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This should cure the epidemic of the mass shootings in US, and the "terrorist attacks" Worldwide, and it should help the Center Left German parties to move ahead, too.

Iz ziz correcto, zi New Abwehr, und Herr Gerhard Schroeder cum gute Kameraden?

The work of Intelligence is much more than Analysis; it is the Action Intelligence, or what is called the Covert Operations, or the Special Operations.

Your humble servant will not venture any guesses and is not in the bidniz of assigning the credits. I do not know, who did all these things, how, and why.

I will only say, regardless of these episodes, and regardless of the promptly leaked story of the Russian help for Bernie Sanders, that we all might be very lucky having Mr. Grenell as the DNI, and our dear Senators should carefully observe and study his style, and they should reconsider their opposition to his permanent appointment. It looks that he does not waste a minute of his time. He might salvage this sinking for years Titanic, called the US Intelligence Services, and turn it around in no time. As I shared this well based dictum with you earlier, Gays make very good Super-spies, for some, and for certain reasons. The country might be blessed with these talents, in this regard.
Seriously, my Dear Senators: just pay attention and just watch: this show has just only started.

It looks like even Putin gave him the credit due, und ziz iz the professional opinion. They will be on par.

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Grenell as DNI Director: Stop the Pearl-Clutching, He’s a Good Pick

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By JIM TALENT

February 23, 2020 5:09 PM

JIM TALENT is a former U.S. senator for Missouri and a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

There has been a lot of pearl clutching about Richard Grenell’s appointment as acting director of national intelligence (DNI). Evidently the appointment will be temporary; Grenell is staying as ambassador to Germany, and the White House is not going send his name to the Senate for confirmation as DNI.

It’s reasonable to criticize that arrangement. If Grenell is going to return to his duties in Germany, where he has done an outstanding job, I would prefer that he not be diverted from them now. But apart from that consideration, the appointment strikes me as a good one. Certainly there is no reason for the almost hysterical response that the choice has met in some quarters.

The Directorate of National Intelligence and the DNI position were created in 2005. Its purpose is to assist the president in evaluating the intelligence collected by the 17 agencies that make up what is commonly called the “intelligence community,” or the IC. The DNI doesn’t have budgetary, personnel, or command authority over the community he overlooks; his job is to assess the intelligence that the IC creates, ask tough questions in an attempt to expose weakness or uncertainty, and present the views of the IC to the president in a useful form. If possible, the DNI should mediate differences among the various agencies to create a consensus view, but not to the point of suppressing honest differences of opinion that might affect the president’s decisions.

In other words, the DNI is an evaluator, not an operator. Like top political leaders, he consumes rather than produces intelligence. The DNI doesn’t need to know how to run an operation or manage intelligence assets in hostile countries; in fact, he has no formal authority over those collection activities and would encounter immediate and ferocious resistance if he tried to interfere.

The DNI does need good judgment, an understanding of the global context that makes intelligence meaningful, and a good relationship with the president and the leaders of the most important agencies in the IC — chiefly the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the NSA, and the FBI. The relationship with the president is especially important, because the DNI typically gives the president his daily briefing.

If the president is going to sit with you for an hour every day, or most days, you had better be able to present information in a way he trusts and can use.

For all these reasons, DNIs do not need to be, and often have not been, career intelligence officers. There have been five Senate-confirmed DNIs since the job was created. Only two of them (Admiral Mike McConnell and James Clapper) came from the IC. The first DNI — John Negroponte — was a career diplomat and ambassador who went on to be deputy secretary of state. Another, Admiral Dennis Blair, came out of the Surface Navy and was a former commander of the United States Pacific Command. The latest DNI was Dan Coates, a well-respected Senator who had been a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The point is that DNIs come from a number of different backgrounds. What they have in common is long experience assessing intelligence and the ability to approach intelligence estimates the way presidents must approach them: in the context of broader national-security issues.

Grenell is in the mold of Negroponte. He has years of international experience at both the U.N. and as ambassador to Germany, as well as in private life. In those capacities, he has had ample opportunity to see the strengths and weaknesses of the IC. Grenell’s post in Germany, for example, puts him at the center of a vital intelligence node not just for Europe but for Russia and China as well. There are no doubt a number of IC attachés in the U.S. embassy and consulates in Germany. Technically, they report to Grenell, and while the actual relationship between ambassadors and attachés can vary, I’m certain that Grenell has been an eager, active, and (where necessary) critical consumer of the intelligence he receives, which is exactly as it should be.

I worked with Grenell on the Romney campaign in 2012; he is a clear thinker who adapts quickly to different roles. In addition, Grenell is close to the president, which as I said is a definite advantage; he has the courage of his convictions, which is always desirable; and he is willing to probe and question inertial bureaucratic assumptions, which for the DNI is a necessity.

