International Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice, to Protect Bonesaw Al Saud vs Intelligence Community Assessment

John McCone came to mind today when reading Jed Shugerman’s Salon piece on Nixon’s lawyers who went to prison for their crimes including Kleindienst, who’d given a sweet deal to ITT in an antitrust lawsuit settlement. I wondered if McCone was on the ITT board or employed by them at that time, so I went to my files and then to Google.

(I once saw a cool photograph at Norcliffe of your grandfather Hamad standing with John McCone in Bahrain during the days of the British Protectorate, probably related to Standard Oil or Bechtel.)

And doggone it, I was diverted by Wikipedia with the fund solicitation during a quick trip there, ended up spending way more time than intended because John McCone was a fascinating war profiteer, engineer, government servant and businessman.

However, one find was a reminder from his archives of his term as CIA Director and some of the bloody operations he oversaw, including regime changes, and when he was no longer in government service, how he either attempted to use or did successfully pay CIA personnel for the benefit of ITT to aid in the overthrow of Allende.

Shugerman suggests that Trump’s so-called Acting Attorney General, Whitaker, may be taking care not to end up incarcerated for participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. There's certainly an international conspiracy to obstruct justice going on.

I wonder if the members of Trump’s administration who publicly declare that there’s no smoking gun (and the Netanyahoo administration and you and the weasel Mohammed bin Zayed) if any leaders will face justice for openly participating in an international conspiracy to obstruct justice for the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi and disposal of his body in an undoubtedly un-Islamic manner.  Perhaps there will be international justice for the Saudi crown prince’s conspiracy to murder Khashoggi.

The torture queen waterboard-tape-evidence-destroying CIA Director did not participate in the Mattis and Pompeo dog-and-pony show circling round what Lindsey Graham calls the “smoking bonesaw.”  She held a separate briefing with a limited number of our Congressional committee members, in classified session. It seems likely that she confirmed the leaks from the intelligence community that they’ve got a high level of confidence in their assessment that Bonesaw is ultimately responsible. 

It could not be concluded otherwise from the totality of information publicly released by President Erdogan and leaked by others with intercepted communications.

So what is the role of the CIA in this? Looking through the window of tonight’s research, what is the corporate interest pushing to oust disgraced killer Bonesaw? While I welcome his removal from power, trial and justice for murder and war crimes, I cannot but wonder who the McCone is in this set of circumstances. I just hope it's not Brennan.

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