Category: The Swamp

The Swamp is a cesspool of fraud, waste, and abuse between our government, military, and military industrial complex.

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Interactive Internet Activities (IIA); The U.S. Governments Nomenclature for “Fake News.”

The Military Has A Name For “Fake News,” And It’s Called ‘Interactive Internet Activities’ (IIA)

By Patrick Bergy

Tampa, Florida – Since virtually days after the U.S. Presidential election, when the Clinton campaign covertly released the now infamous British “Dossier” on Donald Trump, all you hear in the news is how the Russian’s were trying to alter the outcome of the U.S. Presidential election.  We now know it was a multi-million dollar “fake news” work of IIA fiction by the Clinton campaign to bring down, or weaken, a democratically elected U.S. President, while destroying any hope of better U.S. relations with Russia.

The military uses Interactive Internet Activities, or IIA, as the Psychological Operations nomenclature for a tactical social media warfare program like this (left.)   IIA can also both covertly and overtly support other PSYOP components, such as Information Operations (IO) and Computer Network Operations (CNO.)  Many countries do it, most have their own name for it.  I use IIA, because when I was contracted by the U.S. Government from 2007 – 2010 to pioneer this technology, this was what we called it.

The image on the right is of Patrick Bergy at the 4th Psychological Operations Group, Psychological Operations Task Force in Baghdad, Iraq, where I provided IIA contract support for from 2007-2008.

We were basically tasked with moving Psychological Operations (PSYOP) from airplane dropped leaflets, to tactically targeting social networks, blogs, and online news feeds.  It was truly a challenge, as the Department of Defense was strictly prohibited from EVER targeting or influencing American citizens. Other such government agencies with three letter acronyms did not have such restrictions.

It was 2007, and the true potential of Information Operations using social media was just being understood.  Apple had just announced the release of their “iPhone,” and the smartphone revolution had begun.  Personally, I had been using the HP iPac smartphone since around 2001, but it was mostly a market for nerds until Apple made it “cool.”

Having pioneered this weapon you know as social media “fake news,” I was able to recognize when other countries or organizations were using it to tactically target and influence.  It took me all of a few seconds to recognize it was being use by whom I believe was either North Korea or Russia (Ukraine) to influence social chaos during the Michael Brown riots, and I published this in my blog online in 2014 when I was working on a Defense Department contract in South Korea.  I warned about IIA being used to alter the outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election – in 2015.  I also believe I recognized it being used in March, 2017, by the British intelligence agency, GCHQ, using a “journalist” known as Louise Mensch, to harm President Trump.

I spotted Louise on Twitter by her use of IIA nomenclatures.  She used terms that someone not trained in IIA wouldn’t know, and I quickly made her connection with the British intelligence agency, GCHQ from there.  I responded to one of her tweets, asking how she knew so much about IIA, when seemingly nobody else online had any clue.  She responded to me in typical Tory Twitter Trash fashion, calling me “Hitler,” or “Putin.” I can’t remember for sure, as she calls anyone who threatens her narrative that.  I responded with the fact I didn’t think such attacks were warranted, having served in uniform in Afghanistan alongside British soldiers.  At that point even her supporters said she was out of line, but she continued with hateful remarks, rather than addressing my question.

I felt somewhat vindicated today when I saw a WikiLeaks posting of an email between Louise Mensch and the Clinton campaign back in 2016.

“From:mkives@caa.com To: ha16@hillaryclinton.com, john.podesta@gmail.com, re47@hillaryclinton.com Date: 2016-02-14 16:29 Subject: Fwd: Hillary ad

 

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Is The “Deep State” Blackmailing Our Justice Department?

Events Suggest The Deep State is Blackmailing Our Justice Department!

The “Deep State” is not some mystical, monolithic cabal that exists within our government and bent on world domination.  I would argue it is a handful of former senior intelligence officials which own privately held corporations that profit from government contracts.  Their power is derived from intelligence data they either obtained during their time as heads of intelligence agencies, and from the government contracts which allow them to collect the intelligence data.  It’s about greed, and nothing else.

As just one of many examples, the private military contracting company, ClearForce, is under the governance of a former National Security Advisor, his son, and former head of the CIA.  The sole purpose of the ClearForce application is to provide companies that have employees with clearances a predictive behavioral threat assessment.  This automated process combines data collected from employees both at work and off.  It uses data collected from social media posts, credit agencies, law enforcement and other “anonymized” sources according to ClearForce’s own website, whatever that means?  My background in intelligence collection suggests anonymized as generally relating to COVERT, or hidden surveillance.

