Video - CIA & Swedish Military - Conspire to Bring Down Elected Swedish Prime Minister

CIA & Swedish Military Conspire to Bring Down Elected Swedish Prime Minister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Vc8CcH8ZY&feature=youtu.be CIA & Swedish Military Conspire to Bring Down Elected Swedish Prime Minister TRANSCRIPT [confirm video for quotations] Narrator: In 1989 the Soviet empire started to collapse. A historic victory. It could be that the Secret Committee of US President Ronald Reagan contributed to it. Herb Mayer, CIA vice-chief of intelligence: They stopped playing defence and began playing offence. That was the great shift that changed the course of world history. Thomas Reed Special Question Advisor: We could have brought them to their knees if we wanted. Narrator: Did the Committee in fact exist? What methods did Reagan's soldiers use? John Lehman, the Minister of the US Navy: The use of deception could make it appear to the soviets to be 20 feet tall. Admiral James 'Ace' Lyons: You have to go out and physically demonstrate. Narrator: For the first time, witnesses tell of those events. Mathias Mossberg, the Secretary General for the 34d Submarine Investigation Board: They made fools of the Swedish parliament and government as well as Swedish media. What world do we actually live in? Screen display: Deception: Reagan's Method: A film by Dirk Polmann Submarines against Olof Palme Narrator: The next target is supposed neutral state of the North of Europe, Sweden. Only the Baltic Sea separates it from the Soviet Union. Ula Tuander Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik / Research professor of security policy: Sweden actually was extremely important in case of a future world war. Sweden was located northward of Germany and was kind of an unsinkable aircraft-carrier that the US could operate from. Narrator: Since 1960 Sweden had been integrated into the plans of NATO militarisation. In the 1960s, Swedish Air Forces ranked 4th strongest in the world. The US Army counted on Sweden's secret loyalty to NATO. Ula Tuander Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik / Research professor of security policy: Since 1960, Sweden was preparing to receive US aircraft on its territory. There was a direct phone line with the headquarters of the US Navy in Wiesbaden. Ingemar Engman: We prepared airfields, on which the American jet planes could have landed on their way eastwards. Narrator: The USA needed Sweden as an 'aircraft-carrier.' And besides, the Soviet Union would be forced to fight on two fronts. There's an extremely conservative elite in the Swedish Army, an economy and aristocracy completely aligned with the USA that treats Social Democrats with deep mistrust. Ola Frithiofson Jungsozialisten: In Social Democratic Sweden it was perhaps the most powerful Social Democratic party in the world. Narrator: A charismatic leader, Olof Palme, a man of indisputable international renown. A man who had enemies. Ula Tuander Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik / Research professor of security policy: It was the Social Democratic government of the country. But there were also ruling elites who shared quite different views. They were closely related to the USA and Great Britain. And this meant that you have a divided Sweden. Once I was invited to dinner with James Schlesinger (economist / public servant), the former US Secretary of Defence (1973-1975 Nixon & Ford), and the Director of the CIA. I asked him what he thought of Sweden, at the time he had occupied his position. And he asked me: "What Sweden, the political Sweden or the military Sweden?" Narrator: At the end of the 1960s, beginning of 1970s, the Vietnam War shook up the Western states and deeply divided society. Outraged youth organised demonstrations all over the world. Olof Palme, together with North Vietnamese Ambassador, led demonstrations criticising US policy. The case is exactly one for the Committee. In 1981 Palme is still the opposition leader. But a year later he wins the elections and has brilliant ratings. Palme's and Reagan's plans are as much like fire and water. However, the Committee can use the preliminary work for the CIA. Since the 1970s, the US secret service had been scheming against Palme on Swedish territory. Reagan and Casey knew: Palme is considered to be a traitor among Swedish security agencies. Besides, important Swedish admirals are on their side. John F. Lehman Jr American investment banker & writer Served as Secretary of US Navy in Reagan Administration 1981 - 1987 Member of 9/11 Commission 2003 - 2004: Certainly, there were efforts to see that that Swedish military addressed the demands of NATO strategies and ideas, and that Sweden had access to technologies needed to defend their neutrality. Narrator: On the morning of October 28th, 1981, the Chief of Swedish Naval Staff in Karlskrona receives an unexpected report: fisherman found a submarine washed ashore. Commander Karl Andersson immediately heads there. Karl Andersson: As soon as we called in at the Gåsefjärden I slowed down and, suddenly, I saw a black and green Whiskey-class submarine 100 metres in front of me. It was obviously a Russian submarine. Narrator: The highest rank aboard was the Chief of Brigade Staff from the City of Baltiysk, Joseph