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  • Whistleblower claims CIA intervened in probe of Hunter Biden

    03/21/2024 6:18:25 PM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 11 replies
    The CIA stopped federal investigators from interviewing a key witness in their tax fraud investigation into President Biden’s son Hunter Biden.That’s the claim of a whistleblower who has provided the bombshell allegation to House lawmakers investigating the president’s involvement in his son’s business schemes.(snip)Two Justice Department officials assigned to the investigation were summoned to the CIA’s Langley, Virginia, headquarters ahead of their interview of Mr. Morris.“At that meeting, it was communicated that Mr. Morris could not be a witness during the investigation,” House lawmakers said in a letter sent Wednesday to CIA Director William J. Burns.The top Republicans on the...
  • CIA Tried to Pay Off Analysts to Bury Findings That COVID Lab Leak Was Likely: Whistleblower

    09/12/2023 2:49:26 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    New York Post ^ | Sep. 12, 2023 | Josh Christenson
    The Central Intelligence Agency offered to pay off analysts in order to bury their findings that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, new whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges. A senior-level CIA officer told House committee leaders that his agency tried to pay off six analysts who found SARS-CoV-2 likely originated in a Wuhan lab if they changed their position and said the virus jumped from animals to humans, according to a letter sent Tuesday to CIA Director William Burns. Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman...
  • Whistleblower alleges CIA offered officials money to change view of COVID origins

    09/12/2023 8:04:10 AM PDT · by libstripper · 28 replies
    Fox News ^ | 9/12/2023 | Brooke Singman
    FIRST ON FOX: A CIA whistleblower told Congress that the agency offered officials on a team investigating COVID-19 origins "significant monetary incentive" to change their positions, from that it originated out of a leak from the Wuhan lab to "unable to determine" the origins, Fox News Digital has learned. Fox News Digital obtained letters House Coronavirus Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner sent to the CIA and a former official. "The Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have received new and concerning whistleblower testimony regarding the Agency’s...
  • Who Are the Names in Jeffrey Epstein’s Calendar?

    09/04/2023 9:12:32 AM PDT · by DFG · 17 replies
    WSJ ^ | 09/02/2023 | Khadeeja Safdar and David Benoit
    A multipart investigation by The Wall Street Journal has revealed prominent people who met multiple times with Jeffrey Epstein. The Journal’s reporting, based on thousands of pages of emails and schedules largely from 2013 to 2017, also provides new details about how often or where people met with Epstein, and the kinds of favors Epstein did for them. It shows Epstein had contacts with an array of powerful people long after he was a registered sex offender. He had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution. He was arrested again in 2019 on sex-trafficking charges,...
  • EXC: Biden Just Picked A CIA Director With A 7-Year-Long Relationship With Chinese Communist Party Fronts

    01/20/2021 2:17:25 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 59 replies
    The National Pulse ^ | ANUARY 20, 2021 | NATALIE WINTERS
    Bill Burns – Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency – serves as the President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace which has over a decade-long relationship with the China-United States Exchange Foundation and other Chinese Communist Party-linked groups. Burns has served as President of the think tank since 2014, overseeing its involvement with the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) which dates back to at least 2009. CUSEF – part of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front effort that seeks to “co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition” and encourage foreign actors to “adopt positions supportive of...
  • Chinese Communist Party Funds Washington Think Tanks

    08/24/2018 11:47:38 PM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 19 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | August 24, 2018 4:55 pm | Bill Gertz
    China's Communist Party is intensifying covert influence operations in the United States that include funding Washington think tanks and coercing Chinese Americans, according to a congressional commission report. The influence operations are conducted by the United Front Work Department, a Central Committee organ that employs tens of thousands of operatives who seek to use both overt and covert operations to promote Communist Party policies. The Party's United Front strategy includes paying several Washington think tanks with the goal influencing their actions and adopting positions that support Beijing's policies. "The [Chinese Communist Party] has sought to influence academic discourse on China...
  • Biden names CIA Director William Burns to his cabinet​

    07/21/2023 4:49:31 PM PDT · by cuz1961 · 40 replies
    Reuters ( rotorooters) ^ | July 21, 2023 | Andrea Shalal and Kanishka Singh
    WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday said he had asked CIA Director William Burns to become a member of his cabinet, elevating one of his closest advisers on national security and foreign policy. . .... He "has made a significant contribution to national security decision-making, especially with regard to Russia and China" Glaser said.
  • REPORT: Biden’s CIA Director Met With Jeffrey Epstein Multiple Times After Child Sex Crimes Conviction, Docs Show

