Hal Turner
As most long-time readers/Listeners know, for fifteen years, I worked with the FBI; my final five years 2003-2008, with the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).
In December, 2009, my work with FBI came out in Brooklyn federal court when then Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Amy Pickett, of FBI New York City, testified under oath that I was “National Security Intelligence.” She went on to tell the jury that people like me handled National Security, Terrorism, and Foreign Counter-Intelligence.
It also came out subsequently that I was one of the few Intel Assets who was granted “Extra-Territorial Operating Authority” by the Office of Intelligence at FBI Headquarters in Washington.
You see, the FBI is Chartered for DOMESTIC operations. It is the CIA which is Chartered for foreign operations. But in the Intelligence field, it is not uncommon that Intel work Domestically, leads to foreign activities/money/Perpetrators.
Whenever an FBI Asset had to travel outside the country to do operational activities, that had to be coordinated with the CIA. I did NOT work for the CIA, but my FBI activities had to be coordinated with them.
Remember the old “Mission Impossible” TV series or the more recent movies?
Whenever they got a mission, they were told “. . . if you or any of your IM force are caught, or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.”
Well, I had the real life version of that. I testified about it under oath in Brooklyn federal court in my second federal trial, in March, 2010. (They ultimately put me on trial THREE times because the first two juries were “hung” and could not reach a unanimous verdict.) During my testimony, the government OBJECTED because I was reading it on the Witness Stand from an actual document THEY provided in Discovery. So I closed the Evidence Binder and I recited it into the court record from memory:
“Asset must understand that if he should be captured, arrested, or jailed (Overseas), circumstances may be such that neither the FBI nor the Department of Justice may be able to help.”
It’s important I point out that it was read into evidence and testified to in open court, because the government asked the court for a Protective Order forbidding me from using any of the Discovery Documents for any purpose other than the trial and that order remains in effect to this day. Since the testimony is in the open public court record, I can reference it here.
I was given the “Legat” (Legal Attache’) info in our Embassy as a contact in the country I was going to if I needed help, but if things got to that point, I was likely “Done.” I was alone; on my own. In a foreign country. Doing Intel work, with no backup and no help. All done knowing there would be no cavalry coming over the hill to help me if things went bad. That was tough, dangerous, work!
When I traveled outside the US, my work often had to involve a foreign country’s intel people. Most of them were in Law Enforcement. Some were in Military Intelligence. A very few were in THAT COUNTRY’s version of our CIA.
I forged relationships with those foreign intel people and I maintain some of those relationships to this very day. Although many of the folks I dealt with have since retired, and some have passed away from natural causes, I still have relations with a number of such folks, or their successors, to this very day.
This means that I often (not always) get access to information that the “main stream” media, rarely ever gets close to. Some of it, I can share with you. Most of it, I cannot. To do so would compromise sources and methods. It could endanger people’s lives, and it would betray my country. I won’t do that.
Yesterday, I took part in a secure (encrypted) video conference with several of the Intel folks I have relationships with from foreign countries. It’s a big deal for me to do such a thing because I cannot use any of the computers here in my home; they’re all compromised.
I am monitored by (believe it or not) New Zealand, Australia, and Intel in the UK, who have “binded” to my Internet connections, and see, hear, record, copy, everything I do. The British are particularly sloppy and I was able to discover their activities early-on. Australia and New Zealand are also sloppy, so I caught them, too.
There is no U.S. Warrant to do this; they’ve done it under THEIR National Security Laws in THEIR countries. Then they share it with US Intel Agencies and law enforcement. Them sharing with the US also doesn’t require a US Warrant.
This is how the U.S. Intel community and Law Enforcement get around US Constitutional safeguards; they get a foreign country to do it, and then get the info via “intel sharing.”
I am under such intense surveillance, that two DAYS before I was released from federal prison, after the Obama Regime prosecuted me in 2009 and 2010 for an Editorial they didn’t like (they called it a “threat”), they installed a Pan/Tilt/Zoom camera on the telephone pole outside my condo building! At the time, my son took pictures of the installer doing the work. Here is a photo of the camera itself (today) outside my house: