fROM WAYNE MADSEN REPORT:
August 21-24, 2008 -- Carnaby autopsy report sealed
In an action considered unprecedented following a decision by a Harris County grand jury to return a "no bill" and not indict two Houston police officers for the April 29, 2008 slaying of retired CIA agent Roland "Tony" Carnaby on a busy Houston street, Harris County, Texas is refusing to make public the coroner's autopsy report on Carnaby.
Houston attorney Randall Kallinen told WMR that autopsy reports were "100 percent public" following a grand jury determination of no criminal offense in a police shooting. Up to a "no bill" decision, autopsy reports involving police shootings were granted a "law enforcement exception" under Texas' Open Government Law. However, after resolution of the case, autopsy reports are publicly available, except in the shooting death of Carnaby.
Kallinen also said Harris County is seeking a "100 percent protective order" on 911 emergency phone call tapes relating to the shooting of Carnaby. This amounts to a virtual gag order on heretofore publicly-available 911 tapes. It is not known whether the 911 phone calls were from Carnaby or from other witnesses present before, during, and after the police assassination of Carnaby.
It has also been determined that Houston and Harris County records contain no previous records on any criminal activity by Carnaby and that Carnaby spoke to an FBI official between the time he was first stopped by Houston police and when the shooting occurred later.
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tommy:
This means...that...FBI COULD HAVE CALLED HOUSTON PD AND TOLD THEM TO STAND DOWN AND STAY AWAY FROM CLASSIFIED INFO.
FBI DID NOTHING.
FBI DID NOTHING ABOUT MOSSAD'S MURDER OF AN AUSTIN, TEXAS, PALESTINIAN PEACE ACTIVIST NAMED HAMID FOUND FLOATING DEAD IN LADYBIRD LAKE WITH HIS HANDS TIED BEHIND HIS BACK--ruled a suicide by APD?
This ain't the only time...BOB MUELLER'S CLOWN ACT HAS REFUSED TO WORK A PATRIOT ACT MURDER ordered by Cheney.
It all...goes to Darth Cheney's desk.
Wonder why...MIERS AND BOLTEN refuse to testify...about what?...what questions are the Dems trying to ask?...and why?
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WMR has learned from another informed source in Houston that Carnaby was close to former Texas Democratic Governor Mark White. White lost his re-election partly as a result of a 1986 dirty trick engineered by Karl Rove that blamed White's campaign for placing a bug inside Rove's office. It turned out that Rove himself placed the bug inside his own office. But for White, who had been ahead of GOP challenger Bill Clements, the damage resulted in White losing the election. White was reportedly an avid supporter of the Houston Chapter of the Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO), of which Carnaby was the president.
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Libby's lawyers tied to KHAN--SWISS destruction of nuke smuggling records?
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August 26, 2008 -- CIA counter-nuke proliferation front located in offices of Scooter Libby's old law firm
Yesterday, WMR reported that the CIA front company, Big Black River Technologies, Inc., the firm that had a contract with the Tinner family of Switzerland and their Traco Group International to ship faulty nuclear components to Libya and Iran, was listed in the "Generate" database of "Netvention Company Profiles," contrary to an article about the company in The New York Times. The firm's address was listed as: 1825 I Street NW Ste 400, Washington, DC 20006.
A visit to the address by WMR revealed that the corporate frontage for Big Black River Technologies at the "Eye" Street address is the law firm Dickstein Shapiro, the same law firm where convicted Dick Cheney former Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby worked from 1985 to 1990.
It was shortly after 1990 that the CIA renewed the mandate of another front company, Brewster Jennings & Associates, the firm for which outed CIA counter-proliferation non-official cover (NOC) agent Valerie Plame Wilson worked. In March 2007, Libby was found guilty of making false statements to FBI agents, obstruction of justice, and lying to a grand jury in the investigation of the leak of Plame's covert identity to the media. President George W. Bush commuted Libby's prison sentence.
A government source knowledgeable of NOC activities said that it was more than likely that a few Dickstein Shapiro officials knew of Big Black River Technologies' covert activities, especially when its assets were overseas. It is also likely that Libby was aware of the identity of the firm. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who prosecuted Libby, never extended his investigation beyond Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings to other CIA assets and operations that were compromised and the subject of the CIA's Damage Assessment Report.
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds revealed had accepted bribes from Turkish principals close to the American Turkish Council, joined Dickstein Shapiro after resigning his House seat. FBI wiretaps also revealed that Turkey, along with Israel, were major players in the nuclear smuggling ring involving Pakistani nuclear scientist A Q Khan. It was this ring that was also being targeted by Brewster Jennings and Plame before they were outed by Libby and other senior White House officials.
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From WAYNE MADSEN REPORT:
June 6-8, 2008 -- Unraveling the nuclear smuggling racket - signs point to CIA involvement
Two recent events are pointing to the distinct possibility that the CIA's nuclear counter-proliferation efforts were an attempt at putting back into the bottle the nuclear genie it helped to unleash.
Swiss President Pascal Couchepin's recent admission that Switzerland destroyed some 30,000 documents dealing with the involvement of Swiss engineer Friedrich Tinner and his sons Urs and Marco on charges that they helped provide nuclear technology to Pakistan's nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer (AQ) Khan and Khan's recent recanting of his previous admission that he helped smuggle nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya, and Iran all point to an effort to sweep under the carpet the CIA's tacit involvement with providing Pakistan, and by default, Libya, Iran, and North Korea, with nuclear technology. WMR previously reported that Urs Tinner is a suspected CIA agent who likely worked with Valerie Plame Wilson's Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover firm.
Khan now claims he was coerced by the Pervez Musharraf government, acting under pressure from the Bush administration, to make his confession. On May 31, 2006, WMR reported: "the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office has complained to the United States that the Bush administration has failed to cooperate with Switzerland's efforts to track the A Q Khan nuclear proliferation network. The Bush administration's multiple refusals to assist Switzerland in probing the Khan network, which was a major target of the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division, Brewster Jennings Associates, and Valerie Plame Wilson, was revealed by former UN weapons inspector David Albright.
Switzerland arrested three members of the Tinner family -- Friedrich, Urs, and Marco -- for illegally supplying centrifuges from a Malaysian company to Libya. Urs Tinner has been rumored to have been a U.S. intelligence asset. Switzerland has received cooperation in its probe from Southeast Asian nations, including Malaysia and Thailand, and South Africa. All three are key transit points for nuclear materials involving Russian-Israeli Mafia assets who, in turn, are linked to top members of the Bush administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney."
On February 19, 2008, WMR reported: "it was discovered from the revelations by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds that Turkish, Israeli, and Pakistani agents were key members of the nuclear smuggling ring. WMR has now learned from Swiss sources that last November, the Swiss Federal Council, the Bundesrat, passed a secret resolution to destroy critical evidence in the Tinner case. Among the documents ordered destroyed were plans and drawings involving nuclear weapons. The documents had been seized by Swiss prosecutors in their case against the Tinners. WMR has further learned that the Bush administration put pressure on the Swiss to cease their prosecution of the Tinners and destroy all the evidence seized."
The Swiss carried out one part of the Bush administration request, the destruction of the documents. However, the three Tinners remain in prison in Switzerland.
The global nuclear smuggling racket reached a peak in 1990 and 1991 and at the same time Dick Cheney served as President George H. W. Bush's Defense Secretary. WMR previously reported that this smuggling also involved the disposition of apartheid South Africa's nuclear arsenal. On February 28, 2008, WMR reported:
"[Dr. David Kelly, the British Defense Ministry scientist] knew of nuclear weapons proliferation involving three South African nuclear bombs assembled with the help of Israeli nuclear scientists at the covert South African nuclear weapons facility at Pelindaba nuclear research facility, near Pretoria.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors who visited Pelindaba and the state-owned Armaments Corporation of South Africa (ARMSCOR) Advena nuclear facility near Pretoria in 1990 and 1991 were tricked into believing that South Africa's nuclear weapons had all been dismantled by the outgoing apartheid regime. However, three South African nuclear weapons were reportedly sold to 'private investors' with the up-front money coming from British government coffers.
Reimbursement for the ARMSCOR nuclear weapons was made to Britain only after the three weapons, spirited out of South Africa in three 20' ISO standard containers, arrived at a private storage facility in Oman for safekeeping. The containers had a special seal on the lock of the rear door of each container along with a temperature gauge in the front of the containers that was connected to the core of the bombs to indicate that the bomb was not overheating inside the containers.
There are indications that one of the bombs was eventually sold to North Korea.
WMR has also learned that the nuclear smuggling operations involved top members of the British Conservative Party, including individuals close to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Tory party soon received a mystery donation of ?17.8 million. The donation was filed with the Tory party's Fiscal Year 1992 Annual Accounts filed with Companies House. An insider at the Tory party's Central Office tipped off a Labor Party Member of Parliament, Doug Hoyle, about the mystery donation. It turned out that the Tory MP in question was Tim Smith. Smith had been an MP for Beaconsfield since 1982 when he defeated a little-known Labor candidate named Tony Blair."
In A Q Khan's refutation of his previous confession, he states that it was European nations and South Africa, not him, that arranged for the smuggling of nuclear technology to Libya and Iran. He told McClatchy in an interview from house arrest in Islamabad: "The Germans, the South Africans and the French all have those drawings. They were the suppliers. You can't blame me for it. They were selling and making money. Why put the blame on me?"
(snip)
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August 26, 2008 -- CIA counter-nuke proliferation front located in offices of Scooter Libby's old law firm
Yesterday, WMR reported that the CIA front company, Big Black River Technologies, Inc., the firm that had a contract with the Tinner family of Switzerland and their Traco Group International to ship faulty nuclear components to Libya and Iran, was listed in the "Generate" database of "Netvention Company Profiles," contrary to an article about the company in The New York Times. The firm's address was listed as: 1825 I Street NW Ste 400, Washington, DC 20006.
A visit to the address by WMR revealed that the corporate frontage for Big Black River Technologies at the "Eye" Street address is the law firm Dickstein Shapiro, the same law firm where convicted Dick Cheney former Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby worked from 1985 to 1990.
It was shortly after 1990 that the CIA renewed the mandate of another front company, Brewster Jennings & Associates, the firm for which outed CIA counter-proliferation non-official cover (NOC) agent Valerie Plame Wilson worked. In March 2007, Libby was found guilty of making false statements to FBI agents, obstruction of justice, and lying to a grand jury in the investigation of the leak of Plame's covert identity to the media. President George W. Bush commuted Libby's prison sentence.
A government source knowledgeable of NOC activities said that it was more than likely that a few Dickstein Shapiro officials knew of Big Black River Technologies' covert activities, especially when its assets were overseas. It is also likely that Libby was aware of the identity of the firm. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who prosecuted Libby, never extended his investigation beyond Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings to other CIA assets and operations that were compromised and the subject of the CIA's Damage Assessment Report.
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds revealed had accepted bribes from Turkish principals close to the American Turkish Council, joined Dickstein Shapiro after resigning his House seat. FBI wiretaps also revealed that Turkey, along with Israel, were major players in the nuclear smuggling ring involving Pakistani nuclear scientist A Q Khan. It was this ring that was also being targeted by Brewster Jennings and Plame before they were outed by Libby and other senior White House officials.
______________________________________________________________________________
From WAYNE MADSEN REPORT:
June 6-8, 2008 -- Unraveling the nuclear smuggling racket - signs point to CIA involvement
Two recent events are pointing to the distinct possibility that the CIA's nuclear counter-proliferation efforts were an attempt at putting back into the bottle the nuclear genie it helped to unleash.
Swiss President Pascal Couchepin's recent admission that Switzerland destroyed some 30,000 documents dealing with the involvement of Swiss engineer Friedrich Tinner and his sons Urs and Marco on charges that they helped provide nuclear technology to Pakistan's nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer (AQ) Khan and Khan's recent recanting of his previous admission that he helped smuggle nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya, and Iran all point to an effort to sweep under the carpet the CIA's tacit involvement with providing Pakistan, and by default, Libya, Iran, and North Korea, with nuclear technology. WMR previously reported that Urs Tinner is a suspected CIA agent who likely worked with Valerie Plame Wilson's Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover firm.
Khan now claims he was coerced by the Pervez Musharraf government, acting under pressure from the Bush administration, to make his confession. On May 31, 2006, WMR reported: "the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office has complained to the United States that the Bush administration has failed to cooperate with Switzerland's efforts to track the A Q Khan nuclear proliferation network. The Bush administration's multiple refusals to assist Switzerland in probing the Khan network, which was a major target of the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division, Brewster Jennings Associates, and Valerie Plame Wilson, was revealed by former UN weapons inspector David Albright.
Switzerland arrested three members of the Tinner family -- Friedrich, Urs, and Marco -- for illegally supplying centrifuges from a Malaysian company to Libya. Urs Tinner has been rumored to have been a U.S. intelligence asset. Switzerland has received cooperation in its probe from Southeast Asian nations, including Malaysia and Thailand, and South Africa. All three are key transit points for nuclear materials involving Russian-Israeli Mafia assets who, in turn, are linked to top members of the Bush administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney."
On February 19, 2008, WMR reported: "it was discovered from the revelations by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds that Turkish, Israeli, and Pakistani agents were key members of the nuclear smuggling ring. WMR has now learned from Swiss sources that last November, the Swiss Federal Council, the Bundesrat, passed a secret resolution to destroy critical evidence in the Tinner case. Among the documents ordered destroyed were plans and drawings involving nuclear weapons. The documents had been seized by Swiss prosecutors in their case against the Tinners. WMR has further learned that the Bush administration put pressure on the Swiss to cease their prosecution of the Tinners and destroy all the evidence seized."
The Swiss carried out one part of the Bush administration request, the destruction of the documents. However, the three Tinners remain in prison in Switzerland.
The global nuclear smuggling racket reached a peak in 1990 and 1991 and at the same time Dick Cheney served as President George H. W. Bush's Defense Secretary. WMR previously reported that this smuggling also involved the disposition of apartheid South Africa's nuclear arsenal. On February 28, 2008, WMR reported:
"[Dr. David Kelly, the British Defense Ministry scientist] knew of nuclear weapons proliferation involving three South African nuclear bombs assembled with the help of Israeli nuclear scientists at the covert South African nuclear weapons facility at Pelindaba nuclear research facility, near Pretoria.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors who visited Pelindaba and the state-owned Armaments Corporation of South Africa (ARMSCOR) Advena nuclear facility near Pretoria in 1990 and 1991 were tricked into believing that South Africa's nuclear weapons had all been dismantled by the outgoing apartheid regime. However, three South African nuclear weapons were reportedly sold to 'private investors' with the up-front money coming from British government coffers.
Reimbursement for the ARMSCOR nuclear weapons was made to Britain only after the three weapons, spirited out of South Africa in three 20' ISO standard containers, arrived at a private storage facility in Oman for safekeeping. The containers had a special seal on the lock of the rear door of each container along with a temperature gauge in the front of the containers that was connected to the core of the bombs to indicate that the bomb was not overheating inside the containers.
There are indications that one of the bombs was eventually sold to North Korea.
WMR has also learned that the nuclear smuggling operations involved top members of the British Conservative Party, including individuals close to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Tory party soon received a mystery donation of ?17.8 million. The donation was filed with the Tory party's Fiscal Year 1992 Annual Accounts filed with Companies House. An insider at the Tory party's Central Office tipped off a Labor Party Member of Parliament, Doug Hoyle, about the mystery donation. It turned out that the Tory MP in question was Tim Smith. Smith had been an MP for Beaconsfield since 1982 when he defeated a little-known Labor candidate named Tony Blair."
In A Q Khan's refutation of his previous confession, he states that it was European nations and South Africa, not him, that arranged for the smuggling of nuclear technology to Libya and Iran. He told McClatchy in an interview from house arrest in Islamabad: "The Germans, the South Africans and the French all have those drawings. They were the suppliers. You can't blame me for it. They were selling and making money. Why put the blame on me?"
(snip)
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How to make MURDER pay? CONTRACTORS DO 25% OF PATRIOT ACT MURDERS?
Contractors account for a quarter of U.S. spy operations
The reliance on contractors, which surged after Sept. 11, has been a source of controversy. Some worry that temporary employees could be less trustworthy.
By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 28, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Private contractors account for more than one-quarter of the core workforce at U.S. intelligence agencies, according to newly released government figures that underscore how much of the nation's spying work has been outsourced since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The CIA and other spy agencies employ about 36,000 contractors in espionage-related jobs, in addition to approximately 100,000 full-time government workers, said Ronald Sanders, head of personnel for the U.S. intelligence community.
Contractors carry out missions including collecting intelligence in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as operating classified computer networks for the 16 spy agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community.
Sanders said the number of contractors remained steady over the last year, after surging in the years following the Sept. 11 attacks.
"As you may know, we've been hiring a great deal since Sept. 11, 2001," Sanders said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday, discussing the results of a survey.
The growing reliance on contractors has been a source of controversy for the spy agencies, in part because of concerns that temporary employees might not be as trustworthy as career workers in handling some of the most sensitive national security work.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has criticized the CIA for using contractors in interrogations of terrorism suspects, and many lawmakers favor barring the agency from doing so.
The total budget for the nation's spy agencies is roughly $43 billion. The use of contractors has been criticized for driving up costs, with senior U.S. intelligence officials acknowledging that talented employees have been lured away to take higher-paying positions with private companies.
Sanders said the spy agencies spend about $125,000 a year for a government employee, compared with about $207,000 for a contract worker. The numbers reflect salaries, retirement benefits and other costs.
But officials have said that contractors also help agencies control costs by enabling spy services to hire workers for short-term assignments.
Sanders said 27% of contractors were involved in intelligence collection and operations, 19% work in analysis jobs, and 22% manage computer networks or perform other information technology functions.
He said those figures did not include workers at companies that build spy satellites and computer equipment, cafeteria staffers or security guards.
If such "non-core" functions are counted, Sanders said, contractors would account for about 70% of the U.S. intelligence workforce.
greg.miller@latimes.com
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TOMMY:
I GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH BIG, BAD, GUTLESS, COCKSUCKING, LYING BY OMISSION MUTHERFUCKER NAMED ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III.
THAT'S THE GUY WHO HAS stood down on numerous PATRIOT MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS INCLUDING:
--Enron witness CHRISTINA MOORE, a pregnant christian housewife who had her neck slit open with help from NSA's SIGINT using CALEA INTERFACE;
--Austin Palestinian peace activist HAMID, whacked out after working with a Syrian Houston CIA agent named CARNEBY WHO GOT WHACKED OUT BY HOUSTON PD;
--RICH GORDON, SD US Sen DASCHLE's ex chief of staff...brother of FBI STALKING VICTIM DR MARK GORDON, who was also fried with mirowave radiation from a DOD DARPA weapon called DEW;
--Kabieseman, Yankton, SD, attorney...a friend of mine, a guy I consulted with...FBI knows that...and gave info to DOD CIFA UNIT who gave info and hit contract to BLACKWATER;
--DEFENBAUGH, Yankton PD Sgt I talked to on phone...murdered in staged vehicle accident ten days before Kabieseman...SPECIAL LYING CORRUPT COCKSUCKER STEVEN PLUTA...FROM SIOUX FALLS FBI, KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT...SUBPOENA THE FUCKHEAD.
The reliance on contractors, which surged after Sept. 11, has been a source of controversy. Some worry that temporary employees could be less trustworthy.
By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 28, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Private contractors account for more than one-quarter of the core workforce at U.S. intelligence agencies, according to newly released government figures that underscore how much of the nation's spying work has been outsourced since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The CIA and other spy agencies employ about 36,000 contractors in espionage-related jobs, in addition to approximately 100,000 full-time government workers, said Ronald Sanders, head of personnel for the U.S. intelligence community.
Contractors carry out missions including collecting intelligence in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as operating classified computer networks for the 16 spy agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community.
Sanders said the number of contractors remained steady over the last year, after surging in the years following the Sept. 11 attacks.
"As you may know, we've been hiring a great deal since Sept. 11, 2001," Sanders said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday, discussing the results of a survey.
The growing reliance on contractors has been a source of controversy for the spy agencies, in part because of concerns that temporary employees might not be as trustworthy as career workers in handling some of the most sensitive national security work.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has criticized the CIA for using contractors in interrogations of terrorism suspects, and many lawmakers favor barring the agency from doing so.
The total budget for the nation's spy agencies is roughly $43 billion. The use of contractors has been criticized for driving up costs, with senior U.S. intelligence officials acknowledging that talented employees have been lured away to take higher-paying positions with private companies.
Sanders said the spy agencies spend about $125,000 a year for a government employee, compared with about $207,000 for a contract worker. The numbers reflect salaries, retirement benefits and other costs.
But officials have said that contractors also help agencies control costs by enabling spy services to hire workers for short-term assignments.
Sanders said 27% of contractors were involved in intelligence collection and operations, 19% work in analysis jobs, and 22% manage computer networks or perform other information technology functions.
He said those figures did not include workers at companies that build spy satellites and computer equipment, cafeteria staffers or security guards.
If such "non-core" functions are counted, Sanders said, contractors would account for about 70% of the U.S. intelligence workforce.
greg.miller@latimes.com
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TOMMY:
I GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH BIG, BAD, GUTLESS, COCKSUCKING, LYING BY OMISSION MUTHERFUCKER NAMED ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III.
THAT'S THE GUY WHO HAS stood down on numerous PATRIOT MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS INCLUDING:
--Enron witness CHRISTINA MOORE, a pregnant christian housewife who had her neck slit open with help from NSA's SIGINT using CALEA INTERFACE;
--Austin Palestinian peace activist HAMID, whacked out after working with a Syrian Houston CIA agent named CARNEBY WHO GOT WHACKED OUT BY HOUSTON PD;
--RICH GORDON, SD US Sen DASCHLE's ex chief of staff...brother of FBI STALKING VICTIM DR MARK GORDON, who was also fried with mirowave radiation from a DOD DARPA weapon called DEW;
--Kabieseman, Yankton, SD, attorney...a friend of mine, a guy I consulted with...FBI knows that...and gave info to DOD CIFA UNIT who gave info and hit contract to BLACKWATER;
--DEFENBAUGH, Yankton PD Sgt I talked to on phone...murdered in staged vehicle accident ten days before Kabieseman...SPECIAL LYING CORRUPT COCKSUCKER STEVEN PLUTA...FROM SIOUX FALLS FBI, KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT...SUBPOENA THE FUCKHEAD.
FBI SNITCH WHACKS OUT BOULIS in casino--money laundering RICO conspiracy
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&sid=1428678
Abramoff's ex-partner gets prison sentence halved
June 25, 2008 - 3:21pm
By CURT ANDERSON
AP Legal Affairs Writer
MIAMI (AP) - The ex-partner of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff in an ill-fated Florida casino boat venture saw his prison sentence for fraud cut in half Wednesday for cooperating with investigators.
U.S. District Judge Paul Huck agreed to reduce Adam Kidan's prison term from just under six years to almost three after prosecutors praised his cooperation in several investigations. They said he even braved mob threats to testify about a gangland-style slaying in 2001 of former SunCruz Casinos owner Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis.
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tommy:
The shooting was done by an FBI informant. That is not uncommon. Austin FBI and AUSTIN, TEXAS US ATTORNEY ANTHONY"Uncle Tom" BROWN all colluded with and aided and abetted a right wing conspiracy to violate my civil liberties...using...convict goons sent to "harass, intimidate, provoke, assault, and terrorize" at my home?
No punk COMMENT HAS BEEN ISSUED BY FUCKHEAD FAGGOT BOB MUELLER, AND HIS TOUGH GUY PUNK JOHNNY SUTTON, US Atty for WESTERN DIST OF TEXAS, in charge of Anthony "Uncle Tom" Brown in Austin.
I came to Austin...to discuss this matter like a gentleman and officer of the court...but...BROWN and SUTTON are too busy OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE TO TALK ABOUT JUSTICE WITH A CRIME VICTIM WHO ACTUALLY TRIED TO PREVENT THE FBI FROM BLOWING UP THE CHILDREN AT THE MURRAY BUILDING ON APRIL 19TH, 1995.
Today, I talked to a retired Fed Judge in the park.
He gave me alot to think about...and how...the badge boys play the game, to protect their own crimes.
It did not surprise me....that this corruption is historical.
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"I admire his courage," said Brian Cavanagh, chief homicide prosecutor in Broward County, where Boulis was shot to death.
With time served, the 43-year-old Kidan now has about 15 more months to serve in prison or a halfway house, according to his attorney Jon Rosenthal. His original sentence was to have run until 2011.
"I'm pleased with the outcome. I would have liked more," Rosenthal said.
Kidan and Abramoff pleaded guilty in 2006 to fraud in their 2000 purchase of SunCruz from Boulis.
Abramoff, once a high-powered Washington lobbyist, has separately pleaded guilty to charges in a political corruption scandal that has ensnared members of Congress, their staffs and Bush administration officials.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence LaVecchio said Kidan provided critical information against Abramoff in the fraud case, including a trail of emails.
"Were it not for Mr. Kidan's cooperation, we very well may not have had enough evidence to charge Mr. Abramoff," LaVecchio added.
But that was nothing compared to the dangers Kidan faced when he provided sworn statements to investigators in the murder of Boulis, according to prosecutors. After Kidan gave one a deposition, Cavanagh and Rosenthal said, Kidan was beaten up in a New Jersey prison bathroom by three men _ one of them claiming Mafia ties.
One of the three men charged in the Boulis killing is Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello, 70, who has been linked by police to New York's Gambino crime family. Moscatiello has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges and has not been formally accused of organized crime activities.
"He put himself in a very dangerous position," Rosenthal said of Kidan, who was moved to a prison in Ohio after the beating.
Kidan told investigators in May 2006 that Boulis was killed by John Gurino, a man with mob connections who was later shot to death by a business partner, according to court documents. Kidan said he learned the details from Moscatiello and another man charged in the Boulis murder, Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari.
As for Abramoff, he remains imprisoned in Maryland and continues to cooperate in a corruption probe that has now resulted in the convictions of about a dozen people ,including former U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio. He is also seeking a sentence reduction in the Florida fraud case _ though no hearing is currently scheduled _ and is set to be sentenced in the Washington case on Sept. 4.
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Abramoff's ex-partner gets prison sentence halved
June 25, 2008 - 3:21pm
By CURT ANDERSON
AP Legal Affairs Writer
MIAMI (AP) - The ex-partner of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff in an ill-fated Florida casino boat venture saw his prison sentence for fraud cut in half Wednesday for cooperating with investigators.
U.S. District Judge Paul Huck agreed to reduce Adam Kidan's prison term from just under six years to almost three after prosecutors praised his cooperation in several investigations. They said he even braved mob threats to testify about a gangland-style slaying in 2001 of former SunCruz Casinos owner Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis.
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tommy:
The shooting was done by an FBI informant. That is not uncommon. Austin FBI and AUSTIN, TEXAS US ATTORNEY ANTHONY"Uncle Tom" BROWN all colluded with and aided and abetted a right wing conspiracy to violate my civil liberties...using...convict goons sent to "harass, intimidate, provoke, assault, and terrorize" at my home?
No punk COMMENT HAS BEEN ISSUED BY FUCKHEAD FAGGOT BOB MUELLER, AND HIS TOUGH GUY PUNK JOHNNY SUTTON, US Atty for WESTERN DIST OF TEXAS, in charge of Anthony "Uncle Tom" Brown in Austin.
I came to Austin...to discuss this matter like a gentleman and officer of the court...but...BROWN and SUTTON are too busy OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE TO TALK ABOUT JUSTICE WITH A CRIME VICTIM WHO ACTUALLY TRIED TO PREVENT THE FBI FROM BLOWING UP THE CHILDREN AT THE MURRAY BUILDING ON APRIL 19TH, 1995.
Today, I talked to a retired Fed Judge in the park.
He gave me alot to think about...and how...the badge boys play the game, to protect their own crimes.
It did not surprise me....that this corruption is historical.
______________________________
"I admire his courage," said Brian Cavanagh, chief homicide prosecutor in Broward County, where Boulis was shot to death.
With time served, the 43-year-old Kidan now has about 15 more months to serve in prison or a halfway house, according to his attorney Jon Rosenthal. His original sentence was to have run until 2011.
"I'm pleased with the outcome. I would have liked more," Rosenthal said.
Kidan and Abramoff pleaded guilty in 2006 to fraud in their 2000 purchase of SunCruz from Boulis.
Abramoff, once a high-powered Washington lobbyist, has separately pleaded guilty to charges in a political corruption scandal that has ensnared members of Congress, their staffs and Bush administration officials.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence LaVecchio said Kidan provided critical information against Abramoff in the fraud case, including a trail of emails.
"Were it not for Mr. Kidan's cooperation, we very well may not have had enough evidence to charge Mr. Abramoff," LaVecchio added.
But that was nothing compared to the dangers Kidan faced when he provided sworn statements to investigators in the murder of Boulis, according to prosecutors. After Kidan gave one a deposition, Cavanagh and Rosenthal said, Kidan was beaten up in a New Jersey prison bathroom by three men _ one of them claiming Mafia ties.
One of the three men charged in the Boulis killing is Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello, 70, who has been linked by police to New York's Gambino crime family. Moscatiello has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges and has not been formally accused of organized crime activities.
"He put himself in a very dangerous position," Rosenthal said of Kidan, who was moved to a prison in Ohio after the beating.
Kidan told investigators in May 2006 that Boulis was killed by John Gurino, a man with mob connections who was later shot to death by a business partner, according to court documents. Kidan said he learned the details from Moscatiello and another man charged in the Boulis murder, Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari.
As for Abramoff, he remains imprisoned in Maryland and continues to cooperate in a corruption probe that has now resulted in the convictions of about a dozen people ,including former U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio. He is also seeking a sentence reduction in the Florida fraud case _ though no hearing is currently scheduled _ and is set to be sentenced in the Washington case on Sept. 4.
(Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Reasons to hate the GOP Police State: AMERICA, a third world failed mafia state.
http://www.presstv.com/Detail.aspx?id=67697§ionid=3510203
37m Americans live in poverty
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:52:10 GMT
Over 37 million Americans lived in poverty in 2007.
More than 37 million Americans live in poverty while nearly 46 million have no health insurance, an annual US Census Bureau report shows.
The "Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage Report" for year 2007 showed on Tuesday that around 37.3 million Americans lived in poverty last year, an increase from the 36.5 million people in 2006.
The report also indicates that children bear a disproportionate share of the burden as the poverty rate for under-18 Americans rose to 18 percent in 2007, up from 17.4 percent in 2006, compared with 11 percent of adults aged 18-64.
However, paradoxically, as the number of poor people rose, numbers without health insurance fell to 45.7 million people in 2007 from 47 million in 2006.
This is while the report added that the percentage of Americans on employer-based insurance -- the main source of health coverage for Americans -- fell from 59.7 percent in 2006 to 59.3 percent last year.
At present, the poverty threshold in the United States is set at $21,000 for a family of four, but experts believe that the official standard US poverty line, set up in the early 1960s, was out of date.
Health care is a key issue in the US presidential campaign, with an overwhelming majority of Americans -- 82 percent -- wanting the health care system overhauled, a survey released this month by the Commonwealth Fund showed.
During his presidency, George W. Bush twice vetoed legislation which would have expanded a popular children's health program, covering millions of children in low- and moderate-income families.
FF/BGH
37m Americans live in poverty
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:52:10 GMT
Over 37 million Americans lived in poverty in 2007.
More than 37 million Americans live in poverty while nearly 46 million have no health insurance, an annual US Census Bureau report shows.
The "Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage Report" for year 2007 showed on Tuesday that around 37.3 million Americans lived in poverty last year, an increase from the 36.5 million people in 2006.
The report also indicates that children bear a disproportionate share of the burden as the poverty rate for under-18 Americans rose to 18 percent in 2007, up from 17.4 percent in 2006, compared with 11 percent of adults aged 18-64.
However, paradoxically, as the number of poor people rose, numbers without health insurance fell to 45.7 million people in 2007 from 47 million in 2006.
This is while the report added that the percentage of Americans on employer-based insurance -- the main source of health coverage for Americans -- fell from 59.7 percent in 2006 to 59.3 percent last year.
At present, the poverty threshold in the United States is set at $21,000 for a family of four, but experts believe that the official standard US poverty line, set up in the early 1960s, was out of date.
Health care is a key issue in the US presidential campaign, with an overwhelming majority of Americans -- 82 percent -- wanting the health care system overhauled, a survey released this month by the Commonwealth Fund showed.
During his presidency, George W. Bush twice vetoed legislation which would have expanded a popular children's health program, covering millions of children in low- and moderate-income families.
FF/BGH
BUSH CRIME FAMILY: COCAINE ONE...Mexicans claim Yankees got immunity in conspiracy
http://www.madcowprod.com/08272008.html
Cartel Figure Charges DEA with 'Selective Prosecution"...
AUG 25 2008
by Daniel Hopsicker
The exclusive "Cocaine One" series of investigative reports by this reporter appearing on this website for the past two years made the news, finally... not in the U.S., but in Mexico City, where it was cited by a principal in the drug trafficking scandal in newspaper interviews to support his allegation of selective prosecution against the DEA.
It is one of several recent new developments in the scandal, which began two years ago with the capture in the Yucatan by the Mexican military of two American-registered airplanes.
Both planes had taken off from St. Petersburg FL., flown to Colombia and Venezuela, and then were busted when they stopped in the Yucatan to refuel on the way back to Florida.
They were caught carrying an astonishing cumulative total of ten tons of cocaine, as well as a still-undisclosed amount of heroin.
Total immunity as a perk of employment
Carlos Gutiérrez de Velasco is the paterfamilias of the influential Veracruz-based family which owned the Casa de Cambio Puebla currency exchange, accused of laundering enough drug money through U.S. banks to buy as many as 100 American planes for use in drug-running.
In a recent interview with Mexico City’s Reforma newspaper, Gutierrez, who is also the father of a fugitive from prosecution in the case, claimed his family is the victim of selective prosecution, and alleged a cover-up of the involvement of influential Americans.
He called on Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon to become personally involved in forcing the DEA to explain why only Mexicans are being tracked down and jailed.
The Americans who sold planes to the Sinaloa Cartel buyers enjoy official immunity from prosecution, Gutierrez suggested, while people like his fugitive son, José Antonio Gutiérrez, were being tracked down and hung out to dry.
"Mexican authorities acted based only on information from the United States,” Gutierrez told Reforma, pointing to evidence unearthed by this reporter’s investigation, which revealed the high-level Republican connections of the people selling planes to the Sinaloa Cartel.
Ricardo Ravelo, a reporter for Mexico City' Proceso, has already picked up our evidence of the interlocking ownership of the two American drug-running airplanes ( a DC9 and a Gulfstream business jet) busted in the Yucatan.
The owners of both planes were also in business together in a massive ($300 million) financial fraud, we have previously reported, along with CIA fixer and Saudi arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi.
"'Facts that will never see the light of day' for $500, Alex."
Gutierrez told Reforma, “The U.S. is offering a deal if my son turns himself in. But if he does, the complicity of the aircraft owners in the U.S. will never come up at trial. We need to corroborate and include information uncovered by journalist Daniel Hopsicker and get to the truth.”
Mexicans are being punished for crimes for which their American counterparts are getting a pass, said Gutiérrez, pointing to the dossier which requested the extradition of his family, in which the DEA admits the Americans who sold the planes knew their clients were criminals and drug traffickers. But the sellers are not being pursued, Gutierrez told Reforma, and he wants to know: what's up with that?
Given this background, his relative does not intend to surrender in Mexico seek relief, he stated.
How to walk on a 10-ton coke beef
The scandal began with the bust of the two American planes; but it took off when the Mexican Attorney General’s Office traced the drug money used to purchase the planes to Casa de Cambio Puebla.
That information exposed a major money laundering conduit between Mexican drug traffickers and American banks, notably Wachovia and the International Bank of Commerce in San Antonio Texas, which, the Mexican Attorney General’s office announced, had been used over the last several years to buy as many as 100 aircraft in the U.S. from American owners.
Our investigation, meanwhile, uncovered a paper trail of documents, including FAA registration records, which illuminated previously-hidden connections between Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, led by Shorty Guzman, and their (officially non-existent) American partners.
The dual discoveries were a major breakthrough in unmasking the identities of people who the DEA strenuously insists don’t even exist:
The American Drug Lords.
The case, at the very least, is a major political embarrassment in the U.S.’s so-called war-on-drugs. Both of the drug-running American planes—a DC9 airliner (N900SA) and a Gulfstream II business jet (N987SA)—had previously been flown or been connected to U.S. Government Agencies: the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security.
"The Shuffleboard Mob?"
There is more than a whiff of official corruption on both sides of the border, swirling around the story. In the U.S., it is a situation with obvious and serious national security implications.
A U.S. Government connection helps explain the curious fact that both planes were operating out of the sleepy retirement community of St. Petersburg on Florida’s Gulf Coast, a city perhaps previously known primarily as the home of the International Shuffleboard Hall of Fame, or the birthplace of the canary-yellow leisure suit; and confirmation would halt idle speculation about the existence of some previously-unknown crime family in St. Petersburg, FL.
There is no Shuffleboard Mob.
What there is, however, is an airport, Clearwater St-Petersburg International, which has been a federal installation since it was used to train General Claire Chennault’s famous “Flying Tigers” during World War II.
The Flying Tigers, alert readers will recall, is an outfit around which swirled rumors of international narcotics trafficking in support of the Nationalist Chinese.
Small world.
DEA: A Homeland Security internal investigation
In the U.S., the guilty involvement of individuals in the Department of Homeland Security was confirmed to us earlier this year by a high–level DEA official in Miami.
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tommy:
What does MOSSAD KIKE CHERTOFF have to say about jewish mafia, money laundering, and use of HLS intel to facilitate all of that?
When was the last time IRS-FBI audited CHERTOFF and Mukasy and AIPAC?
____________________
And the Mexican currency exchange operated out of Mexico’s largest airports, requiring a high level of official sanction, obtained in Mexico only through having cronies in high places.
The aforementioned Carlos Gutierrez, for example, has been widely reported in the Mexican press to have been a major behind-the-scenes force during recent Mexican President Vicente Fox’s rise to power.
Amigos de Fox...and Bush?
Claims of selective prosecution notwithstanding, for the past five years the Casa de Cambio Puebla currency exchange was itself getting something of a pass.
Far from being the surprise discovery portrayed by the DEA and the Mexican Attorney General’s office, the Casa de Cambio Puebla money laundering conduit recently shut down has been well known to law enforcement for years.
Case de Cambio Puebla played a central role in the “Friends of Fox” Mexican campaign finance scandal which dogged Vicente Fox after his 2000 election.
The exchange was first fingered by investigators, and in the Mexican press, more than six years ago for laundering overseas money into the 2000 presidential campaign of soon-to-be President of Mexico Vicente Fox, which is illegal under Mexican law.
Worse: The money was coming from DEHYDRATION TECHNOLOGIES INC., a dummy front company located in Alexandria, Virginia… right next door to the CIA.
Worse yet: For the next six years, law enforcement in both the U.S. and Mexico did nothing about it.
And they both use Tony Canales...
The story is reminiscent of the blatant fraud engaged in by Jack Abramoff in the U.S., whose generically named Capital Foundation laundered money with little pretense of philanthropy.
During the run-up to the Mexican Presidential election in 2000, an aide to Vicente Fox named Miguel Hakim incorporated, in Puebla, the generically-named “Institute of International Finance.”
The company existed to receive money (a half-million dollars) from an overseas source: Dehydration Technologies in Alexandria Virginia.
In a sophisticated tri-cornered scheme, the money was then washed through the Casa de Cambio Puebla, before ending up in the pocket of PAN Presidential candidate Vicente Fox.
Mexico's Miguel Hakim and Texas' Tony Sanchez, the owner of one of the banks named in the scheme, IBC of San Antonio, both use one of the best drug lawyers around, a man named Tony Canales.
Enter a Polish Count working for the World Bank
As if the cast were not already colorful enough, Dehydration Technologies was run by Paul Popiel, an apparent Polish Count who escaped Poland when the Russians took over after World War II, and who spent 20 years working at the World Bank.
When reporters from Mexico City newspaper "La Reforma" visited Dehydration Technologies ‘headquarters’ in Belgium, they found that the company’s listed address was a private home, whose long-time residents had no idea what they were talking about, and had never heard of the company.
While there, they picked up a copy of the company’s financial statement, required to be filed by all companies "headquartered" in Belgium.
What immediately attracted their attention was that, for a firm with no visible product, sales, or even an office: Dehydration Technologies was moving a lot of money around.
Everybody's got to be good at something.
"It smelled really bad. We mean, like...really bad."
“Between 1994 and 1997 Dehydration Technologies Belgium SA received loans from an unidentified third party totaling $15 million, while recording losses of $2.2 million, on sales of… $330,000.
Three financial experts contacted by Reforma all agreed.
“It smelled really bad,” they stated.
The financial consultants then asked the magazine not to reveal their identities. Reporters die unnatural deaths with some regularity in Mexico...
Apparently financial analysts are not immune either.
"The Homeland Security Rackets"
The Homeland Security Rackets Scandal offers perhaps the best opportunity to catch a glimpse of the shadowy forces behind the illicit drug trade in America since the cocaine trafficking made visible by the Iran Contra Scandal some twenty years ago.
Not since the downing of a C-130 military cargo plane over Nicaragua in 1986 with Eugene Hasenfus onboard—kicking off the Iran Contra Scandal while revealing massive cocaine trafficking involving Reagan Administration stalwart Oliver North—has an aviation incident been remotely as important or as fraught with significance.
And not since the massive cocaine smuggling through Mena, Arkansas has the CIA’s hand been so flagrantly caught in the cookie jar.
Stay tuned.
Cartel Figure Charges DEA with 'Selective Prosecution"...
AUG 25 2008
by Daniel Hopsicker
The exclusive "Cocaine One" series of investigative reports by this reporter appearing on this website for the past two years made the news, finally... not in the U.S., but in Mexico City, where it was cited by a principal in the drug trafficking scandal in newspaper interviews to support his allegation of selective prosecution against the DEA.
It is one of several recent new developments in the scandal, which began two years ago with the capture in the Yucatan by the Mexican military of two American-registered airplanes.
Both planes had taken off from St. Petersburg FL., flown to Colombia and Venezuela, and then were busted when they stopped in the Yucatan to refuel on the way back to Florida.
They were caught carrying an astonishing cumulative total of ten tons of cocaine, as well as a still-undisclosed amount of heroin.
Total immunity as a perk of employment
Carlos Gutiérrez de Velasco is the paterfamilias of the influential Veracruz-based family which owned the Casa de Cambio Puebla currency exchange, accused of laundering enough drug money through U.S. banks to buy as many as 100 American planes for use in drug-running.
In a recent interview with Mexico City’s Reforma newspaper, Gutierrez, who is also the father of a fugitive from prosecution in the case, claimed his family is the victim of selective prosecution, and alleged a cover-up of the involvement of influential Americans.
He called on Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon to become personally involved in forcing the DEA to explain why only Mexicans are being tracked down and jailed.
The Americans who sold planes to the Sinaloa Cartel buyers enjoy official immunity from prosecution, Gutierrez suggested, while people like his fugitive son, José Antonio Gutiérrez, were being tracked down and hung out to dry.
"Mexican authorities acted based only on information from the United States,” Gutierrez told Reforma, pointing to evidence unearthed by this reporter’s investigation, which revealed the high-level Republican connections of the people selling planes to the Sinaloa Cartel.
Ricardo Ravelo, a reporter for Mexico City' Proceso, has already picked up our evidence of the interlocking ownership of the two American drug-running airplanes ( a DC9 and a Gulfstream business jet) busted in the Yucatan.
The owners of both planes were also in business together in a massive ($300 million) financial fraud, we have previously reported, along with CIA fixer and Saudi arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi.
"'Facts that will never see the light of day' for $500, Alex."
Gutierrez told Reforma, “The U.S. is offering a deal if my son turns himself in. But if he does, the complicity of the aircraft owners in the U.S. will never come up at trial. We need to corroborate and include information uncovered by journalist Daniel Hopsicker and get to the truth.”
Mexicans are being punished for crimes for which their American counterparts are getting a pass, said Gutiérrez, pointing to the dossier which requested the extradition of his family, in which the DEA admits the Americans who sold the planes knew their clients were criminals and drug traffickers. But the sellers are not being pursued, Gutierrez told Reforma, and he wants to know: what's up with that?
Given this background, his relative does not intend to surrender in Mexico seek relief, he stated.
How to walk on a 10-ton coke beef
The scandal began with the bust of the two American planes; but it took off when the Mexican Attorney General’s Office traced the drug money used to purchase the planes to Casa de Cambio Puebla.
That information exposed a major money laundering conduit between Mexican drug traffickers and American banks, notably Wachovia and the International Bank of Commerce in San Antonio Texas, which, the Mexican Attorney General’s office announced, had been used over the last several years to buy as many as 100 aircraft in the U.S. from American owners.
Our investigation, meanwhile, uncovered a paper trail of documents, including FAA registration records, which illuminated previously-hidden connections between Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, led by Shorty Guzman, and their (officially non-existent) American partners.
The dual discoveries were a major breakthrough in unmasking the identities of people who the DEA strenuously insists don’t even exist:
The American Drug Lords.
The case, at the very least, is a major political embarrassment in the U.S.’s so-called war-on-drugs. Both of the drug-running American planes—a DC9 airliner (N900SA) and a Gulfstream II business jet (N987SA)—had previously been flown or been connected to U.S. Government Agencies: the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security.
"The Shuffleboard Mob?"
There is more than a whiff of official corruption on both sides of the border, swirling around the story. In the U.S., it is a situation with obvious and serious national security implications.
A U.S. Government connection helps explain the curious fact that both planes were operating out of the sleepy retirement community of St. Petersburg on Florida’s Gulf Coast, a city perhaps previously known primarily as the home of the International Shuffleboard Hall of Fame, or the birthplace of the canary-yellow leisure suit; and confirmation would halt idle speculation about the existence of some previously-unknown crime family in St. Petersburg, FL.
There is no Shuffleboard Mob.
What there is, however, is an airport, Clearwater St-Petersburg International, which has been a federal installation since it was used to train General Claire Chennault’s famous “Flying Tigers” during World War II.
The Flying Tigers, alert readers will recall, is an outfit around which swirled rumors of international narcotics trafficking in support of the Nationalist Chinese.
Small world.
DEA: A Homeland Security internal investigation
In the U.S., the guilty involvement of individuals in the Department of Homeland Security was confirmed to us earlier this year by a high–level DEA official in Miami.
___________________
tommy:
What does MOSSAD KIKE CHERTOFF have to say about jewish mafia, money laundering, and use of HLS intel to facilitate all of that?
When was the last time IRS-FBI audited CHERTOFF and Mukasy and AIPAC?
____________________
And the Mexican currency exchange operated out of Mexico’s largest airports, requiring a high level of official sanction, obtained in Mexico only through having cronies in high places.
The aforementioned Carlos Gutierrez, for example, has been widely reported in the Mexican press to have been a major behind-the-scenes force during recent Mexican President Vicente Fox’s rise to power.
Amigos de Fox...and Bush?
Claims of selective prosecution notwithstanding, for the past five years the Casa de Cambio Puebla currency exchange was itself getting something of a pass.
Far from being the surprise discovery portrayed by the DEA and the Mexican Attorney General’s office, the Casa de Cambio Puebla money laundering conduit recently shut down has been well known to law enforcement for years.
Case de Cambio Puebla played a central role in the “Friends of Fox” Mexican campaign finance scandal which dogged Vicente Fox after his 2000 election.
The exchange was first fingered by investigators, and in the Mexican press, more than six years ago for laundering overseas money into the 2000 presidential campaign of soon-to-be President of Mexico Vicente Fox, which is illegal under Mexican law.
Worse: The money was coming from DEHYDRATION TECHNOLOGIES INC., a dummy front company located in Alexandria, Virginia… right next door to the CIA.
Worse yet: For the next six years, law enforcement in both the U.S. and Mexico did nothing about it.
And they both use Tony Canales...
The story is reminiscent of the blatant fraud engaged in by Jack Abramoff in the U.S., whose generically named Capital Foundation laundered money with little pretense of philanthropy.
During the run-up to the Mexican Presidential election in 2000, an aide to Vicente Fox named Miguel Hakim incorporated, in Puebla, the generically-named “Institute of International Finance.”
The company existed to receive money (a half-million dollars) from an overseas source: Dehydration Technologies in Alexandria Virginia.
In a sophisticated tri-cornered scheme, the money was then washed through the Casa de Cambio Puebla, before ending up in the pocket of PAN Presidential candidate Vicente Fox.
Mexico's Miguel Hakim and Texas' Tony Sanchez, the owner of one of the banks named in the scheme, IBC of San Antonio, both use one of the best drug lawyers around, a man named Tony Canales.
Enter a Polish Count working for the World Bank
As if the cast were not already colorful enough, Dehydration Technologies was run by Paul Popiel, an apparent Polish Count who escaped Poland when the Russians took over after World War II, and who spent 20 years working at the World Bank.
When reporters from Mexico City newspaper "La Reforma" visited Dehydration Technologies ‘headquarters’ in Belgium, they found that the company’s listed address was a private home, whose long-time residents had no idea what they were talking about, and had never heard of the company.
While there, they picked up a copy of the company’s financial statement, required to be filed by all companies "headquartered" in Belgium.
What immediately attracted their attention was that, for a firm with no visible product, sales, or even an office: Dehydration Technologies was moving a lot of money around.
Everybody's got to be good at something.
"It smelled really bad. We mean, like...really bad."
“Between 1994 and 1997 Dehydration Technologies Belgium SA received loans from an unidentified third party totaling $15 million, while recording losses of $2.2 million, on sales of… $330,000.
Three financial experts contacted by Reforma all agreed.
“It smelled really bad,” they stated.
The financial consultants then asked the magazine not to reveal their identities. Reporters die unnatural deaths with some regularity in Mexico...
Apparently financial analysts are not immune either.
"The Homeland Security Rackets"
The Homeland Security Rackets Scandal offers perhaps the best opportunity to catch a glimpse of the shadowy forces behind the illicit drug trade in America since the cocaine trafficking made visible by the Iran Contra Scandal some twenty years ago.
Not since the downing of a C-130 military cargo plane over Nicaragua in 1986 with Eugene Hasenfus onboard—kicking off the Iran Contra Scandal while revealing massive cocaine trafficking involving Reagan Administration stalwart Oliver North—has an aviation incident been remotely as important or as fraught with significance.
And not since the massive cocaine smuggling through Mena, Arkansas has the CIA’s hand been so flagrantly caught in the cookie jar.
Stay tuned.
Fulford confirms CHENEY THEFT-LEO WANTA TRUST SWINDLE....led to GEORGIA INVASION BY RUSSIA--WWIII
http://www.rense.com/general83/warm.htm
US War-Mongering In Georgia
A Negotiation Tactic As US Bankruptcy Looms
By Benjamin Fulford
8-28-8
The US war-mongering and talk of World War 3 is nothing more than a desperate negotiation tactic aimed at staving off US bankruptcy, according to two sources affiliated with US intelligence agencies. The Bank for International Settlements has demanded that the Bush/Nazi cabal that has taken control of the US pay back trillions of dollars they stole from the rest of the world by September 30th, the sources say.
The money was stolen during the Reagan presidency by George Bush senior to finance the collapse of the Soviet Union. This money must now be returned to its rightful owners, the sources say. As the deadline approaches, the cabal has threatened to impose martial law on the US and launch World War 3 unless they are given a reprieve.
In a related development, an agent of David Rockefeller, the self-described Japanese Security Police "ninja," has provided this writer with a proposal aimed at fixing the situation. The proposal calls for a secret council of 100 people to take control of the world's finances. The votes would be distributed as follows: 78 for an alliance of Russia, the EU (i.e. France and Germany) and China. The other 22 would go to the US. As a part of this deal UN headquarters would be moved to Xian, China by 2011. Also by that date the US dollar would be replaced by a new currency.
A China-based world government would then be put in place by 2020, according to this source.
At that point the US armed forces would become a UN force controlled by the entire planet.
In exchange for this offer, David Rockefeller has asked the Japanese Emperor for permission to use 2000 trillion yen worth of Japanese gold that is held on US territory. The gold would be used as follows: 500 trillion yen to deal with the sub-prime crisis, 500 trillion yen to get the cabal out of debt, another 500 trillion yen to finance a vast space exploration project, 350 trillion yen to pay off Iraq war debt and 150 trillion yen to invest in China.
Furthermore, control of the US cabal would be handed over to a younger, and supposedly more enlightened generation.
This is the same source who promised last autumn that Al Gore would be made president. While that did not happen, he did subsequently get a highly publicized movie, a Nobel Prize, an Academy award and a big advertizing budget, indicating serious power in the hands of the faction that made this promise.
A senior NSA source, meanwhile, warned that a member of the Chinese politburo affiliated with Madam Wu has been bribed by this cabal and may therefore be compromised.
It is impossible for me to independently verify any of this information but I have been able to independently verify that the sources are genuine NSA, CIA and Japanese Security Police agents.
However, it is clear that some sort of deal is likely to be reached by September 30th and that thus martial law and war can be avoided. The evidence for this is the shift in Chinese policy towards the US dollar. While previously Chinese companies and financial institutions were shunning dollars they are now ramping the dollar up with massive purchases. This is being accompanied by a plunge in oil prices. At the same time, the short selling of gold futures by certain banks is probably linked to a belief that Japanese gold will be flooding the market as the result of an agreement.
We will try to keep readers posted as new information or additional evidence comes in.
Benjamin Fulford
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Russia warns US naval build-up may lead to war and accuses America of shipping arms to Georgia
Last updated at 11:58 AM on 28th August 2008
Tensions between Russia and the West were ratcheted even higher today after Moscow warned that the American naval build-up in the Black Sea could be seen as a 'declaration of war'.
As the fallout over the Kremlin's invasion of Georgia continued, Russian military chiefs warned that they were monitoring closely the appearance of US warships in the region.
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TOMMY:
PUTIN angrily confronted Bush at Olympics...complaining about being stiffed in the Leo Wanta Trust Fund Swindle.
Putin then took over the oil and gas pipeline...and gets his money that way.
Cheney stiffed Putin.
Putin got even.
Cheney...is taking this country into THIRD WORLD WAR WITH NUKES...over money that was stolen, and money is linked to CHILDRENS DEFENESE FUND TRUST that Hilary stole at the Bank of Crozier...on videotape.
When Hilary could not satisfy inquiries from Dems on that video, and her defense...Dems turned on her, and "stopped her plans to open up Denver Convention" in failed attempt at getting on ticket.
________________________________
Russia's foreign minister also accused Foreign Secretary David Miliband of being 'hypocritical' in his criticism of Moscow, pointing out that Britain had itself rushed to defend the Falklands.
But today Mr Miliband said there was 'no question' of a war with Russia.
He also said the situation marked 'a clear end to the relative and growing calm in and around Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union', telling the BBC that the conflict heralded a new instability.
