One of the biggest surprises over the past
week was Donald Trump's dramatic meltdown, and subsequent escalation,
with the family of Humayun Khan, the US Muslim captain killed in
Afghanistan in 2014, who during the DNC, tangentially accused Trump and
his potential policies of being responsible for their son's death (he
wasn't). What is most striking is that instead of ignoring this attempt
to bait the Republican candidate in public, to which he most gladly
obliged, he should have simply moved on and stayed on the offensive,
pressing Hillary over the recent Wikileaks disclosure revealing the
cronyism and corruption within the Democratic Party, as well push the
familiar narrative of her email scandal.
Conveniently, Hillary helped him do just that yesterday, when she acknowledged on Friday afternoon that she may have "short-circuited" when
she claimed in recent interviews that FBI Director James Comey said she
was "truthful" about her use of a private email server as secretary of
state. In doing so Hillary once again shifted the news spotlight away
from Trump and back on to herself, as she once again revealed that the
only consistent thing about Hillary Clinton are the constant lies.
Following a heavily covered interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace,
Hillary stated that Comey had found her statements "truthful" and
"consistent" with what she has said publicly. Clinton’s lying led The
Atlantic to publish an article titled “ Why Can't Hillary Clinton Stop Lying?” and the Washington Post’s
fact checker Glenn Kessler awarded her four “Pinocchios”, adding that
“Clinton is cherry-picking statements by Comey to preserve her narrative
about the unusual setup of a private email server. This allows her to skate past the more disturbing findings of the FBI investigation.” Notably, the NYTimes
did not publish anything related to this flop and it took the Public
Editor, whose job it to be the readers' advocate at The NYT, to write an
op-ed titled The Clinton Story You Didn’t Read Here.
After an almost universally bad week for her opponent Donald Trump,
Hillary went out of her way once again to explain away her home-brew
server, only this time it led to a less than favorable outcome.
Clinton insisted in two
televised interviews aired this week, including one with Fox News' Chris
Wallace aired Sunday, that Comey had found her statements "truthful"
and "consistent" with what she has said publicly. The Democratic
nominee, speaking at a joint convention for African-American and
Hispanic journalists, remarked that she was "pointing out in both of
those instances that the Director Comey had said that my answers in my
FBI interview were truthful." She then reiterated the "truthful"
assessment in an interview with a Colorado television station later in
the week.
According to Politico,
Hillary stressed that "that's really the bottom line here. And I have
said during the interview and many other occasions over the past months,
that what I told the FBI, which he said was truthful, is consistent with what I have said publicly," Clinton explained Friday. "So
I may have short-circuited it and for that, I, you know, will try to
clarify because I think, you know, Chris Wallace and I were probably
talking past each other because of course, he could only talk to what I
had told the FBI and I appreciated that."
"But I do think, you know, having him say that my answers to the FBI
were truthful and then I should quickly add, what I said was consistent
with what I had said publicly. And that's really sort of in my view
trying to tie both ends together," she added.
Notice the difference between her original statement and revision. In
the first one, James Comey confirmed her statements about her email
setup were consistent and truthful. In her revision, the FBI director
confirmed that what she told the FBI was truthful. Perhaps because lying
to the FBI is a crime but lying to the American population is not?
Her word choice of “short-circuiting” confirms what many voters in this election feel about Hillary. Her
answers are memorized, poll tested and scrutinized by hundreds of
staffers, almost in a robotic fashion, to ensure she does not “bend” the
truth. This is why Hillary does a press interview every 240 days at best
Finally, having finally found a new opening to dig itself out of the
hole it has found itself in, Donald Trump's campaign laced into Clinton
over her latest "pretzel-like response."
“Hillary Clinton’s habitual lying about the use of her secret server
to send and receive classified, top secret information shows her blatant
disregard for national security and a continued pattern of bad
judgment," senior communications adviser Jason Miller said in a
statement. "Clinton knows the actions she has taken are disqualifying
for someone wishing to become commander-in-chief, and that is why
today’s painful, pretzel-like response to a simple question about her
illegal server was obvious to everyone watching."
Now the only question is whether Trump can keep his mouth shut long
enough to give Hillary more chances to stick her foot in hers, and do to
her own polling what Trump has been so eager to do to his over the past
two weeks.
In
the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and
hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then
it costs nothing to be a patriot.
The only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
– Quotes by Mark Twain
Every time I hear from Edward Snowden I’m immediately reminded of how
thoughtful, courageous and patriotic he is, and how fortunate we are
that he followed his conscience and spilled the beans on a multitude of
unaccountable and unconstitutional actions routinely committed
by America’s deep state government.
Earlier today, TheIntercept posted a piece written by Edward Snowden pulled from the recently published book Inside the Assassination Complex.
It’s a short piece, but extremely powerful and to the point. I saw it
as a whistleblower’s manifesto in which Mr. Snowden explains why he felt
he had no other choice but to come forward, and why others in similar
positions should consider doing the same should they find themselves in a
position to defend the U.S. Constitution and inform the general public.
We all know that the deep state
will never voluntarily work to protect “we the people,” as such,
leaking on behalf of the public interest is now a matter of national
survival.
So without further ado, here are excerpts from Snowden’s latest piece, Whistleblowing is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance:
I’ve
been waiting 40 years for someone like you.” Those were the first words
Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an
immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much — and to
be irrevocably changed — by revealing secret truths.
One of the challenges of being a whistleblower is living
with the knowledge that people continue to sit, just as you did, at
those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency, who see what you saw
and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint. They learn to
live not just with untruths but with unnecessary untruths, dangerous
untruths, corrosive untruths. It is a double tragedy: What begins as a
survival strategy ends with the compromise of the human being it sought
to preserve and the diminishing of the democracy meant to justify the
sacrifice.
A single act of whistleblowing doesn’t change the reality that
there are significant portions of the government that operate below the
waterline, beneath the visibility of the public. Those secret activities will continue, despite reforms. But
those who perform these actions now have to live with the fear that if
they engage in activities contrary to the spirit of society — if even a
single citizen is catalyzed to halt the machinery of that injustice —
they might still be held to account. The thread by which good governance
hangs is this equality before the law, for the only fear of the man who
turns the gears is that he may find himself upon them.
Hope lies beyond, when we move from extraordinary acts of
revelation to a collective culture of accountability within the
intelligence community. Here we will have taken a meaningful step toward
solving a problem that has existed for as long as our government.
Not all leaks are alike, nor are their makers. Gen. David
Petraeus, for instance, provided his illicit lover and favorable
biographer information so secret it defied classification, including the
names of covert operatives and the president’s private thoughts on
matters of strategic concern. Petraeus was not charged with a
felony, as the Justice Department had initially recommended, but was
instead permitted to plead guilty to a misdemeanor. Had an
enlisted soldier of modest rank pulled out a stack of highly classified
notebooks and handed them to his girlfriend to secure so much as a
smile, he’d be looking at many decades in prison, not a pile of
character references from a Who’s Who of the Deep State.
