FBI arrests U.S. Army members for "betraying country"

A former soldier and two active-duty soldiers who were planning to send national defense information to China have been arrested, the Justice Department announced Thursday. 

Jian Zhao, and Li Tian, both active duty Army soldiers based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, and former soldier Ruoyu Duan had been charged for stealing U.S. military secrets on top secret hard drives, which contained information on weapon systems and documents on missile defenses, the DOJ announced.

“The defendants arrested today are accused of betraying our country, actively working to weaken America’s defense capabilities and empowering our adversaries in China,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi. “They will face swift, severe, and comprehensive justice.”

Now all we need is for MSNBC to defend these traitors and Kamala Harris start a GoFundMe account to that end.

Tian and Duan were charged in Oregon with conspiring to commit bribery and theft of government property. Zhao was charged in Washington with conspiring to obtain and transmit national defense information, and for bribery and theft of government property.

“While bribery and corruption have thrived under China’s Communist Party, this behavior cannot be tolerated with our service members who are entrusted with sensitive military information, including national defense information,” FBI Director Kash Patel said. “The FBI and our partners will continue to work to uncover attempts by those in China to steal sensitive U.S. military information and hold all accountable who play a role in betraying our national defense.”

According to the legal documents, Duan and Tian were involved in a conspiracy that began on or around November 28, 2021. The plan was to steal information on America’s operational capabilities by stealing technical manuals and other documentation. The scheme was active as recently as December 19, 2024, the DOJ said. Duan allegedly paid Tian to steal information on the Bradley and Stryker U.S. Army fighting vehicles.

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Zhao is accused of selling hard drives after July 2024 marked “SECRET” and “TOP SECRET” to people in China for around $10,000. He is also accused of stealing a government computer with information on the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System and information related to a potential conflict between the U.S. and China. 

“These arrests underscore the persistent and increasing foreign intelligence threat facing our Army and nation,” said Brig. Gen. Rhett Cox of Army Counterintelligence Command. “Along with the Department of Justice and FBI, Army Counterintelligence Command will continue to work tirelessly to hold those accountable who irresponsibly and selfishly abandon the Army values and choose personal gain over duty to our nation.”

Finally, FAFO has come to fruition.  

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Treasure Sec'y Yellin avoids anwering whether Biden Treasury Dept. asked banks to search private transactions

Big Brother is watching you, especially watching who you support politically and to which institutions you donate. 

When she was asked if the Treasury Department pressured banks and other financial institutions to spy on legal purchases for signs of "extremism" our illustrious Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen did a head fake and ducked the question, Fox News reported in not so many words. This was to be in part of an investigation into the January 6, 2021 events.

The banks were asked to filter legal purchases with terms such as "MAGA," "Trump," "Cabela's," "Bass Pro Shops," and "Dick's Sporting Goods." They were also warned that the sale of "religious texts" could indicate "extremism." 

Holy fishing atheists, Batman!

Jim Jordan (R-OH) the House Judiciary Committee Chair stated in a letter that after January 6, the Treasury Department’s Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN, aka Big Brother), sent banks outlines “typologies” of “various persons of interest” as well as “suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement.”

“According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of ‘extremism’ indicators that include ‘transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel areas with no apparent purpose,’ or ‘the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views,’” Jordan wrote to the former director of FinCEN. “In other words, FinCEN used large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression.”

Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO) on Tuesday stated, “Increasingly, we are hearing the federal government is suggesting banks search private financial transactions using highly partisan political terms or check to see if customers made purchases that could be associated with legal sales of firearms or even religious texts.”

Wagner asked Yellen, “Has Treasury — including FinCEN or federal banking agencies like the Fed, FDIC, OCC — instructed financial institutions to search Americans’ legal transactions in attempts to surveil their purchases?”

“Well, we received the letter from you, I believe, on this topic, and we intend to investigate and to respond,” Yellen dodged.

“Have you instructed banks and financial institutions to provide this information?” Wagner pressed.

“Well, FinCEN, our job is to work with financial institutions to make sure —” Yellen replied in her grandmotherly voice.

“Are they instructing financial institutions to search Americans’ legal transactions in attempts to surveil their purchases?” Wagner reiterated.

“I promise a thorough look into everything,” Yellen lied.

