Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY [LINK | Article]
Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
While I was searching for a list of broken US treaties with native Americans, this is some of what I looked at and found interesting. Still haven't found my comprehensive list of broken treaties, but I understand hundreds of treaties have been broken by the US government, to further dispossess the native Americans whose homelands were invaded by competing European colonists of all descriptions and their respective entourages. Even today, native Americans are being cheated and dispossessed by the US government (referred to below and here).
Yet the brutal proto-Nazi invader of North America and exterminator of Native American peoples, in what is an ignored colossal-scale native American holocaust, committed by an assortment of covetous marauders whose insatiable greed has spawned an unnatural monstrosity that is a corporate warmonger mercantile empire, a 'nation' modelled on a trading company.
Mercantile America, the monstrous decayed money-making whore, of her shadowy, god-of-greed worshipping, faceless investor-pimps.
America, the whore, whose perverse corporate and oligarchy-controlled politicians and her performer-ambassadors, have the audacity to screw up their lying countenances in feigned 'concern' for the rights of a series of hapless citizens abroad, whose nations they aim to destroy, after yet another relentless campaign of monstrous lies and manipulation.
America the great whore of terror, that rains depleted uranium bombs on the very citizens her crass oligarchy-owned politicians and shameless ambassadors profess to seek to 'protect.'
America, the lying, bloated mercantile whore, that's arming terrorists and assassins and knowingly unleashing civil wars, when her agents are not otherwise promoting bloody regional conflicts.
America, the bloated whore that greedily and mercilessly disregards her own downtrodden, exploited and politically castrated masses, piously lectures the rest of the word on 'hooman rights,' as she prepares to launch yet another unlawful military assault, in pursuit of mass dispossession and mass enslavement abroad; not for the advancement of the many, but for the profit of a mere few that she has always served.
And, so, the world stage is set for yet another theatrical performance in aid of this greedy whore's agenda, before the controlled Western press and before a series of supranational bodies that serve to legitimise the great whore's conquests, in what is a long history of greed and brutality, and deceit and dispossession of other peoples, on behalf of the privileged, faceless few that control the unnatural monstrosity that is the corporate warmonger American mercantile empire.
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US Program to Subordinate Native American Nations & Expropriate The Land & Resources
"U.S. Indian policy has consistently followed a program to subordinate American Indian nations and expropriate their land and resources" [6]
Starting from the Treaty of Fort Pitt in 1776
-- The US government signed 700 treaties[3]
-- NOTE: 700 signed treaties, to 371 ratified
Between 1778 & 1871: US Congress ratified 371 treaties
*establishing hundreds of 'nations within a nation' (ie reservations)
at that point: 140 million acres owned by native Americans
as at 2000: only 56 million acres -- barely 2% of USA controlled by native Americans
c. 1800 - native American Indians -- controlled THREE-QUARTERS of the United States eventual land mass
Indian Removal Act of 1830
-- eliminated all Indian land rights east of the Mississippi River
1887 - Act
-- changed common tribal lands into individual allotments
1887 - Native American had 130 million acres remaining [4]
By 1932 - ie within 45 years
-- almost 90 million acres of tribal land
-- was appropriated or sold privately
-- before the act was repealed in 1932
1933 - Native Americans had only 49 million acres left, much of it waste and desert [4]
Native American tribes lost almost TWO-THIRDS of their land
by private property sales under US government policy "designed to make farmers and capitalists out of them"
Eisenhower era policy: TERMINATION
-- paid native Americans to dissolve their tribal units
Result of both US government policies: devastating impact on tribal land holdings
However, as at 2000, NYT reports: a third of the 554 recognized tribes run some sort of gambling operation
-- with revenues of $6 billion per annum (2000 figures), enabling native Americans to buy back a tiny portion of land that was appropriated & to mount legal challenges in respect of some portions of native land
US government has broken hundreds of native American treaties
In addition, state governments have violated terms of native American treaties:
eg. New York - Oneidas native Americans
-- 1784 - occupied 6 million acres in New York
-- obtained treaty with President Washington
-- however, next century, state officials bought & sold their land
-- in violation of treaty & failure to obtain federal approval for native land transfers
-- by 1919, tribal land merely: 32 acres
-- present-day gambling revenue buy-backs regain only 11,000 acres
-- but legal contest to regain 250,000 acres from reservation
-- result 20,000 non-native land owners paying price of New York state not abiding by law
"Oneidasspilled their blood for the American cause at the Battle of Oriskany in August 1777. One month later the Oneidas would again fight side-by-side with the colonists at the Battle of Saratoga."