Whether you believe them to be acting nefariously or not, I believe these people jeopardize the integrity of America’s laws, and do so for the purpose of profit.  What if they found out, whether from their previous positions as heads of America’s most powerful intelligence agencies, or through intelligence contracts with their companies, that a current or former Attorney General, Senator, or member of Congress had done something illegal, and used this information to keep them from ever being investigated?  Did they, I have no idea, but could they, absolutely yes they could if they so desired.

During Jeff Sessions recent testimony, he was asked if the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, could investigate himself, which should be a seemingly very simple answer for anyone, NO!  Instead, AG Sessions defended Rosenstein as being a good and honorable man, and left it up to him.

I don’t care how good and honorable you are, the integrity of our entire Justice Department is jeopardized if you allow the head of an intelligence agency to investigate themselves.

Look at the money now retired general Jones made in defense department contracts while he was the NATO Supreme Allied Commander, and as Obama’s National Security Advisor. His family owned defense contracting company made millions of dollars in defense contracts while in office.  Would someone that would do something like that use information he collected to blackmail a sitting Attorney General or head of the FBI to ensure questions were not asked about his business dealings?  I don’t know, but that is why they shouldn’t be allowed to do it, which is the only way you could be sure they wouldn’t.

Our nations only defense from foreign and domestic threats comes from America’s Department of Justice and FBI.  For the Deep State to exist, they must control these organizations from the top.  My case in point would be the testimony before the Senate of both former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and current Attorney General, Jeff Sessions.

During the Senate testimony of  AG Lynch in the summer of 2016, she was repeatedly asked under oath if it was illegal to knowing divulge Top Secret classified information to someone without the appropriate clearance.  To anyone that holds a clearance, that answer is very simple, with the apparent exception of  then Attorney General Lynch, whom refused to acknowledge it would be illegal after being repeatedly asked under oath.  She was, of course, protecting Hillary Clinton from an email Hillary sent to a staffer that didn’t want to send a classified email on an unclassified network.   This staffer was instructed by Hillary in her email response to simply remove the SECRET classification header from the top of the classified email, and send it to her that way. In case you’re wondering, if something labeled as classified is no longer classified because you have removed the classified label at the top of the page, it is not, and that is TOTALLY illegal.

So when I ask myself why would such highly educated people – the top attorneys in our country – ignore or defend such obviously unethical or criminal behavior?  The only reason I can think of is that someone has information that could destroy their careers or land them in prison, and they’re being blackmailed.  Nothing else makes any sense, and is it so hard to believe?  Our intelligence agencies are out of control with the illegal collection of phone calls, emails and other data.

They justify the warrantless collection of this data to American’s saying it is all carefully controlled through FISA courts, but everyone knows that’s not true, and has witnessed countless times these protocols have been circumvented.   Even if you ignore the mountains of evidence release by Edward Snowden and how it has been abused by our intelligence agencies, the leaks following the election of President Trump is evidence of massive abuse.  Those of you on the left whom think this is all good, should think very carefully, because it will most likely happen to you next time…

I go into this and much more in my book, Victim of the Swamp: How the “Deep State” Destroyed the 40-Year-Old Private.  It is available now in paperback both on Amazon, and at my GoFundMe campaign: www.GoFundMe.com/VictimOfTheSwamp

 

 

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Voice of America Pushes Iran Propaganda

Voice of America Pushes Iran Propaganda Using MSNBC Producers; Report Claims Anti-US Narrative – None Spoke Farsi!

So much in the news today are stories about fake news, so I would like to take a moment and help you understand what #FakeNews truly is. As a subject matter expert in social media psychological warfare, this comment caught my eye. In a recent tweet by President Trump he made a very carefully crafted claim;

“…It is very possible that those sources don’t exist but are made up by fake news writers. #FakeNews is the enemy!” 

This was not said by accident! You know the president has access to pretty much everything in the intelligence world at the highest levels of classification. That said, this post is about #FakeNews at the unclassified level called Voice of America. It is a taxpayer funded, self-licking ice cream cone of appropriations which seems to be lacking in oversight. What the president was referring to were state or privately funded IIA (Interactive Internet Activities) tactical social media PSYOP campaigns.  Often these operations will include IO, or Information Operations, which involves more clandestine/anonymized tactical operations, often which tie into a main IIA operation.

The reports surrounding the performance of both VOA TV and Radio broadcast starts out with 2 scathing reports by Senator Tom Coburn to President George W. Bush.

