OCTOBER 2, 2013 
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/01/fake_spys_900000_fraud_leaves_congress_gobsmacked >> An ex-Environmental Protection Agency official who for nearly 20 years
masqueraded as a CIA officer and bilked the government out of nearly $1
million refused to testify today before a House committee investigating
his epic fraud. But statements from federal investors, as well as the
disgraced employee's co-worker, raised new questions about ethical
shenanigans at the agency and what senior leaders knew about a
decades-long con.
Iraq: “Devastating” Dossier Alleging British War Crimes Lodged with the International Criminal Court. By Felicity Arbuthnot Global Research, January 12, 2014
A
“devastating” two hundred and fifty page document: “The Responsibility
of UK Officials for War Crimes Involving Systematic Detainee Abuse in
Iraq from 2003-2008″, has been “presented to the International Criminal
Court, and could result in some of Britain’s leading defence figures
facing prosecution for “systematic” war crimes” the (London) Independent
on Sunday has revealed.(i)
The
dossier charges that: ‘ “those who bear the greatest responsibility”
for alleged war crimes “include individuals at the highest levels” of
the British Army and political system.’
According to Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers, the actions of
British officials in high places, involved in the invasion, planning,
execution and occupation, are to come under investigation. : “I think
we easily meet the threshold for these issues to be looked at, I would
be gobsmacked and bitterly disappointed if they don’t look at this.”
[sidebar: GOBSMACKED is quite a word to define quite a sense of being smacked by an unexpected gob.]
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