George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton go back a long way. George
H.W.Bush headed the CIA and Bill Clinton was Gov.of Arkansas when the
drug smuggling operation with the Nicaraguan Contras occurred. Mena
Airport in Arkansas was a valued node on that drug trafficking network.
- Foreign aid money laundering is part of the deal – it’s like a grub stake courtesy of the US tax payer.
- Congress appropriates money
- Money goes out as foreign aid
- Foreign aid dispersed to companies that employ family and friends (Hunter Biden)
- Family of Congress critters invested in companies that received the foreign aid.
- Biden and company pulled the scam in Ukraine, Clinton’s did it in Haiti, Panama Papers etc….
shadowproof | According to documents filed by former NSA Director Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA was speculating in commodities linked to China and Russia
while receiving asymmetric information on the countries as part of his
job. The use of asymmetric or non-public information for financial gain
is a crime known as insider trading.
The shares Alexander bought and sold while head of the NSA include those connected to the secretive and politically sensitive potash
market. The potash market is largely controlled by Russia and Belarus
and one of the largest consumers of potash is China. With Russia and
China – two countries the NSA targets for intelligence – as major
players it is not hard to see how information coming across Director
Alexander’s desk could be useful in getting an information edge on other
speculators. Did he use his edge to profit?
Alexander also bought and sold shares in other commodities where
asymmetric information on Russia and China could have been beneficial.
On the same day he sold the potash company shares, Alexander also sold shares in the Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd., a state-owned company headquartered in Beijing and currently the world’s second-largest producer of aluminum. U.S. government investigators have indicated that the company, known as Chinalco, has received insider information about its American competitors from computer hackers working for the Chinese military. That hacker group has been under NSA surveillance for years, and the Justice Department in May indicted five of its members…
U.S. officials have long insisted that the information that intelligence agencies steal from foreign corporations and governments is only used to make political and strategic decisions and isn’t shared with U.S. companies. But whether that spying could benefit individual U.S. officials who are privy to the secrets being collected, and what mechanisms are in place to ensure officials don’t personally benefit from insider knowledge, haven’t been widely discussed.
And who knows if these were the only times Alexander was in a
position to have non-public information while trading? The NSA comes
across quite a bit of information that could be advantageous if someone
was looking to make some financial trades. Did Alexander ever use that
non-public information to trade in the financial markets?
Also troubling is former NSA Director Alexander’s attempts to
seemingly privatize knowledge and relationships gleaned from his
government service. Alexander has filed technology patents related to network intrusion and was recently forced to back off having an employee at his new company, IronNet Cybersecurity Inc, that still currently works for the NSA.
Alexander appears to be having some nice private benefits from his public service.