Avrukevich. He had navigated the submarine along quite a narrow fjord. The commander, Peter Gushchin, was forced to follow Avrukevich's instructions. Karl Andersson: I could never understand what kind of commander he was or what the operation was meant to be. I actually didn't even think of that because it was incredibly stupid to call in at the Gåsefjärden since a submarine could run aground. Narrator: The submarien had been drifting for a long time until Avrukevich, guided by a beacon, steered the submarine into the fairway of the just 100-metre wide Gåsefjärden. Karl Andersson: They could hire a fishing boat under the guise of a Swedish flag for that purpose. But it was a very stupid decision to call in there with a submarine. The public will discover: the submarine was sent to spy in a fjord that it couldn't submerge into since there was 1.5 metres of water under the keel. Anderson notes that the person who was responsible for making decisions was the mysterious chief of Staff Arukevich. He then received an order not to interrogate him. Karl Andersson: Yes, I received this exact order. I received orders to interrogate Gushchin only, the watch officer, the signaller and the navigator. I was prohibited from interrogating anyone else. Narrator: The Swedish Naval Forces sent a diver under water. Their footage is being officially shown here for the first time ever. They make a startling discovery. A big sand dune formed behind the marine propeller. Ula Tuander Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik / Research professor of security policy: In front of the propeller there was no sand dune. That meant someone wanted the submarine to run further against the rocks, to stay there. And then it was turned around more than 50 degrees so the submarine would really get stuck in the rocks, so it wouldn't slide off. Narrator: To sum up: a supposed spy submarine put into the extremely narrow fjord where there's almost no water under the keen and will sooner or later run aground. When it happened, the engines continued to work at full capacity. But one mustn't interrogate the officer responsible for this insane operation. "Whiskey on the Rocks" hit the headlines. Sweden is shocked and indignant. Olof Palme wins the elections in 1982. He wants to achieve neutrality, disarmament and non-alignment to the military blocs for Sweden. Confrontation mitigation; but Reagan just wanted the opposite. Therefore the 'Deception Committee' begins a project launching an operation of psychological warfare: a pretence of reality that should return Sweden back on the course that corresponds to the Reagan strategy. Two weeks after Palme took office, a submarine's periscope was detected at a Swedish naval base: Musko. It could be -- and everyone claimed they were only Soviet submarines after 'Whiskey on the Rocks'. Ula Tuander Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik / Research professor of security policy: They showed their periscopes and cone towers to the public. A submarine's captain shouldn't do that. Mathias Mossberg: Why did they want to be seen? To turn the trick. And they did that very well. Narrator: A few hours after the submarines had been detected, more than 750 journalists from all over the world report on the Swedish Naval Forces with arms ready in manhunt for the soviet submarines, without success. Is it just pretence for the media? In the following years, the hunt for submarines repeats hundreds of times. Foreign submarines are seen in front of the Royal Palace and in front of summerhouses and naval bases. While Palme negotiates with the Soviets on disarmament and proposals of peace, Soviet military forces apparently pretend to want it. Moscow is confused. No one has given such orders to their military. Or are there self-ruling captains? Palme protests to the Soviet Ambassador again and again. In the end, the latter passes a proposal from the Kremlin. Boris Pankin, the Soviet Ambassador to Sweden: If you think our submarines are there, you can bomb them. But we know there are none, that's why we are not afraid of any bombing. Narrator: Endless, unsuccessful war against the ghost submarines has its consequences. Ulf Svenson Director of Security Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs: It was impossible for Palme to do anything else than to decisively blame the Russians. It was difficult to ensure the policy of 'common security' in relation to the communist states. The leaders of the Swedish naval forces sunk not a single enemy submarine, but it successfully torpedoed Palme's 'common security' policy. Without the Swedish media, this operation would fail. Mathias Mossberg: The media were very much taking a lead in blowing up this issue according to the information they got from our militaries. Narrator: From 1981 to 1983 the number of Swedes who felt there was a Soviet threat increased from 27% to 83%. Boris Pankin, the Soviet Ambassador to Sweden: I would like to mention why it bothers me now. It turned out that even in such an educated, Western European state, in such a bulwark of democracy, it was quite easy to distract vast masses of people and brainwash them, to zombify them. Narrator: Since 1983, three investigations into the submarines scam were carried out. Mathias Mossberg: The first inquiry came to the