"During the terrible winter of 1777-78, the Oneida People once again came to the aid of their friend. Then-General George Washington and his troops were near starvation at Valley Forge. The Oneidas carried corn hundreds of miles from their homeland in Central New York to the southeastern corner of Pennsylvania. An Oneida woman, Polly Cooper, stayed at the encampment to show the soldiers how to prepare the white Indian corn which differed from today’s hybrid yellow corn."
"In May 1778, the Oneidas again aided the colonists at a skirmish at Barren Hill (near Philadelphia), where this time the bravery of the Oneida scouts saved the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero and commander of the American Army’s Northern Department."
"The Oneidas sacrificed much for American cause of freedom. Their villages were burned by fellow Iroquois who sided with the British and they were driven from their homelands. By the end of the war, the Oneidas had lost about one-third of their population."
Lakota Sioux
Black Hills, South Dakota -- longest unresolved Indian land claim in USA (2000)
-- claim pursuant to 1868 treaty
-- land promised to Lakota Sioux opened to white settlement -- AFTER GOLD DISCOVERED
-- leading to: Battle of the Little Big Horn
-- century later: Lakota win settlement
-- settlement $106 million (1980)
-- Latkota Sioux refuse: holding out for return of sacred Hills
relationship between federally recognised tribes
& USA = relationship between sovereigns (between govt & govt)
-- “government-to-government” principle
-- grounded in the United States Constitution
-- states have no authority over tribal governments (unless expressly authorised by Congress)
-- government-to-government relationship with states recognised
-- despite this: tribes frequently collaborate and cooperate with states
-- via compacts or other agreements re matters of mutual concern (eg. environmental, law enforcement)
Public Law 280 (1953)
-- states required to assume civil & criminal jurisdiction
-- over federal native American lands:
-- Alaska (see exemptions)
-- California
-- Minnesota (except Red Lake Res.)
-- Nebraska
-- Oregon (except Warm Springs Res.)
-- Wisconsin
-- later acts of Congress, court decisions & state actions
-- result to retrocede jurisdiction back to federal US govt.
-- muting some effects of Public Law 280 (1953)
-- strengthening tribal jurisdiction re civil & criminal reservation matters
Limitations on tribal powers of self-govt similar to imitations on states: -- no power to make war
-- no power to engage in foreign relations
-- no power to print money or issue currency
1970 - term 'Native American' broad usage -- as alternative to 'American Indian'
-- 'Native American' broadly applied since then
1778 - first treaty with Delawares
1871 - Congress ended treaty-making with Indian tribes
1778 - 1871: US Senate ratified 370 treaties
1778 - 1871: US negotiated 45 other treaties but failed to ratify same
*note: treaties broken by being superseded by Congressional legislation
Since 1871, relations re native Americans
-- formalized and/or codified by:
1. Congressional acts
2. Executive Orders
3. Executive Agreements
USA - three types of federal lands: 1. military 2. public 3. Indian
Native American Federal Reservations
-- land reserved for tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement
-- with United States
-- by executive order, or by federal statute or administrative action
-- as tribal homelands
-- USA government HOLDS TITTLE to land IN TRUST on behalf of Tribe -- abt. 56.2 million acres are held in trust by US govt.
