Anonymous ID: 52d2bc Feb. 20, 2020, 4:36 p.m. No.8199687   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9850

Pentagon expects US public to buy ‘we weren’t keeping inventory’ excuse about missing weapons sent to Syria, Iraq

 

US weapons worth some $715 million dollars were warehoused poorly and soldiers handling them did not keep receipts or records, so it’s impossible to tell how many, if any, ended up in wrong hands, the Pentagon says.

 

Supply units in Kuwait and elsewhere “did not maintain comprehensive lists of all equipment purchased and received” or “stored weapons outside in metal shipping containers, exposing the equipment to harsh environmental elements, such as heat and humidity.”

 

This is according to the partially redacted report by the Department of Defense’s inspector general (IG), of an audit into the “Counter Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Train and Equip Fund” (CTEF), dated February 13 and published this week.

 

https://www.rt.com/usa/481325-pentagon-weapons-iraq-syria/

Anonymous ID: 52d2bc Feb. 20, 2020, 4:44 p.m. No.8199804   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9838 >>0017

Assange Charges ‘Soil, Deface Most Sacred, Sacrosanct, Votified’ EU Human Rights Laws

 

As Julian Assange’s lengthy extradition hearing nears, numerous obstacles have arisen capable of blocking his deportation to the US, including changes in UK law and powerful human rights laws in Brussels - if the case, or Assange, can make it that far, a journalist told Sputnik on Thursday.

 

The WikiLeaks co-founder’s extradition hearing begins on Monday as his health continues to wane. However, amid all this, news has emerged that a former US congressman privately offered to get Assange’s charges dropped in August 2017 in exchange for exposing the source for published Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails.

 

Dana Rohrabacher, a former California Republican congressman who nearly became US President Donald Trump’s first secretary of state, settled swirling claims and rumors on Wednesday with a statement, clarifying that he’d made the offer of his own volition and not at Trump’s request.

 

“At no time did I offer Julian Assange anything from the President because I had not spoken with the President about this issue at all,” Rohrabacher said. “However, when speaking with Julian Assange, I told him that if he could provide me information and evidence about who actually gave him the DNC emails, I would then call on President Trump to pardon him. At no time did I offer a deal made by the President, nor did I say I was representing the President.”

 

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202002201078363927-assange-charges-soil-deface-most-sacred-sacrosanct-votified-eu-human-rights-laws/

Anonymous ID: 52d2bc Feb. 20, 2020, 4:47 p.m. No.8199856   🗄️.is 🔗kun

BREAKING: Agency That Handles President Trump and White House Communications Suffers Massive Data Breach

 

The US Defense Agency says Social Security numbers and other personal data in its network may have been compromised according to a letter seen by Reuters. The breach took place between May and July last year.

 

The US Defense Agency is responsible for secure White House communications

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-defense-breach/u-s-agency-responsible-for-trumps-secure-communication-suffered-data-breach-letter-idUSKBN20E27A?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter

Anonymous ID: 52d2bc Feb. 20, 2020, 4:55 p.m. No.8199949   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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1961 January 17

 

President Eisenhower warns of military-industrial complex

 

On January 17, 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his presidential term by warning the nation about the increasing power of the military-industrial complex.

 

His remarks, issued during a televised farewell address to the American people, were particularly significant since Ike had famously served the nation as military commander of the Allied forces during WWII. Eisenhower urged his successors to strike a balance between a strong national defense and diplomacy in dealing with the Soviet Union. He did not suggest arms reduction and in fact acknowledged that the bomb was an effective deterrent to nuclear war. However, cognizant that America’s peacetime defense policy had changed drastically since his military career, Eisenhower expressed concerns about the growing influence of what he termed the military-industrial complex.

 

Before and during the Second World War, American industries had successfully converted to defense production as the crisis demanded, but out of the war, what Eisenhower called a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions emerged. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience Eisenhower warned, "[while] we recognize the imperative need for this development…We must not fail to comprehend its grave implications we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence…The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." Eisenhower cautioned that the federal government’s collaboration with an alliance of military and industrial leaders, though necessary, was vulnerable to abuse of power. Ike then counseled American citizens to be vigilant in monitoring the military-industrial complex.

 

Ihttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eisenhower-warns-of-military-industrial-complex