This
dynamic can be seen quite clearly in the al Qaeda “conference call of
doom” story, in which intelligence officials, likely seeking to inflate
the threat of terrorism and deflect criticism of mass surveillance,
revealed to a neoconservative website extraordinarily detailed accounts
of specific communications they had intercepted, including locations of
the participating parties and the precise contents of the discussions.
If the officials’ claims were to be believed, they irrevocably burned an
extraordinary means of learning the precise plans and intentions of
terrorist leadership for the sake of a short-lived political advantage
in a news cycle. Not a single person seems to have been so much as
disciplined as a result of the story that cost us the ability to listen
to the alleged al Qaeda hotline.
If harmfulness and authorization make no difference, what
explains the distinction between the permissible and the impermissible
disclosure?
The answer is control. A leak is acceptable if it’s not
seen as a threat, as a challenge to the prerogatives of the institution.
But if all of the disparate components of the institution — not just
its head but its hands and feet, every part of its body — must be
assumed to have the same power to discuss matters of concern, that is an
existential threat to the modern political monopoly of information
control, particularly if we’re talking about disclosures of serious
wrongdoing, fraudulent activity, unlawful activities. If you can’t
guarantee that you alone can exploit the flow of controlled information,
then the aggregation of all the world’s unmentionables — including your
own — begins to look more like a liability than an asset.
At the other end of the spectrum is Manning, a junior enlisted soldier, who was much nearer to the bottom of the hierarchy. I
was midway in the professional career path. I sat down at the table
with the chief information officer of the CIA, and I was briefing him
and his chief technology officer when they were publicly making
statements like “We try to collect everything and hang on to it
forever,” and everybody still thought that was a cute business slogan.
Meanwhile I was designing the systems they would use to do precisely
that. I wasn’t briefing the policy side, the secretary of
defense, but I was briefing the operations side, the National Security
Agency’s director of technology. Official wrongdoing can catalyze all
levels of insiders to reveal information, even at great risk to
themselves, so long as they can be convinced that it is necessary to do
so.
Reaching those individuals, helping them realize that
their first allegiance as a public servant is to the public rather than
to the government, is the challenge. That’s a significant shift in
cultural thinking for a government worker today.
At the heart of this evolution is that whistleblowing is a
radicalizing event — and by “radical” I don’t mean “extreme”; I mean it
in the traditional sense of radix, the root of the issue. At some point
you recognize that you can’t just move a few letters around on a page
and hope for the best. You can’t simply report this problem to your
supervisor, as I tried to do, because inevitably supervisors get
nervous. They think about the structural risk to their career. They’re
concerned about rocking the boat and “getting a reputation.” The
incentives aren’t there to produce meaningful reform. Fundamentally, in an open society, change has to flow from the bottom to the top.
And when you’re confronted with evidence — not in an edge
case, not in a peculiarity, but as a core consequence of the program —
that the government is subverting the Constitution and violating the
ideals you so fervently believe in, you have to make a decision. When
you see that the program or policy is inconsistent with the oaths and
obligations that you’ve sworn to your society and yourself, then that
oath and that obligation cannot be reconciled with the program. To which
do you owe a greater loyalty?
As a result we have arrived at this unmatched capability,
unrestrained by policy. We have become reliant upon what was intended to
be the limitation of last resort: the courts. Judges, realizing that
their decisions are suddenly charged with much greater political
importance and impact than was originally intended, have gone to great
lengths in the post-9/11 period to avoid reviewing the laws or the
operations of the executive in the national security context and setting
restrictive precedents that, even if entirely proper, would impose
limits on government for decades or more. That means the most powerful
institution that humanity has ever witnessed has also become the least
restrained. Yet that same institution was never designed to operate in
such a manner, having instead been explicitly founded on the principle
of checks and balances. Our founding impulse was to say, “Though we are
mighty, we are voluntarily restrained.”
When you first go
on duty at CIA headquarters, you raise your hand and swear an oath —
not to government, not to the agency, not to secrecy. You swear an oath
to the Constitution. So there’s this friction, this emerging contest
between the obligations and values that the government asks you to
uphold, and the actual activities that you’re asked to participate in.
By preying on the modern necessity to stay connected,
governments can reduce our dignity to something like that of tagged
animals, the primary difference being that we paid for the tags and
they’re in our pockets. It sounds like fantasist paranoia, but
on the technical level it’s so trivial to implement that I cannot
imagine a future in which it won’t be attempted. It will be limited to
the war zones at first, in accordance with our customs, but surveillance
technology has a tendency to follow us home.
Unrestrained power may be many things, but it’s not
American. It is in this sense that the act of whistleblowing
increasingly has become an act of political resistance. The
whistleblower raises the alarm and lifts the lamp, inheriting the legacy
of a line of Americans that begins with Paul Revere.
The individuals who make these disclosures feel so strongly about
what they have seen that they’re willing to risk their lives and their
freedom. They know that we, the people, are ultimately the strongest and
most reliable check on the power of government. The insiders at the
highest levels of government have extraordinary capability,
extraordinary resources, tremendous access to influence, and a monopoly
on violence, but in the final calculus there is but one figure that
matters: the individual citizen.
And there are more of us than there are of them.
Amen and perfectly said. We can only hope a handful of government
employees and contractors with a conscience and a real dedication to the
U.S. Constitution will read this and act accordingly.
Since the beginning of the Democratic
primary campaign, Bernie Sanders’ supporters have been complaining
about national establishment media skewing their coverage in favor of
Hillary Clinton, noting the connections between ownership of those major
media outlets to Clinton campaign donations. Now, one national news
site has not only acknowledged Sanders as a viable candidate, but has
gone as far as to call for Hillary Clinton to concede the Democratic
nomination to Bernie Sanders.
In an article by H. A. Goodman, HuffPost Politics
calls for Clinton to drop out of the race, citing the criminal
investigation by the FBI into Clinton’s email server as well as national
polls showing that despite being behind in pledged delegates, Sanders
has taken the lead in national polls for not only the Democratic party
nomination, but fares far better against Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in a
national campaign.
“With Bernie Sanders now slightly ahead of Clinton
nationally in the latest Bloomberg poll, it’s time to reevaluate the
meaning of pragmatism. Hillary Clinton might be ahead of Bernie Sanders
in delegates, but Vermont’s Senator has a monopoly on political
momentum. Sadly, his opponent has a monopoly on controversy, and will
face FBI interviews in the near future.”
HuffPost also cited a Los Angeles Times article
about how formal interviews are being arranged with Clinton’s closest
advisers as well as Clinton herself, indicating the investigation is
reaching its final stages. By final stages, they mean that a possible
indictment for criminal charges may drop any time, and they want to make
sure that readers understand that this is a criminal investigation, which Goodman repeated multiple times throughout the opinion piece.
“The Christian Science Monitor
clearly states the nature of the FBI’s investigation, stating ‘The FBI
is indeed conducting a criminal investigation into the possible
mishandling of classified information on the private email server
Clinton used for State Department communications.’ Yes, Hillary
supporters, ‘The FBI is indeed conducting a criminal investigation.'”
Democratic
presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi October 22, 2015
on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. [Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images]Other
publications making it clear that this investigation is not just about
possible misconduct but about criminal charges, include The Washington Post.