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Chinese Communists plan to build military base in Cuba, about a buck away from Florida

Some Democrats sleep with Chinese spies; some make deals with them; and some Democrats are so weak that China is planning to build a spy base in northern Cuba. That's only about 100 miles off the coast of Florida and it's causing U.S. officials to have full-blown panic attacks. "I can't breathe, I can't breathe," you can almost hear them saying.

The Wall Street Journal wrote that China and Cuba are now at an "advanced stage" in negotiating the new deal, which will likely have a lot of green in it for the Cubans, which should make AOC happy for her people--communists, not Cubans.

WSJ spoke with U.S. officials who told them that the information they have about the proposed plan is contained in "highly classified new U.S. intelligence" on Hunter Biden's computer or not.

If China is able to go ahead with building the facility, it would allow them to permanently house troops there and spy on the U.S. like a nosey neighbor with really bad intentions.

The planned operation by the Chinese military is called "Project 141" and is designed to expand China's global presence. Before this, no other effort by Communist China in Project 141 have been in the Western Hemisphere, and the way things look with our brain addled administration with incompetent handlers behind the scene, it looks like they are going to pull it off.

Like Hunter Biden's laptop, his fraudulent business dealings, his overpriced child-level art, and daddy's involvement in all of the deal, man, most officials are downplaying the WSJ's reporting. It begs the question: does the administration and the media want China to become the world dominant power?

“The intelligence community has assessed for several years that the PRC intends to expand its reach globally, and in this case, it is premature to draw firm conclusions about recent reporting,” a U.S. intelligence official told the newspaper. “At this stage, it does not appear to be anything that provides much of an enhancement to the current suite of capabilities.”

The Journal reported that China reached a deal with Cuba to build an electronic eavesdropping base in the country, which is reportedly worth billions, and would allow China to construct a facility that can intercept communications in the southeastern U.S., home to dozens of military bases. The Chinese spy base could also monitor U.S. ship traffic and AOC Instagram dance videos.

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Blinken blinked in China, got zip, foreshadowing a frightening future

When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken went to China for talks with Chinese officials, they discussed two important issues: stopping the mass importing of fentanyl that is killing 300 Americans a day on average, and the creation of a dedicated communications system between the militaries of the two nations in the event of an accidental nuclear missile launch.

Blinken blinked and there was no deal on either issue.

Worse, it was recently discovered that China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since 2019 at the very latest. The purpose of Chinese spying is part of their global effort to upgrade their intelligence-gathering capabilities, the Biden administration finally admitted, after vehemently denying it. 

Remember how they downplayed the Chinese spy balloons that flew all over the American place?

The official, who was not authorized to speak honestly in public, spoke on the condition of anonymity. He or she said the US intelligence community has been aware of China’s spying from Cuba and a larger effort to set up intelligence-gathering operations around the world for a long time.

The Biden administration has stepped up their loose-wrist efforts to thwart the Chinese push to expand its spying operations and believes it has made some progress through diplomacy and other unspecified action, according to the official, who was familiar with US intelligence on the matter.

This, of course, is propaganda that sounds plausible because we all want to believe it.

Even the Wall Street Journal confirmed the Chinese spy base and said that China and Cuba reached an agreement in principle to build an electronic eavesdropping station on the island and China would pay the communist-poor Cuba billions of dollars in the deal.

The White House claimed the report is inaccurate, but they also claimed Donald Trump had Russian prostitutes pee on him and that Joe Biden is cognitively intact and a great leader.

“I’ve seen that press report, it’s not accurate,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, who has never told a lie to bolster the Democratic Party's agenda, said in an MSNBC interview Thursday. “What I can tell you is that we have been concerned since day one of this administration about China’s influence activities around the world; certainly in this hemisphere and in this region, we’re watching this very, very closely.”

And if they are watching very, very closely, they are doing nothing whatsoever to stop it.

As Scott Adams alluded to this morning on his YouTube show, Blinken blinks and Trump trumps in adversarial situations like this.

Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío also refuted the report in a Twitter post Saturday. 

But one should never believe everything that gets tweeted on Twitter by a twit communist like de Cossío because he might be fibbing.

Tensions between the US and China have been fraught throughout Biden’s term and to deal with the situation, President Biden ate chocolate chip ice cream in a rocket-shaped cone.

