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Post by oilsooner on Jun 23, 2018 20:25:06 GMT -6
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Post by trumped on Jun 23, 2018 22:14:16 GMT -6
Read thistweet thread about Trump being anti communist and delves into his past from young age to now. Really great info:
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Daniel Ashman Daniel Ashman @dashman76 1. @realdonaldtrump is an anti-Communist.
The corrupt secret police crap perpetrated by #Weasel Comey + Hillary is stuff Trump understands and detests even more than we do. He will end them.
We'll look at the decisive historical evidence contained in his personal relations..
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 24, 2018 5:59:59 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 24, 2018 12:15:56 GMT -6
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ BREAKING: Sally Moyer, aka "Agent 5," is a registered Democrat. She rooted for Hillary to win & IM'd "f*ck Trump" when she didn't. As FBI's Nat'l Security Law Branch chief, Moyer told agents investigating Hillary which evidence from her devices they could use & which they couldnt 11:22 AM - Jun 24, 2018 2,543 2,032 people are talking abo
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2018 6:12:42 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-24/and-just-mueller-investigation-was-overAnd Just Like That... The Mueller Investigation Was Over Profile picture for user Tyler Durden by Tyler Durden Sun, 06/24/2018 - 20:55 350 SHARES TwitterFacebookRedditEmailPrint Authored by Kurt Nimmo via Another Day In The Empire blog, The corporate media is reporting intrepid crusader Robert Mueller is preparing to do a Pontius Pilate on his special council investigation of Russia and the Trump campaign. According to WaPo, Mueller has beefed up his team with a number of prosecutors and the job of prosecuting Russian nationals for supposedly influencing the 2016 election will be fobbed off on them. “The Post reports that the new hires are the first indication of Mueller preparing for the end of his investigation,” WaPo reported. The Trump component is in the process of performing a disappearing act in slow motion. The investigation petered out months ago. Democrats continued to pound on it. Because it’s all they have. The establishment Resistance run by Pelosi and Schumer is treading water and looking toward the midterms. It’s like simple math. There is no evidence Trump or his associates colluded with Putin and the Russians to somehow - through the exaggerated influence of social media - throw the election in his favor. This nonsense was dispelled early on. It’s true. Enterprising Russians ran a lucrative clickbait scheme on social media - just like hundreds of other entrepreneurs. It took the the Democrats - fresh off a humiliating defeat to a casino and real estate windbag - to make up a fantasy deserving of a novel discount bin. Establishment Dems counted on the corporate media to whip up the required hysteria and frenzy among already hysterical and frenzied liberals. Many apparently sought trauma counseling after the election. Even with the media lavishing coverage on the Mueller investigation, it has failed to do much of anything except get Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, and others in trouble - not for working under Putin’s direction to get the MAGA candidate elected, but for alleged bank fraud and violation of campaign finance laws. This is pretty routine stuff in Washington. Mueller doesn’t have a case and he knows it. Now he will save face by passing off the investigation to underlings. Meanwhile, the rest of us get respite - until the next drummed up load of horse manure masquerading as high crimes and misdemeanors appears on the scene. Not to worry. There are always stories of political intrigue to fascinate the proles - for fifteen minutes at least - and distract from the real issues: endless war and a bankster rigged economy slowly turning America into a third world cesspool. I am celebrating this decision. I am celebrating that it will mostly disappear from the news cycle. I am celebrating petulant Democrats suffering another defeat and also celebrating denying self-righteous Republicans a chance to climb up on their soapboxes. Of course, they’ll come up with something else, they always do. The establishment political class is not about to stop rolling out distractions that are poorly planned political theater stunts that could use better writing and managerial skills.