And, it isn’t just media outlets jumping on the bandwagon to let the
public know the gravity of the charges pending against Clinton and that
this is not just another far-fetched scandal courtesy of the Republican
Party, like so many attacks on the Clintons in the past.
Former U.S. attorney general Michael Mukasey wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal
back in January, claiming the charges were justified. Lt. Gen. Michael
Flynn, the retired chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told CNN‘s
Jake Tapper that it was time for Clinton to drop out of the race back
in February, long before the current surge in support for Sanders.
“If it were me, I would have been out
the door and probably in jail… This over-classification excuse is not an
excuse. If it’s classified, it’s classified.”
HuffPost Politics didn’t mince words on what many Sanders’
supporters have claimed was the DNC’s decision to anoint Hillary Clinton
the Democratic Party nominee long before the primaries even began,
regardless of who ran against her or what skeletons might lurk in her
proverbial closet. They also cited her extreme negative favorability
rating and how she fares far worse head-to-head with Trump in polls than
her rival Sanders.
“It’s time for Democrats to deal with reality, not just
allegiance to a political icon, and rally around the only candidate not
linked to an FBI investigation, and other controversies.
With recent victories and future wins ahead, Bernie Sanders has all the
political momentum heading towards Election Day. Most importantly,
Bernie Sanders is the only leading candidate with positive favorability ratings
in 2016… Democrats can’t run a winning presidential campaign with the
slogan, ‘We’ll save you from Trump with a person who’s less despised.'”
Real Clear Politics polls show Bernie Sanders consistently maintains a double digit lead over Donald Trump, while Hillary Clinton hovers around single digits — and has even dropped to below Trump’s ratings back in February — yet publications like Rolling Stone
continue to claim Clinton as the stronger candidate against Trump when
all polls indicate the exact opposite. All of this is taking place
before the GOP goes on the attack against Clinton should she win the
nomination for the general election.
It’s fair to say neither Donald Trump nor Ted Cruz will say “enough
about your d*** emails.” Or that they will give Clinton a pass on the many other reasons Hillary needs to step aside.
The author of the article also recorded a video on YouTube, spelling
out why Clinton will likely be indicted and how the email scandal in
itself disqualifies her from being president, citing the fact that there
are 22 emails that still can’t be shown to the American public, which
indicates that they are indeed classified, despite arguments from
Clinton to the contrary. Goodman says Clinton’s claims that the emails
weren’t classified while they were on her private server are false, and
that whole issue is irrelevant “spin” that doesn’t change the fact that
the email issue alone makes Clinton unfit to be the Democratic party
nominee or president.
“So you either have overt criminal
activity, or someone who’s just not smart enough to keep state secrets
safe. Either way, you’re not fit to be president.”
The HuffPost Politics article says that the subsequent
cover-up has been as damaging, if not more so, than the scandal itself,
much like Watergate derailed Richard Nixon. Goodman asks when the
Democratic Party establishment will finally “admit this fiasco is
horrible for a general election?” and notes that if “federal prosecutors
are interviewing your candidate for president, even Donald Trump has a
good chance at the White House.”
Just in case you didn’t draw the conclusion that Clinton’s email
scandal will be her downfall and it’s time for her to drop out, this
sums up the political point that only HuffPostPolitics seems willing to make among the establishment media. Democratic
presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) campaigns at Chicago
State University. [Photo by John Gress/Getty Images]
“Bernie is by far the superior candidate, and already
matches up better against GOP rivals; without the myriad of issues faced
by Clinton. For the country, and especially the Democratic Party,
Hillary Clinton should concede the nomination to Bernie Sanders.”
And HuffPost Politics did mention this is a criminal investigation. Just in case you didn’t catch it the seven times it’s pointed out in the article.
[Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images]
Since the beginning of the Democratic
primary campaign, Bernie Sanders’ supporters have been complaining about
national establishment media skewing their coverage in favor of Hillary
Clinton, noting the connections between ownership of those major media
outlets to Clinton campaign donations. Now, one national news site has
not only acknowledged Sanders as a viable candidate, but has gone as far
as to call for Hillary Clinton to concede the Democratic nomination to
Bernie Sanders.
In an article by H. A. Goodman, HuffPost Politics
calls for Clinton to drop out of the race, citing the criminal
investigation by the FBI into Clinton’s email server as well as national
polls showing that despite being behind in pledged delegates, Sanders
has taken the lead in national polls for not only the Democratic party
nomination, but fares far better against Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in a
national campaign.
“With Bernie Sanders now slightly ahead of Clinton
nationally in the latest Bloomberg poll, it’s time to reevaluate the
meaning of pragmatism. Hillary Clinton might be ahead of Bernie Sanders
in delegates, but Vermont’s Senator has a monopoly on political
momentum. Sadly, his opponent has a monopoly on controversy, and will
face FBI interviews in the near future.”
HuffPost also cited a Los Angeles Times article
about how formal interviews are being arranged with Clinton’s closest
advisers as well as Clinton herself, indicating the investigation is
reaching its final stages. By final stages, they mean that a possible
indictment for criminal charges may drop any time, and they want to make
sure that readers understand that this is a criminal investigation, which Goodman repeated multiple times throughout the opinion piece.
“The Christian Science Monitor
clearly states the nature of the FBI’s investigation, stating ‘The FBI
is indeed conducting a criminal investigation into the possible
mishandling of classified information on the private email server
Clinton used for State Department communications.’ Yes, Hillary
supporters, ‘The FBI is indeed conducting a criminal investigation.'”
Democratic
presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi October 22, 2015
on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. [Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images]Other
publications making it clear that this investigation is not just about
possible misconduct but about criminal charges, include The Washington Post.
And, it isn’t just media outlets jumping on the bandwagon to let the
public know the gravity of the charges pending against Clinton and that
this is not just another far-fetched scandal courtesy of the Republican
Party, like so many attacks on the Clintons in the past.
Former U.S. attorney general Michael Mukasey wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal
back in January, claiming the charges were justified. Lt. Gen. Michael
Flynn, the retired chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told CNN‘s
Jake Tapper that it was time for Clinton to drop out of the race back
in February, long before the current surge in support for Sanders.
“If it were me, I would have been out
the door and probably in jail… This over-classification excuse is not an
excuse. If it’s classified, it’s classified.”
HuffPost Politics didn’t mince words on what many Sanders’
supporters have claimed was the DNC’s decision to anoint Hillary Clinton
the Democratic Party nominee long before the primaries even began,
regardless of who ran against her or what skeletons might lurk in her
proverbial closet. They also cited her extreme negative favorability
rating and how she fares far worse head-to-head with Trump in polls than
her rival Sanders.
“It’s time for Democrats to deal with reality, not just
allegiance to a political icon, and rally around the only candidate not
linked to an FBI investigation, and other controversies.
With recent victories and future wins ahead, Bernie Sanders has all the
political momentum heading towards Election Day. Most importantly,
Bernie Sanders is the only leading candidate with positive favorability ratings
in 2016… Democrats can’t run a winning presidential campaign with the
slogan, ‘We’ll save you from Trump with a person who’s less despised.'”
