Jirayl Zorthian on his horse in the Doo-Dah Parade
“That means Barr could potentially reveal intelligence shared with the US by other countries related to Russian election meddling and, in the process, risk damaging those critical relationships with foreign partners. The United Kingdom and Australia are members of the critical so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, rounded out by the United States, New Zealand and Canada.”
My Muse woke me early again, and set me to work on how Representative Adam Schiff could be rewarded for his Courageous Love of Democracy. I shoved aside the Presidential Medal. It was not enough. Becoming a Senator of California is what he says he wants, but, every time I see Adam, and hear his words, I know I am looking at a man who believes in God’s Justice, and His Love of Truth, is the Cornerstone of all Democracies.
I turned on MSNBC news (where I saw Adam several times) and there is Joe Scarborough at Auschwitz. I had read Adam represented Armenians, and Jirayl Zorthian came to mind. I googled Zorthian and saw something I failed to see….Zorthian was one of RITCHIE’S BOYS and worked in U.S. Intelligence. Zorthian walked out of Turkey with his family, and witnessed the Armenian Genocide. I now knew Adam wanted me to post on the plight of the Arminian People. This would be a reward. I got my reward in the discovery of King Applegate, a native Oregonian who went to the UofO!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Applegate
“After the close of World War II, Applegate spent the next 15 years as an advisor to the government of Mexico who made him an “Honorary General”.[3]
Applegate was friends with actor John Wayne and in addition to teaching Wayne how to shoot, Applegate served as a technical advisor on the set of The Alamo. Applegate was said to be the source and inspiration for several of Ian Fleming‘s characters in the James Bond novels.[3][4]
For four years I have been wondering why I brought a British Intelligence officer and her bodyguard to Oregon. I have suggested many times ‘The Royal Janitor’ is already written, and my job is to find out, where. An hour ago I found an article about Barr written on 09/30/19 5:51 PM ET when Trump was still President. He had to have read it. Who else? Did Ginni Thomas read it, and John Easton? How many members of the Republican committee going after the Democrats, read it? The Barr Boys are shitting bricks over the New York Times article published yesterday. Not only is there proof of a cover-up…the Band of Brave Barr Boys entered the railroad crossing – and got t-boned by a freight train!
I met Zorthian and lived with his two daughters with my sister Christine. In my next installment of ‘The Royal Janitor’ I will have Starfish reveal her parents were disciples of Rex Applegate, and Professor Von Bundhorst is authoring a book about him. That Barr came in contact with Dutch Intelligence – is a gift from God!
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Auschwitz 78th anniversary comes as Russia’s war in Ukraine shatters peace in Europe again© AP
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OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau are gathering Friday to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp in the final months of World War II, amid the horror of war again shattering peace in Europe.
Trump orders intel agencies to assist Barr with review of Russia probe
For now, those allies are trying to stay out of the fray, arguing it’s a domestic issue. But the President has granted Barr – not the intelligence community – sweeping powers to decide what intelligence can be declassified.
That means Barr could potentially reveal intelligence shared with the US by other countries related to Russian election meddling and, in the process, risk damaging those critical relationships with foreign partners.
The United Kingdom and Australia are members of the critical so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, rounded out by the United States, New Zealand and Canada.
Both have so far publicly stayed quiet, emphasizing their friendships with the US but national security officials in those countries are watching and waiting, following closely while refraining from criticizing a process that could call into question their intelligence gathering and reveal their methods and sources.
“If the review were to declassify sensitive intelligence – especially if doing so compromised the safety of sources – that would cause very grave concern,” a former senior British ambassador told CNN. “It could even affect the readiness of close allies like Britain to continue sharing the most sensitive material with the US.”