-- abt. 326 Indian land areas, administered as federal Indian reservations
-- largest: 16 million acre Navajo National Reservation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah
-- many smaller reservations equal less than 1,000 acres
-- some reservations = remnants of original tribal land holding
-- other reservations created by US govt. forced resettlement of Indian tribes
-- not all federally recognised Indian tribes have a reservation
-- generally, federal Indian reservations except from state jurisdiction (incl. tax)
-- EXCEPT when Congress makes a specific authorisation
Other types of 'Indian lands': 1. Allotted lands - mostly post Civil War under various treaties & laws, incl:
-- General Allotment Act in 1887 ('the Dawes Act')
-- Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
allotments conveyed to members of Indian tribes (held in trust - federal govt)
*but removal from trust = subject to state and local taxation
*result: thousands of acres of land lost by Indians
-- abt. 10 million acres of individually allotted lands held in trust for allottees & heirs
2. Restricted status - individually held Indian land - approval for transfer required 3. State Indian reservations - held in trust by state / no state property tax (but state tax)
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John Trudell
-- American Indian Movement activist
-- d. 8 Dec. 2015
1979 in Washington D.C
-- re Leonard Peltier Defence Committee
-- convicted of murdering two FBI agents in June 1975 - Pine Ridge Reservation
-- Trudell delivered anti-government speech - steps of FBI building
-- in 12 hours, at 1:30 in morning Trudell's:
-- pregnant wife Tina
-- their three children
-- his mother-in-law
-- burned to death fire at home - Shoshone Paiute reservation in Nevada
-- FBI declined to investigate
-- later proved the cause was arson
"The message embedded, not only in Peltier's imprisonment, but in the scores of murders, hundreds of shootings and beatings, endless show trials and all the rest of the systematic terrorization marking the FBI's anti-AIM campaign on Pine Ridge, was that the Bureau could and would make it cost-prohibitive for Indians to seriously challenge the lot assigned them by policy-makers and economic planners in Washington, D.C. The internal colonization of Native America is intended to be absolute and unequivocal." "The logic of COINTELPRO, as evidenced in this excerpt from a 1976 document concerning the basis for an "investigation" of AIM and its supporters. Note the mention of the deliberate fostering of "paranoia" among AIM leaders through the use of informers, and insistence that the right of government to suppress dissent outweighs the rights of citizens to "privacy and free expression.""
Still Being Dispossessed by US Govt & Capitalist Greed
Bills introduced by Senator John McCain:
(Public Law 93-531 as amended in 1996 (Partition)1999 (Settlement)
2001 (Enforcement of Resettlement)
2005 (Expansion of Resettlement)
" ... bills introduced by Senator McCain - has led to the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Hon Abdeltalif Amor's condemnation of human rights violations inside the US, over the stripping of rights and forced resettlement of these gentle and deeply spiritual band of Dineh-Navajo Indians from Arizona, swept off of lands they'd owned since 1500 A.D. so that Peabody Western Coal could mine the Coal from beneath their farmlands and tap their wells to slurry pipe it to a power station in Nevada)."
"ACSA study reveals that after assembling a team of "pro-Peabody Western Coal" Indians and obtaining a false "Hopi-Navajo" Tribal Counsel designation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for these paid Tribal representatives, in the period 1974-1996, Senator McCainwas able to get large bands of the Dineh-Navajo relocated off their lands, so that Peabody Western could mine the coal under their farms at nominal expense. Common Cause has suggestedMcCain was indirectly compensated by street name cash contributions to his Federal Election Fund during three Presidential runs, and through family business with Las Vegas Casinos who benefited from the coal driven power he supplied."
Man who 'confronted Muslim woman' over Brussels says police acted foolishly
Matthew Doyle to ‘launch formal complaint’ against Metropolitan police after it was forced to withdraw charges against him
Nicola Slawson
@nicola_slawson
Saturday 26 March 2016 14.56 GMT
A man who was mistakenly charged by the Metropolitan police, after claiming on Twitter to have confronted a Muslim woman over the Brussels terror attacks, says he is to launch a formal complaint against the force.
Matthew Doyle, from south Croydon, provoked anger on social media after he tweeted about the encounter with the woman. He said the woman gave a “mealy-mouthed” response after he demanded she “explain” the Brussels attacks.
Police charged him with an offence under the Public Order Act on Thursday. But on Friday night they were forced to withdraw the accusations, admitting they had no power to charge him in the first place.
Doyle said police had bowed to a social media row. “In reality, the Met added ammunition to whatever I said,” he said. “Concurrently, their press office should be cautioned about issuing largely self-congratulatory statements and then being forced to backtrack.” He added: “They smelt blood, but got egg on both their face and reputation.”
Doyle had been due to appear at Camberwell Green magistrates court on Friday. But the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) later confirmed it did not agree with the Met’s decision, adding that the force did not have the legal power to bring the charges.
Police then released a second statement announcing that the charges against Doyle had been dropped and admitting they had had no power to charge him in the first place. It said: “Following discussion with the Crown Prosecution Service, Mr Doyle is no longer charged with the offence and will not be appearing at court.
