Moved down into the red rock country (Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon, Escalante, Lake Powell, Lake Mead, Grand Canyon, Arches N.Park, etc.).
If you have not seen this yet....don't wait. Being in the wilderness or on the edges, will always defeat any sort of bummer you got.
Being outside...everyday...with no traffic, congestion, or pollution, is the only way to do it. Why live in your home, or behind the steering wheel of your car, when...you could have it all.
Reading the news about the shameless punk appeasing whore Democrats rolling over, and over...even after the voters gave them a mandate...is enough to make one reach for the straight razor. Well...I should give up on America, and call it a day. I should avoid the political news, and do that Baja California trip. Why not? No matter how many political murders are done by the Cheney nazis...no one with a punk FBI whore badge has any sort of moral courage to do something about it.
My contempt for faggot lying clowns like little marine corp sell out ROBERT SWAN MUELLER,III....knows no end or boundaries of hate. This faggot Mueller, was given all he needs for impeachment based on the following murders by Cheney's stormtroopers:
----CHRISTINA MOORE (murdered witness who fed info to Robert Moore on Cheney's secretive energy task force, linked to ENRON pump and dump, and SPE's used to fund 9/11);
----RICH GORDON (murdered with brain tumor to stop congressional inquiry into Canadian warrant for FBI agent TERRY NELSON'S BIG SKY CALI COCAINE CONSPIRACY, with money laundered into GOP campaigns. Ask former Minn US Atty THOMAS HEFFLEFINGER about that?);
----MARK DEFENBAUGH (Yankton PD SGT murdered after I gave him info on the harassment of DR. MARK GORDON by Sioux Falls FBI faggots DAVE HELLER and DANNY SHITHEAD REYNALDS.
----JOHN KABIESEMAN (Yankton attorney who I talked to about this harassment before he tied a mile away from the Defenbaugh murder...both were staged vehicle accidents);
This country is hopelessly lost in school shootings caused by NSA Mind Control experiments, like what Denver FBI agent DWAYNE FUSILIER did to ERIC HARRIS, AND DYLAN KLEBOLDT at Colombine.
Fear creats obedience. The rule of law is dead.
Good night, America....good luck
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GO TO INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER JOHN CAYLOR'S FANTASTIC WEBSITE, "Insider Magazine" to catch all the scandals in Jeb Bush's Florida. Don't miss this site.
http://www.insider-magazine.com/DeadUSattysOrig.html
Friday, September 28, 2007
Intel Community Suicides: the Octapus tentacles strangles truth?
ALLEGED SUICIDES OF TWO INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS IN DC: MORE THAN COINCIDENCE SAYS FORMER CIA OFFICIAL
By Wayne Madsen
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Dec. 20, 2003 --[u:243c4652f6] A former top official of the CIA, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the recent alleged suicide deaths of two high-ranking U.S. intelligence officials, both of whom died in the same manner – falls from Washington, DC buildings – appear to be “more than coincidental.”
On November 7, State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) Iraqi analyst John J. Kokal, 58, was found dead outside the State Department building. Washington police reported the case a suicide resulting from Kokal’s jumping from the roof of the headquarters building. Although the State Department reported that Kokal was not an analyst at INR, State Department insiders report that Kokal not only was a top Iraqi analyst but that he briefed Secretary of State Colin Powell on a regular basis. The Washington Post treated the story as a normal police incident.
On November 25, former National Security Council official Dr. Gus W. Weiss, a known critic of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq, was found dead outside a service entrance to Washington’s Watergate East residential building where he lived. Police ruled that Weiss had committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the Watergate building.
Weiss was a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space policy under President Jimmy Carter and served on the Signals Intelligence Committee of President Carter’s Intelligence Board. Weiss also served as an adviser to the CIA and as a member of the Defense Science Board. Weiss was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1975. In a manner reminiscent of The Washington Post’s handling of the suspicious automobile crushing death of Marvin Bush’s babysitter on September 29, the paper waited until December 7 to report Weiss’s suspicious death. In the case of Marvin Bush’s babysitter, Bertha Champagne, the Post did not report the incident until October 5.
The fact that both Kokal and Weiss were critics of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy should have resulted in much more media attention unless there is a blackout` on coverage of these suspicious deaths. One seasoned Washington intelligence expert said the possibility of official or semi-official “death squads” carrying out assassinations of Bush administration critics cannot be ruled out. “Remember that the Watergate scandal began with the discovery of a single tape, and that brought down an entire administration,” said the expert.
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House Intelligence Committee Chief Staffer Found Dead
By Wayne Madsen
June 12, 2000 -- On the evening of June 4, 2000, John Millis, the Staff Director for the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was found dead in a Fairfax, Virginia motel room from what police termed an apparent suicide. The owners and staff of the motel where Millis’s body was discovered are under orders from the Fairfax City police not to discuss the matter with the media. Congressional colleagues of Millis claim the 47-year-old husband and father exhibited no signs of depression.
As far as any financial difficulties may be concerned, congressional records show that Millis’s annual salary was $132,100, an income considered well above average for the Washington, DC area. In addition, there are unconfirmed reports from people close to the intelligence community that Millis had multiple gunshot wounds to the back of his head.
Before assuming his duties as the chief aide to Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss in 1997, Millis spent a number of years in the CIA. He also served as the Executive Staff Assistant to the Director of the NSA and the CIA’s chief liaison officer to the signals intelligence agency. While with the CIA, Millis served as a case officer in Pakistan where he was involved in support activities for the Afghan mujaheddin. Before becoming Goss’s chief assistant, Millis served as staff director of the House International Relations Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the U.S. Role in Iranian Arms Transfers to Croatia and Bosnia. That panel discovered the Clinton administration approved of Iranian arms shipments to Bosnian Muslims at a time when the United States branded Iran as a terrorist state.
Millis was a vocal critic of former CIA director John Deutch. In a February 15, 2000 speech before a Smithsonian Institution gathering, Millis described Deutch as the worst director the CIA ever had. He also claimed Deutch did “major damage” to the CIA’s Operations Directorate.
As a former employee of two major intelligence agencies and the chief staff member of the House Intelligence Committee, Millis would have undergone rigorous high-level security clearance vetting procedures that would have identified any personal life style problems.
By Wayne Madsen
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Dec. 20, 2003 --[u:243c4652f6] A former top official of the CIA, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the recent alleged suicide deaths of two high-ranking U.S. intelligence officials, both of whom died in the same manner – falls from Washington, DC buildings – appear to be “more than coincidental.”
On November 7, State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) Iraqi analyst John J. Kokal, 58, was found dead outside the State Department building. Washington police reported the case a suicide resulting from Kokal’s jumping from the roof of the headquarters building. Although the State Department reported that Kokal was not an analyst at INR, State Department insiders report that Kokal not only was a top Iraqi analyst but that he briefed Secretary of State Colin Powell on a regular basis. The Washington Post treated the story as a normal police incident.
On November 25, former National Security Council official Dr. Gus W. Weiss, a known critic of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq, was found dead outside a service entrance to Washington’s Watergate East residential building where he lived. Police ruled that Weiss had committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the Watergate building.
Weiss was a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space policy under President Jimmy Carter and served on the Signals Intelligence Committee of President Carter’s Intelligence Board. Weiss also served as an adviser to the CIA and as a member of the Defense Science Board. Weiss was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1975. In a manner reminiscent of The Washington Post’s handling of the suspicious automobile crushing death of Marvin Bush’s babysitter on September 29, the paper waited until December 7 to report Weiss’s suspicious death. In the case of Marvin Bush’s babysitter, Bertha Champagne, the Post did not report the incident until October 5.
The fact that both Kokal and Weiss were critics of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy should have resulted in much more media attention unless there is a blackout` on coverage of these suspicious deaths. One seasoned Washington intelligence expert said the possibility of official or semi-official “death squads” carrying out assassinations of Bush administration critics cannot be ruled out. “Remember that the Watergate scandal began with the discovery of a single tape, and that brought down an entire administration,” said the expert.
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House Intelligence Committee Chief Staffer Found Dead
By Wayne Madsen
June 12, 2000 -- On the evening of June 4, 2000, John Millis, the Staff Director for the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was found dead in a Fairfax, Virginia motel room from what police termed an apparent suicide. The owners and staff of the motel where Millis’s body was discovered are under orders from the Fairfax City police not to discuss the matter with the media. Congressional colleagues of Millis claim the 47-year-old husband and father exhibited no signs of depression.
As far as any financial difficulties may be concerned, congressional records show that Millis’s annual salary was $132,100, an income considered well above average for the Washington, DC area. In addition, there are unconfirmed reports from people close to the intelligence community that Millis had multiple gunshot wounds to the back of his head.
Before assuming his duties as the chief aide to Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss in 1997, Millis spent a number of years in the CIA. He also served as the Executive Staff Assistant to the Director of the NSA and the CIA’s chief liaison officer to the signals intelligence agency. While with the CIA, Millis served as a case officer in Pakistan where he was involved in support activities for the Afghan mujaheddin. Before becoming Goss’s chief assistant, Millis served as staff director of the House International Relations Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the U.S. Role in Iranian Arms Transfers to Croatia and Bosnia. That panel discovered the Clinton administration approved of Iranian arms shipments to Bosnian Muslims at a time when the United States branded Iran as a terrorist state.
Millis was a vocal critic of former CIA director John Deutch. In a February 15, 2000 speech before a Smithsonian Institution gathering, Millis described Deutch as the worst director the CIA ever had. He also claimed Deutch did “major damage” to the CIA’s Operations Directorate.
As a former employee of two major intelligence agencies and the chief staff member of the House Intelligence Committee, Millis would have undergone rigorous high-level security clearance vetting procedures that would have identified any personal life style problems.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
B-52 nuke stolen? Air Force stopped Cheney's attack on Iran?
Air Force refused to fly weapons to Middle East theater
By Wayne Madsen
Sept. 24, 2007
Author's website http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
However, elements of the Air Force, supported by U.S. intelligence agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination of the nuclear weapons and the mission was aborted due to internal opposition within the Air Force and U.S. Intelligence Community.
Yesterday, the /Washington Post/ attempted to explain away the fact that America's nuclear command and control system broke down in an unprecedented manner by reporting that it was the result of "security failures at multiple levels." It is now apparent that the command and control breakdown, reported as a BENT SPEAR incident to the Secretary of Defense and White House, was not the result of a command and control chain-of-command "failures" but the result of a revolt and push back by various echelons within the Air Force and intelligence agencies against a planned U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear and conventional
weapons.
The /Washington Post/ story on BENT SPEAR may have actually been an effort in damage control by the Bush administration. WMR has been informed by a knowledgeable source that one of the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles was, and may still be, unaccounted for. In that case, the nuclear reporting incident would have gone far beyond BENT SPEAR to a National Command Authority alert known as EMPTY QUIVER, with the special classification of PINNACLE.
Just as this report was being prepared, /Newsweek/ reported that Vice President Dick Cheney's recently-departed Middle East adviser, David Wurmser, told a small group of advisers some months ago that Cheney had considered asking Israel to launch a missile attack on the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz. Cheney reasoned that after an Iranian retaliatory strike, the United States would have ample reasons to launch its own massive attack on Iran. However, plans for Israel to attack Iran directly were altered to an Israeli attack on a supposed Syrian-Iranian-North Korean nuclear installation in northern Syria.
WMR has learned that a U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear and conventional weapons was scheduled to coincide with Israel's September 6 air attack on a reputed Syrian nuclear facility in Dayr az-Zwar, near the village of Tal Abyad, in northern Syria, near the Turkish border. Israel's attack, code named OPERATION ORCHARD, was to provide a reason for the U.S. to strike Iran. The neo-conservative propaganda onslaught was to cite the cooperation of the George Bush's three remaining "Axis of Evil" states -- Syria, Iran, and North Korea -- to justify a sustained Israeli attack on Syria and a massive U.S. military attack on Iran.
WMR has learned from military sources on both sides of the Atlantic that there was a definite connection between Israel's OPERATION ORCHARD and BENT SPEAR involving the B-52 that flew the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale. There is also a connection between these two events as the Pentagon's highly-classified PROJECT CHECKMATE, a compartmented U.S. Air Force program that has been working on an attack plan for Iran since June 2007, around the same time that Cheney was working on the joint Israeli-U.S. attack scenario on Iran.
PROJECT CHECKMATE was leaked in an article by military analyst Eric Margolis in the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, the /Times of London/, is a program that involves over two dozen Air Force officers and is headed by Brig. Gen. Lawrence Stutzriem and his chief civilian adviser, Dr. Lani Kass, a former Israeli military intelligence officer who, astoundingly, is now involved in planning a joint U.S.-Israeli massive military attack on Iran that involves a "decapitating" blow on Iran by hitting between three to four thousand targets in the country. Stutzriem and Kass report directly to the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Michael Moseley, who has also been charged with preparing a report on the B-52/nuclear weapons incident.
Kass' area of speciality is cyber-warfare, which includes ensuring "information blockades," such as that imposed by the Israeli government on the Israeli media regarding the Syrian air attack on the alleged Syrian "nuclear installation." British intelligence sources have reported that the Israeli attack on Syria was a "true flag" attack originally designed to foreshadow a U.S. attack on Iran. After the U.S. Air Force push back against transporting the six cruise nuclear-armed AGM-129s to the Middle East, Israel went ahead with its attack on Syria in order to help ratchet up tensions between Washington on one side and Damascus, Tehran, and Pyongyang on the other.
The other part of CHECKMATE's brief is to ensure that a media "perception management" is waged against Syria, Iran, and North Korea. This involves articles such as that which appeared with Joby Warrick's and Walter Pincus' bylines in yesterdays /Washington Post/. The article, titled "The Saga of a Bent Spear," quotes a number of seasoned Air Force nuclear weapons experts as saying that such an incident is unprecedented in the history of the Air Force. For example, Retired Air Force General Eugene Habiger, the former chief of the U.S. Strategic Command, said he has been in the "nuclear business" since 1966 and has never been aware of an incident "more disturbing."
Command and control breakdowns involving U.S. nuclear weapons are unprecedented, except for that fact that the U.S. military is now waging an internal war against neo-cons who are embedded in the U.S. government and military chain of command who are intent on using nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive war with Iran.
CHECKMATE and OPERATION ORCHARD would have provided the cover for a pre-emptive U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran had it not been for BENT SPEAR involving the B-52. In on the plan to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran involving nuclear weapons were, according to our sources, Cheney, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley; members of the CHECKMATE team at the Pentagon, who have close connections to Israeli intelligence and pro-Israeli think tanks in Washington, including the Hudson Institute; British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, a political adviser to Tony Blair prior to becoming a Member of Parliament; Israeli political leaders like Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu; and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who did his part last week to ratchet up tensions with Iran by suggesting that war with Iran was a probability. Kouchner retracted his statement after the U.S. plans for Iran were delayed.
Although the Air Force tried to keep the B-52 nuclear incident from the media, anonymous Air Force personnel leaked the story to /Military Times/ on September 5, the day before the Israelis attacked the alleged nuclear installation in Syria and the day planned for the simultaneous U.S. attack on Iran. The leaking of classified information on U.S. nuclear weapons disposition or movement to the media, is, itself, unprecedented. Air Force regulations require the sending of classified BEELINE reports to higher Air Force authorities on the disclosure of classified Air Force information to the media.
In another highly unusual move, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked an outside inquiry board to look into BENT SPEAR, even before the Air Force has completed its own investigation, a virtual vote of no confidence in the official investigation being conducted by Major General Douglas Raaberg, chief of air and space operations at the Air Combat Command.
Gates asked former Air Force Chief of Staff, retired General Larry Welch, to lead a Defense Science Board task force that will also look into the BENT SPEAR incident. The official Air Force investigation has reportedly been delayed for unknown reasons. Welch is President and CEO of the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA), a federally-funded research contractor that operates three research centers, including one for Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President and another for the National Security Agency. One of the board members of IDA is Dr. Suzanne H. Woolsey of the Paladin Capital Group and wife of former CIA director and arch-neocon James Woolsey.
WMR has learned that neither the upper echelons of the State Department nor the British Foreign Office were privy to OPERATION ORCHARD, although Hadley briefed President Bush on Israeli spy satellite intelligence that showed the Syrian installation was a joint nuclear facility built with North Korean and Iranian assistance. However, it is puzzling why Hadley would rely on Israeli imagery intelligence (IMINT) from its OFEK (Horizon) 7 satellite when considering that U.S. IMINT satellites have greater capabilities.
The Air Force's "information warfare" campaign against media reports on CHECKMATE and OPERATION ORCHARD also affected international reporting of the recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution asking Israel to place its nuclear weapons program under IAEA controls, similar to those that the United States wants imposed on Iran and North Korea. The resolution also called for a nuclear-free zone throughout the Middle East. The IAEA's resolution, titled "Application of IAEA Safeguards in the Middle East," was passed by the 144-member IAEA General Meeting on September 20 by a vote of 53 to 2, with 47 abstentions. The only two countries to vote against were Israel and the United States. However, the story carried from the IAEA meeting in Vienna by Reuters, the Associated Press, and Agence France Press, was that it was Arab and Islamic nations that voted for the resolution.
This was yet more perception management carried out by CHECKMATE, the White House, and their allies in Europe and Israel with the connivance of the media. In fact, among the 53 nations that voted for the resolution were China, Russia, India, Ireland, and Japan. The 47 abstentions were described as votes "against" the resolution even though an abstention is neither a vote for nor against a measure. America's close allies, including Britain, France, Australia, Canada, and Georgia, all abstained.
Suspiciously, the IAEA carried only a brief item on the resolution concerning Israel's nuclear program and a roll call vote was not available either at the IAEA's web site -- www.iaea.org -- or in the media.
The perception management campaign by the neocon operational cells in the Bush administration, Israel and Europe was designed to keep a focus on Iran's nuclear program, not on Israel's. Any international examination of Israel's nuclear weapons program would likely bring up Israeli nuclear scientist Mordechai Vanunu, a covert from Judaism to Christianity, who was kidnapped in Rome by a Mossad "honey trap" named Cheryl Bentov (aka, Cindy) and a Mossad team in 1986 and held against his will in Israel ever since.
Vanunu's knowledge of the Israeli nuclear weapons program would focus on the country's own role in nuclear proliferation, including its program to share nuclear weapons technology with apartheid South Africa and Taiwan in the late 1970s and 1980s. The role of Ronald Reagan's Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Ken Adelman in Israeli's nuclear proliferation during the time frame 1983-1987 would also come under scrutiny. Adelman, a member of the Reagan-Bush transition State Department team from November 1980 to January 1981, voiced his understanding for the nuclear weapons programs of Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan in a June 28, 1981 /New York Times/ article titled, "3 Nations Widening Nuclear Contacts." The journalist who wrote the article was Judith Miller. Adelman felt that the three countries wanted nuclear weapons because of their ostracism from the West, the third world, and the hostility from the Communist countries. Of course, today, the same argument can be used by Iran, North Korea, and other "Axis of Evil" nations so designated by the neocons in the Bush administration and other governments.
There are also news reports that suggest an intelligence relationship between Israel and North Korea. On July 21, 2004, New Zealand's /Dominion Post/ reported that three Mossad agents were involved in espionage in New Zealand. Two of the Mossad agents, Uriel Kelman and Elisha Cara (aka Kra), were arrested and imprisoned by New Zealand police (an Israeli diplomat in Canberra, Amir Lati, was expelled by Australia and New Zealand intelligence identified a fourth Mossad agent involved in the New Zealand espionage operation in Singapore). The third Mossad agent in New Zealand, Zev William Barkan (aka Lev Bruckenstein), fled New Zealand -- for North Korea.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff revealed that Barkan, a former Israeli Navy diver, had previously worked at the Israeli embassy in Vienna, which is also the headquarters of the IAEA. He was cited by the /Sydney Morning Herald/ as trafficking in passports stolen from foreign tourists in Thailand, Myanmar,
Laos, and Cambodia. New Zealand's One News reported that Barkan was in North Korea to help the nation build a wall to keep its citizens from leaving.
The nuclear brinkmanship involving the United States and Israel and the breakdown in America's command and control systems have every major capital around the world wondering about the Bush administration's true intentions.
NOTE: WMR understands the risks to informed individuals in reporting the events of August 29/30, to the present time, that concern the discord within the U.S. Air Force, U.S. intelligence agencies, and other military services. Any source with relevant information and who wishes to contact us anonymously may drop off sealed correspondence at or send mail via the Postal Service to: Wayne Madsen, c/o The Front Desk, National Press Club, 13th Floor, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DC, 20045.
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By Wayne Madsen
Sept. 24, 2007
Author's website http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
However, elements of the Air Force, supported by U.S. intelligence agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination of the nuclear weapons and the mission was aborted due to internal opposition within the Air Force and U.S. Intelligence Community.
Yesterday, the /Washington Post/ attempted to explain away the fact that America's nuclear command and control system broke down in an unprecedented manner by reporting that it was the result of "security failures at multiple levels." It is now apparent that the command and control breakdown, reported as a BENT SPEAR incident to the Secretary of Defense and White House, was not the result of a command and control chain-of-command "failures" but the result of a revolt and push back by various echelons within the Air Force and intelligence agencies against a planned U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear and conventional
weapons.
The /Washington Post/ story on BENT SPEAR may have actually been an effort in damage control by the Bush administration. WMR has been informed by a knowledgeable source that one of the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles was, and may still be, unaccounted for. In that case, the nuclear reporting incident would have gone far beyond BENT SPEAR to a National Command Authority alert known as EMPTY QUIVER, with the special classification of PINNACLE.
Just as this report was being prepared, /Newsweek/ reported that Vice President Dick Cheney's recently-departed Middle East adviser, David Wurmser, told a small group of advisers some months ago that Cheney had considered asking Israel to launch a missile attack on the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz. Cheney reasoned that after an Iranian retaliatory strike, the United States would have ample reasons to launch its own massive attack on Iran. However, plans for Israel to attack Iran directly were altered to an Israeli attack on a supposed Syrian-Iranian-North Korean nuclear installation in northern Syria.
WMR has learned that a U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear and conventional weapons was scheduled to coincide with Israel's September 6 air attack on a reputed Syrian nuclear facility in Dayr az-Zwar, near the village of Tal Abyad, in northern Syria, near the Turkish border. Israel's attack, code named OPERATION ORCHARD, was to provide a reason for the U.S. to strike Iran. The neo-conservative propaganda onslaught was to cite the cooperation of the George Bush's three remaining "Axis of Evil" states -- Syria, Iran, and North Korea -- to justify a sustained Israeli attack on Syria and a massive U.S. military attack on Iran.
WMR has learned from military sources on both sides of the Atlantic that there was a definite connection between Israel's OPERATION ORCHARD and BENT SPEAR involving the B-52 that flew the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale. There is also a connection between these two events as the Pentagon's highly-classified PROJECT CHECKMATE, a compartmented U.S. Air Force program that has been working on an attack plan for Iran since June 2007, around the same time that Cheney was working on the joint Israeli-U.S. attack scenario on Iran.
PROJECT CHECKMATE was leaked in an article by military analyst Eric Margolis in the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, the /Times of London/, is a program that involves over two dozen Air Force officers and is headed by Brig. Gen. Lawrence Stutzriem and his chief civilian adviser, Dr. Lani Kass, a former Israeli military intelligence officer who, astoundingly, is now involved in planning a joint U.S.-Israeli massive military attack on Iran that involves a "decapitating" blow on Iran by hitting between three to four thousand targets in the country. Stutzriem and Kass report directly to the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Michael Moseley, who has also been charged with preparing a report on the B-52/nuclear weapons incident.
Kass' area of speciality is cyber-warfare, which includes ensuring "information blockades," such as that imposed by the Israeli government on the Israeli media regarding the Syrian air attack on the alleged Syrian "nuclear installation." British intelligence sources have reported that the Israeli attack on Syria was a "true flag" attack originally designed to foreshadow a U.S. attack on Iran. After the U.S. Air Force push back against transporting the six cruise nuclear-armed AGM-129s to the Middle East, Israel went ahead with its attack on Syria in order to help ratchet up tensions between Washington on one side and Damascus, Tehran, and Pyongyang on the other.
The other part of CHECKMATE's brief is to ensure that a media "perception management" is waged against Syria, Iran, and North Korea. This involves articles such as that which appeared with Joby Warrick's and Walter Pincus' bylines in yesterdays /Washington Post/. The article, titled "The Saga of a Bent Spear," quotes a number of seasoned Air Force nuclear weapons experts as saying that such an incident is unprecedented in the history of the Air Force. For example, Retired Air Force General Eugene Habiger, the former chief of the U.S. Strategic Command, said he has been in the "nuclear business" since 1966 and has never been aware of an incident "more disturbing."
Command and control breakdowns involving U.S. nuclear weapons are unprecedented, except for that fact that the U.S. military is now waging an internal war against neo-cons who are embedded in the U.S. government and military chain of command who are intent on using nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive war with Iran.
CHECKMATE and OPERATION ORCHARD would have provided the cover for a pre-emptive U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran had it not been for BENT SPEAR involving the B-52. In on the plan to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran involving nuclear weapons were, according to our sources, Cheney, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley; members of the CHECKMATE team at the Pentagon, who have close connections to Israeli intelligence and pro-Israeli think tanks in Washington, including the Hudson Institute; British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, a political adviser to Tony Blair prior to becoming a Member of Parliament; Israeli political leaders like Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu; and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who did his part last week to ratchet up tensions with Iran by suggesting that war with Iran was a probability. Kouchner retracted his statement after the U.S. plans for Iran were delayed.
Although the Air Force tried to keep the B-52 nuclear incident from the media, anonymous Air Force personnel leaked the story to /Military Times/ on September 5, the day before the Israelis attacked the alleged nuclear installation in Syria and the day planned for the simultaneous U.S. attack on Iran. The leaking of classified information on U.S. nuclear weapons disposition or movement to the media, is, itself, unprecedented. Air Force regulations require the sending of classified BEELINE reports to higher Air Force authorities on the disclosure of classified Air Force information to the media.
In another highly unusual move, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked an outside inquiry board to look into BENT SPEAR, even before the Air Force has completed its own investigation, a virtual vote of no confidence in the official investigation being conducted by Major General Douglas Raaberg, chief of air and space operations at the Air Combat Command.
Gates asked former Air Force Chief of Staff, retired General Larry Welch, to lead a Defense Science Board task force that will also look into the BENT SPEAR incident. The official Air Force investigation has reportedly been delayed for unknown reasons. Welch is President and CEO of the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA), a federally-funded research contractor that operates three research centers, including one for Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President and another for the National Security Agency. One of the board members of IDA is Dr. Suzanne H. Woolsey of the Paladin Capital Group and wife of former CIA director and arch-neocon James Woolsey.
WMR has learned that neither the upper echelons of the State Department nor the British Foreign Office were privy to OPERATION ORCHARD, although Hadley briefed President Bush on Israeli spy satellite intelligence that showed the Syrian installation was a joint nuclear facility built with North Korean and Iranian assistance. However, it is puzzling why Hadley would rely on Israeli imagery intelligence (IMINT) from its OFEK (Horizon) 7 satellite when considering that U.S. IMINT satellites have greater capabilities.
The Air Force's "information warfare" campaign against media reports on CHECKMATE and OPERATION ORCHARD also affected international reporting of the recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution asking Israel to place its nuclear weapons program under IAEA controls, similar to those that the United States wants imposed on Iran and North Korea. The resolution also called for a nuclear-free zone throughout the Middle East. The IAEA's resolution, titled "Application of IAEA Safeguards in the Middle East," was passed by the 144-member IAEA General Meeting on September 20 by a vote of 53 to 2, with 47 abstentions. The only two countries to vote against were Israel and the United States. However, the story carried from the IAEA meeting in Vienna by Reuters, the Associated Press, and Agence France Press, was that it was Arab and Islamic nations that voted for the resolution.
This was yet more perception management carried out by CHECKMATE, the White House, and their allies in Europe and Israel with the connivance of the media. In fact, among the 53 nations that voted for the resolution were China, Russia, India, Ireland, and Japan. The 47 abstentions were described as votes "against" the resolution even though an abstention is neither a vote for nor against a measure. America's close allies, including Britain, France, Australia, Canada, and Georgia, all abstained.
Suspiciously, the IAEA carried only a brief item on the resolution concerning Israel's nuclear program and a roll call vote was not available either at the IAEA's web site -- www.iaea.org -- or in the media.
The perception management campaign by the neocon operational cells in the Bush administration, Israel and Europe was designed to keep a focus on Iran's nuclear program, not on Israel's. Any international examination of Israel's nuclear weapons program would likely bring up Israeli nuclear scientist Mordechai Vanunu, a covert from Judaism to Christianity, who was kidnapped in Rome by a Mossad "honey trap" named Cheryl Bentov (aka, Cindy) and a Mossad team in 1986 and held against his will in Israel ever since.
Vanunu's knowledge of the Israeli nuclear weapons program would focus on the country's own role in nuclear proliferation, including its program to share nuclear weapons technology with apartheid South Africa and Taiwan in the late 1970s and 1980s. The role of Ronald Reagan's Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Ken Adelman in Israeli's nuclear proliferation during the time frame 1983-1987 would also come under scrutiny. Adelman, a member of the Reagan-Bush transition State Department team from November 1980 to January 1981, voiced his understanding for the nuclear weapons programs of Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan in a June 28, 1981 /New York Times/ article titled, "3 Nations Widening Nuclear Contacts." The journalist who wrote the article was Judith Miller. Adelman felt that the three countries wanted nuclear weapons because of their ostracism from the West, the third world, and the hostility from the Communist countries. Of course, today, the same argument can be used by Iran, North Korea, and other "Axis of Evil" nations so designated by the neocons in the Bush administration and other governments.
There are also news reports that suggest an intelligence relationship between Israel and North Korea. On July 21, 2004, New Zealand's /Dominion Post/ reported that three Mossad agents were involved in espionage in New Zealand. Two of the Mossad agents, Uriel Kelman and Elisha Cara (aka Kra), were arrested and imprisoned by New Zealand police (an Israeli diplomat in Canberra, Amir Lati, was expelled by Australia and New Zealand intelligence identified a fourth Mossad agent involved in the New Zealand espionage operation in Singapore). The third Mossad agent in New Zealand, Zev William Barkan (aka Lev Bruckenstein), fled New Zealand -- for North Korea.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff revealed that Barkan, a former Israeli Navy diver, had previously worked at the Israeli embassy in Vienna, which is also the headquarters of the IAEA. He was cited by the /Sydney Morning Herald/ as trafficking in passports stolen from foreign tourists in Thailand, Myanmar,
Laos, and Cambodia. New Zealand's One News reported that Barkan was in North Korea to help the nation build a wall to keep its citizens from leaving.
The nuclear brinkmanship involving the United States and Israel and the breakdown in America's command and control systems have every major capital around the world wondering about the Bush administration's true intentions.
NOTE: WMR understands the risks to informed individuals in reporting the events of August 29/30, to the present time, that concern the discord within the U.S. Air Force, U.S. intelligence agencies, and other military services. Any source with relevant information and who wishes to contact us anonymously may drop off sealed correspondence at or send mail via the Postal Service to: Wayne Madsen, c/o The Front Desk, National Press Club, 13th Floor, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DC, 20045.
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2 PATRIOT ACT PROVISIONS ruled unconstitutional
By William McCall, Associated Press Writer | September 26, 2007
PORTLAND, Ore. --Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, "now permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment."
Portland attorney Brandon Mayfield sought the ruling in a lawsuit against the federal government after he was mistakenly linked by the FBI to the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people in 2004.
The federal government apologized and settled part of the lawsuit for $2 million after admitting a fingerprint was misread. But as part of the settlement, Mayfield retained the right to challenge parts of the Patriot Act, which greatly expanded the authority of law enforcers to investigate suspected acts of terrorism.
Mayfield claimed that secret searches of his house and office under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act violated the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure. Aiken agreed with Mayfield, repeatedly criticizing the government.
"For over 200 years, this Nation has adhered to the rule of law -- with unparalleled success. A shift to a Nation based on extra-constitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill-advised," she wrote.
By asking her to dismiss Mayfield's lawsuit, the judge said, the U.S. attorney general's office was "asking this court to, in essence, amend the Bill of Rights, by giving it an interpretation that would deprive it of any real meaning. This court declines to do so."
Elden Rosenthal, an attorney for Mayfield, issued a statement on his behalf praising the judge, saying she "has upheld both the tradition of judicial independence, and our nation's most cherished principle of the right to be secure in one's own home."
Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said the agency was reviewing the decision, and he declined to comment further.
The ruling probably won't have any immediate affect on enforcement under the Patriot Act, according to legal experts who predicted the government would quickly appeal.
"But it's an important first step," said Jameel Jaffer, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's national security project.
Jaffer noted that the Patriot Act carries dozens of provisions and that several have been challenged -- but that this is one of the first major rulings on Fourth Amendment rights.
"This is as clear a violation of the Fourth Amendment as you'll ever find," Jaffer said.
Garrett Epps, a constitutional law expert at the University of Oregon, said the ruling adds to the poor record that the Bush administration has piled up in defending the Patriot Act.
"It's embarrassing," Epps said. "It represents another judicial repudiation of this administration's terrorist surveillance policies."
A federal judge in New York this month handed the ACLU a victory in a challenge to the Patriot Act on behalf of an Internet service provider that was issued a "national security letter" demanding customer phone and computer records. The judge in that case ruled the FBI must justify to a court the need for secrecy for more than a brief and reasonable period of time.
Mayfield, a Muslim convert, was taken into custody on May 6, 2004, because of a fingerprint found on a detonator at the scene of the Madrid bombing. The FBI said the print matched Mayfield's. He was released about two weeks later, and the FBI admitted it had erred in saying the fingerprints were his and later apologized to him.
Before his arrest, the FBI put Mayfield under 24-hour surveillance, listened to his phone calls and surreptitiously searched his home and law office.
The Mayfield case has been an embarrassment for the federal government. Last year, the Justice Department's internal watchdog faulted the FBI for sloppy work in mistakenly linking Mayfield to the Madrid bombings. That report said federal prosecutors and FBI agents had made inaccurate and ambiguous statements to a federal judge to get arrest and criminal search warrants against Mayfield.
Congress passed the Patriot Act with little debate shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to help counter terrorist activities. It gave federal law enforcers the authority to search telephone and e-mail communications and expanded the Treasury Department's regulation of financial transactions involving foreign nationals. The law was renewed in 2005.
In early August, the Bush administration persuaded lawmakers to expand the government's power to listen in on any foreign communication it deemed of interest without a court order, even if an American was a party. The expanded surveillance authority expires early next year. As Congress takes a closer look at the law, many Democrats want to rein in language that many consider overly broad
PORTLAND, Ore. --Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, "now permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment."
Portland attorney Brandon Mayfield sought the ruling in a lawsuit against the federal government after he was mistakenly linked by the FBI to the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people in 2004.
The federal government apologized and settled part of the lawsuit for $2 million after admitting a fingerprint was misread. But as part of the settlement, Mayfield retained the right to challenge parts of the Patriot Act, which greatly expanded the authority of law enforcers to investigate suspected acts of terrorism.
Mayfield claimed that secret searches of his house and office under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act violated the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure. Aiken agreed with Mayfield, repeatedly criticizing the government.
"For over 200 years, this Nation has adhered to the rule of law -- with unparalleled success. A shift to a Nation based on extra-constitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill-advised," she wrote.
By asking her to dismiss Mayfield's lawsuit, the judge said, the U.S. attorney general's office was "asking this court to, in essence, amend the Bill of Rights, by giving it an interpretation that would deprive it of any real meaning. This court declines to do so."
Elden Rosenthal, an attorney for Mayfield, issued a statement on his behalf praising the judge, saying she "has upheld both the tradition of judicial independence, and our nation's most cherished principle of the right to be secure in one's own home."
Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said the agency was reviewing the decision, and he declined to comment further.
The ruling probably won't have any immediate affect on enforcement under the Patriot Act, according to legal experts who predicted the government would quickly appeal.
"But it's an important first step," said Jameel Jaffer, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's national security project.
Jaffer noted that the Patriot Act carries dozens of provisions and that several have been challenged -- but that this is one of the first major rulings on Fourth Amendment rights.
"This is as clear a violation of the Fourth Amendment as you'll ever find," Jaffer said.
Garrett Epps, a constitutional law expert at the University of Oregon, said the ruling adds to the poor record that the Bush administration has piled up in defending the Patriot Act.
"It's embarrassing," Epps said. "It represents another judicial repudiation of this administration's terrorist surveillance policies."
A federal judge in New York this month handed the ACLU a victory in a challenge to the Patriot Act on behalf of an Internet service provider that was issued a "national security letter" demanding customer phone and computer records. The judge in that case ruled the FBI must justify to a court the need for secrecy for more than a brief and reasonable period of time.
Mayfield, a Muslim convert, was taken into custody on May 6, 2004, because of a fingerprint found on a detonator at the scene of the Madrid bombing. The FBI said the print matched Mayfield's. He was released about two weeks later, and the FBI admitted it had erred in saying the fingerprints were his and later apologized to him.
Before his arrest, the FBI put Mayfield under 24-hour surveillance, listened to his phone calls and surreptitiously searched his home and law office.
The Mayfield case has been an embarrassment for the federal government. Last year, the Justice Department's internal watchdog faulted the FBI for sloppy work in mistakenly linking Mayfield to the Madrid bombings. That report said federal prosecutors and FBI agents had made inaccurate and ambiguous statements to a federal judge to get arrest and criminal search warrants against Mayfield.
Congress passed the Patriot Act with little debate shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to help counter terrorist activities. It gave federal law enforcers the authority to search telephone and e-mail communications and expanded the Treasury Department's regulation of financial transactions involving foreign nationals. The law was renewed in 2005.
In early August, the Bush administration persuaded lawmakers to expand the government's power to listen in on any foreign communication it deemed of interest without a court order, even if an American was a party. The expanded surveillance authority expires early next year. As Congress takes a closer look at the law, many Democrats want to rein in language that many consider overly broad
MCVEIGH'S UNINDICTED COCONSPIRATOR on troopers video tape of Terry Stop on 4/19/95
Video from MCVEIGH stop shows pickup driven by COLBERN
http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt_06.htm
Surveillance footage taken by Trooper Charles Hanger upon his arrest of McVeigh had caught a brown pick-up stopped just ahead — thought to belong to Steven Colbern.
When researcher Ken Armstrong questioned the OHP about the tape, he was told it had been "seized" by the FBI. The OHP would not comment further.[820]
On June 1st, KFOR reporter Brad Edwards sent the Justice Department a Freedom of Information request concerning the various surveillance footage. In their reply, the FBI stated:
A search of our indices to the Central Records System, as maintained in the Oklahoma City Office, located material responsive request (sic) to your request. This material is being withheld in its entirety pursuant to the following subsection of Title 5, United States Code, Section 552: (b) (7) (A)
When Jones finally filed a motion for disclosure after prosecutors refused to hand over the tapes, he was given 400 hours of footage. According to defense attorney Amber McGlaughlin, the tapes did not reveal the presence of Timothy McVeigh.
Of course, who knows what the FBI actually turned over to the defense. In the Kennedy case, the most revealing evidence was the Zapruder film — homemade footage showing Presidents Kennedy's head being blasted towards the right-rear — indicating the fatal shot came from the Grassy Knoll, not the Book Depository as the government claimed. Yet the FBI confiscated Zapruder's film and altered the sequence of the incriminating frames, reversing them to give the impression that Kennedy's head had lurched forward. It was only later that experts revealed the tampering.
The FBI said it was a "mistake."
The Zapruder film was finally released in 1968, the result of District Attorney Jim Garrison's courageous efforts to reveal the truth. The question is, when will the American public get to see the video footage of the Oklahoma City bombing?
While the FBI did their best to keep key evidence from the grand jury, as in the Kennedy case, [b:7b2e4ca96d]they even went so far as to convince several witnesses that their former statements were false, and to retract them in lieu of statements more favorable to the prosecution[/b:7b2e4ca96d]. A primary example is Michael Fortier, who originally told investigators, "I do not believe that Tim [McVeigh] blew up any building in Oklahoma. There's nothing for me to look back upon and say, yeah, that might have been, I should have seen it back then — there's nothing like that.… I know my friend. Tim McVeigh is not the face of terror as reported on Time magazine…"
http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt_06.htm
Surveillance footage taken by Trooper Charles Hanger upon his arrest of McVeigh had caught a brown pick-up stopped just ahead — thought to belong to Steven Colbern.
When researcher Ken Armstrong questioned the OHP about the tape, he was told it had been "seized" by the FBI. The OHP would not comment further.[820]
On June 1st, KFOR reporter Brad Edwards sent the Justice Department a Freedom of Information request concerning the various surveillance footage. In their reply, the FBI stated:
A search of our indices to the Central Records System, as maintained in the Oklahoma City Office, located material responsive request (sic) to your request. This material is being withheld in its entirety pursuant to the following subsection of Title 5, United States Code, Section 552: (b) (7) (A)
When Jones finally filed a motion for disclosure after prosecutors refused to hand over the tapes, he was given 400 hours of footage. According to defense attorney Amber McGlaughlin, the tapes did not reveal the presence of Timothy McVeigh.
Of course, who knows what the FBI actually turned over to the defense. In the Kennedy case, the most revealing evidence was the Zapruder film — homemade footage showing Presidents Kennedy's head being blasted towards the right-rear — indicating the fatal shot came from the Grassy Knoll, not the Book Depository as the government claimed. Yet the FBI confiscated Zapruder's film and altered the sequence of the incriminating frames, reversing them to give the impression that Kennedy's head had lurched forward. It was only later that experts revealed the tampering.
The FBI said it was a "mistake."
The Zapruder film was finally released in 1968, the result of District Attorney Jim Garrison's courageous efforts to reveal the truth. The question is, when will the American public get to see the video footage of the Oklahoma City bombing?
While the FBI did their best to keep key evidence from the grand jury, as in the Kennedy case, [b:7b2e4ca96d]they even went so far as to convince several witnesses that their former statements were false, and to retract them in lieu of statements more favorable to the prosecution[/b:7b2e4ca96d]. A primary example is Michael Fortier, who originally told investigators, "I do not believe that Tim [McVeigh] blew up any building in Oklahoma. There's nothing for me to look back upon and say, yeah, that might have been, I should have seen it back then — there's nothing like that.… I know my friend. Tim McVeigh is not the face of terror as reported on Time magazine…"
FISA court finds out about the FBI's use of THE HAND OFF METHOD of laundering illegally obtained info in violation of Tit 18 USC sec 2517
Secret Court's Judges Were Warned About NSA Spy Data
Program May Have Led Improperly to Warrants
By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 9, 2006; A01
Twice in the past four years, a top Justice Department lawyer warned the presiding judge of a secret surveillance court that information overheard in President Bush's eavesdropping program may have been improperly used to obtain wiretap warrants in the court, according to two sources with knowledge of those events.
The revelations infuriated U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly -- who, like her predecessor, Royce C. Lamberth, had expressed serious doubts about whether the warrantless monitoring of phone calls and e-mails ordered by Bush was legal. Both judges had insisted that no information obtained this way be used to gain warrants from their court, according to government sources, and both had been assured by administration officials it would never happen.
The two heads of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court were the only judges in the country briefed by the administration on Bush's program. The president's secret order, issued sometime after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, allows the National Security Agency to monitor telephone calls and e-mails between people in the United States and contacts overseas.
James A. Baker, the counsel for intelligence policy in the Justice Department's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, discovered in 2004 that the government's failure to share information about its spying program had rendered useless a federal screening system that the judges had insisted upon to shield the court from tainted information. He alerted Kollar-Kotelly, who complained to Justice, prompting a temporary suspension of the NSA spying program, the sources said.
Yet another problem in a 2005 warrant application prompted Kollar-Kotelly to issue a stern order to government lawyers to create a better firewall or face more difficulty obtaining warrants.
The two judges' discomfort with the NSA spying program was previously known. But this new account reveals the depth of their doubts about its legality and their behind-the-scenes efforts to protect the court from what they considered potentially tainted evidence. The new accounts also show the degree to which Baker, a top intelligence expert at Justice, shared their reservations and aided the judges.
Both judges expressed concern to senior officials that the president's program, if ever made public and challenged in court, ran a significant risk of being declared unconstitutional, according to sources familiar with their actions. Yet the judges believed they did not have the authority to rule on the president's power to order the eavesdropping, government sources said, and focused instead on protecting the integrity of the FISA process.
It was an odd position for the presiding judges of the FISA court, the secret panel created in 1978 in response to a public outcry over warrantless domestic spying by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. The court's appointees, chosen by then-Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, were generally veteran jurists with a pro-government bent, and their classified work is considered a powerful tool for catching spies and terrorists.
The FISA court secretly grants warrants for wiretaps, telephone record traces and physical searches to the Justice Department, whose lawyers must show they have probable cause to believe that a person in the United States is the agent of a foreign power or government. Between 1979 and 2004, it approved 18,748 warrants and rejected five.
Lamberth, the presiding judge at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, and Kollar-Kotelly, who took over in May 2002, have repeatedly declined to comment on the program or their efforts to protect the FISA court. A Justice Department spokesman also declined to comment.
Both presiding judges agreed not to disclose the secret program to the 10 other FISA judges, who routinely handled some of the government's most highly classified secrets.
So early in 2002, the wary court and government lawyers developed a compromise. Any case in which the government listened to someone's calls without a warrant, and later developed information to seek a FISA warrant for that same suspect, was to be carefully "tagged" as having involved some NSA information. Generally, there were fewer than 10 cases each year, the sources said.
According to government officials familiar with the program, the presiding FISA judges insisted that information obtained through NSA surveillance not form the basis for obtaining a warrant and that, instead, independently gathered information provide the justification for FISA monitoring in such cases. They also insisted that these cases be presented only to the presiding judge.
Lamberth and Kollar-Kotelly derived significant comfort from the trust they had in Baker, the government's liaison to the FISA court. He was a stickler-for-rules career lawyer steeped in foreign intelligence law, and had served as deputy director of the office before becoming the chief in 2001.
Baker also had privately expressed hesitation to his bosses about whether the domestic spying program conflicted with the FISA law, a government official said. Justice higher-ups viewed him as suspect, but they also recognized that he had the judges' confidence and kept him in the pivotal position of obtaining warrants to spy on possible terrorists.
In 2004, Baker warned Kollar-Kotelly he had a problem with the tagging system. He had concluded that the NSA was not providing him with a complete and updated list of the people it had monitored, so Justice could not definitively know -- and could not alert the court -- if it was seeking FISA warrants for people already spied on, government officials said.
Kollar-Kotelly complained to then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, and her concerns led to a temporary suspension of the program. The judge required that high-level Justice officials certify the information was complete -- or face possible perjury charges.
In 2005, Baker learned that at least one government application for a FISA warrant probably contained NSA information that was not made clear to the judges, the government officials said. Some administration officials explained to Kollar-Kotelly that a low-level Defense Department employee unfamiliar with court disclosure procedures had made a mistake.
Kollar-Kotelly asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to ensure that wouldn't happen again, government officials said.
Baker declined to comment through an office assistant, who referred questions about his FISA work to a Justice Department spokesman. Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith also declined to comment and referred questions to Justice officials. Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said the department could not discuss its work with the FISA court.
"The department always strives to meet the highest ethical and professional standards in its appearances before any court, including the FISA court," Roehrkasse said. "This is especially true when department attorneys appear before a court on an ex parte basis, as is the case in the FISA court."
Shortly after the warrantless eavesdropping program began, then-NSA Director Michael V. Hayden and Ashcroft made clear in private meetings that the president wanted to detect possible terrorist activity before another attack. They also made clear that, in such a broad hunt for suspicious patterns and activities, the government could never meet the FISA court's probable-cause requirement, government officials said.
So it confused the FISA court judges when, in their recent public defense of the program, Hayden and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales insisted that NSA analysts do not listen to calls unless they have a reasonable belief that someone with a known link to terrorism is on one end of the call. At a hearing Monday, Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the "reasonable belief" standard is merely the "probable cause" standard by another name.
Several FISA judges said they also remain puzzled by Bush's assertion that the court was not "agile" or "nimble" enough to help catch terrorists. The court had routinely approved emergency wiretaps 72 hours after they had begun, as FISA allows, and the court's actions in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks suggested that its judges were hardly unsympathetic to the needs of their nation at war.
On Sept. 12, Bush asked new FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III in a Cabinet meeting whether it was safe for commercial air traffic to resume, according to senior government officials. Mueller had to acknowledge he could not give a reliable assessment.
Mueller and Justice officials went to Lamberth, who agreed that day to expedited procedures to issue FISA warrants for eavesdropping, a government official said.
The requirement for detailed paperwork was greatly eased, allowing the NSA to begin eavesdropping the next day on anyone suspected of a link to al Qaeda, every person who had ever been a member or supporter of militant Islamic groups, and everyone ever linked to a terrorist watch list in the United States or abroad, the official said.
In March 2002, the FBI and Pakistani police arrested Abu Zubaida, then the third-ranking al Qaeda operative, in Pakistan. When agents found Zubaida's laptop computer, a senior law enforcement source said, they discovered that the vast majority of people he had been communicating with were being monitored under FISA warrants or international spying efforts.
"Finally, we got some comfort" that surveillance efforts were working, said a government official familiar with Zubaida's arrest.
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tommythebug:
THE HAND OFF METHOD is a way for the NSA TSP to use pinhole spy cameras, GPS tracking device, keystroke loggers, mail openings, sneak and peak breakins, wiretapping, etc.
The INFO IS THEN HANDED OFF TO THE FED, STATE, AND LOCAL COP LYING SCUM...who then make sure that the "source is not disclosed"...allowing "sting operations to be tried out" using the illegal info about the target's weaknesses. Failure to report the "primary in direct source of the info" is a BRADY VIOLATION also known as a OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
I caught SIOUX FALLS, SD, STATES ATTORNEY DAVE NELSON, RANDY SAMPLE, AND HOPE MATCHAN all using illegally obtained info, and "failing to disclose" pursuant to a discovery motion?
THE HAND OFF METHOD is also used with the FBI's favorite stalking trick called TICKLING THE WIRE. Tickling the wire is....a happy euphamism for harassment, stalking, slander at jobsites, terroristic threats, assaults, vehicle sabotage, home invasions...etc. THEN THE PUNK PIGS, TAPE THE TARGET GETTING PISSED OFF...and the clown prosecutors and judges all eat it up like a fat pig in a stye.
Program May Have Led Improperly to Warrants
By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 9, 2006; A01
Twice in the past four years, a top Justice Department lawyer warned the presiding judge of a secret surveillance court that information overheard in President Bush's eavesdropping program may have been improperly used to obtain wiretap warrants in the court, according to two sources with knowledge of those events.
The revelations infuriated U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly -- who, like her predecessor, Royce C. Lamberth, had expressed serious doubts about whether the warrantless monitoring of phone calls and e-mails ordered by Bush was legal. Both judges had insisted that no information obtained this way be used to gain warrants from their court, according to government sources, and both had been assured by administration officials it would never happen.
The two heads of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court were the only judges in the country briefed by the administration on Bush's program. The president's secret order, issued sometime after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, allows the National Security Agency to monitor telephone calls and e-mails between people in the United States and contacts overseas.
James A. Baker, the counsel for intelligence policy in the Justice Department's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, discovered in 2004 that the government's failure to share information about its spying program had rendered useless a federal screening system that the judges had insisted upon to shield the court from tainted information. He alerted Kollar-Kotelly, who complained to Justice, prompting a temporary suspension of the NSA spying program, the sources said.
Yet another problem in a 2005 warrant application prompted Kollar-Kotelly to issue a stern order to government lawyers to create a better firewall or face more difficulty obtaining warrants.
The two judges' discomfort with the NSA spying program was previously known. But this new account reveals the depth of their doubts about its legality and their behind-the-scenes efforts to protect the court from what they considered potentially tainted evidence. The new accounts also show the degree to which Baker, a top intelligence expert at Justice, shared their reservations and aided the judges.
Both judges expressed concern to senior officials that the president's program, if ever made public and challenged in court, ran a significant risk of being declared unconstitutional, according to sources familiar with their actions. Yet the judges believed they did not have the authority to rule on the president's power to order the eavesdropping, government sources said, and focused instead on protecting the integrity of the FISA process.
It was an odd position for the presiding judges of the FISA court, the secret panel created in 1978 in response to a public outcry over warrantless domestic spying by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. The court's appointees, chosen by then-Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, were generally veteran jurists with a pro-government bent, and their classified work is considered a powerful tool for catching spies and terrorists.
The FISA court secretly grants warrants for wiretaps, telephone record traces and physical searches to the Justice Department, whose lawyers must show they have probable cause to believe that a person in the United States is the agent of a foreign power or government. Between 1979 and 2004, it approved 18,748 warrants and rejected five.
Lamberth, the presiding judge at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, and Kollar-Kotelly, who took over in May 2002, have repeatedly declined to comment on the program or their efforts to protect the FISA court. A Justice Department spokesman also declined to comment.
Both presiding judges agreed not to disclose the secret program to the 10 other FISA judges, who routinely handled some of the government's most highly classified secrets.
So early in 2002, the wary court and government lawyers developed a compromise. Any case in which the government listened to someone's calls without a warrant, and later developed information to seek a FISA warrant for that same suspect, was to be carefully "tagged" as having involved some NSA information. Generally, there were fewer than 10 cases each year, the sources said.
According to government officials familiar with the program, the presiding FISA judges insisted that information obtained through NSA surveillance not form the basis for obtaining a warrant and that, instead, independently gathered information provide the justification for FISA monitoring in such cases. They also insisted that these cases be presented only to the presiding judge.
Lamberth and Kollar-Kotelly derived significant comfort from the trust they had in Baker, the government's liaison to the FISA court. He was a stickler-for-rules career lawyer steeped in foreign intelligence law, and had served as deputy director of the office before becoming the chief in 2001.
Baker also had privately expressed hesitation to his bosses about whether the domestic spying program conflicted with the FISA law, a government official said. Justice higher-ups viewed him as suspect, but they also recognized that he had the judges' confidence and kept him in the pivotal position of obtaining warrants to spy on possible terrorists.
In 2004, Baker warned Kollar-Kotelly he had a problem with the tagging system. He had concluded that the NSA was not providing him with a complete and updated list of the people it had monitored, so Justice could not definitively know -- and could not alert the court -- if it was seeking FISA warrants for people already spied on, government officials said.
Kollar-Kotelly complained to then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, and her concerns led to a temporary suspension of the program. The judge required that high-level Justice officials certify the information was complete -- or face possible perjury charges.
In 2005, Baker learned that at least one government application for a FISA warrant probably contained NSA information that was not made clear to the judges, the government officials said. Some administration officials explained to Kollar-Kotelly that a low-level Defense Department employee unfamiliar with court disclosure procedures had made a mistake.
Kollar-Kotelly asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to ensure that wouldn't happen again, government officials said.
Baker declined to comment through an office assistant, who referred questions about his FISA work to a Justice Department spokesman. Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith also declined to comment and referred questions to Justice officials. Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said the department could not discuss its work with the FISA court.
"The department always strives to meet the highest ethical and professional standards in its appearances before any court, including the FISA court," Roehrkasse said. "This is especially true when department attorneys appear before a court on an ex parte basis, as is the case in the FISA court."
Shortly after the warrantless eavesdropping program began, then-NSA Director Michael V. Hayden and Ashcroft made clear in private meetings that the president wanted to detect possible terrorist activity before another attack. They also made clear that, in such a broad hunt for suspicious patterns and activities, the government could never meet the FISA court's probable-cause requirement, government officials said.
So it confused the FISA court judges when, in their recent public defense of the program, Hayden and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales insisted that NSA analysts do not listen to calls unless they have a reasonable belief that someone with a known link to terrorism is on one end of the call. At a hearing Monday, Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the "reasonable belief" standard is merely the "probable cause" standard by another name.
Several FISA judges said they also remain puzzled by Bush's assertion that the court was not "agile" or "nimble" enough to help catch terrorists. The court had routinely approved emergency wiretaps 72 hours after they had begun, as FISA allows, and the court's actions in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks suggested that its judges were hardly unsympathetic to the needs of their nation at war.
On Sept. 12, Bush asked new FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III in a Cabinet meeting whether it was safe for commercial air traffic to resume, according to senior government officials. Mueller had to acknowledge he could not give a reliable assessment.
Mueller and Justice officials went to Lamberth, who agreed that day to expedited procedures to issue FISA warrants for eavesdropping, a government official said.
The requirement for detailed paperwork was greatly eased, allowing the NSA to begin eavesdropping the next day on anyone suspected of a link to al Qaeda, every person who had ever been a member or supporter of militant Islamic groups, and everyone ever linked to a terrorist watch list in the United States or abroad, the official said.
In March 2002, the FBI and Pakistani police arrested Abu Zubaida, then the third-ranking al Qaeda operative, in Pakistan. When agents found Zubaida's laptop computer, a senior law enforcement source said, they discovered that the vast majority of people he had been communicating with were being monitored under FISA warrants or international spying efforts.
"Finally, we got some comfort" that surveillance efforts were working, said a government official familiar with Zubaida's arrest.
________________________________________
tommythebug:
THE HAND OFF METHOD is a way for the NSA TSP to use pinhole spy cameras, GPS tracking device, keystroke loggers, mail openings, sneak and peak breakins, wiretapping, etc.
The INFO IS THEN HANDED OFF TO THE FED, STATE, AND LOCAL COP LYING SCUM...who then make sure that the "source is not disclosed"...allowing "sting operations to be tried out" using the illegal info about the target's weaknesses. Failure to report the "primary in direct source of the info" is a BRADY VIOLATION also known as a OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
I caught SIOUX FALLS, SD, STATES ATTORNEY DAVE NELSON, RANDY SAMPLE, AND HOPE MATCHAN all using illegally obtained info, and "failing to disclose" pursuant to a discovery motion?
THE HAND OFF METHOD is also used with the FBI's favorite stalking trick called TICKLING THE WIRE. Tickling the wire is....a happy euphamism for harassment, stalking, slander at jobsites, terroristic threats, assaults, vehicle sabotage, home invasions...etc. THEN THE PUNK PIGS, TAPE THE TARGET GETTING PISSED OFF...and the clown prosecutors and judges all eat it up like a fat pig in a stye.
9/11 researcher gets fried by DOD microwave weapon?
Microwave Weaponry Used on Montana Carpenter and 9/11 Researcher for 'Getting Too Close to Who Knows What'
Dan Nelson says he's not sure exactly what piece 9/11 evidence he uncovered triggered the government assaults, but says once he tried to go public, 'all hell broke loose.'
1 Dec 2005
By Greg Szymanski
Dan Nelson has lost faith in his country, lost faith in most everything.
Disillusioned, he's had a bitter taste of what it's like to buck city hall, a bitter taste of getting pushed around by government thugs.
For most of his life, Nelson, 45, lived peacefully as a carpenter in Livingston, Montana, a place where the biggest excitement comes from inside the bowling alley and bingo parlor
Then six months ago, "all hell broke loose" after he stumbled across some sensitive 9/11 evidence.
And, looking back, he should have stuck to bowling or bingo because ever since taking on 9/11, his life has turned into nothing but "a living hell," including death threats as well as being zapped by high-powered microwave weaponry.
Although it sounds clandestine and complicated, Nelson's misadventures unraveled in a relatively straightforward manner. All he did was peruse 9/11information from every source on the planet and then take a magnifying glass to the video tapes, a technique not used by many people but one that ingenuously turned up some rather unusual results.
Whatever Nelson uncovered, it definitely "struck a government nerve" as only hours after he tried to publicize his information on radio and television, government helicopters and agents were swarming down on Livingston, something Nelson admits never happened before in his small hometown.
In order to finally go public and protect his life, Nelson recently appeared on Greg Szymanski's radio show, The Investigative Journal, on the Republic Broadcast Network at www.rbnlive.com (see archives), telling this incredible story about the treatment he received after trying to go public about 9/11.
In his own words, he recalls what sounds like a Hollywood CIA spook movie:
"Ever since I tried to let people know about what I found out about 9/11, I have had many things happen. Within 12 hours of leaving a message on the phone of a popular radio host, I had a light green helicopter follow me where ever I went. The next day, after it first appeared, it showed up again at my friend's house and he will verify the incident. Two days after the helicopter incident, two men in a car tried very hard to run me and my daughter off the road while we were on my motorcycle.
"Then the next week another man was killed one evening on that same corner where I was driving, his body not uncovered till the next morning. What was strange that he was riding a bike the same color as mine and we have the only two like it in town. Since that first incident, three more times cars have tried to force me into wreck within miles of the same spot, one of the times again with my daughter on back of the motorcycle, forcing me to speed away at 120 miles per hour just to save our lives.
"Further, I've even had the sheriff's car try to hit me in town, and then just drove off. I also had a semi try to rear end us. My daughter was also run off the road once when she was driving my car alone and there is a police report of this one.
"And the harassment just never seemed to stop after I saw that first helicopter. For example, I had a man come up to me when I was trying to get into my house and, for no good reason, poke me in the stomach with something which made me very sick, later causing a staff infection. He ran away before I could catch him and as a result I had to take heavy duty drugs. But the most painful was when I felt my insides bubbling, and I was getting very hot as I was washing dishes. The next thing I know I can hear the fluid in my head bubbling and got a massive head ache.
"I was so disoriented I did not know how to wash dishes any more. I ran out of my home and there were two guys by a pick-up parked right next to my house. One man was holding an antenna right against my window. The other guy saw me and yelled at him. They threw the antenna in back of the truck along with some other piece of equipment and covered it up very fast and left. I tried to remember the plate number, but I am losing my memory each day that passes and my insides are still so raw I cannot work.
"My legs give out sometimes and my back is killing me. Because of what happen to me I started checking into none microwave weapons. Its amazing what they can do to people, I just didn't know they were portable but I know I would have been fried if I didn't run out of my house.
"The thing is all of us have been getting smaller doses to where you don't notice it. But it slowly causes cancer in many different parts of the body as well as memory loss and loss of bodily control. Although I am not religious I believe God's hand is around me and I have to do this for the future of all good people. Our whole American history is a lie and I now understand how they keep us in check. It's a huge realization to swallow but my own opinion is we are in very deep trouble."
This type of retaliation is usually not associated with a simple carpenter from a small Montana town, but sometimes those who dig too deeply "know not what they find." In Nelson's case, he amassed numerous videos, research documents, seismic studies and other 9/11 facts, many of which may have contained messages or information the government wants hidden away.
FOX Employee on 9/11 Says He Clearly Saw Cargo Plane With No Windows Hit the Tower. What happened to this video clip?
Although Nelson couldn't pinpoint the exact 9/11 discovery that triggered the life-threatening retaliation, he tried to make some sense out of what had happened by putting the entire ugly experience into perspective.
"About three years ago, I started spending hours upon hours dissecting the 9/11 video tapes and other information," said Nelson this week in a telephone conversation from his Montana home. "I slowed down the videos frame by frame and used a magnifying glass and what I saw was incredible. I've kept a copy of everything, but I know they have gotten into my computer after I tried to send everything to the media with my explanation."
One of the videos Nelson wanted to emphasize, which has somehow been forgotten, is the FOX News clip on the morning of 9/11, where eye-witness Marc Bernbach, a FOX employee, told reporters he was positive what hit the tower was not a commercial airliner, saying it positively looked like a military cargo plane without windows.
Also, in the background of the news clip, people are screaming and one lady repeatedly is yelling, "That's not an American Airlines plane! That's not an American Airlines plane!
(See a copy of this video clip on the new Arctic Beacon web site coming soon.)
Further, the question remains what happened to Bernbach, what happened to his testimony, what happened to the FOX news clip and why has it been hushed up for all these years, except for a brief mention on a 9/11 truth website and now Nelson's revival of the video clip.
However, Nelson wasn't content with the on-air version, so he slowed it down frame by frame while using a magnifying glass to uncover other strange things in the background of the clip. This is what Nelson thinks he saw when he slowed things down:
"In this one frame it looks like someone with and Arab headdress. In the first couple of frames, the lady moves towards the right. There is some kind of stand to the right of her. As she starts to the left you can make out an extended arm with a pistol in it. One frame shows it well. I think the 200 zoom shows it best.
"I am sure she is shot then starts to fall. At the same time a construction worker on the left walks towards the camera. He looks like he is shot in the chest and then in the last frames he is shot in the head and blood sprays red blood sprays every where. It also seems like there are frames missing. I also don't think the audio fits what people are doing. Everybody nearby might have been shot therefore no real witnesses. Remember at least1000 people were never found."
Another picture uncovered, which gets no coverage, is one with the tower burning and a black object flying near the right side of the tower. When Nelson blew this picture up, it clearly show what looks like a stealth fighter plane.
"It looks like a stealth, that's for sure," said Nelson, adding he uncovered other video oddities too numerous mention. However, regarding the video which shows a "pod" on the lower portion of one of the jetliners heading into the tower, Nelson said:
"In this one video, the plane does shoot something out from underneath just before it hits the towers and everybody sees that. What they miss, however, is the pod shoots three times before it comes in contact with the tower. You have to go frame by frame and put a magnifying glass up to the pod. You will then see two other dim flashes before the bright one which proves it is shooting missiles to open up the building. There are also things flying past the jet as if it were being shot at which the second video I will send will prove this. It is important to look at it over and over with the magnifying glass then sit back a ways
"I definitely think I have struck a nerve because they have come at me real hard. These people are going to get me someday, but hopefully I can get a lot of my work out to the public before it is too late."
Dan Nelson says he's not sure exactly what piece 9/11 evidence he uncovered triggered the government assaults, but says once he tried to go public, 'all hell broke loose.'
1 Dec 2005
By Greg Szymanski
Dan Nelson has lost faith in his country, lost faith in most everything.
Disillusioned, he's had a bitter taste of what it's like to buck city hall, a bitter taste of getting pushed around by government thugs.
For most of his life, Nelson, 45, lived peacefully as a carpenter in Livingston, Montana, a place where the biggest excitement comes from inside the bowling alley and bingo parlor
Then six months ago, "all hell broke loose" after he stumbled across some sensitive 9/11 evidence.
