CHENEY WHITE HOUSE playing the IMPEACHMENT GAMING SCENARIO

Broader Privilege Claimed In Firings
White House Says Hill Can't Pursue Contempt Cases



By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writers



Friday, July 20, 2007; Page A01

Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials once the president has invoked executive privilege.

The position presents serious legal and political obstacles for congressional Democrats, who have begun laying the groundwork for contempt proceedings against current and former White House officials in order to pry loose information about the dismissals.




Under federal law, a statutory contempt citation by the House or Senate must be submitted to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, "whose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for its action."

But administration officials argued yesterday that Congress has no power to force a U.S. attorney to pursue contempt charges in cases, such as the prosecutor firings, in which the president has declared that testimony or documents are protected from release by executive privilege. Officials pointed to a Justice Department legal opinion during the Reagan administration, which made the same argument in a case that was never resolved by the courts.

"A U.S. attorney would not be permitted to bring contempt charges or convene a grand jury in an executive privilege case," said a senior official, who said his remarks reflect a consensus within the administration. "And a U.S. attorney wouldn't be permitted to argue against the reasoned legal opinion that the Justice Department provided. No one should expect that to happen."

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly, added: "It has long been understood that, in circumstances like these, the constitutional prerogatives of the president would make it a futile and purely political act for Congress to refer contempt citations to U.S. attorneys."

Mark J. Rozell, a professor of public policy at George Mason University who has written a book on executive-privilege issues, called the administration's stance "astonishing."

"That's a breathtakingly broad view of the president's role in this system of separation of powers," Rozell said. "What this statement is saying is the president's claim of executive privilege trumps all."

The administration's statement is a dramatic attempt to seize the upper hand in an escalating constitutional battle with Congress, which has been trying for months, without success, to compel White House officials to testify and to turn over documents about their roles in the prosecutor firings last year. The Justice Department and White House in recent weeks have been discussing when and how to disclose the stance, and the official said he decided yesterday that it was time to highlight it.

Yesterday, a House Judiciary subcommittee voted to lay the groundwork for contempt proceedings against White House chief of staff Joshua B. Bolten, following a similar decision last week against former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers.

The administration has not directly informed Congress of its view. A spokeswoman for Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), the Judiciary Committee's chairman, declined to comment . But other leading Democrats attacked the argument.

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) called it "an outrageous abuse of executive privilege" and said: "The White House must stop stonewalling and start being accountable to Congress and the American people. No one, including the president, is above the law."

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) said the administration is "hastening a constitutional crisis," and Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said the position "makes a mockery of the ideal that no one is above the law."

Waxman added: "I suppose the next step would be just disbanding the Justice Department."

Under long-established procedures and laws, the House and Senate can each pursue two kinds of criminal contempt proceedings, and the Senate also has a civil contempt option. The first, called statutory contempt, has been the avenue most frequently pursued in modern times, and is the one that requires a referral to the U.S. attorney in the District.

Both chambers also have an "inherent contempt" power, allowing either body to hold its own trials and even jail those found in defiance of Congress. Although widely used during the 19th century, the power has not been invoked since 1934 and Democratic lawmakers have not displayed an appetite for reviving the practice.

In defending its argument, administration officials point to a 1984 opinion by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, headed at the time by Theodore B. Olson, a prominent conservative lawyer who was solicitor general from 2001 to 2004. The opinion centered on a contempt citation issued by the House for Anne Gorsuch Burford, then administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

It concluded: "The President, through a United States Attorney, need not, indeed may not, prosecute criminally a subordinate for asserting on his behalf a claim of executive privilege. Nor could the Legislative Branch or the courts require or implement the prosecution of such an individual."

In the Burford case, which involved spending on the Superfund program, the White House filed a federal lawsuit to block Congress's contempt action. The conflict subsided when Burford turned over documents to Congress.

The Bush administration has not previously signaled it would forbid a U.S. attorney from pursuing a contempt case in relation to the prosecutor firings. But officials at Justice and elsewhere say it has long held that Congress cannot force such action.

David B. Rifkin, who worked in the Justice Department and White House counsel's office under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, praised the position and said it is consistent with the idea of a "unitary executive." In practical terms, he said, "U.S. attorneys are emanations of a president's will." And in constitutional terms, he said, "the president has decided, by virtue of invoking executive privilege, that is the correct policy for the entire executive branch."

But Stanley Brand, who was the Democratic House counsel during the Burford case, said the administration's legal view "turns the constitutional enforcement process on its head. They are saying they will always place a claim of presidential privilege without any judicial determination above a congressional demand for evidence -- without any basis in law." Brand said the position is essentially telling Congress: "Because we control the enforcement process, we are going to thumb our nose at you."

Rozell, the George Mason professor and authority on executive privilege, said the administration's stance "is almost Nixonian in its scope and breadth of interpreting its power. Congress has no recourse at all, in the president's view. . . . It's allowing the executive to define the scope and limits of its own powers."

Research editor Alice Crites contributed to this report

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BEAN'S COMMENT:





There is alot more to hide....then what we have seen:

1) The 3 murders of RICH GORDON, MARK DEFENBAUGH, AND JOHN KABIESEMAN in south dakota...and the attempted murders of LEROY ROGERS, JON VAN PATTEN, DR. MARK GORDON, AND THOMAS S. BEAN...are also matters that have not been openly discussed by the shameless punk clown Democratic idiot factory.


2) We also need to look at the illegal unconstitutional "involuntary chipping" of THOMAS S. BEAN in Sioux Falls, SD, as a conspiracy to TAMPER WITH A CONGRESSIONAL WITNESS who contacted The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee member Senator CHARLES GRASSLEY and others...and the conspiracy to TAMPER WITH A WITNESS named THOMAS S. BEAN who submitted a 47 page U.S. DOJ OIG complaint to Denver and Dallas field office agents VAN LANCKER and MONTE CASSON.....GEE, what is in that complaint...anything about FBI DRUG DEALING, and GOP buying off Congress after laundering the money?

See, WAXMAN'S SUBPOENA FOR GOP TREASURER, AND FORMER GOP MONTANA GOV MARC RACICOT'S EMAILS...that just cannot be found?


3) We also need to review the FBI Div 5(or was it the 100 FBI SPECIAL SERVICE BADGES CREATED BY THE PATRIOT ACT, TO CREATE A PRESIDENTIAL FBI DETAIL that does not answer to Mueller's FBI HQ chain of command?) and counter intel special agent, STEVEN PLUTA'S material falsifications of a FISA court application that speciously labelled THOMAS S. BEAN as "an agent of a foreign power" engaged in clandestine activities (ya know...like my writing a DOJ OIG complaint...and knowledge of the NSA/Senator THUNE/Pankrantz/Tobius conspiracy to wiretap the DASCHLE campaign in October 2004 using the computerized CALEA wiretap technology memorialized on the hard disk drive of the main frame computer at Qwest Communications in dowtown Sioux Falls, SD).....


4) We also need to talk about CHENEY AND DUMSFIELD'S conspiracy to commit murder, when A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE WAS SAVAGELY MURDERED IN FRONT OF HER TODDLER ON 9/23/03....and how Dead Eye Dick flew to Texas to drunkenly confront the Austin lawyer (WHITTINGTON) who was in charge of that black op as the "cutout disseminating NSA 902nd SIGINT)....and how Dick shot the lawyer after "arguing about some woman" (Secret Service).


5) We need to talk about Cheney and Dumsfield using Directed Energy Weapons as part of a conspiracy to commit a fed crime of violence (murder) and torture DR. MARK GORDON WHILE MARK WAS A COOPERATING, COERCED MINNEAPOLIS FBI WITNESS TARGETING THOMAS S. BEAN?....THE TORTURE OF MARK'S BROTHER RICH GORDON (Daschle's ex chief of staff)...and the torture directed energy weapon attack of THOMAS S. BEAN after he contacted Senator Charles Grassley three weeks before THE NSA TSP SCANDAL WAS PRINTED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BY THE FBI'S FAVORITE JOURNALIST, JAMES RISEN.


6) It bears repeating that...NANCY "mafia princess" PELOSIWHORE, had all this...I contacted her...and other worthless punk posing faggots known as DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AND CONGRESSIONAL WHORES...so..uh...they could have STOPPED THE WAR COMMISSIONS ACT FROM APPLYING TO US CITIZENS...AND THEY COULD HAVE STOPPED THE BOGUS PATRIOT ACT RENEWAL...AND THE BOGUS NEW FISA LAW (with immunity for wiretapping, and one section allows immunity for TORTURE, MURDER, HARASSMENT, CHIPPING, for "...anybody helping the US Intel Community" targeting anybody slandered as a terrorist.

The law that PELOSIWHORE AND STENY HOYER PASSED AFTER ARRANGING THE WHORE SCUM CALLED DEMOCRATS.......................NOW MAKES IT LEGAL AND CIVILLY IMMUNE TO DO ANYTHING TO ANYBODY just as long as some lying faggot named ADDINGTON, OR CHENEY has slandered the guy as a terrorist.

DEMONIZE THE VICTIM, AND NO CRIMINAL OR CIVIL LIABILITY...for any tort, misdemeanor or felony crime.

THANKYOU NANCY "mafia princess" PELOSIWHORE...YOU HAVE APPEASED YOUR WAY TO BEING AMERICA'S GREATES PUNK, CRIMINAL , JERKOFF LITTLE LITTLE MULTIMILLIONARESS WHORE.

PERJURY CHARGES FOR GONZALEZ? Don't worry...the Democrats are imcompetent idiots...and DOJ is totally political

July 10, 2007


FBI Records Show Gonzales Knew About Years of Chronic NSL Problems
EFF Lawsuit Uncovers History of Surveillance MistakesWashington, D.C. - Documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) show years of chronic problems with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's use of National Security Letters (NSLs) to collect Americans' personal information and that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has long been aware of these problems.

The documents were disclosed after EFF sued the government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) earlier this year for records related to a scathing Justice Department critique of FBI NSL activity. The records detail more than 40 instances of improper, unauthorized collection of information about individuals, including unlawful access to phone records and email. The records show that Gonzales himself was sent several of these problem reports, including one less than a week before he told a congressional committee that no civil liberties abuses have resulted from the USA PATRIOT Act. He also voiced surprise when the Justice Department report on NSL misuse was made public earlier this year.

"These chronic privacy problems have long been known within the Justice Department but still were kept secret from those who really needed to know -- members of the American public, including those who were surveilled," said EFF Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann. "The FBI can't be trusted to police its own agents. It's time for Congress to provide oversight to protect American citizens."

The FBI's use of NSLs was expanded under the USA PATRIOT Act in 2001, allowing federal agents to gather private records about anyone's domestic phone calls, emails, and financial transactions without any court approval -- as long as an FBI agent claims that the information could be related to a terrorism or espionage investigation. EFF submitted a FOIA request about the reported misuse of NSLs in March, and when no documents were forthcoming, EFF sued the FBI for their immediate release. Last month, a judge held that the FBI was required to release records related to the inspector general's report beginning on July 5, with more documents to be disclosed every 30 days. In all, 1138 pages of NSL records were released to EFF late last week in the first batch of documents complying with the court's order.

"This is by no means the whole story on NSL abuse," said EFF Senior Counsel David Sobel. "We're looking forward to receiving the rest of the documents. Americans deserve the whole story on the FBI's deeply flawed program to issue NSLs."

For the complete FBI documents and more analysis:
http://www.eff.org/flag/07656JDB/

Contacts:

Marcia Hofmann
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
marcia@eff.org

David Sobel

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THE REAL STORY IS IN MY 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG COMPLAINT.....that was obstructed by The Bush White House to prevent the Denver and Dallas Field Offices of the OIG from investigating my complaint.

The Senate Judiciary Committee under Pat Leahy has.....NEVER SHOWN ANY INTERST IN THIS COMPLAINT, NOR HAVE THEY EVER MENTIONED THE OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE BY THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE, AS GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT?

It's laughable...to watch the punk clown Dems...pretend to do oversight, when...I gave them all they needed to impeach. LEAHY did....nothing.

SINATRA the wayward cat....finally comes down with some help from a saw

Yesterday...Sinatra the cat...finally came down from her perch. She came down the hard way. Had to use a saw to cut the limb.

Had help from a christian lady who had a tree branch saw on a pole. Had to fix the saw first, and I busted a gut doing it. Eventually....the cat came down after four days running from the raccoons that surely would have killed her.

Finally showered at a state park. Went down the road and crashed on the beach, listening to George Noory's show trumpeting Art Bell. Coast to Coast Am played many great tapes from Bell's wild and wooly radio carreer. The best on is the Texan who flied into Area 51 and gets shot down while talking to Art Bell. It doesn't get any better than that.

CHENEY all over OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE: linked to energy deregulation as part of CONSPIRACY TO PUMP AND DUMP ENRON STOCK

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071907J.shtml


Cheney Suppressed Evidence in California Energy Crisis

By Jason Leopold


t r u t h o u t | Investigative Report

Thursday 19 July 2007





In-depth investigation shows how Vice President Dick Cheney pressured federal energy regulators to conceal evidence of widespread market manipulation by energy companies during the California electricity crisis in 2001.

In March 2001, while California's two largest utilities were teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, and the state's electricity crisis was spiraling out of control, Vice President Dick Cheney summoned Curt Hebert, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), to his office next to the White House for a hastily arranged meeting.

Cheney had just been informed by his longtime friend Thomas Cruikshank, the man who handpicked the vice president to succeed him at Halliburton in the mid-1990s, that federal energy regulators were close to completing an investigation into allegations that Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Williams Companies and AES Corporation of Arlington, Virginia had created an artificial power shortage in California in April and May of 2000 by shutting down a power plant for more than two weeks.

Cruikshank was a member of Williams's board of directors, and perhaps more importantly, had been one of many energy industry insiders advising Cheney's energy task force on a wide-range of policy issues, including deregulation of the nation's electricity sector, that would benefit Williams financially.

Cruikshank informed the vice president he had learned about the preliminary findings of FERC's investigation during a Williams board meeting earlier in March 2001. FERC, Cruikshank told Cheney, was in possession of incriminating audio tapes in which a Williams official and an AES power plant operator discussed keeping a Southern California power plant offline so Williams could continue to receive the $750 per megawatt hour premium for emergency power California's grid operator was forced to procure to keep the lights on in Southern California.

AES was the operator of two power plants in Los Alamitos and Williams marketed the electricity. The power plants were designated by the California Independent System Operator (ISO), the agency that manages the state's power grid, as crucial in order to ensure a reliable flow of electricity in the Southern part of the state. To stave off the potential for blackouts, the ISO was given the authority to pay top dollar for power if the power plants operated by AES, as well as power plants operated by other companies, were not in operation.

California's electricity crisis wreaked havoc on consumers in the state between 2000 and 2001. The crisis resulted in widespread rolling blackouts and forced the state's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, into bankruptcy. California was the first state in the nation to deregulate its power market in an effort to provide consumers with cheaper electricity and the opportunity to choose their own power provider. The results have since proved disastrous. The experiment has cost the state more than $30 billion.

According to a copy of the March 2001 Williams transcript, Rhonda Morgan, a Williams official, told an AES power plant operator "it wouldn't hurt Williams's feelings" if the power plant that was down for repairs was kept offline for an extended period of time so the company could continue to be paid the "premium" for its emergency energy supplies from the ISO. In a separate conversation with Eric Pendergraft, a senior AES official, Morgan said, "I don't wanna do something underhanded, but if there's work you can continue to do ..."

Pendergraft responded to Morgan, saying, "I understand. You don't have to talk anymore."

The collusion between Williams and AES allowed Williams to earn an extra $10 million over a period of 15 days and set in motion a series of events that resulted in the California power crisis between 2000 and 2001, a crisis that was based almost entirely on manipulative practices by energy companies.

This story is based on a two-month investigation into Cheney's energy task force; how the vice president pressured cabinet officials to conceal clear-cut evidence of market manipulation during California's energy crisis, and how that subsequently led Cheney to exert executive privilege when lawmakers called on him to turn over documents related to his meetings with energy industry officials who helped draft the National Energy Policy and also gamed California's power market. Truthout spoke with more than a dozen former officials from the Energy Department and FERC as well as current and former energy industry executives all of whom were involved in personal discussions with Cheney relating to the National Energy Policy.

In addition to Hebert, the FERC chairman, the other senior cabinet officials who attended the March 2001 meeting in Cheney's office included Andrew Lundquist, the former executive director of Cheney's energy task force, now an energy industry lobbyist, White House political adviser Karl Rove, President Bush's chief of staff Andrew Card, and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, according to former Energy Department and FERC officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they said they were not authorized to disclose details of their secret meetings with Cheney or information about the energy task force meetings.

Joe Allbaugh, another adviser to the vice president’s energy task force, had heard of a similar situation involving an energy company his wife was involved with. Allbaugh told Cheney that Reliant Energy also shut down a power plant in California in June 2000. That caused wholesale power prices in California to reach levels that exceeded "just and reasonable" rates, a violation of the Federal Power Act. FERC apparently had audio tapes of Reliant employees discussing the scheme.

"[We] started out Monday losing $3 million ... So, then we decided as a group that we were going to make it back up, so we turned like about almost every power plant off. It worked. Prices went back up. Made back about $4 million, actually more than that, $5 million," the Reliant trader says in a tape-recorded conversation on June 23, 2000.

Allbaugh's wife, Dianne Allbaugh, was a lobbyist for Reliant, TXU and Entergy, who was paid at least $20,000 a month by those corporations, and told her husband what she had learned from executives at Reliant. Allbaugh then informed Cheney.

Cruikshank and Allbaugh did not return dozens of calls or respond to emails seeking comment. Devona Greenstone, a spokeswoman for Hebert, was sent a detailed list of questions for Hebert to answer and was given more than one week to respond to the queries. But neither Greenstone nor the former FERC chairman replied despite numerous follow-up phone calls and emails sent to Hebert and Greenstone. A spokesperson for Cheney also failed to return 16 messages left for comment over the past month.



If You Were "King" or "Il Duce"?

Joseph Kelliher, a former Energy Department official, had been soliciting advice from Williams, Reliant, El Paso, Enron and other energy companies on natural gas issues on behalf of Cheney, another area those companies were accused of gaming, particularly in California.

In a March 10, 2001 email, just a week or so after Cheney was briefed by Cruikshank about the Williams scheme, Kelliher emailed energy lobbyist Dana Contratto, asking Contratto if he was "King or "Il Duce, what would you include in a national energy policy, especially with respect to natural gas issues?", according to energy task force documents.

Contratto responded with a three-page list of ideas, many of which were included in the final version of the energy policy.

On another occasion, Kelliher sought out Stephen Craig Sayle, an Enron Corp. lobbyist, to make similar recommendations. Sayle, former counsel for the House Commerce Committee, sent Kelliher Enron's "dream list." The list included a recommendation that the administration commit to market-based emissions trading, which was also used in administration's National Energy Policy.

Sayle wrote Kelliher about the energy policy, saying, "a multi-pollutant regulatory strategy should be estimated for the power generation sector including: Gradually phased in [mercury, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide emissions] reductions; reform/replacement of NSR; use of market-based/emission trading programs; inclusion of both existing and new plants and equal treatment for both. The last bullet is the critical one to ensure that: a) we encourage the new generation that is required; b) we ensure that the new technologies developed through DOE programs can come into the market.

"Obviously, this is a dream list," Sayle said in the March 23, 2001 email he sent to Kelliher. "Not all will be done. But perhaps some of these ideas could be floated and adopted."

Sayle also provided Kelliher with a PowerPoint presentation on behalf of his other energy clients in the so-called Clean Power Group, a consortium made up of a handful of the country's biggest energy companies, including NiSource Inc., Calpine Corp., Trigen Energy Corp. and El Paso Corp, whose mission, according to the group's web site, is to "streamline requirements under the Clean Air Act for electric generating facilities while at the same time making major reductions in air emissions."

The PowerPoint presentation, A Comprehensive Multi-Pollutant Emission Control Strategy for Power Generation, summarized the Clean Power Group's support of a "cap and trade" method in addressing emissions of mercury, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide from power plants, but included a proposal for a voluntary cap on carbon dioxide. The Clean Power Group stood to benefit from the initiative it urged Kelliher to get the White House to adopt in that the companies could release more emissions under its proposed plan than under the more restrictive rules the Clinton administration had put in place.

After receiving Sayle's email and supporting material, Kelliher recommended that President Bush "direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to propose multi-pollutant legislation that would establish a flexible, market-based program to significantly reduce and cap emissions; provide regulatory certainty to allow utilities to make modifications to their plants without fear of new litigation; provide market based incentives, such as emissions-trading credits to help achieve the required reductions," all of which the president approved and was eventually incorporated into the National Energy Policy.

In fact, President Bush's "Clear Skies" initiative consists of many of the bullet points laid out months earlier in Sayle's email to Kelliher.

In addition to Kelliher's correspondence with Sayle, he also met with oil and gas industry lobbyists who helped draft language that Kelliher passed on directly to the White House. Two months later, the president issued executive orders nearly identical to those Kelliher received from the lobbyists months earlier, according to energy task force documents.

Kelliher now chairs FERC, the agency that is entrusted with keeping a close eye on wholesale energy markets, ensuring that companies like Williams and Reliant refrain from engaging in the type of manipulative practices they were caught doing during the spring and summer of 2000 in California.






Cheney Orders FERC to Seal Evidence

But the documentary evidence of widespread market manipulation that FERC obtained in March 2001, while Kelliher was soliciting energy industry officials to assist in writing the National Energy Policy, and when Cruikshank and Allbaugh disclosed to the vice president the manipulative tactics Williams and Reliant had engaged in, was sealed by FERC on direct orders by Cheney because it would have been a political nightmare for the Bush administration and would have derailed a recommendation of one of the cornerstones of the vice president's National Energy Policy: deregulation, and perhaps scuttle the policy altogether if evidence about the energy companies behavior in California was made public, according to half-a-dozen former FERC officials and former Energy Department officials.

So in May 2001, just days before Cheney unveiled his long-awaited National Energy Policy, FERC entered into confidential settlements with Williams in which the company forfeited $8 million it was owed by California's grid operator for power Williams sold into the marketplace at inflated prices. Williams did not admit any guilt for the power plant shutdown and, on orders from Cheney, FERC agreed to keep details of the settlement sealed. FERC later entered into a similar settlement with Reliant. The company agreed to forfeit $13.8 million it was owed by California's grid operator, did not admit to any wrongdoing, and FERC kept the details of the settlement confidential.

Moreover, FERC kept California officials in the dark about the nature of the state's claims that its wholesale electricity market was being manipulated. Hebert is now the vice president of external affairs for Entergy in New Orleans.

For former Governor Gray Davis, the illegal behavior by energy companies like Williams that federal energy regulators discovered, then covered up, during a time when the former governor had said publicly he believed such behavior had taken place, is beyond disturbing.

Instead of protecting the interests of consumers, FERC's primary job, Hebert toed the White House line and together with Cheney, Hebert had come out publicly to say that Davis should immediately order the California Public Utilities Commission to relax environmental restrictions on the permitting process related to power plant construction and raise electricity rates to keep utilities Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison from becoming insolvent. The insolvency issue was due to the fact that the utilities were paying higher prices for power than it was legally allowed to charge its customers under the state's deregulation law.

In an interview, Davis, now an attorney with Loeb & Loeb in Century City, California, said he never saw the evidence FERC had obtained implicating Williams in shutting down power plants in the state.

"If I had hard evidence that this was happening, I would have stood out in front of the Congress until they did something," Davis said. "I thought there was something rotten going on but I never believed that these energy companies would outright steal from us."

"This was an absolute outrage and was based on pure greed," Davis added. "I clearly didn't know this was happening with Williams. I think FERC perpetrated a fraud on the American public and California consumers by sealing the findings of this investigation while I was out there saying that this type of manipulation was happening. I think that if the results of this investigation were made public in March 2001, when FERC knew this was taking place, it would have stopped energy deregulation in America in its tracks. This admission in effect by Williams would have been the death knell for energy deregulation."

Davis had a tumultuous relationship with the federal agency that appeared to be based on partisan politics. Just three months before Cruikshank and Allbaugh provided Cheney with details that the energy companies they were affiliated with had gouged California consumers and violated the state's market rules, the vice president, and FERC's chairman, railed against Davis, blaming the energy crisis on him and said the governor's claims that energy companies were acting like a "cartel" were baseless.

"The basic problem in California was caused by Californians," Cheney said, adding that he would resist calls by lawmakers to allow price caps to be placed on wholesale energy prices in the Western United States.

Even after Hebert had secured evidence showing that Williams manipulated the power market, he continued to pin the blame for skyrocketing power prices squarely on the shoulders of Davis and the state's Democratic leaders.

"I went to FERC and laid out our problems and was promised they would look into it. Nothing happened," Davis said. "My experience with FERC during the energy crisis was wholly unsatisfactory. I did not ever feel that they believed their job was to act in the public interest. I always believed they were acting in the interests of the energy companies. They operated as if they were a wholly owned subsidiary of the energy companies."

Hebert, however, fell out favor with the Bush administration when he privately opposed a recommendation by Ken Lay, made to Cheney, to open up the country's transmission lines to corporations such as Enron. Lay requested Cheney and Bush replace Hebert, which they did in the summer of 2001.




PG&E Files for Bankruptcy; Rove Orchestrates Political Spin Campaign

In a televised speech to California residents on April 5, 2001, Davis resisted Cheney's and Hebert's calls to increase electricity rates for average consumers to keep the state's public utilities afloat, opting instead to increase electricity rates of the state's largest power customers such as manufacturing plants. The next morning PG&E filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Davis publicly railed against the Bush administration's refusal to launch an investigation into wholesale energy companies trading practices, and its position on price caps. Davis's rhetoric started to impact the Bush administration's approval ratings. Rove, working closely with Cheney, entered into discussions on how the White House would respond to criticism by Davis that the Bush administration was turning its back on California.

"Karl [Rove] started to talk about using the resources of former Republican National Committee staffers to put together an attack campaign against Davis, and pin the power problems on the governor and his administration," according to one former high-level Energy Department official who was privy to the conversation between Rove and Cheney.

Rove enlisted the help of former RNC staffers Ed Gillespie, then a lobbyist who was working for Enron and other energy companies, and Scott Reed, who used to work for the RNC and was the former manager of Robert Dole's presidential campaign, to start devising a strategy to attack Davis and lead people to believe that the energy crisis was entirely his fault. Gillespie was recently tapped by President Bush to replace Dan Bartlett as White House counselor.

