Trump says Rex Tillerson out as Secretary of State, replaced by Mike Pompeo

[Brian4Liberty]

Tillerson recently publically contradicted Trump on the greatesness of Trump's agreement to meet with Kim Jong Un. Probably what sparked it.

Pompeo? Another MIC/neocon advocate.

[AuH20]

Kushner is likely Trump's handler. He has no experience whatsoever and he's overseeing foreign policy agreements?

[goldenequity]

Trump has gone full neocon. I smell war.

Islamic World Update
Moscow: Russia will respond if the United States launches missile strikes against #Syria

Brasco_Aad
RUSSIA WILL ENGAGE THE UNITED STATES IF THE LATTER DECIDES TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON SYRIA

Brasco_Aad
RUSSIA: IN CASE OF SUCH AN ATTACK WE WILL DESTROY BOTH MISSILES AND LAUNCHERS (JETS, WARSHIPS)

Russia to Respond if its Military Threatened by Possible US Strike in Syria
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/2...a-us-military/

Brasco_Aad
RUSSIAN FM SERGEY LAVROV: CONSEQUENCES OF POSSIBLE US STRIKE ON DAMASCUS WILL BE DRASTIC

13:20
ANOTHER POSSIBLE U.S. STRIKE ON SYRIA FRAUGHT WITH MOST SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR U.S. - LAVROV

13:20
LAVROV: U.S. COVERING UP FOR TERRORISTS IN EASTERN GHOUTA SO THEY CAN STRIKE DAMASCUS

13:19
LAVROV: I LACK PROPER TERMS TO DESCRIBE U.S. THREATS TO STRIKE SYRIA

13:19
U.S. HAS TAKEN COURSE TOWARD REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA, ITS BREAKUP - LAVROV

13:18
LAVROV: NEW U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON E. GHOUTA MEANS WASHINGTON HAS FAILED TO FULFILL PREVIOUS ONE

Brasco_Aad
Syrian Air Force jets are conducting massive bombing raids against US backed terrorists in Southern #Syria.

Brasco_Aad
Russia is sending more and more warships and submarines to the Mediterranean:
RFS 490 'Admiral Essen', a Admiral Grigorovich Class frigate + RFS 868 'Pytlivyy' Krivak II Class frigate + numerous Kilo class submarines.

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►Russian military personnel and advisers are present at numerous Syrian military sites and other facilities.
This clearly makes any possible US strike against Syrian targets
a direct attack against Russian personnel.
Such would then be responded to and countered according today's Russian MoD statement.

Russia 'will respond if US strikes Syria'
http://www.news.com.au/world/breakin...7c6369ce316d40
The head of Russia's General Staff, says Moscow will retaliate if the lives of Russian servicemen in Syria were threatened by US strikes.

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BREAKING: Russian envoy summoned in UK

BREAKING: Russia summons British Ambassador amid Skripal case

BREAKING: Police called to Parliament over 'suspicious package' for second time in 24 hours

Russia in RSA@EmbassyofRussia

FM Lavrov: "Russia has nothing to do with the alleged posioning of Skripal.
We won’t respond to UK ultimatum as it ignores @OPCW procedures and London's own international obligations.
UK should've sent to Moscow a sample of the substance & shared information - they did neither.

Sky News Newsdesk
Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman says the National Security Council
will consider Russia's response over the nerve agent attack tomorrow and will not make a comment before then

[AuH20]

Putin may be the only hope to MAGA, if the US is this hellbent to assimilate Syria. If it's between Putin & Trump's Jews, I stand with Putin.

[Raginfridus]

Another one fired for a distraction?!?


Trump has named Gina Haspel as the new director of the CIA. Haspel was Pompeo’s deputy and will become the first woman to serve as CIA director.

From 2003 to 2005, Gina Haspel was a senior official overseeing the top-secret CIA torture program RDI (Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation) that included waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and squeezing into coffins of terror suspects. RDI also kidnapped suspects and delivered them to third-party countries to do the dirty work.

In 2002, Haspel was present at a CIA black site in Thailand when Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri were tortured. The torture of Zubaydah was especially horrible and included waterboarding 83 times. At one time he appeared to be dead and doctors “revived” him. Because of the brutal abuse, Zubaydah lost sight in his left eye.
In 2005, Haspel and her superior Jose Rodriguez decided to destroy the videotapes of the interrogations of Zubaydah and al-Nashiri to prevent Congress from seeing them.

In 2009, President Obama ordered the closure of the black sites, where torture (in violation with the Geneva convention) was common: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...lack-site-past

And just think: this chick's got a drone fleet now. She'll have no qualms bombing weddings and killing Americans... what's "collateral" when you're MAGA?

[Raginfridus]

Tillerson recently publically contradicted Trump on the greatesness of Trump's agreement to meet with Kim Jong Un. Probably what sparked it.

Pompeo? Another MIC/neocon advocate.

Pompeo is familiar, Gina not so much.

[enhanced_deficit]

Pompeo is familiar, Gina not so much.

It appears she has strong leadership qualities that impress Trump. Quite historic milestone too.

Trump CIA pick Gina Haspel helped lead U.S. torture program

Dylan Stableford
March 13, 2018

In a statement, Trump called Haspel’s appointment of the CIA’s first-ever female director “a historic milestone.