“Police may not make charging decisions on offences under Section 19 of the Public Order Act.”
The CPS guidance on its website about racist and religious crime states that a charge under the act can only be prosecuted with consent of the attorney general and requires a referral to the counter-terrorism division to be dealt with by a specialist prosecutor. The offence carries a maximum jail term of seven years.
Doyle’s tweet on Wednesday read: “I confronted a Muslim woman yesterday in Croydon. I asked her to explain Brussels. She said ‘Nothing to do with me’. A mealy mouthed reply.”
Initially, Twitter users mocked Doyle for his tweet, posting hundreds of parody versions, however later tweets where Doyle referred to Muslims as “towel heads” were met with anger.
Asked if he regretted his original tweets, he said: “I said how I felt at that moment in time. If anyone fanned the flames, it was the nameless Twitter trolls who smelt a lynching on their hands.
“For the Met to bow to social media rows, it is not only foolish of them but I will be making a complaint against them and [claiming for] damages for trashing my flat, taking all my electronic stuff from my flat and forcing me to leave London.”
He said his case had been “badly handled” and complained of his treatment at the police station. He said: “Denied a shave, shower, food etc, I was stripped of any dignity to appear at Camberwell court without looking like a dishevelled hobo, which I am not.”
Doyle also explained the details of his interaction with the unnamed woman. He claims he had a “polite conversation” with a British Muslim after approaching her on Wednesday morning.
“We had a polite conversation and moved on. I thanked her for talking to me,” Doyle said. The conversation took place in south Croydon. If I was being either threatening or racist, she was free to report me.”
In its statement, the Metropolitan police said it would consult further with the CPS over the issue.
Metropolitan Police London are vile, disgusting pigs arresting people without any grounds whatsoever, and misusing police powers to penalise trivial social media messaging.
How dare they exceed their powers and harass and terrorise the public OVER TWITTER MESSAGES.
They trashed that guy's flat, removed his belongings, and slung him in a cell. And for what? A string of meaningless words?
For that, I think they should be dismissed from their jobs and immediately prosecuted, as a lesson and a deterrent to others.
Anything less than a prison sentence for those that abuse positions of power is insufficient.
The same could be said of those that abuse some 'victim' claim or other: maybe those that claim moral indignation while harassing others and lodging police complaints etc for 'offence' or whatever, should likewise be prosecuted for malicious complaint and wasting police time, or something like that.
The culture of crying some 'victimhood' or other, of constantly whining about some delicacy or other, and the culture of collectively harassing other people, of claiming moral indignation, and harassing those who have dissenting points of view is disgusting beyond belief.
It is the result of decades-long institutional, educational and media indoctrination & the affect on police can be seen above.
Owing to more of the same indoctrination, migrant crimes are hushed up in the West.
UK seeks review of UN Julian Assange 'arbitrary detention' finding
Foreign Office says United Nations panel’s conclusions are inaccurate and WikiLeaks founder is voluntarily avoiding arrest in embassy
Esther Addley
Friday 25 March 2016 03.12 AEDT
The British government has formally asked a United Nations panel to review its finding that Julian Assange is “arbitrarily detained” in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, calling the opinion “deeply flawed”.
In its first formal response to the finding of the UN working group on arbitrary detention, which published its opinion in February, the Foreign Office confirmed it would contest the finding, saying: “The original conclusions of the UN working group are inaccurate and should be reviewed.” [Comment: liars, manipulators, political persecutors and shameless propagandists. The arrogance of these liars is astonishing: they smear the independent UN expert panel's decision as "inaccurate" and trumpet in the media that it "should" be reviewed. The cheek of these war criminals. By the way, they should be tried for war crimes. ]
In a statement, the Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire said: “We want to ensure the working group is in possession of the full facts. Our request for a review of the opinion sets those facts out clearly.
[Comment: As Assange's lawyer says, the Foreign Office is not disputing the facts -- they've had ample opportunity to do so ahead of the Working Group's decision. They're trying to publicly undermine the OPINION of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Bad sports and undemocratic political persecutors. ]
“Julian Assange has never been arbitrarily detained by the UK, and is in fact voluntarily avoiding lawful arrest by choosing to remain in the Ecuadorian embassy. The UK continues to have a legal obligation to extradite him to Sweden.”