Reed and Gillespie, who was doing double duty advising Cheney's energy task force on behalf of Enron, advised Rove and the vice president that the PG&E bankruptcy left Davis vulnerable and the best course of action for the White House was to take advantage of Davis's vulnerability by stating that Davis single-handedly, in refusing to raise electricity rates, caused one of the largest bankruptcies in American history. Gillespie went a step further, according to Energy Department officials familiar with his conversations with Rove and Cheney, by suggesting that the White House start courting Republican gubernatorial candidates to replace Davis in the 2002 election.

At the White House in April 2001, Rove met with Brad Freeman, President Bush's California finance chairman during the 2000 presidential campaign, and Gerald Parsky, an investment banker, who was Bush's top adviser in California. The discussion centered on Parsky and Freeman's interest in courting actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to discuss his bid for governor in 2002.

"That would be nice," Rove said about the possibility of Schwarzenegger, a Republican, to replace Davis as governor, according to people who were briefed about the meeting. "That would be really, really nice."

Davis said he could see now see how the energy crisis created a political opportunity for the White House in California.

"In retrospect I could see how that happened," Davis said. "There's no question that the energy companies saw me as an adversary when I wouldn't buckle under their demands. I was vulnerable and the [energy companies and the White House] took advantage of it. This crisis took place in the early days of the Bush administration. I figured these guys are too busy picking out furniture for their offices. I didn't think they [the Bush administration] were spending their days in office involved in some full-scale conspiracy. But it turns out they were."




Cheney Takes Aim at Davis

Meanwhile, Cheney continued to meet with energy company officials who were instrumental in drafting key aspects of the National Energy Policy. At the same time, the usually reclusive vice president was granting interviews to numerous reporters discussing his take on the California energy crisis which continued to spiral out of control.

In May 2001, the PBS news program "Frontline" interviewed Cheney who was asked by a correspondent whether energy companies were acting like a cartel and using manipulative tactics to cause electricity prices to spike in California.

"No," Cheney said during the "Frontline" interview, even though he was personally briefed about energy companies manipulating the state. "The problem you had in California was caused by a combination of things - an unwise regulatory scheme, because they didn't really deregulate. Now they’re trapped from unwise regulatory schemes, plus, not having addressed the supply side of the issue. They've obviously created major problems for themselves and bankrupted PG&E in the process."

The same month, May 2001, Davis met with Bush at a Century City hotel, not far from the offices he now works at as an attorney. He pleaded with Bush one last time to put price controls in place. Bush refused.

Behind the scenes, while Bush and Davis discussed the state of the energy crisis, Gillespie was emailing Enron officials on the status of Cheney's energy policy. He alerted Enron executives to the exact language that would appear on one of the hot-button issues revolving around price caps in California and the west and allowing energy companies free access to the nation's transmission lines.

"I believe this is the exact language that will appear under the 'energy supply' section of the report," Gillespie wrote. "Recommends that the President encourage the FERC to use its existing statutory authority to promote competition and encourage investment in transmission facilities," which Enron was lobbying heavily for. "Please keep this under wraps. We do not want to circulate this beyond the folks listed on this email. Please let me know any concerns. As we have known for several weeks, the report is not as explicit as we would want, but the White House, vice president, and [Department of Energy] have repeatedly but verbally assured us that they are making clear to FERC exactly what this means."

Another email Gillespie forwarded Enron officials, dated May 17, 2001, came from Cheney's spokeswoman, Juleanna Glover, who told Gillespie "you're really relied upon around here ... hear your name all the time in connection w. tough issues, but you know that already."

On May 21, 2001, five days after unveiling his energy policy, Cheney told Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" that Davis was to blame for the energy issues in the state.

"They knew over a year ago they had a problem, and Gray Davis refused to address that problem," Cheney said. "[They] kept putting it off and putting it off and putting it off, with the notion that somehow price caps could be maintained. Now, today, where are they in California?"





GOP Front Group Attacks Gray Davis, Shields Bush, Cheney

At the same time, Reed informed Rove and Cheney that his nonprofit, the American Taxpayers Alliance, a Republican front organization, would begin to air a series of scathing radio commercials taking aim at Davis's failure to tame the energy crisis in June 2001. The ads, Reed said, were aimed to shift attention away from Republicans in Washington and "back to Sacramento where it belongs." Reed added that the ads would leave Davis "bleeding like a stuck pig."

The ads, which began to air in June 2001, did in fact make an impact:

"He's pointing fingers and blaming others. Gray Davis says he's not responsible for California's energy problems; after all, the Public Utilities Commission blocked long-term cost-saving contracts for electricity. But who runs the PUC? The people Gray Davis appointed - Loretta Lynch and other Davis appointees who left us powerless. That's why newspapers say he just ignored all the warning signals and turned a problem into a crisis. Grayouts on Gray Davis."

The ads and the negative press Davis received helped set in motion a chain of events that would lead to a historic recall campaign and put Schwarzenegger in office.

What the public didn't know, however, is that Cheney and Rove recommended that Reed approach Reliant Energy, the firm that one of Cheney's energy task force advisers, Joseph Allbaugh, was affiliated with via his wife's lobbying for the company, to fund the radio spots, according to former Reliant executives involved in the matter. Reliant donated nearly $2 million of Reed's $3.2 annual budget, yet the company only reported spending a total of $340,000 on government lobbying in apparent violation of the law, according to the company's public records.

Gillespie also launched a public relations campaign against Davis. He took ads out in print publications attacking Davis. The ads were paid for by Gillespie's 21st Century Energy Project, which he formed in close coordination with Karl Rove less than a month after the National Energy Policy was released in May 2001, according to former Enron executives who worked closely with Gillespie. Enron funneled at least $75,000 to Gillespie to pay for the ads through Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, according to documents obtained by Truthout.

Russ Schriefer, who worked with Gillespie on Bush’s presidential campaign and formed Mosaic Media with Quinn Gillespie in February 2001 to produce advocacy ads for Republicans, wrote the Davis ads. The ads aired on ABC, Fox and CNN.

Norquist, a longtime friend of Cheney's, was personally tapped by Rove to assist Gillespie with the ad campaign. Norquist may be best known for his close relationship with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. One of Abramoff's clients, Raul Garza, chief of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, donated $25,000 to Norquist's organization in order to obtain an invitation to a reception with President Bush on May 9, 2001. Norquist and Abramoff were also in attendance and a photograph of Garza standing alongside Bush with Abramoff in the background was kept from public view when the Abramoff scandal blew up. Bush had denied publicly that he ever met Abramoff.

At the time, Gillespie said the ads were necessary "because Davis put all his time and energy into trying to shift responsibility and President Bush spent all his time and energy trying to accept responsibility. The president is trying to change the tone, but others of us have to point out that the crisis developed on the watch of Governor Davis and President Clinton."




Executive Privilege

Immediately following reports that Cheney relied upon the recommendations of 400 energy industry executives to draft the National Energy Policy, lawmakers began to demand that the vice president turn over documents regarding his task force meetings to Congress. The vice president vehemently refused.

With White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales weighing in on the issue, the administration exerted "executive privilege" as the reason it refused to turn over task force documents to Democratic lawmakers. The issue reached the Supreme Court that ruled in Cheney's favor. As Attorney General, Gonzales still refuses to publicly release audiotapes from 2000 and 2001 in which other energy companies were also found to have discussed ways in which to manipulate the California energy market. Some of the heads of those companies implicated in the crisis also provided Cheney with input on the National Energy Policy.

In 2004, Reliant became the first energy company that was indicted for its role in manufacturing the California energy crisis. A year later, the company refunded California $453 million.

Last month, two power companies agreed to pay California $84 million to settle charges stemming from the 2000-2001 California energy crisis.

PacifiCorp, a unit of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., paid the state $27.9 million to resolve claims that it manipulated the California and Pacific Northwest electricity markets in 2000 and 2001. MidAmerican Energy Holdings is a subsidiary of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

In a second case, a subsidiary of Houston-based El Paso Corp. paid California $56 million.

Joseph Kelliher, the chairman of FERC, and the man who, on behalf of Cheney in March 2001, lobbied these very companies to help write the National Energy Policy, helped negotiate the settlements.

Davis feels vindicated in light of the refunds paid to California consumers, which, to date, have totaled about $6 billion. He said that he believes he would likely never have faced a recall if FERC publicly released details of its investigation into Williams in March 2001. But despite what he knows now Davis doesn't hold a grudge against the individuals responsible for using the energy crisis to have him recalled.

"No one ever said life is fair," Davis said.



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Jason Leopold is a former Los Angeles bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswire. He has written over 2,000 stories on the California energy crisis and received the Dow Jones Journalist of the Year Award in 2001 for his coverage on the issue as well as a Project Censored award in 2004. Leopold also reported extensively on Enron's downfall and was the first journalist to land an interview with former Enron president Jeffrey Skilling following Enron's bankruptcy filing in December 2001. Leopold has appeared on CNBC and National Public Radio as an expert on energy policy and has also been the keynote speaker at more than two dozen energy industry conferences around the country.


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To understand Cheney's motive for ordering the murder of CHRISTINA MOORE, you got to understand what she knew and who she told.

You got to understand that SENATOR PETE WILSON of California employed Christina and Lake. Lake did the PR for Texas ERCOT (Gov Bush's deregulation of the Texas Energy market).

Pete Wilson stepped down from his US Senate seat in mid term??????!!!!!!....and later ran as Governor of California who "deregulated the California Energy market" as part of a RICO Felony Fraud Scheme designed to "pump and dump ENRON"...who was the only company in America who had The FERC's okay to "trade in energy futures"?!

Christina Moore gave info to Robert Moore who broke the story open.

The contract mercenaries performing the murder...used NSA SIGINT as proven by the CALEA computerized wiretap records maintained on the hard disk of the main frame computer for the telecom company serving CHRISTINA MOORE'S HOME.

The murderers of Christina....had real time knowledge of when she was alone in the house early in the morning before work. That info, could have only came from electronic surveillance.

Round Rock PD and The Williamson County States Attorney....all helped Austin FBI and the US Attorney for The Western district of Texas (JOHNNY SUTTON...who also covered up the infamous HOUSE OF DEATH MURDERS in Mexico by an El Paso DEA informant) cover up the criminal liability for The NSA 902nd Counterintelligence Group, The NSA TSP mercenaries (Phil depected in police sketch, Nathan Griffith, Robert McNaughton).
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CHENEY'S SECRET ENERGY TASK FORCE: Whistleblower gives info to Washington Post?

By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: July 19, 2007


WASHINGTON, July 18 — For six years, Vice President Dick Cheney has guarded the secrecy of the discussions and participants in his energy task force, which produced a report in May 2001 calling for accelerated development of domestic oil and gas supplies to deal with the nation’s energy needs.

Now, thanks to an unidentified former White House official who provided The Washington Post a partial list of individuals, companies and groups that met with the task force, it is possible to identify with greater precision who may have influenced its deliberations.

The list bears the names, The Post reported Wednesday, of nearly 300 people and organizations that met with the vice president or his staff during the months that the task force was preparing its report. It is not, however, the complete accounting that Congress and some environmental groups have demanded.

It has long been known that the oil industry was well represented at the task force meetings and found a receptive audience in Mr. Cheney, who had spent five years as chief executive of Halliburton, a leading oil-field-services company. He was given the energy assignment by President Bush, who himself had had a career in the oil business.

Virtually every major oil and diversified energy company, from British Petroleum to Enron to Reliant Energy, participated in one or more meetings of the Cheney group, according to the list. Trade groups and lobbyists representing industrial energy users, pipeline companies, utilities and mining concerns were also amply represented at multiple task force sessions. By contrast, leaders of 13 environmental groups were invited to a single session late in the process, weeks after most of the industry representatives had been heard.

Employees of companies that participated in the deliberations have given millions to Republican candidates and causes since 1999 and have been among the party’s largest donors over that period, according to campaign finance records. And employees of the companies on the new list contributed more than $570,000 to the Bush-Cheney campaigns of 2000 and 2004, the records show.

There is little surprising about the people and interests Mr. Cheney consulted in drawing up his energy plan, and many participants long ago came forward to confirm that they had taken part. In fact, officials of a number of companies who do not appear on the latest list acknowledged years ago that they spoke to the task force. Among those companies are Ashland Oil, Anadarko Petroleum, Chevron and Peabody Energy, the nation’s largest coal company.

But the White House has refused to give Congress the names of participants and has vigorously defended the secrecy of the deliberations in court, saying confidentiality of internal executive branch discussions is crucial to the separation of powers. The Supreme Court upheld that position in 2004.


Asked about The Post’s report, Lea Anne McBride, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cheney, would not confirm the authenticity of the list or otherwise comment on the task force’s deliberations. She said in a statement that the vice president “respectfully but resolutely” asserts the importance of executive branch confidentiality on matters of national policy.

The energy debate in the United States has moved far beyond where it stood in 2001, when the emphasis in the White House and among Republicans in Congress was on producing more power from oil, coal and nuclear plants. Many of those in the oil and electric power industries have expressed disappointment at the Bush administration’s inability to open vast new tracts of public lands and waters to oil drilling and speed the licensing of new nuclear generators.

Red Cavaney, president of the American Petroleum Institute, a trade group that represents the nation’s major oil companies, said he had met several times with Mr. Cheney’s aides and submitted detailed position papers. He said that his group’s recommendations on new drilling in Alaska, the Rockies and offshore had been reflected in the final report, but that Congress and the administration had been unable to follow through.


Griffin Palmer contributed reporting from New York.

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Bean's comment: It's important to note that CHRISTINA MOORE was murdered because she gave inside info to her husband ROBERT MOORE (who broke the story on this secretive energy task force) for THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY (who smeared their star reporter under pressure from Cheney's White House, after Cheney found out from the NSA that "Bean had linked Cheney to the NSA TSP mercenaries" who committed overt acts as part of the conspiracy to commit the Christina Moore murder in Round Rock, Texas, on 9/23/03.

Bean linked Cheney to the murder...from his knowledge of the identities of the three unindicted coconspirators to this murder. The Police sketches depict NSA TSP mercenaries who were also DEPLOYED TO NEUTRALIZE BEAN, BECAUSE BEAN WAS A COOPERATING MATERIAL WITNESS WHO TRIED TO STOP THE US INTEL COMMUNITY FROM USING CANISTOTA, SD, ELECTRONIC DETENATORS IN THE MURRAY BUILDING BOMBS THAT KILLED LITTLE CHILDREN IN OK CITY ON APRIL 19TH, 1995.

ENRON MURDERS: Dead Eye Dick's dirty little game

From WAYNE MADSEN REPORT:

July 13, 2006 --

Another suspicious death in Enron probe. A British banker who was involved in the criminal investigation of Enron was found dead yesterday in Waltham Forest, in east London. Neil Coulbeck, 53, was the former Head of Group Treasury at the Royal Bank of Scotland, the bank that purchased National Westminster Bank (NatWest), the bank which is the subject of the Enron investigation. Three NatWest bankers -- David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew, and Giles Darby -- have been ordered by a British court to be extradited to Houston to stand trial in a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving Enron.



----British business leaders have condemned the decision to extradite the three. Coulbeck, who was based in the United States, allegedly approved a deal by Bermingham, Mulgrew, and Darby, in which NatWest sold a Cayman Islands company to Enron for less than its actual value. The three had purchased shares in the company before they sold it, raking in 1.5 million British pounds each. The Cayman company, SwapSub, was later used by Enron to secretly move large sums of cash and support off-balance sheet transactions of its subsidiaries.



----The British civil rights organization Liberty has stated that FBI agents "hounded" Mr. Coulbeck, who was reportedly a key figure in the case against Enron. FBI agents traveled to Britain to interview Coulbeck. The fact that FBI agents were threatening to a citizen of another nation on foreign soil is yet another indication that the Bush regime continues to trample on the rights of Americans and those abroad. If Coulbeck was as important to the case against the NatWest bankers and Enron as the British media is reporting, there is no reason why the FBI should have threatened Coulbeck unless they were engaged in witness intimidation, a crime. There is also a question as to what role the FBI may have played in Coulbeck's suspicious death.


----Coulbeck's death, which some British sources are reporting to be a "suicide," is eerily similar to that of British Ministry of Defense weapons expert Dr. David Kelly. The bodies of Coulbeck and Kelly were found in the woods. In Kelly's case, the Hutton Commission concluded that his death was a suicide, even though many questions remained unanswered about his death. Most of the corporate British press are speculating Coulbeck's death was a suicide, there is hardly any mention of the more likely scenario -- that he was murdered to keep him silent about a politically-charged criminal investigation that may link to Number Ten Downing Street and the White House. The Enron probe has been wracked by "suicides" and untimely deaths, including that of former Enron officer Cliff Baxter in Houston and Kenneth Lay in Aspen, Colorado.



Enron bodies continue to pile up: First it was chief witness Cliff Baxter (left), then Ken Lay (right), and now Neil Coulbeck.



Coulbeck's death followed the arrest of Tony Blair's close friend, major fundraiser, and tennis partner Lord Michael Levy. Levy, the architect of Blair's "New Labor" program, which saw the traditional workers' party turn away from labor unions and to big business for contributions (the mirror image of that "Third Way" initiative in the United States is the Democratic Leadership Council, which also turned away from unions and toward big corporations for contributions), was arrested by London Metropolitan Police for his role in selling House of Lord peerages and New Year's honors in return for large contributions to the Labor Party.



The death of Coulbeck, the granting of extraterritorial rights to the FBI in Britain, and the arrest of Levy suggests that the Blair regime is merely a corrupt adjunct of the Bush crime cartel. It is strongly rumored that once he leaves Number Ten, Blair will be offered a lucrative spot on the international board of the Carlyle Group -- joining George H. W. Bush, former Secretary of State James Baker, and former British Prime Minister John Major.

Yesterday, just after Coulbeck's body was discovered in the East London woods, the elder Bush and Baker attended Enron founder "Kenny Boy" Lay's memorial service in Houston. Lay died in Aspen on July 5 from a reported heart attack. Lay's wealth, including any that may have been hidden in off-shore locations like the Cayman Islands, will now remain with his estate instead of being confiscated by the government. Lay's body was reportedly cremated.

UFO beams up an elk....in front of Forest Service workers

http://www.geocities.com/area51/shadowland.../cattle028.html


UFO Elk Abduction Said Witnessed In Washington State

Source: National UFO Reporting Center Case Brief
February 25, 1999

http://www.nwlink.com/~ufocntr/CB990225.html

On Monday, March 01, 1999, the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) received a call over its telephone Hotline (206-722-3000) from an individual who identified himself as an employee in the forestry industry in Washington State. The individual left a message, in which he reported that a team of forestry workers allegedly had been witness to an incident on Thursday, February 25, 1999, during which time an elk was lifted off the ground and carried away by a very peculiar, disc-shaped object. [*Click here to hear an excerpt from the hotline recording.]

Peter B. Davenport, Director of NUFORC, contacted several of the individuals whose names and telephone numbers had been provided by the first contact. Based on those telephone conversations, he elected to initiate a preliminary investigation of the incident.

Because NUFORC traditionally does not serve as an investigative body, Mr. Davenport contacted Mr. Robert A. Fairfax, Director of Investigations for the Washington State Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network, which does conduct investigations of alleged UFO sightings. Messrs. Davenport and Fairfax traveled to the location of the alleged incident, and jointly have been conducting an investigation of this elk abduction case since Friday, March 05.


Their investigation to date has included a trip to the site of the incident, an interview of three of the alleged fourteen witnesses to the actual abduction, and several conversations with individuals who work with the eyewitnesses. In addition, the investigators inspected the carcass of an adult elk, a pregnant cow, which was found dead beside a logging road on March 01 by other forestry employees within a few miles of the principal event.

The investigation and collection of facts surrounding the case will continue. This preliminary summary of their findings to date is submitted jointly by Messrs. Davenport and Fairfax.




Incident Summary:

On Thursday, February 25, 1999, at just a few minutes before noon, three forestry workers, who were planting seedling trees in the mountains of Washington State, witnessed a small, disc-shaped object slowly drift over a nearby ridge to their south, and descend into the valley to the north of their position. The object descended silently with what seemed to the witnesses a purposeful manner, exhibiting a slight "wobble" to its flight.


The three workers at first thought the object was some kind of parachute that was drifting and descending, but they quickly realized that their initial impression was not correct. Hence, they shouted to their eleven co-workers nearby, who were working on the north-facing hillside, and all fourteen members of the work crew watched the object for an estimated 3-5 minutes.

Within seconds of their first observation of the object, the witnesses became aware that the object was travelling generally in the direction of a herd of elk that they had been watching all morning. They continued to watch as the object proceeded toward the herd until it succeeded in getting quite close to the animals. The animals apparently remained unaware of the objectís presence until it was within a very short distance of the herd.

Suddenly, the animals bolted, most of the them running up the slope to their east. However, one adult animal was seen by the witnesses to separate itself from the herd and run or trot to generally to the north, perhaps along a logging road. The witnesses report that at this point, the object quickly moved directly above the lone elk and seemed to lift it off the ground, although no visible means of support of the animal was evident to the observers.

[Photo of incident site and reported path of craft (graphic by Robert Fairfax)]

The witnesses added that shortly after lifting the elk off the ground, the object seemed to begin to "wobble" to a more pronounced degree than it had exhibited earlier. In addition, as the object appeared to increase its altitude, the elk, which was suspended upright below the disc, rotated slowly beneath it and appeared to be getting closer to the ventral surface of the disc. They also commented that the object seemed to increase in size slightly after it had picked up the animal.

With the elk suspended below it, the object began to ascend slowly up a clear-cut slope to the east. However, the witnesses watched it apparently brush the tops of nearby trees to the east, at which point it reversed its course and proceeded to the west. It executed a 360-degree turn to the left and may have gained some slight altitude in the process, the witnesses thought.

After the object had completed its turn and was once again proceeding in a generally easterly direction, it began ascending very quickly at what seemed to the witnesses to be a rather steep angle. It continued to ascend, and simply disappeared from sight of the witnesses.

The witnesses stated that once the object had started to ascend and had climbed to an altitude above their vantage point, they no longer could see the animal suspended below the craft. Their presumption was that the animal had somehow been taken into the craft, although the witnesses could discern no "door," or any kind of aperture through which the animal might have been conveyed into the craft.

The witnesses also stated that following the incident, the herd of elk remained in the same general area, although remained more closely huddled to one another than had been the case earlier in the morning. The workers added that they, too, had remained closer to one another until their departure from the area at the end of the work day. NOTE:

Investigation summary prepared by Peter B. Davenport, Director, National UFO Reporting Center, and Robert A. Fairfax, Director of Investigations, Mutual UFO Network, for the Washington State

Pig Stealing aliens in North Dakota: just a glimpse of the heartland

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm...FTOKEN=10460788


Pig-grabbing space aliens are the talk of Tappen, N.D., and beyond.

But Torrey Briese, whose family counts three close encounters with the inexplicable, doesn’t much worry what others think.




“Some people probably aren’t going to believe it. I’m not even trying to convince anybody. We know what happened,” said Briese, a member of the Tappen School Board whose family operates a ranch outside of town.

Briese and his wife, Myra, spoke Thursday of three strange occurrences experienced by family members in the past year, two of which were reported by their son Evan, 16.

According to Myra Briese, the latest incident went something like this:


Her son awoke early on the morning of Sept. 12 and got up to get a glass of water.

Looking out a window, the boy saw something moving in the corral that is home to several large hogs that are basically family pets.

Thinking it might be a coyote, he grabbed a gun and walked into the corral.

There, he encountered two creatures standing 8 to 9 feet tall that were doing something to one of the hogs. The boy fired his .22-caliber rifle at one creature and was pretty sure he hit it, judging by the unearthly scream it emitted.

Another creature then grabbed the boy and threw him to the ground, causing him to black out.

When Evan Briese awoke, he found that Ruthy, a 450-pound sow that had been ready to give birth, was gone.

The boy ran to the home of his older sister, Trista, a short distance from the house he shares with his parents.

Trista Briese made a frantic phone call to her parents and it wasn’t long before they, and later the Kidder County sheriff, were on the scene.

Evan Briese, whose shirt was in tatters, told his story.The sheriff, Doug Howard, then left but came back the next day. He ultimately came to no conclusions about what happened to the hog, Myra Briese said.

Several days later, with the help of a hypnotist, Evan Briese remembered more details.

Five entities had been in the corral. Two were in the process of dragging what appeared to be a dead hog when the boy interrupted them.

“It’s unexplainable,” Myra Briese said.

“This still bothers Evan to this day,” she said, adding that her son feels guilty for not being able to save his younger sister’s hog.

As for the other incidents, one was in April when Evan and his cattle dog, Buster, were checking on cows during calving season, his parents said.

Investigating a flashing glow, the pair walked over a hill and saw an object resting on the ground that appeared to be scanning a waterhole with an intense beam of light.

At first, boy and dog could do nothing but stare.

The spell was broken when Buster ran barking at the craft, which took off into the night, causing what amounted to a sonic boom.

“It woke Myra up,” Torrey Briese said of the sound, adding that he, too, witnessed something unusual this past summer. It happened one night in July, when he was giving a neighbor a ride into town.

Briese said he and the neighbor noticed a bluish light in the sky, which stopped when they stopped and moved when they began driving.

“We spent about a half-hour watching it,” Briese said, adding that at one point the object flew so fast it went several miles in a matter of seconds.

Based on the description of the object his son saw in April, Briese links the two events, adding that he’s never been given to flights of fancy.

“Evan and I are very skeptical,” Torrey Briese said. “We used to watch ‘The UFO Files’ on TV and laugh out loud.”

Briese said he wouldn’t be surprised if people feel the same about his story, but he said the family doesn’t feel a need to prove anything and they’ve moved on.

“We’re not out looking for aliens every night,” he said.

Brice Barnick, the mayor of Tappen – located off Interstate 94 between Bismarck and Jamestown – said visits by UFOs are the talk of the town, though he himself is not quite on board.

“I’m not saying it can’t happen. But I’d have to see it to believe it,” Barnick said.

At the time of the April incident, the Brieses were put in touch with Richard Moss, a UFO investigator who happened to be in Tappen for a funeral.

Moss, of Long Prairie, Minn., is the Minnesota representative of the Mutual UFO Network, an organization based in Colorado dedicated to the study of UFO phenomena.

Moss, a former high school science teacher, said that in many years of investigating UFO reports, only a handful have impressed him as having the potential to be genuine.

The Tappen incidents, he said, fall into the latter category.

“There are a lot of people out there who are telling false stories. The credibility of the witness is a big thing,” Moss said.

In the case of Evan Briese, Moss said it was interesting to view the boy’s demeanor before and after the hypnotic regression.

Prior to hypnosis, “He (Briese) had a sort of unsure look on his face. He was still really wondering what had happened. After the hypnotic regression, he knew. He was made to remember,” Moss said.

Sheriff Howard was off duty Thursday and could not be reached for comment.

