[SOFREPNews] I just have got to say it, this may be one of the most interesting guests to ever come on the podcast. When it comes to taking part in CIA operations that have truly influenced the course of modern-day American history, and world history at large, few have the experience of Mr. Jack Devine. Starting his career with the Agency from the late 60’s and into the 90’s, Jack was there for major global events like Iran-Contra, the fall of Chile’s President, and the fight to push the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Jack was also a close personal friend of Charlie Wilson who he describes as a patriot, and labels the film “Charlie Wilson’s War” to be much more a work of fiction than most would have you believe.
We get Devine’s take on current events and figures like Edward Snowden, the investigation of former FBI director Robert Mueller, as well as the Iran nuclear deal and the dangers of a nuclear capable North Korea. Devine is currently the President of The Arkin Group, and his latest book is “Good Hunting: An American Spymaster’s Story.” You’ll hear the shift Jack has seen of former CIA veterans going public, as well as the scary trend of guys with phony credentials claiming CIA experience and being given major platforms in the media. Strap in, because you’re about to learn a whole lot from this man.
Set aside 1:26:19. The gentleman has a great deal to say.
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Some of the SOFREP episodes are very informative.
Some only confirm what you already knew.
As for a news organization, they have come a long way. This particular one was exceptional. If you have time to listen, it clears up lots of things that have been spoken of on the Burg.
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Excellent interview. A key takeaway may have been Devine's lament over the politicization at the Director levels of CIA/FBI, senior political appointments as it were.
With regard to his denial of agency involvement in the illicit duel-use of agency cargo aircraft in Central America and elsewhere, some seasoning may be required.
Scotto article dated 15 Dec 2017. Actual Devine interview not dated, but it's always important to note what is not discussed. Christopher Steele... not discussed. Bruce and Nellie Ohr would have been rich topical entries, but news on them probably broke post-interview.
[UPI] Chinese regional experts have warned that an outbreak of war on the Korean Peninsula looks likelier than ever, despite Seoul and Beijing's agreement last week that such a conflict cannot be tolerated.
Chinese daily Global Times quoted Shi Yinhong, Professor of Renmin University, who said, "The possibility of war breaking out on the Korean peninsula has become the highest in several decades," pointing to the "vicious cycle of threats" between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Shi said that that China can only delay an all-out clash between them as it is too late to turn the situation around. "China only delay war, hoping that the detonator of the time bomb that is North Korea can be removed," he said.
How dreadfully passive voice, to be sure. And who is to bell the cat that China hand-reared from a kitten?
Wang Hongguang, former Deputy Commander of the Nanjing Military Region suggested war could occur much earlier than expected, Chosun Ilbo reported.
"It could break out tonight. It may come before March next year when South Korea and the United States begin their annual military exercise," he said.
Wang cited a local newspaper article that provided a guideline for Chinese citizens in case of a nuclear explosion, saying this was "a signal conveyed to the North telling it to prepare for the coming war."
Putting aside the timing, Professor of Nanjing University Zhu Feng believes Beijing must brace itself for war.
As tensions continue to escalate in the region, a "soft-landing" solution is impossible, he said, adding that "China must prepare psychologically and practically for a nuclear conflict, a radioactive fallout and an atomic explosion."
Last week, the Chinese navy began conducting a four-day live-fire exercise off North Korean waters while the air force held simulated anti-missile drills with Russia, South China Morning Post reported.
The joint exercise was aimed at repelling ballistic and cruise missile threats in the region, according to Beijing's defense ministry.
[Breitbart] Monday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh told his listeners he received an email with a "rumor" saying President Donald Trump was forecasting a letter from special counsel Robert Mueller exonerating him of wrongdoing.
Mueller has been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
"I’ll tell you ‐ I just heard a rumor," Limbaugh said. "I just got an email with a rumor in it. The rumor is that Trump is telling people that Mueller is preparing a letter that exonerates Trump of any wrongdoing in all of this. It’s a rumor. I do not know if it’s true. I don’t know if Trump knows this. I don’t know if somebody told Trump this. I don’t know if it’s bogus. But the email that I got suggests Trump is telling people that he thinks ‐ he’s pretty sure Mueller is going to write a letter pretty soon to assure the American people that their president is not guilty of anything that he’s looking into ‐ that the country needs to know their president isn’t guilty.
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DOJ/FBI casualties mounting, no end in sight. Mueller to soon stop digging and move on. Victory letter and Wolf Blitzer interview to follow. Making plans to resume retirement, adopt rescue dog, go Walleye fishing in the Spring. Possibly write fly tying book.
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Who send that email? I can type up an email with all kind of BS and send it in, doesn't mean any of it is true.
I suspect he or one of his assistants might have fabricated this email and send it to himself just so he can report on it. A major clue, look at how many weasel words he used.
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Such a letter might be a face saving way for Mueller to get himself and the people who put him there out of this mess with a minimum of damage.