Again, my main concern is whether Grenell will have enough time to have a real impact as DNI. Typically, acting DNIs have come from inside the intelligence community; everyone knows that they will return to their old job and will still be a presence in the IC. Grenell, on the other hand, will be leaving the IC and returning to the diplomatic world. The tendency will be for the IC to cut him out of the loop, given that its members resent the DNI at the best of times. But the president can help a lot if he makes clear to the other major players that they have to take Grenell seriously even though he will be there for only a relatively short while.

I well remember the legislation that created the DNI 15 years ago. The concern at the time was whether the new office would add real value or simply be another bureaucratic layer within the IC that presidents have to penetrate. The CIA, which had institutional reasons for not wanting a DNI, lobbied (though not openly — it is the CIA, after all) against the legislation on that basis. I eventually decided to vote to create the DNI, but it was a close question for me and many others in Congress.

The concerns are still relevant today. I hope Grenell at least has enough time on the job to formulate an opinion on such concerns. If he does, he will be in a good position, perhaps in a second Trump administration, to suggest changes that will make the DNI and the IC more effective. That would be yet another service that Grenell could perform for his country.

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Donald Trump Made the Right Choice of Picking Richard Grenell for DNI

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President Donald Trump announced that he will make Richard Grenell the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), which is supposed to coordinate intelligence across America’s vast, $50 billion-per-year intelligence bureaucracy. The position was created in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the United States, which demonstrated a fundamental lapse in collating intelligence.

Grenell is currently the U.S. ambassador to Germany, and will continue in that role. He previously spent eight years at the U.S. mission to the United Nations during the intense diplomatic maneuvers there that coincided with the George W. Bush administration.

Defenders of the failed status quo that is our intelligence bureaucracy immediately criticized Trump’s choice, as did the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. In decrying the appointment, Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) vowed ominously, “the work of our intelligence professionals is never interfered with or manipulated for political ends.”

But that just isn’t so. Some of our intelligence bureaucracies have become hopelessly politicized and ineffective.

For example, the false claim that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, which was debunked by the Mueller report, was instigated by Obama-era intelligence pooh-bahs on their way out, especially former DNI James Clapper and CIA director John Brennan. Both are now highly-paid political commentators on left-leaning cable networks.

Also during the Obama administration, officials manipulated intelligence to paint an overly optimistic view of the fight against ISIS, which was failing at the time.

Obama officials also phonied up intelligence to mislead the public and Congress about the attack on our diplomatic outpost in Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador.

During the Bush administration, the DNI produced and leaked an assessment that claimed falsely that Iran had ended its nuclear weapons program. The underlying intelligence in the report said the opposite, but was classified. The false leaked version, designed by DNI bureaucrats successfully to tie President Bush’s hands-on Iran policy, was unclassified.

Continuing the tradition of political warfare against our own democracy, intelligence bureaucrats reportedly told House Democrats recently that Russia will interfere in the 2020 elections and try to help Trump win. The second claim is dubious, since Moscow would probably prefer a president who hasn’t strengthened its opponents as much as Trump. The first claim is obvious, since Russia always tries to interfere in U.S. elections, mainly to cause discord and chaos, which Democrats have mightily abetted since Trump was elected.

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The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25.

A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.

Regardless, this is junk, not intelligence.

At best it is the work of bureaucrats covering their posteriors to say they didn’t miss an obvious foreign development. At worst, they are trying to undermine the president by attempting to revive the phony insinuation of collusion with Russia, which seems more likely since it was furnished to House Democrats.

Clearly, despite Senator Warner’s admonition against politicizing intelligence, deep state bureaucrats long ago did just that. What really concerns Warner and the rest of the foreign policy establishment is that this nefarious activity will stop, not begin.

They know that Grenell will not smile upon bureaucrats playing politician on the taxpayers’ dime. As ambassador to Germany, Grenell has established a new model for diplomacy. Instead of attending social events and limiting public utterances to sweet nothings about Germany and the rest of Europe, Grenell has been blunt and direct. He has unabashedly echoed concerns held by Trump and Congress about Germany not meeting its own promise to spend more on its defense, its willingness to make Europe dependent on energy imports from Russia, and its attempts to undermine U.S. sanctions on Iran.

This toughness wasn’t just good for the United States, it was also good for Germany. Leaders and voters in that country need to know that drifting away from the United States and breaking its promises to us will have consequences. That’s real diplomacy.

Grenell will bring this no-nonsense approach to DNI. Even in a short tenure before a permanent replacement is presented to the Senate for confirmation, which now takes many months, Grenell can trim a bureaucracy that has become bloated and seems more adept at politics than clarifying intelligence for the president and key Cabinet officers.

Some Democrats also dislike Grenell because he is a gay conservative. Indeed, Grenell’s appointment makes Trump the first president to appoint an openly gay Cabinet-level officer.

Even though they never deliver, Democrats take gay votes and dollars for granted. Grenell’s appointment highlights the inconvenient fact that Trump has done more for gays than any president. As a candidate, he waved a rainbow flag from a stage and effectively ended the GOP’s hostility to gays by shifting the culture wars. As president, he has appointed gays to senior positions and treats them the same as anyone.

There’s a lot to like about the appointment of Grenell. The cries of his opponents are one of them.