conclusion that it was Soviet submarines. The second concluded that this could not be proven. Then a few years went by and an interview came out with Caspar Weinberger, the US Secretary of Defence, who clearly said that the US was involved in this. Caspar Weinberger, US Secretary of Defence: There was no direct insertion or testing of Swedish defence without consultation, when speaking of the agreement. Keith Speed British Navy Minister: There were exercise attacks. Could the submarines infiltrate their waters and emerge at the port in Stockholm? Well, that's not quite the thing, but something like that. How far could we go? During my administration, we had Oberon-class and Porpoise-class diesel submarines for that purpose. Narrator: It's quite clear: Swedish Naval Forces' leadership knew NATO's submarines were in Swedish territorial waters. Why had they kept silent back then? And what part had the Americans and British played? Mathias Mossberg: Obviously, we needed to go into the question again. They instituted a new inquiry and appointed me as Secretary General. Mossberg found a document in the Muskö naval base archives. Several senior admirals were worried about Weinberger's statement and wanted to be prepared. Mathias Mossberg: To the effect we had to coordinate our response to this. I wanted to take a copy of this document. but our military expert told us: "You don't need to do that. We have this at the office in Stockholm." I believed him. When I came back to our office, it turned out we didn't have this document at all. And next time we went back to that archive, that particular document had disappeared. So these were the kinds of things we had to fight with. Narrator: The board faced resistance: access to the archives was denied and it discovered the military destroyed important evidence, photos and documents. Mathias Mossberg: What we were dealing with was a certain group that was not telling the government the full truth about what they knew or had happened or was happening. And they were taking decisions which had far-reaching implications for Swedish defence and foreign policy. They were decisions that were taken outside the democratic framework of the Swedish government. Then, of course, you ask yourself where you are. Narrator: In a country where the military conspired with a foreign power against its own Minister-President? Mathias Mossberg: Sweden was taken for a ride. Public opinion was taken for a ride, Swedish parliament was taken for a ride, Swedish government was taken for a ride, the press was taken for a ride. What sort of world are we actually living in? Narrator: In a world where Olof Palme was murdered. The killer hasn't been found yet. Mikhail Gorbachev, President of USSR: I'm sure it was a political killing. It was a contract killing ... I don't think he was murdered for some domestic reasons ... Interviewer: Why do you think it was a political killing? Mikhail Gorbachev, President of USSR: Because this man and the things he was proposing ... Their implementation involved the interests of groups who weren't particularly interested in making the world a better place. Subtitles by amara.org community -- 17:01 end  -- SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Vc8CcH8ZY&feature=youtu.be ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Miscellaneous Look-Ups: Mathias Mossberg Sweden's Ambassador to Morocco - 1994 to 1996 Involved in Middle East peace negotiations since the 1980s Swedish team re back-channel negotiations re Oslo peace process Senior Research Fellow at Lund university's Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Sweden Editor of: 'One Land, Two States: Israel & Palestine as Parallel States (University of California Press, 2014) Previously Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm adviser re Muslim affairs. Previously secondment to East West Institute in New York Previously Secretary-General for major Sweden government review of Swedish security policy during cold war was Director of Policy Planning Group of Ministry 1996-2000 CSCE Personal Representative of Chairman for Nagorno-Karabakh 1992 - 1994. Previously Assistant Under-Secretary for Africa & Middle East at the Ministry Held diplomatic posts in London, Aman, New York, Moscow & Geneva. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mathias-mossberg/ John F. Lehman Jr American investment banker & writer 1977 Lehman founded the Abington Corporation, a consulting company with clients including defence companies such as Northrop Corporation was president & director to 1981 Served as Secretary of US Navy in Reagan Administration 1981 - 1987 Member of 9/11 Commission 2003 - 2004: National Security Advisory Council for the Centre for Security Policy (CSP) board of trustees for the think tank Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) {"New York Times (NYT 1967:1, 32) revealed that FPRI had been funded directly by the CIA since the fifties." http://www.leopoldreport.com/LRsajt81.html} member National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States signed policy letters by: Project for the New American Century served as an advisor to Sen. John McCain for the 2008 presidential bid served as an advisor to Mitt Romney - 2012 presidential bid developed a strategic concept to counter threat of Soviet