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2018 8:23:10 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/06/24/clare-cos-exposed-awan-theft-allegations/A top aide to Democrat Rep. Yvette Clarke told Capitol Hill investigators she believed the New York congresswoman’s chief of staff, Shelley Davis, was working with IT aide Abid Awan to steal equipment from the congressional office. Clarke “wrote off” one-tenth of her annual budget after $120,000 in equipment could not be located. She did not mention it publicly and waited to fire Abid until House officials approached her about it months later. Davis no longer works there, but has not been arrested. Rep. Yvette Clarke’s deputy chief of staff came into the office on a Saturday in December 2015 and caught the New York Democrat’s part-time IT aide, Abid Awan, rummaging through the congresswoman’s work area with new iPods and other equipment strewn around the room, according to a House document and interviews with Hill staff. Wendy Anderson told Abid to get out of the office, the document said. She told Capitol Hill investigators that she soon suspected Clarke’s chief of staff, Shelley Davis, was working with Abid on a theft scheme, multiple House staffers with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Caller News Foundation. They also said that Anderson pushed for Abid’s firing. But Clarke did not fire Abid until six months after the congresswoman formally acknowledged that $120,000 in equipment was missing, records show — not until after House investigators independently announced a review that would potentially catch financial discrepancies. Even then, Anderson told investigators she believed another top staffer in Clarke’s office was subverting their efforts, a House staffer with knowledge of the investigation said. Four months later, Anderson took a job with another congressional office. Clarke’s office declined to say under what terms she left. Abid — known in the office as Omar — and his brothers, fellow IT workers Imran Awan and Jamal Awan, are suspected of making “unauthorized access” to congressional servers during the 2016 election and of running a theft scheme, according to the House Inspector General (IG). Together, the family had access to all the emails and files of 1 in 5 House Democrats. Members like Clarke have refused to discuss the case. The New York congresswoman, meanwhile, has described Donald Trump’s presidency as the product of an “illegally hacked, illegitimate election.” House Chief Administrative Officer Phil Kiko testified in a public hearing in April that “the House IG discovered evidence of procurement fraud and irregularities [and] numerous violations of House security policies” by the Awans. The alleged procurement fraud included submitting suspicious invoices to bill equipment to House offices. Each invoice requires sign-offs from chiefs of staff or congressmen. House office budgets are tight enough that unnecessary purchases would be hard to miss, three chiefs of staff told TheDCNF. A Feb. 3, 2017 letter from Kiko and the House’s top law enforcement officer, Sergeant-At-Arms Paul Irving, to the Committee on House Administration — kept secret by the House, but obtained by TheDCNF — quotes from notes on an interview with Anderson: Coming in on a Saturday and finding Omar in the office with equipment everywhere. She stated, ‘it looked like Christmas with Apple TV’s, iPods, etc. scattered around the room.’ She stated that Omar told her ‘these items were not her office’s equipment but they belonged to another office.’ She told him to get them out of her member’s office. One House staffer who said Anderson confided in them told TheDCNF of the views she expressed: “She knew it was obviously stolen … What business case would they have had for iPods? … He’s a shared employee, basically a contractor. Why would he be camped out … in her personal office?” “Wendy was actually a truth-sayer, she wanted the right things to happen, enforce rules, and Yvette Clarke did not,” the staffer continued. Anderson was promoted to chief of staff soon after she encountered Abid in Clarke’s office near Christmas 2015. Her predecessor, Davis, departed the payroll on Feb. 11, 2016.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2018 13:52:56 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-25/bait-and-switch-trump-tower-meeting-may-have-been-russian-trick"Bait And Switch": Trump Tower Meeting May Have Been A Russian Trick ...... The intermediary who set up the Trump Tower meeting, Rob Goldstone, said during Congressional testimony reviewed by Breitbart that he believes the June 9, 2016 meeting was a "bait and switch" by a Russian lobbyist who promised "dirt" on Hillary Clinton, and admitted that he used hyperbolic language on purpose to ensure that the meeting would take place. “I, therefore, used the strongest hyperbolic language in order to secure this request from Donald Trump Jr. based on the bare facts I was given,” said Goldstone, a UK publicist and music manager. “It was an example of, I was given very limited information, and my job was to get a meeting, and so I used my professional use of words to emphasize what my client had only given bare-bones information about, in order to get the attention of Mr. Trump Jr.” -Rob Goldstone Goldstone then said "it appeared to me to have been a bait and switch of somebody who appeared to be lobbying for what I now understood to be the Magnitsky act," - which sanctions Russian officials thought to be involved in the death of a Russian tax accountant.
