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(27.1.2016) U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, a Republican from Wichita, says that eventually he wants the National Security Agency to be able to restart its bulk collection of metadata and combine those records with even more information: financial and “lifestyle” details that would be accessible in a huge, searchable database.

(5.11.2013) “The NSA is not intentionally listening to your phone calls,” Pompeo said. “Feel free to talk to your friend. Tell him or her anything you’d like. Your government is not recording those phone calls.”

Likewise, “the government doesn’t care what’s in your e-mails,” he said.

According to his congressional website, Mr. Pompeo, 52, graduated first in his class at West Point and “served as a cavalry officer patrolling the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall.” After leaving the military, Mr. Pompeo graduated from Harvard Law School and returned to Kansas, where he went into business and became president of Sentry International, which his website describes as an “equipment manufacturing, distribution and service company.”

(18.5.2015) Administration knew three months before the November 2012 presidential election of ISIS plans to establish a caliphate in Iraq – Administration knew of arms being shipped from Benghazi to Syria

(6.8.2015) In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria when it came across his desk in 2012, but even asserts that the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIL and Nusra) against the Syrian regime was “a willful decision.”

On his way to the polls on election day, Michael Flynn pulled out his phone and took a video of himself saying his vote for Donald Trump was part of a larger fight against “the dishonesty and deceit of our government.”

For Flynn, a retired U.S. Army three-star general and one of Trump’s closest advisers, it was another parting shot at an administration he thinks unfairly fired him from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 2014 for telling hard truths about the war on Islamist extremism.

Der amtierende US-Präsident Barack Obama und die EU-Staatsoberhäupter haben bei ihrem Treffen in Berlin übereingestimmt, dass die Russland-Sanktionen aufgrund der Situation in der Ukraine ein weiteres Jahr in Kraft bleiben sollen, berichtet Reuters. „Es ist wichtig, dass wir die Sanktionen verlängern, bis das Minsker Abkommen tatsächlich umgesetzt werden kann“, betonte Obama.

Das türkische Staatsoberhaupt Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hat dem Westen vorgeworfen, die Terrormiliz Islamischer Staat zu unterstützen. Das erklärte er in seiner Rede vor dem pakistanischen Parlament in Islamabad am Donnerstag. „Der Westen steht zur Zeit an der Seite des IS. Wir haben festgestellt, dass die Waffen in ihren Händen westlichen Ursprungs sind“ , so Erdoğan. „Der Westen steht an ihrer Seite, um dem Islam zu schaden“, sagte der türkische Präsident.

„Der Westen ist zur Zeit an der Seite von Daesh (IS)“, sagte er am Donnerstag vor dem pakistanischen Parlament in Islamabad. „Wir haben festgestellt, dass die Waffen in ihren Händen westlichen Ursprungs sind.“ Das richte sich gegen die islamische Welt.

Erdogan war am Mittwoch zu einem zweitägigen Staatsbesuch nach Pakistan gereist.

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„Wir können nicht tatenlos zusehen und schweigen, wenn die Türkei Journalisten, Anwälte und Parlamentarier einfach wegsperrt“, sagte der Fraktionschef der Sozialdemokraten im Europaparlament Gianni Pittella im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE.

It was that heavily Gülenist-dominated HSYK structure which appointed prosecutors and judges to controversial court cases like Ergenekon, “Balyoz” (Sledgehammer), Military Espionage, OdaTV and others, and it was that heavily Gülenist-dominated Court of Appeals that approved the life sentences for generals, professors and journalists. Some of them were later were proved to be fabricated by pro-Gülen police officers; now most of the charges have been dropped and the defendants are free.

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Accusing the HDP of ignoring the demands of nearly 6 million people who voted for it in the 2015 elections, Çelik argued that the fact locals remained unresponsive to the arrest of HDP lawmakers and mayors showed their disapproval with the policies the pro-Kurdish party was pursuing.

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A $21.1 billion sale of 72 F-15 tactical fighter jets to Qatar has been approved by the US State Department, according to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

Intense clashes are now underway in Sheikh Sa‘eed, as the Syrian Armed Forces and their allies look to capture this imperative district located in Aleppo‘s southwestern corridor.

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