incursion into Western Europe known as the "Lehman Doctrine" plan called for a military response to any Russian invasion in Europe by attacking and invading the Soviet Far East along the Pacific (less defended front) chairman of the private equity investment firm J. F. Lehman and Company from 2004 / involved in other interests & NGOs - listed Revealed: Reagan admin secretly offered use of amphibious assault helicopter carrier to British re 1982 Falklands War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lehman Senior US military officer critical of Lehman Lehman once rowed for Cambridge in Britain http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/30/us/navy-chief-says-lehman-was-not-balanced.html Keith Speed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Speed Caspar W. Weinberger Caspar Willard Weinberger b. 1917 father Jewish (Bohemia, now: Czech Republic) met wife: Jane (Rebecca Jane Dalton Weinberger), nurse on troops ship transporting US troops to Australia during WWII married in 1942 in Sydney, Australia Harvard, law Army officers' candidate school at Fort Benning, Ga. / intelligence staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur private law practice 1952 politics: California Assembly + re-elections held high positions under three Republican Presidents oversaw largest & costliest military build-up in peacetime history as Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defence had written a regular column for Forbes magazine to his death 2006, was chairman of Forbes Inc. key backer of President Ronald Reagan's missile-based Strategic Defence Initiative ('Star Wars') enemy of the Soviet Union more faith in arms than diplomacy role in the Iran-contra affair / granted presidential pardon - questions left unresolved 1992 - indicted on felony charges of perjury and obstruction of justice re covert sale of arms to Iran & diversion of proceeds to Nicaraguan rebels ('contras') k.a. 'Iran-Contra Affair' / against declared US policy accused of concealing voluminous notes re Iran-Contra Affair roles of Reagan & VP George Bush 1992 President Bush pardoning Weinberger + several other officials re Iran-Contra Affair under Weinberger, Pentagon: -- understated cost of some weapons by billions of dollars -- overstated effectiveness of weapons -- exaggerated the threat of the Soviet Union {General Accounting Office 3-year study, 1993} http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/28/obituaries/28cnd-weinberger.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://bangordailynews.com/2009/07/13/news/caspar-weinbergerrsquos-widow-a-milford-native-dies-at-age-91/ Karlskrona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlskrona Gåsefjärden http://archive.is/D5VRL http://research.omicsgroup.org/index.php/Soviet_submarine_S-363 Professional American Disinformation Agents Sabotaged the Investigation into the Murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme http://www.leopoldreport.com/LRsajt71.html#ankare449926 Sweden's American Colony Nya Sverige New Sweden 1638 to 1655 - Swedish Colony in present-day: Delaware, New Jersey, & Pennsylvania first settlement: Fort Christina (now Wilmington, Delaware) other settlers: Finns & Dutch 1655 - Second Northern War - Dutch take New Sweden (incorporated into New Netherland) mid 1600s - Sweden was at most expansive territorial extent / was one of great powers of Europe -- territories incl. FINLAND, ESTONIA, parts RUSSIA, POLAND, GERMANY, LATVIA -- monarchs: Gustavus Adolphus & Queen Christina -- Swedes aimed to create tobacco & fur trading colony -- founded: Swedish West India Company -- mandate to establish trading colonies Florida & Newfoundland -- stockholders: Swedish, Dutch & German -- led by directors of New Sweden Company, incl. Samuel Blommaert -- 11 expeditions / 14 separate voyages to Delaware -- 1637 - port of Gothenburg - first Swedish expedition sails -- Indian tribes sold only small portion land / claim Swedes stole rest -- Second Northern War in the Baltic opened by Sweden -- Sweden vs. Polish-Lithuanian C'wealth -- Dutch grabbed New Sweden Colony 1655 -- Dutch then dispossessed by the British in 1664 -- [ skip ] -- major Swedish immigration took place only in late 19th C: 1870-1917 - 1.2 million Swedes arrived (Minnesota +) [source:  Wikipedia] ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Found this interesting. No time to comb over this entry for typos, or to finish the look-ups I wanted to do. It looks like our world is controlled by psychopaths.  There are no rules.  Money is god and power is king.  Or something like that. Anyway, I thought all these ties (US, UK, Sweden ... and even Australia, in a round-about way, etc) ... & all this grubbiness was really interesting. Good luck getting justice in America, Britain or in Sweden, especially if you expose American and government wrongdoing. Note that Australian publisher-journalist, Julian Assange, is political prisoner of these same bent interests. We're all political prisoners and de facto prisoners of state, as our well-being and the future of our nations is sacrificed to the money-serving plans of a colluding coterie of states serving money-hungry and money-controlling elites, while pretending 'democracy' and righteousness.  Some things never change.   History is a constant.

FBI Caught Pants-Down - FBI Illegal Practices 1970s - the 'Hacktivists' of Yesteryear

ꕤ FBI Caught Pants-Down FBI Illegal Practices 1970s - the 'Hacktivists' of Yesteryear 1971 FBI Illegal Tactics Program Exposed city:  Media, Pennsylvania, USA Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI ('CCIF') -- leftist activist group USA early 1970s -- breaks into 2-man FBI office Media, Pennsylvania -- theft of over 1,000 classified documents -- documents mailed anonymously to several USA newspapers -- some news outlets refused to publish info Stock rationale: -- related to ongoing 'operations' -- disclosure might 'threaten lives' of agents or informants Complete collection published for first time 1972 -- publisher WIN Magazine -- WIN mag associated w. War Resisters League FBI COINTELPRO op revealed (ie counter intelligence program) EXTENSIVE list of FBI POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE  etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO Led to: 1.  Church Committee inquiry 2.  FBI cessation of op Noam Chomsky statement re analysis of FBI docs: -- 1% re organised crime (gambling) -- 30% manuals, forms etc -- 40% POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE     - x2 right-wing groups     - x10 immigrants     - x200 left or liberal groups -- 14% draft resistance -- 15% serious crime: murder, rape, robbery etc FBI documents self-incriminating: use of postal worker snitches use of switchboard operator snitches use of like civilian services snitches to spy on: -- black college students -- various non-violent black activist groups Statement to media: EXTRACT "These files will now be studied to determine: one, the nature and extent of surveillance and intimidation carried on by this office of the FBI, particularly against groups and individuals working for a more just, humane and peaceful society. Two, to determine how much of the FBI's efforts are spent on relatively minor crimes by the poor and the powerless against whom they can get a more glamorous conviction rate. Instead of investigating truly serious crimes by those with money and influence which cause great damage to the lives of many people—crimes such as war profiteering, monopolistic practices, institutional racism, organized crime, and the mass distribution of lethal drugs. Finally, three, the extent of illegal practices by the FBI, such as eavesdropping, entrapment, and the use of provocateurs and informers." FBI Fail: -- 200 FBI agents investigation followed -- investigation was closed when 5-year statute of limitations ran out -- unsolved *Members of group revealed IDs recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Investigate_the_FBI ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Don't think anything's changed since the early 1970s. Take a look at UK political policing and New Zealand political policing, also.  It's much the same thing, even today. The leftist activist groups of the early 1970s are a lot like the 'hacktivist' & whistleblower groups of today:  only difference is technology. It looks like the American agencies that serve plutocracy may regard the left as the most dangerous threat to maintenance of power by the American elites ... going by the 1970s. Mainstream Western media has a long history of failing to go to print and of  unreliability as far as whistleblowers are concerned.   So how is this any different to the suppressive techniques of the governments that are maligned as 'repressive regimes' by the US and West, the hypocrites? ꕤ

US-Iran Prisoner Exchange

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-md-iran-prisoners-20160116-story.html SUMMARY 17 Jan. 2016 x7 dual US-Iranian citizens Iran prisoner SWAP DEAL release from USA federal prison part USA-Iran deal to free x4 Iranian-Americans held Iran: USA Iranian Prisoners for RELEASE: Ali Saboonchi, formerly of Parville, Maryland electrician & PhD student MOrgan State Uni convicted:  exporting goods & services to Iran, 2009 - 2013 sentence:  2 years prison Nader Modanlou, formerly of Potomac, Maryland convicted:  conspiracy to illegally send satellite tech to Iran - 2013 allegedly:  scheme helped Iran launch a satellite w/ camera from Russia in 2005 sentence:  8 years prison Others: Bahram Mechanic Khosrow Afqahi Arash Ghahreman Touraj Faridi Nima Golestaneh held for allegedly violating US trade embargo imposed on Iran { incl. helping Iran launch first space satellite } UN announcement Iran obligations under nukes deal met  PRECEDED  deal to free:  x4 Americans held Iran UN announcement aftermath: = sanctions lifted & Iran can access billions in frozen funds = $50-b frozen assets & oil revenue (mostly Asia banks) for release = foodstuffs import / export (+ other) to USA lifted = otherwise, USA embargo on trade w/ Iran continues = Iran may rejoin international banking system = EU to allow trade:  software, gold, metals, transport equip. = Iran may sell oil & other energy on open market Iran to rejoin 'global economy' USA lifted Interpol red notices & dismissed charges re x14 Iranians Iran x4 detainees to be released include:  Jason Rezaian, journalist, Washington Post (Tehran)  - held since 2014 facility:  'notorious' Evin Prison reason detained:  "attempts to help the U.S. Senate to advance its regime change plots in Iran." Amir Mirza Hekmati, former US Marine reason detained:  alleged sping for CIA Saeed Abedini, a Christian pastor reason detained:  *** not specified Nostratollah Khosravi, *** not specified reason detained:  *** not specified --- USA still waiting for Iran to find American #5:      Robert Levinson      disappeared Iran 2007      working on 'unauthorised' CIA op   ======= NOTE dual citizenship is not recognised by Iran x4 jailed US-Iranian nationals treated by Iran as Iran citizens ======= Iran Foreign Minister:  Javad Zarif Nukes Deal Obligations: -- almost entire enriched uranium stockpile in Iran -- shipped to Russia for reprocessing -- plutonium-producing heavy water reactor (at Arak) - destroyed -- 1,000s uranium enriching centrifuges dismantled Above measures:  more than triple time required to produce nuke weapon ======= NOTE -- x10 USA sailors captured in Iranian waters in Persian Gulf -- subsequent release by negotiation b/w foreign ministers ======= *US & Iran - no formal diplomatic relations since 1980 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-md-iran-prisoners-20160116-story.