And, looking back, he should have stuck to bowling or bingo because ever since taking on 9/11, his life has turned into nothing but "a living hell," including death threats as well as being zapped by high-powered microwave weaponry.
Although it sounds clandestine and complicated, Nelson's misadventures unraveled in a relatively straightforward manner. All he did was peruse 9/11information from every source on the planet and then take a magnifying glass to the video tapes, a technique not used by many people but one that ingenuously turned up some rather unusual results.
Whatever Nelson uncovered, it definitely "struck a government nerve" as only hours after he tried to publicize his information on radio and television, government helicopters and agents were swarming down on Livingston, something Nelson admits never happened before in his small hometown.
In order to finally go public and protect his life, Nelson recently appeared on Greg Szymanski's radio show, The Investigative Journal, on the Republic Broadcast Network at www.rbnlive.com (see archives), telling this incredible story about the treatment he received after trying to go public about 9/11.
In his own words, he recalls what sounds like a Hollywood CIA spook movie:
"Ever since I tried to let people know about what I found out about 9/11, I have had many things happen. Within 12 hours of leaving a message on the phone of a popular radio host, I had a light green helicopter follow me where ever I went. The next day, after it first appeared, it showed up again at my friend's house and he will verify the incident. Two days after the helicopter incident, two men in a car tried very hard to run me and my daughter off the road while we were on my motorcycle.
"Then the next week another man was killed one evening on that same corner where I was driving, his body not uncovered till the next morning. What was strange that he was riding a bike the same color as mine and we have the only two like it in town. Since that first incident, three more times cars have tried to force me into wreck within miles of the same spot, one of the times again with my daughter on back of the motorcycle, forcing me to speed away at 120 miles per hour just to save our lives.
"Further, I've even had the sheriff's car try to hit me in town, and then just drove off. I also had a semi try to rear end us. My daughter was also run off the road once when she was driving my car alone and there is a police report of this one.
"And the harassment just never seemed to stop after I saw that first helicopter. For example, I had a man come up to me when I was trying to get into my house and, for no good reason, poke me in the stomach with something which made me very sick, later causing a staff infection. He ran away before I could catch him and as a result I had to take heavy duty drugs. But the most painful was when I felt my insides bubbling, and I was getting very hot as I was washing dishes. The next thing I know I can hear the fluid in my head bubbling and got a massive head ache.
"I was so disoriented I did not know how to wash dishes any more. I ran out of my home and there were two guys by a pick-up parked right next to my house. One man was holding an antenna right against my window. The other guy saw me and yelled at him. They threw the antenna in back of the truck along with some other piece of equipment and covered it up very fast and left. I tried to remember the plate number, but I am losing my memory each day that passes and my insides are still so raw I cannot work.
"My legs give out sometimes and my back is killing me. Because of what happen to me I started checking into none microwave weapons. Its amazing what they can do to people, I just didn't know they were portable but I know I would have been fried if I didn't run out of my house.
"The thing is all of us have been getting smaller doses to where you don't notice it. But it slowly causes cancer in many different parts of the body as well as memory loss and loss of bodily control. Although I am not religious I believe God's hand is around me and I have to do this for the future of all good people. Our whole American history is a lie and I now understand how they keep us in check. It's a huge realization to swallow but my own opinion is we are in very deep trouble."
This type of retaliation is usually not associated with a simple carpenter from a small Montana town, but sometimes those who dig too deeply "know not what they find." In Nelson's case, he amassed numerous videos, research documents, seismic studies and other 9/11 facts, many of which may have contained messages or information the government wants hidden away.
FOX Employee on 9/11 Says He Clearly Saw Cargo Plane With No Windows Hit the Tower. What happened to this video clip?
Although Nelson couldn't pinpoint the exact 9/11 discovery that triggered the life-threatening retaliation, he tried to make some sense out of what had happened by putting the entire ugly experience into perspective.
"About three years ago, I started spending hours upon hours dissecting the 9/11 video tapes and other information," said Nelson this week in a telephone conversation from his Montana home. "I slowed down the videos frame by frame and used a magnifying glass and what I saw was incredible. I've kept a copy of everything, but I know they have gotten into my computer after I tried to send everything to the media with my explanation."
One of the videos Nelson wanted to emphasize, which has somehow been forgotten, is the FOX News clip on the morning of 9/11, where eye-witness Marc Bernbach, a FOX employee, told reporters he was positive what hit the tower was not a commercial airliner, saying it positively looked like a military cargo plane without windows.
Also, in the background of the news clip, people are screaming and one lady repeatedly is yelling, "That's not an American Airlines plane! That's not an American Airlines plane!
(See a copy of this video clip on the new Arctic Beacon web site coming soon.)
Further, the question remains what happened to Bernbach, what happened to his testimony, what happened to the FOX news clip and why has it been hushed up for all these years, except for a brief mention on a 9/11 truth website and now Nelson's revival of the video clip.
However, Nelson wasn't content with the on-air version, so he slowed it down frame by frame while using a magnifying glass to uncover other strange things in the background of the clip. This is what Nelson thinks he saw when he slowed things down:
"In this one frame it looks like someone with and Arab headdress. In the first couple of frames, the lady moves towards the right. There is some kind of stand to the right of her. As she starts to the left you can make out an extended arm with a pistol in it. One frame shows it well. I think the 200 zoom shows it best.
"I am sure she is shot then starts to fall. At the same time a construction worker on the left walks towards the camera. He looks like he is shot in the chest and then in the last frames he is shot in the head and blood sprays red blood sprays every where. It also seems like there are frames missing. I also don't think the audio fits what people are doing. Everybody nearby might have been shot therefore no real witnesses. Remember at least1000 people were never found."
Another picture uncovered, which gets no coverage, is one with the tower burning and a black object flying near the right side of the tower. When Nelson blew this picture up, it clearly show what looks like a stealth fighter plane.
"It looks like a stealth, that's for sure," said Nelson, adding he uncovered other video oddities too numerous mention. However, regarding the video which shows a "pod" on the lower portion of one of the jetliners heading into the tower, Nelson said:
"In this one video, the plane does shoot something out from underneath just before it hits the towers and everybody sees that. What they miss, however, is the pod shoots three times before it comes in contact with the tower. You have to go frame by frame and put a magnifying glass up to the pod. You will then see two other dim flashes before the bright one which proves it is shooting missiles to open up the building. There are also things flying past the jet as if it were being shot at which the second video I will send will prove this. It is important to look at it over and over with the magnifying glass then sit back a ways
"I definitely think I have struck a nerve because they have come at me real hard. These people are going to get me someday, but hopefully I can get a lot of my work out to the public before it is too late."
FBI INFORMANT murders Gus Boulis? To help launder money into casino boats?
FROM THE FAMOUS MAD COW MORNING NEWS INTERNET INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING SITE:
http://www.madcowprod.com/index.html APRIL 06 2006--Venice,FL.
APRIL 06 2006--Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker
Confounding those who thought it impossible, the FBI’s already-tattered credibility was shredded still further last week with revelations of deliberately concealed evidence in the 9.11 investigation, as well as malfeasance in the probe of the execution-style slaying in Florida of SunCruz Casino Czar Gus Boulis, increasingly the focus of the investigation into disgraced Republican lobbyist-cum-bagman Jack Abramoff.
In a major development in the 9.11 investigation which passed almost-unnoticed, jurors in the death penalty trial of Zacharias Moussaoui heard testimony from aviation officials about a previously-undisclosed incident...
In February of 2001, almost two months after the FBI says Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi left Huffman Aviation in Venice Florida for the bright lights of Miami, the two men were still flying a single-engine plane registered to Venice Florida flight school Huffman Aviation.
Surprise surprise.
The story offers further confirmation of allegations in “Welcome to TERRORLAND" that the FBI systematically covered up evidence showing Atta using Huffman Aviation in Venice as his base of operations for the entire year before the 9.11 attack.
If the FBI’s chronology of events is a tissue of half-truths, distortions and outright lies, it is a very serious matter; the Bureau’s investigation was exclusively relied on by both the Congressional Intelligence Committee 9.11 probe and the 9.11 Commission, neither of which fielded independent investigators.
Moreover, the incident also contradicts sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee by Huffman Aviation’s Rudi Dekkers, who stated emphatically that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi left Huffman for the last time just after Christmas in 2000.
The cover-up lasts until we say different
The Clearwater incident began, jurors were told, after a police aide and night watchman noticed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi practicing takeoffs and landings at night, which is highly unusual, as the the tiny Clearwater airstrip is closed after dark.
A Clearwater aviation official testified the airport prohibited take-offs and landings after sunset. Planes landing after 9 p.m. were even supposed to be grounded until the next morning.
The disdain with which the two terrorist pilots treated American aviation regulations is already well-known, because of the now-famous incident in which Atta and Marwan walked away from a stalled plane and abandoned it in the middle of an active runway at Miami International Airport.
Dan Pursell, a former chief flight instructor at Huffman Aviation, testified that a Clearwater police aide at the tiny Clearwater Airpark called Huffman Aviation and left a voice message complaining that Atta and Marwan were breaking airport rules by taking off and landing after dark.
Pursell told the St. Petersburg Times, which first broke the story, that when they returned to Venice the next morning, he and another flight instructor at Huffman spoke with Atta and al-Shehhi about the Clearwater incident.
How really brief "really brief" can be
"Hey, we got a phone call, you've been identified in Clearwater," Pursell remembers telling Atta and al-Shehhi. "This is like, the last straw. If that happens again, we're going to have to look at this a little harder."
He called the exchange "really brief."
When we phoned Pursell to question him about why he hadn't brought to light sooner an incident he must have known had significance to the FBI's timeline, we found him to be a man of few words.
"I told the FBI all about it at the time," he told us. "They knew."
We asked the obvious question. "So why did they continue to lie about how much time Atta spent in Venice?"
Pursell said nothing. So "really brief" described our exchange as well.
Could government attorney Carla J. Martin’s improper tampering with witnesses, which briefly derailed the Moussaoui trial, have been designed to prevent just such disturbing new disclosures?
The answer, of course, as with so much else, is: "We may never know."
A sordid feat breaks a record in a state with a sordid past
In sworn testimony Rudi Dekkers insisted his relationship with the terrorist ringleader ended in December, nine months before the attack.
“On July 1st, 2000,” Dekkers told a Congressional Committee, “Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi arrived at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida to inquire about taking flying lessons. On July 3rd, 2000, Atta and Al-Shehhi came back to Huffman Aviation to sign up for lessons.”
“On December 24th, 2000, Atta and Al-Shehhi rented a Warrior from Huffman Aviation for a flight... one to two days later Atta and Al-Shehhi returned to Huffman Aviation to make final payments on their outstanding bills. Because they were not taking any more flying lessons, they were asked to leave the facility due to their bad attitudes and not being liked by staff and clients alike. Huffman never heard about or from them again until September 11th, 2001.”
Dekkers' testimony, which has clearly now been rendered "inoperative," also appears to open him to accusations of perjury. Or at least should...
One of the three alleged Mob hit men on trial for the murder of Florida Casino Czar Gus Boulis, which has increasingly become the focus of the probe into disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was an FBI informant at the time he is alleged to have been masterminding the murder plot.
The international heroin trafficking aspect of the 9.11 investigation has also gone unreported, except by the MadCowMorningNews, which has extensively covered the inconvenient discovery of 43 pounds of heroin aboard the Lear jet of the owner of Huffman Aviation during the same month Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al Shehhi arrived to attend his flight school.
As Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi began flying lessons at Huffman Aviation, in July of 2000, the school’s owner suffered a major embarrassment when his Lear jet was seized by DEA agents who found 43 pounds of heroin aboard.
Authorities called it the biggest seizure of heroin ever in central Florida, which, given the state’s sordid past, is no mean feat.
One stop shopping for all your last-minute criminal needs
One of the alleged hit men going on trial in Florida for the murder of gambling czar Gus Boulis, killed gangland-style after getting muscled out of SunCruz Casinos by Republican bagman Jack Abramoff, has been an informant for the FBI for more than a decade, including at the time when Boulis was killed.
The Miami Herald, which broke the story, said that at the same time New York mobster Anthony Moscatiello was allegedly plotting the slaying of gambling tycoon Boulis, he was spying on fellow gangsters and snitching to the FBI.
“Big Tony” Moscatiello, whose duties included ‘cooking’ the books for Mafia don John Gotti’s Howard Beach crew, was caught up in a major heroin prosecution which included then-acting Mob Boss Gene Gotti, John Gotti’s brother, as well as assorted other members of the Gambino Family.
He became a confidential informant for the Bureau after federal trafficking charges against him were mysteriously dropped in 1989.
The day after police announced arrests in SunCruz Casino founder Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis' murder, Adam Kidan, Jack Abramoff’s titular “President” of SunCruz, paid Big Tony a jailhouse visit at Rikers Island in New York City.
Um...a catering business at Rikers' Island? A donut shop in Sing Sing?
Adam Kidan is the only person outside “Big Tony” Moscatiello's family and attorneys allowed in to visit the alleged mob associate in his first weeks behind bars. What do you think they found to talk about?
In any other organization, this kind of developing pattern of illegality might prompt calls for a RICO investigation. Not of the Gambinos... of the FBI.
'Big Tony' Moscatiello, former advisor to crime boss John Gotti and star defendant in the gangland-style hit on Konstantinos 'Gus' Boulis...was an informant for the FBI at the time the crime was committed.
Assuming he's found guilty, we wonder: did he have to ask his FBI handler for permission to do the hit?
Or... was it an assignment?
Stay tuned.
http://www.madcowprod.com/index.html APRIL 06 2006--Venice,FL.
APRIL 06 2006--Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker
Confounding those who thought it impossible, the FBI’s already-tattered credibility was shredded still further last week with revelations of deliberately concealed evidence in the 9.11 investigation, as well as malfeasance in the probe of the execution-style slaying in Florida of SunCruz Casino Czar Gus Boulis, increasingly the focus of the investigation into disgraced Republican lobbyist-cum-bagman Jack Abramoff.
In a major development in the 9.11 investigation which passed almost-unnoticed, jurors in the death penalty trial of Zacharias Moussaoui heard testimony from aviation officials about a previously-undisclosed incident...
In February of 2001, almost two months after the FBI says Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi left Huffman Aviation in Venice Florida for the bright lights of Miami, the two men were still flying a single-engine plane registered to Venice Florida flight school Huffman Aviation.
Surprise surprise.
The story offers further confirmation of allegations in “Welcome to TERRORLAND" that the FBI systematically covered up evidence showing Atta using Huffman Aviation in Venice as his base of operations for the entire year before the 9.11 attack.
If the FBI’s chronology of events is a tissue of half-truths, distortions and outright lies, it is a very serious matter; the Bureau’s investigation was exclusively relied on by both the Congressional Intelligence Committee 9.11 probe and the 9.11 Commission, neither of which fielded independent investigators.
Moreover, the incident also contradicts sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee by Huffman Aviation’s Rudi Dekkers, who stated emphatically that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi left Huffman for the last time just after Christmas in 2000.
The cover-up lasts until we say different
The Clearwater incident began, jurors were told, after a police aide and night watchman noticed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi practicing takeoffs and landings at night, which is highly unusual, as the the tiny Clearwater airstrip is closed after dark.
A Clearwater aviation official testified the airport prohibited take-offs and landings after sunset. Planes landing after 9 p.m. were even supposed to be grounded until the next morning.
The disdain with which the two terrorist pilots treated American aviation regulations is already well-known, because of the now-famous incident in which Atta and Marwan walked away from a stalled plane and abandoned it in the middle of an active runway at Miami International Airport.
Dan Pursell, a former chief flight instructor at Huffman Aviation, testified that a Clearwater police aide at the tiny Clearwater Airpark called Huffman Aviation and left a voice message complaining that Atta and Marwan were breaking airport rules by taking off and landing after dark.
Pursell told the St. Petersburg Times, which first broke the story, that when they returned to Venice the next morning, he and another flight instructor at Huffman spoke with Atta and al-Shehhi about the Clearwater incident.
How really brief "really brief" can be
"Hey, we got a phone call, you've been identified in Clearwater," Pursell remembers telling Atta and al-Shehhi. "This is like, the last straw. If that happens again, we're going to have to look at this a little harder."
He called the exchange "really brief."
When we phoned Pursell to question him about why he hadn't brought to light sooner an incident he must have known had significance to the FBI's timeline, we found him to be a man of few words.
"I told the FBI all about it at the time," he told us. "They knew."
We asked the obvious question. "So why did they continue to lie about how much time Atta spent in Venice?"
Pursell said nothing. So "really brief" described our exchange as well.
Could government attorney Carla J. Martin’s improper tampering with witnesses, which briefly derailed the Moussaoui trial, have been designed to prevent just such disturbing new disclosures?
The answer, of course, as with so much else, is: "We may never know."
A sordid feat breaks a record in a state with a sordid past
In sworn testimony Rudi Dekkers insisted his relationship with the terrorist ringleader ended in December, nine months before the attack.
“On July 1st, 2000,” Dekkers told a Congressional Committee, “Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi arrived at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida to inquire about taking flying lessons. On July 3rd, 2000, Atta and Al-Shehhi came back to Huffman Aviation to sign up for lessons.”
“On December 24th, 2000, Atta and Al-Shehhi rented a Warrior from Huffman Aviation for a flight... one to two days later Atta and Al-Shehhi returned to Huffman Aviation to make final payments on their outstanding bills. Because they were not taking any more flying lessons, they were asked to leave the facility due to their bad attitudes and not being liked by staff and clients alike. Huffman never heard about or from them again until September 11th, 2001.”
Dekkers' testimony, which has clearly now been rendered "inoperative," also appears to open him to accusations of perjury. Or at least should...
One of the three alleged Mob hit men on trial for the murder of Florida Casino Czar Gus Boulis, which has increasingly become the focus of the probe into disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was an FBI informant at the time he is alleged to have been masterminding the murder plot.
The international heroin trafficking aspect of the 9.11 investigation has also gone unreported, except by the MadCowMorningNews, which has extensively covered the inconvenient discovery of 43 pounds of heroin aboard the Lear jet of the owner of Huffman Aviation during the same month Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al Shehhi arrived to attend his flight school.
As Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi began flying lessons at Huffman Aviation, in July of 2000, the school’s owner suffered a major embarrassment when his Lear jet was seized by DEA agents who found 43 pounds of heroin aboard.
Authorities called it the biggest seizure of heroin ever in central Florida, which, given the state’s sordid past, is no mean feat.
One stop shopping for all your last-minute criminal needs
One of the alleged hit men going on trial in Florida for the murder of gambling czar Gus Boulis, killed gangland-style after getting muscled out of SunCruz Casinos by Republican bagman Jack Abramoff, has been an informant for the FBI for more than a decade, including at the time when Boulis was killed.
The Miami Herald, which broke the story, said that at the same time New York mobster Anthony Moscatiello was allegedly plotting the slaying of gambling tycoon Boulis, he was spying on fellow gangsters and snitching to the FBI.
“Big Tony” Moscatiello, whose duties included ‘cooking’ the books for Mafia don John Gotti’s Howard Beach crew, was caught up in a major heroin prosecution which included then-acting Mob Boss Gene Gotti, John Gotti’s brother, as well as assorted other members of the Gambino Family.
He became a confidential informant for the Bureau after federal trafficking charges against him were mysteriously dropped in 1989.
The day after police announced arrests in SunCruz Casino founder Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis' murder, Adam Kidan, Jack Abramoff’s titular “President” of SunCruz, paid Big Tony a jailhouse visit at Rikers Island in New York City.
Um...a catering business at Rikers' Island? A donut shop in Sing Sing?
Adam Kidan is the only person outside “Big Tony” Moscatiello's family and attorneys allowed in to visit the alleged mob associate in his first weeks behind bars. What do you think they found to talk about?
In any other organization, this kind of developing pattern of illegality might prompt calls for a RICO investigation. Not of the Gambinos... of the FBI.
'Big Tony' Moscatiello, former advisor to crime boss John Gotti and star defendant in the gangland-style hit on Konstantinos 'Gus' Boulis...was an informant for the FBI at the time the crime was committed.
Assuming he's found guilty, we wonder: did he have to ask his FBI handler for permission to do the hit?
Or... was it an assignment?
Stay tuned.
THE INFAMOUS TERRORIST HOTEL on I-40 in Oklahoma: OK CITY BOMB meets the 9/11 boys?
Iraqis linked to Oklahoma atrocity
By James Langton in New York, for the Evening Standard
21 October 2002
The FBI is under pressure from the highest political levels in Washington to investigate suspected links between Iraq and the Oklahoma bombing.
Senior aides to US Attorney-General John Ashcroft have been given compelling evidence that former Iraqi soldiers were directly involved in the 1995 bombing that killed 185 people.
The methodically assembled dossier from Jayna Davis, a former investigative TV reporter, could destroy the official version that white supremacists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were solely responsible for what, at the time, was the worst act of terrorism on American soil.
Instead, there are serious concerns that a group of Arab men with links to Iraqi intelligence, Palestinian extremists and possibly al Qaeda, used McVeigh and Nichols as front men to blow up the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Davis, who was one of the first reporters on the scene after the blast, has spent seven years gathering evidence of a wider conspiracy. But it is only as America prepares to wage war on Iraq and Saddam Hussein that her conclusions are being taken seriously at the highest level. Finally, she says, the authorities are examining the idea "that the Oklahoma bombing might not simply be the work of two angry white men".
After hearing her evidence, several senior members of Congress have called for a new probe.
What triggered Davis's investigation was a report immediately after the Oklahoma explosion of Middle-Eastern looking men fleeing in a brown Chevrolet truck only minutes earlier. The FBI launched an international hunt for the men but later cancelled the search.
Within days McVeigh and Nichols were arrested, and the case seemed to be one of home-grown terrorists, motivated by a hatred for authority. But the case has always had loose ends. In particular, several witnesses in Oklahoma City that April morning saw a third conspirator with McVeigh. The elusive dark-haired suspect became known as "John Doe 2".
Terry Nichols, now serving life for conspiracy in the bombing and involuntary manslaughter, was the original "John Doe 1" but, with his arrest, the FBI claimed that the case had been wrapped up. They eventually concluded that "John Doe 2" was Nichols all along.
Davis thought otherwise. Early on, she found that a brown Chevrolet truck almost identical to that once hunted by the FBI had been seen parked outside the offices of a local property management company several days before the bombing.
The owner was a Palestinian with a criminal record and suspected ties to the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Later she found that the man had hired a number of former Iraqi soldiers.
He had recruited them to carry out maintenance on his rental properties, but several were later discovered to be missing from work on the day of the bombing. Eyewitnesses have told Davis that they saw several of them celebrating later that day.
But what increasingly drew her attention was another Iraqi living in Oklahoma City, a restaurant worker called Hussain Hashem Al Hussaini, whose photograph was almost a perfect match to the official sketch of "John Doe 2".
Al Hussaini has a tattoo on his upper left arm, indicating he was once a member of Saddam's elite Republican Guard.
Since then, Davis has gathered hundreds of court records and the sworn testimony of two dozen witnesses. Several claimed to have seen a man fitting Al Hussaini's description drinking with McVeigh in a motel bar four days before the bombing.
Others positively identified former Iraqi soldiers in the company of McVeigh and Nichols. Two swore that they had seen Al Hussaini only a block from the Murrah building in the hours before the bombing. With the case against McVeigh and Nichols seemingly watertight, the FBI has until now consistently refused to reopen it. McVeigh went to his death in the execution chamber two years ago, insisting he alone was responsible.
Davis thinks he may have done so out of loyalty to his family, not wishing to go down in history as a traitor to his country.
But she has evidence that up to 12,000 Iraqis were allowed into America after the Gulf war. Some of these, she suspects, are using their status as refugees for cover. "They are here," she said. "And they are highly trained and motivated."
The renewed interest in Washington is clearly linked to America's case against Saddam as broker of world terror.
And there is more. Al Hussaini, who entered the US from a Saudi refugee camp, worked after the Oklahoma bomb as a cook at Boston's Logan Airport - from where the two hijacked aircraft that hit the World Trade Center took off.
There is another confirmed incident that suggests something more sinister. Two of the 11 September conspirators held a crucial meeting at a motel in Oklahoma City in August 2001. The motel's owner has since identified them as ringleader Mohammed Atta and Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, who has known links with shoebomber Richard Reid.
The motel is unremarkable - except for one thing. It is where a number of Davis's witnesses are sure they saw McVeigh drinking and perhaps plotting with his Iraqi friends.
By James Langton in New York, for the Evening Standard
21 October 2002
The FBI is under pressure from the highest political levels in Washington to investigate suspected links between Iraq and the Oklahoma bombing.
Senior aides to US Attorney-General John Ashcroft have been given compelling evidence that former Iraqi soldiers were directly involved in the 1995 bombing that killed 185 people.
The methodically assembled dossier from Jayna Davis, a former investigative TV reporter, could destroy the official version that white supremacists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were solely responsible for what, at the time, was the worst act of terrorism on American soil.
Instead, there are serious concerns that a group of Arab men with links to Iraqi intelligence, Palestinian extremists and possibly al Qaeda, used McVeigh and Nichols as front men to blow up the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Davis, who was one of the first reporters on the scene after the blast, has spent seven years gathering evidence of a wider conspiracy. But it is only as America prepares to wage war on Iraq and Saddam Hussein that her conclusions are being taken seriously at the highest level. Finally, she says, the authorities are examining the idea "that the Oklahoma bombing might not simply be the work of two angry white men".
After hearing her evidence, several senior members of Congress have called for a new probe.
What triggered Davis's investigation was a report immediately after the Oklahoma explosion of Middle-Eastern looking men fleeing in a brown Chevrolet truck only minutes earlier. The FBI launched an international hunt for the men but later cancelled the search.
Within days McVeigh and Nichols were arrested, and the case seemed to be one of home-grown terrorists, motivated by a hatred for authority. But the case has always had loose ends. In particular, several witnesses in Oklahoma City that April morning saw a third conspirator with McVeigh. The elusive dark-haired suspect became known as "John Doe 2".
Terry Nichols, now serving life for conspiracy in the bombing and involuntary manslaughter, was the original "John Doe 1" but, with his arrest, the FBI claimed that the case had been wrapped up. They eventually concluded that "John Doe 2" was Nichols all along.
Davis thought otherwise. Early on, she found that a brown Chevrolet truck almost identical to that once hunted by the FBI had been seen parked outside the offices of a local property management company several days before the bombing.
The owner was a Palestinian with a criminal record and suspected ties to the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Later she found that the man had hired a number of former Iraqi soldiers.
He had recruited them to carry out maintenance on his rental properties, but several were later discovered to be missing from work on the day of the bombing. Eyewitnesses have told Davis that they saw several of them celebrating later that day.
But what increasingly drew her attention was another Iraqi living in Oklahoma City, a restaurant worker called Hussain Hashem Al Hussaini, whose photograph was almost a perfect match to the official sketch of "John Doe 2".
Al Hussaini has a tattoo on his upper left arm, indicating he was once a member of Saddam's elite Republican Guard.
Since then, Davis has gathered hundreds of court records and the sworn testimony of two dozen witnesses. Several claimed to have seen a man fitting Al Hussaini's description drinking with McVeigh in a motel bar four days before the bombing.
Others positively identified former Iraqi soldiers in the company of McVeigh and Nichols. Two swore that they had seen Al Hussaini only a block from the Murrah building in the hours before the bombing. With the case against McVeigh and Nichols seemingly watertight, the FBI has until now consistently refused to reopen it. McVeigh went to his death in the execution chamber two years ago, insisting he alone was responsible.
Davis thinks he may have done so out of loyalty to his family, not wishing to go down in history as a traitor to his country.
But she has evidence that up to 12,000 Iraqis were allowed into America after the Gulf war. Some of these, she suspects, are using their status as refugees for cover. "They are here," she said. "And they are highly trained and motivated."
The renewed interest in Washington is clearly linked to America's case against Saddam as broker of world terror.
And there is more. Al Hussaini, who entered the US from a Saudi refugee camp, worked after the Oklahoma bomb as a cook at Boston's Logan Airport - from where the two hijacked aircraft that hit the World Trade Center took off.
There is another confirmed incident that suggests something more sinister. Two of the 11 September conspirators held a crucial meeting at a motel in Oklahoma City in August 2001. The motel's owner has since identified them as ringleader Mohammed Atta and Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, who has known links with shoebomber Richard Reid.
The motel is unremarkable - except for one thing. It is where a number of Davis's witnesses are sure they saw McVeigh drinking and perhaps plotting with his Iraqi friends.
Denver US Marshall's Informant CARY GAGEN: OKCITY was False Flag Treason by FBI/BATF/NSC/NSA/DOD
http://www.patshannan.com/gagantwo.html
Don't forget Denver US Marshall's informant CARY GAGEN'S TESTIMONY ON WHO ACTUALLY DID THE OK CITY BOMB (hint: not the patsies making that little Anfo firecracker go boom in the Ryder truck)
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"MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND
CARY GAGAN'S CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
By Pat Shannan
From the Gagan deposition, we are able to piece together the following chronology of events leading up to and following the multiple explosions at the Murrah Building.
---1985-86 - Cary Gagan first becomes acquainted with "Omar" and "Ahmad." He passes the "trust" test by providing some fake I.D. and passports for the Middle Easterners. They work together for a time before Gagan goes to jail for eight years as a convicted felon.
---March of 1994 - Gagan begins a new relationship with Omar and Ahmad. He determines that they are associated with a Columbian drug ring.
---September 13, 1994 - Gagan accepts a $250,000 cash payment in exchange for his agreement to travel to Mexico City, take delivery of timers and detonators, and smuggle them back into the United States. He is told that the money had come from a Columbian bank, and he sees currency exchange reports verifying this fact.
---September 14, 1994 - Gagan is apprehensive about the potential ramifications and calls his lawyer. As a convicted felon, this could result in a life sentence for him. He decides to play both ends against the middle. If this turns out be terrorism against the United States, he could collect as much as eight times the original amount in reward money. His lawyer sets up the appointment and arranges the immunity for Gagan. The document bears the signed name of AUSA James R. Allison, under the authorization of United States Attorney Henry Solano. Gagan never sees either man and is presented the signed immunity agreement by FBI agents. He is not questioned about his details nor polygraphed for veracity.
---September '94 - March '95 - Gagan sends numerous messages by telephone and fax machine but neither the marshals nor FBI agents would get in contact. "Right after I was granted immunity, I notified the FBI that I was being asked to go to Mexico City, or Paraguay, or Brazil to meet an IRA terrorist on the run. He had perfected specific timers and detonators. The timer was specific and could be set for up to 30 days. I had asked the FBI for permission to go, and they never got back to me, so I went anyway. I met the person in Mexico City and brought back between 15 and 20 timers and detonators, returning through Nogales."
---January 14, 1995 - Gagan picks up a converted mail truck at the Metro Inn near Stapleton Airport and delivers its load containing approximately 50 duffel bags of chemicals, a Lely mixer, two boxes of Sandex marked "High Explosives" from a company in Las Vegas. He drives it across the city and parks at the Marriott West. After a thirty minute wait inside, as instructed, he emerges and sees the truck is gone.
---March 17, 1995 - Gagan meets with Omar, Ahmad, and a dapperly attired third man, "a dignified Latino, a banker type." In his motel room at the (Denver) Hilton Inn South, Gagan hears the three in an animated conversation, speaking in a foreign language. A set of blueprints compiled by one-time Murrah Building architects, J. W. Bateson & Co., is spread on the desk. It is Gagan's first indication of what the particular target is likely to be. He pays for the room with his credit card in order to preserve the record.
---March 27, 1995 - Gagan delivers documents (and obtains a signed receipt) to the U. S. Marshal Service at the courthouse in Denver indicating that the previous caveats he had issued of an impending attack on a federal building will definitely occur soon. He warns of the possible killing of judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers. They do not get back to him for details, as he specifically requests.
---April 2, 1995 - Gagan is worried that nothing is being done but assumes the FBI has infiltrated the gang and is silently prepared. He believes that they trust his information but not him to keep quiet, and this is the reason for their reticence. He bids his friends and family goodbye and flies to Las Vegas, saying he will be gone for "a long, long time." He stays with his brother who works at a hotel on Fremont Street.
---April 3, 1995 - One of his Middle Eastern contacts comes by the hotel and asks Gagan to accompany him to Kingman, Arizona the next day. Gagan alerts his brother to observe the man and remember the date.
---April 4, 1995 - Omar picks up Gagan in a brown 1981 Thunderbird, while his brother watches. They buy gas in Kingman at a Union 76 station, and Gagan keeps the receipt. They deliver a bundle of cash to "a blond-haired man." Gagan is not aware of the purpose. On the return trip to Las Vegas, Gagan asks Omar, "What's coming down?" Omar responds, "They're going to hit a federal building in two weeks or so." Gagan says, "Where? In Denver?" Omar replies, "Well, Denver or a city nearby." Gagan remembers the Murrah Building blueprints from the March 17th meeting and begins to mentally narrow it down. After separating from Omar back in Las Vegas, he decides to return to Denver.
---April 6, 1995 - Gagan enlists the aid of his friend, Bill Bayers, a Denver cab driver, to hand-deliver his final written warning to the U. S. Marshal's Service. (See Sidebar Box) Bayers receives the signature of Sharon Hoff at 9:00 a.m. Hoff happens to be the same U. S. Marshal to whom Gagan had delivered his March 27th warning, and he notes that the signatures match. Gagan's note says, "Call 832-4091 NOW!" Gagan is prepared to pinpoint Oklahoma City as the target. Although Gagan emphatically tells them of a plot to blow up a federal building within two weeks and that "if the information is false, charge me accordingly," no call is forthcoming.
---April 7, 1995 - A hand-delivered note is left with the apartment house manager where he was staying with a friend, directing Gagen to come to the law library on the 4th floor of the U. S. Courthouse. It is the first contact initiated by federal agents since Gagan gained his immunity nearly eight months earlier. "And I walk all the way to the back, and here's a dude sitting there, a big guy, blue Nike suit, and certainly not one of the terrorists I had been dealing with, and I had figured him for a federal agent. I said to him and these were my exact words, `Are you guys on this?' And he said, `Yeah, Gagan, we're on it. We need you to do something.' And I said, `Well, why haven't you contacted me?' He said, `Hey, we're on this!' The agent then tells Gagan that he needs to come back on April 10th and take a trailer to Dwight, Kansas. (Gagan says that the agent came to talk to him a couple of times since that day and that he can identify him.)
---April 10, 1995 - Gagan borrows a car from his friend, installs a temporary trailer hitch, and is off to Dwight, Kansas with the federal trailer in tow. While not certain of the total contents, since the trailer is padlocked, he can see a mixer and what appears to be chemicals by peeking through the crack in the door. He delivers it to a Mobil Service Station in Dwight in the middle of the night and returns to Denver. Dwight is thirty miles N.E. of Herrington, where Terry Nichols lived. It is about the same distance S. E. of Junction City, where Tim McVeigh allegedly rented the Ryder Truck. And it is about twenty miles from Geary State Park, where the prosecutors will say McVeigh and Nichols built the ANFO bomb, allegedly used to destroy the Murrah Building.
---April 13, 1995 - After being contacted one last time by the terrorists the previous day, Gagan drives to Oklahoma City to inspect a storage room on the fifth floor of the Murrah Building and report back as to the building's security. Carol Khalil works on that floor in the Agriculture Department and will be killed there on April 19th. Her former husband is a "shady" character known to Gagan as "K," whom he saw on occasion in the presence of Omar and Ahmad in Las Vegas. On the scene this day, he also recognizes "the pock-faced man" later identified by Jane Graham from news videos. Gagan spends the night at an airport motel and keeps the receipt. He returns to Denver the next day.
---April 14, 1995 - Tim McVeigh registers at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas under his real name, giving his actual driver's license number. OKC Fire Department Chief (of Operations) Gaines receives a telephone warning from the FBI and is put on alert. This is later denied by Gaines but confirmed by Chief of Dispatchers Harvey Weathers, who says, "I won't lie for anyone."
---April 17, 1995 - Someone 5'10" and a stocky 185 lbs. rents the Ryder truck in Junction City under the name of Robert Kling, an alias McVeigh had used in the past. However, McVeigh is a six-foot, two-inch beanpole.
---April 18, 1995 - Prosecutors charge in the indictment (later) that on this date . . ."at Geary Lake State Park in Kansas, McVEIGH and NICHOLS constructed an explosive truck bomb with barrels filled with a mixture of ammonium nitrate, fuel and other explosives placed in the cargo compartment of the rental truck." However, this count will not be pursued at trial.
---April 19, 1995 - At 9:02 a.m. the Murrah Building on Northwest 5th Street in Oklahoma City is blown apart from the inside outward. There are no flames in the building and no nitrate gas present, both of which are earmarks of an Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil explosion. Although no BATF agents were in their 9th floor offices, dozens are photographed on the ground before 9:15 a.m. One tells an acquaintance on the scene, "We had a message NOT to come in this morning." At 10:00 a.m., the rescue is postponed when two unexploded bombs are discovered in the debris. This is reported almost immediately by all local news channels but will never be mentioned after this day.
---August 11, 1995 - Denver TV Reporter faxes a copy of Gagan's April 6th handwritten "statement of warning" to the U. S. Attorney's office for comment.
---August 24, 1995 - U. S. Attorney's office faxes altered document to Media Bypass magazine reflecting a date of "April 1st" rather than the actual date of April 6th.
Cary Gagan is beaten and hospitalized later this evening.
Don't forget Denver US Marshall's informant CARY GAGEN'S TESTIMONY ON WHO ACTUALLY DID THE OK CITY BOMB (hint: not the patsies making that little Anfo firecracker go boom in the Ryder truck)
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"MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND
CARY GAGAN'S CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
By Pat Shannan
From the Gagan deposition, we are able to piece together the following chronology of events leading up to and following the multiple explosions at the Murrah Building.
---1985-86 - Cary Gagan first becomes acquainted with "Omar" and "Ahmad." He passes the "trust" test by providing some fake I.D. and passports for the Middle Easterners. They work together for a time before Gagan goes to jail for eight years as a convicted felon.
---March of 1994 - Gagan begins a new relationship with Omar and Ahmad. He determines that they are associated with a Columbian drug ring.
---September 13, 1994 - Gagan accepts a $250,000 cash payment in exchange for his agreement to travel to Mexico City, take delivery of timers and detonators, and smuggle them back into the United States. He is told that the money had come from a Columbian bank, and he sees currency exchange reports verifying this fact.
---September 14, 1994 - Gagan is apprehensive about the potential ramifications and calls his lawyer. As a convicted felon, this could result in a life sentence for him. He decides to play both ends against the middle. If this turns out be terrorism against the United States, he could collect as much as eight times the original amount in reward money. His lawyer sets up the appointment and arranges the immunity for Gagan. The document bears the signed name of AUSA James R. Allison, under the authorization of United States Attorney Henry Solano. Gagan never sees either man and is presented the signed immunity agreement by FBI agents. He is not questioned about his details nor polygraphed for veracity.
---September '94 - March '95 - Gagan sends numerous messages by telephone and fax machine but neither the marshals nor FBI agents would get in contact. "Right after I was granted immunity, I notified the FBI that I was being asked to go to Mexico City, or Paraguay, or Brazil to meet an IRA terrorist on the run. He had perfected specific timers and detonators. The timer was specific and could be set for up to 30 days. I had asked the FBI for permission to go, and they never got back to me, so I went anyway. I met the person in Mexico City and brought back between 15 and 20 timers and detonators, returning through Nogales."
---January 14, 1995 - Gagan picks up a converted mail truck at the Metro Inn near Stapleton Airport and delivers its load containing approximately 50 duffel bags of chemicals, a Lely mixer, two boxes of Sandex marked "High Explosives" from a company in Las Vegas. He drives it across the city and parks at the Marriott West. After a thirty minute wait inside, as instructed, he emerges and sees the truck is gone.
---March 17, 1995 - Gagan meets with Omar, Ahmad, and a dapperly attired third man, "a dignified Latino, a banker type." In his motel room at the (Denver) Hilton Inn South, Gagan hears the three in an animated conversation, speaking in a foreign language. A set of blueprints compiled by one-time Murrah Building architects, J. W. Bateson & Co., is spread on the desk. It is Gagan's first indication of what the particular target is likely to be. He pays for the room with his credit card in order to preserve the record.
---March 27, 1995 - Gagan delivers documents (and obtains a signed receipt) to the U. S. Marshal Service at the courthouse in Denver indicating that the previous caveats he had issued of an impending attack on a federal building will definitely occur soon. He warns of the possible killing of judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers. They do not get back to him for details, as he specifically requests.
---April 2, 1995 - Gagan is worried that nothing is being done but assumes the FBI has infiltrated the gang and is silently prepared. He believes that they trust his information but not him to keep quiet, and this is the reason for their reticence. He bids his friends and family goodbye and flies to Las Vegas, saying he will be gone for "a long, long time." He stays with his brother who works at a hotel on Fremont Street.
---April 3, 1995 - One of his Middle Eastern contacts comes by the hotel and asks Gagan to accompany him to Kingman, Arizona the next day. Gagan alerts his brother to observe the man and remember the date.
---April 4, 1995 - Omar picks up Gagan in a brown 1981 Thunderbird, while his brother watches. They buy gas in Kingman at a Union 76 station, and Gagan keeps the receipt. They deliver a bundle of cash to "a blond-haired man." Gagan is not aware of the purpose. On the return trip to Las Vegas, Gagan asks Omar, "What's coming down?" Omar responds, "They're going to hit a federal building in two weeks or so." Gagan says, "Where? In Denver?" Omar replies, "Well, Denver or a city nearby." Gagan remembers the Murrah Building blueprints from the March 17th meeting and begins to mentally narrow it down. After separating from Omar back in Las Vegas, he decides to return to Denver.
---April 6, 1995 - Gagan enlists the aid of his friend, Bill Bayers, a Denver cab driver, to hand-deliver his final written warning to the U. S. Marshal's Service. (See Sidebar Box) Bayers receives the signature of Sharon Hoff at 9:00 a.m. Hoff happens to be the same U. S. Marshal to whom Gagan had delivered his March 27th warning, and he notes that the signatures match. Gagan's note says, "Call 832-4091 NOW!" Gagan is prepared to pinpoint Oklahoma City as the target. Although Gagan emphatically tells them of a plot to blow up a federal building within two weeks and that "if the information is false, charge me accordingly," no call is forthcoming.
---April 7, 1995 - A hand-delivered note is left with the apartment house manager where he was staying with a friend, directing Gagen to come to the law library on the 4th floor of the U. S. Courthouse. It is the first contact initiated by federal agents since Gagan gained his immunity nearly eight months earlier. "And I walk all the way to the back, and here's a dude sitting there, a big guy, blue Nike suit, and certainly not one of the terrorists I had been dealing with, and I had figured him for a federal agent. I said to him and these were my exact words, `Are you guys on this?' And he said, `Yeah, Gagan, we're on it. We need you to do something.' And I said, `Well, why haven't you contacted me?' He said, `Hey, we're on this!' The agent then tells Gagan that he needs to come back on April 10th and take a trailer to Dwight, Kansas. (Gagan says that the agent came to talk to him a couple of times since that day and that he can identify him.)
---April 10, 1995 - Gagan borrows a car from his friend, installs a temporary trailer hitch, and is off to Dwight, Kansas with the federal trailer in tow. While not certain of the total contents, since the trailer is padlocked, he can see a mixer and what appears to be chemicals by peeking through the crack in the door. He delivers it to a Mobil Service Station in Dwight in the middle of the night and returns to Denver. Dwight is thirty miles N.E. of Herrington, where Terry Nichols lived. It is about the same distance S. E. of Junction City, where Tim McVeigh allegedly rented the Ryder Truck. And it is about twenty miles from Geary State Park, where the prosecutors will say McVeigh and Nichols built the ANFO bomb, allegedly used to destroy the Murrah Building.
---April 13, 1995 - After being contacted one last time by the terrorists the previous day, Gagan drives to Oklahoma City to inspect a storage room on the fifth floor of the Murrah Building and report back as to the building's security. Carol Khalil works on that floor in the Agriculture Department and will be killed there on April 19th. Her former husband is a "shady" character known to Gagan as "K," whom he saw on occasion in the presence of Omar and Ahmad in Las Vegas. On the scene this day, he also recognizes "the pock-faced man" later identified by Jane Graham from news videos. Gagan spends the night at an airport motel and keeps the receipt. He returns to Denver the next day.
---April 14, 1995 - Tim McVeigh registers at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas under his real name, giving his actual driver's license number. OKC Fire Department Chief (of Operations) Gaines receives a telephone warning from the FBI and is put on alert. This is later denied by Gaines but confirmed by Chief of Dispatchers Harvey Weathers, who says, "I won't lie for anyone."
---April 17, 1995 - Someone 5'10" and a stocky 185 lbs. rents the Ryder truck in Junction City under the name of Robert Kling, an alias McVeigh had used in the past. However, McVeigh is a six-foot, two-inch beanpole.
---April 18, 1995 - Prosecutors charge in the indictment (later) that on this date . . ."at Geary Lake State Park in Kansas, McVEIGH and NICHOLS constructed an explosive truck bomb with barrels filled with a mixture of ammonium nitrate, fuel and other explosives placed in the cargo compartment of the rental truck." However, this count will not be pursued at trial.
---April 19, 1995 - At 9:02 a.m. the Murrah Building on Northwest 5th Street in Oklahoma City is blown apart from the inside outward. There are no flames in the building and no nitrate gas present, both of which are earmarks of an Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil explosion. Although no BATF agents were in their 9th floor offices, dozens are photographed on the ground before 9:15 a.m. One tells an acquaintance on the scene, "We had a message NOT to come in this morning." At 10:00 a.m., the rescue is postponed when two unexploded bombs are discovered in the debris. This is reported almost immediately by all local news channels but will never be mentioned after this day.
---August 11, 1995 - Denver TV Reporter faxes a copy of Gagan's April 6th handwritten "statement of warning" to the U. S. Attorney's office for comment.
---August 24, 1995 - U. S. Attorney's office faxes altered document to Media Bypass magazine reflecting a date of "April 1st" rather than the actual date of April 6th.
Cary Gagan is beaten and hospitalized later this evening.
Dead D.C. interns, Chinese spying, and Brad "wonderboy" Garrett: FBI OBSTRUCTS JUSTICE
http://control-alt-delete.ca/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=8147&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Go to the above post at "conspiracy central index"....under my psuedonym "tommythebug" also used at "conspiracy cafe.net".
Find the tragic tale of three dead interns...links to Chinese spying...and the D.C. sniper Lee Malvo (the latest FBI right wing manchurian used to create hysteria in this bogus punk whore police state. Remember...with the chink spying...you can find a good pile of info from investigative reporter JOHN CAYLOR at his website INSIDER MAGAZINE, which covers the latest Karl Rove firing, and corruption in Jeb Bush's home state.
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http://www.konformist.com/911/chandra-joyce-mary.htm
CHANDRA, JOYCE AND MARY - R.I.P.
This is the story of three young women who went to the nation’s capital to learn about government. What they learned may have been the cause of their deaths. The three, Chandra Levy, Joyce Chiang and Mary Mahoney had interned in various departments of the executive branch of the federal government. As scandal after scandal swirled about them, they may have become privy to information that made them dangerous to powerful people. This article is about those scandals that likely ended up destroying the young women.
1) CHANDRA LEVY: Congressman Gary Condit's squeeze...body found in park among the weeds........
a) This writer, in several previous articles, has documented the odyssey of Chandra Levy ending with her job at the Bureau of Prisons. As a result of her duties there, the author believes she came into possession of knowledge on one or two subjects that made her dangerous to some in Washington D.C.
b) The subjects were Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing and the CIA/drug connection possibly through the controversy regarding the whereabouts of Carlos Lehder, cofounder of the Columbian drug cartel. Sometime after the articles were written, Chandra’s interest in those subjects was confirmed by no less a person than Gary Condit. He told a Newsweek reporter; "They talked about the upcoming executions of Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh and drug trafficker Juan Raul Garza. "She seemed to have a lot of interest in those two things," said Condit, "a lot more interest in them than I did."
2) JOYCE CHIANG: Ties to the "Clinton--Democrat--China--Walmart--Cash"......and Andy the German (NSC CIA provocateur at Elohim City) Strassmeyer used by FBI to do the infamous OK CITY BOMB FALSE FLAG TERRORISM:
a) The work and death of the second intern, Joyce Chiang, may very well also tie into the McVeigh and OKC bombing tragedy.
Joyce, a graduate of Smith College interned in the office of California Democrat Representative Howard Berman while a student. After graduation, she worked in his office while attending law school at Georgetown University. She became Berman’s expert on immigration law and later, in 1995, took a position as special assistant to the director of the Office of Congressional Relations at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
b) During Timothy McVeigh’s Denver trial, the immigration status of one Andreas Strassmeir became an issue. Strassmeir was a German citizen with counter intelligence experience in the German army who was active in the Elohim City compound of a white supremacist group outside of Oklahoma City. According to Carol Howe, a paid BATF informer, Strassmeir had been agitating for direct action against government buildings. Phone records showed that McVeigh had tried to contact Strassmeir at Elohim City a couple of weeks before the bombing.
c) After the bombing, the BATF notified the INS that it wanted to detain Strassmeir and he was put on the INS’s watch list. Also, the FBI and INS had scheduled a raid on Elohim City in February, two months before the bombing to apprehend Strassmeir for alleged weapons and immigration violations. The raid was abruptly canceled with no explanation to date. When Strassmeir turned up in Germany he was taken off the INS watch list.
d) The McVeigh’s defense team tried to introduce evidence of participation in the bombing conspiracy by Strassmeir and Dennis Mahon through the testimony of BATF informant Carol Howe. Special Prosecutor Beth Wilkinson flat out lied to Judge Richard Matsch. She told the judge that Strassmeir was "A mere wisp of the wind." She said Strassmeir’s only problem was that he might have overstayed his visa. She falsely stated that the letters "A" and "O" on Strassmeir’s immigration record stood for "admitted" and "overstayed" respectively. (See this author’s article "Levy/Condit Amazing Coincidences" for background on Wilkinson’s role in providing cover for intelligence agencies.)
e) Wilkinson also falsely told the judge that Carol Howe had been fired by the BATF as mentally unstable and untrustworthy. She falsified the date Howe left the service of the BATF.
Wilkinson’s lies were exposed during a trial of Carol Howe. The government had indicted her on weapons violation charges. Her BATF handler, Angela Finley had to admit that Howe was in possession of the weapons at the request of the BATF. She also confirmed that the BATF had given Howe a raise from $25 a day to $400 a day and sent her back into Elohim City for further undercover work after the date Wilkinson said she had been fired. Howe was easily acquitted.
The INS later corrected the record on Strassmeir’s immigration status showing that "A" stood for diplomatic passport and "O" for highly qualified. It was also discovered later that Strassmeir had applied for positions with the DEA and CIA.
Later, an appeals court judge gave only mild criticism to Judge Matsch for accepting the word of government prosecutors when contradicted by defense records. Matsch himself has an interesting background.
f) There were other discrepancies between the representations made by prosecutors about INS records that were the opposite of the truth. Space does not permit listing them.
As an expert on immigration law and department policies and procedures, it is quite likely that Joyce Chiang became aware of the government’s duplicity in the trial.
On January 9, 1999 Joyce Chiang disappeared after being dropped off by a friend about three blocks from her apartment with the intention of stopping at the nearby Starbucks coffee shop (a location that would also figure in the murder of Mary Mahoney).
Three months later her body was found in the Potomac River. The body was so badly decomposed that no cause of death could be determined. Because some of her clothing had been found near a bridge over the river, her death was ruled a suicide. Some of her friends doubt that verdict and her brother, Roger, to this day believes she was murdered.
3) MARY MAHONEY: Tied to "Clinton--Dems--Asian Pacific Campaign Money Scandal"...tied to the Starbucks murder of JOYCE CHIANG:
a) The murder of Mary Caitrin Mahoney and trial of her alleged killer, while probably not tied to the OKC bombing nevertheless involves an almost unbelievable cast of characters at a time large amounts of illegal campaign finance money were being raised and serious breaches of national security occurred.
Mahoney had landed an internship working in the office of the Secretary of Commerce, Norman Mineta (the Current Transportation Secretary) for Doris Matsui. Matsui is the wife of California Democrat Representative Robert Matsui. However, she had political connections of her own having served as a trustee of the California Economic Advisory Council with Public Official Executive Board members, Gray Davis, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.
Matsui worked closely with John Huang, with the title of deputy assistant to President Clinton. Together they raised over $3 million in campaign funds from Asia and Asian-Americans. $1.2 million had to be returned because it came from corporations and non-citizens.
It was in this time frame that Charlie Trie worked first in the Commerce Department and then transferred to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) but kept his high security clearance. Trie had been attending CIA briefings and then immediately went across the street to the Washington office of Jackson Stephens, the Arkansas broker who was a financial angel of Bill Clinton and placed phone calls to his Chinese handler in the Lippo Group in Indonesia.
b) Stephens was a partner with James Riady of the Lippo Group in the Worthen bank in Little Rock. The bank was alleged to have been involved in laundering CIA drug money. The bank (and Stephens) were involved (along with the Rose Law firm and partners Hillary Clinton, Web Hubbell and Vince Foster) in the takeover of First American in Washington D.C. by BCCI. Robert Bartlett, the then Editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal said he first starting keeping his eye on the Rose Law firm when he heard of its involvement with BCCI.
c) And there sat intern Mary Mahoney in the midst of all that activity. The Clinton’s had another reason to keep an eye on her. Mary was an open lesbian and aggressive supporter of gay rights. She had become something of a "den mother" for younger interns who claimed to have suffered sexual harassment at the hands of the president (not including Monica) She had been threatening to do something about it.
d) Mary also held a part time job as assistant cashier at the local Starbucks coffee shop. In July of 1997, she and two other employees were gunned down around closing time by what police claimed was a robbery although no money was taken. Mahoney was shot five times. One of the shots was to the back of her head gangland execution style.
In March of the following year, FBI agent Bradley Garrett arrested Carl Derek Cooper for the three murders. After 54 hours of questioning by Garrett and another agent, Cooper signed a confession that he immediately repudiated as soon as he got to court. Garrett is currently in charge of the Chandra Levy "missing persons" case and was the lead agent on the Vince Foster death determined to be a "suicide."
Judge Joyce Hens Green set a trial date for April 10, 1999. This is the point at which the cast of characters becomes bizarre starting with Judge Green who was first appointed as a federal judge by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
In the last year of President Reagan’s second term, Green was appointed to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to serve a non-renewable seven-year term. That court deals exclusively with national security and with international terrorism, and involves approving applications for electronic surveillance. Judges on that court require the highest security clearance available. In 1990, then President George Herbert Walker Bush appointed Green presiding judge of that court and she handled all emergency matters during the remaining five years of her term.
Judge Green also presided over the BCCI trial that had resulted from indictments obtained by New York Assistant District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. Morgenthau’s investigation was stopped when the FBI stepped in under the direction of Robert Meuller (currently the new FBI Director) and no further investigation ensued.
Judge Green approved plea bargains that resulted in BCCI forfeiting its assets in the United States. Two defendants had been indicted, Roger Altman and Clark Clifford an influential power broker in the Democrat party. The two men had accepted the two top spots in First American after the BCCI takeover but claimed they had no idea BCCI was involved in the nearly nine years they functioned in those capacities. Altman was acquitted and Clifford never stood trial because of ill health.
Back to the Cooper trial. Before the trial even started, a controversy arose when Janet Reno announced she was going to seek the death penalty for Cooper. D.C. officials were furious claiming Reno was overstepping her bounds. The district had never asked for the death penalty in any murder case.
Reno held a hearing on the matter. At that hearing, defense attorney William Martin (not connected with the Cooper case) urged Reno to ask for the death penalty. Yes, that’s the same Billy Martin who represented Monica Lewinski’s mother, Marcia Lewis, and currently represents Chandra Levy’s parents.
To complete the cast, Judge Green then appointed attorney Francis D. Carter to represent Cooper. Carter is the Frank Carter to whom Vernon Jordan took Monica Lewinski. Carter prepared the false affidavit for Monica’s signature which put her at risk for perjury when she later testified in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. Monica escaped prosecution when she was granted immunity my independent counsel Ken Starr.
With Carter as his defense counsel, Cooper was convicted despite a weak circumstantial evidence case. There were, of course, no eyewitnesses and Cooper’s fingerprints were not found at the murder scene. During his 54 hours of interrogation, Cooper had consistently denied the crime and volunteered several times to take a lie detector test. Most of the testimony against him was by FBI agent Garrett based on Garrett’s representation of what Cooper had said during the interrogation. The questioning was not recorded or videotaped although another agent took notes.
One wonders at the array of a high powered Washington judge with ties to the intelligence community and an attorney who barely escaped being disbarred (in another high profile case) in a case claimed to be a routine robbery murder case by a career criminal.
We may never know what information these women possessed that may have led to their demises. Certainly if they confided in any friends, it would take a tremendous act of courage for those friends to come forward given what happened to Chandra, Joyce and Mary. May they rest in peace.
4) FED JUDGE MATSCH'S DAUGHTER BETSY PUSHED INTO A HAWAIIN VOLCANO TO TAKE HIM OFF THE CIA DENVER S&L FRAUD CASE:
a) Judge Matsch was in military counter intelligence during the Korean "conflict." In 1987 he presided over the trial of four white supremacists who were convicted of assassinating radio talk show host Alan Berg. In 1992 his 24-year-old daughter, Betsy, died after accidentally falling into a steam vent at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. He obviously had no stomach for further involvement with white supremacists as he granted the prosecution’s motions to suppress the evidence without hesitation.
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tommythebug:
TAMPERING WITH JUDGES AND USING MAFIA TACTICS IS NOTHING NEW TO THE FBI AND GUTLESS PUNK PIGS IN THE SOUTH DAKOTA POLICE STATE FAGGOT FACTORY.
1) In Sioux Falls, South Dakota's 2nd Circuit Court system...an honest judge named PETER GREGORY rubberstamped Minnehaha County States Attorney DAVE NELSON'S bogus falsified warrant applications to seize the private conversations of THOMAS S. BEAN, a material witness who tried to tip off SFPD about the electronic detenators manufactured in Canistota, SD.
2) These detenators were used by the unindicted coconspirators to the false flag terrorist event known as OK CITY BOMB, a joint NSC/NSA/DOD/BATF/FBI black op.
3) Nelson's dubious warrant applications contained "material falsifications" from use of THE HAND OFF METHOD of LAUNDERING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM THE NSA TSP'S WARRANTLESS BUGS, PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS, GPS, AND WIRETAPS. AUSTIN FBI, AUSTIN PD, and Sioux Falls FBI all joined Nelson and SFPD in a "conspiracy to disseminate illegally obtained info" while misleading Judge Gregory.
4) I interviewed Minneapolis FBI cooperating witness, DR. MARK GORDON in St. Paul...and got him to admit the polygraph sessions on tape when Mark was drunk.
I then put the exculpatory info at "copwatch.com" so SFPD and MCSD could copy and give it to little pimp loving punk tough guy, DAVE "brady violation" NELSON.
5) Judge Gregory and Nelson finally found out that, "Minneapolis FBI had coerced an innocent medical doctor named MARK GORDON" INTO TAKING POLYGRAPH EXAMS after explaining the illegally seized phone call tapes included "Bean and Gordon repeating the dialogue from The Jerky Boys Comedy Album" [when "fictional character Uncle Freddy" was thought to have been killed by the plumber during Kissel and Anthony's phone call "about fixing my sink"].
6) Gordon passed the polygraph exams. Minneapolis FBI had exculpatory info. Sioux Falls FBI gutless punk faggots DAVE "fuckface" HELLER and DANNY "shithead" REYNALDS witheld the exculpatory info from the entire JOINT FEDERAL LOCAL TERRORISM TASK FORCE.
7) In a sheepish attempt at setting the record straight (according to the court reporter) NELSON finally told Judge Gregory....who was outraged.
NELSON and the punk fed faggots then....colluded to get dirt on Judge Gregory, to force him to "turn over his copy of the bogus affadavit" and keep his mouth shut.
8) GREGORY got stung...and resigned in a puddle of fear, tears, and disgust.
THE PUNK SD POLICE MAFIA OBSTRUCTED A MAJOR SCANDAL...............and little pimp loving, lying, gutless, punk whore, DAVE NELSON, is still walking and talking tall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota?!
9) NELSON has also enjoyed other SD Police Mafia conspiracies to Obstruct Justice:
--Obstructing my SD State Bar Ethics complaints naming Sample and Matchan (two of Dave Nelson's more corrupt little punk scum);
--Obstructing the famous CHARLES SMITH conspiracy TO DEPLOY TWO 15 YEAR OLD GIRLS AS JAIL BAIT AT THE RUSHMORE HOTEL so Hope Matchan could grandstand as the "protector of children" during her judicial campaign paid with money laundered funds from Sioux Falls' Mayor Dave Munson's conspiracy to steal 2.3 million bucks of tax payer money (as a cost overrun on a public works contract).
DONALD SETEN was the city planner who blew the whistle. SETEN was maliciously prosecuted by HOPE MATCHAN in a successful attempt at TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS in violation of Title 18 USC sections 241, 242, 1512, and 1513.
--Nelson helped cut up the stolen 2.3 million bucks;
--Nelson helped use illegally obtained info from a pin hole spy camera placed in DR. MARK GORDON'S HOME....used for a DUI bust;
Go to the above post at "conspiracy central index"....under my psuedonym "tommythebug" also used at "conspiracy cafe.net".
Find the tragic tale of three dead interns...links to Chinese spying...and the D.C. sniper Lee Malvo (the latest FBI right wing manchurian used to create hysteria in this bogus punk whore police state. Remember...with the chink spying...you can find a good pile of info from investigative reporter JOHN CAYLOR at his website INSIDER MAGAZINE, which covers the latest Karl Rove firing, and corruption in Jeb Bush's home state.
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http://www.konformist.com/911/chandra-joyce-mary.htm
CHANDRA, JOYCE AND MARY - R.I.P.
This is the story of three young women who went to the nation’s capital to learn about government. What they learned may have been the cause of their deaths. The three, Chandra Levy, Joyce Chiang and Mary Mahoney had interned in various departments of the executive branch of the federal government. As scandal after scandal swirled about them, they may have become privy to information that made them dangerous to powerful people. This article is about those scandals that likely ended up destroying the young women.
1) CHANDRA LEVY: Congressman Gary Condit's squeeze...body found in park among the weeds........
a) This writer, in several previous articles, has documented the odyssey of Chandra Levy ending with her job at the Bureau of Prisons. As a result of her duties there, the author believes she came into possession of knowledge on one or two subjects that made her dangerous to some in Washington D.C.
b) The subjects were Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing and the CIA/drug connection possibly through the controversy regarding the whereabouts of Carlos Lehder, cofounder of the Columbian drug cartel. Sometime after the articles were written, Chandra’s interest in those subjects was confirmed by no less a person than Gary Condit. He told a Newsweek reporter; "They talked about the upcoming executions of Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh and drug trafficker Juan Raul Garza. "She seemed to have a lot of interest in those two things," said Condit, "a lot more interest in them than I did."
2) JOYCE CHIANG: Ties to the "Clinton--Democrat--China--Walmart--Cash"......and Andy the German (NSC CIA provocateur at Elohim City) Strassmeyer used by FBI to do the infamous OK CITY BOMB FALSE FLAG TERRORISM:
a) The work and death of the second intern, Joyce Chiang, may very well also tie into the McVeigh and OKC bombing tragedy.
Joyce, a graduate of Smith College interned in the office of California Democrat Representative Howard Berman while a student. After graduation, she worked in his office while attending law school at Georgetown University. She became Berman’s expert on immigration law and later, in 1995, took a position as special assistant to the director of the Office of Congressional Relations at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
b) During Timothy McVeigh’s Denver trial, the immigration status of one Andreas Strassmeir became an issue. Strassmeir was a German citizen with counter intelligence experience in the German army who was active in the Elohim City compound of a white supremacist group outside of Oklahoma City. According to Carol Howe, a paid BATF informer, Strassmeir had been agitating for direct action against government buildings. Phone records showed that McVeigh had tried to contact Strassmeir at Elohim City a couple of weeks before the bombing.
c) After the bombing, the BATF notified the INS that it wanted to detain Strassmeir and he was put on the INS’s watch list. Also, the FBI and INS had scheduled a raid on Elohim City in February, two months before the bombing to apprehend Strassmeir for alleged weapons and immigration violations. The raid was abruptly canceled with no explanation to date. When Strassmeir turned up in Germany he was taken off the INS watch list.
d) The McVeigh’s defense team tried to introduce evidence of participation in the bombing conspiracy by Strassmeir and Dennis Mahon through the testimony of BATF informant Carol Howe. Special Prosecutor Beth Wilkinson flat out lied to Judge Richard Matsch. She told the judge that Strassmeir was "A mere wisp of the wind." She said Strassmeir’s only problem was that he might have overstayed his visa. She falsely stated that the letters "A" and "O" on Strassmeir’s immigration record stood for "admitted" and "overstayed" respectively. (See this author’s article "Levy/Condit Amazing Coincidences" for background on Wilkinson’s role in providing cover for intelligence agencies.)
e) Wilkinson also falsely told the judge that Carol Howe had been fired by the BATF as mentally unstable and untrustworthy. She falsified the date Howe left the service of the BATF.
Wilkinson’s lies were exposed during a trial of Carol Howe. The government had indicted her on weapons violation charges. Her BATF handler, Angela Finley had to admit that Howe was in possession of the weapons at the request of the BATF. She also confirmed that the BATF had given Howe a raise from $25 a day to $400 a day and sent her back into Elohim City for further undercover work after the date Wilkinson said she had been fired. Howe was easily acquitted.
The INS later corrected the record on Strassmeir’s immigration status showing that "A" stood for diplomatic passport and "O" for highly qualified. It was also discovered later that Strassmeir had applied for positions with the DEA and CIA.
Later, an appeals court judge gave only mild criticism to Judge Matsch for accepting the word of government prosecutors when contradicted by defense records. Matsch himself has an interesting background.
f) There were other discrepancies between the representations made by prosecutors about INS records that were the opposite of the truth. Space does not permit listing them.