The rhetoric flew as a South Ossetian interior minister claimed an unmanned Georgian spy plane had been shot down in the territory this morning.
Mikhail Mindzayev said the drone was shot down over South Ossetia today by local forces. He said it had crossed into South Ossetia from the south, meaning it was of Georgian origin.
A Georgian official denied that the country had sent any drone over South Ossetia. Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili says Mindzayev is 'seeing things'.
Hardline: David Miliband has called for a review of relations with Russia
Adding to the tension, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said European Union leaders are considering imposing sanctions against Russia ahead of a summit on Monday to discuss the situation in Georgia.
Russia hit back, saying such talk was the product of a 'sick imagination' and Western confusion.
'Apart from that my friend Kouchner also said that we will soon attack Moldova and Ukraine and the Crimea,' Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today.
'But that is a sick imagination and probably that applies to sanctions as well,' Lavrov told reporters in the Tajik capital.
'I think it is a demonstration of complete confusion,' he said.
At the same time Russia's fellow members of the G8 group of rich nations - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the UK - issued a statement deploring 'Russia's excessive use of military force'.
Meanwhile, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev threatened to use his country's military machine to respond to the deployment of an American anti-missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
A senior Russian general, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, criticised the arrival of the US Coastguard cutter Dallas at the Black Sea port of Batumi today, the second of an expected three US ships sent to deliver aid to Georgia.
The Dallas had been due to land in the Georgian port of Poti, where Russian troops are still manning checkpoints. But without explanation it docked 50 miles south in Batumi, a port outside Russian control.
Nato has said it is also undertaking pre-arranged exercises in the Black Sea involving US, German, Spanish and Polish ships.
US War-Mongering In Georgia
A Negotiation Tactic As US Bankruptcy Looms
By Benjamin Fulford
8-28-8
The US war-mongering and talk of World War 3 is nothing more than a desperate negotiation tactic aimed at staving off US bankruptcy, according to two sources affiliated with US intelligence agencies. The Bank for International Settlements has demanded that the Bush/Nazi cabal that has taken control of the US pay back trillions of dollars they stole from the rest of the world by September 30th, the sources say.
The money was stolen during the Reagan presidency by George Bush senior to finance the collapse of the Soviet Union. This money must now be returned to its rightful owners, the sources say. As the deadline approaches, the cabal has threatened to impose martial law on the US and launch World War 3 unless they are given a reprieve.
In a related development, an agent of David Rockefeller, the self-described Japanese Security Police "ninja," has provided this writer with a proposal aimed at fixing the situation. The proposal calls for a secret council of 100 people to take control of the world's finances. The votes would be distributed as follows: 78 for an alliance of Russia, the EU (i.e. France and Germany) and China. The other 22 would go to the US. As a part of this deal UN headquarters would be moved to Xian, China by 2011. Also by that date the US dollar would be replaced by a new currency.
A China-based world government would then be put in place by 2020, according to this source.
At that point the US armed forces would become a UN force controlled by the entire planet.
In exchange for this offer, David Rockefeller has asked the Japanese Emperor for permission to use 2000 trillion yen worth of Japanese gold that is held on US territory. The gold would be used as follows: 500 trillion yen to deal with the sub-prime crisis, 500 trillion yen to get the cabal out of debt, another 500 trillion yen to finance a vast space exploration project, 350 trillion yen to pay off Iraq war debt and 150 trillion yen to invest in China.
Furthermore, control of the US cabal would be handed over to a younger, and supposedly more enlightened generation.
This is the same source who promised last autumn that Al Gore would be made president. While that did not happen, he did subsequently get a highly publicized movie, a Nobel Prize, an Academy award and a big advertizing budget, indicating serious power in the hands of the faction that made this promise.
A senior NSA source, meanwhile, warned that a member of the Chinese politburo affiliated with Madam Wu has been bribed by this cabal and may therefore be compromised.
It is impossible for me to independently verify any of this information but I have been able to independently verify that the sources are genuine NSA, CIA and Japanese Security Police agents.
However, it is clear that some sort of deal is likely to be reached by September 30th and that thus martial law and war can be avoided. The evidence for this is the shift in Chinese policy towards the US dollar. While previously Chinese companies and financial institutions were shunning dollars they are now ramping the dollar up with massive purchases. This is being accompanied by a plunge in oil prices. At the same time, the short selling of gold futures by certain banks is probably linked to a belief that Japanese gold will be flooding the market as the result of an agreement.
We will try to keep readers posted as new information or additional evidence comes in.
Benjamin Fulford
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Russia warns US naval build-up may lead to war and accuses America of shipping arms to Georgia
Last updated at 11:58 AM on 28th August 2008
Tensions between Russia and the West were ratcheted even higher today after Moscow warned that the American naval build-up in the Black Sea could be seen as a 'declaration of war'.
As the fallout over the Kremlin's invasion of Georgia continued, Russian military chiefs warned that they were monitoring closely the appearance of US warships in the region.
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TOMMY:
PUTIN angrily confronted Bush at Olympics...complaining about being stiffed in the Leo Wanta Trust Fund Swindle.
Putin then took over the oil and gas pipeline...and gets his money that way.
Cheney stiffed Putin.
Putin got even.
Cheney...is taking this country into THIRD WORLD WAR WITH NUKES...over money that was stolen, and money is linked to CHILDRENS DEFENESE FUND TRUST that Hilary stole at the Bank of Crozier...on videotape.
When Hilary could not satisfy inquiries from Dems on that video, and her defense...Dems turned on her, and "stopped her plans to open up Denver Convention" in failed attempt at getting on ticket.
________________________________
Russia's foreign minister also accused Foreign Secretary David Miliband of being 'hypocritical' in his criticism of Moscow, pointing out that Britain had itself rushed to defend the Falklands.
But today Mr Miliband said there was 'no question' of a war with Russia.
He also said the situation marked 'a clear end to the relative and growing calm in and around Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union', telling the BBC that the conflict heralded a new instability.
The rhetoric flew as a South Ossetian interior minister claimed an unmanned Georgian spy plane had been shot down in the territory this morning.
Mikhail Mindzayev said the drone was shot down over South Ossetia today by local forces. He said it had crossed into South Ossetia from the south, meaning it was of Georgian origin.
A Georgian official denied that the country had sent any drone over South Ossetia. Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili says Mindzayev is 'seeing things'.
Hardline: David Miliband has called for a review of relations with Russia
Adding to the tension, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said European Union leaders are considering imposing sanctions against Russia ahead of a summit on Monday to discuss the situation in Georgia.
Russia hit back, saying such talk was the product of a 'sick imagination' and Western confusion.
'Apart from that my friend Kouchner also said that we will soon attack Moldova and Ukraine and the Crimea,' Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today.
'But that is a sick imagination and probably that applies to sanctions as well,' Lavrov told reporters in the Tajik capital.
'I think it is a demonstration of complete confusion,' he said.
At the same time Russia's fellow members of the G8 group of rich nations - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the UK - issued a statement deploring 'Russia's excessive use of military force'.
Meanwhile, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev threatened to use his country's military machine to respond to the deployment of an American anti-missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
A senior Russian general, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, criticised the arrival of the US Coastguard cutter Dallas at the Black Sea port of Batumi today, the second of an expected three US ships sent to deliver aid to Georgia.
The Dallas had been due to land in the Georgian port of Poti, where Russian troops are still manning checkpoints. But without explanation it docked 50 miles south in Batumi, a port outside Russian control.
Nato has said it is also undertaking pre-arranged exercises in the Black Sea involving US, German, Spanish and Polish ships.
Is MOSSAD running this country into the ground?
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=127
MOSSAD’S SECRET JEWISH SPYS
By Brother Nathanael Kapner, Copyright 2008
Articles May Be Reproduced Only With Authorship of Br Nathanael Kapner
& Link To Real Jew News (SM)
Please Help Support This Site! (Many Expenses)
Or Send Your Contribution To:
Brother Nathanael Kapner; PO Box 1242; Frisco CO 80443.
Email: bronathanael@yahoo.com
Sources: Zionism Explained Here; History of Israel’s Intelligence Community, Daniel Raviv
JEWS HAVE ONE PRIMARY LOYALTY - THEMSELVES. Jews are ‘Jews-First’ - ‘Americans-Second.’ Jews are in every important corporation, university, and government agency in America. Their access to American economic, scientific, and technological information is limitless.
The Mossad, Israel’s Intelligence Network, which began their operations in pre-WWII Europe, needs “agents” to protect their Zionist state and world-wide enterprises. Since most Jews are Zionists, especially those who insinuate themselves into spheres of influence, the Mossad does not have to look very hard to find “recruits.”
MOSSAD SPYS YOU SHOULD KNOW
* Paul Wolfowitz: Neocon Jew. While on staff for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) in 1978, Wolfowitz was investigated for providing a classified document on the proposed sale of U.S. weapons to Saudi Arabia to an Israeli Embassy official, (Mossad agent). The inquiry was dropped due to pressure from the AIPAC.
In 1992, while Undersecretary for Policy for the then, Secretary of Defense, Richard Cheney, Wolfowitz was under investigation for the transfer to China through Israeli Embassy intermediaries. (Mossad agents), of U.S. Patriot missile technology. Cheney intervened and the investigation was stopped.
* Lawrence A. Franklin: Zionist Jew. In 2005, Franklin, working as a defense analyst since 1979 for the U.S. Secretary of Defense, was charged with disclosing national defense information to an Israeli diplomat, (Mossad agent), and two Jewish AIPAC lobbyists, Steve Rosen & Keith Weissman, over a two year period. Neocon Jew Douglas Feith was said to be involved but escaped investigations.
~ In addition, according to the FBI affidavit, 38 “top secret” U.S. government documents were found during a search of Franklin’s West Virginia home in June 2004.
See: US Vs Franklin, Rosen, & Weisman” Here
* Richard Perle: Neocon Jew. While on staff for Henry Jackson’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1970, an FBI wiretap picked up Perle discussing with an Israeli Embassy official, (Mossad agent), classified information which he said had been supplied by a Jewish staff member on the National Security Council named Helmut Sonnenfeldt. The investigation of Perle was halted due to the intervention of his friend, Paul Wolfowitz who worked for the ACDA.
* Douglas Feith: Neocon Jew. While on staff for the National Security Council in 1972, Feith was fired due to an FBI inquiry into his providing classified documents to an official (Mossad agent) of the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
* Stephen Bryen: Neocon Jew. Hired by fellow neocon Jew Richard Perle as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Reagan administration, Bryen was investigated in 1978 for offering classified documents to the Mossad station chief of the Israeli embassy in the presence of an AIPAC representative.
Bryen’s fingerprints were found on the documents in question despite his denials that he had ever had the documents in his possession. (Bryen refused to take a polygraph test.) The Bryen investigation was ultimately shut down because of the decision by the Jew Philip Heymann, the chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, to drop the case.
* Roy “Cal” Bullock: Employed in the 1990’s in California by the Anti Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith to keep files on potential “enemies.”
~ Bullock was assigned by the ADL to monitor “anti-democratic” individuals and organizations such as Greenpeace, National Association of Arab Americans, the Japanese-Americans Citizens League, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Willis Carto’s Liberty Lobby, and the Boycott Shell Committee.
* Mira Lansky Boland: Granddaughter of Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky. She worked as the “law-enforcement liaison” for the ADL in the 1990’s. Boland arranged expensive trips to Israel for certain key police officers who could have something to offer the ADL in return.
* Jonathan Pollard: Zionist Jew. Sentenced in 1986 to life imprisonment for obtaining, copying, and transferring to Israel, Radio-Signal Notations, a 10-volume manual detailing America’s global electronic surveillance network. Zionist Jews are working around the clock to get this criminal released.
MOSSAD’S TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
MOSSAD SET UP 3 telecommunications companies in the U.S:
1) Amdocs: Provides billing and directory assistance for 90% of the phone companies in the U.S. Its main computer center is in Israel. It performs “traffic analysis” of someone’s phone calls based on a pattern of who they are calling and when.
2) Comverse Infosys: Subcontracts the installation of the automatic tapping equipment. Works closely with Law Enforcement Departments throughout the US.
3) Odigo: Provides the passing system for all the Instant Message services. Employees of Odigo which had offices in the World Trade Center were evidently forewarned of the 9/11 attack Here.
HOW DO WE STOP THE ZIONIST NETWORK IN AMERICA?
TO STOP THE ZIONIST JEWS we must first understand that in a pluralistic society which the Jews have produced through the media and the Open Immigration Law of 1965, the Jews will take charge.
This is why America must become a monolithic Christian nation again. The Jews fear nothing more than to have a “Christian” nation to contend with. Thus we must each commit our lives to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour and to regular Church attendance.
For in a “Christian” nation with a “Christian” consciousness, Americans will once again be on the lookout for the “enemies of the Cross,” the Zionist Jews. And conscientious Chiristian Americans will chase the Jews out of every sphere of influence in America which they now have infiltrated.
For More See: “A Christian America! - Not A Jewish America! ”
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TOMMY:
ANYBODY WANT TO GUESS...JUST HOW WORTHLESS NEO CON ENABLER AND B'NAI B'RITH BOY BOB MUELLER IS?
FBI believes...to the amusement of no one...that ONLY THEY KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, AND ONLY THEY HAVE THE POWER TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
This fantasy...creates a GOP RIGHT WING ORWELL NIGHTMARE OF A POLICE STATE that is run by MOSSAD (Chertoff at homeland security.....Mukasy at US ATTY GEN in charge of all fed investigations by FBI punks, IRS scum, etc.).
Mueller knows...who whacked an Austin, Texas, Palestinian peace activist...and MUELLER DID NOT PROTEST THE SECRET SERVICE SEIZING CIA AGENT CARNABY'S ELECTRONIC INFO....despite the fact, that this PATRIOT ACT MURDER OF HAMID AND CARNABY (working on stabelizing the middle east by stopping Mossad's suitcase nuke)
MOSSAD’S SECRET JEWISH SPYS
By Brother Nathanael Kapner, Copyright 2008
Articles May Be Reproduced Only With Authorship of Br Nathanael Kapner
& Link To Real Jew News (SM)
Please Help Support This Site! (Many Expenses)
Or Send Your Contribution To:
Brother Nathanael Kapner; PO Box 1242; Frisco CO 80443.
Email: bronathanael@yahoo.com
Sources: Zionism Explained Here; History of Israel’s Intelligence Community, Daniel Raviv
JEWS HAVE ONE PRIMARY LOYALTY - THEMSELVES. Jews are ‘Jews-First’ - ‘Americans-Second.’ Jews are in every important corporation, university, and government agency in America. Their access to American economic, scientific, and technological information is limitless.
The Mossad, Israel’s Intelligence Network, which began their operations in pre-WWII Europe, needs “agents” to protect their Zionist state and world-wide enterprises. Since most Jews are Zionists, especially those who insinuate themselves into spheres of influence, the Mossad does not have to look very hard to find “recruits.”
MOSSAD SPYS YOU SHOULD KNOW
* Paul Wolfowitz: Neocon Jew. While on staff for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) in 1978, Wolfowitz was investigated for providing a classified document on the proposed sale of U.S. weapons to Saudi Arabia to an Israeli Embassy official, (Mossad agent). The inquiry was dropped due to pressure from the AIPAC.
In 1992, while Undersecretary for Policy for the then, Secretary of Defense, Richard Cheney, Wolfowitz was under investigation for the transfer to China through Israeli Embassy intermediaries. (Mossad agents), of U.S. Patriot missile technology. Cheney intervened and the investigation was stopped.
* Lawrence A. Franklin: Zionist Jew. In 2005, Franklin, working as a defense analyst since 1979 for the U.S. Secretary of Defense, was charged with disclosing national defense information to an Israeli diplomat, (Mossad agent), and two Jewish AIPAC lobbyists, Steve Rosen & Keith Weissman, over a two year period. Neocon Jew Douglas Feith was said to be involved but escaped investigations.
~ In addition, according to the FBI affidavit, 38 “top secret” U.S. government documents were found during a search of Franklin’s West Virginia home in June 2004.
See: US Vs Franklin, Rosen, & Weisman” Here
* Richard Perle: Neocon Jew. While on staff for Henry Jackson’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1970, an FBI wiretap picked up Perle discussing with an Israeli Embassy official, (Mossad agent), classified information which he said had been supplied by a Jewish staff member on the National Security Council named Helmut Sonnenfeldt. The investigation of Perle was halted due to the intervention of his friend, Paul Wolfowitz who worked for the ACDA.
* Douglas Feith: Neocon Jew. While on staff for the National Security Council in 1972, Feith was fired due to an FBI inquiry into his providing classified documents to an official (Mossad agent) of the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
* Stephen Bryen: Neocon Jew. Hired by fellow neocon Jew Richard Perle as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Reagan administration, Bryen was investigated in 1978 for offering classified documents to the Mossad station chief of the Israeli embassy in the presence of an AIPAC representative.
Bryen’s fingerprints were found on the documents in question despite his denials that he had ever had the documents in his possession. (Bryen refused to take a polygraph test.) The Bryen investigation was ultimately shut down because of the decision by the Jew Philip Heymann, the chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, to drop the case.
* Roy “Cal” Bullock: Employed in the 1990’s in California by the Anti Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith to keep files on potential “enemies.”
~ Bullock was assigned by the ADL to monitor “anti-democratic” individuals and organizations such as Greenpeace, National Association of Arab Americans, the Japanese-Americans Citizens League, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Willis Carto’s Liberty Lobby, and the Boycott Shell Committee.
* Mira Lansky Boland: Granddaughter of Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky. She worked as the “law-enforcement liaison” for the ADL in the 1990’s. Boland arranged expensive trips to Israel for certain key police officers who could have something to offer the ADL in return.
* Jonathan Pollard: Zionist Jew. Sentenced in 1986 to life imprisonment for obtaining, copying, and transferring to Israel, Radio-Signal Notations, a 10-volume manual detailing America’s global electronic surveillance network. Zionist Jews are working around the clock to get this criminal released.
MOSSAD’S TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
MOSSAD SET UP 3 telecommunications companies in the U.S:
1) Amdocs: Provides billing and directory assistance for 90% of the phone companies in the U.S. Its main computer center is in Israel. It performs “traffic analysis” of someone’s phone calls based on a pattern of who they are calling and when.
2) Comverse Infosys: Subcontracts the installation of the automatic tapping equipment. Works closely with Law Enforcement Departments throughout the US.
3) Odigo: Provides the passing system for all the Instant Message services. Employees of Odigo which had offices in the World Trade Center were evidently forewarned of the 9/11 attack Here.
HOW DO WE STOP THE ZIONIST NETWORK IN AMERICA?
TO STOP THE ZIONIST JEWS we must first understand that in a pluralistic society which the Jews have produced through the media and the Open Immigration Law of 1965, the Jews will take charge.
This is why America must become a monolithic Christian nation again. The Jews fear nothing more than to have a “Christian” nation to contend with. Thus we must each commit our lives to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour and to regular Church attendance.
For in a “Christian” nation with a “Christian” consciousness, Americans will once again be on the lookout for the “enemies of the Cross,” the Zionist Jews. And conscientious Chiristian Americans will chase the Jews out of every sphere of influence in America which they now have infiltrated.
For More See: “A Christian America! - Not A Jewish America! ”
__________________________________________
TOMMY:
ANYBODY WANT TO GUESS...JUST HOW WORTHLESS NEO CON ENABLER AND B'NAI B'RITH BOY BOB MUELLER IS?
FBI believes...to the amusement of no one...that ONLY THEY KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, AND ONLY THEY HAVE THE POWER TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
This fantasy...creates a GOP RIGHT WING ORWELL NIGHTMARE OF A POLICE STATE that is run by MOSSAD (Chertoff at homeland security.....Mukasy at US ATTY GEN in charge of all fed investigations by FBI punks, IRS scum, etc.).
Mueller knows...who whacked an Austin, Texas, Palestinian peace activist...and MUELLER DID NOT PROTEST THE SECRET SERVICE SEIZING CIA AGENT CARNABY'S ELECTRONIC INFO....despite the fact, that this PATRIOT ACT MURDER OF HAMID AND CARNABY (working on stabelizing the middle east by stopping Mossad's suitcase nuke)
Conyers is missing the boat...ignores MICHELLE TAPKEN, AND SOUTH DAKOTA PATRIOT ACT MURDERS
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Conyers Sets Date for Production of US Attorney Documents
By Zachary Roth - August 27, 2008, 4:10PM
Yesterday, a District Court judge denied the White House's request for a stay on the Congressional testimony of Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten in the US attorney case.
Emboldened by that ruling, House Judiciary Committee chair John Conyers (D-MI) announced in a press release this afternoon that his office has sent a letter to the White House setting a deadline of September 4 to comply with the judge's order to produce documents relating to the case. The letter also says that the date for Miers to appear at a hearing has been postponed until September 11.
The quest to find out the extent of the White House's role in the scandal continues...
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TOMMY:
Conyers should have subpoenaed THOMAS HEFFLEFINGER...not documents and emails concerning the MINNESOTA US ATTORNEY'S INQUIRIES AND REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO OPEN AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A COOPERAING, INNOCENT, COERCED, WITNESS NAMED DR MARK GORDON.
MARK GORDON WAS fried with a directed energy weapon...while illegally moniored with a pin hole spy camera in his home.
MINNEAPOLIS FBI had that info....at least 18 months before Hefflefinger found out.
Hefflefinger found out...after reading my post at Rapid City Journal Discussion Forum where I posted my SD MED BD EXAMINERS COMPLAINT NAMING DR CHAD CARDA, AND JENNIFER BURGER who "falsely reported x rays info" as SIOUX FALLS FBI COUNTERINTELIGENCE AGENT STEVEN PLUTA ran a CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241,242,1512, 1513,.
PLUTA was under orders from Mueller...to run an illegal COUNTERINTELIGENCE SUBLIMIAL DEBRIEFING OF A US CITIZEN...with no legitimate FISA CT WARRANT for the entry and chipping (involuntary surgery of Thomas Bean as I slept in my own home????).
TO GET A FISA CT ORDER...YOU NEED TO HAVE FBI AGENTS SWEARING UNDER OATH THAT THE TARGET IS AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN POWER.
FISA CT PRESIDING JUDGE ADMITTED...SHE DOESN'T ALWAYS SWEAR IN FBI AGENTS?????
CONYERS in my opinion...is just jerking off.
Conyers has knowledge that FBI TAMPERED WITH A US SEN JUD COMM WITNESS WHO CONTACTED SENATOR GRASSLEY with a memo that mentioned the LEO WANT TRUST FUND SWINDLE BY DICK CHENEY....with PUTIN GETTING STIFFED...resulting in Putin's confrontation with Bush at the recent Olympics...and PUTIN ATTACKED GEORGIA TO SEIZE THE OIL GAS PIPELINE.
WORLD WAR III...surrounds WANTA TRUST FUND Swindle.
GRASSLEY'S FINANCE aid made inquiries at Treasury about THE TRUST FUND SWINDLE...AND WAS QUICKLY PUT UNDER CONTRACT SURVEILLANCE BY CHENEY--using BLACKWATER (at Minot for the stolen nuke scandal) who then "sent a goon to attack Grassley's aid with a baseball bat".
NO PATRIOT ACT CRIME OF VIOLENCE ANALYSIS BY BIG, BAD, BOB MUELLER'S TOTALLY CORRUPT, MURDERING, LYING, SCHEMING, ORWELLIAN, FAGGOT, PUNK COCKSUCKER GANG OF INCOMPETENT BABYBURNERS AND MOMMA SHOOTERS.
NO ARREST BY MUELLER...WHEN SENATORS STAFF GET ATTACKED????????????????
NO QUESTIONS FOR MUELLER ON HIS PATTERN AND PRACTISE OF PROTECTING, AIDING AND ABETTING, AND JOINING OTHER CONSPIRACIES BY CHENEY--BLACKWATER--DOD CIFA UNIT when they whacked out alot of my known associates in South Dakota.
Breakin to downtown Sioux Falls, SD, law firms?
Murder of BOB NELSON OF NORTH DAKOTA, as Cheney and Mueller sought to "murder Bob Nelson, attorney in Yankton, SD?
This murder was done...after PLUTA AND FBI GAVE INFO TO DOD CIFA UNIT COMMANDER (office sharing in Shriver Building with FBI)...that info included a private letter to Dr Chad Carda recommending to him the name of BOB NELSON, YANKTON ATTORNEY SPECIALIZING IN MEDICAL MALPRACTISE....??????????
CONYERS..........................TO MY CHAGRIN AND AMAZEMENT.............STILL REFUSES TO TALK ME, POLYGRAPH ME COSTING 85$, AND DOES NOT WANT DASCHLE WIRETAPPING INFO OR EVIDENCE???????????????????????????????????????????
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Russia warns US naval build-up may lead to war and accuses America of shipping arms to Georgia
Last updated at 11:58 AM on 28th August 2008
Tensions between Russia and the West were ratcheted even higher today after Moscow warned that the American naval build-up in the Black Sea could be seen as a 'declaration of war'.
As the fallout over the Kremlin's invasion of Georgia continued, Russian military chiefs warned that they were monitoring closely the appearance of US warships in the region.
_________________
TOMMY:
PUTIN angrily confronted Bush at Olympics...complaining about being stiffed in the Leo Wanta Trust Fund Swindle.
Putin then took over the oil and gas pipeline...and gets his money that way.
Cheney stiffed Putin.
Putin got even.
Cheney...is taking this country into THIRD WORLD WAR WITH NUKES...over money that was stolen, and money is linked to CHILDRENS DEFENESE FUND TRUST that Hilary stole at the Bank of Crozier...on videotape.
When Hilary could not satisfy inquiries from Dems on that video, and her defense...Dems turned on her, and "stopped her plans to open up Denver Convention" in failed attempt at getting on ticket.
________________________________
Russia's foreign minister also accused Foreign Secretary David Miliband of being 'hypocritical' in his criticism of Moscow, pointing out that Britain had itself rushed to defend the Falklands.
But today Mr Miliband said there was 'no question' of a war with Russia.
He also said the situation marked 'a clear end to the relative and growing calm in and around Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union', telling the BBC that the conflict heralded a new instability.
The rhetoric flew as a South Ossetian interior minister claimed an unmanned Georgian spy plane had been shot down in the territory this morning.
Mikhail Mindzayev said the drone was shot down over South Ossetia today by local forces. He said it had crossed into South Ossetia from the south, meaning it was of Georgian origin.
A Georgian official denied that the country had sent any drone over South Ossetia. Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili says Mindzayev is 'seeing things'.
Hardline: David Miliband has called for a review of relations with Russia
Adding to the tension, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said European Union leaders are considering imposing sanctions against Russia ahead of a summit on Monday to discuss the situation in Georgia.
Russia hit back, saying such talk was the product of a 'sick imagination' and Western confusion.
'Apart from that my friend Kouchner also said that we will soon attack Moldova and Ukraine and the Crimea,' Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today.
'But that is a sick imagination and probably that applies to sanctions as well,' Lavrov told reporters in the Tajik capital.
'I think it is a demonstration of complete confusion,' he said.
At the same time Russia's fellow members of the G8 group of rich nations - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the UK - issued a statement deploring 'Russia's excessive use of military force'.
Meanwhile, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev threatened to use his country's military machine to respond to the deployment of an American anti-missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
A senior Russian general, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, criticised the arrival of the US Coastguard cutter Dallas at the Black Sea port of Batumi today, the second of an expected three US ships sent to deliver aid to Georgia.
The Dallas had been due to land in the Georgian port of Poti, where Russian troops are still manning checkpoints. But without explanation it docked 50 miles south in Batumi, a port outside Russian control.
Nato has said it is also undertaking pre-arranged exercises in the Black Sea involving US, German, Spanish and Polish ships.
Conyers Sets Date for Production of US Attorney Documents
By Zachary Roth - August 27, 2008, 4:10PM
Yesterday, a District Court judge denied the White House's request for a stay on the Congressional testimony of Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten in the US attorney case.
Emboldened by that ruling, House Judiciary Committee chair John Conyers (D-MI) announced in a press release this afternoon that his office has sent a letter to the White House setting a deadline of September 4 to comply with the judge's order to produce documents relating to the case. The letter also says that the date for Miers to appear at a hearing has been postponed until September 11.
The quest to find out the extent of the White House's role in the scandal continues...
_________________________\
TOMMY:
Conyers should have subpoenaed THOMAS HEFFLEFINGER...not documents and emails concerning the MINNESOTA US ATTORNEY'S INQUIRIES AND REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO OPEN AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A COOPERAING, INNOCENT, COERCED, WITNESS NAMED DR MARK GORDON.
MARK GORDON WAS fried with a directed energy weapon...while illegally moniored with a pin hole spy camera in his home.
MINNEAPOLIS FBI had that info....at least 18 months before Hefflefinger found out.
Hefflefinger found out...after reading my post at Rapid City Journal Discussion Forum where I posted my SD MED BD EXAMINERS COMPLAINT NAMING DR CHAD CARDA, AND JENNIFER BURGER who "falsely reported x rays info" as SIOUX FALLS FBI COUNTERINTELIGENCE AGENT STEVEN PLUTA ran a CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241,242,1512, 1513,.
PLUTA was under orders from Mueller...to run an illegal COUNTERINTELIGENCE SUBLIMIAL DEBRIEFING OF A US CITIZEN...with no legitimate FISA CT WARRANT for the entry and chipping (involuntary surgery of Thomas Bean as I slept in my own home????).
TO GET A FISA CT ORDER...YOU NEED TO HAVE FBI AGENTS SWEARING UNDER OATH THAT THE TARGET IS AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN POWER.
FISA CT PRESIDING JUDGE ADMITTED...SHE DOESN'T ALWAYS SWEAR IN FBI AGENTS?????
CONYERS in my opinion...is just jerking off.
Conyers has knowledge that FBI TAMPERED WITH A US SEN JUD COMM WITNESS WHO CONTACTED SENATOR GRASSLEY with a memo that mentioned the LEO WANT TRUST FUND SWINDLE BY DICK CHENEY....with PUTIN GETTING STIFFED...resulting in Putin's confrontation with Bush at the recent Olympics...and PUTIN ATTACKED GEORGIA TO SEIZE THE OIL GAS PIPELINE.
WORLD WAR III...surrounds WANTA TRUST FUND Swindle.
GRASSLEY'S FINANCE aid made inquiries at Treasury about THE TRUST FUND SWINDLE...AND WAS QUICKLY PUT UNDER CONTRACT SURVEILLANCE BY CHENEY--using BLACKWATER (at Minot for the stolen nuke scandal) who then "sent a goon to attack Grassley's aid with a baseball bat".
NO PATRIOT ACT CRIME OF VIOLENCE ANALYSIS BY BIG, BAD, BOB MUELLER'S TOTALLY CORRUPT, MURDERING, LYING, SCHEMING, ORWELLIAN, FAGGOT, PUNK COCKSUCKER GANG OF INCOMPETENT BABYBURNERS AND MOMMA SHOOTERS.
NO ARREST BY MUELLER...WHEN SENATORS STAFF GET ATTACKED????????????????
NO QUESTIONS FOR MUELLER ON HIS PATTERN AND PRACTISE OF PROTECTING, AIDING AND ABETTING, AND JOINING OTHER CONSPIRACIES BY CHENEY--BLACKWATER--DOD CIFA UNIT when they whacked out alot of my known associates in South Dakota.
Breakin to downtown Sioux Falls, SD, law firms?
Murder of BOB NELSON OF NORTH DAKOTA, as Cheney and Mueller sought to "murder Bob Nelson, attorney in Yankton, SD?
This murder was done...after PLUTA AND FBI GAVE INFO TO DOD CIFA UNIT COMMANDER (office sharing in Shriver Building with FBI)...that info included a private letter to Dr Chad Carda recommending to him the name of BOB NELSON, YANKTON ATTORNEY SPECIALIZING IN MEDICAL MALPRACTISE....??????????
CONYERS..........................TO MY CHAGRIN AND AMAZEMENT.............STILL REFUSES TO TALK ME, POLYGRAPH ME COSTING 85$, AND DOES NOT WANT DASCHLE WIRETAPPING INFO OR EVIDENCE???????????????????????????????????????????
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Russia warns US naval build-up may lead to war and accuses America of shipping arms to Georgia
Last updated at 11:58 AM on 28th August 2008
Tensions between Russia and the West were ratcheted even higher today after Moscow warned that the American naval build-up in the Black Sea could be seen as a 'declaration of war'.
As the fallout over the Kremlin's invasion of Georgia continued, Russian military chiefs warned that they were monitoring closely the appearance of US warships in the region.
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TOMMY:
PUTIN angrily confronted Bush at Olympics...complaining about being stiffed in the Leo Wanta Trust Fund Swindle.
Putin then took over the oil and gas pipeline...and gets his money that way.
Cheney stiffed Putin.
Putin got even.
Cheney...is taking this country into THIRD WORLD WAR WITH NUKES...over money that was stolen, and money is linked to CHILDRENS DEFENESE FUND TRUST that Hilary stole at the Bank of Crozier...on videotape.
When Hilary could not satisfy inquiries from Dems on that video, and her defense...Dems turned on her, and "stopped her plans to open up Denver Convention" in failed attempt at getting on ticket.
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Russia's foreign minister also accused Foreign Secretary David Miliband of being 'hypocritical' in his criticism of Moscow, pointing out that Britain had itself rushed to defend the Falklands.
But today Mr Miliband said there was 'no question' of a war with Russia.
He also said the situation marked 'a clear end to the relative and growing calm in and around Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union', telling the BBC that the conflict heralded a new instability.
The rhetoric flew as a South Ossetian interior minister claimed an unmanned Georgian spy plane had been shot down in the territory this morning.
Mikhail Mindzayev said the drone was shot down over South Ossetia today by local forces. He said it had crossed into South Ossetia from the south, meaning it was of Georgian origin.
A Georgian official denied that the country had sent any drone over South Ossetia. Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili says Mindzayev is 'seeing things'.
Hardline: David Miliband has called for a review of relations with Russia
Adding to the tension, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said European Union leaders are considering imposing sanctions against Russia ahead of a summit on Monday to discuss the situation in Georgia.
Russia hit back, saying such talk was the product of a 'sick imagination' and Western confusion.
'Apart from that my friend Kouchner also said that we will soon attack Moldova and Ukraine and the Crimea,' Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today.
'But that is a sick imagination and probably that applies to sanctions as well,' Lavrov told reporters in the Tajik capital.
'I think it is a demonstration of complete confusion,' he said.
At the same time Russia's fellow members of the G8 group of rich nations - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the UK - issued a statement deploring 'Russia's excessive use of military force'.
Meanwhile, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev threatened to use his country's military machine to respond to the deployment of an American anti-missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
A senior Russian general, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, criticised the arrival of the US Coastguard cutter Dallas at the Black Sea port of Batumi today, the second of an expected three US ships sent to deliver aid to Georgia.
The Dallas had been due to land in the Georgian port of Poti, where Russian troops are still manning checkpoints. But without explanation it docked 50 miles south in Batumi, a port outside Russian control.
Nato has said it is also undertaking pre-arranged exercises in the Black Sea involving US, German, Spanish and Polish ships.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA FAGGOTRY: what ain't the GOP Shadow Gov media...doing about ABRAMOFF SCANDALS?
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
DOJ Lax on Jack; Seeks Reduced Sentence for Abramoff
By Kate Klonick - August 28, 2008, 12:05AM
We'll have to wait until next Thursday for a final decision, but in filings made yesterday, it appears that the Justice Department is seeking a pretty light sentence for the infamous former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
From the Washington Post:
Since his conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges, former lobbyist Jack Abramoff has spent more than 3,000 hours helping more than 100 law enforcement agents in an ongoing federal corruption probe that has implicated "scores of other persons not yet charged," attorneys said in court filings today.
. . . If a federal judge in Washington accepts the recommendation from the Justice Department, Abramoff would serve no more than another three years and three months in prison, not accounting for credit for good behavior awarded by the Bureau of Prisons. Abramoff's attorneys are seeking even more leniency that could have him released from prison by 2010.
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TOP 10 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT JACK ABRAMOFF
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit The MadCowMorningNews**
by Daniel Hopsicker
The MadCowMorningNews has learned that the same so-called "war cabal" being accused of selling a "bill of goods" to justify the war in Iraq also led earlier efforts to convince the American people of the necessity of going to war, in support of the Contras in the mid-1980's, and before the Gulf War under the first President Bush, and funded through the same methods and sources being investigated in the Abramoff scandals today.
Evidence surfacing in the widening scandal around Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff indicates the cabal being lavishly funding in recent years though his efforts was originally supported through the infamous "off the books" Enterprise headed by Marine Lt. Colonel Oliver North, only partially exposed in the Iran Contra Scandal.
"Bayonets ready? Okay...Cue the stunt baby!"
Craig Fuller, the man responsible for the discredited 1991 propaganda about Iraqi soldiers bayoneting babies in Kuwaiti nurseries, for example, was also part involved in an operation in 1999 which included Abramoff associates in the Republican Party as well as members of the Sicilian Mafia, a joint push to establish a Cuban "beachhead" in anticipation of an "opening to Cuba" after the death of Fidel Castro.
This may explain why, while legal imbroglios consume Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Bill Frist, David Safavian, chief of staff at the General Services Administration, and pest-exterminator- turned-‘Hammer’ Tom DeLay, according to published reports it’s Abramoff Republican strategists are most worried about.
"The one (scandal) that people are most worried about is Abramoff, because it seems to have such long tentacles," former congressman Vin Weber, a lobbyist with close ties to the White House, told the Los Angeles Times. "This seems to be something that could spread almost anywhere. That has a lot of people worried."
As our contribution to the effort to make the world safe for democracy, we offer our own "Top Ten Reasons Why the Abramoff Scandal Could Spread Almost Anywhere."
10. ABRAMOFF’S INVOLVED IN SIX CURRENT SCANDALS
Setting some kind of new record, ‘Casino Jack’ Abramoff is the common denominator in at least six current scandals swirling around the Bush White House.
The first Abramoff scandal to be exposed was the Indian gambling scandal, a raging river of unregulated cash which provided the revenue stream for the cabal’s current bid for power.
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He and the now Headless Hammer Tom DeLay are also being investigated for trips to the Pacific Marianas Islands, ostensibly for the purpose of visiting Abramoff’s “sweatshop patrons.”
Abramoff is now under indictment, along with henchman Adam Kidan, for the SunCruz gambling cruise scandal, with a gangland-style murder attached offering a vivid example of the GOPMOB making someone an offer they couldn't refuse and then whacking them before they could squeal.
Abramoff is also the target of the indictment of David Safavian, and the reason as well for the newest scandal, which leads directly to George W. Bush, the obstruction of justice of a federal probe in Guam.
That's five scandals. The sixth scandal involving Abramoff, we can exclusively report, is...
9. ABRAMOFF LINKED TO WHITE HOUSE SPY SCANDAL.
Through his representation in Washington of members of the political faction on the receiving end of purloined classified data, Casino Jack’ Abramoff is linked to the White House Spy scandal involving former Marine Leandro Aragoncillo, The MadCowMorningNews has learned.
This began to become clear several months ago in a move which received little attention at the time, when the federal grand jury investigating Abramoff subpoenaed Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines. Observers had puzzled over what she could possibly have to do with Abramoff.
Imelda Marcos is an ally of Abramoff’s clients in Manila, one of two warring Philippine factions competing for ownership of a Guam-based telecommunications company, which—if Abramoff’s pals get their way—will be used as a home portal for worldwide Internet gambling in a venue (Guam) which offers more opportunities for money laundering than almost anywhere in the world.
Abramoff’s faction was alarmed over reports that the Governor of the nearby territory of the Mariana’s was expressing concerns that Abramoff client (and Tom DeLay host) Willie Tan, one of Hong Kong’s richest tycoons, was behind the telephone-based gambling and online lottery push in the islands.
We'll have more on this later. But, as you can imagine, intrigue ensued.
8. FIGURE INVOLVED IN ENTERPRISE’S ‘OPENING’ TO CUBA USED ‘BILL OF GOODS’ TO SELL FIRST IRAQ WAR
Washington-based PR firm Hill & Knowlton, under the leadership of George Bush Senior's former chief of staff Craig Fuller, devised a remarkable "hook" for the propaganda campaign which sold the first Iraq war to the American people: a heartrending story of invading Iraqi troops tearing newborn infants from hospital incubators, and leaving them to die.
"I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital," asserted a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl identified only as "Nayirah" during a meeting of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990.
"While I was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where…babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die."
Other "witnesses" coached by Hill & Knowlton offered similar accounts before the UN Security Council, and a video produced by the PR agency was shown to the Council.
The result was an Article Seven resolution against Iraq – the world body’s equivalent of a declaration of war, used by President Bush as the authority to attack Iraq.
Fuller, when he's not conjuring dead infants left on cold floors to die, participated in other "cabal ops" as well...
Several weeks ago we reported that Abramoff associate Adam Kidan was in business with a capo in the the Sicilian Mafia.
Republican “fund-raiser” Adam Kidan was a partner and general counsel for a hotel in the Caribbean owned by a member of the Sicilian Mafia, a man recently taken into custody in Italy as part of a major investigation into international arms trafficking.
“St. Maarten hotel owner arrested, linked to Mafia” was the headline of an Associated Press story about Kidan’s partner in St Maarten, Rosario Spadaro, 72.
Spadaro had other interests as well, according to a Miami Herald story on May 17, 1999 headlined “MAFIA HAS EYES ON CUBA,” which detailed his efforts on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia to set up shop in Cuba once President Fidel Castro had been removed from the scene, presumably through natural causes.
Odd, the secretive Naples, FL financier who owned the Venice FL flight school attended by terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta was also engaged in an “opening to Cuba” at the same time the Miami Herald says the Sicilian Mafia was seeking to re-enter Cuba, passing out Presidential Rolexes (see photo) to top comandantes.
“Highly Unusual Coalition Has Eyes on Cuba" was the droll headline in a National Journal article.
The coalition is chaired by Craig Fuller of the U. S.-Cuba Trade Association, which seeks to strengthen contacts between U.S. companies and Cuba. "Economic sanctions applied for political reasons, simply, do not work," said Craig Fuller, former chief of staff under President Bush, and member of Americans For Humanitarian Trade With Cuba.
At the very same time, as if acting in concert, terror flight school owner Hilliard, the Sicilian Mafia, and the former chief of staff to the elder President Bush, Craig Fuller, were all looking to cut themselves into Cuba in anticipation of the resumption of normal diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States.
Prosecuting attorneys get criminal conspiracy convictions on less all day long.
Fuller's group included David Rockefeller and Archer Daniels Midland Chairman Dwayne Andreas. The Sicilian Mafia, Mohamed Atta’s U.S. contact, and David Rockefeller... just a case of "great minds run in similar channels?
You make the call.
7.ABRAMOFF INDICTMENT FOR BOULIS MURDER LIKELY
When three Gambino Mob associates were charged in the Gus Boulis murder three weeks ago, authorities in Fort Lauderdale wouldn’t say what led investigators to the suspects.
What they did say was further arrests are anticipated.
"There are facts that will eventually come out publicly;I just can't talk about them at the moment," said assistant state attorney Brian Cavanaugh, who heads the prosecution team. "It is possible, as well as plausible that others were involved."
When the first murder indictments were handed down, lawyers representing Abramoff and his henchman Adam Kidan hurried to insist their that clients, both free on bail on fraud charges involving their purchase of SunCruz, had nothing at all to do with Mr. Boulis’s unfortunate demise.
Abramoff's Miami attorney, Neal Sonnett, told the Los Angeles Times, "Jack Abramoff has no knowledge of the facts of the murder," adding that his client has no connections to the underworld.
Adam Kidan's lawyer Martin Jaffe said there's no connection between the SunCruz fraud case and the Boulis murder allegations.
Alas for both men (not to mention the unfortunate Boulis)...nothing could be further from the truth.
As we've already reported, Boulis knew he was about to be “hit.”
Murmurs that Abramoff has 'exposure' in the assassination of Boulis have been growing. They will grow louder if, as expected, henchman Adam Kidan is indicted for murder.
His defense—a gambit pioneered by terror flight school owner and secretive Republican financier Wally Hilliard—will be that he was the innocent victim of unscrupulous employees.
Given that famous Republican attorney Roy Cohn is (at least reportedly) still dead, the chances of this defense flying before jurors hover somewhere between 'slim and none.'
6. ABRAMOFF’S SCANDAL PARTNERS INCLUDE BUSH PIONEERS, THE MOB, U.S. DEFENSE CONTRACTORS, AND "PROFESSIONAL CHRISTIANS"
The Gus Boulis murder was clearly designed to remove him as an obstacle. But an obstacle to what? Fortunately, Abramoff ‘boy wonder’ Adam Kidan spilled the beans to reporters in more innocent times...
“Recently, Kidan charted an aggressive, expansionist course toward exotic ports of call 10,000 miles away in the Pacific Ocean,” the Miami Daily Business Review reported on June 15, 2001.
“Kidan and other...SunCruz executives traveled to Saipan in December, and again in April to discuss with government officials plans to open a 150-foot casino ship equipped with 165 slot machines and 25 gaming tables,” according to the Saipan Tribune.
“We are continuously deploying floating casinos to areas where there are good potentials," Kidan was quoted as saying.
SunCruz was in the "final stages" of bringing casino ships to berths in Hong Kong and to the former Portuguese colony of Macao, and that SunCruz officials had visited Guam, where they also intended to start a floating casino, the paper reported.
"The Northern Marianas can be a casino hub in the Pacific region, especially with its proximity to Asia, where millions play cards and machines.”
The idea was to turn the tiny island of Tinian in the Mariana’s, a three-hour flight from most major Asian population centers, into a Mecca of glittering casinos and gambling cruise ships.
Until now, the island has been a mere footnote in world history: The Enola Gay took off in August, 1945 from Tinian's airfield to drop the first atomic bomb.
World almanacs mention that the US military leases northern Tinian, then refer to “Tinian's attempts to become the Monte Carlo of Micronesia.”
The Monte Carlo of Micronesia?
It must be stated that the major players in Tinian’s gambling efforts do not appear to have wandered in off the street...
An outfit calling itself The Lone Star Casino Corp., we found, had been first with a foot in the door.
“Tinian, some three hours flying time from half the world's population, has been the Lone Star Casino Corp.'s great adventure,” read a company press release in 1995.
“Guam has an annual tourism base of more than a million people... a jaunt to Tinian beats a tiring trip to Las Vegas of 20-plus hours from South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan or Tokyo.”
The now-defunct Lone Star Casino Corp. was the first land-based casino company on Tinian. It had been owned by United Gaming, one of the nation's largest owners of video poker and other electronic gaming machines, a company controlled by a Texan named Richard Rainwater.
Who is Richard Rainwater?
At least 60 percent of George W. Bush's income in the year he first ran for Texas Governor came from businesses he invested in with Fort Worth financier Richard E. Rainwater, records show.
Rainwater was the major investor behind George W. Bush’s purchase of the Texas Rangers. He was also one of Bush’s biggest campaign supporters.
This is no doubt just a freak coincidence.
Also involved in Lone Star was South African Lesley Greyling, a man who was also in business with Iran-Contra middleman Adnan Khashoggi in a casino in the Bahamas supported by weekly flights on terror flight school owner Wally Hilliard’s Lear jets.
"Khashoggi was among a number of prominent Arab businessmen, like Khalid Mahfouz, who agreed to continue what have been described by US intelligence officials as "protection payments" to bin Laden at a meeting in Paris in 1998, said London's Sunday Post October 7, 2001.
The airline that had been tapped by the group, and approved by local government officials to serve the island’s casinos, was Texas-based Pacific Island Aviation, a company partially funded by the Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Pacific Island Aviation was being used in support of some 'sensitive' international assignments. During the recent American expansion of influence in the oil-rich former Soviet Republics of Central Asia, for example, the company operated flights into and out of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and the Azerbaijan capital Baku.
So we at least know they're discreet.
5.SAFAVIAN INDICTMENT NOT ABOUT HEBREW SCHOOL
Then there's the indictment of White House apparatchik David Safavian, the first government official in Washington charged in the corruption inquiry related to Abramoff's activities, which is most assuredly not about providing “surplus” government property for a Abramoff-funded Hebrew school.
When a telecommunications company on the tiny Mariana’s island of Tinian exchanged hands last year, the Mariana’s Governor expressed concern that one of the partners, Abramoff client Willie Tan, might use it to expand his push into telephone- and Internet–based gambling on the island.
Described in newspaper reports as the most powerful man in the Northern Mariana Islands, his Tan Holdings “has a vice-like grip on the island economy as the biggest garment manufacturer in an industry that has come under Washington's scrutiny, as well as the owner of poker machines that stand in seedy dens on nearly every Saipan corner. Tan was so powerful on the Mariana’s main island of Saipan that some joked it should be renamed "Sai-Tan."
"Can we get away with a few discreet poker tables at the Hebrew School?"
Beginning with Casino Jack’s lobbying home run on behalf of the Internet gambling industry in 2000, when he stopped the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act in its tracks, Internet gambling has been a major motif in the Abramoff saga.
Unmentioned in articles about Abramoff's troubles, The Mariana island chain's main attraction to Abramoff’s group is as a platform from which to run worldwide internet gambling.
While this may violate Federal telecommunications laws, Jack Abramoff’s buddies have been working on it, the real reason behind the indictment of White House apparatchik David Safavian...
Safavian was also a passionate advocate of Internet gambling. His clients included the Interactive Gaming Council, a trade association for online betting houses. In 1999, he founded the Internet Consumer Choice Coalition, a nonprofit whose sole purpose was to fight a bill that would have made online gambling a federal crime.
While Safavian was charged with helping Abramoff try to acquire, for an Abramoff-sponsored Hebrew school, a plot of federally owned land managed by the GSA in Silver Spring, Maryland, and accused of making repeated false statements to government investigators about a congressional golf trip with Abramoff to Scotland in 2002,his attorney isn't fooled.
Suspecting something more was afoot, Barbara Van Gelder accused federal officials of "a creative use of the criminal code to secure his cooperation."
4. GUAM PROBE INTO FEMA RIP-OFFS OBSTRUCTED BY OVAL OFFICE
Then there's the recent revelation that Abramoff was the subject of a Guam grand jury probe in 2002, thwarted by George W Bush his-ownself, who intervened to remove the supervising federal prosecutor.
Abramoff spokesman Andrew Blum said the lobbyist "has no recollection of his being investigated in Guam in 2002."
Remembering every SINGLE time he's investigated must be like Wilt Chamberlain trying to remember all of his reported 20,000 dalliances.
Somebody should ask him: does the name “Carl Gutierrez” ring a bell?
Before President Bush stepped in and put a stop to it, Gutierrez, Guam’s Governor, had seen virtually his entire top staff head off to minimum security prisons, in an orgy of looting, a feeding frenzy for land-based sharks.
His former chief of staff Gil Shinohara, to cite one of a dozen examples, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
Corruption was so widespread that even the Parks and Recreation Director got into it, convicted of bid-rigging, bribery, wire fraud and money laundering, as well as ripping off large sums of money from FEMA, and was sentenced to 10 years in jail—the longest antitrust-related jail sentence ever imposed.
No wonder Guam court officials were upset...Even Guam’s Governor was charged, with using government material and personnel to work on his ranch. So they paid Abramoff almost $400,000—of U.S. taxpayer money!—to get Abramoff to get the U.S. Attorney off their backs.
Abramoff delivered. Working with Representative Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican, the two men managed to get the legislation defeated in the House, using the argument that the Marianas represented low taxes and free enterprise and should be left alone.
"Water costs money. Maybe hold off for a while."
And speaking of ripping off FEMA, Abramoff wanted to lease some of “his” Sun Cruz cruise ships to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house rescue workers off New York City after 9.11., and asked noted "professional Christian" Ralph Reed to find out who at the agency he should contact to make the proposal.
The White House, oddly enough, had recently-indicted David Safavian involved in hurricane relief until he was arrested... This may help explain why there wasn’t enough money left in the budget to pass out water to citizens at the Superdome in New Orleans...
Abramoff and DeLay are all about protecting free enterprise. And underworld gangs engaged in money laundering and drug running in the Mariana Islands and Guam, apparently. Although a US government report pleaded for U.S. legal intervention in Guam, "free market conservatives" Abramoff & DeLay were having none of it.
The result? Reduced U.S. Government interference in the criminal activities in the Mariana Islands and Guam of Chinese Triad gangs, the Japanese Yakuza, and the Russian Mafia.
3. CASINO JACK PART OF OLLIE NORTH’S “ENTERPRISE.”
Far from being an isolated miscreant blinded by greed, the proverbial “one bad apple” in an otherwise blameless barrel, Republican lobbyist ‘Casino Jack’ Abramoff is following in the footsteps of the people who showed the way by successfully skirting punishment in the unresolved American scandals (Iran Contra, BCCI, and the Savings and Loan Scandal) of the recent past.
Remember Iran Contra? "The “Enterprise?" The Enterprise Lives... Jack Abramoff is Oliver North in a $2000 suit.
The “guided” tours to the Abramoff scandals being conducted by the major media resemble nothing so much as a trip to a “Potemkin village,” named for Grigori Potemkin, who played Karl Rove to Russian Czarina’s Catherine the Great’s George W. Bush by ordering the creation of elaborate fake villages along her route, in places where turmoil and poverty reigned, to give her a false impression of peace and prosperity as she toured her far-flung empire.
Apparently, we are to believe that Jack Abramoff has carved out a vast Indian gambling empire and a cozy little Republican slave state set amid the coral reefs and azure seas of the small island chain of the Marianas 7,000 miles from the Californian coast... all by himself, with modest assistance from former pest exterminator Delay.
What’s being hidden from view is a graveyard filled with spirits from the major unresolved American scandals of the recent past.
The story being retailed to date about Abramoff bears frightening similarities to the official version of 9.11, a fable of two separate Dutch nationals—the Magic Dutch Boys—who just happen to purchase two flight schools in tiny Venice Florida at the same time which then just happen to begin training Al Qaeda operatives.
Missing from the official version of 9.11 is that the flight school where Mohamed Atta learned to fly just happened to be owned by a man whose planes were just then trafficking in quantities of heroin rarely seen... even in Florida.
Things equally important are being left out of accounts of Abramoff.
2. ‘ALL OUR SCANDALS ARE THE SAME.”
The SunCruz fraud case and the Boulis murder allegations are clearly linked, both to each other and to Abramoff and Delay’s Indian gambling scandal as well.
Within weeks of closing the original SunCruz sale with Boulis, Abramoff and Kidan began seeking to refinance the company. They gave copies of its financial statements to a battery of investment bankers, bond underwriters, and at least one Native American tribe with gaming interests—the Oklahoma-based Kiowa Indians.
They also were discussing possible land-based casino ventures with a branch of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and made inquiries into buying two more Long Island, N.Y.-based gambling ships.
Plans were afoot to diversify the Republican’s Mariana’s protectorate from its base in sweat shops, involuntary servitude and forced prostitution and into casino and internet gambling.
