01-23-2018, 02:57 PM (This post was last modified: 01-23-2018, 02:57 PM by BIAD.)
After perusing the latest reports of the FBI losing emails, possible corrupt behavior in favour of certain
political icons and their ongoing confusion in finding evidence of a Trump-Russian collusion...
I've decided -because of my limited investigative skills and my stunted I.T competence, to apply for the
post of Head of the FBI.
The position is a mockery across the world and the people who are under that post must be ashamed of
the optics offered.
Other foreign security agencies must be pissing themselves laughing and even if the FBI are using the
inefficient-tactic in order to fool the public, the regularity of suggesting that Radio Shack are their
cyber-world go-to-guys and emulating the Keystone Cops in finding criminal evidence, doesn't smack of
a professional outfit.
01-23-2018, 11:03 PM (This post was last modified: 01-24-2018, 04:09 AM by guohua.)
(01-23-2018, 02:57 PM)BIAD Wrote: After perusing the latest reports of the FBI losing emails, possible corrupt behavior in favour of certain
political icons and their ongoing confusion in finding evidence of a Trump-Russian collusion...
I've decided -because of my limited investigative skills and my stunted I.T competence, to apply for the
post of Head of the FBI.
The position is a mockery across the world and the people who are under that post must be ashamed of
the optics offered.
Other foreign security agencies must be pissing themselves laughing and even if the FBI are using the
inefficient-tactic in order to fool the public, the regularity of suggesting that Radio Shack are their
cyber-world go-to-guys and emulating the Keystone Cops in finding criminal evidence, doesn't smack of
a professional outfit.
Rant over.
My husband says, that after 1994/95 that Administration was so Corrupt, most if not all older and close to retirement Agency Staff wanted Out!
Not only in his agency but from the other Alphabet Agencies as well.
All Respect and Trust and Honesty had been Lost.
(01-23-2018, 11:03 PM)guohua Wrote: My husband says, that after 1994/95 that Administration was so Corrupt, most if not all older and close to retirement Agency Staff wanted Out!
Not only in his agency but from the other Alphabet Agencies as well.
All Respect and Trust and Honesty had been Lost.
And Mr. G is correct in my view, but I'd like to write that all agencies and companies can have hiccups and
there's usually a section that limits the damage by controlling the systems they have available.
In the FBI's case, there's a vast ocean of media that can tempted to imply a narrative of steadfast control
and assurance that criminal acts are being held accountable. Regardless of it's internal-corruption -and I'm
certainly not endorsing that behavior that Mr. G is suggesting, I'd have thought that such conduits of advertising
may have also been complicit in keeping it hidden.
But lately, it seems that the nefarious antics that the FBI have to do in order to thwart corruption in all areas
of life has been portrayed as a group of well-suited men who've entered the crappy world of politics and been
caught with their pants down.
It seems that personal political choices sneaked into this particular agency and infected the usually closeted
manner of business. I'm a 'noobie' on this subject and I'd like to think that a greater-good was always the
paramount quest, but if the FBI is as sodden with corruption as this confidential memo and your husband
implies, then maybe it's time to burn it down and start again.
Well, I was surprised when I found at the bottom of another 'anti-Trump' article a mention of the FBI missing texts!
Quote:'...What about the missing FBI texts? Separately on Thursday, the US Department of Justice's (DoJ) internal watchdog said had it recovered a trove of missing texts between two FBI officials who made disparaging comments about Mr Trump.
In a letter to Republican lawmakers, DoJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the five months of messages could be shared with congressional committees.
The texts between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who were romantically linked, went missing due to an apparent technical glitch and were recovered using forensic tools.
In some of the other messages previously released to Congress, Mr Strzok and Ms Page refer to Trump as an "idiot" and a "loathsome human". Mr Trump and some Republicans have said the texts prove political bias at the FBI.
Both Mr Strzok and Ms Page on the FBI's investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, and on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.
Mr Strzok was removed from the Russia probe after the messages were discovered. Some Republicans stoked speculation of a conspiracy after one of the texts contained mention of a "secret society".
However, lawmakers have said that reference was clearly a jest...'
