2005
from
American-Buddha Website
"No one knows what is really
going on.
If they ever did, it would make
Watergate
look like Alice in Wonderland."
LESTER COLEMAN
ex U.S. Defence Intelligence
Agency
"It is ironic, to say the least,
that America's heroin plague
is of its own making."
FRED W. McCOY
INTRODUCTION Under the guises of national security, patriotism and protecting democracy, normal boundaries of ethics and morality have been consistently transcended by the Central Intelligence Agency in its ideological war of defeating communism.
The Agency has resorted to any means it
considers necessary, and allied itself with any person or group it
considers necessary, to help it achieve its ends.
As ex-CIA agent Victor Marchetti
put it:
The United States government has
willingly made drug networks an essential ally in the covert
expansion of American influence abroad.
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Two of Turkey’s leading
journalists [ both pictured left] on Wednesday faced a possible life
prison sentence after they were charged with plotting to overthrow the
government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by reporting on secret arms
shipments to Syria.
Turkish prosecutors demanded
life sentences for two top journalists who reported that President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan’s government tried to ship arms to insurgents in Syria.
Prosecutors asked the Istanbul
court to sentence Cumhuriyet newspaper’s editor-in-chief Can Dundar and
Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul each to one aggravated life sentence, one
ordinary life sentence and 30 years in jail, the Dogan news agency
reported, quoting the indictment.
The report said that both
Erdogan and his hugely powerful but low-profile ally, the head of the
National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Hakan Fidan, are named as
plaintiffs in the indictment.
Dundar and Gul were both
placed under arrest in late November over the report earlier in the year
that claimed to show proof that a consignment of weapons seized at the
border in January 2014 was bound for Takfiri (Al Qaeda) militants in
Syria.
Since then, they have both
been held in the Silivri jail on the outskirts of Istanbul ahead of
their trial, whose date has still yet to be announced.
In the indictment, they have
been formally charged with obtaining and revealing state secrets “for
espionage purposes” and seeking to “violently” overthrow the Turkish
government as well as aiding an “armed terrorist organization”, it said.
The penalties demanded by the prosecutors are significantly higher than had previously been expected.