John Lemieux, a Kidder County deputy, said he did not believe the incident in September resulted in a written report.

Torrey Briese said strange things are still happening.

A relative who farms in the Tappen area recently had a sheep die, and a veterinarian who examined the animal found no obvious reason for its death, Briese said.

A cause of death wasn’t the only thing missing.

Someone, Briese said, removed a single testicle from the animal.

It was done with surgical precision, he added.


Forum reporter Steven P. Wagner contributed to this report Readers can reach Forum reporter Dave Olson at (701) 241-5555

Why was MCVEIGH calling a catholic arch diocese before OK CITY BOMB?

http://www.albionmonitor.com/9802a/okcothers3.html


The FBI Investigation at Oklahoma City

by Greg Campbell and Joel Dyer





".....The Catholic priest who liked Hitler


All three of the subjects above shared a common tie: the Freemen movement centered in and around St. Mary's, Kan. The subjects were well known to local law enforcement officials for their participation in common-law courts and for filing bogus liens and money orders. At least some of the subjects also shared religious beliefs.
St. Mary's is no ordinary town. Not only is it at the center of the Kansas Freemen movement, it's home to a religious complex well-known to those who monitor the radical right, including the federal government.

St. Mary's Academy and College, a 67-acre former Catholic school in St. Mary's, has been at the center of several controversies in recent years.

According to the May 1995 issue of Fidelity magazine, a Catholic publication, a former St. Mary's priest, by the name of Father John Rizzo, described an experience he had in the presence of Father Ramon Angles, the new rector of the parish and school at St. Mary's. Rizzo recalled that they were having an ordinary conversation when suddenly, "without any provocation whatsoever, he (Angles) got up and walked over to his bookshelf. He pulled out this huge book with the title, 'The Life of Adolf Hitler' and a big picture of Hitler on the cover giving his salute. He put it on the bridge of his nose, the same way a sub-deacon holds up the Book of the Gospels at a solemn high mass. He walked around the coffee table in his apartment, making the noise of a thurible. After he (Angles) sat down, he says: 'Well, Rizzo, what do you think of that? Isn't this great?'"

The St. Mary's Academy is a part of the Society of St. Pius X, a group of Catholics who became disaffected with mainstream Catholicism following what it perceived to be the liberal ideas put forth at the Second Vatican Council of the early 1960s. Some proponents of Pius X have been accused of denying the reality of the Holocaust, believing in a Jewish world conspiracy and forming militia groups According to Sheriff Jake Mauk, Father Angles of the St. Mary's Academy has, on a number of occasions, adamantly denied that he in any way supports the militias that are so prevalent in the St. Mary's area.

Even so, Fidelity reported that the FBI paid several visits to the Academy in the month following the Oklahoma City bombing.

The FBI's interest in the Academy was most likely sparked by the fact that Tim McVeigh was spotted on several occasions in the tiny town of St. Mary's in the week before the Murrah building exploded and that McVeigh's phone card was used to make at least one call to an academy employee. While none of the above connections between the three subjects prove anything, it should have added validity to the leads being given to the government, leads that, according to the information turned over during the discovery process, were apparently dismissed as unimportant. ".....

more on TRINITY OIL from Al Martin, and Stew Webb

HERE'S STEW WEBB ON THE FAMOUS TRINITY OIL PUMP AND DUMP SCHEME


http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:AXf9Y...lr=&strip=1


9. Corporate Fraud, Stock Fraud and Other Scams



So far, we have attempted to illustrate Iran-Contra vis-a-vis the breakdown of three
specific areas -- namely, narcotics, weapons and fraud. Returning to fraud, we will
examine individual transactions and individual companies, as they related to the
overall pattern, an organized pattern, of State-sponsored fraud under the guise of what is now known as Iran-Contra.


The first deal I would like to speak about is the infamous Trinity Oil and Gas
Corporation, founded in 1984 by the infamous Barry Seal, Lawrence Richard Hamil
and Larry Nichols.


Trinity Oil and Gas was designed to be a fraud similar to all other oil and gas frauds at that time.


Not unlike Jeb Bush's Gulf Oil Drilling Supply Company.
Not unlike Larry Hamil's Gulf Coast Investment Group and LRH Associates, etc.
We will examine what these frauds had in common, how these frauds related to each
other, and ultimately where the money went.

Trinity Oil and Gas was perhaps a little different. Its purpose was perhaps a little
different. It was not only designed simply to be a fraud, but also as a vehicle to
launder Barry Seal's money -- money that Barry Seal was earning from his narcotics
activity.


Barry Seal, of course, has been extensively discussed in public before, but usually
only in the context of narcotics. His involvement corporately, or in fraud, is really an overlooked area.

Anyway, Trinity Oil and Gas -- to get its base of operations, similar to Gulf Coast
107 Investment Group -- purchased a bunch of old, beat out, one-barrel-a-day pumpers, two-barrels-a-day pumpers.

These were principally in the sand tar pits outside of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Most of the assets that Trinity Oil and Gas started with to construct the fraud were
assets that it had purchased from the old Sterling Oil of Oklahoma and the old Lyric
Energy of Oklahoma, both which had been publicly traded companies on the NASDAQ
prior to this time and had unfortunately busted out with the decline in oil prices in the early 1980s.

Again, the scheme was similar.
You take the one or two-barrel-a-day, fifty-year-old pumpers that are given a shot of acid every three months, and you make it appear that they're pumping four hundred to eight hundred barrels a day.

Of course, how you make that appear is by your runs and logs. In this case, Hamil,
once again, turned to Hess Oil, a division of Marathon Oil, then owned by Armand
Hammer.

We have discussed before how Armand Hammer allowed certain divisions -- oil and
gas divisions, suppliers, distributors -- that he owned to be used to commit fraud.
I guess, you could say this was his contribution to Iran-Contra and to Republican
sources.

Anyway, as they had done with Gulf Coast Investment Group and with Gulf Oil and
Drilling Supply Company, Hess had given false runs and logs, making it appear that in fact Trinity Oil was pumping five hundred times the oil that it was actually pumping. And one would say, “Where are the cash deposits? Where is the cash flowing
through Trinity Oil and Gas accounts to match this supposed oil production?”

Of course, where it was coming from initially was Barry Seal.
Barry Seal was simply using this as a device to launder money.

After July-August 1984, Trinity Oil and Gas, under the auspices of Larry Hamil,
became something larger, a newer entity, and an entity to actually defraud people.
As we have said before, we're using the term "defraud" loosely.

Actually people invested in Trinity Oil and Gas Limited Partnerships, who wanted to
contribute to “The Cause” as Oliver North referred to Iran-Contra.

But obviously a private citizen could not simply contribute to an illegal activity of government, ergo another artifice steps in, namely Trinity Oil and Gas.
Monies are siphoned off accordingly. It was very similar to the way monies were
siphoned out of Gulf Coast Investment Group and Gulf Coast Oil and Drilling Supply.
You would notice that all three of these companies tended to use either Hess or
Marathon as their pickup agents in the field.


They also tended to use the infamous Orca Supply Company of Coral Gables, Florida,
supposedly to purchase oil well equipment.

Orca Supply Company was a CIA cut-out that had been dormant. It was picked up
again and was run through the Iran-Contra period by the infamous Lt. Col. Jack Terrell, aka “El Flaco.”

What was different about Trinity Oil is that it is one of the very few Iran-Contra deals one can point to wherein money was siphoned off in both directions, politically speaking.

Not only did money go to Republicans, but it also went to Democrats in the State of
Arkansas.

Trinity Oil and Gas is an excellent example to illustrate how important the State of
Arkansas was (and the Democratic substructure in Arkansas was) to overall Iran-
Contra operations.

For instance, Trinity Oil and Gas was legally formed and its general counsels were
the Little Rock Law Firm of Rose and Hubbel. As a matter of fact, it was one of Web Hubbel's own accounts wherein he was counsel.

You will see that others within the Board of Directors of Trinity Oil are Dan Lasater and Raymond "Buddy" Young. Invoices, by the way, would be faked to make it appear that Trinity Oil and Gas was actually purchasing materials from the infamous Brodex Manufacturing and Global Associates.

Certainly, we remember these artifices from the past. Freddie Lee Hampton, Calvin
Edwards, George Rebb -- all of the Mena players.

Also, what should be mentioned -- and I think it’s very unique to Trinity Oil and Gas was its relationship with Seth Ward of Ward Manufacturing.

Same old scheme. Faked invoices for materials that were supposedly purchased, that
were in fact never manufactured or delivered.

Brodex Manufacturing, Global Associates, Ward Manufacturing and so forth were
receiving $20,000 - $40,000 a month. That type of thing. It was essentially money being bled out of Trinity Oil and Gas.

Of course, records subsequently revealed that Trinity Oil and Gas was making
substantial contributions to GOPAC, as well as individual Republicans. It had also had contributions to the Democratic State Party Committee in Arkansas.
Regarding Trinity Oil and Gas, there was Jeb Bush's involvement with it vis-a-vis his own oil and gas fraud, the Gulf Oil Drilling Supply Company.

Trinity Oil and Gas purchased Argentine and Brazilian oil and gas leases for about
$30,000 or $40,000 per lease from Gulf Oil Drilling Supply.


Of course, these leases were effectively worthless.
Gulf Oil Drilling Supply obtained these leases originally from Zapata.

They bought these leases for a dollar each from Bush-controlled Zapata Oil, which had held these leases for some time. But they were tantamount to worthless.


Suddenly these leases are effectively given from father to son and they wind up in
the hands of the Jeb Bush-controlled Gulf Oil Drilling Supply Company.
Gulf Oil Drilling Supply Company hypothecated these leases, borrowed money from
these leases with numerous Iran-Contra friendly banks in the Miami area, principally
Capitol Bank.

Later they would default on these loans, and when Brazilian authorities got word that these leased areas were being used for fraudulent purposes in the United States, Brazilian authorities mounted an investigation.


It was a half-assed investigation, but it was enough for Jeb Bush to disgorge. He
didn't want anything more to do with these leases, so consequently he sold them to
Trinity Oil and Gas, which again made the same claims that Gulf Oil Drilling Supply
Company had previously made. They said that these leases were, of course, fabulously
valuable, when in fact, they were tantamount to worthless.


To further illustrate the Arkansas connection to Trinity Oil and Gas, it should be
noted that the general counsels with the law firm of Rose and Hubbel -- their bank was another infamous Arkansas Iran-Contra bank -- the Twin Cities Bank of North Little Rock, Arkansas.


The officer there, later a Director of the bank who handled the account was the
infamous Jonathan Flake. Flake was the one who helped Seal and Hamil put together
limited partnerships and syndications, while the bank provided bridge loans.
Also, in general partnerships of oil production, proved up production (which they
didn't have, but they simply made it appear that they had), interests were sold by, of all people, Dan Lasater.


Flake, by the way, was an officer and Director of Twin Cities Bank of North Little
Rock -- a key figure in Iran-Contra fraud in Arkansas.


Flake was involved in numerous oil and gas scams and bogus real estate limited
partnerships that the bank also marketed and/or financed. He was also involved with
numerous U.S. congressmen.

In all of these bogus oil and gas deals or bogus real estate deals that Congressman
Alexander, Congressman Solarz, Congressman Dellums and others got hurt, the
common factor is Twin Cities Bank of North Little Rock Arkansas and its senior loan


....................


To get back to Trinity Oil and Gas -- I wanted to mention something that's been
completely overlooked. Trinity Oil and Gas was a publicly listed company for a short
period of time on the pink sheets.


It was a deal that was done in part through Meyer Blinder (Blinder Robinson
Securities in Denver) as well as Atlantic Securities, Balfour McClain Securities, Singer Island Securities. All of these companies had the same ownership through the National Brokerage Group of Denver.


Trinity Oil and Gas was backed into a shell which was then pumped up. The stock
traded as high as a dollar before the deal collapsed.


But returning to Trinity Oil and Gas -- a good example of what I would list as a pass through fraud, that is, a nuts to bolts fraud.


The company is started as a fraud to legitimize flow of funds from Iran-Contra
sympathizers to the hands of Oliver North and Richard Secord and others. Then it
would pass into the hands of the political parties and the various members of the Bush family who had financial interest in Trinity Oil and Gas vis-a-vis the connection between Trinity and their own corporations.


What I mean by “pass-through” is not only was the oil-and-gas part of it a fraud (to
defraud banks and securities firms), but you then back it into a public shell -- start it out at three or four cents a share and pump it up to a dollar.


That is simply another way to exploit the fraud.



We have taken an oil and gas fraud, moved it into a banking fraud, then into a
securities fraud. It's called squeezing every last penny of fraud out of the initial fraud, which is not directed towards anything else.


In the Florida connections (during 1983 to 1986) I was friendly with Charlie Harper,
then SEC Commissioner from Miami.


I used to see Charlie. Charlie used to go to a lot of Republican functions. Charlie was also a team player, and when I mentioned the Trinity Oil and Gas, and Gulf Oil
Drilling Supply, Charlie said that those were on his "red flag" list -- personally
provided to him from his superiors in Washington. These were deals that he was not to look at or investigate.


Subsequently, in my 1987 testimony before the Kerry Committee, I had mentioned
this to Jeff Goldberg, then Counsel for John Kerry's office, and they approached Harper. Harper immediately denied that such a list existed, and three weeks later, of course, Charlie was promoted to Regional SEC Commissioner in Atlanta.

Of course, at this time, Mr. Harper was also unable to explain where the money had
come from for him to purchase a $350,000 vacation home in the out islands, and where
the money had come from for his sailboat and his Cessna 210 airplane.
He had always claimed that he was an honest public servant, living on his salary of $
68,932 a year.


It should further be noted that when the Kerry Committee attempted to ask then-
Florida State Controller, Gerald Lewis (the cousin, by the way, of the infamous Marvin Warner) and later subpoena him as to why he had not investigated certain security transactions and businesses ongoing in Florida such as the Gulf Coast Investment Group, Trinity Oil and Gas, and the Gulf Oil Drilling Supply Company, the comptroller promptly resigned his position and elected to take an extended vacation in his luxury Caribbean home, which he purchased for the equivalent of ten years his public salary. 10.





The Trilateral Investment Group Fraud

I’d like to discuss another infamous Iran-Contra cut-out -- the Tri-Lateral Investment
Group, Ltd. This was another offshore corporation formed early in 1984 by Larry
Hamil and included as either its officers, principals, or directors, of Richard Secord,
Oliver North, Jeb Bush, Gen. Aderholt, and the infamous, sinister and dreaded Col.
Robert Steele.

Steele, by the way, now runs a business in McLean, Virginia called Outsource
Computers, Inc., whose soul contractee is the National Security Agency.
Anyway I wanted to use the Tri-Lateral Investment Group as a good example of one
business which incorporated all phases of the old right-wing favorite frauds, i.e. oil and
gas, real estate, gold bullion, aircraft brokerage, security and banking fraud, insurance
fraud. They were all wrapped up into one.


What Tri-Lateral would in real estate, for instance, would be to form various
fraudulent real estate investment trusts, which didn't exist as anything more than
paperwork in somebody's file drawer. They would take out leases on the land, build a
few models, get bridge loans, rehypothecate the bridge loans and so forth.
The net result is that in the end, the project would collapse, and $20 or $30 million
would disappear.


But on the real estate end of transactions, Tri-Lateral is interesting for its
involvements in a very infamous fraud -- the Topsail Development, Ltd. Fraud of
Pensacola, Florida.


This was the famous diversion of 22,000 acres in central Florida, which was financed
by original bridge loans from the American Bank and Trust of Pensacola, Florida,
which at that time was owned by BCCI.


It seemed odd at the time, but this was not known until some years later. People
thought it was odd that BCCI would own a little nickel and dime commercial bank in
Pensacola, but it was essentially to launder money and to provide bridge financing for
Iran-Contra profiteering.


In 1988, the American Bank and Trust of Pensacola, Florida collapsed under the
weight of unrepaid illicit Iran-Contra loans. The Topsail Development deal was the
largest real estate fraud ever committed in the United States. It was ultimately bailed
out by the Coca-Cola Corporation through those Belizian transactions.
Tri-Lateral Investment Group had become involved in that transaction vis-a-vis the
leases that Tri-Lateral held through Larry Hamil on 45,000 acres of coastal Belizian
property.


All it ever was -- was a first right of refusal and tenuous leases. The land was never
actually owned by Tri-Lateral. The loans, by the way, the $9 million in bridge loans to
purchase the lease on those lands, came from Great American Bank and Trust of West
Palm Beach.


Marvin Warner personally approved the loans. I was involved in several meetings. I
was sitting there, as a matter of fact, when Marvin Warner was there and Hamil and
Secord and others to discuss the bridge loan.


Naturally, this $9 million was never paid back, but that was the intent.
Simply transferring money from the bank into other people's hands ostensibly for
“The Cause” which we all chuckled about, as everyone knew that it was essentially
going into other people's pockets.

As history recounts, of course, Great American Bank and Trust also failed in 1988
under the weight of unrepaid illicit Iran-Contra loans, to the extent of about $156
million that wasn't repaid.

In terms of oil and gas, Tri-Lateral also had an interest in Gulf Coast Investment, Ltd.,
which held a lot of marginal oil production and limestone production in Tennessee,
Kentucky, and Oklahoma.


The old one-a-day pumper routine. In oil terms, what's known as the Knox in Clay
County, Kentucky that extends up around Olney, Illinois. These are all beat out one-a day
pumper's, one-barrel-a-day, two-barrel-a-day pumper's that have been around for
fifty years.

Hamil made them look like they were simply pumping thousands of barrels a day.
What Tri-Lateral would do was to take its supposed proprietary interest in Gulf Coast
Investment Group. Make it appear, in fact, this proprietary interest was worth a lot
more than it was.


It would then hypothecate that interest to commercial loans, principally out of
Citibank. It would then purchase with this money Citibank's securities, mostly Citibank
bonds.

I remember the large amount of the coupons in 1993 that Tri-Lateral held with money
it was lent by Citibank.

The notes would then be held at Merrill Lynch, where they would be margined out.
Then the money, again, would be put into something else, usually a bankers
acceptances, often at Chase Manhattan.

What I'm trying to say is that you start with $100,000 and at the end of a series of
frauds that $100,000 is essentially turned into a $10,000,000 house of cards, of which
perhaps $5,000,000 in cash was actually extracted before the whole house of cards falls
down.

As I've said before. what made this possible is that all the financial intermediaries,
banks, brokerage houses, or security companies, were all determined “Iran-Contra
friendly.”

Again, essentially it was transferring wealth from a bank, from a brokerage, from
investors, from one pocket to another.

Another reason I wanted to mention the Tri-Lateral Investment Group is that it was
deals concerning the Tri-Lateral Investment Group which eventually forced the
downfall of Richard Hamil in May 1985.

When Hamil was transferring all that cash out of Union Bank of Switzerland (in so
many of these frauds I was involved with or familiar with or marketed or whatever)
Union Bank of Switzerland was invariably the butt end of the fraud.
In other words, it was the last place a fraud was hypothecated. It was where the final
cash would be extracted.

You can pretty well see that the government of the United States admits that in its
famous Lake Resources civil suit against Richard Secord, which was filed in 1991.
The government makes the admission, that during this 1983 to 1986 time frame, that it had funded a variety of frauds on behalf of Richard Secord, and that Richard Secord was its authorized agent.

In fact, they admitted that the CIA had had a longstanding relationship with the
Union Bank of Switzerland and that many powerful Republican interests also had a
longstanding relationship with the Union Bank of Switzerland.
The problem was that UBS was always supposed to be made whole in the end. As I
attempted to describe these frauds before, the last agent had to be made whole.
The last big agent in this case was UBS.


Unfortunately, Richard Hamil and Richard Secord did not make UBS whole -- all that
money that Hamil transported in physical cash they laundered through Zurich.
Hamil would board a plane. He would fly to Curaçao. The money would get
deposited at Banque Z in Curaçao, and then the money would be re-transferred to a
Banque Paribas branch in Belize City.


People tried to trace that down before and they found out there isn't any branch there. Well, yes there is. It's not incorporated in Belize, however. It's an offshore branch of Banque Paribas Panama Branch.

This was the ultimate deep repository for Secord and Hamil, where the money
ultimately got skimmed off, which ultimately accumulated to about sixteen and two third million dollars, as I later identified in a whistleblower complaint to the
government and to the Treasury Department.

The Treasury Department duly informed me that they had found about sixteen and
two-third million dollars in the account.

I had known in 1985 the account had contained about eight million dollars. And I
didn't know what transactions had been committed after that time, or how much that
account was ultimately worth.

I would add a personal note here. This was another whistleblower complaint that I
got screwed out of.

I had been promised and I still have the letter, as a matter of fact, from the Treasury Department's FARCO (Foreign Asset Recovery Control Office) then under Rich
Newcomb that I would receive a $623,000 finders fee for the identification of that
account, which the United States government subsequently froze.
However, I was then informed that under that 1986 Administrative Whistleblower
Act, that there were pre-existing claims or pre-existing information, which of course the Treasury Department doesn't have to tell you what they are or anything.
I have complained bitterly before about the holes in that Whistleblower Act that you
could drive a truck through.


I've never known anyone who’s identified a surreptitious account that's ever received a finder’s fee that they're supposedly entitled to by the law.
The Tri-Lateral Investment Group, Ltd. is also one of the deals (one of the very few
deals, perhaps only a few dozen deals in that era by this group of guys) that you could connect Jeb, Neil, George, Jr., Prescott, and Wally Bush.
All five -- you can put in the Tri-Lateral Investment Group, Ltd.


You can put Neil in it vis-a-vis Tri-Lateral's dealings with Neil's Gulf Stream Realty. Then you back up a step and put Neil Bush into Tri-Lateral Investment Group's dealings with the Winn Financial Group of Denver run by the infamous former
Ambassador to Switzerland, Phillip Winn.


You can put George, Jr. in the deal vis-a-vis the Tri-Lateral Group Ltd.'s fraudulent relationship with American Insurance General (AIG) , of which George, Jr. was a part through the same series of fraudulent fidelity guarantee instruments issued on behalf of Harken Energy from American Insurance General. Tri-Lateral Investment Group then sold bogus oil and gas leases to AIG.


This is a direct fraud that George, Jr. profited to the extent of (not a lot) $1.6 or $1.7 million. But it was a clear out-and-out fraud.


Finally, I want to make note of the Tri-Lateral Investment Group because I think it's worth noting that it was allegations of receiving illicit campaign donations from the Tri-Lateral Investment Group which ultimately led to the defeat of Republican Senator Paula Hawkins in 1986.


Tri-Lateral Investment Group (in terms of gold bullion fraud, another old right-wing
favorite for the generation of illegal, covert revenue streams) was also involved in that 20,000 ounce transaction that Larry Hamil and Richard Secord did.
I use Larry and Richard Hamil interchangeably but the man's real name is Lawrence
Richard Hamil. In various public documents and in congressional testimony, he is often referred to as either Larry Hamil or Richard Hamil.


Anyway, Hamil had in conjunction with Richard Secord (using a letter of
recommendation from Jeb Bush) borrowed money from Citibank to buy 20,000 ounces
of gold bullion from Deak Perrera in New York.
The said bullion was then transferred to the Royal Trust Bank of Canada, actually its branch in Nassau, the Bahamas.


The bank then issued a bonded warehouse receipt, as it is entitled to do. The Nassau
branch of the Royal Trust Bank of Canada is authorized to issue bonded warehouse
receipts. The said bonded warehouse receipts -- at the price of gold at that time was perhaps $7 million worth of bullion.


The said bonded warehouse receipts are then rehypothecated back here in the United
States through a variety of Iran-Contra friendly institutions.

Ultimately, Hamil and Secord hypothecate the same 20,000 ounces of bullion thirteen
times. At thirteen different lending institutions. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book. The gold bullion trick.

I mean this was Jack Terrell's original scheme. This was a scheme that had been used
in the 1970s by the CIA. The hypothecation of gold bullion in ten different places.
Of course, those deals all fell apart in the end.


By the end of 1986, all those deals fell apart. And as usual, the bank simply wrote off the money -- about 2.3 million dollars. It was about a 2.3 million dollar loan issued by Bayshore Bank and Trust of Miami, Florida and this was certainly one of the lynchpin loans which involved Jack Singlaub.


Gen. Jack Singlaub was the one that got the money. Of course, this was probably the
straw that broke the camel's back -- which caused Bayshore Bank to fail.
The reason why the media doesn't like to go after it because it is cumbersome and
tedious. But you can see how one fraud started out with two Iran-Contra players --
Larry Hamil and Richard Secord. And yet, you can see all the way through the
transaction of these frauds how others benefitted.


In this case, Gen. Singlaub. And the common denominator in so many of these
frauds, is Jeb, Neil, George, Jr., Prescott, and Wally Bush. There have been very few that have made a real effort to put all this together.

One thing that’s interesting to note here is why Lawrence Richard Hamil continues to
be so hot today -- to this day in fact?

Why is it he can never be found?

Why is it he is either in jail or out of jail?

When he's in jail, there's never any records that he's ever been in jail?

Why is that he’s still both protected and punished by certain people in the
government?

What are the texts of his old and deep relationships with the Department of Defense
and the Department of Justice and so forth?

The principal reason why?

Just examine his frauds.




Look at all the people involved (who are still in office today, or seeking a higher
office, or in certain agencies who have been promoted) in Hamil's principal group of
frauds: Gulf Coast Investment Group, Tri-Lateral Investment Group, LRH Associates,
Trinity Oil and Gas and a few others.

There's perhaps six at the very top of the list of all the hundreds of corporations that he's formed.

But look at the people who can be hurt, and, in some cases, who have been hurt.
Look at those involved. Look at the number of Republican Congressmen and Senators
that profited from these illicit deals within the Iran-Contra time frame of 1983 to 1986. And look at how many of them are still in power today.


They are much more powerful than they were then.

Certainly Henry Hyde, now Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, in recent years
was quietly, non-publicly censured by the House and fined $835,000 as a final
resolution to that Oak Brook, Illinois real estate scam and the hypothecation scam at Key Bank of New York.

That was directly related to his involvement in LRH Associates.

Porter Goss was also quietly reprimanded by the House (secretly you could even say, since anybody that ever tried to obtain information about Hyde or Goss' reprimand has never been successful in obtaining any documentation of it).



Goss was reprimanded and fined $365,000 by the House, by the Ethics Committee,
the internal component of it. But Goss made a fortune.

It was in the millions that Goss made through the Destin Country Club Development
Group, through the Topsail Development Group, through his surreptitious investments
in Zapata, and Apache, and Tidewater, and Harken Energy.





The Harken Energy stock fraud.