The world is going to look back at this time in history and ask: "What the hell were they thinking?" And "wasn't Fang Fang kind of hot?"

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NSA agent arrested for supplying gov't secrets to undercover FBI agent, feds say

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Jareh Sebastian Dalke of Colorado Springs, CO is a 30-year former NSA agent who was arrested after he tried to sell government secrets to an undercover FBI agent he believed was a foreign operative. He made his first court appearance Thursday and was hit with espionage-related charges for allegedly trying to transmit National Defense Information (NDI) to a Russian operative.

Dalke used an encrypted email account to send classified documents to a person he thought worked for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, but was an FBI agent, the Department of Justice reported.  "Dalke subsequently arranged to transfer additional classified information in his possession to the undercover FBI agent at a location in Denver, Colorado,” the DOJ said.

Dalke was an information systems security designer for the NSA from June and July this year. He was arrested Wednesday when he went to meet with his contact to sell classified information, he thought. 

The DOJ said that Dalke told an undercover FBI agent that he was still working for the agency and that he would exchange secrets for a specific cryptocurrency. The information in question reportedly related to U.S. cyber security.

“On or about Aug. 26, 2022, Dalke requested $85,000 in return for additional information in his possession. Dalke also told the FBI undercover agent that he would share additional information in the future, once he returned to the Washington, D.C., area. Although he was not employed by the NSA while communicating with the FBI, Dalke re-applied to the NSA in August 2022,” the DOJ said.

Court documents show that scumbag allegedly told the undercover agent that he “recently learned that my heritage ties back to your country, which is part of why I have come to you.” [Fun Fact: Dalke, in Russian, means traitorous asshole.]

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According to the charges, one of the documents that were intended to be sold were classified as “secret,” while two more were “top secret.” He was charged with three violations of the Espionage Act.

If convicted, Dalke could be sentenced to life in prison or execution, unlike Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA) who actually had crazy monkey sex with a Chinese spy.

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Ex-CIA spook who worked for DNC spied on US citizens to help Mid East gov.

Kevin Chalker, a former CIA agent working for Qatar, spied on top soccer officials as the tiny Middle East country sought to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, according to the Associated Press. [H/T Western Journal]

The AP said Chalker was contracted to help give a country that was not his own an advantage in securing the tournament by using spies and malicious software. 

It sucks, but at least it isn't treason.

“Qatar sought an edge in securing hosting rights from rivals like the United States and Australia by hiring Chalker, who became a private contractor, to spy on other bid teams and key soccer officials who picked the winner in 2010, the AP’s investigation found,” the AP’s Alan Suderman reported.

“Chalker also worked for Qatar in the years that followed to keep tabs on Qatar’s critics in the soccer world, according to interviews with Chalker’s former associates as well as contracts, invoices, emails, and a review of business document,” Suderman wrote.

Chalker's surveillance work included hiring someone posing as a photojournalist to spy on rival countries and their respective bids to win the rights to host the 2022 tournament. The USA was one of those countries which came in second behind Qatar, according to the AP.

Under his company, Global Risk Advisors, Chalker agreed to accept $387 million for his work for the Qatar government, but it isn't known how much Global Risk Advisors was finally paid.

The ex-CIA spook also promised he could assist Qatar as it sought to “maintain dominance” over foreign workers who were used to build the facilities needed for the World Cup, the report said. So not only would they get the rights as host, but they would also get the labor rights as well.

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Although the AP cited many sources and strong verification efforts on all published information, Chalker claimed the documents were forged and denied all findings.

Chalker was employed by the CIA for five years before spying on behalf of Qatar, the report stated.

“The CIA declined to comment and does not usually discuss its former officers,” Suderman wrote. “But the agency sent a letter to former employees earlier this year warning of a ‘detrimental trend’ of foreign governments hiring former intelligence officers ‘to build up their spying capabilities …'”

But whether it's true or not, at least he wasn't at the overthrow of the entire US government on January 6th and Trump.  

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China gives kudos to Biden for allowing TikTok to spy on US

"To Communism"

Communist China's Ministry of Commerce sang the praises of President Joe Biden for reversing a Trump decision to halt U.S. downloads of China's spy apps WeChat and TikTok. 