[Comment: Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained for over 5 and a half years, as determined by a UN panel of qualified legal experts, and these British Foreign Office weasels are now mounting an underhand campaign.
Assange was arbitrarily detained WITHOUT CHARGE, by Britain and their colluding off-sider, Sweden, which has failed to proceed this farce of a legal 'case', pursuant toBritish Crown Prosecution Service advice to deny Assange an interview in Britain, and therefore an opportunity to defend himself ... so they can continue to pressure to extradict Assange to Sweden. What scum.]
The WikiLeaks founder has been confined to the embassy in London since July 2012, when he sought asylum in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he denies.
[Comment: This does not read quite right to me.
Assange SOUGHT POLITICAL ASYLUM FROM ECUADOR & WAS GRANTED POLITICAL ASYLUM BY ECUADOR BECAUSE JOURNALIST-PUBLISHER JULIAN ASSANGE WAS AT RISK OF U.S. POLITICAL PERSECUTION FOR HAVING EXPOSED US & ALLIED WAR CRIMES.
ASSANGE WAS SUBJECT OF POLITICAL PERSECUTION & AT RISK OF BEING CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED FOR POLITICAL REASONS, BY THE UNITED STATES, WHICH HAS CONDUCTED A MASSIVE, MULTI-AGENCY, UNPRECEDENTED INVESTIGATION INTO ASSANGE & HIS ORGANISATION, WIKILEAKS.
ASSANGE IS THE SUBJECT OF POLITICAL PERSECUTION AND A CONFIRMED U.S. GRAND JURY SEALED INDICTMENT TO TRY JULIAN ASSANGE FOR SEVERAL CAPITAL CRIMES IN U.S.A. HAS BEEN ISSUED.
THE US GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO REDEFINEJOURNALISM AS 'ESPIONAGE' & TO EXTENT AMERICAN JURISDICTION WORLDWIDE.
Massive Coverup Exposed In Sweden As Media, Cops Hid Migrant Sex Attacks
AND THIS IS WHAT THE SWEDISH AUTHORITIES ARE ENGAGED IN WHILE THESE DISGUSTING SWEDISH POLITICIAN WEASELS, THE SWEDISH POLICE & THE SWEDISH PRESS COVER UPRAPE, BRUTAL GANG RAPE, MASS RAPE & SEXUAL ASSAULT, AS WELL AS A HOST OF VIOLENT CRIMES REGULARLY & OVERWHELMINGLY PERPETRATED BY MIGRANTS AGAINST SWEDISH WOMEN AND GIRLS OVER DECADES, PARTLY DUE TO SWEDEN'S SUPPORT OF ENDLESS AMERICAN WARS & AN IMMIGRATION POLICY THAT ACCOMMODATES SAME. ]
The international panel said on 4 February that it believed Assange’s confinement was arbitrary because of the length of time in bringing his case to resolution, citing in particular a “lack of diligence by the Swedish prosecutor in its investigations”.[Comment: It is not merely an 'international panel' it is a panel of highly qualified legal experts.
Furthermore, the panel does not 'believe' -- as if it were a matter of faith -- the expert panel has deliberated and DECIDED that Assange has been arbitrarily detained.]
The government argues that the panel is not a judicial body and its findings are therefore not binding. “The working group’s opinion is deeply flawed and Mr Assange has never been the subject of arbitrary detention,” it said. “His human rights have been protected throughout the process and will continue to be protected if and when he is extradited to Sweden.”
[Comment: The lying British government knows the expert panel's decision is binding, or else they would not have lodged a request for review.
The violators of what are 'human rights', as defined and affirmed under international conventions, claim they do not violate such rights, even when found by a UN panel of experts as having actually violated Assange's rights by arbitrarily detaining him. But that is to be expected. Of course, they will deny this and insist they are not violating his rights, as they continue to violate his rights and politically persecute him -- for so long as they can get away with this obscene and undemocratic act.
Why isn't the newspaper discussing the outrageous political oppression and abuse by this undemocratic British regime?]
Speaking shortly after the working group’s findings were published, Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, described them as ridiculous and said Assange was hiding from justice.
