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Trump Orders Rexit – Torture Woman To Head CIA – (Updated)
U.S. President Donald Trump just fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump – 12:44 PM – 13 Mar 2018
Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!
According to the anti Russian propagandists (vid) Tillerson got the job because Trump loves Russia and Tillerson was in good standing with Putin. The same people now claim that Tillerson was fired from his job because Trump loves Russia and Tillerson was not in good standing with Putin.
Neither is correct. The plan to oust Tillerson and elevate Pompeo to State has been rumored and written about for several month. The plan was "developed by John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff". It had nothing to do with Russia.
Tillerson never got traction as Secretary of State. Congress disliked him for cutting down some State Department programs. Trump overruled him publicly several times.
There is some contradiction in the statements coming from the White House and the State Department. According to the Washington Post:
Trump last Friday asked Tillerson to step aside, and the embattled top diplomat cut short his trip to Africa on Monday to return to Washington.
Last Friday Tillerson suddenly fell ill while traveling in Africa and canceled several scheduled events.
But a statement by Undersecretary of State Steve Goldstein contradicts the Friday claim:
"The Secretary had every intention of staying, because of critical progress made in national security. […] The Secretary did not speak to the president and is unaware of the reason.”
Tillerson knew he was fired but did not tell his staff?
[UPDATE:]
From the Associated Press White House correspondent:
Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller – 3:49 PM – 13 Mar 2018
WH official says chief of staff John Kelly called Tillerson Friday and again on Saturday. Both calls to Tillerson, the official says, warned that Trump was about to take imminent action if he did not step aside. When Tillerson didn't act, Trump fired him.
And shortly thereafter:
NBC Politics @NBCPolitics – 4:22 PM – 13 Mar 2018
JUST IN: Under Secretary of State Steve Goldstein is being fired for contradicting the account of Rex Tillerson’s dismissal, White House official tells @PeterAlexander
Thus ends the 2018 insurrection at State.
[End-Update]
With Tillerson leaving Secretary of Defense Mattis is losing an ally in the cabinet:
[I]t starts with me having breakfast every week with Secretary of State Tillerson. And we talk two, three times a day, sometimes. We settle all of our issues between he and I, and then we walk together into the White House meetings. That way, State and Defense are together.
Mattis sometimes calming influence over Trump on military issues will now become less effective.
CIA head Pompeo, the new Secretary of State, is a neoconservative with a racist anti-Muslim attitude and a special hate for Iran which he compared to ISIS. That he will now become Secretary of State is a bad sign for the nuclear agreement with Iran. The Europeans especially should take note of that and should stop to look for a compromise with Trump on the issue. The deal is now dead. There is no chance that a compromise will happen.
The new CIA director Gina Haspel is well known for actively directing and participating in the torture of prisoners at 'black sites':
Beyond all that, she played a vital role in the destruction of interrogation videotapes that showed the torture of detainees both at the black site she ran and other secret agency locations. The concealment of those interrogation tapes, which violated multiple court orders as well as the demands of the 9/11 commission and the advice of White House lawyers, was condemned as “obstruction” by commission chairs Lee Hamilton and Thomas Keane.
Haspel would be in jail if former president Barack Obama had not decided against prosecuting the CIA torture crimes. Torturing prisoners is a war crime. Obstruction of courts and destruction of evidence are likewise crimes.
Both, Pompeo and Haspel, will need to be confirmed by Congress. Both will receive a significant number of 'yes'-votes from the Democratic side of the aisle.
Thanks all, much useful speculation.
I am currently working in New Orleans and don’t have time to keep abreast of events as I typically do.
I would like to share these thoughts I have been holding for a time now…
Sometime last October, Russia’s tone changed. I can’t point to a specific event, however events in Syria were heated. Both Lavrov and Putin’s rhetoric assumed a different tone. It may be that was when they had achieved success with their hypersonic and nucluear powered, cruise missiles in some fashion. Either successful tests or deployments had begun. I noted the time of the change in tone, but could not put a reason to the new Russian demeanor. Still just a guess on my part as to the why, but the change in tone was noticeable.
There have been several incidents over the past year of radioactive contrails over Europe, Finland, Sweden and the northern Russian hemisphere of unknown origin. I do not think Putin is bluffing about the new weapons in his arsenal. Google it.