Real Clear Politics polls show Bernie Sanders consistently maintains a double digit lead over Donald Trump, while Hillary Clinton hovers around single digits — and has even dropped to below Trump’s ratings back in February — yet publications like Rolling Stone
continue to claim Clinton as the stronger candidate against Trump when
all polls indicate the exact opposite. All of this is taking place
before the GOP goes on the attack against Clinton should she win the
nomination for the general election.
It’s fair to say neither Donald Trump nor Ted Cruz will say “enough
about your d*** emails.” Or that they will give Clinton a pass on the many other reasons Hillary needs to step aside.
The author of the article also recorded a video on YouTube, spelling
out why Clinton will likely be indicted and how the email scandal in
itself disqualifies her from being president, citing the fact that there
are 22 emails that still can’t be shown to the American public, which
indicates that they are indeed classified, despite arguments from
Clinton to the contrary. Goodman says Clinton’s claims that the emails
weren’t classified while they were on her private server are false, and
that whole issue is irrelevant “spin” that doesn’t change the fact that
the email issue alone makes Clinton unfit to be the Democratic party
nominee or president.
“So you either have overt criminal
activity, or someone who’s just not smart enough to keep state secrets
safe. Either way, you’re not fit to be president.”
The HuffPost Politics article says that the subsequent
cover-up has been as damaging, if not more so, than the scandal itself,
much like Watergate derailed Richard Nixon. Goodman asks when the
Democratic Party establishment will finally “admit this fiasco is
horrible for a general election?” and notes that if “federal prosecutors
are interviewing your candidate for president, even Donald Trump has a
good chance at the White House.”
Just in case you didn’t draw the conclusion that Clinton’s email
scandal will be her downfall and it’s time for her to drop out, this
sums up the political point that only HuffPostPolitics seems willing to make among the establishment media. Democratic
presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) campaigns at Chicago
State University. [Photo by John Gress/Getty Images]
“Bernie is by far the superior candidate, and already
matches up better against GOP rivals; without the myriad of issues faced
by Clinton. For the country, and especially the Democratic Party,
Hillary Clinton should concede the nomination to Bernie Sanders.”
And HuffPost Politics did mention this is a criminal investigation. Just in case you didn’t catch it the seven times it’s pointed out in the article.
[Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images]
Karen Stewart, with companion and protector, Mariska, the Anatolian Shepherd In Karen’s own words: Born in the late 1950s, to
an Air Force Officer and his wife. We lived all over the country and in
Germany during his career. I had an interest in foreign languages and
art, so I got the equivalent of a double major at FSU in German and Fine
Art. When I graduated college I applied to the National Security Agency
to work as a linguist (translate and report foreign material of
interest to the government), and after a stringent background check, was
hired in 1982 by NSA. I lived in Columbia, Maryland with my husband. I
worked at NSA until 2010 when I was railroaded out of NSA just two years
before I could retire because I had dared ask the Inspector General to
investigate a matter involving work credit and promotion theft. I moved
to Florida in 2011 to get away and wait for the lawsuit (appeal to
forbidden retaliatory firing) to be adjudicated by the Judge Lawrence
Gallagher at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in
Baltimore.
Ramola D: Thanks so much for agreeing to do this interview. I
have been reading scripts of your Renew America interviews and have
listened to your conversations on Wheel of Freedom and Boiling Frogs
Post with much interest. To encapsulate somewhat, it sounds like a complaint process
you began internally with the NSA Inspector General about an
Intelligence report you had authored but wasn’t credited for led to all
sorts of repercussions—threats to give you an unfavorable psychological
evaluation contrary to routine periodic psychological test results,
being cheated out of a double promotion, being transferred to a menial
job to punish you for pursuing an IG complaint, then termination, and
NSA Security then stalking you, surveilling you, harassing you. Was that
how it started? Karen Stewart: Yes, an intelligence report series I
authored in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom was purposely
mis-credited to an unremarkable, under-educated woman who was sleeping
her way through male managers above me in the Weapons and Space
Directorate, in order to get ahead, and they rewarded her sexual favors
to them with a double promotion for my seminal work which had engendered
a large project that others estimated had saved hundreds of lives if
not more. I simply asked the NSA Inspector General to look into a claim
by a promotion board member that my Technical Lead and my Office Chief
had lied to the promotion board to get the wrong person promoted.
I had no idea that the full might of NSA Security and the Inspector
General’s Office would come down on me to utterly destroy me and my
career for simply asking that an egregious wrong be corrected. I was
astonished at NSA Security feigning of oblivious ignorance of the evil
done to me while refusing to interview my witnesses or look at proof,
when NSA routine internal propaganda always encouraged fair play and
bringing problems to light and even touted their dedication to the
Federal “No Fear Act”, which specifically encouraged employees to report
wrong doing with no fear of repercussions.
But their immediate attack-dog approach to fabricating wrong-doing on
my part (coaching the villains who had done me wrong to accuse me of
leaking the first information ex-NSA executive Thomas Drake had actually
leaked) in order to derail and discredit my legitimate request for IG
assistance belied that façade. It was truly a nightmare trying to deal
with the cadre of well-rehearsed, pathological liars that populated NSA
Security, the likes of which I had never known previously existed at
NSA.
I had passed my initial interview polygraph easily in 1982 and had
always passed my re-investigation polygraphs with no problem for more
than 20 years (until Security decided to demand a polygraph just before
which I was screamed at and threatened due to my pursuing recourse for
my stolen work credit and double promotion), and never had had any
situation occur previously in regard to my behavior that necessitated
the interest of NSA Security much less their involvement.
Over the years, I had indeed heard the occasional story of Security
stupidity, such as Security hassling a female employee for dating a
foreigner – who was a Canadian citizen, fully cleared to work at NSA,
which is where she had met him, yet they hassled her as if she were
dating a North Korean spy, so you knew Security was rather 1-dimensional
like police tend to be.
But I had not yet heard the vicious NSA Security persecution stories
from others until Security decided it would be better to wrongfully
destroy me as well as my career than admit that Weapons & Space’s
managers were trading promotions for sexual favors and correct that
situation. (Worse yet, all these managers were now compromised and
subject to blackmail). You’ve said the persecution and harassment actually followed
you from Maryland to Florida, and escalated into covert EMF and
Directed-Energy-Weapon (DEW) attacks. You are the second NSA
whistleblower, I think, after Mark Novitsky, to speak openly of
harassment with DEW attacks—although others have reported extreme
harassment too–and I am learning Thomas Drake has, too. Were you aware
of any of this kind of illegal and criminal surveillance and assault
with DEWs when you worked at NSA? Karen Stewart: Once word spread about my situation
during the workplace harassment (2006-2009), a handful of others
volunteered their own NSA Security wrongful persecution stories.
In one case, Security hounded a woman in order to drive her out of the agency merely for dating the wrong man! Her
boyfriend worked at NSA also. The man’s mother did not like her and did
not want her as a daughter-in-law, so she told a female friend who was
an executive at NSA. The executive suggested falsifying claims to the
FBI that the young woman had given her classified information regarding
9/11, so she did. The FBI found no such evidence and dropped the issue.
NSA Security however, viciously hounded the woman out of a job anyway as
a favor to the executive. Several such insane attacks were related to
me after I was targeted but I had not heard such stories before.