[Comment: what's ridiculous is Britain having shielded Argentina's war criminal, dictator Augusto Pinochet, from being tried for war crimes. Likewise, Britain is shielding Israeli politicians from arrest for war crimes -- eg. former Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni -- by granting diplomatic immunity from facing arrest in relation to war crimes allegedly committed in commission of military action against Gaza 2009 -- here.
Britain also managed to ignore its own parliamentary rules regarding a petition to arrest Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes:
“It’s quite disappointing that the Parliament has refused to play by its own rules. The fact is that it’s a particular issue which receives over 100,000 signatures that ultimately allows to be debated on the floor of the House. The fact that it has been declined, gives rise to many questions,” said Anas al-Tikriti, chief executive of the Cordoba Foundation. [source]
The British politicians NEVER PLAY BY THE RULES, and they lie as naturally as they breathe.
It's nothing but lies and more lies, in Britain's determined persecution of Australian journalist, Julian Assange. ] Assange accused Hammond of insulting the UN, saying: “This is the end of the road for the legal arguments that have been put forward by Sweden and the UK.”
Responding to the government statement, Melinda Taylor, a legal adviser to Assange, told the Guardian: “The fact that they have submitted this request for reconsideration undermines their previous assertion that they weren’t in any way bound to comply with its opinion.”
She said that all the points made by the Foreign Office had been known to the working group before it gave its original opinion, and the UK had every opportunityto make its case and correct any factual errors before the opinion was published.
“In the absence of any objective basis to seek reconsideration, this rebuttal appears to be an attempt to publicly undermine the working group’s opinion,” she said.
The panel’s decision on whether or not to review its opinion will be made during its next session, beginning 18 April, the Foreign Office said.
Decorated spy 'met other men for sex close to his MI6 HQ and near his Army base' says wife who is divorcing him
A decorated spy was secretly meeting men for sex near the MI6 headquarters and his army base, says his wife who fears he 'put himself at risk of blackmail'. The intelligence officer, who specialises in identifying key targets in terrorist organisations, is said to have confessed to having casual gay sex with several men after his wife became suspicious. She has decided to divorce him but says she reported him to authorities because she believed he had made himself susceptible to hostile operations. The wife had become suspicious after she discovered pornography on her husband's phone and found out that he had been using gay dating websites, the Telegraph reported. 'When I found out what he had been doing my world fell apart,' she said. The officer's wife has questioned the effectiveness of security clearance procedures, which are supposed to raise any issues that could lead to sensitive information getting into the wrong hands. She wrote in a letter to military bosses: 'I found out what my husband was doing very easily. Imagine what trained people could do with this information.' The intelligence officer, who has not been named, was involved in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has received a military award from the Queen. He would have access to top secret information in his role. The revelations came to light during a military divorce case heard in court.
An Army spokesman said it takes 'the welfare of its personnel extremely seriously and has provided appropriate support to the soldier and his family'. The revelations come after it was alleged that MI6 worker Gareth Williams, who was found dead in his flat in August 2010, was a victim of an elaborate blackmail plot. It was suggested that the 31-year-old enjoyed cross-dressing and visited gay nightclubs, information about his private life that could have made him vulnerable to hostile intelligence services.
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Decorated spy exposed by wife over secret gay sex near MI6 HQ - Telegraph
EXTRACTS
This newspaper has seen military correspondence in which the woman raises concerns aboutDeveloped Vetting (DV), a security procedure designed to alert intelligence agencies to issues with the private lives of their staff which could make them vulnerable to blackmail.
The wife said: “DV is not fit for purpose any more. It’s an honesty box system that doesn’t work. I found out what my husband was doing very easily. Imagine what trained people could do with this information.”
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It is understood that he is viewed as a “higher trained intelligence officer” who has experience of working with both “willing and unwilling subjects”.
Tyler Drumheller, CIA officer who exposed U.S. reliance on discredited Iraq source ‘Curveball,’ dies at 63
[Veteran CIA officer Tyler Drumheller on “60 Minutes” in 2007. (Courtesy of CBS)]
By Greg Miller August 6, 2015
Tyler S. Drumheller, a high-level CIA officer who publicly battled agency leaders over one of the most outlandish claims in the U.S. case for war with Iraq, died Aug. 2 at a hospital in Fairfax County. He was 63.
The cause was complications from pancreatic cancer, said his wife, Linda Drumheller.
