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"Memorandum For: The President... this is getting serious"
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If you get your news from the mainstream outlets such as CNN (Comedy News Network) or any others at the end of a remote control you're being seriously mislead about the Ukrainian crisis. For those of you who dig a little deeper for their news the following may not be too surprising, however I urge you to read the following and of course any more you can find on the subject from "honest" sources.
Unfortunately the warmonger Obama and his cronies are at it again, only this time he's hell bent on starting WWIII. Equally unfortunate (and embarrassing for me) is that Canada's own Prime Minister Harper, is quite comfortable having Obama's fist up his ass. He's not alone however as the anti-Russian rhetoric that's being blasted about the mainstream airways is a chorus of US, UK, Australian and Canadian BullShit.
A few articles are now pointing to one high-rez picture (the only solid reference) of the wreckage and assessing that 30 cal. rounds fired into the cockpit of the Airliner from one or more Ukrainian Fighter Jets brought down that plane. That the plane looked a lot like Putin's plane that was flying in the same airspace 40 minutes behind the passenger aircraft is a curiosity. A curiosity that is until you recall that Putin was just returning from a meeting of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and S. Africa) wherein they agreed to start an International Bank NOT dealing in U.S. Dollars. This immediately followed an agreement between Russia and China for Russia to supply China with some $400 Billion in Natural Gas/Oil over the next decade, also NOT to be done in U.S. Dollars.
Remember what happened to Saddam just after he tried to sell his oil without using U.S. Dollars? Or Gadaffi when he attempted to turn away from the U.S. dollar, Iran?
The current U.S. puppet regime covertly placed in the Ukraine at a hidden cost of $5 Billion of U.S taxpayer money, was offered an additional $17 Billion in funding from the (U.S. controlled) IMF on the basis that it "deliver" it's eastern states, in other words blood money, and the blood is flowing. What better way of weakening the Rebels resolve than making them the scape goat for the killing of innocent civilians or as is just as likely, another failed attempted assassination.
That might to some of you sound a little extreme if it weren't for the fact that the very same scenario (using the covert downing of an airliner to bolster public opinion and justify war) was presented to Kennedy to use against Cuba in the Sixties. He rejected it.
Even Ron Paul is asking for the elimination of the CIA. And there are many in the U.S. who are calling for impeachment and although warranted on many grounds it probably wouldn't be enough to just cut off the head of this out of control World domination obsessed U.S. Government. Nothing less than a clean slate, House, Senate, Judiciary restart is needed to set that country straight. We could probably throw Wall St. in there too. Of course if there's a place for socialism, the election arena is ripe for change as well.
But I wouldn't wait too long... as these nine former U.S. Intelligence agents came together and wrote to Obama... this is getting serious!
US-NATO Fast-Track War Plans. After Failed MH17 False Flag, Washington Attempts Bold New Moves to Frame Russia
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-nato-fast-track-war-plans-after-failed-mh17-false-flag-washington-attempts-bold-new-moves-to-frame-russia/5393925
Re-posted from above:
Senior U.S. Intelligence Officers: Obama Should Release Ukraine Evidence
Preface: With the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine turning a local civil war into a U.S. confrontation with Russia, former high-level U.S. intelligence veterans released a statement today urging President Obama to release what evidence he has about the tragedy and silence the exaggeration and rush to judgment. (The whole post is a must-read; but we at Washingtons Blog have added bolding for emphasis.)
Signatory Bill Binney the former senior technical director at the NSA, and a man who battled the Soviet Union for decades tells Washingtons Blog:
In my analytic efforts to predict intentions and capabilities down through the years, I always made sure that I had multi-factors verifying what I was asserting. So far, I dont see that discipline here in this administration or the IC [i.e. the United States intelligence community].
Posted with permission of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Intelligence on Shoot-Down of Malaysian Plane
Executive Summary
U.S.Russian intentions are building in a precarious way over Ukraine, and we are far from certain that your advisers fully appreciate the danger of escalation. The New York Times and other media outlets are treating sensitive issues in dispute as flat-fact, taking their cue from U.S. government sources.
Twelve days after the shoot-down of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, your administration still has issued no coordinated intelligence assessment summarizing what evidence exists to determine who was responsible much less to convincingly support repeated claims that the plane was downed by a Russian-supplied missile in the hands of Ukrainian separatists.