Attempts to decouple the various Abramoff scandals rely on arguments like the ones made in court by former Mob Boss John Gotti’s lawyer Bruce Cutler against the RICO indictments against his client.
Alleging a continuing criminal enterprise was utterly without merit because the various rackets engaged in by the Gambino Family have nothing whatever in common, said Cutler.
Loan sharking and murder, presumably, existed as independent franchises distinct from the Gambino Family’s trade in murder and mayhem. The argument didn’t fly.
Gotti spent the rest of his life in prison.
And, finally...The #1 THING YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE ABRAMOFF SCANDALS:
1. NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS.
Newspapers called Boulis’s killing a “gangland-style murder.”
But there is another word which more accurately describes it: “Assassination,” says Webster’s dictionary, is “murder which changes the world.”
What does a scandal involving Indian casinos, gambling boat “cruises to nowhere” & pay-for-play government officials have to do with the story of 19 hijackers planning a mass murder in supposed isolation in Florida?
Over three years ago—within a month of the 9.11 attack—British Prime Minister Tony Blair had presented the case against Bin Laden. He sketched out the Cliff Notes version of the evidence. It wasn’t much, but it was the only explanation we ever received.
“Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization with ties to a global network,” Blair said.
When NBC's Dateline did a story recently about sources of terrorist funding right here in the U.S., they announced “the emerging threat of a new alliance between al Qaeda and common criminals.”
It was hardly time to stop the presses.
“Some of the same names in the Abramoff scandal also surface in connection with Mohamed Atta’s,” we reported, in a June 21, 2005 story headlined “THE SECRET WORLD OF 9.11.”
“There remains a strong suspicion that Atta’s terrorist cadre—supposedly unknown and friendless and burrowing into the woodwork—was able to call on the assistance, when necessary, of a friendly global network.
Could it be that this network is the same one being probed so gingerly today by investigators looking into Jack Abramoff?
Far from being a rogue lobbyist who went just a few tens of millions of dollars too far, Jack Abramoff is an operative for an organization which has sold Americans a bill of goods as justification in at least three recent wars.
There are an amazing number of people described as ‘financial whizzes’ and ‘boy wonders of business’ involved in the story of Jack Abramoff.
But... are they really?
DOJ Lax on Jack; Seeks Reduced Sentence for Abramoff
By Kate Klonick - August 28, 2008, 12:05AM
We'll have to wait until next Thursday for a final decision, but in filings made yesterday, it appears that the Justice Department is seeking a pretty light sentence for the infamous former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
From the Washington Post:
Since his conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges, former lobbyist Jack Abramoff has spent more than 3,000 hours helping more than 100 law enforcement agents in an ongoing federal corruption probe that has implicated "scores of other persons not yet charged," attorneys said in court filings today.
. . . If a federal judge in Washington accepts the recommendation from the Justice Department, Abramoff would serve no more than another three years and three months in prison, not accounting for credit for good behavior awarded by the Bureau of Prisons. Abramoff's attorneys are seeking even more leniency that could have him released from prison by 2010.
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TOP 10 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT JACK ABRAMOFF
**World Exclusive**
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by Daniel Hopsicker
The MadCowMorningNews has learned that the same so-called "war cabal" being accused of selling a "bill of goods" to justify the war in Iraq also led earlier efforts to convince the American people of the necessity of going to war, in support of the Contras in the mid-1980's, and before the Gulf War under the first President Bush, and funded through the same methods and sources being investigated in the Abramoff scandals today.
Evidence surfacing in the widening scandal around Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff indicates the cabal being lavishly funding in recent years though his efforts was originally supported through the infamous "off the books" Enterprise headed by Marine Lt. Colonel Oliver North, only partially exposed in the Iran Contra Scandal.
"Bayonets ready? Okay...Cue the stunt baby!"
Craig Fuller, the man responsible for the discredited 1991 propaganda about Iraqi soldiers bayoneting babies in Kuwaiti nurseries, for example, was also part involved in an operation in 1999 which included Abramoff associates in the Republican Party as well as members of the Sicilian Mafia, a joint push to establish a Cuban "beachhead" in anticipation of an "opening to Cuba" after the death of Fidel Castro.
This may explain why, while legal imbroglios consume Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Bill Frist, David Safavian, chief of staff at the General Services Administration, and pest-exterminator- turned-‘Hammer’ Tom DeLay, according to published reports it’s Abramoff Republican strategists are most worried about.
"The one (scandal) that people are most worried about is Abramoff, because it seems to have such long tentacles," former congressman Vin Weber, a lobbyist with close ties to the White House, told the Los Angeles Times. "This seems to be something that could spread almost anywhere. That has a lot of people worried."
As our contribution to the effort to make the world safe for democracy, we offer our own "Top Ten Reasons Why the Abramoff Scandal Could Spread Almost Anywhere."
10. ABRAMOFF’S INVOLVED IN SIX CURRENT SCANDALS
Setting some kind of new record, ‘Casino Jack’ Abramoff is the common denominator in at least six current scandals swirling around the Bush White House.
The first Abramoff scandal to be exposed was the Indian gambling scandal, a raging river of unregulated cash which provided the revenue stream for the cabal’s current bid for power.
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He and the now Headless Hammer Tom DeLay are also being investigated for trips to the Pacific Marianas Islands, ostensibly for the purpose of visiting Abramoff’s “sweatshop patrons.”
Abramoff is now under indictment, along with henchman Adam Kidan, for the SunCruz gambling cruise scandal, with a gangland-style murder attached offering a vivid example of the GOPMOB making someone an offer they couldn't refuse and then whacking them before they could squeal.
Abramoff is also the target of the indictment of David Safavian, and the reason as well for the newest scandal, which leads directly to George W. Bush, the obstruction of justice of a federal probe in Guam.
That's five scandals. The sixth scandal involving Abramoff, we can exclusively report, is...
9. ABRAMOFF LINKED TO WHITE HOUSE SPY SCANDAL.
Through his representation in Washington of members of the political faction on the receiving end of purloined classified data, Casino Jack’ Abramoff is linked to the White House Spy scandal involving former Marine Leandro Aragoncillo, The MadCowMorningNews has learned.
This began to become clear several months ago in a move which received little attention at the time, when the federal grand jury investigating Abramoff subpoenaed Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines. Observers had puzzled over what she could possibly have to do with Abramoff.
Imelda Marcos is an ally of Abramoff’s clients in Manila, one of two warring Philippine factions competing for ownership of a Guam-based telecommunications company, which—if Abramoff’s pals get their way—will be used as a home portal for worldwide Internet gambling in a venue (Guam) which offers more opportunities for money laundering than almost anywhere in the world.
Abramoff’s faction was alarmed over reports that the Governor of the nearby territory of the Mariana’s was expressing concerns that Abramoff client (and Tom DeLay host) Willie Tan, one of Hong Kong’s richest tycoons, was behind the telephone-based gambling and online lottery push in the islands.
We'll have more on this later. But, as you can imagine, intrigue ensued.
8. FIGURE INVOLVED IN ENTERPRISE’S ‘OPENING’ TO CUBA USED ‘BILL OF GOODS’ TO SELL FIRST IRAQ WAR
Washington-based PR firm Hill & Knowlton, under the leadership of George Bush Senior's former chief of staff Craig Fuller, devised a remarkable "hook" for the propaganda campaign which sold the first Iraq war to the American people: a heartrending story of invading Iraqi troops tearing newborn infants from hospital incubators, and leaving them to die.
"I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital," asserted a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl identified only as "Nayirah" during a meeting of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990.
"While I was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where…babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die."
Other "witnesses" coached by Hill & Knowlton offered similar accounts before the UN Security Council, and a video produced by the PR agency was shown to the Council.
The result was an Article Seven resolution against Iraq – the world body’s equivalent of a declaration of war, used by President Bush as the authority to attack Iraq.
Fuller, when he's not conjuring dead infants left on cold floors to die, participated in other "cabal ops" as well...
Several weeks ago we reported that Abramoff associate Adam Kidan was in business with a capo in the the Sicilian Mafia.
Republican “fund-raiser” Adam Kidan was a partner and general counsel for a hotel in the Caribbean owned by a member of the Sicilian Mafia, a man recently taken into custody in Italy as part of a major investigation into international arms trafficking.
“St. Maarten hotel owner arrested, linked to Mafia” was the headline of an Associated Press story about Kidan’s partner in St Maarten, Rosario Spadaro, 72.
Spadaro had other interests as well, according to a Miami Herald story on May 17, 1999 headlined “MAFIA HAS EYES ON CUBA,” which detailed his efforts on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia to set up shop in Cuba once President Fidel Castro had been removed from the scene, presumably through natural causes.
Odd, the secretive Naples, FL financier who owned the Venice FL flight school attended by terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta was also engaged in an “opening to Cuba” at the same time the Miami Herald says the Sicilian Mafia was seeking to re-enter Cuba, passing out Presidential Rolexes (see photo) to top comandantes.
“Highly Unusual Coalition Has Eyes on Cuba" was the droll headline in a National Journal article.
The coalition is chaired by Craig Fuller of the U. S.-Cuba Trade Association, which seeks to strengthen contacts between U.S. companies and Cuba. "Economic sanctions applied for political reasons, simply, do not work," said Craig Fuller, former chief of staff under President Bush, and member of Americans For Humanitarian Trade With Cuba.
At the very same time, as if acting in concert, terror flight school owner Hilliard, the Sicilian Mafia, and the former chief of staff to the elder President Bush, Craig Fuller, were all looking to cut themselves into Cuba in anticipation of the resumption of normal diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States.
Prosecuting attorneys get criminal conspiracy convictions on less all day long.
Fuller's group included David Rockefeller and Archer Daniels Midland Chairman Dwayne Andreas. The Sicilian Mafia, Mohamed Atta’s U.S. contact, and David Rockefeller... just a case of "great minds run in similar channels?
You make the call.
7.ABRAMOFF INDICTMENT FOR BOULIS MURDER LIKELY
When three Gambino Mob associates were charged in the Gus Boulis murder three weeks ago, authorities in Fort Lauderdale wouldn’t say what led investigators to the suspects.
What they did say was further arrests are anticipated.
"There are facts that will eventually come out publicly;I just can't talk about them at the moment," said assistant state attorney Brian Cavanaugh, who heads the prosecution team. "It is possible, as well as plausible that others were involved."
When the first murder indictments were handed down, lawyers representing Abramoff and his henchman Adam Kidan hurried to insist their that clients, both free on bail on fraud charges involving their purchase of SunCruz, had nothing at all to do with Mr. Boulis’s unfortunate demise.
Abramoff's Miami attorney, Neal Sonnett, told the Los Angeles Times, "Jack Abramoff has no knowledge of the facts of the murder," adding that his client has no connections to the underworld.
Adam Kidan's lawyer Martin Jaffe said there's no connection between the SunCruz fraud case and the Boulis murder allegations.
Alas for both men (not to mention the unfortunate Boulis)...nothing could be further from the truth.
As we've already reported, Boulis knew he was about to be “hit.”
Murmurs that Abramoff has 'exposure' in the assassination of Boulis have been growing. They will grow louder if, as expected, henchman Adam Kidan is indicted for murder.
His defense—a gambit pioneered by terror flight school owner and secretive Republican financier Wally Hilliard—will be that he was the innocent victim of unscrupulous employees.
Given that famous Republican attorney Roy Cohn is (at least reportedly) still dead, the chances of this defense flying before jurors hover somewhere between 'slim and none.'
6. ABRAMOFF’S SCANDAL PARTNERS INCLUDE BUSH PIONEERS, THE MOB, U.S. DEFENSE CONTRACTORS, AND "PROFESSIONAL CHRISTIANS"
The Gus Boulis murder was clearly designed to remove him as an obstacle. But an obstacle to what? Fortunately, Abramoff ‘boy wonder’ Adam Kidan spilled the beans to reporters in more innocent times...
“Recently, Kidan charted an aggressive, expansionist course toward exotic ports of call 10,000 miles away in the Pacific Ocean,” the Miami Daily Business Review reported on June 15, 2001.
“Kidan and other...SunCruz executives traveled to Saipan in December, and again in April to discuss with government officials plans to open a 150-foot casino ship equipped with 165 slot machines and 25 gaming tables,” according to the Saipan Tribune.
“We are continuously deploying floating casinos to areas where there are good potentials," Kidan was quoted as saying.
SunCruz was in the "final stages" of bringing casino ships to berths in Hong Kong and to the former Portuguese colony of Macao, and that SunCruz officials had visited Guam, where they also intended to start a floating casino, the paper reported.
"The Northern Marianas can be a casino hub in the Pacific region, especially with its proximity to Asia, where millions play cards and machines.”
The idea was to turn the tiny island of Tinian in the Mariana’s, a three-hour flight from most major Asian population centers, into a Mecca of glittering casinos and gambling cruise ships.
Until now, the island has been a mere footnote in world history: The Enola Gay took off in August, 1945 from Tinian's airfield to drop the first atomic bomb.
World almanacs mention that the US military leases northern Tinian, then refer to “Tinian's attempts to become the Monte Carlo of Micronesia.”
The Monte Carlo of Micronesia?
It must be stated that the major players in Tinian’s gambling efforts do not appear to have wandered in off the street...
An outfit calling itself The Lone Star Casino Corp., we found, had been first with a foot in the door.
“Tinian, some three hours flying time from half the world's population, has been the Lone Star Casino Corp.'s great adventure,” read a company press release in 1995.
“Guam has an annual tourism base of more than a million people... a jaunt to Tinian beats a tiring trip to Las Vegas of 20-plus hours from South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan or Tokyo.”
The now-defunct Lone Star Casino Corp. was the first land-based casino company on Tinian. It had been owned by United Gaming, one of the nation's largest owners of video poker and other electronic gaming machines, a company controlled by a Texan named Richard Rainwater.
Who is Richard Rainwater?
At least 60 percent of George W. Bush's income in the year he first ran for Texas Governor came from businesses he invested in with Fort Worth financier Richard E. Rainwater, records show.
Rainwater was the major investor behind George W. Bush’s purchase of the Texas Rangers. He was also one of Bush’s biggest campaign supporters.
This is no doubt just a freak coincidence.
Also involved in Lone Star was South African Lesley Greyling, a man who was also in business with Iran-Contra middleman Adnan Khashoggi in a casino in the Bahamas supported by weekly flights on terror flight school owner Wally Hilliard’s Lear jets.
"Khashoggi was among a number of prominent Arab businessmen, like Khalid Mahfouz, who agreed to continue what have been described by US intelligence officials as "protection payments" to bin Laden at a meeting in Paris in 1998, said London's Sunday Post October 7, 2001.
The airline that had been tapped by the group, and approved by local government officials to serve the island’s casinos, was Texas-based Pacific Island Aviation, a company partially funded by the Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Pacific Island Aviation was being used in support of some 'sensitive' international assignments. During the recent American expansion of influence in the oil-rich former Soviet Republics of Central Asia, for example, the company operated flights into and out of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and the Azerbaijan capital Baku.
So we at least know they're discreet.
5.SAFAVIAN INDICTMENT NOT ABOUT HEBREW SCHOOL
Then there's the indictment of White House apparatchik David Safavian, the first government official in Washington charged in the corruption inquiry related to Abramoff's activities, which is most assuredly not about providing “surplus” government property for a Abramoff-funded Hebrew school.
When a telecommunications company on the tiny Mariana’s island of Tinian exchanged hands last year, the Mariana’s Governor expressed concern that one of the partners, Abramoff client Willie Tan, might use it to expand his push into telephone- and Internet–based gambling on the island.
Described in newspaper reports as the most powerful man in the Northern Mariana Islands, his Tan Holdings “has a vice-like grip on the island economy as the biggest garment manufacturer in an industry that has come under Washington's scrutiny, as well as the owner of poker machines that stand in seedy dens on nearly every Saipan corner. Tan was so powerful on the Mariana’s main island of Saipan that some joked it should be renamed "Sai-Tan."
"Can we get away with a few discreet poker tables at the Hebrew School?"
Beginning with Casino Jack’s lobbying home run on behalf of the Internet gambling industry in 2000, when he stopped the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act in its tracks, Internet gambling has been a major motif in the Abramoff saga.
Unmentioned in articles about Abramoff's troubles, The Mariana island chain's main attraction to Abramoff’s group is as a platform from which to run worldwide internet gambling.
While this may violate Federal telecommunications laws, Jack Abramoff’s buddies have been working on it, the real reason behind the indictment of White House apparatchik David Safavian...
Safavian was also a passionate advocate of Internet gambling. His clients included the Interactive Gaming Council, a trade association for online betting houses. In 1999, he founded the Internet Consumer Choice Coalition, a nonprofit whose sole purpose was to fight a bill that would have made online gambling a federal crime.
While Safavian was charged with helping Abramoff try to acquire, for an Abramoff-sponsored Hebrew school, a plot of federally owned land managed by the GSA in Silver Spring, Maryland, and accused of making repeated false statements to government investigators about a congressional golf trip with Abramoff to Scotland in 2002,his attorney isn't fooled.
Suspecting something more was afoot, Barbara Van Gelder accused federal officials of "a creative use of the criminal code to secure his cooperation."
4. GUAM PROBE INTO FEMA RIP-OFFS OBSTRUCTED BY OVAL OFFICE
Then there's the recent revelation that Abramoff was the subject of a Guam grand jury probe in 2002, thwarted by George W Bush his-ownself, who intervened to remove the supervising federal prosecutor.
Abramoff spokesman Andrew Blum said the lobbyist "has no recollection of his being investigated in Guam in 2002."
Remembering every SINGLE time he's investigated must be like Wilt Chamberlain trying to remember all of his reported 20,000 dalliances.
Somebody should ask him: does the name “Carl Gutierrez” ring a bell?
Before President Bush stepped in and put a stop to it, Gutierrez, Guam’s Governor, had seen virtually his entire top staff head off to minimum security prisons, in an orgy of looting, a feeding frenzy for land-based sharks.
His former chief of staff Gil Shinohara, to cite one of a dozen examples, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
Corruption was so widespread that even the Parks and Recreation Director got into it, convicted of bid-rigging, bribery, wire fraud and money laundering, as well as ripping off large sums of money from FEMA, and was sentenced to 10 years in jail—the longest antitrust-related jail sentence ever imposed.
No wonder Guam court officials were upset...Even Guam’s Governor was charged, with using government material and personnel to work on his ranch. So they paid Abramoff almost $400,000—of U.S. taxpayer money!—to get Abramoff to get the U.S. Attorney off their backs.
Abramoff delivered. Working with Representative Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican, the two men managed to get the legislation defeated in the House, using the argument that the Marianas represented low taxes and free enterprise and should be left alone.
"Water costs money. Maybe hold off for a while."
And speaking of ripping off FEMA, Abramoff wanted to lease some of “his” Sun Cruz cruise ships to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house rescue workers off New York City after 9.11., and asked noted "professional Christian" Ralph Reed to find out who at the agency he should contact to make the proposal.
The White House, oddly enough, had recently-indicted David Safavian involved in hurricane relief until he was arrested... This may help explain why there wasn’t enough money left in the budget to pass out water to citizens at the Superdome in New Orleans...
Abramoff and DeLay are all about protecting free enterprise. And underworld gangs engaged in money laundering and drug running in the Mariana Islands and Guam, apparently. Although a US government report pleaded for U.S. legal intervention in Guam, "free market conservatives" Abramoff & DeLay were having none of it.
The result? Reduced U.S. Government interference in the criminal activities in the Mariana Islands and Guam of Chinese Triad gangs, the Japanese Yakuza, and the Russian Mafia.
3. CASINO JACK PART OF OLLIE NORTH’S “ENTERPRISE.”
Far from being an isolated miscreant blinded by greed, the proverbial “one bad apple” in an otherwise blameless barrel, Republican lobbyist ‘Casino Jack’ Abramoff is following in the footsteps of the people who showed the way by successfully skirting punishment in the unresolved American scandals (Iran Contra, BCCI, and the Savings and Loan Scandal) of the recent past.
Remember Iran Contra? "The “Enterprise?" The Enterprise Lives... Jack Abramoff is Oliver North in a $2000 suit.
The “guided” tours to the Abramoff scandals being conducted by the major media resemble nothing so much as a trip to a “Potemkin village,” named for Grigori Potemkin, who played Karl Rove to Russian Czarina’s Catherine the Great’s George W. Bush by ordering the creation of elaborate fake villages along her route, in places where turmoil and poverty reigned, to give her a false impression of peace and prosperity as she toured her far-flung empire.
Apparently, we are to believe that Jack Abramoff has carved out a vast Indian gambling empire and a cozy little Republican slave state set amid the coral reefs and azure seas of the small island chain of the Marianas 7,000 miles from the Californian coast... all by himself, with modest assistance from former pest exterminator Delay.
What’s being hidden from view is a graveyard filled with spirits from the major unresolved American scandals of the recent past.
The story being retailed to date about Abramoff bears frightening similarities to the official version of 9.11, a fable of two separate Dutch nationals—the Magic Dutch Boys—who just happen to purchase two flight schools in tiny Venice Florida at the same time which then just happen to begin training Al Qaeda operatives.
Missing from the official version of 9.11 is that the flight school where Mohamed Atta learned to fly just happened to be owned by a man whose planes were just then trafficking in quantities of heroin rarely seen... even in Florida.
Things equally important are being left out of accounts of Abramoff.
2. ‘ALL OUR SCANDALS ARE THE SAME.”
The SunCruz fraud case and the Boulis murder allegations are clearly linked, both to each other and to Abramoff and Delay’s Indian gambling scandal as well.
Within weeks of closing the original SunCruz sale with Boulis, Abramoff and Kidan began seeking to refinance the company. They gave copies of its financial statements to a battery of investment bankers, bond underwriters, and at least one Native American tribe with gaming interests—the Oklahoma-based Kiowa Indians.
They also were discussing possible land-based casino ventures with a branch of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and made inquiries into buying two more Long Island, N.Y.-based gambling ships.
Plans were afoot to diversify the Republican’s Mariana’s protectorate from its base in sweat shops, involuntary servitude and forced prostitution and into casino and internet gambling.
Attempts to decouple the various Abramoff scandals rely on arguments like the ones made in court by former Mob Boss John Gotti’s lawyer Bruce Cutler against the RICO indictments against his client.
Alleging a continuing criminal enterprise was utterly without merit because the various rackets engaged in by the Gambino Family have nothing whatever in common, said Cutler.
Loan sharking and murder, presumably, existed as independent franchises distinct from the Gambino Family’s trade in murder and mayhem. The argument didn’t fly.
Gotti spent the rest of his life in prison.
And, finally...The #1 THING YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE ABRAMOFF SCANDALS:
1. NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS.
Newspapers called Boulis’s killing a “gangland-style murder.”
But there is another word which more accurately describes it: “Assassination,” says Webster’s dictionary, is “murder which changes the world.”
What does a scandal involving Indian casinos, gambling boat “cruises to nowhere” & pay-for-play government officials have to do with the story of 19 hijackers planning a mass murder in supposed isolation in Florida?
Over three years ago—within a month of the 9.11 attack—British Prime Minister Tony Blair had presented the case against Bin Laden. He sketched out the Cliff Notes version of the evidence. It wasn’t much, but it was the only explanation we ever received.
“Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization with ties to a global network,” Blair said.
When NBC's Dateline did a story recently about sources of terrorist funding right here in the U.S., they announced “the emerging threat of a new alliance between al Qaeda and common criminals.”
It was hardly time to stop the presses.
“Some of the same names in the Abramoff scandal also surface in connection with Mohamed Atta’s,” we reported, in a June 21, 2005 story headlined “THE SECRET WORLD OF 9.11.”
“There remains a strong suspicion that Atta’s terrorist cadre—supposedly unknown and friendless and burrowing into the woodwork—was able to call on the assistance, when necessary, of a friendly global network.
Could it be that this network is the same one being probed so gingerly today by investigators looking into Jack Abramoff?
Far from being a rogue lobbyist who went just a few tens of millions of dollars too far, Jack Abramoff is an operative for an organization which has sold Americans a bill of goods as justification in at least three recent wars.
There are an amazing number of people described as ‘financial whizzes’ and ‘boy wonders of business’ involved in the story of Jack Abramoff.
But... are they really?
DESPERATE White House rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic, five months before Captain Obama takes the helm
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White House Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel on Legal Options?
By Kate Klonick - August 28, 2008, 9:41AM
Could the White House be getting desperate in its dramatic legal battle with the House Judiciary Committee? It certainly looks that way, as they scramble to delay Harriet Miers' congressional testimony after the court's recent denial of their request for a stay.
Yesterday, HJC Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) set Miers testimony for September 11, but the administration isn't going down without a fight.
From the AP:
The Bush administration had already indicated it would appeal but Justice Department lawyers said Wednesday that they will ask the court to step in quickly and temporarily put Miers' appearance on hold while the appeal plays out. It's a risky move for an administration that has spent years trying to strengthen the power of the presidency.
Yesterday, TPM's David Kurtz caught up with Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) at the Democratic National Convention and got his take on the new developments in the Miers case unfolding at the HJC.
Leahy made it clear that this battle wasn't just going to end in the event of an Obama presidency. "I remind them," he said, "I'll still be chairman next year."
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tommy:
Regardless of what happens in the future....LEAHY has been the only half ass promoter of any type of oversight on FBI, DOJ, NSA, CIA, DOD.
The issues and witnesses necessary for full disclosure in the future will be focusing on the following scandals that have been repressed by FBI DIRTY TRICKS, FELONIES, AND CONPIRACIES TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, TAMPER WITH WITNESSES, AND VIOLATE TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242, 1512,1513, AND 2510--et al, specifically SECTION 2517 EXPLICITLY PROHIBITING THE ILLEGAL DISSEMINATION OF ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO IN VIOLATION OF TITLE III (The fed wiretapping statute):
1) SAN ANTONIO FBI COINTELPRO HARASSMENT AND NEUTRALIZATION OF TEXAS SINGER SONGWRITER WILLY NELSON, when FBI "got dirt on Steve Goldfein" after "investigating Willy Nelson's tax attorney (Steve Goldfein's uncle in New York City) to "mislead and tamper with NELSON'S FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH amendment rights when "IRS and FBI colluded to use their cooperating informants" to mislead Nelson into "not taking out a loan to pay off a bogus IRS debt",....replaced by a bogus FBI inspired plan to get NELSON INTO BOGUS TAX SHELTORS THAT COULD BE USED TO TOTALLY BANKRUPT NELSON'S MULTIMILLION DOLLAR ESTATE.
FBI snitch STEVEN GOLDFEIN, was later deployed against me when I lived in Austin, Texas. That's how I got the info. I talked to little STeve.
STEVE was the informant used by FBI AND APD AND TRAVIS COUNTY STATES ATTORNEYS when the OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE using the HAND OFF METHOD of ILLEGALLY LAUNDERING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM WARRANTLES WIRETAPPING, BUGGING, BREAKINS, PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS, MAIL OPENING, BUG IN CAR, GPS IN CAR.
MY FBI OPR COMPLAINT WAS OBSTRUCTED BY ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III, who told his boys to..."go light" and offer the usual "resignation" or investigation that always results in fed faggots resigning to make sure no FBI OPR 302s exist and could be discovered.
2) THE MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS AND APD-FBI-US ATTORNEY ANTHONY BROWN'S COMPLICITY in this RICO FELONY CONSPIRACY TO EXTORT PAYOFFS FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS, PIMPS, BOOKIES, AND TIER ONE, TWO, AND THREE DRUG DEALERS....like the Mexican Mafia....especially the AUSTIN FBI--STAN KNEE--APD conspiracy to MURDER JOE SANTOS JR, after AUSTIN FBI AND APD had knowledge of my sworn affadavit posted at The Austin IMC website.
Seven days later...the witness...JOE SANTOS JR WAS MURDERED EXECUTION STYLE...because he was believed to be in possession of videotape of the payoffs to APD bagboys.
Those facts...did not make it into JOHNNY SUTTON'S RECENT INDICTMENT OF THE MEXICAN MAFIA.
I also know about this...having "debriefing FORMER AUSTIN JUNKIE GEORGE REYES who is a primary witness and unindicted coconspirator to numberous MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS IN AUSTIN WHEN THE ALVAREZ BROTHERS WERE DEPLOYED WITH REYES TO SECURE SCOFFLAW JUNKIES OWEING MONEY...who were tied up, and injected with lethal overdoses of Heroin.
The history of Austin...includes alot of Heroin overdoses...of they people Reyes was coerced into "manipulating them into a safe location for the murderers".
I gave this info to FIRED US ATTORNEY FOR SOUTH DAKOTA, JAMES MCMAHON...ANTHONY BROWN AT AUSTIN US ATTORNEYS, AND JOHNNY SUTTON AT THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS.
I offered them the info...after AUSTIN FBI AND SIOUX FALLS FBI wore a "donkey suit" with the head and tail sections going in different directions (Austin FBI wanted to TAMPER WITH ME AS A WITNESS UNCOVERING THEIR CRIMES...SIOUX FALLS FBI WANTED TO STEAL THE INFO AND USE VIOLATE SECTION 2517 OF TITLE III while using "illegally obtained info from NSA wiretapping".
You cannot say...I didn't try to help these punk cocksuckers make a big case...because...I offered to take a polygraph and sign a sworn affadavit that exposed the following corrupt cocksuckers: STAN KNEE, MIKE SHEFFIELD, JIMMY CHAPMAN, RICK COY, RONNIE EARLE, ANTHONY BROWN, JOHN MASPERO, BYRON SAGE, and other AUSTIN FBI SUPERSTARS ENGAGED IN RICO FELONY EXTORTION.
3) PATRIOT ACT MURDERS OF MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES...AND FBI COMPLICITY IN THE PATRIOT ACT ATTEMPTED MURDER OF OMAHA ATTORNEY LEROY ROGERS. The FBI also harassed my father to give them info concerning "what lawyers I knew and trusted" (and likely retained to hide info and evidence of the CARNAHAN--JFK JR--WELLSTONE--CHRISTINA MOORE--RICH GORDON--DEFENBAUGH--KABIESEMAN MURDERS.
ROGERS was fried with microwave radiation to induce a brain stroke, like alot of others that who had the info (SD US SEN TIM JOHNSON, US SEN TED KENNEDY, RICH GORDON).
DR MARK GORDON WAS ALSO ILLEGALLY TORTURED BY DOD CIFA UNIT who worked with and were protected by ROBERT SWAN MUELLLER, III, who was "only standing down while following his punk protocol" when MUELLER tipped off the White House to their murders, after I contacted big, bad, lying, drug dealing punk...Bob Mueller.
4) A whole lot more. All Conyers needs to do is show the White House his SUBPOENA WITH MY NAME ON IT...TO LEAD TO DR MARK GORDONS' SUBPOENA, TO SD HW PATROL CAPTAIN JEFF TALBOT'S SUBPOENA...TO STEVEN PLUTA'S SUBPOENA...TO MARTY JACKLEY'S SUBPOENA...TO DR CHAD CARDA'S SUBPOENA.......ETC.
That's all Conyers has to do....to totally rule the roost.
Soon...FBI, CHENEY, DOD, DUMSFIELD, ADDINGTON, ROVE, MEIRS, BOLTEN....will realize...that in the future the TITANIC WILL SINK, after they ran it up on the rocks.
Eventually, reality will catch up with these scumbags...........especially with MUELLER STANDING DOWN ON THE CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS.
White House Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel on Legal Options?
By Kate Klonick - August 28, 2008, 9:41AM
Could the White House be getting desperate in its dramatic legal battle with the House Judiciary Committee? It certainly looks that way, as they scramble to delay Harriet Miers' congressional testimony after the court's recent denial of their request for a stay.
Yesterday, HJC Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) set Miers testimony for September 11, but the administration isn't going down without a fight.
From the AP:
The Bush administration had already indicated it would appeal but Justice Department lawyers said Wednesday that they will ask the court to step in quickly and temporarily put Miers' appearance on hold while the appeal plays out. It's a risky move for an administration that has spent years trying to strengthen the power of the presidency.
Yesterday, TPM's David Kurtz caught up with Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) at the Democratic National Convention and got his take on the new developments in the Miers case unfolding at the HJC.
Leahy made it clear that this battle wasn't just going to end in the event of an Obama presidency. "I remind them," he said, "I'll still be chairman next year."
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tommy:
Regardless of what happens in the future....LEAHY has been the only half ass promoter of any type of oversight on FBI, DOJ, NSA, CIA, DOD.
The issues and witnesses necessary for full disclosure in the future will be focusing on the following scandals that have been repressed by FBI DIRTY TRICKS, FELONIES, AND CONPIRACIES TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, TAMPER WITH WITNESSES, AND VIOLATE TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242, 1512,1513, AND 2510--et al, specifically SECTION 2517 EXPLICITLY PROHIBITING THE ILLEGAL DISSEMINATION OF ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO IN VIOLATION OF TITLE III (The fed wiretapping statute):
1) SAN ANTONIO FBI COINTELPRO HARASSMENT AND NEUTRALIZATION OF TEXAS SINGER SONGWRITER WILLY NELSON, when FBI "got dirt on Steve Goldfein" after "investigating Willy Nelson's tax attorney (Steve Goldfein's uncle in New York City) to "mislead and tamper with NELSON'S FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH amendment rights when "IRS and FBI colluded to use their cooperating informants" to mislead Nelson into "not taking out a loan to pay off a bogus IRS debt",....replaced by a bogus FBI inspired plan to get NELSON INTO BOGUS TAX SHELTORS THAT COULD BE USED TO TOTALLY BANKRUPT NELSON'S MULTIMILLION DOLLAR ESTATE.
FBI snitch STEVEN GOLDFEIN, was later deployed against me when I lived in Austin, Texas. That's how I got the info. I talked to little STeve.
STEVE was the informant used by FBI AND APD AND TRAVIS COUNTY STATES ATTORNEYS when the OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE using the HAND OFF METHOD of ILLEGALLY LAUNDERING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM WARRANTLES WIRETAPPING, BUGGING, BREAKINS, PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS, MAIL OPENING, BUG IN CAR, GPS IN CAR.
MY FBI OPR COMPLAINT WAS OBSTRUCTED BY ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III, who told his boys to..."go light" and offer the usual "resignation" or investigation that always results in fed faggots resigning to make sure no FBI OPR 302s exist and could be discovered.
2) THE MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS AND APD-FBI-US ATTORNEY ANTHONY BROWN'S COMPLICITY in this RICO FELONY CONSPIRACY TO EXTORT PAYOFFS FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS, PIMPS, BOOKIES, AND TIER ONE, TWO, AND THREE DRUG DEALERS....like the Mexican Mafia....especially the AUSTIN FBI--STAN KNEE--APD conspiracy to MURDER JOE SANTOS JR, after AUSTIN FBI AND APD had knowledge of my sworn affadavit posted at The Austin IMC website.
Seven days later...the witness...JOE SANTOS JR WAS MURDERED EXECUTION STYLE...because he was believed to be in possession of videotape of the payoffs to APD bagboys.
Those facts...did not make it into JOHNNY SUTTON'S RECENT INDICTMENT OF THE MEXICAN MAFIA.
I also know about this...having "debriefing FORMER AUSTIN JUNKIE GEORGE REYES who is a primary witness and unindicted coconspirator to numberous MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS IN AUSTIN WHEN THE ALVAREZ BROTHERS WERE DEPLOYED WITH REYES TO SECURE SCOFFLAW JUNKIES OWEING MONEY...who were tied up, and injected with lethal overdoses of Heroin.
The history of Austin...includes alot of Heroin overdoses...of they people Reyes was coerced into "manipulating them into a safe location for the murderers".
I gave this info to FIRED US ATTORNEY FOR SOUTH DAKOTA, JAMES MCMAHON...ANTHONY BROWN AT AUSTIN US ATTORNEYS, AND JOHNNY SUTTON AT THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS.
I offered them the info...after AUSTIN FBI AND SIOUX FALLS FBI wore a "donkey suit" with the head and tail sections going in different directions (Austin FBI wanted to TAMPER WITH ME AS A WITNESS UNCOVERING THEIR CRIMES...SIOUX FALLS FBI WANTED TO STEAL THE INFO AND USE VIOLATE SECTION 2517 OF TITLE III while using "illegally obtained info from NSA wiretapping".
You cannot say...I didn't try to help these punk cocksuckers make a big case...because...I offered to take a polygraph and sign a sworn affadavit that exposed the following corrupt cocksuckers: STAN KNEE, MIKE SHEFFIELD, JIMMY CHAPMAN, RICK COY, RONNIE EARLE, ANTHONY BROWN, JOHN MASPERO, BYRON SAGE, and other AUSTIN FBI SUPERSTARS ENGAGED IN RICO FELONY EXTORTION.
3) PATRIOT ACT MURDERS OF MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES...AND FBI COMPLICITY IN THE PATRIOT ACT ATTEMPTED MURDER OF OMAHA ATTORNEY LEROY ROGERS. The FBI also harassed my father to give them info concerning "what lawyers I knew and trusted" (and likely retained to hide info and evidence of the CARNAHAN--JFK JR--WELLSTONE--CHRISTINA MOORE--RICH GORDON--DEFENBAUGH--KABIESEMAN MURDERS.
ROGERS was fried with microwave radiation to induce a brain stroke, like alot of others that who had the info (SD US SEN TIM JOHNSON, US SEN TED KENNEDY, RICH GORDON).
DR MARK GORDON WAS ALSO ILLEGALLY TORTURED BY DOD CIFA UNIT who worked with and were protected by ROBERT SWAN MUELLLER, III, who was "only standing down while following his punk protocol" when MUELLER tipped off the White House to their murders, after I contacted big, bad, lying, drug dealing punk...Bob Mueller.
4) A whole lot more. All Conyers needs to do is show the White House his SUBPOENA WITH MY NAME ON IT...TO LEAD TO DR MARK GORDONS' SUBPOENA, TO SD HW PATROL CAPTAIN JEFF TALBOT'S SUBPOENA...TO STEVEN PLUTA'S SUBPOENA...TO MARTY JACKLEY'S SUBPOENA...TO DR CHAD CARDA'S SUBPOENA.......ETC.
That's all Conyers has to do....to totally rule the roost.
Soon...FBI, CHENEY, DOD, DUMSFIELD, ADDINGTON, ROVE, MEIRS, BOLTEN....will realize...that in the future the TITANIC WILL SINK, after they ran it up on the rocks.
Eventually, reality will catch up with these scumbags...........especially with MUELLER STANDING DOWN ON THE CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
MOSSAD'S RICO MAFIA DRUG FAMILY...busted. Is MOSSAD getting run out of America?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26413771/
Alleged Israeli crime boss and brother nabbed
Abergil, charged with distributing Ecstasy pills, faces extradition to U.S.
updated 4:03 a.m. CT, Wed., Aug. 27, 2008
LOS ANGELES - A man suspected of being one of Israel's most powerful crime bosses is charged with using a Los Angeles gang to distribute a million Ecstasy pills and paying one of the gang's members to kill a man for stealing a large drug shipment.
Itzhak Abergil, who prosecutors believe is one of the largest importers of narcotics into the United States, is among seven men listed in a 32-count federal indictment that alleges murder and international drug trafficking.
Abergil and his brother Mier Abergil were arrested Sunday in Israel. They face extradition to Los Angeles, where Itzhak Abergil would be charged with murder and his brother with racketeering and conspiracy.
The others listed on the indictment include four Israelis and a Los Angeles man suspected of being part of the gang that worked with the Abergils.
'Significant racketeering case'
"This is a significant racketeering case involving alleged criminal activity spanning the globe," said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in California.
The indictment alleges the Abergil family is a small but powerful group with a "propensity for violence in Israel and around the world." The family and another group allegedly used members of the Vineland Boyz gang to traffic Ecstasy.
Prosecutors said Itzhak Abergil is one of the 40 biggest importers of narcotics into the U.S. and has been under investigation for more than five years.
Itzhak Abergil called the allegations "police provocation" at a custody hearing Tuesday. "I have never been to the United States," he said in a Jerusalem Post story.
The indictment said the Abergil organization had previously been involved in bank embezzlement in Israel and engaged in illegal activities in the U.S. to launder those proceeds.
Three other suspects were arrested in Israel and a fourth there was still at large.
Authorities were also looking for Luis Sandoval, who is accused of being a senior Vineland Boyz member who planned the killing of Sami Atias in 2003.
Atias and two associates allegedly stole about 350,000 Ecstasy tablets before Atias was shot in the head. The indictment does not identify who pulled the trigger.
Itzhak Abergil and Sandoval are charged with murder and face life in prison if convicted. Mier Abergil could face more than 50 years each in prison.
Alleged Israeli crime boss and brother nabbed
Abergil, charged with distributing Ecstasy pills, faces extradition to U.S.
updated 4:03 a.m. CT, Wed., Aug. 27, 2008
LOS ANGELES - A man suspected of being one of Israel's most powerful crime bosses is charged with using a Los Angeles gang to distribute a million Ecstasy pills and paying one of the gang's members to kill a man for stealing a large drug shipment.
Itzhak Abergil, who prosecutors believe is one of the largest importers of narcotics into the United States, is among seven men listed in a 32-count federal indictment that alleges murder and international drug trafficking.
Abergil and his brother Mier Abergil were arrested Sunday in Israel. They face extradition to Los Angeles, where Itzhak Abergil would be charged with murder and his brother with racketeering and conspiracy.
The others listed on the indictment include four Israelis and a Los Angeles man suspected of being part of the gang that worked with the Abergils.
'Significant racketeering case'
"This is a significant racketeering case involving alleged criminal activity spanning the globe," said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in California.
The indictment alleges the Abergil family is a small but powerful group with a "propensity for violence in Israel and around the world." The family and another group allegedly used members of the Vineland Boyz gang to traffic Ecstasy.
Prosecutors said Itzhak Abergil is one of the 40 biggest importers of narcotics into the U.S. and has been under investigation for more than five years.
Itzhak Abergil called the allegations "police provocation" at a custody hearing Tuesday. "I have never been to the United States," he said in a Jerusalem Post story.
The indictment said the Abergil organization had previously been involved in bank embezzlement in Israel and engaged in illegal activities in the U.S. to launder those proceeds.
Three other suspects were arrested in Israel and a fourth there was still at large.
Authorities were also looking for Luis Sandoval, who is accused of being a senior Vineland Boyz member who planned the killing of Sami Atias in 2003.
Atias and two associates allegedly stole about 350,000 Ecstasy tablets before Atias was shot in the head. The indictment does not identify who pulled the trigger.
Itzhak Abergil and Sandoval are charged with murder and face life in prison if convicted. Mier Abergil could face more than 50 years each in prison.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Fat Lying Secret Cunt (Miers) has to explain "QUID PRO QUO" in south dakota when SD AG OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE FOR CHENEY
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Judge Denies Stay; Miers Must Appear to Answer HJC's Subpoena
By Kate Klonick - August 26, 2008, 2:22PM
A district court judge denied Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten's request for a stay on their Congressional testimony pending the appeal of the recent decision in HJC v. Harriet Miers et al. The decision means that Miers will have to appear in response to the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena for testimony.
From the ruling:
Accordingly, the Court will deny the Executive's request for a stay. Hence, the Executive should respond to the document aspect of the subpoenas by producing non-privileged material and identifying more specifically the materials it is withholding on a claim of executive privilege.
But it is on Ms. Miers's appearance that the dispute principally focuses. This decision should not, however, foreclose the parties' continuing attempts to reach a negotiated solution. Both sides indicated that discussions regarding an accommodation have resumed.
The judge, the Honorable John Bates, has mentioned before that he would really appreciate it if these two parties tried to keep every little squabble out of the court room, and that seemed to be the gist of his ruling:
Had the litigants indicated that a negotiated solution was foreseeable in the near future, the Court may have stayed its hand in the hope that further intervention in this dispute by the Article III branch would not be necessary.
As it stands, however, the Court must decide the questions presented to it. But there is still ample time for the parties to reach an accommodation. The Court's July 31, 2008 Order does not compel Ms. Miers to appear at any particular date.
Technically, this leaves open the possibility of continued negotiations, but considering this administration's history of fighting subpoenas, we're not holding our breath for an out-of-court resolution.
Late update: House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has responded to the ruling:
"Today's ruling clearly rejects the White House's efforts to run out the clock on the Committee's investigation of DOJ politicization this Congress. I am heartened that Judge Bates recognized that the public interest in this matter is best served by the furtherance of the Committee's investigation," Conyers said. "The Committee intends to promptly schedule a hearing with Ms. Miers and stands ready as always to consider any reasonable offer of accommodation with the White House."
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TOMMY:
Practice Pointers for the Democrats trying to do oversight:
1) ALWAYS TALK ABOUT BEAN'S 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT that was obstructed by CHENEY WHITE HOUSE using lawyers like Addington, Miers, Bolten to "negotiate quid pro quo" with SOUTH DAKOTA ATTORNEY GENERALS LARRY LONG, MARK BARNETT, DON SRSTKA who all...obstructed my SD BD OF MEDICAL AND OSTEOPATHIC EXAMINERS COMPLAINT naming DR CHAD CARDA AND JENNIGER BURGER.
2) Always talk about the MURDERS AND ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE ON MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES:
----RICH GORDON, Daschle's ex chief of staff, brother of DR MARK GORDON (a crime victim of SIOUX FALLS FBI AGENTS DAVE HELLER AND DANNY "shithead" Reynalds who destroyed, hounded, harassed, stalked, defamed and colluded to stalk interstate" until Gordon agreed to cooperate with MINNEAPOLIS FBI, who stood down when DOD CIFA UNIT a/o CIA CONTRACTORS TORTURED A COOPERATING FBI WITNESS WITH A DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW.
This was...A CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE, A CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE THE PATRIOT ACT PROHIBITION ON POLITICALLY MOTIVATED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE THAT ORDINARILY WOULD BE FELONIES, A CONSPIRACY TO DEPRIVE CIVIL LIBERTIES IN VIOLATION OF TITLE 18 USC sections 241, 242, and 1512, 1513 (TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS).
3) Talk about TORTURE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER OF BEAN only after he contacted Senator Grassley, after signing a DOJ complaint?
4) TORTURE AND STALKING AND MIND CONTROL CHIPPING of an innocent cooperating witness named THOMAS S. BEAN who tipped off SFPD to the electronic detenators and electronic schematic as part of a request for bid offer sent to ALLAN DOERINGS electronics firm, where Doering gained his suspion.
THE DETENATORS ENDED UP IN THE WRONG HANDS.
DETENATORS SEEN BY DENVER US MARSHALLS INFORMANT CARY GAGEN, who also saw the Iraqis with the building schematic for the Murray Building....yup....the BUILDING SCHEMATIC FOR A FED BUILDING THAT WAS BLOWN UP?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Judge Denies Stay; Miers Must Appear to Answer HJC's Subpoena
By Kate Klonick - August 26, 2008, 2:22PM
A district court judge denied Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten's request for a stay on their Congressional testimony pending the appeal of the recent decision in HJC v. Harriet Miers et al. The decision means that Miers will have to appear in response to the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena for testimony.
From the ruling:
Accordingly, the Court will deny the Executive's request for a stay. Hence, the Executive should respond to the document aspect of the subpoenas by producing non-privileged material and identifying more specifically the materials it is withholding on a claim of executive privilege.
But it is on Ms. Miers's appearance that the dispute principally focuses. This decision should not, however, foreclose the parties' continuing attempts to reach a negotiated solution. Both sides indicated that discussions regarding an accommodation have resumed.
The judge, the Honorable John Bates, has mentioned before that he would really appreciate it if these two parties tried to keep every little squabble out of the court room, and that seemed to be the gist of his ruling:
Had the litigants indicated that a negotiated solution was foreseeable in the near future, the Court may have stayed its hand in the hope that further intervention in this dispute by the Article III branch would not be necessary.
As it stands, however, the Court must decide the questions presented to it. But there is still ample time for the parties to reach an accommodation. The Court's July 31, 2008 Order does not compel Ms. Miers to appear at any particular date.
Technically, this leaves open the possibility of continued negotiations, but considering this administration's history of fighting subpoenas, we're not holding our breath for an out-of-court resolution.
Late update: House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has responded to the ruling:
"Today's ruling clearly rejects the White House's efforts to run out the clock on the Committee's investigation of DOJ politicization this Congress. I am heartened that Judge Bates recognized that the public interest in this matter is best served by the furtherance of the Committee's investigation," Conyers said. "The Committee intends to promptly schedule a hearing with Ms. Miers and stands ready as always to consider any reasonable offer of accommodation with the White House."
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TOMMY:
Practice Pointers for the Democrats trying to do oversight:
1) ALWAYS TALK ABOUT BEAN'S 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT that was obstructed by CHENEY WHITE HOUSE using lawyers like Addington, Miers, Bolten to "negotiate quid pro quo" with SOUTH DAKOTA ATTORNEY GENERALS LARRY LONG, MARK BARNETT, DON SRSTKA who all...obstructed my SD BD OF MEDICAL AND OSTEOPATHIC EXAMINERS COMPLAINT naming DR CHAD CARDA AND JENNIGER BURGER.
2) Always talk about the MURDERS AND ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE ON MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES:
----RICH GORDON, Daschle's ex chief of staff, brother of DR MARK GORDON (a crime victim of SIOUX FALLS FBI AGENTS DAVE HELLER AND DANNY "shithead" Reynalds who destroyed, hounded, harassed, stalked, defamed and colluded to stalk interstate" until Gordon agreed to cooperate with MINNEAPOLIS FBI, who stood down when DOD CIFA UNIT a/o CIA CONTRACTORS TORTURED A COOPERATING FBI WITNESS WITH A DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW.
This was...A CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE, A CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE THE PATRIOT ACT PROHIBITION ON POLITICALLY MOTIVATED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE THAT ORDINARILY WOULD BE FELONIES, A CONSPIRACY TO DEPRIVE CIVIL LIBERTIES IN VIOLATION OF TITLE 18 USC sections 241, 242, and 1512, 1513 (TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS).
3) Talk about TORTURE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER OF BEAN only after he contacted Senator Grassley, after signing a DOJ complaint?
4) TORTURE AND STALKING AND MIND CONTROL CHIPPING of an innocent cooperating witness named THOMAS S. BEAN who tipped off SFPD to the electronic detenators and electronic schematic as part of a request for bid offer sent to ALLAN DOERINGS electronics firm, where Doering gained his suspion.
THE DETENATORS ENDED UP IN THE WRONG HANDS.
DETENATORS SEEN BY DENVER US MARSHALLS INFORMANT CARY GAGEN, who also saw the Iraqis with the building schematic for the Murray Building....yup....the BUILDING SCHEMATIC FOR A FED BUILDING THAT WAS BLOWN UP?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FBI back at COINTELPRO harassment of journalists and others
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/fbi_on_phone_records_seizure_i.php
FBI on Phone Records Seizure: It Was All Just a Miscommunication
By Kate Klonick - August 26, 2008, 1:47PM
The FBI is finally coughing up more details on their illegal phone records demands, following FBI Dir. Robert Mueller's apology two-weeks ago to the Washington Post and the New York Times.
The Washington Times has an interview with FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni, who says there was a "miscommunication" when an "exigent letter" -- which allows FBI agents to gather information without regular judicial oversight -- was sent to obtain Times and Post reporters' phone calls.
From the Washington Times:
Ms. Caproni said the case agent e-mailed an agent in the terrorism-investigating Communications Analysis Unit (CAU) to suggest seeking Justice Department permission and a grand jury subpoena to obtain the reporters' phone records.
Ms. Caproni said the case agent did not say it was an emergency, but the agent in CAU sent an "exigent letter" anyway.
While it is not known why the agent in CAU sent the letter, Ms. Caproni suggested the agent in CAU may have been trying to be helpful. She also noted CAU is on the front lines of the fight against terrorism and that the unit was busy at the time.
Mike German, policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington legislative office, said he didn't buy Ms. Caproni's argument. "It's clear the FBI wants to minimize this as a mistake and not abuse," he said. "The facts are, there was a ridiculous amount of misuse and abuse."
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tommy:
CAPRONI needs to talk alot more about SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA FBI COUNTER INTEL SPECIALIST STEVEN PLUTA illegally "tampering with my course of medical care" when I sought authentic correct x rays showing the MIND CONTROL RFID CHIP that was illegally and involuntarily installed in my skull, while I was asleep after I signed a ten page memo to Sen Grassley, nine months after signing a DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT THAT BOB MUELLER, FBI OPR, all colluded to OBSTRUCT.
CAPRONI needs to talk about...FBI AGENTS LYING TO THE FISA COURT claiming that THOMAS S. BEAN was and "agent of a foreign power" engaged in clandestine activities against the United States.
CAPRONI needs to talk about FBI HQ COLLUDING WITH THE FISA COURT JUDGES TO "not take sworn testimony" in violation of the clear meaning, intent, and requirements of the Fisa Statue.
FBI on Phone Records Seizure: It Was All Just a Miscommunication
By Kate Klonick - August 26, 2008, 1:47PM
The FBI is finally coughing up more details on their illegal phone records demands, following FBI Dir. Robert Mueller's apology two-weeks ago to the Washington Post and the New York Times.
The Washington Times has an interview with FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni, who says there was a "miscommunication" when an "exigent letter" -- which allows FBI agents to gather information without regular judicial oversight -- was sent to obtain Times and Post reporters' phone calls.
From the Washington Times:
Ms. Caproni said the case agent e-mailed an agent in the terrorism-investigating Communications Analysis Unit (CAU) to suggest seeking Justice Department permission and a grand jury subpoena to obtain the reporters' phone records.
Ms. Caproni said the case agent did not say it was an emergency, but the agent in CAU sent an "exigent letter" anyway.
While it is not known why the agent in CAU sent the letter, Ms. Caproni suggested the agent in CAU may have been trying to be helpful. She also noted CAU is on the front lines of the fight against terrorism and that the unit was busy at the time.
Mike German, policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington legislative office, said he didn't buy Ms. Caproni's argument. "It's clear the FBI wants to minimize this as a mistake and not abuse," he said. "The facts are, there was a ridiculous amount of misuse and abuse."
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tommy:
CAPRONI needs to talk alot more about SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA FBI COUNTER INTEL SPECIALIST STEVEN PLUTA illegally "tampering with my course of medical care" when I sought authentic correct x rays showing the MIND CONTROL RFID CHIP that was illegally and involuntarily installed in my skull, while I was asleep after I signed a ten page memo to Sen Grassley, nine months after signing a DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT THAT BOB MUELLER, FBI OPR, all colluded to OBSTRUCT.
CAPRONI needs to talk about...FBI AGENTS LYING TO THE FISA COURT claiming that THOMAS S. BEAN was and "agent of a foreign power" engaged in clandestine activities against the United States.
CAPRONI needs to talk about FBI HQ COLLUDING WITH THE FISA COURT JUDGES TO "not take sworn testimony" in violation of the clear meaning, intent, and requirements of the Fisa Statue.