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT This was a good article.  Wonder if that x10 US sailors captured in Iranian waters helped swing things in Iran's favour at all? Looks like Iran has a 'law of return' of it's own:  return to Iran for [alleged] US spying & expect prison, whatever the adopted citizenship ... lol. It looks like Asian banks cannot be trusted with money, as they back US agenda. And it looks like Obama's keeping US farmers happy (ending sanctions on foodstuffs), as well as keeping the Jewish/Israel lobbies happy by otherwise maintaining Iran trade sanctions by the sound of things, despite some exemptions in addition to foodstuffs? It is highly unlikely that the Levinson guy is still alive. ꕤ

Australian Journalist: Prisoner of the Current World Order

ꕤ Australian Journalist Prisoner of the Current World Order Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd - 2012 " ... acknowledged the existence of a ''temporary surrender'' mechanism that could allow Mr Assange to be extradited from Sweden to the US." http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/revealed-us-plans-to-charge-assange-20120228-1u14o.html LINK | Post ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Julian Assange Editor, WikiLeaks Justice4Assange WikiLeaks Site WikiLeaks Twitter BOOK:  The WikiLeaks Files (2015) Link | here ꕤ

David Hicks - Howard Government Acknowledged Hicks Wasn't Guilty of Any Crime / Proof of US-Australian Collusion

ꕤ Info/Reference SOURCE http://www.smh.com.au//breaking-news-national/hicks-claims-proof-howard-govt-interfered-20110302-1bdy0.html David Hicks Source http://www.smh.com.au//breaking-news-national/hicks-claims-proof-howard-govt-interfered-20110302-1bdy0.html Hicks claims proof Howard govt interfered March 2, 2011  AAP Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks says US documents have been released that prove the Howard government interfered in his terrorism case. Mr Hicks, who pleaded guilty to a terrorism-related charge in the US in 2007, says newly released US State Department documents show that members of the Howard government acknowledged he was not guilty of any crime and tried to think of ways to "pin him with something". He says the 50 to 60 pages of documents record "private conversations" between Howard government MPs and US State Department officials. The documents were provided this week to American journalist Jason Leopold by State Department employees. "They're private conversations ... between Australian politicians, the Liberal Party and the US State Department officials, people in the Pentagon and whoever was involved in that process in Guantanamo Bay, and it discusses my treatment and it discusses about the need to pressure me to say `guilty'," Mr Hicks told ABC Radio. Mr Hicks, an Australian citizen, was detained in Afghanistan in 2001, handed over to US authorities and detained for five years at Guantanamo Bay. In March 2007, he pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism and was sent to Adelaide's Yatala Prison to serve the remainder of a seven-year sentence, before being released in December of that year. On Wednesday, Mr Hicks said he "folded" to pressure to plead guilty and that the new US State Department documents showed Howard government officials acknowledged he had not committed a crime. "There's also acknowledgments from our government, the Australian government, I should be more specific and say the Howard government, acknowledgments from them and even from the US, that I'd never breached any law, I hadn't committed a crime," he said. "And there's conversations between Australian politicians and US politicians of how they can handle that: `What can we do, how can we pin him with something?'." Mr Hicks said that was when "they invented the charge `material support for terrorism'," which, he said, was not a valid crime under any legal system. Mr Hicks says he wants the Australian government to investigate his case, but adds he does not want compensation. "No, what I would really like is for the government to acknowledge that what was done to me was wrong, that my conviction in an illegal military commission is null and void and the plea agreement goes along with that. That's all I'm asking for," he said. Mr Hicks said the content of the US State Department documents would be released by Leopold in about a month's time. © 2016 AAP http://www.smh.com.au//breaking-news-national/hicks-claims-proof-howard-govt-interfered-20110302-1bdy0.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT I'm confused.  I thought the plea bargain was a positive event, as it got Hicks released ... and cleared the path to no election problems for the Howard government.  