Christian Whiton, a senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest, is the author of Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War. He was a State Department senior advisor during the George W. Bush and Trump administrations.

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Grenell Gets Strong Grassroots Support for Acting DNI Post

Richard Grenell once touted his foreign clients. Now he's the top US intelligence official
Tuesday February 25th, 2020 at 8:00 AM

KTVZ

Years before becoming the nation’s top intelligence official, Richard Grenell touted his consulting work for clients in Iran, China and other countries, which included projects that could violate foreign lobbying laws or jeopardize his security clearance.

Last week, President Donald Trump appointed Grenell as the acting director of national intelligence, elevating him to an influential position that oversees all US intelligence agencies, even though he has no experience working in the intelligence community.

An archived version of Grenell’s personal website says, “Grenell has worked with clients based in the U.S. as well as Iran, Kazakhstan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, China, Australia, Timor-Leste, and throughout Europe.” The site was apparently taken down in 2018.

Two years before Grenell joined the Trump administration in 2018 to become the US ambassador to Germany, his company earned more than $100,000 from a foundation tied to the far-right Hungarian government, according to federal tax records. And Grenell also once published a series of columns favorable toward a Moldovan oligarch who is now a blacklisted fugitive facing allegations of massive corruption.

Recent news reports and a close examination of Grenell’s financial disclosure forms raise additional questions about whether any of his clients were foreign governments or politicians. US law requires Americans to disclose any work with international clients to the Justice Department, which recently ramped up enforcement of these federal lobbying laws to curb foreign meddling in US politics.

Grenell now has unrestricted access to closely held national security secrets and classified information about some of the most consequential topics, including any intelligence about Russia or other foreign powers interfering in the 2020 presidential election.

Support for Moldovan oligarch

The investigative outlet ProPublica reported Friday that Grenell worked in the US on behalf of a leading Moldovan politician, according to a person familiar with the relationship and another individual, but never registered as a foreign agent. CNN has not independently verified ProPublica’s reporting, but Grenell’s public financial disclosure form confirms that he received more than $5,000 from a lobbying firm that was involved in the effort.

ProPublica highlighted two op-eds Grenell wrote in 2016 in which he defended his alleged client Vladimir Plahotniuc, who was fending off corruption allegations and trying to improve his image with a visit to Washington. CNN found two additional columns by Grenell, published in conservative outlets Fox News and Newsmax, in which he accused Plahotniuc’s critics of smearing him on behalf of the Kremlin.

Plahotniuc, who was described by The New York Times as the “most-feared man” in the European country, fled Moldova in June after the new government charged him with corruption and seized many of his assets. Last month, the State Department blacklisted Plahotniuc for his “involvement in significant corruption” that “severely compromised the independence of democratic institutions in Moldova.”

Just five weeks after that announcement, Trump tapped Grenell for the senior intelligence post.

Senators had the chance to question Grenell during his in-person confirmation hearing in September 2017, but they didn’t ask about his work for foreign interests. This time around, there likely won’t be a confirmation hearing, because Trump installed Grenell as director of national intelligence only in an acting capacity, bypassing Congress.

Potential FARA problems

One Washington, DC, attorney who handles Foreign Agents Registration Act cases told CNN that investigators at the Justice Department regularly look in the press for evidence of improper foreign influence. That’s essentially what happened with Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn in November 2016 after he published an op-ed attacking a top critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and admitted the FARA violation, though he is now trying to retract his guilty plea.

It’s unclear whether Grenell was directed by any Moldovan officials to publish the op-eds in US outlets, and it’s not clear if his activities violated FARA. There is no public indication that the Justice Department is currently investigating Grenell.

Craig Engle, a lawyer who is representing Grenell, declined to comment to CNN. But Engle told ProPublica that Grenell’s paid consulting work did not require him to register under FARA “because he was not working at the direction of a foreign power.”

“Ric was not paid to write these stories, in fact he has written hundreds of stories on his own time to express his own views,” Engle told ProPublica. “But to be clear: he was not working for any individual, he was working for himself and was advocating the ideal of a pro-western political party that was emerging.”

Engle made similar comments to the Washington Post on Monday, telling the newspaper Grenell had never been paid to express a foreign policy opinion.

The Moldova project was just one of many foreign jobs for Grenell. In 2016, Grenell’s company earned more than $100,000 from the Magyar Foundation, which is almost entirely funded by the Hungarian government, according to federal records. His work for Hungary was first flagged by the Quincy Institute, a foreign policy think tank.

Trump has grown close to Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban and invited him to the White House last year. The foundation is based in the US and its filings with the Internal Revenue Service indicate that Grenell’s company was paid for “public relations.”

The Justice Department has prosecuted people over their contacts with reporters on behalf of foreign clients, including President Barack Obama’s White House Counsel Greg Craig. Craig was ultimately acquitted last year of one FARA-related lying charge.

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My Opinion: Investigate all of this , of course, to your hearts content, if you so wish. Absolutely NOTHING will come out of it. You are just looking for the excuses and the bones to chew on.

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