ANOTHER SPY BUST...

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday via public dispatch that "...Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, was charged today in the District of Columbia with transmitting highly sensitive classified national defense information to a foreign national with apparent connections to Hizballah, a foreign terrorist organization that has been so designated by the Secretary of State..."

The DOJ said that "... the information Thompson gathered and transmitted included classified national defense information regarding active human assets, including their true names ..."  and that "...by compromising the identities of these human assets, Thompson placed the lives of the human assets and U.S. military personnel in grave danger..."

These are the salient points regarding the charges brought against Thompson according to the DOJ Dispatch:

*  Thompson was arrested by FBI Special Agents on February 27, 2020, at an overseas U.S. military facility, where she worked as a contract linguist and held a Top Secret government security clearance.  

*  The investigation leading to this arrest revealed that starting on or about December 30, 2019, a day after U.S. airstrikes against Iranian-backed forces in Iraq, and the same day protesters stormed the U.S. embassy in Iraq to protest those strikes, audit logs show a notable shift in Thompson’s network activity on United States Department of Defense classified systems, including repeated access to classified information she had no need to access. 

*  Specifically, during a six-week period between December 30, 2019, and February 10, 2020, Thompson accessed dozens of files concerning human intelligence sources, including true names, personal identification data, background information, and photographs of the human assets, as well as operational cables detailing information the assets provided to the United States government. 

*  A court-authorized search of Thompson’s living quarters on February 19, 2020, led to the discovery of a handwritten note in Arabic concealed under Thompson’s mattress.  The note contained classified information from Department of Defense computer systems, identifying human assets by name, and warning a Department of Defense target who is affiliated with a designated foreign terrorist organization with ties to Hizballah.  The note also instructed that the human assets’ phones should be monitored. 

*  Thompson transmitted the classified information in the handwritten note to a co-conspirator, in whom she had a romantic interest. The FBI’s investigation revealed that Thompson knew the co-conspirator was a foreign national whose relative worked for the Lebanese government. 

*  The investigation also revealed that the co-conspirator has apparent connections to Hizballah. Further investigation revealed that, in a separate communication, Thompson also provided information to her co-conspirator identifying another human asset and the information the asset had provided to the United States, as well as providing information regarding the techniques the human assets were using to gather information on behalf of the United States. 

*  In yesterday's Criminal Complaint, Thompson was charged with Delivering Defense Information to Aid a Foreign Government in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 794(a) and conspiring to do so in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 794(c).

If convicted, Thompson faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for violating § 794.

Principle sources for this information include John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Timothy J. Shea, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia; Robert Wells, Acting Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division; and Timothy R. Slater, the Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office.

The DOJ announced that Trial Attorneys Jennifer Kennedy Gellie of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, Jennifer Levy of the Counterterrorism Section, and Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia John Cummings are prosecuting the case.


Links for more info:

FBI AFFIDAVIT

DOJ DISPATCH

SECURITY CLEARANCES: ACCESS, DENIAL, REVOCATION...

CLEARANCE JOBS . COM / Lindy Kizer:  "...Security clearances are never ‘given’ to individuals – access is granted to specific positions, and individuals are vetted for eligibility to access classified information based on their need to know. The term security clearance is used much less frequently in policy than the term ‘eligibility‘. Brennan and other former officials retain their eligibility to access classified information unless a decision to revoke that eligibility is made. Officials would maintain a ‘current’ security clearance for two years after leaving an official government position – assuming their investigation hasn’t expired. But that doesn’t mean they have classified laptops at their houses, or they’re culling classified information from the NSA – unless they have an official government position to justify doing so, or they’re violating policy (which is where a decision to prosecute, rather than simply revoke a clearance, would likely come in) ..."  (Continued)...

More Fake News .. This time about a "Russian Spy Ship"

In a Fox News report it was reported today that a Russian "Spy Ship" (the Viktor Leonov) was spotted 40 miles closer to the U.S. and not far from a Navy submarine base in Connecticut.)  That was, the report said, according to a U.S. official.

That was the "lead" in the story.  Then the report said the ship remained in international waters, but not before mentioning that the ship bore surface-to-air missles, but, however, its main function "...is to intercept communications and collect data on U.S. Navy sonar capability..."

The implication is that we are being spied on by Russia right off our coast.  What the report by Lucas Tomlinson does not tell you is that any information that could be obtained by said ship can be obtained by any low level spy operating in Washington D.C., either by walking into a government official's office that holds the information they need, or by computer hacking, or by simply asking one of the traitors that purport to act on Americans' behalf in our intelligence agencies.

Russian spy "trawlers," which at one time were operated as fishing vessels, routinely buzzed our coast lines during the "cold war."  They were then a dead give-away, because the so-called fishing vessels were arrayed with a multitude of antennas that no normal fishing boat would have sported at that time.

The U.S. did the same in the past and probably does the same today.  One such incident was the U.S.S. Pueblo, which was captured by North Korea.  Another such U.S. spy ship was the U.S.S. Liberty, which was severely damaged by Israel,  supposedly attacked by Israel because the ship refused to identify itself. That was in 1967.

U.S. spying, does not make Russian spying ok.  Neither does it make ok Russian military incursions into our territory.  Spying is, of course, "routine."

What is wrong with that story, however, is that it promotes the pretense of Russian aggression, possibly to make U.S. defenses look vulnerable or weak.

Current U.S. defense capability, one could easily discover (by googling, if one were so inclined), can obliterate any intruder into U.S. territory within seconds of detection, and the capability includes the obliteration of multiple "invading" units.