    05/01/2023 7:53:12 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 14 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | April 30, 2023 4:06 PM ET | JAMES LYNCH
    Newly released documents revealed Biden-appointed CIA Director William Burns met with deceased financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on multiple occasions after he was convicted of sex crimes in Florida, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. The private calendar and emails show Epstein scheduled three meetings with Burns in 2014 when Burns was deputy secretary of state under President Obama, according to WSJ. Their first meeting was planned for August in the Washington, DC office of law firm Steptoe & Johnson and the next two were booked for Epstein’s Manhattan, New York townhouse, the documents show. Epstein planned on having...
  • Epstein’s Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief, Goldman’s Top Lawyer

    04/30/2023 12:41:43 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 18 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 4/30/2023 | Khadeeja Safdar and David Benoit
    The nation’s spy chief, a longtime college president and top women in finance. The circle of people who associated with Jeffrey Epstein years after he was a convicted sex offender is wider than previously reported, according to a trove of documents that include his schedules. William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014, when he was deputy secretary of state, the documents show. They first met in Washington and then Mr. Burns visited Epstein’s townhouse in Manhattan. Kathryn Ruemmler, a White House counsel under President Barack Obama, had dozens of...
  • Epstein's tangled tentacles: Pedophile met with current CIA Director William Burns, Obama White House lawyer, Noam Chomsky and music director for the American Symphony Orchestra in the years AFTER his sex offense conviction

    04/30/2023 12:42:17 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 11 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | April 30 2023 | ANDREA CAVALLIER
    Jeffrey Epstein's newly-released private calendar revealed he had scheduled meetings with a slew of prominent individuals, including the current CIA director, after he was convicted as a sex offender. The documents contain emails and scheduled meetings with now-CIA Director William Burns, Bard College president Leon Botstein, Obama's White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler and professor Noam Chomsky. The meetings were scheduled between 2013 to 2017 after the pedophile had served time in jail in 2008 for sex crimes involving a teenage girl.
  • Joe Biden Offered Vladimir Putin 20 Percent of Ukraine to End War: Report

    02/02/2023 1:47:45 PM PST · by fluorescence · 160 replies
    Newsweak ^ | 2/2/23 | Isabel van Brugen
    The White House and the CIA have responded to a report that CIA Director, William Burns, offered Russian President Vladimir Putin a fifth of Ukraine's territory to end the ongoing war as part of a peace plan drawn up on behalf of President Joe Biden. A CIA official told Newsweek that claims in the report from Swiss-German newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) that Burns took a secret trip to Moscow in January and that there was a peace proposal put forward by the director on behalf of the White House were "completely false." Last month, Burns traveled in secret to...
  • CIA Director William Burns held secret meeting with Ukraine’s Zelensky on Russia moves

    01/20/2023 7:38:08 AM PST · by JonPreston · 28 replies
    NY Post ^ | 1/20/23 | Snejana Farberov
    In addition to discussing Burns’ expectations for Russia’s upcoming military plans, the paper said, the CIA chief also warned the Ukrainian leader that at some point US assistance would be harder to come by.
  • EXCLUSIVE: CIA Director’s Former Think Tank Hired Experts From Nonprofits Controlled By Chinese Spy Agencies

    11/11/2022 9:00:56 AM PST · by DFG · 6 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 11/11/2022 | Philip Lenczycki
    An elite Washington, D.C., think tank has employed individuals who’ve worked for front groups controlled by Chinese spy agencies, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has employed over a dozen individuals who’ve worked in a range of capacities at China-based nonprofits set up or co-opted by Chinese intelligence agencies, including the Ministry of State Security (MSS) and the intel arm of the People’s Liberation Army. These individuals have served as experts in various policy areas, including international relations, American politics and nuclear policy while working at both the think tank’s D.C. headquarters and...
  • Brazil election: Why it matters so much to the US