Your administration has not provided any satellite imagery showing that the separatists had such weaponry, and there are several other dogs that have not barked. Washingtons credibility, and your own, will continue to erode, should you be unwilling or unable to present more tangible evidence behind administration claims. In what follows, we put this in the perspective of former intelligence professionals with a cumulative total of 260 years in various parts of U.S. intelligence:
We, the undersigned former intelligence officers want to share with you our concern about the evidence adduced so far to blame Russia for the July 17 downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. We are retired from government service and none of us is on the payroll of CNN, Fox News, or any other outlet. We intend this memorandum to provide a fresh, different perspective.
As veteran intelligence analysts accustomed to waiting, except in emergency circumstances, for conclusive information before rushing to judgment, we believe that the charges against Russia should be rooted in solid, far more convincing evidence. And that goes in spades with respect to inflammatory incidents like the shoot-down of an airliner. We are also troubled by the amateurish manner in which fuzzy and flimsy evidence has been served up some it via social media.
As intelligence professionals we are embarrassed by the unprofessional use of partial intelligence information. As Americans, we find ourselves hoping that, if you indeed have more conclusive evidence, you will find a way to make it public without further delay. In charging Russia with being directly or indirectly responsible, Secretary of State John Kerry has been particularly definitive. Not so the evidence. His statements seem premature and bear earmarks of an attempt to poison the jury pool.
Painting Russia Black
We see an eerie resemblance to an earlier exercise in U.S. public diplomacy from which valuable lessons can be learned by those more interested in the truth than in exploiting tragic incidents for propaganda advantage. We refer to the behavior of the Reagan administration in the immediate aftermath of the shoot-down of Korean Airlines Flight 007 over Siberia on August 30, 1983. We sketch out below a short summary of that tragic affair, since we suspect you have not been adequately briefed on it. The parallels will be obvious to you.
An advantage of our long tenure as intelligence officers is that we remember what we have witnessed first hand; seldom do we forget key events in which we played an analyst or other role. To put it another way, most of us know exactly where we were when a Soviet fighter aircraft shot down Korean Airlines passenger flight 007 over Siberia on August 30, 1983, over 30 years ago. At the time, we were intelligence officers on active duty. You were 21; many of those around you today were still younger.
Thus, it seems possible that you may be learning how the KAL007 affair went down, so to speak, for the first time; that you may now become more aware of the serious implications for U.S.-Russian relations regarding how the downing of Flight 17 goes down; and that you will come to see merit in preventing ties with Moscow from falling into a state of complete disrepair. In our view, the strategic danger here dwarfs all other considerations.
Hours after the tragic shoot-down on Aug. 30, 1983, the Reagan administration used its very accomplished propaganda machine to twist the available intelligence on Soviet culpability for the killing of all 269 people aboard KAL007. The airliner was shot down after it strayed hundreds of miles off course and penetrated Russias airspace over sensitive military facilities in Kamchatka and Sakhalin Island. The Soviet pilot tried to signal the plane to land, but the KAL pilots did not respond to the repeated warnings. Amid confusion about the planes identity a U.S. spy plane had been in the vicinity hours earlier Soviet ground control ordered the pilot to fire.
The Soviets soon realized they had made a horrendous mistake. U.S. intelligence also knew from sensitive intercepts that the tragedy had resulted from a blunder, not from a willful act of murder (much as on July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian civilian airliner over the Persian Gulf, killing 290 people, an act which President Ronald Reagan dismissively explained as an understandable accident).
To make the very blackest case against Moscow for shooting down the KAL airliner, the Reagan administration suppressed exculpatory evidence from U.S. electronic intercepts. Washingtons mantra became Moscows deliberate downing of a civilian passenger plane. Newsweek ran a cover emblazoned with the headline Murder in the Sky. (Apparently, not much has changed; Times cover this week features Cold War II and Putins dangerous game. The cover story by Simon Shuster, In Russia, Crime Without Punishment, would merit an A-plus in William Randolph Hearsts course Yellow Journalism 101.)
When KAL007 was shot down, Alvin A. Snyder, director of the U.S. Information Agencys television and film division, was enlisted in a concerted effort to heap as much abuse on the Soviet Union as possible, as Snyder writes in his 1995 book, Warriors of Disinformation.
He and his colleagues also earned an A-plus for bringing the mainstream media along. For example, ABCs Ted Koppel noted with patriotic pride, This has been one of those occasions when there is very little difference between what is churned out by the U.S. government propaganda organs and by the commercial broadcasting networks.