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Post by atl1979 on Jun 25, 2018 16:59:35 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-25/bait-and-switch-trump-tower-meeting-may-have-been-russian-trick"Bait And Switch": Trump Tower Meeting May Have Been A Russian Trick ...... The intermediary who set up the Trump Tower meeting, Rob Goldstone, said during Congressional testimony reviewed by Breitbart that he believes the June 9, 2016 meeting was a "bait and switch" by a Russian lobbyist who promised "dirt" on Hillary Clinton, and admitted that he used hyperbolic language on purpose to ensure that the meeting would take place. “I, therefore, used the strongest hyperbolic language in order to secure this request from Donald Trump Jr. based on the bare facts I was given,” said Goldstone, a UK publicist and music manager. “It was an example of, I was given very limited information, and my job was to get a meeting, and so I used my professional use of words to emphasize what my client had only given bare-bones information about, in order to get the attention of Mr. Trump Jr.” -Rob Goldstone Goldstone then said "it appeared to me to have been a bait and switch of somebody who appeared to be lobbying for what I now understood to be the Magnitsky act," - which sanctions Russian officials thought to be involved in the death of a Russian tax accountant. Does anyone know if it was ever explained why the Russian lawyer met with Fusion GPS before and after the meeting with Jr?
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Post by trumped on Jun 25, 2018 17:02:34 GMT -6
^^^
Failed sting op
Funny thing is all these failed sting ops. We have the most vetted POTUS in history. He is up against the deep state. But he has the deplorables standing with him
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 25, 2018 17:03:59 GMT -6
Does anyone know if it was ever explained why the Russian lawyer met with Fusion GPS before and after the meeting with Jr? Isn't that the same lawyer that magically was allowed into the country?
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2018 18:05:34 GMT -6
www.politico.com/story/2018/06/25/robert-mueller-legitimacy-russians-670356Echoing an argument offered by President Donald Trump himself, a Russian company Mueller has charged with meddling in the 2016 election filed a legal motion Monday seeking to dismiss the case by attacking Mueller’s appointment as a violation of the U.S. Constitution. The filing from American attorneys for St. Petersburg-based Concord Management and Consulting contends that Mueller’s appointment was legally flawed because he was never nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate — nor was he appointed pursuant to a specific law passed by Congress. “Under this Nation’s established constitutional framework, without a proper appointment and express congressional authorization, neither the Attorney General nor his subordinates have the inherent authority to empower a private attorney to investigate and prosecute anyone, regardless of citizenship, when he or she deems it is expedient to do so under jurisdictional ground rules that he or she alone sets down,” Concord’s attorneys wrote. “Here, the Deputy Attorney General and the Special Counsel are attempting to exercise authority neither the Constitution nor Congress has conferred, and this Court should dismiss the Indictment to restore the checks and balances the Constitution demands,” they added. ........... U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee is assigned to this case. Mueller has been begging a federal judge to indefinitely delay the junk Russia bot case since he rolled out an indictment prematurely. Last month, lawyers defending Concord Management, sparred with Mueller’s liberal hacks in court. Concord Management’s lawyers began by accusing Mueller’s team of ignoring over 70 discovery requests. Rather, Mueller’s team offered to give Concord Management’s lawyers a massive amount of social media data from those dangerous trolls who sought to influence the US election and the majority of it is in RUSSIAN. It got worse… Mueller’s lawyers admitted that they don’t even have English translations for the Russian social media posts.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2018 18:08:15 GMT -6
Conversation Paul Sperry Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ BREAKING: Comey had SACs retaliate against field agents who spoke out about his mishandling of the Clinton email investigation. Some critical agents had OPR investigations opened on them. 5:34 PM · Jun 25, 2018 2K Retweets 2.4K Likes
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 25, 2018 18:24:21 GMT -6
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Post by okie52 on Jun 25, 2018 18:55:11 GMT -6
Canadian Comey...has a good ring to it.
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Post by trumped on Jun 25, 2018 19:24:05 GMT -6
Harold Finch Harold Finch @hfinch61 And now we know *why* James @comey killed any deal with @julianassange - because assange was going to prove the Russia DNC hack & election hack claim was a lie, & Comey knew it. It endangered his ILLEGAL COIN investigation of @realdonaldtrump STEALTH JEFF STEALTH JEFF @drawandstrike · 50m And there it is. Comey jumped into the middle of the immunity deal with Assange the SECOND he learned Assange could go public with the technical data that would prove the Russians didn't hack Hillary or the DNC.
