by Alex Emmons Naomi LaChance; The Intercept September 12 2016, "Donald Trump named former CIA director and extremist neoconservative James Woolsey his senior adviser on national security issues on Monday. Woolsey, who left the CIA in 1995, went on to become one of Washington’s most outspoken promoters of U.S. war in Iraq and the Middle East.
As such, Woolsey’s selection either clashes with Trump’s noninterventionist rhetoric — or represents a pivot towards a more muscular, neoconservative approach to resolving international conflicts.
Trump has called the Iraq War “a disaster.”
Woolsey, by contrast, was a key member of the Project for the New American Century — a neoconservative think tank largely founded to encourage a second war with Iraq. Woolsey signed a letter in 1998 calling on Clinton to depose Saddam Hussein and only hours after the 9/11 attacks appeared on CNN and blamed the attacks on Iraq. Woolsey has continued to insist on such a connection despite the complete lack of evidence to support his argument. He also blames Iran."
Dana Priest and William Arkin in the Washington Post: "The investigation's other findings include: * Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about
Dana Priest & William Arkin: "The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how
Dans le cadre du rapport d’Hélène Flautre, eurodéputée EELV, le Parlement Européen a tenu hier, 27 mars 2012, une audition sur la complicité des Etats européens dans les actions illégales de la CIA après le 11 septembre 2001.
James Bamford (Threat Level), Wired 15.3.2012: "The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy."
In my case, while a senior official at the National Security Agency, I found out about the use of electronic eavesdropping on Americans, turning this country into the equivalent of a foreign nation, for the purposes of blanket surveillance and data mining, blatantly disregarding a 23-year legal regime that was the exclusive means for the conduct of such electronic collection and surveillance, which carried criminal sanctions when violated
16 nov 2013 Ambassador Joseph R. DeTrani August 1st--4th, 2013 Rio Hotel & Casino * Las Vegas, Nevada. at ca 15 min. "... cyber is a potential wmd" "...we look to you to help produce more secure systems... and policies ... to disrupt those who seal intellectual property... need you, the good hackers of Def Con" ...".. you have the three branches of government overseeing it [the surveillance] ... it came after after 9/11... when we saw the terrorists coming..." ca 25 min. Q. from the public abt the lies abt wmd in Iraq
Washington, DC January 14, 2014 by Richard Lloyd, Former UN Weapons Inspector Tesla Laboratories Inc.|Arlington, VA, and Theodore A. Postol, Professor of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Library of Congress, one of the biggest libraries in the world, gathers 5 terabytes a month. The NSA sucks up much, much more. "The NSA say it needs all this data to help prevent another terrorist attack like 9/11. In order to find the needle in the haystack, they argue, they need access to the whole haystack."
"The NSA, in its defence, frequently argues that if today’s surveillance programs existed before 9/11, it might have been able to stop those attacks. But this, too, is a matter of dispute. The intelligence agencies had a lot of capability before 9/11, and did pick up vital information, but failed to share it with one another or join up the dots."
It was revealed June 23, 2006, that President George W. Bush's bank records spying program—the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program—is run by the Central Intelligence Agency and overseen by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Treasury Department obtain