The only reason Trump halted downloads from these apps is because he did not like the idea of China spying on Americans, while Biden doesn't see this as a problem since China only competes with us in trade, he said.

Gao Feng, a ministry spokesman and no relation to Feng Feng, the Chinese spy who got Eric Swalwell to "swell quite well," praised the Biden-Harris-Squad administration saying that [Communist] Chinese businesses should not be politicized by the United States. That's like saying people stranded on deserted islands shouldn't have to go without wearing a face mask.

"The U.S. should treat [Communist] Chinese companies fairly and justly and refrain from politicizing trade issues," Gao said. "All countries have the responsibility to develop their own industries and enhance the well-being of their people, and China is pleased to see the economic development and technological progress of other countries."

China is also pleased that they are slowly beginning to "eat our lunch" on international trade and it doesn't matter what Feng says, it's all political.

The Trump administration took on TikTok during its final year in office, citing the potential for the Chinese Communist Party to collect data on the Chinese app, as well as other national security issues. 

A series of orders from the Trump White House and legislation in the Senate banned the app from government devices and ultimately from being downloaded by U.S. citizens. But federal courts naively help up the orders and legislation, and they never went into effect, thus allowing the Communist Chinese government to know what we had for lunch.

Former Trump administration official Keith Krach told the Washington Free Beacon in September 2020 the app allows China to "spy" on American children and it's rumored they even saw Jeffrey Toobin tuning his instrument on video.

The Chinese Communist Party requires companies operating in China to share data when the government requests it. A document leaked in October 2020 shows an ex-CCP official dictated content policies for TikTok in its growth stage, and China has openly discussed an interest in greater party control over companies operating within the country.

Joe Biden has never once, in all his many years in politics, been right about foreign affairs. But that shouldn't surprise us since Joe is a guy who believes that Hunter Biden is the smartest person he knows.

China is like a ticking bomb . . . TikTok . . .  TikTok . . . 

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DOD linguist charged with revealing intel to Hezbollah

A Department of Defense linguist was arrested last week on charges of providing top-secret information, including details on U.S. intelligence assets [aka spies], to a Lebanese individual with ties to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist group.

Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, had a top-secret security clearance. She was arrested Thursday for espionage at a U.S. military facility in Erbil, Iraq.

Taha Thompson accessed dozens of files that had the names and photos of intelligence sources, and the intel they provided to the U.S. government.

Officials noticed, back in December, a "notable shift" in her computer activity after a U.S. airstrike on Iranian-backed forces in Iraq. They searched her living quarters and found a note under her mattress that had names of intelligence sources along with information regarding DOD computer systems.

In her computer searches, she accessed information about eight intelligence sources, putting their lives in danger.

The traitor was returned to the U.S. and appeared in court. She's being held without bond until March 11 and will then appear for a bond hearing. Hopefully, a bond will not be granted as she is probably a flight-risk.

Prosecutor John Cummings, at the initial hearing said that Taha Thompson poses “a grave and imminent threat to U.S. assets in a military zone.”

She is charged with transmitting highly sensitive classified national defense information to a foreign national with apparent connections to Hezbollah and unlawfully possessing government information.

If found guilty of these charges, the traitor could face either life in prison or the death penalty. The chances that the latter penalty would be imposed, is probably low however. She has not yet entered a plea.

“If true, this conduct is a disgrace, especially for someone serving as a contractor with the United States military. This betrayal of country and colleagues will be punished,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers.

DOD officials say they are "taking all necessary precautions” to protect American forces and intelligence sources due to the security breach.

If any American is killed because of this intelligence breach, the death penalty should be imposed.

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UCLA professor faces 219-year prison sentence for sending missile data to China

Yi-Chi Shih, a  professor in electrical engineering and adjunct professor at UCLA, was found guilty last month by a Los Angeles jury of smuggling data chips with military applications to China.

He was convicted on 18 counts, including making an illegal export and multiple fraud charges.

Shih and another Chinese defendant, Kiet Ahn Mai, worked together to defraud an American semiconductor chip manufacturer. According to prosecutors, Mai posed as a potential customer to obtain chip designs from the unnamed company, then illegally sent the products to China.

