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UPDATE: More Details Surface Surrounding Arrest of Senior Canadian Intelligence Official…
CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 9/17/2019 | SUNDANCE

Posted on 09/17/2019 8:35:17 PM PDT by bitt

Mercedes Stephenson from Global News has done some excellent follow-up coverage on the arrest of RCMP Intelligence Director Cameron Ortis. Mr. Ortis is facing seven serious charges of intelligence violations including obtaining information to pass to a “foreign entity.” The intelligence compromise is the biggest scandal in “a generation”.

New evidence shows the arrest was a result of a 2018 international intelligence operation that targeted the encrypted communications service known as “Phantom Secure”.

A man named Victor Ramos was the CEO of Phantom Secure, an enterprise that provided encrypted communication devices to criminal agents involved in drug smuggling, money laundering and human trafficking.

Ramos was arrested by United States FBI officials in Washington State. Ramos gave the FBI information about intelligence for sale that was coming from a source deep inside the Five-Eyes intelligence apparatus. That information led to RCMP Director Cameron Ortis.

The scale of the compromise is still being analyzed. Ortis was director general of the National Intelligence Coordination Centre in Canada. In essence, Ortis was the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper/Dan Coats); and had access to the most sensitive intelligence information amid the entire Five-Eyes network that includes: Canada, The United States, The U.K. Australia and New Zealand.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; 5eyes; cameronortis; canada; espionage; fiveeyes; nicc; phantomsecure; spying; victorramos
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1 posted on 09/17/2019 8:35:17 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 09/17/2019 8:35:29 PM PDT by bitt (Trump stole pancakes from his distant cousin. Huh.)
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3 posted on 09/17/2019 8:49:26 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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To: bitt
Mr. Ortis is facing seven serious charges of intelligence violations including obtaining information to pass to a “foreign entity.”

Umm... Quebec?

Regards,

4 posted on 09/17/2019 8:59:59 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: piasa

Ping.


5 posted on 09/17/2019 11:37:07 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: bitt

Just remember the Five Eyes set up Carter Paige and Flynn and Trump


6 posted on 09/18/2019 12:40:42 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudsi)
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To: Nifster

Five Eyes is part of the intelligence sharing arrangement that Snowden and other whistleblowers warned us about—American spies on Australians—Australians spy on Americans—they swap data—voila—no laws violated—de facto domestic surveillance.

So somebody stole from Five Eyes—this is like stealing payroll from the Mafia!


7 posted on 09/18/2019 3:22:58 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: bitt

This should raise some eyebrows.


8 posted on 09/18/2019 3:39:16 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: bitt

I’m sure Clapper was doing the same here, the only difference, you get arrested in Canada. I’ll go out on a limb, he’s a prog. Progs in this country do the same when in power, give away our secrets.


9 posted on 09/18/2019 3:47:21 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Nifster

And let us not forget that the FVEY program/caveat is an outgrowth of what used to be referred to as Project ECHELON, which began in the 1960s. (Wikipedia - believe it or not - and fas.org are pretty good open sources for details.)


10 posted on 09/18/2019 5:22:51 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: cgbg

You’re so cynical! (And correct...)


11 posted on 09/18/2019 5:23:46 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: bitt

Was Ortiz’s motivation to commit treason money or blackmail??


12 posted on 09/18/2019 5:36:26 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: alexander_busek

This Canadian was busted because of work undertaken here in the USA and traced back to Canada. No wonder the Canadian press (which is about as awful as that found in the USA) is nearly silent on the issue.


13 posted on 09/18/2019 5:50:54 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: cgbg

Not quite. If the Obama admin and the Coup Cabal used Five Eyes to set up Flynn, Paige, and Trump (Read Spygate) they used other countries to do their spying on US citizens

There is enough of a nexus


14 posted on 09/18/2019 5:55:00 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudsi)
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To: bitt

This should make some US progressive mayors and police chiefs angry. After all their work to disarm Americans and make drug cartels comfortable here, this Canadian guy is siphoning off cartel money that should have gone to them!


15 posted on 09/18/2019 7:13:01 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: bitt; ASA Vet

If anyone wants to learn about the history of intel sharing between the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, they can go to keywords and enter fiveeyes or 5eyes.

Truman set this cozy arrangement up at the end of WWII. That way a country didn’t spy on its own people, one of the other countries spied on their people in other countries and then reported back to the original country’s top spooks.

Obama, Clapper, Brennan, Comey, and others spied on citizen Trump, candidate Trump, elected president Trump and eventually President Trump using this con game.


16 posted on 09/18/2019 7:41:23 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separates satire and Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Grampa Dave
I'd never heard the term “five eyes” applied to our Sigint (USSS,) second party partners until this thread. In my 28 years in Sigint I never saw “For 5 Eyes Only” on the top of a message. That's not the term we used.
17 posted on 09/18/2019 12:07:29 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Looking though USSID FA6001 22 Aug 2012 version.

I see on the top & bottom

SECRET//SI//REL TO USA, FVEY

Apparently it's a new term since I was in the game.

18 posted on 09/18/2019 12:17:10 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Found that the "group (5-EYES) partnership" name was adopted in 1993.

I degaussed Jan 20, 1993 when Slick was sworn in.

19 posted on 09/18/2019 12:34:57 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: ASA Vet

Not many knew about this, even the Australian Prime Minister at one time didn’t know about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UKUSA1.jpg


20 posted on 09/18/2019 1:01:29 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separates satire and Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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