Military Intelligence Ha Ha Ha!!!

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/87186

We have been shoveling billions of dollars of your money to the government of one of the most corrupt nations on the planet. We have ignored the lessons learned from doing the exact same thing for twenty years in Afghanistan. And, now, shockingly, it appears a great deal of the money we sent to those brave freedom fighters in Ukraine has ended up in the pockets of corrupt government officials.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/87180

The fish rots from the head down, and so many leaks with impunity from the top has pretty well sent the message to the little guys that leaks are nothingburgers -- until the small fry learn to their surprise that they aren't in the same protected class as the big guys.

Something's wrong with this picture and far more arrests are warranted than the low-level fall guys we are seeing get the book thrown at them right now.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/87175

Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher exposes some interesting things about @DanCrenshawTX

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/87066

The Pentagon document leak itself revealed that the United States is spying on just about everybody.

So it wouldn’t be a stretch for them to start foaming at the mouth in anticipation of expanding their spying powers to social media.

The government, after all, has used other overblown threats as a springboard for such action in the past.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/87015

Mike Pompeo must never be allowed near the levers of power again

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/86990

When civilians or whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange (in jail for an incredible four years now), Reality Winner and now the “Discord Leaker” bring leaked information to the public, the immediate threat is Espionage Act charges and decades of jail time. When a CIA head or a top FBI official does it, it’s just news. In fact, officials talk openly about using “strategic leaks” as a P.R. staple. In a world where media currency is becoming the ultimate power, these people want a monopoly. It’s infuriating.

The Pentagon refused to admit culpability and misled the country about Afghanistan and the Chinese spy balloon flight. The current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called his Chinese communist counterpart and head of the People’s Liberation Army to advise him that the U.S. military would warn the Chinese if it determined an order from its commander-in-chief Trump was inappropriate.

This list of these self-inflicted disasters could be easily expanded.

Zelensky has been buying the fuel from Russia, the country with which it, and Washington, are at war, and the Ukrainian president and many in his entourage have been skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments. One estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency put the embezzled funds at $400 million last year, at least; another expert compared the level of corruption in Kiev as approaching that of the Afghan war, “although there will be no professional audit reports emerging from the Ukraine.”

“Zelensky’s been buying discount diesel from the Russians,” one knowledgeable American intelligence official told me. “And who’s paying for the gas and oil? We are. Putin and his oligarchs are making millions” on it.

Many government ministries in Kiev have been literally “competing,” I was told, to set up front companies for export contracts for weapons and ammunition with private arms dealers around the world, all of which provide kickbacks. Many of those companies are in Poland and Czechia, but others are thought to exist in the Persian Gulf and Israel. “I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that there are others in places like the Cayman Islands and Panama, and there are lots of Americans involved,”

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/86901

“At least 4,000 Ukrainians, mostly military personnel, became experimental guinea pigs as part of American research into dangerous pathogens. In the Kharkiv biolaboratory alone, about 20 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine died during “experiments”, and about 200 were hospitalized, including because the U.S. tested unlicensed pharmaceuticals on them”

The Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port in Pakistan, via truck or parachute, into Afghanistan during the decades-long American war there.

“We have a big problem in this country, and it’s not just how the money’s being spent. We actually are struggling to make these things. So, it tells you that, in addition to all this money that’s being poured into the military, we have a military-industrial base that’s completely broken.

It’s one of the things that they haven’t even told you, it’s become so concentrated in the hands of four or five providers. There [are] really only three or four companies in the world that do this stuff, and that’s been the case now for years. There’s very little competition on these contracts. So, they can virtually almost charge us anything they want.

And the issue about not having the inventory, I actually heard that for the first time about a month and a half ago. I was stunned. … I would say, one of the key things that we need to have an answer to is not simply how the money’s being spent, that’s important and so forth. But are we spending it in the right — [do] our needs for the country in any way reflect how the money’s being spent? Whatever our military strategy is, the spending has to reflect that somehow, and you can’t know that without transparency.”

The documents suggest United States spying not only on Israel but ally South Korea, too. One report says internal discussions show that South Korean officials are wary of requests to hand over artillery shells to the United States to replenish American stockpiles, out of concern they'd end up in Ukraine.