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6d22a7 No.147776
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6d22a7 No.147777
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6d22a7 No.147778
January 2014
Chalupa meets Manafort in January 2014
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6d22a7 No.147779
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
Snowden Leak
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6d22a7 No.147780
Wednesday, January 14th, 2014
Snowden Leak
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6d22a7 No.147781
Thursday, January 16th, 2014
Snowden Leak
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6d22a7 No.147782
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
(Guccifer) Marcel Lazar Lehel, 40, in Bucharest, after being arrested in Arad, 550 km (337 miles) west of Bucharest. Lehel was jailed in his native Romania for seven years after being convicted of hacking emails of Romanian officials.
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6d22a7 No.147783
Wednesday, January 27th, 2014
Snowden Leak
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
Snowden Leak
Wednesday, January 30th, 2014
Snowden Leak
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6d22a7 No.147784
Thursday, January 30, 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/30/nsa-michael-rogers-to-comman-keith-alexander
Vice-admiral Michael Rogers to take command of embattled NSA(TheGuardian.com)
Spencer Ackerman
Michael Rogers
Rogers has a resume studded with experience in the cryptography and electronic eavesdropping that are central to the NSA’s charter. Photograph: uncredited/ap Photograph: uncredited/ap
The embattled National Security Agency is about to get new leaders to deal with the ongoing fallout from whistleblower Edward Snowden’s surveillance disclosures.
Vice-admiral Michael Rogers, the commander of the US navy’s tenth fleet and its Fleet Cyber Command, will take over from NSA Director Keith Alexander, who reluctantly became a global figure in the wake of the Snowden revelations.
Richard Ledgett, the head of the agency’s investigation into Snowden – who publicly floated the prospect of an amnesty for the former contractor – will become the NSA’s new deputy director and top civilian leader.
The appointments, both long anticipated, were announced by the Pentagon on Thursday.
Rogers is a longtime cryptologist in the Navy, whose informal turn it was to nominate a director for the NSA. Alexander is an Army general; and his predecessor, Michael Hayden, hailed from the Air Force.
Rogers has a resume studded with experience in cryptography and electronic eavesdropping that are central to the NSA’s charter. Tenth Fleet, inert since World War II, was reactivated as the Navy’s cybersecurity command and based at Fort Meade, the base of operations for the military’s infant Cyber Command – which Rogers will also head, pending Senate approval – and the NSA. Rogers also served for two years on the military’s Joint Staff as intelligence director, a prestigious Pentagon post.
But his low-profile commissions have not provided him with a platform to articulate his views on the propriety and appropriate scope of the bulk surveillance of a large swath of world communications, the subject of Snowden’s disclosures that have been published in the Guardian, the Washington Post and other news outlets worldwide.
Nor will the Senate have a chance to scrutinize them, at least formally. The NSA directorship is not a position confirmed by the Senate. Rogers’ appointment to head US Cyber Command, which is co-located with the NSA and largely reliant on its personnel and expertise to protect US military networks, will require Senate approval, making Rogers’ forthcoming Senate Armed Services Committee hearing a proxy venue to learn his views on surveillance.
Rogers did not have much in the way of competition for the NSA job. There were whispers in Washington that the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Army Lieutenant General Mike Flynn, was also a candidate for the job, but even those who advocated for Flynn, a veteran of the powerful Joint Special Operations Command, did not expect him to get the NSA job.
In a statement Thursday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he recommended Rogers for the post to President Barack Obama, citing Rogers’ “extraordinary and unique qualifications.”
“I am also confident that Admiral Rogers has the wisdom to help balance the demands of security, privacy, and liberty in our digital age,” Hagel said.
Alexander bequeaths an agency that continues what many intelligence watchers consider the biggest shock in its history: the disclosure of documents detailing its secret collection of the records of every phone call made in the United States; vast swaths of email and Internet communications of foreigners; communications in transit across the global communications infrastructure; and the undermining of cryptographic standards.
At a hearing of intelligence leaders on Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledged that the NSA has taken large blow to its morale.
Observers note that one of the new leadership’s major functions will be to repair the NSA’s trust with the American public and skeptical members of Congress, who have drafted legislation to end the NSA’s ability to collect US phone records in bulk.
“Rogers has never had to make the public case that the country's intelligence apparatus is not abusing its legal authorities,” wrote Shane Harris in a recent Foreign Policy profile.
Like prior NSA directors, Rogers is likely to be a frequent fixture on Capitol Hill, both for classified briefings and in the coming congressional fight over the future scope of the NSA’s authorities. An early test is likely to be the transition of the phone metadata caches out of NSA, which is backed by Obama and opposed by telephone companies who fear an expanded data storage mandate. During Wednesday’s hearing, two committee chairs, Jay Rockefeller of the commerce committee and Dianne Feinstein of the intelligence committee, indicated their opposition to the plan.
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6d22a7 No.147785
Thursday, January 30th, 2014
Obama's Weaponization of the Government
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6d22a7 No.147786
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6d22a7 No.147787
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6d22a7 No.147788
Wednesday, Feruary 5th, 2014
Brittian's GCHQ 'waged war on hacker groups' such as Anonymous & Lulzse and infiltrating their chat rooms.
Wednesday, Feruary 5th, 2014
Bidens in Ukraine: Bidens in Kazakhstan: Kenes Fakishev, a Kazakhstani businessman, meets with Huter Biden at a hotel in Washington, D.C.
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6d22a7 No.147789
Friday, February 7th, 2014
Snowden Leak(s)
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6d22a7 No.147790
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6d22a7 No.147791
Thursday, January 30th, 2014
Rachel Chandler w/ Paris Hilton.
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6d22a7 No.147792
Friday, February 14th, 2014
'''Bidens in Ukraine: Elena Baturina, the widow of the former mayor of Moscow, wired $3.5 million to Rosemount Seneca Thornton for a "consultancy agreement."
Saturday, February 15th, 2014
Snowden LEAK
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6d22a7 No.147793
Tuesday, January 18th, 2014
Snowden LEAK
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6d22a7 No.147794
Monday, February, 24th, 2014
Snowden Leak
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6d22a7 No.147795
Wednesday, February, 26th, 2014
Friday, February, 28th, 2014
Snowden LEAK
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6d22a7 No.147796
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6d22a7 No.147797
Wednesday, March, 5th, 2014
Snowden LEAK
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6d22a7 No.147798
Thursday, March, 6th, 2014
Snowden LEAK
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6d22a7 No.147799
Friday, March, 7th, 2014
Snowden LEAK
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6d22a7 No.147800
Monday, March, 10th, 2014
Snowden LEAK
Wednesday, March, 12th, 2014
Snowden LEAK
Wednesday, March, 13th, 2014
Snowden LEAK
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6d22a7 No.147801
Tuesday, March, 18, 2014
Snowden LEAK
Thursday, March, 20th, 2014
Snowden LEAK
Saturday, March, 22nd, 2014
Snowden LEAK
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6d22a7 No.147802
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6d22a7 No.147803
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6d22a7 No.147804
Friday, March, 30th, 2014
Shifty Shiff: “excited to be United for Ukraine”
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6d22a7 No.147805
Sunday, March, 30th, 2014
Snowden LEAK
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6d22a7 No.147806
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6d22a7 No.147807
SOME IN 2014
Bidens in Ukraine: UKRANIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL VICTOR SHOKIN OBTAINS A COURT ORER TO SEIZE MYKOLA ZLOCHEVSKY'S PROPERTY. ZLOCHEVSKY HIRED HUNTER BIDEN IN APRIL 2014
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6d22a7 No.147808
April 1, 2014 – October 15, 2016
John Carlin had ben named Acting Assistant Attorney Generals in March 2013 and was confirmed in the spring of 2014.
