{"id":128380,"date":"2022-08-13T07:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=128380"},"modified":"2022-08-13T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:39:28","slug":"cheneygate-theres-a-very-good-reason-why-the-kremlin-wants-incarcerated-arms-trafficker-viktor-bout-freed-but-the-u-s-will-never-finalize-the-prisoner-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=128380","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">CHENEYgate: There&#8217;s a very good reason why the Kremlin wants incarcerated arms trafficker Viktor Bout freed but the U.S. will never finalize the prisoner swap.<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>VT Nuclear Education: CIA Torture Report Ties Cheney and Victor Bout to 9\/11 Nukes<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Gordon Duff<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128383\" style=\"width: 1054px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128383\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128383\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ScreenHunter-1729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1044\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ScreenHunter-1729.jpg 1044w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ScreenHunter-1729-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ScreenHunter-1729-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ScreenHunter-1729-768x575.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1044px) 100vw, 1044px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-128383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VT editor Dmitri Khalezov rear, Victor Bout right<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>\u2026 by\u00a0Gordon Duff, \u2026 with\u00a0New Eastern Outlook, Moscow<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2013 \u00a0First published \u00a0\u2026 \u00a0January 4, 2015\u00a0\u00a0\u2013<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Information received this week from the highest levels of US counter-terrorism sources have confirmed that the reputed \u201cQueen of Al Qaeda,\u201d Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a CIA torture victim now serving 87 years in an American \u201csuper-max\u201d prison, was a CIA agent when captured and was imprisoned to prevent releasing information that could eventually lead to the arrest and conviction of then-Vice President Dick Cheney.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cheney and his henchmen were silencing critics, eliminating \u201cloose ends\u201d tied to Able Danger and 9\/11, and completing the process of dismantling the last vestiges of representative government in the US and Western Europe.\u00a0 The story today ties the Valerie Plame scandal, a CIA agent exposed as retaliation at Cheney\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n<div id=\"rev-more-wrapper\">\n<p>Our coup was when we learned that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, termed a veritable \u201cfemale bin Laden\u201d was not only CIA but an asset for Valerie Plame in an investigation originally aimed at Saddam but that had turned around and was pointing directly at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The Plame investigation aided by Siddiqui\u2019s proof no \u201cyellowcake\/Al Qaeda\u201d plot had ever existed went much further than initially intended.\u00a0 Cheney was revealed to be the \u201chandler\u201d for now-imprisoned Victor Bout, revealed by the FBI in a 2007 Bangkok briefing to be greatly responsible for supplying the nuclear weapons nukes used on the WTC and, according to FBI sources, a cruise missile as well that the FBI asserts was used on the Pentagon on 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, when Libby\/Liebowitz was convicted, it was openly accepted that he was protecting Cheney from the fallout of simply \u201crunning his mouth.\u201d\u00a0 In truth, as we will establish, even Cheney\u2019s proven role in pushing America into an illegal war is only the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>The Cheney\/Bout partnership was integral to the wholesale looting of America\u2019s inventory of surplus and decommissioned nuclear weapons and placing dozens of nuclear warheads in the hands of rogue nations and terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lord of War - Nicolas Cage's Speech Intro and Outro\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/38vd_j7e2HY?feature=oembed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bout and his fleet of transport planes carried the arms for \u201cCharlie Wilson\u2019s War\u201d in Afghanistan, hauled first opium and later heroin by the ton for American school children, and was the \u201cgo-to\u201d supplier for all covert weapons for both \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d and terrorist groups as well, at least those working for the CIA, Mossad along with British and French intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Valerie Plame takes the oath before testifyingSiddiqui worked directly for Valerie Plame, a CIA agent purposefully \u201couted\u201d when her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, disproved White House claims of \u201cyellowcake uranium\u201d smuggling by Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>White House Security Chief, Scooter \u201cLibby\u201d Leibowitz was convicted of the Plame leak, although sources now confirm that the \u201couting\u201d of Plame was done at the orders of Cheney and was passed on to the media by retired General Paul Vallely, a Fox News employee who has recently been filmed meeting with leaders of the ISIS\/Al Qaeda terror group in Turkey and reputedly Syria as well.