Mr. Drumheller held posts in Africa and Europe over a 26-year career during which the CIA’s focus shifted from the Cold War to terrorist threats. He rose to prominent positions at CIA headquarters, serving as chief of the European division at a time when the agency was abducting al-Qaeda suspects on the continent and U.S. allies there faced a wave of terrorist plots.
But he was best known publicly for his role in exposing the extent to which a key part of the administration’s case for war with Iraq had been built on the claims of an Iraqi defector and serial fabricator with the fitting code name “Curveball.”
In contrast to Hollywood’s depiction of spies as impossibly elegant and acrobatic, Mr. Drumheller was a bulky, rumpled figure who often seemed oblivious to the tufts of dog hair on his clothes.
“I always thought of him as an overfed George Smiley,” said Bill Murray, a former CIA colleague, referring to the character in John le Carré spy novels known for his espionage acumen but unassuming appearance.
Mr. Drumheller spent the bulk of his career as an undercover officer seeking to avoid public attention. But after retiring in 2005, he emerged as a vocal critic of the George W. Bush administration’suse of deeply flawed intelligenceto build support for its decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
Curveball, who had defected to Germany in the late 1990s, was the primary source behind the administration’s assertions that Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq had developed biological weapons laboratories — lethal germ factories supposedly built on wheels or rails to evade detection.
The claim was included in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech as well as then-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nationsdesigned to marshal international support for intervention in Iraq.
Mr. Drumheller later came forward to say that he had learned early on that German authorities had grave doubts about Curveball’s credibility. In his book “On the Brink” (2006), written with Elaine Monaghan, he recounted the Curveball debacle in detail, noting that his German counterpart had cautioned that Curveball “could be a fabricator. He’s a very erratic character.”
Mr. Drumheller said he relayed that warning to top CIA officials, and even attempted to strike the language on mobile labs from an early draft of Powell’s speech, only to be stunned to learn that the text was subsequently restored.
In “On the Brink,” Mr. Drum-hellerdescribed feeling his “heart sinking” as he watched Powell’s speech.
“We had failed,” he wrote. “It was bad enough that we had not prevented the Sept. 11 attacks and we were being blamed for that. Now the nation was about to embark on a war based on intelligence I knew was false, and we would surely be blamed for that, too.”
A scathing 2005report on the intelligence failures in Iraq did not mention Mr. Drumheller by name but concluded that officials in the agency’s European division had “expressed serious concerns about Curveball’s reliability to senior officials at the CIA,” and that the warnings were inexplicably dismissed.
The allegation touched off a bitter feud. When then-CIA Director George J. Tenetdenied that he had ever been warned about Curveball, Mr. Drumheller fought back in public, saying that “everyone in the chain of command knew exactly what was happening.”
Mr. Drumheller was widely quoted in news accounts and appeared on the CBS program “60 Minutes.”
No mobile germ warfare labs were found, and the defector, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, has since admitted that the story was a fiction he fed to German intelligence while seeking asylum.
The blow-up over Curveball coincided with Mr. Drumheller’s retirement from the CIA. “I think he was really proud of standing up against the war,” Linda Drumheller said in an interview. “That was his personal greatest achievement.”
The son of an Air Force chaplain, Tyler Scott Drumheller was born in Biloxi, Miss., on April 12, 1952. He spent part of his childhood in Germany before attending the University of Virginia. He graduated in 1974 with a history degree and did postgraduate work in Chinese at Georgetown University before being hired by the CIA in 1979.
He met Linda Blocher while she was working at the spy agency as a secretary in the Africa division, and proposed to her in a stairwell at CIA headquarters after learning that he would soon be sent to Zambia. It was the first in a series of stops for the couple that would also include South Africa, Portugal, Germany and Austria. Two and sometimes three pet dogs accompanied every move.
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Mr. Drumheller’s affable manner made it easy for him to form lasting connections with people throughout his career, Linda Drumheller said. He also had a prodigious memory, she said, that enabled him to keep track of cryptonyms, children’s birthdays and Detroit Tigers statistics.
Mr. Drumheller “understood human nature,” Murray said. “Beneath that pleasant and fun kind of personality, he understood exactly what people were and what he was dealing with. Good or bad.”