Fixing the Intelligence Around the Policy
The perception we wanted to convey was that the Soviet Union had cold-bloodedly carried out a barbaric act, wrote Snyder, adding that the Reagan administration went so far as to present a doctored transcript of the intercepts to the United Nations Security Council on September 6, 1983.
Only a decade later, when Snyder saw the complete transcripts including the portions that the Reagan administration had hidden would he fully realize how many of the central elements of the U.S. presentation were false.
The intercepts showed that the Soviet fighter pilot believed he was pursuing a U.S. spy aircraft and that he was having trouble in the dark identifying the plane. Per instructions from ground control, the pilot had circled the KAL airliner and tilted his wings to order the aircraft to land. The pilot said he fired warning shots, as well. This information was not on the tape we were provided, Snyder wrote.
It became abundantly clear to Snyder that, in smearing the Soviets, the Reagan administration had presented false accusations to the United Nations, as well as to the people of the United States and the world. In his book, Snyder acknowledged his own role in the deception, but drew a cynical conclusion. He wrote, The moral of the story is that all governments, including our own, lie when it suits their purposes. The key is to lie first.
The tortured attempts by your administration and stenographers in the media to blame Russia for the downing of Flight 17, together with John Kerrys unenviable record for credibility, lead us to the reluctant conclusion that the syndrome Snyder describes may also be at work in your own administration; that is, that an ethos of getting your own lie out first has replaced ye shall know the truth. At a minimum, we believe Secretary Kerry displayed unseemly haste in his determination to be first out of the starting gate.
Both Sides Cannot Be Telling the Truth
We have always taken pride in not shooting from the hip, but rather in doing intelligence analysis that is evidence-based. The evidence released to date does not bear close scrutiny; it does not permit a judgment as to which side is lying about the shoot-down of Flight 17. Our entire professional experience would incline us to suspect the Russians almost instinctively. Our more recent experience, particularly observing Secretary Kerry injudiciousness in latching onto one spurious report after another as evidence, has gone a long way toward balancing our earlier predispositions.
It seems that whenever Kerry does cite supposed evidence that can be checked like the forged anti-Semitic fliers distributed in eastern Ukraine or the photos of alleged Russian special forces soldiers who allegedly slipped into Ukraine the proof goes poof as Kerry once said in a different context. Still, these misrepresentations seem small peccadillos compared with bigger whoppers like the claim Kerry made on Aug. 30, 2013, no fewer than 35 times, that we know the government of Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical incidents near Damascus nine days before.
On September 3, 2013 following your decision to call off the attack on Syria in order to await Congressional authorization Kerry was still pushing for an attack in testimony before a thoroughly sympathetic Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. On the following day Kerry drew highly unusual personal criticism from President Putin, who said: He is lying, and he knows he is lying. It is sad.
Equally serious, during the first week of September 2013, as you and President Vladimir Putin were putting the final touches to the deal whereby Syrian chemical weapons would be given up for destruction, John Kerry said something that puzzles us to this day. On September 9, 2013, Kerry was in London, still promoting a U.S. attack on Syria for having crossed the Red Line you had set against Syrias using chemical weapons.
At a formal press conference, Kerry abruptly dismissed the possibility that Bashar al-Assad would ever give up his chemical weapons, saying, He isnt about to do that; it cant be done. Just a few hours later, the Russians and Syrians announced Syrias agreement to do precisely what Kerry had ruled out as impossible. You sent him back to Geneva to sign the agreement, and it was formally concluded on September 14.
Regarding the Malaysia Airlines shoot-down of July 17, we believe Kerry has typically rushed to judgment and that his incredible record for credibility poses a huge disadvantage in the diplomatic and propaganda maneuvering vis-a-vis Russia. We suggest you call a halt to this misbegotten public diplomacy offensive. If, however, you decide to press on anyway, we suggest you try to find a less tarnished statesman or woman.
A Choice Between Two
If the intelligence on the shoot-down is as weak as it appears judging from the fuzzy scraps that have been released, we strongly suggest you call off the propaganda war and await the findings of those charged with investigating the shoot-down. If, on the other hand, your administration has more concrete, probative intelligence, we strongly suggest that you consider approving it for release, even if there may be some risk of damage to sources and methods. Too often this consideration is used to prevent information from entering the public domain where, as in this case, it belongs.
There have been critical junctures in the past in which presidents have recognized the need to waive secrecy in order to show what one might call a decent respect for the opinions of mankind or even to justify military action.