<\/p>\n<p>When Plame was \u201cburned,\u201d her assistant, Dr. Aafia, was then listed as part of the now-debunked yellowcake \u201cnetwork\u201d and fled to Pakistan, where she was kidnapped and taken to Bagram Air Force Base, as outlined in CIA torture records.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to Plame tell us that the film, \u201cFair Game,\u201d a highly fictionalized account of her story starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, but never promoted and barely released, was produced in order to \u201csettle accounts.\u201d\u00a0 The producers of the film are Israeli nationals and sources confirm the film project was undertaken at the request of Israeli intelligence sources as a way of laundering \u201chush money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>UK TELEGRAPH GETS IT VERY WRONG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, the UK Telegraph, using sources from the Daily Mail,\u00a0 published a lengthy article describing \u201cconvicted terrorist\u201d Dr. Aafia Siddiqui\u2019s process of radicalization and, quite frankly, defending her rendition kidnapping, her 5 years of rape and torture, and the murder of her children by CIA paid contractors.<\/p>\n<p>If only this were the whole story, a cover-up of torture as part of a war on terror. It is not. The Telegraph has a long reputation of being a cover story \u201cdropbox\u201d for MI-6, so the story was passed around quickly among those who take a special interest in such things.<\/p>\n<p>This week a source within the Able Danger investigation, working directly with the Department of Defense and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and part of the original team that brought down rogue FBI agent Robert Hansen as well, tells of a different story regarding Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Aafia was a CIA agent targeted by the Bush administration because her operational unit, headed by Valerie Plame, one involved in NNP (nuclear non-proliferation) was ready to order the arrest of Vice President Dick Cheney and top officials of the US Department of Energy, the organization that, with the Department of Defense, maintains America\u2019s nuclear weapons inventories.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger of the Reagan era, was arrested at his home one morning by a similar operational unit for crimes committed in the Iran-Contra Affair and was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice.\u00a0 Public and secret pardons by Bush (41) cover not only Weinberger but up to 138 Reagan officials.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2000 US presidential election where George Bush (43) was \u201cappointed\u201d compliments of a Supreme Court ruling that stopped the Florida vote count, loyal elements in defense and security became convinced the election began a coup.\u00a0 In December 2008, voting machine hacker Michael Connell died in a plane crash within days of asking for protection, claiming Karl Rove had threatened him if he came forward regarding charges of rigging both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mike literally had a falling out \u2013 of the sky<\/p>\n<p>For those in Defense and Intelligence, the \u201cconvenience\u201d of 9\/11, however, represented something more than a power grab.\u00a0 Nuclear investigators were immediately dispatched, gathering samples and radiation readings, including one VT editor, a nuclear physicist, and IAEA investigator, who is photographed at \u201cground zero\u201d dressed as a utility worker.\u00a0 This team is responsible for the DOE 9\/11 Report received by the White House, Pentagon, and Congressional leaders in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>When the report was never made public, the team released the highly classified photographs depicting the huge nuclear crater with swirls of melted granite.\u00a0 Later, after the Snowden leak and Veterans Today publishing of key report components, the investigative team came forward, not only confirming their findings of nuclear weapons use on 9\/11 but continued their work using highly classified documents published by Russian nuclear investigator Dimitri Khalezov.<\/p>\n<p>When Israeli teams, then living in safe houses in New Jersey and under surveillance by FBI agent Mike Dick\u2019s teams moved the nuclear weapons into the World Trade Center parking lots in white moving vans as told of in the DOE report, it was not known that the parking places chosen had a strategic purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The DOE teams were, at that time, unaware that the huge freon tanks, technology no longer in use, that cooled the towers, were located under the parking places chosen for the devices, described in the report as \u201ctwo-stage nuclear thermobaric weapons.\u201d\u00a0 In subsequent revisions, after the nuclear design teams at Los Alamos National Laboratories read the Khalezov report, the energy weapon effect noted by many including Dr. Judy Wood could finally be explained.