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6d22a7 No.147809
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Adm. Mike Rogers becomes Director of NSA. He will serve till May 4th, 2018
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6d22a7 No.147810
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6d22a7 No.147811
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Snowden Leak
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6d22a7 No.147812
SUNDAY, APRIL 13TH, 2014
Bidens in Ukraine: ROBERT BIDEN
SUNDAY, APRIL 13TH, 2014
Bidens in Ukraine: ROBERT BIDEN: 22 BULLET POINT EMAIL
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6d22a7 No.147813
Tuesday, APRIL 15TH, 2014
Bidens in Ukraine: Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, appoints Biden business associate to their board of Directors.
Wednesday, APRIL 16TH, 2014
Bidens in Ukraine: VP Biden met with son's business partner, Devon Archer, at the White House.
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6d22a7 No.147814
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Snowden Leak
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6d22a7 No.147815
Monday, April 21st, 2014
Bidens in Ukraine: then vice president, visited Ukraine's capital, Kiev, in a show of support for the country's government amid rising tensions with Russia.
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6d22a7 No.147816
TUESDAY, APRIL 22TH, 2014
Bidens in Ukraine: President Hussein Obama says, Joe Biden was point person for US Policy toward Ukraine
TUESDAY, APRIL 22TH, 2014
Bidens in Kazakhstan: Kenes Rakishev's Sigaporean company wires $142,300 through his Latvian Co to Rosemont entity.
TUESDAY, APRIL 22TH, 2014
Bidens in Ukraine: VP Biden travels to Ukraine to deliver an anti-corruption speech.
TUESDAY, APRIL 22TH, 2014
Day after his visit, on April 22, Archer joined the board of Burisma.
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6d22a7 No.147817
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6d22a7 No.147818
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6d22a7 No.147819
Wednesday, APRIL 23RD, 2014
Bidens in Kazakhstan: The Rosemont entity wires $142,300 to a car dealership in NJ for new sports car for Hunter Biden.
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6d22a7 No.147820
Monday, April 28th, 2014
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-freezes-23m-ukraine-assets-frozen-money-laundering-investigation-1446487
UK Freezes $23m of Ukraine Assets in Money Laundering Investigation(IBTimes.co.uk)
UK Freezes $23m of Ukraine Assets in Money Laundering Investigation
Lianna Brinded04/29/14 AT 8:07 AM BST
Ukraine crisis and sanctions on Russia
Pro-Russian protesters take part in a rally near the seized office of the SBU state security service in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine Reuters
The Serious Fraud Office has confirmed that it has opened a criminal investigation into possible money laundering arising from suspicions of corruption in Ukraine.
In a statement, the SFO said it has obtained a restraint order freezing approximately $23m (£28m, €39m) of assets in the UK in connection with the case.
"For reasons of confidentiality we cannot say more at this time," it added.
The SFO is a government department responsible for investigating and prosecuting serious and complex fraud and corruption. Its director, David Green QC, exercises powers under the superintendence of the Attorney General.
In addition and separate to the $23m in assets that have been placed under restraint by the SFO, an EU-wide asset freeze against 22 individuals suspected of misappropriating Ukrainian state assets has been approved and has come into force across the European Union (EU).
On 28 April, the United States and Europe joined forces to announce economic sanctions against Russian government officials and companies, including two banks, with close ties to President Vladimir Putin.
The EU's decision to add new names to the sanctions list came after the US announced it would impose sanctions on seven individuals. European leaders agreed to impose sanctions on 15 more people in the wake of Russia's actions in Ukraine.
The names of the individuals being targeted by Europe will be released today (29 April). They will be subject to visa bans and asset freezes by Brussels.
Washington will also add a number of names to the list it drew up in March, after Russia annexed Crimea following a disputed referendum.
In February Ukraine's newly installed prime minister, Arseny Yatseniuk, claimed that $70bn has gone missing from the public's balance sheets after the government of ousted President Viktor Yanukovich hid the cash away in offshore bank accounts.
Yatseniuk told parliament that Yanukovich's administration had stripped the country of cash over the last three years.
Ukraine crisis
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6d22a7 No.147821
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
Snowden Leak
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
Flynn retires after calling Hussein “soft” on ISIS/Radical Islam. Hussein basically fired him cause Flynn wasn’t having it.
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6d22a7 No.147822
Flynn Targeted by Hussein
https://www.westernjournal.com/floyd-brown-obamas-enemies-list-general-michael-flynn/
Floyd Brown: Obama's Enemies List and General Michael Flynn
Former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally to support Democratic candidates at Detroit Cass Tech High School on Oct. 26, 2018, in Detroit. (Bill Pugliano / Getty Images)
Obama has a history of making enemies lists.
I speak from personal experience because I am on his enemies list from the 2008 campaign. As a result, I was harassed and threatened. I even published a book in 2012, titled “Obama’s Enemies List.” Apparently, Gen. Michael Flynn is on Obama’s enemies list, too.
Back in July 2008, Obama called me out by name, identifying me as an enemy, and sent a signal to his supporters to actively harass me. Sen. Obama said at the time, “[T]here was an ad, one in South Dakota by Floyd Brown, I don’t think that I am off the wall here to say that, you know, a lot of outside groups that are potentially going to be going after us hard.”
With these comments, Obama was able to incite his supporters to launch all kinds of personal attacks against me. As if on cue, I was flooded with an onslaught of nasty, hate-filled, vulgar and obscene anonymous phone calls and emails from Obama supporters. Some included death threats.
My bio and personal information soon appeared on a specialized enemies list on his campaign website. The Obama team called the page “Fight the Smears.” I received even more calls and the cyberattacks on me and my website increased. A Wikipedia page that referenced me was overwhelmed with scurrilous lies.
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Threatening calls also came to our home. My wife began to fear for our children. It did not stop until I began to record the messages and post them on the internet for all to hear. The intensity of the hatred toward me and my family was intense and ferocious.
Obama’s use of Nazi and mob intimidation tactics had a clear objective: to shut up any early opponents.
Early in Obama’s presidency, Peter Wehner wrote for Commentary magazine, “The Obama White House is showing a fondness for intimidation tactics that might work well in the wards of Chicago but that don’t have a place in the most important and revered political institution in America. … If that should come to pass — if what we are seeing now is only a preview of coming attractions — then the Obama administration, and this nation, will pay a very high price. Mark my words.”
Should former President Obama be forced to testify before Congress about Gen. Flynn?
Many Americans first became aware that Obama had crossed a line — a line that no president had even dared approach since Richard Nixon — when Kimberly Strassel of The Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell in May 2012:
“Unlike senators or congressmen, presidents alone represent all Americans. Their power — to jail, to fine, to bankrupt — are also so vast as to require restraint. Any president who targets a private citizen for his politics is de facto engaged in government intimidation and threats. This is why presidents since Nixon have carefully avoided the practice. Save Mr. Obama, who acknowledges no rules.”