As senior CIA veteran Milton Bearden has put it, there are occasions when more damage is done to U.S. national security by protecting sources and methods than by revealing them. For instance, Bearden noted that Ronald Reagan exposed a sensitive intelligence source in showing a skeptical world the reason for the U.S. attack on Libya in retaliation for the April 5, 1986 bombing at the La Belle Disco in West Berlin. That bombing killed two U.S. servicemen and a Turkish woman, and injured over 200 people, including 79 U.S. servicemen.
Intercepted messages between Tripoli and agents in Europe made it clear that Libya was behind the attack. Heres an excerpt: At 1:30 in the morning one of the acts was carried out with success, without leaving a trace behind.
Ten days after the bombing the U.S. retaliated, sending over 60 Air Force fighters to strike the Libyan capital of Tripoli and the city of Benghazi. The operation was widely seen as an attempt to kill Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who survived, but his adopted 15-month-old daughter was killed in the bombing, along with at least 15 other civilians.
Three decades ago, there was more shame attached to the killing of children. As world abhorrence grew after the U.S. bombing strikes, the Reagan administration produced the intercepted, decoded message sent by the Libyan Peoples Bureau in East Berlin acknowledging the success of the attack on the disco, and adding the ironically inaccurate boast without leaving a trace behind.
The Reagan administration made the decision to give up a highly sensitive intelligence source, its ability to intercept and decipher Libyan communications. But once the rest of the world absorbed this evidence, international grumbling subsided and many considered the retaliation against Tripoli justified.
If Youve Got the Goods
If the U.S. has more convincing evidence than what has so far been adduced concerning responsibility for shooting down Flight 17, we believe it would be best to find a way to make that intelligence public even at the risk of compromising sources and methods. Moreover, we suggest you instruct your subordinates not to cheapen U.S. credibility by releasing key information via social media like Twitter and Facebook.
The reputation of the messenger for credibility is also key in this area of public diplomacy. As is by now clear to you, in our view Secretary Kerry is more liability than asset in this regard. Similarly, with regard to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, his March 12, 2013 Congressional testimony under oath to what he later admitted were clearly erroneous things regarding NSA collection should disqualify him. Clapper should be kept at far remove from the Flight 17 affair.
What is needed, if youve got the goods, is an Interagency Intelligence Assessment the genre used in the past to lay out the intelligence. We are hearing indirectly from some of our former colleagues that what Secretary Kerry is peddling does not square with the real intelligence. Such was the case late last August, when Kerry created a unique vehicle he called a Government (not Intelligence) Assessment blaming, with no verifiable evidence, Bashar al-Assad for the chemical attacks near Damascus, as honest intelligence analysts refused to go along and, instead, held their noses.
We believe you need to seek out honest intelligence analysts now and hear them out. Then, you may be persuaded to take steps to curb the risk that relations with Russia might escalate from Cold War II into an armed confrontation. In all candor, we see little reason to believe that Secretary Kerry and your other advisers appreciate the enormity of that danger.
In our most recent (May 4) memorandum to you, Mr. President, we cautioned that if the U.S. wished to stop a bloody civil war between east and west Ukraine and avert Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine, you may be able to do so before the violence hurtles completely out of control. On July 17, you joined the top leaders of Germany, France, and Russia in calling for a cease-fire. Most informed observers believe you have it in your power to get Ukrainian leaders to agree. The longer Kiev continues its offensive against separatists in eastern Ukraine, the more such U.S. statements appear hypocritical.
We reiterate our recommendations of May 4, that you remove the seeds of this confrontation by publicly disavowing any wish to incorporate Ukraine into NATO and that you make it clear that you are prepared to meet personally with Russian President Putin without delay to discuss ways to defuse the crisis and recognize the legitimate interests of the various parties. The suggestion of an early summit got extraordinary resonance in controlled and independent Russian media. Not so in mainstream media in the U.S. Nor did we hear back from you.
The courtesy of a reply is requested.
Prepared by VIPS Steering Group
William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)
Larry Johnson, CIA & State Department (ret.)
Edward Loomis, NSA, Cryptologic Computer Scientist (ret.)
David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.)
Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East (ret.)
Coleen Rowley, Division Counsel & Special Agent, FBI (ret.)
Peter Van Buren, U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Officer (ret)
Ann Wright, Col., US Army (ret); Foreign Service Officer (ret.)
