White Flag: Shadowy Terrorist Group Emerges In Iraq: Could Be ISIS 2.0 Or False Flag Operation

Veteran national security reporter Bill Gertz (seen in the below photo) offers a piece at the Free Beacon on an emerging terrorist group in Iraq.

A new group in Iraq called White Flag is coming under close scrutiny by U.S. intelligence agencies amid concerns the terrorist organization could become a regional successor to the Islamic State.

White Flag is an armed group operating in areas of northwestern and central Iraq since late last year and appears to be a union of Kurdish terrorists and former ISIS fighters, according to U.S. defense and military officials.

"It's kind of a hodge-podge of people and a white flag with a lion on it is their emblem," said a military official familiar with the region.

Little is known about the new organization and some reports from the region say White Flag has adopted the Islamic State jihadist ideology.

But so far the group has not conducted suicide bombing attacks, a key ISIS terror tactic, and the lack of such attacks is raising suspicions White Flag may be a front group for Iraqi factions vying for power.

The military official said intelligence on the group is sketchy but preliminary indications are it poses a threat to the areas of Iraq where it has operated. White Flag, however, does not currently have capabilities for conducting terror attacks outside the country.

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http://freebeacon.com/national-security/shadowy-terrorist-group-emerges-iraq/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=b06293c0c9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-b06293c0c9-45599609 

China’s Intelligence Networks In United States Includes 25,000 Spies

Veteran national security reporter Bill Gertz offers a piece at the freebeacon.com on a Chinese dissident’s claims of there being thousands of Communist Chinese spies in America.

Beijing's spy networks in the United States include up to 25,000 Chinese intelligence officers and more than 15,000 recruited agents who have stepped up offensive spying activities since 2012, according to a Chinese dissident with close ties to Beijing's military and intelligence establishment.

Guo Wengui, a billionaire businessman who broke with the regime several months ago, said in an interview that he has close ties to the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the civilian intelligence service, and the military spy service of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

"I know the Chinese spy system very, very well," Guo said, speaking through an interpreter, in his first American interview. "I have information about very minute details about how it operates."

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http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinas-spy-network-united-states-includes-25000-intelligence-officers/ 

What The Jim Webb Debacle In Annapolis Is Teaching the Military

I don't always agree with James Webb. I once went back and forth with him via email during the Iraq war over an interview I wanted to do with him (he opposed the war and I supported it), and he finally declined to be interviewed.

But I respect the highly decorated U.S. Marine combat officer who served in Vietnam and went on to become the Secretary of the Navy, a U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate. He is also a fine writer and wrote one of the best novels about Vietnam, Fields of Fire, as well as another fine novel about the U.S. military and American history, A Country Such As This.

So I thought that the protest over this great American patriot receiving an award at the U.S. Naval Academy was a disgrace. 

Aaron MacLean at the Free Beacon offers a piece on the controversy.

Imagine you are a young midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy processing the news that Jim Webb—Annapolis class of '68, recipient of the Navy Cross, former senator and secretary of the Navy, former member of the Annapolis faculty, bestselling novelist and acclaimed journalist—has been forced by political pressure to decline an award for distinguished alumni at your school this week.

The most widely cited reason for his political toxicity is an article he wrote in 1979 (side note: almost forty years ago!) in Washingtonian Magazine entitled "Women Can't Fight." Never mind that he has apologized for both the vivid language of his youth and the ways in which the article made life difficult for women already in the service. ("Clearly, if I had been a more mature individual, there are things that I would not have said in that magazine article. To the extent that this article subjected women at the Academy or the armed forces to undue hardship, I remain profoundly sorry.") Never mind the fact that Webb was channeling the beliefs of the vast majority of his fellow infantrymen, if in somewhat impolitic language—or that even today, the vast majority of Marines of all grades oppose the inclusion of women in combat units. Never mind that in 1987, as secretary of the Navy, Webb opened a tremendous number of new positions in the service to women. Most of all, never mind that as of December 2015, combat units were all opened to women by order of then-Secretary of Defense Carter, overriding the objections of the Marine Corps (though not of the Army).

In other words, the proponents of including women in combat units have won. But, as the case of Webb shows, that's not enough. You have to salt the fields.

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CIA, NSA Missed Warning Signs Of Snowden Betrayal

Veteran national security reporter Bill Gertz offers a piece at the Free Beacon on a congressional report on NSA leaker, spy and traitor Edward Snowden (seen in the above photo).