As an expert on immigration law and department policies and procedures, it is quite likely that Joyce Chiang became aware of the government’s duplicity in the trial.
On January 9, 1999 Joyce Chiang disappeared after being dropped off by a friend about three blocks from her apartment with the intention of stopping at the nearby Starbucks coffee shop (a location that would also figure in the murder of Mary Mahoney).
Three months later her body was found in the Potomac River. The body was so badly decomposed that no cause of death could be determined. Because some of her clothing had been found near a bridge over the river, her death was ruled a suicide. Some of her friends doubt that verdict and her brother, Roger, to this day believes she was murdered.
3) MARY MAHONEY: Tied to "Clinton--Dems--Asian Pacific Campaign Money Scandal"...tied to the Starbucks murder of JOYCE CHIANG:
a) The murder of Mary Caitrin Mahoney and trial of her alleged killer, while probably not tied to the OKC bombing nevertheless involves an almost unbelievable cast of characters at a time large amounts of illegal campaign finance money were being raised and serious breaches of national security occurred.
Mahoney had landed an internship working in the office of the Secretary of Commerce, Norman Mineta (the Current Transportation Secretary) for Doris Matsui. Matsui is the wife of California Democrat Representative Robert Matsui. However, she had political connections of her own having served as a trustee of the California Economic Advisory Council with Public Official Executive Board members, Gray Davis, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.
Matsui worked closely with John Huang, with the title of deputy assistant to President Clinton. Together they raised over $3 million in campaign funds from Asia and Asian-Americans. $1.2 million had to be returned because it came from corporations and non-citizens.
It was in this time frame that Charlie Trie worked first in the Commerce Department and then transferred to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) but kept his high security clearance. Trie had been attending CIA briefings and then immediately went across the street to the Washington office of Jackson Stephens, the Arkansas broker who was a financial angel of Bill Clinton and placed phone calls to his Chinese handler in the Lippo Group in Indonesia.
b) Stephens was a partner with James Riady of the Lippo Group in the Worthen bank in Little Rock. The bank was alleged to have been involved in laundering CIA drug money. The bank (and Stephens) were involved (along with the Rose Law firm and partners Hillary Clinton, Web Hubbell and Vince Foster) in the takeover of First American in Washington D.C. by BCCI. Robert Bartlett, the then Editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal said he first starting keeping his eye on the Rose Law firm when he heard of its involvement with BCCI.
c) And there sat intern Mary Mahoney in the midst of all that activity. The Clinton’s had another reason to keep an eye on her. Mary was an open lesbian and aggressive supporter of gay rights. She had become something of a "den mother" for younger interns who claimed to have suffered sexual harassment at the hands of the president (not including Monica) She had been threatening to do something about it.
d) Mary also held a part time job as assistant cashier at the local Starbucks coffee shop. In July of 1997, she and two other employees were gunned down around closing time by what police claimed was a robbery although no money was taken. Mahoney was shot five times. One of the shots was to the back of her head gangland execution style.
In March of the following year, FBI agent Bradley Garrett arrested Carl Derek Cooper for the three murders. After 54 hours of questioning by Garrett and another agent, Cooper signed a confession that he immediately repudiated as soon as he got to court. Garrett is currently in charge of the Chandra Levy "missing persons" case and was the lead agent on the Vince Foster death determined to be a "suicide."
Judge Joyce Hens Green set a trial date for April 10, 1999. This is the point at which the cast of characters becomes bizarre starting with Judge Green who was first appointed as a federal judge by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
In the last year of President Reagan’s second term, Green was appointed to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to serve a non-renewable seven-year term. That court deals exclusively with national security and with international terrorism, and involves approving applications for electronic surveillance. Judges on that court require the highest security clearance available. In 1990, then President George Herbert Walker Bush appointed Green presiding judge of that court and she handled all emergency matters during the remaining five years of her term.
Judge Green also presided over the BCCI trial that had resulted from indictments obtained by New York Assistant District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. Morgenthau’s investigation was stopped when the FBI stepped in under the direction of Robert Meuller (currently the new FBI Director) and no further investigation ensued.
Judge Green approved plea bargains that resulted in BCCI forfeiting its assets in the United States. Two defendants had been indicted, Roger Altman and Clark Clifford an influential power broker in the Democrat party. The two men had accepted the two top spots in First American after the BCCI takeover but claimed they had no idea BCCI was involved in the nearly nine years they functioned in those capacities. Altman was acquitted and Clifford never stood trial because of ill health.
Back to the Cooper trial. Before the trial even started, a controversy arose when Janet Reno announced she was going to seek the death penalty for Cooper. D.C. officials were furious claiming Reno was overstepping her bounds. The district had never asked for the death penalty in any murder case.
Reno held a hearing on the matter. At that hearing, defense attorney William Martin (not connected with the Cooper case) urged Reno to ask for the death penalty. Yes, that’s the same Billy Martin who represented Monica Lewinski’s mother, Marcia Lewis, and currently represents Chandra Levy’s parents.
To complete the cast, Judge Green then appointed attorney Francis D. Carter to represent Cooper. Carter is the Frank Carter to whom Vernon Jordan took Monica Lewinski. Carter prepared the false affidavit for Monica’s signature which put her at risk for perjury when she later testified in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. Monica escaped prosecution when she was granted immunity my independent counsel Ken Starr.
With Carter as his defense counsel, Cooper was convicted despite a weak circumstantial evidence case. There were, of course, no eyewitnesses and Cooper’s fingerprints were not found at the murder scene. During his 54 hours of interrogation, Cooper had consistently denied the crime and volunteered several times to take a lie detector test. Most of the testimony against him was by FBI agent Garrett based on Garrett’s representation of what Cooper had said during the interrogation. The questioning was not recorded or videotaped although another agent took notes.
One wonders at the array of a high powered Washington judge with ties to the intelligence community and an attorney who barely escaped being disbarred (in another high profile case) in a case claimed to be a routine robbery murder case by a career criminal.
We may never know what information these women possessed that may have led to their demises. Certainly if they confided in any friends, it would take a tremendous act of courage for those friends to come forward given what happened to Chandra, Joyce and Mary. May they rest in peace.
4) FED JUDGE MATSCH'S DAUGHTER BETSY PUSHED INTO A HAWAIIN VOLCANO TO TAKE HIM OFF THE CIA DENVER S&L FRAUD CASE:
a) Judge Matsch was in military counter intelligence during the Korean "conflict." In 1987 he presided over the trial of four white supremacists who were convicted of assassinating radio talk show host Alan Berg. In 1992 his 24-year-old daughter, Betsy, died after accidentally falling into a steam vent at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. He obviously had no stomach for further involvement with white supremacists as he granted the prosecution’s motions to suppress the evidence without hesitation.
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tommythebug:
TAMPERING WITH JUDGES AND USING MAFIA TACTICS IS NOTHING NEW TO THE FBI AND GUTLESS PUNK PIGS IN THE SOUTH DAKOTA POLICE STATE FAGGOT FACTORY.
1) In Sioux Falls, South Dakota's 2nd Circuit Court system...an honest judge named PETER GREGORY rubberstamped Minnehaha County States Attorney DAVE NELSON'S bogus falsified warrant applications to seize the private conversations of THOMAS S. BEAN, a material witness who tried to tip off SFPD about the electronic detenators manufactured in Canistota, SD.
2) These detenators were used by the unindicted coconspirators to the false flag terrorist event known as OK CITY BOMB, a joint NSC/NSA/DOD/BATF/FBI black op.
3) Nelson's dubious warrant applications contained "material falsifications" from use of THE HAND OFF METHOD of LAUNDERING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM THE NSA TSP'S WARRANTLESS BUGS, PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS, GPS, AND WIRETAPS. AUSTIN FBI, AUSTIN PD, and Sioux Falls FBI all joined Nelson and SFPD in a "conspiracy to disseminate illegally obtained info" while misleading Judge Gregory.
4) I interviewed Minneapolis FBI cooperating witness, DR. MARK GORDON in St. Paul...and got him to admit the polygraph sessions on tape when Mark was drunk.
I then put the exculpatory info at "copwatch.com" so SFPD and MCSD could copy and give it to little pimp loving punk tough guy, DAVE "brady violation" NELSON.
5) Judge Gregory and Nelson finally found out that, "Minneapolis FBI had coerced an innocent medical doctor named MARK GORDON" INTO TAKING POLYGRAPH EXAMS after explaining the illegally seized phone call tapes included "Bean and Gordon repeating the dialogue from The Jerky Boys Comedy Album" [when "fictional character Uncle Freddy" was thought to have been killed by the plumber during Kissel and Anthony's phone call "about fixing my sink"].
6) Gordon passed the polygraph exams. Minneapolis FBI had exculpatory info. Sioux Falls FBI gutless punk faggots DAVE "fuckface" HELLER and DANNY "shithead" REYNALDS witheld the exculpatory info from the entire JOINT FEDERAL LOCAL TERRORISM TASK FORCE.
7) In a sheepish attempt at setting the record straight (according to the court reporter) NELSON finally told Judge Gregory....who was outraged.
NELSON and the punk fed faggots then....colluded to get dirt on Judge Gregory, to force him to "turn over his copy of the bogus affadavit" and keep his mouth shut.
8) GREGORY got stung...and resigned in a puddle of fear, tears, and disgust.
THE PUNK SD POLICE MAFIA OBSTRUCTED A MAJOR SCANDAL...............and little pimp loving, lying, gutless, punk whore, DAVE NELSON, is still walking and talking tall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota?!
9) NELSON has also enjoyed other SD Police Mafia conspiracies to Obstruct Justice:
--Obstructing my SD State Bar Ethics complaints naming Sample and Matchan (two of Dave Nelson's more corrupt little punk scum);
--Obstructing the famous CHARLES SMITH conspiracy TO DEPLOY TWO 15 YEAR OLD GIRLS AS JAIL BAIT AT THE RUSHMORE HOTEL so Hope Matchan could grandstand as the "protector of children" during her judicial campaign paid with money laundered funds from Sioux Falls' Mayor Dave Munson's conspiracy to steal 2.3 million bucks of tax payer money (as a cost overrun on a public works contract).
DONALD SETEN was the city planner who blew the whistle. SETEN was maliciously prosecuted by HOPE MATCHAN in a successful attempt at TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS in violation of Title 18 USC sections 241, 242, 1512, and 1513.
--Nelson helped cut up the stolen 2.3 million bucks;
--Nelson helped use illegally obtained info from a pin hole spy camera placed in DR. MARK GORDON'S HOME....used for a DUI bust;
UTAH FBI OBSTRUCTS attempted murder of Utah Lawyer
Utah Lawyer Hospitalized After Being Targeted by Homeland Security for Information Linking Five U.S. Supreme Court Justices With Bribery Over Bush v. Gore Decision
The head of a Chicago-based court reform group said the attorney, Paul Young, was targeted by 'American Gestapo Agents' posing as businessmen. Sherman Skolnick says he has been warned by a federal judge that he also is a target of a bogus Homeland Security probe that may land the 50-year 'judge busting' truth seeker in jail.
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/24-nov-2005.html
24 Nov 2005
By Greg Szymanski
A prominent Utah lawyer, working on an explosive Coca-Cola patent case appeal linking five U.S. Supreme Court justices with taking Coke bribe money in the Bush v. Gore decision, was hospitalized last week in Salt Lake City under suspicious circumstances.
Paul Young, a former law professor touted as a brilliant legal mind, was unexpectedly hospitalized with serious respiratory or pneumonia like conditions and remains in serious condition.
Unavailable for comment, Young told an associate this week who heads up a nationwide public interest court reform group that he immediately fell ill and was rushed to the hospital after being approached by two men in business suits who tricked him into inhaling toxic chemicals.
In what sounds like something out of a James Bond movie, Sherman H. Skolnick, the head of the Chicago based court reform group, told the Arctic Beacon Wednesday in an extended telephone conversation from his south side Chicago home:
I just got off the telephone with Paul and he could hardly talk, but he told me he was approached by two large Samoan-looking men in suits, saying they were businessmen. While making conversation, they handed him a ball point pen and as they walked away, they turned to Paul, saying strangely without a clear meaning youll be needing us.
When he clicked the pen, a substance was ejected and thats when he said he immediately fell ill.
Skolnick said Young also was notified that the two businessmen played the same potentially deadly trick on one of his female legal assistant�s, who is still missing and her condition unknown.
�These guys are playing for keeps now and it�s all apart of the attack on all of us because of the information we have in our possession regarding the Supreme Court judges and the Coca-Cola/Disney bribery money passing hands in the Bush v. Gore case, which installed George W. Bush as the current resident and occupant of the White House� said Skolnick, adding he was recently notified through credible sources that he and others in his court reform group have been specifically targeted by Homeland Security or what he calls the American Gestapo.
Skolnick said he was recently tipped-off by a Chicago federal judge, one of his numerous contacts made in his 50 year career of �judge busting,� that he, Young and others are smack dab in the middle of a �scam Bush administration probe� to put them behind bars for bogus homeland security violations.
�In my younger days, I would go right over to the court house and ask the judges if they were looking for me. But if they want me, they know where I�m at and will have to haul me out of the house. I�ve been told this attack on us stems from recent secret meetings of federal judges chaired in person or via teleconferencing by Antonin Scalia, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,� said Skolnick, who did not want to reveal the federal judge who tipped him off for his protection. �The judges asked for and received from George W. Bush, an order signed by proxy Karl Rove, designating certain persons linked to the court-reform group, as �domestic terrorists� during a �war emergency�.
�Because of this certain members of our Chicago-headquartered court-reform group face seizure of their properties, assets, goods, licenses, and records, and face the possibility of also being stripped of our citizenship and making us detainees without time limits and without trials and without right to consult attorneys.�
Skolnick claims the Bush administration is pulling out all the stops, as the attack on Young demonstrates, to use intimidation, life-threatening tactics and the Patriot Act to silence the group in an effort to protect the five high court judges from felony charges, stemming from their majority decision installing Bush as President in an illegal fashion.
The case, pinning the judges to the wall, is long and legally complicated but involves a federal copyright infringement case filed against Coca-Cola by a graphic designer named Robert E. Kolody, the man who Young represented in his appeal.
Skolnick, helping Kolody in his case, uncovered shenanigans by Kolody�s original attorney who admitted to Skolnick in the courthouse cafeteria that he permitted Coca Cola and their attorneys to spy on his client�s confidential legal strategies.
The accusations opened up a can of worms, as well as leading to other secret documents obtained by Kolody and the court reform group, showing not only that the 14 judge federal en banc panel assembled in Chicago unfairly and arbitrarily blocked Kolody�s appeal, but also that they blocked information that secret Coca-Cola and Disney funds were used, according to Skolnick, �to bribe and corrupt the five judge majority, spear-headed by Justice Anton Scalia, who installed Bush in the Oval Office.�
�Thereafter, to try to unblock the appeal, Kolody retained Young, the brilliant Utah lawyer who was unsuccessful in getting the appeal to proceed which would have obviously implicated the fourteen appeals judges in obstructions of justice to assist Scalia and four others on the High Court to hush up the Coke/Disney bribery in Bush vs. Gore,� said Skolnick.
�To put Paul Young out of action, first a prosecutor and judge in Utah framed up Paul Young on phony criminal charges. Now, they obviously attacked him and he is still in grave condition as I just finished talking with him from the hospital.
�This all comes from the information we have that the Bush v Gore decision was corruptly and arbitrarily procured through secret use of funds, obtained by book-cooking, from Coca-Cola and also Disney. It should also be mentioned that many of Coke's overseas offices are in great part proprietary operations of the American CIA.�.....".
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tommythebug: TELL US BIG, BAD, BOB MUELLER AT THE FBI CLOWN PUNK WHORE ACT...."uh..just how come the corporate fascist police state has criminal immunity" for OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND PATRIOT ACT MURDER ATTEMPTS....ya know, like the three south dakota murders, and ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A COERCED, COOPERATING, RELUCTANT INNOCENT MEDICAL DOCTOR NAMED MARK GORDON who was fried with a Directed Energy Weapon in his St. Paul apartment while cooperating with Minneapolis FBI swine?!
Big, Bad, Bob Mueller....is gonna get fired over this...ya know?
Mueller has already been in the press for "allegedly abusing the FBI Jet priviledges" and...that's how "former FBI Director Sessions got taken out"....right?
The head of a Chicago-based court reform group said the attorney, Paul Young, was targeted by 'American Gestapo Agents' posing as businessmen. Sherman Skolnick says he has been warned by a federal judge that he also is a target of a bogus Homeland Security probe that may land the 50-year 'judge busting' truth seeker in jail.
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/24-nov-2005.html
24 Nov 2005
By Greg Szymanski
A prominent Utah lawyer, working on an explosive Coca-Cola patent case appeal linking five U.S. Supreme Court justices with taking Coke bribe money in the Bush v. Gore decision, was hospitalized last week in Salt Lake City under suspicious circumstances.
Paul Young, a former law professor touted as a brilliant legal mind, was unexpectedly hospitalized with serious respiratory or pneumonia like conditions and remains in serious condition.
Unavailable for comment, Young told an associate this week who heads up a nationwide public interest court reform group that he immediately fell ill and was rushed to the hospital after being approached by two men in business suits who tricked him into inhaling toxic chemicals.
In what sounds like something out of a James Bond movie, Sherman H. Skolnick, the head of the Chicago based court reform group, told the Arctic Beacon Wednesday in an extended telephone conversation from his south side Chicago home:
I just got off the telephone with Paul and he could hardly talk, but he told me he was approached by two large Samoan-looking men in suits, saying they were businessmen. While making conversation, they handed him a ball point pen and as they walked away, they turned to Paul, saying strangely without a clear meaning youll be needing us.
When he clicked the pen, a substance was ejected and thats when he said he immediately fell ill.
Skolnick said Young also was notified that the two businessmen played the same potentially deadly trick on one of his female legal assistant�s, who is still missing and her condition unknown.
�These guys are playing for keeps now and it�s all apart of the attack on all of us because of the information we have in our possession regarding the Supreme Court judges and the Coca-Cola/Disney bribery money passing hands in the Bush v. Gore case, which installed George W. Bush as the current resident and occupant of the White House� said Skolnick, adding he was recently notified through credible sources that he and others in his court reform group have been specifically targeted by Homeland Security or what he calls the American Gestapo.
Skolnick said he was recently tipped-off by a Chicago federal judge, one of his numerous contacts made in his 50 year career of �judge busting,� that he, Young and others are smack dab in the middle of a �scam Bush administration probe� to put them behind bars for bogus homeland security violations.
�In my younger days, I would go right over to the court house and ask the judges if they were looking for me. But if they want me, they know where I�m at and will have to haul me out of the house. I�ve been told this attack on us stems from recent secret meetings of federal judges chaired in person or via teleconferencing by Antonin Scalia, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,� said Skolnick, who did not want to reveal the federal judge who tipped him off for his protection. �The judges asked for and received from George W. Bush, an order signed by proxy Karl Rove, designating certain persons linked to the court-reform group, as �domestic terrorists� during a �war emergency�.
�Because of this certain members of our Chicago-headquartered court-reform group face seizure of their properties, assets, goods, licenses, and records, and face the possibility of also being stripped of our citizenship and making us detainees without time limits and without trials and without right to consult attorneys.�
Skolnick claims the Bush administration is pulling out all the stops, as the attack on Young demonstrates, to use intimidation, life-threatening tactics and the Patriot Act to silence the group in an effort to protect the five high court judges from felony charges, stemming from their majority decision installing Bush as President in an illegal fashion.
The case, pinning the judges to the wall, is long and legally complicated but involves a federal copyright infringement case filed against Coca-Cola by a graphic designer named Robert E. Kolody, the man who Young represented in his appeal.
Skolnick, helping Kolody in his case, uncovered shenanigans by Kolody�s original attorney who admitted to Skolnick in the courthouse cafeteria that he permitted Coca Cola and their attorneys to spy on his client�s confidential legal strategies.
The accusations opened up a can of worms, as well as leading to other secret documents obtained by Kolody and the court reform group, showing not only that the 14 judge federal en banc panel assembled in Chicago unfairly and arbitrarily blocked Kolody�s appeal, but also that they blocked information that secret Coca-Cola and Disney funds were used, according to Skolnick, �to bribe and corrupt the five judge majority, spear-headed by Justice Anton Scalia, who installed Bush in the Oval Office.�
�Thereafter, to try to unblock the appeal, Kolody retained Young, the brilliant Utah lawyer who was unsuccessful in getting the appeal to proceed which would have obviously implicated the fourteen appeals judges in obstructions of justice to assist Scalia and four others on the High Court to hush up the Coke/Disney bribery in Bush vs. Gore,� said Skolnick.
�To put Paul Young out of action, first a prosecutor and judge in Utah framed up Paul Young on phony criminal charges. Now, they obviously attacked him and he is still in grave condition as I just finished talking with him from the hospital.
�This all comes from the information we have that the Bush v Gore decision was corruptly and arbitrarily procured through secret use of funds, obtained by book-cooking, from Coca-Cola and also Disney. It should also be mentioned that many of Coke's overseas offices are in great part proprietary operations of the American CIA.�.....".
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tommythebug: TELL US BIG, BAD, BOB MUELLER AT THE FBI CLOWN PUNK WHORE ACT...."uh..just how come the corporate fascist police state has criminal immunity" for OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND PATRIOT ACT MURDER ATTEMPTS....ya know, like the three south dakota murders, and ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A COERCED, COOPERATING, RELUCTANT INNOCENT MEDICAL DOCTOR NAMED MARK GORDON who was fried with a Directed Energy Weapon in his St. Paul apartment while cooperating with Minneapolis FBI swine?!
Big, Bad, Bob Mueller....is gonna get fired over this...ya know?
Mueller has already been in the press for "allegedly abusing the FBI Jet priviledges" and...that's how "former FBI Director Sessions got taken out"....right?
Corruption in Austin, Texas Justice land: DIRTY TEXAS MURDERS OF FOUR TEENAGE GIRLS.
A while back....I contacted Iowa Senator CHARLES GRASSLEY (who sits on THE US SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE with oversite on the miserable, faggot, gutless, lying, sociopathic, punk, treasonous, hotdog, idiot factory known as THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION). This memo included a ten page summary of the breadth and scope of The NSA TSP. Basically, NSA TSP is a rogue, felonious, vigalante lynch mob...that the FBI always aided, abetted, joined, and colluded with.
Grassley ignored the FBI crimes, and focused on my Memo detailing the corruption in Austin, Texas. Find this memo by going to "conspiracy central index" at....http://control-alt-delete.ca/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6506&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
This memo...got a response from Grassley, who....apparently did "not comment on the ten page memo" detailing the BREADTH AND SCOPE OF THE NSA TSP? DID GRASSLEY GET ALL OF HIS MAIL?
Mmmmmmmmmmm..........................one never knows. But someone...did flip on the NSA to avoid being held accountable for "joining the NSA's conspiracies to deprive civil liberties under color of authority". Remember...the FBI ALWAYS CHERRYPICKED THE ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM THE NSA TSP.
I KNOW....BECAUSE SIOUX FALLS FBI tried to work a murder case on me...when they sought to corroborate the murder of UNCLE FREDDY. This murder was discussed by me and Dr. Mark Gordon. My phone was illegally tapped by NSA....who gave the info to FBI. TOO BAD...."UNCLE FREDDY" is a fictional character from THE JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM.
SIOUX FALLS AND AUSTIN FBI also sought to corroborate the true and correct info from former Austin junkie GEORGE REYES who told me about the MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS OF JUNKIES. I put that info online at Austin IMC website. Seven days later....Mexican Mafia captain JOE SANTOS JR. was murdered in broad daylight. APD and Austin FBI always has and always will "monitor the social activists at Austin IMC website".
So...Austin FBI and APD got the affadavit online, and "sent it to their unindicted coconspirators known as The Mexican Mafia" who then "whacked out Santos Jr." to make sure the info and testimony did not lead to the Mexican Mafia heirarchy.
Grassley ignored the FBI crimes, and focused on my Memo detailing the corruption in Austin, Texas. Find this memo by going to "conspiracy central index" at....http://control-alt-delete.ca/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6506&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
This memo...got a response from Grassley, who....apparently did "not comment on the ten page memo" detailing the BREADTH AND SCOPE OF THE NSA TSP? DID GRASSLEY GET ALL OF HIS MAIL?
Mmmmmmmmmmm..........................one never knows. But someone...did flip on the NSA to avoid being held accountable for "joining the NSA's conspiracies to deprive civil liberties under color of authority". Remember...the FBI ALWAYS CHERRYPICKED THE ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM THE NSA TSP.
I KNOW....BECAUSE SIOUX FALLS FBI tried to work a murder case on me...when they sought to corroborate the murder of UNCLE FREDDY. This murder was discussed by me and Dr. Mark Gordon. My phone was illegally tapped by NSA....who gave the info to FBI. TOO BAD...."UNCLE FREDDY" is a fictional character from THE JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM.
SIOUX FALLS AND AUSTIN FBI also sought to corroborate the true and correct info from former Austin junkie GEORGE REYES who told me about the MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS OF JUNKIES. I put that info online at Austin IMC website. Seven days later....Mexican Mafia captain JOE SANTOS JR. was murdered in broad daylight. APD and Austin FBI always has and always will "monitor the social activists at Austin IMC website".
So...Austin FBI and APD got the affadavit online, and "sent it to their unindicted coconspirators known as The Mexican Mafia" who then "whacked out Santos Jr." to make sure the info and testimony did not lead to the Mexican Mafia heirarchy.
Class action on NSA and Verizon: I had a Verizon phone during my illegal surveillance stalking campaign
BellSouth, AT&T added to NSA lawsuit
Intelligence committees to be briefed before CIA confirmation
Wednesday, May 17, 2006; Posted: 4:06 a.m. EDT (08:06 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- BellSouth and AT&T were added to a class-action lawsuit against Verizon Communications that alleges the companies illegally participated in a National Security Agency domestic surveillance program.
The complaint, filed in Manhattan District Court, is asking that the companies pay $200 billion in fines to their 200 million subscribers.
Attorneys Carl Mayer and Bruce Afran said that since the lawsuit was filed Friday they have been overwhelmed with calls from people wanting to join the suit.
"They are violating federal law, which mandates a minimum penalty of $1,000 for every person whose records have been disclosed," Afran said, adding that many who have called his office are "outraged" by the government's and phone companies' actions.
USA Today last week reported that the three telecommunications giants provided the NSA records from billions of domestic phone calls after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Verizon and BellSouth have denied that they provided such information, leaving AT&T as the only company mentioned in the article that hasn't denied the claims. Verizon and BellSouth also denied that the NSA even asked them for the data.
Qwest Communications has issued a statement saying that it was asked to participate in the program but didn't because the program appeared to violate privacy laws.
USA Today reported that the NSA doesn't record or listen to conversations. Rather, the article said, the agency uses the data -- which include numbers, times and locations -- to find patterns that suggest terrorist activity.
That doesn't matter to Afran, who said the disclosure alone of phone records is a flagrant violation of privacy rights, and the phone companies need to be held accountable.
"We intend to make the phone companies understand the financial risks and exposure they have if they do not, No. 1, end this program and, No. 2, find a way to settle it," he said.
President Bush on Tuesday reiterated his assertion that the government is not listening to phone calls to or from ordinary Americans without a court order.
"What I've told the American people is we'll protect them against an al Qaeda attack," Bush said. "I've also been clear about the fact that we do not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval and this government will continue to guard the privacy of the American people.
"But if al Qaeda is calling into the United States, we want to know, and we want to know why."
Allegations that the telecommunications giants gave call records to the government come on the heels of a December story in The New York Times that revealed the government was eavesdropping without a warrant on some international calls made to or by Americans.
The Foreign Intelligence Security Act requires that the government obtain a court order from a secret FISA court to tap the phones of American citizens inside the country.
On Tuesday, the White House agreed to brief the Senate Intelligence Committee on the domestic wiretap program, the committee's chairman said.
In a prepared statement, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, added that the program will be a "central" topic of discussion in the deliberations over Gen. Michael Hayden's nomination to be the next CIA chief.
Hayden was NSA director when the surveillance program was authorized by President Bush in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
"It became apparent that in order to have a fully informed confirmation hearing, all members of my committee needed to know the full width and breadth of the president's program," Roberts said in a written statement. "This issue will be central to the committee's deliberations on Gen. Hayden's nomination and there was no way we could fulfill our collective constitutional responsibilities without that knowledge."
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Michigan, said his committee also will be briefed. Hoekstra called the program "a critical tool in keeping this country safe" and said he hopes the briefing will "put an end to the politics surrounding this issue."
Both committees are scheduled to be briefed Wednesday, the day before Hayden's confirmation hearing is to begin.
CNN's Cheryl Bronson and Pam Benson contributed to this report.
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tommythebug: ANYTHING THIS WHITE HOUSE SAYS...is a lie. They know....there is no oversite, and there will be no oversite.
I should know...I sent a memo to Senator Grassley detailing THE BREADTH AND SCOPE OF THE NSA TERRORIST SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM...and I wrote a 47 page US DOJ OIG Complaint sent to Denver and Dallas field agents VAN LANCKER AND MONTE CASSON.
This complaint was obstructed until...Senator Leahy confronted Glen Fine, the inspector general...who also "investigated my claim that THE SIOUX FALLS, MINNEAPOLIS, AUSTIN FBI ALL COLLUDED WITH THE NSA TSP TO USE, AID, ABET, AND OBSTRUCT
AN INVESTIGATION" INTO law enforcement using "The Hand Off Method" of laundering and using "illegally obtained info" from warrantless surveillance.
I was told, in hushed tones, by Denver IGO deputy that "....DOJ HQ moved my OIG complaint to Big Bad Bob "drug dealer" Mueller's FBI OPR where......it was reflexively round filed pursuant to Mueller's wish and orders.
I contacted big, bad, Bobby Mueller....at the FBI crime tip internet site...and...GOT NO COMMENT FROM FBI HQ.
FBI HQ then deployed Sioux Falls FBI counter intel robot SPECIAL AGENT STEVEN PLUTA to collude with the DOD under Dumsfield...to perform an illegal break in to my home while I was sleeping...so they goons could sedate me with a controlled substance, and perform surgery to insert an RFID mind control Verichip in my right nasopharyngial cavity near the ocular bone.
I sought a course of medical care to remove the chip..........and Sioux Falls FBI agent STEVEN PLUTA followed FBI HQ's orders to "tamper with my course of medical care" and "seized the x rays showing the chip using a bogus FISA warrant" in which "the FBI willfully mislead the bogus punk whore GOP stooge FISA Court who rubberstamped the affadavit that "wrongfully alleged that THOMAS S. BEAN was AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN POWER" (ONE OF THE CRUCIAL DISPOSITIVE ELEMENTS OF A FISA COURT SURVEILLANCE ORDER).
OF COURSE...THE US SENATE DEMOCRATS ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE DON'T HAVE A CLUE...HAVE BEEN CONTACTED...DON'T PROTECT WITNESSES WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN TORTURED AND POISENED AND STALKED...............AND...............THE DEMS DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT THE FBI AND NSA ROUTINELY MISDIRECTS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO CUT ME OFF FROM AIDING A SENATE CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY?!
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE....SEND THIS INFO TO THE DEMOCRATIC MORON PUNK CLOWN PARTY OF WEAKLINGS, PANSIES, AND NAIVE LITTLE BOYSCOUT IDIOTS..........who cannot figure their way out of a paper bag unless you shove there fat head into the opening of the bag?
Intelligence committees to be briefed before CIA confirmation
Wednesday, May 17, 2006; Posted: 4:06 a.m. EDT (08:06 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- BellSouth and AT&T were added to a class-action lawsuit against Verizon Communications that alleges the companies illegally participated in a National Security Agency domestic surveillance program.
The complaint, filed in Manhattan District Court, is asking that the companies pay $200 billion in fines to their 200 million subscribers.
Attorneys Carl Mayer and Bruce Afran said that since the lawsuit was filed Friday they have been overwhelmed with calls from people wanting to join the suit.
"They are violating federal law, which mandates a minimum penalty of $1,000 for every person whose records have been disclosed," Afran said, adding that many who have called his office are "outraged" by the government's and phone companies' actions.
USA Today last week reported that the three telecommunications giants provided the NSA records from billions of domestic phone calls after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Verizon and BellSouth have denied that they provided such information, leaving AT&T as the only company mentioned in the article that hasn't denied the claims. Verizon and BellSouth also denied that the NSA even asked them for the data.
Qwest Communications has issued a statement saying that it was asked to participate in the program but didn't because the program appeared to violate privacy laws.
USA Today reported that the NSA doesn't record or listen to conversations. Rather, the article said, the agency uses the data -- which include numbers, times and locations -- to find patterns that suggest terrorist activity.
That doesn't matter to Afran, who said the disclosure alone of phone records is a flagrant violation of privacy rights, and the phone companies need to be held accountable.
"We intend to make the phone companies understand the financial risks and exposure they have if they do not, No. 1, end this program and, No. 2, find a way to settle it," he said.
President Bush on Tuesday reiterated his assertion that the government is not listening to phone calls to or from ordinary Americans without a court order.
"What I've told the American people is we'll protect them against an al Qaeda attack," Bush said. "I've also been clear about the fact that we do not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval and this government will continue to guard the privacy of the American people.
"But if al Qaeda is calling into the United States, we want to know, and we want to know why."
Allegations that the telecommunications giants gave call records to the government come on the heels of a December story in The New York Times that revealed the government was eavesdropping without a warrant on some international calls made to or by Americans.
The Foreign Intelligence Security Act requires that the government obtain a court order from a secret FISA court to tap the phones of American citizens inside the country.
On Tuesday, the White House agreed to brief the Senate Intelligence Committee on the domestic wiretap program, the committee's chairman said.
In a prepared statement, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, added that the program will be a "central" topic of discussion in the deliberations over Gen. Michael Hayden's nomination to be the next CIA chief.
Hayden was NSA director when the surveillance program was authorized by President Bush in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
"It became apparent that in order to have a fully informed confirmation hearing, all members of my committee needed to know the full width and breadth of the president's program," Roberts said in a written statement. "This issue will be central to the committee's deliberations on Gen. Hayden's nomination and there was no way we could fulfill our collective constitutional responsibilities without that knowledge."
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Michigan, said his committee also will be briefed. Hoekstra called the program "a critical tool in keeping this country safe" and said he hopes the briefing will "put an end to the politics surrounding this issue."
Both committees are scheduled to be briefed Wednesday, the day before Hayden's confirmation hearing is to begin.
CNN's Cheryl Bronson and Pam Benson contributed to this report.
________________________________________
tommythebug: ANYTHING THIS WHITE HOUSE SAYS...is a lie. They know....there is no oversite, and there will be no oversite.
I should know...I sent a memo to Senator Grassley detailing THE BREADTH AND SCOPE OF THE NSA TERRORIST SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM...and I wrote a 47 page US DOJ OIG Complaint sent to Denver and Dallas field agents VAN LANCKER AND MONTE CASSON.
This complaint was obstructed until...Senator Leahy confronted Glen Fine, the inspector general...who also "investigated my claim that THE SIOUX FALLS, MINNEAPOLIS, AUSTIN FBI ALL COLLUDED WITH THE NSA TSP TO USE, AID, ABET, AND OBSTRUCT
AN INVESTIGATION" INTO law enforcement using "The Hand Off Method" of laundering and using "illegally obtained info" from warrantless surveillance.
I was told, in hushed tones, by Denver IGO deputy that "....DOJ HQ moved my OIG complaint to Big Bad Bob "drug dealer" Mueller's FBI OPR where......it was reflexively round filed pursuant to Mueller's wish and orders.
I contacted big, bad, Bobby Mueller....at the FBI crime tip internet site...and...GOT NO COMMENT FROM FBI HQ.
FBI HQ then deployed Sioux Falls FBI counter intel robot SPECIAL AGENT STEVEN PLUTA to collude with the DOD under Dumsfield...to perform an illegal break in to my home while I was sleeping...so they goons could sedate me with a controlled substance, and perform surgery to insert an RFID mind control Verichip in my right nasopharyngial cavity near the ocular bone.
I sought a course of medical care to remove the chip..........and Sioux Falls FBI agent STEVEN PLUTA followed FBI HQ's orders to "tamper with my course of medical care" and "seized the x rays showing the chip using a bogus FISA warrant" in which "the FBI willfully mislead the bogus punk whore GOP stooge FISA Court who rubberstamped the affadavit that "wrongfully alleged that THOMAS S. BEAN was AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN POWER" (ONE OF THE CRUCIAL DISPOSITIVE ELEMENTS OF A FISA COURT SURVEILLANCE ORDER).
OF COURSE...THE US SENATE DEMOCRATS ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE DON'T HAVE A CLUE...HAVE BEEN CONTACTED...DON'T PROTECT WITNESSES WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN TORTURED AND POISENED AND STALKED...............AND...............THE DEMS DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT THE FBI AND NSA ROUTINELY MISDIRECTS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO CUT ME OFF FROM AIDING A SENATE CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY?!
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE....SEND THIS INFO TO THE DEMOCRATIC MORON PUNK CLOWN PARTY OF WEAKLINGS, PANSIES, AND NAIVE LITTLE BOYSCOUT IDIOTS..........who cannot figure their way out of a paper bag unless you shove there fat head into the opening of the bag?
Monday, September 24, 2007
ALABAMA US ATTORNEY murdered, other Mind Controlled to cover up fed crimes
http://www.insider-magazine.com/DeadUSattysOrig.html
WHITE HOUSE EXECUTES ANOTHER DEADLY CAMPAIGN AGAINST PROSECUTORS
EXCLUSIVE: Published September 24, 2007
By John Caylor and Indira Singh
editor@insider-magazine.com
Two Days after Alabama Republican party attorney Jill Simpson testified behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee investigating Karl Rove and the President of the United States of plotting criminal prosecutions against political foes, Two United States Attorneys linked as witnesses in the corruption probe and quite possibly working on the same “Aztec Environmental” case implicating the President and his brother Jeb Bush are compromised – One Dead – One apparently framed.
Michael Edward Runyon, 54, Tampa, Florida was found dead of a gunshot wound “termed a suicide” at 6:AM, Monday September 17, 2007 on the back patio of his Valrico, Fl. home outside Tampa where he was Assistant United States Attorney since 1991 and headed a multi-agency securities fraud task force.
Runyon’s death was not reported in the local media until several days later on Friday September 21, 2007.
Runyon’s death would have been on the front page of any other major metropolitan newspaper due to his work on internationally famous criminal and complex money laundering cases, had it not been for apparent White House intervention.
Runyon prosecuted some of the largest securities fraud cases and other financial/racketeering crimes that involved not only the BUSH Family, but also included the very intricate REFCO (Swiss/Austrian royalty) swindle, which has connections to WALLY HILLARD of 9/11 infamy, and very tight connections to a PRIVATE LOAN SEEKER in Chicago, MOHAMMED HUSSEIN MIRZA who was closely connected with the people indicted for the REFCO swindle. [INFO ON WALLY HILLIARD GO TO "MAD COW MORNING NEWS" to see connects to 9/11, 43 lbs of Heroin, and ATTA]
Internet and public records about Runyon started disappearing shortly after discovery of his dead body. Click for the Refco link
http://www.insider-magazine.com/RefcoProbe/RunyonREFCOcase.html
In August 2002, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau personally thanked Runyon for his involvement in the famous Evergreen Security fraud case. Runyon who was deeply involved in criminal cases at the United States Attorneys office in Tampa was quite possibly involved in the complex Aztec Environmental – Big Wheel Recycling case along with federal prosecutor Roy Atchison of Pensacola, Florida who was recently arrested in Detroit allegedly seeking sex with a 5-year old child.
Both United States Attorneys were offed the same day - one with a gun - the other with sexually graphic and horrific allegations of pedophile against a child. Fox network News was the first media organization to promote Atchison's almost unbelievable arrest and over-told media circus story. [This is how the NSA Mind Control program works: You can subliminally program any witness to commit any deviant sex act]
Atchison's name is on all the United States District Court paperwork in the Aztec - Big Wheel case which has long and documented tentacles from Tampa reaching President George Bush, his brother Jeb Bush and the Washington law firm of Greenburg Taurig which arranged for a federally seized "Florida construction debris landfill reported to be an organized crime burial ground" to be ushered back into the hands of criminals it was seized from.
Insider-magazine.com has extensive first hand knowledge of the case and if Atchison were subpoenaed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee he could bring down the President and his bosses at Justice starting with his immediate supervisor Len Register who put Ted Bundy in the electric chair and U.S. Attorney Greg Miller who kept his job by closing the criminal investigation of Aztec and turning it into a civil debarment proceeding which reportedly cost the company almost $5 Billion in lost revenues.
The actions of Miller shown above gained the attention of the Washington Post this year when the Post reported that Miller's name came up on Karl Rove's U.S. Attorney firings list.
Miller has repeatedly refused from May 2005 to be interviewed by Insider-Magazine.com on his actions in the Aztec case. In July 2005 Miller instructed Roy Atchison's supervisor Assistant United States Attorney Len Register to respond to Insider-Magazine.com on the Aztec case and the allegations the White House had ordered the criminal case closed.
Register shown above has denied allegations that President Bush was involved in the decision to halt criminal proceedings in the Aztec case and proceed in civil disbarment. Register claimed personal responsibility for the act and stated the decision was appropriate based upon the evidence in a late night 45 minute telephone discussion with insider -Magazine.com editor John Caylor.
Federal law enforcement investigative documents obtained by Insider-Magazine.com contradict Register's statements and further, federal criminal investigators have repeatedly requested to no avail permission from their superiors to dig up the Bay County, Florida landfill which not long ago belonged to (GAC) Gulf Asphalt Contractors owned by Charles L. Hilton a top Republican fundraiser and his partner Alan Bense former Speaker of the Florida House.
Hilton and Bense sold the construction debris landfill to Big Wheel Recycling of Alabama and afterward the Alabama group was convicted in federal court of racketeering/money laundering charges resulting in the forfeiture. Gulf Aspahlt Contractors owned by Hilton and Bense have retained a continuing deeded interest in the landfill.
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) a Washington, D.C. based non-profit group has sought to have the United States EPA declare the landfill a Toxic Waste Clean-Up Site due to documentation showing the landfill is highly toxic and poses a threat to the environment.
Atchison's arrest brings back memories of the Nixon White House when it reached out to burglarize the offices of Pentagon Papers author Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist to seek information to discredit the whistle-blower. Apparently, Atchison had a "secret fetish" and was a member of a group of sexually deviated adults who engage in Internet IM's with each other and have sex in baby diapers.
The group is known internationally as the "Adult Baby Diaper Lovers" persons who are prone to this behavior are not pedophiles and do not engage in sex with children according to experts in the field. Perhaps the most telling part of the FBI over-kill story against Atchison is the part about him caring for the child - changing- The Key Word is CHANGING Diapers.
From published news reports and indictments concerning Atchison he was apparently lured into an Internet chat and roped-a-doped into the sting and at no time did he approach anyone in Detroit about sex with a child. According to published reports he was arrested as he stepped off the airplane and the question looms as to why the FBI didn't complete the sting and let him contact the bogus woman who was going to let him have sex with her child?
"No self respecting law enforcement agency investigating crimes as heinous as pedophilia would be so incompetent as to ensnare commonplace adult fetishists by deliberately mistaking, distorting and criminally charging an adult with a harmless fetish between consenting adults into pedophilia. Adult fetishists act out their fetishes, seeking consenting adults, quite openly on the Internet and otherwise. What was the law enforcement agency involved here intent on doing? Were they suckered(unwittingly or not) into creating a smokescreen to forestall revelations of investigations into crimes that could "bring down the House"? Was this yet another malicious witch hunt the kind of which we expect of Karl Rove's of the world?
The language and codes on the Myspace website purported to be that of Federal prosecutor Roy Atchison clearly indicate - to any self-respecting sex crime investigator -the site of an adult male who seeks to indulge in age-playing fetishes of "Adult Baby Diaper Lovers". . Technically known as infantilism or paraphilic infantilism, the "Adult Baby" desires to become--and indulges in the role-playing of--an infant or young child.
Not only do they dress and act like a baby, Adult Babies usually have a "mother" or "father" (and sometimes a teenage babysitter) to take care of them. The parent does everything for his/her baby that a parent of a "normal" baby would do--and yes, that includes changing diapers.
Clearly the exchanges between two AB/DL's can be misconstrued as pedophilia. In the case of a law enforcement agency, it is inconceivable they would misconstrue such, to the point a prima facie case could be made for conspiracy to perpetrate a professional hit. In the United States, there is a division among therapists as to the status of this particular fetish - some say age-playing is harmless, others say the underlying issues should be treated.
If Roy Atchison is indeed guilty of being an adult fetishist, he likely has to answer to his family and not the rest of the world. Though we may disdain mightily of such acts, it is none of our business.
That a law enforcement agency might have conducted a recklessly ignorant and malicious investigation and charged an innocent man with pedophilia - splashing it as recklessly in the news - instead of knowing how to track down real pedophiles - is a matter not only for the highest law enforcement scrutiny, but for parents of missing and exploited children everywhere.
It is likely criminally negligent of investigators who (one would hope)know what they are doing, to deliberately ensnare an adult involved with "age-playing" acts with another adult with the act of pedophilia. It is a disservice to small children who are actually being raped and killed.
Most notorious of all are the heinous acts - the torture and murder of young girls across the border from El Paso in Cuidad Juarez' House of Death - where investigators' links back to high political elements in Mexico and the USA have been constantly stymied, most recently by U S Attorney for the Western District of Texas, Johnny Sutton, a George Bush appointee. The most disturbing reports from one particular investigator - who has been threatened with death - involve "the juniors" in Mexico and the USA.
In the Atchison case the FBI has promoted a media circus releasing graphically-sexual and inflamatory content that smells of "smear campaign" the documents from the Aztec case give important clues to their motive and intent.
Organized Crime Ties to Middle East
The “Aztec – Big Wheel” case involved a now defunct and recently debarred multi-state waste firm based in Panama City, Florida which had U.S. government contracts for abatement and disposal of deadly asbestos from military installations.
The officers of the firm included Florida’s top Republicans Randall McElheney and William Harrison, Jr.
Among criminal acts the government accused the firm of smuggling illegal aliens onto top-secret U.S. Air Force bases with nuclear weapons, in particular McDill AFB at Tampa and Hurlburt Field a top-secret black-ops base in the Florida panhandle.
Former employees interviewed by federal agents and Insider-Magazine.com told a story of how Aztec president Jimmy Livingston reportedly made trips to Honduras and other Central American countries to smuggle illegal aliens into the United States.
The employees stated “Mexicans and possibly some Pakistanis with Spanish surnames and passports” were forced to work without required protective gear on government contracts in the disposal of asbestos and other toxic wastes.
They reported the suspected Pakistanis were the first to quit work and leave for unknown destinations once smuggled onto top-secret military bases.
In February 2004 U.S. Homeland Security, FBI, EPA and U.S. Customs ICE raided the firms office and seized records after it suspected Al-Qaeda operatives were being smuggled onto the bases.
United States government investigative reports obtained by Insider-Magazine.com with the help of the (PEER) The National Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and other records detail how illegal aliens were smuggled onto military bases – and then Florida Governor Jeb Bush was accepting bribes and political donations giving protection for the firms criminal activities.
Both federal prosecutors apparently stepped into an explosive and deadly political case in the forfeiture of the Aztec-Big Wheel case and it remains to be seen how the true facts will play out in the days and weeks to come as Insider-Magazine.com investigates and uncovers the events surrounding Roy Atchison's arrest and the death of Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Runyon.
TO BE CONTINUED: STORY IN PROGRESS
WHITE HOUSE EXECUTES ANOTHER DEADLY CAMPAIGN AGAINST PROSECUTORS
EXCLUSIVE: Published September 24, 2007
By John Caylor and Indira Singh
editor@insider-magazine.com
Two Days after Alabama Republican party attorney Jill Simpson testified behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee investigating Karl Rove and the President of the United States of plotting criminal prosecutions against political foes, Two United States Attorneys linked as witnesses in the corruption probe and quite possibly working on the same “Aztec Environmental” case implicating the President and his brother Jeb Bush are compromised – One Dead – One apparently framed.
Michael Edward Runyon, 54, Tampa, Florida was found dead of a gunshot wound “termed a suicide” at 6:AM, Monday September 17, 2007 on the back patio of his Valrico, Fl. home outside Tampa where he was Assistant United States Attorney since 1991 and headed a multi-agency securities fraud task force.
Runyon’s death was not reported in the local media until several days later on Friday September 21, 2007.
Runyon’s death would have been on the front page of any other major metropolitan newspaper due to his work on internationally famous criminal and complex money laundering cases, had it not been for apparent White House intervention.
Runyon prosecuted some of the largest securities fraud cases and other financial/racketeering crimes that involved not only the BUSH Family, but also included the very intricate REFCO (Swiss/Austrian royalty) swindle, which has connections to WALLY HILLARD of 9/11 infamy, and very tight connections to a PRIVATE LOAN SEEKER in Chicago, MOHAMMED HUSSEIN MIRZA who was closely connected with the people indicted for the REFCO swindle. [INFO ON WALLY HILLIARD GO TO "MAD COW MORNING NEWS" to see connects to 9/11, 43 lbs of Heroin, and ATTA]
Internet and public records about Runyon started disappearing shortly after discovery of his dead body. Click for the Refco link
http://www.insider-magazine.com/RefcoProbe/RunyonREFCOcase.html
In August 2002, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau personally thanked Runyon for his involvement in the famous Evergreen Security fraud case. Runyon who was deeply involved in criminal cases at the United States Attorneys office in Tampa was quite possibly involved in the complex Aztec Environmental – Big Wheel Recycling case along with federal prosecutor Roy Atchison of Pensacola, Florida who was recently arrested in Detroit allegedly seeking sex with a 5-year old child.
Both United States Attorneys were offed the same day - one with a gun - the other with sexually graphic and horrific allegations of pedophile against a child. Fox network News was the first media organization to promote Atchison's almost unbelievable arrest and over-told media circus story. [This is how the NSA Mind Control program works: You can subliminally program any witness to commit any deviant sex act]
Atchison's name is on all the United States District Court paperwork in the Aztec - Big Wheel case which has long and documented tentacles from Tampa reaching President George Bush, his brother Jeb Bush and the Washington law firm of Greenburg Taurig which arranged for a federally seized "Florida construction debris landfill reported to be an organized crime burial ground" to be ushered back into the hands of criminals it was seized from.
Insider-magazine.com has extensive first hand knowledge of the case and if Atchison were subpoenaed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee he could bring down the President and his bosses at Justice starting with his immediate supervisor Len Register who put Ted Bundy in the electric chair and U.S. Attorney Greg Miller who kept his job by closing the criminal investigation of Aztec and turning it into a civil debarment proceeding which reportedly cost the company almost $5 Billion in lost revenues.
The actions of Miller shown above gained the attention of the Washington Post this year when the Post reported that Miller's name came up on Karl Rove's U.S. Attorney firings list.
Miller has repeatedly refused from May 2005 to be interviewed by Insider-Magazine.com on his actions in the Aztec case. In July 2005 Miller instructed Roy Atchison's supervisor Assistant United States Attorney Len Register to respond to Insider-Magazine.com on the Aztec case and the allegations the White House had ordered the criminal case closed.
Register shown above has denied allegations that President Bush was involved in the decision to halt criminal proceedings in the Aztec case and proceed in civil disbarment. Register claimed personal responsibility for the act and stated the decision was appropriate based upon the evidence in a late night 45 minute telephone discussion with insider -Magazine.com editor John Caylor.
Federal law enforcement investigative documents obtained by Insider-Magazine.com contradict Register's statements and further, federal criminal investigators have repeatedly requested to no avail permission from their superiors to dig up the Bay County, Florida landfill which not long ago belonged to (GAC) Gulf Asphalt Contractors owned by Charles L. Hilton a top Republican fundraiser and his partner Alan Bense former Speaker of the Florida House.
Hilton and Bense sold the construction debris landfill to Big Wheel Recycling of Alabama and afterward the Alabama group was convicted in federal court of racketeering/money laundering charges resulting in the forfeiture. Gulf Aspahlt Contractors owned by Hilton and Bense have retained a continuing deeded interest in the landfill.
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) a Washington, D.C. based non-profit group has sought to have the United States EPA declare the landfill a Toxic Waste Clean-Up Site due to documentation showing the landfill is highly toxic and poses a threat to the environment.
Atchison's arrest brings back memories of the Nixon White House when it reached out to burglarize the offices of Pentagon Papers author Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist to seek information to discredit the whistle-blower. Apparently, Atchison had a "secret fetish" and was a member of a group of sexually deviated adults who engage in Internet IM's with each other and have sex in baby diapers.
The group is known internationally as the "Adult Baby Diaper Lovers" persons who are prone to this behavior are not pedophiles and do not engage in sex with children according to experts in the field. Perhaps the most telling part of the FBI over-kill story against Atchison is the part about him caring for the child - changing- The Key Word is CHANGING Diapers.
From published news reports and indictments concerning Atchison he was apparently lured into an Internet chat and roped-a-doped into the sting and at no time did he approach anyone in Detroit about sex with a child. According to published reports he was arrested as he stepped off the airplane and the question looms as to why the FBI didn't complete the sting and let him contact the bogus woman who was going to let him have sex with her child?
"No self respecting law enforcement agency investigating crimes as heinous as pedophilia would be so incompetent as to ensnare commonplace adult fetishists by deliberately mistaking, distorting and criminally charging an adult with a harmless fetish between consenting adults into pedophilia. Adult fetishists act out their fetishes, seeking consenting adults, quite openly on the Internet and otherwise. What was the law enforcement agency involved here intent on doing? Were they suckered(unwittingly or not) into creating a smokescreen to forestall revelations of investigations into crimes that could "bring down the House"? Was this yet another malicious witch hunt the kind of which we expect of Karl Rove's of the world?
The language and codes on the Myspace website purported to be that of Federal prosecutor Roy Atchison clearly indicate - to any self-respecting sex crime investigator -the site of an adult male who seeks to indulge in age-playing fetishes of "Adult Baby Diaper Lovers". . Technically known as infantilism or paraphilic infantilism, the "Adult Baby" desires to become--and indulges in the role-playing of--an infant or young child.
Not only do they dress and act like a baby, Adult Babies usually have a "mother" or "father" (and sometimes a teenage babysitter) to take care of them. The parent does everything for his/her baby that a parent of a "normal" baby would do--and yes, that includes changing diapers.
Clearly the exchanges between two AB/DL's can be misconstrued as pedophilia. In the case of a law enforcement agency, it is inconceivable they would misconstrue such, to the point a prima facie case could be made for conspiracy to perpetrate a professional hit. In the United States, there is a division among therapists as to the status of this particular fetish - some say age-playing is harmless, others say the underlying issues should be treated.
If Roy Atchison is indeed guilty of being an adult fetishist, he likely has to answer to his family and not the rest of the world. Though we may disdain mightily of such acts, it is none of our business.
That a law enforcement agency might have conducted a recklessly ignorant and malicious investigation and charged an innocent man with pedophilia - splashing it as recklessly in the news - instead of knowing how to track down real pedophiles - is a matter not only for the highest law enforcement scrutiny, but for parents of missing and exploited children everywhere.
It is likely criminally negligent of investigators who (one would hope)know what they are doing, to deliberately ensnare an adult involved with "age-playing" acts with another adult with the act of pedophilia. It is a disservice to small children who are actually being raped and killed.
Most notorious of all are the heinous acts - the torture and murder of young girls across the border from El Paso in Cuidad Juarez' House of Death - where investigators' links back to high political elements in Mexico and the USA have been constantly stymied, most recently by U S Attorney for the Western District of Texas, Johnny Sutton, a George Bush appointee. The most disturbing reports from one particular investigator - who has been threatened with death - involve "the juniors" in Mexico and the USA.
In the Atchison case the FBI has promoted a media circus releasing graphically-sexual and inflamatory content that smells of "smear campaign" the documents from the Aztec case give important clues to their motive and intent.
Organized Crime Ties to Middle East
The “Aztec – Big Wheel” case involved a now defunct and recently debarred multi-state waste firm based in Panama City, Florida which had U.S. government contracts for abatement and disposal of deadly asbestos from military installations.
The officers of the firm included Florida’s top Republicans Randall McElheney and William Harrison, Jr.
Among criminal acts the government accused the firm of smuggling illegal aliens onto top-secret U.S. Air Force bases with nuclear weapons, in particular McDill AFB at Tampa and Hurlburt Field a top-secret black-ops base in the Florida panhandle.
Former employees interviewed by federal agents and Insider-Magazine.com told a story of how Aztec president Jimmy Livingston reportedly made trips to Honduras and other Central American countries to smuggle illegal aliens into the United States.
The employees stated “Mexicans and possibly some Pakistanis with Spanish surnames and passports” were forced to work without required protective gear on government contracts in the disposal of asbestos and other toxic wastes.
They reported the suspected Pakistanis were the first to quit work and leave for unknown destinations once smuggled onto top-secret military bases.
In February 2004 U.S. Homeland Security, FBI, EPA and U.S. Customs ICE raided the firms office and seized records after it suspected Al-Qaeda operatives were being smuggled onto the bases.
United States government investigative reports obtained by Insider-Magazine.com with the help of the (PEER) The National Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and other records detail how illegal aliens were smuggled onto military bases – and then Florida Governor Jeb Bush was accepting bribes and political donations giving protection for the firms criminal activities.
Both federal prosecutors apparently stepped into an explosive and deadly political case in the forfeiture of the Aztec-Big Wheel case and it remains to be seen how the true facts will play out in the days and weeks to come as Insider-Magazine.com investigates and uncovers the events surrounding Roy Atchison's arrest and the death of Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Runyon.
TO BE CONTINUED: STORY IN PROGRESS
Stolen nukes, and a dead US Air Force witness?
'Mystery Surrounds Deaths Of Minot Airmen'9-23-7
It's time to put this 'story' into factual context, if not lay it to rest completely. This is exactly why the net cannot be trusted without thorough research. This trash has been running around for a couple weeks now. What is NOT shown below in the story about the 'mysterious deaths' are the DATES of two deaths, and the exact circumstances of others.
Mystery Surrounds Deaths Of Minot Airmen
Six members of the US Air Force who were involved in the Minot AFB incident, have died mysteriously, an anti-Bush activist group says.
** 'Mystery'?? ...'an anti-Bush activist group'? Who are they and where is their proof of involvement of all of the deceased in the Tomahawk missile loading and flight of the B-52 on August 30, 2007?
The incident happened when a B-52 bomber was "mistakenly" loaded with six nuclear warheads and flown for more than three hours across several states, prompting an Air Force investigation and the firing of one commander.
The plane was carrying Advanced Cruise Missiles from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base on August 30.
The Air Combat Command has ordered a command-wide stand down on September 14 to review procedures, officials said.
** The stand-down was a wise administrative decision...obviously intended to find out how this event happened.
The missiles, which are being decommissioned, were mounted onto pylons on the bomber's wings and it is unclear why the warheads had not been removed beforehand.
In addition to the munitions squadron commander who was relieved of his duties, crews involved in the incident, including ground crew workers had been temporarily decertified for handling munitions.
** Where is the documentation?
The activist group Citizens for Legitimate Government said the six members of the US Air Force who were directly involved as loaders or as pilots, were died within 7 days in 'accidents'.
** This is a complete lie. "...were died (sic) within 7 days (of the event)..." Look at the DATES of their deaths below...
The victims include Airman First Class Todd Blue, 20, who died while on leave in Virginia. A statement by the military confirmed his death but did not say how he died.
** This man's passing *is* unusual in that his obit did not mention the cause of death which is often omitted when suicide is involved. However, he could have been suicided to shut him up. That is a possibility.
In another accident, a married couple from Barksdale Air Force Base were killed in the 5100 block of Shreveport-Blanchard Highway. The two were riding a 2007 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, with the husband driving and the wife the passenger, police said.
[tommythebug: Witnesses riding motorcycles are very vulnerable to being rammed with a chase car. Happened to one of the teenage boys in Mena, Arkansas that knew about Barry Seal's cocaine drops near the railroad tracks.
Ramming a witness riding a motorcycle: THAT'S HOW THE APD/AUSTIN FBI MAFIA CRIME FAMILY KILLED AUSTIN, TEXAS, PD COMMANDER SHAUNA JACOBSON AND HER HUSBAND...after Shauna raised concerns about Eric Moebius' info on THE INFAMOUS YOGURT SHOP MURDERS of four teenage girls who were killed in a conspiracy to launder money through a civil suit lawyered by Roy Minton, Archie Carl Pierce and others. Archie Carl Pierce was paid by APD to conduct the usual "coverup independent investigation" into the Jacobson's motorcycle crash. This is all in my probable cause memo sent to The US Senate Judiciary Committee (Senator Charles Grassley, whose finance aid was attacked with a baseball bat shortly after my memo was recieved).]
"They were traveling behind a northbound Pontiac Aztec driven by Erica Jerry, 35, of Shreveport," the county sheriff said. "Jerry initiated a left turn into a business parking lot at the same time the man driving the motorcycle attempted to pass her van on the left in a no passing zone. They collided."
** Accidents happen. The guy was driving the bike, his wife was on the back. He STUPIDLY tried to pass on the LEFT side of a small van which turned left at the same time. The woman driver was distraught and no charges were filed.
Adam Barrs, a 20-year-old airman from Minot Air Force Base was killed in a crash on the outskirts of the city.
** This airman was killed on JULY 5 in a car crash...almost TWO MONTHS before the August 30 B-52 event.
First Lt. Weston Kissel, 28, a Minot Air Force Base bomber pilot, was killed in a motorcycle crash in Tennessee, the military officials say.
** This airman was killed JULY 20, SIX WEEKS BEFORE the August 30 B-52 event.
Police found the body of a missing Air Force captain John Frueh near Badger Peak in northeast Skamania County, Washington.
** This one is, like Airman Blue's death, suspicious. He was found in a remote area 'near his rental car'...but authorities say 'no foul play was suspected.' Another suicide?
The Activist group says the mysterious deaths of the air force members could indicate to a conspiracy to cover up the truth about the Minot Air Base incident.
Whoever wrote this drivel picked it up from other stories being circulated on the net claiming that 'six airmen have been murdered' to shut them up over the B-52 August 30 flight.
Unfortunately for these idiots, four of the six deaths are not 'mysterious'... accidents happen and 45,000 people a year die on American highways and roads every year.
The deaths of only two of the six are somewhat unusual: those of Blue and Frueh.
This is the original, full story claiming the deaths are all tied together:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=24190
It's time to put this 'story' into factual context, if not lay it to rest completely. This is exactly why the net cannot be trusted without thorough research. This trash has been running around for a couple weeks now. What is NOT shown below in the story about the 'mysterious deaths' are the DATES of two deaths, and the exact circumstances of others.
Mystery Surrounds Deaths Of Minot Airmen
Six members of the US Air Force who were involved in the Minot AFB incident, have died mysteriously, an anti-Bush activist group says.
** 'Mystery'?? ...'an anti-Bush activist group'? Who are they and where is their proof of involvement of all of the deceased in the Tomahawk missile loading and flight of the B-52 on August 30, 2007?
The incident happened when a B-52 bomber was "mistakenly" loaded with six nuclear warheads and flown for more than three hours across several states, prompting an Air Force investigation and the firing of one commander.
The plane was carrying Advanced Cruise Missiles from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base on August 30.
The Air Combat Command has ordered a command-wide stand down on September 14 to review procedures, officials said.
** The stand-down was a wise administrative decision...obviously intended to find out how this event happened.
The missiles, which are being decommissioned, were mounted onto pylons on the bomber's wings and it is unclear why the warheads had not been removed beforehand.
In addition to the munitions squadron commander who was relieved of his duties, crews involved in the incident, including ground crew workers had been temporarily decertified for handling munitions.
** Where is the documentation?
The activist group Citizens for Legitimate Government said the six members of the US Air Force who were directly involved as loaders or as pilots, were died within 7 days in 'accidents'.
** This is a complete lie. "...were died (sic) within 7 days (of the event)..." Look at the DATES of their deaths below...
The victims include Airman First Class Todd Blue, 20, who died while on leave in Virginia. A statement by the military confirmed his death but did not say how he died.
** This man's passing *is* unusual in that his obit did not mention the cause of death which is often omitted when suicide is involved. However, he could have been suicided to shut him up. That is a possibility.
In another accident, a married couple from Barksdale Air Force Base were killed in the 5100 block of Shreveport-Blanchard Highway. The two were riding a 2007 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, with the husband driving and the wife the passenger, police said.
[tommythebug: Witnesses riding motorcycles are very vulnerable to being rammed with a chase car. Happened to one of the teenage boys in Mena, Arkansas that knew about Barry Seal's cocaine drops near the railroad tracks.
Ramming a witness riding a motorcycle: THAT'S HOW THE APD/AUSTIN FBI MAFIA CRIME FAMILY KILLED AUSTIN, TEXAS, PD COMMANDER SHAUNA JACOBSON AND HER HUSBAND...after Shauna raised concerns about Eric Moebius' info on THE INFAMOUS YOGURT SHOP MURDERS of four teenage girls who were killed in a conspiracy to launder money through a civil suit lawyered by Roy Minton, Archie Carl Pierce and others. Archie Carl Pierce was paid by APD to conduct the usual "coverup independent investigation" into the Jacobson's motorcycle crash. This is all in my probable cause memo sent to The US Senate Judiciary Committee (Senator Charles Grassley, whose finance aid was attacked with a baseball bat shortly after my memo was recieved).]
"They were traveling behind a northbound Pontiac Aztec driven by Erica Jerry, 35, of Shreveport," the county sheriff said. "Jerry initiated a left turn into a business parking lot at the same time the man driving the motorcycle attempted to pass her van on the left in a no passing zone. They collided."
** Accidents happen. The guy was driving the bike, his wife was on the back. He STUPIDLY tried to pass on the LEFT side of a small van which turned left at the same time. The woman driver was distraught and no charges were filed.
Adam Barrs, a 20-year-old airman from Minot Air Force Base was killed in a crash on the outskirts of the city.