I believe Syria is Russia’s red line. I do not think they will allow Syria to be partitioned.
U.S. is not going to attack Iran. That will lead to Israel’s destruction.
The U.S. needs a war.
They will have their war.
North Korea, is the most likely candidate despite recent events. U.S. is still technically at war with N. Korea, in spite of pertinent U.N. re-classifications of what is considered WAR. U.S. has not answered to anyone before, what makes you think they will start answering to others now? Trump could bomb them tomorrow and be acting within the purview of his office under U.S. law. North Korea borders both Russia and China. China has spoken on this, whoever strikes first is their enemy. If U.S. does hit North Korea, we all wake up to a different world, earthly or heavenly.
Syria is next most likely. Russia has drawn its line in the sand and will not back down. For those who think otherwise, how many countries has Russia deployed its armed forces to since the break up of the Soviet Union despite all of the provocations of the west?
If U.S. can draw Russia into a war in Syria, it will serve the same purpose as attacking Iran, while sparing Israel, Iran’s wrath. If U.S. and Russia collide in Syria, the only question is how long China sits it out, not whether it will or not. China will not be boarding the U.S.S. Anything. When it joins the fray it will be against western powers. The only reason China will not join in will be because this war ends more swiftly than anyone can imagine. More destruction in a much shorter span of time.
Additionally to my thinking, America is over confident and if it collides with Russia it intends for Russia to be fighting on 3 different fronts. Russia has clearly stated its intentions and U.S. may force her hand.
When the first American city goes up in flames, there will be anger across the United States and tremendous calls for vengeance. Even the normally peace seeking individuals will be caught up in the thirst to avenge the loss of life which they have casually stood by and observed and allowed their government to deliver around the world. This is the first stage of growth for this young nation and its age of expansion and conquest will cease.
When the second city goes up in flames, fear and reason will both be equally recalled from the depths of our short lived memories…and the peace movement, in a deep slumber since the sixties, having been pacified by easy credit and electronic marvels, and devastated by the criminalization of natural laws will re-awaken and an for a new world of just opportunity is born.
When a third American city goes up in flames, America ceases to exist and breaks into colonies akin to what is seen in the walking dead. It becomes every man for his and his alone. Smaller more manageable enclaves will become the norm. As in when Hurricane Katrina hit this once fine city and people were shot for attempting to WALK across the Mississippi river bridge into Algiers.
Americans do not know that Russia has built enough nuclear proof bomb shelters to house its entire population in the event of a nuclear strike. Americans will run to convention centers, gyms and high schools which their government has deemed to be bomb shelters. I’ve been involved in the construction of many, and in spite of my warnings, they will not stand. They are tombs waiting to be filled.
The Georgia Guidestones, (google it) are a riddle. Which parts are predictions and which parts are the foundation of the new world’s new religion. Someone spent a lot of money putting these in place and even more in concealing their identity. These stones scare me more than anything else, for in a strange way, they offer a glimpse into some powerful entity’s plans.
America will have its war.
And I will say it again…until the first American city goes up in flames, Americans will not restrain their government. They have no recollection of the true costs of war. There is only one way America will grow as needed.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
“Sunshine”
Sunshine go away today
I don’t feel much like dancin’
Some man’s come he’s trying to run my life
Don’t know what he’s askin’
When he tells me I better get in line
Can’t hear what he’s sayin’
When I grow up, I’m gonna make it mine
These ain’t dues I been payin’
How much does it cost
I’ll buy it
The time is all we’ve lost
I’ll try it
He can’t even run his own life
I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine, sunshine
Sunshine, go away today
I don’t feel much like dancin’
Some man’s come he’s trying to run my life
Don’t know what he’s askin’
Working starts to make me wonder where
Fruits of what I do are goin’
When he says in love and war all is fair
He’s got cards he ain’t showin’
How much does it cost
I’ll buy it
The time is all we’ve lost,I’ll try it
He can’t even run his own life
I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine, Sunshine
Sunshine, come on back another day
I promise you I’ll be singin’
This old world, she’s gonna turn around
Brand new bells will be ringin’
Posted by: b4real | Mar 14 2018 5:16 utc | 90
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