Mr. Drumheller had retained a young CIA recruit’s enthusiasm for much of his career. But he seemed to grow tired of the internal conflicts after the Sept. 11 attacks. In his memoir, he wrote that in retirement he asked to have his Distinguished Career Intelligence medal delivered by mail rather than returning to headquarters for a ceremony.
When the envelope arrived, he wrote, “I opened it up and fell into a bit of a reverie, reflecting on my career and the years past, the successes and the friends gained, the colleagues lost and the mistakes made.”
Greg Miller covers intelligence agencies and terrorism for The Washington Post.
Following appointed to investigate "what went wrong with
the intelligence gathering/application pre-invasion" of Iraq:
Senate Intel Committee
Robb-Silbermann Commission
yet the White House was given a 'clean bill of health'
-- re distortion of intel & misleading the nation re 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq
-- despite Drumheller account indicating that White House: -- politicised Iraq intelligence
-- cherry-picked Iraq intelligence
-- and none of this was recorded in the commissioned reports
-- nor was it mentioned:
-- White Houseignored a CIA key informant in Iraqi govt
-- who informed the US that there were no active weapons programs
-- even though Drumheller was interviewed by:
-- Robb-Silbermann Commission - three (3) times
-- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - two (2) times
-- the what-went-wrong re Iraq invasionreports were dishonest
-- Drumheller's account was not included in these reports
-- Josh Marshall: speaks volumes re agenda of writers of such reports
-- both Drumheller & his colleagues (presumably CIA?) in shock so little mention in reports
-- Investigators re lead-up to Iraq:
-- principal goal wasn't not covering up for the White House (Marshall concludes)
Article goes on to discuss Drumheller book.
Pre 9/11
-- US intel / securty agencies appear to have a vast amount of overlap of agency and of task
-- jealous guarding of info
-- either hoarded or forced each other
-- stove-piping info - without verification
stovepipe
-- pathway for transmitting info higher in org. hierarchy while bypassing
-- mid levels that remain uninformed re this info http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stovepipe
LOL ... arguments CIA vs. Dept. Defence
-- re
1. verification of validity of source responsibilities
2. who to analyse material & place into context
"One group says: Hey, all we do is report info. We don’t guarantee the source or if it’s valid. Another group says: No, all we do is pass it along; it’s up to someone else to draw conclusions from it." [source]
Post 9/11 & pre-Iraq Invasion:
-- Bush admin cherry picks info
-- takes from one source; ignores another
-- re-using same info as if info provided by two separate sources
-- no analysis in interim
-- pre Iraq invasion even more layers bureaucracy, assistance + experts added
-- but no clear hierarchy re channels of reporting or procedures for verification of sources
Drumheller
-- pro streamlined methods re info flow & decision making
-- per tested methods of Cold War
Drumheller discusses role USA shares with Western allies
-- re growth of corrupt, oppressive govts. in Middle East
-- as legacy of colonisation & of Cold War
-- refers to USA having made a 'deal with the devil' to get support
-- US & allied support of dictators & corrupt rulers
-- to supposedly deal with "global threat posed by Soviet Union"
-- ie pragmatic choice of USA, followed by FALLOUT
-- fallout results from poor & disenfranchised being drawn to al-Qaeda
-- & other radical orgs that offer "simple explanations"
-- & ready villain: USA & allies
Drumheller sounds really brainwashed about the nature of communism & Russians.
/ I think he has an enormous blind spot as far as US and US allies are concerned ... How can that be, after 26 years of service? Doesn't he know he's dealing with a bunch of sociopaths and that the villain title is well-deserved?
/ and I think he under-estimates the dangers inherent in culture & ideology of the Middle East
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Found myself wondering if the 'war on terror' is even real, and if the entire thing isn't a series of false flag ops or something, to keep the CIA in funds post Cold War -- ie. to justify the existence of a massive agency etc.
Look at the extremes they go to in Latin America, with the history of all the investment in undermining elected governments, funding opposition, non-stop interference, lies, deceiving the American public, manipulating the American media, crafting pretexts for aggression -- any excuses -- to back intervention and brutal take-over.
Bet those pretexts would also include false flag ops. So how would we ever know when it's a false flag op and when its genuine terrorist attacks?
Sounds like the CIA isn't the big happy family I thought it might have been. But that could be in the past. Not sure. Wonder if any foreign agencies exploited that vulnerability?
EU-NATO IMPERIALISM ❌ 