In a statement, prosecutors said the chips were sent to a Chinese company where Shih was president. He paid for the scheme through a US-based bank account, which was funded through another company based in China.

The chips stolen in the scheme “are used in missiles, missile guidance systems, fighter jets, electronic warfare, electronic warfare countermeasures and radar applications,” according to the statement.

Shih was hoping the state of California would offer him sanctuary in the case, but that was not the case. The spy is going to for a long time, if not the rest of his life.

Industrial espionage is a key point of dispute between the US and China, an issue that has recently intensified as trade negotiations heat up between the two countries. In the past, the US has accused prominent Chinese companies, including Huawei, of stealing technology from American businesses.

Shih’s sentence will be determined at a later date, but it doesn't look good for him.

The UCLA electrical engineering program will miss Shih greatly. "All this over a bag of chips," a school spokesperson said.


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Trump considering privatizing the CIA

The Trump administration and Central Intelligence Agency are looking at a few proposals to hire companies in the private sector to perform the covert operations overseas.

According to BuzzFeed News, the proposals were initially presented to the White House over the summer. They describe the proposed plans as "highly unusual," but if approved, it would include the creation of large intelligence networks in hostile foreign areas known as "denial areas."

The operators would recruit and handle local agents, perform psychological operations, and capture terrorist suspects and render them to the US or ally country. The primary targets of the proposals are "Islamic extremism."

BuzzFeed said that one of the proposals involves Amyntor Group, headquartered in the northwestern Montana town known as Whitefish. The company is private and staffed with former U.S. Intelligence community staff with security clearances. They specialize in intelligence training and risk assessment. They collect and analyze intelligence and provide counterintelligence services for government agencies in the U.S. as well as "friendly foreign governments" abroad.

Amyntor Group leadership held discussions with senior Trump administration officials in late November, according to BuzzFeed. They also said that the catalyst for privatizing some intelligence operations is due to the negative view the Administration believes the CIA has of the White House. And they claim the CIA isn't willing to go along with Trump's efforts to make the agency's operations more aggressive and, in Mike Pompeo's words, "much more vicious."

Thus, they believe privatization will bypass the resistance and doubt of the CIA's upper management.

If this proposal bears fruit, it will have a powerful effect on all future spy novels.



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WikiLeaks dumps trove of CIA hacking tools

WikiLeaks is at it again. In what they're calling the "largest ever publication of confidential documents" from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, they claim to have released thousands of files from a "high-security network" inside the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, VA.

This is the first in a series called "Year Zero." It will detail CIA cyber weaponry, according to their press release, and the source of the files is allegedly a former government hacker or contractor. WikiLeaks claims the source wants to create a public debate "about the security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyber weapons."

The enormous file released apparently contains millions of lines of code, referencing programs with ambiguous names such as "Medusa" and "HIVE."

According to WikiLeaks' analysis of the documents, the CIA has been targeting iPhones, smart TVs, and Androids. One program of the CIA can turn on smart TVs into "covert microphones" for spying, WikiLeaks said, and also alleged the agency is able to collect data from machines running Apple's iOS.

Another shocker is the assertion the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt, Germany, operates as a "covert CIA hacker base." The website alleges that agents get into Germany under the guise of technical consultants for the American consulate, but then are given "black" passports that allow them access to travel freely through the Shengen open border area.

Whoever the WikiLeaks source is, that person needs to be found and brought to justice. Our national security is compromised when our intelligence goes public.

Hopefully, President Trump will see this as a priority.


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Iran planned to kill pro-Israel Germans

You're not going to believe this but Iran's intelligence agency planned terrorist attacks against German pro-Israel organizations and people engaged in helping the Jewish State.

Just kidding--I know you believe it. That's how they roll.

The information was revealed by the country's federal prosecutor on Friday and reported by the German media.

Syed Mustafa H., a 31-year-old Pakistani working at the German Aerospace Center in Bremen, was indicted Monday for alleged espionage.

West German Broadcasting (WDR) reported Iran's intel agency's goal was to kill Reinhold Robbe, the former president of the German-Israeli Friendship Society. He served as a Social Democratic Party deputy from 1994 to 2005 and subsequently served as the parliamentary commissioner for the armed services in the Bundestag.

