. Months later, he died, sparking speculation that he was killed in order to end accusations that Russian officials were behind the multimillion dollar theft. This is a claim that Browder has shared with the masses to direct attention away from his own alleged white-collar crimes.
Giraldi told
Radio Sputnik's Fault Lines on Wednesday that
Browder "is probably the most dangerous guy in the world" when it comes to spreading anti-Russian sentiment.
"He's basically been the one who appears on the networks, appears before Congress," Giraldi told hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan. "He is someone that they've [US officials] decided has to be the spokesperson in terms of what's going on in Russia, and yet… he has a hidden agenda as a potential criminal."
It should be noted that up until Browder was blacklisted and subsequently had his offices raided, he was a strong supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has since flipped sides, now referring to himself as Putin's "Public Enemy #1."
In time, Browder's allegations led to Congress passing the Magnitsky Act in 2012, allowing the punishment of those responsible for the accountant's death. The bill clears the way for the US government to sanction human rights offenders, freezing their assets and banning them from entering the US.
But the tide is turning against Browder, who's known to many as leading the campaign to reveal Russia's human rights abuses and so-called corruption, according to Giraldi. "I think the story is growing; I'm seeing more and more references to Browder in a negative way."
However, he added that the only way to fight Browder's crusade is to simply to get the message out on mainstream media.
The problem is that we have to get this at a level where Browder is doing his damage, and that's in the mainstream media, places like The New York Times, and also to have some people in Congress begin to speak up and say, ‘Hey, what about the Magnitsky Act and everything that we did to provoke a crisis with Russia based on what Browder was telling us?'" he told Nixon. "Once you understand that, you realize that Browder, if anything, should be in jail."
"That's what we have to get through to that level, which is a tough level to get through to," he added.
Browder's name recently began to pop up in headlines after Putin suggested during the Helsinki summit that he would allow special counsel Robert Mueller to interrogate the 1
2 Russian officials who'd been indicted for allegedly hacking into US computer systems
during the 2016 presidential election in exchange for Russian investigators interviewing Browder and other US persons.
18.08.2018 - Clinton Saga Continues: Watchdog Publishes New Batches of Hillary's Emails
Clinton Saga Continues: Watchdog Publishes New Batches of Hillary’s Emails
The email scandal continues to haunt Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and ex-Democratic presidential nominee, as Judicial Watch, a non-profit conservative organization, has unearthed two new batches of Clinton's emails and called for a new investigation into her mishandling of classified government data.
It seems that Hillary Clinton's email saga is far from being over: Judicial Watch, a government watchdog, has
uncovered five more confidential emails circulated among the ex-secretary of state's team through her private and unsecure email server.
The watchdog pointed out that the new documents "include material classified 'confidential' on negotiations between Northern Ireland and UK, as well as negotiations with Israel, Palestine, and France." They also include a reference to Clinton's meeting with American billionaire and founder of Open Society Foundations George Soros and a memo from Sid Blumenthal, Hillary Clinton's longtime confidant, related to the change of government in Kyrgyzstan.
Judicial Watch has published two batches of new emails comprising 184 and 45 pages, respectively. The documents were obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the State Department that were filed almost three years ago, on May 6, 2015.
The Clinton email scandal erupted in March 2015, when The New York Times
broke that the former secretary of state had used a personal account to conduct government business from 2009 to 2013, in violation of State Department rules.
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