Trump transition team bypassing FBI background checks on Cabinet picks: Report
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Why Matt Gaetz Matters
Novenmber 17, 2024 | By Scott Ritter
Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump's nominee to be the next Attorney General of the United States President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Matt Gaetz to be the next Attorney General of the United States. Many Americans are appalled and offended by this choice. I find it one of the best nominations made by Trump. Let me tell you why. And please take note—it is personal.
Let's get the easy part over with upfront.
On paper, Matt Gaetz isn't qualified to be the Attorney General of the United States.
And he operates under a dark cloud of controversy which, under normal circumstances, would be automatically disqualifying.
And I'll add this—if Matt Gaetz is found criminally guilty of any of the things he has been alleged to have committed, then he is, in fact, automatically disqualified.
But herein lies the rub: he has not been found guilty of anything.
And in America, you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The House Ethics Committee is not a court of law.
It is, however, a highly politicized body fully capable of being weaponized to bring down one of the most polarizing figures in modern American political history.
There are those clamoring for the House Ethics Committee to release a report that had been prepared concerning various allegations of potentially illegal conduct on the part of Matt Gaetz.
There is no doubt that this report was prepared by the political enemies of Matt Gaetz, both Republican (remember, he single-handedly brought down a Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy) and Democrat alike.
Matt Gaetz has resigned from his seat in Congress.
The Ethics Committee no longer has jurisdiction over Matt Gaetz.
This politicized report should be consigned to the trash bin of history.
If Matt Gaetz has committed a crime, then he should be charged in criminal court.
Otherwise, sit down and shut up.
Why, one may ask, would I take such a position?
Larry Sanchez, the former CIA Liaison to the US Mission to the United Nations Back in August 1998 I was informed by Larry Sanchez, the CIA's liaison to the US Mission to the United Nations, that if I resigned my position as a Chief Weapons Inspector with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), the FBI would, quote, "fuck me in the ass" for the rest of my life.
I resigned on a matter of principle, fed up with years of US interference in the disarmament work me and my fellow UNSCOM inspectors were tasked with conducting.
Larry Sanchez was not lying.
The same day I submitted my resignation, the FBI leaked to CBS News the fact that it was investigating me on charges of spying on behalf of Israel.
Left unsaid by Dan Rather, the CBS Nightly newscaster, was that the FBI investigation was related to intelligence liaison work I was conducting on behalf of UNSCOM, based upon an agreement reached between the CIA (yes, Larry Sanchez) and the UNSCOM Chairman, Rolf Ekeus, back in July 1995, and sustained by Richard Butler when he took over from Ambassador Ekeus in the summer of 1997. The FBI investigation was opened in 1996 at the behest of disgruntled CIA employees in the Iraq Operations Group (IOG) who were angry over the access to Israeli intelligence I was gaining through this cooperation. The IOG openly sabotaged cooperation between UNSCOM and the King of Jordan involving the interception of Russian guidance and control devices that I had coordinated using an intelligence tip-off from Israel, and did the same to a similar intelligence cooperation between UNSCOM and Romania, together with the British MI-6 and Israeli intelligence, to block an Iraqi attempt to covertly buy a controlling share of a Romanian aerospace company that manufactured missile components.
The FBI had been following me since 1995, shortly after the cooperation with Israel began. At the heart of the matter was film produced by American U-2 spy planes operating on behalf of UNSCOM while overflying Iraq. I was running the U-2 project for UNSCOM at the time, helping direct the flights of the U-2 and coordinating with the US regarding the interpretation of the film. The CIA, however, was unresponsive to my requests for better imagery and dedicated photographic analysts. As such, I had reached out to Israel to see if they would help with the interpretation of the film and, as a byproduct of this relationship, open their intelligence files to answer any questions that emerged from the examination of the film.
This angered the CIA’s IOG, who turned me into the FBI, claiming I was turning classified material over to Israel.
The problem was the IOG was wrong—the film in question, marked "Secret" by the CIA, was automatically declassified when it was turned over to UNSCOM. Thus, even thought the film was marked "Secret—Releasable to UNSCOM," this marking had no legal weight—the film was unclassified for the simple fact that UNSCOM personnel working with the imagery had no security clearances.
When the FBI told Larry Sanchez in the summer of 1998 that they were going to arrest me, Larry went to the CIA's legal counsel and had a letter prepared which explained this to the FBI.
This means that when I resigned, the FBI knew that there was no legal case against me.
And yet they released the existence of the investigation to CBS News for political reasons—to "fuck me in the ass" for daring to resign against the desires of the US government.
This is not a lawful duty of the FBI, and yet it is exactly the kind of work it engages in daily across the United States—politically motivated investigations using manufactured "evidence" designed to destroy the lives of American citizens who were politically inconvenient to the powers that be.
Please go to Scott Ritter's substack to read the entire accusations against the FBI.
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DOJGATE COMMENCES: The US Intel Community Clusterf*ck Unwinds With All Deliberate Speed
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Why Matt Gaetz Matters
Novenmber 17, 2024 | By Scott Ritter
Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump's nominee to be the next Attorney General of the United States President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Matt Gaetz to be the next Attorney General of the United States. Many Americans are appalled and offended by this choice. I find it one of the best nominations made by Trump. Let me tell you why. And please take note—it is personal.