OMG! I couldn't believe this when I saw it. Prince al-Waleed has been released after being "detained" for over two months.
People on the Q board are speculating that he "sang like a songbird" to get his release. His financial holdings in the U.S. have also been seized. Still, I'm surprised they let him go. I think that was a huge mistake!
Quote:By
Summer Said and
Benoit Faucon
Updated Jan. 27, 2018 10:17 a.m. ET 86 COMMENTS
DUBAI—Saudi authorities on Saturday released billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, more than two months after he was detained in a widespread purge of the kingdom’s elite.
Saudi officials said Saturday that Prince al-Waleed came to an undisclosed settlement with the government that allows him to remain chairman of his company, Kingdom Holding Co., one of the country’s biggest conglomerates. He is also a major investor around the world, including large stakes in Twitter Inc. and the Four Seasons hotel chain. The status of those investments and the rest of his $17 billion fortune remained unclear Saturday.
The release of one of the world’s richest men marks a new phase in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s self-described corruption crackdown. The 62-year-old Prince al-Waleed was one of dozens of royals, senior government officials and businesspeople rounded up in early November, a wave of arrests the Saudi government billed as part of a remake of the kingdom’s society but criticized by some rights groups and analysts as a power grab.
Now, the Saudi government is moving to release those cleared of corruption allegations or who settled them, while sending the holdouts to prison to await trial. Prince al-Waleed was among several prominent Saudis to secure release in recent days.
Efforts to reach Prince al-Waleed were unsuccessful on Saturday. He was already back at his house in Riyadh on Saturday and is expected to resume his business activities as normal, people familiar with the matter said.
Saudi authorities demanded at least $6 billion from Prince al-Waleed to free him, people familiar with the matter have said, among the highest figures they sought from those detained in a makeshift prison at the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton.
Prince al-Waleed’s release comes after international investors raised concerns about the treatment of a man who had been a sort of independent Saudi ambassador to the world. Two French presidents, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, spoke to Prince Mohammed about these concerns.
Ahead of his release on Saturday, Prince al-Waleed in a Reuters interview granted from his initial place of detention at the Ritz-Carlton denied reports that he had been mistreated and called accusations against him a misunderstanding that would be cleared up soon.
01-28-2018, 10:31 PM (This post was last modified: 01-28-2018, 10:32 PM by BIAD.)
Here on Rogue Nation, we occasionally go through a spate of Bot invasions, spamming software
that wishes to sell it's wares on our illustrious site.
Luckily, Gordi, Guohua and BIAD carry nice-solid baseball bats.
But now -and on the back of the constant grumbling that Russian Bots persuaded the US masses
to vote for Trump, this appears.
Quote:New York investigates company accused of selling fake Twitter followers.
'New York's chief prosecutor says the state is opening an investigation into a firm that allegedly sold millions of fake followers to social media users. "Impersonation and deception are illegal under New York law," said Eric Schneiderman.
The company, Devumi, stands accused of stealing real people's identities, which it denies, according to the New York Times. The paper linked the "follower factory" to a host of celebrity accounts.
The New York Times published an in-depth report on Devumi on Saturday, including interviews with people who alleged their account details and profile pictures had been copied to create realistic "bots".
It is alleged that others who wanted to increase their follower count, including actors, entrepreneurs and political commentators, could then pay to be followed by the bots.
On social media, high follower accounts boost influence, which can impact public opinion, or bring advantages, such as job offers or sponsorship deals, to account holders. Mr Schneiderman said he was concerned that such "opaque" operations were undermining democracy.
On its website, Devumi offers customers the chance to order up to 250,000 Twitter followers, with prices starting at $12 (£8.50). Clients can also buy "likes" and retweets. The company sells followers on a range of other platforms, including Pinterest, LinkedIn, Soundcloud and YouTube.
"Devumi has helped over 200,000 businesses, celebrities, musicians, YouTubers and other pros gain more exposure and make a big impact to their audience," says its website. The company is registered at a New York City address, although the New York Times alleged it is a front, with its actual offices in Florida and it also employs workers in the Philippines. Twitter has responded to the investigation, saying it is working to stop Devumi and similar companies.