This was following her investigation that found Romney donors were being placed on lists containing their personal information and lies about them, then duly harassed, in order to intimidate others from donating to the Romney presidential campaign.
When Obama had his enemies list posted on his re-election campaign website, Rory Cooper of the Heritage Foundation said that Obama was going after them “at the individual level, for anyone who opposes his policies.”
But you don’t need to take Cooper’s word for it. Obama talked about it in 2010 on the Spanish radio giant Univision after discussing a number of issues, saying, “we’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.”
Flynn got in Obama’s crosshairs for two reasons, and shot to the top of Obama’s enemies list: First, in 2014 Flynn told an “uncomfortable truth,” one the Obama administration didn’t want Americans to hear.
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Flynn dared to oppose Obama’s false narrative — about ISIS as a “JV team” — when in reality Islamic extremist groups around the world were growing in number and strength, posing an increasingly dangerous risk, as we saw born out when later, radical Islamist terrorist group attacks escalated.
Not only did he oppose Obama when testifying to a congressional committee in 2014 (and was subsequently fired), Flynn even went as far as writing a book about Obama’s negligence published in 2016 — and then he had the audacity to campaign for Donald Trump.
So, taking down Flynn was like a twofer for Obama. He was also aiming for someone even higher on his list — President Trump.
Which explains the Jan. 5, 2017, meeting with Obama and former FBI Director James Comey to cover up spying on the Trump campaign by plotting to entrap Gen. Flynn, thus derailing Trump’s presidency before it even had a chance to begin.
Almost prophetically, Wehner said in Obama’s first term:
“There seems to be a cast of mind that views critics as enemies, as individuals and institutions that need to be ridiculed, delegitimized, or ruined. Given the administration’s brazen public statements, one can only imagine what is being said privately, behind closed doors, as strategies are plotted and put into effect.”
Obama has a history of abusing the power of the federal government to go after people who oppose him and his politics — and it is now on full display with the outing of his use of the FBI to launch a silent coup.
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Floyd G. Brown is the founder of The Western Journal and the author of several books, including "Counterpunch" and "Big Tech Tyrants."
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6d22a7 No.147832
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6d22a7 No.147833
Monday, May 12, 2014
Snowden Leak
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6d22a7 No.147834
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6d22a7 No.147835
Monday, May 12, 2014
Hunter Biden Joins the team of Burisma Holdings (Burisma.com)
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6d22a7 No.147836
Monday, May 12th, 2014
Bidens in Ukraine
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6d22a7 No.147837
Monday, May 12th, 2014
Vadim Pozharskyl emails Hunter Biden & Devon Archer
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6d22a7 No.147838
Monday, May 12TH, 2014
Burisma announces Hunter Biden joined its board of directors.
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6d22a7 No.147839
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
https://bidenlaptopemails.com/biden-emails/email.php?id=20140513-170515_79234
Bidens in Ukraine: Emails: Re: Media reaction to PR on HB
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6d22a7 No.147840
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6d22a7 No.147841
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Hunter Biden joins the board of Burisma
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6d22a7 No.147842
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
https://www.cnbc.com/2014/05/13/bidens-son-joins-ukraine-gas-companys-board-of-directors.html
Hunter Biden joins board of Burisma because they were concerned over legal issues, VP son was hedge @ $50k+ /mon salary
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6d6c86 No.169973
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6d6c86 No.169977
Monday, May 19th, 2014
Snowden Leak
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6d6c86 No.169981
Monday/Tuesday, May 19/20th, 2014
Bidens in Romania
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6d6c86 No.169983
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
David Leiter, a former Senate chief of staff to Secretary of State John Kerry, signed on to work as a lobbyist for Burisma on May 20th, 2014
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6d6c86 No.169985
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6d6c86 No.169987
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6d6c86 No.169988
Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
NBC "news"'s Brian Williams interviews Snowden in Moscow.
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6d6c86 No.169991
Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
https://youtu.be/6YOQZpPOpkE
Bidens in Romania: VP Bidens visits Romania & delivers a speech to the Romanian Prime Minister, judges prosecutors, and leaders of the Romanian Parliament.
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6d6c86 No.169995
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6d6c86 No.170004
Monday, May 23rd, 2014
Snowden Leak
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6d6c86 No.170012
Monday, May 31st, 2014
Snowden Leak
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6d6c86 No.170022
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/reporter-michael-hastings-life-after-death-62724/
From RollingStone article published July 3rd, 2014; after their original artical was what ultimately killed Michael Hastings.
Elise Jordan, the widow of journalist Michael Hastings, is standing in the kitchen of the Manhattan apartment they shared during their two-year marriage. She’s reading from a medical examiner’s account of her late husband’s fatal single-car accident in Los Angeles almost exactly a year ago. “Oh, this is really bad,” she says and begins to cry. “He was dead before he burned up, just from blunt force. Arm fractures, head injuries, rib fractures, pelvis fractures, skull fractures, injuries to the brain, laceration of the liver, bruise of the lungs, tear of heart, tear of thoracic aorta . . .”
Hastings, whose 2010 Rolling Stone piece “The Runaway General” led to the firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, had already established a groundbreaking legacy when he died at age 33 last June. Shortly after his death, Jordan went on his computer and found an all-but-completed novel he’d written based on his days as an intern and foreign correspondent for Newsweek during the mid-’00s. Titled The Last Magazine, it’s a frenetic and darkly funny roman à clef about the media of the Bush years. (Hastings had also written a political sci-fi thriller called 2028 and a memoir about his struggles with drugs and mental illness in college.)
“I raced through it in probably two hours,” she says of The Last Magazine, which just hit shelves. “It was this rush of him and his voice. I was hurting so much when I found it, so it gave me a couple of hours where I felt he was still with me.”
The book’s protagonist is “Michael Hastings,” a nattily dressed twentysomething intern doing research for editors trying to keep their publication relevant by rubber-stamping the invasion of Iraq. (One of the editors seems strongly based on pundit Fareed Zakaria; another solemnly proclaims, “I’ve always been fascinated with war leaders.”)
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After Hastings’ death, the Internet was full of conspiracy theories explaining the accident, including an insinuation that he’d been the victim of a cyberattack by the Obama administration. “I worked for the U.S. government,” says Jordan, a former director of communications for the National Security Council. “We’re not that sophisticated.”
But Jordan wasn’t without her own concerns, so she commissioned a private investigation into his death. Jordan believes Hastings’ crash and the subsequent fire were accidental. “They say the car blew up, but it’s not like a bomb,” she says. “I’ve seen bomb detonations before, but this was a burning.” She was angered by the coroner’s report that implied Hastings was using meth. “That ended up in a lot of headlines – MICHAEL HASTINGS: METH USER – which is just totally wrong,” she says. “They detected a low level of amphetamine, which could be Sudafed or Adderall, but it wasn’t meth.”
Hastings, who told Jordan he was reporting on NSA surveillance at the time, was described by friends to be behaving erratically in his final days (Jordan uses the phrase “emotional volatility”). “He had some paranoia about being surveilled,” Jordan says. “But I don’t think surveillance caused his death. Two things can exist separately.”