It really is tremendous. And it is directly related to the reason why Hamil
continues to be such a bone of contention and such a sore spot for the government and for many in the government to this day.


In late 1995, when I was in my most recent difficulty with the FBI and was
incarcerated after Stew Webb filed a Federal Grand Jury DemandJesse Helms intervened on my behalf and pressured Janet Reno. Consequently I was let out of jail and not further pursued. You don't think Jesse Helms did that out of the goodness of his heart, do you?

It's because when I was in jail, I called Paul Rodriguez at the Washington Times and gave him more information that he had been pestering me about for a long time.
The Washington Times (Paul Rodriguez more specifically and his friend, Jamie
Dettmer) had pressed Jesse Helms about all the money that he and Oliver North had
skimmed out of those big series of 501c3's in the mid '80s - the National Eagle Forum, the National Freedom Alliance, and the whole panoply.


You'll see it's all common language that Oliver North used when he formed these
things. But millions were taken out of these supposedly tax-exempt organizations
illicitly and Helms profited by them, and Pete DuPont profited by them as did various members of GOPAC.

Helms didn't help me out out of the generosity of his heart.
It's that I rattled his goddamned cage.
And I threatened to reveal more information about that.
And to this day, when a reporter calls up Jesse Helms and throws up Oliver North or
Larry Hamil's name in his face, he turns white as a goddamned ghost.




Now as we get into larger and more intriguing Iran-Contra frauds, I want to mention
my involvement with the infamous Churchill Matrix Group, Ltd., which had operations
in London, Paris, and Brussels.


Its United States operations were headquartered, of all places, in Columbus, Ohio.
Churchill Matrix was supposedly engineering and industrial components. It had a
relationship with the infamous TKF Engineering & Trading International, Ltd. of Santa Barbara, California. It also had a relationship with the equally infamous International Systems and Components (not to be confused with International Signals and Controls of Scranton, Pennsylvania).


International Systems and Components Corporation of McLean, Virginia, also had
offices in Dallas, Texas.


In that Churchill Matrix deal, it was later discovered that the entire thing was an MI-6 British intelligence front, which unraveled in 1991 in those big series of trials in London, when that guy, Paul Anderson, was finally forced to admit he was a British Intelligence agent, and that in fact the whole deal had been an MI-6 operation put together at the request of the CIA during Iran-Contra to surreptitiously get certain components to Iraq, which the CIA wanted to be gotten to Iraq. The only reason the deal fell apart and became public is that, in this country Mark Thatcher got listed as a co-defendant in the original indictment.
Finally, his mother, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, decided to preempt the
U.S. action by pulling the plug in London and forcing the MI-6 to admit what it was.
That's the only reason, by the way, that the whole deal fell apart, was because of the Mark Thatcher angle.


What British Intelligence was trying to hide at the time was the connection between
MI-6, the Agency, and Carlos Cardoen.
Had Thatcher been forced on the stand, he would have spilled the beans about Carlos
Cardoen, and that was the link that both the Agency and MI-6 wanted hidden at the
time.

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OIL AND GAS STOCK PROMOTER RECEIVES 17 ½ YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOR CONTEMPT, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND MONEY LAUNDERING




The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that on March 8, 2002, U. S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings in Lubbock, Texas, sentenced Sidney Wade Sers to 210 months in federal prison based on Sers' guilty pleas to contempt of court, obstruction of justice and money laundering charges. The criminal charges related to Sers' illegal transfer of nearly $1million, in violation of 1997 and 1998 court orders issued by U. S. District Judge Terry Means of Fort Worth. These orders were entered in a 1997 Commission enforcement action and enjoined the transfer of Sers' assets, those of Trinity Gas Corporation (Trinity) and the proceeds of any sale of Trinity stock.

At the time of the transfers, Sers, age 57, formerly of Brownwood, Texas, was the president and chief executive officer of Trinity, a Brownwood publicly traded oil and gas exploration and development company. From January 1998 until his arrest, Sers was a fugitive hiding in Columbia. Colombian authorities detained Sers on November 21, 2000 and deported him to Miami, Florida, where Sers was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.

In his guilty pleas before the Court, Sers admitted transferring $800,000 of Trinity stock proceeds deposited in a Natchitoches, Louisiana bank account bearing his daughter's name to a Cayman Islands bank account styled in the name of Trinity Gas Colombia - a Cayman Islands company owned and controlled by Sers. Sers also admitted laundering these proceeds through a number of transactions that involved the transfer of monies to Colombia, where he was hiding. Among other illegal transfers, Sers also admitted transferring roughly $100,000 through a Brownwood, Texas abstract company, converting the proceeds into cashiers checks and subsequently cashing the checks.



The Court's sentence stems from Judge Means' contempt referral to the U.S. Attorney's Office which developed during the course of the Commission's enforcement action in which the Commission charged Trinity and Sers with bilking Trinity investors out of over $11 million in an illegal "pump and dump" scheme - a scheme in which a company's share price is "pumped up" through false representations followed by company principals "dumping" their individual shares at the illegally and artificially inflated price.

Judge Means later granted summary judgment in favor of the Commission against Sers and permanently enjoined him from violating the anti-fraud and securities registration provisions of the federal securities laws. Additionally, Judge Means ordered Sers to disgorge $11,607,442.00, representing his profits from the unlawful scheme. In the criminal case, Judge Cummings ordered Sers to make restitution of the same amount.

The Commission's staff worked closely with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas (Lubbock Division) and the FBI. A Commission attorney was appointed Special Assistant U.S. Attorney to assist in the criminal proceeding.



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and..............


1) http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/mcveigh/front.htm


(Shows you McVeigh defense attorney's application for a Writ of Mandamus ordering the CIA to turn over all documents. It is 175 pages long. Denver Fed Judge Matsch would not sign it or rule against the secret government after his daughter was shoved into a Hawaiin volcano when he sat on the Silverado S&L Fraud case...Matsch chastised the corrupt Denver US attorneys for "going after the little fish"....so...the CIA killed his daughter to send him a message). This document is a long read...but contains alot that we didn't get inthe news. Only paper I know who covered this case...was J.D. Cash's small town paper.)


2) http://www.jaynadavis.com/


Jayna Davis did a good job writing this book. She was a TV news reporter that "linked Iraqi intel operatives to McVeigh" to a hotel later visited by ATTA and MOUSSAuII.


3) http://www.glennbeck.com/okc/


Here's GLENN BECK's site on OK CITY. I don't have much good to say about Beck. He was rude to a 9/11 researcher who did not fall for the bogus video released by DOD showing Pentagon plane crash. After that...I never liked Beck again.



4) http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/artic.../pg5/index.html


Here's a good synopsis from CHARLES KEY, the Oklahoma state senator who held his state grand jury investigation. He covers alot of ground. This interview is worth your time.



_____ _________ ____________ _______________ ______________________________

Missing evidence from OKC
November 17, 2001

The FBI doesn't want to talk about it, but the evidence keeps mounting.

Critical evidence that several Middle Eastern men may have been connected to the Oklahoma City bombing appears to have been kept from the public by the FBI.

By law, such information should have been turned over to lawyers representing executed bomber Timothy McVeigh, and it must be given to the legal team for co-conspirator Terry Nichols, whose state case opened in an Oklahoma court two weeks ago.

Officially, the FBI has dismissed the possibility of a John Doe No. 2, an olive-skinned man whose sketch they released immediately after the bombing, or other suspects. But current and former FBI agents in Oklahoma City say they received documents pointing to another person or even a cell of Middle Eastern operatives.

At a minimum, Congress should question one former FBI agent who says he obtained 22 affidavits and more than 30 witness statements describing sightings of Middle Easterners with McVeigh. Although he passed the materials on to a superior, the evidence never surfaced and was not given to McVeigh's or Nichols' defense teams.

The affidavits and witness statements described a close-knit group of Middle Eastern men living in Oklahoma City and surrounding areas who were seen with McVeigh on numerous occasions in the months and weeks leading up to the bombing.

Even worse, the agents believe if that evidence had not been suppressed by the FBI, it could have helped uncover plans leading to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Lawmakers should demand a full accounting of the missing documents given to the FBI.

Six days before McVeigh was scheduled to die at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Attorney General John Ashcroft postponed the execution because of revelations the FBI had failed to turn over more than 3,000 documents to McVeigh's defense team.

Though none of the new evidence was able to persuade the trial judge to save McVeigh, it showed that the FBI had withheld important information in the April 19, 1995, bombing.

The former agent does not want his name used, but, if subpoenaed, is willing to testify about the documents either in court or on Capitol Hill.

In January 1999, the agent got the documents from former Oklahoma City KFOR-TV reporter Jayna Davis. Davis had done a six-year investigation beginning on the day of the bombing, documenting a cell of Middle Eastern individuals operating in Oklahoma City under suspicious circumstances.

"She started in 1997 trying to turn those documents over to the FBI and we refused to take those documents because we knew at the time that those documents would have to be turned over to the defense attorneys . . . ," said the former agent.

Two weeks ago, the Justice Department quashed motions to allow 18 FBI agents, including the agent who received the documents from Davis, to testify in Nichols' state case. At least one of those agents believes that if the FBI had followed up on the affidavits that he turned over to his superiors, the Sept. 11 attacks could have been prevented.

"We don't know what ever happened to those documents," the former agent said. "We know they were never given to the defense attorneys. And that's really what I was going to testify about, the fact that those documents were in FBI custody. And I don't know to this day what happened to the documents. We did have some Oklahoma connections to the events in Washington, D.C., and New York City. We did find out that one of these individuals was trying to take flight training at a Norman (Okla.) flight instruction school."

Other former and current FBI agents in the Oklahoma City field office have also questioned the agency's handling of evidence. During an interview broadcast in May on Sixty Minutes II, they discussed the missing documents that surfaced right before McVeigh's initial execution date. "There's no reason for it unless there is negligence," agent Jim Volz told the news magazine.

These people want the truth. The American people want the truth. Next week's column will ask members of Congress if they do, too.


_______________________________



Government swine...always "drop the ball" and walk away. No accountability. None.


FBI agents should know by now...uh...."they are only robots" allowed to do somethings...and not allowed to solve and investigate the major criminals.


The country is over, when the FBI is bought off and unaccountable.


The canary in the coal mine is...the relative credibility and performance of the FBI.


So...uh the canary is dead...and the country of laws and order and justice...is nothing but a shameless and pathetic corrupt little third world Oligarchy...a banana republic.


YOU can thank LOUIS FREEH and ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III, for being gutless, miserable, worthless, little corrupt swine. They killed us all. They killed our country....and laughed all the way to next OPUS DEI meeting of offshore narco traffickers.

This post has been edited by tommythebug: Jul 16 2006, 04:47 AM

WAYNE MADSEN REPORT on False Flag a/o murder...TWA 800 and McVeigh?

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

July 11, 2006 --

The tenth anniversary of the TWA 800 crash off of Long Island, July 17, 2006, is approaching and the mainstream media, as expected, will be spinning the "official" conclusion that the Boeing 747 crashed as the result of center fuel tank spontaneous combustion. WMR has learned from FBI sources that TWA 800 was shot down on July 17, 1996, by a Stinger missile fired from a leased speedboat by individuals associated with white supremacists and neo-Nazis. The late ABC News correspondent and President Kennedy Press Secretary Pierre Salinger reported that TWA 800 was brought down by a missile fired from a Navy ship. Salinger had the story only partially incorrect.

----TWA 800 was brought down by a Stinger missile stolen in 1993 in a major weapons heist by right-wing militia members from Navy ships anchored off the coast of the U.S. Coastal Systems Base in Panama City, Florida, according to Navy and FBI investigators who investigated the theft.


According to FBI and Florida law enforcement officials, after the United Klans of America was disbanded after a successful lawsuit brought in 1987 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, much of the Klan and Aryan Brotherhood began doing business under a new name: the Northwest Florida Horsemen's Association, operating mainly out of Washington County in the Florida Panhandle. The new incarnation of the Klan in Washington County, Florida, attracted a number of ex-military members after Bill Clinton became President.

----These included Timothy McVeigh and his Army boot camp friend Terry Nichols. In small towns like Chipley in the Florida Panhandle, the future Oklahoma City bombers would cross paths with those who would plan the Stinger attack on TWA 800.



Oklahoma City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols crossed paths with future TWA 800 attackers in Florida Panhandle.

But the newly-established Klan and Aryan Brotherhood also attracted the attention of the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the Washington County Sheriff, particularly after the mail bombing campaign directed at U.S. Federal judges in the South and the theft by Klan members of weapons from Florida National Guard armories. In 1993, 214 Stinger missiles, along with a number of AR-15 assault rifles, were stolen from Navy supply ships stationed off the coast of Panama City's Naval Base.


----The ships, stationed off Panama City since the mid-1980s, maintained full stocks of arms and ammunition in the event they had to be deployed quickly to the Middle East or some other hotspot. According to law enforcement sources in Florida, a number of base officials, including those involved with the security of the base and the pre-stocked ships, were also associated with the white supremacist groups active in the Panhandle.


----The Naval Investigative Service, FBI, BATF and the Washington County Sheriff investigated the theft of the weapons but were stymied by a lack of cooperation from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which according to law enforcement sources, was riddled with officers tied to the Klan and cocaine and weapons smuggling operations involving a number of businessmen and covert intelligence operatives who were also close to the Bush family and their Florida cohorts.


The Klan and their Florida business friends were responsible for smuggling drugs and weapons into Los Angeles and reaping lucrative profits from the mainly African-American gangs who they did business with through criminal intermediaries. In one case, the Klan sent 1000 machine guns from Callaway, Florida to street gangs in Los Angeles.

After the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Office Building bombing on April 15, 1995, the right-wing militia nationally put out an alert. They expected raids by the BATF, FBI, and other law enforcement agencies in reaction to the involvement of two of their numbers -- McVeigh and Nichols -- in the Oklahoma bombing.


----The militias decided to use their purloined Stingers to bring down U.S. passenger planes. An FBI informant with whom WMR spoke stated that the FBI and Washington County Sheriff's Office first became aware of the theft and possession of the Stingers by the militias when the militia members began discussing the possible sale of the weapons to other militia groups in Panama City. These groups had been penetrated by FBI and local sheriff's informants.


----The FBI had sought, unsuccessfully, to retrieve the Stingers by having its informants in the militias offer $30,000 in cash [what the FBI considered was the going rate for street purchases]. There were no takers. In response to the obvious threat posed by the stolen surface-to-air missiles, President Clinton reportedly ordered anti-missile defenses to be enhanced for Air Force One, Marine One, and other VIP aircraft.

The FBI informant with whom WMR spoke also stated that two of the stolen Stingers were transported in early 1996 by a Panama City Naval Base employee to Tennessee where they were then put on a single engine private plane that flew them to New York. TWA 800 was downed by what a number of witnesses said was a ground launched missile on July 17, 1996, just ten days before another right-wing radical associated with the Aryan Brotherhood, Eric Rudolph, detonated a pipe bomb in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, killing an African American and wounding dozens of others.



NTSB Identification: DCA96MA070

Scheduled 14 CFR 121 operation of TRANSWORLD AIRWAYS (D.B.A. TWA)

Accident occurred JUL-17-96 at EAST MORICHES, NY
Aircraft: Boeing 747, registration: N93119
Injuries: 230 Fatal.



----On July 17, 1996, about 8:45pm, TWA flight 800, N93119, a Boeing 747-100, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island shortly after takeoff from Kennedy International Airport. The airplane was on a regularly scheduled flight to Paris, France. The initial reports are that witnesses saw an explosion and then debris descending to the ocean. There are no reports of the flight crew reporting a problem to air traffic control. The airplane was manufactured in November 1971. It has accumulated about 93,303 flight hours and 16,869 cycles. On board the airplane were 212 passengers and 18 crew members. The airplane was destroyed and there were no survivors.


NTSB Official Notification of TWA 800 Crash


As with Oklahoma City, the missile attack on TWA 800 was covered up by law enforcement agencies and political interests who saw no benefit in advertising the fact that most terrorist attacks in the United States have been carried out by white, racist, and self-proclaimed "Christian" identity advocates who have had past and current connections with members of the U.S. military, law enforcement, and the Republican Party.

WAITING FOR SINATRA: a true tale of patience, feline impertinence, and the unexpected doses of absurdity that fills our lives like a bucket of shit

1) Sinatra the "tuxedo cat" (a rare term of art for cat lovers denoting a pussy with an all black coat with a white front)....has been located in a tree near where I worked on my front brakes after realizing that "that funny grinding sound from my front end" was metal on metal. No brake pads left? Hmmmmm....went to the auto store and met some help. I got help from Claude the mechanic, who punched the pads on within minutes saving me about 125$ that I don't have. Hey man...when you smile, the world smiles back.


2) I notice, the only people worth a shit in this world, are those who have been without something. Rich people, GOP trash, the shitheads in law enforcement and other pathetic products of the ego.....AIN'T WORTH A FUCK, NO MATTER HOW HARD THEY TRY TO DEVELOP A SOCIAL MASK OF DECORUM AND RESPECTABILITY.

Give me any blue collar guy....and odds are this guy tips his waitress so she can live...or will help a chucklehead in need. Give me a rich boy in a new car.....and I will show you a secret sociopath with no foot in the spiritual pond. Some people like to help....on the other end....others........are stuck in their own cold illusions. Fuckem.....the wages of sin is death.



3) BACK TO THE CAT. She is up a tall tree. Possibly chased by raccoons...or the mean spirited little demon alley cat who pissed her off on Sunday. Car camping when broke down...often leads to alot of "...get the fuck out of here, or I'll call the cops" sorts of attitudes. Since I couldn't get her down from the tree...and didn't want to leave her...I car camped at the car wash. It rained last night, so I slept in....to be awakened by some shithead bitch who worked at the laundry mat folding clothes for 6.50$ an hour. The BITCH HAD THE AUDACITY TO OPEN MY TOPPER DOOR, LIKE SHE OWNED THE PLACE...TO TELL ME TO FUCK OFF AND GET OF THE LOT. I was parked next to an RV doing the same thing, and wasn't hurting nobody.....but the boss said, "...get the fuckah out of here, I don't like the looks of that guy....".

So...I tried to explain about the cat, but alas....there is no respect for those living out of their truck/topper. It's a rare glimpse of the dirtier side of life. I see myself as another stray cat, trying to avoid it all. You know what I'm talking about--the SAME THING THAT MAKES TWO LEGGED SHITMAKERS INTO THE SELFISH, SHALLOW, WORTHLESS, HEARTLESS SCUM THAT THEY ARE.



4) Anyway....talked to the Fire Department who...said, "...nope, we don't do cat rescues unless we can back the truck up and use the boom...". Try animal rescue. No luck. The Fire Chief said, "...we never saw a cat that stayed up longer than three days...they all get hungry eventually, ya know."

Yup. I suppose I never heard of a cat starving to death in a tree. It's a waiting game now. I might try to open a sportsline betting on this thing....at the local sports bar, "Mulligans". At this bar....they got the "bar trivia nationwide" signal...and it is addictive. When you see your name and bar up on the charts....knowing full well you just beat out a nation of shitheads who waste their time doing the same thing...it's a moment of heroic apotheosis,....an irrelevent hint at cosmic significance. The same illusions we all get eaten up by.


For more on that line of thought, see, ERNEST BECKER'S "Escape From Evil".


5) WENT to the hardware store and rented a thirty foot ladder. It was about two feet too short, and Sinatra was not budging. Cats are not good at climbing down, but boy...can they climb straight up.

So..I knew I needed a frigging saw to cut down the branches she was on. Went to a thrift shop and told some nice ladies what the plan was, and...sure enough, a good soul had a tree limb pole saw. We went to pick it up. It was flimsy, and wouldn't work, so...I had to get some lock washers to lock the blade down better. Then it really worked and the rescue was just a matter of dropping Sinatra from a forty foot height. Luckily, the limbs caught the falling limb, and...she made it. I was happy.

My first heroic rescue of a scared cat in a forty foot ponderosa pine tree.

How the NSA/DOD/FBI Div 5 neutralizes lawsuits, witnesses, and creates school shooters: MIND CONTROL and CHIPPING

from, " "The Battle For Your Mind
Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today

By Dick Sutphen@



http://www.trans4mind.com/spiritual/brainwashing.htm#subliminals




......"Subliminal Programming


Subliminals are hidden suggestions that only your subconscious perceives. They can be audio, hidden behind music, or visual, airbrushed into a picture, flashed on a screen so fast that you don't consciously see them, or cleverly incorporated into a picture or design.
Most audio subliminal reprogramming tapes offer verbal suggestions recorded at a low volume. The oldest audio subliminal technique uses a voice that follows the volume of the music so subliminals are impossible to detect without a parametric equalizer. But this technique is patented and, when I wanted to develop my own line of subliminal audio cassettes, negotiations with the patent holder proved to be unsatisfactory. My attorney obtained copies of the patents which I gave to some talented Hollywood sound engineers, asking them to create a new technique. They found a way to psycho-acoustically modify and synthesize the suggestions so that they are projected in the same chord and frequency as the music, thus giving them the effect of being part of the music. Although the suggestions are being heard by the subconscious mind, they cannot be monitored with even the most sophisticated equipment.

If we were able to come up with this technique as easily as we did, I can only imagine how sophisticated the technology has become with unlimited government or advertising funding. And I shudder to think about the propaganda and commercial manipulation that we are exposed to on a daily basis. There is simply no way to know what is behind the music you hear. It may even be possible to hide a second voice behind the voice to which you are listening.

The series by Wilson Bryan Key, Ph.D., on subliminals in advertising and political campaigns well documents the misuse in many areas, especially printed advertising in newspapers, magazines and posters.

The big question about subliminals is: do they work? And I guarantee you they do. Not only from the response of those who have used my tapes, but from the results of such programs as the subliminals behind the music in department stores. Supposedly, the only message is instructions to not steal: one East Coast department store chain reported a 37 percent reduction in thefts in the first nine months of testing.

A 1984 article in the technical newsletter, "Brain-Mind Bulletin," states as much as 99 percent of our cognitive activity may be "non-conscious," according to the director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Psycho-Physiology at the University of Illinois. The lengthy report ends with the statement, "These findings support the use of subliminal approaches such as taped suggestions for weight loss and the therapeutic use of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming."


Inducing Trance With Vibrational Sound
I could relate many stories that support subliminal programming, but I'd rather use my time to make you aware of even more subtle uses of such programming.
I have personally experienced sitting in a Los Angeles auditorium with over ten thousand people who were gathered to listen to a current charismatic figure. Twenty minutes after entering the auditorium, I became aware that I was going in and out of an altered state. Those accompanying me experienced the same thing. Since it is our business, we were aware of what was happening, but those around us were not. By careful observation, what appeared to be spontaneous demonstrations were, in fact, artful manipulations. The only way I could figure that the eyes-open trance had been induced was that a 6-7 cycle-per-second vibration was being piped into the room behind the air-conditioner sound. That particular vibration generates alpha, which would render the audience highly susceptible. Ten to 25 percent of the population is capable of a somnambulistic level of altered states of consciousness; for these people, the suggestions of the speaker, if non-threatening, could potentially be accepted as "commands."

This leads to the mention of VIBRATO. Vibrato is the tremulous effect imparted in some vocal or instrumental music, and the cycle-per-second range causes people to go into an altered state of consciousness. At one period of English history, singers whose voices contained pronounced vibrato were not allowed to perform publicly because listeners would go into an altered state and have fantasies, often sexual in nature.

People who attend opera or enjoy listening to singers like Mario Lanzaare may be familiar with this altered state induced by the performers.

Now, let's carry this awareness a little farther. One of the primary uses of extra-low frequency waves (ELFs) is to communicate with submarines. Dr.Andrija Puharich, a highly respected researcher, in an attempt to warn U.S. officials about Russian use of ELFs, set up an experiment. Volunteers were wired so their brain waves could be measured on an EEG. They were sealed in a metal room that could not be penetrated by a normal signal.

Puharich then beamed ELF waves at the volunteers. ELFs go right through the earth and, of course, right through metal walls. Those inside couldn't know if the signal was or was not being sent. And Puharich watched the reactions on the technical equipment: 30 percent of those inside the room were taken over by the ELF signal in six to ten seconds.

When I say "taken over," I mean that their behavior followed the changes anticipated at very precise frequencies. Waves below 6 cycles per second caused the subjects to become very emotionally upset, and even disrupted bodily functions. At 8.2 cycles, they felt very high . . . an elevated feeling, as though they had been in masterful meditation, learned over a period of years. Eleven to 11.3 cycles induced waves of depressed agitation leading to riotous behavior.


The Neurophone
Dr. Patrick Flanagan is a personal friend of mine. In the early 1960s, as a teenager, Pat was listed as one of the top scientists in the world by "Life" magazine. Among his many inventions was a device he called the Neurophone--an electronic instrument that can successfully program suggestions directly through contact with the skin. When he attempted to patent the device, the government demanded that he prove it worked. When he did, the National Security Agency confiscated the neurophone. It took Pat two years of legal battle to get his invention back.
In using the device, you don't hear or see a thing; it is applied to the skin, which Pat claims is the source of special senses. The skin contains more sensors for heat, touch, pain, vibration, and electrical fields than any other part of the human anatomy.

In one of his recent tests, Pat conducted two identical seminars for a military audience--one seminar one night and one the next night, because the size of the room was not large enough to accommodate all of them at one time. When the first group proved to be very cool and unwilling to respond, Patrick spent the next day making a special tape to play at the second seminar. The tape instructed the audience to be extremely warm and responsive and for their hands to become "tingly." The tape was played through the neurophone, which was connected to a wire he placed along the ceiling of the room. There were no speakers, so no sound could be heard, yet the message was successfully transmitted from that wire directly into the brains of the audience. They were warm and receptive, their hands tingled and they responded, according to programming, in other ways that I cannot mention here.

The more we find out about how human beings work through today's highly advanced technological research, the more we learn to control human beings. And what probably scares me the most is that the medium for take-over is already in place! The television set in your living room and bedroom is doing a lot more than just entertaining you.

Before I continue, let me point out something else about an altered state of consciousness. When you go into an altered state, you transfer into right brain dominance, which results in the internal release of the body's own opiates: encephalins and Beta-endorphins, chemically almost identical to opium. In other words, it feels good . . . and you want to come back for more.

Recent tests by researcher Herbert Krugman showed that, while viewers were watching TV, right-brain activity outnumbered left-brain activity by a ratio of two to one. Put more simply, the viewers were in an altered state . . . in trance more often than not. They were getting their Beta-endorphin "fix."

[Editor's Note: Watching TV is also a continuous input of pictures causing increased right-brain activity and left-brain analytical shut-off.]

