CLG: Covert Inquiry by F.B.I. Rattles 9/11 Tribunals, U.S. ground troops going to Poland, defense minister says, et al

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19 Apr 2014 - Part 1

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U.S. ground troops going to Poland, defense minister says 18 Apr 2014 Poland and the United States will announce next week the deployment of U.S. ground forces to Poland as part of an expansion of NATO presence in Central and Eastern Europe in response to events in Ukraine. That was the word from Poland's defense minister, Tomasz Siemoniak, who visited The Post Friday after meeting with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon on Thursday. There will also be intensified cooperation in air defense, special forces, cyberdefense and other areas.

U.S. Plans Ground-Force Exercises in Eastern Europe --U.S. considering other ways to maintain regular ground-force presence in Eastern Europe 19 Apr 2014 The United States plans to carry out small ground-force exercises in Poland and Estonia, Western officials said Friday. It is not yet clear what additional troop deployments the United States and other NATO nations might undertake in Eastern Europe after the exercises. The exercise in Poland, which is expected to be announced next week, would involve a United States Army company and would last about two weeks, officials said. The exercise in Estonia would be similar, said a Western official who declined to be identified because he was talking about internal planning.

Ex-Russian Alaska 'too cold' to annex, Putin jokes 17 Apr 2014 In a patriotic fervour, Russians are asking President Vladimir Putin to bring back the US state of Alaska, sold off to the United States in Tsarist times. Putin's answer? It's too cold. During Putin's annual marathon phone-in session Thursday, when Russians pose questions to the Russian leader, a pensioner asked him to possibly follow the annexation [reunification] of Crimea from Ukraine with the taking of Alaska... "We have a northern country -- 70 percent of our territory are in the north and the far north," he noted. "Alaska is cold too," he said. "Let's not get ahead of ourselves."

US sends advanced weapons to Syrian 'rebels' 19 Apr 2014 The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have supplied Syrian rebel terrorist groups with a small number of advanced American antitank missiles for the first time in a pilot program that could lead to larger flows of sophisticated weaponry, people briefed on the effort said. This shift is seen as a test of whether the U.S. can find a trustworthy rebel partner able to keep sophisticated weapons out of the hands of extremists, Saudi and Syrian opposition figures said. The U.S. has long feared that if it does supply advanced arms, the weapons will wind up with radical groups--some tied to al Qaeda [al-CIAduh]--which have set up bases in opposition-held territory.

Guantánamo judge to CIA: Disclose 'black site' details to USS Cole defense lawyers --Order was sealed as document 120C on war court website Thursday morning 17 Apr 2014 The military judge in the USS Cole bombing case has ordered the CIA to give defense lawyers details -- names, dates and places -- of its secret overseas detention and interrogation of the man accused of planning the bombing, two people who have read the still-secret order said Thursday. Army Col. James L. Pohl issued the five-page order Monday. The order sets the stage for a showdown between the CIA and a military judge, if the agency refuses to turn over the information to the prosecution for the defense teams.

Covert Inquiry by F.B.I. Rattles 9/11 Tribunals --With that signature, Mr. bin al-Shibh's lawyers say, the government turned a member of their team into an F.B.I. informant. 19 Apr 2014 Two weeks ago, a pair of F.B.I. agents appeared unannounced at the door of a member of the defense team for one of the men accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As a contractor working with the defense team at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the man was bound by the same confidentiality rules as a lawyer. But the agents wanted to talk. They asked questions, lawyers say, about the legal teams for Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other accused terrorists who will eventually stand trial before a military tribunal at Guantánamo. Before they left, the agents asked the contractor to sign an agreement promising not to tell anyone about the conversation.

Edward Snowden asks Putin about mass surveillance --Russian President Vladimir Putin denies that his country is intercepting the communications of millions of Russian citizens 17 Apr 2014 President Putin was asked by former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden, whether Russian officials stored, or analysed "the communications of millions of individuals". Putin said he doesn't allow "this kind of mass surveillance" to take place in Russia, adding that his country doesn't have the technical or financial capabilities that the United States has.

Lavabit loses contempt of court appeal over Edward Snowden encryption keys --Government had issued so-called 'pen/trap order' to access metadata from account of target, thought to be Snowden 17 Apr 2014 A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a contempt of court ruling against Lavabit, an email service that was used by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Lavabit founder Ladar Levison challenged the contempt of court order issued to him for refusing to provide the government with encryption keys to his secure email service. The fourth US circuit court of appeals Judge G Steven Agee said in the ruling that the court’s decision was made because of a procedural error in the appeal.

Flight MH370 climbed to 39,000 feet, just short of safe operating limit --Jet was equipped with four emergency locator transmitters, source says 18 Apr 2014 New information has come to light about the path taken by Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 before it disappeared from radar screens on March 8. The plane deviated from its planned route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing by turning leftward over water while it was still inside Vietnamese airspace, a senior Malaysian aviation source told CNN. The aircraft then climbed to 39,000 feet, just short of the Boeing 777-200ER's 41,000 feet safe operating limit, and maintained that altitude for about 20 minutes over the Malaysian Peninsula before beginning to descend, the source said.

Security threat reported on Detroit-Denver Delta flight 18 Apr 2014 A Delta Airlines flight that landed at a Denver airport was directed to a remote taxiway after an unspecified "potential security threat" onboard and passengers were ushered off the plane, interviewed and the scene secured, officials said. Flight 1500, a Boeing 737 with 151 passengers and six crew, landed roughly on time at Denver International Airport from Detroit Metropolitan Airport at about 4:40 p.m. Mountain Time (2240 GMT), airline spokesman Russell Cason said. The passengers were quickly sent off the plane without their luggage and taken by bused to a separate part of the airport where they were being interviewed by FBI officials.

False flag prep work: Law enforcement holds security drills at BART stations 18 Apr 2014 A number of police and state and federal law enforcement agencies converged on several BART stations Friday morning to conduct security drills. The drills were an effort to help coordinate amongst the agencies just in case of a major emergency, said officials. The drill ran from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at the West Oakland, Embarcadero, Coliseum and SFO BART stations.

Federal prosecutors want to talk to Port Authority commissioners about Bridgegate - source 18 Apr 2014 Federal prosecutors want to talk to Port Authority commissioners about September's George Washington Bridge lane closures, a source told The Star-Ledger. At least one member of the Port Authority Board of Commissioners received a call from the U.S. attorney's office in Newark today, said a source familiar with the matter. "They want to talk about the bridge," said the source, referring to the GWB, where the closing of two out of three local access lanes snarled traffic in Fort Lee, touching off the so-called Bridgegate scandal.

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