H/t: Consortium News
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Global Elite Agitating for War Against Russia
http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-elite-agitating-for-war-against-russia/5393917
War Is Coming
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/07/28/war-coming-paul-craig-roberts/
Unfortunately the warmonger Obama and his cronies are at it again, only this time he's hell bent on starting WWIII. Equally unfortunate (and embarrassing for me) is that Canada's own Prime Minister Harper, is quite comfortable having Obama's fist up his ass. He's not alone however as the anti-Russian rhetoric that's being blasted about the mainstream airways is a chorus of US, UK, Australian and Canadian BullShit.
A few articles are now pointing to one high-rez picture (the only solid reference) of the wreckage and assessing that 30 cal. rounds fired into the cockpit of the Airliner from one or more Ukrainian Fighter Jets brought down that plane. That the plane looked a lot like Putin's plane that was flying in the same airspace 40 minutes behind the passenger aircraft is a curiosity. A curiosity that is until you recall that Putin was just returning from a meeting of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and S. Africa) wherein they agreed to start an International Bank NOT dealing in U.S. Dollars. This immediately followed an agreement between Russia and China for Russia to supply China with some $400 Billion in Natural Gas/Oil over the next decade, also NOT to be done in U.S. Dollars.
Remember what happened to Saddam just after he tried to sell his oil without using U.S. Dollars? Or Gadaffi when he attempted to turn away from the U.S. dollar, Iran?
The current U.S. puppet regime covertly placed in the Ukraine at a hidden cost of $5 Billion of U.S taxpayer money, was offered an additional $17 Billion in funding from the (U.S. controlled) IMF on the basis that it "deliver" it's eastern states, in other words blood money, and the blood is flowing. What better way of weakening the Rebels resolve than making them the scape goat for the killing of innocent civilians or as is just as likely, another failed attempted assassination.
That might to some of you sound a little extreme if it weren't for the fact that the very same scenario (using the covert downing of an airliner to bolster public opinion and justify war) was presented to Kennedy to use against Cuba in the Sixties. He rejected it.
Even Ron Paul is asking for the elimination of the CIA. And there are many in the U.S. who are calling for impeachment and although warranted on many grounds it probably wouldn't be enough to just cut off the head of this out of control World domination obsessed U.S. Government. Nothing less than a clean slate, House, Senate, Judiciary restart is needed to set that country straight. We could probably throw Wall St. in there too. Of course if there's a place for socialism, the election arena is ripe for change as well.
But I wouldn't wait too long... as these nine former U.S. Intelligence agents came together and wrote to Obama... this is getting serious!
US-NATO Fast-Track War Plans. After Failed MH17 False Flag, Washington Attempts Bold New Moves to Frame Russia
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-nato-fast-track-war-plans-after-failed-mh17-false-flag-washington-attempts-bold-new-moves-to-frame-russia/5393925
Re-posted from above:
Senior U.S. Intelligence Officers: Obama Should Release Ukraine Evidence
Preface: With the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine turning a local civil war into a U.S. confrontation with Russia, former high-level U.S. intelligence veterans released a statement today urging President Obama to release what evidence he has about the tragedy and silence the exaggeration and rush to judgment. (The whole post is a must-read; but we at Washingtons Blog have added bolding for emphasis.)
Signatory Bill Binney the former senior technical director at the NSA, and a man who battled the Soviet Union for decades tells Washingtons Blog:
In my analytic efforts to predict intentions and capabilities down through the years, I always made sure that I had multi-factors verifying what I was asserting. So far, I dont see that discipline here in this administration or the IC [i.e. the United States intelligence community].
Posted with permission of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Intelligence on Shoot-Down of Malaysian Plane
Executive Summary
U.S.Russian intentions are building in a precarious way over Ukraine, and we are far from certain that your advisers fully appreciate the danger of escalation. The New York Times and other media outlets are treating sensitive issues in dispute as flat-fact, taking their cue from U.S. government sources.
Twelve days after the shoot-down of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, your administration still has issued no coordinated intelligence assessment summarizing what evidence exists to determine who was responsible much less to convincingly support repeated claims that the plane was downed by a Russian-supplied missile in the hands of Ukrainian separatists.
Your administration has not provided any satellite imagery showing that the separatists had such weaponry, and there are several other dogs that have not barked. Washingtons credibility, and your own, will continue to erode, should you be unwilling or unable to present more tangible evidence behind administration claims. In what follows, we put this in the perspective of former intelligence professionals with a cumulative total of 260 years in various parts of U.S. intelligence:
We, the undersigned former intelligence officers want to share with you our concern about the evidence adduced so far to blame Russia for the July 17 downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. We are retired from government service and none of us is on the payroll of CNN, Fox News, or any other outlet. We intend this memorandum to provide a fresh, different perspective.