<\/p>\n<p>In a report edited by members of the original Department of Energy 9\/11 investigative team, the 26,000-gallon freon tanks provided a massive deuterium boost that traveled up the elevator shafts, destroying the structural integrity of the twin towers. From Veterans Today August 28, 2014:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The third really big one was placed over the air conditioning Freon storage tanks in the utility room, or just under it in the utility pipe gallery, as stated by Dmitry. This one made the giant crater formations left under the buildings foundations and was the cause of the melted steel and thermal effects seen on 9-11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the 1.5kt nuke went off next to the storage tanks containing 26 tons of liquid Freon, it turned it into Hydrogen Floride (H2F), or in the nuclear weapons industry, it is called Deuterium Fluoride (DF), the stuff that hydrogen bombs are made of. This produced the desired thermal effects needed to vaporize the central core and over half of the twin towers in less than 10 seconds. No other explosive device could do that.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitry was off only on the size of the weapons used, but all other data checks out correctly. He was too correct, so his source was an inside player. This is why D.O.J wants him!!<\/p>\n<p>If his story were untrue, then they would not go to this much trouble to keep him locked up in a Thailand jail awaiting extradition to the USA. That fact alone tells you something BIG!! Blast Effects. When the 1.5KT nuke went off under buildings 1 and 2, it sucked most of the 26 tons of liquid Freon from the cooling system into the fireball. Due to thermal heat of 4 million degrees in the center of the fireball and neutron absorption, the Freon was split and then fused into Deuterium Fluoride\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As in the IVY Mike nuclear Pacific test in 1952 of the first Hydrogen Bomb \u2014 producing the massive over yield due to the extra Freon being converted into extra Deuterium. On 9-11, this acted as extra external \u201cDeuterium Boost Gas\u201d, boosting the Thermal Yield of the 1.5 KT weapon at least 10 to a maximum of 100 times. 15 to 150 KT thermal output not in blast energy.<\/p>\n<p>That would put the overall \u201cthermal energy\u201d released between 15KT and up to 150KT at 100% efficiency. Most likely closer to 10% efficiency would be more practical. This is a crude Teller \u201cLair Cake or Alarm Clock\u201d boosted nuclear fission design only used back in the 1950\u2019s test shots. Dmitry\u2019s claim of 150 KT thermal was a bit too big. However, if the weapon had been twice this size \u2014 3KT vs 1.5 KT \u2014 it would have taken out the lower half of Manhattan, including the entire Wall Street financial district, and the fallout would have taken out half of NYC and not by accident!!!! It was designed that way.<\/p>\n<p>Over 90% of this energy is released as fast neutrons and Infrared energy, with accompanying Alpha, Beta and Gamma radiation. Less than 10% was in mechanical blast energy or overpressure. Most of this was absorbed in the ground as shock waves and created the massive cavities left below the buildings. The off-centered large cavity was located just below the Freon cooling plant storage tank location, which is a big forensic clue as to the energy source used on that day.<\/p>\n<p>The mostly unburnt and highly-ionized Deuterium Fluoride gas (Formally known as Freon-12) produced by the blast, (over 20 tons of it) was trapped in the building debris piles and accounted for all of the post 9-11 thermal effects of molten steel, hot spots, and out-gassing of very caustic gasses, ETC. This stuff, due to neutron excitation and very high ionization levels, will stay very hot until the appropriate neutron-absorbing chemicals are added to the ground in order to stop the ongoing low-level neutron chain reactions from occurring, similar to what is happening in Japan with their nuclear 911 disaster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BACKGROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After 9\/11, the US set out to create what appeared to be a worldwide terror organization, in order to justify both a political crackdown within the US and, as had been made public on many occasions by former NATO head General Wesley Clark\u2026 the long-planned military takeover of the Middle East and Central Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Part of this plot involved creating a cover story involving 500 tons of \u201cyellowcake uranium\u201d, supposedly bought by Al Qaeda and transported to Iraq to supply a nuclear program later found to never have existed. The Bush White House, at the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney, went to a terrorist group within the Italian intelligence agency, SISMI, part of the group responsible for the Gladio terror bombings and the kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro.<\/p>\n<p>They created documents outlining imaginary transactions and sent them to CIA headquarters in Rome. SISMI chief Nicolo Pollari took the reports directly to the White House, where Cheney asked friends within the CIA and Department of Energy \u2014 part of a covert working team that included arms smuggler Victor Bout \u2014 to prepare reports citing the severity of the threat posed by these known forged reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEEP BACKGROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Molten plutoniumA US Army intelligence group working within Israel, headed by Colonel James Hanke, had discovered that the nuclear weapons facility at Dimona had suffered a catastrophic accident between 1988 and 1990. Israel\u2019s nuclear weapons inventory could no longer be maintained and expanded from domestically-produced weapons-grade nuclear material.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s complicity was proven when, according to sources within the IAEA and Able Danger team, a combined operation between the US Department of Defense and Department of Justice, initially headed by FBI Agent John O\u2019Neill, had discovered discrepancies in the US nuclear weapons inventory.