To measure attention spans, psycho-physiologist Thomas Mulholland of the Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, attached young viewers to an EEG machine that was wired to shut the TV set off whenever the children's brains produced a majority of alpha waves. Although the children were told to concentrate, only a few could keep the set on for more than 30 seconds!

Most viewers are already hypnotized. To deepen the trance is easy. One simple way is to place a blank, black frame every 32 frames in the film that is being projected. This creates a 45-beat-per-minute pulsation perceived only by the subconscious mind--the ideal pace to generate deep hypnosis.

The commercials or suggestions presented following this alpha-inducing broadcast are much more likely to be accepted by the viewer. The high percentage of the viewing audience that has somnambulistic-depth ability could very well accept the suggestions as commands--as long as those commands did not ask the viewer to do something contrary to his morals, religion, or self-preservation.

The medium for take-over is here. By the age of 16, children have spent 10,000 to 15,000 hours watching television--that is more time than they spend in school! In the average home, the TV set is on for six hours and 44 minutes per day--an increase of nine minutes from last year and three times the average rate of increase during the 1970s.

It obviously isn't getting better . . . we are rapidly moving into an alpha-level world--very possibly the Orwellian world of "1984"--placid, glassy-eyed, and responding obediently to instructions.

A research project by Jacob Jacoby, a Purdue University psychologist, found that of 2,700 people tested, 90 percent misunderstood even such simple viewing fare as commercials and "Barnaby Jones." Only minutes after watching, the typical viewer missed 23 to 36 percent of the questions about what he or she had seen. Of course they did--they were going in and out of trance! If you go into a deep trance, you must be instructed to remember--otherwise you automatically forget.

I have just touched the tip of the iceberg. When you start to combine subliminal messages behind the music, subliminal visuals projected on the screen, hypnotically produced visual effects, sustained musical beats at a trance-inducing pace . . . you have extremely effective brainwashing. Every hour that you spend watching the TV set you become more conditioned. And, in case you thought there was a law against any of these things, guess again. There isn't! There are a lot of powerful people who obviously prefer things exactly the way they are.



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[Editor's Note: What your parents, teachers and other figures of authority tell you at times of stress and confusion has subconscious command-value. The child's mind is frequently overwhelmed and operating at alpha frequencies, so the roots of our personality conditioning occurs in the early years.
In addition, messages such as "Don't be so lazy!" are interpreted by the right brain (dominant at times of emotion) as "Be lazy!" With enough force, or repeated often enough, these messages sink in. So do any commands received during times of overwhelm, confusion and - especially - unconsciousness. For example, it has been proven that the surgeon's conversation - such as "This guy's got no chance" - during an operation can dramatically affect the patient's recovery.

Many other forms of conditioning - and the transcendance of conditioning - are discussed in my text "Transforming the Mind".] "...................

Sinatra runs away.....bad luck all the way around

On Sunday....I had to fix my front breaks. Bought pads, and got help from Claude at the auto parts store.

Then I ran over my jack, and destroyed my new back tire. Had to put on the spare, and it leaked. Stuck ten miles outside of LIncoln City...hitched a ride with a grouchy old lady who seemed to have time constraints.

Met a fisherman at the tire place...and he helped me go to a salvage yard to buy two used tires. Good deal on tires. A wasted day...and no idea where my cat is. She left on Sunday when I left the windows down. Could be in LIncoln City.

Hate to lose a cat. Want her to be safe. What can I do but wait.

Secret crimes by Bush WH to stop FISA/NSA TSP lawsuit

Did you know that a couple of American attorneys, Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoor, are the only people who can prove they have standing in a suit charging the government of illegally spying on American citizens without a FISA warrant? And how do they know?

They were passed a “top secret” document during disclosure in a case when the government was considering putting their client on the US Treasury watch list for Islamic charities that the government believed are funding terrorists. The document provided positive proof that they were being spied upon by the government because the document contained a record of private phone calls they had with their client.

“Part of our surveillance occurred when the Attorney General advised the president that the program was illegal,” says plaintiff attorney Jon Eisenberg. “That deprives them of the defense they didn’t know it was illegal.”

According to Congressional testimony taken earlier this year, on March 10th, 2004, top Justice Department lawyers and White House officials held a tense showdown over the NSA spying program at the bedside of then-attorney general John Ashcroft in an intensive care unit. Ashcroft’s resolve left the president’s program without the Justice Department’s stamp of approval for about two weeks, as the White House scrambled to tweak the program to meet Ashcroft’s demands.

Attorneys in the al-Haramain case say the plaintiffs were spied on in March and April of 2004, during a period that encompassed that two week interregnum.

Belew knew things were weird when the FBI showed up at his house in 2004 and demanded he give back the document and forget that he ever saw it. When he realized it was part of the NSA spying scandal, he and Ghafoor decided to sue.

Now his case is winding its way through the courts and the document at question is being held under guard by the court in San Francisco and will be used as evidence by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker who is in charge of the case. Portland Judge Garr King had refused to hand the document over to the FBI when they asked for it so the court still has it (otherwise it would probably have disappeared like Karl Rove’s email).

Wired provided a comprehensive report last March on this bizarre case which could blow apart Bush’s illegal spying if only the courts don’t decide that the executive is all powerful and above the law. (via)

Here’s a story that describes what a lawyer for Belew and Ghafoor is experiencing after taking on their case. As a friend of Brandon Mayfield, the Portland attorney that had been falsely accused of being involved in the Madrid train bombings, Thomas Nelson knew he was stepping into a dangerous case. This is yet another case that reads like a John Grisham novel. From AlterNet:

The Oregonian reported that attorney Jonathan Norling “was sleeping on a couch at their practice early one morning last May, when a man dressed as a custodian tried to enter Nelson’s office. Norling startled the man twice one night in July, when he caught the man trying to enter the locked office.” The man in question had what appeared to be a valid badge for the building. But Norling notes, “This person wasn’t a cleaning crew. I know the cleaning crew. I’ve worked here seven years, and I’ve worked a lot of nights, and I never experienced anything like that until Tom was working (on this case).”

Though Nelson approached the security people at the building, they wouldn’t talk to him. “They were very blunt,” he told AlterNet in a phone interview. He then took his concerns to the building manager. “It was all very disconcerting and inconclusive,” says Nelson. “There was no direct denial. At the end, I said, ‘You probably couldn’t tell me if something was going on anyway.’ He said, ‘That’s probably right.’”

Eventually, the strange happenings followed him to his home. As this AlterNet piece says, the case is exceedingly strange:

The fact that most frustrates Nelson is that no one ever tried to contact him or al-Buthi personally; rather, they resorted to what Nelson thinks must be illegal searches. “In retrospect,” Nelson says, “I think they were trying to get the [leaked FBI] document back. If the searches were pursuant to FISA, it would be interesting to find out what they told the judge to get a warrant — ‘We’ve been conducting this illegal wiretapping program, we’ve embarrassed ourselves, there’s this document out there that Nelson has, will you give us a warrant to get it back?’”

This is the circular logic that lies at the root of the debacle: In order to hide evidence of an illegal search program, the government is taking part in illegal searches.

This really is the last case left that threatens Bush’s illegal wiretapping because none of the objections from earlier appeals decided in Bush’s favor touch it. Here is clear and positive proof that the administration broke the law. Will the courts allow them to get away with it? We’ll know soon. August 15th, the 9th Circuit Court will hear the appeal of whether Judge Garr’s decision to allow this case to proceed was decided correctly.

The Bush administration truly do not believe they must follow the law. Just think what would happen next if they get away with this crime.

No oversight of intelligence community

In Intelligence World, A Mute Watchdog
Panel Reported No Violations for Five Years

By John Solomon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 15, 2007; Page A03

An independent oversight board created to identify intelligence abuses after the CIA scandals of the 1970s did not send any reports to the attorney general of legal violations during the first 5 1/2 years of the Bush administration's counterterrorism effort, the Justice Department has told Congress.

Although the FBI told the board of a few hundred legal or rules violations by its agents after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the board did not identify which of them were indeed legal violations. This spring, it forwarded reports of violations in 2006, officials sa

In April, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, right, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), left, and Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.). Leahy has accused Gonzales of misleading Congress and hiding behind

In April, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, right, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), left, and Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.). Leahy has accused Gonzales of misleading Congress and hiding behind "dictionary definitions." (By Nikki Kahn -- The Washington Post)

The President's Intelligence Oversight Board -- the principal civilian watchdog of the intelligence community -- is obligated under a 26-year-old executive order to tell the attorney general and the president about any intelligence activities it believes "may be unlawful." The board was vacant for the first two years of the Bush administration.

The FBI sent copies of its violation reports directly to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. But the board's mandate is to provide independent oversight, so the absence of such communications has prompted critics to question whether the board was doing its job.

"It's now apparent that the IOB was not actively employed in the early part of the administration. And it was a crucial period when its counsel would seem to have been needed the most," said Anthony Harrington, who served as the board's chairman for most of the Clinton administration.

"The White House counsel's office and the attorney general should have known and been concerned if they did not detect an active and effective IOB," Harrington said.

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) added: "It is deeply disturbing that this administration seems to spend so much of its energy and resources trying to find ways to ignore any check and balance on its authority and avoid accountability to Congress and the American public."

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Friday that "the president expects every single person working in counterterrorism and intelligence strictly to follow the law -- and if there are instances where that has not occurred, either intentionally or non-intentionally, he expects it promptly to be corrected." She said the White House relies on the presidentially appointed director of national intelligence to monitor problems.

Through five previous administrations, members of the board -- all civilians not employed by the government -- have been privy to some of America's most secret intelligence operations and have served as a private watchdog against unpublicized abuses. The subjects of their investigations and the resulting reports are nearly all classified.

The Bush administration first appointed board members in 2003. Since then, the CIA and the National Security Agency have been caught up in controversy over interrogation tactics at secret prisons, the transfer of prisoners to countries that use torture, and domestic wiretapping not reviewed by federal courts.

Until recently, the board had not told the attorney general about any wrongdoing. "The Attorney General has no record of receiving reports from the IOB regarding intelligence activities alleged to be potentially unlawful or contrary to Executive Order or Presidential directive," the Justice Department told the House Judiciary Committee in a May 9 letter.

White House officials said the board began forwarding reports of problems shortly thereafter. The officials declined to discuss the board's interactions with President Bush and said its members could not be interviewed for this report.

President Gerald R. Ford created the board in the mid-1970s after the Church Committee identified numerous abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies. President Ronald Reagan made the board permanent with an executive order in 1981 and gave it the mission to identify legal violations.

Harrington said that under President Bill Clinton, the board promptly sent reports of legal violations by intelligence agencies to the attorney general. Officials said the panel concluded that the administration showed poor judgment in supporting Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia, and it complained about the CIA's policy of employing known torturers or killers as informants in Latin Ameri




Perino said that during the first two years of the Bush administration, a career intelligence officer at the White House collected and reviewed reports in which the FBI and other intelligence agencies self-disclosed violations of civil liberties and privacy safeguards.

The board's three or four members -- the number has alternated over the years -- are usually drawn from the larger President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which advises the commander in chief on U.S. intelligence policy and performance. The oversight board has been a mix of intelligence experts, such as George H.W. Bush's choice of former Air Force Gen. Lew Allen, and civilians from other walks of life, such as Clinton's choice of Philadelphia investment banker Harold Pote.

The board now in place is led by former Bush economic adviser Stephen Friedman. It includes Don Evans, a friend of the president and a former commerce secretary; former Adm. David Jeremiah; and lawyer Arthur B. Culvahouse.

Perino said the board's "original unique mission and primary oversight role has been supplemented" in recent years by new layers of government. To watch for abuses, the administration now relies on the director of national intelligence -- a job created in 2005 -- along with presidentially appointed inspector generals. As a result, Bush is considering changes to Reagan's executive order, Perino said.

A Clinton-era deputy national security adviser, James B. Steinberg, said, however, that "you have to have a civilian proxy who on one hand can be trusted with these secrets and can still call the operator on the carpet when they go astray. If you neuter these internal mechanisms, then you are basically saying there is no one watching the henhouse."

On Friday, the FBI and the Justice Department announced several changes meant to strengthen internal oversight, including the creation of a legal "compliance office" inside the bureau and a review office inside the department that will regularly examine all violations.

Separately, Gonzales wrote the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), on Friday to defend his 2005 testimony that there had been no verified civil liberties abuses during the first three years of the efforts against terrorism. The Washington Post reported last week that the FBI had sent Gonzales a half-dozen reports of violations of civil liberties and privacy safeguards before his testimony.

Gonzales wrote that he did not consider the conduct in those reports to be abuses because the violations involved mistakes, not deliberate misconduct. "My testimony was completely truthful, and I stand by that testimony," he wrote.

Leahy scoffed at Gonzales's explanation. "The American people deserve an attorney general who will fully and accurately inform the Senate and the public about violations of civil liberties. Instead, they have one who misleads Congress and then hides behind dictionary definitions," he said.

MAFIA connections to saudis, to 9/11 to US Intel Community

FROM "MAD COW MORNING NEWS":


'Saudi Flights' on Mob, CIA-Linked Air Charters



WORLD EXCLUSIVE
July 12 2007
by Daniel Hopsicker


The owner of one of the air charter companies involved in the airlift of Saudi Royals and bin Laden family members out of the U.S. after the 9/11 attack has been identified in numerous published reports as a business partner and “close associate” of New England Mob Boss Raymond J. (Junior) Patriarca, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.

Frank Zammiello's Northstar Aviation in Warrick R. I. flew four Saudis, including a Saudi Sheikh (name unfortunately redacted) on a flight which left Providence R.I. September 14, 2001 and flew to Paris.

FBI documents refer to it as the “Northstar Aviation flight.”

Curiously, however, there is no mention of the organized crime connections of air charter owner Zammiello in either the 9/11 Commission Report, which covered the Saudi flights, or in recently-released FBI documents rebutting allegations that bin Laden family members were allowed to leave the U.S. without being interviewed by authorities.

The omission is surprising, especially considering Frank Zammiello's relevance to the story of President George W. Bush's amazing claim of executive privilege in early 2002 for all records of the Boston FBI.
Sheiks (and Sheik-ettes) on a plane

But Northstar's questionable associations are by no means an isolated circumstance among the air charter companies involved with the Saudi flights.

Five air charter companies flying Saudi Royals and bin Laden family members out of the U.S. after the 9/11 attack can be firmly located in the seldom-glimpsed netherworld of Saudi money, CIA covert activities, international organized crime... even Jack Abramoff's billion dollar influence peddling on an intercontinental scale.

It is an untold story of chilling proportions, some sinister, some comic.


* A number of Saudi Royals flew home from Las Vegas in a plane which sported on its tail the Christian dove symbol of the Christian TV network which owned it.

Moreover, that the mainstream media has not seen fit to so much as lift an eyebrow at Saudi Royals leaving the U.S. on the airplane of President-for-Life Omar Bongo of Africa's beyond-corrupt Republic of Gabon is so way beyond surreal as to defy belief.




FBI 'Straw Man' burned beyond recognition



The FBI has been quick to respond to the “straw man” accusation that the FBI failed to conduct interviews with bin Laden family members before they were allowed to leave the U.S.

FBI documents released last month stress that they were all over the Northstar Saudi flight, and all over the other Saudi flights, too.

“On September 14, 2001, a Northstar Aviation flight to Paris, France, departed from Providence, Rhode Island. There were four Saudi nationals on board. According to the FBI, all four passengers “were interviewed and their identity confirmed.”

Fair enough… as far as it goes. But the comments of Democratic Senators Charles Schumer and Frank Lautenberg, when the “Phantom Flight” from Tampa to Lexington was finally confirmed by the 9/11 Commission Report in 2004, focused on another aspect altogether:

“Right after September 11, there were thousands of planes for rent and hundreds Boeing 727s virtually identical to the one the Bin Laden’s used," Senator Schumer said.

"But the plane that flew the Bin Laden’s back to Saudi Arabia ‘just happened’ to be same one used by the Bush White House as a press charter.”





1. Don't pull on Superman's cape.

And Lautenberg noted, “There were 57 charter operators registered to rent out over 375 Boeing 727s nationwide, and commercial aviation was still at a relative standstill, so it's likely that most if not all of the charter jets in the United States were available that day.”

Referring to the Saudi flight flown by an airliner often used by the White House to fly the press corps, Lautenberg asked, “When was the first time after September 19, 2001 that the Executive Office of the President used B727 N521DB or any other aircraft from DB Air or Ryan International?”

The Senators suspicions about the identities of the air charter companies involved in the Saudi flights, as we will see, are nothing if not prescient...

The brief thumbnail sketch of air charter operator Frank Zammiello’s “greatest hits” which follows raises the question: What business did Saudi Sheiks have with Mobsters from the Northeast?






2. Never eat a restaurant named Mom's.

Frank Zammiello once pledged more than $6 million to secure a pretrial release for New England mob boss Raymond J. “Junior” Patriarca, when he was facing racketeering charges.

That’s a lot of clams.

But Zammiello’s got them. He owns Camille’s restaurant, a downtown Providence landmark where you could run into Frank Sinatra at dinner, or New England mob boss Raymond Patriarca during lunch.

But forget counting the spoons. Count the looted bank vaults. According to the Boston Globe, just before Jefferson Loan and Investment Bank of Cranston R.I. went bust in 1989:

“$400,000 went to a Patriarca business associate, Frank Zammiello, owner of Northstar Aviation Inc., which operates an aircraft service hangar at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick.”

The $400,000 payment to Zammiello's firm was toward the purchase of Northstar.

Alas for taxpayers (who always get stuck with the bill) when the bank went under, Zammiello didn't have to give it back, because it was a nonrefundable down payment.

Sweet.






3. And never ever ever fire the son of a Mob Boss.

Zammiello also figured in a famous case involving a nightclub owned by the son of mob boss Cadillac Frank Salemme.

According to the U.S. Attorney the club "was a business operated on behalf of La Cosa Nostra and run by people closely associated with the Mafia."

When the nightclub was given two weeks by the Boston Licensing Board to resolve its “problems,” the manager, Steve DiSarro, allegedly offered to placate the pols by firing the son of the Mob Boss.

Big Mistake-o. The manager went "missing." His body has never been found.

And questions about his final resting place--or places--join the ranks of other popular questions in Beantown. What happened to the Boston Strangler? Whose idea was it to put Dukakis in a tank?





"Been a privilege claiming privilege with you, Sir

Opined the Boston Herald, "The relationship between DiSarro and Providence real estate developer Frank J. Zammiello, a known friend and partner of the jailed New England crime boss (Patriarca), suggests the South Boston club may be under the control of organized crime.”

"Cadillac Frank" Salemme also figured in the corruption trial of former Boston FBI honcho John Connelly.

But we may never learn more than we do now about John Connelly—known as “Zip” to his Mob buddies—and his 30-year crime spree.

When the House Government Committee attempted to hold hearings on corruption in the Boston FBI, they were thwarted in the Spring of 2002 by President George W. Bush.

Bush shocked the Congressional watchdog committee’s chairman, conservative Republican Dan Burton, by claiming executive privilege to keep Congress from gaining access to documents generated by the Boston FBI.

You would have thought Bush had more important things on his mind at that particular moment than FBI corruption in Boston, but who knows?






The Dept of Rhetorical Questions

If Connelly's crime family and Bush's claim of executive privilege were to one day dovetail just perfectly with the FBI raid on Boston computer services company Ptech because of it's ownership's uncomfortable resemblance to the financiers of al-Qaeda...

And were both threads turn out to be decisive factors in the Saudi's choice of a Mob-linked aircraft charter company in Rhode Island to get a Saudi Sheik and three other men out of the U.S. tout de suite...

Would anyone really be surprised?

But Messer’s Bush and Zammiello no doubt know more about these things than we do.

Mr. Bush, after all, promised to track down Osama bin Laden dead or alive, and he’s still alive, so he was at least half-right.

And Mr. Zammiello is today a respected real estate developer in Palm Beach Florida.

He was even able to borrow $12.5 million from the Providence city employees retirement fund to build a shopping center...

So he obviously knows something we don't. Because we can’t imagine any city’s retirement fund offering us that kind of money.

We don't imagine you can, eithe

The underground base in Dulce, New Mexico by Castillo who is in hiding?

Probing Deeper Into The Dulce 'Enigma'


by John RHodes




In the early 1960's, a subterranean nuclear blast occurred about 30 miles southwest of Dulce, New Mexico, right off of U.S. 64. This nuclear blast was conducted under the umbrella of project Plowshare, and was named Gassbuggy.

It has recently been alleged that this particular subsurface nuclear blast was used to create a hollowed out chute or chimney for development of a substation for a super-secret tunnel system attached to an underground black book project base.

According to Thomas Castello, a former Dulce base security officer -- this particular under-world city is a highly secret base operated by humans as well as reptilian aliens and their worker cast, the commonly encountered grays.

It is here, apparently, that a multitude of experimentation projects are carried out. Primarily genetic experiments on kidnapped men, women, and children.

There are a myriad of other specialty science projects taking place at the Dulce base including, but not limited to: Atomic manipulation, cloning, studies of the human aura, advanced mind control applications, animal/human crossbreeding, visual and audio wiretapping, the list goes on...

Dulce, New Mexico is a strange place indeed. It's a sleepy little town perched upon the Archuletta Mesa, just south of the Colorado border in northern New Mexico.

Tourists passing through sometimes see little more life in the town other than that of a scruffy dog lazily spread out along side of the dirt road. Some claim that upon entering the town, black vehicles with heavily tinted windows tailgate them until they are outside the city limits and "heading out of Dodge"!...

In addition, several other sources, who wish to remain nameless, reported oddities in their work with operation 'Plowshare' during the 1960's. The project was created under the guise of the use of atomic bombs during peacetime, and forged ahead under the umbrella of "Natural Gas Exploration". In fact, several of these multi-kiloton blasts were used as a rapid way of developing huge sub-surface chambers for facility development. It is reported that the technology to clean radiation is available and already in use for such projects.

When I lectured on Friday, August 13th of 1993 in Las Vegas, I made public, for the first time ever, the floor plans to levels one and 6 of the Dulce Base. These floor plans were reproduced from the originals that were handed to Thomas Castello's friend. This friend did not previously release the floor plans because they were being used as a verification device to the claims of abductees that say they were there. To date, the originals have verified and disproved many stories circulating the field of ufology. This friend of Thomas Castello's, however, believes that it is time to begin to reveal the missing pieces...

The Dulce base floor plan was illustrated as per the originals by Thomas Castello and I released it... during my lecture in Las Vegas, Nevada. Its layout, when inspected carefully, appears to be extremely strategically planned.

From a vertical viewpoint, it resembles a wheel with a central hub and corridors radiating outwards like spokes. This 'hub' is the focal point of the entire base. It is surrounded by central security and extends through all levels of the base.

I believe this core to be the Achilles heal of the entire facility. It probably contains fiber optic communications and power lines. This would justify its highly guarded and central location as well as explain its vertical continuation through all levels. With all communication lines and power lines focused towards the hub, it is possible that any one level could be completely "locked down" by its own security or the security hubs from either above or below its own level. This would provide maximum control over the entire facility.

The 'spokes' or corridors radiating away from the central hub, lead to numerous other labs in five different directions. Connect the spokes and a pentagon is revealed in its design. From above, this base resembles the layout of the Pentagon in Washington D.C. complete with halls, walls and military insignias! Since we do not have the exact heading on its corridors, magnetic alignments are impossible to determine.

When viewed laterally, its appearance takes on the look of a tree with a trunk at its center and its floors extending outwards like the branches. If this is a facility of science, then one could easily say that its lateral appearance is like that of the tree of knowledge
Was this purposely designed this way or does it just happen to be a coincidence?

The overall design of this facility reminds one of a multi-stacked subterranean Hopi Indian kiva. Although I believe that it's somewhat of a disservice to the Hopi to even be spoken of in association with a cave of horrors like the Dulce base, its similarity in design should not be forgotten.

As cultures around the world tend to bring their own styles of architecture with them during periods of migration, so perhaps did the advanced civilization that 'originally' built the Dulce Base. If the reptilian influence over man is as great as archaic documentation and myth would have one believe, then there have to be other subterranean dwellings similar to this in other locations...

(Note: The following are some additional facts and comments, concerning the late Thomas Edwin Castello, which are not mentioned elsewhere in this work. These have been 'paraphrased' from the research files of John Rhodes. - Branton):

In 1961, Castello was a young sergeant stationed at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, Nevada. His job was as a military photographer with a top secret clearance. He later transferred to West Virginia where he trained in advanced intelligence photography. He worked inside an undisclosed underground installation, and due to the nature of his new assignment his clearance was upgraded to TS-IV. He remained with the Air Force as a photographer until 1971 at which time he was offered a job with RAND corporation as a Security Technician, and so he moved to California where RAND had a major facility and his security clearance was upgraded to ULTRA-3. The following year he met a woman named Cathy, they married and had a son, Eric.

In 1977 Thomas was transferred to Santa Fe, New Mexico where his pay was raised significantly and his security clearance was again upgraded... this time to ULTRA-7. His new job was as a photo security specialist in the Dulce installation, where his job specification was to maintain, align and calibrate video monitoring cameras throughout the underground complex and to escort visitors to their destinations. Once arriving in Dulce, Thomas and several other new 'recruits' attended a mandatory meeting where they were introduced to the BIG LIE, that:

"...the subjects being used for genetic experiments were hopelessly insane and the research is for medical and humane purposes."

Beyond that, all questions were to be asked on a need to know basis. The briefing ended with severe threats of punishment for being caught talking to any of the 'insane' or engaging in conversations with others not directly involved with ones current task. Venturing outside the boundaries of ones own work area without reason was also forbidden and, most of all, discussing the existence of the joint Alien/U.S. government base to any outsider would generate severe and, if necessary, deadly repercussions.

Thomas did his job as his superiors demanded. At first his encounters with actual gray and reptilian beings in the base were exhilarating, but soon he became acutely aware that all was not what it appeared to be. Thomas slowly began to sense that there was an underlying current of tension existing between some of the personnel and himself. Once in a while he would walk around the corner, interrupting serious discussions between coworkers and, as Thomas was a security officer, these talks would die off into a short murmur and individuals would part company.

One particular part of his job was to go into various areas of the base and align the security monitoring cameras when it was necessary. This afforded him the opportunity to venture out and witness things that would stagger the imagination. Later he was to report seeing laboratories that investigated the following: Auraic energy fields of humans; Astral or spirit-body voyaging and manipulation; Psi studies; Advanced mind control analysis and application; Human brain memory recognition, acquisition, and transfer; Matter manipulation; Human/alien embryonic cloning; Rapid human body replicating by use of energy/matter transfer (complete with an individuals memory from the neural network computer memory banks) and other scientific advances.