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Post by trumped on Jun 25, 2018 19:29:02 GMT -6
Donald J. Trump @realdonaldtrump · 1h The hearing of Peter Strzok and the other hating frauds at the FBI & DOJ should be shown to the public on live television, not a closed door hearing that nobody will see. We should expose these people for what they are - there should be total transparency!
Hell yes!!! Please do this
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Post by okie52 on Jun 25, 2018 19:30:59 GMT -6
Harold Finch Harold Finch @hfinch61 And now we know *why* James @comey killed any deal with @julianassange - because assange was going to prove the Russia DNC hack & election hack claim was a lie, & Comey knew it. It endangered his ILLEGAL COIN investigation of @realdonaldtrump STEALTH JEFF STEALTH JEFF @drawandstrike · 50m And there it is. Comey jumped into the middle of the immunity deal with Assange the SECOND he learned Assange could go public with the technical data that would prove the Russians didn't hack Hillary or the DNC. Wouldn’t surprise me. Assange always said the Russkies weren’t his source.
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Post by trumped on Jun 25, 2018 19:32:06 GMT -6
Harold Finch Harold Finch @hfinch61 And now we know *why* James @comey killed any deal with @julianassange - because assange was going to prove the Russia DNC hack & election hack claim was a lie, & Comey knew it. It endangered his ILLEGAL COIN investigation of @realdonaldtrump STEALTH JEFF STEALTH JEFF @drawandstrike · 50m And there it is. Comey jumped into the middle of the immunity deal with Assange the SECOND he learned Assange could go public with the technical data that would prove the Russians didn't hack Hillary or the DNC. Wouldn’t surprise me. Assange always said the Russkies weren’t his source. It was Seth Rich. Data rates prove it could not be a hack.
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Post by okie52 on Jun 25, 2018 19:47:17 GMT -6
Wouldn’t surprise me. Assange always said the Russkies weren’t his source. It was Seth Rich. Data rates prove it could not be a hack. I really enjoyed seeing the dem scandal with Wasserman Shultz resigning the next day...only to be hired by Hillary the day after that. But why would Rich have leaked the info? His profile seems to indicate that he was a dem hardliner. Well unless he was a Bernie fan...then it would make sense.
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Post by trumped on Jun 25, 2018 19:56:20 GMT -6
It was Seth Rich. Data rates prove it could not be a hack. I really enjoyed seeing the dem scandal with Wasserman Shultz resigning the next day...only to be hired by Hillary the day after that. But why would Rich have leaked the info? His profile seems to indicate that he was a dem hardliner. Well unless he was a Bernie fan...then it would make sense. I think he was a Dem patriot but cared for our country more and saw all the scandal going on especially with Sanders. So I think he had enough and leaked by thumb drive to Wiki to expose it. And although he was shot nothing of value was taken. All video in surrounding streets gone. Police video of when they got there “disappeared”. There are many signs of a hit. i’m of the school that there are some good Dwms who happen to fall on the other side yet still believe in country first. This is a guy who wore patriotic flag clothes head to toe he was USA all the way. I think he felt convicted to expose crimes.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2018 20:00:19 GMT -6
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realdonaldtrump Why is Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), perhaps in a near drunken state, claiming he has information that only he and Bob Mueller, the leader of the 13 Angry Democrats on a Witch Hunt, knows? Isn’t this highly illegal. Is it being investigated? 6:22 PM - Jun 25, 2018
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Post by okie52 on Jun 25, 2018 20:04:11 GMT -6
I really enjoyed seeing the dem scandal with Wasserman Shultz resigning the next day...only to be hired by Hillary the day after that. But why would Rich have leaked the info? His profile seems to indicate that he was a dem hardliner. Well unless he was a Bernie fan...then it would make sense. I think he was a Dem patriot but cared for our country more and saw all the scandal going on especially with Sanders. So I think he had enough and leaked by thumb drive to Wiki to expose it. And although he was shot nothing of value was taken. All video in surrounding streets gone. Police video of when they got there “disappeared”. There are many signs of a hit. i’m of the school that there are some good Dwms who happen to fall on the other side yet still believe in country first. This is a guy who wore patriotic flag clothes head to toe he was USA all the way. I think he felt convicted to expose crimes. Since he is dead does Assange still feel obligated to keep his identity secret if he was the leak?