This story is from the July 3rd, 2014 issue of Rolling Stone.
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6d6c86 No.170023
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.
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6d6c86 No.170024
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
Bidens in Ukraine
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6d6c86 No.170030
Friday, June 27th, 2014
Bidens in Ukraine
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6d6c86 No.170041
Monday, July 7th, 2014
https://time.com/2964493/ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-burisma/
Ukrainian Employer of Joe Biden's son hires a D.C. Lobbyist
hen Vice President Joe Biden’s son, R. Hunter Biden, joined the board of a private Ukrainian oil and natural gas company this spring, he explained his new job as a legal one, disconnected from any effort to influence the Obama Administration. In a press release, the younger Biden boasted of his abilities on issues like improving corporate transparency.
But the company, Burisma Holdings, did not disclose at the time the scope of their plans for influencing the U.S. government. Recently released documents show that Biden’s hiring coincided with the launch of a new effort to lobby members of Congress about the role of the company in Ukraine and the country’s quest for energy independence.
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David Leiter, a former Senate chief of staff to Secretary of State John Kerry, signed on to work as a lobbyist for Burisma on May 20, 2014, about a week after Biden announced he was joining the company, according to lobbying disclosures filed this month.
Leiter’s involvement in the firm rounds out a power-packed team of politically-connected Americans that also includes a second new board member, Devon Archer, a Democratic bundler and former adviser to John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. Both Archer and Hunter Biden have worked as business partners with Kerry’s son-in-law, Christopher Heinz, the founding partner of Rosemont Capital, a private-equity company.
Biden’s office referred questions to a Burisma spokesman, who says Biden has not been involved in contacting members of Congress or the Obama Administration about the company. “His role, like all board members, is to provide strategic guidance to Burisma,” said Lawrence Pacheco, who works in Washington D.C. for FTI Consulting, a communications firm that is also employed by Burisma.
But Burisma is contacting officials in Washington through Leiter’s lobbying firm, ML Strategies. “ML Strategies is working with Burisma to educate U.S. officials about the company and its role in creating a stable and secure energy future for Ukraine, not any specific policy or legislation,” Pacheco said. “Burisma supports energy independence, economic growth, national sovereignty and regional stability and will engage as needed to encourage efforts to further these goals.”
Some Democratic senators, meanwhile, have been working to secure more U.S. funding, either directly or through entities like the Export-Import Bank, to improve Ukraine’s domestic energy production potential. On June 27, Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, wrote President Obama a letter with three other Democratic senators calling for increased aid. “We should leverage the full resources and expertise of the U.S. government to assist Ukraine in improving its energy efficiency, increasing its domestic production, and reforming its energy markets,” wrote Markey, who has also proposed legislation with about $40 million in additional aide for Ukranian energy development.
Markey’s letter was trumpeted by Burisma Holdings as a commendable move towards securing the future security of Ukraine. “Burisma Holdings today applauded the range of U.S. legislative support for development of Ukraine’s broad and untapped resources and an increase in transparency and good governance,” the company said in a statement on the day the letter was released.
An aide in Markey’s office told TIME that Leiter, Biden and Archer were not part of discussions that led to the drafting of the letter or the legislation. Staff for the other senators who signed the letter, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Christopher Murphy of Connecticut, also said they did not have contact with Leiter, who could not be reached for comment.
Burisma Holdings is owned by a Cypriot holding firm, Brociti Investments Limited, which is controlled Nikolai Zlochevskyi, a former Ukranian government minister, according to Cypriot records. It controls government development licenses in three regions of Ukraine, and sells to industrial customers in the country, according to the company.
By taking a job with Burisma, the younger Biden has put himself in the middle of a struggle between the United States and Russia, which currently provides the bulk of the natural gas supplies to Ukraine. Both the White House and European nations have recently emphasized the strategic interest in making Ukraine less dependent on Russia.
Since Hunter Biden took the new job, his father, Vice President Joe Biden, has continued to serve as the Obama Administration’s point person on Ukraine, traveling to the country as recently as June for the inauguration of President Petro Poroshenko and talking to Poroshenko by phone at least five times in the last month.
“I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in the last two months in Ukraine,” the elder Biden said on June 19. “You see what the Russians are doing relative to using gas as a foreign policy tool to try to alter behavior. And so it’s — around the world in varying degrees it’s of significant consequence in terms of security, both economic and political security of a nation.”
There is no legal barrier to prohibit Hunter Biden from working with a company that can be impacted by the policy decisions of his father, and the White House has maintained that the Vice President has not been influenced by his son’s employment. “The Vice President does not endorse any particular company and has no involvement with this company,” said his spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff.
But Hunter Biden’s new job, along with the association with Burisma of other politically-connected businessmen, has raised concerns among some Ukraine watchers. “It’s unhelpful when we are trying to get across to the Ukrainians to clean up corruption and special deals for special folks,” said Ed Chow, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a U.S. think tank. “It maybe sends the wrong message that Westerners are just hypocritical.”
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6d6c86 No.170042
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
Hunter Biden was a U.S. Secret Service protectee from Jan 29th, 2009 to July 8, 2014.
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6d6c86 No.170044
Thursday, July 10th, 2014
Justice declines to pursue allegations that the CIA monitored Senate intel Staff
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6d6c86 No.170048
Thursday, JULY 17th, 2014
Follow the Family… Company co-founded by Nancy Pelosi's son charged with securities fraud
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/17/company-co-founded-nancy-pelosis-son-charged-secur/
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6d6c86 No.170049
Thursday, JULY 17th, 2014
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/
The Details About the CIA's Deal With Amazon
A $600 million computing cloud built by an outside company is a "radical departure" for the risk-averse intelligence community.
By Frank KonkelJuly 17, 2014
Aerial view of the Pentagon (Reuters)
The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest. This summer, a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence Agency over the past year will begin servicing all 17 agencies that make up the intelligence community. If the technology plays out as officials envision, it will usher in a new era of cooperation and coordination, allowing agencies to share information and services much more easily and avoid the kind of intelligence gaps that preceded the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
For the first time, agencies within the intelligence community will be able to order a variety of on-demand computing and analytic services from the CIA and National Security Agency. What’s more, they’ll only pay for what they use.
The vision was first outlined in the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise plan championed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and IC Chief Information Officer Al Tarasiuk almost three years ago. Cloud computing is one of the core components of the strategy to help the IC discover, access and share critical information in an era of seemingly infinite data.
For the risk-averse intelligence community, the decision to go with a commercial cloud vendor is a radical departure from business as usual.
In 2011, while private companies were consolidating data centers in favor of the cloud and some civilian agencies began flirting with cloud variants like email as a service, a sometimes contentious debate among the intelligence community’s leadership took place.
“We decided we needed to buy innovation.”
As one former intelligence official with knowledge of the Amazon deal told Government Executive, “It took a lot of wrangling, but it was easy to see the vision if you laid it all out.” The critical question was would the IC, led by the CIA, attempt to do cloud computing from within, or would it buy innovation? Money was a factor, according to the intelligence official, but not the leading one.