In the past, Twitter has been accused not taking the problem seriously enough. It has often dismissed bot investigations as "inaccurate and methodologically flawed".
The platform does allow automated accounts, but it strictly prohibits them being bought or sold. It says it will suspend accounts that are found to have purchased followers, retweets or likes. However, a representative told the New York Times it rarely does this in practice, as it is hard to prove.
The report alleges that Devumi has a stock of at least 3.5 million automated accounts, many of which are sold repeatedly. It alleges at least 55,000 of the accounts "use the names, profile pictures, hometowns and other personal details of real Twitter users, including minors".
"These accounts are counterfeit coins in the booming economy of online influence, reaching into virtually any industry where a mass audience -or the illusion of it -can be monetized. Fake accounts, deployed by governments, criminals and entrepreneurs, now infest social media networks," they wrote.
The New York Times found many well-known Twitter accounts have followers from the Devumi "factory". It said the company's clients covered the political spectrum, from liberal cable pundits to a reporter at the right-wing site Breitbart and an editor at China's state-run news agency, Xinhua.
Martha Lane Fox: Entrepreneur and member of the UK's House of Lords Martha Lane Fox's Twitter account account showed "a series of follower purchases spanning more than a year", including a 25,000-follower boost days after she became a Twitter board member in April 2016. She told the New York Times a "rogue employee" was responsible.
Paul Hollywood: British TV chef The investigation showed Devumi-managed bots following Paul Hollywood's official Twitter profile. Shortly after the paper emailed him to ask questions, his account was deleted.
Hilary Rosen: political commentator The CNN contributor has paid for over 500,000 Twitter followers -although most have been deleted. She said it was "an experiment I did several years ago to see how it worked".
Randy Bryce: US ironworker turned politician On Saturday, Mr Bryce - who is trying to unseat Republican Paul Ryan in Congress -said, on Twitter, that he bought the followers as an experiment in 2015, when he was a blogger...'
Yes, they have several people with accounts in different names too who post replies to a thread to make it appear that there are MANY people who believe a certain way, when in reality it is only one person making all the posts. Easy to get people "on board" when they think this is how the majority feels/thinks.
Q made a post on 8Chan and The Great Awakening board on Jan. 27 mentioning in the last sentence, "These people are really DUMB".
Several of us have noticed his change of words to describe the Left Elite. He usually says, "These people are STUPID".
So, what if Q was hinting about the underground bases, known as DUMBS?
And then, today we have this article about how a "Fitness Tracking App Accidentally Reveals Secret US Military Bases, CIA "Black" Sites".
They said "accidentally", right? If so, the timing seems odd to me.
Here's a paragraph from the article:
Quote:Remote locations, however, such as deserts in places like Syria and Iraq are almost entirely dark - aside from clandestine locations where military personnel using fitness trackers are stationed. Personnel in some of the US government's most sensitive facilities have been unwittingly been broadcasting sensitive information up to and including underground tunnels.
(red highlights by me)
You can go read the full article and see pictures, read tweets, etc. at the Source Article.
Quote:FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was forced to resign Monday, just as the House Intelligence Committee is expected to vote on the public release of a classified memo this afternoon revealing extensive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse under the Obama administration, sources told this reporter.
McCabe apparently lashed out to his colleagues when he was told he would be asked to resign, according to sources. FBI Director Christopher Wray viewed the four-page memo on Sunday, sources familiar with the discussions said.
McCabe, who is facing three federal inquiries for conflicts-of-interest during his time at the FBI, is one of the numerous names mentioned in the classified memo detailing FISA abuse, according to sources who reviewed the memo.
The federal inquiries into allegations against McCabe, who was expected to resign in March, are based on documents and interviews conducted by this reporter over the past year and range from sexual discrimination to improper political activity.
McCabe, a central figure in the ongoing Russia investigation against Trump, is also part of the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s ongoing review into the FBI’s handling of former Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to send classified information.
Current and former FBI officials said McCabe’s resignation is the beginning of more resignations to come.
“There are people lining up in the bureau to go after McCabe,” said a former FBI official, with knowledge. “There will be a clean up at the Bureau of his cronies.”