    09/21/2022 7:48:10 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 50 replies
    BBC News ^ | September 21, 2021 | Mariana Sanches
    In less than two weeks, one of the world's biggest democracies will hold what many are describing as its most important presidential election in years. The US has been watching this vote in Brazil closely. Why? There aren't many issues that staunch opponents in Washington ever agree on. But they are united on this. "This is going to be one of the most intense and dramatic elections in the 21st Century," former Trump aide Steve Bannon tells the BBC. "The fate of Brazil's democracy and of US relations with Brazil will be decided in the upcoming election," says Senator Patrick...
  • U.S.-China Relations under Barack Obama and Xi Jinping (Tsinghua U. hosts Pro-Obama Seminar)

    06/24/2013 1:25:37 AM PDT · by TexGrill
    Tsinghua University ^ | 11/29/2012 | Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy
    The reelection of President Barack Obama and the convening of China’s 18th National Congress marks a new era for U.S.-China relations. On November 29, the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy hosted Jeffrey Bader for a public forum to discuss these and related issues facing the Obama and Xi administrations. Bader is the John C. Whitehead senior fellow in international diplomacy at the Brookings Institution. He served as senior director for East Asian affairs on the National Security Council during President Obama’s first term, and is the author of Obama and China’s Rise: An Insider’s Account of America’s Asian Strategy. In...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s CIA Director Employed Undisclosed Chinese Communist Party Members While Heading Elite DC Think Tank

    08/15/2022 7:18:05 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | August 14, 2022 9:04 PM ET | PHILIP LENCZYCKI INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
    * CIA Director William Burns formerly headed a prominent D.C. think tank while it employed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found. * Carnegie employed at least 20 CCP members while Burns was president, four of whom were brought on during his tenure, the DCNF found. * “If any Communist Party members have easy access to any sensitive information whatsoever, they’re certain to get a visit from Chinese intelligence,” a former vice-presidential national security adviser said. ============================================================== Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns formerly headed an influential D.C. think tank while it employed undisclosed...
  • CIA Director Admits US Lied About Iran Nuclear Program - - The Persian country stopped and did not resume its nuclear weapons program.

    07/24/2022 1:27:54 PM PDT · by elpadre · 91 replies
    theinteldrop.com ^ | July 24, 2022 | Lucas Leiroz
    American officials are starting to admit Washington’s lies about Iran. William Burns, director of the CIA, said on Wednesday, July 20, that Iran has never resumed its nuclear weapons production program since it was interrupted, in 2004. The statement only confirms the suspicion of several analysts around the world, but it is truly impressive that it came from the head of American intelligence. Indeed, it reveals that Washington really bases its interventionist foreign policy on lies and distortions. During his speech at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, Director Burns stated: “Our best intelligence judgment is that the Iranians have...
  • Stalled and frustrated, Putin will likely double-down in the coming weeks, CIA says

    03/08/2022 12:41:20 PM PST · by SpeedyInTexas · 63 replies
    NPR ^ | 08-MAR-2022 | GREG MYRE
    ... The CIA director said Putin premised his war on four false assumptions: he thought Ukraine was weak, he believed Europe was distracted and wouldn't mount a strong response, he thought Russia's economy was prepared to withstand sanctions, and that Russia's military had been modernized and would fight effectively. "He's been proven wrong on every count," said Burns, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2005-8.
  • The Madness of Russophobia

    02/28/2022 4:05:49 PM PST · by oblomov · 95 replies
    Chronicles ^ | Feb. 2022 | Srdja Trifkovic
    “Rule One, on page one of the book of war, is: ‘Do not march on Moscow,’” Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery told the House of Lords in 1962. “Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good.” The victor of El Alamein made an understatement. Napoleon’s invasion in June 1812 took him to Moscow but ended in a total rout of his Grande Armée. By the end of the year, 95 percent of its 600,000 men were dead or taken prisoner. Hitler’s repeat attempt in 1941 cost him the war, with over 80 percent of German military...
  • Pentagon Spokesman Says Climate Change Is As Big A National Security Threat As China

    11/16/2021 8:27:06 AM PST · by Kaslin · 51 replies
    The Federalist ^ | November 16, 2021 | John Lucas
    The Biden administration’s refusal to distinguish between our principal military adversary and climate change is yet more evidence that the military is following ideology instead of winning our wars.In a press briefing on November 10, Pentagon spokesman retired Adm. John Kirby gave further evidence of the Biden administration’s incoherent national strategy. He refused to distinguish between China and “climate change” as threats to U.S. national security.In response to a question of “which is a bigger threat, the climate or China?” Kirby said, “You’ve heard the secretary talk about the climate as a — a real and existential national security threat...