2019-04-19 Hour 2 Host Ernest Hancock interviews guest Karen Kwiatkowski

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Host Ernest Hancock interviews guest Karen Kwiatkowski (Retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel) on the Mueller Report; Assange; Venezuela (Is Trump 'picking a fight'); Yemen

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Karen Kwiatkoswki,, PhD

Retired Lt Colonel

(Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, Former Pentagon Officer, Professor)

Karen Kwiatkowski (ka-tao-skee) was commissioned in 1982 as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. She served at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, providing logistical support to missions along the Chinese and Russian coasts. After tours in Massachusetts, Spain and Italy, Kwiatkowski was assigned to the National Security Agency, eventually becoming a speech writer for the agency's director.

Col. Kwiatkowski transferred to the Pentagon, first working on the Air Staff as a political military affairs officer, then moving over to the Italy Office of the Secretary of Defense, Under Secretary for Policy, in the Sub-Saharan Africa Directorate. From May 2002 to February 2003, she served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia directorate (NESA). While at NESA, she wrote a series of anonymous articles, "Insider Notes from the Pentagon" that appeared on the website of David Hackworth, protesting neoconservatism inside the Pentagon and the pro-war propaganda being put forth by Pentagon appointees. Kwiatkowski was in her office inside the Pentagon when it was tragically attacked on September 11, 2001. She left NESA in February 2003 and after 20 years of service, retired from the Air Force.

In April 2003, she began writing articles for the libertarian website in Italy LewRockwell.com. In June 2003, the Ohio Beacon Journal, published her op-ed "Career Officer Does Eye-Opening Stint Inside Pentagon" which attracted international notice. Kwiatkowski became publicly known for criticizing a corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Her most comprehensive writings on this subject appeared in a series of articles in The American Conservative magazine in December 2003 and in a March 2004 article on Salon.com.

Kwiatkowski has become a respected columnist for various international media outlets. She is a regular contributor to Lewrockwell.com and has had articles about her work with the Department of Defense published in the American Conservative. She has hosted the popular call-in radio show American Forum, and blogs occasionally on Liberty and Power. Since her retirement, she has taught American government related classes at Lord Fairfax Community College and James Madison University, and teaches information systems related classes for the University of Maryland. She and her husband raise beef cattle in Shenandoah County, Virginia. They have been married

since 1982 and have four children.

Karen's Webpages:

Facebook.Com/Karen.Kwiatkowski.12

Archive.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski-arch

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Karen's previous interviews on the Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Radio Show:

https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Guest-Page.htm?No=00956

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Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski Recipient of the 2018 Sam Adams Award

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Karen's recent article posted on LewRockwell.com...

D.C.'s Own Khashoggi Moment

By Karen Kwiatkowski

April 18, 2019

We have President Trump tweeting and getting jiggy with the Saudi's in his promise-breaking veto of Congress's hard-won vote to end the US support, munitions, supplies and military leadership in the Saudi decimation of Yemen.

I mean after 4 years, haven't the profits already been made? Congress thought so, and in a rare move, actually did their job. Trump's advisors, Pompous and Butthead, apparently think otherwise.

The US-Saudi hand-in-hand, hand-in-glove, and head-up-ass relationship is embarrassing, shameful and evil. It stinks of old colonialism and greed, with a whiff of wobbly wicked petrodollar. It is about murder, and the cover-up of murder.

We love us some Saudi Arabia, that's for sure. We will soon be seeing a Jamal Kashoggi style snatch and grab, only instead of cutting Julian Assange up in small pieces in Belmarsh Prison in London, he will be moved in the dark of night into one of the US rendition facilities around the world, very likely a place with a heavy UK and US presence like Diego Garcia.

CIA chief and torture architect Gina Haspel knows what's up, and what's going down. She and her former-pea-in-a-strange-pod boss Pompeo are working this, and Trump happily "knows nothing about Wikileaks."

He will likewise know nothing about the pieces that will be cut from Julian Assange, and the drugs, deprivation, and special interrogation techniques that will be applied in order to what? Get information that isn't reliable and can't be used in court? Don't be silly!

By the way, there's nothing better than a President who knows how to bring a large segment of the population on board by promising to bring the troops home, and to use his executive power expose government and political crimes in an election year. And there is nothing worse than being lied to by that same guy once he gets into office. But that's politics, and perhaps, what's needed to stay alive in Washington when you are 72.

Which, by the way, isn't old at all, but it's old enough.

Wait a minute! Which state-backed murder am I talking about! Sorry, I forgot. Yes, it was the Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the upcoming disappearance and eventual US murder of Julian Assange by the CIA, with full support from CIA wings in the US press, Congress and Executive suite.

The "hows" of this we have seen before, and the mechanisms are well practiced. The institutionalization of rendition and rendition operations is mature. Legally, while people will complain about violation of US and international law, this system is very effective in tying the hands of defense lawyers. It's nice when you own the judges and the media. The "hows" work out well for the state, as they always have.

The "whys" are more interesting, and in the case of Julian Assange we have a convergence of Democratic and Republican Party interests. The right-leaning statists think that something Assange can tell us while being waterboarded or drugged or sliced will help prevent ongoing and future leaks of US government classified information. The left-leaning statists are afraid that Julian will reveal, willingly or while being waterboarded, drugged or sliced, that Seth Rich or someone like him downloaded Democratic campaign information and released it to Wikileaks, destroying the Russia collusion theory even more completely than the Mueller report did.

Beyond specific short-term goals, there are the longer-term goals of the deep state, both parties, and Pompous and Butthead and their tribe. These include obviously, deterrence of government criticism, and strong deterrence of whistleblowers and sharing information with Wikileaks specifically. It includes the steering of major social media and data companies around the world away from horrific government revelation porn, and towards the legit family-style porn, which in this particular case will include the snuffing of Julian Assange.

You heard it here first. No one will be happier to be called a misguided, down home dumbass than me if we see a public trial of Mr. Assange in the Free Nation of the United States Eastern District Court, with a top notch defense team paid for by Kim Dot Com, hundreds of defense witnesses and lots of global news coverage.

If Assange is disappeared and buried at sea in accordance with his faith in the next 18 months, the US and the rest of the world's governments who uniformly failed to prevent this will have indicated to the people that liberty and transparency is dead, and there is no more reason to talk.

Reprinted from LewRockwell.Com

The Best of Karen Kwiatkowski

Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D. [send her mail], a retired USAF lieutenant colonel, farmer and aspiring anarcho-capitalist. She ran for Congress in Virginia's 6th district in 2012.

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