>>7425

Tyb

>>7948

o7

I appreciate it, anon. Haven’t spent a lot of time around here, but glad to see there are still actual digs somewhere on the kun.

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Gina Haspel, meetings with Durham, and connections to Cofer Black and Burisma

Meetings with Durham?

https://www.lawfareblog.com/cia-releases-declassified-memo-haspel-involvement-destruction-tapes

> The CIA released a declassified December 2011 memo by Michael Morell, then the deputy director, about Gina Haspel’s involvement in the destruction of detainee interrogation tapes in 2005.

Gina’s background circa 2001

https://web.archive.org/web/20180418122635/https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2018-featured-story-archive/get-to-know-our-deputy-director.html

> With the fight against al-Qa'ida heating up, Ms. Haspel requested a transfer to CIA's Counter Terrorism Center (CTC). Her first day on the job was September 11, 2001.

Strange date to begin a job at the CIA’s counter terrorism center.

Who was the director of the CTC at the time?

https://irp.fas.org/congress/2002_hr/092602black.html

> My name is Cofer Black. I served as the Director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center from 1999 until may of 2002.

Cofer Black? The same Cofer Black on Burisma Board of Directors with Hunter Biden?

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/766579412/what-to-know-about-the-ukrainian-company-at-the-heart-of-trumps-biden-allegation

> In spring 2014, the company appointed Hunter Biden and a former Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, to its board. Three years later, Burisma added Cofer Black, a former CIA official and foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, to the board.

Everything is connected.

>>7978

>absolutely no situational awareness.

Kek I know what you mean. That line really got his panties in a bunch over there

Former CIA Director John Brennan: Putin may become ‘even more reckless’

Former CIA Director John Brennan joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss what we can expect with Putin’s next moves. “I would think that the people around Putin who may have been in league with him up until now are recognizing that this is a no-win situation,” Brennan says. “So as others before me have said, I think that Putin right now is in a very desperate position and may become even more reckless.”

https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/former-cia-director-john-brennan-putin-may-become-even-more-reckless-134171205855

Mullah Brennan has been on a lot lately

Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Japan’s Announcement to Hold Russia Accountable

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

STATEMENTS AND RELEASES

We welcome Japan’s announcement today that it will stand with the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States to isolate Russia from the international financial system and our economies. Following Japan’s announcement, the entire G7 now supports disconnecting selected Russian banks from SWIFT, restrictions on the Russian Central Bank, and sanctioning key Russian leaders, including President Putin. Prime Minister Kishida and the Government of Japan have been leaders in condemning President Putin’s attack on Ukraine and we will continue working closely together to impose further severe costs and make Putin’s war of choice a strategic failure.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/27/statement-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-on-japans-announcement-to-hold-russia-accountable/

Ghislaine Maxwell juror to be questioned under oath by judge

NEW YORK (AP) — A Ghislaine Maxwell trial juror who indicated during jury selection that he’d never been a sexual abuse victim will be questioned by the trial judge in court, after demands for a new trial by defense attorneys sprouted from his public claims that he’d influenced fellow jurors by revealing he was a child sex assault victim.

U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan said in a written order Thursday she’ll question the juror March 8 at a public court hearing.

She also said she rejected requests by Maxwell’s attorneys that she immediately order a new trial and that she question other jurors, after a second one reportedly revealed during deliberations having suffered a childhood sexual attack.

A copy of the first juror’s questionnaire answers, filed publicly Thursday, showed a man identified in court papers only as “Juror No. 50” checked the “No” box to a question asking if he or a friend or family member had ever been the victim of sexual harassment, sexual abuse or sexual assault. The question said it “includes actual or attempted sexual assault or other unwanted sexual advance, including by a stranger, acquaintance, supervisor, teacher, or family member.”

The juror’s questionnaire was attached as an exhibit to the newly unsealed Jan. 19 request for a new trial by Maxwell’s lawyers. They noted that all other jurors also said they were not victims of sexual abuse, assault or harassment.

“Truthful answers from Juror No. 50 would have led the Court and the parties to probe much more deeply into his biases and prejudices, both known and unknown. Had that happened, the record shows that he would have been removed as a potential juror,” the lawyers wrote.

Maxwell’s lawyers said the juror answered other questions falsely, including one asking whether he’d ever been a crime victim.

In a Feb. 2 submission unsealed Thursday, prosecutors said there was substantial reason to believe that any inaccuracy by the juror was “an honest mistake, not a deliberate falsehood.”

Maxwell, 60, remains incarcerated after she was convicted of sex trafficking, among other charges, during a December trial in which she was portrayed as the chief recruiter of teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. Prosecutors said she also sometimes joined in the abuse.

https://apnews.com/article/ghislaine-maxwell-arts-and-entertainment-sexual-abuse-alison-j-nathan-nyc-state-wire-e02e3010300d944c8bbe308e6f7373b2

>>8023

>There wasn't much coverage the first time

>She'll still be guilty

That’s a good point.

The story in general needs more eyeballs.

US Supreme Court Turns Down Jeffrey Epstein Victim Appeal

February 23, 2022 at 01:02 PM

Courtney Wild argued that prosecutors violated her rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act when they secretly negotiated a deal in 2007 that shielded Jeffrey Epstein from federal criminal charges.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up an appeal by one of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s victims who waged a more than decadelong legal battle contending that federal prosecutors violated her rights.