Here is the link to the original NewsMax Story

The report stated, and I quote,

“Undermines U.S. policy on Iran, often even supporting the propaganda of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

You will not believe the examples the report sites, it will make you either laugh until you cry, or just simply cry? A pro American narrative is in VOA’s mission statement, and they reportedly had requested an additional $50 million in taxpayer funding from the Congress just the previous year. Yes, the good old days when money was no object in the Middle East for stuff that doesn’t work. Perhaps this seemingly impossible to believe report will make a little more sense when I tell you that VoA hired MSNBC producers, and they didn’t speak Farsi, the primary language.

For those of you that have never heard of Voice of America (VOA,) it is essentially a crappy version of Russia’s far more popular, RT (Russian TV.) A good analogy would be to compare the ratings of FOX News and MSNBC, as a good example. To keep it simple (and historically accurate) we can use VoA’s to represent MSNBC barrel bottom ratings, and RT’s ratings can be more realistically represented by FOX News. Why anyone would be surprised that by hiring MSNBC producers, you would get the same dismal results in the ratings.

So much of what you hear in the news following the 2016 Presidential election, is how Russia was meddling in our sovereign, democratic election process – again. U.S. officials on both sides of the isle express their feigned outrage,while the U.S. Government run VoA goes plugging right along, messing with the sovereignty of other nations elections. The hypocrisy is so thick, you can cut it with a knife. The real outrage should be that we’re getting our asses kicked by the Russians in social media, broadcast radio, TV PSYOP (Psychological Operations) and IO (Information Operations) like hacking.

One obvious explanation for VoA having ratings comparable to MSNBC, is that we contracted MSNBC producers to provide propaganda for America’s foreign policy narrative in Iran. One can only assume this liberal infiltration is systemic throughout VOA’s global presence. Going at least as far back as the beginning of George W. Bush’s second term, strange things began to happen with VOA’s political agenda,

The VOA’s Persian services Washington, D.C. office was managed by an Iranian/American Sheila Ganji, and it was her VOA email address published on WikiLeaks that came up in an unrelated search. According to an intra-agency report,  I go into more detail on this in another post, www.blogspot.pfc40book.com and on our weekly podcast at http://www.spreaker.com/show/the-swamp. I pushed to use the public, VoA proxy servers used at that time to help Iranians get outside information, but found out Obama had cut funding for these servers within his first month or so in office.  Looking back over the last 8 years of Obama, I can’t help but see a connection to him with Iran, which we are not party to.

According to the NewsMax article, a U.S. Interagency steering group submitted a report stating, “neither network has been effective at representing the views of the U.S. government, a mission defined in VOA’s charter, let alone at promoting democracy.”

In one broadcast, NewsMax reported the following;

In one April 18, 2006, program devoted to Iran’s nuclear program, for example, VOA News invited two nuclear “experts.” One of them was a Mr. Nakhai.

“VOA News did not describe his academic and/or professional affiliations. As it turns out, Mr. Nakhai was an adviser to the Iranian regime and a defender of its nuclear policy,” the report found.

Another show, broadcast on April 14, 2006, was devoted to U.S. policy toward Iran, inviting guests who were almost uniformly critical of the administration.

Here is what NewsMax quoted as the most “stunning” example;

Perhaps the most stunning comments were made by Hoover Institution scholar Abbas Milani, who recently has been called to testify in Congress as an “expert” on the pro-democracy movement in Iran by Rep. Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

In a segment devoted to Iranian human rights abuses, Milani was asked how can a country that violates human rights be a defender of international human rights?

“I think that what you are saying is 100% correct, that is why the U.S. is in a problematic position because of this,” Milani replied. “An America that has the Guantanamo Bay jail in it, an America in which minorities, blacks, have suffered from legal deprivations, without a doubt has international issues with regards to this. . . .”

The VOA host thanked Milani for his answer. “Of course, the country I was referring to as the violator of human rights which cannot be a defender of international human rights was the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he added.

My jaw just dropped to the ground when I first read that. I hope all of yours did as well.

Voice of America is a fully attributable U.S. government run news organization, but there are also programs that many governments run that are somewhat less than attributable, if not entirely COVERT.  These project can include building completely legitimate online news organizations, much like InfoWars.com, as an educated guess/example? Contract “journalists” will produce their deliverables to support a carefully orchestrated narrative using state of the art, tactical IIA/IO project management tools. On the left, compliments of the UK’s own GCHQ, I strongly suspect this total lunatic, Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch), and on the right, Mike Cernovich/Jack Posobiac. I use my experience and knowledge as a subject matter expert in this to make these statements. I don’t have the resources to prove anything. I would guess worldwide there are more than a thousand fake journalists, or even real journalists, that are paid contractors.