** This airman was killed on JULY 5 in a car crash...almost TWO MONTHS before the August 30 B-52 event.
First Lt. Weston Kissel, 28, a Minot Air Force Base bomber pilot, was killed in a motorcycle crash in Tennessee, the military officials say.
** This airman was killed JULY 20, SIX WEEKS BEFORE the August 30 B-52 event.
Police found the body of a missing Air Force captain John Frueh near Badger Peak in northeast Skamania County, Washington.
** This one is, like Airman Blue's death, suspicious. He was found in a remote area 'near his rental car'...but authorities say 'no foul play was suspected.' Another suicide?
The Activist group says the mysterious deaths of the air force members could indicate to a conspiracy to cover up the truth about the Minot Air Base incident.
Whoever wrote this drivel picked it up from other stories being circulated on the net claiming that 'six airmen have been murdered' to shut them up over the B-52 August 30 flight.
Unfortunately for these idiots, four of the six deaths are not 'mysterious'... accidents happen and 45,000 people a year die on American highways and roads every year.
The deaths of only two of the six are somewhat unusual: those of Blue and Frueh.
This is the original, full story claiming the deaths are all tied together:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=24190
GOP political dirty tricks on Clinton and Edwards
HARPERS WEEKLY
Tracking Political Prosecutions
DEPARTMENT No Comment
BY Scott Horton
PUBLISHED September 22, 2007
In the last two weeks, two sources, one of them inside of the Justice Department, have told me that a scheme was hatched in the upper echelons of the Bush Administration shortly after it took office in 2001 or early in 2002. The project identified John Edwards and Hillary Clinton as likely Democratic challengers to President Bush, and identified prominent trial lawyers around the United States as the likely financial vehicle for Edward’s rise. It directed that their campaign finance records be fly-specked, and that offenses not be treated as administrative matters but rather as serious criminal offenses.
The scheme contemplated among other things that raids be staged on the law offices involved, and that the records seized not be limited to campaign finance—there was an acute interest in all politically oriented documents, in order to seize valuable intelligence on strategic planning from the enemy camp.
This all sounds rather fantastic—even more insidious than the enemies list days of the Nixon era. It is precisely the sort of crude harassment that a primitive dictatorship would use against its enemies—like Alexander Lukashenko in today’s Belarus, for instance. But as the descriptions were passed to me, I instantly recognized the pattern described recently in a case which has made the headlines in Michigan involving a prominent lawyer there, and a second case in Los Angeles. According to one source, the number of these cases is at least five and they are scattered about the country. One case, described to me in some detail, closely matches the pattern in Michigan and Los Angeles and occurred in the south on the Gulf of Mexico.
Why, I wondered, would the attorneys involved not scream bloody murder about this? Then it struck me. The threat of criminal investigation and prosecution is devastating to their law practices. Of course, they would keep it completely secret. And that silence has made the entire scheme possible. I am told that these cases involved the attorneys general personally—both John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales—that their go-ahead was needed to stage the raids. And that in each case, the greatest concern within the political pirates commanding the operation has been that the public would get wind of the bigger picture. It was essential to pull it off that each case be viewed as something standing all on its own, and that the fact that there was a politically motivated project be obscured.
The key factor here is that all the cases involve campaign finance violations which are of a rather mundane nature. And in each case the FEC violations have been hyped into something quite preposterous. The political angle, I am told, is simple: make trial attorney’s money radioactive. Dry up the source. Take out a key element of the Democrats’ campaign finance strategy.
This looks very suspiciously like a Rove strategy.
And this bring us back to the key unanswered questions about Rove’s involvement in the process of directing political prosecutions. His fingerprints are all over the prosecution of Governor Siegelman in Alabama, and further substantial evidence of that will shortly be public, linking him both to federal and state prosecutors and to the principal figures in the Alabama G.O.P. in connection with the scheme to “get Siegelman.” It strikes me as probable that the plot to take out the trial lawyers and to use the Justice Department as the vehicle was also hatched by Rove.
All of this helps explain why the documents that the Judiciary Committee is seeking are so vital to get to the bottom of the cloud now hanging over the Justice Department. It is essential to find out what conspiracies were involved driving prosecutions, to correct what was done, discipline those involved, and exonerate the victims. This in fact is the essence of what justice demands. For five years Washington has had a Department of Political Persecutions where the Department of Justice used to stand. That needs to be cleaned up.
A significant first step is coming in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s recently passed bill requiring a tracking of contacts between the White House and the Justice Department. This was the fountain of abuse. Paul Kiel reports:
If Dick Cheney or his right-hand lawyer David Addington are talking to Justice Department officials about individual cases, Congress wants to know about it. What could be the second law change to emerge from the U.S. attorney firings scandal passed the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), would require the White House and Justice Department to detail in reports to Congress twice a year which Department officials had spoken to which White House officials about cases.
During questioning of Alberto Gonzales this spring, Whitehouse revealed that the Bush White House had thrown the door open to literally hundreds of White House officials being able to confer with Department officials about cases. A memo signed by John Ashcroft had initially opened the door. But a May, 2006 memo by Gonzales had exacerbated the problem and seemed to take special care in ensuring access for Cheney’s staff. Gonzales, under questioning, was characteristically befuddled by the document that he’d signed: “I’d have to go back and look at this…. I must say I’m troubled by this.”
Alberto Gonzales of course fully understood what was happening and why, and fully approved of it. What disturbed him was the fact that all of this was becoming public.
If the scheme to get the Edwards trial lawyer supporters is as described to me, then it was a criminal conspiracy and those involved in it need to be tracked down, removed from office for their abuses, and punished.
_____________________________________
tommythebug: This heavy handed abuse of search warrants is not unheard of. When NICK MILUM, an Austin, Texas, attorney joined other lawyers to investigate judicial corruption and the Yogurt Shop Murders used to facilitate civil suit payoffs...he was harassed by the FBI who "conducted a bogus search" and "seized all his law firm documents" to MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO PRACTISE LAW.
MILUM left corrupt Texas...and set up shop in Chicago.
MILUM is mentioned in my PROBABLE CAUSE MEMO SUPPORTING A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTO TEXAS MURDERS USED TO FACILITATE CIVIL SUIT PAYOUTS. This memo cordinates "corroborated suspicion" that "murders are used" to make money move through litigation, and possible money laundering.
Tracking Political Prosecutions
DEPARTMENT No Comment
BY Scott Horton
PUBLISHED September 22, 2007
In the last two weeks, two sources, one of them inside of the Justice Department, have told me that a scheme was hatched in the upper echelons of the Bush Administration shortly after it took office in 2001 or early in 2002. The project identified John Edwards and Hillary Clinton as likely Democratic challengers to President Bush, and identified prominent trial lawyers around the United States as the likely financial vehicle for Edward’s rise. It directed that their campaign finance records be fly-specked, and that offenses not be treated as administrative matters but rather as serious criminal offenses.
The scheme contemplated among other things that raids be staged on the law offices involved, and that the records seized not be limited to campaign finance—there was an acute interest in all politically oriented documents, in order to seize valuable intelligence on strategic planning from the enemy camp.
This all sounds rather fantastic—even more insidious than the enemies list days of the Nixon era. It is precisely the sort of crude harassment that a primitive dictatorship would use against its enemies—like Alexander Lukashenko in today’s Belarus, for instance. But as the descriptions were passed to me, I instantly recognized the pattern described recently in a case which has made the headlines in Michigan involving a prominent lawyer there, and a second case in Los Angeles. According to one source, the number of these cases is at least five and they are scattered about the country. One case, described to me in some detail, closely matches the pattern in Michigan and Los Angeles and occurred in the south on the Gulf of Mexico.
Why, I wondered, would the attorneys involved not scream bloody murder about this? Then it struck me. The threat of criminal investigation and prosecution is devastating to their law practices. Of course, they would keep it completely secret. And that silence has made the entire scheme possible. I am told that these cases involved the attorneys general personally—both John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales—that their go-ahead was needed to stage the raids. And that in each case, the greatest concern within the political pirates commanding the operation has been that the public would get wind of the bigger picture. It was essential to pull it off that each case be viewed as something standing all on its own, and that the fact that there was a politically motivated project be obscured.
The key factor here is that all the cases involve campaign finance violations which are of a rather mundane nature. And in each case the FEC violations have been hyped into something quite preposterous. The political angle, I am told, is simple: make trial attorney’s money radioactive. Dry up the source. Take out a key element of the Democrats’ campaign finance strategy.
This looks very suspiciously like a Rove strategy.
And this bring us back to the key unanswered questions about Rove’s involvement in the process of directing political prosecutions. His fingerprints are all over the prosecution of Governor Siegelman in Alabama, and further substantial evidence of that will shortly be public, linking him both to federal and state prosecutors and to the principal figures in the Alabama G.O.P. in connection with the scheme to “get Siegelman.” It strikes me as probable that the plot to take out the trial lawyers and to use the Justice Department as the vehicle was also hatched by Rove.
All of this helps explain why the documents that the Judiciary Committee is seeking are so vital to get to the bottom of the cloud now hanging over the Justice Department. It is essential to find out what conspiracies were involved driving prosecutions, to correct what was done, discipline those involved, and exonerate the victims. This in fact is the essence of what justice demands. For five years Washington has had a Department of Political Persecutions where the Department of Justice used to stand. That needs to be cleaned up.
A significant first step is coming in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s recently passed bill requiring a tracking of contacts between the White House and the Justice Department. This was the fountain of abuse. Paul Kiel reports:
If Dick Cheney or his right-hand lawyer David Addington are talking to Justice Department officials about individual cases, Congress wants to know about it. What could be the second law change to emerge from the U.S. attorney firings scandal passed the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), would require the White House and Justice Department to detail in reports to Congress twice a year which Department officials had spoken to which White House officials about cases.
During questioning of Alberto Gonzales this spring, Whitehouse revealed that the Bush White House had thrown the door open to literally hundreds of White House officials being able to confer with Department officials about cases. A memo signed by John Ashcroft had initially opened the door. But a May, 2006 memo by Gonzales had exacerbated the problem and seemed to take special care in ensuring access for Cheney’s staff. Gonzales, under questioning, was characteristically befuddled by the document that he’d signed: “I’d have to go back and look at this…. I must say I’m troubled by this.”
Alberto Gonzales of course fully understood what was happening and why, and fully approved of it. What disturbed him was the fact that all of this was becoming public.
If the scheme to get the Edwards trial lawyer supporters is as described to me, then it was a criminal conspiracy and those involved in it need to be tracked down, removed from office for their abuses, and punished.
_____________________________________
tommythebug: This heavy handed abuse of search warrants is not unheard of. When NICK MILUM, an Austin, Texas, attorney joined other lawyers to investigate judicial corruption and the Yogurt Shop Murders used to facilitate civil suit payoffs...he was harassed by the FBI who "conducted a bogus search" and "seized all his law firm documents" to MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO PRACTISE LAW.
MILUM left corrupt Texas...and set up shop in Chicago.
MILUM is mentioned in my PROBABLE CAUSE MEMO SUPPORTING A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTO TEXAS MURDERS USED TO FACILITATE CIVIL SUIT PAYOUTS. This memo cordinates "corroborated suspicion" that "murders are used" to make money move through litigation, and possible money laundering.
RETROACTIVE CIVIL IMMUNITY for unindicted coconspirators to the following murders (RICH GORDON, CHRISTINA MOORE, MARK DEFENBAUGH, JOHN KABIESEMAN)
Case Dismissed?
The secret lobbying campaign your phone company doesn't want you to know about
Sept. 20, 2007 - The nation’s biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress to quickly approve a measure wiping out all private lawsuits against them for assisting the U.S. intelligence community’s warrantless surveillance programs.
The campaign—which involves some of Washington's most prominent lobbying and law firms—has taken on new urgency in recent weeks because of fears that a U.S. appellate court in San Francisco is poised to rule that the lawsuits should be allowed to proceed.
If that happens, the telecom companies say, they may be forced to terminate their cooperation with the U.S. intelligence community—or risk potentially crippling damage awards for allegedly turning over personal information about their customers to the government without a judicial warrant.
“It’s not an exaggeration to say the U.S. intelligence community is in a near-panic about this,” said one communications industry lawyer familiar with the debate who asked not to be publicly identified because of the sensitivity surrounding the issue.
But critics say the language proposed by the White House—drafted in close cooperation with the industry officials—is so extraordinarily broad that it would provide retroactive immunity for all past telecom actions related to the surveillance program. Its practical effect, they argue, would be to shut down any independent judicial or state inquires into how the companies have assisted the government in eavesdropping on the telephone calls and e-mails of U.S. residents in the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks.
“It’s clear the goal is to kill our case," said Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based privacy group that filed the main lawsuit against the telecoms after The New York Times first disclosed, in December 2005, that President Bush had approved a secret program to monitor the phone conversations of U.S. residents without first seeking judicial warrants. The White House subsequently confirmed that it had authorized the National Security Agency to conduct what it called a “terrorist surveillance program” aimed at communications between suspected terrorists overseas and individuals inside the United States. But the administration has also intervened, unsuccessfully so far, to try to block the lawsuit from proceeding and has consistently refused to discuss any details about the extent of the program—rebuffing repeated congressional requests for key legal memos about it.
"They are trying to completely immunize this [the surveillance program] from any kind of judicial review,” added Cohn. “I find it a little shocking that Congress would participate in the covering up of what has been going on."
But congressional staffers said this week that some version of the proposal is likely to pass—in part because of a high-pressure lobbying campaign warning of dire consequences if the lawsuits proceed. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell seemed to raise the stakes recently when he contended in an interview with the El Paso Times that the private lawsuits could “bankrupt these companies.”
Among those coordinating the industry’s effort are two well-connected capital players who both worked for President George H.W. Bush: Verizon general counsel William Barr, who served as attorney general under 41, and AT&T senior executive vice president James Cicconi, who was the elder Bush's deputy chief of staff.
Working with them are a battery of major D.C. lobbyists and lawyers who are providing "strategic advice" to the companies on the issue, according to sources familiar with the campaign who asked not to be identified talking about it. Among the players, these sources said: powerhouse Republican lobbyists Charlie Black and Wayne Berman (who represent AT&T and Verizon, respectively), former GOP senator and U.S. ambassador to Germany Dan Coats (a lawyer at King & Spaulding who is representing Sprint), former Democratic Party strategist and one-time assistant secretary of State Tom Donilon (who represents Verizon), former deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick (whose law firm also represents Verizon) and Brad Berenson, a former assistant White House counsel under President George W. Bush who now represents AT&T.
Because of the extreme secrecy surrounding the warrantless surveillance program, few if any of the lobbyists and lawyers are prepared to speak publicly about their role. “My client requires me not to talk to the press,” said the normally loquacious Black when asked by NEWSWEEK about his lobbying for AT&T. Berman and Berenson also declined comment. Gorelick confirmed that she is providing "strategic advice," not lobbying for Verizon. Coats and Donilon did not respond to requests for comment.
But according to three industry sources, these and other players have been conferring with each other over legislative strategy and targeting key lawmakers and staffers, especially those on the House and Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees. The lobbyists have set up meetings and arranged conference calls, pressing the argument that failure to provide protection to the companies could interfere with the vital assistance they say the telecom industry has provided the intelligence community in monitoring the communications of Al Qaeda and other terrorist operations overseas.
The case for new legislation retroactively giving telecoms companies protection against private lawsuits—including lawsuits already pending—was outlined this week by Kenneth Wainstein, assistant attorney general for national security. At a House Judiciary Committee hearing chaired by Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, Wainstein said that giving telecoms companies retroactive liability was a matter of "general fairness."
"I think it's sort of fundamentally unfair and just not right to—if a company allegedly assisted the government in its national-security efforts, in an effort to defend the country at a time of peril, that they then get turned around and face tremendously costly litigation and maybe even crushing liability for having helped the United States government at a time of need ... it's just not right," Wainstein testified.
Wainstein also claimed that "every time we have one of these lawsuits, very sensitive information gets discussed and gets leaked out, disseminated out in the public. And our adversaries are smart, both the terrorists who might be over in, you know, someplace in the Middle East are smart, and then the governments that might be our adversaries are tremendously sophisticated, and they're gleaning all this information that gets out." Wainstein also said that a telecom company's overseas assets could be threatened if its collaboration in U.S. espionage efforts were confirmed in a court case.
The campaign for industry protection was initially launched last summer when administration and industry officials first tried to get the immunity provision included in the Protect America Act—a measure passed by Congress and signed by President Bush on Aug. 5 that allowed the surveillance program to continue and temporarily gave the National Security Agency expanded eavesdropping powers. At the time, Democrats in Congress balked at including the kind of sweeping retroactive civil immunity protections that the industry sought.
But then, on Aug. 15, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard oral arguments in a Justice Department motion to block the Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit against AT&T. More than 40 other civil suits filed against the telecoms—many of them seeking billions of dollars in damages—had been consolidated with the EFF lawsuit. But the Justice Department had sought to block the lawsuits under the “state privilege” doctrine, which can require the dismissal of suits that might endanger national security.
The three-judge panel, made up entirely of Democratic appointees, seemed openly skeptical of the Justice Department’s arguments, prompting many court observers to conclude that the panel was likely to issue a ruling permitting the lawsuits to proceed. At one point in the proceedings, one of the judges, Harry Pregerson, a Jimmy Carter appointee, appeared annoyed with the Justice Department lawyer, Gregory Garre. The judge wanted Garre to provide direct answers to questions about the scope of the just-passed surveillance law, according to press reports. When Garre tried to explain that the law was complicated, Pregerson shot back: “Can’t be any more complicated than my phone bill.”
The administration is keeping up pressure on Congress for quick action on the new version of the surveillance law—including an immunity provision for telecoms—which will take effect when the Protect America Act expires early next year. Congressional staffers say that Democrats are likely to go along with some version of the proposal. But Democratic leaders, who say they were stampeded into passing the law last summer, are insisting on having more thorough hearings and forcing the administration to turn over documents on the surveillance program. If the telecoms want immunity, some Democrats say, the White House should at least say what it is they need immunity for.
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tommythebug: This is about immunity for telecomm providers to "wilfully violate the state and federal criminal codes prohibiting warrantless surveillance" in pursuit of a POLITICIZED SECRET GOP MILITARY POLICE STATE.
No punk Democrat has ever used or openly mentioned any fact from my 47 page US DOJ OIG Complaint?
No punk Democrat has mentioned the FBI and SD US Attorneys "Obstructing Justice" by ignoring the DASCHLE WIRETAPPING in 2004, and other SOUTH DAKOTA WIRETAPPING TO FACILITATE THE MURDERS OF MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES: RICH GORDON (Daschle's ex chief of staff, believed to be organizing a Democratic Daschle supported Congressional Inquiry into the Canadian warrant for MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S BIG SKY CALI COCAINE PIPELINE in Montana with money laundering by Racicot into Bush's 2000 campaign.
No punk Democrat has grilled BIG BAD BOB "the drug dealing false flag terrorist" MUELLER on his agents "obstructing the CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER" of an Enron witness who got whacked out by the same "unindicted coconspirators" working an NSA TSP surveillance contract on me, THOMAS S. BEAN, a cooperating material witness who tipped off Sioux Falls PD about the electronic detenators manufactured in Canistota,SD, and later seen by Denver US Marshall's witness CARY GAGEN.
THIS IS ALL ABOUT CIVIL IMMUNITY FOR HELPING THE PUNK RIGHT WING POLICE STATE RUN A POLITICAL GESTAPO on social activists, Judges, lawyers, witnesses, civil litigants, etc.
THIS IS CIVIL LIABILITY FOR THE NEW ORWELLIAN COINTELPRO.
NO DEMOCRAT HAS EVER..............SHOWN THE SLIGHTEST INTEREST IN POLITICAL CRIMES INCLUDING PATRIOT ACT MURDERS OF WELLSTONE, MOORE, GORDON, JFK JR., CARNEHAN, etc.
The secret lobbying campaign your phone company doesn't want you to know about
Sept. 20, 2007 - The nation’s biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress to quickly approve a measure wiping out all private lawsuits against them for assisting the U.S. intelligence community’s warrantless surveillance programs.
The campaign—which involves some of Washington's most prominent lobbying and law firms—has taken on new urgency in recent weeks because of fears that a U.S. appellate court in San Francisco is poised to rule that the lawsuits should be allowed to proceed.
If that happens, the telecom companies say, they may be forced to terminate their cooperation with the U.S. intelligence community—or risk potentially crippling damage awards for allegedly turning over personal information about their customers to the government without a judicial warrant.
“It’s not an exaggeration to say the U.S. intelligence community is in a near-panic about this,” said one communications industry lawyer familiar with the debate who asked not to be publicly identified because of the sensitivity surrounding the issue.
But critics say the language proposed by the White House—drafted in close cooperation with the industry officials—is so extraordinarily broad that it would provide retroactive immunity for all past telecom actions related to the surveillance program. Its practical effect, they argue, would be to shut down any independent judicial or state inquires into how the companies have assisted the government in eavesdropping on the telephone calls and e-mails of U.S. residents in the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks.
“It’s clear the goal is to kill our case," said Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based privacy group that filed the main lawsuit against the telecoms after The New York Times first disclosed, in December 2005, that President Bush had approved a secret program to monitor the phone conversations of U.S. residents without first seeking judicial warrants. The White House subsequently confirmed that it had authorized the National Security Agency to conduct what it called a “terrorist surveillance program” aimed at communications between suspected terrorists overseas and individuals inside the United States. But the administration has also intervened, unsuccessfully so far, to try to block the lawsuit from proceeding and has consistently refused to discuss any details about the extent of the program—rebuffing repeated congressional requests for key legal memos about it.
"They are trying to completely immunize this [the surveillance program] from any kind of judicial review,” added Cohn. “I find it a little shocking that Congress would participate in the covering up of what has been going on."
But congressional staffers said this week that some version of the proposal is likely to pass—in part because of a high-pressure lobbying campaign warning of dire consequences if the lawsuits proceed. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell seemed to raise the stakes recently when he contended in an interview with the El Paso Times that the private lawsuits could “bankrupt these companies.”
Among those coordinating the industry’s effort are two well-connected capital players who both worked for President George H.W. Bush: Verizon general counsel William Barr, who served as attorney general under 41, and AT&T senior executive vice president James Cicconi, who was the elder Bush's deputy chief of staff.
Working with them are a battery of major D.C. lobbyists and lawyers who are providing "strategic advice" to the companies on the issue, according to sources familiar with the campaign who asked not to be identified talking about it. Among the players, these sources said: powerhouse Republican lobbyists Charlie Black and Wayne Berman (who represent AT&T and Verizon, respectively), former GOP senator and U.S. ambassador to Germany Dan Coats (a lawyer at King & Spaulding who is representing Sprint), former Democratic Party strategist and one-time assistant secretary of State Tom Donilon (who represents Verizon), former deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick (whose law firm also represents Verizon) and Brad Berenson, a former assistant White House counsel under President George W. Bush who now represents AT&T.
Because of the extreme secrecy surrounding the warrantless surveillance program, few if any of the lobbyists and lawyers are prepared to speak publicly about their role. “My client requires me not to talk to the press,” said the normally loquacious Black when asked by NEWSWEEK about his lobbying for AT&T. Berman and Berenson also declined comment. Gorelick confirmed that she is providing "strategic advice," not lobbying for Verizon. Coats and Donilon did not respond to requests for comment.
But according to three industry sources, these and other players have been conferring with each other over legislative strategy and targeting key lawmakers and staffers, especially those on the House and Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees. The lobbyists have set up meetings and arranged conference calls, pressing the argument that failure to provide protection to the companies could interfere with the vital assistance they say the telecom industry has provided the intelligence community in monitoring the communications of Al Qaeda and other terrorist operations overseas.
The case for new legislation retroactively giving telecoms companies protection against private lawsuits—including lawsuits already pending—was outlined this week by Kenneth Wainstein, assistant attorney general for national security. At a House Judiciary Committee hearing chaired by Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, Wainstein said that giving telecoms companies retroactive liability was a matter of "general fairness."
"I think it's sort of fundamentally unfair and just not right to—if a company allegedly assisted the government in its national-security efforts, in an effort to defend the country at a time of peril, that they then get turned around and face tremendously costly litigation and maybe even crushing liability for having helped the United States government at a time of need ... it's just not right," Wainstein testified.
Wainstein also claimed that "every time we have one of these lawsuits, very sensitive information gets discussed and gets leaked out, disseminated out in the public. And our adversaries are smart, both the terrorists who might be over in, you know, someplace in the Middle East are smart, and then the governments that might be our adversaries are tremendously sophisticated, and they're gleaning all this information that gets out." Wainstein also said that a telecom company's overseas assets could be threatened if its collaboration in U.S. espionage efforts were confirmed in a court case.
The campaign for industry protection was initially launched last summer when administration and industry officials first tried to get the immunity provision included in the Protect America Act—a measure passed by Congress and signed by President Bush on Aug. 5 that allowed the surveillance program to continue and temporarily gave the National Security Agency expanded eavesdropping powers. At the time, Democrats in Congress balked at including the kind of sweeping retroactive civil immunity protections that the industry sought.
But then, on Aug. 15, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard oral arguments in a Justice Department motion to block the Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit against AT&T. More than 40 other civil suits filed against the telecoms—many of them seeking billions of dollars in damages—had been consolidated with the EFF lawsuit. But the Justice Department had sought to block the lawsuits under the “state privilege” doctrine, which can require the dismissal of suits that might endanger national security.
The three-judge panel, made up entirely of Democratic appointees, seemed openly skeptical of the Justice Department’s arguments, prompting many court observers to conclude that the panel was likely to issue a ruling permitting the lawsuits to proceed. At one point in the proceedings, one of the judges, Harry Pregerson, a Jimmy Carter appointee, appeared annoyed with the Justice Department lawyer, Gregory Garre. The judge wanted Garre to provide direct answers to questions about the scope of the just-passed surveillance law, according to press reports. When Garre tried to explain that the law was complicated, Pregerson shot back: “Can’t be any more complicated than my phone bill.”
The administration is keeping up pressure on Congress for quick action on the new version of the surveillance law—including an immunity provision for telecoms—which will take effect when the Protect America Act expires early next year. Congressional staffers say that Democrats are likely to go along with some version of the proposal. But Democratic leaders, who say they were stampeded into passing the law last summer, are insisting on having more thorough hearings and forcing the administration to turn over documents on the surveillance program. If the telecoms want immunity, some Democrats say, the White House should at least say what it is they need immunity for.
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tommythebug: This is about immunity for telecomm providers to "wilfully violate the state and federal criminal codes prohibiting warrantless surveillance" in pursuit of a POLITICIZED SECRET GOP MILITARY POLICE STATE.
No punk Democrat has ever used or openly mentioned any fact from my 47 page US DOJ OIG Complaint?
No punk Democrat has mentioned the FBI and SD US Attorneys "Obstructing Justice" by ignoring the DASCHLE WIRETAPPING in 2004, and other SOUTH DAKOTA WIRETAPPING TO FACILITATE THE MURDERS OF MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES: RICH GORDON (Daschle's ex chief of staff, believed to be organizing a Democratic Daschle supported Congressional Inquiry into the Canadian warrant for MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S BIG SKY CALI COCAINE PIPELINE in Montana with money laundering by Racicot into Bush's 2000 campaign.
No punk Democrat has grilled BIG BAD BOB "the drug dealing false flag terrorist" MUELLER on his agents "obstructing the CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER" of an Enron witness who got whacked out by the same "unindicted coconspirators" working an NSA TSP surveillance contract on me, THOMAS S. BEAN, a cooperating material witness who tipped off Sioux Falls PD about the electronic detenators manufactured in Canistota,SD, and later seen by Denver US Marshall's witness CARY GAGEN.
THIS IS ALL ABOUT CIVIL IMMUNITY FOR HELPING THE PUNK RIGHT WING POLICE STATE RUN A POLITICAL GESTAPO on social activists, Judges, lawyers, witnesses, civil litigants, etc.
THIS IS CIVIL LIABILITY FOR THE NEW ORWELLIAN COINTELPRO.
NO DEMOCRAT HAS EVER..............SHOWN THE SLIGHTEST INTEREST IN POLITICAL CRIMES INCLUDING PATRIOT ACT MURDERS OF WELLSTONE, MOORE, GORDON, JFK JR., CARNEHAN, etc.
Friday, September 21, 2007
New US Atty General tied to "obstructing justice" in first false flag terrorist event (WTC 1993)
http://intelwire.egoplex.com/2007_09_17_blogarchive.html
INTELWIRE.COM A blog covering the War on Terror and global Monday, September 17, 2007
Judge Michael Mukasey And A Curious Omission In The Omar Abdel-Rahman Trial
Former federal judge Michael Mukasey -- President's Bush's new attorney general nominee -- has quite an impressive resume. But his highest profile case is also among his most problematic -- the 1995 prosecution of Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
There's one big fish that got away in that case, and his name is Ali Mohamed, an al Qaeda infiltrator who had trained some of the Rahman conspirators while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg. Mohamed was also an FBI informant who had provided information about al Qaeda to the FBI in 1993.
Mohamed was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in US v. Rahman (S5 93 Cr. 181), a trial covering a broad conspiracy that included the World Trade Center bombing and a thwarted June 1993 plot to destroy New York City landmarks.
Mohamed was never called to answer charges in the case -- but he was called to testify.
He didn't show up.
Roger Stavis, defense attorney for El Sayyid Nosair, one of the defendants in the conspiracy, tried to get Ali Mohamed to testify. He sent out private investigators to locate Mohamed and serve a subpoena. Stavis wanted to show that Mohamed had assisted the conspirators as an agent employed by the United States government, which he believed would render harmless the terror cell's jihad training activities on U.S. soil.
The defense investigators couldn't find Mohamed. But the prosecutors did.
The defense problem was laid out by Stavis in open court on September 1, 1995:
15 MR. STAVIS: Your Honor, we are requesting a
16 asked missing witness instruction with regard to Ali
17 Mohammed. Ali Mohammed, your Honor will recall, was the
18 person who came from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who was
19 assigned to the United States Army Special Forces --
20 THE COURT (Mukasey): Yes, we saw him on that splendid
21 videotape.
22 MR. STAVIS: And trained Mr. Nosair and others
23 for Afghanistan. When we attempted, Mr. Barrett attempted
24 to find Ali Mohammed, he found a friend at Fort Bragg who
25 knew his wife was in California. His wife hadn't seen him
1 for over a year. We could not bring him in. Although he
2 was very much, I would submit, a part of the defense case,
3 we couldn't bring him in and we understand that he may have
4 some connection with the government at this time.
5 THE COURT: I don't think a missing witness
6 charge on that gentleman is warranted and I am not going to
7 give one.
Emphasis added by me. Here's where the story gets interesting. Despite Stavis' inability to locate Mohamed, the prosecutor -- Andrew McCarthy -- had no such problem.
The following stipulation was entered during on March 21, 2001, during US v. Usama bin Laden, the trial for the East African Embassy bombings, a plot which Mohamed played a major role. (He pleaded guilty in exchange for sentencing considerations, but he has subsequently disappeared from the prison system. He had not been sentenced as of last month.)
Paragraph 1. If called as a witness Special Agent Harlan Bell would testify that:
1. In or about 1994 Agent Bell was assigned to the New York office of the FBI and could be reached at telephone number 212-335-2611.
2. In the fall of 1994 Agent Bell sought to arrange an interview of Ali Mohamed by having an FBI agent in California contact Ali Mohamed's wife to advise her that the FBI wished to interview Ali Mohamed.
3. On or about December 9, 1994 he interviewed Ali Mohamed in San Jose, California in the company of Assistant United States Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy who was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.
4. Ali Mohamed is a person depicted in the photograph in Government Exhibit 4 which photograph is identified as Abu Mohammed.
Paragraph 2. It is further stipulated and agreed that if called to testify as a witness, Assistant United States Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy would testify that:
1. On or about December 22, 1994 his office telephone number was 212-791-1940.
2. On or about December 9, 1994 he attended the interview of Ali Mohamed in California.
3. On or about December 22, 1994 at approximately 5:13 p.m. New York time he sent by facsimile from New York a letter to Ali Mohamed concerning a subpoena that had been served upon Ali Mohamed the prior week.
4. On or about December 22, 1994 at approximately 5:14 p.m. New York time he received by facsimile a copy of the letter he sent to Ali Mohamed reflecting the signature of Ali Mohamed acknowledging receipt of the letter.
Emphasis added. Whose subpoena was this? It's not clear (there are anecdotal reports, but I can't confirm them at this time). What is crystal clear, at any rate, is that the prosecutor was able to reach Ali Mohamed within the same time frame that the defense could not -- just a couple weeks before the Rahman trial began. And it's clear that the prosecution declined to provide this information to the defense.
It's also clear that Mohamed was in close contact with the FBI, possibly cooperating, at a crucial pre-trial period, but that his name showed up on a list of unindicted co-conspirators a couple of months later.
All this apparently chummy activity was going on during a period in which the FBI and INS had arrested Mohammed Jamal Khalifa and Mohamed Loay Bayazid in California, just a short drive from Mohamed's home (where the FBI interview took place). The interview took place on December 9, 1994. Khalifa and Bayazid were arrested on Dec. 16, 1994. Then on Dec. 22, 1994, McCarthy sent Mohamed a letter about that subpoena -- its contents were not disclosed in court.
What was Judge Mukasey's part in all this? The only thing that is certain from the transcripts is that it was happening under his nose. Which is, perhaps, not the sort of attorney general one might seek to replace Alberto Gonzales, for reasons that should be obvious.
INTELWIRE.COM A blog covering the War on Terror and global Monday, September 17, 2007
Judge Michael Mukasey And A Curious Omission In The Omar Abdel-Rahman Trial
Former federal judge Michael Mukasey -- President's Bush's new attorney general nominee -- has quite an impressive resume. But his highest profile case is also among his most problematic -- the 1995 prosecution of Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
There's one big fish that got away in that case, and his name is Ali Mohamed, an al Qaeda infiltrator who had trained some of the Rahman conspirators while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg. Mohamed was also an FBI informant who had provided information about al Qaeda to the FBI in 1993.
Mohamed was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in US v. Rahman (S5 93 Cr. 181), a trial covering a broad conspiracy that included the World Trade Center bombing and a thwarted June 1993 plot to destroy New York City landmarks.
Mohamed was never called to answer charges in the case -- but he was called to testify.
He didn't show up.
Roger Stavis, defense attorney for El Sayyid Nosair, one of the defendants in the conspiracy, tried to get Ali Mohamed to testify. He sent out private investigators to locate Mohamed and serve a subpoena. Stavis wanted to show that Mohamed had assisted the conspirators as an agent employed by the United States government, which he believed would render harmless the terror cell's jihad training activities on U.S. soil.
The defense investigators couldn't find Mohamed. But the prosecutors did.
The defense problem was laid out by Stavis in open court on September 1, 1995:
15 MR. STAVIS: Your Honor, we are requesting a
16 asked missing witness instruction with regard to Ali
17 Mohammed. Ali Mohammed, your Honor will recall, was the
18 person who came from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who was
19 assigned to the United States Army Special Forces --
20 THE COURT (Mukasey): Yes, we saw him on that splendid
21 videotape.
22 MR. STAVIS: And trained Mr. Nosair and others
23 for Afghanistan. When we attempted, Mr. Barrett attempted
24 to find Ali Mohammed, he found a friend at Fort Bragg who
25 knew his wife was in California. His wife hadn't seen him
1 for over a year. We could not bring him in. Although he
2 was very much, I would submit, a part of the defense case,
3 we couldn't bring him in and we understand that he may have
4 some connection with the government at this time.
5 THE COURT: I don't think a missing witness
6 charge on that gentleman is warranted and I am not going to
7 give one.
Emphasis added by me. Here's where the story gets interesting. Despite Stavis' inability to locate Mohamed, the prosecutor -- Andrew McCarthy -- had no such problem.
The following stipulation was entered during on March 21, 2001, during US v. Usama bin Laden, the trial for the East African Embassy bombings, a plot which Mohamed played a major role. (He pleaded guilty in exchange for sentencing considerations, but he has subsequently disappeared from the prison system. He had not been sentenced as of last month.)
Paragraph 1. If called as a witness Special Agent Harlan Bell would testify that:
1. In or about 1994 Agent Bell was assigned to the New York office of the FBI and could be reached at telephone number 212-335-2611.
2. In the fall of 1994 Agent Bell sought to arrange an interview of Ali Mohamed by having an FBI agent in California contact Ali Mohamed's wife to advise her that the FBI wished to interview Ali Mohamed.
3. On or about December 9, 1994 he interviewed Ali Mohamed in San Jose, California in the company of Assistant United States Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy who was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.
4. Ali Mohamed is a person depicted in the photograph in Government Exhibit 4 which photograph is identified as Abu Mohammed.
Paragraph 2. It is further stipulated and agreed that if called to testify as a witness, Assistant United States Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy would testify that:
1. On or about December 22, 1994 his office telephone number was 212-791-1940.
2. On or about December 9, 1994 he attended the interview of Ali Mohamed in California.
3. On or about December 22, 1994 at approximately 5:13 p.m. New York time he sent by facsimile from New York a letter to Ali Mohamed concerning a subpoena that had been served upon Ali Mohamed the prior week.
4. On or about December 22, 1994 at approximately 5:14 p.m. New York time he received by facsimile a copy of the letter he sent to Ali Mohamed reflecting the signature of Ali Mohamed acknowledging receipt of the letter.
Emphasis added. Whose subpoena was this? It's not clear (there are anecdotal reports, but I can't confirm them at this time). What is crystal clear, at any rate, is that the prosecutor was able to reach Ali Mohamed within the same time frame that the defense could not -- just a couple weeks before the Rahman trial began. And it's clear that the prosecution declined to provide this information to the defense.
It's also clear that Mohamed was in close contact with the FBI, possibly cooperating, at a crucial pre-trial period, but that his name showed up on a list of unindicted co-conspirators a couple of months later.
All this apparently chummy activity was going on during a period in which the FBI and INS had arrested Mohammed Jamal Khalifa and Mohamed Loay Bayazid in California, just a short drive from Mohamed's home (where the FBI interview took place). The interview took place on December 9, 1994. Khalifa and Bayazid were arrested on Dec. 16, 1994. Then on Dec. 22, 1994, McCarthy sent Mohamed a letter about that subpoena -- its contents were not disclosed in court.
What was Judge Mukasey's part in all this? The only thing that is certain from the transcripts is that it was happening under his nose. Which is, perhaps, not the sort of attorney general one might seek to replace Alberto Gonzales, for reasons that should be obvious.
Fed law prohibits contact with aliens from other planets?
http://www.rense.com/general78/expo.htm
ET Exposure Law Passed By Congress Years Ago - Why?
9-21-7
On October 5, 1982, Dr. Brain T. Clifford of the Pentagon announced at a press conference ('The Star', New York, Oct. 5, 1982) that contact between U.S. citizens and extra-terrestrials or their vehicles is strictly illegal. According to a law already on the books (Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, adopted on July 16, 1969, before the Apollo moon shots), anyone guilty of such contact automatically becomes a wanted criminal to be jailed for one year and fined $5,000. The NASA administrator is empowered to determine with or without a hearing that a person or object has been 'extraterrestrially exposed' and impose an indeterminate quarantine under armed guard, which could not be broken even by court order. There is no limit placed on the number of individuals who could thus be arbitrarily quarantined.
The definition of 'extraterrestrial exposure' is left entirely up to NASA administrator, who is thus endowed with total dictatorial power to be exercised at his slightest caprice, which is completely contrary to the Constitution.
According to Dr. Clifford, whose commanding officers have been assuring the public for the last 39 years that UFOs are nothing more than hoaxes and delusions to be dismissed with a condescending smile: 'This is really no joke, it's a very serious matter.' This legislation was buried in the 1,211th subsection of the 14th section of a batch of regulations very few members of government probably bothered to read in its entirety, the proverbial needle in the haystack, and was slipped onto the books without public debate. Thus from one day to the next we learn that, without having informed the public, in its infinite wisdom, the government of the United States has created a whole new criminal class: UFO contactees.
The lame excuse offered by NASA as a sugar coating for this bitter pill is that extra-terrestrials might have a virus that could wipe out the human race. This is certainly one of the many possibilities inherent is such contact, but just as certainly not the only one , and in itself not a valid reason to make all contact illegal or to declare contactees criminals to be jailed and fined immediately.
It appears the primary effect of such a law would not be to prevent contact, it would be to silence witnesses. If enforced, the law would prevent publication of contactee reports except under cover of anonymity, and unleash a modern inquisition in the Land of the Free. However, it is unenforceable, so obviously absurd and unfair that the public will refuse to accept it. The citizens of the United States will greet it with a resounding Bronx cheer and laugh it out of court, forcing it to be repealed.
It should be replaced by clearly worded legislation, not open to interpretation in a multitude of different ways, humanely relevant to the contingency of E.T. contact, debated and passed by Congress openly instead of slipped through 'under the table' without the public being informed. According to NASA spokesman Fletcher Reel, the law as it stands is not immediately applicable, but in case of need could quickly be made applicable. What this means is that it is ambiguously worded, so that it can be interpreted either one way or the other, as the government desires.
It is certainly not a coincidence that Dr. Clifford held his press conference during the period when the popularity of the film E.T. was at its peak. As E.T. portrayed a type of extraterrestrial that was benevolent and lovable, the inference is that the press conference was intended to discourage attempts to communicate or fraternize with UFO occupants. However, instead of having the intended effect, it backfired, causing public furor. There may be some relationship between this fiasco and the next semi-officially endorsed attempt to deal with the subject of extra-terrestrials, the TV film V, which was featured with repeat performances and maximum publicity by major networks worldwide. The aliens portrayed in V are the most horrifying and repulsive nightmares imaginable, who are defeated thanks largely to a CIA hit man specializing in covert operations, the tough guy with the heart of gold who with the aid of the handsome hero saves the human race. This is obvious and transparent propaganda, designed to do what the government's widespread use of dis-information, and Dr. Clifford's press conference about the absurd lemon of a law already on the books failed to do: squelch attempts to communicate or fraternize with UFO occupants.
ET Exposure Law Passed By Congress Years Ago - Why?
9-21-7
On October 5, 1982, Dr. Brain T. Clifford of the Pentagon announced at a press conference ('The Star', New York, Oct. 5, 1982) that contact between U.S. citizens and extra-terrestrials or their vehicles is strictly illegal. According to a law already on the books (Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, adopted on July 16, 1969, before the Apollo moon shots), anyone guilty of such contact automatically becomes a wanted criminal to be jailed for one year and fined $5,000. The NASA administrator is empowered to determine with or without a hearing that a person or object has been 'extraterrestrially exposed' and impose an indeterminate quarantine under armed guard, which could not be broken even by court order. There is no limit placed on the number of individuals who could thus be arbitrarily quarantined.
The definition of 'extraterrestrial exposure' is left entirely up to NASA administrator, who is thus endowed with total dictatorial power to be exercised at his slightest caprice, which is completely contrary to the Constitution.
According to Dr. Clifford, whose commanding officers have been assuring the public for the last 39 years that UFOs are nothing more than hoaxes and delusions to be dismissed with a condescending smile: 'This is really no joke, it's a very serious matter.' This legislation was buried in the 1,211th subsection of the 14th section of a batch of regulations very few members of government probably bothered to read in its entirety, the proverbial needle in the haystack, and was slipped onto the books without public debate. Thus from one day to the next we learn that, without having informed the public, in its infinite wisdom, the government of the United States has created a whole new criminal class: UFO contactees.
The lame excuse offered by NASA as a sugar coating for this bitter pill is that extra-terrestrials might have a virus that could wipe out the human race. This is certainly one of the many possibilities inherent is such contact, but just as certainly not the only one , and in itself not a valid reason to make all contact illegal or to declare contactees criminals to be jailed and fined immediately.
It appears the primary effect of such a law would not be to prevent contact, it would be to silence witnesses. If enforced, the law would prevent publication of contactee reports except under cover of anonymity, and unleash a modern inquisition in the Land of the Free. However, it is unenforceable, so obviously absurd and unfair that the public will refuse to accept it. The citizens of the United States will greet it with a resounding Bronx cheer and laugh it out of court, forcing it to be repealed.
It should be replaced by clearly worded legislation, not open to interpretation in a multitude of different ways, humanely relevant to the contingency of E.T. contact, debated and passed by Congress openly instead of slipped through 'under the table' without the public being informed. According to NASA spokesman Fletcher Reel, the law as it stands is not immediately applicable, but in case of need could quickly be made applicable. What this means is that it is ambiguously worded, so that it can be interpreted either one way or the other, as the government desires.
It is certainly not a coincidence that Dr. Clifford held his press conference during the period when the popularity of the film E.T. was at its peak. As E.T. portrayed a type of extraterrestrial that was benevolent and lovable, the inference is that the press conference was intended to discourage attempts to communicate or fraternize with UFO occupants. However, instead of having the intended effect, it backfired, causing public furor. There may be some relationship between this fiasco and the next semi-officially endorsed attempt to deal with the subject of extra-terrestrials, the TV film V, which was featured with repeat performances and maximum publicity by major networks worldwide. The aliens portrayed in V are the most horrifying and repulsive nightmares imaginable, who are defeated thanks largely to a CIA hit man specializing in covert operations, the tough guy with the heart of gold who with the aid of the handsome hero saves the human race. This is obvious and transparent propaganda, designed to do what the government's widespread use of dis-information, and Dr. Clifford's press conference about the absurd lemon of a law already on the books failed to do: squelch attempts to communicate or fraternize with UFO occupants.
Senate seeks to pierce the Cheney White House's veil of secrecy while obstructing justice of 3 South Dakota murders
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004251.php#more
Senate Committee Passes Bill to Monitor Contacts between White House and Justice Department
By Paul Kiel - September 21, 2007, 11:15AM
If Dick Cheney or his right-hand lawyer David Addington are talking to Justice Department officials about individual cases, Congress wants to know about it.
What could be the second law change to emerge from the U.S. attorney firings scandal passed the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), would require the White House and Justice Department to detail in reports to Congress twice a year which Department officials had spoken to which White House officials about cases.
During questioning of Alberto Gonzales this spring, Whitehouse revealed that the Bush White House had thrown the door open to literally hundreds of White House officials being able to confer with Department officials about cases. A memo signed by John Ashcroft had initially opened the door. But a May, 2006 memo by Gonzales had exacerbated the problem and seemed to take special care in ensuring access for Cheney's staff. Gonzales, under questioning, was characteristically befuddled by the document that he'd signed: “I’d have to go back and look at this.... I must say I'm troubled by this.”
The bill passed the committee by a bipartisan 14-2 margin with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) voting against.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced during yesterday's business meeting that attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey had told him that he'd fire Department officials who spoke to people in the White House about cases without his say-so.
Earlier this year, a law overturning a measure that had allowed the attorney general to indefinitely appoint U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation passed both houses and was signed by Bush.
Senate Committee Passes Bill to Monitor Contacts between White House and Justice Department
By Paul Kiel - September 21, 2007, 11:15AM
If Dick Cheney or his right-hand lawyer David Addington are talking to Justice Department officials about individual cases, Congress wants to know about it.
What could be the second law change to emerge from the U.S. attorney firings scandal passed the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), would require the White House and Justice Department to detail in reports to Congress twice a year which Department officials had spoken to which White House officials about cases.
During questioning of Alberto Gonzales this spring, Whitehouse revealed that the Bush White House had thrown the door open to literally hundreds of White House officials being able to confer with Department officials about cases. A memo signed by John Ashcroft had initially opened the door. But a May, 2006 memo by Gonzales had exacerbated the problem and seemed to take special care in ensuring access for Cheney's staff. Gonzales, under questioning, was characteristically befuddled by the document that he'd signed: “I’d have to go back and look at this.... I must say I'm troubled by this.”
The bill passed the committee by a bipartisan 14-2 margin with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) voting against.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced during yesterday's business meeting that attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey had told him that he'd fire Department officials who spoke to people in the White House about cases without his say-so.
Earlier this year, a law overturning a measure that had allowed the attorney general to indefinitely appoint U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation passed both houses and was signed by Bush.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
FBI OBSTRUCTS THE ANTHRAX FALSE FLAG TERRORISM....more chicanery from FBI punkscum.
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.
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.
Senate Punks lose on Habeas Corpus: Cheney owns Senate
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=234404
Senate Fails on Habeas Corpus
Today the US Senate fell four votes short of restoring Habeas Corpus, the fundamental constitutional right of individuals to challenge government detention, which the Republican Congress revoked in last year's Military Commissions Act. Fifty-six senators supported a procedural move to tie the Habeas provision to legislation authorizing defense spending--a step that requires sixty votes.
The amendment was sponsored by Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, Senator Arlen Specter ☼, who voted for the legislation that the amendment attempts to reverse, and Senator Chris Dodd, who blasted today's vote. "Each of us in the Senate faced a decision either to cast a vote in favor of helping to restore America's reputation in the world, or to help dig deeper the hole of utter disrespect for the rule of law that the Bush Administration has created. Unfortunately, too many of my colleagues chose the latter," he said.
Backers of the amendment and human rights organizers say they will continue to press for habeas restoration. Leah Adler, an organizer with Working Assets, wrote today that activists should focus on the U.S. House, which will "likely consider legislation to restore habeas corpus in the next few weeks."
Today's vote also suggests a new Senate majority for Habeas Corpus. (Last Congress, a similar amendment did not even break 50 votes.) And yes, it is a sad sign that we are reduced to counting votes for which members of Congress are upholding their oath to support the Constitution.
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Senate Fails on Habeas Corpus
Today the US Senate fell four votes short of restoring Habeas Corpus, the fundamental constitutional right of individuals to challenge government detention, which the Republican Congress revoked in last year's Military Commissions Act. Fifty-six senators supported a procedural move to tie the Habeas provision to legislation authorizing defense spending--a step that requires sixty votes.
The amendment was sponsored by Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, Senator Arlen Specter ☼, who voted for the legislation that the amendment attempts to reverse, and Senator Chris Dodd, who blasted today's vote. "Each of us in the Senate faced a decision either to cast a vote in favor of helping to restore America's reputation in the world, or to help dig deeper the hole of utter disrespect for the rule of law that the Bush Administration has created. Unfortunately, too many of my colleagues chose the latter," he said.
Backers of the amendment and human rights organizers say they will continue to press for habeas restoration. Leah Adler, an organizer with Working Assets, wrote today that activists should focus on the U.S. House, which will "likely consider legislation to restore habeas corpus in the next few weeks."
Today's vote also suggests a new Senate majority for Habeas Corpus. (Last Congress, a similar amendment did not even break 50 votes.) And yes, it is a sad sign that we are reduced to counting votes for which members of Congress are upholding their oath to support the Constitution.
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NSA whistleblower in San Fran: Courts stall so BUSH can survive
Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
Wired News | April 07, 2006
By Ryan Singel
AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, submitted an affidavit in support of the EFF's lawsuit this week. That class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco last January, alleges that AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.
On Wednesday, the EFF asked the court to issue an injunction prohibiting AT&T from continuing the alleged wiretapping, and filed a number of documents under seal, including three AT&T documents that purportedly explain how the wiretapping system works.
According to a statement released by Klein's attorney, an NSA agent showed up at the San Francisco switching center in 2002 to interview a management-level technician for a special job. In January 2003, Klein observed a new room being built adjacent to the room housing AT&T's #4ESS switching equipment, which is responsible for routing long distance and international calls.
"I learned that the person whom the NSA interviewed for the secret job was the person working to install equipment in this room," Klein wrote. "The regular technician work force was not allowed in the room."
Klein's job eventually included connecting internet circuits to a splitting cabinet that led to the secret room. During the course of that work, he learned from a co-worker that similar cabinets were being installed in other cities, including Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego.
"While doing my job, I learned that fiber optic cables from the secret room were tapping into the Worldnet (AT&T's internet service) circuits by splitting off a portion of the light signal," Klein wrote.
The split circuits included traffic from peering links connecting to other internet backbone providers, meaning that AT&T was also diverting traffic routed from its network to or from other domestic and international providers, according to Klein's statement.
The secret room also included data-mining equipment called a Narus STA 6400, "known to be used particularly by government intelligence agencies because of its ability to sift through large amounts of data looking for preprogrammed targets," according to Klein's statement.
Narus, whose website touts AT&T as a client, sells software to help internet service providers and telecoms monitor and manage their networks, look for intrusions, and wiretap phone calls as mandated by federal law.
Klein said he came forward because he does not believe that the Bush administration is being truthful about the extent of its extrajudicial monitoring of Americans' communications.
"Despite what we are hearing, and considering the public track record of this administration, I simply do not believe their claims that the NSA's spying program is really limited to foreign communications or is otherwise consistent with the NSA's charter or with FISA," Klein's wrote. "And unlike the controversy over targeted wiretaps of individuals' phone calls, this potential spying appears to be applied wholesale to all sorts of internet communications of countless citizens."
After asking for a preview copy of the documents last week, the government did not object to the EFF filing the paper under seal, although the EFF asked the court Wednesday to make the documents public.
One of the documents is titled "Study Group 3, LGX/Splitter Wiring, San Francisco," and is dated 2002. The others are allegedly a design document instructing technicians how to wire up the taps, and a document that describes the equipment installed in the secret room.
In a letter to the EFF, AT&T objected to the filing of the documents in any manner, saying that they contain sensitive trade secrets and could be "could be used to 'hack' into the AT&T network, compromising its integrity."
According to court rules, AT&T has until Thursday to file a motion to keep the documents sealed. The government could also step in to the case and request that the documents not be made public, or even that the entire lawsuit be barred under the seldom-used State Secrets Privilege.
AT&T spokesman Walt Sharp declined to comment on the allegations, citing a company policy of not commenting on litigation or matters of national security, but did say that "AT&T follows all laws following requests for assistance from government authorities."
Wired News | April 07, 2006
By Ryan Singel
AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, submitted an affidavit in support of the EFF's lawsuit this week. That class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco last January, alleges that AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.
On Wednesday, the EFF asked the court to issue an injunction prohibiting AT&T from continuing the alleged wiretapping, and filed a number of documents under seal, including three AT&T documents that purportedly explain how the wiretapping system works.
According to a statement released by Klein's attorney, an NSA agent showed up at the San Francisco switching center in 2002 to interview a management-level technician for a special job. In January 2003, Klein observed a new room being built adjacent to the room housing AT&T's #4ESS switching equipment, which is responsible for routing long distance and international calls.
"I learned that the person whom the NSA interviewed for the secret job was the person working to install equipment in this room," Klein wrote. "The regular technician work force was not allowed in the room."
Klein's job eventually included connecting internet circuits to a splitting cabinet that led to the secret room. During the course of that work, he learned from a co-worker that similar cabinets were being installed in other cities, including Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego.
"While doing my job, I learned that fiber optic cables from the secret room were tapping into the Worldnet (AT&T's internet service) circuits by splitting off a portion of the light signal," Klein wrote.
The split circuits included traffic from peering links connecting to other internet backbone providers, meaning that AT&T was also diverting traffic routed from its network to or from other domestic and international providers, according to Klein's statement.
The secret room also included data-mining equipment called a Narus STA 6400, "known to be used particularly by government intelligence agencies because of its ability to sift through large amounts of data looking for preprogrammed targets," according to Klein's statement.
Narus, whose website touts AT&T as a client, sells software to help internet service providers and telecoms monitor and manage their networks, look for intrusions, and wiretap phone calls as mandated by federal law.
Klein said he came forward because he does not believe that the Bush administration is being truthful about the extent of its extrajudicial monitoring of Americans' communications.
"Despite what we are hearing, and considering the public track record of this administration, I simply do not believe their claims that the NSA's spying program is really limited to foreign communications or is otherwise consistent with the NSA's charter or with FISA," Klein's wrote. "And unlike the controversy over targeted wiretaps of individuals' phone calls, this potential spying appears to be applied wholesale to all sorts of internet communications of countless citizens."
After asking for a preview copy of the documents last week, the government did not object to the EFF filing the paper under seal, although the EFF asked the court Wednesday to make the documents public.
One of the documents is titled "Study Group 3, LGX/Splitter Wiring, San Francisco," and is dated 2002. The others are allegedly a design document instructing technicians how to wire up the taps, and a document that describes the equipment installed in the secret room.
In a letter to the EFF, AT&T objected to the filing of the documents in any manner, saying that they contain sensitive trade secrets and could be "could be used to 'hack' into the AT&T network, compromising its integrity."
According to court rules, AT&T has until Thursday to file a motion to keep the documents sealed. The government could also step in to the case and request that the documents not be made public, or even that the entire lawsuit be barred under the seldom-used State Secrets Privilege.
AT&T spokesman Walt Sharp declined to comment on the allegations, citing a company policy of not commenting on litigation or matters of national security, but did say that "AT&T follows all laws following requests for assistance from government authorities."
Recent Put Option Trading: Smoking Gun of next False Flag Terrorism by US Intel Community
http://www.swissnetbroker.com/forexblog/2007/08/30/45-billion-options-bet-on-catastrophe-within-four-weeks/
$4.5 billion options bet on catastrophe within four weeks…
$4.5 billion options bet on catastrophe within four weeks Anybody have a clue as to what these ‘investors’ are expecting?
The two sales are being referred to by market traders as “bin Laden trades”
because only an event on the scale of 9-11 could make these short-sell options valuable.
There are 65,000 contracts @ $750.00 for the SPX 700 calls for open interest. That controls 6.5 million shares at $750 = $4.5 Billion. Not a single trade. But quite a bit of $$ on a contract that is 700 points away from current value. No one would buy that deep “in the money” calls. No reason to. So if they were sold looks like someone betting on massive dislocation. Lots of very strange option activity that I haven’t seen before.
The entity or individual offering these sales can only make money if the market drops 30%-50% within the next four weeks. If the market does not drop, the entity or individual involved stands to lose over $1 billion just for engaging in these contracts!
Clearly, someone knows something big is going to happen BEFORE the options expire on Sept. 21.
THEORIES:
The following theories are being discussed widely within the stock and options markets today regarding the enormous and very unusual activity reported above and two stories below. Those theories are:
1) A massive terrorist attack is going to take place before Sept. 21 to tank the markets, OR;
2) China, reeling over losing $10 Billion in bad loans to the sub-prime mortgage collapse presently taking place, is going to dump US currency and tank all of Capitalism with a Communist financial revolution. Either scenario is bad and the clock is ticking. The drop-dead date of these contracts is September 21. Whatever is going to happen MUST take place between now and then or the folks involved in these contracts will lose over
$1 billion for having engaged in this activity.
“$1.78 Billion Bet that Stock Markets will crash by third week in September Anonymous Stock Trader Sells 10K Contracts on EVERY S&P/Y “Strike” Shorts Stocks “in the money” effectively selling all his SPY holdings for cash up front without pressuring the market downward.
This is an enormous and dangerous stock option activity. If it goes right, the guy makes about $2 Billion. If he’s wrong, his out of pocket costs for buying these options will exceed $700 Million!!! The entity who sold these contracts can only make money if the stock market totally crashes by the third week in September.
Bear in mind that the last time anyone conducted such large and unusual stock option trades (like this one) was in the weeks before the attacks of September 11.
Back then, they bought huge numbers of PUTS on airline stocks in the same airlines whose planes were involved in the September 11 attacks.
Despite knowing who made these trades, the Securities and Exchange Commission NEVER revealed who made the unusual trades and no one was ever publicly identified as being responsible for the trades which made upwards of $50 million when the attacks happened.
The fact that this latest activity by a single entity gambles on a complete collapse of the entire market by the third week in September, seems to indicate someone knows something really huge is in the works and they intend to profit almost $2 Billion within the next four weeks from whatever happens! This is really worrisome.”
_____________________________________________
tommythebug: WHAT DOES THE FBI FAGGOT ACT HAVE TO SAY ABOUT RELEASING THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO BET 700,000,000 $ TO MAKE ABOUT 4.5 BILLION?
MUELLER HAS no comment on the deliberate indifference of his punk wind up toy clown robot scum.
Source: Ticker Forum
$4.5 billion options bet on catastrophe within four weeks…
$4.5 billion options bet on catastrophe within four weeks Anybody have a clue as to what these ‘investors’ are expecting?
The two sales are being referred to by market traders as “bin Laden trades”
because only an event on the scale of 9-11 could make these short-sell options valuable.
There are 65,000 contracts @ $750.00 for the SPX 700 calls for open interest. That controls 6.5 million shares at $750 = $4.5 Billion. Not a single trade. But quite a bit of $$ on a contract that is 700 points away from current value. No one would buy that deep “in the money” calls. No reason to. So if they were sold looks like someone betting on massive dislocation. Lots of very strange option activity that I haven’t seen before.
The entity or individual offering these sales can only make money if the market drops 30%-50% within the next four weeks. If the market does not drop, the entity or individual involved stands to lose over $1 billion just for engaging in these contracts!
Clearly, someone knows something big is going to happen BEFORE the options expire on Sept. 21.
THEORIES:
The following theories are being discussed widely within the stock and options markets today regarding the enormous and very unusual activity reported above and two stories below. Those theories are:
1) A massive terrorist attack is going to take place before Sept. 21 to tank the markets, OR;
2) China, reeling over losing $10 Billion in bad loans to the sub-prime mortgage collapse presently taking place, is going to dump US currency and tank all of Capitalism with a Communist financial revolution. Either scenario is bad and the clock is ticking. The drop-dead date of these contracts is September 21. Whatever is going to happen MUST take place between now and then or the folks involved in these contracts will lose over
$1 billion for having engaged in this activity.
“$1.78 Billion Bet that Stock Markets will crash by third week in September Anonymous Stock Trader Sells 10K Contracts on EVERY S&P/Y “Strike” Shorts Stocks “in the money” effectively selling all his SPY holdings for cash up front without pressuring the market downward.
This is an enormous and dangerous stock option activity. If it goes right, the guy makes about $2 Billion. If he’s wrong, his out of pocket costs for buying these options will exceed $700 Million!!! The entity who sold these contracts can only make money if the stock market totally crashes by the third week in September.
Bear in mind that the last time anyone conducted such large and unusual stock option trades (like this one) was in the weeks before the attacks of September 11.
Back then, they bought huge numbers of PUTS on airline stocks in the same airlines whose planes were involved in the September 11 attacks.
Despite knowing who made these trades, the Securities and Exchange Commission NEVER revealed who made the unusual trades and no one was ever publicly identified as being responsible for the trades which made upwards of $50 million when the attacks happened.
The fact that this latest activity by a single entity gambles on a complete collapse of the entire market by the third week in September, seems to indicate someone knows something really huge is in the works and they intend to profit almost $2 Billion within the next four weeks from whatever happens! This is really worrisome.”
_____________________________________________
tommythebug: WHAT DOES THE FBI FAGGOT ACT HAVE TO SAY ABOUT RELEASING THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO BET 700,000,000 $ TO MAKE ABOUT 4.5 BILLION?
MUELLER HAS no comment on the deliberate indifference of his punk wind up toy clown robot scum.
Source: Ticker Forum
Harassment by patriotic moron: Flying Flag upside down now justifies assault and false arrest by deputy idiot?
Couple Terrorized, Assaulted and Arrested For Flying an Upside Down U.S. Flag
Police officer recently returned from Iraq smashed into Kuhn's home, choked husband and then claimed they assaulted him
Prison Planet | July 31, 2007
Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson
A North Carolina couple who were terrorized by a police officer who had recently returned from Iraq are now fighting back, after sheriff's deputy Brian Scarborough broke into their house, assaulted them and then arrested the Kuhns for the crime of flying an upside down U.S. flag.
Mark and Deborah Kuhn of Asheville, North Carolina made headlines last week when they were arrested for flying an upside down U.S. flag, a commonly recognized sign of distress, in their backyard, after police claimed they were violating a statute for "desecration of the flag".
As is supported by the United States Flag Code as well as a similar incident in 2001 , flying the flag upside down is not a mark of disrespect, and in fact is considered by many to be the highest form of patriotism.
However, since 9/11 there have been several cases where individuals have been harassed, intimidated and even arrested for inverting the flag, by those who confuse a love of government with a love of country.
Buncombe County Sheriff's deputy Brian Scarborough had just returned from Iraq and according to the Deborah Kuhn, was sent by his staff Sergeant from the local National Guard to "deal with" the Kuhns after a local resident complained about the flag, a fact that was later admitted on TV news. A National Guard soldier in military fatigues had also previously visited the Kuhn's to harass them about the flag.
"This is a distress signal, we're not trying to desecrate the flag," Kuhn told Scarborough when he told the couple they were violating a statute. Police claimed the messages attached to the flag were the problem, but the notes merely pointed out that the upside down flag represented a distress signal and a warning that the country was in danger.
Even though Kuhn took the flag down, the officer immediately demanded that the couple show their ID's and when they refused told them to put their hands behind their back and was about to arrest them before the couple shut and locked the door.
Scarborough then proceeded to kick the door in, "And the next thing we know, the glass is flying, he unlocks the deadbolt and he comes into our house after us," Kuhn told The Alex Jones Show.
The officer then pursued Mark Kuhn through the house before intercepting him in the kitchen and putting him in a choke hold.
Deborah Kuhn called 911 to report that the officer had broken into the home and was assaulting her husband.
The officer then pulled out pepper spray to which Mark Kuhn responded, "Are you going to spray me in my house?" before Scarborough whipped out his billy club and the Kuhn's ran out of the house into the street, pleading for help from their neighbors.
"Nine police cars showed up, they whipped out the Tasers, they said 'get down we're gonna Taser you' added Kuhn.
The couple were handcuffed, arrested and bundled into a squad car, to the protests of numerous neighbors who demanded to know why the Kuhns were being incarcerated, but were told to leave by police.
Contradicting the police's account of the incident, that Buncombe County Sheriff's deputy Brian Scarborough was injured when the Kuhn's slammed the door on his hand, Deborah Kuhn vehemently maintains that Scarborough smashed the glass of their door with his bare fist before breaking in, a description which is backed up by three other eyewitnesses, one of which appeared on TV later that day.
The Kuhn's are now also being charged with "assault on a government employee" - meaning that the new definition of assault is if a police officer cuts his hand by breaking into your house and putting you in a choke hold - you have assaulted him.
