The Observer of the UK interviewed the editor on the National Security Agency's Second, Third, and Fourth Party agreements with other intelligence services that pointed out that German and French protestations about the NSA and British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) jointly tapping the transatlantic cable in Cornwall not withstanding, the NSA also cooperates with Berlin and Paris in collecting private information on European citizens.
On June 29, after The Guardian ran the story prior to The Observer running it on its web site and featuring it as a splash in its June 30 print edition, the story was pulled by The Guardian and The Observer. The second print edition of The Observer also deleted the story but not before the first print run reached London area news agents, as well as those in other British and European cities.
The decision appears to have been made after a well-coordinated campaign was launched by a number of web activists, including a Professor John Schindler who identifies himself as a professor with the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Schindler has been particularly critical of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald who broke most of Snowden's revelations on NSA surveillance.
Schindler immediately began sending out Twitter messages, soliciting further responses and messages from dubious right-wing sites like LittleGreenFootballs and BusinessInsider.com. The tactic is a familiar one. It was used in the campaign to bring down CBS News anchor Dan Rather on a story about President George W. Bush's AWOL status during his service with the Texas Air National Guard.
The Guardian is the sister paper of The Observer. The Guardian ran the Observer's story on Third Parties late afternoon on June 29. In a few hours, as the right-wing web campaign went into full throttle, the story was pulled from The Guardian.
After a few hours, The Guardian page showed the following:
This is how BusinessInsider covered the article's take down with Schindler's quote:
Some of Madsen's controversial views include the belief that President Obama is secretly a homosexual and that the Boston bombing suspects were government agents. He's also reported on a "former CIA agent" alleging the 2000 USS Cole bombing was perpetrated not by al Qaeda terrorists, but by a missile fired from an Israeli submarine.
John Schindler, a professor at the Naval War College and intelligence expert, called Madsen "batsh-- crazy, to use the technical term."
This editor has been in touch with the Naval War College and a public statement by the college that Schindler's views are personal and do not reflect the opinion of the Naval War College has been demanded. I hold a graduate studies completion certificate in International Relations from the Naval War College and it is my contention that Schindler has no right to use his academic affiliation in a defamatory screed, especially toward an alum of the War College. And as a taxpayer, it is beyond reprehensible to have a seeming spokesman for a government institution launch personal insults against a journalist. Schindler's personal attacks on Greenwald have been just as defamatory.
After Schindler spent most of the late afternoon, evening, and early morning hours attacking me and Greenwald on various social networking sites, I sent the following email to Schindler, copy to his National Security department chairman and a former U,S, ambassador serving as a professor in the same department:
From: WAYNE MADSEN <[email protected]>
To: john.schindler <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Jun 30, 2013 1:10 am
Subject: Your Naval War College-attributed comments to Business Insider
Author, journalist, columnist
Regarding your tirade against me on several websites.
I was shocked and appalled that you would use your US Naval War College affiliation in the following quote to BusinessInsider.com:
Wayne Madsen
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The declassified formerly Top Secret-S-CCO document is titled "Third Party Nations: Partners and Targets." In the case of Germany, France, and others, they are both partners and targets and leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel is well aware that the German intelligence agencies assist NSA in spying on Germans and others in the same manner as the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, the so-called "Five Eyes [FVEY]" English-speaking club of signals intelligence partners.
The second declassified document, a formerly Top Secret National Reconnaissance Office declassification guideline, refers to Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Exchange descriptors. I explained to The Observer that code words found on Page 9 of the document like DIKTER and SETTEE, stood for Third Party SIGINT exchanges with Norway and the Republic of Korea, respectively. I also impressed on The Observer that these agreements, like the Second Party arrangements, are truly one-way streets, whereby NSA grabs all of the SIGINT from partner countries with the partners, especially the Third and Fourth Parties -- the latter include China, Sweden, Finland, Austria, and Switzerland -- receiving relatively little in return.
In its later article, The Guardian put it in the following way, this time without naming the source:
"Meanwhile, it has emerged that at least six European member states have shared personal communications data with the NSA, according to declassified US intelligence reports and EU parliamentary documents.
The documents, seen by the Observer, show that – in addition to the UK – Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy have all had formal agreements to provide communications data to the US. They state that the EU countries have had "second and third party status" under decades-old signal intelligence (Sigint) agreements that compel them to hand over data which, in later years, experts believe, has come to include mobile phone and internet data.
Under the international intelligence agreements, nations are categorised by the US according to their trust level. The US is defined as 'first party' while the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand enjoy 'second party' trusted relationships. Countries such as Germany and France have 'third party', or less trusted, relationships."
None of the campaign at character assassination comes as a surprise. Ever since Snowden's revelations to Greenwald, both have come under incessant attack from the "sock puppet" army crafted by President Obama's former "information policy czar" cass Sunstein, whose wife, Samantha Power, is due to replace Susan Rice as UN ambassador.
Sunstein's machinations are nothing new. They merely build upon the methods of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels to adapt to new media technology.
One thing that is certain after four and a half years of the Obama administration. The president's team of propagandists, is, indeed, the gang that can't shoot straight.