Once in a while Thomas would see some of the horrifying genetic creations that were housed in separate sections of the base. These, he knew, couldn't have had anything to do with mental illness or health research. Thomas didn't want to look any further. For every time he discovered more pieces to this underground maze, it became more and more overwhelming to accept. His curious mind, however, implored him to search for the truth regardless of his own desire to turn away in horror.

One day, Thomas was approached by another employee who ushered him into a side hallway. Here he was approached by two other gentlemen that whispered the most horrifying words... the men, woman AND CHILDREN that were said to be mentally retarded were, in fact, heavily sedated victims of ABDUCTION. He warned the men that their words and actions could get them in big trouble if he were to turn them in. At this, one man told Thomas that they were all observing him and noticed that he too was 'uncomfortable' with what he was witnessing. They knew that Thomas had a conscience and they knew they had a friend.

They were right, Thomas didn't turn them into his commanders. Instead, he made the dangerous decision to quietly speak with one of the caged humans in an area nicknamed "Nightmare Hall". Through their drug induced state, he asked their name and their home town. Thomas discreetly investigated the claim of this 'insane' human during his weekends out of the facility. He discovered through his search that the person had been declared missing in their home-town after vanishing suddenly, leaving behind their traumatized families, who followed dead ends and trailed flyers. Soon he discovered that MANY of the hundreds, perhaps thousands of men, women and children were actually listed as missing or unexplained disappearances. Thomas knew he was IN OVER HIS HEAD and so were several of his co-workers. All he could do, until somehow the situation changed, was to be alert and extremely guarded with his thoughts. The gray aliens' telepathic capabilities allowed them to 'read' the minds of those around them and if he revealed his intense anger, it would be all over for him and his new friends.

In 1978, tensions within the Dulce base were extremely heightened. Several security and lab technicians began to sabotage the genetic experiments. Increasingly frail nerves and paranoia finally erupted into what is commonly referred to as the Dulce Wars. It was a literal battle between the reptilians and the humans for the CONTROL of the Dulce base. It was the reptilians more than the humans that were pushing the "Big Lie", and insisted on using humans in their experiments, AND those who did not survive the experiments were used as 'sources' for the liquid protein tanks which 'fed' both embryonic gray fetuses as well as full grown grays, as a source of nourishment. The initial "Dulce War" conflict began on Level Three.

No one is exactly sure how it started, but we do know through Thomas' account that it involved base SECURITY FORCES armed with beam weapons known as "Flash Guns", machine-gun toting U.S. Military personnel, and the Gray alien species (that were playing both sides against each other). When the smoke cleared, sixty-eight humans had been killed, twenty-two were completely vaporized and nineteen escaped via the tunnels. Seven were recaptured and twelve remain in hiding to this day.

Thomas returned to his post awaiting the planning of his own escape. But in 1979, the intense pressure brought upon Thomas by his job finally made him break the code of silence. He told his best friend, by a hand passed note, that he was working in a sub-surface, huge installation outside of Dulce, New Mexico.

He also told his friend that he was working side by side with Gray aliens that consider themselves native Terrans and that the upside-down black triangle with the inverted gold colored T inside it was the insignia of the project.

Thomas knew that he had to leave the job for his own peace of mind, however now that he knew the truth about the abductees being held below, it would be almost impossible to live a 'normal' life. He would always be under observation and threat until the day he died. He also was aware of the fact that old age may not be his downfall. His demise could easily be expedited by certain individuals.

After one of his weekends away from the facility, he decided to return to work. This time through one of the less guarded air shafts, unannounced and into the base by way of secret passages. Once inside, he preceded to appear as if he was working his normal duties while taking charge of every thought as he passed by Grays. During this time inside the base, he removed still photographs of the facility and treaties signed, with authentic signatures, between California Governor Ronald Reagan, several other individuals and the Grays.

Thomas also managed to retrieve a 7 minute black and white surveillance video of genetic experiments, caged humans, Grays, as well as schematics of Alien devices and complex genetic formulas. These items, he felt, were not only his chance to a seat at the bargaining table when the need arose, but also they were things that the public needed to know about.

He made copies of the films, photo's and paperwork, packed several 'packages' and instructed several different people who he trusted explicitly to bury or hide them until the right time.

He was then made aware through certain sources that his wife, Cathy, and son, Eric, had been forcibly taken from their home to an undisclosed underground facility for 'safe holding' until he decided to return with the items. At this point, he knew that even IF he did return everything to the Dulce commanders, that his wife and son were probably NEVER going to be the same again, if even returned at all, after being manipulated by aggressive mind control. He also knew that he AND his family would most DEFINITELY become permanently missing due to some tragic accident. Thomas was at zero option. He quickly dissolved into a lonely life on the run. From state to state, border to border, motels to sofa's. Always looking behind him and trying his best to look ahead...

END

Where is the big, bad, lying FBI scum on the famous false flag terrorism known as ANTHRAX LETTERS MURDERS?

Anthrax Coverup: A Government Insider Speaks Out

Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2007-07-03 20:08. Media
By Steve Watson

Is it possible that the anthrax attacks were launched from within our own government? A former Bush 1 advisor thinks it is.

Francis A. Boyle, an international law expert who worked under the first Bush Administration as a bioweapons advisor in the 1980s, has said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government. The motive: to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the later Military Commissions Act.

"After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush Administration tried to ram the USA PATRIOT Act through Congress," Boyle said in a radio interview with Austin-based talk-show host Alex Jones. "That would have set up a police state.

"Senators Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
were holding it up because they realized what this would lead to. The
first draft of the PATRIOT Act would have suspended the writ of habeas
corpus [which protects citizens from unlawful imprisonment and
guarantees due process of law]. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere,
come these anthrax attacks."

"At the time I myself did not know precisely what was going on, either
with respect to September 11 or the anthrax attacks, but then the New
York Times revealed the technology behind the letter to Senator
Daschle. [The anthrax used was] a trillion spores per gram, [refined
with] special electro-static treatment. This is superweapons-grade
anthrax that even the United States government, in its openly
proclaimed programs, had never developed before. So it was obvious to
me that this was from a U.S. government lab. There is nowhere else you
could have gotten that."

Boyle's assessment was based on his years of expertise regarding
America's bioweapons programs. He was responsible for drafting the
Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 that was passed
unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President
George H.W. Bush.

After realizing that the anthrax attacks looked like a domestic job,
Boyle called a high-level official in the FBI who deals with terrorism
and counterterrorism, Marion "Spike" Bowman. Boyle and Bowman had met
at a terrorism conference at the University of Michigan Law School.
Boyle told Bowman that the only people who would have the capability to
carry out the attacks were individuals working on U.S. government
anthrax programs with access to a high-level biosafety lab. Boyle gave
Bowman a full list of names of scientists, contractors and labs
conducting anthrax work for the U.S. government and military.

Bowman then informed Boyle that the FBI was working with Fort Detrick
on the matter. Boyle expressed his view that Fort Detrick could be the
main problem. As widely reported in 2002 publications, notably the New
Scientist, the anthrax strain used in the attacks was officially
assessed as "military grade."

"Soon after I informed Bowman of this information, the FBI authorized
the destruction of the Ames cultural anthrax database," the professor
said. The Ames strain turned out to be the same strain as the spores
used in the attacks.

The alleged destruction of the anthrax culture collection at Ames,
Iowa, from which the Fort Detrick lab got its pathogens, was blatant
destruction of evidence. It meant that there was no way of finding out
which strain was sent to whom to develop the larger breed of anthrax
used in the attacks. The trail of genetic evidence would have led
directly back to a secret government biowarfare program.


"Clearly, for the FBI to have authorized this was obstruction of
justice, a federal crime," said Boyle. "That collection should have
been preserved and protected as evidence. That's the DNA, the
fingerprints right there. It later came out, of course, that this was
Ames strain anthrax that was behind the Daschle and Leahy letters."

At that point, recounted Boyle, it became very clear to him that there
was a coverup underway. He later discovered, while reading David Ray
Griffin's book on the 9/11 attacks, The New Pearl Harbor, that Bowman
was the same FBI agent who allegedly sabotaged the FISA warrant for
access to [convicted co-conspirator] Zacharias Moussaoui's computer
prior to 9/11. Moussaoui's computer contained information that could
have helped prevent the attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon.

In 2003, Bowman was promoted and given the Presidential Rank Award by
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote a
letter to Mueller, chastising the organization for granting such an
honor to an agent who had so obviously compromised America's security.

During the anthrax scare, the House of Representatives was officially
shut down for the first time in the history of the republic. Once
opposition from Leahy and Daschle evaporated in the wake of the
attempts on their lives, the USA PATRIOT Act was rammed through.
Testimony by Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) revealed that most
members of Congress were compelled to vote for the bill without even
reading it.

"They were going to move to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, which is
all that really separates us from a police state," Boyle said. "And
that is what they have done now with respect to enemy combatants [in
the Military Commissions Act of 2006]." Boyle added that lawmakers are
now arguing that Amendment XIV, which guarantees due process of law to
all Americans, does not mean what it has been taken to mean and that,
under the Military Commissions Act, any U.S. citizen can be stripped of
citizenship and be labeled an enemy combatant.

Continued Boyle: "In other words, they have taken the position that at
some point in time, if they want to, they can unilaterally round up
United States native-born citizens, as they did for Japanese-Americans
in World War II, and stick us into concentration camps." Boyle asserted
that top officials, such as White House legal advisor John Yoo and
former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith (now a professor at
Harvard Law School), are pushing for the legalization of torture as
well.

"The Nazis did the exact same thing," said Boyle. "They had their
lawyers infiltrating law schools. Carl Schmidt was the worst, and he
was the mentor to Leo Strauss, the [ideological] founder of the
neoconservatives. So the same phenomenon that started in Nazi Germany
is happening here, and I exaggerate not. We could all be tortured; we
could all be treated this way."

Boyle stressed that it is vital to keep up the pressure on Senator
Leahy, who now chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, giving him
subpoena power. Since Leahy was himself a target, he may have
sufficient motivation to get to the bottom of the attacks. The FBI and
the Justice Department have so far refused full disclosure to Congress.

In addition to his credentials as a government advisor, Boyle also
holds a doctorate of law magna cum laude and a Ph.D. in political
science, both from Harvard University. He teaches international law at
the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Boyle also served on
the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-92) and
represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Court.

Boyle alleged that due to his activities as a lawyer, he was
interrogated by an agent from the CIA/FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in
the summer of 2004. The agent tried to recruit him as an informant to
provide the FBI with information on his Arab and Muslim clients. When
he refused, according to Boyle, the FBI placed him on the government's
terrorism watch lists.

FBI does not need warrant to sniff internet cache?

Judges OK warrantless monitoring of Web use
Privacy rules don't apply to Internet messages, court says

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Federal agents do not need a search warrant to monitor a suspect's computer use and determine the e-mail addresses and Web pages the suspect is contacting, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

In a drug case from San Diego County, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco likened computer surveillance to the "pen register" devices that officers use to pinpoint the phone numbers a suspect dials, without listening to the phone calls themselves.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of pen registers in 1979, saying callers have no right to conceal from the government the numbers they communicate electronically to the phone companies that carry their calls.

Federal law requires court approval for a pen register. But because it is not considered a search, authorities do not need a search warrant, which would require them to show that the surveillance is likely to produce evidence of a crime.

They also do not need a wiretap order, which would require them to show that less intrusive methods of surveillance have failed or would be futile.

In Friday's ruling, the court said computer users should know that they lose privacy protections with e-mail and Web site addresses when they are communicated to the company whose equipment carries the messages.

Likewise, the court said, although the government learns what computer sites someone visited, "it does not find out the contents of the messages or the particular pages on the Web sites the person viewed."

The search is no more intrusive than officers' examination of a list of phone numbers or the outside of a mailed package, neither of which requires a warrant, Judge Raymond Fisher said in the 3-0 ruling.

Defense lawyer Michael Crowley disagreed. His client, Dennis Alba, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being convicted of operating a laboratory in Escondido that manufactured the drug ecstasy.

Some of the evidence against Alba came from agents' tracking of his computer use. The court upheld his conviction and sentence.

Expert evidence in Alba's case showed that the Web addresses obtained by federal agents included page numbers that allowed the agents to determine what someone read online, Crowley said.

The ruling "further erodes our privacy," the attorney said. "The great political marketplace of ideas is the Internet, and the government has unbridled access to it."

E-mail Bob Egelko at begelko@sfchronicle.com.

No real specific news on the coming IMPEACHMENT MELT DOWN AND CHICANERY BY DOJ, NSA, DOD, AND FBI HQ

Report: Gonzales knew of FBI violations

Tue Jul 10, 7:00 AM ET



WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales received reports detailing legal or procedural violations by FBI agents in the months before he told senators that no such abuses had occurred, The Washington post reported Tuesday
In April 2005, while seeking renewal of the broad powers granted law enforcement under the USA Patriot Act, Gonzales said, "There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse" from the law enacted after the 9/11 terror attacks.

According to the Post, Gonzales had received a least half a dozen reports describing such violations in the three months before he made that statement. The newspaper obtained the internal FBI documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

The violations, the Post reported, included unauthorized surveillance and an illegal property search.

Justice officials said they did not know whether Gonzales had read the reports.

Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said, "The statements from the attorney general are consistent with statements from other officials at the FBI and the department." He told the Post that many of the violations were not illegal but merely involved procedural safeguards or even typographical errors.

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Bean's comment: This does not even come close to the real story found in my 47 page US DOJ OIG complaint and 6 South Dakota State Bar Disciplinary Board complaints naming Sioux Falls and Austin Texas FBI's "unindicted coconspirators" to a never ending harassment and conspiracy to TAMPER WITH A COOPERATING WITNESS WHO TRIED TO STOP THE US INTEL COMMUNITY FROM BLOWING UP THE MURRAY BUILDING AND THE CHILDREN AT THE DAYCARE CENTER?!


Not one Senator (including Charles Grassley) has mentioned all the crimes articulated in my complaint.

My DOJ OIG complaint only covered the crimes committed by law enforcement and their secret police state actors (The NSA TSP) from JANUARY 1991 through NOVEMBER 2004. ALOT MORE OUTRAGEOUS CRIMES HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY POLICE STATE ACTORS IN SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, AND THE STATES OF NEBRASKA, COLORADO, UTAH, ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, OREGON (states I travelled in while fleeing the FBI Division 5 and NSA mercenaries after once again "being run out of my own home". The harassment reached a pinnacle of outrageous conduct when "FBI, NSA, DOD" broke into my home and surgically installed an "NSA MIND CONTROL RFID CHIP" in my upper right hand nasopharygial cavity near the ocular bone....and....lets not forget the use of MICROWAVE RADIATION AS A TORTURE DEVICE KNOWN AS A DOD DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON used to target me, after I contacted the US Senate Judiciary Committee, and the after contact with the South Dakota congressional delegation in November 2005?

Fourth of July in The Marble MOuntains and Trinity Alps

The Fourth of July was a hot in North East California.

Temps were in the triple digits.


I came out of Trinity National Forest and went west following The PACIFIC CREST TRAIL towards Etna, CA. Found the Salmon River valley, and went through a forest that could have been straight out of the movie Deliverence. Spooky. Nobody around on The Fourth?

Went up the logging road to Eddy Lookout....made it just as the sun was setting out west...with a view to the South of a snow packed glacier that supplies The Salmon and Klamath Rivers. Little Sinatra the cat....tripped over a 12 inch rattlesnake that made its presence known with the telltale sound of thousand angry bees (that's what a rattle sounds like?). If you have not heard a rattle snake in the wild, don't worry...you'll know that rodeo when you get there.

To my surprise, my first rattlesnake incident occurred at high elevation, about fifteen feet from where I parked my truck? Snakes like the warm of a car engine, at night and are famous for climbing into engines or on your tranny. God knows how many times people have been around poisenous snakes, and never knew how close they have come to a major pain in the ass. If you get snake bit out in the wilderness...it is a long drive to a hospital, and...you might not make it. Death and Destruction is everywhere all the time...it seems?

This snake near my truck left me paranoid the rest of the night...watching every footstep. Old Sinatra wasn't backing off on this snake that was coiled...and would have watched it all night...so I started throwing rocks at it to scare my cat away...and she did back off. The last thing I needed was a dead or sick cat on my hands. I remember the last time I visited a vet to take cactus quills out of Sinatra's stomach and back paws...and I didn't need another 600-1,000$ vet fee. I had hoped that cats (who seem self possessed with unusually high IQs) were smart enough to leave danger alone.

My interest in the snake grew over time, since I've have never seen a rattlesnake in the wild. I realized I had to neutralize the threat, or I'd lose sleep all night wondering if my cat was stupid enough to get bit. Maybe the stupid bastard would climb into my engine, and find a nice hole in the air conditioning ductwork? So...for safety sake, I had to kill the damn stupid snake. Didn't want to. Hoped it would crawl off.

Next day...woke up in these alps...went to "Forks of the Salmon", CA. Did some swimming in the Salmon river, and that cold temp felt great in the hundred degree heat. The Salmon River has alot of pools and cliffs....and it is a Wild and Scenic River--If you want a great scenic off the path canoe trip, this is the river of choice. Almost no guides or charter rafts and...it is so far off the metropolitan path that, you will get a real easy scenic solitude in unspoiled wilderness.

Hit the state highway winding road to the west to the coast. Went through HOOPA, CA,...a reservation town like all others: grinding poverty and drunken shitheads everywhere. Got nothing against authentic true native tribesman but, the drinking and joblessness creates a pathetic experience far beyond any ones control. At a gas station "a drunken slob indian mouthy drunk" was hoisting a bottle of whiskey while aggressively pahhandling with the charm of buffoon that most people are afraid to make eye contact with. All the other Hoopa's at the gas station were inside buying cheap beer. I like how alot of tribal elders in Indian Country have outlawed alcohol. Good idea.

Made the coast, and pulled into ARCATA, CA....which is a great hippie activist, new age, yoga, toffu eating town of about 15,000. Arcata is...like a slice of San Francisco back in the 60's. Rents are way too high to live an honest life here...and oddly enough..this little town although far away from any major metropolitan areas is in an inflationary rental market that "makes it a true bummer". Seven years ago, while under surveillance...this place was alot more affordable. When Americans escape from big cities...they find and destroy towns like Arcata, CA. It happened to Austin, TX.

Found some good disbursed camping at Walmart parking lot with other RVers: lots of RVers camp a night or two at WalMart. It's free man? Usually, WalMart encourages the practise by ignoring this phenomenon. If WalMart wanted to increase profits with their huge parking lots, they could easily set it up as a small RV lot charging 5--10$ a night. Someday...they will.

Later...avoiding REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK because of the ongoing everyday rainy ass grey weather. This is unspoiled country by and large, and I suppose it is the grey days that keeps the crowds out. Nice rocks and beach outside of GOLD BEACH, OREGON, where the ROGUE RIVER borders on the north side. Talked to a guy shooting photos with the old school large format tin plates. Good guy. I got to look under the hood to see the view which in this format is a the size of the plate--photo. So...you get a much better view of what you are shooting. Nice advantage to the usual small peep hole that all conventional cameras use.

Now...I seek some beach camping on a coastline. I'll go to the tackle shops to see where the surf casters park and camp all night. Hey man...free rent...and no fees. Who could beat the cool weather on the coast. Lot's of wind...but hey man, whose complaining about living out of a truck on a beautiful coastline?

Living in the truck, is kind of a blessing. It keeps me far away from cities, cops, tickets, and jails. That works for me all the way.

In WASHINGTON, you occasionally get some sun on the beach. It is rare, but when it happens, it is a godsend. I was lucky, I had several days of sunshine on a Washington beach. Washington...unlike Oregon and California...sees the beach as a public land that you are expected to drive on. That is how it should be. Damn few beaches allow car camping at night and camp fires.

That is what you got to have.

NSA mind control or FBI counterintel debriefing? WHY DID DUMSFIELD ORDER THE CHIPPING OF THOMAS S. BEAN, A US SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WITNESS?

Microchip Implants, Mind Control, and Cybernetics
- by Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, MD Former Chief Medical Officer of Finland December 6, 2000
In 1948 Norbert Weiner published a book, Cybernetics, defined as a neurological communication and control theory already in use in small circles at that time. Yoneji Masuda, "Father of the Information Society," stated his concern in 1980 that our liberty is threatened Orwellian-style by cybernetic technology totally unknown to most people. This technology links the brains of people via implanted microchips to satellites controlled by ground-based supercomputers.

The first brain implants were surgically inserted in 1974 in the state of Ohio, USA and also in Stockholm, Sweden. Brain electrodes were inserted into the skulls of babies in 1946 without the knowledge of their parents. In the 1950s and 60s, electrical implants were inserted into the brains of animals and humans, especially in the U.S., during research into behavior modification, and brain and body functioning. Mind control (MC) methods were used in attempts to change human behavior and attitudes. Influencing brain functions became an important goal of military and intelligence services.

Thirty years ago brain implants showed up in X-rays the size of one centimeter. Subsequent implants shrunk to the size of a grain of rice. They were made of silicon, later still of gallium arsenide. Today they are small enough to be inserted into the neck or back, and also intravenously in different parts of the body during surgical operations, with or without the consent of the subject. It is now almost impossible to detect or remove them.

It is technically possible for every newborn to be injected with a microchip, which could then function to identify the person for the rest of his or her life. Such plans are secretly being discussed in the U.S. without any public airing of the privacy issues involved. In Sweden, Prime Minister Olof Palme gave permission in 1973 to implant prisoners, and Data Inspection's ex-Director General Jan Freese revealed that nursing-home patients were implanted in the mid-1980s. The technology is revealed in the 1972:47 Swedish state report, Statens Officiella Utradninger (SOU).

Implanted human beings can be followed anywhere. Their brain functions can be remotely monitored by supercomputers and even altered through the changing of frequencies. Guinea pigs in secret experiments have included prisoners, soldiers, mental patients, handicapped children, deaf and blind people, homosexuals, single women, the elderly, school children, and any group of people considered "marginal" by the elite experimenters. The published experiences of prisoners in Utah State Prison, for example, are shocking to the conscience.

Today's microchips operate by means of low-frequency radio waves that target them. With the help of satellites, the implanted person can be tracked anywhere on the globe. Such a technique was among a number tested in the Iraq war, according to Dr. Carl Sanders, who invented the intelligence-manned interface (IMI) biotic, which is injected into people. (Earlier during the Vietnam War, soldiers were injected with the Rambo chip, designed to increase adrenaline flow into the bloodstream.) The 20-billion-bit/second supercomputers at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) could now "see and hear" what soldiers experience in the battlefield with a remote monitoring system (RMS).

When a 5-micromillimeter microchip (the diameter of a strand of hair is 50 micromillimeters) is placed into optical nerve of the eye, it draws neuroimpulses from the brain that embody the experiences, smells, sights, and voice of the implanted person. Once transferred and stored in a computer, these neuroimpulses can be projected back to the person’s brain via the microchip to be reexperienced. Using a RMS, a land-based computer operator can send electromagnetic messages (encoded as signals) to the nervous system, affecting the target's performance. With RMS, healthy persons can be induced to see hallucinations and to hear voices in their heads.

Every thought, reaction, hearing, and visual observation causes a certain neurological potential, spikes, and patterns in the brain and its electromagnetic fields, which can now be decoded into thoughts, pictures, and voices. Electromagnetic stimulation can therefore change a person's brainwaves and affect muscular activity, causing painful muscular cramps experienced as torture.

The NSA's electronic surveillance system can simultaneously follow and handle millions of people. Each of us has a unique bioelectrical resonance frequency in the brain, just as we have unique fingerprints. With electromagnetic frequency (EMF) brain stimulation fully coded, pulsating electromagnetic signals can be sent to the brain, causing the desired voice and visual effects to be experienced by the target. This is a form of electronic warfare. U.S. astronauts were implanted before they were sent into space so their thoughts could be followed and all their emotions could be registered 24 hours a day.

The Washington Post reported in May 1995 that Prince William of Great Britain was implanted at the age of 12. Thus, if he were ever kidnapped, a radio wave with a specific frequency could be targeted to his microchip. The chip’s signal would be routed through a satellite to the computer screen of police headquarters, where the Prince’s movements could be followed. He could actually be located anywhere on the globe.

The mass media has not reported that an implanted person's privacy vanishes for the rest of his or her life. She can be manipulated in many ways. Using different frequencies, the secret controller of this equipment can even change a person's emotional life. She can be made aggressive or lethargic. Sexuality can be artificially influenced. Thought signals and subconscious thinking can be read, dreams affected and even induced, all without the knowledge or consent of the implanted person.

A perfect cyber-soldier can thus be created. This secret technology has been used by military forces in certain NATO countries since the 1980s without civilian and academic populations having heard anything about it. Thus, little information about such invasive mind-control systems is available in professional and academic journals.

The NSA's Signals Intelligence group can remotely monitor information from human brains by decoding the evoked potentials (3.50 HZ, 5 milliwatt) emitted by the brain. Prisoner experimentees in both Gothenburg, Sweden and Vienna, Austria have been found to have evident brain lesions. Diminished blood circulation and lack of oxygen in the right temporal frontal lobes result where brain implants are usually operative. A Finnish experimentee experienced brain atrophy and intermittent attacks of unconsciousness due to lack of oxygen.

Mind control techniques can be used for political purposes. The goal of mind controllers today is to induce the targeted persons or groups to act against his or her own convictions and best interests. Zombified individuals can even be programmed to murder and remember nothing of their crime afterward. Alarming examples of this phenomenon can be found in the U.S.

This “silent war” is being conducted against unknowing civilians and soldiers by military and intelligence agencies. Since 1980, electronic stimulation of the brain (ESB) has been secretly used to control people targeted without their knowledge or consent. All international human rights agreements forbid non consensual manipulation of human beings — even in prisons, not to speak of civilian populations.

Under an initiative of U.S. Senator John Glenn, discussions commenced in January 1997 about the dangers of radiating civilian populations. Targeting people’s brain functions with electromagnetic fields and beams (from helicopters and airplanes, satellites, from parked vans, neighboring houses, telephone poles, electrical appliances, mobile phones, TV, radio, etc.) is part of the radiation problem that should be addressed in democratically elected government bodies.

In addition to electronic MC, chemical methods have also been developed. Mind-altering drugs and different smelling gasses affecting brain function negatively can be injected into air ducts or water pipes. Bacteria and viruses have also been tested this way in several countries.

Today's super technology, connecting our brain functions via microchips (or even without them, according to the latest technology) to computers via satellites in the U.S. or Israel, poses the gravest threat to humanity. The latest supercomputers are powerful enough to monitor the whole world’s population. What will happen when people are tempted by false premises to allow microchips into their bodies? One lure will be a microchip identity card. Compulsory legislation has even been secretly proposed in the U.S. to criminalize removal of an ID implant.