Scarborough claims that Deborah Kuhn slapped him while she was on the phone to the police, but the audio file of the call (listen here ) clearly contradicts this.
They each face over a year in prison.
The Kuhn's case is similar in many ways to that of Kelly Rushing , a man from Lyon County Kentucky, who was arrested and charged for handing out videotapes of Ron Paul videos to police officers. Rushing was later found not guilty of the offence of "terroristic threats" but continues to be harassed by police.
It also mirrors the case of an Alabama man, who was arrested in 2004 for displaying a sign in his yard that read "Our Courts System is a Joke," under the pretext that it was illegal to criticize the authorities.
We are encouraging our listeners and readers to call the following number and remind the officials concerned that this is not Russia or Nazi Germany, and that officer Scarborough's conduct was shameful and an insult to everything America is supposed to stand for.
Scarborough's experience in Iraq of kicking down doors and taking innocent people to camps is not something that should be brought back to America, and the charges against the Kuhns should be dropped immediately along with a formal apology issued.
Sheriff Van Duncan's Office: 828-250-4503
Click here to listen to the interview with Deborah Kuhn
Police officer recently returned from Iraq smashed into Kuhn's home, choked husband and then claimed they assaulted him
Prison Planet | July 31, 2007
Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson
A North Carolina couple who were terrorized by a police officer who had recently returned from Iraq are now fighting back, after sheriff's deputy Brian Scarborough broke into their house, assaulted them and then arrested the Kuhns for the crime of flying an upside down U.S. flag.
Mark and Deborah Kuhn of Asheville, North Carolina made headlines last week when they were arrested for flying an upside down U.S. flag, a commonly recognized sign of distress, in their backyard, after police claimed they were violating a statute for "desecration of the flag".
As is supported by the United States Flag Code as well as a similar incident in 2001 , flying the flag upside down is not a mark of disrespect, and in fact is considered by many to be the highest form of patriotism.
However, since 9/11 there have been several cases where individuals have been harassed, intimidated and even arrested for inverting the flag, by those who confuse a love of government with a love of country.
Buncombe County Sheriff's deputy Brian Scarborough had just returned from Iraq and according to the Deborah Kuhn, was sent by his staff Sergeant from the local National Guard to "deal with" the Kuhns after a local resident complained about the flag, a fact that was later admitted on TV news. A National Guard soldier in military fatigues had also previously visited the Kuhn's to harass them about the flag.
"This is a distress signal, we're not trying to desecrate the flag," Kuhn told Scarborough when he told the couple they were violating a statute. Police claimed the messages attached to the flag were the problem, but the notes merely pointed out that the upside down flag represented a distress signal and a warning that the country was in danger.
Even though Kuhn took the flag down, the officer immediately demanded that the couple show their ID's and when they refused told them to put their hands behind their back and was about to arrest them before the couple shut and locked the door.
Scarborough then proceeded to kick the door in, "And the next thing we know, the glass is flying, he unlocks the deadbolt and he comes into our house after us," Kuhn told The Alex Jones Show.
The officer then pursued Mark Kuhn through the house before intercepting him in the kitchen and putting him in a choke hold.
Deborah Kuhn called 911 to report that the officer had broken into the home and was assaulting her husband.
The officer then pulled out pepper spray to which Mark Kuhn responded, "Are you going to spray me in my house?" before Scarborough whipped out his billy club and the Kuhn's ran out of the house into the street, pleading for help from their neighbors.
"Nine police cars showed up, they whipped out the Tasers, they said 'get down we're gonna Taser you' added Kuhn.
The couple were handcuffed, arrested and bundled into a squad car, to the protests of numerous neighbors who demanded to know why the Kuhns were being incarcerated, but were told to leave by police.
Contradicting the police's account of the incident, that Buncombe County Sheriff's deputy Brian Scarborough was injured when the Kuhn's slammed the door on his hand, Deborah Kuhn vehemently maintains that Scarborough smashed the glass of their door with his bare fist before breaking in, a description which is backed up by three other eyewitnesses, one of which appeared on TV later that day.
The Kuhn's are now also being charged with "assault on a government employee" - meaning that the new definition of assault is if a police officer cuts his hand by breaking into your house and putting you in a choke hold - you have assaulted him.
Scarborough claims that Deborah Kuhn slapped him while she was on the phone to the police, but the audio file of the call (listen here ) clearly contradicts this.
They each face over a year in prison.
The Kuhn's case is similar in many ways to that of Kelly Rushing , a man from Lyon County Kentucky, who was arrested and charged for handing out videotapes of Ron Paul videos to police officers. Rushing was later found not guilty of the offence of "terroristic threats" but continues to be harassed by police.
It also mirrors the case of an Alabama man, who was arrested in 2004 for displaying a sign in his yard that read "Our Courts System is a Joke," under the pretext that it was illegal to criticize the authorities.
We are encouraging our listeners and readers to call the following number and remind the officials concerned that this is not Russia or Nazi Germany, and that officer Scarborough's conduct was shameful and an insult to everything America is supposed to stand for.
Scarborough's experience in Iraq of kicking down doors and taking innocent people to camps is not something that should be brought back to America, and the charges against the Kuhns should be dropped immediately along with a formal apology issued.
Sheriff Van Duncan's Office: 828-250-4503
Click here to listen to the interview with Deborah Kuhn
LJB's mistress: interview about JFK Murder and LBJ's meeting with radical right wing
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/300806jfk.htm
LBJ Night Before JFK Assassination: "Those SOB's Will Never Embarrass Me Again"
Outside the debate of magic bullets, multiple shooters and grassy knoll theories - an astounding deposition of a deliberately planned criminal conspiracy straight from the horse's mouth
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 30 2006
The night before the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson met with Dallas tycoons, FBI moguls and organized crime kingpins - emerging from the conference to tell his mistress Madeleine Duncan Brown that "those SOB's" would never embarrass him again. It's a jaw-dropping deposition and it's the biggest JFK smoking gun there is - despite the fact that it has received little media attention.
Before her death on June 22 2002, prolific author and lecturer Robert Gaylon Ross had the opportunity to conduct an 80 minute sit-down interview with Madeleine Duncan Brown and from that lengthy discussion the truth about exactly who was behind the assassination of JFK was exposed.
Though Brown first went public on her 21-year relationship with Johnson in the early 80's, to this day her shocking revelations about how he had told her the Kennedy's "would never embarrass me again" the night before the assassination are often ignored by the media who prefer to keep the debate focused on issues which can't definitively be proven either way (or at least can be spinned and whitewashed).
it is important to note that before her death Brown carried no hostility towards Lyndon Johnson and in fact was just as smitten with him as on the first day they met.
Brown said that the plan to kill JFK had its origins in the 1960 Democratic Convention, at which John F. Kennedy was elected as presidential candidate with Johnson as his running mate, where H.L. Hunt, an American oil tycoon, and Lyndon Johnson hatched the assassination plot.
"When they met in California Joe Kennedy, John Kennedy's father, and H.L. Hunt met met three days prior to the election - they finally cut a deal according to John Currington (an aide to H.L. Hunt) and H.L. finally agreed that Lyndon would go as the vice president....this came from the horse's mouth way back in 1960 - when H.L. came back to Dallas I was walking....with him....and he made the remark, 'we may have lost a battle but we're going to win a war,' and then the day of the assassination he said 'well, we won the war'," said Brown.
Brown said that in the immediate aftermath of the convention Hunt and Johnson mapped out a strategy to kill Kennedy.
"It was a total political crime and H.L. Hunt really controlled what actually happened to John Kennedy - he and Lyndon Johnson," said Brown.
"They had this lodge....outside of Dallas and they would meet there....he chose different people to do certain things for him and I'm sure it went on about two years prior to the assassination of John Kennedy."
In the video Brown describes the make-up and activities of the "8F group" which revolved socially and politically around Johnson and Hunt and included high rolling oil tycoons, judges and then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
The group included Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who would later shoot the patsy Lee Harvey Oswald dead on November 24.
"We were playing poker at the Carousel Club and Jack Ruby came over and he said 'you know what this is?' and I looked up....he had this motorcade route....it stung me that he would be this involved in knowing where the President of the United States was....at that time in my life I thought they were untouchable," said Brown.
Brown described Ruby as the "in man" in Texas who could be trusted to arrange call girls, drugs, gambling fixes and even contract killings.
The group met for a party in Dallas hosted by Clint Murchison, another business tycoon with close links to the Genovese mafia, on November 21st 1963, the night before the assassination. Those present at the event included J. Edgar Hoover, Clyde Tolson, John J. McCloy, Jack Ruby, George Brown (of Brown and Root), numerous mafia kingpins, several newspaper and TV reporters, and Richard Nixon.
The party began to wind down at around 11 o' clock when the attendees were shocked to witness the arrival of Lyndon Johnson who had traveled from Houston. Clint Murchison immediately called a meeting.
"They all went in to this conference room.....Lyndon didn't stay that much in the meeting and when he came out....he grabbed me by the arm and he had this deep voice and he said, 'after tomorrow those S.O.B.'s will never embarrass me again - that's no threat - that's a promise.'"
Johnson was still irate when he called Madeleine Brown the morning of the assassination, telling her the Irish mafia (meaning the Kennedy family) would never embarrass him again.
Brown was in Dallas in the day of the assassination but just as the parade for Kennedy was beginning she left and began driving towards Austin, first stopping off to have a haircut. Upon entering a hair salon she saw the news that Kennedy had been shot and immediately thought to call Lou Sterrett , who was an Austin media mogul.
"I said my God what has happened Lou?"
"And he said 'well they just shot that S.O.B'"
"It was a political crime for political power," said Brown as she highlighted how people who were set to testify against Johnson for indictment proceedings, related to illegal kickbacks Johnson was receiving from agriculture programs before the assassination, were mysteriously set-up in homosexual scandals or found dead having allegedly shot themselves five times in the head.
LBJ Night Before JFK Assassination: "Those SOB's Will Never Embarrass Me Again"
Outside the debate of magic bullets, multiple shooters and grassy knoll theories - an astounding deposition of a deliberately planned criminal conspiracy straight from the horse's mouth
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 30 2006
The night before the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson met with Dallas tycoons, FBI moguls and organized crime kingpins - emerging from the conference to tell his mistress Madeleine Duncan Brown that "those SOB's" would never embarrass him again. It's a jaw-dropping deposition and it's the biggest JFK smoking gun there is - despite the fact that it has received little media attention.
Before her death on June 22 2002, prolific author and lecturer Robert Gaylon Ross had the opportunity to conduct an 80 minute sit-down interview with Madeleine Duncan Brown and from that lengthy discussion the truth about exactly who was behind the assassination of JFK was exposed.
Though Brown first went public on her 21-year relationship with Johnson in the early 80's, to this day her shocking revelations about how he had told her the Kennedy's "would never embarrass me again" the night before the assassination are often ignored by the media who prefer to keep the debate focused on issues which can't definitively be proven either way (or at least can be spinned and whitewashed).
it is important to note that before her death Brown carried no hostility towards Lyndon Johnson and in fact was just as smitten with him as on the first day they met.
Brown said that the plan to kill JFK had its origins in the 1960 Democratic Convention, at which John F. Kennedy was elected as presidential candidate with Johnson as his running mate, where H.L. Hunt, an American oil tycoon, and Lyndon Johnson hatched the assassination plot.
"When they met in California Joe Kennedy, John Kennedy's father, and H.L. Hunt met met three days prior to the election - they finally cut a deal according to John Currington (an aide to H.L. Hunt) and H.L. finally agreed that Lyndon would go as the vice president....this came from the horse's mouth way back in 1960 - when H.L. came back to Dallas I was walking....with him....and he made the remark, 'we may have lost a battle but we're going to win a war,' and then the day of the assassination he said 'well, we won the war'," said Brown.
Brown said that in the immediate aftermath of the convention Hunt and Johnson mapped out a strategy to kill Kennedy.
"It was a total political crime and H.L. Hunt really controlled what actually happened to John Kennedy - he and Lyndon Johnson," said Brown.
"They had this lodge....outside of Dallas and they would meet there....he chose different people to do certain things for him and I'm sure it went on about two years prior to the assassination of John Kennedy."
In the video Brown describes the make-up and activities of the "8F group" which revolved socially and politically around Johnson and Hunt and included high rolling oil tycoons, judges and then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
The group included Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who would later shoot the patsy Lee Harvey Oswald dead on November 24.
"We were playing poker at the Carousel Club and Jack Ruby came over and he said 'you know what this is?' and I looked up....he had this motorcade route....it stung me that he would be this involved in knowing where the President of the United States was....at that time in my life I thought they were untouchable," said Brown.
Brown described Ruby as the "in man" in Texas who could be trusted to arrange call girls, drugs, gambling fixes and even contract killings.
The group met for a party in Dallas hosted by Clint Murchison, another business tycoon with close links to the Genovese mafia, on November 21st 1963, the night before the assassination. Those present at the event included J. Edgar Hoover, Clyde Tolson, John J. McCloy, Jack Ruby, George Brown (of Brown and Root), numerous mafia kingpins, several newspaper and TV reporters, and Richard Nixon.
The party began to wind down at around 11 o' clock when the attendees were shocked to witness the arrival of Lyndon Johnson who had traveled from Houston. Clint Murchison immediately called a meeting.
"They all went in to this conference room.....Lyndon didn't stay that much in the meeting and when he came out....he grabbed me by the arm and he had this deep voice and he said, 'after tomorrow those S.O.B.'s will never embarrass me again - that's no threat - that's a promise.'"
Johnson was still irate when he called Madeleine Brown the morning of the assassination, telling her the Irish mafia (meaning the Kennedy family) would never embarrass him again.
Brown was in Dallas in the day of the assassination but just as the parade for Kennedy was beginning she left and began driving towards Austin, first stopping off to have a haircut. Upon entering a hair salon she saw the news that Kennedy had been shot and immediately thought to call Lou Sterrett , who was an Austin media mogul.
"I said my God what has happened Lou?"
"And he said 'well they just shot that S.O.B'"
"It was a political crime for political power," said Brown as she highlighted how people who were set to testify against Johnson for indictment proceedings, related to illegal kickbacks Johnson was receiving from agriculture programs before the assassination, were mysteriously set-up in homosexual scandals or found dead having allegedly shot themselves five times in the head.
GOP Pedophile outed by CIA (in retaliation to Goss's heavy handed stupidity)....avoids indictment?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/09/foley-unlikely-.html
Foley Unlikely to Be Prosecuted; Lewd Internet Messages Too Old
September 14, 2007 8:26 AM
Vic Walter and Krista Kjellman Report:
Congressman Mark Foley, whose e-mails and instant messages to teenage former congressional pages shocked the country, may avoid criminal prosecution in Florida because of the state's three-year statute of limitations.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement did not start a criminal investigation of Foley until November 2006, making it nearly impossible to prosecute what some officials regarded as the best case, an explicit instant message sent by Foley to a 17-year-old high school student in February 2003, when Foley was in Pensacola, Fla.
"Barring any extraordinary circumstances, it is very unlikely for charges to be filed in a case once the statute of limitations has run its course," said Aya Gruber, a former federal public defender and professor of law at Florida International University.
Federal officials turned the case over to Florida after concluding that Foley did not engage in any actual sexual contact until the former pages had turned 18, and had therefore not violated federal law. Washington, D.C. law defines the age of consent as 16.
Under Florida law, it is a third-degree felony both to use the Internet "to seduce, solicit, lure or entice" a minor "to commit any illegal act...relating to lewdness and indecent exposure" and to transmit any "information or data that is harmful to minors...via electronic mail," which includes instant messages.
The statute of limitations hasn't been the only hurdle in the Florida investigation. Last month, lawyers for the U.S. House of Representatives denied Florida law enforcement officials access to the former congressman's computers, as previously reported on the Blotter on ABCNews.com. Investigators believe Foley may have used the machines to send illegal sexually explicit message to former congressional pages.
A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman told ABC News at the time that House lawyers denied their request to turn over the computers, citing the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution, which protects congressional papers. The House claims Foley's computers are the equivalent of congressional papers, and that only Foley can waive his congressional privilege and grant access to them.
At the time, the spokeswoman, Kristen Perezluha, had said the department was working with Foley's lawyers to obtain access to the computers. This week she would neither confirm nor deny they had been granted access.
Perezluha did tell ABC News the investigation was almost done. "They (investigators) hope to have it wrapped up soon," she said.
Calls to Foley's attorney were not returned.
Foley resigned Sept. 29, 2006, hours after ABC News questioned him about sexually explicit messages with former congressional pages, some of whom were under the age of 18 at the time of the exchanges.
This post has been updated.
Foley Unlikely to Be Prosecuted; Lewd Internet Messages Too Old
September 14, 2007 8:26 AM
Vic Walter and Krista Kjellman Report:
Congressman Mark Foley, whose e-mails and instant messages to teenage former congressional pages shocked the country, may avoid criminal prosecution in Florida because of the state's three-year statute of limitations.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement did not start a criminal investigation of Foley until November 2006, making it nearly impossible to prosecute what some officials regarded as the best case, an explicit instant message sent by Foley to a 17-year-old high school student in February 2003, when Foley was in Pensacola, Fla.
"Barring any extraordinary circumstances, it is very unlikely for charges to be filed in a case once the statute of limitations has run its course," said Aya Gruber, a former federal public defender and professor of law at Florida International University.
Federal officials turned the case over to Florida after concluding that Foley did not engage in any actual sexual contact until the former pages had turned 18, and had therefore not violated federal law. Washington, D.C. law defines the age of consent as 16.
Under Florida law, it is a third-degree felony both to use the Internet "to seduce, solicit, lure or entice" a minor "to commit any illegal act...relating to lewdness and indecent exposure" and to transmit any "information or data that is harmful to minors...via electronic mail," which includes instant messages.
The statute of limitations hasn't been the only hurdle in the Florida investigation. Last month, lawyers for the U.S. House of Representatives denied Florida law enforcement officials access to the former congressman's computers, as previously reported on the Blotter on ABCNews.com. Investigators believe Foley may have used the machines to send illegal sexually explicit message to former congressional pages.
A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman told ABC News at the time that House lawyers denied their request to turn over the computers, citing the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution, which protects congressional papers. The House claims Foley's computers are the equivalent of congressional papers, and that only Foley can waive his congressional privilege and grant access to them.
At the time, the spokeswoman, Kristen Perezluha, had said the department was working with Foley's lawyers to obtain access to the computers. This week she would neither confirm nor deny they had been granted access.
Perezluha did tell ABC News the investigation was almost done. "They (investigators) hope to have it wrapped up soon," she said.
Calls to Foley's attorney were not returned.
Foley resigned Sept. 29, 2006, hours after ABC News questioned him about sexually explicit messages with former congressional pages, some of whom were under the age of 18 at the time of the exchanges.
This post has been updated.
VICTIM OF FBI HARASSMENT, Brandon Mayfield fights on with Gerry Spence (cowboy lawyer who did Ruby Ridge Defense work)
September 19, 2007
Brandon Mayfield
Represented by the prominent (and flamboyant) civil rights attorney Gerry Spence and Portland attorney Elden Rosenthal, Brandon Mayfeld, who was hastily and wrongfully arrested by the FBI in relation to the 2004 Madrid train bombings, is asking a federal judge to strike down UnConstitutional provisions of the PATRIOT Act.
Mayfield, who received $2 million of our taxpayer money from the federal government because of the FBI's bungling, wants the Busheviks to reveal what is in the surveillance documents about him that the government won't disclose. And he isn't stopping there.
In court, his attorneys are arguing "that the authority the Patriot Act grants is an assault on the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, without probable cause, determined by a judge, to believe that a crime has been committed."
Too bad we can't get a majority in Congress to stand up for the Constitution as Mayfield, an American lawyer who converted to Islam, is doing.
There is no crime in embracing a given religion in America. Diversity in faith, political thinking, and ideology is what is at the fundamental core of our nation's principles -- and the basis of our Constitution.
Mayfield's ongoing courage reminds us of the Ben Franklin quotation: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
As during America's revolutionary period, it is the citizens of our nation who will be the salvation of freedom, liberty, and democracy.
Brandon Mayfield is one of them -- and deserves this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award.
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Nominated by Kate McIntyre of Los Angeles, CA
Brandon Mayfield
Represented by the prominent (and flamboyant) civil rights attorney Gerry Spence and Portland attorney Elden Rosenthal, Brandon Mayfeld, who was hastily and wrongfully arrested by the FBI in relation to the 2004 Madrid train bombings, is asking a federal judge to strike down UnConstitutional provisions of the PATRIOT Act.
Mayfield, who received $2 million of our taxpayer money from the federal government because of the FBI's bungling, wants the Busheviks to reveal what is in the surveillance documents about him that the government won't disclose. And he isn't stopping there.
In court, his attorneys are arguing "that the authority the Patriot Act grants is an assault on the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, without probable cause, determined by a judge, to believe that a crime has been committed."
Too bad we can't get a majority in Congress to stand up for the Constitution as Mayfield, an American lawyer who converted to Islam, is doing.
There is no crime in embracing a given religion in America. Diversity in faith, political thinking, and ideology is what is at the fundamental core of our nation's principles -- and the basis of our Constitution.
Mayfield's ongoing courage reminds us of the Ben Franklin quotation: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
As during America's revolutionary period, it is the citizens of our nation who will be the salvation of freedom, liberty, and democracy.
Brandon Mayfield is one of them -- and deserves this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award.
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Nominated by Kate McIntyre of Los Angeles, CA
State Dept Inspector General OBSTRUCTED CONGRESS....another BUSH scandal?
State IG Accused of Averting Probes
By Glenn Kessler and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, September 19, 2007; Page A21
Howard J. Krongard, the State Department's inspector general, has repeatedly thwarted investigations into contracting fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan, including construction of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and censored reports that might prove politically embarrassing to the Bush administration, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform charged yesterday in a 13-page letter.
The letter, addressed to Krongard and signed by the committee chairman, Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), who released it yesterday, said the allegations were based on the testimony of seven current and former officials on Krongard's staff, including two former senior officials who allowed their names to be used, and private e-mail exchanges obtained by the committee. The letter said the allegations concerned all three major divisions of Krongard's office -- investigations, audits and inspections.
Waxman demanded documents and testimony for a hearing next month into Krongard's conduct. A copy of the letter was sent to the committee's top Republican, Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (Va.).
A statement released by Krongard's office said he had just completed a visit to Afghanistan and was "en route to Baghdad for the remainder of September." In the statement, he described the allegations as "replete with inaccuracies including those made by persons with their own agendas" and said he looks forward to the opportunity to respond fully to the committee. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino referred questions to the State Department, where spokesman Sean McCormack said he had not yet seen Waxman's letter.
The letter alleges that Krongard "interfered with ongoing investigations to protect the State Department and the White House from political embarrassment." It said that "your strong affinity with State Department leadership and your partisan political ties have led you to halt investigations, censor reports and refuse to cooperate with law enforcement agencies."
The Senate confirmed President Bush's nomination of Krongard, who had no previous State Department experience, in May 2005. He previously worked for an international law firm and had been general counsel for Deloitte & Touche in the mid-1990s. Federal Election Commission records indicate he has contributed to both parties: $1,350 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2000, for a "roast" of then-Michigan Gov. John Engler (R), and $1,000 to Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley in 1999. Krongard's brother, A.D. "Buzzy" Krongard, served as the No. 3 CIA official under then-Director George J. Tenet.
Waxman accused Howard Krongard of:
¿ Refusing to send investigators to Iraq and Afghanistan to investigate $3 billion worth of State Department contracts.
¿ Preventing his investigators from cooperating with a Justice Department probe into waste and fraud in the construction of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Using "highly irregular" procedures to personally exonerate the embassy's prime contractor of labor abuses.
¿ Interfering in the investigation of a close friend of former White House adviser Karl Rove.
¿ Censoring reports on embassies to prevent full disclosure to Congress.
¿ Refusing to publish critical audits of State's financial statements.
Among the e-mails obtained by the committee are exchanges in which staff members discussed Krongard's decision not to cooperate with the Justice Department on the embassy investigation.
"Wow, as we all [k]now that is not the normal and proper procedure," an investigator wrote to John A. DeDona, an assistant inspector general. DeDona forwarded the e-mail to Deputy Inspector General William E. Todd, saying, "I have always viewed myself as a loyal soldier but hopefully you sense my frustration in my voicemail yesterday."
Todd wrote back: "I know you are very frustrated. John, you need to convey to the troops the truth, the IG told us both Tuesday to stand down on this and not assist, that needs to be the message."
DeDona responded: "Unfortunately, under the current regime, the view within INV [the office of investigations] is to keep working the BS cases within the beltway, and let us not rock the boat with more significant investigations."
Waxman's letter also said that Krongard's actions have resulted in a "dysfunctional office environment in which you routinely berate and belittle personnel, show contempt for the abilities of career government professionals and cause the staff to fear coming to work." The letter said high personnel turnover has left the office with many senior-level vacancies and only seven of 27 investigator positions filled.
The embassy, whose cost of more than $600 million has made it the most expensive U.S. diplomatic mission in the world, has been the subject of repeated congressional questioning and allegations of wrongdoing in both construction and hiring practices.
By Glenn Kessler and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, September 19, 2007; Page A21
Howard J. Krongard, the State Department's inspector general, has repeatedly thwarted investigations into contracting fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan, including construction of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and censored reports that might prove politically embarrassing to the Bush administration, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform charged yesterday in a 13-page letter.
The letter, addressed to Krongard and signed by the committee chairman, Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), who released it yesterday, said the allegations were based on the testimony of seven current and former officials on Krongard's staff, including two former senior officials who allowed their names to be used, and private e-mail exchanges obtained by the committee. The letter said the allegations concerned all three major divisions of Krongard's office -- investigations, audits and inspections.
Waxman demanded documents and testimony for a hearing next month into Krongard's conduct. A copy of the letter was sent to the committee's top Republican, Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (Va.).
A statement released by Krongard's office said he had just completed a visit to Afghanistan and was "en route to Baghdad for the remainder of September." In the statement, he described the allegations as "replete with inaccuracies including those made by persons with their own agendas" and said he looks forward to the opportunity to respond fully to the committee. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino referred questions to the State Department, where spokesman Sean McCormack said he had not yet seen Waxman's letter.
The letter alleges that Krongard "interfered with ongoing investigations to protect the State Department and the White House from political embarrassment." It said that "your strong affinity with State Department leadership and your partisan political ties have led you to halt investigations, censor reports and refuse to cooperate with law enforcement agencies."
The Senate confirmed President Bush's nomination of Krongard, who had no previous State Department experience, in May 2005. He previously worked for an international law firm and had been general counsel for Deloitte & Touche in the mid-1990s. Federal Election Commission records indicate he has contributed to both parties: $1,350 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2000, for a "roast" of then-Michigan Gov. John Engler (R), and $1,000 to Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley in 1999. Krongard's brother, A.D. "Buzzy" Krongard, served as the No. 3 CIA official under then-Director George J. Tenet.
Waxman accused Howard Krongard of:
¿ Refusing to send investigators to Iraq and Afghanistan to investigate $3 billion worth of State Department contracts.
¿ Preventing his investigators from cooperating with a Justice Department probe into waste and fraud in the construction of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Using "highly irregular" procedures to personally exonerate the embassy's prime contractor of labor abuses.
¿ Interfering in the investigation of a close friend of former White House adviser Karl Rove.
¿ Censoring reports on embassies to prevent full disclosure to Congress.
¿ Refusing to publish critical audits of State's financial statements.
Among the e-mails obtained by the committee are exchanges in which staff members discussed Krongard's decision not to cooperate with the Justice Department on the embassy investigation.
"Wow, as we all [k]now that is not the normal and proper procedure," an investigator wrote to John A. DeDona, an assistant inspector general. DeDona forwarded the e-mail to Deputy Inspector General William E. Todd, saying, "I have always viewed myself as a loyal soldier but hopefully you sense my frustration in my voicemail yesterday."
Todd wrote back: "I know you are very frustrated. John, you need to convey to the troops the truth, the IG told us both Tuesday to stand down on this and not assist, that needs to be the message."
DeDona responded: "Unfortunately, under the current regime, the view within INV [the office of investigations] is to keep working the BS cases within the beltway, and let us not rock the boat with more significant investigations."
Waxman's letter also said that Krongard's actions have resulted in a "dysfunctional office environment in which you routinely berate and belittle personnel, show contempt for the abilities of career government professionals and cause the staff to fear coming to work." The letter said high personnel turnover has left the office with many senior-level vacancies and only seven of 27 investigator positions filled.
The embassy, whose cost of more than $600 million has made it the most expensive U.S. diplomatic mission in the world, has been the subject of repeated congressional questioning and allegations of wrongdoing in both construction and hiring practices.
Minnesota US Attorney scandal ALL CLEANED UP FOR NOW
http://www.pubhousedialogues.com/index.php/curmudgeon/2007/09/18/us_attorney_paulose_demands_loyalty
Minnesota US Attorney Paulose Demands Loyalty
Loyal Bushie Rachael Paulose got appointed as the MN US Attorney after Tom Heffelfinger (who was on the criminal Republican regime's hitlist of US Attorneys) stepped down. She's wasted little time in wreaking havoc, in that uniquely Republican way. And now, as reported by Eric Black, the US Attorney is under federal investigation.
Paulose allegedly "mishandled classified information, decided to fire the subordinate who called it to her attention, retaliated against others in the office who crossed her, and made racist remarks". Yup, uniquely Republican, especially so in the days of this current criminal Republican regime. Honestly, it is downright eerie how these loyal bushies all seem to operate in the exact same fashion.
One thing that especially stood out was this bit of business:
When Paulose took over the office, she told several of the career officials there that she demanded total personal loyalty. At least one replied that loyalty was owed to the Constitution, not to her. Many of the allegations raise the possibility that Paulose crossed the line while seeking to punish personal disloyalty.
...and THERE we have it- THE trademark of the regime: loyalty to the figurehead over fidelity to the Constitution. Loyalty to anything other than this cult of personality is to be punished, quickly, completely, and as severely as possible.
If we weren't living in some Bizarro-world, that alone would be cause for Paulose to be unceremoniously dumped on the curb. In these days of pax Republicana, however, this Curmudgeon doesn't expect her to be going anywhere. After all, more than a few Congressional seats are up for grabs next year, and the GOP desperately needs to spin Minnesota as a 'battleground' state- a place where elections can be portrayed as close... close enough to steal. Further, let us recall that it is within the US Attorney's purview to investigate and if need be, prosecute things like election fraud.
Perhaps the best we can hope for here in Minnesota is that the investigations keep enough of a spotlight on Paulose to prevent more of the same loyal bushie conduct on her part. It would be nice and comforting to think that a new Attorney General would restore accountability and responsibility, but I am not buying that. At all. No, the track record of the criminal Republican regime has been well-established, and even though personnel might change, the regime slogs onward with its agenda as best it can. With enough media attention, Paulose might be less effective in her pursuit of the agenda.
That's a big caveat. Eric Black is following the story, and I am sure that folks out her in the blogosphere will be on top of it. A quick search of the Strib and the PiPress, however, do not show even a hint of it at this time.
Minnesota US Attorney Paulose Demands Loyalty
Loyal Bushie Rachael Paulose got appointed as the MN US Attorney after Tom Heffelfinger (who was on the criminal Republican regime's hitlist of US Attorneys) stepped down. She's wasted little time in wreaking havoc, in that uniquely Republican way. And now, as reported by Eric Black, the US Attorney is under federal investigation.
Paulose allegedly "mishandled classified information, decided to fire the subordinate who called it to her attention, retaliated against others in the office who crossed her, and made racist remarks". Yup, uniquely Republican, especially so in the days of this current criminal Republican regime. Honestly, it is downright eerie how these loyal bushies all seem to operate in the exact same fashion.
One thing that especially stood out was this bit of business:
When Paulose took over the office, she told several of the career officials there that she demanded total personal loyalty. At least one replied that loyalty was owed to the Constitution, not to her. Many of the allegations raise the possibility that Paulose crossed the line while seeking to punish personal disloyalty.
...and THERE we have it- THE trademark of the regime: loyalty to the figurehead over fidelity to the Constitution. Loyalty to anything other than this cult of personality is to be punished, quickly, completely, and as severely as possible.
If we weren't living in some Bizarro-world, that alone would be cause for Paulose to be unceremoniously dumped on the curb. In these days of pax Republicana, however, this Curmudgeon doesn't expect her to be going anywhere. After all, more than a few Congressional seats are up for grabs next year, and the GOP desperately needs to spin Minnesota as a 'battleground' state- a place where elections can be portrayed as close... close enough to steal. Further, let us recall that it is within the US Attorney's purview to investigate and if need be, prosecute things like election fraud.
Perhaps the best we can hope for here in Minnesota is that the investigations keep enough of a spotlight on Paulose to prevent more of the same loyal bushie conduct on her part. It would be nice and comforting to think that a new Attorney General would restore accountability and responsibility, but I am not buying that. At all. No, the track record of the criminal Republican regime has been well-established, and even though personnel might change, the regime slogs onward with its agenda as best it can. With enough media attention, Paulose might be less effective in her pursuit of the agenda.
That's a big caveat. Eric Black is following the story, and I am sure that folks out her in the blogosphere will be on top of it. A quick search of the Strib and the PiPress, however, do not show even a hint of it at this time.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
FBI'S OBSTRUCTION OF ANTHRAX CASE....how come private investigators do better than Fed Faggots?
http://www.tetrahedron.org/news/NR020830.html
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Investigators Conclude Russian Defector is Lead Suspect in Anthrax Mailings Case
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Three veteran investigators have independently narrowed the field of anthrax mailings suspects to a single Russian defector affiliated with two heavily implicated defense contractors and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Kanatjan Alibekov, alias "Ken Alibek," the President of Hadron Advanced Biosystems, should be re-interrogated by the FBI, according to three researchers who arrived at this conclusion independently. They say Stephen Hatfield-the military virologist cited by FBI officials in recent weeks as a chief subject was not likely involved in the mailings at all.
The three men include: Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz-a public health and emerging diseases expert, Michael Ruppert-a retired Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective, and Stewart Webb-a federal whistle blower credited with supplying key evidence to federal prosecutors during the 1989 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) scandal. All three investigators say overwhelming evidence implicates Dr. Alibekov and the parties he served before and during the anthrax mailings, including the CIA. This, they propose, might best explain why the FBI's inquiry has floundered.
Their compiled evidence is largely public knowledge. Dr. Alibekov was the first Deputy Director of Biopreparat-the Soviet Union's leading biological weapons testing center. He oversaw military anthrax production for nearly 20 years, and was personally responsible for 32,000 employees at 40 facilities when he suddenly defected to the United States in 1992 to begin working for the CIA. According to interviews, Dr. Alibekov allegedly defected to help stop the biological weapons race, not for monetary reward. Yet, his activities in America indicate otherwise.
On May 20, 1998 Dr. Alibekov testified before the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress as a Program Manager for the Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI)-a leading military contractor and one of few institutional suspects identified by the press. William Broad of the New York Times (Dec. 13, 2001), upon Dr. Horowitz's earlier urging, cited BMI as the chief CIA contractor for project "Clearvision"-an effort to produce the deadliest Ames strain anthrax ever developed.
It was hyper-concentrated, silica-laced, electro-magnetized, and extremely transmissible. The facts indicate Dr. Alibekov, one of two leading anthrax experts contracted by the CIA at the time of "Clearvision," may have managed the entire program during which the germ was sent from BMI to the BMI administered and supplied Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. From here or BMI's anthrax lab in West Jefferson, Ohio, the never-before-seen anthrax weapon was transferred to envelopes and mailed from four locations including Trenton, N.J. and St. Petersburg, FL in early October, 2001. The mailings killed five people while scores of others were victimized by the ensuing fright and toxic side effects from taking CIPRO-the "anthrax antibiotic," according to experts and news reports.
More suspicious ties to the Russian defector and Hadron Advanced Biosystems were realized when investigators learned of the second leading BMI and CIA anthrax contractor, and close personal friend of Dr. Alibekov, Dr. William C. Patrick, III. Suspiciously, Dr. Alibekov and BMI had contracted with this anthrax ace in the Spring of 1998 to predict the dispersal and damage capability of mailing such a hyper-weaponized germ much like the one sent to select members of the media and legislators on Capitol Hill.
The three independent investigators each cite economic and political motives for the targeted anthrax mailings. Given the high grade and technical difficulty in producing and handling this grade of anthrax, they reasoned, "white collar criminals" with access to military or pharmaceutical labs most likely acted on behalf of those who benefited most from the attacks and ensuing fright. Hadron and its affiliates, including DynCorp and BMI, lead the pack of corporate and institutional suspects, the investigators say. A revelatory organizational chart prepared by Dr. Horowitz depicting these corporate and institutional suspects was mailed to more than 1,500 FBI agents late last year along with an extensive 25-page report still available over the Internet (link to http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html)
Logically, the three investigators reasoned, the media was initially targeted to sway public opinion in support of government orders worth billions of dollars for hyped vaccines and drugs, much of which benefited Hadron, DynCorp, BMI and their directors. DynCorp was the major military and intelligence provider awarded $322 million to develop, produce, and store anthrax and smallpox vaccines for the nation. BMI, a leading defense and energy industry contractor, directed the US military's Joint Vaccine Acquisitions Program. Bioport, LLC became a leading beneficiary. This British-controlled anthrax vaccine maker in Lansing, Michigan was sanctioned repeatedly by federal officials and members of congress for unethical business practices, violating health and safety guidelines, and vaccine contaminations that some researchers say may have triggered the mysterious Gulf War illness.
Corporate profiteering was firmly secured after the mailings to Capitol Hill, the investigators say. The specific targeting of Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), traditionally strong drug and military industry adversaries, reinforced their suspicions.
Dr. Horowitz had been studying anthrax advances since 1989. He correctly diagnosed "the beginning of the anthrax scam" one week before the first mailings were heralded by the media. FBI records show he urged the bureau to begin their ongoing investigation into anthrax-related bioterrorism at the end of September, 2001. It took bureau officials six months to finally respond to his repeated urgent correspondence. "Then, rather than expressing gratitude and following my leads," he said, "my two interrogators were primed to make me a suspect." For this reason, Horowitz says, he can "feel for the plight of the bureau's scapegoat"-Dr. Steven Hatfield.
Investigative journalist Michael Ruppert followed his suspicions to Hadron and DynCorp through court records pertaining to a secret pirated military software program called PROMIS. He learned that Dr. Alibekov's predecessor-Hadron's past director and founder, Dr. Earl Brian-a business associate of former Reagan administration Attorney General Edwin Meese-was convicted of fraud during the 1980s.
"Dr. Alibekov's interrogation and lie detection at Hadron's Advanced Biosystems," Ruppert advised, "may not only solve the anthrax mailings mystery, but also shed light on the recent untimely and inexplicable deaths of several biological weapons experts." The retired homicide detective suspects Dr. Alibekov's "comrade-in-arms," another top Soviet biological weapons director, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, was most likely murdered. Pasechnik defected to Great Britain three years before Dr. Alibekov defected to America, Mr. Ruppert recalled. Pasechnik's death, according to British intelligence officer Christopher Davis, was reportedly due to a stroke. Ruppert remains unconvinced.
Stuart Webb has spent more than twenty years investigating "white collar crime" at the highest levels of government. His intelligence sources and leads have proven accurate a number of times, helping justice department officials indict suspects ranging from bankers to drug dealers. He also believes evidence in the anthrax mailings case implicates key CIA and Bush administration officials. For this reason, he says, the crime is unlikely to be solved by the FBI.
"One of my sources, a high ranking intelligence officer, confirmed Dr. Horowitz's conclusion," he said. Hadron and "Dr. Alibek" in particular, are "most heavily implicated as agents for this anthrax devil-doing."
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NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: For interviews with the independent investigators named, contact: Dr. Horowitz, by calling 208-265-2575 or e-mailing tetra@tetrahedron.org; Mr. Ruppert by e-mailing mruppert@copvcia.com; and Mr. Webb by e-mailing stewwebb@sierranv.net.
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Date Mailed: August, 30, 2002
For Immediate Release
Contact: Elaine Zacky-208/265-2575; 800/336-9266
Investigators Conclude Russian Defector is Lead Suspect in Anthrax Mailings Case
Sandpoint, ID-
Three veteran investigators have independently narrowed the field of anthrax mailings suspects to a single Russian defector affiliated with two heavily implicated defense contractors and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Kanatjan Alibekov, alias "Ken Alibek," the President of Hadron Advanced Biosystems, should be re-interrogated by the FBI, according to three researchers who arrived at this conclusion independently. They say Stephen Hatfield-the military virologist cited by FBI officials in recent weeks as a chief subject was not likely involved in the mailings at all.
The three men include: Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz-a public health and emerging diseases expert, Michael Ruppert-a retired Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective, and Stewart Webb-a federal whistle blower credited with supplying key evidence to federal prosecutors during the 1989 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) scandal. All three investigators say overwhelming evidence implicates Dr. Alibekov and the parties he served before and during the anthrax mailings, including the CIA. This, they propose, might best explain why the FBI's inquiry has floundered.
Their compiled evidence is largely public knowledge. Dr. Alibekov was the first Deputy Director of Biopreparat-the Soviet Union's leading biological weapons testing center. He oversaw military anthrax production for nearly 20 years, and was personally responsible for 32,000 employees at 40 facilities when he suddenly defected to the United States in 1992 to begin working for the CIA. According to interviews, Dr. Alibekov allegedly defected to help stop the biological weapons race, not for monetary reward. Yet, his activities in America indicate otherwise.
On May 20, 1998 Dr. Alibekov testified before the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress as a Program Manager for the Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI)-a leading military contractor and one of few institutional suspects identified by the press. William Broad of the New York Times (Dec. 13, 2001), upon Dr. Horowitz's earlier urging, cited BMI as the chief CIA contractor for project "Clearvision"-an effort to produce the deadliest Ames strain anthrax ever developed.
It was hyper-concentrated, silica-laced, electro-magnetized, and extremely transmissible. The facts indicate Dr. Alibekov, one of two leading anthrax experts contracted by the CIA at the time of "Clearvision," may have managed the entire program during which the germ was sent from BMI to the BMI administered and supplied Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. From here or BMI's anthrax lab in West Jefferson, Ohio, the never-before-seen anthrax weapon was transferred to envelopes and mailed from four locations including Trenton, N.J. and St. Petersburg, FL in early October, 2001. The mailings killed five people while scores of others were victimized by the ensuing fright and toxic side effects from taking CIPRO-the "anthrax antibiotic," according to experts and news reports.
More suspicious ties to the Russian defector and Hadron Advanced Biosystems were realized when investigators learned of the second leading BMI and CIA anthrax contractor, and close personal friend of Dr. Alibekov, Dr. William C. Patrick, III. Suspiciously, Dr. Alibekov and BMI had contracted with this anthrax ace in the Spring of 1998 to predict the dispersal and damage capability of mailing such a hyper-weaponized germ much like the one sent to select members of the media and legislators on Capitol Hill.
The three independent investigators each cite economic and political motives for the targeted anthrax mailings. Given the high grade and technical difficulty in producing and handling this grade of anthrax, they reasoned, "white collar criminals" with access to military or pharmaceutical labs most likely acted on behalf of those who benefited most from the attacks and ensuing fright. Hadron and its affiliates, including DynCorp and BMI, lead the pack of corporate and institutional suspects, the investigators say. A revelatory organizational chart prepared by Dr. Horowitz depicting these corporate and institutional suspects was mailed to more than 1,500 FBI agents late last year along with an extensive 25-page report still available over the Internet (link to http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html)
Logically, the three investigators reasoned, the media was initially targeted to sway public opinion in support of government orders worth billions of dollars for hyped vaccines and drugs, much of which benefited Hadron, DynCorp, BMI and their directors. DynCorp was the major military and intelligence provider awarded $322 million to develop, produce, and store anthrax and smallpox vaccines for the nation. BMI, a leading defense and energy industry contractor, directed the US military's Joint Vaccine Acquisitions Program. Bioport, LLC became a leading beneficiary. This British-controlled anthrax vaccine maker in Lansing, Michigan was sanctioned repeatedly by federal officials and members of congress for unethical business practices, violating health and safety guidelines, and vaccine contaminations that some researchers say may have triggered the mysterious Gulf War illness.
Corporate profiteering was firmly secured after the mailings to Capitol Hill, the investigators say. The specific targeting of Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), traditionally strong drug and military industry adversaries, reinforced their suspicions.
Dr. Horowitz had been studying anthrax advances since 1989. He correctly diagnosed "the beginning of the anthrax scam" one week before the first mailings were heralded by the media. FBI records show he urged the bureau to begin their ongoing investigation into anthrax-related bioterrorism at the end of September, 2001. It took bureau officials six months to finally respond to his repeated urgent correspondence. "Then, rather than expressing gratitude and following my leads," he said, "my two interrogators were primed to make me a suspect." For this reason, Horowitz says, he can "feel for the plight of the bureau's scapegoat"-Dr. Steven Hatfield.
Investigative journalist Michael Ruppert followed his suspicions to Hadron and DynCorp through court records pertaining to a secret pirated military software program called PROMIS. He learned that Dr. Alibekov's predecessor-Hadron's past director and founder, Dr. Earl Brian-a business associate of former Reagan administration Attorney General Edwin Meese-was convicted of fraud during the 1980s.
"Dr. Alibekov's interrogation and lie detection at Hadron's Advanced Biosystems," Ruppert advised, "may not only solve the anthrax mailings mystery, but also shed light on the recent untimely and inexplicable deaths of several biological weapons experts." The retired homicide detective suspects Dr. Alibekov's "comrade-in-arms," another top Soviet biological weapons director, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, was most likely murdered. Pasechnik defected to Great Britain three years before Dr. Alibekov defected to America, Mr. Ruppert recalled. Pasechnik's death, according to British intelligence officer Christopher Davis, was reportedly due to a stroke. Ruppert remains unconvinced.
Stuart Webb has spent more than twenty years investigating "white collar crime" at the highest levels of government. His intelligence sources and leads have proven accurate a number of times, helping justice department officials indict suspects ranging from bankers to drug dealers. He also believes evidence in the anthrax mailings case implicates key CIA and Bush administration officials. For this reason, he says, the crime is unlikely to be solved by the FBI.
"One of my sources, a high ranking intelligence officer, confirmed Dr. Horowitz's conclusion," he said. Hadron and "Dr. Alibek" in particular, are "most heavily implicated as agents for this anthrax devil-doing."
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NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: For interviews with the independent investigators named, contact: Dr. Horowitz, by calling 208-265-2575 or e-mailing tetra@tetrahedron.org; Mr. Ruppert by e-mailing mruppert@copvcia.com; and Mr. Webb by e-mailing stewwebb@sierranv.net.
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Senator GRASSLEY's finance aid attacked? FBI OBSTRUCTS JUSTICE AGAIN?
Copyright 2005 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp.
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November 9, 2005 Wednesday
SECTION: Pg. Pg. 4
LENGTH: 297 words
HEADLINE: Attack has Grassley concerned for his staff
BYLINE: By Elana Schor
BODY:
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said yesterday that he is concerned about the safety of all of his staffers in the wake of last week's assault on the chief investigator for the Senate Finance Committee.
An unidentified man attacked Emilia DiSanto, who has assisted committee Chairman Grassley on a series of controversial oversight inquiries in recent months, on the evening of Nov. 2 at her suburban Virginia home. Investigators have not determined the weapon used in the assault on DiSanto, but Grassley echoed internal suspicion that her assailant used a baseball bat.
"If this is work-related, there's a lot of people on my staff who might be in a dangerous situation," said Grassley, visibly disturbed.
The FBI and Capitol Police are exploring whether the assault is related to DiSanto's work for Grassley, focusing on the unique circumstances of the incident. The attacker was dressed in black with a hood obscuring his face and made no demands for money from DiSanto.
Grassley said a work-related motivation could not be ruled out.
"You just don't know," he said. Federal law enforcement has joined the case based on concerns that DiSanto's role in Grassley's high-profile anti-corruption efforts could have put her in physical danger.
Two days after the attack on DiSanto, a bomb threat was issued against a Marshalltown, Iowa, veterans home hours before a scheduled appearance by Grassley. Though local police said the senator was not a target of the threat, which turned out to be a false alarm, the timing of the Iowa and DiSanto incidents could become a focus of the Washington investigation.
Grassley said the physical welfare of DiSanto and others on his staff is his chief focus.
"I'm more concerned about that than the bomb threat," he said.
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TOMMYTHEBUG: So...uh what was this all about. Around this time...I sent Grassley a ten page memo detailing alot of scandals including the NSA TSP and how "The FBI illegally cherrypicks that info" to run their investigations.
The Hill
November 9, 2005 Wednesday
SECTION: Pg. Pg. 4
LENGTH: 297 words
HEADLINE: Attack has Grassley concerned for his staff
BYLINE: By Elana Schor
BODY:
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said yesterday that he is concerned about the safety of all of his staffers in the wake of last week's assault on the chief investigator for the Senate Finance Committee.
An unidentified man attacked Emilia DiSanto, who has assisted committee Chairman Grassley on a series of controversial oversight inquiries in recent months, on the evening of Nov. 2 at her suburban Virginia home. Investigators have not determined the weapon used in the assault on DiSanto, but Grassley echoed internal suspicion that her assailant used a baseball bat.
"If this is work-related, there's a lot of people on my staff who might be in a dangerous situation," said Grassley, visibly disturbed.
The FBI and Capitol Police are exploring whether the assault is related to DiSanto's work for Grassley, focusing on the unique circumstances of the incident. The attacker was dressed in black with a hood obscuring his face and made no demands for money from DiSanto.
Grassley said a work-related motivation could not be ruled out.
"You just don't know," he said. Federal law enforcement has joined the case based on concerns that DiSanto's role in Grassley's high-profile anti-corruption efforts could have put her in physical danger.
Two days after the attack on DiSanto, a bomb threat was issued against a Marshalltown, Iowa, veterans home hours before a scheduled appearance by Grassley. Though local police said the senator was not a target of the threat, which turned out to be a false alarm, the timing of the Iowa and DiSanto incidents could become a focus of the Washington investigation.
Grassley said the physical welfare of DiSanto and others on his staff is his chief focus.
"I'm more concerned about that than the bomb threat," he said.
LOAD-DATE: November 11, 2005
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TOMMYTHEBUG: So...uh what was this all about. Around this time...I sent Grassley a ten page memo detailing alot of scandals including the NSA TSP and how "The FBI illegally cherrypicks that info" to run their investigations.
MIND CONTROL: first person account
Human Microchip Implants , Electronic Torture, & Mind Control
- A Personal Account
[Editor's Note: People have discovered ways to disable microchip implants and we will make more information available here soon. I will relay more information to the author of this article on techniques that may prove useful to neutralize implants. What I've discovered from the books of Brice Taylor and Cisco Wheeler is that most individuals involved in placing implants in unsuspecting victims are usually themselves victims of mind control programming and they don't know -on a conscious level at least- that they are implanting people. Of course, some programmers, handlers, or implanters do know what they are doing and willfully participate, but most do not, as hard as that is to believe. Mind control is a very insidious and dark game which uses everybody involved, except those at the very top who act as the manipulators and puppeteers. See the Mind Control page for more information and ideas on countermeasures (http://educate-yourself.org/mc/ )...Ken Adachi]
By MHW
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/microchipimplantresistance12sep07.shtml
September 12, 2007
Dear Mr. Adachi:
I am reading very carefully your internet material concerning electronic torture and mind control, for I, too, am a victim of an involuntary microchip implant. An historian by profession, I have recorded the effects of the microchip implant and my thoughts about them in a journal that now numbers almost 300 pages. A summary of my situation follows this note.
Sincerely, MHW
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Get ready. A new science is developing that victimizes countless individuals and promotes bigotry and inhumane practices on an inconceivable scale. That science involves the use of involuntarily implanted microchips in humans. A new form of torture and mind control from traditional methods, the science is little understood and little accepted in the scientific community. Psychiatrists and other doctors treating victims of microchip implants normally mis-diagnose their symptoms as Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Even writing about such a topic almost automatically labels one schizophrenic, paranoid, or, in the least, a crackpot.
First, let me say a word about microchip devices. Microchips are tiny instruments that drive various functions of computers and other electronic equipment. They are about the size of a large B-B pellet; however, they are getting increasingly smaller. Veterinarians started implanting them in dogs, cattle, and horses fifteen to twenty years ago to allow the owners to track their animals and prove ownership. Today’s microchips are almost microscopic and represent state-of-the-art technology. Manufactured from silicone, they are virtually impossible to detect once they are implanted
A little over a year ago, while living in Mexico, many bizarre and menacing events began occurring in my life, things that completely bewildered me. I knew that I was not schizophrenic or paranoid. Although in my late sixties, I enjoy extremely good mental and physical health. As those actions became increasingly threatening, I ever-so-gradually learned that I had become the victim of an involuntary microchip implant. One of three dentists that I used in Mexico probably injected the tiny chip into my gum tissue or embedded it in a crown. Also a hair transplant specialist in the United States had the opportunity to implant the microchip in my head. All of those suspects belong to the medical community and swore to uphold the Hippocrates oath. But, of course, we know that doctors are no more moral and ethical than other non-medical individuals.
Knowing the value of documentation, I began keeping a journal of those unusual happenings. I not only studied my notes for clues about who was involved and how they conducted their handiwork but I also performed research on microchip implants and their use in electronic torture and mind control over the internet. The result of that research revealed that other people who claimed that they hosted microchip implants had suffered similar experiences. Many of their symptoms paralleled mine. In addition to those firsthand accounts, I found other data on the internet using the keywords “microchips, microchip implants, electronic torture, and mind control.” Although most of the articles took a particular slant on the topics, e.g., the Illuminati, the CIA, government control, etc., they all contained useful information.
Knowledge about my harassers and their modus operandi evolved slowly. More than six months went by before I knew the extent of their capability. Finally, however, I found out from experience that through the microchip implant and the computer program that operated with it, my torturers were able to perform the following actions:
(1) Monitor my movements.
(2) Hear and record my conversations along with those with whom I talked. The harassers occasionally played back to me through the inner ear excerpts of some of those conversations.
(3) See my body during those movements and also when I was immobile (especially when I slept) in 3-D. They can zoom in on any part of the body and see that part much like a cat scan views the body. I do not yet know whether they view my body in true color or black and white. Nor do I know whether the device allows them to see my front and back simultaneously.
(4) Apply a variety of torture techniques to my body. Those include: (a) sending pain and a sensation of pin pricks in my shoulders, face, elbows, and other areas, (b) bombarding my body with electrical jolts and tremors, (c) zapping my brain with laser-like rays that make a clicking/crackling sound, attempting to destroy brain cells (d) causing severe cramping, mainly in my legs, and numbness in my limbs from the base of the spinal column to my toes, (e) making me cough through pinpricking the inside of my throat and causing a partial erection by touching the inside of the urethra, and (f) causing headaches, stomach aches, and dizziness.
(5) Transmit voices either into my brain or into my inner ear and also project voices and other sounds through objects near me, i.e., the TV, a PC, and other electrical devices and even into the open air near me. Sounds may take the form of knocking on your door (when there is nobody there), dogs barking (when there are no dogs around), and birds cooing or singing (when there are no birds).
(6) READ MY THOUGHTS. Several manufacturers have developed microchip programs with that capability. At first, the program picked up only a few one and two syllable words. Now, however, those thoughts appear on their computer monitor in their entirety, probably somewhat like automated, computerized captions for the hearing impaired on TV. I know this because I often heard the terrorists repeating my thoughts, almost as fast as I developed them. They often used to repeat my silent prayers, with the reader’s voice only a word or so behind my words.
My journal and observations concerning the tormentors and the effects of the microchip implant total well over 200 pages. Therefore, I shall summarize what I found out about my harassers, who form a conspiracy of several factions:
(1) The principal perpetrators and the ones who manipulate the PC microchip program are a Mexican Evangelical family with close ties to Evangelicals in the United States. They also probably lived for many years in the U. S., probably in the mid-West or the upper South. Their two, possibly three children were probably born in the United States. They probably receive both technical assistance and funding from fellow Evangelicals from the United States.
I often wondered what caused those crazies to target me, so I started doing research on the Evangelical movement. I found that many people in the Evangelical camp were social misfits and deviants of one description or another. After conducting that research, I slowly began to fathom their evil mentality. Although I lived a monastic life in a proverbial glass house, their sick minds doubtlessly perceived that I was gay! After all, I lived alone, which is very uncommon in Mexico and the Third World. Lest you think it incredible that people would attempt to torment others for that reason, read about the members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Those nut cases demonstrate at funerals of soldiers slain in Iraq because they believe it is God’s punishment for homosexuality in the United States! But sexual preference, whether heterosexual, homosexual, or bi-sexual, has nothing to do with hate-motivated acts. People can convince themselves of anything to justify their playing out the evil that lurks in their twisted minds.
(2) The wacko Evangelicals found accomplices in a few dissident students at a private university where I taught. To keep discipline, I sometimes asked students to leave the classroom. Some of those students took affront and set out to get even with me. They later collaborated with the Evangelicals in disseminating gossip by sending emails, along with secretly taken photos of me, to students in the thirty-two other campuses of that university system.
(3) Other collaborators came from disgruntled townspeople, parents of young people whom I had run away from my house when they came to park in cars across the street and talk in loud, vulgar terms about me, drink, and smoke marijuna.
(4) Additional accomplices include people in the town government, especially the police. About two years after I moved to my retirement site in Mexico and built my house, I wrote a long letter concerning illegal immigration by Mexicans into the United States, pointing out the negative effects in both the United States and Mexico. I mailed that letter to Congresspersons, government officials, and friends in the United States. In the article, I spoke in very unflattering terms about the Mexican police and army, who often abet drug smugglers and human traffickers. Thus, a coalition, each element with its own grievance, gathered around and supported the perverted Evangelical family.
I first realized the existence of that conspiracy and the effects of the electronic torture and mind control that accompanied it when I made a trip back to the States in December of 2005 to visit my son and his family. On that trip, my vehicle broke down on the Mexican interstate, and I had to spend three days in a nearby small town while it was being repaired. In that town I suffered all types of verbal harassment and physical torture. The torture consisted of electrical shocks and violent electrical-like tremors in my body while in or near my hotel room. When I crossed the border into the United States, the harassment continued. Not long after leaving the border, I heard voices in the vehicle that at first seemed to come from the driver door panel. The radio was off. I gradually discovered that instead they came from my brain, transmitted there through the microchip implant driven by the terrorists’ computer program. As the terror increased in intensity, I learned more about it.
Naturally I sought information about how to neutralize the microchip. Several private investigative firms on the internet stated that they were able to locate the device. However, I found only one company, located in Niagra Falls, Canada, that claimed that it could also disarm the microchip. The firm quoted a non-negotiable price of U.S. $15,800 for the work, with no written guarantees.
After more than three years in Mexico, I moved back to the United States. Although the continual harassment was not the cause of my return, it was indeed a factor. The electronic torture and attempted mind control did not stop at the border. After my return to the U. S., the terrorism continued. Based on advice that I found in various sources, I experimented with several methods of nullifying the effects of the electronic torture and attempted mind control. I encased my head with aluminum foil while I slept. I installed chicken wire on all sides, top, and bottom of my bed. I exposed myself during lightening and thunder storms. None of those measures proved effective in countering the torture and mind control activities. But eventually I shall find that way, and when I do, I will share it with the world.
People who place involuntary microchip implants in humans and people who use those chips for electronic torture and mind control represent are perverts in every sense of the word, regardless of the reasons for their actions. Only cruel, sick minds can contrive those actions and toy with the minds and bodies of victims as if they were playing a video game. The psychos rob their victims of a shred of privacy: They can see you at all times, day and night, hear your conversations, read your email correspondence (including your business account numbers and passwords), and even monitor your thoughts. They follow a “textbook,” which is essentially a users manual for the PC program that operates the microchip along with instructions about applying electronic torture and exercising mind control to victims. All of their actions are undertaken in utter secrecy. I am confident, however, that the growing misuse of microchips will eventually force governments, science, and industry to develop ways to locate those individuals and groups to punish them. No punishment is too severe for perpetrators of electronic torture and mind control carried out through microchips.
The warped minds of the tormentors focus on all types of victims, regardless of race, gender, social and economic status, religion, or age. From my research, I learned that the tormentors usually choose victims who live alone, as they have no witnesses to the effects of the torture. I suspect that in years to come we will discover that some mass murderers and parents who kill their children are victims of implanted microchips. Two such murderers have made news in the last few years: Andrea Yates, who drowned all five of her children, and Leanna Laney, who killed two of her young sons and left a third one incapacitated for life. Both women were believed to be good and devoted mothers. Both women heard inner voices commanding them to commit infanticide. One of the women said the voice was that of the devil; the other one, that it was the voice of God. I suggest that perverts, perhaps sick Evangelicals, using microchip implants may have supplied those “voices.”
What are the objectives of the perverted cowards who use microchips instead of facing their opponents? Each group of the perverts has its own agenda, but in general here is what they seek to do:
(1) Make others think that you are losing or have lost your mind. They do this by projecting you with voices whose origins you do not know, causing you to lash out at the voices and react in other seemingly strange ways. People who witness you apparently talking to yourself and making gestures assume that you have gone crazy. You lose any semblance of credibility. To the public and the medical community, you are either schizophrenic or paranoid.
(2) Isolate you from society. By spreading rumors, sending anonymous messages to people who know you, causing irritability in you that makes you querulous and unpleasant to others, people begin to avoid you.
(3) Cause you actually to lose your mind. By projecting the voices and other sounds, applying electronic torture, letting you know that they are watching you every second of the day and night, etc. they hope to drive you slowly into either thinking that you might be imagining those actions or actually drive you crazy out of frustration at being able to do nothing and failure to convince others of the existence of the microchip.
(4) Reduce you to zombie status. By constantly hurling laser rays into your brain, destroying brain cells, they hope to turn you gradually into a mindless individual who from outward appearances suffers from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
(5) Make life physically and mentally miserable for you. The electronic torture and mind control techniques cause you physical pain, mental anguish, and deprive you of sleep, rendering you ineffective in your work and daily life.
(6) Often harassers seek to cause bodily harm and even death by causing vehicular and other accidents due to sleep deprivation. Through the use of the computer program that operates off the microchip, they can also cause heart attacks, gastric problems, and other ailments that might hospitalize you or kill you.
I wish to plant several ideas. A need urgently exists
(1) To create an awareness among the American public that what I have described above is real and that it could happen to anyone.
(2) To impose upon manufacturers of microchips the responsibility to control closely the sale and distribution of microchips.
(3) To start a repository of data on microchip implants and their use in electronic torture and mind control, including the personal experiences of victims and methods that might neutralize those devices.
(4) To establish a support group for victims of microchip implants.
(5) To pass national and international laws governing the use of microchip implants in humans and imposing heavy penalties, including capital punishment, for their misuse.
(6) To persuade psychiatrists and other medical personnel to accept that some patients exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia, paranoia, Alzheimer’s, or dementia may instead be victims of involuntary microchip implants.
Besides being sneaks and cowards, tormentorss who carry out electronic torture and mind control using microchip implants are also criminals, guilty of (1) stalking, (2) harassing with malicious intent, (3) coercion (in attempting to make the victim do things that he/she does not want to do with their mind control methods), (4) psychological and virtual rape, (5) breaking and entering (which they often do to intimidate the victims by unlocking locked doors, turning back clocks, moving items in rooms, hiding other items, etc.), (6) burglary and theft (which they commit when they enter a victim’s home and take items to confuse and disorient the victim), (7) recording a victim’s conversations without his/her consent, (8) peeping tom-ism (through their ability to view the victim), (9) assault and battery (by using electric shock, etc. against the victims), (10) slander (by circulating false rumors and stories that lack proof about the victim), (11) libel (when those rumors and stories are put into print in the from of emails, etc), (12) computer hacking and phone tapping, (13) first degree murder (when a victim suffers a fatal car crash because of sleep deprivation), and (14) attempted murder (when their plans do not succeed), and, of course, (13) terrorism.
I am not easily intimidated. I fight back. I intend to overcome and beat the electronic torture and mind control attempts. My aims are simple and direct: (1) To continue to live a normal life. The perverted terrorists deprive their victims of sleep to cause them to have vehicular and other accidents, make them irritable to other people, and render them ineffective in their work. They want victims to react to their torture and mind control actions so that victims appear schizophrenic or paranoid. In short, they seek to make life miserable for the victims. (2) To learn increasingly more about microchip implants and the computer programs that allow users to victimize the microchip carriers. I already know some large international manufacturers of microchips. I intend to study those companies and attempt to establish dialogues with technicians in those companies to find out more about the computer programs that govern microchips. There must be some conscientious employees in those companies who will put victims above terrorists. (3) To expose the perpetrators of the electronic torture and mind control. There have to be ways to trace the harassment back to its origin. I shall find those ways. I want to neutralize the perverted demons who are trying to destroy my life and those of many other victims. (4) To continue to inform the public about the possibility and danger of microchip implants in humans.
I hope that other victims of involuntary microchip implants will see this article and will join the battle against the cowardly perverts who seek to ruin our lives. If in summarizing my saga of electronic torture and mind control through implanted microchips I have left out salient information, feel free to ask me to clarify points. I invite you to share with me your experiences and thoughts on the topic. Please post your comments (without using your real names for your protection) in the space following this blog or contact me at mindovermonster@yahoo.com
MHW
- A Personal Account
[Editor's Note: People have discovered ways to disable microchip implants and we will make more information available here soon. I will relay more information to the author of this article on techniques that may prove useful to neutralize implants. What I've discovered from the books of Brice Taylor and Cisco Wheeler is that most individuals involved in placing implants in unsuspecting victims are usually themselves victims of mind control programming and they don't know -on a conscious level at least- that they are implanting people. Of course, some programmers, handlers, or implanters do know what they are doing and willfully participate, but most do not, as hard as that is to believe. Mind control is a very insidious and dark game which uses everybody involved, except those at the very top who act as the manipulators and puppeteers. See the Mind Control page for more information and ideas on countermeasures (http://educate-yourself.org/mc/ )...Ken Adachi]
By MHW
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/microchipimplantresistance12sep07.shtml
September 12, 2007
Dear Mr. Adachi:
I am reading very carefully your internet material concerning electronic torture and mind control, for I, too, am a victim of an involuntary microchip implant. An historian by profession, I have recorded the effects of the microchip implant and my thoughts about them in a journal that now numbers almost 300 pages. A summary of my situation follows this note.
