NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 11/4/2019

On the eve of the off year election President Trump speaking to a rally in Kentucky in support of incumbent Republican Governor Matt Bevin tonight.

At the rally US Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky called on the media to "do your job" and print the name of the person called a whistle blower in connection with the "impeachment process" against the President.

As the he left the White House for Kentucky the President said he is seeking an arms control agreement with Russia and China and perhaps another nation.

The President questioned on the matter by a reporter for Russia's Tass News Agency.....LINK

In Tacoma Washington this morning at the federal courthouse a new sentence set to be handed down in the case of Francis Schaeffer Cox.    The Alaska man and two others given long prison sentences in what supporters say was a frame up based on his conversations about the Constitution and the notion of a militia.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned one of the charges he was convicted of regarding "solicitation to murder federal officials".

Schaeffer Cox has been held in federal prison in a special isolation unit reserved for convicted terrorists.

Activist Roger Roots discussed the case in a video posted last night....LINK

"Do you really think for not filing the paper you deserve 18 months of incaceration, four months in solitary confinement, and all this experience in jail?   Is that the way?"

Those the words of Maria Butina, recently released from a federal prison.    The Russian national spoke with CBS shortly before her release.   

More from Russia's Tass News Agency.....LINK

AND RELATED TO ALL THIS SHOULD BE FBI AND THE CIA BE 'BURNED TO THE GROUND' AND NEW ORGANIZATIONS RAISED TO REPLACE THEM?   RETIRED ARMY COLONEL PAT LONG BROACHED THE QUESTION OVER THE WEEKEND ON HIS 'SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS' BLOG.....LINK

27-year old Richard Holzer is under arrest accused of plotting to bomb a synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado.

He was in communication with an undercover FBI agent leading to his arrest.

Protesters blocking highways in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon again today.    The demonstrators saying they want a new government not tied to the political elite that currently are involved.

The protests began more than two weeks ago putting Lebanon into a tense situation reminiscent of those that preceded the conflict in Libya that began in 2011 and the civil war in Syria that also began that same year.

From Iraq, more protests today with a least five killed in Baghdad near the bridge leading to the "Green Zone".    Talk of live ammunition being used against the protesters but authorities saying they only use rubber bullets and tear gas.

The Associated Press reporting four dead protesters, one security forces member dead and some 60 wounded in Baghdad.

Three are also reported dead in an the attack on the Iranian consulate last night in Karbala, the latest manifestation of protests in the country which have killed hundreds and wounded thousands more over the last two plus weeks.

Iraq also going through similar pre-civil war conditions experienced in Libya and Syria in 2011 with strong suspicion of foreign forces being behind the protests.

To sum up both protest movements in Lebanon and Iraq could be interpreted as moves against Iran and Iranian influence in both countries governments and there are accusations of foreign forces propelling the unrest in both countries.

Today Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz expressed support for the protesters in Iraq.  More from the "Times of Israel".....LINK

IN IRAN TODAY THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTACK ON THE US EMBASSY IN IRAN AND TAKING OF DOZENS OF AMERICAN HOSTAGES.    RALLIES HELD IN TEHRAN AND OTHER CITIES.  MORE FROM IRAN'S "PRESS TV"....LINK

AND HERE IS THE STORY AS IT WAS REPORTED ON CBS 40 YEARS AGO TODAY....LINK

THE UNITED STATES IMPOSING SANCTIONS  MONDAY ON NINE AIDES OF IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI.  THE US ALSO OFFERING 20 MILLION DOLLARS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT MISSING CIA CONTRACTOR ROBERT LEVINSON WHO WENT MISSING ON A TRIP TO IRAN IN 2007.

IRAN ALSO ANNOUNCING THE INSTALLATION OF 15 ADVANCED CENTRIFUGES AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE 2015 JCPOA NUCLEAR AGREEMENT.

The US has formally notified the United Nations of its intention to withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord.    The process of completing the withdrawal will end next year after the 2020 presidential election, but for now today's move sets the US on a course that COULD lead to withdrawal AFTER THE ELECTION NEXT YEAR.

One dead and 45 wounded in a grenade attack in Kashmir's capital Srinagar.  Among the wounded three members of the Indian paramilitary police.

Local autonomy was revoked in the majority Muslim region by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year with controls on communications and movement in the area.

And for now that's the way it really is Monday November 4th, 2019.