<\/p>\n<p>It was not just 350 missing nuclear pits, but fully one-third of America\u2019s post SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks) inventory. The records of our nuclear weapons inventory had been systematically sabotaged to hide this attack on America\u2019s weapons inventory, or so they thought.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Able Danger established the presence of an espionage organization in the United States that was answerable personally to Benjamin Netanyahu. The organization included the then head of the Dept. of Energy, the AIPAC Lobby, the Anti-Defamation League, key commanders of America\u2019s nuclear forces, the Joint Special Operations command under VP Dick Cheney, and members of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN organization.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their investigation had tied corrupt officials at the highest levels of the US Department of Energy to the leak of classified nuclear \u201cpit\u201d configuration data and altering records of decommissioned nuclear weapons. Three hundred fifty W54 nuclear warheads were missing from inventories at the Pantex nuclear facility in Amarillo, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation team led by Roland Carnaby, the CIA agent killed in a mysterious shooting in 2008, discovered that the missing \u201cpits\u201d had been stolen and taken to a nearby meatpacking facility, where they were sorted using leaked DOE data in order to allow them to be safely melted down and reconfigured to replace the depleted Israeli stockpile.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators from the DOE and IAEA confirm that weapons from this stolen stockpile were used in the demolition of the World Trade Center on 9\/11\/2001 \u2014 nuclear \u201cpits\u201d originally produced at the Hanford DOE facility in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>This information was part of the highly classified 2003 9\/11 report given to congressional and White House leaders only and later leaked by Russian Naval Intelligence, believed to have been among a trove of documents received from Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2013, a group of business executives meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, received a briefing on the 2003 \u201cNuclear 9\/11\u201d report as part of a \u201cThreat Assessment Conference\u201d where Veterans Today staff were among the presenters. The briefing also included a version of the now-famous \u201cShrimpton nuclear scare\u201d story, confirming the recovery of a missing nuclear weapon somewhere in the EU in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This was the biggest collection of private jets ever to grace Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9\/11 AND AFTERMATH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leaked documents on the Able Danger investigation, received in September 2014 revealed that most investigation functions had ended in 1998 at the request of President Clinton, then under impeachment threat tied to his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, in a reputed Mossad \u201choney trap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was Clinton\u2019s gutting of Able Danger that may well have made 9\/11 possible, leaving in place Israeli and Saudi teams, the Cheney\/Bout organization and the AIPAC intel coordinators.<\/p>\n<p>Investigative chief and\u00a0FBI Special Agent John O\u2019Neill left government service and pursued leads until his untimely death during the 9\/11 \u201cevent\u201d. According to a 2005 report, thirty-five of the Able Danger investigators were also killed on 9\/11, when the Pentagon office they were called to for an emergency briefing by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Myer, (who did not show up for the meeting and did not die, a lucky day for him) was demolished by an airliner, though little or no physical evidence of such a happenstance exists. (Myer took over the JCOS before 9\/11 but was confirmed afterward.\u00a0 Prior to 9\/11, it was Myer that facilitated the destruction of nuclear weapon records while heading the Pentagon\u2019s nuclear accounting group.<\/p>\n<p>After 1998, the FBI investigation team was divided into two units under the supervision of Special Agent Mike Dick; one team was tracking arms dealer Victor Bout, and was coordinated with IAEA investigators.\u00a0The second unit investigated the theft of the \u201cpit matching\u201d documents and centered on the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, eventually leading to the arrest of leaders of that group.<\/p>\n<p>Charges were later dropped when the White House refused to turn over required evidence, and Attorney General John Ashcroft, one of the key planners of the CIA torture program, ordered an end to the investigation. Witness statements included testimony indicating White House officials had passed key nuclear secrets to Israeli embassy representatives at a Washington cocktail party in the presence of both Paul Wolfowitz and Condoleezza Rice.<\/p>\n<p>The second unit, assisted by CIA agent Roland Carnaby, followed the theft of nuclear weapons from the sorting facility near Amarillo to a fertilizer plant outside Waco, Texas. In April 2014, as Snowden reputedly handed Able Danger documents to Russian intelligence, the plant where the nuclear weapons were stored, the West Fertilizer Plant, was destroyed in a massive explosion, killing 15.