As veteran intelligence analysts accustomed to waiting, except in emergency circumstances, for conclusive information before rushing to judgment, we believe that the charges against Russia should be rooted in solid, far more convincing evidence. And that goes in spades with respect to inflammatory incidents like the shoot-down of an airliner. We are also troubled by the amateurish manner in which fuzzy and flimsy evidence has been served up some it via social media.
As intelligence professionals we are embarrassed by the unprofessional use of partial intelligence information. As Americans, we find ourselves hoping that, if you indeed have more conclusive evidence, you will find a way to make it public without further delay. In charging Russia with being directly or indirectly responsible, Secretary of State John Kerry has been particularly definitive. Not so the evidence. His statements seem premature and bear earmarks of an attempt to poison the jury pool.
Painting Russia Black
We see an eerie resemblance to an earlier exercise in U.S. public diplomacy from which valuable lessons can be learned by those more interested in the truth than in exploiting tragic incidents for propaganda advantage. We refer to the behavior of the Reagan administration in the immediate aftermath of the shoot-down of Korean Airlines Flight 007 over Siberia on August 30, 1983. We sketch out below a short summary of that tragic affair, since we suspect you have not been adequately briefed on it. The parallels will be obvious to you.
An advantage of our long tenure as intelligence officers is that we remember what we have witnessed first hand; seldom do we forget key events in which we played an analyst or other role. To put it another way, most of us know exactly where we were when a Soviet fighter aircraft shot down Korean Airlines passenger flight 007 over Siberia on August 30, 1983, over 30 years ago. At the time, we were intelligence officers on active duty. You were 21; many of those around you today were still younger.
Thus, it seems possible that you may be learning how the KAL007 affair went down, so to speak, for the first time; that you may now become more aware of the serious implications for U.S.-Russian relations regarding how the downing of Flight 17 goes down; and that you will come to see merit in preventing ties with Moscow from falling into a state of complete disrepair. In our view, the strategic danger here dwarfs all other considerations.
Hours after the tragic shoot-down on Aug. 30, 1983, the Reagan administration used its very accomplished propaganda machine to twist the available intelligence on Soviet culpability for the killing of all 269 people aboard KAL007. The airliner was shot down after it strayed hundreds of miles off course and penetrated Russias airspace over sensitive military facilities in Kamchatka and Sakhalin Island. The Soviet pilot tried to signal the plane to land, but the KAL pilots did not respond to the repeated warnings. Amid confusion about the planes identity a U.S. spy plane had been in the vicinity hours earlier Soviet ground control ordered the pilot to fire.
The Soviets soon realized they had made a horrendous mistake. U.S. intelligence also knew from sensitive intercepts that the tragedy had resulted from a blunder, not from a willful act of murder (much as on July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian civilian airliner over the Persian Gulf, killing 290 people, an act which President Ronald Reagan dismissively explained as an understandable accident).
To make the very blackest case against Moscow for shooting down the KAL airliner, the Reagan administration suppressed exculpatory evidence from U.S. electronic intercepts. Washingtons mantra became Moscows deliberate downing of a civilian passenger plane. Newsweek ran a cover emblazoned with the headline Murder in the Sky. (Apparently, not much has changed; Times cover this week features Cold War II and Putins dangerous game. The cover story by Simon Shuster, In Russia, Crime Without Punishment, would merit an A-plus in William Randolph Hearsts course Yellow Journalism 101.)
When KAL007 was shot down, Alvin A. Snyder, director of the U.S. Information Agencys television and film division, was enlisted in a concerted effort to heap as much abuse on the Soviet Union as possible, as Snyder writes in his 1995 book, Warriors of Disinformation.
He and his colleagues also earned an A-plus for bringing the mainstream media along. For example, ABCs Ted Koppel noted with patriotic pride, This has been one of those occasions when there is very little difference between what is churned out by the U.S. government propaganda organs and by the commercial broadcasting networks.
Fixing the Intelligence Around the Policy
The perception we wanted to convey was that the Soviet Union had cold-bloodedly carried out a barbaric act, wrote Snyder, adding that the Reagan administration went so far as to present a doctored transcript of the intercepts to the United Nations Security Council on September 6, 1983.
Only a decade later, when Snyder saw the complete transcripts including the portions that the Reagan administration had hidden would he fully realize how many of the central elements of the U.S. presentation were false.
