offener Brief der VIPS Steering Group an den Messias der Freien Welt

American Intelligence Officers:
Who Battled the Soviet Union for Decades Slam the Flimsy „Intelligence“ Against Russia

Preface: With the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine turning a local civil war into a U.S. confrontation with Russia, former high-level U.S. intelligence veterans released a statement today urging President Obama to release what evidence he has about the tragedy and silence the exaggeration and rush to judgment. (The whole post is a must-read; but we at Washington’s Blog have added bolding for emphasis.)

Signatory Bill Binney – the former senior technical director at the NSA, and a man who battled the Soviet Union for decades – tells Washington’s Blog:

In my analytic efforts to predict intentions and capabilities down through the years,  I always made sure that I had multi-factors verifying what I was asserting.  So far,  I don’t see that discipline here in this administration or the IC  [i.e. the United States intelligence community].

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The courtesy of a reply is requested.

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Prepared by VIPS Steering Group

William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)

Larry Johnson, CIA & State Department (ret.)

Edward Loomis, NSA, Cryptologic Computer Scientist (ret.)

David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.)

Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.)

Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East (ret.)

Coleen Rowley, Division Counsel & Special Agent, FBI (ret.)

Peter Van Buren, U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Officer (ret)

Ann Wright, Col., US Army (ret); Foreign Service Officer (ret.)

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zerohedge

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follow-up, 09.08.2014

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Zwischenzeitlich hat Rainer Rupp auch diesen offenen Brief entdeckt, übersetzt und bei der ‚Jungen Welt‘ mit dem Titel »Empfehlen Ihnen, die Propaganda einzustellen« veröffentlicht.

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