The memos, which were provided to the CIAby Dutch intelligence partners, suggested that Benardo had emailed Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) to discuss a promise from former Attorney General Loretta Lynch to obstruct probes into the 2016 hack of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails. Both Benardo and Wasserman Schultz deny such a conversation ever took place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirayr_Zorthian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applegate_Trail
Barr sought help from foreign intelligence officials for inquiry of Mueller probe’s origins
BY JUSTINE COLEMAN – 09/30/19 5:51 PM ET
Attorney General William Barr has requested assistance from foreign intelligence officials as part of a Department of Justice (DOJ) inquiry into U.S. intelligence agencies’ probes of Russian interference in the 2016 election, the DOJ confirmed on Monday.
In private meetings, Barr personally sought help from these officials for an inquiry President Trump wanted to discredit the U.S. intelligence community’s handling of the Russian probe, The Washington Post reported.
{mosads}The Justice Department confirmed Barr’s outreach, saying in a statement that U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is leading the DOJ’s inquiry, is “gathering information from numerous sources including a number of foreign countries.”
“At Attorney General Barr’s request, the President has contacted other countries to ask them to introduce the Attorney General and Mr. Durham to appropriate officials,” DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said. The Justice Department sought to emphasize that the outreach is unrelated to Russian meddling itself.
Barr and Durham reportedly met with senior Italian government officials, the Post reported. Sources told the paper that they asked for assistance in the inquiry and that this was not Barr’s first in-person meeting with Italian intelligence officials.
White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said the department asked the president to make connections between it and foreign officers to move forward with the inquiry and that “he did so, that’s all.”
“I’m old enough to remember when Democrats actually wanted to find out what happened in the 2016 election,” Gidley said in a statement. “The Democrats clearly don’t want the truth to come out anymore as it might hurt them politically, but this call relates to a DOJ inquiry publicly announced months ago to uncover exactly what happened.”
Following the release of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report earlier this summer, the White House has sought to pivot to investigating the origins of that probe, with Trump making unsubstantiated allegations that the Obama administration spied on his campaign.
Trump’s supporters have long called for an investigation into the beginnings of the U.S. intelligence community’s investigation into Russian interference. The president and his administration have continued to speak out against those who investigated his connections with Russia, saying they should be charged.
The Post report came hours after another news story that Barr also asked the president to request that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison look into the origins of the Mueller investigation.
The reports come amid the ongoing fallout over the president’s controversial call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump asked him to “look into” former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 White House candidate, as well as Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
Current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials were concerned about Barr’s direct involvement in the allegations against the intelligence community, the Post reported.
David Laufman, a former Justice Department official initially involved with the Russia investigation, told the Post it was “fairly unorthodox for the attorney general personally to be flying around the world as a point person to further evidence-gathering for a specific Justice Department investigation.”
Updated at 6:31 p.m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
ARMENIAN ISSUES
On President Biden’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide:
“For Armenian-Americans and everyone who believes in human rights and the truth, the recognition of the Armenian Genocide marks a historic milestone. The President of the United States has at long last recognized the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians for what it was – the first genocide of the 20th century. In so doing, he has cast aside decades of shameful silence and half-truths, and the broken promises of so many of his predecessors and spoken truth to power.
“The President, the Congress, and the American people now speak with one voice: We will never again be silenced, and we will never forget.”
– Rep. Adam Schiff
Rep. Adam Schiff has long represented the largest Armenian diasporas in the country and serves as Vice Chair of the Congressional Armenian Caucus. For decades, he has fought side-by-side with his Armenian American constituents for the recognition of their history, as survivors of the first genocide of the 20th century, and for the protection of their future and the futures of their families and loved ones working for freedom abroad.
https://schiff.house.gov/issues/armenian-issues
Early life[edit]
Born of Armenian parents on April 14, 1911, in Kütahya, Western Anatolia, Ottoman Empire, Zorthian escaped through Europe with the remnants of his family to escape the Armenian Genocide, and arrived in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1923. He earned a Master of Fine Arts at Yale University (where he had a “full college scholarship to the Yale School of fine arts”)[1] and studied art in Italy in the 1930s. Returning to the United States during the Great Depression, he painted several massive murals, including 11 for the Tennessee State Capitol in 1938 which earned him the honorary title of “Colonel“. In 1940, he painted the mural at the United States Post Office in St. Johnsville, New York, titled “Early St. Johnsville Pioneers.”[2]
World War II[edit]
During World War II, he served stateside in army intelligence and painted what he came to consider his masterpiece—a mural he titled The Phantasmagoria of Military Intelligence Training. His training at Camp Ritchie makes him one of many Ritchie Boys. His first marriage, to shaving cream heiress Betty Williams, ended in divorce but he gained the first acres of the Altadena ranch where he lived from 1945 until his death.
