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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, who supports Hillary Clinton and insists that Donald Trump is being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that Russians and Iranians in Syria should be killed covertly to \u201cpay the price.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRTvids%2Fvideos%2F1277450245598559%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The top CIA official, who twice served as the acting director of the agency, and worked with Clinton while she was secretary of state, told PBS host Charlie Rose that Iran and Russia should <em>\u201cpay a big price\u201d<\/em> in Syria \u2013 and by that he meant killing them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen we were in Iraq, the Iranians were giving weapons to the Shia militia who were killing American soldiers,\u201d<\/em> Morell said. <em>\u201cThe Iranians were making us pay a price.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You see, Michael Morell is a man of virtue: he calls for death and destruction in proper politesse. Heaven forbid he crack a rude joke.<\/p>\n<p>— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtracey\/status\/763009054524383232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe need to make the Iranians pay a price in Syria, we need to make the Russians pay a price,\u201d<\/em> he continued.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if that meant killing Russians and Iranians, Morell fully agreed, qualifying the answer with <em>\u201ccovertly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/politics\/355405-duma-lawmakers-blast-ex-cia\/\">READ MORE: \u2018Extremist & absurd\u2019: Lawmakers blast ex-CIA official\u2019s call to \u2018covertly\u2019 kill Russians<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTell the world about it, right?\u201d<\/em> he went on.<em> \u201cYou don\u2019t stand up at the Pentagon and say \u2018we did this,\u2019 but you make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michael Morell on Charlie Rose said 'Hillary is the toughest in the room' more pro-neocon shade throwing at Obama cc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamSacks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SamSacks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samknight1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@samknight1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>— Robbie Martin (@FluorescentGrey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FluorescentGrey\/status\/762900264042926080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Referring to the US-backed rebels in Syria, Morell said he wanted Washington to support them in more aggressive actions, not only against Bashar Assad\u2019s government, but against Iranians and Russians.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/355053-airforce-secretary-russia-threat-us\/\">READ MORE: Russia poses \u2018existential threat\u2019 to US national security, Air Force secretary says<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Morrell then went on a diatribe about how the US should <em>\u201cscare\u201d<\/em> Assad, including going after his national guard and<em>\u201cbombing his offices in the middle of the night.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewperezdc\/status\/763064601025978368\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-dt-full=\"%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-dt-months=\"Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec\" data-dt-am=\"AM\" data-dt-pm=\"PM\" data-dt-now=\"now\" data-dt-s=\"s\" data-dt-m=\"m\" data-dt-h=\"h\" data-dt-second=\"second\" data-dt-seconds=\"seconds\" data-dt-minute=\"minute\" data-dt-minutes=\"minutes\" data-dt-hour=\"hour\" data-dt-hours=\"hours\" data-dt-abbr=\"%{number}%{symbol}\" data-dt-short=\"%{day} %{month}\" data-dt-long=\"%{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"763064601025978368\" data-twitter-event-id=\"5\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard MediaCard--mediaForward customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 50%\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset ImageGrid ImageGrid--2 ImageGrid--roundedTop \"><a class=\"ImageGrid-image ImageGrid-image-0 CroppedImage CroppedImage--fillWidth \" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewperezdc\/status\/763064601025978368\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CroppedImage-image js-cspForcedStyle\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"http:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/CpbzNLqVIAEueJ-.jpg:small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"750\" height=\"965\" data-srcset=\"http%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FCpbzNLqVIAEueJ-.jpg%3Alarge 750w,http%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FCpbzNLqVIAEueJ-.jpg 750w,http%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FCpbzNLqVIAEueJ-.jpg%3Asmall 528w\" data-style=\"; 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I want to put pressure on him, I want to put pressure on the Iranians, I want to put pressure on the Russians to come to that diplomatic settlement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/240829-kill-russians-fox-general-defiant\/\">READ MORE: \u2018Didn\u2019t know they watch Fox in Russia\u2019: Defiant \u2018kill Russians\u2019 US ex-general insists he told \u2018truth\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former acting director of the CIA publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton last week through an opinion piece in the New York Times, <a href=\"link: http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/354789-cia-head-endorses-clinton\/\">praising her qualifications as commander-in-chief<\/a>\u00a0and calling her rival Donald Trump a threat to national security.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/newgreatgame\/status\/763068767173836800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>After he retired from the CIA in August 2013, Morrell took a job at Beacon Global Strategies, a Washington, DC consultancy founded by Clinton aides Philippe Reines and Andrew Shapiro. There he worked with Leon Panetta, another Clinton aide and his predecessor at the helm of the CIA, who also spoke in support of Clinton at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/355302-hiroshima-nagasaki-democrats-history\/\">READ MORE: Lesser of two evils? The Democrat’s dark history of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki ‘war crimes’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Morrell <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/a-former-cia-official-apologizes-to-every-american-for-iraq-intelligence-failures\">apologized<\/a>\u00a0to<em> \u201cevery American\u201d<\/em> and finally owned up to the <em>\u201cmistakes\u201d<\/em> made by the CIA in Iraq, where over 4,000 US soldiers and at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqbodycount.org\/\">250,000<\/a>\u00a0Iraqi civilians have been killed since the 2003 US invasion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tYs_pfljaBE\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis_sharing_toolbox\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/355291-morrell-kill-russians-clinton\/\" data-title=\"\u2018Kill Russians and Iranians, threaten Assad,\u2019 says ex-CIA chief backing Clinton\" data-description=\" Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, who supports Hillary Clinton and insists that Donald Trump is being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that Russians and Iranians in Syria should be killed covertly to \u201cpay the price.\u201d \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis_sharing_toolbox\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/355291-morrell-kill-russians-clinton\/\" data-title=\"\u2018Kill Russians and Iranians, threaten Assad,\u2019 says ex-CIA chief backing Clinton\" data-description=\" Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, who supports Hillary Clinton and insists that Donald Trump is being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that Russians and Iranians in Syria should be killed covertly to \u201cpay the price.\u201d \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis_sharing_toolbox\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/355291-morrell-kill-russians-clinton\/\" data-title=\"\u2018Kill Russians and Iranians, threaten Assad,\u2019 says ex-CIA chief backing Clinton\" data-description=\" Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, who supports Hillary Clinton and insists that Donald Trump is being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that Russians and Iranians in Syria should be killed covertly to \u201cpay the price.\u201d \">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/355291-morrell-kill-russians-clinton\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/355291-morrell-kill-russians-clinton\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}