The pressure exerted on The Observer and The Guardian to pull its stories quoting me backfired badly. The Observer's first print edition hit the news stands and for some, it became an instant collector's item.
Before and after (The Observer before spiking and after)
But lo and behold, there is yet a third edition of The Observer, with Mick Jagger and the NSA spying story both on the front page!
Die Welt of Germany also took down their own story but after a few days restored it in its original:
The .pdf of the story in Die Welt.
Snide articles by columnists in Forbes and The Daily Telegraph only brought unwanted attention to WMR's past stories, including Obama and his Chicago bath house forays (during a time after Obama lectured anti-gay African leaders on gay rights), the Tsarnaev family having CIA links, and Obama's history with the CIA (There's an old saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity, just publicity -- so I even have to thank the "Daily Torygraph" for helping to increase sales of The Manufacturing of a President; I owe you a pint on Fleet Street chaps). By the way, some of the comments below The Telegraph story are interesting to say the least, for example:
From outofEUnow:
From Tom_mcewen:
I am interested in the word ''Fruitloop''. As far as I know every person who ever changed the world can claim the title ''Fruitloop'' from someone. Some won, and some were pulled to pieces by the mob.
"Fruitloop'' comes in two favors as I see it, one is a ''Politically Correct Fruitloop and an Unpolitically Correct Fruitloop.
This guy is part of the branch called Unpolitically Correct. Is he right? Who will ever know, he is damned automatically.
Who needs free speech or a free press when you have a word like ''Fruitloop''. Who can argue with that.From selfevidenttruth:
Nice hit piece on truth speaking alternative media. Wayne Madsen has told the truth and will be attacked by the Zionist controlled media, the same controllers who run the US and UK governments.
From richard_de_lacy:
A slight correction, Damian: the Guardian pulled the story because it was embarrassing, not because it was untrue. The Guardian is happy to print stories which are merely demonstrably untrue but politically-correct.
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And Salon, McClatchy, and several European media outlets reported the original Guardian/Observer story without pulling it down or adding snarky comments. This is true journalism -- editors and reporters who refuse to be intimidated.
De Telegraaf (Netherlands)
Today (Italy)
Repubblica (Italy) TV
La Repubblica (Print and web)
El Sol (Spain)
Na Temat (Poland)
Ilta-Sanomat (Finland)
Kaleva (Finland)
ANSA (Italian news agency)
Gercek Gundem (Turkey)
Nova (Czech Republic)
Adevarul (Romania)
Gazeteport (Turkey)
Haberler (Turkey)
Tagesanzeiger (Switzerland)
Der Westen (Germany)
Obozrevatel (Russia)
Deutsche Wirtschafts Nacrichten (Germany)
L'Humanite (France)
Radio Vaticana (Vatican City)
Network World (USA)
The Sacramento Bee (USA)
InSerbia News (Serbia)
Press TV (Iran)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
MINA (Macedonia)
DPA news agency (Germany)
Ulusal Kanal (Turkey)
Nanopress (Italy)
Cameroon Voice (Cameroon)
Basler Zeitung (Switzerland)
Kolnische Rundschau (Germany)
And these outlets reported on The Guardian/Observer story but also on Obama being gay and/or the CIA links to the Boston Marathon bombing:
Neues Deutschland (Germany)
OmediaMania (Czech Republic)
L'Unita (Italy)
der Standard (Austria)
Corriere della sera (Italy)
Voice of Russia (with interview with Wayne Madsen)
Hindu Business Line (India)
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The Examiner reported that the entire episode was a case of censorship.
Had the neocon sock puppets not launched their campaign of defamation, the story about EU nations helping NSA spy would have added to the NSA news peg and in a few days died out. However, by attacking this editor, people all over the world are talking about Obama's homosexuality, CIA links, the Tsarnaev false flag, and the list goes on. Neocons are radical fascists and they seldom think before they leap. That is why there is still some hope that these creatures will one day shout themselves into oblivion.
And as can be seen above, the legitimate media outlets, not obscure blogs funded by Soros and the neocons, outnumbered those that believed the NSA story was more important than attacking Wayne Madsen. In two words, the neocon attack machine's results: EPIC FAIL.
I am more inclined to believe the so-called fruit loops and conspiracy theorists over the political filth & the liberal left,
Let's face it many so-called conspiracy theorists have been proved right in the end.
Wasn't all anti-EUers painted as conspiracy theorists.
Personally I have no doubt whatsoever that the EU plans to handover all our private data to the USA and any other country that requests it, they've probably already done so.
Whether Obama is homosexual, I don't have a clue, don't care to be honest, but where he is such a staunch supporter of homosexuals and them marrying, I don't see a problem if he is and he's been outed.
The liberal left don't mind outing anyone else, even when they don't want to be outed, but to say anything about the Icon, Obama, is tantamount to treason.
I can't see why Damian Thompson, and the liberal left are up in arms over the claims, and are at such pains to claim Wayne Madsen, is a conspiracy theorist or fruit loop.
As usual the legacy media are covering Obamas arse, no pun intended.
I suspect Obama, will be feted as the next Nelson Mandela, an icon of the world. Mind you the liberal left and legacy media already hail him as the messiah.
Why, I haven't a clue, IMO, the man is a menace.