But the more interesting omission of this story is that, while there may be a Russian spy ship off the Coast of the U.S., there are multiple agresssors with spying capabilities, much closer than "off our coastline,"  mainly the embassies of unfriendly nations in Washington D.C.  If you happen to be a tourist in our capital, be sure to take the tour and check out the array of antennas on each of those embassies, and perhaps you will then speculate on the army of operatives and agents  assigned to those embassies and their "American" assets that operate right under the noses of the CIA and the FBI, not to mention our many military intelligence agencies.

You might even be prompted to ask yourself if that scruffy bloake sitting next to you on the bench at the Washington Memorial, eating a hot dog, is actually a spy working for China.  Ponder that.

Of course, that pales in significance, when illuminated against the back-drop of the former "administration" of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, which acted openly against U.S. interests and divulged our major secrets to our enemies, and are now using their "insider" influence to desperately undermine the current administration.

Maybe a Russian spy trawler off the coast of the U.S. is actually an improvement in U.S. security.

"Hidden Cameras Capture Clinton Campaign Staff in Nevada not Only Skirting the Law but Mocking it"

A James O'Keefe, Project Veritas Video, released today appears to show Hillary Clinton Nevada campaign staff and volunteers ignoring and violating Nevada voter registration laws.

An article accompanying the release says "Hidden Cameras Capture Clinton Campaign Staff in Nevada not Only Skirting the Law but Mocking it."

The video describes a Clinton campaign attorney, Christina Gupana of Las Vegas, advising campaign workers that they should "...do whatever you can, whatever you canget away with just do it..."

According to the article:

"...We uncovered a clear theme within the Nevada Clinton campaign, when it comes to the law: ask for forgiveness not permission. Phillip Kim, a staff organizer for Hillary for America was captured on hidden camera saying: 'ask for forgiveness not for permission ... Courtney Kravitz, a Hillary for America Fellow was caught stating to one of Project Veritas Action’s undercover journalists that 'I mean we kind of abide by the like ask for forgiveness type of thing.' And Harrison Lee, another Hillary for America Fellow was caught on hidden camera admitting: 'Typically the style of campaigning that we do is like, we just ask, do they support Hillary Clinton.  And if we’re not allowed to do that, then we ask for forgiveness.' ..."

Another account details the following:

In a discussion captured on hidden camera, campaign worker Henry Engelstein explained to Gupana and Lee that they were chastised by a librarian for openly displaying a Clinton sign while conducting voter registration in the library ... According to Engelstein, 'she came out with the Nevada statute books and opens it up and starts reading the statute about how you’re allowed to get voter registration … it says pretty explicitly here in the statute that this sort of action is prohibited.  So I don’t care if you do voter registration but you can’t have the Hillary stuff.' ... 'That was like the saddest day,' stated Lee, to which Engelstein cavalierly replied 'Dude she had the f**king book.' ... Gupana subsequently advises her fellow campaign workers to 'just like hide all that stuff and like.' ..."

Project Veritas President, James O'Keefe summed it up:

"...The widespread corruption throughout all levels of the Clinton campaign is a disease ... Just as with her State Department email scandal, the culture of Clinton’s presidential campaign seems clear: break the law - then ask for forgiveness only if you get caught...”

See the VIDEO here:

Do you want to know how Obama got support for the Iran Deal from Congress?

You already know how.

Establishment Congressmen and Senators have been doing this since they got a pot full of your income tax gold to party with, a long time ago.

Here's how it works. (remember?)

They get in the Congressional Representative and Senator Welfare line, and then they hold out for as much as they can, for as long as they can, until they get the favors, the contracts, the pork, the kick-backs, or the acknowledgements, and/or promise of political or election support that they want.  And when they get it they vote in favor of whatever measure the booty is being doled out for.

So those who signed on to the bogus Iran deal traded money, power or favor for it.

In other words:  Ca-ching!

That's how it's done.

That's how the "Establishment Republicans" stabbed the Constitutionalists and the Tea Party in the back after this last election.

Ca-ching!

What's there to "get" from the Iran deal?

Oil contracts and the adjacent industry and infrastructure "economy" and everything that goes with it. You heard the talking points.  The "deal" is going to "free up"  Billions.  Zillions!  And those that sold out are going to happily collect when the bill is due.

You know how this is done.

Hillary worked for four years to set up a similar scheme over at her "Foundation," in which governments and mega zillionaires donated to her "charities" .... in exchange for what?

Top Secret information traded at top dollar, and access to anything and everything the U.S. would dole out under a Hillary presidency.

Ca-ching!

Feel duped lately?

I wonder why.

The ISIS Long Arm of Terror...

The THREAT MATRIX is reporting  the terrorist organization, ISIS, and its activities in numerous countries since January 2013, in direct contradiction to attempts to downplay or minimize the security threat of that terror group.

Says TM:

"..The list ... organized by continent and then alphabetically by country, is not exhaustive. Nonetheless, its extensiveness indicates the global reach of the IS, even if the reported activity does not consist of spectacular attacks..."

Lisa Lundquist @ TM tells us that:

"...some Western pundits have argued that the terror organization poses only a distant threat, not a near one. They have claimed that the Islamic State's goals are mainly territorial and focused on the Middle East, as compared to al Qaeda's, which are transnational and focused on attacking the West. On June 30, the US State Department referred to the ISIS' strategy as that of creating a regional caliphate...That general view was fairly widely held until recently, when the Islamic State executed two American hostages, which brought home to the West that its citizens are at risk. But in addition to committing shocking crimes in Syria and Iraq against civilians, security forces, and Western captives, the group has also developed an international following. The Islamic State's growing international presence demonstrates the dangerous fallacy of the argument that the group has primarily only regional goals..."

And, she writes:  "...even without regard to official statements by Islamist groups endorsing, opposing, or hedging on the Islamic State, the fact remains that Islamic State fighters and supporters are conducting operations well outside the confines of Iraq and Syria..."

See the entire article HERE @ Threat Matrix....


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