”Last year, the New York Times noted that she oversaw the torture of the terrorism suspects and “later took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting their brutal interrogations.”
Haspel, the Times said, played a “direct role” in the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition program,” in which “captured militants were handed to foreign governments and held at secret facilities, where they were tortured by agency personnel.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cia...164726899.html

[goldenequity]

@zerohedge
TRUMP SAYS HE, TILLERSON DISAGREED ON IRAN: BBG

(AKA: Tillerson not hawkish enough for Trump. Period.)

[goldenequity]

US President Donald Trump said he would take Britain's assessment that Russia was behind the attack "as fact".
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43381880


Sky News Newsdesk-@SkyNewsBreak
Russia's foreign ministry says it has lodged an official protest with the British ambassador over "groundless" spy poisoning allegations and any threats of sanctions against Russia will not be left without response

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@zerohedge
Tillerson got a call on Friday night from John Kelly with a heads up on his termination

[undergroundrr]

Come on guys. If trump didn't put the CIA in charge of the military, he wouldn't be able to get any of his liberty agenda done. Just give him some time. I mean, isn't it better to get more neocon fp now so we can have less later? Michael Scheuer will be Secretary of State within a year.

trump has eliminated the individual mandate, lowered taxes and probably averted nuclear war with Russia. Give him some credit. I swear it's like some people would rather Hillary was president.

[goldenequity]

Come on guys. If trump didn't put the CIA in charge of the military, he wouldn't be able to get any of his liberty agenda done. Just give him some time. I mean, isn't it better to get more neocon fp now so we can have less later? Michael Scheuer will be Secretary of State within a year.

trump has eliminated the individual mandate, lowered taxes and probably averted nuclear war with Russia. Give him some credit. I swear it's like some people would rather Hillary was president.

UR so naughty.

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Liberal Patriot- @LiberPatriot · 3 min.
TOP TILLERSON AIDE AND UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY STEVE GOLDSTEIN IS FIRED (AP)








wondering when Bolton will make his entrance....

Bolton, Haley, Pompeo...neocon wetdream.

[goldenequity]

[Vieux Canard]

Come on guys. If trump didn't put the CIA in charge of the military, he wouldn't be able to get any of his liberty agenda done. Just give him some time. I mean, isn't it better to get more neocon fp now so we can have less later? Michael Scheuer will be Secretary of State within a year.

trump has eliminated the individual mandate, lowered taxes and probably averted nuclear war with Russia. Give him some credit. I swear it's like some people would rather Hillary was president.

This is the dumbest thing I've read in years. The threat of war with Russia (nuclear or not) has never been higher since the missile crisis of 1962, but then we had JFK. Trump is no JFK. I'm not even sure Trump better than Dumbya at this point. Other news isn't going well either. John McCain is still alive.

[specsaregood]

This is the dumbest thing I've read in years. The threat of war with Russia (nuclear or not) has never been higher since the missile crisis of 1962, but then we had JFK. Trump is no JFK. I'm not even sure Trump better than Dumbya at this point. Other news isn't going well either. John McCain is still alive.

While, you did miss the sarcasm in the post you quoted...

Trump is no JFK.

Thank goodness at that! JFK unionizing federal parasites should go down as one of the most destructive presidential executive orders in the history of this nation.

[goldenequity]

Swampy Pompy: "It's time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia."
(Hostile? Yep. To Who? yer buddies. )

[bunklocoempire]

Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, and Jeff Deist-

Ron Paul Liberty Report
Plus special bonus: What's happening at the State Department?

At @ 12:00 minutes.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...88#post6601888

[TheCount]

Swamp status: Drained

[Zippyjuan]

Trump couldn't even tell him in person he was being fired. Instead he used a tweet. Pompeo is much more of a hawk.

[CCTelander]

I'm sure it's just another part of Trump's Genius Master Plan (TM).

[Jan2017]

Trump is no JFK.

at 2:40 mark . . . Quayle gets scorched and roasted

[goldenequity]

@14:15

[Swordsmyth]

I smell Hebrews.

This kind of thing will get you banned in short order.

If you mean zionists say zionists.

[nikcers]

Supposedly the new CIA director Gina Haspel is pro torture just like Trump promised when he was running for president.

Quoting CIA documents, the Senate added: "At times Abu Zubaydah was described as 'hysterical' and 'distressed to the level that he was unable to effectively communicate.'" Waterboarding sessions "resulted in immediate fluid intake and involuntary leg, chest and arm spasms" and "hysterical pleas." In at least one waterboarding session, Abu Zubaydah "became completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth," it added.
The ECCHR alleged that Haspel had direct knowledge of the prisoner's treatment, and a cable dated July 15 that year confirmed that as chief of base, only Haspel had the authority to interrupt or stop Zubaydah's interrogation."

[asurfaholic]

Where is @dannno ?

Need an official statement

[CCTelander]

Supposedly the new CIA director Gina Haspel is pro torture just like Trump promised when he was running for president.

But it will be the greatest torture. The greatest.

[Swordsmyth]

Where is @dannno ?

Need an official statement

He will probably say something about "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" and since we can't read Trump's mind we won't be able to disprove it any better than he will be able to prove it.

[juleswin]

Tillerson was bad but Pompeo scares me, you get the sense that he cannot wait to test Russia on the battlefield. If you still believe Trump is fighting the deep state, hold the L on your forehead and wear it proudly.

[juleswin]

Supposedly the new CIA director Gina Haspel is pro torture just like Trump promised when he was running for president.

Another campaign promise fulfilled.

[axiomata]

Trump was riding high after tax cuts. He's crashing quick.

[AZJoe]

Tillerson fired via public tweet while still en route back to US from overseas.