Did military tell CHENEY "No war with Russia over Wanta Trust Fund Theft" ?
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=130201
PUTIN'S RESPONSES TO NON-PAYMENT OF THE $87 BILLION HE DEMANDED AND IS OWED
As previously reported, GRU-Prime Minister Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin did not receive the $87 billion that he demanded must be placed in his bank account by Monday 18th August. The trail of exactly what happened next went tepid, if not cold: but in essence, the Soviet military, directed by the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye, or Soviet Military Intelligence, a.k.a. the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the General Staff, the most effective military intelligence organisation in the world), positioned forces strategically located so that the Georgian segment of the pipeline can be seized at any time.
Putin then let it be known that payment would have to be completed by the close of business EDT on Friday 22nd August, or he reserved all his options.
Overnight, in the early hours of Saturday morning, a train carrying crude oil was bombed on the line running between Baku, Tbilisi, Gori and the port of Poti that has been extensively destroyed so that it has become useless for US purposes (which explains why USS McFaul has been unloading 'aid' deliveries into the southern port of Batumi, in the semi-autonomous Georgian province of Adjaria, which is controlled by a tin-pot quasi-dictator).
THE BOMBING OF THE CRUDE OIL TRAIN WAS PUTIN'S RESPONSE TO THE FACT THAT HIS EXTENDED DEADLINE OF FRIDAY EVENING EDT WAS MISSED.
According to our reliable sources, NO MENTION OF THE BOMBING OF THIS TRAIN HAD YET SURFACED IN THE U.S. MEDIA AT THE TIME OF THIS UPDATE.
By contrast, the whole of page 29 of The Times, London, was devoted to this matter, complete with a large and horrifying picture of the Azpetrol (Azerbaijani Petrol) train on fire, while the whole of the upper portion of page 13 of The Daily Telegraph was devoted to a like report with a similar horriffic photograph. It can be taken as read that these photographs were distributed by 'authorities', since of course no Western photojournalist could possibly have known about this attack in advance, and in any case no access to the railway line would have been feasible.
As soon as we heard about this attack yesterday morning, from a UK source, the Editor knew that the Settlements had not 'happened' by Friday evening. Furthermore, when discussing this matter on the transatlantic telephone on Sunday evening and Monday afternoon UK time, eavesdropping activity and interference with the calls was more than usually evident. We conclude that the intel cells operating inside all US news rooms were ordered to ensure that no reference to this attack appeared in the US media.
An alternative explanation could be that the attack on the train was a US/Georgian provocation, but the overwhelming likelihood, especially given the precision timing, is that it represented Mr Putin's response to the further non-payment of his $87 billion and to the further thwarting of the Settlement payments.
Moscow needs these payments because the US kleptocrats have sold vast qualtities of fraudulent paper assets, we believe, to the Russians. Implementation of the 'son of the Wanta Plan', as approved and desired by the G-7 powers, will refloat and validate some of these dud 'assets'.
To comment further on related matters at this stage risks treading on the 'real time' constraints that we have temporarily accepted, in the general interest, as outlined above.
The Soviet military were reported last week to have positioned SS-19 missiles in South Ossetia.
• FURTHER UPDATE, 7.30pm UK time, 25th August:
OIL TANKER SINKS IN THE BLACK SEA SATURDAY
A Georgian (supposedly) oil tanker sank in the Black Sea on Saturday, we have just learned. The cover story is that it sank in a violent storm. However we understand that there was no violent storm in the Black Sea yesterday. This event should therefore be seen as a further response by Putin and the GRU, following on from the blowing up of the oil train early Saturday morning in the above context of non-payment of the $87 billion due to him.
The White House has announced (Monday) that it is now reviewing its entire relationship with Russia. In other words, the Bush-directed operation focusing on the USSR triggered after the death of Andropov has now collapsed, as the unravelling of the US Black Operations mounted against the Rest of the World in conformity with the DVD agenda, accelerates.
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--hobie
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U.S. MILITARY TO BUSH: WE WILL NOT ALLOW A WAR
PENTAGON ORDERS BUSH TO PAY SETTLEMENTS TUESDAY
Tuesday 19 August 2008 00:45
• UPDATE, 25th August: SEE FOOT OF THE 19th AUGUST REPORT FOR FURTHER DATA
... INCLUDING THE BOMBING OF A CRUDE OIL TRAIN IN GEORGIA, AND WHAT IT MEANS
... OIL TANKER SUNK IN THE BLACK SEA: FURTHER ESCALATION OF RETALIATION
PUTIN REPLACING SHORT-RANGE WITH LONG-RANGE MISSILES ON BLACK SEA SHIPS
• UPDATE: BLACK SEA SHIPS' MISSILES TO BE EQUIPPED WITH NUCLEAR WARHEADS
MAJOR ESCALATION OF GLOBAL TENSION AS THE BUSH-CHENEY MADMEN SEEK WAR
• UPDATE: LATEST 'IMMUNITIES' EXPIRED SUNDAY PM: SCREENS THEN WENT DEAD
The following reports provide background for what follows: SEE ARCHIVE:
• 12 AUGUST 2008: SETTLEMENT FUNDS SCAMMED DAILY, PUT BACK AT 4.00PM
• 14 AUGUST 2008: PUTIN DEMANDS HIS $30 BILLION, OR HE BROADENS THE WAR
• 16 AUGUST 2008: PUTIN: PAY ME BY MONDAY, OR I OWN THE PIPELINE + GEORGIA
• 18 AUGUST 2008: UPROAR IN D.C. OVER OUR REPORT DATED 16TH AUGUST
London, 19th August 2008: Updated 1.00pm London time:
GRAVE ESCALATION OF TENSIONS ARISING OUT OF BUSH INTRANSIGENCE
In a major escalation of tensions attributable to the greed of Bush 41 and Bush 43, the following grave developments are hereby reported (and expanded from last night's report):
• GRU-Prime Minister Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was NOT paid the $30 billion plus compound interest that he demanded must be paid into the relevant bank account under the unpaid Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols arrangements, aggregating $87 billion. The money should have been seen in the bank account by Monday 18th August 2008, to meet Putin's exasperated deadline. For the grim background, see our reports dated 12th, 14th, 16th and 18th April: ARCHIVE: www.worldreports.org.
• With effect from 12 noon Moscow time, Putin ordered all Russian Naval vessels in the Black Sea area to be re-equipped with LONG-RANGE MISSILES, by which is meant here that the short-range missiles on the ships are being replaced by long-range missiles 'as we speak'. So far we have only been able to verify that the Russian Navy ships in question are the ships of the Black Sea Fleet.
• Overnight we learned that the Russian authorities have announced that the Black Sea Fleet is to be equipped with nuclear warheads. It is not yet evident whether this announcement forms part of what we report above: we think not. At all events, American sources are separately stated to have described this assertion and the Soviets' threat to place Polish cities on Russia's nuclear target list as 'empty rhetoric'. This is CALLOUS STUPIDITY: When a country which has the capacity to carry out a threat issues a threat, the accompanying rhetoric must not be dismissed as bluff.
We will elaborate separately on the reasons for this kind of crass behaviour from the White House, which faces its day of reckoning RIGHT NOW. A separate report will expand further...
• We understand that when he was not paid, Putin let it be known that he would take these steps. He gave the White House time to 'do the necessary', which it refused to do. He then proceeded to issue the order for the Black Sea ships to be re-equipped with long-range intercontinental missiles.
• We separately understand that Bush 41 and 43 have indicated their preference for war, rather than making any payments whatsoever. In response to this stance, we have been advised that:
• The Pentagon has informed President Bush and his demoniac father that THE U.S. MILITARY WILL NOT ALLOW A WAR OVER THE MONEY THAT HE AND HIS CRIMINALIST ASSOCIATES HAVE STOLEN. Therefore, the US military have signalled to the White House that they will adhere to their oath of office and will disobey any instructions from the Commander in Chief to go to war.
• The Pentagon has further demanded that PRESIDENT BUSH MUST RELEASE THE GLOBAL SETTLEMENT FUNDS ON TUESDAY THE 19TH AUGUST 2008, including of course the $87 billion demanded by Mr V. Putin, to which he is entitled under the Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols (taking proper account of the compound interest). 'VERY SHARP' LANGUAGE WAS USED.
• Bush 41, the most wanted and dangerous criminal in the world, again stated on 18th August that 'the money belongs to me and I will not release it'. He's a private citizen.
• The U.S. military now face the following situation. Since they have told the President in so many words that they will DISOBEY ANY ORDERS THAT THE PRESIDENT MAY ISSUE TO START WAR WITH RUSSIA, IN ORDER TO OBFUSCATE AND COVER UP HIS OWN CRIMINALITY, they will be faced with NO CHOICE on Tuesday, if this mad President refuses to comply forthwith and to release the overdue Settlements, but to ARREST THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES on charges of gross treason and endangering the peace and stability of the whole world because of his avarice.
•FACT: The US military have all taken a Constitutional Oath to uphold, defend and preserve the Constitution of the United States. Since the President of the United States is, and will be judged by the military to be, issuing an unlawful order, or in refusing to implement the Settlements today will be acting unlawfully (which of course he does every day), it will be and is, the RESPONSIBILITY of the US military to remove the President from office. Likewise, if the Vice President of the United States persists, along with 'Paulson', Bernanke, Kohn and Greenspan [see forthcoming report] in frustrating the Settlements through fraudulent operations as they are STILL currently doing, these operatives will need to be removed as well. But the military will concentrate on the White House.
• It is not for us to tell the US military what their duty is, but if they flinch from taking the measures that appear to be indispensable, it is not just the United States that will suffer, but the Rest of the World as well. Since we form part of the Rest of the World, we are entitled to urge the US military to CEASE AND DESIST from their feckless cowardice in the face of these endless provocations by the White House, and to do what may need to be done FOR THE SAKE OF THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY. If not the blood of millions, maybe billions, could be on their heads. TIME HAS RUN OUT.
•COMMENT: This is exactly what we have predicted. Bush 43 is possessed. He and his demoniac father actually prefer a WORLD WAR to making the payments that they have stolen. Bush 43 wants to make a BIGGER BANG than the father who abused him. HE MUST BE STOPPED RIGHT NOW.
•UPDATE: Concerning the Settlements: Impeccable senior Trustee sources advised us on Monday evening that the reason given for the non-payment on Sunday was that two key people were 'not in place'. WE ELABORATE; The reason these two key people were not 'in place' is that they have both been threatened with treason under the Patriot Acts by 'Paulson', Bush 43 et al if they fulfil their duty as Treasury compliance officers to implement the Settlements.
At midnight on Sunday, the very latest farcical World Court/ICJ 'immunities' 'expired'. The screens then went dead. Further, senior Trustee sources say that their key associates inside the structures and abroad have ceased contact. This development is thought to relate to the extreme degree of tensions that have developed over this millennial crisis, which will lead to dramatic developments, a catastrophe and/or both of the above. We'll explain what's happened to the money soon.
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tommy:
Don't forget all the tentacles of this scandal....include....MY TEN PAGE MEMO TO IOWA US SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY, whose finance aid was illegally stalked and wiretapped by BLACKWATER using a DOD CIFA UNIT CONTRACT (?) to neutralize the info that I dispursed to THE US SEN JUD COMMITTEE, shortly before the NSA TSP SCANDAL WAS OUTED.
GRASSLEY'S FINANCE AID was not just stalked...but also attacked with a baseball bat?
Two weeks later, Senator Grassley got a bomb threat at an Iowa speaking engagement.
Again, the pussies and liars and right wing gestapo cocksuckers at FBI HQ, again...yes...again...OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE BY COVERING CHENEY'S CRIMINAL FLANKS AS DEAD EYE DICK USES TAX PAYER MONEY TO OPERATE A RIGHT WING DEATH SQUAD CALLED DOD CIFA UNIT contracting with Blackwater (at Minot when nuke stolen...deployed by Cheney to guard Cheney's airplanes and helicopter from sabotage).
PUTIN'S RESPONSES TO NON-PAYMENT OF THE $87 BILLION HE DEMANDED AND IS OWED
As previously reported, GRU-Prime Minister Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin did not receive the $87 billion that he demanded must be placed in his bank account by Monday 18th August. The trail of exactly what happened next went tepid, if not cold: but in essence, the Soviet military, directed by the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye, or Soviet Military Intelligence, a.k.a. the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the General Staff, the most effective military intelligence organisation in the world), positioned forces strategically located so that the Georgian segment of the pipeline can be seized at any time.
Putin then let it be known that payment would have to be completed by the close of business EDT on Friday 22nd August, or he reserved all his options.
Overnight, in the early hours of Saturday morning, a train carrying crude oil was bombed on the line running between Baku, Tbilisi, Gori and the port of Poti that has been extensively destroyed so that it has become useless for US purposes (which explains why USS McFaul has been unloading 'aid' deliveries into the southern port of Batumi, in the semi-autonomous Georgian province of Adjaria, which is controlled by a tin-pot quasi-dictator).
THE BOMBING OF THE CRUDE OIL TRAIN WAS PUTIN'S RESPONSE TO THE FACT THAT HIS EXTENDED DEADLINE OF FRIDAY EVENING EDT WAS MISSED.
According to our reliable sources, NO MENTION OF THE BOMBING OF THIS TRAIN HAD YET SURFACED IN THE U.S. MEDIA AT THE TIME OF THIS UPDATE.
By contrast, the whole of page 29 of The Times, London, was devoted to this matter, complete with a large and horrifying picture of the Azpetrol (Azerbaijani Petrol) train on fire, while the whole of the upper portion of page 13 of The Daily Telegraph was devoted to a like report with a similar horriffic photograph. It can be taken as read that these photographs were distributed by 'authorities', since of course no Western photojournalist could possibly have known about this attack in advance, and in any case no access to the railway line would have been feasible.
As soon as we heard about this attack yesterday morning, from a UK source, the Editor knew that the Settlements had not 'happened' by Friday evening. Furthermore, when discussing this matter on the transatlantic telephone on Sunday evening and Monday afternoon UK time, eavesdropping activity and interference with the calls was more than usually evident. We conclude that the intel cells operating inside all US news rooms were ordered to ensure that no reference to this attack appeared in the US media.
An alternative explanation could be that the attack on the train was a US/Georgian provocation, but the overwhelming likelihood, especially given the precision timing, is that it represented Mr Putin's response to the further non-payment of his $87 billion and to the further thwarting of the Settlement payments.
Moscow needs these payments because the US kleptocrats have sold vast qualtities of fraudulent paper assets, we believe, to the Russians. Implementation of the 'son of the Wanta Plan', as approved and desired by the G-7 powers, will refloat and validate some of these dud 'assets'.
To comment further on related matters at this stage risks treading on the 'real time' constraints that we have temporarily accepted, in the general interest, as outlined above.
The Soviet military were reported last week to have positioned SS-19 missiles in South Ossetia.
• FURTHER UPDATE, 7.30pm UK time, 25th August:
OIL TANKER SINKS IN THE BLACK SEA SATURDAY
A Georgian (supposedly) oil tanker sank in the Black Sea on Saturday, we have just learned. The cover story is that it sank in a violent storm. However we understand that there was no violent storm in the Black Sea yesterday. This event should therefore be seen as a further response by Putin and the GRU, following on from the blowing up of the oil train early Saturday morning in the above context of non-payment of the $87 billion due to him.
The White House has announced (Monday) that it is now reviewing its entire relationship with Russia. In other words, the Bush-directed operation focusing on the USSR triggered after the death of Andropov has now collapsed, as the unravelling of the US Black Operations mounted against the Rest of the World in conformity with the DVD agenda, accelerates.
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--hobie
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U.S. MILITARY TO BUSH: WE WILL NOT ALLOW A WAR
PENTAGON ORDERS BUSH TO PAY SETTLEMENTS TUESDAY
Tuesday 19 August 2008 00:45
• UPDATE, 25th August: SEE FOOT OF THE 19th AUGUST REPORT FOR FURTHER DATA
... INCLUDING THE BOMBING OF A CRUDE OIL TRAIN IN GEORGIA, AND WHAT IT MEANS
... OIL TANKER SUNK IN THE BLACK SEA: FURTHER ESCALATION OF RETALIATION
PUTIN REPLACING SHORT-RANGE WITH LONG-RANGE MISSILES ON BLACK SEA SHIPS
• UPDATE: BLACK SEA SHIPS' MISSILES TO BE EQUIPPED WITH NUCLEAR WARHEADS
MAJOR ESCALATION OF GLOBAL TENSION AS THE BUSH-CHENEY MADMEN SEEK WAR
• UPDATE: LATEST 'IMMUNITIES' EXPIRED SUNDAY PM: SCREENS THEN WENT DEAD
The following reports provide background for what follows: SEE ARCHIVE:
• 12 AUGUST 2008: SETTLEMENT FUNDS SCAMMED DAILY, PUT BACK AT 4.00PM
• 14 AUGUST 2008: PUTIN DEMANDS HIS $30 BILLION, OR HE BROADENS THE WAR
• 16 AUGUST 2008: PUTIN: PAY ME BY MONDAY, OR I OWN THE PIPELINE + GEORGIA
• 18 AUGUST 2008: UPROAR IN D.C. OVER OUR REPORT DATED 16TH AUGUST
London, 19th August 2008: Updated 1.00pm London time:
GRAVE ESCALATION OF TENSIONS ARISING OUT OF BUSH INTRANSIGENCE
In a major escalation of tensions attributable to the greed of Bush 41 and Bush 43, the following grave developments are hereby reported (and expanded from last night's report):
• GRU-Prime Minister Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was NOT paid the $30 billion plus compound interest that he demanded must be paid into the relevant bank account under the unpaid Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols arrangements, aggregating $87 billion. The money should have been seen in the bank account by Monday 18th August 2008, to meet Putin's exasperated deadline. For the grim background, see our reports dated 12th, 14th, 16th and 18th April: ARCHIVE: www.worldreports.org.
• With effect from 12 noon Moscow time, Putin ordered all Russian Naval vessels in the Black Sea area to be re-equipped with LONG-RANGE MISSILES, by which is meant here that the short-range missiles on the ships are being replaced by long-range missiles 'as we speak'. So far we have only been able to verify that the Russian Navy ships in question are the ships of the Black Sea Fleet.
• Overnight we learned that the Russian authorities have announced that the Black Sea Fleet is to be equipped with nuclear warheads. It is not yet evident whether this announcement forms part of what we report above: we think not. At all events, American sources are separately stated to have described this assertion and the Soviets' threat to place Polish cities on Russia's nuclear target list as 'empty rhetoric'. This is CALLOUS STUPIDITY: When a country which has the capacity to carry out a threat issues a threat, the accompanying rhetoric must not be dismissed as bluff.
We will elaborate separately on the reasons for this kind of crass behaviour from the White House, which faces its day of reckoning RIGHT NOW. A separate report will expand further...
• We understand that when he was not paid, Putin let it be known that he would take these steps. He gave the White House time to 'do the necessary', which it refused to do. He then proceeded to issue the order for the Black Sea ships to be re-equipped with long-range intercontinental missiles.
• We separately understand that Bush 41 and 43 have indicated their preference for war, rather than making any payments whatsoever. In response to this stance, we have been advised that:
• The Pentagon has informed President Bush and his demoniac father that THE U.S. MILITARY WILL NOT ALLOW A WAR OVER THE MONEY THAT HE AND HIS CRIMINALIST ASSOCIATES HAVE STOLEN. Therefore, the US military have signalled to the White House that they will adhere to their oath of office and will disobey any instructions from the Commander in Chief to go to war.
• The Pentagon has further demanded that PRESIDENT BUSH MUST RELEASE THE GLOBAL SETTLEMENT FUNDS ON TUESDAY THE 19TH AUGUST 2008, including of course the $87 billion demanded by Mr V. Putin, to which he is entitled under the Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols (taking proper account of the compound interest). 'VERY SHARP' LANGUAGE WAS USED.
• Bush 41, the most wanted and dangerous criminal in the world, again stated on 18th August that 'the money belongs to me and I will not release it'. He's a private citizen.
• The U.S. military now face the following situation. Since they have told the President in so many words that they will DISOBEY ANY ORDERS THAT THE PRESIDENT MAY ISSUE TO START WAR WITH RUSSIA, IN ORDER TO OBFUSCATE AND COVER UP HIS OWN CRIMINALITY, they will be faced with NO CHOICE on Tuesday, if this mad President refuses to comply forthwith and to release the overdue Settlements, but to ARREST THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES on charges of gross treason and endangering the peace and stability of the whole world because of his avarice.
•FACT: The US military have all taken a Constitutional Oath to uphold, defend and preserve the Constitution of the United States. Since the President of the United States is, and will be judged by the military to be, issuing an unlawful order, or in refusing to implement the Settlements today will be acting unlawfully (which of course he does every day), it will be and is, the RESPONSIBILITY of the US military to remove the President from office. Likewise, if the Vice President of the United States persists, along with 'Paulson', Bernanke, Kohn and Greenspan [see forthcoming report] in frustrating the Settlements through fraudulent operations as they are STILL currently doing, these operatives will need to be removed as well. But the military will concentrate on the White House.
• It is not for us to tell the US military what their duty is, but if they flinch from taking the measures that appear to be indispensable, it is not just the United States that will suffer, but the Rest of the World as well. Since we form part of the Rest of the World, we are entitled to urge the US military to CEASE AND DESIST from their feckless cowardice in the face of these endless provocations by the White House, and to do what may need to be done FOR THE SAKE OF THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY. If not the blood of millions, maybe billions, could be on their heads. TIME HAS RUN OUT.
•COMMENT: This is exactly what we have predicted. Bush 43 is possessed. He and his demoniac father actually prefer a WORLD WAR to making the payments that they have stolen. Bush 43 wants to make a BIGGER BANG than the father who abused him. HE MUST BE STOPPED RIGHT NOW.
•UPDATE: Concerning the Settlements: Impeccable senior Trustee sources advised us on Monday evening that the reason given for the non-payment on Sunday was that two key people were 'not in place'. WE ELABORATE; The reason these two key people were not 'in place' is that they have both been threatened with treason under the Patriot Acts by 'Paulson', Bush 43 et al if they fulfil their duty as Treasury compliance officers to implement the Settlements.
At midnight on Sunday, the very latest farcical World Court/ICJ 'immunities' 'expired'. The screens then went dead. Further, senior Trustee sources say that their key associates inside the structures and abroad have ceased contact. This development is thought to relate to the extreme degree of tensions that have developed over this millennial crisis, which will lead to dramatic developments, a catastrophe and/or both of the above. We'll explain what's happened to the money soon.
___________________________________________
tommy:
Don't forget all the tentacles of this scandal....include....MY TEN PAGE MEMO TO IOWA US SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY, whose finance aid was illegally stalked and wiretapped by BLACKWATER using a DOD CIFA UNIT CONTRACT (?) to neutralize the info that I dispursed to THE US SEN JUD COMMITTEE, shortly before the NSA TSP SCANDAL WAS OUTED.
GRASSLEY'S FINANCE AID was not just stalked...but also attacked with a baseball bat?
Two weeks later, Senator Grassley got a bomb threat at an Iowa speaking engagement.
Again, the pussies and liars and right wing gestapo cocksuckers at FBI HQ, again...yes...again...OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE BY COVERING CHENEY'S CRIMINAL FLANKS AS DEAD EYE DICK USES TAX PAYER MONEY TO OPERATE A RIGHT WING DEATH SQUAD CALLED DOD CIFA UNIT contracting with Blackwater (at Minot when nuke stolen...deployed by Cheney to guard Cheney's airplanes and helicopter from sabotage).
Hilary's delegates are getting neutralized?
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=130225
HILLARY DELEGATE LEAVES CONVENTION BECAUSE HIS COUSIN WAS SHOT AND KILLED - 3rd HILLARY DELEGATE WHO CAN'T VOTE FOR HER
Posted By: Rayelan
Date: Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 1:30 a.m. One killed by a crazed man. One dies from a brain aneurysm now one drops out because his cousin was murdered...
This arrived from a reader. I searched the web and found the articles that confirm what he sent.
Another Delegate Drops Out
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:37:39 -0400
Yesterday a 1st grade teacher at the prestigous Beauvoir NCS in Wash DC was shot and killed under strange circumstances in her garage in suburban MD.
An estranged boyfriend who was the school security was blamed, and shot and killed. The police are quickly saying their bullets did not hit the teacher.
The guy was formerly NYPD and a weapons instructor.
Then we find out today her uncle is lieutenant governor of Maryland!!! Who was in Denver and had to leave his fellow delegates.
Not sure if he was a superdelegate, but it seems to sound like something else might have been going down.
Note from Rayelan:
Here are the articles I found that tell part of the story. Yes, Hillary has lost another delegate. Three down so far:
9/25/2007
Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown Endorses Clinton
The Clinton Campaign announced today the endorsement of Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown.
"Hillary Clinton has the experience, the ideas and the strength to lead America along the path of progress," Brown said. "She is the best candidate to restore our standing with our global allies, to support our soldiers at home and abroad, and to improve the quality of life for all Americans."
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=3441
August 25, 2008 - 12:40pm
Lt. Gov. Brown to depart from convention
By Ben Breier
Category: PresidentTags: Democratic National Convention, Cathy Brown, Anthony Brown
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D): FlickrLt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D): FlickrOn the dawn of the start of the Democratic National Convention, Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown will be returning home in light of a personal tragedy involving the death of his cousin, Cathy Brown.
"Shortly after arriving in Denver yesterday afternoon, I learned that my first cousin, Cathy Brown, was killed at her home in Gaithersburg," Brown said in a statement. "I will be traveling back to Maryland immediately to be with my family during this difficult time. I leave my fellow delegates with a heavy heart and I ask that everyone keep my family in their prayers."
http://www.politickermd.com/benbreier/3287/lt-gov-brown-departs-convention
Police: Ex-Boyfriend Fatally Shoots Beauvoir Teacher
Md.'s Lieutenant Governor Leaves Democratic Convention At News Of Cousin's Death
POSTED: 11:58 am EDT August 25, 2008
UPDATED: 6:22 pm EDT August 25, 2008
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown's cousin was shot to death in the garage of her Montgomery Village home Saturday night by an estranged boyfriend, who was killed by police, authorities said Monday.
Montgomery County police said preliminary autopsy results show Catherine Teresa Brown, 40, died from a single gunshot wound. Detectives said the direction of the bullet entry confirms Michael Keith Wilson, 44, of Hagerstown, shot Brown.
http://www.nbc4.com/politics/17288365/detail.html
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http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=130241
MISSING BEAUVOIR TEACHER ALLEGEDLY HAD PHOTOS OF YOUNG BOYS ON SCHOOL CAMERA
Posted By: Sandollar
Date: Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 11:33 a.m.
In Response To: HILLARY DELEGATE LEAVES CONVENTION BECAUSE HIS COUSIN WAS SHOT AND KILLED - 3rd HILLARY DELEGATE WHO CAN'T VOTE FOR HER (Rayelan)
There is a twist to the murder of Catherine Brown. Back in June a male teacher was escorted off the grounds of the pretigous school, Beauvoir. They allegely found photos of young boys on his school owned camera. He was escorted off the campus by the National Cathedral security. (Catherine Brown's boyfriend was on this security force) There are a lot of thoughts on why the school did not call the police first. But what is more disturbing is the fact that NO ONE is releasing this teachers name. And I mean no one.
In any other case, the names are released.
This is pathetic.
Now the authorities are saying that they found his car in the midwest near an airport with a note sugguesting suicide. Why not disclose the exact location of of the car, a picture of the alleged perpetrator and other information so that the public can be on the look out. This certainly cries of cover up. Who is this guy? Why are they protecting him? Without his name and picture being released what is to say he isn't already set up to teach at another school?
And what if anything could this incident have to do with Catherine Brown teacher at Beauvoir and her boyfriend, Michael Wilson? The police are not saying whether their gun(s) could have killed Wilson. They have stated that Wilson killed Brown. Both officers are on administrative leave, which tells me something.
There was allegedly discord in their relationship and she had ended it. The killings were first reported as murder-suicide.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/17279974/detail.html?dl=mainclick
MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, Md. -- A first-grade teacher at the National Cathedral's Elementary school was killed late Saturday in a possible murder-suicide in front of police officers.
(snip)
Police were called to Vineyard Haven Drive in Montgomery Village about 10:30 p.m., for a report of people screaming.
When officers arrived, they found a man with a gun holding Brown against her will in the garage, according to police.
It is unclear what happened next, but shots were fired, and the man and Brown were both killed, police said. Investigators did not say whether the two officers at the scene fired shots, but both have been placed on administrative leave.
They said they are waiting for the results of autopsies to determine who shot who.
Police identified the man involved as Michael Keith Wilson, 44, of Hagerstown. They said he worked as a security guard at the cathedral.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/17234289/detail.html
Missing Ex-Beauvoir Teacher's Car Found In Midwest
WASHINGTON -- The car of an elementary school teacher suspected of possessing inappropriate photos of young boys has been found in the Midwest.
Sources said police want to talk to the teacher, who is believed to be on the run. His car was found in an airport parking lot and had apparently been there for some time, sources said. Sources said a note in the car indicated that he was contemplating suicide and that his body would be found in a nearby lake.
In early June, the teacher, who taught third-graders at Beauvoir Elementary School, was kicked off the campus at the National Cathedral in northwest Washington. On June 12, the school notified parents in a letter that the teacher was in possession of a school-owned camera with inappropriate pictures of a boy. Sources told News4 that pictures of at least three other boys being touched inappropriate ways were on a thumb drive
(snip)
There is a forum called DC Urban Moms and Dads that this whole thing has been discussed. Everyone posts anonymously so it is difficult to read into a lot of this and who’s being motivated to post what.
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/480/17200.page
Anonymous wrote:Bad Karma.
Anonymous wrote:I find it deeply offensive that this unfortunate woman's death is being discussed on a thread entitled "Beauvoir Scandal." Some people should be ashamed of themselves.
I think it possible this was raised because the beauvoir security officer involved in this weekend's awful incident may have also been involved in the decision to walk the beauvoir teacher involved in the "scandal" incident off the school premises rather than calling the police right away.
My comments: Also, if you do wade through the 33 pages on this forum, you will find that this school has ties to the Washington Post. There are a lot of twists and turns in this case concerning the male teacher and the murder of Catherine Brown. And then finally, the connection of Catherine Brown to Maryland’s Lieutenant Governor, Anthony Brown. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families involved.
HILLARY DELEGATE LEAVES CONVENTION BECAUSE HIS COUSIN WAS SHOT AND KILLED - 3rd HILLARY DELEGATE WHO CAN'T VOTE FOR HER
Posted By: Rayelan
Date: Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 1:30 a.m. One killed by a crazed man. One dies from a brain aneurysm now one drops out because his cousin was murdered...
This arrived from a reader. I searched the web and found the articles that confirm what he sent.
Another Delegate Drops Out
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:37:39 -0400
Yesterday a 1st grade teacher at the prestigous Beauvoir NCS in Wash DC was shot and killed under strange circumstances in her garage in suburban MD.
An estranged boyfriend who was the school security was blamed, and shot and killed. The police are quickly saying their bullets did not hit the teacher.
The guy was formerly NYPD and a weapons instructor.
Then we find out today her uncle is lieutenant governor of Maryland!!! Who was in Denver and had to leave his fellow delegates.
Not sure if he was a superdelegate, but it seems to sound like something else might have been going down.
Note from Rayelan:
Here are the articles I found that tell part of the story. Yes, Hillary has lost another delegate. Three down so far:
9/25/2007
Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown Endorses Clinton
The Clinton Campaign announced today the endorsement of Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown.
"Hillary Clinton has the experience, the ideas and the strength to lead America along the path of progress," Brown said. "She is the best candidate to restore our standing with our global allies, to support our soldiers at home and abroad, and to improve the quality of life for all Americans."
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=3441
August 25, 2008 - 12:40pm
Lt. Gov. Brown to depart from convention
By Ben Breier
Category: PresidentTags: Democratic National Convention, Cathy Brown, Anthony Brown
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D): FlickrLt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D): FlickrOn the dawn of the start of the Democratic National Convention, Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown will be returning home in light of a personal tragedy involving the death of his cousin, Cathy Brown.
"Shortly after arriving in Denver yesterday afternoon, I learned that my first cousin, Cathy Brown, was killed at her home in Gaithersburg," Brown said in a statement. "I will be traveling back to Maryland immediately to be with my family during this difficult time. I leave my fellow delegates with a heavy heart and I ask that everyone keep my family in their prayers."
http://www.politickermd.com/benbreier/3287/lt-gov-brown-departs-convention
Police: Ex-Boyfriend Fatally Shoots Beauvoir Teacher
Md.'s Lieutenant Governor Leaves Democratic Convention At News Of Cousin's Death
POSTED: 11:58 am EDT August 25, 2008
UPDATED: 6:22 pm EDT August 25, 2008
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown's cousin was shot to death in the garage of her Montgomery Village home Saturday night by an estranged boyfriend, who was killed by police, authorities said Monday.
Montgomery County police said preliminary autopsy results show Catherine Teresa Brown, 40, died from a single gunshot wound. Detectives said the direction of the bullet entry confirms Michael Keith Wilson, 44, of Hagerstown, shot Brown.
http://www.nbc4.com/politics/17288365/detail.html
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http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=130241
MISSING BEAUVOIR TEACHER ALLEGEDLY HAD PHOTOS OF YOUNG BOYS ON SCHOOL CAMERA
Posted By: Sandollar
Date: Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 11:33 a.m.
In Response To: HILLARY DELEGATE LEAVES CONVENTION BECAUSE HIS COUSIN WAS SHOT AND KILLED - 3rd HILLARY DELEGATE WHO CAN'T VOTE FOR HER (Rayelan)
There is a twist to the murder of Catherine Brown. Back in June a male teacher was escorted off the grounds of the pretigous school, Beauvoir. They allegely found photos of young boys on his school owned camera. He was escorted off the campus by the National Cathedral security. (Catherine Brown's boyfriend was on this security force) There are a lot of thoughts on why the school did not call the police first. But what is more disturbing is the fact that NO ONE is releasing this teachers name. And I mean no one.
In any other case, the names are released.
This is pathetic.
Now the authorities are saying that they found his car in the midwest near an airport with a note sugguesting suicide. Why not disclose the exact location of of the car, a picture of the alleged perpetrator and other information so that the public can be on the look out. This certainly cries of cover up. Who is this guy? Why are they protecting him? Without his name and picture being released what is to say he isn't already set up to teach at another school?
And what if anything could this incident have to do with Catherine Brown teacher at Beauvoir and her boyfriend, Michael Wilson? The police are not saying whether their gun(s) could have killed Wilson. They have stated that Wilson killed Brown. Both officers are on administrative leave, which tells me something.
There was allegedly discord in their relationship and she had ended it. The killings were first reported as murder-suicide.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/17279974/detail.html?dl=mainclick
MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, Md. -- A first-grade teacher at the National Cathedral's Elementary school was killed late Saturday in a possible murder-suicide in front of police officers.
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Police were called to Vineyard Haven Drive in Montgomery Village about 10:30 p.m., for a report of people screaming.
When officers arrived, they found a man with a gun holding Brown against her will in the garage, according to police.
It is unclear what happened next, but shots were fired, and the man and Brown were both killed, police said. Investigators did not say whether the two officers at the scene fired shots, but both have been placed on administrative leave.
They said they are waiting for the results of autopsies to determine who shot who.
Police identified the man involved as Michael Keith Wilson, 44, of Hagerstown. They said he worked as a security guard at the cathedral.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/17234289/detail.html
Missing Ex-Beauvoir Teacher's Car Found In Midwest
WASHINGTON -- The car of an elementary school teacher suspected of possessing inappropriate photos of young boys has been found in the Midwest.
Sources said police want to talk to the teacher, who is believed to be on the run. His car was found in an airport parking lot and had apparently been there for some time, sources said. Sources said a note in the car indicated that he was contemplating suicide and that his body would be found in a nearby lake.
In early June, the teacher, who taught third-graders at Beauvoir Elementary School, was kicked off the campus at the National Cathedral in northwest Washington. On June 12, the school notified parents in a letter that the teacher was in possession of a school-owned camera with inappropriate pictures of a boy. Sources told News4 that pictures of at least three other boys being touched inappropriate ways were on a thumb drive
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There is a forum called DC Urban Moms and Dads that this whole thing has been discussed. Everyone posts anonymously so it is difficult to read into a lot of this and who’s being motivated to post what.
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/480/17200.page
Anonymous wrote:Bad Karma.
Anonymous wrote:I find it deeply offensive that this unfortunate woman's death is being discussed on a thread entitled "Beauvoir Scandal." Some people should be ashamed of themselves.
I think it possible this was raised because the beauvoir security officer involved in this weekend's awful incident may have also been involved in the decision to walk the beauvoir teacher involved in the "scandal" incident off the school premises rather than calling the police right away.
My comments: Also, if you do wade through the 33 pages on this forum, you will find that this school has ties to the Washington Post. There are a lot of twists and turns in this case concerning the male teacher and the murder of Catherine Brown. And then finally, the connection of Catherine Brown to Maryland’s Lieutenant Governor, Anthony Brown. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families involved.
whackIng out Obama....whose patsies are on the loose, and does POLICE STATE SUPPORT ASSASINATIONS OF DEMOCRATS?
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1130.htm
August 26, 2008
Shocking Israeli Plot To Assassinate Obama Foiled In US
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
FSB reports to Prime Minister Putin circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that an Israeli based plot to assassinate the United States Democratic Party Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has been foiled due to information relayed to American Intelligence Officials from Russian Military Forces who are still decrypting secret documents captured in Georgia from retreating Georgian special forces troops trained in Israel.
According to these reports, Russian forces had captured secret war documents, and plans, drawn up by former Israeli Brigadier General Gal Hirsch [pictured 2nd photo on left] who commanded Israel’s forces during their disastrous 2006 war in Lebanon, who resigned prior to his being investigated for his war failures, and was in command of Georgian Military Forces during their, likewise, disastrous invasion of Russian protected South Ossetia.
Contained in these captured documents, these reports continue, was one titled “Operation Drago” which detailed the assassination plot in ‘great detail’, including its ‘main objective’ to foist blame for the killing of Barack Obama on Neo-Nazi connected White Supremacist groups based in the United States.
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TOMMY:
Don't forget that long ago OPERATION RUSHMORE was organized by MOSSAD law firm in San Francisco....and included some Navy SEALs....who...uh...got outed accidently when the female lawyer told her boyfriend (security guard for the building) who then told FBI and or local law enforcement, who then told FBI HQ...went to BUSH 41 WHITE HOUSE...TO JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF...back to NAVY SEAL COMMANDER working the hit on Clinton...who was then told to "clean up the operation" .
The female lawyer...was murdered...and the security guard was pushed into a San Francisco tram.
FBI HQ under Mueller, has continually conspired to cover up the MOSSAD MURDER OF AUSTIN, TEXAS PALESTINIAN PEACE ACTIVIST HAMID, found floating in Lady Bird Lake with his hands tied behind his back (APD SAID THIS WAS AN OBVIOUS SUICIDE?????).
HOUSTON cia asset CARNABY, was linked to Hamid, when they stopped the latest neocon MOSSAD suitcase nuke false flag event in middle east....done to bring America into the IRAN war?
CARNABY murdered on tape (go to youtube for police helicopter video) with CHENEY ordering SECRET SERVICE TO COPY AND STEAL ALL OF CARNABY'S INFO FROM ELECTRONICS.....when SECRET SERVICE has no jurisdiction or perogative to work a PATRIOT ACT MURDER OF A CIA ASSET??????????????????????
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It is interesting to note that the American Democratic National Committee’s logo for their Denver, Colorado, convention [see 4th photo on left] has incorporated in it a depiction of the Drago Constellation, and which is described:
“For an observer on the Northern Hemisphere, the constellation Dragon is one of the mightiest and impresses monsters on the sky.
Like a snake he winds his body (tail of the Dragon) through the Little and the Great Bear in direction to the Pole Star, than he bends before the Kepheus in direction to Wega and the constellation Hercules (head of the Dragon).”
According to Western propaganda media reports on this plot we learn that a Neo-Nazi ‘outlaw biker gang’ called Sons of Silence were intended to be the patsies blamed for the assassination of Obama, even to the point of their ‘leader’, and who attempted to jump to his death prior to being captured, being named Shawn Adolf, in a not-so-transparent effort to better reinforce the American publics perceptions of whom to blame for this killing.
British reports state that Tharin Robert Gartrell [pictured 3rd photo on left] had stated to US Intelligence Officials, that he and his co-conspirators “planned to kill Barack Obama at his acceptance speech by shooting him from a high vantage point using a rifle sighted at 750 yards”.
Russian Intelligence Analysts have long reported on the predilection of right-wing Israeli Military and Political factions to use assassinations as a ‘tool’ for the furtherance of their objectives in protecting their state against their enemies, which include the assassination of their own leader, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin murdered by conspiracy in 1995 prior to his making peace with the Palestinians.
Further driving the fears of the Israelis against Obama, and as we had reported on in our August 23rd report “Vatican Moves For Total US Takeover With Obama Vice President Pick”, is their knowing that they are about to be, literally, crushed by the tides of World War gathering force around them.
With an American Government fully controlled by Vatican forces, and who are long steeped in the Nazi racial beliefs of Western supremacy over all of the peoples of the World, and then coupled with the already existing apocalyptic Jewish religious belief system, one can, indeed, see that the Israelis greatest fears of total destruction are soon to be realized.
To the full outcome of these events it is not in our knowing, other than to state that based upon the past actions of the War Leaders of the United States, the retribution exacted against Israel will, no doubt, be swift in coming and brutal in its outcome.
After all, if the Roman Catholics have proved one thing, above all, over these past nearly 2,000 years, it is that they have no qualms, whatsoever, in mass deaths to further their aim of Total World Domination.
© August 26, 2008 EU and US all rights reserved.
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http://cbs13.com/cbsnational/assisination.plot.obama.2.802884.html
Police Investigate Possible Plot To Kill Obama
DENVER (CBS) ― Denver's U.S. attorney is expected to speak on Tuesday afternoon about the arrests of four people suspected in a possible plot to shoot Barack Obama at his Thursday night acceptance speech in Denver. All are being held on either drug or weapons charges.
One of those suspects spoke exclusively to CBS Station KCNC-TV's investigative reporter Brian Maass from inside the Denver City Jail late Monday night and said his friends had discussed killing Obama.
"So your friends were saying threatening things about Obama?" Maass asked.
"Yeah," Nathan Johnson replied.
"It sounded like they didn't want him to be president?"
"Yeah," Johnson said.
Maass reported earlier Monday that one of the suspects told authorities they were "going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a ... rifle ... sighted at 750 yards."
Law enforcement sources told Maass that one of the suspects "was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama. He responded in the affirmative."
The story began emerging Sunday morning when Aurora police arrested Tharin Gartrell, 28. He was driving a rented pickup truck in an erratic manner, according to sources.
Sources told KCNC-TV that police found two high-powered, scoped rifles in the car along with camouflage clothing, walkie-talkies, wigs, a bulletproof vest, a spotting scope, licenses in the names of other people and 44 grams of methamphetamine. One of the rifles is listed as stolen from Kansas.
Aurora police alerted federal officials because of heightened security surrounding the Democratic convention, Aurora police Det. Marcus Dudley said.
"Clearly we feel that there are federal implications -- otherwise we would not have notified those agencies," Dudley said Monday night. "The weapons clearly would cause great concern."
Subsequently authorities went to the Cherry Creek Hotel in Glendale to contact an associate of Gartrell's. But that man, identified as Shawn Robert Adolph, 33, who was wanted on numerous warrants, jumped out of a sixth floor hotel window. Law enforcement sources say Adolph broke an ankle in the fall and was captured moments later. Sources say he had a handcuff ring and was wearing a swastika, and is thought to have ties to white supremacist organizations.
Nathan Johnson, 32, an associate of Gartrell and Adolph, was also arrested Sunday morning. He told authorities that the two men had "planned to kill Barack Obama at his acceptance speech."
"He don't belong in political office. Blacks don't belong in political office. He ought to be shot," Johnson told Maass.
"Do you think they were really plotting to kill Obama?" Maass asked.
"I don't want to say yes. I don't want to say no," he said.
Johnson's girlfriend Natasha Gromek is also under arrest on drug charges.
The Secret Service, FBI, ATF and the joint terrorism task force are all investigating the alleged plot. Dudley didn't say what tied the men together but said more arrests were possible.
Officials with the U.S. Attorney's office in Denver said they do not believe there is a credible threat to Obama or the convention.
"It's premature to say that it was a valid threat or that these folks have the ability to carry it out," said a U.S. government official familiar with the investigation. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said the case was under investigation.
"We're absolutely confident there is no credible threat to the candidate, the Democratic National Convention, or the people of Colorado," Eid said in a prepared statement.
Gartrell, who has no known address, was being held at the Arapahoe County jail on $50,000 bail on drug and weapons charges. The jail said he was due in court Thursday.
(© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
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http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/eu_russia0447_08_20.asp
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Russia threatens sale of offensive weapons to Israel's enemies
MOSCOW — Russian security officials threatened retaliation against Israel for its weapons exports to Georgia including eight different aerial drones.
Russian Deputy Chief of Staff Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn said Israel supplied at least eight different models of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Georgia. Nogovitsyn said Israel has also sold a range of weapons and sought to export main battle tanks to Georgia.
Russian diplomatic sources said the government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was furious over Israel's refusal to impose a military embargo on Georgia. The sources said Putin's aides had urged Israel several times to halt weapons exports.
"We asked Israel not to sell offensive weapons to a hostile neighboring state, but they said they're a sovereign state," a diplomatic source said.
"Well, Israel shouldn't be surprised if we sell offensive weapons to Israel's neighbors."
Already, Russia, in wake of its military victory over Georgia, has scheduled a summit with Syria to discuss offensive weapons sales, the sources said. Syrian President Bashar Assad was scheduled to meet Putin in Moscow on Aug. 20.
August 26, 2008
Shocking Israeli Plot To Assassinate Obama Foiled In US
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
FSB reports to Prime Minister Putin circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that an Israeli based plot to assassinate the United States Democratic Party Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has been foiled due to information relayed to American Intelligence Officials from Russian Military Forces who are still decrypting secret documents captured in Georgia from retreating Georgian special forces troops trained in Israel.
According to these reports, Russian forces had captured secret war documents, and plans, drawn up by former Israeli Brigadier General Gal Hirsch [pictured 2nd photo on left] who commanded Israel’s forces during their disastrous 2006 war in Lebanon, who resigned prior to his being investigated for his war failures, and was in command of Georgian Military Forces during their, likewise, disastrous invasion of Russian protected South Ossetia.
Contained in these captured documents, these reports continue, was one titled “Operation Drago” which detailed the assassination plot in ‘great detail’, including its ‘main objective’ to foist blame for the killing of Barack Obama on Neo-Nazi connected White Supremacist groups based in the United States.
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TOMMY:
Don't forget that long ago OPERATION RUSHMORE was organized by MOSSAD law firm in San Francisco....and included some Navy SEALs....who...uh...got outed accidently when the female lawyer told her boyfriend (security guard for the building) who then told FBI and or local law enforcement, who then told FBI HQ...went to BUSH 41 WHITE HOUSE...TO JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF...back to NAVY SEAL COMMANDER working the hit on Clinton...who was then told to "clean up the operation" .
The female lawyer...was murdered...and the security guard was pushed into a San Francisco tram.
FBI HQ under Mueller, has continually conspired to cover up the MOSSAD MURDER OF AUSTIN, TEXAS PALESTINIAN PEACE ACTIVIST HAMID, found floating in Lady Bird Lake with his hands tied behind his back (APD SAID THIS WAS AN OBVIOUS SUICIDE?????).
HOUSTON cia asset CARNABY, was linked to Hamid, when they stopped the latest neocon MOSSAD suitcase nuke false flag event in middle east....done to bring America into the IRAN war?
CARNABY murdered on tape (go to youtube for police helicopter video) with CHENEY ordering SECRET SERVICE TO COPY AND STEAL ALL OF CARNABY'S INFO FROM ELECTRONICS.....when SECRET SERVICE has no jurisdiction or perogative to work a PATRIOT ACT MURDER OF A CIA ASSET??????????????????????
__________________________________
It is interesting to note that the American Democratic National Committee’s logo for their Denver, Colorado, convention [see 4th photo on left] has incorporated in it a depiction of the Drago Constellation, and which is described:
“For an observer on the Northern Hemisphere, the constellation Dragon is one of the mightiest and impresses monsters on the sky.
Like a snake he winds his body (tail of the Dragon) through the Little and the Great Bear in direction to the Pole Star, than he bends before the Kepheus in direction to Wega and the constellation Hercules (head of the Dragon).”
According to Western propaganda media reports on this plot we learn that a Neo-Nazi ‘outlaw biker gang’ called Sons of Silence were intended to be the patsies blamed for the assassination of Obama, even to the point of their ‘leader’, and who attempted to jump to his death prior to being captured, being named Shawn Adolf, in a not-so-transparent effort to better reinforce the American publics perceptions of whom to blame for this killing.
British reports state that Tharin Robert Gartrell [pictured 3rd photo on left] had stated to US Intelligence Officials, that he and his co-conspirators “planned to kill Barack Obama at his acceptance speech by shooting him from a high vantage point using a rifle sighted at 750 yards”.
Russian Intelligence Analysts have long reported on the predilection of right-wing Israeli Military and Political factions to use assassinations as a ‘tool’ for the furtherance of their objectives in protecting their state against their enemies, which include the assassination of their own leader, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin murdered by conspiracy in 1995 prior to his making peace with the Palestinians.
Further driving the fears of the Israelis against Obama, and as we had reported on in our August 23rd report “Vatican Moves For Total US Takeover With Obama Vice President Pick”, is their knowing that they are about to be, literally, crushed by the tides of World War gathering force around them.
With an American Government fully controlled by Vatican forces, and who are long steeped in the Nazi racial beliefs of Western supremacy over all of the peoples of the World, and then coupled with the already existing apocalyptic Jewish religious belief system, one can, indeed, see that the Israelis greatest fears of total destruction are soon to be realized.
To the full outcome of these events it is not in our knowing, other than to state that based upon the past actions of the War Leaders of the United States, the retribution exacted against Israel will, no doubt, be swift in coming and brutal in its outcome.
After all, if the Roman Catholics have proved one thing, above all, over these past nearly 2,000 years, it is that they have no qualms, whatsoever, in mass deaths to further their aim of Total World Domination.
© August 26, 2008 EU and US all rights reserved.
____________________________________
http://cbs13.com/cbsnational/assisination.plot.obama.2.802884.html
Police Investigate Possible Plot To Kill Obama
DENVER (CBS) ― Denver's U.S. attorney is expected to speak on Tuesday afternoon about the arrests of four people suspected in a possible plot to shoot Barack Obama at his Thursday night acceptance speech in Denver. All are being held on either drug or weapons charges.
One of those suspects spoke exclusively to CBS Station KCNC-TV's investigative reporter Brian Maass from inside the Denver City Jail late Monday night and said his friends had discussed killing Obama.
"So your friends were saying threatening things about Obama?" Maass asked.
"Yeah," Nathan Johnson replied.
"It sounded like they didn't want him to be president?"
"Yeah," Johnson said.
Maass reported earlier Monday that one of the suspects told authorities they were "going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a ... rifle ... sighted at 750 yards."
Law enforcement sources told Maass that one of the suspects "was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama. He responded in the affirmative."
The story began emerging Sunday morning when Aurora police arrested Tharin Gartrell, 28. He was driving a rented pickup truck in an erratic manner, according to sources.
Sources told KCNC-TV that police found two high-powered, scoped rifles in the car along with camouflage clothing, walkie-talkies, wigs, a bulletproof vest, a spotting scope, licenses in the names of other people and 44 grams of methamphetamine. One of the rifles is listed as stolen from Kansas.
Aurora police alerted federal officials because of heightened security surrounding the Democratic convention, Aurora police Det. Marcus Dudley said.
"Clearly we feel that there are federal implications -- otherwise we would not have notified those agencies," Dudley said Monday night. "The weapons clearly would cause great concern."
Subsequently authorities went to the Cherry Creek Hotel in Glendale to contact an associate of Gartrell's. But that man, identified as Shawn Robert Adolph, 33, who was wanted on numerous warrants, jumped out of a sixth floor hotel window. Law enforcement sources say Adolph broke an ankle in the fall and was captured moments later. Sources say he had a handcuff ring and was wearing a swastika, and is thought to have ties to white supremacist organizations.
Nathan Johnson, 32, an associate of Gartrell and Adolph, was also arrested Sunday morning. He told authorities that the two men had "planned to kill Barack Obama at his acceptance speech."
"He don't belong in political office. Blacks don't belong in political office. He ought to be shot," Johnson told Maass.
"Do you think they were really plotting to kill Obama?" Maass asked.
"I don't want to say yes. I don't want to say no," he said.
Johnson's girlfriend Natasha Gromek is also under arrest on drug charges.
The Secret Service, FBI, ATF and the joint terrorism task force are all investigating the alleged plot. Dudley didn't say what tied the men together but said more arrests were possible.
Officials with the U.S. Attorney's office in Denver said they do not believe there is a credible threat to Obama or the convention.
"It's premature to say that it was a valid threat or that these folks have the ability to carry it out," said a U.S. government official familiar with the investigation. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said the case was under investigation.
"We're absolutely confident there is no credible threat to the candidate, the Democratic National Convention, or the people of Colorado," Eid said in a prepared statement.
Gartrell, who has no known address, was being held at the Arapahoe County jail on $50,000 bail on drug and weapons charges. The jail said he was due in court Thursday.
(© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
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http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/eu_russia0447_08_20.asp
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Russia threatens sale of offensive weapons to Israel's enemies
MOSCOW — Russian security officials threatened retaliation against Israel for its weapons exports to Georgia including eight different aerial drones.
Russian Deputy Chief of Staff Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn said Israel supplied at least eight different models of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Georgia. Nogovitsyn said Israel has also sold a range of weapons and sought to export main battle tanks to Georgia.
Russian diplomatic sources said the government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was furious over Israel's refusal to impose a military embargo on Georgia. The sources said Putin's aides had urged Israel several times to halt weapons exports.
"We asked Israel not to sell offensive weapons to a hostile neighboring state, but they said they're a sovereign state," a diplomatic source said.
"Well, Israel shouldn't be surprised if we sell offensive weapons to Israel's neighbors."
Already, Russia, in wake of its military victory over Georgia, has scheduled a summit with Syria to discuss offensive weapons sales, the sources said. Syrian President Bashar Assad was scheduled to meet Putin in Moscow on Aug. 20.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Faggot Lying punk scum at FBI blow their own horn as more disinfo ignores FBI COMPLICITY IN DESTROYING AMERICA
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mortgagefraud25-2008aug25,1,4792318.story
FBI saw threat of mortgage crisis
Linda Spillers / For The Times
By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 25, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Long before the mortgage crisis began rocking Main Street and Wall Street, a top FBI official made a chilling, if little-noticed, prediction: The booming mortgage business, fueled by low interest rates and soaring home values, was starting to attract shady operators and billions in losses were possible.
