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Title: BREAKING: Insider Exposes Rogue CIA-State Dept. Blocking Release of American Pastor-Turkish Prison
Published: 2018-02-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8zyjV9w9b0
Title: BREAKING: Insider Exposes Rogue CIA-State Dept. Blocking Release of American Pastor-Turkish Prison
Published: 2018-02-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8zyjV9w9b0
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[Music] a small group of high-level bureaucrats within the State Department and the CIA have been sabotaging the Trump pense White House directive on efforts for the release of Pastor Andrew Brunson an American who has been jailed in Turkey due to his alleged connection to the Gulen networks failed to attempt in Turkey in 2016 a senior-level News bud source within the State Department provided the following information2/14
on the condition of anonymity there's a small group of high-level bureaucrats within the department who's been sabotaging the White House Turkish government's negotiation process towards the release of Brunson in an internal memorandum within the department the group claimed that for our long-term objectives the continued imprisonment of Brunson would provide more effective ammunition to be used against Iran on human rights grounds while his release would provide3/14
little to no gain during this critical stage in Syria you are basically looking at a group that is operating and acting in direct defiance of the president's directive Andrew Brunson is an evangelical pastor of the Izmir resurrection church a small Protestant church in Turkey who was arrested in the purges occurring in the aftermath of the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt Brunson who was applying for permanent4/14
Turkish residency having lived there for 23 years was imprisoned in October of 2016 accused of being a member of the Gulen movement which the Turkish government considers a terrorist organization the charges were later amended to include spying and attempting to overthrow the government to this date news but has not been able to obtain any formal documents pertaining to evidence in Bronson's arrest and imprisonment Brunson's case5/14
has been called a priority for the Trump White House with Vice President Mike Pence communicating directly with Brunson's family the Brunson case has been raised during multiple meetings between President Trump and President Erdogan with Trump requesting that the Turkish government expeditiously returned Brunson to the United States at a separate event turkish President Erdogan virtually offered to send pastor Brunson home if the American authorities would turn6/14
over cleric Fethullah Gulen who is accused of fomenting the failed coup attempt in July of 2016 we have the white house both Trump and pence eager and willing to work this case out with the Turkish government the Turkish government appears to share the same objective of course the majority of Americans want to see the pastor released and returned home safely and do not consider a non-us7/14
citizen radical cleric Gulen a treasure worth the continuation of Brunson's imprisonment and losing an important US ally then who are the entities in Washington DC creating the impediment according to our source the defiant group within the State Department is opposed to seeing through the pastor's release a view directly supported by the CIA in fact for its perceived strategic advantage the CIA would rather see the elimination8/14
of the imprisoned pastor while in Turkish jail whether organic or not it is about creating a world political theater pinning the murder on the Turkish government to portray Iran as a torturer and murderer of a Christian minister look they have played this script more than a few times in the past it has always worked in response to the story when asked by news bud John Kiriakou9/14
a former CIA analyst a case officer and senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee made the following observation going against the president's directive on efforts in pastor Brunson's case would constitute a clear case of insubordination according to Michael spring Minh who served as a diplomat in the State Department's Foreign Service with postings in Germany India and Saudi Arabia quote this very well may be an10/14
ideological rebellion by certain State Department career bureaucrats against Trump and his administration end quote when asked about the CIA's alleged stand on this kyriaki commented the CIA should never weigh in on cases like this this is and should be outside the CIA's scope of operations the US government has handled many and by that I mean many cases of negotiating and seeing through US citizens released from11/14
foreign nations prisons it is never in the interest of Americans or the US government to have this kind of approach leaving an American incarcerated not only that if true this would constitute an egregious violation of pastor Branson's human rights by the State Department if I were his attorneys I'd take the case to the US Congress and demand an expedited investigation mr. spring Minh based on his12/14
career long experiences with the CIA while serving as a diplomat stated look State Department and the CIA are evil twins Siamese twins joined at the hip am i appalled yes but I can't say I'm shocked or surprised that the State Department with the CIA setting the tone would readily sacrifice an American in this case pastor Bronson jailed in Turkey and disregard Americans best interests for its13/14
own ulterior and dark motives while the mainstream media coins this case a pawn in the spat between America and Turkey when delved deeper the case seems to be neither about Trump Pence White House nor Iran's administration nor the interests of Americans or Turks it appears the main impediment to facilitating the pastor's release is a small special interest motivated rogue group within the State Department and the