This is the first reported case of an Iranian intelligence operation working to assassinate a government representative in the Federal Republic. The WDR article by Georg Heil said that Mustafa also spied on a French-Israeli professor at a Paris business college, but the professor was not identified for his or her own protection.

Another Pakistani suspect was also arrested but later released due to insufficient evidence. The suspect scrubbed his entire computer server "Hillary Style" which may have contained incriminating information. He immediately left Germany after he was released.

Berlin's Tagesspiegel newspaper said that Mustafa was probably working for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. He studied engineering at Bremerhaven College and gave PowerPoint presentations to Iran's intelligence agency. But according to WDR, he communicated inaccurate information about Robbe.

Mustafa was paid by Iran for the information, according to the indictment. He put together a "movement profile" of Robbe, surveyed the society headquarters, followed him on his public transportation commute, and German authorities say that his activities was "a clear indication of an assassination attempt."

Mustafa is suspected of spying from July 2015 to July 2016 for Iran's regime. German media said his espionage activity was part of a broader operation to target pro-Israel groups in Germany, France and other European countries [because Islam is, by its very scripture, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian]. 


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Mossad is now recruiting women

Israel -- An advertisement in the Israeli press depicts a young woman with white lettering that says: "wanted - powerful women."

"We don't care what you did; we care about who you are!" the ad reads.

Mossad, Israel's world renowned spy agency, is looking for a few tough women and has launched a recruitment campaign.

The agency wants women to join their mostly male group of case officers, who are in charge of recruiting and handling agents. Inside (that is, not in the field) 40% of staff are women and 10% of them hold high-ranking positions.

Compare that to their neighbor's where women stay home, have jihadists and cook, while the men go out to work, and you will understand just how progressive Israel is (the 'good' progressive, of course).

The Mossad is the global arm of Israel's intelligence community and is very much like our CIA and Britain's M6. They are thought to be behind some of the most daring covert counterterrorism operations in the past century.

In 2014, the Mossad finally opened an online recruitment website as the rest of their counterparts had already done. It included cool recruitment videos and an online application option for employment, available in Hebrew, English, Russian, French, Arabic and Persian.

The Mossad is looking to modernize the way it used to seek out potential agents after generations of cloak-and-dagger-style missions.

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ISIS leaders kill their own by the dozens, "just in case"

Baghdad -- Back in March, a top dog with ISIS was driving in Syria preparing to lead his bloody band of fighters in the area when out of the sky came a drone-fired rocket that blew him to smithereens. 

The death of Abu Hayjaa al-Tunsi, a Tunisian Muslim jihadist, put fear in the hollow hearts of the Islamic State leaders and they realized that they likely had a spy in their midst because al-Tunsi's movements were closely guarded. 

The logical ISIS tactic to ensure the spy was punished was to kill anyone who might have given the U.S.-led coalition the information. So ISIS killed 38 of its own jihadists on suspicion of acting as informants.

It reminds me of an old joke I heard as a teenager: Hitler is inspecting the troops. Suddenly, one of the men sneeze but Hitler didn't know which one it was. He goes up to the first man and asks, "Did you sneeze?" 

The reply, "No mein Fuhrer," came the reply. 

Hitler pulls out his Luger and shoots the soldier in the head, and casually sidesteps to the next man in line.

He stares hard at the frightened soldier and asks, "Did you sneeze?" 

Again, "No, mein Fuhrer." 

And again, he shoots the second soldier then moves on to the next.

Finally he asks the third soldier in line: "Did you sneeze?" 

The reply, "Ja, mein Fuhrer." 

Hitler says, "Gesundheit." 

Of course, with ISIS, even the third soldier would have been killed, but the shooter is still probably a big Hitler fan.

ISIS leadership has killed dozens of their own in recent months as they attempt to purge spies from their ranks. Many members have fled fearing the worst from those that lead them.

As a warning to would-be traitors, ISIS has displayed the dead bodies of some of the suspected spies in public--as if they needed to do that in order to scare civilians. Some of the dead were dropped into acid vats, just to show they mean business--Allah's business.

Babars al-Talawy, an opposition activist in Syria and whose mother was greatly influenced by the famous cartoon bear,  said that ISIS "commanders don't dare come from Iraq to Syria because they are being liquidated" by airstrikes.

And the possible "spies" are being liquidated by acid.


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