The intercepts showed that the Soviet fighter pilot believed he was pursuing a U.S. spy aircraft and that he was having trouble in the dark identifying the plane. Per instructions from ground control, the pilot had circled the KAL airliner and tilted his wings to order the aircraft to land. The pilot said he fired warning shots, as well. This information was not on the tape we were provided, Snyder wrote.
It became abundantly clear to Snyder that, in smearing the Soviets, the Reagan administration had presented false accusations to the United Nations, as well as to the people of the United States and the world. In his book, Snyder acknowledged his own role in the deception, but drew a cynical conclusion. He wrote, The moral of the story is that all governments, including our own, lie when it suits their purposes. The key is to lie first.
The tortured attempts by your administration and stenographers in the media to blame Russia for the downing of Flight 17, together with John Kerrys unenviable record for credibility, lead us to the reluctant conclusion that the syndrome Snyder describes may also be at work in your own administration; that is, that an ethos of getting your own lie out first has replaced ye shall know the truth. At a minimum, we believe Secretary Kerry displayed unseemly haste in his determination to be first out of the starting gate.
Both Sides Cannot Be Telling the Truth
We have always taken pride in not shooting from the hip, but rather in doing intelligence analysis that is evidence-based. The evidence released to date does not bear close scrutiny; it does not permit a judgment as to which side is lying about the shoot-down of Flight 17. Our entire professional experience would incline us to suspect the Russians almost instinctively. Our more recent experience, particularly observing Secretary Kerry injudiciousness in latching onto one spurious report after another as evidence, has gone a long way toward balancing our earlier predispositions.
It seems that whenever Kerry does cite supposed evidence that can be checked like the forged anti-Semitic fliers distributed in eastern Ukraine or the photos of alleged Russian special forces soldiers who allegedly slipped into Ukraine the proof goes poof as Kerry once said in a different context. Still, these misrepresentations seem small peccadillos compared with bigger whoppers like the claim Kerry made on Aug. 30, 2013, no fewer than 35 times, that we know the government of Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical incidents near Damascus nine days before.
On September 3, 2013 following your decision to call off the attack on Syria in order to await Congressional authorization Kerry was still pushing for an attack in testimony before a thoroughly sympathetic Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. On the following day Kerry drew highly unusual personal criticism from President Putin, who said: He is lying, and he knows he is lying. It is sad.
Equally serious, during the first week of September 2013, as you and President Vladimir Putin were putting the final touches to the deal whereby Syrian chemical weapons would be given up for destruction, John Kerry said something that puzzles us to this day. On September 9, 2013, Kerry was in London, still promoting a U.S. attack on Syria for having crossed the Red Line you had set against Syrias using chemical weapons.
At a formal press conference, Kerry abruptly dismissed the possibility that Bashar al-Assad would ever give up his chemical weapons, saying, He isnt about to do that; it cant be done. Just a few hours later, the Russians and Syrians announced Syrias agreement to do precisely what Kerry had ruled out as impossible. You sent him back to Geneva to sign the agreement, and it was formally concluded on September 14.
Regarding the Malaysia Airlines shoot-down of July 17, we believe Kerry has typically rushed to judgment and that his incredible record for credibility poses a huge disadvantage in the diplomatic and propaganda maneuvering vis-a-vis Russia. We suggest you call a halt to this misbegotten public diplomacy offensive. If, however, you decide to press on anyway, we suggest you try to find a less tarnished statesman or woman.
A Choice Between Two
If the intelligence on the shoot-down is as weak as it appears judging from the fuzzy scraps that have been released, we strongly suggest you call off the propaganda war and await the findings of those charged with investigating the shoot-down. If, on the other hand, your administration has more concrete, probative intelligence, we strongly suggest that you consider approving it for release, even if there may be some risk of damage to sources and methods. Too often this consideration is used to prevent information from entering the public domain where, as in this case, it belongs.
There have been critical junctures in the past in which presidents have recognized the need to waive secrecy in order to show what one might call a decent respect for the opinions of mankind or even to justify military action.
As senior CIA veteran Milton Bearden has put it, there are occasions when more damage is done to U.S. national security by protecting sources and methods than by revealing them. For instance, Bearden noted that Ronald Reagan exposed a sensitive intelligence source in showing a skeptical world the reason for the U.S. attack on Libya in retaliation for the April 5, 1986 bombing at the La Belle Disco in West Berlin. That bombing killed two U.S. servicemen and a Turkish woman, and injured over 200 people, including 79 U.S. servicemen.