The government was spending more money on information technology within the IC than ever before. IT spending reached $8 billion in 2013, according to budget documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The CIA and other agencies feasibly could have spent billions of dollars standing up their own cloud infrastructure without raising many eyebrows in Congress, but the decision to purchase a single commercial solution came down primarily to two factors.
“What we were really looking at was time to mission and innovation,” the former intelligence official said. “The goal was, ‘Can we act like a large enterprise in the corporate world and buy the thing that we don’t have, can we catch up to the commercial cycle? Anybody can build a data center, but could we purchase something more?
“We decided we needed to buy innovation,” the former intelligence official said.
A Groundbreaking Deal
The CIA’s first request for proposals from industry in mid-2012 was met with bid protests to the Government Accountability Office from Microsoft and AT&T, two early contenders for the contract. Those protests focused on the narrow specifications called for by the RFP. GAO did not issue a decision in either protest because the CIA reworked its request to address the companies’ complaint.
In early 2013, after weighing bids from Amazon Web Services, IBM and an unnamed third vendor, the CIA awarded a contract to AWS worth up to $600 million over a period of up to 10 years. The deal, handled in secret, was first reported by FCW in March 2013, sending ripples through the tech industry.
A month after the deal became public, IBM filed a bid protest with GAO that the watchdog eventually upheld in June, forcing the CIA to reopen bids to both companies for the contract. A legal struggle between Amazon and Big Blue ensued, and AWS filed a lawsuit against the federal government in July 2013, claiming the GAO sustainment was a “flawed” decision.
It’s a public cloud built on private premises.
In October, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler sided with Amazon and overturned GAO’s decision to force the CIA to rebid the contract. Big Blue went home, AWS claimed victory under the deal’s original financial specs, and nearly 18 months after the procurement was first released, the CIA and Amazon went to work.
It is difficult to underestimate the cloud contract’s importance. In a recent public appearance, CIA Chief Information Officer Douglas Wolfe called it “one of the most important technology procurements in recent history,” with ramifications far outside the realm of technology.
“It’s going to take a few months to bring this online in a robust way, but it’s coming,” Wolfe said. “And I think it’s going to make a big difference for national security.”
Securing New Capabilities
The Amazon-built cloud will operate behind the IC’s firewall, or more simply: It’s a public cloud built on private premises.
Intelligence agencies will be able to host applications or order a variety of on-demand services like storage, computing and analytics. True to the National Institute of Standards and Technology definition of cloud computing, the IC cloud scales up or down to meet the need.
In that regard, customers will pay only for services they actually use, which is expected to generate massive savings for the IC.
“We see this as a tremendous opportunity to sharpen our focus and to be very efficient,” Wolfe told an audience at AWS’ annual nonprofit and government symposium in Washington. “We hope to get speed and scale out of the cloud, and a tremendous amount of efficiency in terms of folks traditionally using IT now using it in a cost-recovery way.”
Is that data really secure in the cloud? The CIA is convinced it is.
Many agencies within the IC already have identified applications to move to the cloud. In a recent report, National Reconnaissance Office Chief Information Officer Donna Hansen said her agency had picked five applications, including its enterprise resource planning software, to migrate to the IC cloud. As with public clouds, the IC cloud will maximize automation and require standardized information, which will be shared through application programming interfaces, known as APIs. Amazon engineers will oversee the hardware because AWS owns the hardware and is responsible for maintaining it just as they do in the company’s public data centers.
Whenever Amazon introduces a new innovation or improvement in cloud services, the IC cloud will evolve. Company officials say AWS made more than 200 such incremental improvements last year, ensuring a sort of built-in innovation to the IC cloud that will help the intelligence community keep pace with commercial advances. Wolfe said AWS’ capacity to bring commercial innovation from places like Silicon Valley to the IC is one of the contract’s greatest benefits. Whenever AWS introduces new products, the CIA will be able to implement them.
“The biggest thing we were trying to do—the visionary folks a couple years ago—was answer the question, ‘How do we keep up?’” Wolfe said. “The mission we have is important. The pace and complexity is really not [diminishing], in fact, it may be increasing. We feel it is very important to deliver the best IT and best products and services we can to our customers in the IC.”
What of the data, though? Intelligence agencies are drowning in it, collecting and analyzing an amalgamation of information from sensors, satellites, surveillance efforts, open data repositories and human intelligence, among other sources. Is that data really secure in the cloud?
The CIA is convinced it is.
Snowden was able to access and download classified information intelligence officials said he shouldn’t have been able to access.
The IC cloud “will be accredited and compliant with IC standards,” says a senior CIA official familiar with the IC cloud. It will, for example, be able to handle Sensitive Compartmented Information, a type of classified information. “Security in the IC cloud will be as safe as or safer than security on our current data centers,” the senior CIA official says. Because the IC cloud will serve multiple tenants—the 17 agencies that comprise the IC—administrators will be able to restrict access to information based on the identity of the individual seeking it. The idea is to foster collaboration without compromising security. Visually, the IC cloud can be thought of as a workspace hanging off the IC’s shared network—a place where data can be loaded for a variety of tasks like computing or sharing. The IC cloud gives agencies additional means to share information in an environment where automated security isn’t a barrier to the sharing itself. This could prove vital in situations reminiscent of 9/11, in which national security is an immediate concern.
Cloud vendors, including Amazon, have argued that cloud infrastructures can be more secure than traditional data centers because there are fewer points of entry, but the leaks by Snowden illustrate the potential threat from inside an organization. Snowden was able to access and download classified information intelligence officials said he shouldn’t have been able to access.
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To access information within the IC cloud, analysts must have the proper permissions. In addition, the standardized environment and automation means all activity within the cloud is logged and can be analyzed in near real-time.
Some government officials view cloud computing as inherently less secure than computing on locally controlled servers, but the CIA’s acceptance of commercially developed cloud technology “has been a wake-up call” to those who balk at it, according to John Pirc, a former CIA cybersecurity researcher who is now chief technology officer at NSS Labs, a security research firm.
“You hear so many people on the fence about cloud, and then to see the CIA gobble it up and do something so highly disruptive, it’s kind of cool,” says Pirc. “To me, this removes the clouded judgment that cloud isn’t secure. Their moving forward with this should send a message to the rest of the industry that cloud is something you shouldn’t be afraid of.”
Pirc is no stranger to disruptive technologies. At the CIA’s research labs in the early 2000s, he recalls virtualization—a technology that allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same servers, allowing for far more efficient computing—before it became an integral component of many IT enterprises. Intelligence agencies use commercial off-the-shelf technology all the time, but to Pirc, the importance of the cloud capabilities the CIA gets through leveraging Amazon Web Services’ horsepower is best exemplified in computing intelligence data. Scalable computing is critical for fostering shared services and enhanced collaboration between disparate intelligence agencies.
“What it allows them to do is spin up servers and add more [computing power] fast, and when you’re computing intelligence data, the more compute power you have, the faster you can react,” Pirc says. “In the private sector, compute is all about money and profit, but from my viewpoint when I worked for the agency, you’re working with extremely time-sensitive information. Being able to have that compute power, something that might have taken a couple of hours might instead take a few seconds. Profits aren’t lost when you make mistakes in the intelligence community—people die when you make mistakes.”
A test scenario described by GAO in its June 2013 bid protest opinion suggests the CIA sought to compare how the solutions presented by IBM and Amazon Web Services could crunch massive data sets, commonly referred to as big data.