Applegate was born on June 21, 1914 in Oregon. He was a descendant of Charles Applegate, who blazed the Oregon Trail in 1843 with his brothers Jesse and Lindsay and established the Applegate Trail. Applegate began hunting and shooting at a young age and learned marksmanship from his uncle Gus Peret who was a famed exhibition shooter and professional hunter at the time. Applegate graduated from the University of Oregon with a Business Degree in 1940 and went on to take a commission in the US Army as a Second Lieutenant. His first billet was with the 209th Military Police Company as a lung ailment kept him from holding a combat position.[1][2]
World War II
In 1941 Applegate was developing armed and unarmed close quarter combat courses for the US Army when he was recruited by Wild Bill Donovan for the OSS, specifically to build and run what was called “The School for Spies and Assassins”, the location of which is now Camp David.[2] Donovan had Applegate learn all that he could about armed and unarmed fighting from William E. Fairbairn to form a brutal and effective system. He was the close-combat coordinator for all clandestine missions and this role brought him into contact with other fighters and martial artists of the time period such as a Finnish soldier who killed 21 Russians with a knife and the founder of the British SAS: David Stirling.[3]
At one point during the war, he served as the personal bodyguard to President Franklin D Roosevelt.[1][2]
Special Counsel Robert Durham, appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr, uncovered possible financial crimes by Donald Trump but made no attempt to prosecute them, The New York Times reveals in massive, bombshell report published Thursday after a months-long investigation.
“Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham never disclosed that their inquiry expanded in the fall of 2019, based on a tip from Italian officials, to include a criminal investigation into suspicious financial dealings related to Mr. Trump. The specifics of the tip and how they handled the investigation remain unclear, but Mr. Durham brought no charges over it,” The Times’ Charlie Savage, Adam Goldman, and Katie Benner report.
Bill Barr’s Handpicked Prosecutor Relied on Russian Intel
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Durham was tasked by Barr in 2019 with overseeing a DOJ investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia Investigation, particularly the credibility of intelligence reports upon which the investigation was based. According to the Times, at one point in the investigation Durham seized on dubious Russian intelligence memos in order to target Leonard Benardo, the executive vice president of Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
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The memos, which were provided to the CIAby Dutch intelligence partners, suggested that Benardo had emailed Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) to discuss a promise from former Attorney General Loretta Lynch to obstruct probes into the 2016 hack of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails. Both Benardo and Wasserman Schultz deny such a conversation ever took place.
According to interviews conducted by the Times, despite significant factual inconsistencies in the memos being raised by investigators, the special counsel reportedly went to great lengths to obtain information on the contents of Benardo’s emails. When a Judge struck down a request from his office to access the information, citing a lack of evidence compelling enough to overwrite privacy laws, Durham reportedly attempted to circumvent her decision through a grand jury. While the Times was unable to ascertain if Benardo was subpoenaed by Durham, he did voluntarily provide the special counsel with the requested information.
The matter proved fruitless.
Circumventing judicial rulings in an attempt to establish a connection between the Clinton email investigation and George Soros isn’t the only potential ethical breach uncovered by the Times. Barr and Durham quietly expanded — then dropped — an investigation into potentially criminal “suspicious financial dealings related to Mr. Trump” in 2019. The Times also confirmed that several sudden resignations from members of the investigative teams stemmed from ethics concerns regarding flimsy criminal indictments.
Barr was installed as attorney general shortly after Trump fired his then AG Jeff Sessions, ostensibly for failing to act on his complaints regarding Special Counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into his relationship with Russia.