Both the CIA and National Security Agency missed warning signs that renegade contractor Edward Snowden was a disgruntled worker who would eventually steal 1.5 million secret documents, according to a congressional study made public Thursday.

Snowden, who fled to Moscow after publicizing some of the documents through left-wing journalists, also “has had, and continues to have contact with Russian intelligence services” and voiced admiration for China during his brief career at the CIA and then NSA.

A declassified and redacted report by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that Snowden’s actions resulted in the Obama’s administration’s most damaging intelligence failure.

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http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cia-nsa-missed-warning-signs-snowden-betrayal/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=dab8b55c9d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-dab8b55c9d-45599609

You can also read an earlier post on Snowden via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2013/11/is-behavior-of-hero-whistleblower-or.html

FBI, Pentagon Counterspies Hunt Fraudulent Navy Officer

Veteran national security reporter Bill Gertz offers a piece at the Free Beacon on the hunt for a spy who is posing as a Navy officer.

Counterintelligence agents from the FBI and Pentagon are pursuing a suspected foreign agent posing as a Navy officer who offered fraudulent contracts to defense contractors in a bid to obtain sensitive and embargoed American technology.

The FBI on Wednesday sent a security alert about the scam uncovered recently by a contractor in Massachusetts to contractors engaged in secret defense work.

An FBI counterintelligence agent stated in the alert that the contractor reported “an individual posing as U.S. Navy officer” was issuing fake Navy contracts for computer and telecommunications equipment.

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Note: The above photo of the Pentagon was released by the U.S. Defense Department.

Report: Chinese Spies Stole Pentagon Secrets

Veteran national security reporter Bill Gertzz offers a piece at Freebeacon.com on a report on Communist Chinese espionage.

Chinese spies repeatedly infiltrated U.S. national security agencies, including official email accounts, and stole U.S. secrets on Pentagon war plans for a future conflict with China, according to a forthcoming congressional commission report.

“The United States faces a large and growing threat to its national security from Chinese intelligence collection operations,” states the late draft report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

“Among the most serious threats are China’s efforts at cyber and human infiltration of U.S. national security entities.”

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The Cyber Threat: Snowden—Ultimate Insider Threat Missed By NSA Security

Veteran national security reporter Bill Gertz offers a piece on NSA leaker and traitor Edward Snowden and the NSA for the Free Beacon

Security officials today use the politically correct term “insider threat” to describe what were once called traitors, and no one was more aggressive in pursuing them than counterintelligence types at the National Security Agency.

Thus many intelligence officials saw more than a tinge of irony in NSA contractor Edward Snowden making off with 1.5 million highly classified NSA intelligence documents in May 2013 and handing them over to several anti-American journalists who seemed more interested in inflicting as much damage as possible on America’s premier electronic spying and code-breaking agency than exposing alleged wrongdoing.

Until Snowden, the NSA had a reputation as one of the intelligence organizations most dedicated to protecting secrets. But the case exposed gaping holes at the agency, and a House intelligence report says gaps persist years after Snowden fled the country and holed up in Moscow.

Sure, the super-secret agency whose name itself was once classified had its share of Cold War spies, but nothing quite like Snowden.

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http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cyber-threat-snowden-insider-threat-at-nsa/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=1dd6da9f89-WFB_Morning_Beacon_09_20_169_19_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-1dd6da9f89-45599609

Secretary Of State Clinton Turned Away High-Level Chinese Defector To Assist Beijing Leaders: Intelligence Windfall on Chinese Leadership Lost After Police Defector Betrayed

Veteran national security reporter Bill Gertz offers a piece at the Free Beacon on Hillary Clinton turning away a Chinese official wishing to defect to appease the Communist Chinese government.

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton turned away a high-ranking Chinese defector who sought political asylum after the communist police chief sought refuge in a U.S. consulate in southwestern China four years ago.

Critics say Clinton’s handling of the defection of Wang Lijun (seen in the above photo), a close aide to a regional Communist Party leader, was a blunder and lost opportunity for U.S. intelligence to gain secrets about the leaders of America’s emerging Asian adversary.

Instead of sheltering Wang and granting him political asylum, Clinton agreed to turn him over to Chinese authorities in Beijing, and claimed he was not qualified for American sanctuary because of his past role as a police chief accused of corruption.

You can read the piece via the below link:

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/clinton-turned-away-high-level-chinese-defector-assist-beijing-leaders/