Let's get the easy part over with upfront.
On paper, Matt Gaetz isn't qualified to be the Attorney General of the United States.
His résumé is paper thin.
And he operates under a dark cloud of controversy which, under normal circumstances, would be automatically disqualifying.
And I'll add this—if Matt Gaetz is found criminally guilty of any of the things he has been alleged to have committed, then he is, in fact, automatically disqualified.
But herein lies the rub: he has not been found guilty of anything.
And in America, you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The House Ethics Committee is not a court of law.
It is, however, a highly politicized body fully capable of being weaponized to bring down one of the most polarizing figures in modern American political history.
There are those clamoring for the House Ethics Committee to release a report that had been prepared concerning various allegations of potentially illegal conduct on the part of Matt Gaetz.
There is no doubt that this report was prepared by the political enemies of Matt Gaetz, both Republican (remember, he single-handedly brought down a Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy) and Democrat alike.
Matt Gaetz has resigned from his seat in Congress.
The Ethics Committee no longer has jurisdiction over Matt Gaetz.
This politicized report should be consigned to the trash bin of history.
If Matt Gaetz has committed a crime, then he should be charged in criminal court.
Otherwise, sit down and shut up.
Why, one may ask, would I take such a position?
Larry Sanchez, the former CIA Liaison to the US Mission to the United Nations Back in August 1998 I was informed by Larry Sanchez, the CIA's liaison to the US Mission to the United Nations, that if I resigned my position as a Chief Weapons Inspector with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), the FBI would, quote, "fuck me in the ass" for the rest of my life.
I resigned on a matter of principle, fed up with years of US interference in the disarmament work me and my fellow UNSCOM inspectors were tasked with conducting.
Larry Sanchez was not lying.
The same day I submitted my resignation, the FBI leaked to CBS News the fact that it was investigating me on charges of spying on behalf of Israel.
Left unsaid by Dan Rather, the CBS Nightly newscaster, was that the FBI investigation was related to intelligence liaison work I was conducting on behalf of UNSCOM, based upon an agreement reached between the CIA (yes, Larry Sanchez) and the UNSCOM Chairman, Rolf Ekeus, back in July 1995, and sustained by Richard Butler when he took over from Ambassador Ekeus in the summer of 1997. The FBI investigation was opened in 1996 at the behest of disgruntled CIA employees in the Iraq Operations Group (IOG) who were angry over the access to Israeli intelligence I was gaining through this cooperation. The IOG openly sabotaged cooperation between UNSCOM and the King of Jordan involving the interception of Russian guidance and control devices that I had coordinated using an intelligence tip-off from Israel, and did the same to a similar intelligence cooperation between UNSCOM and Romania, together with the British MI-6 and Israeli intelligence, to block an Iraqi attempt to covertly buy a controlling share of a Romanian aerospace company that manufactured missile components.
The FBI had been following me since 1995, shortly after the cooperation with Israel began. At the heart of the matter was film produced by American U-2 spy planes operating on behalf of UNSCOM while overflying Iraq. I was running the U-2 project for UNSCOM at the time, helping direct the flights of the U-2 and coordinating with the US regarding the interpretation of the film. The CIA, however, was unresponsive to my requests for better imagery and dedicated photographic analysts. As such, I had reached out to Israel to see if they would help with the interpretation of the film and, as a byproduct of this relationship, open their intelligence files to answer any questions that emerged from the examination of the film.
This angered the CIA’s IOG, who turned me into the FBI, claiming I was turning classified material over to Israel.
The problem was the IOG was wrong—the film in question, marked "Secret" by the CIA, was automatically declassified when it was turned over to UNSCOM. Thus, even thought the film was marked "Secret—Releasable to UNSCOM," this marking had no legal weight—the film was unclassified for the simple fact that UNSCOM personnel working with the imagery had no security clearances.
When the FBI told Larry Sanchez in the summer of 1998 that they were going to arrest me, Larry went to the CIA's legal counsel and had a letter prepared which explained this to the FBI.
This means that when I resigned, the FBI knew that there was no legal case against me.
And yet they released the existence of the investigation to CBS News for political reasons—to "fuck me in the ass" for daring to resign against the desires of the US government.
This is not a lawful duty of the FBI, and yet it is exactly the kind of work it engages in daily across the United States—politically motivated investigations using manufactured "evidence" designed to destroy the lives of American citizens who were politically inconvenient to the powers that be.
Please go to Scott Ritter's substack to read the entire accusations against the FBI.
________
Related:
DOJGATE COMMENCES: The US Intel Community Clusterf*ck Unwinds With All Deliberate Speed
The FBI can and does go after anyone they want to with complete impunity and this must stop:
FBI seizes Polymarket CEO’s phone, electronics after betting platform predicts Trump win: source
FBI seizes Polymarket CEO’s phone, electronics after betting platform predicts Trump win: source
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