"It has the potential to be an epidemic," Chris Swecker, the FBI official in charge of criminal investigations, told reporters in September 2004. But, he added reassuringly, the FBI was on the case. "We think we can prevent a problem that could have as much impact as the S&L crisis," he said.
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tommy:
This is a story?
An FBI punk shithead "takes post hoc" credit for "knowing the shit would fall on everyone's head" and..............the FBI THOUGHT THEY COULD SOME HOW SQUEEZE SOME KIND OF CREDIBILITY OR RESPECT from this "revisionistic self serving smoke screen" that amounts.....................to what?
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Today, the damage from the global mortgage meltdown has more than matched that of the savings-and-loan bailouts of the 1980s and early 1990s. By some estimates, it has made that costly debacle look like chump change. But it's also clear that the FBI failed to avert a problem it had accurately forecast.
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tommy:
THE FBI DID THEIR JOB: they are a politicized GOP secret Gestapo with a variety of corrupt duties including: TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES...SLANDERING WITNESSES AS TERRORISTS....AIDING AND ABETTING A RIGHT WING TERRORIST ORGANIZATION KNOWN AS MOSSAD--NSA--DOD CIFA UNIT--BLACKWATER GROUP--CHENEY'S WHITE HOUSE--CIA--HOMELAND SECURITY.
THE FBI'S JOB IS..................always attack the victim...always slander the victim...alwasy TAMPER, COERCER, LIE, SCAM, DOMINATE, PERJURE, THREATEN, AND BLOW SMOKE TO USE CHICANERY AND STUPIDITY AND CRIMINALITY as a raison d'etre, as part of a hubris induced, megalmaniacal, Narcissitic, Groupthink TOTAL FUCKING CLUSTERFUCK.
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Banks and brokerages have written down more than $300 billion of mortgage-backed securities and other risky investments in the last year or so as homeowner defaults leaped and weakness in the real estate market spread.
In California alone, lenders have foreclosed on $100 billion worth of homes over the last two years and are foreclosing at a rate of 1,300 houses every business day, according to a recent report from ForeclosureRadar.com.
Most observers have declared the mess a gross failure of regulation. To be sure, in the run-up to the crisis, market-oriented federal regulators bragged about their hands-off treatment of banks and other savings institutions and their executives. But it wasn't just regulators who were looking the other way. The FBI and its parent agency, the Justice Department, are supposed to act as the cops on the beat for potentially illegal activities by bankers and others. But they were focused on national security and other priorities, and paid scant attention to white-collar crimes that may have contributed to the lending and securities debacle.
Now that the problems are out in the open, the government's response strikes some veteran regulators as too little, too late.
Swecker, who retired from the FBI in 2006, declined to comment for this article.
But sources familiar with the FBI budget process, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the growing fraud problem, say that he and other FBI criminal investigators sought additional assistance to take on the mortgage scoundrels.
They ended up with fewer resources, rather than more.
In 2007, the number of agents pursuing mortgage fraud shrank to around 100. By comparison, the FBI had about 1,000 agents deployed on banking fraud during the S&L bust of the 1980s and '90s, said Anthony Adamski, who oversaw financial crime investigations for the FBI at the time.
The FBI says it now has about 200 agents working on mortgage fraud, but critics say the agency might have averted much of the problem had it heeded its own warning.
"The FBI correctly diagnosed that mortgage fraud was epidemic, but it did not come close to meeting its announced goal," said William K. Black, who was a federal regulator during the S&L crisis and now teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
"It used everyday procedures and woefully inadequate resources to deal with an epidemic," he said. "The approach was certain to bring symbolic prosecutions and strategic defeat."
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TOMMY:
THE FBI HQ...a political corrupt whore act always tied to the SHADOW GOVERNMENT PLAYERS WHO DO NOT GO TO JAIL....has always known that FAILURE IS SUCCESS, AND SUCCESS IS FAILURE.
IF YOU KNEW WHAT I KNOW ABOUT OK CITY BOMB, AND who gave SFPD the info they needed to work with SOUTH DAKOTA BATF AND SD FBI to track the FUCKING DETENTATORS to McVeigh and Nichols and others (seen by Denver US Marshalls informant CARY GAGEN) TO PREVENT TERRORISM....................................then you would say they same things I am saying.
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The mortgage debacle has laid bare a system marked by dubious practices at every stage of the process. Lenders often made loans to borrowers who had limited ability to repay them but little desire to pass up the dream of homeownership. Many loans lacked basic documentation, such as information about borrowers' incomes.
Still, mortgage companies could hardly sell them fast enough, packaging the loans as investment securities and peddling them to eager buyers on Wall Street.
The FBI defends its handling of the crisis, with officials contending that as home prices were rising several years ago, the trouble brewing in the mortgage market -- and the potential crimes behind it -- was not immediately apparent.
Officials said they began approaching mortgage companies and others in an attempt to raise awareness about the growing fraud problem. But the lenders had little incentive to cooperate because they were continuing to make money. Black says that in many cases, they were part of the fraud.
"Nobody wanted to listen," Sharon Ormsby, the chief of the FBI's financial crimes section, said in an interview. "We were dealing with the issue as best we could back then."
Over the last three years, the FBI and other agencies have brought dozens of mortgage-fraud cases. The bureau has rooted out foreclosure rescue schemes in which homeowners are tricked into signing over the deeds to their homes to operators who buried the properties even deeper in debt. Agents have disrupted cases of identity theft in which criminals open -- and exhaust -- home equity lines of credit and leave homeowners stuck with the bill.
Many of the cases have been relatively small, however, with about half the investigations involving losses of less than $1 million -- the size of two or three loans.
But the tepid response also reflects a broad realignment of law-enforcement priorities at the Justice Department in which mortgage fraud and other white-collar crimes have been subordinated to other Bush administration priorities.
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tommy:
This story ignores HOW AND WHY THE MEDICAID FRAUD AND ORGANIZED MORTGAGE FRAUD is protected by Mueller, Mukasy, and President Cheney.
They are all part of an ongoing conspiracy to destroy this country...for their own benefit, and................THE FBI HQ IS DEDICATED TO PROTECTING THIS SECRET MAFIA RICO FELONY CRIME FAMILY.
A CRIME FAMILY THAT HIDES ITS PUNK ASS BEHIND A FLAG, A BADGE, OR A BOGUS PUNK COCKSUCKER HOLLOW MANTRA ("Zero Tolerence"..."National Security"...."Trust us, we know what is right"..."Honor is Loyalty"...).
Nobody at COCKSUCKER BOB MUELLER'S PUNK LITTLE HOTDOG INNER CIRCLE...has commented or did anything about SEVERAL MURDERED US ATTORNEYS IN TEXAS and Florida who were going after criminals linked to BUSH AND CHENEY CRIME FAMILY.
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That has reflected, in part, the ramp-up in national security and terrorism investigations after the Sept. 11 attacks. But the administration has also put more support behind efforts against illegal immigration and child pornography.
In a way, the mortgage debacle could not have come onto the FBI radar screen at a worse time. Just as Swecker was making his doomsday forecast, the FBI, under pressure from Congress and the White House, was creating a crime-fighting brain drain, transferring hundreds of agents from its criminal investigations unit into its anti-terrorism program. About 2,500 agents doing criminal work -- 20% or so of the entire force -- were affected.
Even as the number of new white-collar cases started declining, the Justice Department did pursue some high-profile corporate prosecutions, such as those arising from the collapse of Enron Corp. But some former prosecutors question the administration's current commitment to pursuing complex, high-stakes cases.
"I think most sitting U.S. attorneys now staring at the subprime crisis find scant resources available to pursue sophisticated financial crimes," said John C. Hueston, a Los Angeles lawyer who was a lead federal prosecutor in the trials of Enron executives Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling.
Absent a major shift in priorities and resources, he said, it is likely that the Justice Department and the FBI will continue on their current path of focusing on simple cases "that don't go to the heart of the problem."
The FBI says it has 21 open investigations into possible large-scale fraud related to the subprime meltdown. The Times reported last month that a federal grand jury in Los Angeles had subpoenaed records from three large California lenders: Countrywide Financial Corp. (now part of Bank of America Corp.), New Century Financial Corp. and IndyMac Federal Bank.
Among other possible targets, the FBI has said, are investment firms that sold billions in securities backed by shaky subprime mortgages and credit rating agencies that gave high marks to the now-worthless securities and failed to protect investors.
But it may be hard to jump-start such probes. Trying to prove that a major mortgage company intended to defraud buyers of its securities, for example, could take years of digging into records and testimony.
Moreover, some of those involved may have special legal protection: Credit rating firms have in other cases successfully asserted that their opinions about the values of securities are protected by the 1st Amendment.
"I am happy to have investigations going on, but these investigations should have taken place years ago," said Blair A. Nicholas, a San Diego lawyer representing investors who lost money in the collapse of several subprime mortgage lenders. "They seem to always get involved after the horse has left the barn. It is always cleaning up the mess rather than being proactive."
Could the crisis have been averted, or at least mitigated, if the FBI had intervened more forcefully?
"Until there is a catastrophic loss, there is no incentive to investigate criminal conduct," said Cynthia Monaco, a former federal prosecutor in New York. "Nor are there people coming forward with evidence" such as angry investors or whistle-blowing corporate employees, she said.
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TOMMY:
WANT A CLUE WHY WHISTLEBLOWERS DO NOT COME FORWARD..........................NO HELP.....................NO PROTECTION OF THEIR CIVIL LIBERTIES UNDER TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242..........................NO COMMENT FROM FUCKHEAD COCKSUCKERS CALLED US ATTORNEYS AND FBI AGENTS.
ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS summarizes....the FBI.
LAZY and gutless and misdirected towards doing little or nothing for no one: is a good way to start viewing the FBI's acts and omissions.
THE FBI HAD ALOT OF HEADLINE MAJOR CASE TO THEM BY ME...................they fucked it all up, and "could not do their job" delivering justice?
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Even now, Monaco added, it is far from clear whether the damage -- suffered by investors and homeowners alike -- was the product of clear-cut fraud.
Ormsby says the FBI is more actively working with other federal investigative agencies in the hope they will pick up the slack. The Secret Service, for example, in a departure from its traditional missions of protecting presidents and heads of state and investigating counterfeiting, has assigned more than 100 agents to examine mortgage fraud, said spokesman Edwin Donovan.
The Justice Department is also starting to mobilize. The department offered what it described as a "basic seminar" on mortgage fraud cases to about 100 prosecutors last week at its national training academy in South Carolina.
rick.schmitt@latimes.com
FBI saw threat of mortgage crisis
Linda Spillers / For The Times
By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 25, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Long before the mortgage crisis began rocking Main Street and Wall Street, a top FBI official made a chilling, if little-noticed, prediction: The booming mortgage business, fueled by low interest rates and soaring home values, was starting to attract shady operators and billions in losses were possible.
"It has the potential to be an epidemic," Chris Swecker, the FBI official in charge of criminal investigations, told reporters in September 2004. But, he added reassuringly, the FBI was on the case. "We think we can prevent a problem that could have as much impact as the S&L crisis," he said.
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tommy:
This is a story?
An FBI punk shithead "takes post hoc" credit for "knowing the shit would fall on everyone's head" and..............the FBI THOUGHT THEY COULD SOME HOW SQUEEZE SOME KIND OF CREDIBILITY OR RESPECT from this "revisionistic self serving smoke screen" that amounts.....................to what?
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Today, the damage from the global mortgage meltdown has more than matched that of the savings-and-loan bailouts of the 1980s and early 1990s. By some estimates, it has made that costly debacle look like chump change. But it's also clear that the FBI failed to avert a problem it had accurately forecast.
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tommy:
THE FBI DID THEIR JOB: they are a politicized GOP secret Gestapo with a variety of corrupt duties including: TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES...SLANDERING WITNESSES AS TERRORISTS....AIDING AND ABETTING A RIGHT WING TERRORIST ORGANIZATION KNOWN AS MOSSAD--NSA--DOD CIFA UNIT--BLACKWATER GROUP--CHENEY'S WHITE HOUSE--CIA--HOMELAND SECURITY.
THE FBI'S JOB IS..................always attack the victim...always slander the victim...alwasy TAMPER, COERCER, LIE, SCAM, DOMINATE, PERJURE, THREATEN, AND BLOW SMOKE TO USE CHICANERY AND STUPIDITY AND CRIMINALITY as a raison d'etre, as part of a hubris induced, megalmaniacal, Narcissitic, Groupthink TOTAL FUCKING CLUSTERFUCK.
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Banks and brokerages have written down more than $300 billion of mortgage-backed securities and other risky investments in the last year or so as homeowner defaults leaped and weakness in the real estate market spread.
In California alone, lenders have foreclosed on $100 billion worth of homes over the last two years and are foreclosing at a rate of 1,300 houses every business day, according to a recent report from ForeclosureRadar.com.
Most observers have declared the mess a gross failure of regulation. To be sure, in the run-up to the crisis, market-oriented federal regulators bragged about their hands-off treatment of banks and other savings institutions and their executives. But it wasn't just regulators who were looking the other way. The FBI and its parent agency, the Justice Department, are supposed to act as the cops on the beat for potentially illegal activities by bankers and others. But they were focused on national security and other priorities, and paid scant attention to white-collar crimes that may have contributed to the lending and securities debacle.
Now that the problems are out in the open, the government's response strikes some veteran regulators as too little, too late.
Swecker, who retired from the FBI in 2006, declined to comment for this article.
But sources familiar with the FBI budget process, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the growing fraud problem, say that he and other FBI criminal investigators sought additional assistance to take on the mortgage scoundrels.
They ended up with fewer resources, rather than more.
In 2007, the number of agents pursuing mortgage fraud shrank to around 100. By comparison, the FBI had about 1,000 agents deployed on banking fraud during the S&L bust of the 1980s and '90s, said Anthony Adamski, who oversaw financial crime investigations for the FBI at the time.
The FBI says it now has about 200 agents working on mortgage fraud, but critics say the agency might have averted much of the problem had it heeded its own warning.
"The FBI correctly diagnosed that mortgage fraud was epidemic, but it did not come close to meeting its announced goal," said William K. Black, who was a federal regulator during the S&L crisis and now teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
"It used everyday procedures and woefully inadequate resources to deal with an epidemic," he said. "The approach was certain to bring symbolic prosecutions and strategic defeat."
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TOMMY:
THE FBI HQ...a political corrupt whore act always tied to the SHADOW GOVERNMENT PLAYERS WHO DO NOT GO TO JAIL....has always known that FAILURE IS SUCCESS, AND SUCCESS IS FAILURE.
IF YOU KNEW WHAT I KNOW ABOUT OK CITY BOMB, AND who gave SFPD the info they needed to work with SOUTH DAKOTA BATF AND SD FBI to track the FUCKING DETENTATORS to McVeigh and Nichols and others (seen by Denver US Marshalls informant CARY GAGEN) TO PREVENT TERRORISM....................................then you would say they same things I am saying.
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The mortgage debacle has laid bare a system marked by dubious practices at every stage of the process. Lenders often made loans to borrowers who had limited ability to repay them but little desire to pass up the dream of homeownership. Many loans lacked basic documentation, such as information about borrowers' incomes.
Still, mortgage companies could hardly sell them fast enough, packaging the loans as investment securities and peddling them to eager buyers on Wall Street.
The FBI defends its handling of the crisis, with officials contending that as home prices were rising several years ago, the trouble brewing in the mortgage market -- and the potential crimes behind it -- was not immediately apparent.
Officials said they began approaching mortgage companies and others in an attempt to raise awareness about the growing fraud problem. But the lenders had little incentive to cooperate because they were continuing to make money. Black says that in many cases, they were part of the fraud.
"Nobody wanted to listen," Sharon Ormsby, the chief of the FBI's financial crimes section, said in an interview. "We were dealing with the issue as best we could back then."
Over the last three years, the FBI and other agencies have brought dozens of mortgage-fraud cases. The bureau has rooted out foreclosure rescue schemes in which homeowners are tricked into signing over the deeds to their homes to operators who buried the properties even deeper in debt. Agents have disrupted cases of identity theft in which criminals open -- and exhaust -- home equity lines of credit and leave homeowners stuck with the bill.
Many of the cases have been relatively small, however, with about half the investigations involving losses of less than $1 million -- the size of two or three loans.
But the tepid response also reflects a broad realignment of law-enforcement priorities at the Justice Department in which mortgage fraud and other white-collar crimes have been subordinated to other Bush administration priorities.
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tommy:
This story ignores HOW AND WHY THE MEDICAID FRAUD AND ORGANIZED MORTGAGE FRAUD is protected by Mueller, Mukasy, and President Cheney.
They are all part of an ongoing conspiracy to destroy this country...for their own benefit, and................THE FBI HQ IS DEDICATED TO PROTECTING THIS SECRET MAFIA RICO FELONY CRIME FAMILY.
A CRIME FAMILY THAT HIDES ITS PUNK ASS BEHIND A FLAG, A BADGE, OR A BOGUS PUNK COCKSUCKER HOLLOW MANTRA ("Zero Tolerence"..."National Security"...."Trust us, we know what is right"..."Honor is Loyalty"...).
Nobody at COCKSUCKER BOB MUELLER'S PUNK LITTLE HOTDOG INNER CIRCLE...has commented or did anything about SEVERAL MURDERED US ATTORNEYS IN TEXAS and Florida who were going after criminals linked to BUSH AND CHENEY CRIME FAMILY.
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That has reflected, in part, the ramp-up in national security and terrorism investigations after the Sept. 11 attacks. But the administration has also put more support behind efforts against illegal immigration and child pornography.
In a way, the mortgage debacle could not have come onto the FBI radar screen at a worse time. Just as Swecker was making his doomsday forecast, the FBI, under pressure from Congress and the White House, was creating a crime-fighting brain drain, transferring hundreds of agents from its criminal investigations unit into its anti-terrorism program. About 2,500 agents doing criminal work -- 20% or so of the entire force -- were affected.
Even as the number of new white-collar cases started declining, the Justice Department did pursue some high-profile corporate prosecutions, such as those arising from the collapse of Enron Corp. But some former prosecutors question the administration's current commitment to pursuing complex, high-stakes cases.
"I think most sitting U.S. attorneys now staring at the subprime crisis find scant resources available to pursue sophisticated financial crimes," said John C. Hueston, a Los Angeles lawyer who was a lead federal prosecutor in the trials of Enron executives Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling.
Absent a major shift in priorities and resources, he said, it is likely that the Justice Department and the FBI will continue on their current path of focusing on simple cases "that don't go to the heart of the problem."
The FBI says it has 21 open investigations into possible large-scale fraud related to the subprime meltdown. The Times reported last month that a federal grand jury in Los Angeles had subpoenaed records from three large California lenders: Countrywide Financial Corp. (now part of Bank of America Corp.), New Century Financial Corp. and IndyMac Federal Bank.
Among other possible targets, the FBI has said, are investment firms that sold billions in securities backed by shaky subprime mortgages and credit rating agencies that gave high marks to the now-worthless securities and failed to protect investors.
But it may be hard to jump-start such probes. Trying to prove that a major mortgage company intended to defraud buyers of its securities, for example, could take years of digging into records and testimony.
Moreover, some of those involved may have special legal protection: Credit rating firms have in other cases successfully asserted that their opinions about the values of securities are protected by the 1st Amendment.
"I am happy to have investigations going on, but these investigations should have taken place years ago," said Blair A. Nicholas, a San Diego lawyer representing investors who lost money in the collapse of several subprime mortgage lenders. "They seem to always get involved after the horse has left the barn. It is always cleaning up the mess rather than being proactive."
Could the crisis have been averted, or at least mitigated, if the FBI had intervened more forcefully?
"Until there is a catastrophic loss, there is no incentive to investigate criminal conduct," said Cynthia Monaco, a former federal prosecutor in New York. "Nor are there people coming forward with evidence" such as angry investors or whistle-blowing corporate employees, she said.
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TOMMY:
WANT A CLUE WHY WHISTLEBLOWERS DO NOT COME FORWARD..........................NO HELP.....................NO PROTECTION OF THEIR CIVIL LIBERTIES UNDER TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242..........................NO COMMENT FROM FUCKHEAD COCKSUCKERS CALLED US ATTORNEYS AND FBI AGENTS.
ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS summarizes....the FBI.
LAZY and gutless and misdirected towards doing little or nothing for no one: is a good way to start viewing the FBI's acts and omissions.
THE FBI HAD ALOT OF HEADLINE MAJOR CASE TO THEM BY ME...................they fucked it all up, and "could not do their job" delivering justice?
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Even now, Monaco added, it is far from clear whether the damage -- suffered by investors and homeowners alike -- was the product of clear-cut fraud.
Ormsby says the FBI is more actively working with other federal investigative agencies in the hope they will pick up the slack. The Secret Service, for example, in a departure from its traditional missions of protecting presidents and heads of state and investigating counterfeiting, has assigned more than 100 agents to examine mortgage fraud, said spokesman Edwin Donovan.
The Justice Department is also starting to mobilize. The department offered what it described as a "basic seminar" on mortgage fraud cases to about 100 prosecutors last week at its national training academy in South Carolina.
rick.schmitt@latimes.com
LYING KIKE COCKSUCKER MUKASY (MOSSAD AGENT)...agrees to postpone madness and tyranny?
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Attorney Gen. Michael Mukasey has agreed to postpone new FBI guidelines that would relax conduct of national security investigations. Mukasey was asked to do this earlier this week by the chairman and ranking minority leader on the Senate Judicial Committee out of civil liberties concerns. Mukasey will not sign off on the new regulations until he at least hears the testimony of FBI Dir. Robert Mueller in September. (Senate Judiciary Committee)
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tommy:
When I look at this story, I think:
--1) LEAHY AND BIDEN AND SCHUMER AND SPECTOR had it all...and did nothing with it.
I gave them an opportunity to "IMPEACH DARTH CHENEY" and get this fat lying murdering faggot on the road to FEDERAL DEATH ROW FOR THE SOUTH DAKOTA PATRIOT ACT MURDERS...AND THE CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER OF AN ENRON WITNESS.
My strategy to get Cheney...included "grilling a lying corrupt murdering faggot" named Bob Mueller, to seize all the FBI memos from field to crim sect to Mueller's executive assistant..to his lawyers Caprioni....to Bob....showing cause that MUELLER HAS OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE OVER AND OVER AND OVER...BY....DOING NOTHING?!
DEMS did nothing...and said nothing....WITH DASCHLE CAMPAIGN WIRETAPPING...SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS BY DOD CIFA UNIT WORKING WITH SIOUX FALLS, SD FBI SPECIAL AGENT AND COUNTERINTELIGENCE LYING PUNK STEVEN PLUTA.....etc.
----2) Now we got another "faggot punk cocksucker idiot factory" (aka another session of the impotent buttlickers at US SEN JUD COMM) who have another "shithead lying fuckhead" on the stand named BOB MUELLER.
MUELLER, being a corrupt punk shithead criminal....always....SENDS HIS LAWYERS TO NEGOTIATE THE BOGUS KABUKI THEATRE SCRIPTED TESTIMONY at US Sen Jud Comm.
I ASSURE YOU...THIS HEARING WILL BE ANOTHER "LEAHY SPECIAL" WHEN...dumbfuck is not prepared as well as he could be...especially if the dumbfuck or his staff, would talk to a Texas lawyer who "has all the facts and insight" that leads to "better questioning of Mueller's true motives with Mukasyfaggot.
Those motives...and tied to my fact pattern.
Leahy has no interest?
Never once...have a heard from a punk clown idiot Democrat or their staff?
Attorney Gen. Michael Mukasey has agreed to postpone new FBI guidelines that would relax conduct of national security investigations. Mukasey was asked to do this earlier this week by the chairman and ranking minority leader on the Senate Judicial Committee out of civil liberties concerns. Mukasey will not sign off on the new regulations until he at least hears the testimony of FBI Dir. Robert Mueller in September. (Senate Judiciary Committee)
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tommy:
When I look at this story, I think:
--1) LEAHY AND BIDEN AND SCHUMER AND SPECTOR had it all...and did nothing with it.
I gave them an opportunity to "IMPEACH DARTH CHENEY" and get this fat lying murdering faggot on the road to FEDERAL DEATH ROW FOR THE SOUTH DAKOTA PATRIOT ACT MURDERS...AND THE CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER OF AN ENRON WITNESS.
My strategy to get Cheney...included "grilling a lying corrupt murdering faggot" named Bob Mueller, to seize all the FBI memos from field to crim sect to Mueller's executive assistant..to his lawyers Caprioni....to Bob....showing cause that MUELLER HAS OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE OVER AND OVER AND OVER...BY....DOING NOTHING?!
DEMS did nothing...and said nothing....WITH DASCHLE CAMPAIGN WIRETAPPING...SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS BY DOD CIFA UNIT WORKING WITH SIOUX FALLS, SD FBI SPECIAL AGENT AND COUNTERINTELIGENCE LYING PUNK STEVEN PLUTA.....etc.
----2) Now we got another "faggot punk cocksucker idiot factory" (aka another session of the impotent buttlickers at US SEN JUD COMM) who have another "shithead lying fuckhead" on the stand named BOB MUELLER.
MUELLER, being a corrupt punk shithead criminal....always....SENDS HIS LAWYERS TO NEGOTIATE THE BOGUS KABUKI THEATRE SCRIPTED TESTIMONY at US Sen Jud Comm.
I ASSURE YOU...THIS HEARING WILL BE ANOTHER "LEAHY SPECIAL" WHEN...dumbfuck is not prepared as well as he could be...especially if the dumbfuck or his staff, would talk to a Texas lawyer who "has all the facts and insight" that leads to "better questioning of Mueller's true motives with Mukasyfaggot.
Those motives...and tied to my fact pattern.
Leahy has no interest?
Never once...have a heard from a punk clown idiot Democrat or their staff?
Thursday, August 21, 2008
CIA caught OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE under GOSS: what does this have to do with BEAN'S DASCHLE CAMPAIGN MEMO--wiretapping by NSA?
Judge Gives Government 10 Days to Avoid Contempt on CIA Tapes
Mark Hamblett
New York Law Journal
August 19, 2008
A federal judge said Monday he was prepared to hold the Central Intelligence Agency in civil contempt over the destruction of videotapes in which high-level al-Qaida detainees were interrogated abroad.
But the judge, the Southern District of New York's Alvin Hellerstein, said at a hearing that he would give the government 10 days to produce a declaration to convince him why he should refrain from a contempt finding and from ordering production of a list of the tapes, information on witnesses and any documents or memoranda relevant to the Freedom of Information Act request of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The case is American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense, 04 Civ. 4151.
The original lawsuit filed by the ACLU in 2004 sought to enforce a Freedom of Information Act request on possible deaths and mistreatment of prisoners, and the so-called extraordinary rendition of terror suspects to countries that use torture.
Hellerstein issued an order in the case, but the 2005 destruction of the tapes, ostensibly because they contained no further intelligence value, triggered outrage in Congress and a claim by the ACLU that the destruction violated the court order.
On Jan. 2, 2008, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed John H. Durham as acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia to supervise the federal criminal investigation into the tapes' destruction.
In June, Durham submitted a declaration to the judge in which he said adjudication of the civil contempt proceedings would interfere with the criminal investigation, part of which included whether the "destruction violated any order issued by any federal judicial officer," including Hellerstein. Durham requested a stay until the probe was complete and estimated he needed "at least six more months."
Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter M. Skinner, representing the CIA, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean H. Lane, representing the Department of Defense, tried to stave off a contempt finding and promised another declaration from Durham within 10 business days.
But Amrit Singh of the ACLU said the judge should issue a contempt order and instruct the CIA to turn over a list of the number of tapes, information on witnesses, information on whether any effort was made to reconstruct the contents of the tapes and any memos or transcripts that may shed light on the destruction.
Hellerstein said he was still troubled by the matter of intent and wondered aloud whether he could issue a civil contempt finding absent a showing the tapes were willfully destroyed.
Singh answered that "intent is irrelevant in civil contempt."
She added, "You can rule on that without any kind of witnesses."
"I've never heard that failure to produce innocently ... amounts to contempt," the judge said.
Skinner, the prosecutor, said that under the case law the order to produce must be clear and noncompliance must be shown by clear and convincing evidence.
Hellerstein said the second element "implies some willfulness," adding that he will decide that issue. He also expressed some frustration over an investigation that is already "eight months old."
At a January hearing, the judge faulted the CIA for the tapes' destruction and expressed disbelief agents would destroy them at a time when the agency was conducting its own internal probe into the matter.
At that time, the judge said he would not hold the agency in contempt because it would serve no purpose, and Singh said the ACLU was less interested in a contempt finding than in production of the information and the integrity of the Freedom of Information Act.
But Monday the judge said he found it hard to believe the remedy sought by the ACLU, including a list of the number of tapes, would interfere with the investigation.
In what he called an "abstract ruling" instructing the government to prepare for a contempt ruling, the judge told Skinner and Lane to get ready to produce most of the information sought by the ACLU unless a second declaration from Durham convinces him otherwise.
Skinner said a catalogue of tapes is "not part of the public record at this point." And Durham expressed concern that even producing a list of the tapes would enable witnesses to change or shape their stories before a grand jury.
"I'm not asking for the contents, just a catalogue," the judge said. "I can't see how that would interfere with the investigation."
He later added, "I want to know why this court should continue to stay its hand. So far I've done nothing because I've deferred to the special investigation and, in that respect, I'm wrong. I want to know what the universe is."
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202423889545&pos=ataglance
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tommy:
WHY ARE TAPES OF INTERROGATIONS....LOST....WHEN THIS INVOLVES A FED CRIME: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE?
Where are the tapes of my ILLEGAL CHIPPING ?
What did ROBERT DALE LILLY do with those tapes from the pin hole spy camera in my home?
What crime did GOSS commit?
What crime did CHENEY COMMIT when he ordered Goss to "mind control and subliminally control" THOMAS S. BEAN AFTER BEAN CONTACTED SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY, AND ALSO SIGNED A 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT?
WHAT IS IN THAT COMPLAINT....that resulted in 3 murdered South Dakotans...a dead North Dakotan, and others wounded and hospitalizied with brain tumor--brain strokes?
Mark Hamblett
New York Law Journal
August 19, 2008
A federal judge said Monday he was prepared to hold the Central Intelligence Agency in civil contempt over the destruction of videotapes in which high-level al-Qaida detainees were interrogated abroad.
But the judge, the Southern District of New York's Alvin Hellerstein, said at a hearing that he would give the government 10 days to produce a declaration to convince him why he should refrain from a contempt finding and from ordering production of a list of the tapes, information on witnesses and any documents or memoranda relevant to the Freedom of Information Act request of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The case is American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense, 04 Civ. 4151.
The original lawsuit filed by the ACLU in 2004 sought to enforce a Freedom of Information Act request on possible deaths and mistreatment of prisoners, and the so-called extraordinary rendition of terror suspects to countries that use torture.
Hellerstein issued an order in the case, but the 2005 destruction of the tapes, ostensibly because they contained no further intelligence value, triggered outrage in Congress and a claim by the ACLU that the destruction violated the court order.
On Jan. 2, 2008, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed John H. Durham as acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia to supervise the federal criminal investigation into the tapes' destruction.
In June, Durham submitted a declaration to the judge in which he said adjudication of the civil contempt proceedings would interfere with the criminal investigation, part of which included whether the "destruction violated any order issued by any federal judicial officer," including Hellerstein. Durham requested a stay until the probe was complete and estimated he needed "at least six more months."
Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter M. Skinner, representing the CIA, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean H. Lane, representing the Department of Defense, tried to stave off a contempt finding and promised another declaration from Durham within 10 business days.
But Amrit Singh of the ACLU said the judge should issue a contempt order and instruct the CIA to turn over a list of the number of tapes, information on witnesses, information on whether any effort was made to reconstruct the contents of the tapes and any memos or transcripts that may shed light on the destruction.
Hellerstein said he was still troubled by the matter of intent and wondered aloud whether he could issue a civil contempt finding absent a showing the tapes were willfully destroyed.
Singh answered that "intent is irrelevant in civil contempt."
She added, "You can rule on that without any kind of witnesses."
"I've never heard that failure to produce innocently ... amounts to contempt," the judge said.
Skinner, the prosecutor, said that under the case law the order to produce must be clear and noncompliance must be shown by clear and convincing evidence.
Hellerstein said the second element "implies some willfulness," adding that he will decide that issue. He also expressed some frustration over an investigation that is already "eight months old."
At a January hearing, the judge faulted the CIA for the tapes' destruction and expressed disbelief agents would destroy them at a time when the agency was conducting its own internal probe into the matter.
At that time, the judge said he would not hold the agency in contempt because it would serve no purpose, and Singh said the ACLU was less interested in a contempt finding than in production of the information and the integrity of the Freedom of Information Act.
But Monday the judge said he found it hard to believe the remedy sought by the ACLU, including a list of the number of tapes, would interfere with the investigation.
In what he called an "abstract ruling" instructing the government to prepare for a contempt ruling, the judge told Skinner and Lane to get ready to produce most of the information sought by the ACLU unless a second declaration from Durham convinces him otherwise.
Skinner said a catalogue of tapes is "not part of the public record at this point." And Durham expressed concern that even producing a list of the tapes would enable witnesses to change or shape their stories before a grand jury.
"I'm not asking for the contents, just a catalogue," the judge said. "I can't see how that would interfere with the investigation."
He later added, "I want to know why this court should continue to stay its hand. So far I've done nothing because I've deferred to the special investigation and, in that respect, I'm wrong. I want to know what the universe is."
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202423889545&pos=ataglance
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tommy:
WHY ARE TAPES OF INTERROGATIONS....LOST....WHEN THIS INVOLVES A FED CRIME: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE?
Where are the tapes of my ILLEGAL CHIPPING ?
What did ROBERT DALE LILLY do with those tapes from the pin hole spy camera in my home?
What crime did GOSS commit?
What crime did CHENEY COMMIT when he ordered Goss to "mind control and subliminally control" THOMAS S. BEAN AFTER BEAN CONTACTED SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY, AND ALSO SIGNED A 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT?
WHAT IS IN THAT COMPLAINT....that resulted in 3 murdered South Dakotans...a dead North Dakotan, and others wounded and hospitalizied with brain tumor--brain strokes?
YOGURT SHOP MURDERS: how to launder money through a civil suit settlement after committing MURDER of 4 TEENAGE GIRLS
Yogurt shop suspects' lawyers want more tests
Lawyers for 1991 murder suspects also accuse prosecutors of mishandling evidence.
By Steven Kreytak
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Defense lawyers for Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen said in court Wednesday that they want DNA testing done for dozens of people whom they call alternative suspects in the 1991 slayings of four teenage girls at a North Austin yogurt shop.
The testing would determine whether anyone on the defense lawyers' list, which includes executed serial killer Kenneth McDuff, can be linked to the killings.
The lawyers also asked state District Judge Mike Lynch during a pretrial hearing to allow them to speak more freely to the media about the case and accused prosecutors of intentionally mishandling evidence to suppress the truth.
The arguments are part of an increasingly aggressive defense for Scott and Springsteen, who each stand charged in Travis County with four counts of capital murder. They are accused of killing Amy Ayers, 13; Eliza Thomas, 17; and sisters Sarah and Jennifer Harbison, 15 and 17, during a robbery at the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt store near Northcross Mall.
Scott and Springsteen were each previously convicted, but those verdicts were thrown out on appeal. No new trial dates have been set.
The convictions were based mostly on confessions, which defense lawyers say were coerced.
"They got it wrong," Scott's defense lawyer, Carlos Garcia, said outside court Wednesday. "They got the wrong guys."
Garcia and Joe James Sawyer, who represents Springsteen, said their clients' innocence was proved this year when previously undiscovered DNA taken from Ayers' body did not match either suspect.
In response to that petition, made public in April, prosecutors said they were conducting more DNA testing to determine the source of the DNA. Prosecutor Gail Van Winkle told the American-Statesman at the time that the discovery did not exonerate Scott or Springsteen.
Sawyer opened Wednesday's hearing by asking Lynch to lift a gag order in the case, which prohibits lawyers from discussing evidence outside court. Sawyer said that he asked because of Van Winkle's remarks about the DNA.
"The state went out and told the public they knew whose DNA this was," Sawyer argued in court. "They don't ... and we're entitled to rebut it."
"I think you just did," Lynch said. He later told Sawyer to file a written motion about the order, which the judge calls a protective order, and said he would rule on it later.
After Sawyer finished making his arguments, Garcia asked whether the state planned to conduct DNA testing for the alternative suspects. Lynch told prosecutors they did not have to answer, and they did not. Outside court, Garcia said he wants the alternative suspects' DNA tested to see if it matches the DNA found on Ayers.
Finally, Garcia said in court that he has witnessed prosecutors handling evidence in the case without gloves, which he called an intentional effort to sabotage any future forensic testing. Lynch noted that prosecutors are obligated to preserve evidence, but he invited defense lawyers to request in writing an order that directs prosecutors to wear gloves.
Prosecutor Efrain De La Fuente said some evidence has been contaminated through no fault of prosecutors. That evidence was handled by the jury in the previous cases and then submitted to the appeals courts.
skreytak@statesman.com; 912-2946
_________________________________
TOMMY:
This is all about THE TOTALLY CORRUPT SCUMBAGS FAGGOT FILTH (Austin PD, Austin FBI, Austin US Attorneys Office, Texas Rangers, Texas Attorney Generals Office, Travis County States Attorney Office) all getting away with...................everything I BRIEFED ALONG TIME AGO IN MY PROBABLE CAUSE MEMO SENT TO FBI HQ.
FBI HQ......................has...done nothing for justice in this case.
FBI AND A WORTHLESS FAT LITTLE UNCLE TOM PUNK NAMED ANTHONY BROWN...have way too much criminal liability for prior bad acts to ever "bring this case to justice".
FBI USED THEIR USUAL "SECRET STAR CHAMBER " GAME to run STAN KNEE, RONNIE EARLE, JUDGE JEANNE MEURER, and others out of their police jobs.
NO CHARGES FROM THE CORRUPT PUNK SCUM BAG FED FAGGOT IDIOTIC SCUM AT AUSTIN, TEXAS, US ATTORNEYS OFFICE.
NOBODY...with a punk cocksucker badge......bothered talking to me, or polygraphing me, or sought any other evidence?
Look out kid, they got it all hid.
Want info on MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS BY THE ALVAREZ BROTHES AS WITNESSED BY FORMER AUSTIN JUNKIE GEORGE REYES?
HOW COME A FAT PUNK COCKSUCKER IDIOT WHORE CLOWN NAMED ANTHONY BROWN....did not want that info?
Lawyers for 1991 murder suspects also accuse prosecutors of mishandling evidence.
By Steven Kreytak
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Defense lawyers for Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen said in court Wednesday that they want DNA testing done for dozens of people whom they call alternative suspects in the 1991 slayings of four teenage girls at a North Austin yogurt shop.
The testing would determine whether anyone on the defense lawyers' list, which includes executed serial killer Kenneth McDuff, can be linked to the killings.
The lawyers also asked state District Judge Mike Lynch during a pretrial hearing to allow them to speak more freely to the media about the case and accused prosecutors of intentionally mishandling evidence to suppress the truth.
The arguments are part of an increasingly aggressive defense for Scott and Springsteen, who each stand charged in Travis County with four counts of capital murder. They are accused of killing Amy Ayers, 13; Eliza Thomas, 17; and sisters Sarah and Jennifer Harbison, 15 and 17, during a robbery at the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt store near Northcross Mall.
Scott and Springsteen were each previously convicted, but those verdicts were thrown out on appeal. No new trial dates have been set.
The convictions were based mostly on confessions, which defense lawyers say were coerced.
"They got it wrong," Scott's defense lawyer, Carlos Garcia, said outside court Wednesday. "They got the wrong guys."
Garcia and Joe James Sawyer, who represents Springsteen, said their clients' innocence was proved this year when previously undiscovered DNA taken from Ayers' body did not match either suspect.
In response to that petition, made public in April, prosecutors said they were conducting more DNA testing to determine the source of the DNA. Prosecutor Gail Van Winkle told the American-Statesman at the time that the discovery did not exonerate Scott or Springsteen.
Sawyer opened Wednesday's hearing by asking Lynch to lift a gag order in the case, which prohibits lawyers from discussing evidence outside court. Sawyer said that he asked because of Van Winkle's remarks about the DNA.
"The state went out and told the public they knew whose DNA this was," Sawyer argued in court. "They don't ... and we're entitled to rebut it."
"I think you just did," Lynch said. He later told Sawyer to file a written motion about the order, which the judge calls a protective order, and said he would rule on it later.
After Sawyer finished making his arguments, Garcia asked whether the state planned to conduct DNA testing for the alternative suspects. Lynch told prosecutors they did not have to answer, and they did not. Outside court, Garcia said he wants the alternative suspects' DNA tested to see if it matches the DNA found on Ayers.
Finally, Garcia said in court that he has witnessed prosecutors handling evidence in the case without gloves, which he called an intentional effort to sabotage any future forensic testing. Lynch noted that prosecutors are obligated to preserve evidence, but he invited defense lawyers to request in writing an order that directs prosecutors to wear gloves.
Prosecutor Efrain De La Fuente said some evidence has been contaminated through no fault of prosecutors. That evidence was handled by the jury in the previous cases and then submitted to the appeals courts.
skreytak@statesman.com; 912-2946
_________________________________
TOMMY:
This is all about THE TOTALLY CORRUPT SCUMBAGS FAGGOT FILTH (Austin PD, Austin FBI, Austin US Attorneys Office, Texas Rangers, Texas Attorney Generals Office, Travis County States Attorney Office) all getting away with...................everything I BRIEFED ALONG TIME AGO IN MY PROBABLE CAUSE MEMO SENT TO FBI HQ.
FBI HQ......................has...done nothing for justice in this case.
FBI AND A WORTHLESS FAT LITTLE UNCLE TOM PUNK NAMED ANTHONY BROWN...have way too much criminal liability for prior bad acts to ever "bring this case to justice".
FBI USED THEIR USUAL "SECRET STAR CHAMBER " GAME to run STAN KNEE, RONNIE EARLE, JUDGE JEANNE MEURER, and others out of their police jobs.
NO CHARGES FROM THE CORRUPT PUNK SCUM BAG FED FAGGOT IDIOTIC SCUM AT AUSTIN, TEXAS, US ATTORNEYS OFFICE.
NOBODY...with a punk cocksucker badge......bothered talking to me, or polygraphing me, or sought any other evidence?
Look out kid, they got it all hid.
Want info on MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS BY THE ALVAREZ BROTHES AS WITNESSED BY FORMER AUSTIN JUNKIE GEORGE REYES?
HOW COME A FAT PUNK COCKSUCKER IDIOT WHORE CLOWN NAMED ANTHONY BROWN....did not want that info?
NSA and MICROSOFT work to "smell up your asshole" into the hellish future
http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/genera_sherwood_071016_nsa_may_be_reading_w.htm
October 16, 2007
NSA MAY BE READING WINDOWS SOFTWARE IN YOUR COMPUTER
by Sherwood Ross Page 1 of 2 page(s)
www.opednews.com
Sooner or later, a country that spies on its neighbors will turn on its own people, violating their privacy, stealing their liberties.
President Bush’s grab for unchecked eavesdropping powers is the culmination of what the National Security Agency(NSA) has spent forty years doing unto others.
And if you’re upset by the idea of NSA tapping your phone, be advised NSA allegedly can also read your Windows software to access your computer. European investigative reporter Duncan Campbell claimed NSA had arranged with Microsoft to insert special “keys” in Windows software starting with versions from 95-OSR2 onwards.
And the intelligence arm of the French Defense Ministry also asserted NSA helped to install secret programs in Microsoft software. According to France's Strategic Affairs Delegation report, “it would seem that the creation of Microsoft was largely supported, not least financially, by NSA, and that IBM was made to accept the (Microsoft) MS-DOS operating system by the same administration.” That report was published in 1999.
The French reported a “strong suspicion of a lack of security fed by insistent rumours about the existence of spy programmes on Microsoft, and by the presence of NSA personnel in Bill Gates’ development teams.” It noted the Pentagon was Microsoft’s biggest global client.
In the U.S., Andrew Fernandez, chief computer scientist with Cryptonym, of Morrisville, N.C., found Microsoft developers had failed to remove debugging symbols used to test his software before they released it.
Inside the code Fernandez found labels for two keys, dubbed “KEY” and NSAKEY”. Fernandez, though, termed it NSA’s “back door” into the world’s most widely used operation system. He said this makes it “orders of magnitude easier for the US government to access your computer.” Microsoft called the report “completely false.”
Apparently, agenices of the military-industrial complex take on a life of their own. NSA, for example, has long engaged in commercial espionage eavesdropping on European businesses to benefit U.S. firms, according to William Blum, author of “Rogue State”(Common Courage Press). NSA achieves this through ECHELON(“E”) – an intelligence cartel dominated by the U.S. with Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada as junior partners. Launched in the 1970s to monitor Cold War data, “E” morphed into “a network of massive, highly automated interception stations covering the globe,” Blum said.
Using “E”, NSA has spied on German and French businesses which, as a result, have come off second best against their American competitors. Among companies targeted were Thomson S.A., of Paris, Airbus Industrie of Blagnac Cedex, France, and the German wind generator-manufacturer Enercon.
“We know this technology(“E”) is there and it is being used on us,” Josef Tarkowski, former head of counter-espionage for the German government told The London Sunday Times Internet Edition.
“Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky,” Blum documents, NSA’s continuously orbiting satellites “sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex…satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links…voice, text, images.”
These are then processed by high-powered computers at Ft. Meade, Md., NSA headquarters.Billions of messages are sucked up daily, Blum writes, including those by presidents, prime ministers, the UN Secretary-General, the pope, the Queen of England, transnational corporation executives, and foreign embassies.
It’s been estimated “E” sifts through 99.9999 percent of all global communications to get at the 0.0001 percent that is of interest to it.Each of the English-speaking partners, Blum asserts, “is breaking its own laws, those of other countries, and international law --- the absence of court-issued warrants permitting surveillance of specific individuals is but one example.”
“E” works by mining for key words that are extracted by computers and passed along to humans for evaluation. Some NSA activities came to light during the countdown to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
At the time, the U.S. listened in on the private conversations of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, UN weapons inspectors in Iraq, and on the deliberations about Iraq of all members of the UN Security Council. It also spied on organizations such as Christian Aid and Amnesty International. Earlier, it was said to have spied on U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond(R.-S.C.)
Less well known has been E’s spying on foreign firms. In 1998, German wind generator-maker Enercon developed a cheaper way to generate electricity from wind power, but its U.S. rival, Kenetech, said it had patented a near-identical process, and got a court order to ban Enercon sales in the U.S., reporter Blum writes. NSA’s role was exposed when one of its employees revealed he had stolen Enercon’s secrets by tapping telephone and computer links between its research and production units.
October 16, 2007
NSA MAY BE READING WINDOWS SOFTWARE IN YOUR COMPUTER
by Sherwood Ross Page 1 of 2 page(s)
www.opednews.com
Sooner or later, a country that spies on its neighbors will turn on its own people, violating their privacy, stealing their liberties.
President Bush’s grab for unchecked eavesdropping powers is the culmination of what the National Security Agency(NSA) has spent forty years doing unto others.
And if you’re upset by the idea of NSA tapping your phone, be advised NSA allegedly can also read your Windows software to access your computer. European investigative reporter Duncan Campbell claimed NSA had arranged with Microsoft to insert special “keys” in Windows software starting with versions from 95-OSR2 onwards.
And the intelligence arm of the French Defense Ministry also asserted NSA helped to install secret programs in Microsoft software. According to France's Strategic Affairs Delegation report, “it would seem that the creation of Microsoft was largely supported, not least financially, by NSA, and that IBM was made to accept the (Microsoft) MS-DOS operating system by the same administration.” That report was published in 1999.
The French reported a “strong suspicion of a lack of security fed by insistent rumours about the existence of spy programmes on Microsoft, and by the presence of NSA personnel in Bill Gates’ development teams.” It noted the Pentagon was Microsoft’s biggest global client.
In the U.S., Andrew Fernandez, chief computer scientist with Cryptonym, of Morrisville, N.C., found Microsoft developers had failed to remove debugging symbols used to test his software before they released it.
Inside the code Fernandez found labels for two keys, dubbed “KEY” and NSAKEY”. Fernandez, though, termed it NSA’s “back door” into the world’s most widely used operation system. He said this makes it “orders of magnitude easier for the US government to access your computer.” Microsoft called the report “completely false.”
Apparently, agenices of the military-industrial complex take on a life of their own. NSA, for example, has long engaged in commercial espionage eavesdropping on European businesses to benefit U.S. firms, according to William Blum, author of “Rogue State”(Common Courage Press). NSA achieves this through ECHELON(“E”) – an intelligence cartel dominated by the U.S. with Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada as junior partners. Launched in the 1970s to monitor Cold War data, “E” morphed into “a network of massive, highly automated interception stations covering the globe,” Blum said.
Using “E”, NSA has spied on German and French businesses which, as a result, have come off second best against their American competitors. Among companies targeted were Thomson S.A., of Paris, Airbus Industrie of Blagnac Cedex, France, and the German wind generator-manufacturer Enercon.
“We know this technology(“E”) is there and it is being used on us,” Josef Tarkowski, former head of counter-espionage for the German government told The London Sunday Times Internet Edition.
“Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky,” Blum documents, NSA’s continuously orbiting satellites “sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex…satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links…voice, text, images.”
These are then processed by high-powered computers at Ft. Meade, Md., NSA headquarters.Billions of messages are sucked up daily, Blum writes, including those by presidents, prime ministers, the UN Secretary-General, the pope, the Queen of England, transnational corporation executives, and foreign embassies.
It’s been estimated “E” sifts through 99.9999 percent of all global communications to get at the 0.0001 percent that is of interest to it.Each of the English-speaking partners, Blum asserts, “is breaking its own laws, those of other countries, and international law --- the absence of court-issued warrants permitting surveillance of specific individuals is but one example.”
“E” works by mining for key words that are extracted by computers and passed along to humans for evaluation. Some NSA activities came to light during the countdown to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
At the time, the U.S. listened in on the private conversations of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, UN weapons inspectors in Iraq, and on the deliberations about Iraq of all members of the UN Security Council. It also spied on organizations such as Christian Aid and Amnesty International. Earlier, it was said to have spied on U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond(R.-S.C.)
Less well known has been E’s spying on foreign firms. In 1998, German wind generator-maker Enercon developed a cheaper way to generate electricity from wind power, but its U.S. rival, Kenetech, said it had patented a near-identical process, and got a court order to ban Enercon sales in the U.S., reporter Blum writes. NSA’s role was exposed when one of its employees revealed he had stolen Enercon’s secrets by tapping telephone and computer links between its research and production units.
CONYERS fags around some more...while nobody listens to a fucking pussy who would not subpoena THOMAS S. BEAN
Libby questioned on forged letter linking Saddam to 9/11
John Byrne
Published: Wednesday August 20, 2008
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued letters of inquiry Wednesday to Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, regarding a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks.
The Michigan Democrat also sent letters to senior former Bush intelligence officials, including Robert Richer, former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations, who claimed that Cheney's office pushed the CIA to develop a phony letter to aid their argument for a preemptive strike on Iraq. The letters were copied to RAW STORY.
"I have become very concerned with the possibility that this Administration may have violated federal law by using the resources of our intelligence agencies to influence domestic policy processes or opinion," Conyers wrote Libby, who was convicted of obstruction of justice in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. "The law specifically provides that "[n]o covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media."
Conyers' letters come in the wake of claims by author Ron Suskind, who quotes Richer in his most recent book as saying a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery.
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TOMMY:
Apparently...Conyers only subpoenas BUSH criminal scum...if the story appears on the internet or in bookform?
Why won't this cowardly butt licking Unlce Tom punk....call me as a witness or give me an 85$ polygraph to corroborate my facts in my DOJ OIG Complaint?
HOw come Conyers has "NO INTEREST IN THE EVIDENCE THAT NSA WIRETAPPED SD US SENATOR TOM DASCHLE'S CAMPAIGN IN SIOUX FALLS"...AND...."NSA 902ND COUNTERINTELIGENCE UNIT did the CALEA WIRETAPPING ON CHRISTINA MOORE, to facilitate the PATRIOT ACT MURDER OF THIS ENRON WITNESS with BOB MUELLER'S FBI helping to "obstruct justice" in this Texas murder...along with FBI OBSTRUCTING THE 3 SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS?
____________________________
"What I remember is George [Tenet] saying, 'we got this from'--basically, from what George said was 'downtown,'" Richer says in a transcript Suskind released. "He may have hinted--just by the way he said it, it would have--cause almost all that stuff came from one place only: Scooter Libby and the shop around the vice president."
Richer contests the account. In an unusual move, the White House issued a denial in Richer's name when the details of the book were released earlier this month.
In it, Richer declared, "I never received direction from George Tenet or anyone else in my chain of command to fabricate a document ... as outlined in Mr. Suskind's book."
Suskind, however, says he has a tape of their conversation, which took place earlier this year. His prior accounts of internal Administration machinations have stood up under scrutiny. Conyers asked that Richer "set up a time" to discuss allegations surrounding the false letter.
"According to recent allegations in your capacity as the former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations and Chief of the Near East Division, you were tasked by former CIA Director George Tenet to create the false letter and may even have seen the White House stationery on which the false letter assignment was reportedly written," Conyers wrote Richer Wednesday. "Given your reported direct knowledge of these events, I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter."
Full transcripts of the letters follow. Conyers also wrote John Hannah, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs.
Book asserts White House ordered forged letter
Suskind's book, The Way of The World, asserts that senior Bush officials ordered the CIA to forge a document "proving" that Saddam Hussein had been trying to manufacture nuclear weapons and was collaborating with al Qaeda. The alleged result was a faked memorandum from then chief of Saddam's intelligence service Tahir Jalil Habbush dated July 1, 2001, and written to Hussein.
The bogus memo claimed that 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta had received training in Baghdad but also discussed the arrival of a "shipment" from Niger, which the Administration claimed had supplied Iraq with yellowcake uranium -- based on yet another forged document whose source remains uncertain.
The memo subsequently was treated as fact by the British Sunday Telegraph, and cited by William Safire in his New York Times column, providing fodder for Bush's efforts to take the US to war.
It is likely the Vice President's Office will refer to Richer's denial on the matter and claim that discussions between the Vice President's staff and the Vice President are protected. Libby, who was convicted of four counts of obstruction of justice and perjury, was sentenced to 30 months in prison but had his sentence commuted by President Bush in July 2007.