Durham’s three-and-a-half year probe has shown itself to be primarily a giant waste of time and resources. It’s the exact type of partisan witch hunt one might think a House committee on the “Weaponization of the Federal Government” might want to investigate, but Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who will run the subcommittee is unlikely to bring it to the table. Jordan, a devout Trump loyalist, repeatedly lauded the Durham investigation, and publicly affirmed his belief that the probe would result in criminal penalties for those under Barr and Durham’s scrutiny.
Jordan told Fox Newsost Sean Hannity on Tuesday that as Judiciary Committee Chair he will continue to probe allegations of corruption in the Justice Department and FBI as related to the Russia probe. “The highest levels of the FBI are now functioning in a political fashion,” he said.
US intelligence partners wary of Barr’s Russia review
By Alex Marquardt and Zachary Cohen, CNN
Updated 4:58 AM EDT, Thu May 30, 2019
03:09
Trump defends decision to give Barr unprecedented power
Ex-Trump official says rush to pack after Jan. 6 could be how Pence ended up with classified documents
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Key allies who share intelligence with the United States could soon be dragged into the middle of Attorney General Bill Barr’s politically-charged Justice Department review of how the Russia investigation began.
President Donald Trump has said he wants Barr to look into the role key intelligence partners, including the United Kingdom and Australia, played in the origins of Russia probe. He has said he could raise the issue with the British Prime Minister Theresa May during his state visit next week and suggested he may ask her about his accusation that Britain spied on his 2016 presidential campaign.
In describing the scope of Barr’s mission to declassify and study the pre-election Obama-era intelligence, among several other topics, Trump told reporters, “I hope he looks at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine.”
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Trump orders intel agencies to assist Barr with review of Russia probe
For now, those allies are trying to stay out of the fray, arguing it’s a domestic issue. But the President has granted Barr – not the intelligence community – sweeping powers to decide what intelligence can be declassified.
That means Barr could potentially reveal intelligence shared with the US by other countries related to Russian election meddling and, in the process, risk damaging those critical relationships with foreign partners.
The United Kingdom and Australia are members of the critical so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, rounded out by the United States, New Zealand and Canada.
Both have so far publicly stayed quiet, emphasizing their friendships with the US but national security officials in those countries are watching and waiting, following closely while refraining from criticizing a process that could call into question their intelligence gathering and reveal their methods and sources.
“If the review were to declassify sensitive intelligence – especially if doing so compromised the safety of sources – that would cause very grave concern,” a former senior British ambassador told CNN. “It could even affect the readiness of close allies like Britain to continue sharing the most sensitive material with the US.”
“This is a matter for the US authorities,” a senior British official in London added, while the embassy in Washington declined to comment.
One official from a Five Eyes partner said that a balance needs to be struck between the review of intelligence and national security matters with the need to protect classified information.
Australian officials declined to comment but Foreign Minister Marise Payne told a radio interviewer on Monday they don’t want to “engage in a public commentary that might entirely risk that we seem to prejudice the ongoing examination of these matters in the US.”
There is increased wariness because of the President’s signature unpredictability but Barr is seen as a steady hand and intelligence partners are comforted by their lengthy friendships with their American counterparts.
In Britain’s case, the drama surrounding Brexit also means they are keen not to rock the boat.
“For Brexit and other reasons, the British government is keen to stay closely aligned with the Trump administration, despite significant differences on climate, trade, and foreign policy,” the former British ambassador said. “The UK will probably not want to say much in public about the Barr review of inter-agency links.”
Trump might bring up Five Eyes spying with May
Until now, the Barr review hasn’t gotten much public attention in the UK, with recent headlines dominated by the dramas surrounding Brexit, May’s resignation and European Parliament elections. But the British press’ attention will soon turn back to the Trump and the tension in the “special relationship” with the President’s state visit to the UK next week.
Asked whether he would raise the possibility of Five Eyes countries spying on his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump told reporters on Friday he could do so with outgoing Prime Minister May.