The CIA’s quest to buy innovation will loom large for years to come.
Solutions had to provide a “hosting environment for applications which process vast amounts of information in parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware” using a platform called MapReduce. Through MapReduce, clusters were provisioned for computation and segmentation. Test runs assumed clusters were large enough to process 100 terabytes of raw input data. AWS’ solution received superior marks from CIA procurement officials, according to GAO documentation, and was one of the chief reasons the agency selected Amazon.
Limited Details
The CIA declined to comment when Government Executive asked about the extent of the IC cloud’s capabilities or that of the National Security Agency’s cloud. Amazon also declined to describe the IC cloud’s technical capabilities.
It is a good bet, though, that the AWS-built cloud for the IC will have capabilities at least equal to existing capabilities Amazon has already implemented across government.
For example, the company provides the cloud bandwidth for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s collection of more than 1 billion trade records and more than a terabyte of new data per day through its Market Information Data Analytics System. This example may be prescient given that now-public surveillance efforts indicate the IC collects billions and perhaps trillions of pieces of metadata, phone and Internet records, and other various bits of information on an annual basis. The potential exists for the CIA to become one of AWS’ largest customers.
Within the intelligence community, examples abound where the cloud’s capabilities could significantly boost the mission.
Think of it as the intelligence community sharing information behind a walled castle apart from the rest of the world operating on the Internet.
As the geospatial hub of the community, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ingests, analyzes, metatags and reports all geo-intelligence and multisource content in its flagship program called Map of the World. Geospatial data’s importance to the IC has increased in recent years, as evidenced by NGA’s nearly $5 billion budget and its staff nearly doubling in size since 2004. For intensive applications like ingesting or analyzing geospatial data, scalable computing could have a significant impact on mission performance. The cloud also could improve the way the agency shares its large data sets.
What the IC has done with cloud is not easily replicable, according to American Council for Technology President Rick Holgate, but it is worth paying attention to.
“The IC has a model other agencies should look to and aspire to in terms of transforming the way they think about delivering services across a large enterprise,” Holgate says. “They are looking to common platforms and service delivery models across an entire enterprise, and not just gaining cost efficiencies, but to provide foundational capabilities to really allow it to operate.”
Whether or not the IC cloud serves as an example for the rest of government, the CIA’s quest to buy innovation will loom large for years to come.
Time to Share
The Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise lays out a vision for the IC’s 17 agencies to securely discover, access and share information. The goal: greater mission success.
In essence, ICITE (pronounced EYEsite) changes the business model for intelligence agencies by requiring that they share services.
Cloud computing—behind the IC’s firewall—is one element of that vision. Think of it as the intelligence community sharing information behind a walled castle apart from the rest of the world operating on the Internet.
In cloud computing, there’s Amazon Web Services and then there’s everybody else.
The Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency are leading IC cloud development; the NSA’s privately hosted cloud was launched in 2013. Importantly, it was made available to users on new and legacy systems so that personnel on any of its systems could use it. The cloud built by Amazon Web Services at the behest of the CIA will be a shared resource for services on an as-needed basis. Intelligence agencies can order a variety of services like storage, computing, analytics, database services or application hosting. Both clouds will work in complementary fashion, according to senior CIA officials.
Other ICITE components include a common desktop, an IC-wide applications mall, and network requirement and engineering services.
The Defense Intelligence Agency and National-Geospatial Intelligence Agency have piloted shared desktop capabilities across their agencies for several thousand users. Those capabilities eventually will spread throughout the IC.
In essence, ICITE changes the business model for intelligence agencies, mandating shared services. Instead of each agency building out its own systems, select agencies—either one or two of those with larger budgets—are responsible for governing its major components.
The Elephant in the Room
In cloud computing, there’s Amazon Web Services and then there’s everybody else.
IT research firm Gartner had to rescale its famed infrastructure-as-a- service “Magic Quadrant” study in 2013 to accommodate Amazon Web Services’ enormous competitive lead.
The quadrant ranks cloud providers based on their ability to execute operations and the comprehensiveness of their vision. For several years there hasn’t been even a close challenger to AWS. Gartner’s 2014 quadrant shows that AWS captures 83 percent of the cloud computing infrastructure market.
In the combined cloud markets for infrastructure and platform services, hybrid and private clouds—worth a collective $131 billion at the end of 2013—Amazon’s revenue grew 67 percent in the first quarter of 2014, according to Gartner.
While the public sector hasn’t been as quick to capitalize on cloud computing as the private sector, government spending on cloud technologies is beginning to jump.
Researchers at IDC estimate federal private cloud spending will reach $1.7 billion in 2014, and $7.7 billion by 2017. In other industries, software services are considered the leading cloud technology, but in the government that honor goes to infrastructure services, which IDC expects to reach $5.4 billion in 2017.
In addition to its $600 million deal with the CIA, Amazon Web Services also does business with NASA, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most recently, the Obama Administration tapped AWS to host portions of HealthCare.gov.
This story first appeared in Government Executive.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Inquiry by C.I.A. Affirms It Spied on Senate Panel(NewYorkTimes.com)
July 31, 2014
WASHINGTON — An internal investigation by the C.I.A. has found that its officers penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program.
The report by the agency’s inspector general also found that C.I.A. officers read the emails of the Senate investigators and sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department based on false information, according to a summary of findings made public on Thursday. One official with knowledge of the report’s conclusions said the investigation also discovered that the officers created a false online identity to gain access on more than one occasion to computers used by the committee staff.
The inspector general’s account of how the C.I.A. secretly monitored a congressional committee charged with supervising its activities touched off angry criticism from members of the Senate and amounted to vindication for Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the committee’s Democratic chairwoman, who excoriated the C.I.A. in March when the agency’s monitoring of committee investigators became public.
A statement issued Thursday morning by a C.I.A. spokesman said that John O. Brennan, the agency’s director, had apologized to Ms. Feinstein and the committee’s ranking Republican, Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, and would set up an internal accountability board to review the issue. The statement said that the board, which will be led by a former Democratic senator, Evan Bayh of Indiana, could recommend “potential disciplinary measures” and “steps to address systemic issues.”
But anger among lawmakers grew throughout the day. Leaving a nearly three-hour briefing about the report in a Senate conference room, members of both parties called for the C.I.A. officers to be held accountable, and some said they had lost confidence in Mr. Brennan’s leadership. “This is a serious situation and there are serious violations,” said Mr. Chambliss, generally a staunch ally of the intelligence community. He called for the C.I.A. employees to be “dealt with very harshly.”
Senator Mark Udall, Democrat of Colorado and another member of the Intelligence Committee, demanded Mr. Brennan’s resignation. “The C.I.A. unconstitutionally spied on Congress by hacking into the Senate Intelligence Committee computers,” he said in a written statement. “This grave misconduct not only is illegal but it violates the U.S. Constitution’s requirement of separation of powers.
“These offenses, along with other errors in judgment by some at the C.I.A., demonstrate a tremendous failure of leadership, and there must be consequences,” he added.