The application I developed for the DoD while under contract for Dynology, would be a perfect example of tactical IIA/IO you would want use in such an operation. Think of it as a fake news project management application. Dynology was owned by General James Jones, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Obama’s National Security Advisor, and lifelong friend of John McCain. Dynology is a preferred partner with Paul Manafort’s company, whom is also friends with Brietbart’s, Steve Bannon. All of these people are deeply connected to politically motivated social media, top level elections, and the social media PSYOP application I pioneered, which anyone wanting to alter the outcome of an election through the use of social/streaming media would require. Smoking gun? No. Enough for federal investigators to look more closely at, I believe so.

VAULT 7 EXPOSED VOA/CIA CONNECTION!

I found a name online in the Vault7 document dump by WikiLeaks. I wasn’t looking for it, but rather it came up in an internet search I was doing. That said, an email address I saw led me to this article about a scathing report that came out in a 2007 NewsMax article regarding the VoA, Iran. I sent an email to the person who’s information had shown up in the online WikiLeaks CIA document dump letting them know what I had found, but did not receive a response.

What makes this article news, is my reporting on the VOA’s use of anonymized proxy servers to help spread American values throughout the world. Proxy servers allow people in countries where access to social media, like FaceBook, and many other sources of information, is blocked. Users can circumvent Geo-location filters by installing free proxy software on your computer. Unlike VOA’s TV and Radio broadcasts which are banned from viewing in Iran, you don’t need to install a large dish or antenna, which makes it easy for Iranian officials to spot. It costs pennies on the dollar compared to over the air broadcasts, and imagine what someone could do installing malware in VOA’s proxy software. Keep reading to discover what the Obama administration did to VOA’s anonymized proxy program in his first few weeks in office.

I go into more detail on this subject in my book, Victim of the Swamp: How the “Deep State” Destroyed the 40-Year-Old Private. I am trying to get a message out on a topic I have been paid heavily to corrupt, social media/fake news. As you can image, I am not getting a lot of support from online journalists. We need your help in retweeting this article to your friends and family.

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McCain Manafort Election Tampering

McCain, Manafort; Connections to 2016 Russian False Flag & 2010 Ukrainian Election Tampering.

by Patrick Bergy

You must assume the words that come from a politician’s mouth is simply BS until proven otherwise. Ignore this rule at your own fate! Understanding this, do you just accept John McCain’s very public anti-Russian persona? It is not my intention to question the integrity of anyone in this post, but it is important to ask direct questions, and expect direct answers. Before dismissing what I am saying, know that I spent the last decade in the deepest depths of the DC swamp. I held an above Top Secret clearance, and provided support at the highest levels of the U.S. Government, both in and out of uniform. I know how these people operate. There is nobody better to fight these people, than someone that has been a part of it. My career and life were destroyed after being let go because of having to much integrity to lie. Read the facts below and decide for yourself.

I went to work for Dynology Corporation in October, 2007.  They sent me to Camp Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq in support of the Joint Psychological Operations Task Force (JOPTF) to develop pioneering technology in social media psychological operations (IIA PSYOP) and information operations (IO.) IIA, which stands for Interactive Internet Activities, was in its infancy at this time. (See IIA DoD definition at bottom of post.)

I cannot discuss what we did with the applications I helped in pioneering for the Department of Defense, or discuss anything to do with the dissemination process. There are 100’s of potential uses for an application like this, both good and bad. Once it became an off the shelf product my company made publicly available, is where my background as an SME in social media psychological warfare begins to theorize potential threats.

I urge everyone to take what I say with the highest of value, based on nearly a decade with the DoD. Dismiss ANYTHING I am telling you at your personal fate, and that of our democracy. 

We lost the Iraq contract the following year in a re-compete, but Dynology was somehow allowed to maintain the intellectual property rights for the application we were paid for developing by the Department of Defense. Appears to be the rule, not the exception but I don’t understand how it would be allowed. “Image #1” above is an unclassified beta version snapshot of the iPSY application. Notice how it is capable of incorporating IO (anonymized, covert) with IIA to support tactical, computer network operations.