“There’s word and rumor that the FBI and others were involved, CIA were involved, with the UK, having to do with the Russian hoax,” Trump told reporters on Friday. “And I may very well talk to her about that, yes.”
Despite the public disagreement between Trump and the US intelligence community over whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election, the top US intelligence chief said the Barr will get “all the appropriate information” for the review of intelligence into Russia’s election attacks.
Director of National Intelligence: Russian interference in US political system ongoing
But Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned Barr against being too public with what he declassifies.
“I am confident that the Attorney General will work with the IC in accordance with the long-established standards to protect highly-sensitive classified information that, if publicly released, would put our national security at risk,” Coats said in a statement.
When asked if the Department of Justice has provided any assurances regarding the protection of intelligence provided by foreign partners, an ODNI spokesperson referred CNN to Coats’ statement from last week.
The Justice Department declined to comment.
Foreign intelligence and the 2016 election
It was the Australians who tipped off the FBI that Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos knew about the Russians having damaging emails that could influence the election, months before that information became public.
The Australians knew because Papadopoulos bragged about it to the Australian ambassador to the UK in May 2016, and they brought the tip to the FBI’s attention in July 2016, after WikiLeaks started releasing hacked Democratic emails.
According to the Mueller report, which never identified Australia by name, “the FBI opened its investigation of potential coordination between Russia and the Trump Campaign a few days later based on the information.”
This came soon after British and European intelligence agencies told their US counterparts about communications they intercepted between Trump associates, Russian officials and other Russian individuals during the campaign.
Since Trump won the election, British and American intelligence officials have insisted they continue to work together as closely as ever, despite the tumult at tops of their leadership. But Trump’s disregard for the intelligence community has strained ties with some of its strongest partners.
Yet at the same time, Trump has repeatedly perpetuated baseless accusations of spying against critical allies. Specifically, Trump has repeatedly alleged – without any evidence – that the Obama administration wiretapped him during the 2016 presidential campaign with the help of a British spy agency.
A former senior US official pointed to the President sharing highly classified intelligence about ISIS obtained from Israel with Russia’s foreign minister and US ambassador during an Oval Office meeting in May 2017 as an example of Trump’s casual attitude when it comes to protecting sensitive information.
“Going all the way back to that point we’ve seen strains in the intelligence sharing relationship we have within the Five Eyes community,” the former official said. “I have not seen these types of strains in our relationship since the immediate aftermath of the [2013] Edward Snowden revelations.”
That added pressure is particularly problematic when the intelligence concerns Russia, as it does in the Barr review, the former official added. “Intelligence related to Russian activities and influence around the world is through not only our own collection but comparing what we gather with what our other Five Eyes partners are gathering.”
On Capitol Hill, Democrats have blasted the President’s decision to declassify the pre-election intelligence.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff accused Trump of “conspiring to weaponize” classified information while Senate Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Mark Warner told CNN that the move “has the potential to jeopardize” key relationships with foreign partners.
“Trust and confidentiality are essential aspects of our partnerships with foreign intelligence services – and the President’s bizarre decision to allow the Attorney General to selectively and unilaterally declassify information certainly has the potential to jeopardize those relationships,” Warner said.
CNN’s Marshall Cohen and Laura Jarrett contributed reporting
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Accused Maryland woman Sarah Beth Clendaniel.
Screenshot: U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
A neo-Nazi leader and a Maryland woman planned to attack electrical substations, which form the interface between the distribution grid and transmissions systems, around Baltimore in an attempt to permanently “lay this city to waste,” according to the FBI.
Authorities arrested Sarah Beth Clendaniel, a 34-year-old woman from Maryland, and Brandon Clint Russell, a 27-year-old from Florida who leads his local neo-Nazi group, on Feb. 3 and charged them with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility. In the unsealed criminal complaint, the FBI presented evidence of the duo’s extensive plans to carry out the attack, including securing weapons and specifying substations they wanted to target.
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