The Supreme Court, as is common, did not give its reasons for refusing to take up the case filed by Courtney Wild. But the decision effectively let stand a ruling last year by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that sided with the federal government.

Wild, one of the late financier’s numerous underage victims, argued that prosecutors violated her rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act when they secretly negotiated a deal in 2007 that shielded Epstein from federal criminal charges.

After learning about the non-prosecution agreement, Wild filed a lawsuit in federal court in South Florida that alleged prosecutors violated her rights to be able to confer with the government’s lawyers and to be treated fairly by them.

In a petition last year asking the Supreme Court to hear the case, Wild’s attorneys pointed to “sweeping implications” of the case for proper enforcement of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

“The CVRA [Crime Victims’ Rights Act] promises crime victims in federal cases a right to confer with prosecutors,” the petition said. “Yet in this case, one of the most infamous child sex traffickers in this country’s history — Jeffrey Epstein, a man with wealth, power, and political influence — was able to negotiate a secret non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors. The resulting tragedy was that the child victims who bravely came forward to report their sexual abuse were, as the en banc [11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals] decision below acknowledged, ‘left in the dark — and, so it seems, affirmatively misled — by government lawyers’ as to why Epstein was not being federally prosecuted for his horrific crimes.”

The Justice Department attorneys, however, acknowledged errors in the way prosecutors handled the Epstein case.

“The abuse and trauma endured by petitioner [Wild] and the many other victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking crimes are profoundly distressing,” the brief said. “The government deeply regrets that it did not communicate more clearly and forthrightly with petitioner and other victims during its initial investigation of Epstein’s federal crimes.”

https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2022/02/23/us-supreme-court-turns-down-jeffrey-epstein-victim-appeal/

>>7990

>>7991

Cofer Black

While Chief of Station in Sudan in the early 1990s, Black oversaw CIA contact with UBL; al Qaeda flowed in a straight line through Cofer Black to 9/11 and to the present day privatization of intelligence as Vice Chairman of Blackwater, LLC, and as Mitt Romney’s advisor on national security.

https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/cofer-black/

>Black left government service in 2004 after serving two years as the Bush administration’s ambassador at large for counterterrorism, signing on as a Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA, the controversial private security firm founded by Erik Prince.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/12/21/424820/-#:~:text=Cofer%20Black%20was%20CIA%20Chief%20of%20Station%20in%20Khartoum%20at%20the%20same%20time%20bin%20Laden%20made%20his%20base%20of%20operations%20there.

>While Chief of Station in Sudan in the early 1990s, Black oversaw CIA contact with UBL; al Qaeda flowed in a straight line through Cofer Black to 9/11 and to the present day privatization of intelligence as Vice Chairman of Blackwater, LLC, and as Mitt Romney’s advisor on national security.

Working on putting together a graphic on this guy now.

>>7990

>>8117

Cofer Black infographic… This guy is as swampy as they come

Zelensky signs EU membership application

02/28/22 12:42 PM EST

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday signed a membership application formally requesting that Ukraine join the European Union (EU) amid a Russian invasion of his country.

Andriy Sybiha, deputy head of the president's office in Ukraine, said in a tweet that head of parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal had also signed a joint statement.

“The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has just signed a historical document-Ukraine’s application for European Union membership,” Sybiha wrote on Twitter.

“Glory to Ukraine!” he added.

The tweet included photos of the application and the three men signing the papers. In a Facebook post cited by Interfax Ukraine, Sybiha said the documents were on their way to Brussels.

Zelensky had asked earlier Monday that Ukraine be added to the bloc as his country fights off an invasion by Russia.

“Our goal is to be together with all Europeans and, most importantly, to be on an equal footing,” Zelensky said during a video address, according to The New York Times. “I’m sure it’s fair. I’m sure it’s possible.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a military operation in Ukraine last week, setting off what has been a days-long invasion. While Russian forces have entered a number of Ukrainian cities, their efforts have been slowed by strong Ukrainian opposition.

The Council of the European Union condemned the Russian invasion last week, calling the operation “unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine.”

“Russia bears full responsibility for this act of aggression and all the destruction and loss of life it will cause. It will be held accountable for its actions,” the council added.

The EU approved sanctions against key members of Putin’s inner circle last week after the president recognized the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic in Ukraine as independent. Following the military operation, the European Council imposed more sanctions against the country, ranging from the financial, energy and transport sectors to dual-use goods, export control and export financings, and visa policy.

On Sunday, the European Commission said it was imposing sanctions on Belarus in response to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's support for the Russian invasion. It also unveiled more sanctions against Moscow, including barring Russian aircraft from flying in the bloc’s territory.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/596124-zelensky-signs-eu-membership-application

https://twitter.com/andrii_sybiha/status/1498329873751986176?s=20&t=E1cyeBLMSf_Z7T_AM_uoyg

Watch live: UN General Assembly holds special session on Ukraine

The United Nations General Assembly on Monday afternoon is slated to hold a special session on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

https://thehill.com/video/international/596136-watch-live-un-general-assembly-holds-special-session-on-ukraine

>>8159

>repost next bread if you can, baking now

willco