Are we ready for the robotization of mankind and the total elimination of privacy, including freedom of thought? How many of us would want to cede our entire life, including our most secret thoughts, to Big Brother? Yet the technology exists to create a totalitarian New World Order. Covert neurological communication systems are in place to counteract independent thinking and to control social and political activity on behalf of self-serving private and military interests.

When our brain functions are already connected to supercomputers by means of radio implants and microchips, it will be too late for protest. This threat can be defeated only by educating the public, using available literature on biotelemetry and information exchanged at international congresses.

One reason this technology has remained a state secret is the widespread prestige of the psychiatric Diagnostic Statistical Manual IV produced by the U.S. American Psychiatric Association (APA) and printed in 18 languages. Psychiatrists working for U.S. intelligence agencies no doubt participated in writing and revising this manual. This psychiatric "bible" covers up the secret development of MC technologies by labeling some of their effects as symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.

Victims of mind control experimentation are thus routinely diagnosed, knee-jerk fashion, as mentally ill by doctors who learned the DSM “symptom” list in medical school. Physicians have not been schooled that patients may be telling the truth when they report being targeted against their will or being used as guinea pigs for electronic, chemical and bacteriological forms of psychological warfare.

Time is running out for changing the direction of military medicine, and ensuring the future of human freedom.

This article was originally published in the 36th-year edition of the Finnish-language journal SPEKULA (3rd Quarter, 1999). SPEKULA (circulation 6500) is a publication of Northern Finland medical students and doctors of Oulu University OLK (Oulun Laaketieteellinen Kilta). It is mailed to all medical students of Finland and all Northern Finland medical doctors.

Dems demand CHENEY'S IMPEACHMENT with no specific facts?

McDermott to Cheney: ‘Resign or face impeachment’

By Chris Good

June 29, 2007

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) told Vice President Dick Cheney to “resign or face impeachment” Thursday night as three more House Democrats lent their support to a plan to impeach the vice president.

“The vice president holds himself above the law, and it is time for the Congress to enforce the law,” McDermott said in a floor speech. “For the good of the nation, the vice president could leave office immediately.”

McDermott was one of three House Democrats to come out in favor of impeachment Thursday, along with Reps. Keith Ellison (Minn.) and Hank Johnson (Ga.). Including the three lawmakers, seven members in June have shown new support for impeaching Cheney.

McDermott cited Cheney’s refusal to cooperate with the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), which, pursuant to an order signed by President Clinton, oversees the handling of classified documents by executive agencies. McDermott denounced a 2004 claim that Cheney’s office is not part of the executive branch.

“When a sitting vice president claims that he is not part of the executive branch of government to which he was elected, it is time to remove him from office,” McDermott said.

Johnson also cited the refusal to submit to ISOO oversight in his decision to support impeachment.

McDermott, who was lambasted by conservatives for opposing the Iraq war, said he anticipates a barrage of attacks in response to his support for impeachment.

“The intent of this administration, and this vice president, has been to silence all dissent,” McDermott said. “Fear is what kept this administration in office in 2004, and fear is the only public discourse this administration understands — and practices.”

The articles of impeachment, introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in April, have garnered support from 10 House cosponsors.

Unlike the other impeachment backers, McDermott voted against an amendment proposed by House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) to deny funding to the Office of the Vice President Thursday night. Emanuel proposed the amendment earlier this month as Cheney’s document secrecy gained more attention.

The amendment failed 217-209, receiving votes from two Republicans: Reps. Ron Paul (Texas) and Walter Jones (N.C.).

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TOMMYTHEBUG'S COMMENT: Hey man...the real story is in South Dakota...all covered up...several murders and several attempted murders.

The chipping of THOMAS S. BEAN who signed a US DOJ OIG Complaint and contacted The US Senate Judiciary Committee?

Tampering with a course of medical care....when Sioux Falls FBI special agent STEVEN PLUTA tampered with my attempt at getting the chip removed, and the hiding of medical test evidence when the x-rays were illegally seized and not given to the patient....PLUTA also used the chip to "illegally debrief Thomas S. Bean" using the NSA subliminal counterinteligence debriefing protocol" and NSA MIND CONTROL PROTOCOL?

Leahy goes after White House excuses on the infamous NSA TSP felony crimes

Senate Judiciary Committee Issues Subpoenas
For Legal Basis Of Bush Administration’s
Domestic Surveillance Program

WASHINGTON (Wednesday, June 27) – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), in consultation with Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), issued subpoenas Wednesday for documents relating to the authorization and legal justification for the Administration's warrantless wiretapping program.

Chairman Leahy issued subpoenas to the Department of Justice, the Office of the White House, the Office of the Vice President and the National Security Council for documents relating to the Committee’s inquiry into the warrantless electronic surveillance program. The subpoenas seek documents related to authorization and reauthorization of the program or programs; the legal analysis or opinions about the surveillance; orders, decisions, or opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) concerning the surveillance; agreements between the Executive Branch and telecommunications or other companies regarding liability for assisting with or participating in the surveillance; and documents concerning the shutting down of an investigation of the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) relating to the surveillance.

“Over the past 18 months, this Committee has made no fewer than nine formal requests to the Department of Justice and to the White House, seeking information and documents about the authorization of and legal justification for this program,” Chairman Leahy wrote in letters accompanying the subpoenas to Bush Administration officials. “All requests have been rebuffed. Our attempts to obtain information through testimony of Administration witnesses have been met with a consistent pattern of evasion and misdirection.”

“There is no legitimate argument for withholding the requested materials from this Committee,” Leahy wrote. “The Administration cannot thwart the Congress’s conduct of its constitutional duties with sweeping assertions of secrecy and privilege. The Committee seeks no intimate operational facts and we are willing to accommodate legitimate redactions of the documents we seek to eliminate reference to these details.”

Last week the Committee, in a bipartisan vote of 13-3, authorized Chairman Leahy to issue subpoenas for documents and information related to the domestic surveillance program. The Committee has requested the legal justification for the program several times since it was first revealed in December 2005. The deadline for providing the Committee the information is July 18.


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U.S. SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY

CONTACT: Office of Senator Leahy, 202-224-4242
VERMONT


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Judiciary Chairmen Leahy, Conyers Seek Basis
For President’s Executive Privilege Claim
As They Take Next Steps To Enforce Congressional Subpoenas

WASHINGTON (Friday, June 29) -- Today, Senate and House Judiciary Chairmen Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) sent a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding, responding to the President's executive privilege assertion over documents relating to the US Attorney investigation. Leahy and Conyers reiterated their concern that the President's sweeping assertion was unprecedented. They also demanded the White House "immediately provide us with the specific bases for your claims regarding each document withheld via a privilege log...and a copy of any explicit determination by the President with respect to the assertion of privilege."

The full text of the letter is below, and as a PDF, and is followed by background information on executive privilege.

June 29, 2007

Fred Fielding, Esq.
Counsel to the President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. Fielding:

The return date and time for the White House Chief of Staff, Joshua Bolten, to appear before our Committees on behalf of the White House and bring with him the documents compelled by the subpoenas we issued on June 13 was yesterday at 10 a.m. Mr. Bolten did not do so. Instead, you wrote us that, despite conceding that you have responsive documents in your possession, you refuse to produce even a single one based on a blanket executive privilege claim. We had hoped our Committees’ subpoenas would be met with compliance and not a Nixonian stonewalling that reveals the White House’s disdain for our system of checks and balances.

We urge the President to reconsider this step and withdraw his privilege claim so the American people can learn the truth about these firings. If he is unwilling to withdraw these claims, we call on you to provide more specific information to facilitate ruling on those claims and our consideration of appropriate action to enforce our subpoenas.

On June 13, we issued subpoenas compelling the White House to produce documents related to our Committees’ investigations into the mass firings and replacements of U.S. Attorneys and politicization at the Department of Justice. We did so reluctantly after seeking voluntary cooperation from the White House for three months. Even though the evidence gathered by our Committees shows that White House officials were heavily involved in these firings and in the Justice Department’s response to congressional inquiries about them, the White House has not produced a single document or allowed even one White House official involved in these matters to be interviewed.

Our Committees rejected your “take it or leave it” offer of off-the-record, backroom interviews and severe limits on the scope of our requests as unacceptable, more than three months ago. Since that time, despite our many attempts to narrow the dispute and begin to obtain the information we need, you have not made any effort to work with us on a voluntary basis. Even now, in response to subpoenas authorized by our Committees, you have again merely restated your initial, unacceptable offer. Your proposal is not commensurate with our exercise of the broad investigatory power of Congress.

Our power to investigate has been described as essential to the legislative function by the Supreme Court and “as penetrating and far-reaching as the potential power to enact and appropriate under the Constitution.” Eastland v. United States Serviceman’s Fund, 421 U.S. 491, 504, n. 15 (1975). Indeed, the Court has specifically recognized that Congress’ “broad” investigatory authority “encompasses inquiries concerning the administration of existing laws as well as proposed or possibly needed statutes,” and includes the power to “inquire into and publicize corruption, maladministration, or inefficiencies” in the Executive Branch. Watkins v. United States, 354 U.S. 178, 182, 200 n.33 (1957). Moreover, as we have said many times, your proposal would constrain not only our investigation, but also the ability of the American people to learn the truth about these firings.

In fact, the letter you enclosed from Acting Attorney General Clement makes clear that internal White House documents, which you have refused even to discuss making available, contain information directly responsive to our subpoenas. According to Mr. Clement, those documents specifically discuss “the possible dismissal and replacement of U.S. Attorneys,” the “wisdom of such a proposal, specific U.S. Attorneys who could be removed, potential replacement candidates, and possible responses to congressional and media inquiries about the dismissals.” The subject matter of these documents heightens our concern about the involvement of White House officials in these firings and in the inaccurate testimony given to our Committees about them, including possible obstruction of justice and other violations of federal law. It is precisely for these reasons that we have sought for many months to obtain information from the White House.

Your action today in stonewalling the Committees’ investigations is also inconsistent with the practices of every Administration since World War II in responding to congressional oversight. In that time, presidential advisers have testified before congressional committees 74 times voluntarily or compelled by subpoenas. During the Clinton Administration, White House and Administration advisors were routinely subpoenaed for documents or to appear before Congress. For example, in 1996 alone, the House Government Reform Committee issued at least 27 subpoenas to White House advisors. The veil of secrecy you have attempted to pull over the White House by withholding documents and witnesses is unprecedented and damaging to the tradition of open government by and for the people that has been a hallmark of the Republic.

Moreover, your blanket assertion of executive privilege belies any good faith attempt to determine where privilege truly does and does not apply. A serious assertion of privilege would include an effort to demonstrate to the Committees which documents, and which parts of those documents, are covered by any privilege that may apply.

Indeed, the subpoenas themselves specifically stated that for each document withheld, you should provide a description of the nature, source, subject matter, and date of the document; the name and address of each recipient of an original or copy of the document and the date received; the name and address of each additional person to whom any of the contents of the document were disclosed along with the date and manner of disclosure; and the specific legal basis for the assertion of privilege. Such privilege logs have been provided by the White House in previous Administrations, and this Justice Department has provided similar logs in this very matter, which have been used to help resolve disputes about the production of documents. Yet, you have failed to provide any such information.

In addition, at least since the Reagan Administration in 1982, there has been a specific determination and signed statement by the President when executive privilege has been asserted. In accord with this procedure, President Bush himself has issued such assertions during his Administration. See, e.g., Memorandum for the Attorney General re Congressional Subpoena for Executive Branch Documents (December 12, 2001). See also “Procedures Governing Responses to Congressional Requests for Information,” issued on November 4, 1982, and 6 Op. OLC 31 (1982). Yet you have failed to include any such Presidential assertion or even state whether you have now decided to disregard this established procedure.

Please provide the documents compelled by the subpoenas without further delay. If you continue to decline to do so, you should immediately provide us with the specific factual and legal bases for your claims regarding each document withheld via a privilege log as described above and a copy of any explicit determination by the President with respect to the assertion of privilege. You have until July 9, 2007, at 10 a.m. to bring this and any other information you wish to submit to our attention before we move to proceedings to rule on your claims and consider whether the White House is in contempt of Congress.

We were disappointed that we had to turn to these subpoenas in order to obtain information needed by the Committees to learn the truth about these firings and the erosion of independence at the Justice Department. We are even more disappointed now with yet further stonewalling.

Whether or not we have the benefit of the information we have directed you to provide by July 9, we will take the necessary steps to rule on your privilege claims and appropriately enforce our subpoenas backed by the full force of law.

Sincerely,

PATRICK LEAHY JOHN CONYERS, JR.

Chairman Chairman
Senate Judiciary Committee House Judiciary Committee

cc: The Honorable Arlen Specter
The Honorable Lamar S. Smith

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Background --

The White House’s Broad Claims of Executive Privilege Are Not Supported by Law

Background: President Bush has asserted executive privilege in response to two document subpoenas from the Senate and House Judiciary Committees. The subpoenas requested categories of documents highly relevant to the unprecedented and improper firing of nine United States Attorneys and the politicization of the Department of Justice. The executive privilege is not a broad and sweeping authority the President can hide behind because he does not want to cooperate with congressional oversight -- it should not prevent Congress from examining White House documents vitally important to its investigation. While courts have recognized a privilege based in the Constitution, that privilege is not absolute and must be balanced with other constitutional interests, including Congress’s oversight powers.

Courts And Legal Experts Agree Executive Privilege Is Limited:

· The Supreme Court held that the executive privilege is not absolute in United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683, 706 (1974), writing that “neither the doctrine of separation of powers, nor the need for confidentiality of high-level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege … .” The DC Circuit elaborated that “the privilege is qualified, not absolute, and can be overcome by an adequate showing of need.” In re Sealed Case, 121 F.3d 729, 745 (D.C. Cir. 1997).

· The District of Columbia Circuit found that even in the area of national security, there was no absolute executive privilege against congressional demands for information: “The executive would have it that the Constitution confers on the executive absolute discretion in the area of national security. This does not stand up. While the Constitution assigns to the President a number of powers relating to national security, … it confers upon Congress other powers equally inseparable from the national security… .” United States v. AT&T, 567 F.2d121, 128 (D.C. Cir. 1977). [The documents requested by the House and Senate Committees do not implicate any national security concerns.]

· The Congressional Research Service emphasizes the limited nature of the executive privilege. “Executive privilege is not an absolute. It is a qualified privilege and is balanced against the constitutional needs and obligations of other branches.” Congressional Research Service, October 21, 2005.

The Documents Requested By Committees Do Not Fit Into Narrow Executive Privilege:

· The privilege covers communications related to presidential decision-making, which is not at issue here. The DC Circuit has found that the presidential communications privilege applies to communications “intimately connected to his presidential decision-making.” In re Sealed Case, 121 F.3d at 753. However, numerous witnesses before both House and Senate Committees have testified that the President did not decide which U.S. Attorneys should be fired.

· The privilege, even if it does apply, is overcome by real public need -- as exists here. Executive privilege is overcome where the subpoenaed materials likely contain important evidence and where that evidence is not available elsewhere. In re Sealed Case, 121 F.3d at 755. Again and again, the evidence the Committee has obtained in this investigation shows significant involvement by Sara Taylor, Harriet Miers, and others in the White House, but the White House has shut down all avenues of obtaining information about that extremely important involvement.

The broader deliberative process privilege does not apply. That privilege does not apply when there is reason to believe government misconduct occurred, as has been clearly established in this matter, and does not apply to full documents – only to specific and relevant passages. Several of the high-ranking officials at the Department of Justice have resigned since this investigation began. In re Sealed Case, 121 F.3d at 745.
The White House’s Claims Of Privilege Are Sweeping And Overly Broad:

· The non-partisan Congressional Research Service has been critical of this White House’s sweeping characterizations of executive privilege. “The current Bush Administration … has articulated a legal view of the breadth and reach of presidential constitutional prerogatives that, if applied to information and documents often sought by congressional committees, would stymie such inquiries.” CRS further notes that the Department of Justice’s “assertions of these broad notions of presidential prerogatives are unaccompanied by any authoritative judicial citations.” CRS Congressional Oversight Manual, January 3, 2007, at 45.

· The White House has not sought in good faith to determine where privilege truly does and does not apply. The White House Counsel asserted privilege and declared that “therefore the White House will not be making any production in response to these subpoenas for documents.” June 28, 2007 Letter from Fred Fielding to Chairmen Leahy and Conyers. A serious assertion of privilege would include a serious effort to determine which documents, and which parts of those documents, are covered by any privilege that may apply; White House officials have provided no such comprehensive review.

The White House Has Not Sought Accommodation:

· Most disputes between Congress and the Executive about access to documents and information are resolved through compromise. CRS Congressional Oversight Manual at 39.

· The White House in this case has made one unacceptable “take it or leave it” offer of extremely limited access to witnesses, off-the-record interviews, without transcripts, and a small number of documents. The White House has refused to negotiate further. The Senate and House Judiciary Committees have sought the kind of compromise solutions which generally accompany this type of investigation, but have been consistently rebuffed by the White House. Even the Department of Justice has made attempts to respond to congressional inquiries.


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tommythebug's comment:

1) Notice how the Dems and US Sen Jud Comm have not ever mentioned the following names and facts articulated in my 47 page US DOJ OIG complaint...and my SD Bd Med Ost Examiners complaint:


THOMAS S. BEAN...DR. MARK GORDON...RICH GORDON...JOHN KABIESEMAN...MARK DEFENBAUGH...LEROY ROGERS...JON VAN PATTEN....CHRISTINA MOORE...PAUL WELLSTONE...MEL CARNAHAN...JFK JR?...



2) Doesn't the Dems read my complaints?

3) NOTICE THAT LEAHY HAS NOT MENTIONED THE CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE WHEN DENVER DOJ OIG AND DALLAS DOJ OIG were estopped by Bush White House...to prevent any investigation into my claims?


4) I've alleged the illegal felonious chipping of me, THOMAS S. BEAN, because I signed an DOJ OIG Complaint and also contacted Senator CHARLES GRASSLEY with a memo that outed Bush's NSA TSP? TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS, ESPECIALLY A US SEN JUD COMM WITNESS WHO OUTED BUSH'S NSA TSP...would be a matter for Leahy's subpoena...from a guy who has nothing to lose, and has offered to take a polygraph three times in the last 15 years?


5) No comment on the FBI's illegal extrajudicial felony crimes committed against me, my family, my friends, and the Gordon Family?

NY TIMES editorial on ABUSE OF EXECUTIVIE PRIVILEDGE

NEW YORK TIMES Editorial


Published: July 1, 2007



After six years of kowtowing to the White House, Congress is finally challenging President Bush’s campaign to trample all legal and constitutional restraints on his power.

Congressional committees have issued subpoenas for documents and witnesses in two major cases and have asked for the first — and likely not the last — criminal investigation of an executive branch official who might have lied to Congress.

Predictably, the White House is claiming executive privilege and refusing to cooperate with the legitimate Congressional investigations, one springing from Mr. Bush’s decision to spy on Americans without a warrant and the other from the purge of United States attorneys.

The courts have recognized a president’s limited right to keep the White House’s internal deliberations private. But it is far from an absolute right, and Mr. Bush’s claim of executive privilege in the attorneys scandal is especially ludicrous. The White House has said repeatedly that Mr. Bush was not involved in the firings of nine United States attorneys. If that’s true, he can hardly argue that he has the right to conceal conversations and e-mail exchanges that his aides had with one another and the Justice Department.

When the White House refused last week to even account for the documents it was withholding and why, as presidents generally have done in these cases, Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, rightly denounced this arrogance as “Nixonian stonewalling.” He pointed out that every president since World War II has at some point complied with Congressional requests or subpoenas for testimony by members of the White House staff or other presidential advisers.

Mr. Bush’s claim of executive privilege may be somewhat stronger on the spying program, since he personally issued the order to start the wiretapping. But executive privilege cannot be used to cover up actions and policies that involve an outright violation of the law, as the spying program did.

Nor can it be used to shield an official who might have lied to Congress. The Senate Judiciary Committee has asked the Justice Department to investigate Brett Kavanaugh, a former White House official who told a Senate hearing on his appointment to a federal judgeship that he was not involved in forming rules on the treatment of detainees. Recent press accounts suggest that he was.

The White House has predictably accused the Democrats of being soft on terrorism for opposing illegal wiretapping and of partisan politicking in their attempt to get to the bottom of the attorneys scandal. This is the point when we used to wearily watch as Congress bowed and backed out of the room. But lawmakers finally seem determined to do their duty. Partly that’s because tough-minded Democrats are now in charge, like Senator Leahy. But even some of Mr. Bush’s Republican enablers on Capitol Hill seem to be losing patience.

Last week, three Republican senators, including the highly partisan Orrin Hatch, voted to issue subpoenas for records relating to Mr. Bush’s decision to authorize the tapping of Americans’ phone calls and e-mails abroad without legally and constitutionally mandated warrants. Only three Republicans actually voted against the subpoenas. (Three others did not register a vote.) Not long ago, those same nine Republicans would not even allow Senator Leahy to hold a roll-call vote on issuing subpoenas connected to the attorneys scandal.

If the White House continues to defy Congress, the Senate and the House could file criminal contempt charges. It’s a strong measure, but lawmakers should not be afraid to take it, as they have done 10 times since 1975 under both parties.

Last week, in a bit of especially mendacious spin, Tony Fratto, the White House deputy press secretary, responded to the subpoenas on the illegal wiretapping by saying, “It’s unfortunate that Congressional Democrats continue to choose the route of confrontation.”

Actually, Mr. Bush chose that route long ago by defining consultation as a chance for lawmakers to hear about decisions he had already made, bipartisanship as a chance for Democrats to join Republicans in rubber-stamping those choices and Congressional oversight as self-serving and possibly seditious. At this point, confrontation is far preferable to the path the Republican majority in Congress chose for so many years — capitulation.

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tommythebug's comment:


1) If they only knew the full story coming out of South Dakota, and how that scandal was OBSTRUCTED BY THE FOLLOWING GUTLESS LYING WORTHLESS LITTLE PUNKS:

----SD ATTY GENERAL MARK BARNETT, AND LARRY LONG;

----MINNEHAHA COUNTY STATES ATTORNEY DAVE NELSON AND HIS PUNK STAFF;

----SD US ATTORNEYS JAMES MCMAHON, MICHELLE TAPKEN, STEVEN MULLINS, AND MARTY JACKLEY;

----SD HIGHWAY PATROL COLONEL WHO STOPPED CAPTAIN JEFF TALBOT'S MURDER INVESTIGATION OF YANKTON PD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH;

----FBI DIRECTOR ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III.



2) The NSA TSP was used to "gather info" later passed onto contract mercenaries hiding behind a corporate front so they could get away with several Patriot Act Murders ordered by Dead Eye Dick Cheney and carried out by Donny Dumsfield.

Those murders include:

--CHRISTINA MOORE in Round Rock, Texas on 9/23/03;

--RICH GORDON murdered with a Directed Energy Weapon;

--YPD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH

--Yankton, SD, attorney JOHN KABIESEMAN


Attempted murders include:

--Directed Energy radiation bombardment of DR. MARK GORDON in St. Paul while Gordon worked for Minneapolis FBI as an informant;

--DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON RADIATION of a Senate Judiciary Committee witness named THOMAS S. BEAN, who was forced to flee his home again...after being chipped with an NSA Mind Control RFID verichip...the x rays were hidden from the client after FBI agent STEVEN PLUTA tampered with a course of medical care to prevent the exposure of the FBI's unconstitutional and bogus FISA court order in which the "FBI alleged that BEAN was an agent of a foreign power".

--Directed Energy bombardment of SD US Senator TIM JOHNSON who was hospitalized, much like Omaha attorney Leroy Rogers, and Vermillion, SD, attorney Jon Van Patten.

Fed Prosecutors get away with Brady Violations

Federal Judge Files Complaint Against Prosecutor in Boston


By ADAM LIPTAK

Published: July 3, 2007


Citing “extraordinary misconduct by the Department of Justice,” the chief judge of the Federal District Court in Boston has filed an unusual disciplinary complaint against a federal prosecutor there, according to two letters from the judge dated Friday and placed in the court file yesterday.



Vincent Ferrara was released from prison after a judge ruled his due process rights were violated.

In a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, the judge, Mark L. Wolf, expressed frustration that the Justice Department had imposed only mild, secret discipline on Jeffrey Auerhahn, an assistant United States attorney, for misconduct that Judge Wolf said “required the release from prison of a capo in the Patriarca family of La Cosa Nostra.”

In a second letter, the judge asked state disciplinary authorities in Massachusetts to investigate Mr. Auerhahn’s conduct.

Mr. Auerhahn did not respond to telephone and e-mail messages yesterday.

In a statement, Michael J. Sullivan, the United States attorney in Boston, said: “We are reviewing the letters received today from Judge Wolf. As always, we take allegations and issues of this nature very seriously.”

The dispute arose from the prosecution of Vincent Ferrara, who was accused by the government of being a Mafia capo and ordering the murder of Vincent J. Limoli after he stole drugs from the Patriarca family.

Mr. Ferrara pleaded guilty in 1992 and was sentenced to 22 years after an associate, Walter Jordan, testified that Mr. Ferrara had ordered the murder. But Mr. Jordan gave a police detective a different account, one reflected in the detective’s handwritten memorandum. In that account, Mr. Jordan said he had had to flee Boston because he and a second man had murdered Mr. Limoli without Mr. Ferrara’s permission.

Mr. Auerhahn’s failure to turn over the memorandum to Mr. Ferrara’s lawyers violated the defendant’s due process rights and required his release from prison, Judge Wolf ruled in April 2005.

In a secret report in January 2005, the Office of Professional Responsibility, or O.P.R., at the Justice Department had also concluded that the memorandum contained exculpatory information and should have been turned over.

Publicly, however, the Justice Department took a different position in appealing Judge Wolf’s order releasing Mr. Ferrara. In an April 2006 brief, for instance, Justice Department lawyers said they had no duty to disclose the detective’s memorandum because it contained no material information.

In his letter to Mr. Gonzales, Judge Wolf expressed dismay over the department’s conflicting positions. “It is disturbing,” Judge Wolf wrote, “that the Department of Justice continued to advocate positions which O.P.R. had flatly rejected.”

In November 2006, Mr. Auerhahn received a written reprimand from Mr. Sullivan, the United States attorney in Boston, a punishment Judge Wolf considered too mild. “A mere secret, written reprimand,” Chief Judge Wolf wrote on Friday, “would not ordinarily be a sufficient sanction for the serious, intentional, repeated and consequential misconduct by Mr. Auerhahn.”

Experts in the professional discipline of prosecutors said the dispute in Boston was unusual.