Sincerely, MHW
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Get ready. A new science is developing that victimizes countless individuals and promotes bigotry and inhumane practices on an inconceivable scale. That science involves the use of involuntarily implanted microchips in humans. A new form of torture and mind control from traditional methods, the science is little understood and little accepted in the scientific community. Psychiatrists and other doctors treating victims of microchip implants normally mis-diagnose their symptoms as Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Even writing about such a topic almost automatically labels one schizophrenic, paranoid, or, in the least, a crackpot.
First, let me say a word about microchip devices. Microchips are tiny instruments that drive various functions of computers and other electronic equipment. They are about the size of a large B-B pellet; however, they are getting increasingly smaller. Veterinarians started implanting them in dogs, cattle, and horses fifteen to twenty years ago to allow the owners to track their animals and prove ownership. Today’s microchips are almost microscopic and represent state-of-the-art technology. Manufactured from silicone, they are virtually impossible to detect once they are implanted
A little over a year ago, while living in Mexico, many bizarre and menacing events began occurring in my life, things that completely bewildered me. I knew that I was not schizophrenic or paranoid. Although in my late sixties, I enjoy extremely good mental and physical health. As those actions became increasingly threatening, I ever-so-gradually learned that I had become the victim of an involuntary microchip implant. One of three dentists that I used in Mexico probably injected the tiny chip into my gum tissue or embedded it in a crown. Also a hair transplant specialist in the United States had the opportunity to implant the microchip in my head. All of those suspects belong to the medical community and swore to uphold the Hippocrates oath. But, of course, we know that doctors are no more moral and ethical than other non-medical individuals.
Knowing the value of documentation, I began keeping a journal of those unusual happenings. I not only studied my notes for clues about who was involved and how they conducted their handiwork but I also performed research on microchip implants and their use in electronic torture and mind control over the internet. The result of that research revealed that other people who claimed that they hosted microchip implants had suffered similar experiences. Many of their symptoms paralleled mine. In addition to those firsthand accounts, I found other data on the internet using the keywords “microchips, microchip implants, electronic torture, and mind control.” Although most of the articles took a particular slant on the topics, e.g., the Illuminati, the CIA, government control, etc., they all contained useful information.
Knowledge about my harassers and their modus operandi evolved slowly. More than six months went by before I knew the extent of their capability. Finally, however, I found out from experience that through the microchip implant and the computer program that operated with it, my torturers were able to perform the following actions:
(1) Monitor my movements.
(2) Hear and record my conversations along with those with whom I talked. The harassers occasionally played back to me through the inner ear excerpts of some of those conversations.
(3) See my body during those movements and also when I was immobile (especially when I slept) in 3-D. They can zoom in on any part of the body and see that part much like a cat scan views the body. I do not yet know whether they view my body in true color or black and white. Nor do I know whether the device allows them to see my front and back simultaneously.
(4) Apply a variety of torture techniques to my body. Those include: (a) sending pain and a sensation of pin pricks in my shoulders, face, elbows, and other areas, (b) bombarding my body with electrical jolts and tremors, (c) zapping my brain with laser-like rays that make a clicking/crackling sound, attempting to destroy brain cells (d) causing severe cramping, mainly in my legs, and numbness in my limbs from the base of the spinal column to my toes, (e) making me cough through pinpricking the inside of my throat and causing a partial erection by touching the inside of the urethra, and (f) causing headaches, stomach aches, and dizziness.
(5) Transmit voices either into my brain or into my inner ear and also project voices and other sounds through objects near me, i.e., the TV, a PC, and other electrical devices and even into the open air near me. Sounds may take the form of knocking on your door (when there is nobody there), dogs barking (when there are no dogs around), and birds cooing or singing (when there are no birds).
(6) READ MY THOUGHTS. Several manufacturers have developed microchip programs with that capability. At first, the program picked up only a few one and two syllable words. Now, however, those thoughts appear on their computer monitor in their entirety, probably somewhat like automated, computerized captions for the hearing impaired on TV. I know this because I often heard the terrorists repeating my thoughts, almost as fast as I developed them. They often used to repeat my silent prayers, with the reader’s voice only a word or so behind my words.
My journal and observations concerning the tormentors and the effects of the microchip implant total well over 200 pages. Therefore, I shall summarize what I found out about my harassers, who form a conspiracy of several factions:
(1) The principal perpetrators and the ones who manipulate the PC microchip program are a Mexican Evangelical family with close ties to Evangelicals in the United States. They also probably lived for many years in the U. S., probably in the mid-West or the upper South. Their two, possibly three children were probably born in the United States. They probably receive both technical assistance and funding from fellow Evangelicals from the United States.
I often wondered what caused those crazies to target me, so I started doing research on the Evangelical movement. I found that many people in the Evangelical camp were social misfits and deviants of one description or another. After conducting that research, I slowly began to fathom their evil mentality. Although I lived a monastic life in a proverbial glass house, their sick minds doubtlessly perceived that I was gay! After all, I lived alone, which is very uncommon in Mexico and the Third World. Lest you think it incredible that people would attempt to torment others for that reason, read about the members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Those nut cases demonstrate at funerals of soldiers slain in Iraq because they believe it is God’s punishment for homosexuality in the United States! But sexual preference, whether heterosexual, homosexual, or bi-sexual, has nothing to do with hate-motivated acts. People can convince themselves of anything to justify their playing out the evil that lurks in their twisted minds.
(2) The wacko Evangelicals found accomplices in a few dissident students at a private university where I taught. To keep discipline, I sometimes asked students to leave the classroom. Some of those students took affront and set out to get even with me. They later collaborated with the Evangelicals in disseminating gossip by sending emails, along with secretly taken photos of me, to students in the thirty-two other campuses of that university system.
(3) Other collaborators came from disgruntled townspeople, parents of young people whom I had run away from my house when they came to park in cars across the street and talk in loud, vulgar terms about me, drink, and smoke marijuna.
(4) Additional accomplices include people in the town government, especially the police. About two years after I moved to my retirement site in Mexico and built my house, I wrote a long letter concerning illegal immigration by Mexicans into the United States, pointing out the negative effects in both the United States and Mexico. I mailed that letter to Congresspersons, government officials, and friends in the United States. In the article, I spoke in very unflattering terms about the Mexican police and army, who often abet drug smugglers and human traffickers. Thus, a coalition, each element with its own grievance, gathered around and supported the perverted Evangelical family.
I first realized the existence of that conspiracy and the effects of the electronic torture and mind control that accompanied it when I made a trip back to the States in December of 2005 to visit my son and his family. On that trip, my vehicle broke down on the Mexican interstate, and I had to spend three days in a nearby small town while it was being repaired. In that town I suffered all types of verbal harassment and physical torture. The torture consisted of electrical shocks and violent electrical-like tremors in my body while in or near my hotel room. When I crossed the border into the United States, the harassment continued. Not long after leaving the border, I heard voices in the vehicle that at first seemed to come from the driver door panel. The radio was off. I gradually discovered that instead they came from my brain, transmitted there through the microchip implant driven by the terrorists’ computer program. As the terror increased in intensity, I learned more about it.
Naturally I sought information about how to neutralize the microchip. Several private investigative firms on the internet stated that they were able to locate the device. However, I found only one company, located in Niagra Falls, Canada, that claimed that it could also disarm the microchip. The firm quoted a non-negotiable price of U.S. $15,800 for the work, with no written guarantees.
After more than three years in Mexico, I moved back to the United States. Although the continual harassment was not the cause of my return, it was indeed a factor. The electronic torture and attempted mind control did not stop at the border. After my return to the U. S., the terrorism continued. Based on advice that I found in various sources, I experimented with several methods of nullifying the effects of the electronic torture and attempted mind control. I encased my head with aluminum foil while I slept. I installed chicken wire on all sides, top, and bottom of my bed. I exposed myself during lightening and thunder storms. None of those measures proved effective in countering the torture and mind control activities. But eventually I shall find that way, and when I do, I will share it with the world.
People who place involuntary microchip implants in humans and people who use those chips for electronic torture and mind control represent are perverts in every sense of the word, regardless of the reasons for their actions. Only cruel, sick minds can contrive those actions and toy with the minds and bodies of victims as if they were playing a video game. The psychos rob their victims of a shred of privacy: They can see you at all times, day and night, hear your conversations, read your email correspondence (including your business account numbers and passwords), and even monitor your thoughts. They follow a “textbook,” which is essentially a users manual for the PC program that operates the microchip along with instructions about applying electronic torture and exercising mind control to victims. All of their actions are undertaken in utter secrecy. I am confident, however, that the growing misuse of microchips will eventually force governments, science, and industry to develop ways to locate those individuals and groups to punish them. No punishment is too severe for perpetrators of electronic torture and mind control carried out through microchips.
The warped minds of the tormentors focus on all types of victims, regardless of race, gender, social and economic status, religion, or age. From my research, I learned that the tormentors usually choose victims who live alone, as they have no witnesses to the effects of the torture. I suspect that in years to come we will discover that some mass murderers and parents who kill their children are victims of implanted microchips. Two such murderers have made news in the last few years: Andrea Yates, who drowned all five of her children, and Leanna Laney, who killed two of her young sons and left a third one incapacitated for life. Both women were believed to be good and devoted mothers. Both women heard inner voices commanding them to commit infanticide. One of the women said the voice was that of the devil; the other one, that it was the voice of God. I suggest that perverts, perhaps sick Evangelicals, using microchip implants may have supplied those “voices.”
What are the objectives of the perverted cowards who use microchips instead of facing their opponents? Each group of the perverts has its own agenda, but in general here is what they seek to do:
(1) Make others think that you are losing or have lost your mind. They do this by projecting you with voices whose origins you do not know, causing you to lash out at the voices and react in other seemingly strange ways. People who witness you apparently talking to yourself and making gestures assume that you have gone crazy. You lose any semblance of credibility. To the public and the medical community, you are either schizophrenic or paranoid.
(2) Isolate you from society. By spreading rumors, sending anonymous messages to people who know you, causing irritability in you that makes you querulous and unpleasant to others, people begin to avoid you.
(3) Cause you actually to lose your mind. By projecting the voices and other sounds, applying electronic torture, letting you know that they are watching you every second of the day and night, etc. they hope to drive you slowly into either thinking that you might be imagining those actions or actually drive you crazy out of frustration at being able to do nothing and failure to convince others of the existence of the microchip.
(4) Reduce you to zombie status. By constantly hurling laser rays into your brain, destroying brain cells, they hope to turn you gradually into a mindless individual who from outward appearances suffers from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
(5) Make life physically and mentally miserable for you. The electronic torture and mind control techniques cause you physical pain, mental anguish, and deprive you of sleep, rendering you ineffective in your work and daily life.
(6) Often harassers seek to cause bodily harm and even death by causing vehicular and other accidents due to sleep deprivation. Through the use of the computer program that operates off the microchip, they can also cause heart attacks, gastric problems, and other ailments that might hospitalize you or kill you.
I wish to plant several ideas. A need urgently exists
(1) To create an awareness among the American public that what I have described above is real and that it could happen to anyone.
(2) To impose upon manufacturers of microchips the responsibility to control closely the sale and distribution of microchips.
(3) To start a repository of data on microchip implants and their use in electronic torture and mind control, including the personal experiences of victims and methods that might neutralize those devices.
(4) To establish a support group for victims of microchip implants.
(5) To pass national and international laws governing the use of microchip implants in humans and imposing heavy penalties, including capital punishment, for their misuse.
(6) To persuade psychiatrists and other medical personnel to accept that some patients exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia, paranoia, Alzheimer’s, or dementia may instead be victims of involuntary microchip implants.
Besides being sneaks and cowards, tormentorss who carry out electronic torture and mind control using microchip implants are also criminals, guilty of (1) stalking, (2) harassing with malicious intent, (3) coercion (in attempting to make the victim do things that he/she does not want to do with their mind control methods), (4) psychological and virtual rape, (5) breaking and entering (which they often do to intimidate the victims by unlocking locked doors, turning back clocks, moving items in rooms, hiding other items, etc.), (6) burglary and theft (which they commit when they enter a victim’s home and take items to confuse and disorient the victim), (7) recording a victim’s conversations without his/her consent, (8) peeping tom-ism (through their ability to view the victim), (9) assault and battery (by using electric shock, etc. against the victims), (10) slander (by circulating false rumors and stories that lack proof about the victim), (11) libel (when those rumors and stories are put into print in the from of emails, etc), (12) computer hacking and phone tapping, (13) first degree murder (when a victim suffers a fatal car crash because of sleep deprivation), and (14) attempted murder (when their plans do not succeed), and, of course, (13) terrorism.
I am not easily intimidated. I fight back. I intend to overcome and beat the electronic torture and mind control attempts. My aims are simple and direct: (1) To continue to live a normal life. The perverted terrorists deprive their victims of sleep to cause them to have vehicular and other accidents, make them irritable to other people, and render them ineffective in their work. They want victims to react to their torture and mind control actions so that victims appear schizophrenic or paranoid. In short, they seek to make life miserable for the victims. (2) To learn increasingly more about microchip implants and the computer programs that allow users to victimize the microchip carriers. I already know some large international manufacturers of microchips. I intend to study those companies and attempt to establish dialogues with technicians in those companies to find out more about the computer programs that govern microchips. There must be some conscientious employees in those companies who will put victims above terrorists. (3) To expose the perpetrators of the electronic torture and mind control. There have to be ways to trace the harassment back to its origin. I shall find those ways. I want to neutralize the perverted demons who are trying to destroy my life and those of many other victims. (4) To continue to inform the public about the possibility and danger of microchip implants in humans.
I hope that other victims of involuntary microchip implants will see this article and will join the battle against the cowardly perverts who seek to ruin our lives. If in summarizing my saga of electronic torture and mind control through implanted microchips I have left out salient information, feel free to ask me to clarify points. I invite you to share with me your experiences and thoughts on the topic. Please post your comments (without using your real names for your protection) in the space following this blog or contact me at mindovermonster@yahoo.com
MHW
More Orwellian laws in Britain
Spy laws track mobile phones
Tom Allard National Security Editor
September 17, 2007
SECURITY agencies would be able to secretly track people via their mobile phones and monitor their internet browsing for up to three months without obtaining a warrant under new laws due to go before the Senate this week.
The powers could be used in a range of even relatively minor criminal investigations, not just terrorism cases.
They would allow ASIO and federal and state police forces to demand that phone companies and internet service providers stream information to them in "near real-time" - just a few minutes after calls are made or websites visited. The information would have to be provided for up to 90 days for ASIO investigations, and 45 days if state or federal police are involved.
Justified as a counter-terrorism measure, the legislation has already been passed by government and Labor members of the lower house. But it remains deeply unpopular with legal experts and privacy advocates.
As well as not requiring a warrant signed by a judicial officer, the powers could be used in any criminal investigation into a suspected offence that carries a jail term of three years or more.
The regime applies to all "telecommunications data", including the time and destination of phone calls made and received, the duration of the calls and the location of the callers.
For computers, security agencies would be told what website addresses and chat rooms the user has visited and what files have been downloaded. The laws would also enable authorities to track internet conversations.
Security agencies would still need a judicial warrant to listen in on phone calls, or peruse emails.
The Greens senator Kerry Nettle said the powers would allow authorities to glean huge amounts of information. Every mobile phone could potentially become a tracking device for police and ASIO.
The bill "is more like something from East Germany than a party claiming to support liberal principles", she said. "There is no judicial oversight. Police and ASIO should have to get a warrant to track and tap people's mobile phones or web browsing."
The Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, was unavailable for comment yesterday. He has previously said the laws do not constitute new powers for security agencies, but a "more systematic and appropriate controls over the existing access framework".
But the legislation's own explanatory memorandum says the regime for "prospective" telecommunications data - the streaming of near real-time information for up to 90 days - is new.
The Law Council of Australia argues that technological advances mean the powers pose new dangers to privacy. Tracking someone with a mobile phone was far easier than secretly affixing a listening device without breaking and entering, it said. Therefore the proposed powers were "far more amenable to misuse or over-use by law enforcement agencies".
Tom Allard National Security Editor
September 17, 2007
SECURITY agencies would be able to secretly track people via their mobile phones and monitor their internet browsing for up to three months without obtaining a warrant under new laws due to go before the Senate this week.
The powers could be used in a range of even relatively minor criminal investigations, not just terrorism cases.
They would allow ASIO and federal and state police forces to demand that phone companies and internet service providers stream information to them in "near real-time" - just a few minutes after calls are made or websites visited. The information would have to be provided for up to 90 days for ASIO investigations, and 45 days if state or federal police are involved.
Justified as a counter-terrorism measure, the legislation has already been passed by government and Labor members of the lower house. But it remains deeply unpopular with legal experts and privacy advocates.
As well as not requiring a warrant signed by a judicial officer, the powers could be used in any criminal investigation into a suspected offence that carries a jail term of three years or more.
The regime applies to all "telecommunications data", including the time and destination of phone calls made and received, the duration of the calls and the location of the callers.
For computers, security agencies would be told what website addresses and chat rooms the user has visited and what files have been downloaded. The laws would also enable authorities to track internet conversations.
Security agencies would still need a judicial warrant to listen in on phone calls, or peruse emails.
The Greens senator Kerry Nettle said the powers would allow authorities to glean huge amounts of information. Every mobile phone could potentially become a tracking device for police and ASIO.
The bill "is more like something from East Germany than a party claiming to support liberal principles", she said. "There is no judicial oversight. Police and ASIO should have to get a warrant to track and tap people's mobile phones or web browsing."
The Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, was unavailable for comment yesterday. He has previously said the laws do not constitute new powers for security agencies, but a "more systematic and appropriate controls over the existing access framework".
But the legislation's own explanatory memorandum says the regime for "prospective" telecommunications data - the streaming of near real-time information for up to 90 days - is new.
The Law Council of Australia argues that technological advances mean the powers pose new dangers to privacy. Tracking someone with a mobile phone was far easier than secretly affixing a listening device without breaking and entering, it said. Therefore the proposed powers were "far more amenable to misuse or over-use by law enforcement agencies".
HELL'S CANYON on the Oregon/Idaho border
Lately, I've been motor touring the famous HELL'S CANYON along the Snake River in Idaho/Oregon. Apparently, Hell's Canyon is the deepest gorge in America? I thought The Grand Canyon was the deepest? Maybe there's a distinction between "canyon" and "gorge"? Who knows, but this is great country any way.
Alot of black bears on down on the water with rafters reporting lots of cubs, sows, and boars waltzing around before the winter snooze for bears. Lots of hunters in the National Forest out getting their deer and elk. Met a group who are shooting outdoor hunting films, and hike in and out up to a 6,000 foot base camp? I'd be packing in with horses.
The jet boat captains on the snake report that....it can get hairy on the river. A couple of boats hit rocks and sink every year.
Went to the famous PITTSBURG LANDING over the mountains. Great road that empties onto the Snake.
Speaking of snakes...found a small rattlesnake curled up on my manifold under the hood. Snakes will crawl under warm car engines at night...so....uh....try to avoid changing your oil at night. I chased the snake around the engine compartment, and hope I shook him off over some rutted dirt roads. Who knows....I thought it might come into the cab through an air conditioning vent.
Now...onto Flaming Gorge and the Canyonlands in Utah. Perfect weather for that red rock heat and the tourists should be long gone. I hope to avoid South Dakota and the winter by laying low in Arizona for the winter.
No imediate need....to litigate anything in South Dakota. I'M JUST GLAD I SURVIVED THE DAKOTA ORWELLIAN POLICE STATE. MOST DON'T MAKE IT. I GOT OUT IN TIME.
MY PARTING SHOT AT SOUTH DAKOTA'S PRARIE POTHOLE CLOWN COURT SYSTEM INCLUDES THE IDEA, ".....Go grow a 33 inch Dick Cheney, and go fuck yourself little prarie pothole peasant trash scum".
Alot of black bears on down on the water with rafters reporting lots of cubs, sows, and boars waltzing around before the winter snooze for bears. Lots of hunters in the National Forest out getting their deer and elk. Met a group who are shooting outdoor hunting films, and hike in and out up to a 6,000 foot base camp? I'd be packing in with horses.
The jet boat captains on the snake report that....it can get hairy on the river. A couple of boats hit rocks and sink every year.
Went to the famous PITTSBURG LANDING over the mountains. Great road that empties onto the Snake.
Speaking of snakes...found a small rattlesnake curled up on my manifold under the hood. Snakes will crawl under warm car engines at night...so....uh....try to avoid changing your oil at night. I chased the snake around the engine compartment, and hope I shook him off over some rutted dirt roads. Who knows....I thought it might come into the cab through an air conditioning vent.
Now...onto Flaming Gorge and the Canyonlands in Utah. Perfect weather for that red rock heat and the tourists should be long gone. I hope to avoid South Dakota and the winter by laying low in Arizona for the winter.
No imediate need....to litigate anything in South Dakota. I'M JUST GLAD I SURVIVED THE DAKOTA ORWELLIAN POLICE STATE. MOST DON'T MAKE IT. I GOT OUT IN TIME.
MY PARTING SHOT AT SOUTH DAKOTA'S PRARIE POTHOLE CLOWN COURT SYSTEM INCLUDES THE IDEA, ".....Go grow a 33 inch Dick Cheney, and go fuck yourself little prarie pothole peasant trash scum".
FBI's credibility lost during MOUSSAOUI TRIAL: more lies from corrupt GOP GESTAPO SCUM
APRIL 06 2006--Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker at MAD COW MORNING NEWS.com website
Confounding those who thought it impossible, the FBI’s already-tattered credibility was shredded still further last week with revelations of deliberately concealed evidence in the 9.11 investigation, as well as malfeasance in the probe of the execution-style slaying in Florida of SunCruz Casino Czar Gus Boulis, increasingly the focus of the investigation into disgraced Republican lobbyist-cum-bagman Jack Abramoff.
In a major development in the 9.11 investigation which passed almost-unnoticed, jurors in the death penalty trial of Zacharias Moussaoui heard testimony from aviation officials about a previously-undisclosed incident...
In February of 2001, almost two months after the FBI says Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi left Huffman Aviation in Venice Florida for the bright lights of Miami, the two men were still flying a single-engine plane registered to Venice Florida flight school Huffman Aviation.
Surprise surprise.
The story offers further confirmation of allegations in “Welcome to TERRORLAND" that the FBI systematically covered up evidence showing Atta using Huffman Aviation in Venice as his base of operations for the entire year before the 9.11 attack.
If the FBI’s chronology of events is a tissue of half-truths, distortions and outright lies, it is a very serious matter; the Bureau’s investigation was exclusively relied on by both the Congressional Intelligence Committee 9.11 probe and the 9.11 Commission, neither of which fielded independent investigators.
Moreover, the incident also contradicts sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee by Huffman Aviation’s Rudi Dekkers, who stated emphatically that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi left Huffman for the last time just after Christmas in 2000.
The cover-up lasts until we say different
The Clearwater incident began, jurors were told, after a police aide and night watchman noticed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi practicing takeoffs and landings at night, which is highly unusual, as the the tiny Clearwater airstrip is closed after dark.
A Clearwater aviation official testified the airport prohibited take-offs and landings after sunset. Planes landing after 9 p.m. were even supposed to be grounded until the next morning.
The disdain with which the two terrorist pilots treated American aviation regulations is already well-known, because of the now-famous incident in which Atta and Marwan walked away from a stalled plane and abandoned it in the middle of an active runway at Miami International Airport.
Dan Pursell, a former chief flight instructor at Huffman Aviation, testified that a Clearwater police aide at the tiny Clearwater Airpark called Huffman Aviation and left a voice message complaining that Atta and Marwan were breaking airport rules by taking off and landing after dark.
Pursell told the St. Petersburg Times, which first broke the story, that when they returned to Venice the next morning, he and another flight instructor at Huffman spoke with Atta and al-Shehhi about the Clearwater incident.
How really brief "really brief" can be
"Hey, we got a phone call, you've been identified in Clearwater," Pursell remembers telling Atta and al-Shehhi. "This is like, the last straw. If that happens again, we're going to have to look at this a little harder."
He called the exchange "really brief."
When we phoned Pursell to question him about why he hadn't brought to light sooner an incident he must have known had significance to the FBI's timeline, we found him to be a man of few words.
"I told the FBI all about it at the time," he told us. "They knew."
We asked the obvious question. "So why did they continue to lie about how much time Atta spent in Venice?"
Pursell said nothing. So "really brief" described our exchange as well.
Could government attorney Carla J. Martin’s improper tampering with witnesses, which briefly derailed the Moussaoui trial, have been designed to prevent just such disturbing new disclosures?
The answer, of course, as with so much else, is: "We may never know."
A sordid feat breaks a record in a state with a sordid past
In sworn testimony Rudi Dekkers insisted his relationship with the terrorist ringleader ended in December, nine months before the attack.
“On July 1st, 2000,” Dekkers told a Congressional Committee, “Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi arrived at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida to inquire about taking flying lessons. On July 3rd, 2000, Atta and Al-Shehhi came back to Huffman Aviation to sign up for lessons.”
“On December 24th, 2000, Atta and Al-Shehhi rented a Warrior from Huffman Aviation for a flight... one to two days later Atta and Al-Shehhi returned to Huffman Aviation to make final payments on their outstanding bills. Because they were not taking any more flying lessons, they were asked to leave the facility due to their bad attitudes and not being liked by staff and clients alike. Huffman never heard about or from them again until September 11th, 2001.”
Dekkers' testimony, which has clearly now been rendered "inoperative," also appears to open him to accusations of perjury. Or at least should...
One of the three alleged Mob hit men on trial for the murder of Florida Casino Czar Gus Boulis, which has increasingly become the focus of the probe into disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was an FBI informant at the time he is alleged to have been masterminding the murder plot.
The international heroin trafficking aspect of the 9.11 investigation has also gone unreported, except by the MadCowMorningNews, which has extensively covered the inconvenient discovery of 43 pounds of heroin aboard the Lear jet of the owner of Huffman Aviation during the same month Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al Shehhi arrived to attend his flight school.
As Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi began flying lessons at Huffman Aviation, in July of 2000, the school’s owner suffered a major embarrassment when his Lear jet was seized by DEA agents who found 43 pounds of heroin aboard.
Authorities called it the biggest seizure of heroin ever in central Florida, which, given the state’s sordid past, is no mean feat.
One stop shopping for all your last-minute criminal needs
One of the alleged hit men going on trial in Florida for the murder of gambling czar Gus Boulis, killed gangland-style after getting muscled out of SunCruz Casinos by Republican bagman Jack Abramoff, has been an informant for the FBI for more than a decade, including at the time when Boulis was killed.
The Miami Herald, which broke the story, said that at the same time New York mobster Anthony Moscatiello was allegedly plotting the slaying of gambling tycoon Boulis, he was spying on fellow gangsters and snitching to the FBI.
“Big Tony” Moscatiello, whose duties included ‘cooking’ the books for Mafia don John Gotti’s Howard Beach crew, was caught up in a major heroin prosecution which included then-acting Mob Boss Gene Gotti, John Gotti’s brother, as well as assorted other members of the Gambino Family.
He became a confidential informant for the Bureau after federal trafficking charges against him were mysteriously dropped in 1989.
The day after police announced arrests in SunCruz Casino founder Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis' murder, Adam Kidan, Jack Abramoff’s titular “President” of SunCruz, paid Big Tony a jailhouse visit at Rikers Island in New York City.
Um...a catering business at Rikers' Island? A donut shop in Sing Sing?
Adam Kidan is the only person outside “Big Tony” Moscatiello's family and attorneys allowed in to visit the alleged mob associate in his first weeks behind bars. What do you think they found to talk about?
In any other organization, this kind of developing pattern of illegality might prompt calls for a RICO investigation. Not of the Gambinos... of the FBI.
'Big Tony' Moscatiello, former advisor to crime boss John Gotti and star defendant in the gangland-style hit on Konstantinos 'Gus' Boulis...was an informant for the FBI at the time the crime was committed.
Assuming he's found guilty, we wonder: did he have to ask his FBI handler for permission to do the hit?
Or... was it an assignment?
Stay tuned.
by Daniel Hopsicker at MAD COW MORNING NEWS.com website
Confounding those who thought it impossible, the FBI’s already-tattered credibility was shredded still further last week with revelations of deliberately concealed evidence in the 9.11 investigation, as well as malfeasance in the probe of the execution-style slaying in Florida of SunCruz Casino Czar Gus Boulis, increasingly the focus of the investigation into disgraced Republican lobbyist-cum-bagman Jack Abramoff.
In a major development in the 9.11 investigation which passed almost-unnoticed, jurors in the death penalty trial of Zacharias Moussaoui heard testimony from aviation officials about a previously-undisclosed incident...
In February of 2001, almost two months after the FBI says Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi left Huffman Aviation in Venice Florida for the bright lights of Miami, the two men were still flying a single-engine plane registered to Venice Florida flight school Huffman Aviation.
Surprise surprise.
The story offers further confirmation of allegations in “Welcome to TERRORLAND" that the FBI systematically covered up evidence showing Atta using Huffman Aviation in Venice as his base of operations for the entire year before the 9.11 attack.
If the FBI’s chronology of events is a tissue of half-truths, distortions and outright lies, it is a very serious matter; the Bureau’s investigation was exclusively relied on by both the Congressional Intelligence Committee 9.11 probe and the 9.11 Commission, neither of which fielded independent investigators.
Moreover, the incident also contradicts sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee by Huffman Aviation’s Rudi Dekkers, who stated emphatically that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi left Huffman for the last time just after Christmas in 2000.
The cover-up lasts until we say different
The Clearwater incident began, jurors were told, after a police aide and night watchman noticed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi practicing takeoffs and landings at night, which is highly unusual, as the the tiny Clearwater airstrip is closed after dark.
A Clearwater aviation official testified the airport prohibited take-offs and landings after sunset. Planes landing after 9 p.m. were even supposed to be grounded until the next morning.
The disdain with which the two terrorist pilots treated American aviation regulations is already well-known, because of the now-famous incident in which Atta and Marwan walked away from a stalled plane and abandoned it in the middle of an active runway at Miami International Airport.
Dan Pursell, a former chief flight instructor at Huffman Aviation, testified that a Clearwater police aide at the tiny Clearwater Airpark called Huffman Aviation and left a voice message complaining that Atta and Marwan were breaking airport rules by taking off and landing after dark.
Pursell told the St. Petersburg Times, which first broke the story, that when they returned to Venice the next morning, he and another flight instructor at Huffman spoke with Atta and al-Shehhi about the Clearwater incident.
How really brief "really brief" can be
"Hey, we got a phone call, you've been identified in Clearwater," Pursell remembers telling Atta and al-Shehhi. "This is like, the last straw. If that happens again, we're going to have to look at this a little harder."
He called the exchange "really brief."
When we phoned Pursell to question him about why he hadn't brought to light sooner an incident he must have known had significance to the FBI's timeline, we found him to be a man of few words.
"I told the FBI all about it at the time," he told us. "They knew."
We asked the obvious question. "So why did they continue to lie about how much time Atta spent in Venice?"
Pursell said nothing. So "really brief" described our exchange as well.
Could government attorney Carla J. Martin’s improper tampering with witnesses, which briefly derailed the Moussaoui trial, have been designed to prevent just such disturbing new disclosures?
The answer, of course, as with so much else, is: "We may never know."
A sordid feat breaks a record in a state with a sordid past
In sworn testimony Rudi Dekkers insisted his relationship with the terrorist ringleader ended in December, nine months before the attack.
“On July 1st, 2000,” Dekkers told a Congressional Committee, “Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi arrived at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida to inquire about taking flying lessons. On July 3rd, 2000, Atta and Al-Shehhi came back to Huffman Aviation to sign up for lessons.”
“On December 24th, 2000, Atta and Al-Shehhi rented a Warrior from Huffman Aviation for a flight... one to two days later Atta and Al-Shehhi returned to Huffman Aviation to make final payments on their outstanding bills. Because they were not taking any more flying lessons, they were asked to leave the facility due to their bad attitudes and not being liked by staff and clients alike. Huffman never heard about or from them again until September 11th, 2001.”
Dekkers' testimony, which has clearly now been rendered "inoperative," also appears to open him to accusations of perjury. Or at least should...
One of the three alleged Mob hit men on trial for the murder of Florida Casino Czar Gus Boulis, which has increasingly become the focus of the probe into disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was an FBI informant at the time he is alleged to have been masterminding the murder plot.
The international heroin trafficking aspect of the 9.11 investigation has also gone unreported, except by the MadCowMorningNews, which has extensively covered the inconvenient discovery of 43 pounds of heroin aboard the Lear jet of the owner of Huffman Aviation during the same month Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al Shehhi arrived to attend his flight school.
As Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi began flying lessons at Huffman Aviation, in July of 2000, the school’s owner suffered a major embarrassment when his Lear jet was seized by DEA agents who found 43 pounds of heroin aboard.
Authorities called it the biggest seizure of heroin ever in central Florida, which, given the state’s sordid past, is no mean feat.
One stop shopping for all your last-minute criminal needs
One of the alleged hit men going on trial in Florida for the murder of gambling czar Gus Boulis, killed gangland-style after getting muscled out of SunCruz Casinos by Republican bagman Jack Abramoff, has been an informant for the FBI for more than a decade, including at the time when Boulis was killed.
The Miami Herald, which broke the story, said that at the same time New York mobster Anthony Moscatiello was allegedly plotting the slaying of gambling tycoon Boulis, he was spying on fellow gangsters and snitching to the FBI.
“Big Tony” Moscatiello, whose duties included ‘cooking’ the books for Mafia don John Gotti’s Howard Beach crew, was caught up in a major heroin prosecution which included then-acting Mob Boss Gene Gotti, John Gotti’s brother, as well as assorted other members of the Gambino Family.
He became a confidential informant for the Bureau after federal trafficking charges against him were mysteriously dropped in 1989.
The day after police announced arrests in SunCruz Casino founder Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis' murder, Adam Kidan, Jack Abramoff’s titular “President” of SunCruz, paid Big Tony a jailhouse visit at Rikers Island in New York City.
Um...a catering business at Rikers' Island? A donut shop in Sing Sing?
Adam Kidan is the only person outside “Big Tony” Moscatiello's family and attorneys allowed in to visit the alleged mob associate in his first weeks behind bars. What do you think they found to talk about?
In any other organization, this kind of developing pattern of illegality might prompt calls for a RICO investigation. Not of the Gambinos... of the FBI.
'Big Tony' Moscatiello, former advisor to crime boss John Gotti and star defendant in the gangland-style hit on Konstantinos 'Gus' Boulis...was an informant for the FBI at the time the crime was committed.
Assuming he's found guilty, we wonder: did he have to ask his FBI handler for permission to do the hit?
Or... was it an assignment?
Stay tuned.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Top censored stories for 2008 covering 2007
http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2008/index.htm
(copy the url above, and paste in google)
#1 No Habeas Corpus for “Any Person”
Sources:
Consortium, October 19, 2006
Title: “Who Is ‘Any Person’ in Tribunal Law?”
Author: Robert Parry
http://consortiumnews.com/2006/101906.html
Consortium, February 3, 2007
Title: “Still No Habeas Rights for You”
Author: Robert Parry
http://consortiumnews.com/2007/020307.html
Common Dreams, February 2, 2007
Title: “Repeal the Military Commissions Act and Restore the Most
American Human Right”
Author: Thom Hartmann
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0212-24.htm
Student Researchers: Bryce Cook and Julie Bickel
Faculty Evaluator: Andrew Roth, Ph.D.
#2 Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
Sources:
Toward Freedom , October 25, 2006
Title: “Bush Moves Toward Martial Law”
Author: Frank Morales
www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911
Student Researchers: Phillip Parfitt and Julie Bickel
Faculty Evaluator: Andy Merrifield, Ph.D.
# 3 AFRICOM: US Military Control of Africa’s Resources
Source:
MoonofAlabama.org 2/21/2007
Title: “Understanding AFRICOM”
Author: Bryan Hunt
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2007/02/understanding_a_1.html
Student Researcher: Ioana Lupu
Faculty Evaluator: Marco Calavita, Ph.D
# 4 Frenzy of Increasingly Destructive Trade Agreements
Sources:
Oxfam International, March 2007
Title: “Singing Away The Future”
http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/briefingpapers/bp101_regional_trade_agreements_0703
IPS coverage of Oxfam Report March 20, 2007
Title: “Free Trade Enslaving Poor Countries”
Author: Sanjay Suri
http://ipsnews.org/news.asp?idnews=37008
Student Researcher: Ann Marie O’Toole
Faculty Evaluator: Peter Phillips, Ph.D.
(copy the url above, and paste in google)
#1 No Habeas Corpus for “Any Person”
Sources:
Consortium, October 19, 2006
Title: “Who Is ‘Any Person’ in Tribunal Law?”
Author: Robert Parry
http://consortiumnews.com/2006/101906.html
Consortium, February 3, 2007
Title: “Still No Habeas Rights for You”
Author: Robert Parry
http://consortiumnews.com/2007/020307.html
Common Dreams, February 2, 2007
Title: “Repeal the Military Commissions Act and Restore the Most
American Human Right”
Author: Thom Hartmann
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0212-24.htm
Student Researchers: Bryce Cook and Julie Bickel
Faculty Evaluator: Andrew Roth, Ph.D.
#2 Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
Sources:
Toward Freedom , October 25, 2006
Title: “Bush Moves Toward Martial Law”
Author: Frank Morales
www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911
Student Researchers: Phillip Parfitt and Julie Bickel
Faculty Evaluator: Andy Merrifield, Ph.D.
# 3 AFRICOM: US Military Control of Africa’s Resources
Source:
MoonofAlabama.org 2/21/2007
Title: “Understanding AFRICOM”
Author: Bryan Hunt
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2007/02/understanding_a_1.html
Student Researcher: Ioana Lupu
Faculty Evaluator: Marco Calavita, Ph.D
# 4 Frenzy of Increasingly Destructive Trade Agreements
Sources:
Oxfam International, March 2007
Title: “Singing Away The Future”
http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/briefingpapers/bp101_regional_trade_agreements_0703
IPS coverage of Oxfam Report March 20, 2007
Title: “Free Trade Enslaving Poor Countries”
Author: Sanjay Suri
http://ipsnews.org/news.asp?idnews=37008
Student Researcher: Ann Marie O’Toole
Faculty Evaluator: Peter Phillips, Ph.D.
ENRON, MURDER, PUT OPTIONS ON 9/11
http://tomflocco.com/fs/EnronEspionage.htm
This article comes from
Tom Flocco.com
http://tomflocco.com/
Enron, investment espionage and the White House
Date: Wednesday, April 19
Topic: --
Enron, investment espionage and the White House
Active CIA and FBI agents were “loaned” to Enron for corporate espionage tied to offshore special purpose entities, pre-9/11 insider trading and profits of death
by Tom Flocco
[This story was originally published on July 16, 2002. It is being reprinted as Enron executives testify in court about the corporation’s usage of Special Purpose Entities (SPE’s) in off-shore accounts which bankrupted the energy giant. A U.S. intelligence source told TomFlocco.com that the Enron SPE’s were directly linked to Senator Hillary Clinton’s secret CIA proprietary account at Crozier Bank in Grenada and other off-shore accounts containing stolen and laundered U.S. Treasury funds. TF]
Washington—April 19, 2006. There is growing evidence that the FBI and other government intelligence entities are more closely linked to the documented accumulation of pre-9/11 insider trading profits than was originally thought.
But the Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee has not publicly referred to prior knowledge of the attacks as it relates to stock transaction profits, while also failing to publicize the critical Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “control list” report tracing what in effect were stock trading profits of death.
During a phone interview, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spokesman Tom Crispell denied that the CIA was monitoring “real-time,” pre-September 11 stock trading activity within U.S. borders using such software as the Prosecutor’s Management Information System (PROMIS) or the Echelon satellite monitoring system.
When we asked Crispell whether the CIA had been scrutinizing world financial markets for national security purposes, he replied, “I have no way of knowing what operations are [being affected by our assets] outside the country.”
CIA and 9-11 investment espionage linked to Enron
A January 23, 2002 Houston Chronicle report revealed that Enron Corporation’s top security team, including four former CIA officers and an ex FBI agent left the company to form a private firm, Secure Solutions International (SSI), while continuing with Enron via a consulting contract.
John W. Presley, the FBI agent now heading SSI could not be reached for comment. But the team probed a “variety of allegations of fraud and other kinds of rule-breaking by Enron workers,” according to the Chronicle.
Team member and former CIA agent David M. Cromley’s business biography at Enron listed him as Enron’s director of business analysis, the Chronicle reported, adding that Cromley gave Enron executives “detailed and unique information” allowing them to make “investments, sales of assets, joint ventures and [financial] products.”
But no public information has been forthcoming as to whether such “detailed and unique information” or sensitive CIA software was used in conjunction with Enron’s controversial off-shore investment products, or whether their missing assets may have been employed in what former German Minister of Technology, Andreas von Bulow, estimated at $15 billion in insider trading profits. (Tagesspiegel , Berlin, 1-13-2002)
Von Bulow then buttressed his astounding charges: “26 intelligence services in the U.S. with a budget of $30 billion....For 60 decisive minutes, the military and intelligence let fighter jets stay on the ground....48 hours later, however, the FBI presented a list of suicide hijackers. But within ten days, it emerged that seven of them were still alive.”
An examination of SSI’s website revealed that its corporate members have “managed cutting-edge counterterrorism and counter-proliferation operations for the CIA, implemented advanced technical information and security programs for the CIA, and conducted a wide range of investigations for the FBI,” while also “overseeing all security arrangements for several large gas pipeline companies.”
It is yet to be determined if Congress or Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will publicly question CIA Director George Tenet or FBI Director Robert Mueller to specifically confirm whether CIA and FBI employees were "loaned" to Enron's corporate espionage program, involved in personal pre 9/11 insider trading, or merely relaying sensitive insider political information to others involved in prior knowledge of the attacks.
Fraud-racked Enron has had at least 20 CIA agents on the payroll in the last eight years. But while the Houston Chronicle reported the operatives as “former” CIA, a February 26, 2002 National Enquirer story quoted a top Washington insider familiar with several secret investigations into Enron as reporting that they were active CIA—given “leaves of absence without pay and put on the Enron payroll.”
The source added that Enron’s CIA members used “info gleaned from a satellite project called ‘Echelon,’ which intercepted emails, phone calls and faxes with detailed business information,” adding that “pure and simple, [taxpayer-funded] U.S. intelligence agents were involved in corporate espionage.”
Another Enquirer source with ties to the CIA revealed that "the cozy deal between Enron and the CIA allowed the 'on-loan' undercover operatives to return to the Agency's payroll before Enron's collapse."
CIA links to the U.S. financial community traverse a curious variety of unexamined threads; and mega-money conglomerate Citigroup has allegedly been repeatedly charged with money laundering, while its board of directors includes John Deutch, former CIA Director, Robert Rubin, former Treasury Secretary and intimate friend of Enron’s Ken Lay, and former CIA Executive Director Nora Slatkin.
Senate and House links to terrorist financier
Congress has a close CIA link. Former Senate Joint Intelligence Co-Chairman Bob Graham and his House Intelligence Co-Chairman and former CIA operative Porter Goss were meeting with the Chief of the Pakistani Intelligence Service on the morning of the Sept.11 attacks, according to published reports.
Wide reports link two intelligence leaders in the Senate and House directly to the leader of Pakistan's intelligence arm, The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and indirectly to the leader of the 9/11 Hijackers.
Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad
A Times of India (10-12-2001) story revealed that Pakistani ISA Director General Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad sought retirement after the U.S. attacks—confirmed by top sources in India, because of evidence produced by India showing his links to alleged “hijacker” Mohammed Atta,
The Times said that "U.S. authorities sought his [Ahmad's] removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 was wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh on the instructions of ISI Lt. General Ahmad."
Senior [U.S.] government sources "have confirmed that India contributed significantly to establishing the link between the money transfer and the role played by the dismissed ISI chief."
The Times added that "while they did not provide details, they said that Indian inputs, including Sheikh's mobile phone number, helped the FBI in tracing and establishing the link."
Serious questions remain as former Senate Joint Intelligence Co-Chairman Bob Graham (D-FL) and his House Intelligence Co-Chairman, former CIA operative Porter Goss (R-FL—now CIA Director), were meeting with ISI Chief, Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad on the morning of the September 11 attacks according to wide reports.
These and other growing connections indicating prior knowledge of the attacks also make a case for how the profits of death were accumulated by insider trading via the U.S. Stock Market; but the SEC will not release its "Control List" of suspicious stock trades involving companies and airlines directly related to the attacks.
Congress allowed FBI to cover up secret SEC “control list”
According to the San Francisco Chronicle (10-19-01), the SEC privately asked North American securities firms to participate in an information-sharing system to trace “large numbers of trades in securities of companies [directly] affected by the attacks.
Curiously, the SEC asked companies “to designate senior personnel who appreciate ‘the sensitive nature’ of the case [pre-attack insider trading], and can be relied upon to ‘exercise appropriate discretion,’ as ‘point’ people linking government investigators and the [securities] industry,” specifically requesting names, titles, phone numbers and e-mail of the designated senior personnel.
On October 2, 2001, Canadian securities officials confirmed that the SEC had asked firms to review records for 38 companies, suggesting that some buyers and sellers might have had advance knowledge of the attacks.
Congress has allowed the FBI to refuse to make public what the Chronicle reported as an SEC “control list” containing confidential information about transactions, individuals, relationships, and entities identified by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in the probe.
The existence of the SEC list would still be a secret if not for an accidental leak via the Canadian securities officials.
There is as yet no reporting regarding whether the “entities” were SPE’s linked to Enron. The SEC added, “Because the control list contains confidential information, we ask that you disseminate it within your institution only on a need-to-know basis.”
The Wall Street Journal (10-2-2002) reported that the Secret Service was also probing an unusually high volume of five-year U.S. Treasury note purchases made prior to the attacks—one purchase included a single $5 billion trade.
Treasury notes are among the best investments in the event of a world crisis, with their value having risen substantially in the days after September 11.
Moreover, the Associated Press reported that a German Central Bank study strongly pointed to “terrorism insider trading” not only in airline and insurance companies but also in gold and oil futures, all of which resulted in millions of dollars linked to pre-attack insider trading—that is, having prior knowledge as to when the event would occur.
Enron, Deutsche Bank & Mayer, Brown and Platt
Evidence allegedly linking Deutsche Bank (DB) to terrorists and 9-11 insider trading is clearly quite extraordinary:
1) The alleged “hijacker” pilot and two accomplices had bank accounts at its Hamburg branch,
2) One of DB’s unnamed private investors never claimed $2.5 million in United Airlines put option contract profits following the attacks,
3) Its global “private banking” chief Mayo Shattuck III, resigned the day following the attacks in the middle of a three-year $40 million contract to become an energy executive,
4) DB hired away SEC enforcement and investigation chief Richard Walker just 20 days after the attacks,
5) Its recent senior investment banker Kevin Ingram pleaded guilty to money laundering involving Stinger missiles and multiple varieties of arms sales to Pakistani and Egyptian citizens just 14 days prior to Sept.11, and
6) Deutsche Bank was connected to 9-11 insider trading but Congress has not questioned former Alex (A.B.) Brown division head A. B. “Buzzy” Krongard—later appointed by George Bush as Executive Director (number three) of the CIA—regarding intelligence and “real-time” stock trade monitoring.
More extraordinary, however, is the fact that Congress, the Bush administration and the Justice Department ignored this critical evidence which has yet to be publicly presented in a court of law.
European reporters found that much of the suspicious pre-attack trading passed through Deutsche Bank and especially via CIA Executive Director A.B. Krongard’s former Alex Brown investment division by means of a procedure called portage, which assures the anonymity of individuals making the transactions.
CFO.com, an online site for corporate executives, revealed on 1-28-2002 that Deutsche Bank bank was a limited partner in either the controversial Enron special purpose entities (SPEs) LJM or Chewco—off balance sheets and off-shore products heavily involved in Enron’s demise, and run by Enron CFO Andrew Fastow.
William R. McLucas
CFO.com also revealed that a former Enron employee prepared an SEC filing, having deleted Deutsche Bank’s name from Enron’s LJM version of the SPE sent to the SEC, providing additional evidence for federal prosecutors.
“The deletion was made at the behest of William McLucas, former SEC enforcement director, who was curiously hired by Enron after the 9-11 attacks on October 31.”
The former employee also claims to have received instructions to destroy the draft of the SEC filing, providing more evidence of obstruction of justice while McLucas has yet to testify in court.
John P. Schmitz, Enron and Bush 41
John P. Schmitz, George H.W. Bush’s former deputy counsel during the elder Bush’s vice-presidency and presidency, is connected to many of the issues surrounding Enron, Mayer Brown, and Deutsche Bank.
John P. Schmitz
Schmitz was a key player in the Iran contra investigation when the Office of the Independent Counsel (OIC) reported that each witness interviewed regarding document production complied—except for Schmitz who asserted that his documents were privileged work product.
Schmitz, fluent in German and a Partner in global law firm Mayer, Brown has clients that include Bayer AG (German maker of the antibiotic Cipro which fights Anthrax, about which former Judicial Watch chairman Larry Klayman had a great deal of interest.
The public interest firm filed suit seeking the Bush administration’s anthrax documents to ascertain why the White House starting taking heavy doses of Cipro the day of the attacks—nearly a month before anthrax was even discovered on Capitol Hill, and while postal workers continued to sort mail in contaminated offices—some dying in the process.
John Schmitz’s Mayer Brown profile also reveals that he represented Enron, adding that “we were active in Germany [with Enron] until the end....It [bankruptcy] surprised me as well as anyone else,” according to Reuters (1-4-2002).
Moreover, Mayer Brown also represents Deutsche Bank on a regular basis regarding its electronic commerce activities; and interestingly, Schmitz’s law firm maintains an office with Enron in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in the Caspian Sea basin Enron went bankrupt.
Many 9-11 victim families will recognize Mayer-Brown, as the firm also represents United Airlines against some 40 9-11 families seeking answers in court regarding the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks, after eschewing monetary relief from the Congressional 9-11 Victim Compensation Fund.
NSA destroyed 9-11 data on Americans and U.S. companies
Two individuals with close intelligence ties told the Boston Globe (10-27 2001) that since September 11, the super secret National Security Agency (NSA), acting on the advice of their lawyers, destroyed data collected on American citizens and corporations which angered intelligence agencies seeking leads in the anti-terrorist probe.
Our two calls to then Joint-Congressional Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Senator Richard Shelby, to confirm details revealed by the sources were unreturned.
Since that October Globe report, no other media outlet or court of law has examined the heated discussions with the CIA and intelligence committee staff members, as NSA lawyers turned down requests to preserve the intelligence because regulations prohibit data collecting on Americans, inviting lawsuits, according to the two former senior U.S. officials.
However, TomFlocco.com talked to Vincent Cannistraro, former CIA Director of Counter-terrorism, who said “the law allows [intelligence officials] exceptions in certain circumstances.”
Both the CIA and FBI declined comment during our attempted contacts.
Cannistraro added, “If American citizens are believed to be involved in some way in a foreign intelligence operation that could lead to terrorism against this country, I believe the NSA is required to save or maintain the information.”
When asked about the NSA and the 9/11 attacks, the former CIA official said, “In this case, I believe they should have saved the surveillance data.”
Congress has been tight-lipped, and government investigators are extremely frustrated that many possible leads stemming from the Sept.11 attack were not being followed due to possible NSA obstruction of justice.
FBI agents indicted in September 11—linked stock scheme
On the heels of alleged CIA involvement in public stock trading and use of sensitive prior knowledge before 9-11, on May 22, FBI agents Jeffrey A. Royer and Lynn Wingate were charged with racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice.
Royer was also charged with extortion, according to an examination of an unsealed federal indictment: United States vs. Elgindy, Royer, Wingate, Cleveland, and Peters, filed in New York District Court by U.S. Attorney Alan Vinegard—all of which clouds probes of pre-attack insider trading profits by any prosecutor—Patrick Fitzgerald included.
Many Americans are unaware that Valerie Plame-Wilson was reportedly investigating issues surrounding the September 11 money-trail—and its links to off shore accounts, according to U.S. intelligence sources familiar with the investigation.
Vinegard’s news release said “the allegations reveal a shocking partnership between an experienced stock manipulator and law enforcement agents, undertaken for their illicit personal financial gain.”
Royer and Wingate allegedly used the FBI’s Automated Case Support database to actually monitor the investigation, passing confidential information about the investigations of companies to participants in a stock manipulation scheme, according to reports.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Breen said stock advisor Amir Ibrahim Elgindy, charged in the indictment, called his Salomon Smith Barney broker, trying to sell $300,000 in stock from his children’s trust funds on the afternoon of Sept.10, 2001.
During the conversation, Elgindy “predicted that the Dow Jones industrial average, which at the time stood at about 9,600, would soon crash to below 3,000,” according to reports.
Soft 9-11 investigation?
During our interview in Washington with former Washington, DC United States Attorney Joseph de Genova, TomFlocco.com was told, “If the Congress does not want to get answers to these critical questions regarding who profited [from prior knowledge of the attacks], then it needs to be litigated.”
When we asked whether Americans have a right to know who sold large blocks of stock shares in companies and airlines directly affected by the attacks or purchased billions in ultra-safe Treasury notes directly prior to 9/11, de Genova added, “I believe someone will ultimately litigate the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) issue related to the Ashcroft memo limiting FOIA responses if government agencies keep obstructing the media—the sooner, the better.”
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Enron, investment espionage and the White House
Date: Wednesday, April 19
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Enron, investment espionage and the White House
Active CIA and FBI agents were “loaned” to Enron for corporate espionage tied to offshore special purpose entities, pre-9/11 insider trading and profits of death
by Tom Flocco
[This story was originally published on July 16, 2002. It is being reprinted as Enron executives testify in court about the corporation’s usage of Special Purpose Entities (SPE’s) in off-shore accounts which bankrupted the energy giant. A U.S. intelligence source told TomFlocco.com that the Enron SPE’s were directly linked to Senator Hillary Clinton’s secret CIA proprietary account at Crozier Bank in Grenada and other off-shore accounts containing stolen and laundered U.S. Treasury funds. TF]
Washington—April 19, 2006. There is growing evidence that the FBI and other government intelligence entities are more closely linked to the documented accumulation of pre-9/11 insider trading profits than was originally thought.
But the Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee has not publicly referred to prior knowledge of the attacks as it relates to stock transaction profits, while also failing to publicize the critical Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “control list” report tracing what in effect were stock trading profits of death.
During a phone interview, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spokesman Tom Crispell denied that the CIA was monitoring “real-time,” pre-September 11 stock trading activity within U.S. borders using such software as the Prosecutor’s Management Information System (PROMIS) or the Echelon satellite monitoring system.
When we asked Crispell whether the CIA had been scrutinizing world financial markets for national security purposes, he replied, “I have no way of knowing what operations are [being affected by our assets] outside the country.”
CIA and 9-11 investment espionage linked to Enron
A January 23, 2002 Houston Chronicle report revealed that Enron Corporation’s top security team, including four former CIA officers and an ex FBI agent left the company to form a private firm, Secure Solutions International (SSI), while continuing with Enron via a consulting contract.
John W. Presley, the FBI agent now heading SSI could not be reached for comment. But the team probed a “variety of allegations of fraud and other kinds of rule-breaking by Enron workers,” according to the Chronicle.
Team member and former CIA agent David M. Cromley’s business biography at Enron listed him as Enron’s director of business analysis, the Chronicle reported, adding that Cromley gave Enron executives “detailed and unique information” allowing them to make “investments, sales of assets, joint ventures and [financial] products.”
But no public information has been forthcoming as to whether such “detailed and unique information” or sensitive CIA software was used in conjunction with Enron’s controversial off-shore investment products, or whether their missing assets may have been employed in what former German Minister of Technology, Andreas von Bulow, estimated at $15 billion in insider trading profits. (Tagesspiegel , Berlin, 1-13-2002)
Von Bulow then buttressed his astounding charges: “26 intelligence services in the U.S. with a budget of $30 billion....For 60 decisive minutes, the military and intelligence let fighter jets stay on the ground....48 hours later, however, the FBI presented a list of suicide hijackers. But within ten days, it emerged that seven of them were still alive.”
An examination of SSI’s website revealed that its corporate members have “managed cutting-edge counterterrorism and counter-proliferation operations for the CIA, implemented advanced technical information and security programs for the CIA, and conducted a wide range of investigations for the FBI,” while also “overseeing all security arrangements for several large gas pipeline companies.”
It is yet to be determined if Congress or Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will publicly question CIA Director George Tenet or FBI Director Robert Mueller to specifically confirm whether CIA and FBI employees were "loaned" to Enron's corporate espionage program, involved in personal pre 9/11 insider trading, or merely relaying sensitive insider political information to others involved in prior knowledge of the attacks.
Fraud-racked Enron has had at least 20 CIA agents on the payroll in the last eight years. But while the Houston Chronicle reported the operatives as “former” CIA, a February 26, 2002 National Enquirer story quoted a top Washington insider familiar with several secret investigations into Enron as reporting that they were active CIA—given “leaves of absence without pay and put on the Enron payroll.”
The source added that Enron’s CIA members used “info gleaned from a satellite project called ‘Echelon,’ which intercepted emails, phone calls and faxes with detailed business information,” adding that “pure and simple, [taxpayer-funded] U.S. intelligence agents were involved in corporate espionage.”
Another Enquirer source with ties to the CIA revealed that "the cozy deal between Enron and the CIA allowed the 'on-loan' undercover operatives to return to the Agency's payroll before Enron's collapse."
CIA links to the U.S. financial community traverse a curious variety of unexamined threads; and mega-money conglomerate Citigroup has allegedly been repeatedly charged with money laundering, while its board of directors includes John Deutch, former CIA Director, Robert Rubin, former Treasury Secretary and intimate friend of Enron’s Ken Lay, and former CIA Executive Director Nora Slatkin.
Senate and House links to terrorist financier
Congress has a close CIA link. Former Senate Joint Intelligence Co-Chairman Bob Graham and his House Intelligence Co-Chairman and former CIA operative Porter Goss were meeting with the Chief of the Pakistani Intelligence Service on the morning of the Sept.11 attacks, according to published reports.
Wide reports link two intelligence leaders in the Senate and House directly to the leader of Pakistan's intelligence arm, The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and indirectly to the leader of the 9/11 Hijackers.
Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad
A Times of India (10-12-2001) story revealed that Pakistani ISA Director General Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad sought retirement after the U.S. attacks—confirmed by top sources in India, because of evidence produced by India showing his links to alleged “hijacker” Mohammed Atta,
The Times said that "U.S. authorities sought his [Ahmad's] removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 was wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh on the instructions of ISI Lt. General Ahmad."
Senior [U.S.] government sources "have confirmed that India contributed significantly to establishing the link between the money transfer and the role played by the dismissed ISI chief."
The Times added that "while they did not provide details, they said that Indian inputs, including Sheikh's mobile phone number, helped the FBI in tracing and establishing the link."
Serious questions remain as former Senate Joint Intelligence Co-Chairman Bob Graham (D-FL) and his House Intelligence Co-Chairman, former CIA operative Porter Goss (R-FL—now CIA Director), were meeting with ISI Chief, Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad on the morning of the September 11 attacks according to wide reports.
These and other growing connections indicating prior knowledge of the attacks also make a case for how the profits of death were accumulated by insider trading via the U.S. Stock Market; but the SEC will not release its "Control List" of suspicious stock trades involving companies and airlines directly related to the attacks.
Congress allowed FBI to cover up secret SEC “control list”
According to the San Francisco Chronicle (10-19-01), the SEC privately asked North American securities firms to participate in an information-sharing system to trace “large numbers of trades in securities of companies [directly] affected by the attacks.
Curiously, the SEC asked companies “to designate senior personnel who appreciate ‘the sensitive nature’ of the case [pre-attack insider trading], and can be relied upon to ‘exercise appropriate discretion,’ as ‘point’ people linking government investigators and the [securities] industry,” specifically requesting names, titles, phone numbers and e-mail of the designated senior personnel.
On October 2, 2001, Canadian securities officials confirmed that the SEC had asked firms to review records for 38 companies, suggesting that some buyers and sellers might have had advance knowledge of the attacks.
Congress has allowed the FBI to refuse to make public what the Chronicle reported as an SEC “control list” containing confidential information about transactions, individuals, relationships, and entities identified by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in the probe.
The existence of the SEC list would still be a secret if not for an accidental leak via the Canadian securities officials.
There is as yet no reporting regarding whether the “entities” were SPE’s linked to Enron. The SEC added, “Because the control list contains confidential information, we ask that you disseminate it within your institution only on a need-to-know basis.”
The Wall Street Journal (10-2-2002) reported that the Secret Service was also probing an unusually high volume of five-year U.S. Treasury note purchases made prior to the attacks—one purchase included a single $5 billion trade.
Treasury notes are among the best investments in the event of a world crisis, with their value having risen substantially in the days after September 11.
Moreover, the Associated Press reported that a German Central Bank study strongly pointed to “terrorism insider trading” not only in airline and insurance companies but also in gold and oil futures, all of which resulted in millions of dollars linked to pre-attack insider trading—that is, having prior knowledge as to when the event would occur.
Enron, Deutsche Bank & Mayer, Brown and Platt
Evidence allegedly linking Deutsche Bank (DB) to terrorists and 9-11 insider trading is clearly quite extraordinary:
1) The alleged “hijacker” pilot and two accomplices had bank accounts at its Hamburg branch,
2) One of DB’s unnamed private investors never claimed $2.5 million in United Airlines put option contract profits following the attacks,
3) Its global “private banking” chief Mayo Shattuck III, resigned the day following the attacks in the middle of a three-year $40 million contract to become an energy executive,
4) DB hired away SEC enforcement and investigation chief Richard Walker just 20 days after the attacks,
5) Its recent senior investment banker Kevin Ingram pleaded guilty to money laundering involving Stinger missiles and multiple varieties of arms sales to Pakistani and Egyptian citizens just 14 days prior to Sept.11, and
6) Deutsche Bank was connected to 9-11 insider trading but Congress has not questioned former Alex (A.B.) Brown division head A. B. “Buzzy” Krongard—later appointed by George Bush as Executive Director (number three) of the CIA—regarding intelligence and “real-time” stock trade monitoring.
More extraordinary, however, is the fact that Congress, the Bush administration and the Justice Department ignored this critical evidence which has yet to be publicly presented in a court of law.
European reporters found that much of the suspicious pre-attack trading passed through Deutsche Bank and especially via CIA Executive Director A.B. Krongard’s former Alex Brown investment division by means of a procedure called portage, which assures the anonymity of individuals making the transactions.
CFO.com, an online site for corporate executives, revealed on 1-28-2002 that Deutsche Bank bank was a limited partner in either the controversial Enron special purpose entities (SPEs) LJM or Chewco—off balance sheets and off-shore products heavily involved in Enron’s demise, and run by Enron CFO Andrew Fastow.
William R. McLucas
CFO.com also revealed that a former Enron employee prepared an SEC filing, having deleted Deutsche Bank’s name from Enron’s LJM version of the SPE sent to the SEC, providing additional evidence for federal prosecutors.
“The deletion was made at the behest of William McLucas, former SEC enforcement director, who was curiously hired by Enron after the 9-11 attacks on October 31.”
The former employee also claims to have received instructions to destroy the draft of the SEC filing, providing more evidence of obstruction of justice while McLucas has yet to testify in court.
John P. Schmitz, Enron and Bush 41
John P. Schmitz, George H.W. Bush’s former deputy counsel during the elder Bush’s vice-presidency and presidency, is connected to many of the issues surrounding Enron, Mayer Brown, and Deutsche Bank.
John P. Schmitz
Schmitz was a key player in the Iran contra investigation when the Office of the Independent Counsel (OIC) reported that each witness interviewed regarding document production complied—except for Schmitz who asserted that his documents were privileged work product.
Schmitz, fluent in German and a Partner in global law firm Mayer, Brown has clients that include Bayer AG (German maker of the antibiotic Cipro which fights Anthrax, about which former Judicial Watch chairman Larry Klayman had a great deal of interest.
The public interest firm filed suit seeking the Bush administration’s anthrax documents to ascertain why the White House starting taking heavy doses of Cipro the day of the attacks—nearly a month before anthrax was even discovered on Capitol Hill, and while postal workers continued to sort mail in contaminated offices—some dying in the process.
John Schmitz’s Mayer Brown profile also reveals that he represented Enron, adding that “we were active in Germany [with Enron] until the end....It [bankruptcy] surprised me as well as anyone else,” according to Reuters (1-4-2002).
Moreover, Mayer Brown also represents Deutsche Bank on a regular basis regarding its electronic commerce activities; and interestingly, Schmitz’s law firm maintains an office with Enron in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in the Caspian Sea basin Enron went bankrupt.
Many 9-11 victim families will recognize Mayer-Brown, as the firm also represents United Airlines against some 40 9-11 families seeking answers in court regarding the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks, after eschewing monetary relief from the Congressional 9-11 Victim Compensation Fund.
NSA destroyed 9-11 data on Americans and U.S. companies
Two individuals with close intelligence ties told the Boston Globe (10-27 2001) that since September 11, the super secret National Security Agency (NSA), acting on the advice of their lawyers, destroyed data collected on American citizens and corporations which angered intelligence agencies seeking leads in the anti-terrorist probe.
Our two calls to then Joint-Congressional Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Senator Richard Shelby, to confirm details revealed by the sources were unreturned.
Since that October Globe report, no other media outlet or court of law has examined the heated discussions with the CIA and intelligence committee staff members, as NSA lawyers turned down requests to preserve the intelligence because regulations prohibit data collecting on Americans, inviting lawsuits, according to the two former senior U.S. officials.
However, TomFlocco.com talked to Vincent Cannistraro, former CIA Director of Counter-terrorism, who said “the law allows [intelligence officials] exceptions in certain circumstances.”