According to several U.S. officials, McCabe’s government communications were collected as part of the ongoing DOJ Inspector General investigation, which is expected to be completed by March.
FBI spokeswoman Carol Cratty declined to comment on the resignation.
The process to declassify the document could take anywhere up to five days. President Trump is not expected to object to the memo’s release and the House Intelligence Committee is expected to pass it, stated White House officials in an earlier report.
“My understanding is they will proceed with the vote tonight,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican. “This memo is something I want every single journalist and American to see, I think it’s that important. If Wray saw the memo, there maybe something to McCabe’s resignation. Or it could also be something as innocent as him using his sick time or leave up until retirement.”
The classified memo is considered “explosive and shocking” and hundreds of Republican members and only a dozen or so Democrats have taken the opportunity to review the report in a secured area, according to congressional sources. The memo also contains information that suggests Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reauthorized warrants based in part on the unverified dossier to gather communications on former Trump advisor Carter Page, sources said.
House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows, R-NC, said that he is hopeful the memo will be released to the public and called its contents “shocking.”
“I think from my standpoint there are concerns about political interference by law enforcement and judiciary agencies,” said Meadows, as he prepared to board a flight back to Washington D.C. “These important issues require greater transparency ad it’s critical lady justice remains blindfolded and that the privileged do not have the upper hand in the judicial system.”
Democrat Adam Schiff, D-CA, who has long stated he believes President Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia but has offered no proof, said the classified memo is “profoundly misleading” and asked that it not be released.
Carter Page, who is one figure at the center of the memo’s revelations, filed his most recent libel lawsuit against Oath and Broadcasting Board of Governors, Radio Free Europe for the story “Report: U.S. Intelligence Officials Examining Trump Advisor’s Russia Ties” written Sept. 23, 2016. The report came a day after Yahoo published a report, which cited multiple sources that suggested Page was under investigation for his ties to Russia. Page has also filed libel suits against Yahoo News and Buzzfeed. Page asserts in the lawsuit that he was a victim of “swatting,” a term used when a group or person provides false information to law enforcement to provoke an emergency action to be taken against a target.
The dossier, which was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign. The DNC and Clinton campaign had hired now embattled research firm Fusion GPS to compile the research. Fusion GPS had previously lobbied on behalf of companies closely connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin against the Magnitisky Act, a U.S. law prohibiting companies and people connected to the death of Sergei Magnitsky from owning property or conducting business in the United States. Magnitsky was an auditor at a law firm in Moscow who uncovered $230 million worth of fraud by Russian tax officials and police officers. After he reported the fraud he was detained by Russian authorities and then died in a prison under suspicious circumstances in 2009.
“By falsely and publicly identifying Dr. Page in the U.S., Europe and worldwide as the main accomplice in the most prominent crime story in recent history and simultaneously mischaracterizing the libelous articles as primarily stemming from slightly more legitimate leakers within USG (U.S. government) agencies rather than the opposition political research consultant Christopher Steele, BBG and RFE played an essential roles in the USG’s black propaganda campaign by branding him as the subject of completely outrageous criminal allegations instigated by earlier excerpts from Mr. Steele’s final report (the “Dodgy Dossier”),” Page states in his complaint filed on January, 19.
Page, who lists a number of previous ‘swatting’ cases, states in his complaint, “In these more benign and little-known swatting cases, defendants have been held accountable by courts…The alleged untruthfulness attached to the DOJ’s allegations in the illegitimate FISA warrant issued against Dr. Page and related abuse of process in 2016 based on the dodgy dossier helps to directly fulfill that burden.”
The Department of Justice and some leading Democrats attempted to stop the committee from releasing the classified FISA abuse memo, citing that the classified nature of the document could threaten national security. The DOJ argued in a letter written by Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd that the department had not been given the document for review.
However, several members of the committee told this reporter that the information contained in the memo is lists extensive FISA abuse that occurred before and after the 2016 presidential election cycle.
“What’s important is that the American people will be informed and that the corruption by a few people inside the bureau and DOJ will be exposed,” said a former FBI source with knowledge of the situation. “We can’t move forward unless we as a nation are willing to come clean about what’s been going on and the first step is telling the truth.”
