James
Clapper voormalig directeur National Intelligence en John Brennan,
voormalig CIA directeur hebben het congres en de senaat bespioneerd
in de strijd tegen klokkenluiders, zo blijkt uit een door John
Kiriakou geschreven artikel, eerder gepubliceerd op ConsortiumNews……..
De twee
verklaarden een paar documenten geheim >> 2 zogenaamde congressional
notifications*, documenten die deze spionage aantoonden,
waardoor er geen vervolging kon worden ingesteld, in een zaak die ook in
de VS als misdaad wordt gezien…… Clapper en Brennan werkten samen en deden e.e.a.
om achter de namen van eventuele klokkenluiders te komen…….
De
republikeinse senator Chuck Grassley heeft al eerder gevraagd om
openbaarmaking van de stukken, die uiteraard niets bevatten wat
geheim moet worden gehouden, maar die wel aangeven dat de 2 vervolgd
moeten worden en gevangen moeten worden gezet…. Aanvankelijk lukte het niet om deze documenten vrij te krijgen in de laatste 2 jaar van de Obama administratie, maar nadat de mensen van Obama waren vervangen door republikeinen, lukte het wel deze documenten boven tafel te krijgen.
De spionage bestond er uit dat men de commissies die de inlichtingendiensten controleren in de senaat hackte om zo achter de namen van eventuele klokkenluiders te kunnen komen, ofwel men heeft ingebroken op het email systeem van de senaat………
Zo zie
je ten overvloede nog eens hoe corrumperend en criminaliserend het
werk van geheime diensten als de CIA in werkelijkheid is en dat de
macht die deze diensten hebben, totaal onterecht is…..
Het
voorgaande geldt ook voor ons land, met het hijgerig wijzen op islam
terroristen krijgen de geheime diensten steeds meer macht en
middelen, terwijl men een echte aanslag niet eens weet te voorkomen,
zelfs niet als men één of meerdere daders in het vizier had…….. (dat geldt ook voor de inlichtingendiensten elders) Afgelopen week werd bekend gemaakt dat de
Daarover
gesproken: enige tijd geleden werden een aantal mannen opgepakt in Nederland voor
het beramen van een aanslag, het was echter snel na dit bericht stil
en ben benieuwd hoe het er met die zaak voor staat……. Immers eerder werden dergelijke zaken met veel tamtam gebracht, waar later bleek dat men een bok had geschoten en verdachten vrijgelaten moesten worden….. Het geval
met de Russen die het OPCW gebouw zouden hebben willen hacken, is van
een zo ongeloofwaardig niveau dat ik er niet eens op in
ga………
James
Clapper and John Brennan Should Not Escape Prosecution
November 10, 2018 at 10:47 pm
Written
by Consortium
News
Recently
declassified documents show that the former CIA director and former
director of national intelligence approved illegal spying on Congress
and then classified their crime. They need to face punishment, writes
John Kiriakou.
(CN Opinion) — Republican
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made a dramatic
announcement this
month that almost nobody in America paid any attention to. Grassley
released a statement saying that four years ago, he asked the
Intelligence Community Inspector General to release two
“Congressional Notifications” written by former CIA Director John
Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Grassley
had had his requests to declassify the documents ignored repeatedly
throughout the last two years of the Obama administration. He decided
to try again because all of the Obama people at the CIA and DNI are
gone now. This time, his request was approved.
So
what was the information that was finally declassified? It was
written confirmation that John Brennan ordered CIA hackers to
intercept the emails of all potential or possible intelligence
community whistleblowers who may have been trying to contact the
Congressional oversight committees, specifically to the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Simply
put, Brennan ordered his people to hack into the Senate email
system—again. Grassley is the longtime chairman of Judiciary
Committee, and he was understandably appalled.
First,
let me explain what a Congressional Notification is. The CIA is
required by law to inform the Congressional oversight committees
whenever one of its officers, agents, or administrators breaks the
law, when an operation requires Congressional approval because it is
a “covert action” program, or whenever something happens at the
CIA that’s potentially controversial and the Agency wants to save
itself the embarrassment of explaining itself to Congress later.
Brennan
apparently ordered his officers to spy on the Senate. Remember, back
in 2014 his officers spied on Intelligence Community investigators
while they were writing the Senate Torture Report. This time, he
decided to inform Congress.
But
Brennan and Clapper classified the notification. It was like a taunt.
“Sure, I’m spying on Congress, which is illegal. But it’s
classified, so what are you going to do about it?”
Grassley
went through the proper channels. And even though Brennan and Clapper
essentially gave him the middle finger, he didn’t say anything
until the documents were finally declassified. He’s a bigger man
than I.
I
think Grassley missed an opportunity here, though.
First,
it’s my own opinion that John Brennan belongs in prison. He has
flouted U.S. national security laws with impunity for years. That’s
unacceptable. In these declassified notifications, he’s confessing
to hacking into the Senate’s computer system. That’s a violation
of a whole host of laws, from illegal use of a government computer to
wire fraud to espionage. There ought to be a price to pay for it,
especially in light of the fact that Brennan was the leading force
behind the prosecutions of eight national security whistleblowers
during the Obama administration, almost three times the number of
whistleblowers charged under the Espionage Act by all previous
presidents combined.
Second,
it’s a crime, a felony, to overclassify government information.
Most Americans have no idea that that’s the case. Of course, nobody
has ever been charged with it. But it’s a serious problem, and it’s
antithetical to transparency. The CIA Inspector General said of
the notifications, “I could see no reason to withhold
declassification of these documents. They contained no information
that could be construed as sources and methods.” That’s an
admission that the notifications were improperly classified in the
first place.
Grassley
added, “There is a strong public interest in (the notifications’s)
content. I do not believe they need to be classified at all,
and they should be released in their entirety.”
Grassley
went so far as to call out Brennan and Clapper by name. “What
sources or methods would be jeopardized by the declassification of
these notifications? After four-and-a-half years of bureaucratic
foot-dragging, led by Brennan and Clapper, we finally have the
answer: None.”
So
why weren’t they declassified four years ago? Remember, it’s
illegal to classify a crime. And it’s illegal to classify something
solely for the purpose of preventing embarrassment to the CIA. Yet
those were the very reasons for classifying the documents in the
first place. It was because Brennan and Clapper think they’re
somehow special cases. (Recall that it was Clapper who lied directly
to the Senate Intelligence Committee about intercepting the
communications of American citizens. He also did that with impunity.)
Brennan
and Clapper think the law doesn’t apply to them. But it does.
Without the rule of law, we have chaos in our country. The law has to
apply equally to all Americans. Brennan and Clapper need to learn
that lesson the hard way. They broke the law. They ought to be
prosecuted for it.
John
Kiriakou is a former CIA counterterrorism officer and a former senior
investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. John became
the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under
the Espionage Act—a law designed to punish spies. He served 23
months in prison as a result of his attempts to oppose the Bush
administration’s torture program.
By
John Kiriakou / Republished
with permission / Consortium
News / Report
a typo
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* Congressional
notifications: de CIA is bij wet verplicht om aan een commissie van
het congres door te geven als een agent, beambte of
administratiekracht de wet overtreedt in het belang van een inlichtingen onderzoek, dan wel als de wet wordt overtreden bij een actie van geheime diensten (zoals bij marteling van gevangenen, wat ook in deze zaak gebeurde….)…….