Both the CIA and FBI declined comment during our attempted contacts.
Cannistraro added, “If American citizens are believed to be involved in some way in a foreign intelligence operation that could lead to terrorism against this country, I believe the NSA is required to save or maintain the information.”
When asked about the NSA and the 9/11 attacks, the former CIA official said, “In this case, I believe they should have saved the surveillance data.”
Congress has been tight-lipped, and government investigators are extremely frustrated that many possible leads stemming from the Sept.11 attack were not being followed due to possible NSA obstruction of justice.
FBI agents indicted in September 11—linked stock scheme
On the heels of alleged CIA involvement in public stock trading and use of sensitive prior knowledge before 9-11, on May 22, FBI agents Jeffrey A. Royer and Lynn Wingate were charged with racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice.
Royer was also charged with extortion, according to an examination of an unsealed federal indictment: United States vs. Elgindy, Royer, Wingate, Cleveland, and Peters, filed in New York District Court by U.S. Attorney Alan Vinegard—all of which clouds probes of pre-attack insider trading profits by any prosecutor—Patrick Fitzgerald included.
Many Americans are unaware that Valerie Plame-Wilson was reportedly investigating issues surrounding the September 11 money-trail—and its links to off shore accounts, according to U.S. intelligence sources familiar with the investigation.
Vinegard’s news release said “the allegations reveal a shocking partnership between an experienced stock manipulator and law enforcement agents, undertaken for their illicit personal financial gain.”
Royer and Wingate allegedly used the FBI’s Automated Case Support database to actually monitor the investigation, passing confidential information about the investigations of companies to participants in a stock manipulation scheme, according to reports.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Breen said stock advisor Amir Ibrahim Elgindy, charged in the indictment, called his Salomon Smith Barney broker, trying to sell $300,000 in stock from his children’s trust funds on the afternoon of Sept.10, 2001.
During the conversation, Elgindy “predicted that the Dow Jones industrial average, which at the time stood at about 9,600, would soon crash to below 3,000,” according to reports.
Soft 9-11 investigation?
During our interview in Washington with former Washington, DC United States Attorney Joseph de Genova, TomFlocco.com was told, “If the Congress does not want to get answers to these critical questions regarding who profited [from prior knowledge of the attacks], then it needs to be litigated.”
When we asked whether Americans have a right to know who sold large blocks of stock shares in companies and airlines directly affected by the attacks or purchased billions in ultra-safe Treasury notes directly prior to 9/11, de Genova added, “I believe someone will ultimately litigate the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) issue related to the Ashcroft memo limiting FOIA responses if government agencies keep obstructing the media—the sooner, the better.”
How they cover it up? BUSH SHYSTER ATTORNEY tries to hoble Senate witness
http://www.insider-magazine.com/SimpsonLaufmanStory.html
Sept. 14-16, 2007 -- EXCLUSIVE By Wayne Madsen --
Bush family "cleaner" offered to Alabama GOP whistle blower as defense counsel
Alabama attorney and former Alabama Republican Party assistant Jill Simpson almost acquired as her Washington, DC counsel a longtime attorney considered a "clean up" man for the Bush family and its coterie of high-level politicians.
Simpson, who swore out an affidavit on May 24, 2007, [Page 1] [Page 2] [Page 3] [Page 4] that stated that Karl Rove; Alabama Republican Governor Bob Riley; Alabama GOP official William "Bill" Canary; his wife, Leura Canary, the US Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama; and US Attorney for Northern Alabama Alice Martin criminally conspired to indict and imprison former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman, was allegedly offered, by a member of Siegelman's own defense team, the legal services of David Laufman, a Texan who is associated with past "clean up" operations for the Bush family.
WMR has learned that the case against Siegelman was a political fix from the beginning with the prosecution, members of the defense, and the federal judge all in on a plan to convict and take out of circulation the former Alabama Democratic governor. It is also a fact that Siegelman's basic civil rights have been violated in a manner reminiscent of the Jim Crow South. In fact, a number of Jim Crow tactics have been resurrected by Southern Republican neo-confederate political leaders.
During the 2002 campaign between Siegelman and Riley, a GOP agent provocateur was filmed posting Riley for Governor signs at a Ku Klux Klan rally. In a typical Karl Rove-initiated dirty trick, the poster of the Riley signs was to be identified as a Siegelman Democratic operative in the pro-GOP media.
Simpson testified September 14 in closed session about the Siegelman case before a group of legal counsels and staffers representing the House Judiciary Committee. Simpson was questioned under oath by three Democrats and three Republican staffers.
Laufman reportedly served in the past in the CIA and "handled" such matters as the congressional probe of the 1980 October Surprise, in which George H. W. Bush, Bill Casey, Robert Gates, Donald Gregg and others allegedly conspired with Iran to keep U.S. hostages imprisoned until after the November 1980 election, thus tipping the scales against President Jimmy Carter. Laufman reportedly worked for CIA director Casey from 1981 to 1984.
Simpson told WMR that after she asked about having a Washington attorney represent her pro bono in a series of meetings with congressional committee, she was offered the services of Laufman by one of Siegelman's defense attorneys. After initially being told that Laufman's legal services would cost Simpson $485/hour or $25,000, that fee was dropped to $5,000, and then to zero. Siegelman's attorney claimed to Simpson that Laufman was recommended to him by President Bill Clinton. Clinton was described as a "close friend" of Siegelman and Siegelman's indicted and imprisoned "co-conspirator", former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy.
It turns out that Laufman, who is now with the DC law firm of Kelley Drye, not only handled the 1980 October Surprise matters while at the CIA but also was involved in the investigation of Secretary of State James Baker's State Department in the scandal surrounding George H. W. Bush's alleged use of Clinton's passport records as political fodder in the 1992 presidential campaign. Laufman, who was associate independent counsel for the House's October Surprise Task Force investigation panel was hired in 1993 by the special prosecutor in Passportgate: the special prosecutor was longtime GOP hack and former US Attorney for DC, Joseph DiGenova.
Laufman was also not an uninterested party to the Siegelman prosecution. Laufman served under Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson and Attorney General John Ashcroft as chief of staff for the Office of the Deputy Attorney General at Justice. While at Justice, Laufman ensured that suspects arrested by the FBI in the aftermath of 9/11 did not receive prompt access to lawyers or habeas corpus rights.
In late 2003, Laufman became the Assistant US Attorney for Eastern Virginia, working for Paul McNulty. In November 2006, Laufman was nominated by George W. Bush to replace the former Inspector General of the Defense Department Joseph Schmitz, who resigned the previous September to take the General Counsel job with the Prince Group, the parent company of Blackwater USA. Schmitz is the son of far right-wing former Republican congressman John Schmitz, Sr. and the brother of convicted pedophile schoolteacher Mary Kay Letourneau.
Laufman's nomination for Pentagon Inspector General was pulled after Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin put a hold on Laufman's nomination because he did not trust the longtime Bush "cleaner."
Siegelman's first indictment came on May 27, 2004, while Laufman worked as the Assistant US Attorney for Eastern Virginia. That indictment was dropped after the judge in the trial dismissed the case "with prejudice." On June 29, 2006, Siegelman was found guilty in a retrial on various counts. At the time of Siegelman's retrial, Laufman was still with the U.S. Attorney's office for Eastern Virginia. He did not leave until the end of August 2007, a few weeks before his legal services were offered to Simpson.
Moreover, according to Simpson's affidavit and testimony on Sept. 14 before House Judiciary Committee investigators, the Alabama GOP was plotting, along with the Justice Department, Siegelman's downfall in 2002, while Laufman worked for Thompson, the Deputy Attorney General.
Simpson, herself an attorney, did not accept the representation of Laufman and was content to be represented by her Alabama attorney, Priscilla Duncan. Had she accepted, there were a few quid pro quos. Laufman said that he would handle all media access to Simpson and that she would have to share everything she knew about the Siegelman case with him.
Simpson, who suffered a suspected and destructive arson attack on her house and was run off an Alabama road while driving her car by a law enforcement officer, is now facing the GOP and Karl Rove's vicious attack machine. House investigators are interested in a series of correspondence between Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney for Middle Alabama whose husband is a top Alabama GOP official, and the Justice Department in Washington.
Leura Canary and the Justice Department are refusing to disclose the correspondence but WMR has been told that Leura Canary made several outrageous claims against Simpson. These allegations were that Simpson wrote the legal brief for Scrushy, that Simpson met with Siegelman "several times," that Simpson is secretly a lawyer for both Siegelman and Scrushy, and that Siegelman stated that everything previously said by Simpson are "lies." The Justice Department is flatly refusing to disclose what is in the correspondence between Main Justice in Washington and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Montgomery.
One letter of interest is a July 9, 2007, letter sent from Leura Canary to the Justice Department. Assistant US Attorney Louis Franklin said all relevant documentation was sent from the U.S. Attorney's office in Montgomery to Washington. However, Franklin denies the White House was involved in any way with the prosecution of Siegelman. However, the "Karl" mentioned in the phone call overheard by Simpson would suggest that the White House was very much involved in the Siegelman case.
And there may have been other reasons for White House involvement since George H. W. Bush may have a significant link to the prosecution of Siegelman and the support afforded to ethically-tainted Judge Mark Fuller.
WMR has also uncovered another angle to the interest of the Bush family in the Simpson case. We previously reported that Fuller, the federal judge who sentenced Siegelman to over seven years in prison, listed Oceaneering, Incorporated on his financial disclosure form as a firm for which he had a vested interest. Oceaneering, prime Navy contractor used for salvaging ships and aircraft like Korean Air Lines 007 and the space shuttle Challenger, has one interesting past connection: a firm known as Zapata Offshore. It was the George H. W. Bush CIA proprietary firm that provided naval support for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
Judge Fuller's connections to the murky world of Bush covert operations could result in interesting testimony if SiegelmanGate leads to a possible impeachment inquiry against Fuller by the House Judiciary Committee. For that reason, the Bush Crime Family pulled out all the stops to limit the damage created by Simpson's testimony. WMR can report that the Alabama malfeasance involving Siegelman strikes at the very heart of over four decades of incessant Bush family corruption.
Sept. 14-16, 2007 -- EXCLUSIVE By Wayne Madsen --
Bush family "cleaner" offered to Alabama GOP whistle blower as defense counsel
Alabama attorney and former Alabama Republican Party assistant Jill Simpson almost acquired as her Washington, DC counsel a longtime attorney considered a "clean up" man for the Bush family and its coterie of high-level politicians.
Simpson, who swore out an affidavit on May 24, 2007, [Page 1] [Page 2] [Page 3] [Page 4] that stated that Karl Rove; Alabama Republican Governor Bob Riley; Alabama GOP official William "Bill" Canary; his wife, Leura Canary, the US Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama; and US Attorney for Northern Alabama Alice Martin criminally conspired to indict and imprison former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman, was allegedly offered, by a member of Siegelman's own defense team, the legal services of David Laufman, a Texan who is associated with past "clean up" operations for the Bush family.
WMR has learned that the case against Siegelman was a political fix from the beginning with the prosecution, members of the defense, and the federal judge all in on a plan to convict and take out of circulation the former Alabama Democratic governor. It is also a fact that Siegelman's basic civil rights have been violated in a manner reminiscent of the Jim Crow South. In fact, a number of Jim Crow tactics have been resurrected by Southern Republican neo-confederate political leaders.
During the 2002 campaign between Siegelman and Riley, a GOP agent provocateur was filmed posting Riley for Governor signs at a Ku Klux Klan rally. In a typical Karl Rove-initiated dirty trick, the poster of the Riley signs was to be identified as a Siegelman Democratic operative in the pro-GOP media.
Simpson testified September 14 in closed session about the Siegelman case before a group of legal counsels and staffers representing the House Judiciary Committee. Simpson was questioned under oath by three Democrats and three Republican staffers.
Laufman reportedly served in the past in the CIA and "handled" such matters as the congressional probe of the 1980 October Surprise, in which George H. W. Bush, Bill Casey, Robert Gates, Donald Gregg and others allegedly conspired with Iran to keep U.S. hostages imprisoned until after the November 1980 election, thus tipping the scales against President Jimmy Carter. Laufman reportedly worked for CIA director Casey from 1981 to 1984.
Simpson told WMR that after she asked about having a Washington attorney represent her pro bono in a series of meetings with congressional committee, she was offered the services of Laufman by one of Siegelman's defense attorneys. After initially being told that Laufman's legal services would cost Simpson $485/hour or $25,000, that fee was dropped to $5,000, and then to zero. Siegelman's attorney claimed to Simpson that Laufman was recommended to him by President Bill Clinton. Clinton was described as a "close friend" of Siegelman and Siegelman's indicted and imprisoned "co-conspirator", former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy.
It turns out that Laufman, who is now with the DC law firm of Kelley Drye, not only handled the 1980 October Surprise matters while at the CIA but also was involved in the investigation of Secretary of State James Baker's State Department in the scandal surrounding George H. W. Bush's alleged use of Clinton's passport records as political fodder in the 1992 presidential campaign. Laufman, who was associate independent counsel for the House's October Surprise Task Force investigation panel was hired in 1993 by the special prosecutor in Passportgate: the special prosecutor was longtime GOP hack and former US Attorney for DC, Joseph DiGenova.
Laufman was also not an uninterested party to the Siegelman prosecution. Laufman served under Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson and Attorney General John Ashcroft as chief of staff for the Office of the Deputy Attorney General at Justice. While at Justice, Laufman ensured that suspects arrested by the FBI in the aftermath of 9/11 did not receive prompt access to lawyers or habeas corpus rights.
In late 2003, Laufman became the Assistant US Attorney for Eastern Virginia, working for Paul McNulty. In November 2006, Laufman was nominated by George W. Bush to replace the former Inspector General of the Defense Department Joseph Schmitz, who resigned the previous September to take the General Counsel job with the Prince Group, the parent company of Blackwater USA. Schmitz is the son of far right-wing former Republican congressman John Schmitz, Sr. and the brother of convicted pedophile schoolteacher Mary Kay Letourneau.
Laufman's nomination for Pentagon Inspector General was pulled after Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin put a hold on Laufman's nomination because he did not trust the longtime Bush "cleaner."
Siegelman's first indictment came on May 27, 2004, while Laufman worked as the Assistant US Attorney for Eastern Virginia. That indictment was dropped after the judge in the trial dismissed the case "with prejudice." On June 29, 2006, Siegelman was found guilty in a retrial on various counts. At the time of Siegelman's retrial, Laufman was still with the U.S. Attorney's office for Eastern Virginia. He did not leave until the end of August 2007, a few weeks before his legal services were offered to Simpson.
Moreover, according to Simpson's affidavit and testimony on Sept. 14 before House Judiciary Committee investigators, the Alabama GOP was plotting, along with the Justice Department, Siegelman's downfall in 2002, while Laufman worked for Thompson, the Deputy Attorney General.
Simpson, herself an attorney, did not accept the representation of Laufman and was content to be represented by her Alabama attorney, Priscilla Duncan. Had she accepted, there were a few quid pro quos. Laufman said that he would handle all media access to Simpson and that she would have to share everything she knew about the Siegelman case with him.
Simpson, who suffered a suspected and destructive arson attack on her house and was run off an Alabama road while driving her car by a law enforcement officer, is now facing the GOP and Karl Rove's vicious attack machine. House investigators are interested in a series of correspondence between Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney for Middle Alabama whose husband is a top Alabama GOP official, and the Justice Department in Washington.
Leura Canary and the Justice Department are refusing to disclose the correspondence but WMR has been told that Leura Canary made several outrageous claims against Simpson. These allegations were that Simpson wrote the legal brief for Scrushy, that Simpson met with Siegelman "several times," that Simpson is secretly a lawyer for both Siegelman and Scrushy, and that Siegelman stated that everything previously said by Simpson are "lies." The Justice Department is flatly refusing to disclose what is in the correspondence between Main Justice in Washington and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Montgomery.
One letter of interest is a July 9, 2007, letter sent from Leura Canary to the Justice Department. Assistant US Attorney Louis Franklin said all relevant documentation was sent from the U.S. Attorney's office in Montgomery to Washington. However, Franklin denies the White House was involved in any way with the prosecution of Siegelman. However, the "Karl" mentioned in the phone call overheard by Simpson would suggest that the White House was very much involved in the Siegelman case.
And there may have been other reasons for White House involvement since George H. W. Bush may have a significant link to the prosecution of Siegelman and the support afforded to ethically-tainted Judge Mark Fuller.
WMR has also uncovered another angle to the interest of the Bush family in the Simpson case. We previously reported that Fuller, the federal judge who sentenced Siegelman to over seven years in prison, listed Oceaneering, Incorporated on his financial disclosure form as a firm for which he had a vested interest. Oceaneering, prime Navy contractor used for salvaging ships and aircraft like Korean Air Lines 007 and the space shuttle Challenger, has one interesting past connection: a firm known as Zapata Offshore. It was the George H. W. Bush CIA proprietary firm that provided naval support for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
Judge Fuller's connections to the murky world of Bush covert operations could result in interesting testimony if SiegelmanGate leads to a possible impeachment inquiry against Fuller by the House Judiciary Committee. For that reason, the Bush Crime Family pulled out all the stops to limit the damage created by Simpson's testimony. WMR can report that the Alabama malfeasance involving Siegelman strikes at the very heart of over four decades of incessant Bush family corruption.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Major break in journalist JOHN CAYLOR'S mother's murder by corrupt police state
http://www.insider-magazine.com/MotherStoryMainCOPY.html
(do google on "Insider Magazine" to cover John Caylor's story)
INSIDE THE DIXIE MAFIA
WHEN THEY KILL THE ONES YOU LOVE
A Major BREAK - Updated September 14, 2007
By: John Caylor
Republican party lawyer Dana Jill Simpson is testifying today in a closed door session before the United States House Judiciary Committee concerning obstruction of justice by Karl Rove and United States Attorneys in the Governor Don Siegelman case. Jill has informed me that a high ranking Florida public official she believed to be (Jeb Bush) asked Alabama Governor Bob Riley's son (Rob Riley) to do an in-depth investigation and inquiry into this editors personal life and family in Alabama months prior to the brutal murder of my mother. Jill Simpson personally conducted the investigation for those persons...
This editor has every reason to believe Jill Simpson's report to be true and at the time this editor and Insider-Magazine.com was deeply involved with the United States Attorneys Office at Pensacola, Florida in the (Aztez Environmental and Big Wheel Recycling case). The series of articles by Emerald Coast Insider (print edition) and Insider-Magazine.com was a driving force behind the debarment of both companies from U.S. government contracting resulting in the loss of $5 billion dollars in government contracts and the potential loss of $15 billion in funds for the demolition and disposal of asbestos in the City of New Orleans.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency and Criminal Investigative reports by the United States Air Force reflect Jeb Bush's involvement with the organized crime companies and Insider Magazine is named as the source of the investigation in the following documents. The documents report that illegal aliens working for Aztec were smuggled onto United States Air Force military bases and some disappeared from their work sites.
Our inside source told us that many of these people who were smuggled into the United States were Pakistani nationals who had Spanish surnames and passports. We believe they were members of Al-Qaeda and so did the U.S. Department of Homeland Security when they raided the firms Panama City offices. Big Wheel Recycling was an Alabama firm whose officers and directors have deep ties to organized crime figures and among those Alabama officers in federal prison on racketeering and conspiracy charges is former Crenshaw County Probate Judge Dwight Faulk.
The Florida officers of the firm were White House transition attorney William Harrison, Jr. and top Florida republican king-pin Randall McElheney. The unseen Dixie Mafia figurehead is Charles Faircloth a native of Abbeville, Alabama. See the following financial statement and corporate documents.
In a later update of this story we will document how the President of the United States threatend to fire United States Attorneys Greg Miller and Len Register in the Aztec-Big Wheel case if they proceeded. The pending case was removed from a federal criminal grand jury as the Justice Department turned it into a civil case with debarment proceedings and the firm now has new owners - new names - and same operations.
(do google on "Insider Magazine" to cover John Caylor's story)
INSIDE THE DIXIE MAFIA
WHEN THEY KILL THE ONES YOU LOVE
A Major BREAK - Updated September 14, 2007
By: John Caylor
Republican party lawyer Dana Jill Simpson is testifying today in a closed door session before the United States House Judiciary Committee concerning obstruction of justice by Karl Rove and United States Attorneys in the Governor Don Siegelman case. Jill has informed me that a high ranking Florida public official she believed to be (Jeb Bush) asked Alabama Governor Bob Riley's son (Rob Riley) to do an in-depth investigation and inquiry into this editors personal life and family in Alabama months prior to the brutal murder of my mother. Jill Simpson personally conducted the investigation for those persons...
This editor has every reason to believe Jill Simpson's report to be true and at the time this editor and Insider-Magazine.com was deeply involved with the United States Attorneys Office at Pensacola, Florida in the (Aztez Environmental and Big Wheel Recycling case). The series of articles by Emerald Coast Insider (print edition) and Insider-Magazine.com was a driving force behind the debarment of both companies from U.S. government contracting resulting in the loss of $5 billion dollars in government contracts and the potential loss of $15 billion in funds for the demolition and disposal of asbestos in the City of New Orleans.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency and Criminal Investigative reports by the United States Air Force reflect Jeb Bush's involvement with the organized crime companies and Insider Magazine is named as the source of the investigation in the following documents. The documents report that illegal aliens working for Aztec were smuggled onto United States Air Force military bases and some disappeared from their work sites.
Our inside source told us that many of these people who were smuggled into the United States were Pakistani nationals who had Spanish surnames and passports. We believe they were members of Al-Qaeda and so did the U.S. Department of Homeland Security when they raided the firms Panama City offices. Big Wheel Recycling was an Alabama firm whose officers and directors have deep ties to organized crime figures and among those Alabama officers in federal prison on racketeering and conspiracy charges is former Crenshaw County Probate Judge Dwight Faulk.
The Florida officers of the firm were White House transition attorney William Harrison, Jr. and top Florida republican king-pin Randall McElheney. The unseen Dixie Mafia figurehead is Charles Faircloth a native of Abbeville, Alabama. See the following financial statement and corporate documents.
In a later update of this story we will document how the President of the United States threatend to fire United States Attorneys Greg Miller and Len Register in the Aztec-Big Wheel case if they proceeded. The pending case was removed from a federal criminal grand jury as the Justice Department turned it into a civil case with debarment proceedings and the firm now has new owners - new names - and same operations.
Dirt on ALABAMA FED JUDGE who works for Karl Rove
http://www.insider-magazine.com/MarkFullerWM/MarkFullerWM.html
July 25, 2007 -- SPECIAL REPORT --
Alabama federal judge a top defense contractor
July 25, 2007 -- SPECIAL REPORT -- Alabama federal judge a top defense contractor
Alabama federal judge Mark Fuller, a former Alabama Republican Party executive committee member who was appointed to the federal bench by George W. Bush on August 1, 2002, is a major defense and federal law enforcement contractor, according to documents previously reported by WMR and additional records examined by WMR. Fuller became the Chief District Judge for the US Court for the Middle District of Alabama on May 17, 2004. Fuller sentenced former Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman to over seven years in prison for bribery in a case that was linked to a political vendetta by Fuller, current Alabama Republican Governor Bob Riley, and Bush's political aide Karl Rove against the Alabama Democratic Party and its its most significant player, Siegelman.
Fuller served on the Alabama Republican Party Executive Committee during the 2002 election between then-Governor Siegelman and Bob Riley, the Republican who defeated Siegelman in a race in which polls showed Siegelman ahead and an election that was rife with reports of election fraud. Previously, WMR reported that Fuller was listed as a corporate officer of Doss Aviation of Colorado Springs, Colorado. WMR has learned that Doss Aviation has major contracts with the Pentagon and the FBI. Making Fuller's failure to recuse himself in the Siegelman prosecution, a convoluted and dubious case that had previously dismissed with prejudice by federal judge U.W. Clemon after federal prosecutors dropped all charges, is the fact that Aureus International, a division of Doss Aviation based in Enterprise, Alabama, has active contracts to supply uniforms to the FBI, an agency that made up part of the prosecution team against Siegelman.
More outrageous is the fact that Fuller heard a case brought by the U.S. government against Siegelman during the same time Fuller was making hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts. Doss Aviation lists Fuller as a corporate officer in Alabama Secretary of State documents WMR published on July 12, 2007. An examination of the Doss Aviation web site shows that the firm has
active aircraft maintenance and other logistics contracts with the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine; the Defense Fuel Support Point, Charleston, South Carolina; Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas; Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington; F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming; Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Lewis, Washington; Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota; Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida; Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana; Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota; Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida; Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Crete; Defense Fuel Support Point Tampa, Florida; US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Vandenberg Air Force Base, California; Naval Base Ventura County, California; Defense Fuel Support Point, Verona, New York; Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington; and Yokota Air Base, Japan.
It is also noteworthy that the Doss Aviation active contract web page has a photo of the World Trade Center shaded in the colors of the U.S. flag. Fuller's firm has seen a growth in contracts and profits since the 9/11 attacks and U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. WMR has learned that Fuller inherited many of Doss' original contracts from former Alabama Representative William Dickinson, with a tacit agreement from Alabama Republican Representative Terry Everett. Fuller worked as Everett's campaign manager in his 1992 race to succeed the retiring Dickinson. Everett's 2nd Alabama congressional district comprises Dothan, Doss' headquarters, and Enterprise, which is listed as the home of record for Fuller on Doss' corporate papers. In another bizarre twist, WMR has also learned that Fuller had his mail being sent to the U.S. Courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama a full two years before he was named as a federal judge by Bush, an indication that Fuller was acting as a "bag man" for other, as yet undetermined, parties.
Information culled from Internet web archives of previous Doss Aviation web pages indicate that the firm was involved in training Saudi and Iranian pilots. Both Newsweek and Knight Ridder reported that three to five of the 9/11 hijackers had attended military training courses in the United States. They included Mohamed Atta who attended the International Officers' School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. In 2006, Doss Aviation was awarded a $178.2 million U.S. Air Force contract to support the Air Force's Initial Flight Screening program for pilots located in Pueblo, Colorado. The program screens between 1,200 and 1,700 students each year.
The Secretary of State of Colorado business database shows Doss Aviation was formed as a foreign corporation incorporated in Texas on May 15, 1989. Fuller's name first appears in a 1995 corporate report filed with the Secretary of State of Colorado. The last Doss corporate filing in Colorado was submitted on June 16, 2007 and the firm maintains a certificate of good standing from the Colorado Secretary of State. A Writ of Mandamus was filed by Siegelman's co-defendant, former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy, with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals asking for a new trial or a motion to vacate Fuller's court orders because of the conflict of interests of the Judge with his participation in the activities of a federal contractor.
The Writ stated:
1. Fuller is the Registered Agent for Doss Aviation, according to the Alabama Secretary of State.
2. There is no record of Fuller resigning as Registered Agent for Doss nor does Fuller deny this allegation.
3. According to Doss' 2003 annual report filed with the State of Maine, Fuller is one of seven owners of Doss.
4. According to the Maine Secretary of State, Fuller is the largest Doss shareholder, owning 43.75% of the shares, with the next largest shareholder holding 25% and the remaining 5 holders owning 6.25% each.
5. On corporate disclosures filed with the Maine Secretary of State in 2004, 2005, and 2006, Fuller is listed as a shareholder and director of Doss Aviation, with his address of record as One Church Street, Montgomery, Alabama, the address of the US Federal Courthouse where Fuller is the Chief Judge.
6. Fuller's financial disclosure for 2005 lists Fuller as receiving between $110,001 and $1,000,001 in distributions in 2005. The disclosure also states that Fuller's interest in Doss for 2005 was valued between $1,000,001and $5,000,000.
7. Fuller's financial disclosures for 2003 and 2004 lists Fuller receiving between $100,001 and $1,000,000 in income for each year. The fact that Fuller is listed as receiving income and not distributions indicates that Fuller was acting as not just a shareholder but as an employee/officer for the corporation while serving on the federal bench, a clear conflict of interests and illegal activity for a federal employee also receiving federal contracts.
8. Doss Aviation's website claims it has performed services in its 29 years of existence for the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force; Defense Logistics Agency, State Department, and Federal Aviation Agency.
9. Doss Aviation has received federal contracts worth over $258,000,000, including a February 2006 contract to train U.S. Air Force pilots and navigators worth over $178,000,000.
10. Fuller owns a large stake in Doss of Alabama, Inc., a spinoff of Doss Aviation that was incorporated on or about September 23, 2002, almost a full two months after Bush named Fuller to the federal bench and over almost two months before he was confirmed by the US Senate on November 14, 2002. Fuller was sworn in on November 26, 2002. Fuller is listed as the incorporator of Doss of Alabama, Inc.
11. Fuller's financial disclosures for 2003 and 2004 lists him as receiving income from Doss of Alabama. His 2005 financials lists Fuller as receiving $100,001 and $1,000,000 in distributions from Doss of Alabama.
12. Doss Aviation's website lists Aureus International as its division and states that "for over 10 years Aureus International has been manufacturing, servicing and supplying flame retardant specialty garments." Aureus has corporate offices in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
13. An Enterprise Ledger article, dated April 2, 2005, states "FBI agents, military and civilian pilots and medical professionals all over the world wear [Aureus International] products."
14. Fuller's financial disclosures make no mention of Aureus International.
15. Two FBI agents were assigned to the federal prosecution team that targeted Siegelman and Scrushy: Special Agents Keith Baker and James Murray. The two agents were present during the trial per request of the US Attorney prosecuting the case.
16. The US Attorneys' request to allow the presence of the two FBI agents at the trial was ordered by Fuller on May 1, 2006.
17. Doss Aviation provides fuel distribution services for Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.
18. Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Feaga, the lead prosecutor in the case, is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and is an assistant to Staff Judge Advocate Brig. Gen. Richard C. Harding at Langley Air Force Base, the principal legal adviser to the Air Combat Staff. Feaga and his boss Harding have jurisdiction over all legal matters at Langley, including contracts awarded to Doss Aviation.
19. At no time during the trial did Fuller state that he is the largest shareholder of several businesses that have lucrative contracts with the U.S. government.
July 25, 2007 -- SPECIAL REPORT --
Alabama federal judge a top defense contractor
July 25, 2007 -- SPECIAL REPORT -- Alabama federal judge a top defense contractor
Alabama federal judge Mark Fuller, a former Alabama Republican Party executive committee member who was appointed to the federal bench by George W. Bush on August 1, 2002, is a major defense and federal law enforcement contractor, according to documents previously reported by WMR and additional records examined by WMR. Fuller became the Chief District Judge for the US Court for the Middle District of Alabama on May 17, 2004. Fuller sentenced former Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman to over seven years in prison for bribery in a case that was linked to a political vendetta by Fuller, current Alabama Republican Governor Bob Riley, and Bush's political aide Karl Rove against the Alabama Democratic Party and its its most significant player, Siegelman.
Fuller served on the Alabama Republican Party Executive Committee during the 2002 election between then-Governor Siegelman and Bob Riley, the Republican who defeated Siegelman in a race in which polls showed Siegelman ahead and an election that was rife with reports of election fraud. Previously, WMR reported that Fuller was listed as a corporate officer of Doss Aviation of Colorado Springs, Colorado. WMR has learned that Doss Aviation has major contracts with the Pentagon and the FBI. Making Fuller's failure to recuse himself in the Siegelman prosecution, a convoluted and dubious case that had previously dismissed with prejudice by federal judge U.W. Clemon after federal prosecutors dropped all charges, is the fact that Aureus International, a division of Doss Aviation based in Enterprise, Alabama, has active contracts to supply uniforms to the FBI, an agency that made up part of the prosecution team against Siegelman.
More outrageous is the fact that Fuller heard a case brought by the U.S. government against Siegelman during the same time Fuller was making hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts. Doss Aviation lists Fuller as a corporate officer in Alabama Secretary of State documents WMR published on July 12, 2007. An examination of the Doss Aviation web site shows that the firm has
active aircraft maintenance and other logistics contracts with the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine; the Defense Fuel Support Point, Charleston, South Carolina; Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas; Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington; F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming; Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Lewis, Washington; Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota; Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida; Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana; Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota; Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida; Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Crete; Defense Fuel Support Point Tampa, Florida; US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Vandenberg Air Force Base, California; Naval Base Ventura County, California; Defense Fuel Support Point, Verona, New York; Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington; and Yokota Air Base, Japan.
It is also noteworthy that the Doss Aviation active contract web page has a photo of the World Trade Center shaded in the colors of the U.S. flag. Fuller's firm has seen a growth in contracts and profits since the 9/11 attacks and U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. WMR has learned that Fuller inherited many of Doss' original contracts from former Alabama Representative William Dickinson, with a tacit agreement from Alabama Republican Representative Terry Everett. Fuller worked as Everett's campaign manager in his 1992 race to succeed the retiring Dickinson. Everett's 2nd Alabama congressional district comprises Dothan, Doss' headquarters, and Enterprise, which is listed as the home of record for Fuller on Doss' corporate papers. In another bizarre twist, WMR has also learned that Fuller had his mail being sent to the U.S. Courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama a full two years before he was named as a federal judge by Bush, an indication that Fuller was acting as a "bag man" for other, as yet undetermined, parties.
Information culled from Internet web archives of previous Doss Aviation web pages indicate that the firm was involved in training Saudi and Iranian pilots. Both Newsweek and Knight Ridder reported that three to five of the 9/11 hijackers had attended military training courses in the United States. They included Mohamed Atta who attended the International Officers' School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. In 2006, Doss Aviation was awarded a $178.2 million U.S. Air Force contract to support the Air Force's Initial Flight Screening program for pilots located in Pueblo, Colorado. The program screens between 1,200 and 1,700 students each year.
The Secretary of State of Colorado business database shows Doss Aviation was formed as a foreign corporation incorporated in Texas on May 15, 1989. Fuller's name first appears in a 1995 corporate report filed with the Secretary of State of Colorado. The last Doss corporate filing in Colorado was submitted on June 16, 2007 and the firm maintains a certificate of good standing from the Colorado Secretary of State. A Writ of Mandamus was filed by Siegelman's co-defendant, former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy, with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals asking for a new trial or a motion to vacate Fuller's court orders because of the conflict of interests of the Judge with his participation in the activities of a federal contractor.
The Writ stated:
1. Fuller is the Registered Agent for Doss Aviation, according to the Alabama Secretary of State.
2. There is no record of Fuller resigning as Registered Agent for Doss nor does Fuller deny this allegation.
3. According to Doss' 2003 annual report filed with the State of Maine, Fuller is one of seven owners of Doss.
4. According to the Maine Secretary of State, Fuller is the largest Doss shareholder, owning 43.75% of the shares, with the next largest shareholder holding 25% and the remaining 5 holders owning 6.25% each.
5. On corporate disclosures filed with the Maine Secretary of State in 2004, 2005, and 2006, Fuller is listed as a shareholder and director of Doss Aviation, with his address of record as One Church Street, Montgomery, Alabama, the address of the US Federal Courthouse where Fuller is the Chief Judge.
6. Fuller's financial disclosure for 2005 lists Fuller as receiving between $110,001 and $1,000,001 in distributions in 2005. The disclosure also states that Fuller's interest in Doss for 2005 was valued between $1,000,001and $5,000,000.
7. Fuller's financial disclosures for 2003 and 2004 lists Fuller receiving between $100,001 and $1,000,000 in income for each year. The fact that Fuller is listed as receiving income and not distributions indicates that Fuller was acting as not just a shareholder but as an employee/officer for the corporation while serving on the federal bench, a clear conflict of interests and illegal activity for a federal employee also receiving federal contracts.
8. Doss Aviation's website claims it has performed services in its 29 years of existence for the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force; Defense Logistics Agency, State Department, and Federal Aviation Agency.
9. Doss Aviation has received federal contracts worth over $258,000,000, including a February 2006 contract to train U.S. Air Force pilots and navigators worth over $178,000,000.
10. Fuller owns a large stake in Doss of Alabama, Inc., a spinoff of Doss Aviation that was incorporated on or about September 23, 2002, almost a full two months after Bush named Fuller to the federal bench and over almost two months before he was confirmed by the US Senate on November 14, 2002. Fuller was sworn in on November 26, 2002. Fuller is listed as the incorporator of Doss of Alabama, Inc.
11. Fuller's financial disclosures for 2003 and 2004 lists him as receiving income from Doss of Alabama. His 2005 financials lists Fuller as receiving $100,001 and $1,000,000 in distributions from Doss of Alabama.
12. Doss Aviation's website lists Aureus International as its division and states that "for over 10 years Aureus International has been manufacturing, servicing and supplying flame retardant specialty garments." Aureus has corporate offices in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
13. An Enterprise Ledger article, dated April 2, 2005, states "FBI agents, military and civilian pilots and medical professionals all over the world wear [Aureus International] products."
14. Fuller's financial disclosures make no mention of Aureus International.
15. Two FBI agents were assigned to the federal prosecution team that targeted Siegelman and Scrushy: Special Agents Keith Baker and James Murray. The two agents were present during the trial per request of the US Attorney prosecuting the case.
16. The US Attorneys' request to allow the presence of the two FBI agents at the trial was ordered by Fuller on May 1, 2006.
17. Doss Aviation provides fuel distribution services for Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.
18. Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Feaga, the lead prosecutor in the case, is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and is an assistant to Staff Judge Advocate Brig. Gen. Richard C. Harding at Langley Air Force Base, the principal legal adviser to the Air Combat Staff. Feaga and his boss Harding have jurisdiction over all legal matters at Langley, including contracts awarded to Doss Aviation.
19. At no time during the trial did Fuller state that he is the largest shareholder of several businesses that have lucrative contracts with the U.S. government.
ALABAMA ATTORNEY SCANDAL: FBI got ROVE to resign rather than face questions
http://www.insider-magazine.com/JusticeNAlabama.htm
Justice in Alabama
Reprinted From Harper’s Magazine
BY Scott Horton PUBLISHED June 24, 2007
Deep in southwestern Alabama sits the town of Monroeville. It’s a sleepy place, not of much consequence since the cotton industry gave out. People in America may think they don’t know it. But then, perhaps they do. This town gave America two of its literary giants. It is the town described in To Kill a Mockingbird. It is the home of Harper’s Magazine contributors Harper Lee and Truman Capote. (Though New York City would go to the mat to contend with Monroeville for the honor of calling itself their home, in fairness the title should be shared.) So inconsequential as Monroeville may be on the Alabama roadmap, in the literary geography of America it is a place of great consequence. It is also a place forever associated with the struggle for justice.
On a searing summer day in the sixties, I went to Monroeville. My grandfather, an administrator with the Alabama Department of Education, had business there. I was visiting for a few weeks in the summer, and he decided to take me along. The humidity was heavy, the heat intense – asphalt seemed to sag under our feet. But my grandfather, who was a compulsive, voracious reader, spoke with some pride. “There’s something about this place,” he said, “to have produced such fine writers. Come along. Maybe some of it will rub off on you.” On the way, what seemed an interminable drive on state roads, we talked about To Kill a Mockingbird, the noble figure of Atticus Finch, and all the bigotry and hatred that lurked just under the surface in Harper Lee’s Monroeville. I couldn’t help thinking that it was not a place we were driving to, but an idea.
“Here in Alabama we have more than our fair share of injustice, we always have. Our people like to go to church and read their Bibles, but the righteous are few and those whose hearts are heavy with thirst for power and money, with hatred, are many.” He told me about the case of the Scottsboro boys, of lynchings, of the pettiness and violence that had marked the courts and law enforcement. He didn’t talk about the march from Selma, which had happened only a few years earlier, but I’m sure he was thinking about that too. It was easy to understand why Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, and why Truman Capote wrote In Cold Blood, he said – it was about coming to grips with justice.
“If you’d lived through what they did, you’d understand why it was so important. There’s a struggle for justice here, a difficult struggle. Someday justice will come, but not just yet.” I sometimes think back to when I resolved internally to become a lawyer, and I think it was that afternoon, in Monroeville, Alabama. And it was the image of Atticus Finch and his quiet and dignified demand for justice that did it. Standing for justice is an ennobling thing. And it can only be done with a clear sense of what justice is. The word gets used so often that it has been stripped of its meaning. But nothing is so fundamental to us as human beings and to our society.
Was the name Atticus coincidental? It is a Latin name, of course. Later in life, I studied classics and I came across the name of Titus Pomponius Atticus, the dearest friend of Cicero, the man to whom De amicitia is dedicated. The man to whom partisan politics was an abomination: the corruptor of society, the subverter of justice. Rather than become involved in the fratricidal squabbles that marked the last days of the Roman Republic, Atticus withdrew from public life. He believed in a reserved judgment, always carefully detached from any bonds of personal friendship, family or partisan alignment. His character has been taken through history, thanks to the glowing portrait of Cicero, as the essence of what is judicious. And then it struck me. This is why Harper Lee took the name “Atticus.” Atticus Finch is the best-named character in the whole of American literature. His character is defined by a love of justice.
And where today is the spirit of Atticus?
“We have a Justice Department that has substantially been turned into a political arm of the White House,” Bruce Fein told the McClatchy Newspapers earlier this week. He went on to say that the public could have no confidence that federal prosecutions of Democrats by the Justice Department were fair. Mr. Fein is a conservative Republican lawyer and legal scholar of some note–the former senior legal analyst at the Heritage Foundation. As the Deputy Attorney General, he was responsible for the operational management of the Justice Department under President Ronald Reagan. Bruce Fein would not make such a charge lightly. He is speaking from knowledge, not conjecture.
His accusations rest on a growing body of evidence. Two professors at the University of Minnesota looked at the Bush Justice Department’s prosecution of cases involving political figures. It showed seven prosecutions of Democrats for every one Republican. These prosecutions are coordinated and directed by the Public Integrity Unit, a group now under suspicion of being the single most politicized part of the Justice Department.
Under the direction of the White House, and particularly Karl Rove, the Justice Department undertook a series of prosecutions designed to undermine the positions of elected Democratic officeholders and help the Republican Party take their positions. In this space over the last two months, I have catalogued a series of cases which suggest White House-driven manipulation of criminal prosecutions. Sometimes the White House has intervened to shut down or obstruct prosecutions of Republicans – a process that started certainly by the spring of 2002, when Jack Abramoff, a protégé of Karl Rove and Tom DeLay, sought White House intervention to fire the U.S. Attorney in Guam. “I don’t care if they appoint bozo the clown, we need to get rid of Fred Black,” Abramoff wrote in March 2002..
And indeed, following White House intervention, the U.S. attorney was fired, a Republican party functionary was appointed in his place, and the investigation that threatened to expose a seedy Abramoff operation involving human trafficking was shut down. Thanks to the role played directly by the White House, the process took only a few days. Similarly, we have documented meddling to protect Republicans in San Diego, Los Angeles, Little Rock, Kansas City, and Arizona.
And then, still more troubling, there is White House intervention to persecute their political opponents: the telltale sign of tyranny. Georgia Thompson was a state contracting officer in Wisconsin prosecuted for corruption when she awarded a bid to a contractor that had made campaign contributions to the state’s Democratic governor. The fact that the contractor was the low bidder was apparently considered irrelevant to the prosecutor. Records later established that the prosecutor in question had been slated for firing by Karl Rove because he was not doing enough to help the Republican Party. However, the Thompson prosecution was hyped to the media throughout the 2006 election campaign in a transparent effort to bolster the GOP’s election chances. And in the end, the prosecutor’s name disappeared from the list of those to be canned. The case resulted in a conviction. Then it came before an all-Republican panel from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which immediately ordered Thompson’s release and dismissed the whole conviction with a word: “preposterous.” But note: it was a conviction. The U.S. Attorney in Milwaukee actually hoodwinked a group of jurors and a federal district court judge into accepting a ridiculous bucket of slop as a criminal case. It’s a strong testimonial to the fact that in America today, a jury will readily accept that accusations of corruption against a political figure are true, even when there is no evidence, and no corruption.
But the Georgia Thompson case is not the worst. Far, far more troubling still is the conviction of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman in a prosecution in Montgomery. When this case got started, I was ready to accept what those Montgomery jurors did – namely, what on earth could be surprising about allegations that a political figure sells appointments for money? Isn’t that indeed just the way our system works? And shouldn’t we throw the book at them when they’re caught doing it? Truth is, I never much cared for Mr. Siegelman anyway.
In the meantime, however, I have spent over a month looking at this case. I have spoken with a number of journalists who covered the trial, pulled out and read the transcripts, talked to figures involved in the case. And I have received tips and messages from Alabamians who are trying feverishly to spin the case one way or the other. My conclusion: I have no idea whether in the end of the day, Mr. Siegelman is guilty or innocent of corruption. But that the prosecution was corruptly conceived and pursued and that the court proceedings were corrupted, almost from the outset: that is already extremely clear. This is not a prosecution of a political figure for corruption. It is a political vendetta, conceived, developed and pursued for a corrupt purpose.
How, you may ask, can a prosecution be corrupt? At Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, where I lecture, we frequently engage in the comparative study of criminal justice administration. I have my students read from the works of Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinsky, Stalin’s great legal choreographer and from Arkady Vaksberg’s authoritative biography of Vyshinsky. For Vyshinsky, of course, the criminal justice system existed to identify and punish criminals. But more essential was its political function. If those in power have political enemies, they can throw the enemies out of power or banish them. But this carries with it some risk. The enemies may gain public sympathy over their treatment, and they may regroup and then in the future present a serious threat. The solution advocated by Comrade Vyshinsky is to use the criminal justice system to vilify political adversaries – they will be branded criminals, stigmatized, driven from all office and power. And people will be afraid to associate with them in any way. The “crime” is in the end of the day irrelevant. The process is critical, and indeed, the process must be a public one and the humiliation complete.
What has happened under Karl Rove is not so daring and dramatic as Vyshinsky prescribed. It does not entail “show trials,” nor the brutal extraction of confessions – the technique Vyshinsky dubbed the “queen of evidence.” But it follows the same general plot line and is pursued for roughly the same purpose. Perhaps Rove read Vyshinsky and perhaps not. In any event, he clearly understands the rules of the game.
The Siegelman prosecution was commenced as the result of a plan hatched between senior figures in the Alabama Republican Party and Karl Rove. This connection is not coincidental, because Rove was once fired by the first President Bush and then had to rehabilitate himself. Rove did this in spades, and the place where he worked his political magic was in Alabama. He put together a campaign to engineer the Alabama GOP’s capture of the state’s judicial machinery. It worked brilliantly. And Rove has retained tight connections with the Alabama GOP ever since. Rove and the Alabama GOP leaders set out to destroy Siegelman’s political career and thus smooth the path by which the Republican Party could secure and retain political control of the Alabama statehouse. It was crafted in such a way as to retard the ability of Democrats to raise money from campaign donors so that they might contest office in Alabama. Each of these purposes is “corrupt.” Key to this plan was the use of the machinery of the Department of Justice for its completion – involving the U.S. attorneys offices in Birmingham and Montgomery, and the Department of Justice in Washington. Rove was in a position to make this work and he did so.
The curtain was pulled back on this plan when Dana Jill Simpson, a Republican lawyer who previously worked on a campaign against Siegelman, decided to blow the whistle. Her affidavit described William Canary, a legendary figure in the Alabama GOP, bragging that “his girls” would take care of Siegelman. Canary’s wife is Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Alice Martin, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama is a close confidante of Canary’s. He referred repeatedly to “Karl,” assuring that “Karl” had worked things out with the Justice Department in Washington to assure a criminal investigation and prosecution of Siegelman. Canary is a close friend of Karl Rove, and I have documented their long relationship in another post.
The response to Simpson’s affidavit has been a series of brusque dismissive statements – all of them unsworn – from others who figured in the discussion and the federal prosecutor in the Siegelman case, who has now made a series of demonstrably false statements concerning the matter. She’s been smeared as “crazy” and as a “disgruntled contract bidder.” And something nastier: after her intention to speak became known, Simpson’s house was burned to the ground, and her car was driven off the road and totaled. Clearly, there are some very powerful people in Alabama who feel threatened. Her case starts to sound like a chapter out of John Grisham’s book The Pelican Brief. However, those who have dismissed Simpson are in for a very rude surprise. Her affidavit stands up on every point, and there is substantial evidence which will corroborate its details.
This disclosure was treated as explosive news by Time Magazine and the New York Times. However, newspapers inside of Alabama reacted with awkward silence, as if these disclosures were very unpleasant news, best swept immediately under the living room carpet. I will single out the Birmingham News and the Mobile Register. I took some time earlier this week to review their coverage of the Siegelman story from the beginning. It left me wondering whether these publications were really newspapers.
True, they have the look and feel of a newspaper. But their coverage has something oily and sulfurous about it. I previously analyzed a single story from the Birmingham News just to show how it was misleading its readership on every significant aspect of the case. The most critical facts were consistently elided from the discussion, and fake facts were touted up front. Even the headline was such a farce that the News was subsequently obliged to run a correction admitting that it was false.
But if anything the coverage in the Mobile Register is still more outlandish and disingenuous. Moreover, the Mobile paper seems to have a rather amazing relationship with the federal prosecutors handling the case – a relationship that certainly raises questions under Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, under which prosecutors are obligated to maintain the secrecy of matters coming before a grand jury. The Mobile Register seems to be the prosecutors’ mouthpiece of choice, in fact, and its extensive knowledge of the prosecutors’ case and evidence was a sure sign that something was wrong. Indeed, when prosecutors begin to conduct a case through the media, that generally means that they are not pursuing a case with the interests of justice in mind, but rather something else.
And the more we dig into this case, the more irregularities mount. Let’s start with the charges against Siegelman. The main accusation is that he appointed HealthSouth’s scandal-ridden CEO to a state oversight board, and in exchange a donation was made to a not-for-profit education foundation which was supporting Siegelman’s efforts to secure a lottery to fund the state’s education system. You might very well ask what would be corrupt about this, and you would be right to ask. This is almost exactly the sort of accusation that the federal prosecutor in Milwaukee, faced with Rove’s threat to fire him, brought against Thompson – and that the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals labeled as “preposterous.” And indeed, it’s the sort of thing that transpires in the American political environment every single day. For instance, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on a Donald Trump television program recently, and Trump made a payment of ten thousand dollars to help Schwarzenegger “retire his campaign debts.” Was that corrupt? Added to this is the fact that HealthSouth had no interest in anything before the oversight board in question, and its CEO had been appointed to the same board by three prior governors. This is corruption?
But still more striking – astonishing by any measure – is how this same U.S. Attorney and Department of Justice dealt with Siegelman’s successor, current Governor Bob Riley. Riley and many of his senior-most associates are closely tied to Jack Abramoff, perhaps the single most scandal-ridden figure in U.S. political history. I have detailed some of these relationships earlier. Documents that surfaced in the Abramoff investigation suggested that in exchange for millions of dollars in campaign contributions from a Mississippi tribe with gaming interests to his gubernatorial election campaign, Riley would ensure that an Alabama tribe then seeking a license would be blocked. In fact the millions flowed into Riley’s coffers, and he in fact took steps to block the license sought by his own constituents. So what did the U.S. Attorney, Leura Canary, do? Instigate an investigation for corruption? Bring evidence before a grand jury? No. In fact, Mrs. William Canary seems suspiciously involved in the entire scheme. Indeed, she secured appointment to the licensing board for the matter.
And perhaps one should take a second to scrutinize Governor Riley’s appointments to the same board. Riley appointed to head the board a certain Dr. Swaid Swaid, a man who made contributions to Riley’s gubernatorial campaign during the election, and a hefty sum after the election was over, when his appointment was under consideration. Moreover, Dr. Swaid has personal interests before the board – it approved an invention of his. I am not suggesting that there was anything wrong with Dr. Swaid’s appointment. But these facts make abundantly apparent that in the mind of the federal prosecutors there is one standard to be applied for a Democrat, and an entirely different standard for a Republican. That’s corrupt.
There is a second significant charge brought against Siegelman, namely that he accepted gifts from lobbyists. The record on this is still undeveloped, but what I have seen is very strange. For one thing, it shows that the prosecutors were from the outset obsessed with obtaining a conviction of Siegelman to the extent that they exhibited an attitude of total indifference towards other, far more serious crimes, particularly potential crimes involving Republican officeholders. A lobbyist named Lanny Young secured a plea bargain deal by agreeing to give evidence against Siegelman. Young testified that he gave Siegelman specialty advertising items of some value, but he noted that he did exactly the same thing for Republican U.S. Senator Jefferson Sessions and Karl Rove’s protégé Bill Pryor. The federal attorney insisted that this information be suppressed, and the judge trying the case concurred. This is one of a number of bizarre rulings by the judge which were consistently highly prejudicial to Siegelman. And, once more, it reflects a double standard: one rule applies to Siegelman, but another rule altogether applies to Sessions and Pryor.
Prosecutors initially brought the case before a judge in the Northern District of Alabama. He dismissed it with prejudice. The prosecutors then decided to go shopping for a new judge. And they liked the one they found. Not surprisingly, the federal judge handling the case – Mark E. Fuller – has a long record of deep engagement in Alabama Republican politics. He has consistently and quickly overruled defense objections, and also quickly overruled a motion that he recuse himself. The recusal motion asserted that Judge Fuller is the owner of a military contractor that received a $178 million dollar contract from the U.S. Government while the case was pending. The motion also ties one of the prosecutors handling the case to the contract awards. If these claims are correct, then Judge Fuller’s decision to preside over the case offers further evidence of irregularity. However, a judge is usually concerned not about improprieties as much as the appearance of improprieties.
This week, former Governor Siegelman faces sentencing before Judge Fuller. The federal prosecutors handling the case have demanded a sentence of thirty years in prison – in a case which should have been dismissed in the first instance and in any event involves no personal gain of any sort by Siegelman. The prosecutors’ sentencing request was further strong evidence that the case is a vendetta. No doubt a very harsh sentence will be issued.
And no doubt the case will not end there. The Siegelman prosecution is now receiving attention across the United States. No less than six attorneys general have written to Congressional oversight committees noting the gross irregularities and suspicious circumstances of the prosecution, and have requested that Congress conduct direct inquiries into what transpired in this case. The Siegelman prosecution will in all likelihood soon be exposed for what it is: one of the blackest moments in Alabama justice since the trial of the Scottsboro Boys. But it provides a moment to remember that even in that case, a clear voice was raised, fearlessly pointing to the injustice that was done – at great personal danger. It was the voice of James Horton, the presiding judge in the first Scottsboro Boys trials in Decatur:
Social order is based on law, and its perpetuity on its fair and impartial administration. Deliberate injustice is more fatal to the one who imposes it than to the one on whom it is imposed. The victim may die quickly and his suffering cease, but the teachings of Christianity and the uniform lesson of all history illustrate without exception that its perpetrators not only pay the penalty themselves, but their children through endless generations . . .
Alabamians have a legacy of those who strive for justice – Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Frank M. Johnson, and James Horton. And they have a legacy which hesitates to show its face in the sunshine and does them no credit. The time has come for them to decide which they will follow.
Justice in Alabama
Reprinted From Harper’s Magazine
BY Scott Horton PUBLISHED June 24, 2007
Deep in southwestern Alabama sits the town of Monroeville. It’s a sleepy place, not of much consequence since the cotton industry gave out. People in America may think they don’t know it. But then, perhaps they do. This town gave America two of its literary giants. It is the town described in To Kill a Mockingbird. It is the home of Harper’s Magazine contributors Harper Lee and Truman Capote. (Though New York City would go to the mat to contend with Monroeville for the honor of calling itself their home, in fairness the title should be shared.) So inconsequential as Monroeville may be on the Alabama roadmap, in the literary geography of America it is a place of great consequence. It is also a place forever associated with the struggle for justice.
On a searing summer day in the sixties, I went to Monroeville. My grandfather, an administrator with the Alabama Department of Education, had business there. I was visiting for a few weeks in the summer, and he decided to take me along. The humidity was heavy, the heat intense – asphalt seemed to sag under our feet. But my grandfather, who was a compulsive, voracious reader, spoke with some pride. “There’s something about this place,” he said, “to have produced such fine writers. Come along. Maybe some of it will rub off on you.” On the way, what seemed an interminable drive on state roads, we talked about To Kill a Mockingbird, the noble figure of Atticus Finch, and all the bigotry and hatred that lurked just under the surface in Harper Lee’s Monroeville. I couldn’t help thinking that it was not a place we were driving to, but an idea.
“Here in Alabama we have more than our fair share of injustice, we always have. Our people like to go to church and read their Bibles, but the righteous are few and those whose hearts are heavy with thirst for power and money, with hatred, are many.” He told me about the case of the Scottsboro boys, of lynchings, of the pettiness and violence that had marked the courts and law enforcement. He didn’t talk about the march from Selma, which had happened only a few years earlier, but I’m sure he was thinking about that too. It was easy to understand why Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, and why Truman Capote wrote In Cold Blood, he said – it was about coming to grips with justice.
“If you’d lived through what they did, you’d understand why it was so important. There’s a struggle for justice here, a difficult struggle. Someday justice will come, but not just yet.” I sometimes think back to when I resolved internally to become a lawyer, and I think it was that afternoon, in Monroeville, Alabama. And it was the image of Atticus Finch and his quiet and dignified demand for justice that did it. Standing for justice is an ennobling thing. And it can only be done with a clear sense of what justice is. The word gets used so often that it has been stripped of its meaning. But nothing is so fundamental to us as human beings and to our society.
Was the name Atticus coincidental? It is a Latin name, of course. Later in life, I studied classics and I came across the name of Titus Pomponius Atticus, the dearest friend of Cicero, the man to whom De amicitia is dedicated. The man to whom partisan politics was an abomination: the corruptor of society, the subverter of justice. Rather than become involved in the fratricidal squabbles that marked the last days of the Roman Republic, Atticus withdrew from public life. He believed in a reserved judgment, always carefully detached from any bonds of personal friendship, family or partisan alignment. His character has been taken through history, thanks to the glowing portrait of Cicero, as the essence of what is judicious. And then it struck me. This is why Harper Lee took the name “Atticus.” Atticus Finch is the best-named character in the whole of American literature. His character is defined by a love of justice.
And where today is the spirit of Atticus?
“We have a Justice Department that has substantially been turned into a political arm of the White House,” Bruce Fein told the McClatchy Newspapers earlier this week. He went on to say that the public could have no confidence that federal prosecutions of Democrats by the Justice Department were fair. Mr. Fein is a conservative Republican lawyer and legal scholar of some note–the former senior legal analyst at the Heritage Foundation. As the Deputy Attorney General, he was responsible for the operational management of the Justice Department under President Ronald Reagan. Bruce Fein would not make such a charge lightly. He is speaking from knowledge, not conjecture.
His accusations rest on a growing body of evidence. Two professors at the University of Minnesota looked at the Bush Justice Department’s prosecution of cases involving political figures. It showed seven prosecutions of Democrats for every one Republican. These prosecutions are coordinated and directed by the Public Integrity Unit, a group now under suspicion of being the single most politicized part of the Justice Department.
Under the direction of the White House, and particularly Karl Rove, the Justice Department undertook a series of prosecutions designed to undermine the positions of elected Democratic officeholders and help the Republican Party take their positions. In this space over the last two months, I have catalogued a series of cases which suggest White House-driven manipulation of criminal prosecutions. Sometimes the White House has intervened to shut down or obstruct prosecutions of Republicans – a process that started certainly by the spring of 2002, when Jack Abramoff, a protégé of Karl Rove and Tom DeLay, sought White House intervention to fire the U.S. Attorney in Guam. “I don’t care if they appoint bozo the clown, we need to get rid of Fred Black,” Abramoff wrote in March 2002..
And indeed, following White House intervention, the U.S. attorney was fired, a Republican party functionary was appointed in his place, and the investigation that threatened to expose a seedy Abramoff operation involving human trafficking was shut down. Thanks to the role played directly by the White House, the process took only a few days. Similarly, we have documented meddling to protect Republicans in San Diego, Los Angeles, Little Rock, Kansas City, and Arizona.
And then, still more troubling, there is White House intervention to persecute their political opponents: the telltale sign of tyranny. Georgia Thompson was a state contracting officer in Wisconsin prosecuted for corruption when she awarded a bid to a contractor that had made campaign contributions to the state’s Democratic governor. The fact that the contractor was the low bidder was apparently considered irrelevant to the prosecutor. Records later established that the prosecutor in question had been slated for firing by Karl Rove because he was not doing enough to help the Republican Party. However, the Thompson prosecution was hyped to the media throughout the 2006 election campaign in a transparent effort to bolster the GOP’s election chances. And in the end, the prosecutor’s name disappeared from the list of those to be canned. The case resulted in a conviction. Then it came before an all-Republican panel from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which immediately ordered Thompson’s release and dismissed the whole conviction with a word: “preposterous.” But note: it was a conviction. The U.S. Attorney in Milwaukee actually hoodwinked a group of jurors and a federal district court judge into accepting a ridiculous bucket of slop as a criminal case. It’s a strong testimonial to the fact that in America today, a jury will readily accept that accusations of corruption against a political figure are true, even when there is no evidence, and no corruption.
But the Georgia Thompson case is not the worst. Far, far more troubling still is the conviction of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman in a prosecution in Montgomery. When this case got started, I was ready to accept what those Montgomery jurors did – namely, what on earth could be surprising about allegations that a political figure sells appointments for money? Isn’t that indeed just the way our system works? And shouldn’t we throw the book at them when they’re caught doing it? Truth is, I never much cared for Mr. Siegelman anyway.
In the meantime, however, I have spent over a month looking at this case. I have spoken with a number of journalists who covered the trial, pulled out and read the transcripts, talked to figures involved in the case. And I have received tips and messages from Alabamians who are trying feverishly to spin the case one way or the other. My conclusion: I have no idea whether in the end of the day, Mr. Siegelman is guilty or innocent of corruption. But that the prosecution was corruptly conceived and pursued and that the court proceedings were corrupted, almost from the outset: that is already extremely clear. This is not a prosecution of a political figure for corruption. It is a political vendetta, conceived, developed and pursued for a corrupt purpose.
How, you may ask, can a prosecution be corrupt? At Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, where I lecture, we frequently engage in the comparative study of criminal justice administration. I have my students read from the works of Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinsky, Stalin’s great legal choreographer and from Arkady Vaksberg’s authoritative biography of Vyshinsky. For Vyshinsky, of course, the criminal justice system existed to identify and punish criminals. But more essential was its political function. If those in power have political enemies, they can throw the enemies out of power or banish them. But this carries with it some risk. The enemies may gain public sympathy over their treatment, and they may regroup and then in the future present a serious threat. The solution advocated by Comrade Vyshinsky is to use the criminal justice system to vilify political adversaries – they will be branded criminals, stigmatized, driven from all office and power. And people will be afraid to associate with them in any way. The “crime” is in the end of the day irrelevant. The process is critical, and indeed, the process must be a public one and the humiliation complete.
What has happened under Karl Rove is not so daring and dramatic as Vyshinsky prescribed. It does not entail “show trials,” nor the brutal extraction of confessions – the technique Vyshinsky dubbed the “queen of evidence.” But it follows the same general plot line and is pursued for roughly the same purpose. Perhaps Rove read Vyshinsky and perhaps not. In any event, he clearly understands the rules of the game.
The Siegelman prosecution was commenced as the result of a plan hatched between senior figures in the Alabama Republican Party and Karl Rove. This connection is not coincidental, because Rove was once fired by the first President Bush and then had to rehabilitate himself. Rove did this in spades, and the place where he worked his political magic was in Alabama. He put together a campaign to engineer the Alabama GOP’s capture of the state’s judicial machinery. It worked brilliantly. And Rove has retained tight connections with the Alabama GOP ever since. Rove and the Alabama GOP leaders set out to destroy Siegelman’s political career and thus smooth the path by which the Republican Party could secure and retain political control of the Alabama statehouse. It was crafted in such a way as to retard the ability of Democrats to raise money from campaign donors so that they might contest office in Alabama. Each of these purposes is “corrupt.” Key to this plan was the use of the machinery of the Department of Justice for its completion – involving the U.S. attorneys offices in Birmingham and Montgomery, and the Department of Justice in Washington. Rove was in a position to make this work and he did so.
The curtain was pulled back on this plan when Dana Jill Simpson, a Republican lawyer who previously worked on a campaign against Siegelman, decided to blow the whistle. Her affidavit described William Canary, a legendary figure in the Alabama GOP, bragging that “his girls” would take care of Siegelman. Canary’s wife is Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Alice Martin, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama is a close confidante of Canary’s. He referred repeatedly to “Karl,” assuring that “Karl” had worked things out with the Justice Department in Washington to assure a criminal investigation and prosecution of Siegelman. Canary is a close friend of Karl Rove, and I have documented their long relationship in another post.
The response to Simpson’s affidavit has been a series of brusque dismissive statements – all of them unsworn – from others who figured in the discussion and the federal prosecutor in the Siegelman case, who has now made a series of demonstrably false statements concerning the matter. She’s been smeared as “crazy” and as a “disgruntled contract bidder.” And something nastier: after her intention to speak became known, Simpson’s house was burned to the ground, and her car was driven off the road and totaled. Clearly, there are some very powerful people in Alabama who feel threatened. Her case starts to sound like a chapter out of John Grisham’s book The Pelican Brief. However, those who have dismissed Simpson are in for a very rude surprise. Her affidavit stands up on every point, and there is substantial evidence which will corroborate its details.
This disclosure was treated as explosive news by Time Magazine and the New York Times. However, newspapers inside of Alabama reacted with awkward silence, as if these disclosures were very unpleasant news, best swept immediately under the living room carpet. I will single out the Birmingham News and the Mobile Register. I took some time earlier this week to review their coverage of the Siegelman story from the beginning. It left me wondering whether these publications were really newspapers.
True, they have the look and feel of a newspaper. But their coverage has something oily and sulfurous about it. I previously analyzed a single story from the Birmingham News just to show how it was misleading its readership on every significant aspect of the case. The most critical facts were consistently elided from the discussion, and fake facts were touted up front. Even the headline was such a farce that the News was subsequently obliged to run a correction admitting that it was false.
But if anything the coverage in the Mobile Register is still more outlandish and disingenuous. Moreover, the Mobile paper seems to have a rather amazing relationship with the federal prosecutors handling the case – a relationship that certainly raises questions under Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, under which prosecutors are obligated to maintain the secrecy of matters coming before a grand jury. The Mobile Register seems to be the prosecutors’ mouthpiece of choice, in fact, and its extensive knowledge of the prosecutors’ case and evidence was a sure sign that something was wrong. Indeed, when prosecutors begin to conduct a case through the media, that generally means that they are not pursuing a case with the interests of justice in mind, but rather something else.