Committee Democrats have spent more than five years working on a report about the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program during the Bush administration, which employed brutal interrogation methods like waterboarding. Parts of that report, which concluded that the techniques yielded little valuable information and that C.I.A. officials consistently misled the White House and Congress about the efficacy of the techniques, are expected to be made public some time this month. Committee Republicans withdrew from the investigation, saying that it was a partisan smear and without credibility because it was based solely on documents and that there were no plans to interview C.I.A. officers who ran the program.
According to David B. Buckley, the C.I.A. inspector general, three of the agency’s information technology officers and two of its lawyers “improperly accessed or caused access” to a computer network designated for members of the committee’s staff working on the report to sift through millions of documents at a C.I.A. site in Northern Virginia. The names of those involved are unavailable because the full report has not yet been made public.
The C.I.A. officials penetrated the computer network when they came to suspect that the committee’s staff had gained unauthorized access to an internal C.I.A. review of the detention program that the spy agency never intended to give to Congress. A C.I.A. lawyer then referred the agency’s suspicions to the Justice Department to determine whether the committee staff broke the law when it obtained that document. The inspector general report said that there was no “factual basis” for this referral, which the Justice Department has declined to investigate, because the lawyer had been provided inaccurate information. The report said that the three information technology officers “demonstrated a lack of candor about their activities” during interviews with the inspector general.
John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, apologized to two senators in connection with the penetration of a computer network.
John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, apologized to two senators in connection with the penetration of a computer network.Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press
The dispute brought relations between the spy agency and lawmakers to a new low, as the two sides traded a host of accusations — from computer hacking to violating constitutional principles of separation of powers.
At a tense meeting earlier this week in which Ms. Feinstein and Mr. Chambliss were briefed by Mr. Brennan on the report, Ms. Feinstein confronted Mr. Brennan over his past public statements on the issue, in which he defended the agency’s actions, and his implicit criticism of her.
When the C.I.A.’s monitoring of the committee became public in March, after months of private meetings and growing bitterness, Ms. Feinstein took to the Senate floor to deliver a blistering speech accusing the agency of infringing on the committee’s role as overseer.
Calling it a “defining moment” in the committee’s history, Ms. Feinstein said that how the matter was resolved “will show whether the Intelligence Committee can be effective in monitoring and investigating our nation’s intelligence activities, or whether our work can be thwarted by those we oversee.”
Hours later, Mr. Brennan was publicly questioned about the dispute and said that “when the facts come out on this, I think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong.”
Mr. Brennan said at the time that he had referred the matter to the agency’s inspector general “to make sure that he was able to look honestly and objectively at what the C.I.A. did.”
The White House publicly defended Mr. Brennan on Thursday, saying he had taken “responsible steps” to address the behavior of C.I.A. employees, which he said included suggesting an investigation, accepting its results and appointing an accountability board.
Asked whether the results of the investigation presented a credibility issue for Mr. Brennan, Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said, “Not at all.”
Crediting Mr. Brennan with playing an “instrumental role” in helping the United States government destroy Al Qaeda’s leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mr. Earnest said, “He is somebody who has a very difficult job, who does that job extraordinarily well.”
Ms. Feinstein called Mr. Brennan’s apology and decision to set up an accountability board “positive first steps,” and said the inspector general report “corrects the record.” A separate investigation, led by the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms, has yet to be completed.
But others took a much harder line. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, called the C.I.A.’s actions “appalling.” Senator Angus King of Maine, an independent, said that the spy agency’s actions violated both the spirit and the letter of the constitutional separation of powers.
As he put it: “How do we do our oversight if we can’t believe what is being represented to us in our committee?”
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Thursday, September 4th 2014
New batch of IRS email documents revealing that under former IRS official Lois Lerner, the agency seems to acknowledge having needlessly solicited donor lists from non-profit political groups.
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Sunday, September 7th, 2014
Says his comment about extremists being a JV team "wasn't specifically referring to" Islamic State.
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Friday September 12th, 2014
Bidens in ChYna: BHR invests $1.7billion in CCP-linked petroleum and chemical company.
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>>170022, >>170023
October 2014
CIA Vault 7 Info released in March 7, 2017
Interesting BYTE of information on how CIA was involved in gaining access to cars/trucks to kill people.. around the time of the article coming back out by Rolling Stone
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
November 2015: Clinton said in a speech to Deutsche Bank that there were hourly attempted hacks on personal emails during her tenure at the state department.
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Sunday, OCTOBER 12, 2014
Investigation into missing Iraqi cash ended in Lebanon Bunker.
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October 21st, 2014
'''Kanye & Kim meet with pResident Hussein to help w/ celebrity “pull” in coming 2014 elections
(Spoiler: Republicans take lead in election).. '''
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Kanye West & Kim K Meet W Hussein to figure a way to divide the American people more on race, gain support for Demoncrat ticket.it doesn’t work
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November 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
The State Department does not reveal Clinton's private email address when responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
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6d6c86 No.170124
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a38ppb/primary-sources-emails-show-fbi-worked-to-debunk-conspiracy-theories-following-michael-hastings-death
Primary Sources: Emails Show FBI Worked to Debunk 'Conspiracy Theories' Following Michael Hastings' Death.
Primary Sources: Emails Show FBI Worked to Debunk 'Conspiracy Theories' Following Michael Hastings' Death
After journalist Michael Hastings died in a car crash, the FBI scrambled to respond to questions about their investigation of him.
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By Jason Leopold
December 3, 2014, 2:40pm
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When journalist Michael Hastings died in a car crash in Los Angeles last year, rumors immediately began to surface on social media suggesting his death was tied to a federal investigation into his work.
The claims attracted widespread media interest when WikiLeaks tweeted the day after the crash that Hastings had contacted the anti-secrecy group's attorney and said that the FBI was investigating him. The FBI was then bombarded by inquiries from journalists who tried to confirm or deny the allegations, and the bureau struggled to come up with a statement to debunk what it referred to as "rampant conspiracy theories."
Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks)June 19, 2013
"While we generally went with policy response of 'can't confirm or deny,' I'm not sure how we're supposed to even look into a tweet that says nothing about what he was allegedly being investigated for," Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman with the FBI's Los Angeles field office, wrote in an email to the FBI's national press office in response to their questions. "I've asked reporters why they're calling LA and they point to the car crash and fact that he appears to have lived here."
VICE News obtained dozens of internal FBI emails that provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the bureau managed the inquiries into Hastings' death and the rare steps it took to shoot down claims that he was the target of a federal probe. The documents were turned over in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit VICE News jointly filed with Ryan Shapiro, a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in FOIA research.
Why was the FBI investigating Michael Hastings' reporting on Bowe Bergdahl? Read more here.
Two days after Hastings died, Eimiller sent an email to Andy Neiman, her counterpart at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), asking whether "fowl play" [sic] was suspected and whether the LAPD issued a statement.
"We're getting slammed with inquiries regarding what appear to be conspiracy theories surrounding Michael Hastings car crash," Eimiller wrote on June 20, 2013. "We're trying to rule out, if possible, any suggestion that Hastings was targeted by someone with the crash based on his alleged involvement as a witness or target of an FBI investigation. I think we're triple-checking but it doesn't appear he was under any sort of investigation."
Neiman responded to Eimiller stating, "LAPD investigators have not identified any evidence that suggests fowl play [sic] in the tragic fatal collision. The preliminary findings have lead investigators to believe that collision was a solo vehicle collision with speed being a primary factor. The investigation is ongoing. I hope that helps a little."