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Post by trumped on Jun 25, 2018 20:11:33 GMT -6
I think he was a Dem patriot but cared for our country more and saw all the scandal going on especially with Sanders. So I think he had enough and leaked by thumb drive to Wiki to expose it. And although he was shot nothing of value was taken. All video in surrounding streets gone. Police video of when they got there “disappeared”. There are many signs of a hit. i’m of the school that there are some good Dwms who happen to fall on the other side yet still believe in country first. This is a guy who wore patriotic flag clothes head to toe he was USA all the way. I think he felt convicted to expose crimes. Since he is dead does Assange still feel obligated to keep his identity secret if he was the leak? At the time yes because if he exposes him then he will not get others trust to expose. So he never did but he hinted it was him. He also pit out a $25g reward for killers to be caught But he was willing to prove it was not Ruskies and Comey covered it up basically. And then in Apr all of his lines were cut no internet or contact with outside. No visitors. He is basically in prison in an embassy. Also, recall Crooked Hillary “joked” she should call in a drone strike on him, this was in 2016.
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Post by okie52 on Jun 25, 2018 20:17:20 GMT -6
Since he is dead does Assange still feel obligated to keep his identity secret if he was the leak? At the time yes because if he exposes him then he will not get others trust to expose. So he never did but he hinted it was him. He also pit out a $25g reward for killers to be caught But he was willing to prove it was not Ruskies and Comey covered it up basically. And then in Apr all of his lines were cut no internet or contact with outside. No visitors. He is basically in prison in an embassy. Also, recall Crooked Hillary “joked” she should call in a drone strike on him, this was in 2016. Assange is still at an embassy in England isn’t he? How did his lines get cut where they weren’t repaired quickly? Satellite...or is that too easily hacked?
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2018 20:20:37 GMT -6
thehill.com/opinion/white-house/394036-How-Comey-intervened-to-kill-Wikileaks-immunity-dealOne of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history — the unmasking of the CIA’s arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year — has an untold prelude worthy of a spy novel. Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey, fired FBI director. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr. Julian Assange, grand master of WikiLeaks. And American attorney Adam Waldman, who has a Forrest Gump-like penchant for showing up in major cases of intrigue. Each played a role in the early days of the Trump administration to try to get Assange to agree to “risk mitigation” — essentially, limiting some classified CIA information he might release in the future. The effort resulted in the drafting of a limited immunity deal that might have temporarily freed the WikiLeaks founder from a London embassy where he has been exiled for years, according to interviews and a trove of internal DOJ documents turned over to Senate investigators. Read the draft immunity deal proffer that the Justice Department was considering for Assange here.
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Post by trumped on Jun 25, 2018 20:23:49 GMT -6
At the time yes because if he exposes him then he will not get others trust to expose. So he never did but he hinted it was him. He also pit out a $25g reward for killers to be caught But he was willing to prove it was not Ruskies and Comey covered it up basically. And then in Apr all of his lines were cut no internet or contact with outside. No visitors. He is basically in prison in an embassy. Also, recall Crooked Hillary “joked” she should call in a drone strike on him, this was in 2016. Assange is still at an embassy in England isn’t he? How did his lines get cut where they weren’t repaired quickly? Satellite...or is that too easily hacked? Ecuador embassy in England. Someone convinced EC to cut his cable and phone and no visitors. He has no choice. If he leaves Brits arrest and extradite. But he might be killed too. Brits have like 20 “not so secret” guards around the Embassy 24/7 too. Keep in mind Brits and their 3 letter agencies were deeply involved in fake dossier too, so they sure don’t want him talking.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 25, 2018 20:28:37 GMT -6
Ecuador embassy in England. Someone convinced EC to cut his cable and phone and no visitors. He has no choice. If he leaves Brits arrest and extradite. But he might be killed too. Brits have like 20 “not so secret” guards around the Embassy 24/7 too. Keep in mind Brits and their 3 letter agencies were deeply involved in fake dossier too, so they sure don’t want him talking. DJT needs to pardon him.