“You just don’t see this kind of pitched battle,” said Rory Little, a former federal prosecutor who teaches at the Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and serves on an American Bar Association task force on prosecutorial ethics. “This is very rare, and it looks like a black mark on the department if the facts are as the judge says they are.”

Tom Flocco's followup on the 9/11 civil suits being obstructed and covered up by another...yes, another...little Kike Mossad but licker

This article comes from Tom Flocco.com
http://tomflocco.com/




“When I was a young attorney like you all, the next time I sent out my bill, I just added more to it. That ended any further discussion about principle. Money is the universal lubricant.”


(FED JUDGE ALVIN K. HELLERSTEIN referring to remaining 9/11 family members who say, ‘it’s not the money, it’s the principle,’ regarding their loved ones’ deaths.) [Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, June 25, 2007 hearing, addressing September 11 victim family defense attorneys—attempting to have them push their clients into a settlement with no legal discovery of evidence and no testimony by top federal officials, even though they previously declined settlements with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund in order to specifically seek a trial by jury.]



NY judge ‘sanitizes’ 9/11 airline trials, blocks key fed witness testimony

Hellerstein cancels FBI, CIA, counter-terror chiefs’ testimony, asserts bias against punitive damages despite foreign conflicts

by Tom Flocco





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New York—June 28, 2007—Tom Flocco.com




According to documents obtained through an attorney close to the 24 remaining 9/11 victim families seeking trials, defense lawyers representing United and American Airlines have quietly motioned Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein’s court to place limits on evidence and witness testimony by Bush administration officials regarding accounts, briefings, meetings and correspondence surrounding the September 11 attacks as the New York City litigation approaches its finale.

Hellerstein already ruled out testimony from former CIA Director George Tenet, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, and former Director of Counter Terrorism Richard A. Clarke during a March 22, 2007 hearing, raising serious questions as to why the judge would consider covering up and potentially obstructing full government testimony and evidence under oath by key players when it would be in the interests of both parties to the suit.

Full testimony by top government officials would provide the only avenue thus far in a U.S. court of law for Americans to find out who is responsible for 9/11 via court-ordered legal discovery of facts and evidence, since the few families left did not forsake the congressional victim compensation fund to face blocked evidence and testimony by Hellerstein.

Documents reveal that family attorneys are also advising consent to Hellerstein’s strongarm tactics toward settlement rather than a full trial with discovery, evidence and testimony by officials close to the events surrounding September 11, even as potential criminal findings would still force the government to settle cases brought by the remaining families who refused to sign away their right to seek truth and accountability.

The 9/11 evidence is so secretive that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) allowed only one or two attorneys with special high government security clearances from each client firm to enter its closely guarded reading room with only paper and pencils—no cameras or taping devices—while United and American Airlines stipulated no punitive damages or additional financial punishment for willful negligence regarding this agreement, to which Hellerstein was said to concur according to documents obtained by TomFlocco.com.

It is not known whether evidence sequestered in the TSA “reading room” indicates whether Bush administration officials met with airline executives to discuss strong evidence in the form of pre-9/11 presidential briefs and personal experience in Genoa, Italy with Muslim air attack threats—either of which would implicate President Bush and/or the airline executives themselves as having prior knowledge of the attacks while either failing to take strong and decisive action or letting them occur to fulfill other unnamed geo-political, financial or oil agendas.

Issues surrounding the Genoa G-8 summit anti-aircraft guns raise some of the most serious and unlitigated questions for victim family attorneys to ask Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and other government witnesses blocked from testifying by Hellerstein regarding “planes used as weapons,” despite the judge’s court rulings to limit, cancel or otherwise obstruct justice regarding government testimony and evidence in an open New York City courtroom.

An atmosphere of intimidation was apparent during Hellerstein’s June 25 hearing when an attorney for the victim families explained that his clients wanted a trial not a settlement, to which Hellerstein retorted, “Sit down. You’re talking out of both sides of your mouth,” a crass rebuttal from a recently appointed judge with extensive experience and written works about Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) in his earlier years as an attorney—perfect for controlling and obstructing Bush-Clinton crime family evidence linked to September 11.

The judicial coercion continued later in the same hearing when family attorney Mary Schiavo told Hellerstein that she was also experiencing trial versus settlement problems with certain “difficult clients” who were adamant about going to trial with discovery and government witness testimony, to which the judge said, “This is the way it’s going to be. Go back and you tell them we are going to settle, period.”

Curiously, lawyers representing the victim families have also not petitioned Hellerstein to seek testimony from former Bush Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General John Aschroft and current Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff regarding wide reports that both permitted more than 200 Israeli “movers” and “art students” arrested in New York and Florida on 9/11 as suspects connected to the attacks, all of whom were released and returned to Israel without facing trial.

Victim families have not addressed reports that thousands of Federal Aviation Administration and other federal agency employees received secret mailed instructions not to speak about what they saw or heard on September 11—an outrageous issue if ever litigated by family attorneys.

Hellerstein finally ruled that he decided to personally “select and quickly hear” approximately three cases “without any discovery or interruptions,” such as potential troublesome court intrusions like evidence or testimony from top U.S. government officials like Tenet, Freeh, Clarke, Ashcroft, Chertoff, Vice President Cheney or President Bush.

These administration officials had access to pre-911 intelligence briefings, anti-aircraft threats against Mr. Bush in Genoa just before the attacks and billions in pre-attack insider stock trading profits of death covered up by FBI and Wall Street officials.

On June 14, Hellerstein had previously indicated that he would personally make the decision to name “three cases to be tried with maximum utility,” that the “damages would be bifurcated or severed from the liability part of the case,” and most importantly, that “only the damages (awards) would be discussed in open court,” leaving issues of liability, evidence and government testimony as publicly undisclosed.

The judge referred to the cover-up of evidence discovery and testimony regarding his hand-selected cases as “sanitizing” the proceedings, while airline defense attorneys strangely decided not to contest “liability,” effectively eliminating potentially incriminating evidence from the public court record; as one attorney said “let’s talk among ourselves behind closed doors.”

JUDICIAL FOREIGN CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Judge Hellerstein’s wife is a former senior vice-president and current treasurer of Americans for Israel and Torah (AMIT), raising potential foreign government conflict of interest questions as to why former Attorney General Ashcroft released the arrested Israeli 9/11 suspects without a trial, then selected Hellerstein to control evidence by ordering the consolidation of all 9/11 lawsuits, then blocked full government legal discovery and testimony which has so far prevented any lawsuits from going to public trial—and now only with careful legal damage control.

The exclusion of government testimony and evidence will establish a damaging precedent for Americans who must depend on truth and forthcoming testimony from their leaders in a dangerous world where America’s enemies are able to freely cross open borders—congressional and executive criminal negligence notwithstanding.

Victim family attorneys have strangely failed to seek testimony from Ashcroft and Chertoff regarding their rationale for selecting Kenneth R. Feinberg as Special Master of the taxpayer-funded, multi-billion dollar Congressional 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund which forced families to sign away their right to sue the U.S. government for criminal negligence or prior knowledge—via intelligence intercepts never introduced in a court of law—in return for a financial settlement.

The Kenneth Feinberg Legal Group was one of the top ten supporters of Israel’s Jerusalem Institute for Israeli Studies, and Feinberg’s law firm represented major insurance and re-insurance firms like Lloyd’s of London which would have lost billions in September 11 payouts if Congress had not used American taxpayer funds to cover expected losses by insurance companies, raising more conflicts of interest.

Victim family lawyers have failed to petition Hellerstein to recuse himself from the September 11 litigation given numerous Israelis arrested on 9/11 and quietly released afterwards, but also the judge’s potential family conflicts of interest connected to a foreign government regarding previously unlitigated evidence and possible roles in the attacks involving arrested Israeli citizens offered preferential treatment over arrested Muslims.

Neither Hellerstein nor Feinberg volunteered to recuse themselves from their powerful positions as arbitors regarding 9/11 accountability and financial compensation despite the conflicts of interest.

Though remaining families want a trial, Hellerstein has been coercing them all along to negotiate a settlement with his “special mediator,” Sheila L. Birnbaum, a partner in the Skadden Arps law firm which calls itself “one of the leading U.S. legal advisors to Israeli companies doing business and raising capital outside of Israel,” with several attorneys fluent in Hebrew and English admitted to the Israeli and New York bar.

Strangely, Huntleigth USA, an airport passenger screening company owned by Israel’s International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS), led by “former Israeli military commanders and members of its intelligence and security agencies,” received congressional immunity for failed airport security at Boston and Newark airports where three of the four doomed planes originated on September 11.

These astonishing conflicts of interest raise more congressional obstruction of justice questions for attorneys hired by the families to acquire justice and accountability for 9/11 deaths instead of settlements.

The New York judge never fully discussed and explained the explosive issue of withholding key government witness testimony and evidence during either of the June hearings, raising serious questions about criminal versus civil evidence since documents we obtained reveal that another attorney directly involved in the case said it is not a great concern to either side whether the judge imposes limitations on what testimony or evidence can be heard in open court.

Full government testimony and interrogation with the help of career prosecutors would assist victim family lawyers in gaining access to more facts and evidence, while the airline defense team would garner evidence to support their assertions that government “regulations hampered us and kept us from doing our job,” since the families say airlines are responsible for not having cockpit doors which could resist the “hijackers.”

“I want to settle as many cases as I can, as soon as I can. That is my job,” said Hellerstein in open court on June 14, perhaps explaining why not one single September 11 victim lawsuit has been permitted to proceed to a public trial by jury with subpoenaed testimony by major government officials, complete and unhindered discovery of documents and interrogation by career criminal prosecutors—given meritorious evidence of prior knowledge of the attacks by the Bush administration.

CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE, PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

Victim family lawyers yet to go to trial or settle have failed to seek testimony as to whether Bush Transportation Security Administration and Federal Aviation Administration officials met with executives of the airlines before September 11 regarding national security intercepts and presidential briefs such as the August 6, 2001 Presidential Brief entitled “Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S.”

Hellerstein has curiously not permitted family attorneys to seek evidence and interrogate federal witnesses, agency chiefs and President Bush regarding why airline executives did not take proper precautions for air safety when Mr. Bush said “we had intelligence from Genoa,” [July 20-22, 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa, Italy prior to September 11] but Bush has never been compelled to explain full details of the Muslim air threats.

Mr. Bush never referred to revelations that “U.S. officials were warned that Islamic terrorists might attempt to crash an airliner” into the [Genoa G-8] summit, which prompted officials to “close the airspace over Genoa and station anti-aircraft guns at the city’s airport.” [Seven weeks before 9/11 according to the Los Angeles Times [9/27/2001] and a 7/22/2001 White House press release.]

There is still no presidential testimony, even though Mr. Bush was so concerned about air attack threats involving Muslim terrorists planning to kill him at the G-8, according to the head of Russia’s federal bodyguard agency, that he stayed by himself overnight aboard an aircraft carrier offshore while the other world leaders stayed on a luxury ship—less than two months before September 11, according to CNN.

Seemingly intimidated by Hellerstein, victim family attorneys have not sought testimony from Mr. Bush regarding why the anti-aircraft guns were set up surrounding the G-8 meetings, testimony from secret service agents as to why airspace was cleared during the summit and the contents of the briefings Mr. Bush received regarding a Muslim airplane attack threat on G-8 buildings in Genoa only 50 days before September 11.

MOVING HEAVEN AND EARTH

Documents we obtained reveal that lawyers representing the remaining 9/11 families are focused on settling without pursuing testimony and evidence from representatives of President Bush regarding why he failed to “move heaven and earth to protect the American people,” as he said he would, despite receiving a huge “inkling” just before 9/11 regarding air attacks attempting to kill him at the Genoa G-8 summit.

It is not known whether attorneys for the families have sought the contents of the still-secret Ashcroft “threat assessment memos” received just before the attacks which caused the Attorney General to curiously cancel a commercial flight to Milwaukee on September 11.

A July 5, 2001 congressional intelligence briefing memo said “We believe that [bin Laden] will launch a significant terrorist attack against U.S. and/or Israeli interests in the coming weeks. [66 days before 9/11] The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made.The attack will occur with little or no warning.” [Newsweek and The Hill]

Potential evidence of criminal negligence worse than Hurricane Katrina, may provide a hidden reason Congress approved Kenneth Feinberg’s fund to pay off victim families to curtail lawsuits against themselves, the Bush administration and airline executives regarding the full contents of intelligence briefing memos, obstruction of justice for releasing arrested Israeli citizens linked to 9/11 without trial and protection for insurance companies and airlines facing huge financial losses.

Two months before the attacks on July 10, 2001 Arizona FBI agent Ken Williams sent a memo [ “Phoenix memo”] to FBI Headquarters in Washington warning that “unusual numbers of Muslim extremists are learning to fly in Arizona,” the contents of which would seem to be of high importance to Judge Hellerstein and the victim family attorneys.

The contents of the July 5, July 10 and Ausust 6, 2001 intelligence briefing memos may also explain why Congress and the President needed to be protected from criminal or civil court actions and why the Ashcroft Justice Department placed Judge Hellerstein in position to consolidate, control, limit evidence and testimony, and/or settle any remaining 9/11 “maverick” victim family lawsuits before more evidence leaked out—despite the judge’s conflicts of interest involving a foreign government and citizens of that government arrested as suspects in the attacks.

Ashcroft may have been rewarded for machinations surrounding September 11 in that he represents Israel as a lobbyist for its Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) to help them better compete against U.S. corporations for American military aircraft contracts and loss of American jobs.

It must be remembered that one of the main reasons many of the victim families cited for eschewing Kenneth Feinberg’s payoff fund was to pursue a 9/11 lawsuit for the purpose of legal accountability for the deaths of their family members; but Hellerstein has presided over stalled litigation and blocked testimony and evidence from the government when both would likely implicate Mr. Bush as having prior knowledge that the attacks were coming and he either failed to protect Americans or let the attacks occur for other purposes.

“We are not trying to cut short values or justice,” said Hellerstein last Monday, “but we have to get past 9/11. Let it go. Life is beautiful. Life is short. Live out your years. Take the award,” added the judge.

This, while multiple 9/11 conflicts of interest with a major U.S. ally remain unresolved, previously arrested September 11 suspects remain at large in Israel and Bush administration officials are excused from full testimony in a court of law in front of families who turned away from the Feinberg millions in order to seek justice and accountability.

Trinity Alps...Northern California aka "STATE OF JEFFERSON"?

Last two weeks been in the Trinity Alps outside of Weed, CA, and Mount Shasta, CA.

1) The Pacific Crest Trail runs through the best parts of California. It starts in Mexico and winds its way through Arizona, and southern California...into the Palm Springs area near Joshua Tree National Park...then...hits all the great peaks, valleys, lakes, and famous trout streams.

2) The best part of this area is south and west of Mount Shasta, CA...which still is a wonderful undeveloped mountain town stuck in the past (thank God...no Boulderization...no commercialization...no overdevelopment...no outrageous real estate madness).

3) Real estate is still pretty spendy on this side of California. Owing to the mountains, the forest, the lakes, the trout streams (all of which are drying up)....you will have to pay for a 1700 sq. ft. home on a half acre. But hey...have you priced real estate in San Diego...San Fran?...LA suburbs?


4) Long ago...the northern Californians (a loose affiliation of mountaineers, loggers, outdoorsmen) tried to succeed from the union under the banner of THE STATE OF JEFFERSON. This slogan is still worn proudly on T-shirts and bumper stickers in an attempt at resurrecting the past and fomenting rebellion from government.


5) Gas prices are out of this world. How many times have I cussed the powers that be as I watch the gas pump ring up a twenty dollar fee for six gallons of gas?!

6) Hmmmm..............don't forget to look at the great National MOnuments in this area...like the volcanic bad lands where the Turloc fought off the cavalry while out manned 10 to one. Old CAPTAIN JACK, the famous Turloc chief....held the army's best at bay while using his volcanic cover long ago. Now...Mt. Shasta is famous for being a secret spiritual well of wild eyed conspiracies about secret lost tribes who live underground inside the mountain?

7) On Sunday, June 1st.....ART BELL once again announced his retirement from doing the weekend edition of Coast to Coast AM?

SHEIKS ON A PLANE: The FBI coverup of 9/11 False Flag Terrorism

from MAD COW MORNING NEWS


June 28 2007

by Daniel Hopsicker




The MadCowMorningNews has obtained the first photo ever published (at right) of the never-before-seen Learjet that flew the so-called Saudi “phantom flight” from Tampa Florida... a flight FBI and Bush Administration officials for more than three years denied ever took place.

Last week’s newly-released FBI documents on flights out of the U.S. after the 9/11 attack by Saudi Princes and bin Laden family members generated headlines about the FBI’s admission that Osama bin Laden may himself have chartered one of the planes.

But the documents contain an even-more startling revelation: the Bush Administration, the FBI, the FAA, and even defense contractor Raytheon knowingly lied in repeated denials of newspaper and magazine accounts of the “phantom flight."

The documents show that FBI agents and analysts, to buttress what was then the official government position, misstated, misrepresented, and even intimidated witnesses (an FBI specialty) into silence.

They illustrate the inside anatomy of an FBI cover-up, using the same tactics which eyewitnesses in Florida reported the FBI used after the 9/11 attack.


The flight was "not in our logs," the FAA told the Tampa Tribune, the newspaper which first broke the story. "It didn't occur."

"There was no such flight," said an FBI spokesman. "Apparently they (the Saudis in Tampa) had driven, not flown."

At the time the newly-released FBI documents (obtained through a Judicial Watch lawsuit)were being written, FBI, FAA, and Bush Administration officials all denied that the “phantom flight” ever took place.

And the FBI documents completely support this account.

And that’s where the matter would, normally, have rested.

Case closed.



But then came a surprise. The July 2004 release of the 9/11 Commission Report presented overwhelming evidence (from a dozen easily-available sources) that conclusively proved the flight, in the Commission’s words,“definitely took place.”

What had gone wrong? How had the FBI's conclusions on such a controversial post-9/11 subject been so easily “rendered inoperative?”

The story broke in the Tampa Tribune. Here's what the controversy was about:

On Sept 13, 2001, a private Lear jet flew three young Saudi men—a Saudi Arabian prince, the son of the Saudi Arabian defense minister, and the some of a top Saudi army commander—from the Raytheon Terminal at Tampa International Airport to Lexington, Kentucky.

Critics cried foul, and accused the federal government of giving the Saudis preferential treatment just two days after 15 Saudi men had helped murder 3000 people in New York and Washington, D.C.

And they charged that on a day when every other private plane in the nation was grounded due to concern about possible follow-up terrorist attacks on America, letting the Saudis fly had been a slap in the face to Americans mourning their dead.



The documents, compiled by the FBI’S PENTBOM TEAM, consist of interview summaries, notes from intelligence analysts, and a detailed rebuttal to an Oct 2003 article in Vanity Fair (agents joked that they were VANITYBOM victims) which detailed the controversy over the "phantom" Saudi flights. Reading them, you can watch a cover-up being born.

Excerpts from the newly-released FBI documents:

“The article alleges a group of Saudi royals traveled by air from Tampa Florida to Lexington Kentucky on September 13, 2001, prior to FAA authorization for these types of flights. It also alleges that a chartered flight left the U.S. with several members of the bin Laden family without investigation by the FBI. Both of these allegations are false. There are many other inaccuracies with the article.”

(You can almost hear the FBI agent, or intelligence analyst, sniffing the air with contempt for the scandal-mongering press.)

“A chartered flight departed from Lexington KY on Sept 16, 2001 with fourteen passengers. Four members of the party arrived in Lexington by car.”

(By car?)


"OK. Here's the shot. Keep a straight face."


“These four individuals had disobeyed the Prince by traveling by car instead of by jet, as the Prince had instructed them. Hired security personnel, who have been quoted in the (Vanity Fair) article and in interviews with the FBI, have perpetuated the cover story that the four had flown from Tampa by consistently stating that there was a charter flight into Lexington. No flights arrived or departed from Lexington KY on September 13,2001.”


(Wait a minute. Hired security personnel perpetuated the cover story, even in interviews with the FBI? Wouldn’t that have been a little risky in an investigation into the murder of 3000 people?)

As if anticipating the objection, the analyst closes his memo by writing:

“One of the members of the private protection detail has confidentially told FBI agents in Lexington the truth about how the four arrived in Lexington.”

(Confidentially? Is that why the documents have no quotes from the interview? They can only hint at the truth about a matter of vital concern to the 9/11 investigation because the FBI doesn't want to get the Saudi boys in trouble with their Dad?


A second agent confirms the account told by the first:

“The Saudi Prince tried to arrange for his son and his son’s friends to fly up from Boca Raton FL where they were attending school on a chartered jet.”

(We presume the writer doesn't mean the Saudi boys were attending school on a chartered jet, but in Boca Raton. But hey. Who knows.)

“They filed a flight plan but were told if they took off they would be shot down. Bottom line, the jet never left, at least not on 9/12 and not with the college students. The prince had ordered them to travel only by air.”

(But wait! This what they call rank sophistry. No one suggested the Saudi phantom flight left on Sept 12.
Is this just a slip? Or something more akin to the Clinton-like equivocation: “It depends on your definition of ‘is’?”)




“According to FBI personnel in Lexington KY, (name redacted) was ordered by Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz to fly from Florida to Kentucky, perhaps because he was concerned for his safety if he drove. However (name redacted) was not able to fly, due to restrictions. As a result he drove, but told Prince Ahmed bin Salman and his security personnel (including several off-duty Lexington police officers) that he flew. End comment.”


And not a moment too soon. There's also a diagram, detailing where all the Saudis were, which ends with the following notation:

“FBI Lexington clearly recall that these individuals attempted to board flights in Florida but were refused permission to fly.”

(Lexington must be where those slippery guv’mint folks keep the remote viewers these days.)



The newly-released FBI documents do the impossible: they make the 9/11 Commission Report look good.

Today we only know about the phantom flight from Tampa because a former Tampa police officer, Dan Grossi, and a retired FBI Agent, Manuel Perez, provided security on the flight from Tampa to Lexington KY.

And then, when asked about it, they told the truth.

In October of 2001, Grossi confirmed to the Tampa Tribune that he had been on the flight, and added that he “was told clearance came from the White House after the Saudi royal family asked a favor from former President Bush.”

Perez agreed with Grossi’s assessment.

"They got the approval somewhere," Perez is quoted in the Vanity Fair article telling reporter Craig Unger. "It must have come from the highest levels of government."




Then somebody got to Perez and Grossi, and they clammed up. Even three years later, after the 9/11 Commission Report confirmed the flight had taken place, Dan Grossi wouldn't talk.

"The White House, the FAA and the FBI all said the flight didn't happen," Grossi told the Tampa Trib. "Those are three agencies that are way over my head, and that's why I'm done talking about it."

According to the paper's story, the plane had taken off from a private hanger at Raytheon, which is a major defense-intelligence industry player.

Four years ago, in an attempt to confirm the Tribune's story in the face of persistent government denials, we contacted Raytheon to ask, naively, we admit, who owned the Lear jet in question.

We were told we would have to ask the owner of the plane to ask Raytheon to tell us who owned the plane. A Raytheon spokesman said, "I checked our policy on disclosing owner/customer information and we decline to do so unless that owner requests that we release the information."




We didn’t know who the owner was, we explained. That’s why we called you. Our logic may have been impeccable, but it cut no ice with the Raytheon spokesman.

As it happens, Raytheon had already lied about the phantom flight, giving an identification number for the Learjet to the Tampa Tribune that didn’t exist, after the paper ascertained that airport records showed Raytheon collected landing fees from only two aircraft on Sept. 13.

One of them was a Lear 35. But according to Raytheon, the registration on the Lear was 505RP, which, according to federal records, is a tail number assigned to a Cessna Citation based in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Adding insult to injury, when the Tampa Tribune called Hop-a-Jet in 2004, an official there who wouldn't identify himself said the company doesn't own an aircraft with the registration number 505RP.

Furthermore, he said, if that tail number is assigned to a Cessna Citation, the company doesn't own any Citations, either.



Finding the Lear jet that had flown the Saudis out of Tampa turned out to be easy. Just read Appendix B to the 9/11 Commission Report.

Here’s how they found it:

9/11 Commission investigators called officials at Tampa International Airport, and were told that Tampa has a system that captures the noise made by planes taking off and landing at the airport and then attaches that information to the aircraft type and flight identification number.

At the request of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, officials at Tampa International Airport confirmed that the flight did take place, and supplied details.

Wow. That sure was simple. How come the FBI hadn’t done it right after the 9/11 attack?

Airport officials found the records for the Learjet, labeled HP (for Hop-A-Jet)32. The airport had recorded the plane’s departure at 4:37 PM.

Then 9/11 Commission investigators went to Hop-A-Jet, and talked to the pilot, Chris Steele. He said he’d followed standard procedures and filed his flight plan with the FAA prior to the flight, noting, “I was never questioned about it.”




Remember the FAA’s denial that the phantom flight ever took place? The FAA spokesman saying, "It's not in our logs. It didn't occur?"

But when they checked this time, the FAA found records which showed that pilot Steele filed his flight plan at 3:30 P.M. on September 13, 2001, indicating the plane was flying from Tampa to Lexington, and then back to Tampa.

A Tampa police officer and a retired FBI agent were quoted in Vanity Fair and the Tampa Tribune saying they’d flown security on the flight. So the 9/11 Commission investigators interviewed them.

Strangely, neither man mentioned a "cover story" for the Prince to the 9/11 Commission researchers. They said they’d driven the three young Saudi men to the Raytheon Terminal at Tampa International Airport.

Tampa Detective Mike Fendle also told Commission investigators he’d seen a plane that looked like a “cream-colored Learjet” on the tarmac outside the Raytheon facility.

So the search had narrowed. We were looking for a cream-colored Learjet owned by Hop-A-Jet.

And, guess what? They only own one. It's crème-colored. (see picture.)



But before getting too excited about the truthiness of the 9/11 Report (it wasn't), we must ruefully admit that the "powers that be" somehow always manage to have the last word after all.

They change the "terms of engagement" at will.

When the FBI was insisting the Saudi boys in Tampa never flew to Lexington, KY, on Sept 13, the FBI documents state that if there was a phantom flight:

"Such a flight would have been in violation of the FAA's flight ban."

Also, that:

"FAA reports that full flight restrictions were in effect on 9/13/2001."

But when the 9/11 Commission Report admits the flight actually did happen, there's a catch:

"The flight definitely took place, and there is nothing improper about it" because "both the national airspace and Tampa Airport were open."

And:

"At the time this charter flight took off, both the national airspace and Tampa Airport were open."



So. There you are. You see? You can't win. So stop trying. Wrong is right. Up is down. War is peace.

Ann Coulter is really a woman.

And there's nothing to see here.

So move along.