(01-29-2018, 05:53 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: ...And then, today we have this article about how a "Fitness Tracking App Accidentally Reveals Secret US Military Bases, CIA "Black" Sites".
They said "accidentally", right? If so, the timing seems odd to me...
I saw that on the BBC website:
Quote:Fitness app Strava lights up staff at military basesFitness app Strava lights up staff at military bases.
'Security concerns have been raised after a fitness tracking firm showed the exercise routes of military personnel in bases around the world.
Online fitness tracker Strava has published a "heatmap" showing the paths its users log as they run or cycle. It appears to show the structure of foreign military bases in countries including Syria and Afghanistan as soldiers move around them. The US military was examining the heatmap, a spokesman said...'
01-29-2018, 10:20 PM (This post was last modified: 01-29-2018, 10:20 PM by BIAD.)
Oh... and by the way...
Quote:Andrew McCabe, FBI deputy director, quits after Trump criticism.
'The Federal Bureau of Investigation's deputy director, whom US President Donald Trump repeatedly accused of political bias, has resigned.
Andrew McCabe was forced to step down ahead of his official retirement date in March, reports CBS News. His exit from the top law enforcement agency comes a week after a report that Mr Trump wanted him out.
It was also reported last week that the president had asked Mr McCabe during an Oval Office meeting whom he voted for. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Monday's daily press briefing: "This decision was not made by the White House."
"The president wasn't part of this decision making process," she added.
Mr McCabe briefly became acting FBI director last May after Mr Trump fired its previous chief, James Comey. Mr Comey had been overseeing the bureau's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Mr Trump eventually nominated Christopher Wray as the new FBI director, and he was confirmed by the Senate in August.
Mr Wray recently threatened to resign after being pressured by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fire Mr McCabe, Washington DC news outlet Axios reported last week. Mr McCabe, 49, who was already expected to step down in early 2018 upon becoming eligible for his pension, is now on leave ahead of his official retirement date, CBS News reports...'
01-29-2018, 10:23 PM (This post was last modified: 01-29-2018, 10:45 PM by BIAD.)
(01-29-2018, 10:21 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Yes, I just posted this as you were posting your reply. Great minds and all that, right?
Yeaaahh! Jumped or was pushed, though?!
I freakin' love this stuff! I avidly read many news items regarding the palace intrigue in and around
President Trump's White House and I've never seen anything mentioned about Andrew McCabe leaving
early. Certainly not leaving earlier-than-early!
Nothing said and yet....
Quote:'...Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI, stepped down on Monday in a widely anticipated move that nevertheless reflected a further deterioration in relations between the White House and authorities investigating Donald Trump’s Russia ties...'
Quote:'...McCabe’s plan to retire this March was widely known. His decision to step aside, however, came amid an escalation by the president in attacks on the FBI, as an investigation by Mueller appears to draw closer to the White House...'
Give me a break...! Are you telling me that Journalists knew this and didn't feel it relevant to report it
at some point? What else don't they bother reporting?! Even if it was well-known, the way it's written
implies it's 'a nothing-burger' and just something to take in one's stride.
Heck, even his Wikipedia-page didn't mention it until today! (I clicked on the citation '23' and saw it was
connected to today's NBC's page) So, 'widely-known' seems to have been not so widely known!!
Crikey! I've just had a thought.
Where's Peter Strzok and Lisa Page gonna have their 'Get-Trump' meetings, now that Andy's
office is no longer available?
As in: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office - that there’s no way he gets elected - but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,”
FBI official Peter Strzok texted on Aug. 15, 2016. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
(01-29-2018, 10:50 PM)BIAD Wrote: Crikey! I've just had a thought.
Where's Peter Strzok and Lisa Page gonna have their 'Get-Trump' meetings, now that Andy's
office is no longer available?
As in: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office - that there’s no way he gets elected - but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,”
FBI official Peter Strzok texted on Aug. 15, 2016. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
I'd say it won't be much longer until ANY meetings with ANYONE will be done from behind bars, if not on the 'other side'.
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If so, the timing seems odd to me. 