Letter to Rob Richer, former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations:
___________________________________
Mr. Rob Richer
c/o Cofer Black
Total Intelligence Solutions
1650 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 800
McLean, Virginia 22102
Dear Mr. Richer:
I am writing to follow up on recent serious allegations regarding the creation of a false letter from Tahir Jalil Habbush, Saddam Hussein's former Chief of Intelligence, to Saddam Hussein. The letter, which was allegedly backdated to July 1, 2001, attempted to establish an operational link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the period before the 9/11 attacks by specifically stating that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had received training in Iraq. At the time of the alleged decision in 2003 to concoct the false letter, the Vice President's Office had been reportedly pressuring the CIA to prove this connection as a justification to invade Iraq. The letter also falsely noted that Iraq had received a "shipment" (presumably uranium) from Niger with the assistance of al Qaeda.
Upon careful review of the allegations concerning this matter, I have become very concerned with the possibility that this Administration may have violated federal law by using the resources of our intelligence agencies to influence domestic policy processes or opinion. The law specifically provides that "[n]o covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media."
According to recent allegations, in your capacity as the former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations and Chief of the Near East Division, you were tasked by former CIA Director George Tenet to create the false letter and may even have seen the White House stationery on which the false letter assignment was reportedly written. Given your reported direct knowledge of these events, I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter. Please direct your response and any questions to the Judiciary Committee office, 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 (tel: XXXXXXXXXX, fax: XXXXXXXXXX). Thank you very much for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr.
Chairman
________________________________________________________________________________
Letter to I. Lewis Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney:
____________________________________________________
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-6216
(202) XXXXXXXX
http://www.house.gov/judiciary
August 20, 2008
Mr. Lewis I. Libby
The Hudson Institute
Sixth Floor
1015 15th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Dear Mr. Libby:
I am writing to follow up on recent serious allegations regarding the creation of a false letter from Tahir Jalil Habbush, Saddam Hussein's former Chief of Intelligence, to Saddam Hussein. The letter, which was allegedly backdated to July 1, 2001, attempted to establish an operational link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the period before the 9/11 attacks by specifically stating that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had received training in Iraq. At the time of the alleged decision in 2003 to concoct the false letter, the Vice President's Office had been reportedly pressuring the CIA to prove this connection as a justification to invade Iraq. The letter also falsely noted that Iraq had received a "shipment" (presumably uranium) from Niger with the assistance of al Qaeda.
Upon careful review of the allegations concerning this matter, I have become very concerned with the possibility that this Administration may have violated federal law by using the resources of our intelligence agencies to influence domestic policy processes or opinion. The law specifically provides that "[n]o covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media."
According to recent allegations, the Vice President's Office was involved in directing CIA officials to draft the false letter. As the former Chief of Staff to the Vice President, you may have direct knowledge of these events. I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter. Please direct your response and any questions to the Judiciary Committee office, 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 (tel: XXXXXXXXXX, fax: XXXXXXXXXX). Thank you very much for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr.
Chairman
________________________________________________________________
Letter to John Hannah, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-6216
(202)XXXXXXXX
http://www.house.gov/judiciary
August 20, 2008
Mr. John Hannah
Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
Eisenhower Executive Complex
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. Hannah:
I am writing to follow up on recent serious allegations regarding the creation of a false letter from Tahir Jalil Habbush, Saddam Hussein's former Chief of Intelligence, to Saddam Hussein. The letter, which was allegedly backdated to July 1, 2001, attempted to establish an operational link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the period before the 9/11 attacks by specifically stating that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had received training in Iraq. At the time of the alleged decision in 2003 to concoct the false letter, the Vice President's Office had been reportedly pressuring the CIA to prove this connection as a justification to invade Iraq. The letter also falsely noted that Iraq had received a "shipment" (presumably uranium) from Niger with the assistance of al Qaeda.
Upon careful review of the allegations concerning this matter, I have become very concerned with the possibility that this Administration may have violated federal law by using the resources of our intelligence agencies to influence domestic policy processes or opinion. The law specifically provides that "[n]o covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media."
According to recent allegations, the Vice President's Office was involved in directing CIA officials to draft the false letter. As Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, you may have direct knowledge of these events. I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter. Please direct your response and any questions to the Judiciary Committee office, 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 (tel: 202-XXXXXXX fax: 202-XXXXXXXX). Thank you very much for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr.
Chairman
John Byrne
Published: Wednesday August 20, 2008
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued letters of inquiry Wednesday to Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, regarding a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks.
The Michigan Democrat also sent letters to senior former Bush intelligence officials, including Robert Richer, former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations, who claimed that Cheney's office pushed the CIA to develop a phony letter to aid their argument for a preemptive strike on Iraq. The letters were copied to RAW STORY.
"I have become very concerned with the possibility that this Administration may have violated federal law by using the resources of our intelligence agencies to influence domestic policy processes or opinion," Conyers wrote Libby, who was convicted of obstruction of justice in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. "The law specifically provides that "[n]o covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media."
Conyers' letters come in the wake of claims by author Ron Suskind, who quotes Richer in his most recent book as saying a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery.
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TOMMY:
Apparently...Conyers only subpoenas BUSH criminal scum...if the story appears on the internet or in bookform?
Why won't this cowardly butt licking Unlce Tom punk....call me as a witness or give me an 85$ polygraph to corroborate my facts in my DOJ OIG Complaint?
HOw come Conyers has "NO INTEREST IN THE EVIDENCE THAT NSA WIRETAPPED SD US SENATOR TOM DASCHLE'S CAMPAIGN IN SIOUX FALLS"...AND...."NSA 902ND COUNTERINTELIGENCE UNIT did the CALEA WIRETAPPING ON CHRISTINA MOORE, to facilitate the PATRIOT ACT MURDER OF THIS ENRON WITNESS with BOB MUELLER'S FBI helping to "obstruct justice" in this Texas murder...along with FBI OBSTRUCTING THE 3 SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS?
____________________________
"What I remember is George [Tenet] saying, 'we got this from'--basically, from what George said was 'downtown,'" Richer says in a transcript Suskind released. "He may have hinted--just by the way he said it, it would have--cause almost all that stuff came from one place only: Scooter Libby and the shop around the vice president."
Richer contests the account. In an unusual move, the White House issued a denial in Richer's name when the details of the book were released earlier this month.
In it, Richer declared, "I never received direction from George Tenet or anyone else in my chain of command to fabricate a document ... as outlined in Mr. Suskind's book."
Suskind, however, says he has a tape of their conversation, which took place earlier this year. His prior accounts of internal Administration machinations have stood up under scrutiny. Conyers asked that Richer "set up a time" to discuss allegations surrounding the false letter.
"According to recent allegations in your capacity as the former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations and Chief of the Near East Division, you were tasked by former CIA Director George Tenet to create the false letter and may even have seen the White House stationery on which the false letter assignment was reportedly written," Conyers wrote Richer Wednesday. "Given your reported direct knowledge of these events, I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter."
Full transcripts of the letters follow. Conyers also wrote John Hannah, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs.
Book asserts White House ordered forged letter
Suskind's book, The Way of The World, asserts that senior Bush officials ordered the CIA to forge a document "proving" that Saddam Hussein had been trying to manufacture nuclear weapons and was collaborating with al Qaeda. The alleged result was a faked memorandum from then chief of Saddam's intelligence service Tahir Jalil Habbush dated July 1, 2001, and written to Hussein.
The bogus memo claimed that 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta had received training in Baghdad but also discussed the arrival of a "shipment" from Niger, which the Administration claimed had supplied Iraq with yellowcake uranium -- based on yet another forged document whose source remains uncertain.
The memo subsequently was treated as fact by the British Sunday Telegraph, and cited by William Safire in his New York Times column, providing fodder for Bush's efforts to take the US to war.
It is likely the Vice President's Office will refer to Richer's denial on the matter and claim that discussions between the Vice President's staff and the Vice President are protected. Libby, who was convicted of four counts of obstruction of justice and perjury, was sentenced to 30 months in prison but had his sentence commuted by President Bush in July 2007.
Letter to Rob Richer, former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations:
___________________________________
Mr. Rob Richer
c/o Cofer Black
Total Intelligence Solutions
1650 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 800
McLean, Virginia 22102
Dear Mr. Richer:
I am writing to follow up on recent serious allegations regarding the creation of a false letter from Tahir Jalil Habbush, Saddam Hussein's former Chief of Intelligence, to Saddam Hussein. The letter, which was allegedly backdated to July 1, 2001, attempted to establish an operational link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the period before the 9/11 attacks by specifically stating that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had received training in Iraq. At the time of the alleged decision in 2003 to concoct the false letter, the Vice President's Office had been reportedly pressuring the CIA to prove this connection as a justification to invade Iraq. The letter also falsely noted that Iraq had received a "shipment" (presumably uranium) from Niger with the assistance of al Qaeda.
Upon careful review of the allegations concerning this matter, I have become very concerned with the possibility that this Administration may have violated federal law by using the resources of our intelligence agencies to influence domestic policy processes or opinion. The law specifically provides that "[n]o covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media."
According to recent allegations, in your capacity as the former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations and Chief of the Near East Division, you were tasked by former CIA Director George Tenet to create the false letter and may even have seen the White House stationery on which the false letter assignment was reportedly written. Given your reported direct knowledge of these events, I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter. Please direct your response and any questions to the Judiciary Committee office, 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 (tel: XXXXXXXXXX, fax: XXXXXXXXXX). Thank you very much for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr.
Chairman
________________________________________________________________________________
Letter to I. Lewis Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney:
____________________________________________________
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-6216
(202) XXXXXXXX
http://www.house.gov/judiciary
August 20, 2008
Mr. Lewis I. Libby
The Hudson Institute
Sixth Floor
1015 15th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Dear Mr. Libby:
I am writing to follow up on recent serious allegations regarding the creation of a false letter from Tahir Jalil Habbush, Saddam Hussein's former Chief of Intelligence, to Saddam Hussein. The letter, which was allegedly backdated to July 1, 2001, attempted to establish an operational link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the period before the 9/11 attacks by specifically stating that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had received training in Iraq. At the time of the alleged decision in 2003 to concoct the false letter, the Vice President's Office had been reportedly pressuring the CIA to prove this connection as a justification to invade Iraq. The letter also falsely noted that Iraq had received a "shipment" (presumably uranium) from Niger with the assistance of al Qaeda.
Upon careful review of the allegations concerning this matter, I have become very concerned with the possibility that this Administration may have violated federal law by using the resources of our intelligence agencies to influence domestic policy processes or opinion. The law specifically provides that "[n]o covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media."
According to recent allegations, the Vice President's Office was involved in directing CIA officials to draft the false letter. As the former Chief of Staff to the Vice President, you may have direct knowledge of these events. I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter. Please direct your response and any questions to the Judiciary Committee office, 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 (tel: XXXXXXXXXX, fax: XXXXXXXXXX). Thank you very much for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr.
Chairman
________________________________________________________________
Letter to John Hannah, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-6216
(202)XXXXXXXX
http://www.house.gov/judiciary
August 20, 2008
Mr. John Hannah
Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
Eisenhower Executive Complex
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. Hannah:
I am writing to follow up on recent serious allegations regarding the creation of a false letter from Tahir Jalil Habbush, Saddam Hussein's former Chief of Intelligence, to Saddam Hussein. The letter, which was allegedly backdated to July 1, 2001, attempted to establish an operational link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the period before the 9/11 attacks by specifically stating that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had received training in Iraq. At the time of the alleged decision in 2003 to concoct the false letter, the Vice President's Office had been reportedly pressuring the CIA to prove this connection as a justification to invade Iraq. The letter also falsely noted that Iraq had received a "shipment" (presumably uranium) from Niger with the assistance of al Qaeda.
Upon careful review of the allegations concerning this matter, I have become very concerned with the possibility that this Administration may have violated federal law by using the resources of our intelligence agencies to influence domestic policy processes or opinion. The law specifically provides that "[n]o covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media."
According to recent allegations, the Vice President's Office was involved in directing CIA officials to draft the false letter. As Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, you may have direct knowledge of these events. I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter. Please direct your response and any questions to the Judiciary Committee office, 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 (tel: 202-XXXXXXX fax: 202-XXXXXXXX). Thank you very much for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr.
Chairman
New FBI GUIDELINES destroys 240 years of US CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY AND LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP ?!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/washington/21fbi.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1219334144-nHJRmqP2YiuTGvqzacnTQg&oref=slogin
New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: August 20, 2008
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion, Democratic lawmakers briefed on the details said Wednesday.
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tommy:
This is all about making COINTELPRO NAZI PUNK FBI TACTICS...into an "acceptable system of repression" with no access to lawyers or fed courts to get the legal issues before the courts.
The new tactics (outlined in my complaints) show cause that....IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO LITIGATE THE LEGAL ISSUES, BECAUSE...MIND CONTROL, TORTURE, STALKING, DEFAMATION, CHILLING ALL ASSOCIATIONS WITH FRIENDS OR LAWYERS....is...perfectly acceptable as FBI GOES ON A WARTIME FOOTING TO TARGET ANY PERSON OF INTEREST:
----social activists;
----bloggers;
----complainants who sign FBI OPR, DOJ OPR, or DOJ OIG complaints;
----any innocent known associate of any person of interest;
----anybody on a jury who does not uphold the police state's bogus power trip.
__________________________
The plan, which could be made public next month, has already generated intense interest and speculation. Little is known about its precise language, but civil liberties advocates say they fear it could give the government even broader license to open terrorism investigations.
Congressional staff members got a glimpse of some of the details in closed briefings this month, and four Democratic senators told Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey in a letter on Wednesday that they were troubled by what they heard.
The senators said the new guidelines would allow the F.B.I. to open an investigation of an American, conduct surveillance, pry into private records and take other investigative steps “without any basis for suspicion.” The plan “might permit an innocent American to be subjected to such intrusive surveillance based in part on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, or on protected First Amendment activities,” the letter said. It was signed by Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
As the end of the Bush administration nears, the White House has been seeking to formalize in law and regulation some of the aggressive counterterrorism steps it has already taken in practice since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Congress overhauled the federal wiretapping law in July, for instance, and President Bush issued an executive order this month ratifying new roles for intelligence agencies. Other pending changes would also authorize greater sharing of intelligence information with the local police, a major push in the last seven years.
The Justice Department is already expecting criticism over the F.B.I. guidelines. In an effort to pre-empt critics, Mr. Mukasey gave a speech last week in Portland, Ore., describing the unfinished plan as an effort to “integrate more completely and harmonize the standards that apply to the F.B.I.’s activities.” Differing standards, he said, have caused confusion for field agents.
Mr. Mukasey emphasized that the F.B.I. would still need a “valid purpose” for an investigation, and that it could not be “simply based on somebody’s race, religion, or exercise of First Amendment rights.”
Rather than expanding government power, he said, “this document clarifies the rules by which the F.B.I. conducts its intelligence mission.”
In 2002, John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, allowed F.B.I. agents to visit public sites like mosques or monitor Web sites in the course of national security investigations. The next year, Mr. Bush issued guidelines allowing officials to use ethnicity or race in “narrow” circumstances to detect a terrorist threat.
The Democratic senators said the draft plan appeared to allow the F.B.I. to go even further in collecting information on Americans connected to “foreign intelligence” without any factual predicate. They also said there appeared to be few constraints on how the information would be shared with other agencies.
Michael German, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union and a former F.B.I. agent, said the plan appeared to open the door still further to the use of data-mining profiles in tracking terrorism.
“This seems to be based on the idea that the government can take a bunch of data and create a profile that can be used to identify future bad guys,” he said. “But that has not been demonstrated to be true anywhere else.”
The Justice Department said Wednesday that in light of requests from members of Congress for more information, Mr. Mukasey would agree not to sign the new guidelines before a Sept. 17 Congressional hearing.
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tommy:
You got to understand what THE FBI CAN GET AWAY WITH TODAY, AND HOW THIS NEW REVISED DOJ GUIDELINES...IS TIED TO MY SPECIFIC FACT PATTERN.
MY FACT PATTERN (totally ignored by Democratic staffers and pussies in Congress) included FBI's repeated violations of the rule of law, while protecting a "secret, contract, vigilante mercenary corporate goons squad" (NSA TSP) that uses the HAND OFF METHOD OF LAUNDERING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO (wiretaps, bugs, GPS, pin hole spy cameras, breakins, theft, goon work, terroristic threats, assaults, slander, defamation, obstruction of justice, frameups, planting drugs, etc) to create the ORWELL MEETS KAFKA POLICE STATE NIGHTMARE.
OF COURSE...all dissentors, complainants, whistleblowers, social activists, Democrats, or JUDGES UPHOLDING US CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS....will be destroyed with MIND CONTROL, FRAMEUPS USING SUBLIMINAL PROGRAMMING, ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE IN HOME....ETC.
IT'S ALL OVER WITH..................WHEN A COWARDLY HOUSENIGGER, AND UNCLE TOM PUNK NAMED JON CONYERS (US House Jud Comm) refuses to "...let me testify" to alter the course of this madness.
My testimony is corroborated by cops, feds, prosecutors, witnesses, doctors...etc.
CONYERS, being a punk clown Uncle Tom House NIgger....has....no comment about the failure to contact me, or subpoena me?
CONYERS HAS NOTHING TO LOSE.
NOBODY RESPECTS A PUSSY.
NOBODY BELIEVES THE DEMS.
NOBODY IS SATISFIED WITH THE DEMS APPEASEMENT STRATEGY.
NOBODY CAN STOMACHE THESE FUCKING LYING CORRUPT FAGGOTS.
New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: August 20, 2008
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion, Democratic lawmakers briefed on the details said Wednesday.
_____________________
tommy:
This is all about making COINTELPRO NAZI PUNK FBI TACTICS...into an "acceptable system of repression" with no access to lawyers or fed courts to get the legal issues before the courts.
The new tactics (outlined in my complaints) show cause that....IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO LITIGATE THE LEGAL ISSUES, BECAUSE...MIND CONTROL, TORTURE, STALKING, DEFAMATION, CHILLING ALL ASSOCIATIONS WITH FRIENDS OR LAWYERS....is...perfectly acceptable as FBI GOES ON A WARTIME FOOTING TO TARGET ANY PERSON OF INTEREST:
----social activists;
----bloggers;
----complainants who sign FBI OPR, DOJ OPR, or DOJ OIG complaints;
----any innocent known associate of any person of interest;
----anybody on a jury who does not uphold the police state's bogus power trip.
__________________________
The plan, which could be made public next month, has already generated intense interest and speculation. Little is known about its precise language, but civil liberties advocates say they fear it could give the government even broader license to open terrorism investigations.
Congressional staff members got a glimpse of some of the details in closed briefings this month, and four Democratic senators told Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey in a letter on Wednesday that they were troubled by what they heard.
The senators said the new guidelines would allow the F.B.I. to open an investigation of an American, conduct surveillance, pry into private records and take other investigative steps “without any basis for suspicion.” The plan “might permit an innocent American to be subjected to such intrusive surveillance based in part on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, or on protected First Amendment activities,” the letter said. It was signed by Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
As the end of the Bush administration nears, the White House has been seeking to formalize in law and regulation some of the aggressive counterterrorism steps it has already taken in practice since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Congress overhauled the federal wiretapping law in July, for instance, and President Bush issued an executive order this month ratifying new roles for intelligence agencies. Other pending changes would also authorize greater sharing of intelligence information with the local police, a major push in the last seven years.
The Justice Department is already expecting criticism over the F.B.I. guidelines. In an effort to pre-empt critics, Mr. Mukasey gave a speech last week in Portland, Ore., describing the unfinished plan as an effort to “integrate more completely and harmonize the standards that apply to the F.B.I.’s activities.” Differing standards, he said, have caused confusion for field agents.
Mr. Mukasey emphasized that the F.B.I. would still need a “valid purpose” for an investigation, and that it could not be “simply based on somebody’s race, religion, or exercise of First Amendment rights.”
Rather than expanding government power, he said, “this document clarifies the rules by which the F.B.I. conducts its intelligence mission.”
In 2002, John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, allowed F.B.I. agents to visit public sites like mosques or monitor Web sites in the course of national security investigations. The next year, Mr. Bush issued guidelines allowing officials to use ethnicity or race in “narrow” circumstances to detect a terrorist threat.
The Democratic senators said the draft plan appeared to allow the F.B.I. to go even further in collecting information on Americans connected to “foreign intelligence” without any factual predicate. They also said there appeared to be few constraints on how the information would be shared with other agencies.
Michael German, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union and a former F.B.I. agent, said the plan appeared to open the door still further to the use of data-mining profiles in tracking terrorism.
“This seems to be based on the idea that the government can take a bunch of data and create a profile that can be used to identify future bad guys,” he said. “But that has not been demonstrated to be true anywhere else.”
The Justice Department said Wednesday that in light of requests from members of Congress for more information, Mr. Mukasey would agree not to sign the new guidelines before a Sept. 17 Congressional hearing.
_________________________
tommy:
You got to understand what THE FBI CAN GET AWAY WITH TODAY, AND HOW THIS NEW REVISED DOJ GUIDELINES...IS TIED TO MY SPECIFIC FACT PATTERN.
MY FACT PATTERN (totally ignored by Democratic staffers and pussies in Congress) included FBI's repeated violations of the rule of law, while protecting a "secret, contract, vigilante mercenary corporate goons squad" (NSA TSP) that uses the HAND OFF METHOD OF LAUNDERING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO (wiretaps, bugs, GPS, pin hole spy cameras, breakins, theft, goon work, terroristic threats, assaults, slander, defamation, obstruction of justice, frameups, planting drugs, etc) to create the ORWELL MEETS KAFKA POLICE STATE NIGHTMARE.
OF COURSE...all dissentors, complainants, whistleblowers, social activists, Democrats, or JUDGES UPHOLDING US CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS....will be destroyed with MIND CONTROL, FRAMEUPS USING SUBLIMINAL PROGRAMMING, ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE IN HOME....ETC.
IT'S ALL OVER WITH..................WHEN A COWARDLY HOUSENIGGER, AND UNCLE TOM PUNK NAMED JON CONYERS (US House Jud Comm) refuses to "...let me testify" to alter the course of this madness.
My testimony is corroborated by cops, feds, prosecutors, witnesses, doctors...etc.
CONYERS, being a punk clown Uncle Tom House NIgger....has....no comment about the failure to contact me, or subpoena me?
CONYERS HAS NOTHING TO LOSE.
NOBODY RESPECTS A PUSSY.
NOBODY BELIEVES THE DEMS.
NOBODY IS SATISFIED WITH THE DEMS APPEASEMENT STRATEGY.
NOBODY CAN STOMACHE THESE FUCKING LYING CORRUPT FAGGOTS.
Does anybody really believe the fucking cops anymore?
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/21/cyanide-death-at-hotel-ruled-a-suicide/
Cyanide death at hotel ruled a suicide
Rocky Mountain News
Thursday, August 21, 2008
A Canadian man found dead in the Burnsley hotel committed suicide by ingesting cyanide, the Denver coroner's office announced Wednesday.
Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, 29, was found dead Aug. 11 in his fourth-floor room at the hotel, 1000 Grant St. Hazmat officials recovered a jar of cyanide nearby.
Authorities have said they do not suspect foul play in the death and said they have no evidence that the cyanide represented any terrorist threat.
Dirie's friends and relatives in Ottawa said he was not a terrorist but did say he suffered from schizophrenia and had been taking medication for the past three years.
__________________________
tommy:
Hmmm...uh...isn't Denver the site of the Democratic Convention that promises to be a climatic pissed off coming together "hate fest" that amounts to nothing...since...WE ALL KNOW, HILARY CAN ONLY WIN IF SHE BENEFITS FROM 'A RFK POLITICAL MURDER BY YES, ...another lone wolf nut manchurian candidate'.
Hmmm...uh...any comment by FBI on "how this nut got the money" to stay at 200$ a night hotel?
Or as one blogger wrote:
" A Somali Muslim with mental problems- Check
No passport, here illegally-Check
Been unemployed for years, no means of support,
but takes a "vacation" to Denver staying for weeks at a $200 a night hotel-Check
Posts are made online by a guy with an almost identical name calling for people to die-Check
The man is found dead in his room with over a pound of cyanide-Check
Story claiming suicide appears in back of paper on page 29-Check
Sounds more like a terrorist "work" accident to me.
This guy was up to no good and Ritter, Hick, the DNC and the state and fed authorities know it but dont want to panic the delegates and general public, causing a low turnout for their precious convention.
What if there were more than one, say 18 others are out there each with a pound of cyanide who didnt kill themselves and are still planning an attack during the DNC?
I hope I'm wrong, but this whole thing stinks of a cover-up"
Cyanide death at hotel ruled a suicide
Rocky Mountain News
Thursday, August 21, 2008
A Canadian man found dead in the Burnsley hotel committed suicide by ingesting cyanide, the Denver coroner's office announced Wednesday.
Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, 29, was found dead Aug. 11 in his fourth-floor room at the hotel, 1000 Grant St. Hazmat officials recovered a jar of cyanide nearby.
Authorities have said they do not suspect foul play in the death and said they have no evidence that the cyanide represented any terrorist threat.
Dirie's friends and relatives in Ottawa said he was not a terrorist but did say he suffered from schizophrenia and had been taking medication for the past three years.
__________________________
tommy:
Hmmm...uh...isn't Denver the site of the Democratic Convention that promises to be a climatic pissed off coming together "hate fest" that amounts to nothing...since...WE ALL KNOW, HILARY CAN ONLY WIN IF SHE BENEFITS FROM 'A RFK POLITICAL MURDER BY YES, ...another lone wolf nut manchurian candidate'.
Hmmm...uh...any comment by FBI on "how this nut got the money" to stay at 200$ a night hotel?
Or as one blogger wrote:
" A Somali Muslim with mental problems- Check
No passport, here illegally-Check
Been unemployed for years, no means of support,
but takes a "vacation" to Denver staying for weeks at a $200 a night hotel-Check
Posts are made online by a guy with an almost identical name calling for people to die-Check
The man is found dead in his room with over a pound of cyanide-Check
Story claiming suicide appears in back of paper on page 29-Check
Sounds more like a terrorist "work" accident to me.
This guy was up to no good and Ritter, Hick, the DNC and the state and fed authorities know it but dont want to panic the delegates and general public, causing a low turnout for their precious convention.
What if there were more than one, say 18 others are out there each with a pound of cyanide who didnt kill themselves and are still planning an attack during the DNC?
I hope I'm wrong, but this whole thing stinks of a cover-up"
THERMITE does not make noise? GOV turns on smoke machine to cover false flag attack on 9/11
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/BREAKING_NIST_%3CI%3Efinally%3CI%3E_poses_theory_on_0821.html
As federal agency declares 'new phenomenon' downed WTC 7, activists cry foul
Stephen C. Webster
Published: Thursday August 21, 2008
According to a federal agency report released Thursday, a "new phenomenon" known as thermal expansion was directly responsible for the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center 7 on Sept. 11, 2001.
This theory, posed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology -- a federal scientific agency which promotes technical industrial standards -- marks the first 'official' government theory on the collapse.
The building's demise occurred some seven hours after the twin towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, and has been the source of numerous conspiracy theories key to the "9/11 Truth" movement, most of which argue that the symmetrical, seven-second collapse was brought about by a controlled demolition.
Dr. Shyam Sunder, director of Institute's building and fire research laboratory, oversaw the government's three-year research efforts. The report aims to disprove the controlled demolition argument.
However, Richard Gage, founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and a member of the American Institute of Architects, doesn't believe a word of the theory.
His group, which has swelled to over 400 architectural and engineering professionals, immediately responded to the Institute's claim in a press conference.
"Tons of [molten metal] was found 21 days after the attack," said Gage in an interview with a Vancouver, Canada television station. "Steel doesn't begin to melt until 2,700 degrees, which is much hotter than what these fires could have caused."
"There are holes in this story that you can drive a truck through," Gage added during the press conference. His group asserts that thermite, a steel cutting agent, was used to bring the building down.
Dr. Sunder disagreed.
"We conducted the study without bias, without interference from anyone," said Dr. Sunder. "We have only one single-minded goal in this effort."
While the Institute said it considered the possibility of a controlled demolition taking place at WTC 7, the notion was dismissed due to the absence of any recordings of an explosion sound.
______________________
tommy:
The absence of a sound recording could be explained by the fact that, "...NOBODY INTERESTED IN THE TRUTH HAD PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AND THEREFORE DID NOT SET UP A MICROPHONE AHEAD OF TIME....no?"
________________________
Thermite, however, does not make an explosion sound. And while this was raised to Dr. Sunder in the media's Q&A session, he dismissed it as impossible.
"FEMA found it," said Gage. "Dr. Steven Jones found it, in the dust that landed in the entire area of lower Manhattan. And he finds it in the chunks of previously molten metal [from the towers]."
Specifically, in Appendix C of its World Trade Center Building Performance Study, FEMA claimed:
Evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure. A liquid eutectic mixture containing primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur formed during this hot corrosion attack on the steel... The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of Samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified.
Yet, no study of the mysterious sulfur or melted steel was included in the NIST report.
After New York City officials cut off the water main to the tower Sept. 11, 2001, the building's sprinkler system was unable to function, Dr. Sunder said. This allowed fires across 10 floors to burn uncontrolled for nearly seven hours.
The Institute asserts that due to the lack of water supply, an “extraordinary event” occurred, and for the first time ever, steel expanding due to heat from the flames caused columns to separate from structural concrete. Column 79 was the first to fail, according to the report, which brought about a quick succession of failures in adjoining columns.
"Thermal expansion of long-span floor systems" was a critical element in the collapse, said Dr. Sunder. The "kink" seen in the building's penthouse portion in video of the collapse was in-line with the columns which failed first.
"If water had been available, it is likely that sprinklers would have operated and the building may still be here today," he said.
"It looks like they want to wrap-up this investigation and blame [the collapse] on normal office fires," said Gage during counter-conference.
WTC 7's structural system is in "widespread use" in other buildings, he added, insisting that such effects may also be present elsewhere. The Institute's report also includes recommendations for the strengthening of building codes to avoid future thermal expansion-driven collapses.
The collapse of WTC 7 is "no longer a mystery," Dr. Sunder claimed.
The Institute's full report is available at wtc.nist.gov.
Further details from the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth press conference are forthcoming.
As federal agency declares 'new phenomenon' downed WTC 7, activists cry foul
Stephen C. Webster
Published: Thursday August 21, 2008
According to a federal agency report released Thursday, a "new phenomenon" known as thermal expansion was directly responsible for the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center 7 on Sept. 11, 2001.
This theory, posed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology -- a federal scientific agency which promotes technical industrial standards -- marks the first 'official' government theory on the collapse.
The building's demise occurred some seven hours after the twin towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, and has been the source of numerous conspiracy theories key to the "9/11 Truth" movement, most of which argue that the symmetrical, seven-second collapse was brought about by a controlled demolition.
Dr. Shyam Sunder, director of Institute's building and fire research laboratory, oversaw the government's three-year research efforts. The report aims to disprove the controlled demolition argument.
However, Richard Gage, founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and a member of the American Institute of Architects, doesn't believe a word of the theory.
His group, which has swelled to over 400 architectural and engineering professionals, immediately responded to the Institute's claim in a press conference.
"Tons of [molten metal] was found 21 days after the attack," said Gage in an interview with a Vancouver, Canada television station. "Steel doesn't begin to melt until 2,700 degrees, which is much hotter than what these fires could have caused."
"There are holes in this story that you can drive a truck through," Gage added during the press conference. His group asserts that thermite, a steel cutting agent, was used to bring the building down.
Dr. Sunder disagreed.
"We conducted the study without bias, without interference from anyone," said Dr. Sunder. "We have only one single-minded goal in this effort."
While the Institute said it considered the possibility of a controlled demolition taking place at WTC 7, the notion was dismissed due to the absence of any recordings of an explosion sound.
______________________
tommy:
The absence of a sound recording could be explained by the fact that, "...NOBODY INTERESTED IN THE TRUTH HAD PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AND THEREFORE DID NOT SET UP A MICROPHONE AHEAD OF TIME....no?"
________________________
Thermite, however, does not make an explosion sound. And while this was raised to Dr. Sunder in the media's Q&A session, he dismissed it as impossible.
"FEMA found it," said Gage. "Dr. Steven Jones found it, in the dust that landed in the entire area of lower Manhattan. And he finds it in the chunks of previously molten metal [from the towers]."
Specifically, in Appendix C of its World Trade Center Building Performance Study, FEMA claimed:
Evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure. A liquid eutectic mixture containing primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur formed during this hot corrosion attack on the steel... The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of Samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified.
Yet, no study of the mysterious sulfur or melted steel was included in the NIST report.
After New York City officials cut off the water main to the tower Sept. 11, 2001, the building's sprinkler system was unable to function, Dr. Sunder said. This allowed fires across 10 floors to burn uncontrolled for nearly seven hours.
The Institute asserts that due to the lack of water supply, an “extraordinary event” occurred, and for the first time ever, steel expanding due to heat from the flames caused columns to separate from structural concrete. Column 79 was the first to fail, according to the report, which brought about a quick succession of failures in adjoining columns.
"Thermal expansion of long-span floor systems" was a critical element in the collapse, said Dr. Sunder. The "kink" seen in the building's penthouse portion in video of the collapse was in-line with the columns which failed first.
"If water had been available, it is likely that sprinklers would have operated and the building may still be here today," he said.
"It looks like they want to wrap-up this investigation and blame [the collapse] on normal office fires," said Gage during counter-conference.
WTC 7's structural system is in "widespread use" in other buildings, he added, insisting that such effects may also be present elsewhere. The Institute's report also includes recommendations for the strengthening of building codes to avoid future thermal expansion-driven collapses.
The collapse of WTC 7 is "no longer a mystery," Dr. Sunder claimed.
The Institute's full report is available at wtc.nist.gov.
Further details from the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth press conference are forthcoming.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
More FALSE FLAG TERRORISM protected by HLS, MOSSAD, MUKASY, MUELLER'S FBI HQ
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1184370
Govt mum on Haywood's departure
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 18:30 IST
NEW DELHI: Questions were being asked on Tuesday about the sudden departure of Ken Haywood, an executive of an MNC whose computer Internet connection was used to send terror e-mail minutes before Ahmedabad blasts, but the Government chose to remain mum.
Haywood left on the intervening night of August 17-18 from Indira Gandhi International Airport here, despite a lookout notice issued by the Mumbai police pending against the 48-year-old US citizen. He was accompanied by his wife and two daughters to his home via Brussels.
The sudden departure of Haywood has given rise to considerable speculation about him including whether he had links with a western intelligence agency.
There was speculation that his links with intelligence agencies had come to fore after which he felt threatened and left the country. However, no one was forthcoming to confirm.
Haywood underwent lie detector and brain mapping test and nothing adverse was found against him.
Mumbai police's anti-terrorist squad had summoned him to verify the allegation that a senior police official had demanded a bribe from him.
Working with Cambell White in the country's commercial capital, Haywood was questioned several times after the Internet Protocol (IP) address of Indian Mujahideen mail, sent to various media houses minutes before Ahmedabad blasts, led to his flat in Navi Mumbai.
The entire building had a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) with Haywood being one of the users. He had claimed that his connection, which was not password protected, was used by the terror group to send the email.
Haywood, who had come on a four-year contract, worked as a corporate training manager with Campbell White. He has more than 20 years experience in the field and has held senior positions with Fortune 500 companies throughout that time.
He has completed courses of study in civil engineering, real estate law, business communications, conflict resolution and advanced professional training courses, a statement issued by the company sometime back said.
Gujarat Police is already on the look out for a technical professional, who was working with Wipro company, as they claim that he could have possibly hacked his internet connection.
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http://www.abc15.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=1a6cc400-d8c9-42ba-b582-7ab1958d7c72
Man accused in deadly India bombing may be in Arizona
Reported by: Deborah Stocks
Email: dstocks@abc15.com
Last Update: 9:21 am
Click the play button on the video window to the right to see the story
A U. S. national allegedly connected to a deadly bombing in India is believed to be somewhere in Arizona.
India media is reporting Kenneth Haywood sent a terrorist e-mail five minutes before a series of blasts ripped through Ahmedabad on July 26th, killing nearly 60 people.
Now there's big controversy in India over how Haywood slipped out of the country despite security warnings in all of the country's airports.
A lawyer told CNN that Haywood will be back in India in two weeks and claims his client is being harassed by investigators.
According to the The Times of India, Haywood teaches English diction and public speaking for Campbell White, a soft skills training company. A friend said Haywood
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Govt mum on Haywood's departure
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 18:30 IST
NEW DELHI: Questions were being asked on Tuesday about the sudden departure of Ken Haywood, an executive of an MNC whose computer Internet connection was used to send terror e-mail minutes before Ahmedabad blasts, but the Government chose to remain mum.
Haywood left on the intervening night of August 17-18 from Indira Gandhi International Airport here, despite a lookout notice issued by the Mumbai police pending against the 48-year-old US citizen. He was accompanied by his wife and two daughters to his home via Brussels.
The sudden departure of Haywood has given rise to considerable speculation about him including whether he had links with a western intelligence agency.
There was speculation that his links with intelligence agencies had come to fore after which he felt threatened and left the country. However, no one was forthcoming to confirm.
Haywood underwent lie detector and brain mapping test and nothing adverse was found against him.
Mumbai police's anti-terrorist squad had summoned him to verify the allegation that a senior police official had demanded a bribe from him.
Working with Cambell White in the country's commercial capital, Haywood was questioned several times after the Internet Protocol (IP) address of Indian Mujahideen mail, sent to various media houses minutes before Ahmedabad blasts, led to his flat in Navi Mumbai.
The entire building had a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) with Haywood being one of the users. He had claimed that his connection, which was not password protected, was used by the terror group to send the email.
Haywood, who had come on a four-year contract, worked as a corporate training manager with Campbell White. He has more than 20 years experience in the field and has held senior positions with Fortune 500 companies throughout that time.
He has completed courses of study in civil engineering, real estate law, business communications, conflict resolution and advanced professional training courses, a statement issued by the company sometime back said.
Gujarat Police is already on the look out for a technical professional, who was working with Wipro company, as they claim that he could have possibly hacked his internet connection.
_____________________________________________________________________________
http://www.abc15.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=1a6cc400-d8c9-42ba-b582-7ab1958d7c72
Man accused in deadly India bombing may be in Arizona
Reported by: Deborah Stocks
Email: dstocks@abc15.com
Last Update: 9:21 am
Click the play button on the video window to the right to see the story
A U. S. national allegedly connected to a deadly bombing in India is believed to be somewhere in Arizona.
India media is reporting Kenneth Haywood sent a terrorist e-mail five minutes before a series of blasts ripped through Ahmedabad on July 26th, killing nearly 60 people.
Now there's big controversy in India over how Haywood slipped out of the country despite security warnings in all of the country's airports.
A lawyer told CNN that Haywood will be back in India in two weeks and claims his client is being harassed by investigators.
According to the The Times of India, Haywood teaches English diction and public speaking for Campbell White, a soft skills training company. A friend said Haywood
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NOBODY believes the lying, punk, treasonous, lowlife, jerkscum at FBI HQ
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/aug/25/00012/August 25, 2008 Issue
August 25, 2008 Issue
Copyright © 2008 The American Conservative
The Anthrax Files PDF
The FBI claims to have caught the killer. But so much evidence has been neglected or mishandled that many experts still have doubts.
By Christopher Ketcham
Seven years after the anthrax attacks shut down Congress, sowed panic nationwide, killed five, sickened 17, and allowed neocon propagandists to variously blame al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, the FBI claims to have gotten its man. But the official story doesn’t fully accord with the facts. Any reasonable assessment of the evidence suggests that the same powerful interests that might have been served by prolonging the investigation would have had a stake in finally bringing it to a tidy conclusion. That doesn’t mean that the killer was caught.
The acknowledged certainty is that the anthrax letters weren’t the work of Islamists or Iraqis. The attacks were perpetrated by someone with high-level access to U.S. government supplies of the deadly bacteria. Ground zero of the investigation has long been the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. But the lab had dropped from the headlines until recently, much as the FBI had seemingly allowed its investigation to languish.
The first week of August, the popular press got back in the game, reporting the apparent suicide of USAMRIID scientist Bruce E. Ivins, alleged to be the sole operator behind the anthrax letters. The Associated Press reported that Ivins, who is said to have killed himself on July 29 with an overdose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine, was “one of the government’s leading scientists researching vaccines and cures for anthrax exposure.” According to the AP, he was “brilliant but troubled.” His lawyer, Paul Kemp, says that Ivins passed a pair of polygraph tests and that the grand jury investigating the case was weeks from returning an indictment. Yet within days of his death, the bureau announced that it was beginning the shutdown of its “Amerithrax” investigation. “Anthrax Case a Wrap,” blared the Daily News on Aug. 4.
In April, it was reported that the FBI had been focusing on as many as four suspects. Fox News identified them as a “former deputy commander,” presumably in the U.S. Army, a “leading anthrax scientist,” and “a microbiologist.” The fourth suspect was given no description. Now the bureau is “confident that Dr. Ivins was the only person responsible for these attacks,” according to the assurances of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
The Ivins news came close on the heels of a far quieter announcement on June 27 that the FBI’s investigation of the previous top anthrax suspect, Steven Hatfill, also a USAMRIID bioresearcher, ended not with a trial and conviction but with a $5.8 million settlement effectively admitting that the bureau had the wrong guy. Hatfill had been hounded by investigators for three years, his career and reputation ruined.
Ivins was subjected to similar treatment. According to the AP, he complained to friends that agents had “stalked” him and his family. They offered his son $2.5 million and “a sports car of his choice” to rat out his father. They approached his hospitalized daughter to turn evidence on him, plying her at bedside with pictures of the murdered anthrax victims and telling her, “This is what your father did.” W. Russell Byrne, Ivins’s supervisor at USAMRIID, told the AP that Ivins, 62, was emotionally broken by the FBI’s behavior: “One person said he’d sit at his desk and weep.”
Francis Boyle, a professor of law at the University of Illinois who drafted the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act signed by President George H.W. Bush, advised the FBI in its initial investigation of the anthrax letters. Along with several other American bioweapons experts—among them Jonathan King, professor of molecular biology at MIT, and Barbara Rosenberg, who studied biowarfare with the Federation of American Scientists—Boyle warned early on that the spores issued from inside a U.S. research operation, possibly one that was classified. He provided the FBI with lists of scientists, contractors, and laboratories that had worked on anthrax projects, but he is skeptical of Ivins as the lone killer: “The Feds pursued the same strategy against Ivins as they did against Hatfill—persecute him until he broke, which Ivins did and Hatfill did not. Dead men tell no tales.”
Ivins, says Boyle, just doesn’t fit the bill. “It does not appear that he had the technological sophistication to manufacture this super weapons-grade anthrax, which would have included aerosolization, silicon coating, and an electrostatic charge.” Jeffrey Adamovicz, who directed the bacteriology division at Fort Detrick in 2003 and 2004, told McClatchy that the anthrax mailed to Sen. Tom Daschle was “so concentrated and so consistent and so clean that I would assert that Bruce could not have done that part.”
Following the release of the FBI’s public case against Ivins, the New York Times editorialized that “there is no direct evidence of his guilt” and decried the “lack of hard, incontrovertible proof.” The Washington Post called the case “admittedly circumstantial.” Investigators failed to place Ivins in New Jersey on the dates in September and October 2001 when the letters were reportedly mailed from a Princeton location. They swabbed his residence, locker, several cars, the tools in his laboratory, and his office space, but found no trace of anthrax that genetically matched the bacteria in the letters. Indeed, some of the evidence—all circumstantial, none forensic—was downright laughable. Ivins at one time maintained a mailbox under an assumed name where he received pornographic magazines. He had once been “obsessed” with a Princeton sorority because of a failed college romance, and the Princeton mailbox where one of the letters originated was located within 100 yards of a storage facility used by the sorority—in a location Ivins apparently last visited 27 years ago. He drank. He made homicidal statements to a mental-health support group. He wrote rambling letters to the editor of his local paper. How any of this motivated Bruce Ivins to kill fellow Americans with a bioweapon is not established.
Moreover, his former colleagues have repeatedly told the media that, as far as they are aware, Ivins didn’t know how to weaponize anthrax. He was a vaccine specialist, not a weaponizer. The assumption is that Ivins kept his weaponizing skills secret from his coworkers. But how did he learn those skills? Perhaps colleagues at Ft. Detrick provided the help in casual conversation. Yet there’s not the slightest indication that during his years at Ft. Detrick Ivins even once asked fellow scientists about weaponizing techniques.
Nor is it clear why Ivins—a registered Democrat—would single out Sens. Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle to receive lethal letters. Interestingly, both had been critical impediments to passage of the Patriot Act. The first wave of anthrax mail, sent Sept. 18, 2001, targeted major media; the second round, posted Oct. 9, went to Congress. On Oct. 25, amid widespread panic, the act passed. Yet it is improbable that a mad scientist would specialize in such targeted political activity—or that he personally benefited from the repercussions. Many others did, however.
“In the absence of the anthrax attacks, 9/11 could easily have been perceived as a single, isolated event,” Salon’s Glenn Greenwald writes. “It was really the anthrax letters that severely ratcheted up the fear levels and created the climate that would dominate in this country for the next several years … that created the impression that social order itself was genuinely threatened by Islamic radicalism.”
By Oct. 28, ABC was reporting, “four well-placed and separate sources have told ABC News that initial tests on the anthrax by the U.S. Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, have detected trace amounts of the chemical additives bentonite and silica”—bentonite being a hallmark of the Iraqi weapons program. (In 2007, ABC admitted that no bentonite was ever detected but refused to unmask its sources.) “Some are going to be quick to pick up on this as a smoking gun,” Peter Jennings said at the time.
The administration’s acolytes did not disappoint. William Kristol and Robert Kagan complained, “What will it take for the FBI and the CIA to start connecting the dots here? A signed confession from Saddam?” “The leading supplier suspect has to be Iraq,” the Wall Street Journal opined, “The government has to do everything possible to destroy the anthrax threat at its state-sponsored source.” Added Laurie Mylroie in National Review, “Iraqi intelligence was intimately involved in the 9/11 attacks and [the] military grade anthrax sent to Senators Leahy and Daschle almost certainly came from an Iraqi lab.” As late as 2007, long after it became apparent that the anthrax was homegrown, outlets like Fox News continued to insist on a Middle Eastern link.
Those making the case for war in Iraq and seeking to advance the administration’s domestic security agenda had good reason to resist a swift resolution to the case—especially one involving an American perpetrator. Whether by suggestion or as a result of its own incompetence, the FBI obliged.
As early as November 2001, the New York Times was reporting that the bureau’s “missteps” were “hampering the inquiry.” Indeed, from the beginning, the FBI has been in possession of a key piece of evidence that it apparently ignored.
Among the first suspects to come into the FBI’s sights was an Egyptian-born ex-USAMRIID biologist named Ayaad Assaad. He appeared on the radar because of an anonymous letter sent to the bureau identifying him as part of a terrorist cell possibly linked to the anthrax attacks. Yet, according to the Hartford Courant, the FBI did not attempt to track down the author of the letter, “despite its curious timing, coming a matter of days before the existence of anthrax-laced mail became known.”
Assaad was quickly exonerated by FBI investigators, and the matter swiftly dropped—though the letter may have provided the best piece of evidence in the case. It was sent prior to the arrival of the anthrax letters, suggesting foreknowledge of the attacks, and its language was similar to that of the deadly mail. Moreover, it displayed an intimate knowledge of USAMRIID operations, suggesting that it came from within the limited ranks of Fort Detrick researchers —a relatively small group with access to and expertise in weaponized anthrax.
The FBI has refused to make a copy of the letter publicly available—or even to give one to Assaad himself. It did, however, share the contents with a Vassar College professor and language forensics expert named Don Foster, who famously fingered Joe Klein as the anonymous author behind Primary Colors and helped to catch the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bomber. After reading news reports, he requested a copy of the letter, and, following his review of documents written by “some 40 USAMRIID employees,” Foster “found writings by a female officer that looked like a perfect match,” according to an article he authored in the October 2003 Vanity Fair. When he brought this seemingly crucial clue to the attention of the FBI’s anthrax task force, however, the bureau declined to follow up. According to Foster, the senior FBI agent on the case had never even heard of the Assaad letter. (For the record, Foster isn’t an unimpeachable source. He strayed from his area of professional expertise and published unrelated circumstantial evidence in his Vanity Fair piece that wrongly fingered Hatfill, who sued the magazine, which settled on undisclosed terms.)
“The letter-writer clearly knew my entire background, my training in both chemical and biological agents, my security clearance, what floor I work on, that I have two sons, what train I take to work, and where I live,” Assaad told reporter Laura Rozen. Since he was almost immediately cleared, attempting to frame him served no purpose, except to indulge a personal enmity. To that end, Assaad suggested that the FBI question the pair of USAMRIID colleagues most likely to carry a grudge against him, Marian Rippy and Philip Zack, who years earlier had been reprimanded for sending Assad a racist poem. Though the Courant reported video evidence of Zack making after-hours trips to labs where pathogens were stored, there is no record of the FBI ever investigating him or Rippy, a colleague with whom he was having an extramarital affair.
The FBI’s failures don’t end there. The anthrax used in the terror attacks has been identified as similar to strains held at laboratories in Ames, Iowa. The Ames database, maintained and overseen by Iowa State University, was a comprehensive culture collection of some 100 vials gathered since 1928. It listed all parties, agencies, and labs that acquired its anthrax strains. When researchers, fearful of terrorists breaching the lab, offered to destroy the anthrax cultures, the FBI did not object. “This was an astonishing thing to do,” Francis Boyle tells me. “It should have been preserved as evidence. This was a roadmap of everybody and anybody that had gotten access to develop the super-strain that hit Leahy and Daschle.”
Questions about the Ames database point to a bigger concern: where was the weapons-grade anthrax in the letters produced? If the FBI had an airtight case that the anthrax killer worked at Ft. Detrick—thanks to new DNA techniques supposedly linking the spores to that lab—surely the Assaad letter would be a key piece of evidence in the case against Ivins. At the very least it would have to be explained away rather than ignored.
Another possibility is that the attacks didn’t originate at USAMRIID at all, and the FBI has once again accused an innocent man. Ironically, it was Ivins who, among other investigators, was initially tasked by the FBI with analyzing the anthrax in the letters. Dr. Gerry Andrews, a professor of microbiology at the University of Wyoming and former colleague of Ivins at Ft. Detrick, wrote in the New York Times, “When [Ivins’s] team analyzed the powder, they found it to be a startlingly refined weapons-grade anthrax spore preparation, the likes of which had never been seen before by personnel at Fort Detrick.” Granted, Andrews has an interest in exonerating his former lab, but he goes on to make an astonishing allegation: “It is extremely improbable that this type of preparation could ever have been produced at Fort Detrick, certainly not of the grade and quality found in that envelope.”
If the scientists at Fort Detrick did not have the capacity to produce this kind of anthrax, who did? Boyle suggests an answer in his book, Biowarfare and Terrorism. He alleges that the evidence in the anthrax spores, if properly pursued, would have “led directly back to a secret but officially sponsored U.S. government biowarfare program that was illegal and criminal, in violation of [the] Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.” This might be easily dismissed as conspiracy theory except that a source no less reputable than the New York Times published a similar charge on Sept. 4, 2001: “the United States has embarked on a program of secret research on biological weapons that, some officials say, tests the limits of the global treaty banning such weapons. … earlier this year, administration officials said, the Pentagon drew up plans to engineer genetically a potentially more potent variant of the bacterium that causes anthrax.”
Boyle suggests possible perps: the Pentagon, the CIA, or perhaps private sector scientists acting under covert contract with the government. According to a 2002 BBC report, the CIA may indeed have been investigating “methods of sending anthrax through the mail which went madly out of control.” “The shocking assertion,” offered the BBC, “is that a key member of the covert operation may have removed, refined and eventually posted weapons-grade anthrax.” Boyle theorizes that the FBI’s investigation was purposely bungled as part of a cover-up. He argues that the legal process ensuing from a thorough investigation “would, in a court of law, directly implicate the United States government, its agencies, its officials, and its agents, in conducting illegal and criminal biowarfare research.”
But if such a program exists, why would anyone associated with it risk exposure by sending crude anthrax letters? Perhaps for the oldest motive in the world: money. In the wake of the postal terror, biowarfare funding under the rubric of “biodefense” received a major shot in the arm. By a vote of 99-0, the Senate passed the BioShield Act of 2004, which, on top of $22 billion for civilian biowarfare-related “defense work” funded between 2001 and 2005, allocates $5.6 billion through 2014 “to purchase and stockpile vaccines and drugs to fight anthrax, smallpox, and other potential agents of bioterror.” Critics claim that BioShield is a form of covert offensive biowarfare planning.
Such research could come at a high price—beyond the billions Congress readily rubber-stamped. “The bioterror programs are far more likely to generate new risks to public health, rather than to provide additional protections,” MIT microbiologist Jonathan King says. Programs such as BioShield are “also generating a network of small and large companies planning to profit.”
Hillel W. Cohen, associate professor of epidemiology and population health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, offers a similar assessment. “Before 2001, some of us in public health described bioterrorism as an exaggerated threat,” Cohen says. “No one had ever died from bioterrorism, and we warned that the proliferation of laboratories studying anthrax and other biological weapons agents was a terrible mistake, diverting money from real health needs and dangerously multiplying the number of people with access. After the 2001 anthrax letters, our warnings were buried in an avalanche of fear-mongering.” Today, Cohen says, “billions are being spent to support many more such labs.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling for a Congressional investigation, but we may never know the identity of the anthrax killer. Was it the uninvestigated Ft. Detrick letter-writer with compelling foreknowledge? The dead scientist the FBI initially asked to investigate the attacks then later turned against? Or some other individual or group, with access to high-grade strains, who stood to benefit from a bioterror scare? We know who didn’t put anthrax in the mail: Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden. Beyond that, all we know is that the FBI’s conduct—whether by bureaucratic bungling or some kind of cover-up—makes it unlikely this case will ever be definitively closed.
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Christopher Ketcham writes for Vanity Fair
August 25, 2008 Issue
Copyright © 2008 The American Conservative
The Anthrax Files PDF
The FBI claims to have caught the killer. But so much evidence has been neglected or mishandled that many experts still have doubts.
By Christopher Ketcham
Seven years after the anthrax attacks shut down Congress, sowed panic nationwide, killed five, sickened 17, and allowed neocon propagandists to variously blame al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, the FBI claims to have gotten its man. But the official story doesn’t fully accord with the facts. Any reasonable assessment of the evidence suggests that the same powerful interests that might have been served by prolonging the investigation would have had a stake in finally bringing it to a tidy conclusion. That doesn’t mean that the killer was caught.
The acknowledged certainty is that the anthrax letters weren’t the work of Islamists or Iraqis. The attacks were perpetrated by someone with high-level access to U.S. government supplies of the deadly bacteria. Ground zero of the investigation has long been the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. But the lab had dropped from the headlines until recently, much as the FBI had seemingly allowed its investigation to languish.