<\/p>\n<p>The entire operation was run by Victor Bout, working directly for the office of the Vice President of the United States, according to private sources with access to the Plame\/Siddiqui investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear pits had been moved by truck to the Port of Houston, where they had been placed on ships and transferred to the Canary Islands and later to Mauritania. The weapons were, according to Able Danger documents, stored at a mine controlled by former South African Prime Minister De Klerk inside a region controlled by the rebel Polisario Front. From there, weapons were sold to Taiwan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and other nations, along with restocking Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Other weapons were set aside for use by intelligence agencies. IAEA sources report weapons from Hanford\/Pantex were used for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, and the Bali bombing in 2005. The IAEA confirms up to 50 nuclear weapons have been used surreptitiously since 1945, often in configurations that minimize blast and radiation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE CIA\u2019S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are strange parallels in the story of two accused \u201cAl Qaeda\u201d operatives. While the general public thinks of Al Qaeda as a terror group, in truth, according to Able Danger documents, Al Qaeda is a joint operational sector of Saudi, Israeli and US intelligence. This dirty little secret has compromised American security greatly, due to the blackmailing position both of these countries have had over the US.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the major \u201cterror figures\u201d of Al Qaeda, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Osama bin Laden, have been confirmed, at the highest levels, to be CIA operatives. After 9\/11 both fled\u2026 Dr. Aafia to Karachi and bin Laden, who had recently received kidney treatments at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where members of congress and top VIPs receive their care, to Tora Bora.<\/p>\n<p>Bin Laden died of complications from advanced kidney disease on December 13, 2001, after denying any involvement in 9\/11 and advising those concerned to \u201clook closer to home\u201d (CIA FOIA Press Release dated 24 September, 2001.)<\/p>\n<p>The curious story of Bin Laden and his second \u201cdeath\u201d in Pakistan is similar to that of Aafia Siddiqui with\u00a0her reputed murderous attack on her CIA captors during a waterboarding session at Bagram Air Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the release of the recent and highly controversial CIA torture report, the reputed actual \u201cre-killer\u201d of bin Laden came forward. The story, as we are told, has an aging bin Laden in the upper floor of a home in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden is said to have leaped to his feet, grasping an AK47 in one hand while holding a hostage in another. While standing on a bed, bin Laden is brought down in a hail of gunfire, like something out of a cowboy film.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Aafia story is if anything worse.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are told Dr. Aafia, confined to a wheelchair, in this case \u201cliterally\u201d held down by handcuff \u201ctie raps\u201d, was brought in for a waterboarding session. The US Air Force facility had been hosting summary execution and torture sessions for Aafia and other prisoners for years. Aafia had been raped repeatedly. She was down to 80 pounds and unable to walk.<\/p>\n<p>There the story, an analog of the bin Laden tale, gets more bizarre. Dr. Aafia is said to have broken her tie wraps, listed as \u201cISO 527-1:2012 standard,\u201d in a fit of rage. There were five men in the room, most over 200 pounds, four of whom were \u201cspecial operations trained\u201d, including one US Navy Seal, one CIA agent and two FBI agents. The fifth member was a \u201ctranslator,\u201d please pay attention as this will be an important point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The crippled 80-pound torture and rape victim is reputed to have knocked all four men to the ground, seizing an M4 carbine from one of them. According to transcripts, in order to save the lives of the four \u201cterror war-fighters\u201d, the \u201ctranslator\u201d, using his weapon shot Dr. Aafia in the abdomen.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the crime Dr. Aafia was convicted of, not terrorism but resisting torture. Now here comes the most curious part of all. Dr. Aafia lived in the United States\u00a0for\u00a011 years, the wife of a Boston anesthesiologist. Aafia taught at MIT, where she received her doctorate in microbiology before joining the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>Aafia had spoken English all her life, published in English and taught in English at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Why did she need a translator? You just can\u2019t make this stuff up\u2026 or can you?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2020\/11\/07\/vt-nuclear-education-cia-torture-report-ties-cheney-and-victor-bout-to-9-11-nukes\/\">https:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2020\/11\/07\/vt-nuclear-education-cia-torture-report-ties-cheney-and-victor-bout-to-9-11-nukes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VT Nuclear Education: CIA Torture Report Ties Cheney and Victor Bout to 9\/11 Nukes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}