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ADVERTISEMENT The HASC intelligence subcommittee’s jurisdiction covers military intelligence, national intelligence, counter terrorism, and “sensitive operations.” Most agencies in the intelligence community are in the Defense Department, and those budgets devoted to tactical intelligence programs exceed $20 billion. The $61.9 billion national intelligence budget includes all the services, NSA, NRO, DIA, and NGA. All are in Defense (NRO is shared with the DNI.) Again, all quite sensible — until one considers that national intelligence also includes the CIA and the intelligence functio...

Acting Judge Jacques Minnaar found on 8 January 2021 that National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole was not only entitled to act against Jacobs and his fellow officers, he “is obliged to do so by law”. Jacobs, as well as other top CI officials, Brigadier Albo Lombard, section head: intelligence planning and monitoring; Colonel Isaac Walljee, acting section head: supply chain management; Colonel Manogaran Gopal, section commander: vehicle fleet management and asset management secret services account: supply chain management; Major General Maperemisa Lekalakala, acting component head and C...

Thus the application by Jacobs, argued Sitole, was not urgent “and any urgency is self-created”.  Sitole said that “proper safeguards are in place in the interim and the day-to-day functioning of the Crime Intelligence Division has not been compromised in any way”. Jacobs and his fellow officers were on a “precautionary” and not “punitive” suspension, said Sitole, pending the finalisation of an investigation into alleged illegal Covid-19 PPE purchases by the division, using the Secret Service Account. They also had other remedies at their disposal apart from approaching the h...

SAPS Crime Intelligence head, Lieutenant General Peter Jacobs and five fellow officers from the division are seeking an urgent intervention from the Pretoria High Court to declare their suspensions by National Commissioner Khehla Sitole unlawful. Jacobs was the first to be served with a notice of suspension on 30 November, while fellow officers were notified on 10 December 2020. “Credible evidence was available that the Account was looted by a number of CFOs and or Divisional Commissioners and other Senior Crime Intelligence Officers,” said Jacobs in his 42-page searing document, setting ...

Happened. or i'm sorry, of even what andrew mccabe has said. we know that he said that to savannah guthrie but we don't know that it actually happened. >> that's an important point, ali, and first let me congratulate you for getting the intelligence oversight act of 1980 in a script. as the intelligence reporter i appreciate that deeply. but you're right. i am treating this with a little bit of skepticism because i've seen this movie before on the cia and torture where the cia claimed they briefed certain members of congress and the members said they didn't reall getting that briefing. so far ...