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...or a minimum of jail time.
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The left has pinned their last vestiges of hope on some kind of Mueller indictment. If this is true I hope Pharmacies around the nation are well stocked in anti-depressants.
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How often are the breathlessly reported rumours about President Trump wrong? I’ll think about this when something actually happens — I haven't the energy for rumours..
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I remember the show the Untouchables. Elliot Ness was FBI and a hero. What is being done by Muller and Clapper has made me start to question the honesty of all the people in Washington and particularly the justice system . COVFEFE
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I’ll think about this when something actually happens — I haven't the energy for rumours..
Indeed. I don't even believe the weather report any more. Still, sometimes these things can be useful from a traffic analysis standpoint - who is talking about what and why are they trying to sell this.
tl;dr: Station HYPO sent orders to Midway by cable to broadcast a radio message that the island's desalinization plant had broken down. The radio message was broadcast without encryption to ensure that Japan could read it if it was intercepted.
The radio message was duly intercepted by Japan and reported by a message encoded in JN25 stating that AF's desalinization plant was out of order. That message was intercepted by Station HYPO. AF was thus confirmed as Midway.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] In Pakistain, the effort of transforming fabrication into fact is assuming the proportions of an art form with an ever larger number of people falling gullibly onto its venomous tracks. The heinous Christmas-eve attack on the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta killing nine people and injuring dozens more, some of them seriously, is a case in point. Instead of facing up to the fact that this is one more of a series of gruesome features dotting our daily lives which need to be combated with a strong and pragmatic narrative coupled with display of political will, layers of fabrication will be built to dull its impact, even creating erroneous and misleading impressions regarding its hows and whys.
The sequential steps of such an effort would include stories on the relative infrequency of terror attacks in Pakistain, even less so in the sectarian and religious domains, the positive outcome of the military operations which have been conducted in the recent past, the timely intervention of the security personnel in averting damage which could have been far more lethal, and trying to drown the sickness of terror in a parlance of condolence and sympathy messages overflowing with intent to help the families which have suffered. There will also be a deafening crescendo of an unflinching national resolve to ensure that the criminals and their aiders and handlers are punished. All this will be conveniently forgotten once overtaken by another similar or dissimilar event in the not so distant future.
I would not be surprised if someone were to craft an outlandish fable that the church was not the real target, but someone who was in the vicinity at that given moment, this being a case of personal enmity. In turn, such-like narrative would be parroted wildly in the evening television shows in an attempt to create further hallucinations. No one will dare ask why such-like things keep happening, and why is this malaise growing with time?
Let’s move to another avenue which illustrates this effort of merging fact with fabrication, even at the cost of clouding the integrity of a key state pillar. Ever since the abject failure of virtually all institutions to deal with accountability- and transparency-related cases falling in their domains, and with all of this landing at the doorsteps of the judiciary, it has been targeted for its alleged partisanship. Its judgments against the former prime minister have been portrayed as apt evocations of its deep-set prejudice. It has also been condemned afor having acted in conformity with a script written elsewhere. The painstaking soliloquies establishing the indispensability of individuals over the state and its institutions is an aberration of the grossest form, yet promoted forcefully in this wonder-land.
In the process, the other side of the coin is completely overlooked, the one dealing with the history of crime and corruption of the family over decades. The unabashed disdain with which such misleading projections are made in public and then stoutly defended during the hilarious comedy shows enacted in the evening television transmissions is unbelievable. But not for the ones who are propounding the falsehoods and who would want every viewer to believe them to the postscript. No shame. No embarrassment. At the end of it all, one is lost in separating fact from fiction. It is all so enmeshed.
At a different level, facts stand out from fabrications in no uncertain terms as, indeed, these should. No matter how thick we try to lay it out for the world, it can see through the load of crap which melts at the first incision of enquiry. But, in the process, alongside creating doubts about our efficacy as a nation, we also lose our credibility ‐ as would a claim that load-shedding in Pakistain is a story of the past. Looking at the person later, I did not see a shred of remorse. It is like they are tutored in the art of lying shamelessly ‐ and they do!
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[SOFREPNews] I just have got to say it, this may be one of the most interesting guests to ever come on the podcast. When it comes to taking part in CIA operations that have truly influenced the course of modern-day American history, and world history at large, few have the experience of Mr. Jack Devine. Starting his career with the Agency from the late 60’s and into the 90’s, Jack was there for major global events like Iran-Contra, the fall of Chile’s President, and the fight to push the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Jack was also a close personal friend of Charlie Wilson who he describes as a patriot, and labels the film “Charlie Wilson’s War” to be much more a work of fiction than most would have you believe.
[UPI] Chinese regional experts have warned that an outbreak of war on the Korean Peninsula looks likelier than ever, despite Seoul and Beijing's agreement last week that such a conflict cannot be tolerated.