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Post by trumped on Jun 25, 2018 20:50:39 GMT -6
Ecuador embassy in England. Someone convinced EC to cut his cable and phone and no visitors. He has no choice. If he leaves Brits arrest and extradite. But he might be killed too. Brits have like 20 “not so secret” guards around the Embassy 24/7 too. Keep in mind Brits and their 3 letter agencies were deeply involved in fake dossier too, so they sure don’t want him talking. DJT needs to pardon him. He has not been charged or convicted of anything technically speaking. Thats the problem.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 26, 2018 4:54:22 GMT -6
John Solomon: I would love to see the evidence he was going to provide. He was going to provide technical evidence that would answer who did not provide these documents. That would be critical to any investigation and why it was turned away is a great mystery to me.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 26, 2018 7:56:37 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2018/06/26/doj-fbi-ignore-lack-evidence-russiagate-fell-love-source/Why Did DOJ And FBI Ignore Lack Of Evidence For Russiagate? They Fell In Love With Their Source The information Christopher Steele was providing so perfectly fit into a narrative of conspiracy that it was impossible to ignore, and almost too good to check. Jason Beale By Jason Beale JUNE 26, 2018 It’s called “falling in love with your source.” I did it, my colleagues did it, intelligence professionals collectively do it, and none of us are ever the better for it. Here’s how it happens, at least from the collector level. I spent 20 years in the U.S. Army as an interrogator and strategic debriefer, with most of my second decade of service spent in and around embassies in the Middle East. My job at the embassy was to debrief walk-in sources, defectors, visa applicants of particular interest who agreed to talk to me, and anyone else of interest to the intelligence community who popped up in the region and fell into my column as a debriefing subject. I dealt with thousands of sources, most of whom occupied a brief hour or two of my time, and whose information met a standing need for basic intelligence on Iraq. Others, particularly walk-ins or defectors with potentially valuable information to share, took days or weeks to thoroughly and appropriately debrief. Their information was usually of much greater significance to the IC than the standard fare, and it made the work much more satisfying for the debriefer. Engaging in an extended debriefing series with a source who knows information that could enhance or change our collective understanding of tier-one national intelligence requirements is heady. If doing a market-basket debrief of an Iraqi visa applicant was a mid-week Major League Baseball day game in July, conducting a series of debriefings on a troubled member of a terrorist cell, a regime-hating microbiologist, or a defecting government official was a World Series game. To borrow from FBI agent Peter Strzok’s terminology, it mattered. Thousands of consumers watched closely, and it was an opportunity to excel. This close attention meant that, unlike a less-important debriefing, you’d be receiving volumes of analysis and feedback almost in real time. If you published your report at the end of the day in the Middle East, the intelligence community (IC) would just be waking up, and would spend their day critiquing and analyzing the information you published. The results of their analysis greeted you when you logged on the next morning, and guided your next session, conducted while Washington slept. It’s Hard to Manage This Attention Well Professional interrogators and debriefers will tell you that a major challenge of their job is to remain agnostic about the information the source relays. Their job is to use whatever skills they have to determine if the source’s comportment is consistent with someone telling the truth, to recognize and counter attempts to evade or deflect questions, and to faithfully report all information collected, regardless of their personal opinion of its veracity. They call it raw, unevaluated intelligence for a reason: the interrogator collects it, and the analysts assess its veracity. Whatever issues you may have with the source’s credibility are worked out in the room, through thorough, methodical questioning and unrelenting follow-up. While there’s little room on a standard Intelligence Information Report for editorializing, a responsible debriefer will notify headquarters of his or her opinion of the source’s veracity, and will note significant red flags and behavioral issues in the “Reporting Officer Comments” section of the report. I say all of this to tell you that the worst possible scenario for a debriefer engaged in an extended series of interviews with a subject is to fall in love with the source. By “fall in love” I mean to allow your excitement at the possibility that what he is telling you is true to overcome your responsibility to recognize, counter, and report red flags and blinking lights that may suggest your source is being less than forthcoming, or even lying. You don’t want this to be the case. The last thing you want to hear from analysts after a session in which you believed the source was telling you the truth was that he was lying to you, and, by the way, here’s the reporting that proves you were duped. It’s soul-crushing. You question your skills, you’re embarrassed to have vouched for the guy, and you wonder if you’ve lost your edge.
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