As in, a:  win/win. But it doesn't look like it is the positive I thought it was, when Hicks maintains he is innocent, he was pressured to plead guilty, he has documents that show the Liberal government of Australia knew he wasn't guilty of any crime, and that the Liberal government and the US colluded to find something to 'pin' on him, while US appears to have made up laws as it went along ... and Hicks spent 5 years in a US prison without charge. That means the Liberal government colluded with the Americans, to deprive an Australian of liberty -- and is party to depriving an Australian of liberty -- even though the Liberal government knew and stated in conversations with the Americans, that Hicks was not guilty of anything? Wow, this is sounding a lot like the Julian Assange (WikiLeaks publisher-journalist) scenario, where the Labor government in Australia was making false public statements about Assange's 'guilt,'  where the Australian authorities have subsequently had to acknowledge that Assange has broken no laws, where Assange (political persecution target) has been detained in Britain without charge for over 5 years now (without Australian government support), and where the US is desperate to make up some twist in the law (in this case, revising laws to redefine elements of journalism as 'espionage', I think it was) to pin something on Assange, while the US government is working towards extradition of Assange to the US ... as Britain, Sweden & Australia aid and abet the Americans. Challenge:  say above in 140 characters ... [CLICK image to enlarge] [CLICK image to enlarge] [CLICK image to enlarge] Therefore, the governments and judiciary of Sweden and Britain collude with one another to commit undemocratic & unlawful political persecution on behalf of their American 'co war criminal' ally, along with both the Labor and Liberal the governments of Australia -- his homeland. How can this be repeating itself? If I were the Hicks guy, I'd want compensation -- and plenty of it. ____________________ On Day Assange Arrested 2010-12-07 Statement by Civil Liberties Australia http://wlcentral.org/node/541 Hey, look who's Australia's High Commissioner to UK, London ...  It's the former Liberal Party Foreign Minister (1996-2007), Alexander Downer: [CLICK image to enlarge] [CLICK image to enlarge] ꕤ

David Hicks - 'Hicks Case Pushed to Suit Howard' (The Ausralian, 2008)

ꕤ Info/Reference SOURCE as marked David Hicks Source Primarily http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/hicks-case-pushed-to-suit-howard/story-e6frg6nf-1111115636668 Hicks case 'pushed to suit Howard'     Geoff Elliott     The Australian     February 25, 2008 12:00AM ARTICLE SUMMARY Afghan Northern Alliance { ally of USA } sold Muslim convert David Hicks to US military for US$5,000 bounty -- 2001 - kidnapped & transferred to Guantanamo Bay -- tortured via anal examination -- 2004 - charges under new military commission system -- 2006 - ruling (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) -- military commission unconstitutional -- US Act of Congress re-establishes military commission -- 2007 - desperate to get out of Guantanamo, accepts plea bargain -- accepts 9mths remainder of 7-year sentence -- precluded from media contact -- govt delayed his release until 2007 Aust. election -- by 2006 - Hicks 5 years detention without charge -- Col. Morris Davis -- Chief prosecutor, Bush admin Guantanamo tribunals -- says political interference -- by Bush admin & Howard govt (Col. Morris Davis)  -- William 'Jim' Haynes, seeks a 'how soon' on charges -- Pentagon's general counsel: William 'Jim' Haynes -- controversial figure -- tight with US VP Dick Cheney -- 2002 - endorsed military & CIA  -- use of 'enhanced' enhanced interrogation (ie torture) -- incl. water-boarding (simulated drowning) -- waterboarding regarded as torture by many legal experts -- At time of Hayes request: -- prosecution only had Military Commission Act in place -- no manual for military commissions -- no regulations for trial by military commissions -- no convening authority (to oversee tribunal process) -- Supreme Court had overturned military commission trial -- rules for military comm. trials subsequently rewritten -- Hayes request -- only sense in context of political environment in Australia -- Australia PM John Howard in press -- Howard making it clear Hicks had to be charged by Feb. -- US prosecution was getting pressured -- also, Dick Cheney was due to visit Australia at end February -- thus clear to prosecutor: -- Hicks was 'top-agenda item' with PM Howard -- Dick Cheney goes to Australia:  Hicks was charged -- pushing train out of station before all track was laid -- phone calls:  Hayes in Australia to Col. Davis, prosecutor -- PM Howard wanted Hicks settled:  difficult election -- sore point for Col. Davis -- Hicks Taliban terror training manual -- Col. Davis:  Australia's Taliban was no innocent abroad -- Col. Davis pro:  10 years prison plea deal -- Hicks case: -- disturbing signs of political interference from Haynes -- ignored because Hayes not in Col. Davis chain of command -- but:  2007 -- Pentagon reigns in independence of military lawyers -- change in tribunal oversight, 4 Oct 2007 -- Hayes put in charge of tribunal process -- political appointment Hayes opinions = prosecution orders -- Colonel Davis resigned & turned whistleblower -- not just political interference -- concern evidence obtained via torture at military court -- Col. Davis wanted no part in that -- Col. Davis gave up potential gains for clear conscience -- Col. Davis expected to be 'swiftboated' [CLICK IMAGE to enlarge] [CLICK IMAGE to enlarge] Meanwhile, back in Australia: -- PM Howard & his cabinet ministers deny political fix -- PM Howard & Foreign Minister Alexander Downer -- often misrepresented Hicks plea deal as 'agreement'  -- ie between Col. Davis & Hicks' military lawyer -- (Maj. Michael Mori) -- Col. Davis had no knowledge of deal -- Hicks deal struck behind prosecutor Col. Davis back -- between Major Mori -- & convening authority:  Susan Crawford -- Crawford deputised -- Brigadier Gen. Tom Hemingway to strike deal -- Brigadier Gen. Hemingway rejects political fix conclusion -- Brigadier Gen. Hemingway:  retired May 2011 -- Hemingway denies approach by Bush admin / VP office -- Col. Davis says Hemingway negotiated:  'a terrible deal' -- Col. Davis says:  any reasonable person: -- looking at timeline could conclude Hicks trial was rigged -- look at:  whole chronology -- impetus to help out PM John Howard -- impetus to make problem for PM Howard go away quickly -- problem went away in March 2007 'The Australian' -- asked Pentagon for a response (in a lengthy email) -- charting Colonel Davis's chronology -- General Hemingway, spox Jeffrey Gordon: merely disputes "the assertions made by Colonel Davis." Source Primarily http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/hicks-case-pushed-to-suit-howard/story-e6frg6nf-1111115636668 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hicks ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Got curious about Hicks.  