And the more we dig into this case, the more irregularities mount. Let’s start with the charges against Siegelman. The main accusation is that he appointed HealthSouth’s scandal-ridden CEO to a state oversight board, and in exchange a donation was made to a not-for-profit education foundation which was supporting Siegelman’s efforts to secure a lottery to fund the state’s education system. You might very well ask what would be corrupt about this, and you would be right to ask. This is almost exactly the sort of accusation that the federal prosecutor in Milwaukee, faced with Rove’s threat to fire him, brought against Thompson – and that the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals labeled as “preposterous.” And indeed, it’s the sort of thing that transpires in the American political environment every single day. For instance, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on a Donald Trump television program recently, and Trump made a payment of ten thousand dollars to help Schwarzenegger “retire his campaign debts.” Was that corrupt? Added to this is the fact that HealthSouth had no interest in anything before the oversight board in question, and its CEO had been appointed to the same board by three prior governors. This is corruption?
But still more striking – astonishing by any measure – is how this same U.S. Attorney and Department of Justice dealt with Siegelman’s successor, current Governor Bob Riley. Riley and many of his senior-most associates are closely tied to Jack Abramoff, perhaps the single most scandal-ridden figure in U.S. political history. I have detailed some of these relationships earlier. Documents that surfaced in the Abramoff investigation suggested that in exchange for millions of dollars in campaign contributions from a Mississippi tribe with gaming interests to his gubernatorial election campaign, Riley would ensure that an Alabama tribe then seeking a license would be blocked. In fact the millions flowed into Riley’s coffers, and he in fact took steps to block the license sought by his own constituents. So what did the U.S. Attorney, Leura Canary, do? Instigate an investigation for corruption? Bring evidence before a grand jury? No. In fact, Mrs. William Canary seems suspiciously involved in the entire scheme. Indeed, she secured appointment to the licensing board for the matter.
And perhaps one should take a second to scrutinize Governor Riley’s appointments to the same board. Riley appointed to head the board a certain Dr. Swaid Swaid, a man who made contributions to Riley’s gubernatorial campaign during the election, and a hefty sum after the election was over, when his appointment was under consideration. Moreover, Dr. Swaid has personal interests before the board – it approved an invention of his. I am not suggesting that there was anything wrong with Dr. Swaid’s appointment. But these facts make abundantly apparent that in the mind of the federal prosecutors there is one standard to be applied for a Democrat, and an entirely different standard for a Republican. That’s corrupt.
There is a second significant charge brought against Siegelman, namely that he accepted gifts from lobbyists. The record on this is still undeveloped, but what I have seen is very strange. For one thing, it shows that the prosecutors were from the outset obsessed with obtaining a conviction of Siegelman to the extent that they exhibited an attitude of total indifference towards other, far more serious crimes, particularly potential crimes involving Republican officeholders. A lobbyist named Lanny Young secured a plea bargain deal by agreeing to give evidence against Siegelman. Young testified that he gave Siegelman specialty advertising items of some value, but he noted that he did exactly the same thing for Republican U.S. Senator Jefferson Sessions and Karl Rove’s protégé Bill Pryor. The federal attorney insisted that this information be suppressed, and the judge trying the case concurred. This is one of a number of bizarre rulings by the judge which were consistently highly prejudicial to Siegelman. And, once more, it reflects a double standard: one rule applies to Siegelman, but another rule altogether applies to Sessions and Pryor.
Prosecutors initially brought the case before a judge in the Northern District of Alabama. He dismissed it with prejudice. The prosecutors then decided to go shopping for a new judge. And they liked the one they found. Not surprisingly, the federal judge handling the case – Mark E. Fuller – has a long record of deep engagement in Alabama Republican politics. He has consistently and quickly overruled defense objections, and also quickly overruled a motion that he recuse himself. The recusal motion asserted that Judge Fuller is the owner of a military contractor that received a $178 million dollar contract from the U.S. Government while the case was pending. The motion also ties one of the prosecutors handling the case to the contract awards. If these claims are correct, then Judge Fuller’s decision to preside over the case offers further evidence of irregularity. However, a judge is usually concerned not about improprieties as much as the appearance of improprieties.
This week, former Governor Siegelman faces sentencing before Judge Fuller. The federal prosecutors handling the case have demanded a sentence of thirty years in prison – in a case which should have been dismissed in the first instance and in any event involves no personal gain of any sort by Siegelman. The prosecutors’ sentencing request was further strong evidence that the case is a vendetta. No doubt a very harsh sentence will be issued.
And no doubt the case will not end there. The Siegelman prosecution is now receiving attention across the United States. No less than six attorneys general have written to Congressional oversight committees noting the gross irregularities and suspicious circumstances of the prosecution, and have requested that Congress conduct direct inquiries into what transpired in this case. The Siegelman prosecution will in all likelihood soon be exposed for what it is: one of the blackest moments in Alabama justice since the trial of the Scottsboro Boys. But it provides a moment to remember that even in that case, a clear voice was raised, fearlessly pointing to the injustice that was done – at great personal danger. It was the voice of James Horton, the presiding judge in the first Scottsboro Boys trials in Decatur:
Social order is based on law, and its perpetuity on its fair and impartial administration. Deliberate injustice is more fatal to the one who imposes it than to the one on whom it is imposed. The victim may die quickly and his suffering cease, but the teachings of Christianity and the uniform lesson of all history illustrate without exception that its perpetrators not only pay the penalty themselves, but their children through endless generations . . .
Alabamians have a legacy of those who strive for justice – Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Frank M. Johnson, and James Horton. And they have a legacy which hesitates to show its face in the sunshine and does them no credit. The time has come for them to decide which they will follow.
The Dark Side of the US Intelligence Community and Pedophilia: Manchurian Congressional Pederasts
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PEDOPHILLIA AND THE CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
A Layman’s look at History
By
JAMES M. ROTHSTEIN
Retired NYCPD Detective
On the streets of every city in America there are thousands of children, both boys and girls, selling themselves into prostitution. Almost nothing is done to discourage this. Some of these children are on their own, others are preyed upon by older children who exploit them. Surrounding and controlling these children, who have been manipulated and forced into utter physical, sexual, and emotional degradation in their daily lives, are their procurers and abusers who are even more depraved. It is these procurers and abusers who criminally and sexually exploit these children for commercial purposes: pornography, prostitution, extortion, blackmail, and human compromise; not to mention larceny, burglary, and other criminal activities.
Police make many arrests of child molesters and pedophiles who troll for children around bus terminals, arcades, and malls. Rarely are the exploiters, who operate telephone call services, pedophile exchanges, sex clubs, and pornography rings, arrested and successfully prosecuted.
Despite public concern, even outrage, little is done beyond expressions of outrage. Why is this? This certainly is not because there is a lack of information. Everyday there are reports of children who are abducted or disappear off the face of the earth, or so it seems to the families who lose their children, when in fact they become the victims of a society which is divided into five separate groups: family, homosexual, commercial, serial killers and occult.
FAMILY – Within the family group you have an inherited or given trust between the children and their elders. This group is made up of schools, institutions, religions, and stepfamilies. Because of the close relationships between the elders and the children, if child abuse or pedophilia occurs, they are difficult to uncover and corroborate. The schools, institutions, and religious sects become candy stores for the pedophile or child abuser. There are many documented cases of pedophilia and child abuse within the family group throughout the United States , such as the Clemons case in Florida and the McMartin case in California .
Children are placed or held in institutions because of physical, mental, correctional or family problems. In the early 1970’s, numerous children were taken from a Chicago institution and sent to Texas , to another institution where they were then used for sexual purposes. Sergeant Kelly of the Illinois State Police investigated this case and stopped the practice.
Within the religious group an unprecedented number of cases are coming to light, such as the Porter case in Massachusetts. Father Porter violated numerous altar boys over a span of twenty-five years in various parishes in Massachusetts . When accusations are made against a Roman Catholic priest, the priests are transferred to another parish, diocese or religious institution and are allowed to continue their perverse habit without interference from the law.
St. Johns Abbey of the Benedictine Order, in Collegeville , Minnesota , is a classic example of how the Catholic Church covers up child abuse in the Church. Over a 30 year period of time there were hundreds of abuse cases and suicides related to the abuse. In 2002, Josh Guimond, a student at St. Johns, disappeared in the middle of the night under suspicious circumstances. The investigation that followed was a coverup and anyone who dared look into the case was harassed. The Abbot, John Klassen, admitted that there were at least 13 pedophile priests at the Abbey. Yet, there were no arrests or prosecutions by either local, state, or federal authorities over this 30 year period of time. A sophomore at Albany High School , in Albany , Minnesota , asks, “Why is St. Johns above the law?” The local and state media keep their reports of the abuse which has occurred there to a bare minimum, and then only publishes these reports after they have appeared in the national media. Why?
The Porter case and others at the time brought to light a new investigative technique which has been referred to as repressed or recovered memory. This psychological tool has been used in a number of cases prosecuting pedophiles and child abusers. This novel approach has not yet been proven to be scientifically valid. When this method is used without additional objective and corroborating evidence, wrongful accusations and prosecutions can result. This problem is well documented in an article written by Lawrence Wright in the May 24, 1993, edition of New Yorker Magazine. In this article, Mr. Wright describes how, in some cases, after additional research was done, this “recovered memory” method was shown to be flawed, causing those cases to fall apart and resulting in the needless and unwarranted destruction of the family.
As heinous as these crimes of sexual exploitation of children are, an over zealous uninformed law enforcement agency or prosecutor, who uses less than scientific investigative methods to conduct a “witch hunt,” can wreak havoc on our society. Abusive, unwarranted prosecutions based on unscientific and improper investigative methods used by police and prosecutors do not help to provide any real solution to this problem of the criminal sexual exploitation of children. Rather, they consume valuable and very limited resources and help allow many offenders to continue their crimes against children un-abated. This novel approach “recovered memory” is an interesting new method, but it must be closely monitored until it is an exact science, and there must be additional corroboration with its use in any prosecution.
HOMOSEXUAL – For the purpose of this report, the true homosexual pedophile is distinct from the more violent serial killers described later. The homosexual believes he is not hurting the child, but is in fact offering him a better life style. The child is given all the worldly possessions they desire and are told that their parents do not want him. This is a common and effective ploy used to keep the child. After the child has been in the clutches of the pedophile community for more than seventy-two hours, that child is generally lost to society. The child’s fear of parents and friends finding out about the degradation in which that child has been involved, keeps that child from leaving.
A notorious homosexual pedophile and procurer, Ben Rose, is a classic example of the mentality observed in this group. Ben Rose was arrested after an investigation by the New York Police Department at his residence on St. Mark’s Place in New York City during the summer of 1972. At the time of the arrest, he had in his possession three young boy ages 14-15 years, who had been transported by him from Baltimore to New York City for the specific purpose of sexual exploitation. Upon his arrest, he agreed to cooperate with the New York City Police Department and an investigation was begun under the code name GAFF. This investigation uncovered the commercial part of pedophilia and child abuse.
COMMERCIAL – The commercial group includes child pornography, prostitution, pimping, extortion, and human intelligence. Child pornography, prostitution, and pimping are well organized and promoted throughout the pedophile community. Because of Ben Rose’s cooperation with investigators, many of the rumors and information under investigation were verified. He informed the New York City Detectives that in November of 1971, three boys, ages 14-15 years, were sexually abused and then murdered in his apartment on East 64th Street in New York City by three men he identified as Dr. Chesky (a surgeon), Leonard Stewart (OPEC), and Tippy Richardson (CIA). The bodies were then transported to Connecticut by car and then buried on a farm. Under the GAFF investigation these murders were to be assigned to other investigators in the New York City Police Department, but then disappeared in the hierarchy of the Department.
A second investigation conducted in the mid 1970’s, by the Police Department during which thirteen homicides, plus the murder of these 14-15 year old boys at Ben Rose’s apartment, were investigated under the code name OPERATION TOGETHER. This investigation was under the command of Deputy Inspector John Colin. At a critical point in the investigation, it was stopped. Inspector Colin was demoted and forced into retirement.
The third investigation was done by the New York State Select Committee on Crime. This Committee served subpoenas on both Tippy Richardson and Leonard Stewart. When Richardson was served with the subpoena and questioned by the detectives, he informed them that because he worked for the CIA, the subpoena would be quashed, invoking National Security. He was correct, because before the detectives returned to their offices, the subpoena was withdrawn. One wonders what part of the National Security Act allows the murder of children.
Leonard Stewart was also served, questioned, and appeared at the committee’s offices. He did not testify. As in all cases of this magnitude, the attorney who represented these politically connected pedophiles was Enid Gerling of New York, who also represented both Richardson and Stewart.
Enid Gerling stated at that time that the investigation was on the right track and should not stop. In conversations with Gerling over the past number of years, she has often stated that she owes these individuals no allegiance and would gladly give them up.
During the investigation by the New York State Select Committee on Crime, information was received that Roy Cohn (famed attorney who represented Senator Joe McCarthy at the notorious McCarthy Hearings) helped in covering up the murder and the disposal of the bodies. When Cohn was questioned about the murder of the three 14-15 year old boys at Ben Rose’s apartment, he stated that he was aware of what had happened, but would comment no further. Information at that time was that Cohn was often used to compromise people and, if situations such as those described by Rose occurred, Cohn would take care of them.
Rose also supplied information as to the methamphetamine sales in juice bars owned by organized crime. These bars were meeting places for children, pedophiles, and various pedophile rings. The investigation into this activity was again buried in the hierarchy of the Police Department and not investigated. As a direct result of this investigation, Police Officer Richard Johnson of the New York City Police Department, a primary investigator, became the subject of a bombing of his residence. Recent information is that the contract was ordered by someone inside the New York City Police Department. This case is unsolved and the cover up continues to this day.
In the summer of 1966, at 301 West 45 Street, one of the most notorious procurers of children, Willie Dunn, was caught with eight young boys in his apartment. These boys ranged in age from 14-17 years. The boys were let go and Dunn was sent on his way based on the faulty premise asserted by the police department hierarchy that no crime had been directly observed. Over the years Dunn perfected his ways of procuring children to the point where he traveled the United States in a Winnebago Motor Home kidnapping, picking up, and transporting children to pedophiles wherever they were needed. Dunn was also involved with Sammy Bronfman in the planning of Bronfman’s own kidnapping. Sammy had wanted his father, Edgar Bronfman, to pay the ransom for his kidnapping, which he would then use to open his own disco catering to pedophiles.
Mel Patrick Lynch and Dominic Byrne were arrested and convicted of the kidnapping. A subsequent investigation showed that Lynch was given $1,000,000.00 to do the time in prison for the kidnapping. The police department chose to bury it.
In 1977-78, Willie Dunn was on trial in Norfolk, Virginia, by federal authorities for charges stemming from a stolen check fraud. In US vs Dunn, in Norfolk Federal Court, Dunn, acting as his own attorney, was able to tell the court that he was in fact a victim because of the Bronfman kidnapping. The case was covered for the media by Penciak of the Associated Press and when the story was given to the New York Press, it only ran in the first edition. Bronfman informed the various media outlets that if the stories were not withdrawn he would pull all Seagram’s advertising.
Another investigation led to a major supplier of children to pedophiles throughout the United States. In 1977, information was obtained from a high level informant, Dale Smith aka Dale St-Clair, who was in the child prostitution business. Dale Smith had inside information that a Paul Abrams was a procurer with connections to other procurers. They had stables with substantial stocks of flesh available. Abrams catered to the so-called elite, influential, and wealthy of our society. With Dale Smith’s information, evidence was developed for a wiretap order. When the District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau of New York , was approached for a wiretap order, he refused, knowing full well that it would expose many prominent people as pedophiles. On November 28, 1977 , Paul Abrams’ operation at 230 Central Park West in New York City , was raided by the New York City Police Department. The New York Daily News, at the time, stated hundreds and hundreds of names were found in the raid. These actions prevented a full scale investigation, which is always the case.
During the summer of 1967, a well organized movement of prostitutes into New York City by pimps throughout the United States was observed. Young girls were shipped back and forth across the country as they were needed. The core cities were Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Columbus, Ohio, with most major cities in the United States used as sales outlets. New York City Detectives were able to establish a liaison with Minneapolis and Columbus. Information was exchanged and a pattern developed. In the mid 1970’s, members of the New York City Police Department were able to convince investigators of the IRS and agents from the FBI to join the investigation. A joint investigation was launched and eleven of the top twelve pimps were convicted of various crimes, virtually breaking the back of the organization. Prostitution is not a victimless crime. The victim is the prostitute.
The intelligence obtained over this period of time made it possible to locate missing girls from across the United States, who had fallen into prostitution, to be located in a matter of days either dead or alive. After the cases were completed, the FBI agents were given different assignments.
In 1976-77, the New York State Select Committee on Crime conducted hearings on prostitution. Testimony was given by a number of prostitutes from around the United States describing their activities. A film was produced by Brian Kelly which graphically describes how these children were abused and murdered.
The hierarchy of the New York City Police Department refused to cooperate with the investigation and hearings, in fact, harassed the detectives assigned to the investigation.
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE – is a fancy way of describing how the Intelligence Community uses children to compromise anybody they deem necessary. Extortion and human intelligence often are byproducts of pornography and prostitution.
In 1992, after two hours of conversation with Michael Ricconiscutto (who has admitted a long involvement with CIA, Wackenhut, and other covert operations) concerning the types of operations he had been involved in during his lifetime, it became apparent that he had become involved at a very young age. When asked, he stated that at the age of 13, while visiting Chile with members of the Chilean Council, he was recruited by Chuck Emmerett of the CIA. At this point Ricconiscutto was asked if he had been in fact become a “chicken”, a term used by pedophiles to represent the children they prey on. He stated “Yes, and that he had also been trained in the fine art of human intelligence.”
The Catholic Church has become a victim of compromise. At the end of WWII, James “Jesus” Angelton, of the OSS-CIA, was able to compromise the Vatican and thereby allow what was known as “ODESSA” to get a foothold into the Vatican. Years later Bishop Hnilica helped the KGB to exert their influence on the Vatican. After these two influences were in place, they were able to expand on a weakness in the church, PEDOPHILIA. This led to the scandal that has been exposed in the Catholic Church, which is only the tip of the iceberg.
For instance, from the days of Cardinal Spellman (nicknamed “NELLIE”, a known pedophile) in New York City to the present, no scandals have been made public. There is no way that these hidden scandals will be made public as long as Robert Morganthau or someone like him is the District Attorney in New York City. Any DA who routinely covers up these crimes against children by politically connected pedophiles, assures these crimes against children will remain hidden from the public.
SERIAL KILLERS – This group consists of individuals who are sadistic in attaining their sexual pleasures. These individuals usually live in their own world and are by far the most dangerous and difficult to identify. Within this group the victims are generally tortured, mutilated, and sexually abused. These offenders tend to be loners and their crimes often occur in different police jurisdictions. This alone makes it difficult for law enforcement to establish links and patterns between their crimes, thus limiting the effectiveness of their investigations. In many cases these perpetrators will move from town to town or state to state to avoid discovery and prosecution. Often they go undetected because law enforcement is so localized. The case histories of two notorious serial killers, Ted Bundy and Geoffrey Dahmer, leave no doubt that law enforcement is ill equipped to deal with these types of serial killers. In both cases, officers failed to recognize clues that could have curtailed these killings at earlier stages of the investigations.
OCCULT – Satanic worship, with its many subculture groups, usually revolves around secret societies comprised of individuals who worship Satan or some other god to which they offer sacrifices. These sacrifices may be animal or human.
In Aroostook County, Maine, in late 1988, two Catholic parish priests were approached by a parishioner who stated that persons known to her wanted to sacrifice her young baby. The priests, shocked by this revelation, discussed the matter among themselves and, at the time of the child’s baptism, footprinted the baby. They stated that this was done so that if at any time the child disappeared or died, a record would be on file for the authorities.
In Matamores, Mexico, a young American college student was abducted from the streets and sacrificed in a satanic ritual. This particular ritual had been described to New York Detectives by Maria Lazo, a high priestess in the occult, during Operation Together.
In his book The Ultimate Evil, respected author Maury Terry wrote about the “Son of Sam” killings in New York City. At the time of David Berkowitz’s arrest, the official line of the New York Police Department was that Son of Sam had acted alone in the murders.
In his subsequent investigation, Maury Terry discovered that these “Son of Sam” killings were, in fact, satanic ritual killings. During Berkowitz’s imprisonment, after his conviction and sentencing, Maury Terry has had repeated interviews with him. During these interviews Berkowitz gave Maury Terry inside information about what was actually involved in these rituals and subsequent murders associated with them.
Ken Lanning, who was the spokesman for the FBI, has stated on many occasions that there are no documented cases of satanic murders. This is hard to believe, but the FBI has had a policy of not getting involved in the actual investigations and, therefore, relies on its information from reading other law enforcement reports. The FBI, under present mandates, does not have jurisdiction in many instances.
An incident in early 1980, may best illustrate the mentality of the FBI and its agents. An unnamed FBI agent met with retired New York City Detective James Rothstein and stated that he was about to be assigned to an investigation into the world of pedophilia. He asked just how far he could go with such an investigation, without suffering the consequences, such as being transferred to Montana. He was advised accordingly.
The information contained in this report is based upon hundreds of investigations and observations made by Detective Rothstein, between 1968 and 1980, as a Detective in the New York City Police Department. Thousands of interrogations and interviews were conducted with prostitutes, pimps, and pedophiles. Detective Rothstein has testified as an expert in both Federal and State Courts on prostitution, pimping, and pornography. Since his retirement in 1980, Detective Rothstein has remained active in following up on the investigations he started during his career with the New York City Department. As a result of this continued research of over twenty-five years, he has developed a national and international network of researchers and investigators who document the ongoing occurrence and extent of pedophilia and child abuse worldwide.
This network has discovered a major increase in this criminal sexual exploitation of our children throughout the United States of America , and as well as for children worldwide in recent years. Through his ongoing research efforts and frequent communications with these other researchers, Detective Rothstein has noted the emergence of certain patterns and profiles associated with this serious and criminal sexual exploitation of our children.
In most investigations into pedophilia and child abuse, the investigators, federal and local, will initially do an honest and in-depth investigation, but when a certain level of progress is attained, the investigations are stopped or compromised. Again one asks the question, “Why is this?” To this date there is no high profile case that has ever been investigated to the fullest extent and then prosecuted in the court of the United States. Why? Three examples of this can be found in the following cases: a) The Finders – Florida and Washington D.C.; b) Franklin Coverup – Nebraska; c) St. Johns Abbey – Minnesota.
In segments of the family, homosexual, commercial, serial killer, and the occult, the pedophile and child abuser feel that they are above the law. They believe that because of their contacts, position in society, or the secrecy of their actions, if caught, they can use these connections to coverup their criminal activities. In most cases this is true and known throughout the pedophile subculture.
In April of 2005, information was received from a “source” who stated he had been a Field Analyst for the CIA. The “source” stated that, as a result of the Johnny Gosch kidnapping on September 5, 1982, he and 19 others were assigned to do an investigation to make sure that the CIA or a rogue element of the CIA was not involved in using children. The fear was that Foreign Intelligence operations would classify them as a bunch of pedophiles. The “source” stated he was selected because of “special qualifications” he had, which would allow him to penetrate this subculture.
Johnny Gosch was the first of three similar kidnappings that the “source” stated were conducted by the same group of kidnappers. All three victims were newspaper delivery boys. The second kidnapping was Eugene Martin. Gosch and Martin were from Des Moines, Iowa. The third intended victim was a local newspaper delivery boy from St. Joseph, Minnesota. When interviewed, he stated he was able to escape by slipping out of his coat and running. When this kidnapping failed, a second attempt was made and Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped. To this date, none of these crimes have been solved. Why?
The “source” stated that their investigation continued until 1989. The evidence uncovered during this investigation proved that 834 children were kidnapped and used by this subculture. This is only the tip of the iceberg of the depravity that was uncovered. The evidence was passed up to higher authorities in the Agency, where, as always, the hierarchy covered it up.
The most comprehensive and accurate book about an actual kidnapping and the usual cover-up that occurs, was written by the mother of Johnny Gosch, Noreen N. Gosch, Why Johnny Can’t Come Home. The book is written by a courageous mother who refused to accept the usual cover-up, lies, and failures of all law enforcement agencies and others who were involved in the nonexistent investigation of her son’s kidnapping.
PEDOPHILLIA AND THE CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
A Layman’s look at History
By
JAMES M. ROTHSTEIN
Retired NYCPD Detective
On the streets of every city in America there are thousands of children, both boys and girls, selling themselves into prostitution. Almost nothing is done to discourage this. Some of these children are on their own, others are preyed upon by older children who exploit them. Surrounding and controlling these children, who have been manipulated and forced into utter physical, sexual, and emotional degradation in their daily lives, are their procurers and abusers who are even more depraved. It is these procurers and abusers who criminally and sexually exploit these children for commercial purposes: pornography, prostitution, extortion, blackmail, and human compromise; not to mention larceny, burglary, and other criminal activities.
Police make many arrests of child molesters and pedophiles who troll for children around bus terminals, arcades, and malls. Rarely are the exploiters, who operate telephone call services, pedophile exchanges, sex clubs, and pornography rings, arrested and successfully prosecuted.
Despite public concern, even outrage, little is done beyond expressions of outrage. Why is this? This certainly is not because there is a lack of information. Everyday there are reports of children who are abducted or disappear off the face of the earth, or so it seems to the families who lose their children, when in fact they become the victims of a society which is divided into five separate groups: family, homosexual, commercial, serial killers and occult.
FAMILY – Within the family group you have an inherited or given trust between the children and their elders. This group is made up of schools, institutions, religions, and stepfamilies. Because of the close relationships between the elders and the children, if child abuse or pedophilia occurs, they are difficult to uncover and corroborate. The schools, institutions, and religious sects become candy stores for the pedophile or child abuser. There are many documented cases of pedophilia and child abuse within the family group throughout the United States , such as the Clemons case in Florida and the McMartin case in California .
Children are placed or held in institutions because of physical, mental, correctional or family problems. In the early 1970’s, numerous children were taken from a Chicago institution and sent to Texas , to another institution where they were then used for sexual purposes. Sergeant Kelly of the Illinois State Police investigated this case and stopped the practice.
Within the religious group an unprecedented number of cases are coming to light, such as the Porter case in Massachusetts. Father Porter violated numerous altar boys over a span of twenty-five years in various parishes in Massachusetts . When accusations are made against a Roman Catholic priest, the priests are transferred to another parish, diocese or religious institution and are allowed to continue their perverse habit without interference from the law.
St. Johns Abbey of the Benedictine Order, in Collegeville , Minnesota , is a classic example of how the Catholic Church covers up child abuse in the Church. Over a 30 year period of time there were hundreds of abuse cases and suicides related to the abuse. In 2002, Josh Guimond, a student at St. Johns, disappeared in the middle of the night under suspicious circumstances. The investigation that followed was a coverup and anyone who dared look into the case was harassed. The Abbot, John Klassen, admitted that there were at least 13 pedophile priests at the Abbey. Yet, there were no arrests or prosecutions by either local, state, or federal authorities over this 30 year period of time. A sophomore at Albany High School , in Albany , Minnesota , asks, “Why is St. Johns above the law?” The local and state media keep their reports of the abuse which has occurred there to a bare minimum, and then only publishes these reports after they have appeared in the national media. Why?
The Porter case and others at the time brought to light a new investigative technique which has been referred to as repressed or recovered memory. This psychological tool has been used in a number of cases prosecuting pedophiles and child abusers. This novel approach has not yet been proven to be scientifically valid. When this method is used without additional objective and corroborating evidence, wrongful accusations and prosecutions can result. This problem is well documented in an article written by Lawrence Wright in the May 24, 1993, edition of New Yorker Magazine. In this article, Mr. Wright describes how, in some cases, after additional research was done, this “recovered memory” method was shown to be flawed, causing those cases to fall apart and resulting in the needless and unwarranted destruction of the family.
As heinous as these crimes of sexual exploitation of children are, an over zealous uninformed law enforcement agency or prosecutor, who uses less than scientific investigative methods to conduct a “witch hunt,” can wreak havoc on our society. Abusive, unwarranted prosecutions based on unscientific and improper investigative methods used by police and prosecutors do not help to provide any real solution to this problem of the criminal sexual exploitation of children. Rather, they consume valuable and very limited resources and help allow many offenders to continue their crimes against children un-abated. This novel approach “recovered memory” is an interesting new method, but it must be closely monitored until it is an exact science, and there must be additional corroboration with its use in any prosecution.
HOMOSEXUAL – For the purpose of this report, the true homosexual pedophile is distinct from the more violent serial killers described later. The homosexual believes he is not hurting the child, but is in fact offering him a better life style. The child is given all the worldly possessions they desire and are told that their parents do not want him. This is a common and effective ploy used to keep the child. After the child has been in the clutches of the pedophile community for more than seventy-two hours, that child is generally lost to society. The child’s fear of parents and friends finding out about the degradation in which that child has been involved, keeps that child from leaving.
A notorious homosexual pedophile and procurer, Ben Rose, is a classic example of the mentality observed in this group. Ben Rose was arrested after an investigation by the New York Police Department at his residence on St. Mark’s Place in New York City during the summer of 1972. At the time of the arrest, he had in his possession three young boy ages 14-15 years, who had been transported by him from Baltimore to New York City for the specific purpose of sexual exploitation. Upon his arrest, he agreed to cooperate with the New York City Police Department and an investigation was begun under the code name GAFF. This investigation uncovered the commercial part of pedophilia and child abuse.
COMMERCIAL – The commercial group includes child pornography, prostitution, pimping, extortion, and human intelligence. Child pornography, prostitution, and pimping are well organized and promoted throughout the pedophile community. Because of Ben Rose’s cooperation with investigators, many of the rumors and information under investigation were verified. He informed the New York City Detectives that in November of 1971, three boys, ages 14-15 years, were sexually abused and then murdered in his apartment on East 64th Street in New York City by three men he identified as Dr. Chesky (a surgeon), Leonard Stewart (OPEC), and Tippy Richardson (CIA). The bodies were then transported to Connecticut by car and then buried on a farm. Under the GAFF investigation these murders were to be assigned to other investigators in the New York City Police Department, but then disappeared in the hierarchy of the Department.
A second investigation conducted in the mid 1970’s, by the Police Department during which thirteen homicides, plus the murder of these 14-15 year old boys at Ben Rose’s apartment, were investigated under the code name OPERATION TOGETHER. This investigation was under the command of Deputy Inspector John Colin. At a critical point in the investigation, it was stopped. Inspector Colin was demoted and forced into retirement.
The third investigation was done by the New York State Select Committee on Crime. This Committee served subpoenas on both Tippy Richardson and Leonard Stewart. When Richardson was served with the subpoena and questioned by the detectives, he informed them that because he worked for the CIA, the subpoena would be quashed, invoking National Security. He was correct, because before the detectives returned to their offices, the subpoena was withdrawn. One wonders what part of the National Security Act allows the murder of children.
Leonard Stewart was also served, questioned, and appeared at the committee’s offices. He did not testify. As in all cases of this magnitude, the attorney who represented these politically connected pedophiles was Enid Gerling of New York, who also represented both Richardson and Stewart.
Enid Gerling stated at that time that the investigation was on the right track and should not stop. In conversations with Gerling over the past number of years, she has often stated that she owes these individuals no allegiance and would gladly give them up.
During the investigation by the New York State Select Committee on Crime, information was received that Roy Cohn (famed attorney who represented Senator Joe McCarthy at the notorious McCarthy Hearings) helped in covering up the murder and the disposal of the bodies. When Cohn was questioned about the murder of the three 14-15 year old boys at Ben Rose’s apartment, he stated that he was aware of what had happened, but would comment no further. Information at that time was that Cohn was often used to compromise people and, if situations such as those described by Rose occurred, Cohn would take care of them.
Rose also supplied information as to the methamphetamine sales in juice bars owned by organized crime. These bars were meeting places for children, pedophiles, and various pedophile rings. The investigation into this activity was again buried in the hierarchy of the Police Department and not investigated. As a direct result of this investigation, Police Officer Richard Johnson of the New York City Police Department, a primary investigator, became the subject of a bombing of his residence. Recent information is that the contract was ordered by someone inside the New York City Police Department. This case is unsolved and the cover up continues to this day.
In the summer of 1966, at 301 West 45 Street, one of the most notorious procurers of children, Willie Dunn, was caught with eight young boys in his apartment. These boys ranged in age from 14-17 years. The boys were let go and Dunn was sent on his way based on the faulty premise asserted by the police department hierarchy that no crime had been directly observed. Over the years Dunn perfected his ways of procuring children to the point where he traveled the United States in a Winnebago Motor Home kidnapping, picking up, and transporting children to pedophiles wherever they were needed. Dunn was also involved with Sammy Bronfman in the planning of Bronfman’s own kidnapping. Sammy had wanted his father, Edgar Bronfman, to pay the ransom for his kidnapping, which he would then use to open his own disco catering to pedophiles.
Mel Patrick Lynch and Dominic Byrne were arrested and convicted of the kidnapping. A subsequent investigation showed that Lynch was given $1,000,000.00 to do the time in prison for the kidnapping. The police department chose to bury it.
In 1977-78, Willie Dunn was on trial in Norfolk, Virginia, by federal authorities for charges stemming from a stolen check fraud. In US vs Dunn, in Norfolk Federal Court, Dunn, acting as his own attorney, was able to tell the court that he was in fact a victim because of the Bronfman kidnapping. The case was covered for the media by Penciak of the Associated Press and when the story was given to the New York Press, it only ran in the first edition. Bronfman informed the various media outlets that if the stories were not withdrawn he would pull all Seagram’s advertising.
Another investigation led to a major supplier of children to pedophiles throughout the United States. In 1977, information was obtained from a high level informant, Dale Smith aka Dale St-Clair, who was in the child prostitution business. Dale Smith had inside information that a Paul Abrams was a procurer with connections to other procurers. They had stables with substantial stocks of flesh available. Abrams catered to the so-called elite, influential, and wealthy of our society. With Dale Smith’s information, evidence was developed for a wiretap order. When the District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau of New York , was approached for a wiretap order, he refused, knowing full well that it would expose many prominent people as pedophiles. On November 28, 1977 , Paul Abrams’ operation at 230 Central Park West in New York City , was raided by the New York City Police Department. The New York Daily News, at the time, stated hundreds and hundreds of names were found in the raid. These actions prevented a full scale investigation, which is always the case.
During the summer of 1967, a well organized movement of prostitutes into New York City by pimps throughout the United States was observed. Young girls were shipped back and forth across the country as they were needed. The core cities were Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Columbus, Ohio, with most major cities in the United States used as sales outlets. New York City Detectives were able to establish a liaison with Minneapolis and Columbus. Information was exchanged and a pattern developed. In the mid 1970’s, members of the New York City Police Department were able to convince investigators of the IRS and agents from the FBI to join the investigation. A joint investigation was launched and eleven of the top twelve pimps were convicted of various crimes, virtually breaking the back of the organization. Prostitution is not a victimless crime. The victim is the prostitute.
The intelligence obtained over this period of time made it possible to locate missing girls from across the United States, who had fallen into prostitution, to be located in a matter of days either dead or alive. After the cases were completed, the FBI agents were given different assignments.
In 1976-77, the New York State Select Committee on Crime conducted hearings on prostitution. Testimony was given by a number of prostitutes from around the United States describing their activities. A film was produced by Brian Kelly which graphically describes how these children were abused and murdered.
The hierarchy of the New York City Police Department refused to cooperate with the investigation and hearings, in fact, harassed the detectives assigned to the investigation.
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE – is a fancy way of describing how the Intelligence Community uses children to compromise anybody they deem necessary. Extortion and human intelligence often are byproducts of pornography and prostitution.
In 1992, after two hours of conversation with Michael Ricconiscutto (who has admitted a long involvement with CIA, Wackenhut, and other covert operations) concerning the types of operations he had been involved in during his lifetime, it became apparent that he had become involved at a very young age. When asked, he stated that at the age of 13, while visiting Chile with members of the Chilean Council, he was recruited by Chuck Emmerett of the CIA. At this point Ricconiscutto was asked if he had been in fact become a “chicken”, a term used by pedophiles to represent the children they prey on. He stated “Yes, and that he had also been trained in the fine art of human intelligence.”
The Catholic Church has become a victim of compromise. At the end of WWII, James “Jesus” Angelton, of the OSS-CIA, was able to compromise the Vatican and thereby allow what was known as “ODESSA” to get a foothold into the Vatican. Years later Bishop Hnilica helped the KGB to exert their influence on the Vatican. After these two influences were in place, they were able to expand on a weakness in the church, PEDOPHILIA. This led to the scandal that has been exposed in the Catholic Church, which is only the tip of the iceberg.
For instance, from the days of Cardinal Spellman (nicknamed “NELLIE”, a known pedophile) in New York City to the present, no scandals have been made public. There is no way that these hidden scandals will be made public as long as Robert Morganthau or someone like him is the District Attorney in New York City. Any DA who routinely covers up these crimes against children by politically connected pedophiles, assures these crimes against children will remain hidden from the public.
SERIAL KILLERS – This group consists of individuals who are sadistic in attaining their sexual pleasures. These individuals usually live in their own world and are by far the most dangerous and difficult to identify. Within this group the victims are generally tortured, mutilated, and sexually abused. These offenders tend to be loners and their crimes often occur in different police jurisdictions. This alone makes it difficult for law enforcement to establish links and patterns between their crimes, thus limiting the effectiveness of their investigations. In many cases these perpetrators will move from town to town or state to state to avoid discovery and prosecution. Often they go undetected because law enforcement is so localized. The case histories of two notorious serial killers, Ted Bundy and Geoffrey Dahmer, leave no doubt that law enforcement is ill equipped to deal with these types of serial killers. In both cases, officers failed to recognize clues that could have curtailed these killings at earlier stages of the investigations.
OCCULT – Satanic worship, with its many subculture groups, usually revolves around secret societies comprised of individuals who worship Satan or some other god to which they offer sacrifices. These sacrifices may be animal or human.
In Aroostook County, Maine, in late 1988, two Catholic parish priests were approached by a parishioner who stated that persons known to her wanted to sacrifice her young baby. The priests, shocked by this revelation, discussed the matter among themselves and, at the time of the child’s baptism, footprinted the baby. They stated that this was done so that if at any time the child disappeared or died, a record would be on file for the authorities.
In Matamores, Mexico, a young American college student was abducted from the streets and sacrificed in a satanic ritual. This particular ritual had been described to New York Detectives by Maria Lazo, a high priestess in the occult, during Operation Together.
In his book The Ultimate Evil, respected author Maury Terry wrote about the “Son of Sam” killings in New York City. At the time of David Berkowitz’s arrest, the official line of the New York Police Department was that Son of Sam had acted alone in the murders.
In his subsequent investigation, Maury Terry discovered that these “Son of Sam” killings were, in fact, satanic ritual killings. During Berkowitz’s imprisonment, after his conviction and sentencing, Maury Terry has had repeated interviews with him. During these interviews Berkowitz gave Maury Terry inside information about what was actually involved in these rituals and subsequent murders associated with them.
Ken Lanning, who was the spokesman for the FBI, has stated on many occasions that there are no documented cases of satanic murders. This is hard to believe, but the FBI has had a policy of not getting involved in the actual investigations and, therefore, relies on its information from reading other law enforcement reports. The FBI, under present mandates, does not have jurisdiction in many instances.
An incident in early 1980, may best illustrate the mentality of the FBI and its agents. An unnamed FBI agent met with retired New York City Detective James Rothstein and stated that he was about to be assigned to an investigation into the world of pedophilia. He asked just how far he could go with such an investigation, without suffering the consequences, such as being transferred to Montana. He was advised accordingly.
The information contained in this report is based upon hundreds of investigations and observations made by Detective Rothstein, between 1968 and 1980, as a Detective in the New York City Police Department. Thousands of interrogations and interviews were conducted with prostitutes, pimps, and pedophiles. Detective Rothstein has testified as an expert in both Federal and State Courts on prostitution, pimping, and pornography. Since his retirement in 1980, Detective Rothstein has remained active in following up on the investigations he started during his career with the New York City Department. As a result of this continued research of over twenty-five years, he has developed a national and international network of researchers and investigators who document the ongoing occurrence and extent of pedophilia and child abuse worldwide.
This network has discovered a major increase in this criminal sexual exploitation of our children throughout the United States of America , and as well as for children worldwide in recent years. Through his ongoing research efforts and frequent communications with these other researchers, Detective Rothstein has noted the emergence of certain patterns and profiles associated with this serious and criminal sexual exploitation of our children.
In most investigations into pedophilia and child abuse, the investigators, federal and local, will initially do an honest and in-depth investigation, but when a certain level of progress is attained, the investigations are stopped or compromised. Again one asks the question, “Why is this?” To this date there is no high profile case that has ever been investigated to the fullest extent and then prosecuted in the court of the United States. Why? Three examples of this can be found in the following cases: a) The Finders – Florida and Washington D.C.; b) Franklin Coverup – Nebraska; c) St. Johns Abbey – Minnesota.
In segments of the family, homosexual, commercial, serial killer, and the occult, the pedophile and child abuser feel that they are above the law. They believe that because of their contacts, position in society, or the secrecy of their actions, if caught, they can use these connections to coverup their criminal activities. In most cases this is true and known throughout the pedophile subculture.
In April of 2005, information was received from a “source” who stated he had been a Field Analyst for the CIA. The “source” stated that, as a result of the Johnny Gosch kidnapping on September 5, 1982, he and 19 others were assigned to do an investigation to make sure that the CIA or a rogue element of the CIA was not involved in using children. The fear was that Foreign Intelligence operations would classify them as a bunch of pedophiles. The “source” stated he was selected because of “special qualifications” he had, which would allow him to penetrate this subculture.
Johnny Gosch was the first of three similar kidnappings that the “source” stated were conducted by the same group of kidnappers. All three victims were newspaper delivery boys. The second kidnapping was Eugene Martin. Gosch and Martin were from Des Moines, Iowa. The third intended victim was a local newspaper delivery boy from St. Joseph, Minnesota. When interviewed, he stated he was able to escape by slipping out of his coat and running. When this kidnapping failed, a second attempt was made and Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped. To this date, none of these crimes have been solved. Why?
The “source” stated that their investigation continued until 1989. The evidence uncovered during this investigation proved that 834 children were kidnapped and used by this subculture. This is only the tip of the iceberg of the depravity that was uncovered. The evidence was passed up to higher authorities in the Agency, where, as always, the hierarchy covered it up.
The most comprehensive and accurate book about an actual kidnapping and the usual cover-up that occurs, was written by the mother of Johnny Gosch, Noreen N. Gosch, Why Johnny Can’t Come Home. The book is written by a courageous mother who refused to accept the usual cover-up, lies, and failures of all law enforcement agencies and others who were involved in the nonexistent investigation of her son’s kidnapping.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Last month...and today: Washington coast with sunshine?
The last days were spent on the Washington coast line on the ten mile peninsula that starts at the Oregon border. Went to the hot rod show on Saturday, and bought some fresh sea food to fry up in my RV.
Very peaceful and quite on the coast. Washington state has designated all beaches as highway...so...no rules or laws on driving and camping on the beach. Hooray...for Washington. Too bad the weather is usually grey and wet. But when the sun does come out....this is living high on the hog. No one was on the beach. Just me and the wind. Could you ask for any more scenic beauty then ten miles of empty coastline with no problems?
Living in the truck camper shell....ain't all bad. You got to appreciate solitude, and the freedom of being far from any commuter noise. Far from city noises. If you read at night....you can adjust to this level of solitude and alienation. Most can't hack it. It works for me. That's all I can say.
Prior to hitting the beach....I came out of the St Helens, Mt Adams, Mt. Rainier area.....and could not think of bad thought or bad time while in this wilderness area. Getting off the grid, and getting away from two legged shitmakers (humans) is a full time hobby. You'll find yourself on rutted dirt roads....far away from noise pollution.
Been thinking about crossing over 300 miles east to see...the FAMOUS HELL'S CANYON ON THE IDAHO OREGON BORDER. A canyon deeper than the Grand Canyon? Yup....all tucked away in wilderness land. Is this heavon? Only if you can avoid the human swine who make all the problems. They leave their garbage everywhere. Hmmmm....wonder what the Pacific Crest Trail is like on horseback (so you can cover 40 miles a day)?
Imagine a life...hiking all day?...everyday? That ain't a bad way of beating the system, beating society, and beating old age. Most people into hiking...are really into hiking. Being outdoors all day....always brings out the best. By the fire, and watching the sunrise and sunset...always frames the picture.
Real tired now in Tillamook....wish I could rapsidize as well as Abbey or Bukowski...but hey man, "...am I competing with anyone?...".
Very peaceful and quite on the coast. Washington state has designated all beaches as highway...so...no rules or laws on driving and camping on the beach. Hooray...for Washington. Too bad the weather is usually grey and wet. But when the sun does come out....this is living high on the hog. No one was on the beach. Just me and the wind. Could you ask for any more scenic beauty then ten miles of empty coastline with no problems?
Living in the truck camper shell....ain't all bad. You got to appreciate solitude, and the freedom of being far from any commuter noise. Far from city noises. If you read at night....you can adjust to this level of solitude and alienation. Most can't hack it. It works for me. That's all I can say.
Prior to hitting the beach....I came out of the St Helens, Mt Adams, Mt. Rainier area.....and could not think of bad thought or bad time while in this wilderness area. Getting off the grid, and getting away from two legged shitmakers (humans) is a full time hobby. You'll find yourself on rutted dirt roads....far away from noise pollution.
Been thinking about crossing over 300 miles east to see...the FAMOUS HELL'S CANYON ON THE IDAHO OREGON BORDER. A canyon deeper than the Grand Canyon? Yup....all tucked away in wilderness land. Is this heavon? Only if you can avoid the human swine who make all the problems. They leave their garbage everywhere. Hmmmm....wonder what the Pacific Crest Trail is like on horseback (so you can cover 40 miles a day)?
Imagine a life...hiking all day?...everyday? That ain't a bad way of beating the system, beating society, and beating old age. Most people into hiking...are really into hiking. Being outdoors all day....always brings out the best. By the fire, and watching the sunrise and sunset...always frames the picture.
Real tired now in Tillamook....wish I could rapsidize as well as Abbey or Bukowski...but hey man, "...am I competing with anyone?...".
JFK and Bush crime family: internet site with some new info
http://jfkmurdersolved.com/index1.htm
This is worth a look....if you have an open mind.
This is worth a look....if you have an open mind.
NXONIAN STONEWALLING AT DOJ, FBI, and NSA
DoJ Refuses Turnover of Internal Docs for Controversial Cases
By Paul Kiel - September 10, 2007, 7:10 PM
Back in July, Democrats asked the Justice Department for internal documents relating to a trio of controversial prosecutions -- cases where suspicions were high of political interference. They were the prosecution of Georgia Thompson in Wisconsin, former Gov. Don Siegelman (D-AL), and Dr. Cyril Wecht, a Democratic coroner in Pennsylvania.
Last week, the Justice Department replied by providing documents -- most of them already public case filings (although there was one telling email). The Department did not turn over documents that Congress was really after, internal memoranda discussing the cases. Such "deliberative" material, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski wrote in a letter, could not be turned over, because it would have a chilling effect on "candid internal deliberations." In a letter today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and other members called that response "unacceptable" and asked to work out some arrangement to view the documents (see below).
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TOMMYTHEBUG: NOtice how the DEms are too weak and stupid to "access my DOJ OIG Complaint" and the references to an FBI POLITICAL NEUTRALIZATION OF RICH GORDON, AND HIS BROTHER DR. MARK GORDON who was fried with a DOD DEW, and monitored with a pin hole spy camera in his home, while Mark worked as a reluctant, coerced, cooperating witness for MINNEAPOLIS FBI?
NOTICE HOW Sioux Falls FBI agent STEVEN "counter intel agent" PLUTA has not been subpoenaed for his "overt acts as part of a conspiracy to deprive civil liberties under color of authority" when FBI and NSA all worked together to "illegally break into my home, sedate me, and perform surgery" to implant an NSA Mind Control verichip in my skull...........................................and PLUTA FUCK also joined the conspiracy to tamper with my course of medical care when I sought removal of the chip from Sioux Falls Doctors CHAD CARDA and JENNIFER BURGER?
By Paul Kiel - September 10, 2007, 7:10 PM
Back in July, Democrats asked the Justice Department for internal documents relating to a trio of controversial prosecutions -- cases where suspicions were high of political interference. They were the prosecution of Georgia Thompson in Wisconsin, former Gov. Don Siegelman (D-AL), and Dr. Cyril Wecht, a Democratic coroner in Pennsylvania.
Last week, the Justice Department replied by providing documents -- most of them already public case filings (although there was one telling email). The Department did not turn over documents that Congress was really after, internal memoranda discussing the cases. Such "deliberative" material, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski wrote in a letter, could not be turned over, because it would have a chilling effect on "candid internal deliberations." In a letter today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and other members called that response "unacceptable" and asked to work out some arrangement to view the documents (see below).
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TOMMYTHEBUG: NOtice how the DEms are too weak and stupid to "access my DOJ OIG Complaint" and the references to an FBI POLITICAL NEUTRALIZATION OF RICH GORDON, AND HIS BROTHER DR. MARK GORDON who was fried with a DOD DEW, and monitored with a pin hole spy camera in his home, while Mark worked as a reluctant, coerced, cooperating witness for MINNEAPOLIS FBI?
NOTICE HOW Sioux Falls FBI agent STEVEN "counter intel agent" PLUTA has not been subpoenaed for his "overt acts as part of a conspiracy to deprive civil liberties under color of authority" when FBI and NSA all worked together to "illegally break into my home, sedate me, and perform surgery" to implant an NSA Mind Control verichip in my skull...........................................and PLUTA FUCK also joined the conspiracy to tamper with my course of medical care when I sought removal of the chip from Sioux Falls Doctors CHAD CARDA and JENNIFER BURGER?
DEMS being careful or just misinformed and weak again?
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/
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Dems Delay Contempt Vote on White House Officials
By Paul Kiel - September 11, 2007, 12:15 PM
Way back in July, the House Judiciary Committee voted to find White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to a committee subpoena relating to the U.S. attorney firings investigation.
Today, John Bresnahan over at the Politico reports that the Democratic leadership is unlikely to push for a full vote in the House until late September at the earliest. The reason, he reports, is that Democrats haven't yet "briefed lawmakers on what it would mean and how the controversy would play out, both legally and politically":
“I don’t think anything is going to happen on that for a while,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.). “When you decide to do that, you have to make your best case. You want everyone to understand what’s happening and why.”
Emanuel said Pelosi and other top Democrats have not begun those consultations yet — and he was unsure when they would.
Conyers said it was critical for Congress to enforce its subpoenas against executive branch officials, including senior White House aides.
“Otherwise, we just become a [social] club,” Conyers said, adding that he would be reviewing the issue with Pelosi soon.
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TOMMYTHEBUG: This irks the hell out of me. I was fried in my own home with a DOD directed energy weapon and I was also ILLEGALLY CHIPPED WITH A VERICHIP BY SIOUX FALLS FBI AGENT STEVEN PLUTA.
THIS WAS DONE AS RETALIATION FOR ME CONTACTING THE US SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WITH A TEN PAGE MEMO TO SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY (three weeks before the Bush White House was forced to admit their felony crime wave known as THE NSA TSP).
Prior to being chipped, harassed, stalked, illegally monitored with a pin hole spy camera in my home (by ROBERT DALE LILLY, the NSA TSP contractor)...I also signed a 47 page US DOJ OIG Complaint that was obstructed by Gonzalez and DOJ HQ.
I was forced to flee my home in Sioux FAlls, SD, after FBI agent MATT MILLER refused to investigate any felony crime committed by: SD US ATTYS, SD AG, SD DCI, SF FBI, SFPD, MCSAO, MCSD....AND NSA TSP MERCENARIES (including the unindicted coconspirators to the savage murder of a pregnant christian housewife named CHRISTINA MOORE in Round Rock, Texas).
THE DEMS HAVE SHOWN NO INTEREST IN MY COMPLAINT, OR DR. MARK GORDON'S MENTION IN MY DOJ OIG COMPLAINT?
DEMS HAVE NO INTEREST IN THE NSA MIND CONTROL CHIPPING OF A US SEN. JUD. COMM. WITNESS NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN?
NO INTEREST IN THE USE OF PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS IN MY HOME, AND IN DR. MARK GORDON'S HOME, AND THE ILLEGAL DISSEMINATION OF THAT INFORMATION TO SIOUX FALLS PD, AND THE MINNEHAHA COUNTY STATES ATTORNEYS OFFICE who commmitted Brady violations for "WILLFULLY FAILING TO DISCLOSE ALL EXCULPATORY INFO" concerning their access to illegally obtained info (warrantless GPS, warrantless pin hole spy cameras, etc).
NO INTEREST BY DEMS INTO THE 3 SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS COMMITTED BY DUMSFIELD, CHENEY, HAYDEN, NSA TSP, AND THE NSA'S 902nd COUNTERINTELLIGENCE GROUP who managed to burn down their own building as plausible deniability if subpoenas occurred in the future?
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Dems Delay Contempt Vote on White House Officials
By Paul Kiel - September 11, 2007, 12:15 PM
Way back in July, the House Judiciary Committee voted to find White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to a committee subpoena relating to the U.S. attorney firings investigation.
Today, John Bresnahan over at the Politico reports that the Democratic leadership is unlikely to push for a full vote in the House until late September at the earliest. The reason, he reports, is that Democrats haven't yet "briefed lawmakers on what it would mean and how the controversy would play out, both legally and politically":
“I don’t think anything is going to happen on that for a while,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.). “When you decide to do that, you have to make your best case. You want everyone to understand what’s happening and why.”
Emanuel said Pelosi and other top Democrats have not begun those consultations yet — and he was unsure when they would.
Conyers said it was critical for Congress to enforce its subpoenas against executive branch officials, including senior White House aides.
“Otherwise, we just become a [social] club,” Conyers said, adding that he would be reviewing the issue with Pelosi soon.
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TOMMYTHEBUG: This irks the hell out of me. I was fried in my own home with a DOD directed energy weapon and I was also ILLEGALLY CHIPPED WITH A VERICHIP BY SIOUX FALLS FBI AGENT STEVEN PLUTA.
THIS WAS DONE AS RETALIATION FOR ME CONTACTING THE US SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WITH A TEN PAGE MEMO TO SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY (three weeks before the Bush White House was forced to admit their felony crime wave known as THE NSA TSP).
Prior to being chipped, harassed, stalked, illegally monitored with a pin hole spy camera in my home (by ROBERT DALE LILLY, the NSA TSP contractor)...I also signed a 47 page US DOJ OIG Complaint that was obstructed by Gonzalez and DOJ HQ.
I was forced to flee my home in Sioux FAlls, SD, after FBI agent MATT MILLER refused to investigate any felony crime committed by: SD US ATTYS, SD AG, SD DCI, SF FBI, SFPD, MCSAO, MCSD....AND NSA TSP MERCENARIES (including the unindicted coconspirators to the savage murder of a pregnant christian housewife named CHRISTINA MOORE in Round Rock, Texas).
THE DEMS HAVE SHOWN NO INTEREST IN MY COMPLAINT, OR DR. MARK GORDON'S MENTION IN MY DOJ OIG COMPLAINT?
DEMS HAVE NO INTEREST IN THE NSA MIND CONTROL CHIPPING OF A US SEN. JUD. COMM. WITNESS NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN?
NO INTEREST IN THE USE OF PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS IN MY HOME, AND IN DR. MARK GORDON'S HOME, AND THE ILLEGAL DISSEMINATION OF THAT INFORMATION TO SIOUX FALLS PD, AND THE MINNEHAHA COUNTY STATES ATTORNEYS OFFICE who commmitted Brady violations for "WILLFULLY FAILING TO DISCLOSE ALL EXCULPATORY INFO" concerning their access to illegally obtained info (warrantless GPS, warrantless pin hole spy cameras, etc).
NO INTEREST BY DEMS INTO THE 3 SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS COMMITTED BY DUMSFIELD, CHENEY, HAYDEN, NSA TSP, AND THE NSA'S 902nd COUNTERINTELLIGENCE GROUP who managed to burn down their own building as plausible deniability if subpoenas occurred in the future?
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
FBI's bogus LOCKERBIE CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE
FBI DIRECTOR ROBERT SWAN "the punk lying little drug dealing whore" MUELLER, III...was the chief FBI cover up artist when this went down. At the time...Bobby the punk Mueller was the FBI criminal section head. His pal was OLIVER "BUCK REVELLE"...the ass. Dir of FBI. Buck REVELLE had prior knowledge and flew to Frankfurt to take his family member off the plane before it blew up over Scotland. FBI was "once again" the first cops on the scene of the crime. FBI was there to scoop the CIA INTEL ANALYSTS INFO that was collected to brief Congress at home on "triangle trade" with terrorists.
TRIANGLE TRADE is a euphamism for the US intel community trading "stolen national guard armory" weapons for cocaine and heroin. Ask OLIVER NORTH about his CMAG (civilian materials assistant group) who had the job of "stealing weapons from national guard armories" to trade for drugs (See, RCMP arrest warrant for FBI agent TERRY NELSON).
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http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1855852005
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
MARCELLO MEGA
A FORMER Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.
The retired officer - of assistant chief constable rank or higher - has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.
The police chief, whose identity has not yet been revealed, gave the statement to lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, currently serving a life sentence in Greenock Prison.
The evidence will form a crucial part of Megrahi's attempt to have a retrial ordered by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). The claims pose a potentially devastating threat to the reputation of the entire Scottish legal system.
The officer, who was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland, is supporting earlier claims by a former CIA agent that his bosses "wrote the script" to incriminate Libya.
Last night, George Esson, who was Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway when Megrahi was indicted for mass murder, confirmed he was aware of the development.
But Esson, who retired in 1994, questioned the officer's motives. He said: "Any police officer who believed they had knowledge of any element of fabrication in any criminal case would have a duty to act on that. Failure to do so would call into question their integrity, and I can't help but question their motive for raising the matter now."
Other important questions remain unanswered, such as how the officer learned of the alleged conspiracy and whether he was directly involved in the inquiry. But sources close to Megrahi's legal team believe they may have finally discovered the evidence that could demolish the case against him.
An insider told Scotland on Sunday that the retired officer approached them after Megrahi's appeal - before a bench of five Scottish judges - was dismissed in 2002.
The insider said: "He said he believed he had crucial information. A meeting was set up and he gave a statement that supported the long-standing rumours that the key piece of evidence, a fragment of circuit board from a timing device that implicated Libya, had been planted by US agents.
"Asked why he had not come forward before, he admitted he'd been wary of breaking ranks, afraid of being vilified.
"He also said that at the time he became aware of the matter, no one really believed there would ever be a trial. When it did come about, he believed both accused would be acquitted. When Megrahi was convicted, he told himself he'd be cleared at appeal."
The source added: "When that also failed, he explained he felt he had to come forward.
"He has confirmed that parts of the case were fabricated and that evidence was planted. At first he requested anonymity, but has backed down and will be identified if and when the case returns to the appeal court."
The vital evidence that linked the bombing of Pan Am 103 to Megrahi was a tiny fragment of circuit board which investigators found in a wooded area many miles from Lockerbie months after the atrocity.
The fragment was later identified by the FBI's Thomas Thurman as being part of a sophisticated timer device used to detonate explosives, and manufactured by the Swiss firm Mebo, which supplied it only to Libya and the East German Stasi.
At one time, Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence agent, was such a regular visitor to Mebo that he had his own office in the firm's headquarters.
The fragment of circuit board therefore enabled Libya - and Megrahi - to be placed at the heart of the investigation. However, Thurman was later unmasked as a fraud who had given false evidence in American murder trials, and it emerged that he had little in the way of scientific qualifications.
Then, in 2003, a retired CIA officer gave a statement to Megrahi's lawyers in which he alleged evidence had been planted.
The decision of a former Scottish police chief to back this claim could add enormous weight to what has previously been dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory. It has long been rumoured the fragment was planted to implicate Libya for political reasons.
The first suspects in the case were the Syrian-led Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), a terror group backed by Iranian cash. But the first Gulf War altered diplomatic relations with Middle East nations, and Libya became the pariah state.
Following the trial, legal observers from around the world, including senior United Nations officials, expressed disquiet about the verdict and the conduct of the proceedings at Camp Zeist, Holland. Those doubts were first fuelled when internal documents emerged from the offices of the US Defence Intelligence Agency. Dated 1994, more than two years after the Libyans were identified to the world as the bombers, they still described the PFLP-GC as the Lockerbie bombers.
A source close to Megrahi's defence said: "Britain and the US were telling the world it was Libya, but in their private communications they acknowledged that they knew it was the PFLP-GC.
"The case is starting to unravel largely because when they wrote the script, they never expected to have to act it out. Nobody expected agreement for a trial to be reached, but it was, and in preparing a manufactured case, mistakes were made."
Dr Jim Swire, who has publicly expressed his belief in Megrahi's innocence, said it was quite right that all relevant information now be put to the SCCRC.
Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the atrocity, said last night: "I am aware that there have been doubts about how some of the evidence in the case came to be presented in court.
"It is in all our interests that areas of doubt are thoroughly examined."
A spokeswoman for the Crown Office said: "As this case is currently being examined by the SCCRC, it would be inappropriate to comment."
No one from the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland was available to comment.
TRIANGLE TRADE is a euphamism for the US intel community trading "stolen national guard armory" weapons for cocaine and heroin. Ask OLIVER NORTH about his CMAG (civilian materials assistant group) who had the job of "stealing weapons from national guard armories" to trade for drugs (See, RCMP arrest warrant for FBI agent TERRY NELSON).
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http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1855852005
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
MARCELLO MEGA
A FORMER Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.
The retired officer - of assistant chief constable rank or higher - has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.
The police chief, whose identity has not yet been revealed, gave the statement to lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, currently serving a life sentence in Greenock Prison.
The evidence will form a crucial part of Megrahi's attempt to have a retrial ordered by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). The claims pose a potentially devastating threat to the reputation of the entire Scottish legal system.
The officer, who was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland, is supporting earlier claims by a former CIA agent that his bosses "wrote the script" to incriminate Libya.
Last night, George Esson, who was Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway when Megrahi was indicted for mass murder, confirmed he was aware of the development.
But Esson, who retired in 1994, questioned the officer's motives. He said: "Any police officer who believed they had knowledge of any element of fabrication in any criminal case would have a duty to act on that. Failure to do so would call into question their integrity, and I can't help but question their motive for raising the matter now."
Other important questions remain unanswered, such as how the officer learned of the alleged conspiracy and whether he was directly involved in the inquiry. But sources close to Megrahi's legal team believe they may have finally discovered the evidence that could demolish the case against him.
An insider told Scotland on Sunday that the retired officer approached them after Megrahi's appeal - before a bench of five Scottish judges - was dismissed in 2002.
The insider said: "He said he believed he had crucial information. A meeting was set up and he gave a statement that supported the long-standing rumours that the key piece of evidence, a fragment of circuit board from a timing device that implicated Libya, had been planted by US agents.
"Asked why he had not come forward before, he admitted he'd been wary of breaking ranks, afraid of being vilified.
"He also said that at the time he became aware of the matter, no one really believed there would ever be a trial. When it did come about, he believed both accused would be acquitted. When Megrahi was convicted, he told himself he'd be cleared at appeal."
The source added: "When that also failed, he explained he felt he had to come forward.
"He has confirmed that parts of the case were fabricated and that evidence was planted. At first he requested anonymity, but has backed down and will be identified if and when the case returns to the appeal court."
The vital evidence that linked the bombing of Pan Am 103 to Megrahi was a tiny fragment of circuit board which investigators found in a wooded area many miles from Lockerbie months after the atrocity.
The fragment was later identified by the FBI's Thomas Thurman as being part of a sophisticated timer device used to detonate explosives, and manufactured by the Swiss firm Mebo, which supplied it only to Libya and the East German Stasi.
At one time, Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence agent, was such a regular visitor to Mebo that he had his own office in the firm's headquarters.
The fragment of circuit board therefore enabled Libya - and Megrahi - to be placed at the heart of the investigation. However, Thurman was later unmasked as a fraud who had given false evidence in American murder trials, and it emerged that he had little in the way of scientific qualifications.
Then, in 2003, a retired CIA officer gave a statement to Megrahi's lawyers in which he alleged evidence had been planted.
The decision of a former Scottish police chief to back this claim could add enormous weight to what has previously been dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory. It has long been rumoured the fragment was planted to implicate Libya for political reasons.
The first suspects in the case were the Syrian-led Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), a terror group backed by Iranian cash. But the first Gulf War altered diplomatic relations with Middle East nations, and Libya became the pariah state.
Following the trial, legal observers from around the world, including senior United Nations officials, expressed disquiet about the verdict and the conduct of the proceedings at Camp Zeist, Holland. Those doubts were first fuelled when internal documents emerged from the offices of the US Defence Intelligence Agency. Dated 1994, more than two years after the Libyans were identified to the world as the bombers, they still described the PFLP-GC as the Lockerbie bombers.
A source close to Megrahi's defence said: "Britain and the US were telling the world it was Libya, but in their private communications they acknowledged that they knew it was the PFLP-GC.
"The case is starting to unravel largely because when they wrote the script, they never expected to have to act it out. Nobody expected agreement for a trial to be reached, but it was, and in preparing a manufactured case, mistakes were made."
Dr Jim Swire, who has publicly expressed his belief in Megrahi's innocence, said it was quite right that all relevant information now be put to the SCCRC.
Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the atrocity, said last night: "I am aware that there have been doubts about how some of the evidence in the case came to be presented in court.
"It is in all our interests that areas of doubt are thoroughly examined."
A spokeswoman for the Crown Office said: "As this case is currently being examined by the SCCRC, it would be inappropriate to comment."
No one from the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland was available to comment.
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