Flashback Italia:
THE LEAK INQUIRY: INTELLIGENCE; Italy's Top Spy Names Freelance Agent as Source of Forged Niger-Iraq Uranium Documents [4 NOV 2005]
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/04/washington/us/the-leak-inquiry-intelligence-italys-top-spy-names-freelance.html
Flash forward Italia:
Obama Deep State Operatives Located And FIRED [29 MAY 2019]
In a surprise move earlier this week, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte fired his country’s top three intelligence officials, reportedly because they cooperated with the Obama regime in its treasonous “Spygate” operation against the 2016 Trump campaign.
While the official reason behind the firings appears to be routine political housekeeping, word is in Italy that the firings are directly tied to the assistance those officials and and their agencies lent to the Spygate operation.
As revealed by La Repubblica , the Conte government has requested that four deputy directors – two from the Information Security Department (Dis), one from the External Security Information Agency (AISE) and the other from the Internal Security Information Agency (Aisi) – voluntarily resign.
In fact, underlines La Repubblica , a complete reset, excluding the directors – two of whom have already been appointed by this government – of the entire top-level framework of our Services.
There are six, in total, free seats at the top of the Services that the majority must have been parting for some time: in fact, in addition to the four who resigned, there is the vacant one in Aise after the appointment of Luciano Carta at the top of the Agency and that of Vincenzo Delle Femmine, deputy director of the Aisi retired from June.
George Papadopoulos, who was ensnared in Spygate by longtime FBI asset and Cambridge University Prof. Stephen Halper, tweeted that the Italians are “flipping” as new developments break on ‘Spygate’ daily. He also added that Rome is “giving up Brennan,” a reference to former CIA Director John Brennan, believed to be one of the ringleaders with Obama.
https://conservativeflash.com/2019/05/29/multiple-obama-deep-state-operatives-located-and-fired/
Giulio Occhionero [15 MAY 2019]
https://twitter.com/g_occhionero/status/1128902571354144768
George Papadopoulos [16 MAY 2019]
https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1129100036254490624
The Irony, Italia:
Ten years later, the success of the Italian intelligence reform [10 AUG 2017]
https://www.alephas.org/2017/08/10/ten-years-later-the-success-of-the-italian-intelligence-reform/
Before 2007, this sector was characterized by the division of responsibilities and by a deep separation of operative capacities between a civil service (SISDE) under the authority of the Interior Ministry, and a military service (SISMI) dependent on the Defence Ministry; both were coordinated by a specific body (CESIS) under the supervision of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. In this context, the reform introduced substantial innovations that touched both the normative and the organisation fields, with the ambition of enhancing the capacity of coordination and of defining and delimiting the procedures and the powers of the services.
Firstly, the two new intelligence agencies – AISE that is responsible for protecting national interests and for safeguarding national security against threats originating abroad and AISI that deals with risks coming from the internal side – are coordinated by a strong body, the DIS (Security Intelligence Department). Secondly, it is important to underline that this administrative structure is subject to the direct political responsibility of the President of the Council of Ministers, formally at the head of the intelligence with the subsequent and relative powers. While the CISR (the inter-ministerial committee for the security of the Republic) is responsible for defining the goals of the intelligence policies and it assists the President of Council in its decisions, another figure plays a crucial role: the delegated authority. It is an Undersecretary of State or a Minister without portfolio that acts on behalf of the Head of the Government and chairs the Steering Committee composed by the directors of DIS, AISE and AISI. It is a political role, but with a solid technical background that works as a conjunction between the agencies and the Government, with the aim of ensuring the perfect alignment between the policies and the practical intelligence activities. Although the typical Italian political instability that produces frequent changes in the executive, for its important character there is a tendency to promote more continuity for this position. It is the case, for example, of Senator Marco Minniti, that fulfilled this role between 2013 and the end of 2016 before becoming the current Interior Minister.
In these ten years, the structure of the “Italian information system for the security of the Republic” (the new definition launched by the Law 124/2007) has been ameliorated on specific issues. Indeed, the legislator intervened in 2012, 2015 and 2017 with the purpose of improving the Italian cyber security capacities: in this perspective, within the intelligence perimeter, according to the last regulatory intervention, the DIS supervises and coordinates not only the two external and internal agencies (AISE/AISI), but also the Cyber Security Unit (NSC), eliminating the prior confusion that characterized the entire apparatus in managing cyber security threats and in protecting the critical infrastructures.
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Italy differs considerably from other countries as France, Belgium or UK where the intelligence agencies are used to keep examining the potential terrorist, filling copious files with a lot of reports, documents and information before intervening. By contrast, our services have a more practical and direct approach and tend to clarify this “doubt” at very first indication of a probable threat. In such a way they also respond to the challenge of keeping the numbers of potential terrorists within a manageable range and, consequently, with the capacities to monitor them in the most effective way possible.
Yes, Anon, it is the never give up spirit epitomized by President Trump.
Winners prevail because they persevere.
Godspeed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/04/washington/us/the-leak-inquiry-intelligence-italys-top-spy-names-freelance.html
Mr. Martino has long been suspected of being responsible for peddling the false documents. News reports have quoted him as saying he obtained them through a contact at the Niger Embassy here. But this was the first time his role was formally disclosed by the intelligence agency.
Neither Mr. Martino nor his lawyer, Giuseppe Placidi, were available for comment.
Senator Brutti also told reporters that Italian intelligence had warned Washington in early 2003 that the Niger-Iraq documents were false.
"At about the same time as the State of the Union address, they said that the dossier doesn't correspond to the truth," Senator Brutti said. He said he did not know whether the warning was given before or after President Bush's address.
He made the claim more than once, but gave no supporting evidence. Amid confusing statements by various lawmakers, he later appeared to backtrack in conversations with both The Associated Press and Reuters, saying that because Sismi never had the documents, it could not comment on their merit.
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