Everyone probably knows all about him. I don't know anything about him, because I wasn't interested. Noticed Northern Alliance (the US allies) sold him.  Came across Northern Alliance the other day.   From what little I know so far, Northern Alliance sound despicable. It looks like the Hicks thing was politically exploited by the Liberal government? Need to come back to this.  Too sleepy to read now. ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- If I understand correctly, the Howard (Liberal) government in Australia was able to make things 'go away' (ie the settlement of the Hicks matter), & the incentive for the Australian politicians was political expediency:  ie need to present well in a difficult forthcoming election - and political friends in the US obliged? ꕤ

Pentagon Moves to Cover Up War Crimes

ꕤ Article SOURCE as marked WikiLeaks source | @WikiLeaks Sputnik Article http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20151230/1032476128/pentagon-whistleblowers-crackdown.html Pentagon Plans Legal Change to Crack Down on Military Whistleblowers 02:36 30.12.2015(updated 03:21 30.12.2015) After a year marked by repeated cyberattacks into US government databanks, the Department of Defense is tightening up its Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to prevent future breaches and leaks, legal and cyber [attacks], analysts told Sputnik. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Former CIA counterterrorism officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou told Sputnik on Tuesday that the change in the Code seemed focused on bringing military legal procedures up to date to deal with the burgeoning field of cybercrime and cyberespionage. "It may be that the law was outdated and didn't include ‘cybercrime," Kiriakou said.   The Defense Department has proposed a reform in the US Code of Military Justice to introduce punishment for specific computer offenses for the first time. Retired US Army Major Todd Pierce, an author and expert on military law and civil liberties, told Sputnik the reform seemed to be focused on serving military personnel who became whistleblowers such as Chelsea Manning, rather than on civilian contractors such as Edward Snowden. "I think it is more related to Manning as Snowden wouldn’t have come under the UCMJ as a civilian," Pierce pointed out.   Chelsea Manning, originally Bradley Manning, was a US Army soldier who was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified or unclassified, but sensitive military and diplomatic documents. In August 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, and will only be eligible for possible parole from August 2020. Pierce said the proposed changes in the UCMJ would make it easier for the US military to prosecute and convict future whistleblowers like Manning, who felt compelled to leak classified or sensitive material for the public good. "I presume the offenses and the elements which will need to be shown for conviction will be made easier to prove than relying on General Articles and the incorporation of federal statutes," Pierce stated. Independent Institute Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty Ivan Eland agreed that the Defense Department was belatedly reacting to the embarrassments it suffered from the successful data leaks and exposures by Snowden and Manning. "The [proposed] Code revisions seem to be a reaction to the Snowden leaks. However, Snowden was a civilian and they are likely plugging leaks in the Code to deal with similar actions by military personnel," Eland noted.   Edward Snowden is a former CIA employee and former contractor for the US government who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) for public disclosure. The information revealed many global surveillance programs run by the NSA and by the "Five Eyes" alliance of US, British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand electronic intelligence and surveillance agencies. http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20151230/1032476128/pentagon-whistleblowers-crackdown.html Best Comment to WikiLeaks Stanely Cohen, Lawyer US Political Activist Source | Stanley Cohen Law ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT The Americans weren't merely 'embarrassed' by the leaks attributed to Chelsea Manning:  US and allied war crimes were exposed. Therefore the Americans would be adjusting their military legislation to ensure that currently undisclosed (and future) US military war crimes remain hidden from public knowledge and that wrongful deeds remain immune from consequences such as the threat of prosecution, following potential whistleblower exposure. Summary notes re US military law: US Military Law Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) (1950) Link | Post COLLATERAL MURDER WikiLeaks VIDEO | IRAQ (2010) | here WikiLeaks A U S T R A L I A N JOURNALIST JULIAN ASSANGE POLITICAL PRISONER BRITAIN https://govwaste.co.uk/ SUPPORT Justice4Assange WikiLeaks Site WikiLeaks Twitter BOOK:  The WikiLeaks Files (2015) Link | here Uh-oh ... once I get onto the large fonts, they keep getting bigger and bigger.      lol ꕤ