NSA’s stalking harassment of me lasted the first time from 2006-2009,
with Security involving duped civilians in Columbia, MD where I lived,
the last four months of that time period. The effort collapsed however
once I began approaching the civilians and telling them the true story.
Apparently fights began breaking out in the neighborhood meeting house
in Phelps Luck when the proxy stalkers realized they had been played for
fools.
At no time had I ever heard of electronic harassment being used by NSA before it began happening to me in 2015 though.
And I would venture to say that the vast number of NSA employees
working legitimate targets (foreign threats on foreign soil) would have a
hard time imagining that NSA has this deeply depraved and rogue,
unaccountable, evil side. Were people inside NSA aware of other aspects of your
harassment by NSA Security? Did your colleagues learn about these
electronic harassment programs mainly from you? Karen Stewart: Those closest to me either saw the
harassment by Security at work, experienced it second hand because of
their relationship to me, or having known me many years, trusted my
judgment and integrity to believe me, or they had heard a similar NSA
Security harassment nightmare story from another co-worker.
But at that time no one I knew had heard of electronic harassment and
I would venture to say most NSA employees now either have not or think
it’s a myth of some kind. (And even now, disinformation about this is
finding a place in Wikipedia to dissuade non-victims from heeding our
warnings that we are watching our own government ramping up for a
holocaust of its own citizens.) I have been keeping certain NSA friends
informed about the addition of the electronic harassment and they are
horrified. No one understands what sense it makes to do this to any
human being, much less why a government would dedicate such vast
resources to gratuitous torture and murder of its best citizens.
The real NSA Security in my experience looking back, was all about
covering up the abuses of upper management not about correct, fair, or
lawful no matter the internal propaganda. And they could well be the
most effective blackmail force within the NSA, sending loose women to
compromise managers for the agenda of those running NSA Security or
their masters, whoever they actually are.
In a discussion face to face with ex-NSA whistleblower, Russell Tice,
arranged by a mutual friend, we compared our wanton persecutions for
doing our jobs too well. At that point, around 2010, we did not know
about electronic harassment either but by then we knew there were many
stories about recent (then) Security stalking harassment cases. Did NSA Security change in any way after 9/11? Is it possible
these covert programs are being hidden even from employees? Would
people from inside whistle-blow if they knew? Karen Stewart: Russell Tice credited the change in
NSA Security from a much more professional group before 9/11 to a rogue,
criminal element with the promotion by former Director of NSA (DIRNSA)
General Hayden of a middle manager, L. Kemp Ensor III, to operational
head of NSA Security.
This middle manager was later rumored to be an actual psychopath
obsessed with paintings of Dante’s Inferno (people being tortured) which
he displayed on his office walls.
NSA is segregated into many compartmented areas as well as by topic
and target area. For instance, you could not necessarily just walk into
another office, many had restricted access – unless you worked the
project, you could not enter the office. So any such project that
targeted American citizens such as electronic harassment would have been
deeply hidden not only because it was blatantly unconstitutional and
criminal but its existence would have cost NSA many good people leaving
NSA employ in protest. Because they would not have been legally able to
tell the world about such a program without being subject to arrest for
divulging classified information–even if it was evidence of a crime,
which is yet another proof of the blatant flaws in Congressional
oversight programs. Have you been approached by major media yet to tell your story? Karen Stewart: I attempted to contact media during the first stalking and harassment campaign in 2009, and Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal even
informed me that my story about being aggressively stalked by NSA
Security was very similar to not only other “whistleblowers” but to
stories other journalists told each other about also being stalked and
harassed by NSA Security after they had written a less than flattering
story about NSA.
I was on the verge of giving my story to Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that
same year when NSA demanded that the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) judge, Lawrence Gallagher, at the EEOC in Baltimore,
order a gag order on my EEOC appeal to NSA’s planned wrongful
termination of me at the 28-year point in my career.
Since I was facing imminent termination (based on outrageous Security
lies even they could not speak with a straight face), I could not spare
the money to fight the order.
But obviously I am breaking it now because NSA did so itself in order
to play the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and the
Tallahassee FBI for fools. NSA’s 1-trick pony in persecuting
whistleblowers is viciously slandering the person based solely on NSA
Security lies and fabrications. This was used to elicit the help of the
FDLE and their civilian vigilante group “Infragard” to participate in
criminal, organized stalking. This was NSA’s immediate reaction to my
lawyer’s subpoena in February 2015 of evidence corroborating the
identity of NSA executive Eric Hagemann, now retired, the man who I had
seen leaving my home after a break-in shortly after I had contacted the
NSA Inspector General (2006) about investigating the theft of my work
credit and a double promotion in 2004/2005. Karen Stewart, also artist and caricaturist, offers this
caricature of the NSA burglar she saw who broke into her home within a
couple weeks of her IG complaint, whom she saw 2 days later at NSA. “Eric packed up and fled Laurel, MD after the subpoena, his
retirement photo business, Solstice Photos went dead. He must have done
some REALLY bad things in addition to what he did to me. When I tried to
look him up in Searchlight (NSA directory) by profession after seeing
him at NSA in 2006, only one computer/electronics executive had replaced
his prestigious Flag-Badge photo with a silly photo of a Meerkat, Eric
Hagemann. So I remembered the name.” (The pictures from the Solstice Photo website show a static
site. The Justia Trademarks show that Eric Hagemann owns Solstice
Photo.)
And with the start of NSA-ordered electronic harassment in November
2015 (apparently, by former Deputy Director of NSA Bill Black, Jr. of
Pasadena, MD) and the involvement of the criminal class in Tallahassee
in these DEW attacks, I told my lawyer that I felt it necessary to go
public now before NSA and their proxy thugs (and I include the FBI in
that description) could kill me as clearly is their intent.
16th Deputy Director of NSA, 2000-2006, Bill Black, Jr./Wikipedia
Prestigious “Flag Badge” Photo of Bill Black, Jr., 16th Deputy Director of NSA, whom Karen suspects put her in for
electronic harassment right after they had a heated discussion on
Twitter about 9/11 in late Nov 2015. ” (On Twitter,) I said I had been
told by two separate analysts who worked that topic that NO ONE had had
to die, it was entirely preventable, but that NSA management refused to
allow them to issue the pertinent warnings. ”
My lawyer, J. Duke of Melville Johnson PC in Atlanta, GA, had at my
behest written to the EEOC to alert them to new NSA criminal harassment
but was ignored. So, the EEOC certainly bears the blame for my being
forced to go public, whether from the EEOC’s incompetence or complicity
with the NSA agenda.