The first week of August, the popular press got back in the game, reporting the apparent suicide of USAMRIID scientist Bruce E. Ivins, alleged to be the sole operator behind the anthrax letters. The Associated Press reported that Ivins, who is said to have killed himself on July 29 with an overdose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine, was “one of the government’s leading scientists researching vaccines and cures for anthrax exposure.” According to the AP, he was “brilliant but troubled.” His lawyer, Paul Kemp, says that Ivins passed a pair of polygraph tests and that the grand jury investigating the case was weeks from returning an indictment. Yet within days of his death, the bureau announced that it was beginning the shutdown of its “Amerithrax” investigation. “Anthrax Case a Wrap,” blared the Daily News on Aug. 4.
In April, it was reported that the FBI had been focusing on as many as four suspects. Fox News identified them as a “former deputy commander,” presumably in the U.S. Army, a “leading anthrax scientist,” and “a microbiologist.” The fourth suspect was given no description. Now the bureau is “confident that Dr. Ivins was the only person responsible for these attacks,” according to the assurances of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
The Ivins news came close on the heels of a far quieter announcement on June 27 that the FBI’s investigation of the previous top anthrax suspect, Steven Hatfill, also a USAMRIID bioresearcher, ended not with a trial and conviction but with a $5.8 million settlement effectively admitting that the bureau had the wrong guy. Hatfill had been hounded by investigators for three years, his career and reputation ruined.
Ivins was subjected to similar treatment. According to the AP, he complained to friends that agents had “stalked” him and his family. They offered his son $2.5 million and “a sports car of his choice” to rat out his father. They approached his hospitalized daughter to turn evidence on him, plying her at bedside with pictures of the murdered anthrax victims and telling her, “This is what your father did.” W. Russell Byrne, Ivins’s supervisor at USAMRIID, told the AP that Ivins, 62, was emotionally broken by the FBI’s behavior: “One person said he’d sit at his desk and weep.”
Francis Boyle, a professor of law at the University of Illinois who drafted the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act signed by President George H.W. Bush, advised the FBI in its initial investigation of the anthrax letters. Along with several other American bioweapons experts—among them Jonathan King, professor of molecular biology at MIT, and Barbara Rosenberg, who studied biowarfare with the Federation of American Scientists—Boyle warned early on that the spores issued from inside a U.S. research operation, possibly one that was classified. He provided the FBI with lists of scientists, contractors, and laboratories that had worked on anthrax projects, but he is skeptical of Ivins as the lone killer: “The Feds pursued the same strategy against Ivins as they did against Hatfill—persecute him until he broke, which Ivins did and Hatfill did not. Dead men tell no tales.”
Ivins, says Boyle, just doesn’t fit the bill. “It does not appear that he had the technological sophistication to manufacture this super weapons-grade anthrax, which would have included aerosolization, silicon coating, and an electrostatic charge.” Jeffrey Adamovicz, who directed the bacteriology division at Fort Detrick in 2003 and 2004, told McClatchy that the anthrax mailed to Sen. Tom Daschle was “so concentrated and so consistent and so clean that I would assert that Bruce could not have done that part.”
Following the release of the FBI’s public case against Ivins, the New York Times editorialized that “there is no direct evidence of his guilt” and decried the “lack of hard, incontrovertible proof.” The Washington Post called the case “admittedly circumstantial.” Investigators failed to place Ivins in New Jersey on the dates in September and October 2001 when the letters were reportedly mailed from a Princeton location. They swabbed his residence, locker, several cars, the tools in his laboratory, and his office space, but found no trace of anthrax that genetically matched the bacteria in the letters. Indeed, some of the evidence—all circumstantial, none forensic—was downright laughable. Ivins at one time maintained a mailbox under an assumed name where he received pornographic magazines. He had once been “obsessed” with a Princeton sorority because of a failed college romance, and the Princeton mailbox where one of the letters originated was located within 100 yards of a storage facility used by the sorority—in a location Ivins apparently last visited 27 years ago. He drank. He made homicidal statements to a mental-health support group. He wrote rambling letters to the editor of his local paper. How any of this motivated Bruce Ivins to kill fellow Americans with a bioweapon is not established.
Moreover, his former colleagues have repeatedly told the media that, as far as they are aware, Ivins didn’t know how to weaponize anthrax. He was a vaccine specialist, not a weaponizer. The assumption is that Ivins kept his weaponizing skills secret from his coworkers. But how did he learn those skills? Perhaps colleagues at Ft. Detrick provided the help in casual conversation. Yet there’s not the slightest indication that during his years at Ft. Detrick Ivins even once asked fellow scientists about weaponizing techniques.
Nor is it clear why Ivins—a registered Democrat—would single out Sens. Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle to receive lethal letters. Interestingly, both had been critical impediments to passage of the Patriot Act. The first wave of anthrax mail, sent Sept. 18, 2001, targeted major media; the second round, posted Oct. 9, went to Congress. On Oct. 25, amid widespread panic, the act passed. Yet it is improbable that a mad scientist would specialize in such targeted political activity—or that he personally benefited from the repercussions. Many others did, however.
“In the absence of the anthrax attacks, 9/11 could easily have been perceived as a single, isolated event,” Salon’s Glenn Greenwald writes. “It was really the anthrax letters that severely ratcheted up the fear levels and created the climate that would dominate in this country for the next several years … that created the impression that social order itself was genuinely threatened by Islamic radicalism.”
By Oct. 28, ABC was reporting, “four well-placed and separate sources have told ABC News that initial tests on the anthrax by the U.S. Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, have detected trace amounts of the chemical additives bentonite and silica”—bentonite being a hallmark of the Iraqi weapons program. (In 2007, ABC admitted that no bentonite was ever detected but refused to unmask its sources.) “Some are going to be quick to pick up on this as a smoking gun,” Peter Jennings said at the time.
The administration’s acolytes did not disappoint. William Kristol and Robert Kagan complained, “What will it take for the FBI and the CIA to start connecting the dots here? A signed confession from Saddam?” “The leading supplier suspect has to be Iraq,” the Wall Street Journal opined, “The government has to do everything possible to destroy the anthrax threat at its state-sponsored source.” Added Laurie Mylroie in National Review, “Iraqi intelligence was intimately involved in the 9/11 attacks and [the] military grade anthrax sent to Senators Leahy and Daschle almost certainly came from an Iraqi lab.” As late as 2007, long after it became apparent that the anthrax was homegrown, outlets like Fox News continued to insist on a Middle Eastern link.
Those making the case for war in Iraq and seeking to advance the administration’s domestic security agenda had good reason to resist a swift resolution to the case—especially one involving an American perpetrator. Whether by suggestion or as a result of its own incompetence, the FBI obliged.
As early as November 2001, the New York Times was reporting that the bureau’s “missteps” were “hampering the inquiry.” Indeed, from the beginning, the FBI has been in possession of a key piece of evidence that it apparently ignored.
Among the first suspects to come into the FBI’s sights was an Egyptian-born ex-USAMRIID biologist named Ayaad Assaad. He appeared on the radar because of an anonymous letter sent to the bureau identifying him as part of a terrorist cell possibly linked to the anthrax attacks. Yet, according to the Hartford Courant, the FBI did not attempt to track down the author of the letter, “despite its curious timing, coming a matter of days before the existence of anthrax-laced mail became known.”
Assaad was quickly exonerated by FBI investigators, and the matter swiftly dropped—though the letter may have provided the best piece of evidence in the case. It was sent prior to the arrival of the anthrax letters, suggesting foreknowledge of the attacks, and its language was similar to that of the deadly mail. Moreover, it displayed an intimate knowledge of USAMRIID operations, suggesting that it came from within the limited ranks of Fort Detrick researchers —a relatively small group with access to and expertise in weaponized anthrax.
The FBI has refused to make a copy of the letter publicly available—or even to give one to Assaad himself. It did, however, share the contents with a Vassar College professor and language forensics expert named Don Foster, who famously fingered Joe Klein as the anonymous author behind Primary Colors and helped to catch the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bomber. After reading news reports, he requested a copy of the letter, and, following his review of documents written by “some 40 USAMRIID employees,” Foster “found writings by a female officer that looked like a perfect match,” according to an article he authored in the October 2003 Vanity Fair. When he brought this seemingly crucial clue to the attention of the FBI’s anthrax task force, however, the bureau declined to follow up. According to Foster, the senior FBI agent on the case had never even heard of the Assaad letter. (For the record, Foster isn’t an unimpeachable source. He strayed from his area of professional expertise and published unrelated circumstantial evidence in his Vanity Fair piece that wrongly fingered Hatfill, who sued the magazine, which settled on undisclosed terms.)
“The letter-writer clearly knew my entire background, my training in both chemical and biological agents, my security clearance, what floor I work on, that I have two sons, what train I take to work, and where I live,” Assaad told reporter Laura Rozen. Since he was almost immediately cleared, attempting to frame him served no purpose, except to indulge a personal enmity. To that end, Assaad suggested that the FBI question the pair of USAMRIID colleagues most likely to carry a grudge against him, Marian Rippy and Philip Zack, who years earlier had been reprimanded for sending Assad a racist poem. Though the Courant reported video evidence of Zack making after-hours trips to labs where pathogens were stored, there is no record of the FBI ever investigating him or Rippy, a colleague with whom he was having an extramarital affair.
The FBI’s failures don’t end there. The anthrax used in the terror attacks has been identified as similar to strains held at laboratories in Ames, Iowa. The Ames database, maintained and overseen by Iowa State University, was a comprehensive culture collection of some 100 vials gathered since 1928. It listed all parties, agencies, and labs that acquired its anthrax strains. When researchers, fearful of terrorists breaching the lab, offered to destroy the anthrax cultures, the FBI did not object. “This was an astonishing thing to do,” Francis Boyle tells me. “It should have been preserved as evidence. This was a roadmap of everybody and anybody that had gotten access to develop the super-strain that hit Leahy and Daschle.”
Questions about the Ames database point to a bigger concern: where was the weapons-grade anthrax in the letters produced? If the FBI had an airtight case that the anthrax killer worked at Ft. Detrick—thanks to new DNA techniques supposedly linking the spores to that lab—surely the Assaad letter would be a key piece of evidence in the case against Ivins. At the very least it would have to be explained away rather than ignored.
Another possibility is that the attacks didn’t originate at USAMRIID at all, and the FBI has once again accused an innocent man. Ironically, it was Ivins who, among other investigators, was initially tasked by the FBI with analyzing the anthrax in the letters. Dr. Gerry Andrews, a professor of microbiology at the University of Wyoming and former colleague of Ivins at Ft. Detrick, wrote in the New York Times, “When [Ivins’s] team analyzed the powder, they found it to be a startlingly refined weapons-grade anthrax spore preparation, the likes of which had never been seen before by personnel at Fort Detrick.” Granted, Andrews has an interest in exonerating his former lab, but he goes on to make an astonishing allegation: “It is extremely improbable that this type of preparation could ever have been produced at Fort Detrick, certainly not of the grade and quality found in that envelope.”
If the scientists at Fort Detrick did not have the capacity to produce this kind of anthrax, who did? Boyle suggests an answer in his book, Biowarfare and Terrorism. He alleges that the evidence in the anthrax spores, if properly pursued, would have “led directly back to a secret but officially sponsored U.S. government biowarfare program that was illegal and criminal, in violation of [the] Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.” This might be easily dismissed as conspiracy theory except that a source no less reputable than the New York Times published a similar charge on Sept. 4, 2001: “the United States has embarked on a program of secret research on biological weapons that, some officials say, tests the limits of the global treaty banning such weapons. … earlier this year, administration officials said, the Pentagon drew up plans to engineer genetically a potentially more potent variant of the bacterium that causes anthrax.”
Boyle suggests possible perps: the Pentagon, the CIA, or perhaps private sector scientists acting under covert contract with the government. According to a 2002 BBC report, the CIA may indeed have been investigating “methods of sending anthrax through the mail which went madly out of control.” “The shocking assertion,” offered the BBC, “is that a key member of the covert operation may have removed, refined and eventually posted weapons-grade anthrax.” Boyle theorizes that the FBI’s investigation was purposely bungled as part of a cover-up. He argues that the legal process ensuing from a thorough investigation “would, in a court of law, directly implicate the United States government, its agencies, its officials, and its agents, in conducting illegal and criminal biowarfare research.”
But if such a program exists, why would anyone associated with it risk exposure by sending crude anthrax letters? Perhaps for the oldest motive in the world: money. In the wake of the postal terror, biowarfare funding under the rubric of “biodefense” received a major shot in the arm. By a vote of 99-0, the Senate passed the BioShield Act of 2004, which, on top of $22 billion for civilian biowarfare-related “defense work” funded between 2001 and 2005, allocates $5.6 billion through 2014 “to purchase and stockpile vaccines and drugs to fight anthrax, smallpox, and other potential agents of bioterror.” Critics claim that BioShield is a form of covert offensive biowarfare planning.
Such research could come at a high price—beyond the billions Congress readily rubber-stamped. “The bioterror programs are far more likely to generate new risks to public health, rather than to provide additional protections,” MIT microbiologist Jonathan King says. Programs such as BioShield are “also generating a network of small and large companies planning to profit.”
Hillel W. Cohen, associate professor of epidemiology and population health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, offers a similar assessment. “Before 2001, some of us in public health described bioterrorism as an exaggerated threat,” Cohen says. “No one had ever died from bioterrorism, and we warned that the proliferation of laboratories studying anthrax and other biological weapons agents was a terrible mistake, diverting money from real health needs and dangerously multiplying the number of people with access. After the 2001 anthrax letters, our warnings were buried in an avalanche of fear-mongering.” Today, Cohen says, “billions are being spent to support many more such labs.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling for a Congressional investigation, but we may never know the identity of the anthrax killer. Was it the uninvestigated Ft. Detrick letter-writer with compelling foreknowledge? The dead scientist the FBI initially asked to investigate the attacks then later turned against? Or some other individual or group, with access to high-grade strains, who stood to benefit from a bioterror scare? We know who didn’t put anthrax in the mail: Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden. Beyond that, all we know is that the FBI’s conduct—whether by bureaucratic bungling or some kind of cover-up—makes it unlikely this case will ever be definitively closed.
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Christopher Ketcham writes for Vanity Fair
MOSSAD MAFIA owns America...while punk FBI eats block of cheese
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/gsmith.php?articleid=13327
Why Bush Will Pardon AIPAC for Espionage
by Grant F. Smith
In 2005, Col. Lawrence Franklin was indicted alongside two executives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for allegedly violating the 1917 Espionage Act. Franklin later pled guilty to passing AIPAC a classified presidential directive and other secrets concerning America's Iran policy. AIPAC then allegedly forwarded the highly sensitive information to Israeli government officials and selected members of Washington's media establishment. This covert leaking appears to be just one of many AIPAC programs designed to encourage tougher U.S. policies toward Iran, from financial boycotts to naval blockades and possibly even military strikes.
____________________
tommy:
WHO THE FUCK IS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY?
Who blew up WTC after setting charges inside WTC?
Who were the DANCING ISRAELIS WORKING FOR....when they celebrated the murder of 3,000Americans on 9/11?
Who made sure these MOSSAD demolition experts....were set free sixty days later?
CHERTOFF at US DOJ crim section...and MUKASY as Fed judge....colluded to help MOSSAD AVOID EXPOSURE FOR MURDERING 3,000 AMERICANS ON 9/11
____________________________
It hasn't worked out very well for Franklin.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Curiously, Franklin remains free pending the outcome of the repeatedly postponed criminal trial against AIPAC's Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman. On Oct. 28, 2008, the prosecution is scheduled to appeal the ruling judge's order that it prove the alleged leaks harmed the United States. This is a far tougher standard of proof than the Espionage Act actually requires. Nevertheless, observers and critics hope the trial will provide insight into Middle East policy formulation – but there is diminished reason for this hope. A passel of musty documents from an earlier, long-secret Department of Justice attempt to hold the Israel lobby accountable was declassified on June 10, 2008. The files reveal that stalling tactics – and most critically, regime change in Washington – provide ample opportunity for the Israel lobby to subvert due process.
In 1962, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigated foreign lobbyists active in the United States. The committee hired tough investigators, including Walter Haskell Pincus, now the Washington Post's national security journalist. These investigators played hardball with the American Zionist Council (AZC) by going after its hidden financial flows. The Senate investigators rifled through the filing cabinets of the Israeli government's colonization and charitable fundraising partner, the Jewish Agency, American Section, based in New York. This raised howls of protest from Isaiah L. Kenen, then editor of a lobbying newsletter, the Near East Report.
The Senate investigation forced the Jewish Agency, American Section, regulated since 1938 under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), to file more detailed biannual activity declarations.[i] FARA is a disclosure law requiring all agents of foreign principals to detail their activities in reports filed at a public office within the U.S. Department of Justice. The Jewish Agency functioned as a quasi-governmental organization whose executive board was composed of Israelis (including government officials) and Americans. It not only received government funding, but had influence over internal policy and legal matters before they went to the Knesset under a 1953 "covenant" agreement with the Israeli government.
Sen. Fulbright, who led the investigation, was outraged at the idea that U.S. foreign aid and tax-preferential charitable funds were being funneled back into the U.S. to multiply foreign aid through lobbying and a massive stealth public relations campaign. At the time, Israel was far from the only violator. The Senate committee also caught the Philippines playing the same game through Washington lobbyists doling out campaign contributions in exchange for enormous WWII reparations payments funded by U.S. taxpayers. But Israel's covert lobbying and public relations venture was truly massive. By the time Fulbright's public Senate hearings ended in 1963, it had been established that the Jewish Agency laundered over $5 million (around $35 million today) into U.S. public relations and lobbying initiatives over a two-year period. The true scope of the campaign was never revealed, in spite of diligent attempts at law enforcement.
As in the Rosen and Weissman espionage incident, the FBI and Justice Department initially pressed the case forward. Their law enforcement efforts and internal deliberations work were largely invisible to the American public, but many sent letters urging that the American Zionist Council be registered as a foreign agent. On Nov. 21, 1962, before the full extent of the stealth PR and lobbying campaign was publicly exposed in Senate hearings, the head of the DOJ's Internal Security Section, J. Walter Yeagley sent a two-page letter and foreign agent registration forms [.pdf] to the American Zionist Council by certified mail.[ii] The DOJ formally demanded that the Israel lobby's top umbrella organization openly register and disclose all of its U.S. activities as an agent of influence.
The AZC at the time – as the nonprofit umbrella corporation for the Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah, and other elite Zionist organizations in the United States – was the Israel lobby. It was almost completely dependent upon Jewish Agency-directed funds, some with special earmarks from the executive in Jerusalem to AIPAC founder Isaiah L. Kenen. Other recipients of the funding included New York Times media personalities, exiles from the shah's regime in Iran living in the U.S., tenured professors at Harvard, and authors active in churning out hundreds of "scholarly" books about Arab terrorism and Israel's special role as an ally to the U.S. in the Cold War.[iii]
The Justice Department, directed by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), insisted that the AZC register as the Jewish Agency's American foreign agent. RFK and his top advisers felt the documented funding flows had "compromised" the lobby so much that they would quietly agree to file registration statements and disclosures. They did not count on the lobby's response. The lobby saw the registration demand as an "extinction-level event," like one of Hollywood's massive asteroids cinematically falling toward Earth. The lobby's outside lead counsel, Simon Rifkind of the firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, was apoplectic: FARA registration would be a "noose around the neck of his client" and "choke the very life out of it."[iv] The lobby's response was quiet, asymmetrical, and successful. The parallels with the 2005-2008 AIPAC espionage saga are uncanny.
In 2005, the Department of Justice's chief prosecutor on the espionage case, Paul McNulty, was suddenly and inexplicably promoted within the DOJ after he backed off on criminally indicting AIPAC as a corporation. That would have led to AIPAC's immediate demise as a going concern, just as earlier indictments doomed Enron and Arthur Andersen. A February 16, 2005 defense team communication between Rosen's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, and Nathan Lewin, AIPAC's legal counsel, revealed that U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty "would like to end it with minimal damage to AIPAC." Lewin further told Lowell that McNulty was now on AIPAC's side "fighting with the FBI to limit the investigation to Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman and to avoid expanding it."[v] After discussing restricting the scope of the prosecution with AIPAC's lawyer and shortly after handing down only individual indictments (Aug. 4, 2005), McNulty was nominated to the position of deputy attorney general on Oct. 20, 2005. He was sworn into office on March 17, 2006. Why McNulty fought so hard to restrict the scope of the FBI's investigation is now less of a mystery. He was simply following the successful career path first blazed by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach 40 years earlier.
Back in the 1960s, Katzenbach had also suddenly risen within the DOJ, becoming attorney general on Jan. 26, 1965, after he helped unwind the Israel lobby FARA registration demand within the DOJ. During the calamitous period after the Cuban missile crisis and John F. Kennedy's assassination, Katzenbach brokered an unprecedented deal. The American Zionist Council could register a "sample" Foreign Agent Registration Act declaration for a "representative" time period of its own choosing. Unlike every other filing open for public inspection at the FARA section, the AZC's would be kept in a special folder, with a secret name key linking the individuals and entities receiving Jewish Agency funding kept separate from the disbursement filing.[vi] This deal was derisively referred to as "the caveat" within the FARA section. It was the DOJ's and America's first and only "nonpublic" FARA disclosure. Many dedicated members of the FARA section, such as Nathan Lenvin and Irene Bowman, fought hard against this corruption of their transparency mandate. They lost. The Israel lobby's meager disclosure and internal files about the incident were classified and kept secret, only released under the Freedom of Information Act on June 10, 2008.
This subversion of the very essence of FARA heralded its subsequent demise as a serious buffer between Congress, the executive, and the American people and Israel's stealth lobbying campaigns. Analysis of the core documents related to the case reveals how seriously the Israel lobby managed to compromise the U.S. Department of Justice's enforcement efforts while it was vulnerable – during the Johnson administration's 1964 reelection campaign. FARA now serves only to pick off the most tangential of foreign schemers out of favor with the administration, such as those laundering Venezuelan "campaign contributions" through the U.S. to Argentina. The showdown with the Israel lobby and subsequent lobby-driven amendments gutted serious FARA enforcement in the early 1970s.
This calamity also produced an unprecedented career opportunity for Isaiah L. Kenen. Until the FARA battle, he was a long-term public relations operator for the nascent Israel lobby. The investigation traumatized Hadassah and the ZOA and exposed them to serious legal risks; it necessitated a corporate reshuffling because the need for an elite organization to spearhead Israel lobbying was still acute. Folding the AZC would leave a power vacuum in Washington. The AZC's stealth lobbying programs and public relations activities were subsequently transferred to a fledgling organization originally established as a unit within the AZC that was internally referred to as "the Kenen Committee."[vii] This became the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Its prerogatives have expanded such that in light of history, trade secrets theft [viii] and eventual run-ins with election law [ix], not to mention the Espionage Act, now seem all but inevitable. The Justice Department's reticence to prosecute AIPAC, given its painful but secret FARA experience, seems understandable, though not necessarily forgivable.
The approaching criminal prosecution of Rosen and Weissman is no doubt again considered an extinction-level event by AIPAC and the rest of the Israel lobby, even in its highly robust present configuration. The lobby will have little time in 2009 for another cumbersome reorganization to rebuild credibility, not with soaring military aid demands, concerns over Iran, and its need to secure a semi-permanent U.S. military presence in the heart of the Middle East . But there is one problem. As years pass, it has become more difficult to score any viable legal strategy for dismissing the criminal case against Rosen and Weissman that would appear legitimate to the American public. The case docket [.pdf] reveals many defense team attempts to throw the case out on technical quibbling and how much classified U.S. national security information Rosen and Weissman may expose in their defense. Time also reveals that presiding Judge T.S. Ellis has been neither cowed by the potential graymail that typically plagues cases involving classified information nor intimidated by the lobby's allies in the news media.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties desperately need this case to go away long before the next president is sworn in. From their standpoint, it would be unseemly to have U.S. officials subpoenaed and actually put on the witness stand to reveal how Middle East policy is really crafted in the height of an election season dominated by narratives of hope, change, and restoring integrity. But hiring away the U.S. attorneys prosecuting the case, always a viable strategy, is now pretty much exhausted. One key member of the government's prosecution team has already left for the private sector.[x] The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of the Jewish Agency, recently called out for a popular uprising in Rosen and Weissman's defense. But like the Wall Street Journal's own earlier editorial page clemency plea directly to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, it has produced no tangible results. It is now up to the president himself to pardon Rosen and Weissman and end the trial before it can begin.
If President George W. Bush waits to pardon Weissman and Rosen until shortly before leaving office, it would be too late for AIPAC's most precious asset: its reputation as an entity engaged in lawful activities. The administration also has an overriding self-preservation interest in seeing this case vanish: it is the singular judicial process for determining whether AIPAC goes too far in agitating for wars – whether in Iraq, Lebanon, or Iran. For Americans a trial would be a very healthy process for determining whether powerful Washington think tanks and corporate news personalities blithely trafficking in our most sensitive national defense information for their own profit should ever be held accountable. But in the waning days of the Bush administration, short-circuiting public accountability for war decisions and the system that produces them is now the overriding doctrine. The pressure is on. Judge Ellis approved subpoenas for Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz as well as National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Richard Armitage to appear as witnesses for the defense. Pardoning AIPAC would mean that Col. Lawrence Franklin, a member of Douglas Feith's infamous Pentagon policy shop and a crucial witness for the prosecution, walks free.
The decision to let the Israel lobby walk in 1965 was three years in the making. The initiative quietly gained momentum through similar appeals, stalling, and law enforcement delays. It was finalized during regime change in Washington. The calendar's pages are now inevitably turning toward a brief, singular moment for another special Israel lobby deal from a sitting U.S. president, a president who has little to gain by such public exercises in justice, and much to lose. However, unlike the secret Foreign Agents Registration Act deal of the 1960s, a presidential pardon will be impossible to keep secret. The possibility that a pardon could at last mass-mobilize the American people out of their unknowing tolerance for the lobby's dangerous foreign subversions may even be reason to welcome it.
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[i] Senate Foreign Relations Committee Investigation into the Activities of Agents of Foreign Principals in the United States, Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, Aug. 1, 1963, pp. 1,704-1,709.
[ii] Certified letter from Assistant Attorney General Internal Security Division G. Walter Yeagley to the American Zionist Council Nov. 21, 1962 [.pdf], released under Freedom of Information Act on June 10, 2008.
[iii] Smith, Grant F., America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government, p. 173.
[iv] Memo from Thomas K. Hall, executive assistant, Internal Security Division to Files, p. 2, Jan. 24, 1962, released under Freedom of Information Act on June 10, 2008.
[v] Judge T.S. Ellis III, U.S. vs. Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, memorandum opinion, Aug. 9, 2006.
[vi] Smith, Grant F., America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government, pp. 177-178.
[vii] Senate Foreign Relations Committee Investigation into the Activities of Agents of Foreign Principals in the United States, 88th Congress, 1st session, Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, May 23, 1963, p. 1,343.
[viii] "FBI Investigates Leak on Trade to Israel Lobby," Washington Post, Aug. 3, 1984.
[ix] "Papers Link Pro-Israel Lobby to Political Funding Efforts," Washington Post, Nov. 14, 1988.
[x] "Top Prosecutor in AIPAC Case Quits," Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Feb. 28, 2008.
Why Bush Will Pardon AIPAC for Espionage
by Grant F. Smith
In 2005, Col. Lawrence Franklin was indicted alongside two executives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for allegedly violating the 1917 Espionage Act. Franklin later pled guilty to passing AIPAC a classified presidential directive and other secrets concerning America's Iran policy. AIPAC then allegedly forwarded the highly sensitive information to Israeli government officials and selected members of Washington's media establishment. This covert leaking appears to be just one of many AIPAC programs designed to encourage tougher U.S. policies toward Iran, from financial boycotts to naval blockades and possibly even military strikes.
____________________
tommy:
WHO THE FUCK IS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY?
Who blew up WTC after setting charges inside WTC?
Who were the DANCING ISRAELIS WORKING FOR....when they celebrated the murder of 3,000Americans on 9/11?
Who made sure these MOSSAD demolition experts....were set free sixty days later?
CHERTOFF at US DOJ crim section...and MUKASY as Fed judge....colluded to help MOSSAD AVOID EXPOSURE FOR MURDERING 3,000 AMERICANS ON 9/11
____________________________
It hasn't worked out very well for Franklin.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Curiously, Franklin remains free pending the outcome of the repeatedly postponed criminal trial against AIPAC's Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman. On Oct. 28, 2008, the prosecution is scheduled to appeal the ruling judge's order that it prove the alleged leaks harmed the United States. This is a far tougher standard of proof than the Espionage Act actually requires. Nevertheless, observers and critics hope the trial will provide insight into Middle East policy formulation – but there is diminished reason for this hope. A passel of musty documents from an earlier, long-secret Department of Justice attempt to hold the Israel lobby accountable was declassified on June 10, 2008. The files reveal that stalling tactics – and most critically, regime change in Washington – provide ample opportunity for the Israel lobby to subvert due process.
In 1962, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigated foreign lobbyists active in the United States. The committee hired tough investigators, including Walter Haskell Pincus, now the Washington Post's national security journalist. These investigators played hardball with the American Zionist Council (AZC) by going after its hidden financial flows. The Senate investigators rifled through the filing cabinets of the Israeli government's colonization and charitable fundraising partner, the Jewish Agency, American Section, based in New York. This raised howls of protest from Isaiah L. Kenen, then editor of a lobbying newsletter, the Near East Report.
The Senate investigation forced the Jewish Agency, American Section, regulated since 1938 under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), to file more detailed biannual activity declarations.[i] FARA is a disclosure law requiring all agents of foreign principals to detail their activities in reports filed at a public office within the U.S. Department of Justice. The Jewish Agency functioned as a quasi-governmental organization whose executive board was composed of Israelis (including government officials) and Americans. It not only received government funding, but had influence over internal policy and legal matters before they went to the Knesset under a 1953 "covenant" agreement with the Israeli government.
Sen. Fulbright, who led the investigation, was outraged at the idea that U.S. foreign aid and tax-preferential charitable funds were being funneled back into the U.S. to multiply foreign aid through lobbying and a massive stealth public relations campaign. At the time, Israel was far from the only violator. The Senate committee also caught the Philippines playing the same game through Washington lobbyists doling out campaign contributions in exchange for enormous WWII reparations payments funded by U.S. taxpayers. But Israel's covert lobbying and public relations venture was truly massive. By the time Fulbright's public Senate hearings ended in 1963, it had been established that the Jewish Agency laundered over $5 million (around $35 million today) into U.S. public relations and lobbying initiatives over a two-year period. The true scope of the campaign was never revealed, in spite of diligent attempts at law enforcement.
As in the Rosen and Weissman espionage incident, the FBI and Justice Department initially pressed the case forward. Their law enforcement efforts and internal deliberations work were largely invisible to the American public, but many sent letters urging that the American Zionist Council be registered as a foreign agent. On Nov. 21, 1962, before the full extent of the stealth PR and lobbying campaign was publicly exposed in Senate hearings, the head of the DOJ's Internal Security Section, J. Walter Yeagley sent a two-page letter and foreign agent registration forms [.pdf] to the American Zionist Council by certified mail.[ii] The DOJ formally demanded that the Israel lobby's top umbrella organization openly register and disclose all of its U.S. activities as an agent of influence.
The AZC at the time – as the nonprofit umbrella corporation for the Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah, and other elite Zionist organizations in the United States – was the Israel lobby. It was almost completely dependent upon Jewish Agency-directed funds, some with special earmarks from the executive in Jerusalem to AIPAC founder Isaiah L. Kenen. Other recipients of the funding included New York Times media personalities, exiles from the shah's regime in Iran living in the U.S., tenured professors at Harvard, and authors active in churning out hundreds of "scholarly" books about Arab terrorism and Israel's special role as an ally to the U.S. in the Cold War.[iii]
The Justice Department, directed by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), insisted that the AZC register as the Jewish Agency's American foreign agent. RFK and his top advisers felt the documented funding flows had "compromised" the lobby so much that they would quietly agree to file registration statements and disclosures. They did not count on the lobby's response. The lobby saw the registration demand as an "extinction-level event," like one of Hollywood's massive asteroids cinematically falling toward Earth. The lobby's outside lead counsel, Simon Rifkind of the firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, was apoplectic: FARA registration would be a "noose around the neck of his client" and "choke the very life out of it."[iv] The lobby's response was quiet, asymmetrical, and successful. The parallels with the 2005-2008 AIPAC espionage saga are uncanny.
In 2005, the Department of Justice's chief prosecutor on the espionage case, Paul McNulty, was suddenly and inexplicably promoted within the DOJ after he backed off on criminally indicting AIPAC as a corporation. That would have led to AIPAC's immediate demise as a going concern, just as earlier indictments doomed Enron and Arthur Andersen. A February 16, 2005 defense team communication between Rosen's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, and Nathan Lewin, AIPAC's legal counsel, revealed that U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty "would like to end it with minimal damage to AIPAC." Lewin further told Lowell that McNulty was now on AIPAC's side "fighting with the FBI to limit the investigation to Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman and to avoid expanding it."[v] After discussing restricting the scope of the prosecution with AIPAC's lawyer and shortly after handing down only individual indictments (Aug. 4, 2005), McNulty was nominated to the position of deputy attorney general on Oct. 20, 2005. He was sworn into office on March 17, 2006. Why McNulty fought so hard to restrict the scope of the FBI's investigation is now less of a mystery. He was simply following the successful career path first blazed by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach 40 years earlier.
Back in the 1960s, Katzenbach had also suddenly risen within the DOJ, becoming attorney general on Jan. 26, 1965, after he helped unwind the Israel lobby FARA registration demand within the DOJ. During the calamitous period after the Cuban missile crisis and John F. Kennedy's assassination, Katzenbach brokered an unprecedented deal. The American Zionist Council could register a "sample" Foreign Agent Registration Act declaration for a "representative" time period of its own choosing. Unlike every other filing open for public inspection at the FARA section, the AZC's would be kept in a special folder, with a secret name key linking the individuals and entities receiving Jewish Agency funding kept separate from the disbursement filing.[vi] This deal was derisively referred to as "the caveat" within the FARA section. It was the DOJ's and America's first and only "nonpublic" FARA disclosure. Many dedicated members of the FARA section, such as Nathan Lenvin and Irene Bowman, fought hard against this corruption of their transparency mandate. They lost. The Israel lobby's meager disclosure and internal files about the incident were classified and kept secret, only released under the Freedom of Information Act on June 10, 2008.
This subversion of the very essence of FARA heralded its subsequent demise as a serious buffer between Congress, the executive, and the American people and Israel's stealth lobbying campaigns. Analysis of the core documents related to the case reveals how seriously the Israel lobby managed to compromise the U.S. Department of Justice's enforcement efforts while it was vulnerable – during the Johnson administration's 1964 reelection campaign. FARA now serves only to pick off the most tangential of foreign schemers out of favor with the administration, such as those laundering Venezuelan "campaign contributions" through the U.S. to Argentina. The showdown with the Israel lobby and subsequent lobby-driven amendments gutted serious FARA enforcement in the early 1970s.
This calamity also produced an unprecedented career opportunity for Isaiah L. Kenen. Until the FARA battle, he was a long-term public relations operator for the nascent Israel lobby. The investigation traumatized Hadassah and the ZOA and exposed them to serious legal risks; it necessitated a corporate reshuffling because the need for an elite organization to spearhead Israel lobbying was still acute. Folding the AZC would leave a power vacuum in Washington. The AZC's stealth lobbying programs and public relations activities were subsequently transferred to a fledgling organization originally established as a unit within the AZC that was internally referred to as "the Kenen Committee."[vii] This became the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Its prerogatives have expanded such that in light of history, trade secrets theft [viii] and eventual run-ins with election law [ix], not to mention the Espionage Act, now seem all but inevitable. The Justice Department's reticence to prosecute AIPAC, given its painful but secret FARA experience, seems understandable, though not necessarily forgivable.
The approaching criminal prosecution of Rosen and Weissman is no doubt again considered an extinction-level event by AIPAC and the rest of the Israel lobby, even in its highly robust present configuration. The lobby will have little time in 2009 for another cumbersome reorganization to rebuild credibility, not with soaring military aid demands, concerns over Iran, and its need to secure a semi-permanent U.S. military presence in the heart of the Middle East . But there is one problem. As years pass, it has become more difficult to score any viable legal strategy for dismissing the criminal case against Rosen and Weissman that would appear legitimate to the American public. The case docket [.pdf] reveals many defense team attempts to throw the case out on technical quibbling and how much classified U.S. national security information Rosen and Weissman may expose in their defense. Time also reveals that presiding Judge T.S. Ellis has been neither cowed by the potential graymail that typically plagues cases involving classified information nor intimidated by the lobby's allies in the news media.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties desperately need this case to go away long before the next president is sworn in. From their standpoint, it would be unseemly to have U.S. officials subpoenaed and actually put on the witness stand to reveal how Middle East policy is really crafted in the height of an election season dominated by narratives of hope, change, and restoring integrity. But hiring away the U.S. attorneys prosecuting the case, always a viable strategy, is now pretty much exhausted. One key member of the government's prosecution team has already left for the private sector.[x] The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of the Jewish Agency, recently called out for a popular uprising in Rosen and Weissman's defense. But like the Wall Street Journal's own earlier editorial page clemency plea directly to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, it has produced no tangible results. It is now up to the president himself to pardon Rosen and Weissman and end the trial before it can begin.
If President George W. Bush waits to pardon Weissman and Rosen until shortly before leaving office, it would be too late for AIPAC's most precious asset: its reputation as an entity engaged in lawful activities. The administration also has an overriding self-preservation interest in seeing this case vanish: it is the singular judicial process for determining whether AIPAC goes too far in agitating for wars – whether in Iraq, Lebanon, or Iran. For Americans a trial would be a very healthy process for determining whether powerful Washington think tanks and corporate news personalities blithely trafficking in our most sensitive national defense information for their own profit should ever be held accountable. But in the waning days of the Bush administration, short-circuiting public accountability for war decisions and the system that produces them is now the overriding doctrine. The pressure is on. Judge Ellis approved subpoenas for Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz as well as National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Richard Armitage to appear as witnesses for the defense. Pardoning AIPAC would mean that Col. Lawrence Franklin, a member of Douglas Feith's infamous Pentagon policy shop and a crucial witness for the prosecution, walks free.
The decision to let the Israel lobby walk in 1965 was three years in the making. The initiative quietly gained momentum through similar appeals, stalling, and law enforcement delays. It was finalized during regime change in Washington. The calendar's pages are now inevitably turning toward a brief, singular moment for another special Israel lobby deal from a sitting U.S. president, a president who has little to gain by such public exercises in justice, and much to lose. However, unlike the secret Foreign Agents Registration Act deal of the 1960s, a presidential pardon will be impossible to keep secret. The possibility that a pardon could at last mass-mobilize the American people out of their unknowing tolerance for the lobby's dangerous foreign subversions may even be reason to welcome it.
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[i] Senate Foreign Relations Committee Investigation into the Activities of Agents of Foreign Principals in the United States, Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, Aug. 1, 1963, pp. 1,704-1,709.
[ii] Certified letter from Assistant Attorney General Internal Security Division G. Walter Yeagley to the American Zionist Council Nov. 21, 1962 [.pdf], released under Freedom of Information Act on June 10, 2008.
[iii] Smith, Grant F., America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government, p. 173.
[iv] Memo from Thomas K. Hall, executive assistant, Internal Security Division to Files, p. 2, Jan. 24, 1962, released under Freedom of Information Act on June 10, 2008.
[v] Judge T.S. Ellis III, U.S. vs. Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, memorandum opinion, Aug. 9, 2006.
[vi] Smith, Grant F., America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government, pp. 177-178.
[vii] Senate Foreign Relations Committee Investigation into the Activities of Agents of Foreign Principals in the United States, 88th Congress, 1st session, Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, May 23, 1963, p. 1,343.
[viii] "FBI Investigates Leak on Trade to Israel Lobby," Washington Post, Aug. 3, 1984.
[ix] "Papers Link Pro-Israel Lobby to Political Funding Efforts," Washington Post, Nov. 14, 1988.
[x] "Top Prosecutor in AIPAC Case Quits," Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Feb. 28, 2008.
TORTURE documents? CHENEY and ADDINGTON know about TORTURING BEAN AND DR MARK GORDON while "tampering with witnesses" in violation of Title 18
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Senate Judiciary Pressures WH for Torture Documents
By Kate Klonick - August 19, 2008, 6:02PM
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-PA) crossed the aisle once again to issue a renewed demand for documents on detainee interrogation policies from the White House today.
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tommy:
ONCE AGAIN...LEAHY AND SPECTOR'S STAFF have failed them.
1) The issue is not "TERRORIST DETAINEE TORTURE" ...but...TORTURE OF A US CITIZEN NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN because "Bean signed a 47 page USDOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT"...and also signed and tendered a ten page memo to SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY AT US SEN JUD COMM.
----A) That memo resulted in Grassley's finance aid making inquiries at Treasury about the LEO WANTA TRUST FUND THEFT OF TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS by BUSH CRIME FAMILY, AND DICK CHENEY. (FBI UNDER NEOCON LYING CRIMINAL FAGGOT PUNK BOB MUELLER, again, stood down and did not search CALEA INTERFACE for illegal wiretapping used to facilitate the stalking and PATRIOT ACT CRIME OF VIOLENCE when Grassley's aid was attacked with a baseball bat??????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!).
----B) [This WANTA TRUST FUND money...involved a complicated hidden bank swindle involving all the players in geopolitics...CHINA, madame Wo....Putin...Russia, Brit banks..Queen mommy of London, Clinton theft of CHILDRENS DEFENSE FUND AT BANK OF CROZIER WITH HILARY ON VIDEOTAPE WALKING INTO BANK TO STEAL MONEY INITIALLY USED FOR HER PRESIDENTIAL RUN...ETC.).
MOST don't understand "what Putin said to Bush at Olympics" about the 30 billion owed to him....and how the recent unexpected invasion of Georgia was about PUTIN SEIZING THE PIPELINE WORTH BILLIONS because BUSH/CHENEY STIFFED PUTIN in the Leo Wanta Trust Fund swindle.
2) THE torture issues also include "THE TORTURE OF A COOPERATING, COERCED, STALKED, EXTORTED POLITICAL VICTIM OF BOB MUELLER'S FBI" named DR MARK GORDON.
FBI also "committed crimes WHILE "informant recruiting DR MARK GORDON" in South Dakota...while also...harassing RICH GORDON (Mark's brother, ex chief of staff to Daschle) BECAUSE HE WAS LINKED TO SD US SEN TOM DASCHLE (feared and believed by FBI HQ to be "...in possession of the RCMP arrest warrant for Miami FBI agent TERRY NELSON'S DRUG PIPELINE IN MARC RACICOT'S MONTANA"....whith money laundering and RICO crimes reaching to FBI HITMAN MIKE "chuckie" PETERS, LOUIS FREEH, JUDGE SESSIONS, BOB MUELLER....etc.).
3) The issue for LEAHY and Spector is, "....WHETHER OR NOT POLITICAL TORTURE OF US SEN JUD COMM WITNESSES WHO HAVE SIGNED DOJ COMPLAINTS" is in itself, a violation of TITLE 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTIONS 241, 242, 1512, 1513, AND 2510--et al.
THE ONLY WAY LEAHY AND SPECTOR WILL BE RESPECTED IS....when they start talking to me about testifying truthfully with or without a subpoena.
Then...only then...are the Dems going to do anything about CHENEY'S MURDERS IN SOUTH DAKOTA WITH BOB MUELLER'S FBI HQ joining the conspiracy by "doing nothing" as MUELLER BENEFITS IN THE COVERUP AND DESTRUCTION OF THE RULE OF LAW.
4) Then and only then....ARE THE PUNKS (FBI HQ, BOB MUELLER, NSA 902ND, GEN HAYDEN, NATHAN GRIFFITH, JOHN BRADLEY, DET COOMBS AT RRPD,) GONNA HAVE TO EXPLAIN THE MURDER OF A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS, with the same m.o. used on me....when I lived in Austin, Texas. SAME SIGINT CALEA WIRETAPPING...SAME OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE BY A PUNK COWARDLY LYING CRIMINAL LOWLIFE NAMED BOB MUELLER, and HIS SPECIAL wind up toy lying criminal punks also known as special agents...some of whom worked and obstructed the Moore murder investigation.
Tip: CHECK THE FBI'S BOGUS DNA FORENSIC TEST OF FINGERNAIL SCRAPE EVIDENCE...compare to second test by RRPD...AND THEN TEST AGAIN WITH HAND DELIVERED SAMPLE WITH COPS WATCHING THE TEST....chain of evidence...don't let FBI touch evidence or secretly obstruct justice...again.
IT ALL GOES TO A COWARDLY BUTT LICKING PUNK NAMED ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III, and his special agents DAN REYNALDS, DAVE HELLER, MARK VUKILICH, STEVEN PLUTA, JOHN MASPERO, BYRON SAGE, etc.
5) It all goes to MUELLER'S offshore bank account and FBI CASE TRACKING SOFTWARE SCAM (425, 000, 000$ scam....for a piece of software that could cost ten million to write from scratch.
___________________________________________
The letter (pdf) to White House Counsel Fred Fielding gives an August 29 deadline to turn over requested documentation, though it does not go so far as to say what the action the Committee will take if its requests are not met.
______________________________
tommy:
Like I said...all LEAHY AND SPECTOR AND CONYERS HAVE TO DO IS...."Threaten to put Bean, Gordon, Pluta, Tapken, Talbot, NATHAN GRIFFITH (mercenary working NSA TSP surveillance contract on CHRISTINA MOORE who was murdered as an Enron witness) in front of CSPAN".
I TOLD CONYERS AND HIS STAFF...."I'LL DRIVE OR FLY TO DC TO TESTIFY TRUTHFULLY WITH OR WITHOUT A WARRANT" and "I'll take a polygraph before and after testifying truthfully".
If LEAHY is actually doing his job.......................all he has to do is leave a comment on this blog, where I will then post it.
If the comment is not posted...then LEAHY HAS THE EVIDENCE THAT THE US SENATE WAS OBSTRUCTED WHEN HIS COMMUNICATIONS TO ME AT THIS BLOG, WAS MISDIRECTED BY....NSA?...FBI?...DOD?...HLS?....?
THAT'S ALL LEAHY OR CONYERS HAS TO DO..............TO BECOME THE MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN DC WITH THE INFO THAT CRACKS THIS MAFIA NEOCON GOP GOVERNMENT INTO A THOUSAND PIECES.
THAT'S ALL THEY GOT TO DO...........use my name....use Talbot's name...use Tapken's name...use HEFFLEFINGER'S NAME....USE DR MARK GORDON'S NAME....in front of CSPAN or the media....or on your website.
That's all the Dems have to do...to get the ball rolling.
That...or....they could get a real lawyer to review the WRIT OF MANDAMUS THAT ANY FED JUDGE IN ANY FED DISTRICT CAN AND WILL SIGN, ORDERING THE WHITE HOUSE TO COMPLY WITH SUBPOENAS AND TESTIMONY.
_____________________________________
_________________________
"I have been stonewalled even in my repeated request for something as simple as an index of OLC opinions," writes Chairman Leahy in the letter co-signed by Specter. "Examining the role of this Justice Department office in authorizing controversial activities is squarely within the oversight responsibilities of this Committee; in carrying out that responsibility we are entitled, at the very least, to know the subjects on which OLC has provided final legal advice. That after more than five years this Committee has been refused even this simple request is unacceptable."
________________________
TOMMY:
Senator Leahy....uh....have you heard of a WRIT OF MANDAMUS ordering an executive branch government official to perform his fiduciary duty?
Do you understand that....MINIMUM CONTACTS EXIST IN ALL FED DISTRICT COURTS....SO THAT JURISDICTION IS IN ANY FED COURTROOM STAFFED BY DEMOCRATIC APPOINTED FED JUDGES.
PICK YOUR JUDGE....AND YOU GOT A COURT ORDER ON THE RECORD IN FRONT OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA PUNKS......to get IMPEACHMENT, SCANDAL....EXPOSURE ROLLING DOWN THE HILL...leading to TESTIMONY OF HONEST COPS....HONEST WHITE COLLAR PROFESSIONALS...AND the signor of a FBI OPR COMPLAINT?
Senate Judiciary Pressures WH for Torture Documents
By Kate Klonick - August 19, 2008, 6:02PM
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-PA) crossed the aisle once again to issue a renewed demand for documents on detainee interrogation policies from the White House today.
______________________
tommy:
ONCE AGAIN...LEAHY AND SPECTOR'S STAFF have failed them.
1) The issue is not "TERRORIST DETAINEE TORTURE" ...but...TORTURE OF A US CITIZEN NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN because "Bean signed a 47 page USDOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT"...and also signed and tendered a ten page memo to SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY AT US SEN JUD COMM.
----A) That memo resulted in Grassley's finance aid making inquiries at Treasury about the LEO WANTA TRUST FUND THEFT OF TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS by BUSH CRIME FAMILY, AND DICK CHENEY. (FBI UNDER NEOCON LYING CRIMINAL FAGGOT PUNK BOB MUELLER, again, stood down and did not search CALEA INTERFACE for illegal wiretapping used to facilitate the stalking and PATRIOT ACT CRIME OF VIOLENCE when Grassley's aid was attacked with a baseball bat??????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!).
----B) [This WANTA TRUST FUND money...involved a complicated hidden bank swindle involving all the players in geopolitics...CHINA, madame Wo....Putin...Russia, Brit banks..Queen mommy of London, Clinton theft of CHILDRENS DEFENSE FUND AT BANK OF CROZIER WITH HILARY ON VIDEOTAPE WALKING INTO BANK TO STEAL MONEY INITIALLY USED FOR HER PRESIDENTIAL RUN...ETC.).
MOST don't understand "what Putin said to Bush at Olympics" about the 30 billion owed to him....and how the recent unexpected invasion of Georgia was about PUTIN SEIZING THE PIPELINE WORTH BILLIONS because BUSH/CHENEY STIFFED PUTIN in the Leo Wanta Trust Fund swindle.
2) THE torture issues also include "THE TORTURE OF A COOPERATING, COERCED, STALKED, EXTORTED POLITICAL VICTIM OF BOB MUELLER'S FBI" named DR MARK GORDON.
FBI also "committed crimes WHILE "informant recruiting DR MARK GORDON" in South Dakota...while also...harassing RICH GORDON (Mark's brother, ex chief of staff to Daschle) BECAUSE HE WAS LINKED TO SD US SEN TOM DASCHLE (feared and believed by FBI HQ to be "...in possession of the RCMP arrest warrant for Miami FBI agent TERRY NELSON'S DRUG PIPELINE IN MARC RACICOT'S MONTANA"....whith money laundering and RICO crimes reaching to FBI HITMAN MIKE "chuckie" PETERS, LOUIS FREEH, JUDGE SESSIONS, BOB MUELLER....etc.).
3) The issue for LEAHY and Spector is, "....WHETHER OR NOT POLITICAL TORTURE OF US SEN JUD COMM WITNESSES WHO HAVE SIGNED DOJ COMPLAINTS" is in itself, a violation of TITLE 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTIONS 241, 242, 1512, 1513, AND 2510--et al.
THE ONLY WAY LEAHY AND SPECTOR WILL BE RESPECTED IS....when they start talking to me about testifying truthfully with or without a subpoena.
Then...only then...are the Dems going to do anything about CHENEY'S MURDERS IN SOUTH DAKOTA WITH BOB MUELLER'S FBI HQ joining the conspiracy by "doing nothing" as MUELLER BENEFITS IN THE COVERUP AND DESTRUCTION OF THE RULE OF LAW.
4) Then and only then....ARE THE PUNKS (FBI HQ, BOB MUELLER, NSA 902ND, GEN HAYDEN, NATHAN GRIFFITH, JOHN BRADLEY, DET COOMBS AT RRPD,) GONNA HAVE TO EXPLAIN THE MURDER OF A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS, with the same m.o. used on me....when I lived in Austin, Texas. SAME SIGINT CALEA WIRETAPPING...SAME OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE BY A PUNK COWARDLY LYING CRIMINAL LOWLIFE NAMED BOB MUELLER, and HIS SPECIAL wind up toy lying criminal punks also known as special agents...some of whom worked and obstructed the Moore murder investigation.
Tip: CHECK THE FBI'S BOGUS DNA FORENSIC TEST OF FINGERNAIL SCRAPE EVIDENCE...compare to second test by RRPD...AND THEN TEST AGAIN WITH HAND DELIVERED SAMPLE WITH COPS WATCHING THE TEST....chain of evidence...don't let FBI touch evidence or secretly obstruct justice...again.
IT ALL GOES TO A COWARDLY BUTT LICKING PUNK NAMED ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III, and his special agents DAN REYNALDS, DAVE HELLER, MARK VUKILICH, STEVEN PLUTA, JOHN MASPERO, BYRON SAGE, etc.
5) It all goes to MUELLER'S offshore bank account and FBI CASE TRACKING SOFTWARE SCAM (425, 000, 000$ scam....for a piece of software that could cost ten million to write from scratch.
___________________________________________
The letter (pdf) to White House Counsel Fred Fielding gives an August 29 deadline to turn over requested documentation, though it does not go so far as to say what the action the Committee will take if its requests are not met.
______________________________
tommy:
Like I said...all LEAHY AND SPECTOR AND CONYERS HAVE TO DO IS...."Threaten to put Bean, Gordon, Pluta, Tapken, Talbot, NATHAN GRIFFITH (mercenary working NSA TSP surveillance contract on CHRISTINA MOORE who was murdered as an Enron witness) in front of CSPAN".
I TOLD CONYERS AND HIS STAFF...."I'LL DRIVE OR FLY TO DC TO TESTIFY TRUTHFULLY WITH OR WITHOUT A WARRANT" and "I'll take a polygraph before and after testifying truthfully".
If LEAHY is actually doing his job.......................all he has to do is leave a comment on this blog, where I will then post it.
If the comment is not posted...then LEAHY HAS THE EVIDENCE THAT THE US SENATE WAS OBSTRUCTED WHEN HIS COMMUNICATIONS TO ME AT THIS BLOG, WAS MISDIRECTED BY....NSA?...FBI?...DOD?...HLS?....?
THAT'S ALL LEAHY OR CONYERS HAS TO DO..............TO BECOME THE MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN DC WITH THE INFO THAT CRACKS THIS MAFIA NEOCON GOP GOVERNMENT INTO A THOUSAND PIECES.
THAT'S ALL THEY GOT TO DO...........use my name....use Talbot's name...use Tapken's name...use HEFFLEFINGER'S NAME....USE DR MARK GORDON'S NAME....in front of CSPAN or the media....or on your website.
That's all the Dems have to do...to get the ball rolling.
That...or....they could get a real lawyer to review the WRIT OF MANDAMUS THAT ANY FED JUDGE IN ANY FED DISTRICT CAN AND WILL SIGN, ORDERING THE WHITE HOUSE TO COMPLY WITH SUBPOENAS AND TESTIMONY.