The defense department paid for the application to be entirely rebuilt by the company that won the re-bid and replaced us. Strangely, as you will read in my book, Victim of the Swamp, we discovered the new company didn’t know the project had an IT component, required an IIA application or two full time IT guys. They told us this while trying to get us to stay on and help them. No wonder they won as the lowest bidders. Swamp is deep folks and I don’t want to drift into an Off Topic Post. Still, it doesn’t seem like the best use of taxpayer dollars by Obama’s acting National Security advisor. I personally was tasked with producing the marketing slicks for commercial sale of this tactical social media psychological warfare application. This application can do many things. We called the retail beta version of the application iPSY. It can be used to help change the hearts and Minds of two warring factions, or in helping to move milk off the shelf at your local grocery store. The covert and anonymity capability are perfect for a Police Department to catch child Predators online.

Another thing it is capable of is altering the outcome of a presidential election. In fact, if those currently suspected of influencing the 2016 US elections were to have done it, they would require a project management tool with the exact same capabilities as what I developed for Dynology. There is an uncomfortably close relationship to ret. Gen. James Jones, Obama’s National Security Advisor. Think of it as a project management tool for coordination/ dissemination for IO (hacking/malware/covert “false flag” operations,) and IIA, for social media psychological warfare. This would include managing the narrative using fake blogs, websites and the Main stream media that any country or private project would have on their payroll.  Let that sink in for a minute, and continue reading for now.

Here is where it starts to get interesting. Dynology is a family-owned business that was founded by retired 4 star Marine General James Jones. With his son, Jim Jones, at the helm.

Dynology has bid on and won Millions in defense department contracts, many while General Jones was acting in an official capacity as President Obama’s National Security Advisor! 

I bet many other companies that sometimes spend hundreds of thousands of dollars if not more on bidding contracts would not be happy to find out they lost to a company that was owned by Obama’s National Security Advisor. I think most will agree the potential for abuse is unacceptable.

The close, lifelong relationship between General Jones and Senator McCain is well documented. His son, Jim Jones, worked his first job as an intern for John McCain. So we have this very well-documented relationship between John McCain, General Jones and Dynology.

Now enter Paul Manafort, the person listed in several articles, one being an article from The Huffington Post listed below, as a primary suspect in influencing the Ukrainian elections, as well as the 2016 elections here in the US. Paul Manafort’s work with John McCain campaigns go back well over a decade. John McCain has thus far simply denied any knowledge of Paul Manafort and his work with the Ukrainian election in 2010. McCain’s denial did not seem to sit well with the Huffington Post reporter, as McCain and Manafort shared an office during that time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/20/new-questions-over-mccain_n_108204.html

Could John McCain have potentially organized a tactical IIA/IO that was designed to show collusion between President Trump, his campaign staff and the Russians? McCain’s lifelong relationship with General Jones, Obama’s National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander, and the development of social media psychological warfare applications by Dynology, would suggest this is who John McCain would reach out to.

As Obama’s former National Security advisor, General Jones would make a powerful Ally with strong ties to the intelligence community. Dynology’s technical capabilities and having people in place at the highest level in our intelligence community would be required to accomplish what reports suggest Paul Manafort was involved with. With all the speculation going around regarding the Russian narrative, I’ve never heard anyone ask and answer the question of how they would do it?

This theory goes a long way towards answering that question of how. If true, it would likely provide investigators with a trail to follow the money. You don’t just wake up one day and decide to alter the outcome of the U.S. (or Ukrainian) presidential election by calling The Geek Squad. These are covert, multi-million-dollar operations that require battlefield tested applications, anonymized proxy servers, likely in a server rack in Prague, project managers and analysts. I am not a strong believer in coincidence, and thus far John McCain’s excuse is ignorance – on 3 separate occasions.

Below is a link to the Google Way Back Machine snapshot of Paul Manafort’s corporate website.  

I came across this link in the WikiLeaks, Vault7 CIA files, for those of you keeping score…

http://web.archive.org/web/20070304101901/www.3edc.net/partners/

If you’re looking for the swamp, look no further than the relationship between our government, the military, and the military industrial complex. Contractors, like me, provide plausible deniability to our clients in the government. This is why military contractors are used so frequently comma and show up so often in situations like Hillary Clinton’s email server, where the contractor was responsible for the server, yet so many emails were destroyed or missing. Clinton’s system administrator plead the 5th during Senate hearings, and there was nothing in the law to go after him and compel him to answer.

Contractors, contrary to popular belief, do not have protection under US whistle-blower laws. If a contractor did speak up, that contractor would ruin his career and his life. Believe me, I know this to be true from first-hand experience. My life in career was destroyed after coming forward with an official report of fraud waste and abuse.

If we are ever to drain the swamp, we need to begin by providing strong whistle-blower protection to those who are willing to speak out, even at their own personal risk. We do not abandon these people or throw them under the bus, they are the only way we will ever drain the swamp.