As of yet, no such journalists with the mainstream media (ABC, CBS,
NBC, FOX or any major newspapers) have shown an interest in my story
though without syndicated columnist Sher Zieve being brave enough to
write two columns on this topic, I would not be speaking with people as I
am now. Are you aware there are thousands of Americans currently—and
thousands worldwide—who have been reporting DEW/EMF assaults and
uber-surveillance, and organized group stalking as something they have
experienced for years? (From before 9/11 apparently, although numbers
have increased since 2001 and the Patriot Act.) We also know Intel
agencies and the Department of Justice are working with Military groups,
as per Memoranda of Understanding on joint development/use of these
classified EMF “non-lethal” neuroweapons on innocent Americans (research
from Dr. Nick Begich here)—without charge, without due process. Is NSA one of the groups doing this to civilians, do you think? Karen Stewart: I first learned of “organized
stalking” in 2009 when it was happening to me. For 2 ½ years NSA
Security goons and contractors had stalked me, then suddenly it became
my neighbors. I did not understand the transition until I found David
Lawson’s book “Cause Stalking”. I was shocked at the lack of morality or
common sense which that phenomenon showed was present in the general
population. Then to learn this was happening across the world was a
shock to my very core.
Neither I nor any of my NSA friends (to my knowledge) knew anything
of “electronic harassment” while working for NSA and I really have just
started learning about it with my becoming such a target. The number of
people being so attacked and tortured is mind-boggling as well as
heart-wrenching. It is like the walls of hell have come down and hell is
invading earth.
In regard to NSA and possible military cooperation in using weapons
of war (Directed Energy Weapons) against American citizens, that appears
true based on my recent experience.
During the years 2011 through 2014, I got on with my life in Florida
while patiently awaiting the adjudication of my EEOC lawsuit and did not
pay much attention to NSA in the news, but last year I did learn that
the Naval Security Group aka “Silent Warriors“ (their Directed Energy
Weapons command) had moved their headquarters to Ft. Meade, Maryland,
which is where the NSA HQ is located as well.
Since Admiral Rogers is now the Director of NSA, I do wonder if that
marriage between Navy and NSA has led to the inclusion of “Silent
Warrior” mobile Directed Energy Weapons into the arsenal of NSA’s
criminal brown shirts and enemies of Democracy–NSA Security, during the
years between their first attack on me and the second.
Photo Stalker from Naval Security Group, April 2015, photographed by Karen
I had originally thought, based on my experience (2006-2009), that
only NSA Security used this harassment technique on NSA whistleblowers,
journalists, or anti-NSA activists, which was bad enough by itself. But
then I met a whistleblower from the Department of Justice who knew NSA
was involved in her being targeted for slander and stalking harassment
as well, so I realized how broadly the Federal government was using
criminal harassment with NSA more than happy to help with its ever
increasing network of compromised or gullible law enforcement officials
and ready-to-roll civilian stalking groups.
In the last year, the DOJ whistleblower has reported to me that she
is now also being targeted for electronic harassment. So that would
appear to support the idea that with the collocation of the two at Ft.
Meade, that NSA and the Naval Security Group are indeed cooperating in
the use of mobile versions of weapons of war from the ‘Silent Warrior’
arsenal. And since the 9/11 tragedy allowed NSA to focus inside the USA
for the first time in its history, and a much broader demographic of the
civilian populace is reporting being targeted by such devices than
NSA-related whistleblowers, reporters, and critics, is it not logical to
infer that NSA has a huge role in this new, treasonous war on Americans
and others?
If this is the situation, it is quite obvious that our legislative
branch needs to take a hard look at its own unforgivable, grossly
negligent, lack of even minimal oversight of NSA, NSA Security, and
other Intelligence Community entities who could indeed be in the
position to threaten, control, blackmail or murder anyone in U.S.
leadership who does not fit their agenda for themselves, or who simply
“displeases” NSA Security.
This leaves us wondering if the intent of NSA Security was to subvert
NSA proper, and in so doing to have NSA subvert the United States
government while trying to maintain a façade that we still live in the
representational Republic our Founding Fathers intended, often
mistakenly less precisely called a Democracy. Excerpt from article by Xkeyscore, Intellihub News: National Security Racketeering Analysis You may know of the late Ted Gunderson, Special Agent-in-Charge/LA, FBI’s 2011 affidavit regarding these harassment and organized stalking programs as FBI- and NSA-run. Intellihub News has an article by Xkeyscore currently on the FBI’s expanded COINTELPRO programs—where
there’s a lot of disclosure on how “Targeted Individuals” get special,
extrajudicial and libelous treatment from the FBI—falsified records,
major defamation and smear campaigns in the community. John Whitehead also writes about the FBI’s part in this. Have you experienced FBI harassment as well? Karen Stewart: I was horrified and stupefied enough
in 2009 to learn of “organized stalking” when my neighbors in Columbia,
Maryland bought into the outrageous smear job NSA and likely FBI
sycophants did on me there and gleefully joined into the (paid) mass
bullying effort with not one of the gullible civilian fools asking why
legitimate law enforcement would abandon rule of law and due process in
favor of civilian-based mob rule and harassment.
That’s when I met the previously mentioned stalking victim in the
vicinity who was a contract lawyer with the Department of Justice who
was experiencing the same slander and stalking campaign that I was for
reporting criminal behavior by another contractor. She was aware that
NSA and FBI were involved in her wrongful persecution.
I knew FBI had had some involvement in mine as well, but was not sure
if they were complicit or just played for fools by NSA Security. They
did seem to be lied to by NSA after I tried to get the IG to do his job
and did seem to investigate me in their oafish way but seemed to
disappear when they could find no evidence of any wrong-doing on my
part, though that did not sway NSA Security.
Possible NSA Management Level Stalker/April 2009/Photographed by Karen
From Karen: In
2009 I slipped out of the house in the wee hours in Maryland to
impersonate a stalker, i.e., oversized hoody covering my features. Waved
down this man who oddly enough, stopped in the dark, and rolled down
the window to a supposed total stranger in suspicious garb, whom he
could not identify. I drew his attention to my right to get a photo from
the camera in my left. He was shocked/horrified to see who had gotten
his photo and spent the next 15 minutes furiously texting someone. The
car he was driving turned out to be that of a black male stalker from
the neighborhood. A couple weeks later, he saw me “see” him in a local
bookstore café and literally jumped up and ran out the back door. Could he be a top level NSA (Security?) manager running illegal stalking harassment?
But with the second campaign in Florida beginning in early 2015, it
was quite evident from the start that the Florida FBI were indeed
complicit. Phone calls to the national FBI phone line were cut off as
soon as I identified myself and registered letters to FBI Headquarters
in Washington DC as well as Jacksonville, Florida were stolen and never
delivered either.
So, it does look like criminals have infiltrated the FBI just as they infiltrated the watch dog
Possible FBI Stalker/Photographed by Karen
entities at NSA, such as the EEO, the IG, the Counsel General, etc., to make sure complaints never get heard.
I had indeed heard of Ted Gunderson and greatly admired him. I
learned about COINTELPRO and “Zersetzung” while investigating organized
stalking. It’s no good thing to learn that the FBI thought the Stasi
practice of “Zersetzung” was actually something to be emulated in the
form of the COINTELPRO program in the 1960’s and 1970’s. That was a
deeply shameful time in our history but little did we know that our own
government was capable of so much worse. Many observers note the NSA has grown so unwieldy yet so
powerful in its capabilities with surveillance technologies—including
Neurotechnologies—that with the CIA, FBI, DHS, they are operating like
rogue government agencies accountable to no-one: they pursue secrecy,
commit crimes of covert assault and harassment against Americans of
ethicality, integrity, community spirit—people who are not and have
mostly never committed crimes of any kind—and they are getting
communities to assist them. So we have a very strange situation here, where abuses of
power are occurring. Why is that? Why have our mechanisms of oversight
and accountability failed? Karen Stewart: In regard to our government turning
on us with such unthinkable programs, the replacement of honest,
dedicated personnel in watchdog entities first, is how you successfully
subvert a government.