Intercepted messages between Tripoli and agents in Europe made it clear that Libya was behind the attack. Heres an excerpt: At 1:30 in the morning one of the acts was carried out with success, without leaving a trace behind.
Ten days after the bombing the U.S. retaliated, sending over 60 Air Force fighters to strike the Libyan capital of Tripoli and the city of Benghazi. The operation was widely seen as an attempt to kill Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who survived, but his adopted 15-month-old daughter was killed in the bombing, along with at least 15 other civilians.
Three decades ago, there was more shame attached to the killing of children. As world abhorrence grew after the U.S. bombing strikes, the Reagan administration produced the intercepted, decoded message sent by the Libyan Peoples Bureau in East Berlin acknowledging the success of the attack on the disco, and adding the ironically inaccurate boast without leaving a trace behind.
The Reagan administration made the decision to give up a highly sensitive intelligence source, its ability to intercept and decipher Libyan communications. But once the rest of the world absorbed this evidence, international grumbling subsided and many considered the retaliation against Tripoli justified.
If Youve Got the Goods
If the U.S. has more convincing evidence than what has so far been adduced concerning responsibility for shooting down Flight 17, we believe it would be best to find a way to make that intelligence public even at the risk of compromising sources and methods. Moreover, we suggest you instruct your subordinates not to cheapen U.S. credibility by releasing key information via social media like Twitter and Facebook.
The reputation of the messenger for credibility is also key in this area of public diplomacy. As is by now clear to you, in our view Secretary Kerry is more liability than asset in this regard. Similarly, with regard to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, his March 12, 2013 Congressional testimony under oath to what he later admitted were clearly erroneous things regarding NSA collection should disqualify him. Clapper should be kept at far remove from the Flight 17 affair.
What is needed, if youve got the goods, is an Interagency Intelligence Assessment the genre used in the past to lay out the intelligence. We are hearing indirectly from some of our former colleagues that what Secretary Kerry is peddling does not square with the real intelligence. Such was the case late last August, when Kerry created a unique vehicle he called a Government (not Intelligence) Assessment blaming, with no verifiable evidence, Bashar al-Assad for the chemical attacks near Damascus, as honest intelligence analysts refused to go along and, instead, held their noses.
We believe you need to seek out honest intelligence analysts now and hear them out. Then, you may be persuaded to take steps to curb the risk that relations with Russia might escalate from Cold War II into an armed confrontation. In all candor, we see little reason to believe that Secretary Kerry and your other advisers appreciate the enormity of that danger.
In our most recent (May 4) memorandum to you, Mr. President, we cautioned that if the U.S. wished to stop a bloody civil war between east and west Ukraine and avert Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine, you may be able to do so before the violence hurtles completely out of control. On July 17, you joined the top leaders of Germany, France, and Russia in calling for a cease-fire. Most informed observers believe you have it in your power to get Ukrainian leaders to agree. The longer Kiev continues its offensive against separatists in eastern Ukraine, the more such U.S. statements appear hypocritical.
We reiterate our recommendations of May 4, that you remove the seeds of this confrontation by publicly disavowing any wish to incorporate Ukraine into NATO and that you make it clear that you are prepared to meet personally with Russian President Putin without delay to discuss ways to defuse the crisis and recognize the legitimate interests of the various parties. The suggestion of an early summit got extraordinary resonance in controlled and independent Russian media. Not so in mainstream media in the U.S. Nor did we hear back from you.
The courtesy of a reply is requested.
Prepared by VIPS Steering Group
William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)
Larry Johnson, CIA & State Department (ret.)
Edward Loomis, NSA, Cryptologic Computer Scientist (ret.)
David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.)
Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East (ret.)
Coleen Rowley, Division Counsel & Special Agent, FBI (ret.)
Peter Van Buren, U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Officer (ret)
Ann Wright, Col., US Army (ret); Foreign Service Officer (ret.)
H/t: Consortium News
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Global Elite Agitating for War Against Russia
http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-elite-agitating-for-war-against-russia/5393917
War Is Coming
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/07/28/war-coming-paul-craig-roberts/
Did you write all that or was it copypasta?
Enigmahood said: Did you write all that or was it copypasta?
lol no, I probably should have made a clearer dividing line between my own preamble/rant and that of the former U.S. Security Advisers which would have been one line above the link to the posting, which I re-posted for convenience. My last words were "...this is getting serious"
Now, did you read all that?
I bet Stephen Colbert could have found a way to make all that entertaining.
Oh Janet! You look so funny!!!