That day, Eimiller also sent out an email to FBI special agents across the country under the subject line "Urgent Media Issue" and linked to a New York magazine report about the growing conspiracy theories surrounding Hastings' death. She said the reports had attracted the interest of then-FBI Director Robert Mueller and the Department of Justice, and that FBI headquarters "would like to debunk growing conspiracy theory if possible (assuming that's what it is)."
"Has anyone's division been contacted in relation to an FBI investigation that may have led to foul play in the car crash death Tuesday of reporter, Michael Hastings," Eimiller wrote. "There are many reports on the Internet that Hastings was being investigated by the FBI. He died in a car accident in LA on Tuesday. Before his death, according to a tweet, he told others he worried he was the subject of an investigation. None of this is confirmed and the LAPD is reporting no foul play in car crash based on evidence. This is getting the attention of DOJ and the Director's Office."
Police in Washington, DC are using the secretive 'Stingray' cell phone tracking tool. Read more here.
FBI intelligence analysts were tasked with searching "all systems" to ensure there weren't any records to suggest Hastings was the subject of an investigation. FBI officials searched several of its databases and did not turn up any documents on Hastings. Additionally, the bureau's criminal division said Hastings was not on their radar.
"If all other divisions are comfortable that they have checked with the right contacts within your respective division, we'll advise HQ that we have not been contacted regarding this matter," Eimiller wrote. "We are getting ready to push out a statement to the press ruling out any investigation and want to ensure no info yet to be entered into the system surfaces after the fact."
The statement originally said, according to an email FBI headquarters spokesman Paul Bresson sent to his colleagues at the bureau and the Department of Justice, "At no time was Michael Hastings, or anything related to his work as a journalist, ever under investigation by the FBI."
Typically when the FBI is questioned about whether it is conducting an investigation, it responds by stating that it can neither "confirm nor deny."
Justice Department spokeswoman Nanda Chitre said in an email that someone else suggested the statement should be changed: "At no time was journalist Michael Hastings ever under investigation by the FBI."
The change is significant because the FBI did have one file about Hastings' work. On June 11, 2012, the FBI's Washington field office opened a file and submitted "unclassified media articles" to it in order to "memorialize controversial reporting by Rolling Stone magazine on June 7, 2012."
The articles in question included an investigative report Hastings wrote about the disappearance of US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who was rescued by special forces earlier this year in exchange for five Taliban Guantanamo detainees.
Hey everybody - shut up about Bowe Bergdahl. Read more here.
The FBI located the three-page file on Hastings in a "cross-reference" file that pertained to an international terrorism investigation involving Bergdahl's disappearance. The bureau turned over the file about two months after Hastings died.
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It's unclear why the document did not turn up when FBI agents and spokespeople searched the bureau's files.
The media inquiries about Hastings continued, despite the FBI's statement denying the rumors. On June 24, Eimiller sent an email to FBI headquarters:
Took a few calls over weekend using the Hastings statement. AP still asking today about it. Reporter says, "We just want to learn more about why Hastings thought FBI was talking to his close friends and associates - obviously rumor mill continues, anything to debunk rumors would be most appreciated .." I told reporter, "I'm not able to help you with credibility of rumors. The FBI has confirmed that Michael Hastings was not under investigation. Not sure I can help you further. Let me know if there is anything I can do, or stop doing, in Los Angeles. Thanks.
"Nope. I think that's perfect Laura," Bresson responded. "Just keep referring to the statement. Appreciate the job you've done on this."
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6d6c86 No.170125
Tuesday, December 9th, 2014
Bidens in ChYna: Hunter Biden and business associate invest $484,920 into BHR
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6d6c86 No.170126
December 2014
Why Hillary Clinton Deleted 33,000 Emails on Her Private Email Server ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-deleted-33000-emails-secretary-state/story?id=42389308
Why Hillary Clinton Deleted 33,000 Emails on Her Private Email Server(ABC "News")
– Donald Trump ended one of the sharpest exchanges in last night's debate against Hillary Clinton with a pointed question: "Why did she delete 33,000 emails?"
Clinton is doing her best to move beyond the controversy over her use of a private email server as secretary of state, saying only last night that she "made a mistake" and declining to address why those emails were deleted. She didn't answer Trump's questions. However, there is an answer.
The bottom line: Clinton believed the deleted emails were not work-related.
In late 2014, the State Department asked Clinton and other former secretaries of state to hand over any work-related emails they may have.
By then, Clinton had already "deleted some [emails] over time as an ordinary user would," FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers at a July congressional hearing.
And she tasked her legal team to determine which of the roughly 60,000 emails still on her server were work-related.
"Clinton told the FBI that she directed her legal team to provide any work-related or arguably work-related emails to State; however she did not participate in the development of the specific process to be used or in discussions of the locations of where her emails might exist," the FBI concluded in its investigative summary of the case.
Comey testified that the FBI "didn't find any evidence of evil intent and intent to obstruct justice."
To determine which emails were work-related, a member of Clinton’s legal team did four things: she automatically deemed any email sent from or to a .gov and .mil address as related to work; she searched the tens of thousands of emails for names of senior State Department officials, lawmakers, foreign leaders and other government officials; she conducted a keyword search for work-related terms; and she looked at the sender, recipient and "subject" of every email for other potentially work-related emails, but she did not read the contents of those emails.
In December 2014, Clinton’s legal team provided about 30,000 emails totaling 55,000 pages to the State Department.
"[Clinton] then was asked by her lawyers at the end, 'Do you want us to keep the personal emails?' And she said, 'I have no use for them anymore.' It's then that they issued the direction that the technical people delete them," Comey told lawmakers.
In total, more than 30,000 emails were deleted "because they were personal and private about matters that I believed were within the scope of my personal privacy," Clinton told reporters in March of 2015, as the controversy around her private emails was growing.
"They had nothing to do with work," Clinton added. "I didn't see any reason to keep them … no one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy."
Clinton said her team "went through a thorough process" to identify work-related emails, and she said he had "absolute confidence that everything that could be in any way connected to work is now in the possession of the State Department."
However, after a year-long investigation, the FBI recovered more than 17,000 emails that had been deleted or otherwise not turned over to the State Department, and many of them were work-related, the FBI has said.
Republican critics have accused Clinton of using a private server and ultimately deleting emails to skirt federal records laws aimed at promoting transparency, and earlier this month the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said, "The sequence of events leading up to the destruction of Secretary Clinton’s emails … raises questions about whether Secretary Clinton, acting through her attorneys, instructed [aides and others] to destroy records relevant to" a Congressional investigation of the deadly Benghazi attack.
At the July hearing before Chaffetz's committee, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked Comey, "Did Secretary Clinton know her legal team deleted those emails that they kept from [Congress]?"
"I don't believe so," Comey responded.
During Monday night's debate, Trump promised to release his tax returns "when she releases her 33,000 emails that have been deleted," adding that he would "go against" the advice of his lawyers "if she releases her emails."
Moderator Lester Holt then asked Trump if that meant releasing his tax returns was negotiable.
Trump responded: "It's not negotiable. No, let her release her emails. Why did she delete 33,000 emails?"
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