Then that evil leadership is now accountable to no one, then
purposely allows the country’s economy to be debauched so that only the
government and the entwined super rich corporations and individuals have
money, thus making ordinary citizens so desperate for funds that morals
are given a backseat.
Then that ill-intended leadership purposely allows enemies of the
country to overrun and infiltrate the country, causing widespread angst
among the population. At that point, the evil people may then freely
target those who oppose or sound the alert to the sedition they intend,
by labeling patriots as traitors or threats.
But I think that our grandparents and great-grandparents never would
have fallen for this gratuitous slander of individuals (much less abuse)
or even tolerated any authority abusing its position so outrageously.
Their morals were clear, people knew right from wrong as where many
Americans today are in a quagmire of muddy morality, having jettisoned
common sense, reason, and any interest in our Creator and his
instructions for attaining and retaining his wisdom and blessings in
this life. They would have sent such Federal gossips and hate- and
fear-mongers, packing, then demanded to know what was going on and
demanded to have an end put to it.
But we now are a people who don’t know our own history and origins,
so we don’t know who and what we are. We have set ourselves adrift from
God, who ordained our creation to be a light to the world, a blessing to
it, but now we are becoming a curse and accursed as well. The blessings
are drying up and the protection that went with that is as well. As a retired NSA Intelligence analyst, what is your advice?
What would be the best way to tackle this scourge and criminality openly
and lawfully? How do people convince their neighbors and communities they
shouldn’t be assisting these rogue Intel and military programs and these
crimes of EMF assault and covert murder, let alone stalking and
harassment? Karen Stewart: My assessment of how we got here is
this, the usurpation of a free nation’s government for a dictatorship
can be accomplished when the population is so frustrated by their years
of political and economic impotence, by their leadership betraying them
at every turn, by endless broken promises, that for money and an
opportunity to take out their frustrations on a scapegoat or whipping
boy, they eagerly jump at the chance to “punish someone, anyone”, no
matter that the individual fits no profile of a threat or enemy to the
country or them whatsoever.
This appears to be a sociopathic state induced upon a population to
groom it to betray itself and walk itself into servitude, having
silenced or murdered anyone with integrity, character, or discernment
among them.
But with few or no exceptions, this is a now a global phenomenon in
part because the disinformation campaign by those intending evil, has
been so successful.
The whole world is now under a terror threat, the whole world is
under threat of an economic collapse, so now there is a “join the mob or
die” mentality growing in many places which is always antithetical to
free thought and free (responsible) living.
Certain humans, i.e., organized stalkers, are now forming packs like
animals and going on hunting frenzies like pack animals with no second
thoughts. And like animal packs, the most vicious rise to the top. The
devolution of civilization is obviously progressing faster than we ever
imagined it would.
How to combat this? Certainly more, more, more, articles to engender
awareness and discourse. There was actually a lull in the second round
of organized stalking against me last year when I put a link to an
article by Sher Zieve (to which I contributed general information) about
NSA corruption on the back of my car. Many of my stalkers looked it up,
and I was able at times to see their faces when they realized that they
had been played for fools. NSA had to think up a new batch of lies to
tell new people after that, and it took them a few days to do so.
So information can sway the more intelligent who were fooled into
thinking they were doing something patriotic (though you have to be
pretty pathetically gullible to think a legitimate government would
sanction criminal harassment). Seeing something in print will sway some
people before speaking to them will. One frustrating aspect of confronting this criminality is the
NSA/FBI is apparently using National Security Letters and FISA court
warrants, and showing people false criminal and investigation records
with fabricated information and lies, and in secret (imposing gag orders
with threats of fine, jail time), as they defame and destroy
individuals–how do we fight back, as law-abiding Americans who would
like to see our Constitutional Republic and basic rule of law restored? Karen Stewart: People have to band together and defy
the illegitimate NSLs, the Federal gag order to keep secret Federal
crimes against American citizens quiet.
Though apparently some stalkers rebelled and refused to continue in
my case, they did nothing to demand the fraudulent effort stop, so
whatever moral stance they took, aided me little. I almost blame people
who know the truth but do nothing more than the people doing the evil.
Organizing and having numerous people sending many logically
presented letters to the same leaders on the same topic will begin to
tip them off that these stories are much more than random ravings by the
occasional crackpot, that the perpetrators want society to believe
until it is too late for everyone. The explanation by the perpetrators
that these stories come from mass delusions is belied by the
non-existence of mass delusions of such a nature as well, so mental
health care professionals in the know need to debunk these lies
publicly.
In larger cities, you may be able to find others being targeted and
approach local leaders, media, or even individual perpetrators with a
group they cannot ignore. Remember, such harassers are rank cowards and
hate to be culled from the anonymity of their fascist gang. The group
can also provide mutual support as many of the TIs are ostracized for
various reasons by family and friends.
And most importantly, connect or re-connect to God in prayer, where
we should be strengthened and renewed, as well as receive our marching
orders. I wanted to mention neuro-experimentation before we close. You may be familiar with the John St. Clair Akwei lawsuit,
which details invasive Signals Intelligence including Radiation
Intelligence which the NSA collects—essentially, people’s brainwaves and
EMFs. Magnus Olsson, the Swedish activist, has written about how the DoD/CIA/NSA have all been pursuing Neurological Research. Robert Duncan, ex-CIA scientist, has
detailed CIA mind-hacking projects, brain-mapping, brain-computer link,
and no-touch torture projects in his books, including Project Soulcatcher. Then you have the President’s Bioethics Commission chaired by Amy Gutmann turning a deliberate blind eye even when people come forward to inform them of non-consensual experimentation on their bodies and brains. Why do you think our Government is engaging in covert experimentation and research programs with such impunity? Karen Stewart: The Protect America Act (PAA) and the
NDAA I have always thought were horrific ploys more than mere mistakes.
You do not take away the rights of the citizens to protect them from
the enemies whom you are purposely allowing access to them. This is
outrageous illogic. But people are acceding, losing their freedoms and
quite willingly because their fear is overwhelming their ability to
think.
Maybe it’s the fluoride in our water making us sheeple, maybe it’s
the lack of modern America’s former generally homogeneous national
Judeo-Christian social philosophy and morals that have been lost in the
Right versus Left discourse of the last 50 years, which had kept us
united as a strong, cohesive culture and a benevolent civilization
(mostly).
But we have lost our humanity and moral compass to the point where we
have created leadership by psychopaths, and they are indulging in the
worst that humanity can imagine in the melding of science and depravity,
i.e. electronic harassment.
Remember, as the quality of a society declines, so therefore does its
leadership. The first step in reversing this, lies in your mirror. Inexplicably, mainstream media still refuses to cover this
vital issue of our times, even though hundreds of thousands are
affected, both here and abroad, possibly via Intelligence agreements—and
our government completely ignores our outrage. But this situation has to change. Your speaking out
as an NSA insider who has also experienced this will surely help change
this scenario—I thank you enormously for that, for your courage in
speaking out, and for your tremendous insights and advice. Karen Stewart: When I learned of the vast numbers
affected, I at that moment understood somewhat why Jesus sat and cried
for Jerusalem, I felt like that for this vast population of innocents
being subjected to demonic abuse by counterfeit humans who have lost
every vestige of their humanity.
Why the voices of human beings crying out for help is being ignored I
cannot fathom, but if my story about being an unwitting insider
targeted out of petty vengeance can help those who were likely randomly
or speciously targeted, then let it go out for discussion and
elucidation.
Then let it come back as a battering ram to get the attention of
those who CAN disassemble the 21st Century sadistic torture holocaust
under everyone’s noses. The Bible says we are “wonderfully and fearfully
made” (in God’s image) and we need to remind our leaders that they have
no authority to revoke the immense value of each of our lives for their
perceived “entertainment”. We are not their property, only a
Satanic form of government would delude itself into thinking that and
America was not created for evil, it was created for good – with each of
the original 13 colonies dedicating their founding to God and Jesus
Christ and advancing God’s kingdom on earth, so with this covenant to
God broken by our evil leadership, God will and must act soon, I
believe. I pray Psalms 91 and 94 daily as a place to start. You mentioned a wonderful program of group prayer on Wheels of Freedom—would
you like to share that initiative—perhaps, with others reading this, we
can all work to affect our collective consciousness field and fully
change this situation in our country, and the world. Karen Stewart: I have called previously for a
seven-minute prayer to be said every Sunday at 7 pm for the deliverance
of all electronic harassment victims from this evil.
Maybe that will be the fuel for the pushback against this evil even
if no mainstream media ever pick this story up. If you are of the
Judeo-Christian belief system, feel free to start your prayers like I do
with the recitation of the above Psalms, then add what you will.
Consider it, please, all who take the time to read this. And thank
you Ramola for your passion and your determination, that takes courage
beyond measure. God bless you and deliver us soon. Resources: Wheel of Freedom interview with Karen Stewart:
Earlier this month, conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch released a series of documents
obtained via an FOIA request which appear to prove that Hillary Clinton
knew her BlackBerry wasn’t secure when she and her staff moved into
Mahogany Row (the nickname given to the set of offices reserved for
senior officials in the Department of State).
E-mail exchanges between Senior Coordinator for Security Infrastructure Donald Reid and the NSA show Clinton was intent on obtaining a secure BlackBerry that she could use in restricted areas.
Although Clinton would of course be given a desktop
computer on which she could safely conduct state business, Reid said the
Secretary had become “addicted” to her BlackBerry during her ill-fated
2008 Presidential campaign. “The issue here is one of personal comfort,”
an e-mail from Reid reads. “S [Secretary Clinton] does not use a
personal computer so our view of someone wedded to their email (why
doesn’t she use her desktop when in SCIF?) doesn’t fit this scenario …
during the campaign she was urged to keep in contact with thousands via a
BB … once she got the hang of it she was hooked … now everyday [sic], she feels hamstrung because she has to lock her BB up.”
When the NSA wasn’t receptive, long-time Clinton aid and
BlackRock crony Cheryl Mills tried her hand at convincing security
officials to find a work around for Clinton’s BlackBerry but she too was
rebuffed. “The department's designated NSA liaison, whose name was
redacted from the documents, expressed concerns about security
vulnerabilities inherent with using BlackBerry devices for secure
communications or in secure areas,” AP recounts, adding that “Clinton
began sending work-related emails through private accounts soon after, in March 2009.”
Or so the story goes. In fact, however, Clinton may have begun using the private server housed in her basement before March. And while there’s some ambiguity, that would seem to contradict statements she made under oath.
"Conservative legal watchdogs have discovered new emails from Hillary
Clinton’s private email server dating back to the first days of her
tenure as secretary of State," The Hill reports, referencing newly released messages turned up by Judicial Watch. "The previously
undisclosed February 2009 emails between Clinton from her then-chief of
staff, Cheryl Mills, raise new questions about the scope of emails from
Clinton’s early days in office that were not handed over to the State
Department for recordkeeping and may have been lost entirely." Here, for instance, is a message dated February 13 that appears to reference the meeting Mills had with the NSA:
Just to clarify, this is a problem because Clinton's campaign has
contended that she did not use the personal account prior to March and
the publicly released e-mails begin on March 18.
Again, there's some ambiguity here. “[Clinton] has previously
acknowledged that she emailed with department officials before March 18,
2009, the date of the first email in the collection that former
Secretary Clinton provided to the Department in December 2014," a State
Department official said last week. “Former Secretary Clinton has also
indicated that she does not have access to work-related emails beyond those she turned over to the Department."
So essentially, the argument is that although there were indeed work
related e-mails sent prior to March 18, Clinton could not access them to
turn them over - or something. The story keeps changing. And indeed
that's the whole problem. At this point it's abundantly clear that
Clinton would have been far better off telling the truth from the very
beginning and the fact that incremental information continues to surface
certainly seems to suggest that the former First Lady fully intends to
admit only what someone else can prove. That doesn't exactly inspire much trust.
“So now we know that, contrary to her statement under oath suggesting
otherwise, Hillary Clinton did not turn over all her government
emails,” Tom Fitton, the head of Judicial Watch said in a statement. “We
also know why Hillary Clinton falsely suggests she didn’t
use clintonemail.com account prior to March, 18, 2009 — because she
didn’t want Americans to know about her February 13, 2009, email that
shows that she knew her Blackberry and email use was not secure.”
While we would note that there's a bit of confirmation bias going on
there (i.e. Fitton said the messages he uncovered earlier this month
were proof that Clinton knew her BlackBerry wasn't secure and now he
says the new e-mails are proof that that proof was indeed proof), Fitton
is probably right. Clinton most likely would rather not have been
forced to admit that she and Cheryl Mills essentially tried to browbeat
the NSA into figuring out how to accommodate the BlackBerrys because the very fact that they had the conversation in the first place suggests Clinton and Mills knew the devices weren't secure.
But more importantly, it seems exceedingly unlikely that Clinton
couldn't have turned over the messages from February had she wanted to.
That is, how is it that she had access to mail on her private sever from
March 18 but not from the beginning of February? Did she permanently
delete the messages? And if so, why?
Well the FBI intends to find out, because as a new Washington Post piece (which you're encouraged to read in its entirety) details, the Bureau now has 147 agents on the case. "One hundred forty-seven FBI agents have been deployed to run down leads" WaPo writes, adding that "the FBI has accelerated the investigation because officials want to avoid the possibility of announcing any action too close to the election."
While we can always hold out some hope that Clinton will one day be
held accountable and that someone, somewhere will dispel with the notion
that America's political aristocracy is above the law, we can't help
but suspect that we'll never see Hillary Clinton in black and white
stripes - unless it's a pantsuit.
Karen Stewart, with companion and protector, Mariska, the Anatolian Shepherd