_____________________________________
_________________________
"I have been stonewalled even in my repeated request for something as simple as an index of OLC opinions," writes Chairman Leahy in the letter co-signed by Specter. "Examining the role of this Justice Department office in authorizing controversial activities is squarely within the oversight responsibilities of this Committee; in carrying out that responsibility we are entitled, at the very least, to know the subjects on which OLC has provided final legal advice. That after more than five years this Committee has been refused even this simple request is unacceptable."
________________________
TOMMY:
Senator Leahy....uh....have you heard of a WRIT OF MANDAMUS ordering an executive branch government official to perform his fiduciary duty?
Do you understand that....MINIMUM CONTACTS EXIST IN ALL FED DISTRICT COURTS....SO THAT JURISDICTION IS IN ANY FED COURTROOM STAFFED BY DEMOCRATIC APPOINTED FED JUDGES.
PICK YOUR JUDGE....AND YOU GOT A COURT ORDER ON THE RECORD IN FRONT OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA PUNKS......to get IMPEACHMENT, SCANDAL....EXPOSURE ROLLING DOWN THE HILL...leading to TESTIMONY OF HONEST COPS....HONEST WHITE COLLAR PROFESSIONALS...AND the signor of a FBI OPR COMPLAINT?
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
OPERATION RAPTOR? Hawks kill Doves at DOD?
Breaking News Saturday August 9, 2008 http://www.stewwebb.com/
U.S. Military Decapitated
20 U.S. Generals Murdered Operation Raptor
Aug 9 2008
NATIONAL EMERGENCY ALERT:
20 U.S. Generals-American Patriots mostly Air Force many 3 and 4 Stars have been Murdered in the past week by George W. Bush True Colors Assassination Teams tied with Rouge Israeli Mossad.
The name of the Bush Murder Operation is
"Operation Raptor ", The Hawks are killing the Doves.
By Stew Webb
Senate Aid Hutchins Murdered
Frederick Wayne Hutchins Jr., a major aide to Senator Jim Webb, D-VA, was recently assassinated in a Vince Foster-style.
Hutchins was murdered by the same Israeli MOSSAD team that poisoned Bruce Ivins in the Frederick , Maryland hospital.
Hutchins had been in communication with the attorney for the late Bruce Ivins, Paul F. Kemp, concerning the role of Dr. Philip Zackerie and the post 9/11 anthrax attacks on the East Coast of the United States
Hutchins, who was familiar with the Bush-Clinton "TRUE COLORS" assassination teams, had recently testified before the Virginia National Security Court concerning the use of private mercenaries tied to Blackwater and Halliburton and their activities in Iraq, Europe, other parts of the Middle East and the United States of America.
Webb and Hutchins were in direct communication with patriotic elements of the U.S. Military determined to have the fraudulent Commander and Chief i.e. Thief, Bushfraud and his sociopath Vice President, i.e. resident, Dick Cheney arrested for TREASON before Labor Day.
AND NOW IT REALLY GETS WORSE!
One of the sources for both Webb and Hutchins was former top U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Thomas L. Tinsley, who was in the North American Aero Space Defense Command, NORAD, on September 11, 2001 and has been blamed for failure to alert American military forces to the on-going attacks that took place on 9/11.
General Tinsley Murdered
Tinsley was recently assassinated by the Bush-Clinton-Israeli MOSSAD "TRUE COLORS" assassination teams from a gun shot to his chest.
Reference: Brigadier General Thomas L. Tinsley had testified to the Virginia National Security Court that Red-Blue U.S.-Canadian war games were staged on 9/11, i.e. a mock attack on America based on hijacked aircraft to disguise the actual Pentagon-Israeli Mossad BLACK OPS attack using holograms and laser technology.
Brigadier General Tinsely had also told the Virginia National Security Court that it was none other than Vice pResident Dick Cheney that gave the direct order to Tinsley for NORAD to stand down on 9/11 and to continue the war games.
Clearly at this hour Cheney MUST be arrested immediately and placed in a high security holding center.
Bushfraud MUST be arrested by patriotic elements of the U.S. Military and placed under 24-hour surveillance given the magnitude of the TREASONOUS evidence that has now developed.
All of this activity comes on the heels of U.S. Naval Commander Capt. David C. Dykhoff being arrested and charged with TREASON, i.e. his role in the Israeli MOSSAD-Pentagon instigated 9/11 BLACK OPS attack on America.
On 9/11 Dykhoff, who was the Commander of U.S. Naval systems located at Patuxent Naval Air Systems Command outside of Washington D.C., failed to protect the U.S. capitol from being attacked and actually gave the order for a missile to be fired at the Pentagon on 9/11.
20_u.s._generals_murdered_operation_raptor_aug_9_2008.
U.S. Military Decapitated
20 U.S. Generals Murdered Operation Raptor
Aug 9 2008
NATIONAL EMERGENCY ALERT:
20 U.S. Generals-American Patriots mostly Air Force many 3 and 4 Stars have been Murdered in the past week by George W. Bush True Colors Assassination Teams tied with Rouge Israeli Mossad.
The name of the Bush Murder Operation is
"Operation Raptor ", The Hawks are killing the Doves.
By Stew Webb
Senate Aid Hutchins Murdered
Frederick Wayne Hutchins Jr., a major aide to Senator Jim Webb, D-VA, was recently assassinated in a Vince Foster-style.
Hutchins was murdered by the same Israeli MOSSAD team that poisoned Bruce Ivins in the Frederick , Maryland hospital.
Hutchins had been in communication with the attorney for the late Bruce Ivins, Paul F. Kemp, concerning the role of Dr. Philip Zackerie and the post 9/11 anthrax attacks on the East Coast of the United States
Hutchins, who was familiar with the Bush-Clinton "TRUE COLORS" assassination teams, had recently testified before the Virginia National Security Court concerning the use of private mercenaries tied to Blackwater and Halliburton and their activities in Iraq, Europe, other parts of the Middle East and the United States of America.
Webb and Hutchins were in direct communication with patriotic elements of the U.S. Military determined to have the fraudulent Commander and Chief i.e. Thief, Bushfraud and his sociopath Vice President, i.e. resident, Dick Cheney arrested for TREASON before Labor Day.
AND NOW IT REALLY GETS WORSE!
One of the sources for both Webb and Hutchins was former top U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Thomas L. Tinsley, who was in the North American Aero Space Defense Command, NORAD, on September 11, 2001 and has been blamed for failure to alert American military forces to the on-going attacks that took place on 9/11.
General Tinsley Murdered
Tinsley was recently assassinated by the Bush-Clinton-Israeli MOSSAD "TRUE COLORS" assassination teams from a gun shot to his chest.
Reference: Brigadier General Thomas L. Tinsley had testified to the Virginia National Security Court that Red-Blue U.S.-Canadian war games were staged on 9/11, i.e. a mock attack on America based on hijacked aircraft to disguise the actual Pentagon-Israeli Mossad BLACK OPS attack using holograms and laser technology.
Brigadier General Tinsely had also told the Virginia National Security Court that it was none other than Vice pResident Dick Cheney that gave the direct order to Tinsley for NORAD to stand down on 9/11 and to continue the war games.
Clearly at this hour Cheney MUST be arrested immediately and placed in a high security holding center.
Bushfraud MUST be arrested by patriotic elements of the U.S. Military and placed under 24-hour surveillance given the magnitude of the TREASONOUS evidence that has now developed.
All of this activity comes on the heels of U.S. Naval Commander Capt. David C. Dykhoff being arrested and charged with TREASON, i.e. his role in the Israeli MOSSAD-Pentagon instigated 9/11 BLACK OPS attack on America.
On 9/11 Dykhoff, who was the Commander of U.S. Naval systems located at Patuxent Naval Air Systems Command outside of Washington D.C., failed to protect the U.S. capitol from being attacked and actually gave the order for a missile to be fired at the Pentagon on 9/11.
20_u.s._generals_murdered_operation_raptor_aug_9_2008.
Friday, August 15, 2008
More MAINSTREAM MEDIA sell out disinfo on ANTHRAX FALSE FLAG TERRORISM BY FBI--DOJ--MOSSAD--CHENEY
http://mediabloodhound.typepad.com/weblog/2008/08/special-repor-2.html
Special Report:
Ivins Anthrax Case Another Black Eye for Network News
While cable news dutifully devotes nonstop coverage to the latest random criminal cases -- kidnappings, shootouts, murderous love triangles, car chases -- it's telling when a supposed break in one of the biggest manhunts in FBI history, for a terrorist who murdered and poisoned multiple American citizens with anthrax, takes a backseat to nearly every other story. That is, if it's mentioned at all.
Even as details, leaks and a burgeoning list of questions bubbled to the surface last week, demanding serious scrutiny, the big three broadcast networks were equally blasé. Some nights skipping mention of the unfolding story altogether, as did last Tuesday's editions of CBS Evening News and ABC World News (though both that evening reported the eminently newsworthy story of a thrill-seeking English couple who married while being strapped outside separate airplanes). On the same night, Brian Williams afforded 39 precious seconds to the anthrax investigation on NBC Nightly News.
In covering one of the most historic criminal investigations in our nation's history, the worst bioterrorism attack on U.S. soil, the overall tenor and quality of network reporting (as well as much of the work in mainstream print media) has been nothing short of disgraceful. A dearth of circumspection and paucity of competent investigative work that mirrors the most feckless moments of the last eight years. This coverage, delivered in an Orwellian bubble world where our brazenly criminal administration still earns the benefit of the doubt, is all the more indefensible when you factor in the reality this is a Bush administration investigation, one which had already dragged on for almost seven years, during which time the government was forced to cough up nearly $6 million to settle with a previously wrongly accused man whose reputation and personal life it had destroyed.
As the story unraveled, coverage almost invariably failed to not only address questions that would be obvious to fictional adolescent sleuths Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys but also showcased a breathless zeal to help the Department of Justice prosecute Ivins through unfiltered and uncorroborated leaks -- from accusations of "therapist" Jean Duley (Ivins was a homicidal killer who threatened her life and planned to kill all of his colleagues in a final "blaze of glory"), a woman known to have a fairly lengthy police record (news that failed to reach national mainstream outlets until the day the FBI/DOJ publicly aired their case, before disappearing again; plus, to my knowledge, Duley's police record has yet to receive network airtime), whose depth of experience appeared at least suspect (she was still attending Hood College as of last year and, while various media reports called her a "psychiatrist," "psychologist" or "social worker," it turns out Duley is actually an "addictions counselor") and whose affidavit, including the misspelling "theripist" and manic, haphazard penmanship, appears as if it were written by either a second grader or an unstable adult (investigative journalist Larisa Alexandrovna has more on Duley); to a leak last Monday courtesy of the Associated Press -- quickly largely debunked by an update of the same article and then further dispelled by a New York Times piece Tuesday -- which claimed, around the time of the anthrax attacks, Ivins had been visiting and harassing members of a Princeton University sorority located near one of the mailboxes used to send the envelopes; to another leak portraying him as both a porn-obsessed sicko because he received adult videos to a P.O. box and a raging alcoholic who, nonetheless, managed to retain his security clearance to work with some of the most lethal substances on the planet.
While ABC World News ignored the case on Tuesday's August 5 broadcast, its previous night's coverage proved no report might be preferable to a poor one. A segment called "A Closer Look" (video of this segment online included the headline "Closing the Anthrax Case") focused on the break in the anthrax investigation. It's a piece of journalism that might be described as anti-investigative work. As the online headline suggested -- with exception to a one-sentence quote from New Jersey Representative Rush Holt ("After seven years of blind alleys and false accusations, we have to ask, well, has the FBI once again let their zeal replace evidence") -- this "closer look" was nothing more than a stenographic replay of the FBI's storyline, including those damning quotes from Ms. Duley, a present wrapped in a bow to the FBI, the Department of Justice and the Bush administration. But a grave disservice to journalism, victims of the anthrax attacks, the American people and, quite possibly, the Ivins family. There was nothing remotely closer about this look.
Then there's those 39 seconds NBC Nightly News dedicated to the Ivins' case the following evening. Another example of a report imparting more heat than light, complete with an exclusive leak to NBC News from the Justice Department, seamlessly delivered by Brian Williams:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Federal officials are telling our justice correspondent, Pete Williams, they will reveal a possible motive tomorrow as to why they believe Dr. Bruce Ivins, the former Ft. Detrick bioweapons expert, sent the anthrax letters, including the one here to NBC. They say he felt badly stung by the criticism that the anthrax vaccine he helped develop for the armed forces back in the first Gulf War could've contributed to what's now know as Gulf War Syndrome. He may have sent the deadly letters, they believe, to generate renewed interest in anthrax as a threat which would cause demand for an approved vaccine, one that he later, by the way, worked on.
Neither Brian Williams nor his justice correspondent posed any questions regarding this fresh allegation. Failing to demand evidence supporting this new leak or to question its legitimacy before passing it on to millions of viewers and the rest of the media, the dynamic Williams duo acted not as responsible journalists who either considered or cared that government officials might be using them -- something any competent and ethical journalist must be on guard against in such situations -- but as willing mouthpieces, blithely abdicating their role as members of the Fourth Estate, no more circumspect than White House spokespeople.
Even New York Times journalist Scott Shane, one of the more reliable reporters covering this case, had an odd appearance when he visited PBS' NewsHour on Monday's August 4 broadcast. (Yet it was arguably as much or more the fault of NewHour senior correspondent Margaret Warner.) Earlier in the day, Shane published a Times article with the headline "Anthrax Evidence Is Said to Be Circumstantial" (later edited online to "Anthrax Evidence Called Mostly Circumstantial"), in which he reported in the opening paragraph "a person who has been briefed on the investigation said on Sunday" that "evidence amassed by F.B.I. investigators against Dr. Bruce E. Ivins....was largely circumstantial." But somehow in a lengthy discussion with Shane, neither he nor Warner raised this highly relevant point, each with ample opportunity to do so.
While possible, it seems unlikely on the same day Shane writes a major article around this finding -- the case being brought against Ivins will be predominantly circumstantial -- that it would later, on the very same day, completely slip his mind. What's more, as regular newscast segments go, Warner conducted a pretty extensive interview. So even if, for the sake of argument, Warner failed to do her homework prior to the interview and missed Shane's article (more believable), one would still expect Shane to point out the case's top-heavy circumstantial nature, if not immediately, then at some time during the discussion. Did NewsHour censor Shane? Did they agree beforehand not to mention that, by Sunday August 3, the case against Ivins was already believed -- by a very credible source close to the investigation -- to be built upon "largely" or "mostly" circumstantial evidence? It's certainly a curious omission, one that, intentionally or not, helped to buy the government more time to leak negative information about Ivins before playing its hand on Wednesday.
As it turned out, when the Justice Department held its big press conference two days later, it confirmed Shane's Monday scoop had been correct. If anything, the report's characterization of the evidence seeming "mostly" or "largely" circumstantial turned out to be generous. The case against Ivins appears, thus far, completely circumstantial: they couldn't tie him directly to the anthrax envelopes, prove he made the trip to Princeton around the time the envelopes were mailed, detect the type of anthrax mailed on his body or in his home or car, present any eyewitness accounts putting Ivins in his lab on those nights in late September and early October, or confirm many other colleagues hadn't used the same flask that federal prosecutors call "effectively the murder weapon."
Following this far from airtight presentation, journalism professor and author Ted Gup wrote in the Washington Post:
Such evidence, even when seemingly overwhelming and conclusive, is the very sort of circumstantial argument that pegged Richard Jewell as the Atlanta bomber, that linked Oregon attorney Brandon Mayfield to the Madrid bombings, that fingered Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee as a spy, and that cast biodefense expert Steven Hatfill as the original anthrax suspect. In each of those investigations, the news media were largely complicit, conveying incriminating details of the government's case as if they were the gospel.
And yet, in each of those cases, the government was wrong -- shaking public confidence even as it eroded individual civil liberties, produced groundless prosecutions and diverted precious time and resources in pursuit of bogus cases. [...]
In June, the government agreed to a settlement with Hatfill valued at $5.8 million. Neither it nor the press, which was only too eager to link arms with the Justice Department in carrying the stories that stripped Hatfill of everything he had, has offered an apology or conceded wrongdoing.
Against this background, who could be blamed for imagining that an innocent Ivins was hounded to his death? Can we discount the accounts that suggest the government repeatedly harassed Ivins's family, offering his son a reward and sports car if he would turn his father in?
Gup went on to say:
To their credit, in reporting the Ivins's case, the media now appear somewhat chastened and more inquisitive than inquisitorial. It may well be that, absent a trial, it will fall to reporters to aggressively test the solidity of the case against Ivins. Perhaps they can restore a measure of credibility to their profession and to the government.
Hopefully he was not holding his breath.
If you turned on CNN and MSNBC the day after Wednesday's FBI/DOJ presentation, you would've found no mention of the Ivins' case. Paris Hilton's scantily clad political spoof? Yes. A child kidnapping ring? You bet. Bret Favre's trade to the NY Jets? Touchdown. Questions about a case involving the worst bioterrorism attack in U.S. history? Nothing.
On the same Thursday afternoon, a look at their websites found the Ivins case only made MSNBC's "Other Top Stories," coming in fourth behind -- you guessed it -- Bret Favre's trade to the NY Jets. Of CNN's 18 top stories, the Ivins case was absent -- of course, Favre's trade is there, as is "Did Caylee's mom pose as mystery sitter?", "Owners cuddle, dress pets...then fry them," "Paris did ad in 4 takes -- from memory!", "McCain, Obama agree on 'Dark Knight'," and "Lawyer: Morgan Freeman, wife divorcing."
And while ABC, CBS and NBC national nightly newscasts covered the DOJ's case against Ivins on Wednesday, they hardly appeared "chastened" or felt compelled to "restore a measure of credibility to their profession."
In the CBS Evening News report, introduced with a graphic of a Justice Department file opened to an illustrated report titled "Anthrax Case CLOSED," anchor Katie Couric and justice correspondent Bob Orr repeated the pattern of laying out the government's case with little or no questioning of the quality of evidence provided.
Orr framed his segment, saying, "Newly released FBI evidence makes a strong circumstantial case that bioweapons researcher Ivins was a delusional sociopath who had the opportunity, motive and means to be the 2001 anthrax killer." Interspersed with U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor's comments from the press conference, Orr's performance is closer to a co-prosecutor on the DOJ's behalf than as a journalist assessing the strengths or weaknesses of the evidence, including the flask on which the alleged matching anthrax spores were found: "The most damning evidence," asserted Orr, "a flask of anthrax spores recovered in 2004 from Ivins' personal workspace at Ft. Detrick, the Army weapons lab where he worked."
Yet he failed to mention the gaping hole in this "most damning evidence": it was already known by then that many of Ivins' colleagues also had access to the same flask. Moreover, on the day of the FBI/DOJ's press conference, Paul Kemp, Ivins' attorney, told the media that the number of people with access to it was far greater than previously reported -- not 10 or 20 or 30 people but hundreds. The government soon admitted, by its own count, that more than 100 people could've used the flask.
Orr similarly treated other weak strands of the DOJ's circumstantial evidence, including the alleged "striking" likeness between the threatening letter sent with the anthrax envelopes and the email Ivins wrote to a friend. Orr called Ivins' email "chilling." But Ivins' words aren't chilling. Nearly everyone in the Bush administration and in the GOP-led Congress, as well as many in the media, often made similar post-9/11 comments. Rather, it's what Ivins believed Osama Bin Laden might do ("...Bin Laden terrorists for sure have anthrax and sarin gas..." based on what Bin Laden had said ("...he [Bin Laden] just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans") that might instill fear. Without further proof, it's a specious piece of semantic contortion and misappropriation that crumbles under scrutiny.
Moreover, Orr omitted the obvious: Where's the handwriting analysis? And if one was performed, why aren't the results being presented to us?
After Orr's de facto co-prosecution, he ended his report with what should've been his lede:
ORR: While the FBI believes it's now solved the case, the evidence does not directly connect Ivins to the anthrax letters and does not directly tie him to the New Jersey postbox where they were sent out. But with the suspect now dead, the government will never have to prove that case in court.
Which is exactly why Ted Gup noted in his WaPo op-ed, "It may well be that, absent a trial, it will fall to reporters to aggressively test the solidity of the case against Ivins." Imagine how Professor Gup would grade Orr, Couric and CBS for this report.
NBC Nightly News justice correspondent Pete Williams' framed his report somewhat more responsibly, noting upfront, "But this is a circumstantial case with no absolute proof that he did it." Yet he prefaced this comment with an FBI assertion that, according to the evidence presented, is false on its face: "Amy, the FBI says it can trace the anthrax used in the attacks directly to Dr. Ivins and it says he repeatedly tried to mislead investigators." Whether or not he misled investigators (unproven as well in the evidence proffered), again, the flask sitting in Ivins' workspace in a shared lab three years later, to which so many colleagues had access -- including former employees, like Philip Zack, who were no longer employed at Ft. Detrick when they frequented the lab and worked on unsanctioned, unknown projects -- does not "directly" link Ivins to the anthrax used in the attacks. Like CBS' Orr, Justice Correspondent Williams then proceeded to state the other main points of the Justice Department's case without question.
Inclusion of a statement from Ivins' lawyer was the only substantive difference in this report: "Tonight, a lawyer for Dr. Ivins says the FBI never found anthrax in his house or in his car or anything else directly linking him to the mailings." But Pete Williams, presumably an expert in covering federal criminal cases, offered no educated assessments of his own on the government's evidence. As with Orr, Williams did little more than parrot the FBI/DOJ presentation, in a segment edited in such a way that only added coherence and credibility to the government's case. Similar to Orr as well (and Couric's "Anthrax Case CLOSED" opening graphic) he also punctuated his report with an air of futility and premature closure: "And without a trial, we'll never hear what Dr. Ivins would've said in his own defense."
Essentially identical to Orr's and Williams' reports was justice correspondent Pierre Thomas' segment on the FBI/DOJ's presentation for ABC World News, another reiteration of the evidence edited in a such a way as to lend more heft and seamlessness to the government's case while omitting obvious disconnects and holes.
To its credit, however (if we were grading on effort and not execution), World News then followed this segment with another titled "Anthrax Investigation Debunked," in which Gibson spoke with legal correspondent Jan Crawford-Greenberg:
CHARLES GIBSON: Well, with Ivins' death, this case will actually never go into a court of law. But would all that evidence have stood up in court? Our legal correspondent, Jan Crawford Greenburg, is joining us from Washington. And Jan, I know you've seen the evidence. I want to read you part of a statement that came from lawyers today. They said what the FBI presented with that evidence was all heaps of innuendo, contorted to create the illusion of guilt. How conclusive was it?
JAN CRAWFORD-GREENBERG: Well, Charlie, certainly, there was enough evidence to get an indictment from a grand jury, as Pierre just reported. You know, we saw that he had control over that [sic] anthrax spores, had been linked to a flask in his lab through all of that scientific - that new scientific testing. That we saw his behavior growing increasingly erratic. And of course, he even tried to mislead investigators to say another researcher had control over that anthrax. But this was not an open or shut case by any means. Defense lawyers would have had a lot work with. For example, there was no DNA, actual DNA, linking Ivins to the anthrax on those letters, his own DNA on those letters. You know and then even when you look at the scientific evidence in that flask, the anthrax spores that were in that flask, Charlie, a lot of researchers in that lab also had access to it.
Yet, once again, there's no direct evidence Ivins "had control" over those specific anthrax spores or that he solely "had been linked" to that flask in his lab. Quite the opposite. In fact, Crawford-Greenberg went on to contradict the strength of this evidence and her own act of inflating its worth by subsequently noting "even when you look at the scientific evidence in that flask, the anthrax spores that were in that flask, Charlie, a lot of researchers in that lab also had access to it."
Gibson then posed a question that can't be asked too much, but his legal correspondent's response could've come straight from the FBI or DOJ:
CHARLES GIBSON: So it might have been a dicey case for the FBI and for prosecutors in court. But whether or not he could have been convicted, this was obviously a rather quirky fellow. What was he doing dealing with deadly toxins?
JAN CRAWFORD-GREENBERG: Well, Charlie, this was someone who had worked in this lab nearly 30 years. He was highly respected, highly regarded by his colleagues. It was only in the later years that his behavior became more erratic. Now we saw some congressmen today calling for more screenings of scientists who handle these dangerous drugs, but there's no indication that that would have picked up any of his erratic behavior at all.
With so much of the government's circumstantial evidence resting on Ivins' alleged ever-deteriorating mental state, purportedly going back at least as far as July 2000 and maybe even to his undergraduate college days, it's hard to believe his colleagues and supervisors (not to mention to his friends and family) would've remained so oblivious or unconcerned about such a chronic basket case, specifically one whose job entails handling substances that could potentially unlock a genocidal Pandora's Box. Moreover, according to the case against him, "his behavior became more erratic" seven years before they revoked his security clearance.
Maybe World News deserves some credit for actually attempting to give this evidence "a closer look" this time. Or maybe it intended to only appear as if it were doing so. Regardless, Crawford-Greenberg's responses did more to muddle the government's evidence against Ivins than it did to present viewers with a clear and candid legal assessment.
Compare Gibson and Crawford-Greenberg's discussion to MSNBC's Countdown segment aired on the same night, in which investigative journalist Gerald Posner, speaking with host Keith Olbermann, exposed many aspects of the government's case without mincing words or glossing over its discrepancies and disconnects.
OLBERMANN: The flask of anthrax with identical spores, ostensibly, their strongest piece of evidence. What do you make of this?
POSNER: That's what they make it sound like, but it's not. Let me tell you, the late public hears this, they think that's the evidence. Those are the spores that got people sick, sent out from the envelopes, not true. That was liquid anthrax in that flask.
Even if the FBI can tie it to that flask, they can't explain how it was then made into this extremely sophisticated type of weapon with small milligramage with electric charges to it, with polyglass on top of the coating, all to go deep inside the lungs, to spray into the air. This was weaponized, military anthrax. They cannot explain how it went from that glass flask in a liquid form into the form that was sent out in the envelopes. That they don't have the evidence on.
OLBERMANN: What, if anything they presented today, is the strongest evidence? What do they got going for them?
POSNER: Well, they threw out this machine, what they called the lyopholizer, they say that can make wet anthrax into dry anthrax, but I talked to six different microbiologists today and people involved formerly in weapons programs in the United States and in Russia, who say that the machine that the FBI talks about can't do that. [What a novel journalistic technique -- speaking with other experts to confirm the credibility of the government's case.]
The strongest evidence they have going for them is also their Achilles' heel and that's his psychological profile. That fact that he's very unstable, that he was someone who was an alcoholic, that he might wanted to have the vaccine continue to go along, but that's also the fact that he could have been set up as a cutout, a patsy, or used by a group of people who wanted the anthrax out there.
They also knew about his weak psychological profile. How was he employed with the most secret biological warfare lab in the United States with this type of background that we now hear about that they should have known about from day one? The Defense Department should hang its head in shame.
OLBERMANN: Right. Thirty-five years of murderous intent and nobody knew about it, and they let him in to the germ warfare lab. As to motive, they mentioned it but almost as if it were in passing. Is that a weak part of the case? Do they offer anything that made any sense?
POSNER: Boy, I'll tell you, I thought it was a weak part of the case. I listened to the press conference today and then sort of at the end as though they thought they had to throw something out, they said, “Oh, by the way, let's give you the reasons to why we think he sent out and went on this homicidal rage.”
And the motive they said was, “Well, he helped develop a vaccine for anthrax, he probably wanted to continue to see that developed so that by killing people, by having come up with some unknown way of this high military grade anthrax. We would keep the vaccine program going.”
That was pretty weak, and, you know, I thought they just literally were fishing. They don't have a good motive, unfortunately, for them and their prosecution. But as you said in the lead into this, they don't need to because the primary suspect, the only suspect, is dead. They're going to close this case.
OLBERMANN: But the declaration that he is the only, it's not just a question of proving a dead man did this or was part of this, but the insistence is he did by himself, the lone, mad scientist thing. Did they get anywhere near confirming that?
POSNER: No. As a matter of fact, Keith, that's my major problem with this. You know, if you look at it and you say, “He‘s involved, he‘s got a role in it, he‘s done something.” That, the evidence, I'm waiting to see that and they may nail that down. But I spoke to enough experts in the last few days who have convinced me, who know how this process works, that these spores that were sent out, were not the work of one lone scientist and that, I believe, is the case.
Nevertheless, this story disappeared from network news studios by the following morning. No mention on TV Thursday on CNN or MSNBC, nor on NBC, CBS or ABC's national nightly newscasts. Nor did it warrant any further network coverage Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
Dr. Bruce Ivins is dead. He may have been the anthrax killer and acted alone. He may have acted with others. (Based on the known evidence, both of these two scenarios seem less likely with each passing day.) He may have just been a convenient fall guy. (As Gerry Andrews, microbiologist and former longtime colleague of Ivins, wrote in a New York Times editorial yesterday: "After the anthrax attack, Dr. Ivins himself worked directly with the evidence. The F.B.I. asked Dr. Ivins to help them with the forensics in the case by analyzing the contents of suspicious letters. And he did so for years, until the authorities began to suspect that the anthrax spores used in the mailings might have originated from his lab. [Awfully convenient, no?] Dr. Ivins, for instance, was asked to analyze the anthrax envelope that was sent to Mr. Daschle’s office on Oct. 9, 2001. When his team analyzed the powder, they found it to be a startlingly refined weapons-grade anthrax spore preparation, the likes of which had never been seen before by personnel at Fort Detrick.") The person or persons who murdered and poisoned Americans with those anthrax letters may even have framed him. The FBI may have also driven Ivins to take his own life after relentlessly hounding him and his family for a crime he never committed.
But the FBI and DOJ wanted this case closed. Now. And in one of the most important criminal investigations in our nation's history, for the deadliest bioterrorism attack on U.S. soil -- which our government, with help from Brian Ross and ABC News' curiously sourced false reporting, initially used to build support for invading Iraq -- the networks (Olbermann's Countdown coverage notwithstanding) have thus far refused to substantively question this historically corrupt government's circumstantial case against a dead man who will never have his day in court.
By the way, have you heard that John Edwards cheated on his wife?
Special Report:
Ivins Anthrax Case Another Black Eye for Network News
While cable news dutifully devotes nonstop coverage to the latest random criminal cases -- kidnappings, shootouts, murderous love triangles, car chases -- it's telling when a supposed break in one of the biggest manhunts in FBI history, for a terrorist who murdered and poisoned multiple American citizens with anthrax, takes a backseat to nearly every other story. That is, if it's mentioned at all.
Even as details, leaks and a burgeoning list of questions bubbled to the surface last week, demanding serious scrutiny, the big three broadcast networks were equally blasé. Some nights skipping mention of the unfolding story altogether, as did last Tuesday's editions of CBS Evening News and ABC World News (though both that evening reported the eminently newsworthy story of a thrill-seeking English couple who married while being strapped outside separate airplanes). On the same night, Brian Williams afforded 39 precious seconds to the anthrax investigation on NBC Nightly News.
In covering one of the most historic criminal investigations in our nation's history, the worst bioterrorism attack on U.S. soil, the overall tenor and quality of network reporting (as well as much of the work in mainstream print media) has been nothing short of disgraceful. A dearth of circumspection and paucity of competent investigative work that mirrors the most feckless moments of the last eight years. This coverage, delivered in an Orwellian bubble world where our brazenly criminal administration still earns the benefit of the doubt, is all the more indefensible when you factor in the reality this is a Bush administration investigation, one which had already dragged on for almost seven years, during which time the government was forced to cough up nearly $6 million to settle with a previously wrongly accused man whose reputation and personal life it had destroyed.
As the story unraveled, coverage almost invariably failed to not only address questions that would be obvious to fictional adolescent sleuths Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys but also showcased a breathless zeal to help the Department of Justice prosecute Ivins through unfiltered and uncorroborated leaks -- from accusations of "therapist" Jean Duley (Ivins was a homicidal killer who threatened her life and planned to kill all of his colleagues in a final "blaze of glory"), a woman known to have a fairly lengthy police record (news that failed to reach national mainstream outlets until the day the FBI/DOJ publicly aired their case, before disappearing again; plus, to my knowledge, Duley's police record has yet to receive network airtime), whose depth of experience appeared at least suspect (she was still attending Hood College as of last year and, while various media reports called her a "psychiatrist," "psychologist" or "social worker," it turns out Duley is actually an "addictions counselor") and whose affidavit, including the misspelling "theripist" and manic, haphazard penmanship, appears as if it were written by either a second grader or an unstable adult (investigative journalist Larisa Alexandrovna has more on Duley); to a leak last Monday courtesy of the Associated Press -- quickly largely debunked by an update of the same article and then further dispelled by a New York Times piece Tuesday -- which claimed, around the time of the anthrax attacks, Ivins had been visiting and harassing members of a Princeton University sorority located near one of the mailboxes used to send the envelopes; to another leak portraying him as both a porn-obsessed sicko because he received adult videos to a P.O. box and a raging alcoholic who, nonetheless, managed to retain his security clearance to work with some of the most lethal substances on the planet.
While ABC World News ignored the case on Tuesday's August 5 broadcast, its previous night's coverage proved no report might be preferable to a poor one. A segment called "A Closer Look" (video of this segment online included the headline "Closing the Anthrax Case") focused on the break in the anthrax investigation. It's a piece of journalism that might be described as anti-investigative work. As the online headline suggested -- with exception to a one-sentence quote from New Jersey Representative Rush Holt ("After seven years of blind alleys and false accusations, we have to ask, well, has the FBI once again let their zeal replace evidence") -- this "closer look" was nothing more than a stenographic replay of the FBI's storyline, including those damning quotes from Ms. Duley, a present wrapped in a bow to the FBI, the Department of Justice and the Bush administration. But a grave disservice to journalism, victims of the anthrax attacks, the American people and, quite possibly, the Ivins family. There was nothing remotely closer about this look.
Then there's those 39 seconds NBC Nightly News dedicated to the Ivins' case the following evening. Another example of a report imparting more heat than light, complete with an exclusive leak to NBC News from the Justice Department, seamlessly delivered by Brian Williams:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Federal officials are telling our justice correspondent, Pete Williams, they will reveal a possible motive tomorrow as to why they believe Dr. Bruce Ivins, the former Ft. Detrick bioweapons expert, sent the anthrax letters, including the one here to NBC. They say he felt badly stung by the criticism that the anthrax vaccine he helped develop for the armed forces back in the first Gulf War could've contributed to what's now know as Gulf War Syndrome. He may have sent the deadly letters, they believe, to generate renewed interest in anthrax as a threat which would cause demand for an approved vaccine, one that he later, by the way, worked on.
Neither Brian Williams nor his justice correspondent posed any questions regarding this fresh allegation. Failing to demand evidence supporting this new leak or to question its legitimacy before passing it on to millions of viewers and the rest of the media, the dynamic Williams duo acted not as responsible journalists who either considered or cared that government officials might be using them -- something any competent and ethical journalist must be on guard against in such situations -- but as willing mouthpieces, blithely abdicating their role as members of the Fourth Estate, no more circumspect than White House spokespeople.
Even New York Times journalist Scott Shane, one of the more reliable reporters covering this case, had an odd appearance when he visited PBS' NewsHour on Monday's August 4 broadcast. (Yet it was arguably as much or more the fault of NewHour senior correspondent Margaret Warner.) Earlier in the day, Shane published a Times article with the headline "Anthrax Evidence Is Said to Be Circumstantial" (later edited online to "Anthrax Evidence Called Mostly Circumstantial"), in which he reported in the opening paragraph "a person who has been briefed on the investigation said on Sunday" that "evidence amassed by F.B.I. investigators against Dr. Bruce E. Ivins....was largely circumstantial." But somehow in a lengthy discussion with Shane, neither he nor Warner raised this highly relevant point, each with ample opportunity to do so.
While possible, it seems unlikely on the same day Shane writes a major article around this finding -- the case being brought against Ivins will be predominantly circumstantial -- that it would later, on the very same day, completely slip his mind. What's more, as regular newscast segments go, Warner conducted a pretty extensive interview. So even if, for the sake of argument, Warner failed to do her homework prior to the interview and missed Shane's article (more believable), one would still expect Shane to point out the case's top-heavy circumstantial nature, if not immediately, then at some time during the discussion. Did NewsHour censor Shane? Did they agree beforehand not to mention that, by Sunday August 3, the case against Ivins was already believed -- by a very credible source close to the investigation -- to be built upon "largely" or "mostly" circumstantial evidence? It's certainly a curious omission, one that, intentionally or not, helped to buy the government more time to leak negative information about Ivins before playing its hand on Wednesday.
As it turned out, when the Justice Department held its big press conference two days later, it confirmed Shane's Monday scoop had been correct. If anything, the report's characterization of the evidence seeming "mostly" or "largely" circumstantial turned out to be generous. The case against Ivins appears, thus far, completely circumstantial: they couldn't tie him directly to the anthrax envelopes, prove he made the trip to Princeton around the time the envelopes were mailed, detect the type of anthrax mailed on his body or in his home or car, present any eyewitness accounts putting Ivins in his lab on those nights in late September and early October, or confirm many other colleagues hadn't used the same flask that federal prosecutors call "effectively the murder weapon."
Following this far from airtight presentation, journalism professor and author Ted Gup wrote in the Washington Post:
Such evidence, even when seemingly overwhelming and conclusive, is the very sort of circumstantial argument that pegged Richard Jewell as the Atlanta bomber, that linked Oregon attorney Brandon Mayfield to the Madrid bombings, that fingered Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee as a spy, and that cast biodefense expert Steven Hatfill as the original anthrax suspect. In each of those investigations, the news media were largely complicit, conveying incriminating details of the government's case as if they were the gospel.
And yet, in each of those cases, the government was wrong -- shaking public confidence even as it eroded individual civil liberties, produced groundless prosecutions and diverted precious time and resources in pursuit of bogus cases. [...]
In June, the government agreed to a settlement with Hatfill valued at $5.8 million. Neither it nor the press, which was only too eager to link arms with the Justice Department in carrying the stories that stripped Hatfill of everything he had, has offered an apology or conceded wrongdoing.
Against this background, who could be blamed for imagining that an innocent Ivins was hounded to his death? Can we discount the accounts that suggest the government repeatedly harassed Ivins's family, offering his son a reward and sports car if he would turn his father in?
Gup went on to say:
To their credit, in reporting the Ivins's case, the media now appear somewhat chastened and more inquisitive than inquisitorial. It may well be that, absent a trial, it will fall to reporters to aggressively test the solidity of the case against Ivins. Perhaps they can restore a measure of credibility to their profession and to the government.
Hopefully he was not holding his breath.
If you turned on CNN and MSNBC the day after Wednesday's FBI/DOJ presentation, you would've found no mention of the Ivins' case. Paris Hilton's scantily clad political spoof? Yes. A child kidnapping ring? You bet. Bret Favre's trade to the NY Jets? Touchdown. Questions about a case involving the worst bioterrorism attack in U.S. history? Nothing.
On the same Thursday afternoon, a look at their websites found the Ivins case only made MSNBC's "Other Top Stories," coming in fourth behind -- you guessed it -- Bret Favre's trade to the NY Jets. Of CNN's 18 top stories, the Ivins case was absent -- of course, Favre's trade is there, as is "Did Caylee's mom pose as mystery sitter?", "Owners cuddle, dress pets...then fry them," "Paris did ad in 4 takes -- from memory!", "McCain, Obama agree on 'Dark Knight'," and "Lawyer: Morgan Freeman, wife divorcing."
And while ABC, CBS and NBC national nightly newscasts covered the DOJ's case against Ivins on Wednesday, they hardly appeared "chastened" or felt compelled to "restore a measure of credibility to their profession."
In the CBS Evening News report, introduced with a graphic of a Justice Department file opened to an illustrated report titled "Anthrax Case CLOSED," anchor Katie Couric and justice correspondent Bob Orr repeated the pattern of laying out the government's case with little or no questioning of the quality of evidence provided.
Orr framed his segment, saying, "Newly released FBI evidence makes a strong circumstantial case that bioweapons researcher Ivins was a delusional sociopath who had the opportunity, motive and means to be the 2001 anthrax killer." Interspersed with U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor's comments from the press conference, Orr's performance is closer to a co-prosecutor on the DOJ's behalf than as a journalist assessing the strengths or weaknesses of the evidence, including the flask on which the alleged matching anthrax spores were found: "The most damning evidence," asserted Orr, "a flask of anthrax spores recovered in 2004 from Ivins' personal workspace at Ft. Detrick, the Army weapons lab where he worked."
Yet he failed to mention the gaping hole in this "most damning evidence": it was already known by then that many of Ivins' colleagues also had access to the same flask. Moreover, on the day of the FBI/DOJ's press conference, Paul Kemp, Ivins' attorney, told the media that the number of people with access to it was far greater than previously reported -- not 10 or 20 or 30 people but hundreds. The government soon admitted, by its own count, that more than 100 people could've used the flask.
Orr similarly treated other weak strands of the DOJ's circumstantial evidence, including the alleged "striking" likeness between the threatening letter sent with the anthrax envelopes and the email Ivins wrote to a friend. Orr called Ivins' email "chilling." But Ivins' words aren't chilling. Nearly everyone in the Bush administration and in the GOP-led Congress, as well as many in the media, often made similar post-9/11 comments. Rather, it's what Ivins believed Osama Bin Laden might do ("...Bin Laden terrorists for sure have anthrax and sarin gas..." based on what Bin Laden had said ("...he [Bin Laden] just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans") that might instill fear. Without further proof, it's a specious piece of semantic contortion and misappropriation that crumbles under scrutiny.
Moreover, Orr omitted the obvious: Where's the handwriting analysis? And if one was performed, why aren't the results being presented to us?
After Orr's de facto co-prosecution, he ended his report with what should've been his lede:
ORR: While the FBI believes it's now solved the case, the evidence does not directly connect Ivins to the anthrax letters and does not directly tie him to the New Jersey postbox where they were sent out. But with the suspect now dead, the government will never have to prove that case in court.
Which is exactly why Ted Gup noted in his WaPo op-ed, "It may well be that, absent a trial, it will fall to reporters to aggressively test the solidity of the case against Ivins." Imagine how Professor Gup would grade Orr, Couric and CBS for this report.
NBC Nightly News justice correspondent Pete Williams' framed his report somewhat more responsibly, noting upfront, "But this is a circumstantial case with no absolute proof that he did it." Yet he prefaced this comment with an FBI assertion that, according to the evidence presented, is false on its face: "Amy, the FBI says it can trace the anthrax used in the attacks directly to Dr. Ivins and it says he repeatedly tried to mislead investigators." Whether or not he misled investigators (unproven as well in the evidence proffered), again, the flask sitting in Ivins' workspace in a shared lab three years later, to which so many colleagues had access -- including former employees, like Philip Zack, who were no longer employed at Ft. Detrick when they frequented the lab and worked on unsanctioned, unknown projects -- does not "directly" link Ivins to the anthrax used in the attacks. Like CBS' Orr, Justice Correspondent Williams then proceeded to state the other main points of the Justice Department's case without question.
Inclusion of a statement from Ivins' lawyer was the only substantive difference in this report: "Tonight, a lawyer for Dr. Ivins says the FBI never found anthrax in his house or in his car or anything else directly linking him to the mailings." But Pete Williams, presumably an expert in covering federal criminal cases, offered no educated assessments of his own on the government's evidence. As with Orr, Williams did little more than parrot the FBI/DOJ presentation, in a segment edited in such a way that only added coherence and credibility to the government's case. Similar to Orr as well (and Couric's "Anthrax Case CLOSED" opening graphic) he also punctuated his report with an air of futility and premature closure: "And without a trial, we'll never hear what Dr. Ivins would've said in his own defense."
Essentially identical to Orr's and Williams' reports was justice correspondent Pierre Thomas' segment on the FBI/DOJ's presentation for ABC World News, another reiteration of the evidence edited in a such a way as to lend more heft and seamlessness to the government's case while omitting obvious disconnects and holes.
To its credit, however (if we were grading on effort and not execution), World News then followed this segment with another titled "Anthrax Investigation Debunked," in which Gibson spoke with legal correspondent Jan Crawford-Greenberg:
CHARLES GIBSON: Well, with Ivins' death, this case will actually never go into a court of law. But would all that evidence have stood up in court? Our legal correspondent, Jan Crawford Greenburg, is joining us from Washington. And Jan, I know you've seen the evidence. I want to read you part of a statement that came from lawyers today. They said what the FBI presented with that evidence was all heaps of innuendo, contorted to create the illusion of guilt. How conclusive was it?
JAN CRAWFORD-GREENBERG: Well, Charlie, certainly, there was enough evidence to get an indictment from a grand jury, as Pierre just reported. You know, we saw that he had control over that [sic] anthrax spores, had been linked to a flask in his lab through all of that scientific - that new scientific testing. That we saw his behavior growing increasingly erratic. And of course, he even tried to mislead investigators to say another researcher had control over that anthrax. But this was not an open or shut case by any means. Defense lawyers would have had a lot work with. For example, there was no DNA, actual DNA, linking Ivins to the anthrax on those letters, his own DNA on those letters. You know and then even when you look at the scientific evidence in that flask, the anthrax spores that were in that flask, Charlie, a lot of researchers in that lab also had access to it.
Yet, once again, there's no direct evidence Ivins "had control" over those specific anthrax spores or that he solely "had been linked" to that flask in his lab. Quite the opposite. In fact, Crawford-Greenberg went on to contradict the strength of this evidence and her own act of inflating its worth by subsequently noting "even when you look at the scientific evidence in that flask, the anthrax spores that were in that flask, Charlie, a lot of researchers in that lab also had access to it."
Gibson then posed a question that can't be asked too much, but his legal correspondent's response could've come straight from the FBI or DOJ:
CHARLES GIBSON: So it might have been a dicey case for the FBI and for prosecutors in court. But whether or not he could have been convicted, this was obviously a rather quirky fellow. What was he doing dealing with deadly toxins?
JAN CRAWFORD-GREENBERG: Well, Charlie, this was someone who had worked in this lab nearly 30 years. He was highly respected, highly regarded by his colleagues. It was only in the later years that his behavior became more erratic. Now we saw some congressmen today calling for more screenings of scientists who handle these dangerous drugs, but there's no indication that that would have picked up any of his erratic behavior at all.
With so much of the government's circumstantial evidence resting on Ivins' alleged ever-deteriorating mental state, purportedly going back at least as far as July 2000 and maybe even to his undergraduate college days, it's hard to believe his colleagues and supervisors (not to mention to his friends and family) would've remained so oblivious or unconcerned about such a chronic basket case, specifically one whose job entails handling substances that could potentially unlock a genocidal Pandora's Box. Moreover, according to the case against him, "his behavior became more erratic" seven years before they revoked his security clearance.
Maybe World News deserves some credit for actually attempting to give this evidence "a closer look" this time. Or maybe it intended to only appear as if it were doing so. Regardless, Crawford-Greenberg's responses did more to muddle the government's evidence against Ivins than it did to present viewers with a clear and candid legal assessment.
Compare Gibson and Crawford-Greenberg's discussion to MSNBC's Countdown segment aired on the same night, in which investigative journalist Gerald Posner, speaking with host Keith Olbermann, exposed many aspects of the government's case without mincing words or glossing over its discrepancies and disconnects.
OLBERMANN: The flask of anthrax with identical spores, ostensibly, their strongest piece of evidence. What do you make of this?
POSNER: That's what they make it sound like, but it's not. Let me tell you, the late public hears this, they think that's the evidence. Those are the spores that got people sick, sent out from the envelopes, not true. That was liquid anthrax in that flask.
Even if the FBI can tie it to that flask, they can't explain how it was then made into this extremely sophisticated type of weapon with small milligramage with electric charges to it, with polyglass on top of the coating, all to go deep inside the lungs, to spray into the air. This was weaponized, military anthrax. They cannot explain how it went from that glass flask in a liquid form into the form that was sent out in the envelopes. That they don't have the evidence on.
OLBERMANN: What, if anything they presented today, is the strongest evidence? What do they got going for them?
POSNER: Well, they threw out this machine, what they called the lyopholizer, they say that can make wet anthrax into dry anthrax, but I talked to six different microbiologists today and people involved formerly in weapons programs in the United States and in Russia, who say that the machine that the FBI talks about can't do that. [What a novel journalistic technique -- speaking with other experts to confirm the credibility of the government's case.]
The strongest evidence they have going for them is also their Achilles' heel and that's his psychological profile. That fact that he's very unstable, that he was someone who was an alcoholic, that he might wanted to have the vaccine continue to go along, but that's also the fact that he could have been set up as a cutout, a patsy, or used by a group of people who wanted the anthrax out there.
They also knew about his weak psychological profile. How was he employed with the most secret biological warfare lab in the United States with this type of background that we now hear about that they should have known about from day one? The Defense Department should hang its head in shame.
OLBERMANN: Right. Thirty-five years of murderous intent and nobody knew about it, and they let him in to the germ warfare lab. As to motive, they mentioned it but almost as if it were in passing. Is that a weak part of the case? Do they offer anything that made any sense?
POSNER: Boy, I'll tell you, I thought it was a weak part of the case. I listened to the press conference today and then sort of at the end as though they thought they had to throw something out, they said, “Oh, by the way, let's give you the reasons to why we think he sent out and went on this homicidal rage.”
And the motive they said was, “Well, he helped develop a vaccine for anthrax, he probably wanted to continue to see that developed so that by killing people, by having come up with some unknown way of this high military grade anthrax. We would keep the vaccine program going.”
That was pretty weak, and, you know, I thought they just literally were fishing. They don't have a good motive, unfortunately, for them and their prosecution. But as you said in the lead into this, they don't need to because the primary suspect, the only suspect, is dead. They're going to close this case.
OLBERMANN: But the declaration that he is the only, it's not just a question of proving a dead man did this or was part of this, but the insistence is he did by himself, the lone, mad scientist thing. Did they get anywhere near confirming that?
POSNER: No. As a matter of fact, Keith, that's my major problem with this. You know, if you look at it and you say, “He‘s involved, he‘s got a role in it, he‘s done something.” That, the evidence, I'm waiting to see that and they may nail that down. But I spoke to enough experts in the last few days who have convinced me, who know how this process works, that these spores that were sent out, were not the work of one lone scientist and that, I believe, is the case.
Nevertheless, this story disappeared from network news studios by the following morning. No mention on TV Thursday on CNN or MSNBC, nor on NBC, CBS or ABC's national nightly newscasts. Nor did it warrant any further network coverage Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
Dr. Bruce Ivins is dead. He may have been the anthrax killer and acted alone. He may have acted with others. (Based on the known evidence, both of these two scenarios seem less likely with each passing day.) He may have just been a convenient fall guy. (As Gerry Andrews, microbiologist and former longtime colleague of Ivins, wrote in a New York Times editorial yesterday: "After the anthrax attack, Dr. Ivins himself worked directly with the evidence. The F.B.I. asked Dr. Ivins to help them with the forensics in the case by analyzing the contents of suspicious letters. And he did so for years, until the authorities began to suspect that the anthrax spores used in the mailings might have originated from his lab. [Awfully convenient, no?] Dr. Ivins, for instance, was asked to analyze the anthrax envelope that was sent to Mr. Daschle’s office on Oct. 9, 2001. When his team analyzed the powder, they found it to be a startlingly refined weapons-grade anthrax spore preparation, the likes of which had never been seen before by personnel at Fort Detrick.") The person or persons who murdered and poisoned Americans with those anthrax letters may even have framed him. The FBI may have also driven Ivins to take his own life after relentlessly hounding him and his family for a crime he never committed.
But the FBI and DOJ wanted this case closed. Now. And in one of the most important criminal investigations in our nation's history, for the deadliest bioterrorism attack on U.S. soil -- which our government, with help from Brian Ross and ABC News' curiously sourced false reporting, initially used to build support for invading Iraq -- the networks (Olbermann's Countdown coverage notwithstanding) have thus far refused to substantively question this historically corrupt government's circumstantial case against a dead man who will never have his day in court.
By the way, have you heard that John Edwards cheated on his wife?
GREENWALD sticks it to FBI who change story and Wash Post joins disinfo campaign
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
FBI Appears To Change Theory In Anthrax Case
By Andrew Tilghman - August 14, 2008, 1:53PM
Last week, the Washington Post published a story that appeared to finally tie Bruce Ivins to that New Jersey mailbox where the 2001 anthrax letters were mailed -- something the feds have been unable to do in their six-year investigation.
The Post breathlessly reported in a story -- headlined "New Details Show Suspect Was Away On Key Day" -- that Ivins took part of the day off on Sept. 17.
A partial log of Ivins's work hours shows that he worked late in the lab on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 16, signing out at 9:52 p.m. after two hours and 15 minutes. The next morning, the sources said, he showed up as usual but stayed only briefly before taking leave hours. Authorities assume that he drove to Princeton immediately after that, dropping the letters in a mailbox on a well-traveled street across from the university campus. Ivins would have had to have left quickly to return for an appointment in the early evening, about 4 or 5 p.m.
But then Glenn Greenwald over at Salon drilled down into the details and found that the whole story didn't make any sense -- and that the timeline described by the FBI and the Post may actually give Ivins an alibi, since the anthrax letter was stamped Sept. 18.
Now today's story in the Post appears to propose a new theory on when Ivins allegedly drove to New Jersey.
Investigators now believe that Ivins waited until evening to make the drive to Princeton on Sept. 17, 2001. He showed up at work that day and stayed briefly, then took several hours of administrative leave from the lab, according to partial work logs. Based on information from receipts and interviews, authorities say Ivins filled up his car's gas tank, attended a meeting outside of the office in the late afternoon, and returned to the lab for a few minutes that evening before moving off the radar screen and presumably driving overnight to Princeton. The letters were postmarked Sept. 18.
That's a big shift. But the Post didn't play it that way. Today's story emphasized the incremental development that the feds recovered human hair at the New Jersey mailbox where the 2001 letters were dropped -- and they did not match Ivins.
It's clear that the FBI's case against Ivins is less than airtight. The main question at this point might be whether anyone is going to make the FBI cough up any more details of its investigation. Skeptical scientists are clamoring for more details. And there's movement from Congress, albeit slowly. The Post reports today that the House Judiciary Committee is also negotiating to hold a hearing with FBI officials. That comes on the heels of Sen. Chuck Grassley's questions for Mueller and Attorney General Michael Mukasey last week.
But the furor over the troubled investigation may be fading a bit. Former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD), who received one of the anthrax-laced letters in 2001, announced yesterday that he is satisfied that the FBI's investigation was "complete and persuasive." Meanwhile, the AP filed a story yesterday dismissing some of the doubters as conspiracy theorists, comparing Ivins to Lee Harvey Oswald.
FBI Appears To Change Theory In Anthrax Case
By Andrew Tilghman - August 14, 2008, 1:53PM
Last week, the Washington Post published a story that appeared to finally tie Bruce Ivins to that New Jersey mailbox where the 2001 anthrax letters were mailed -- something the feds have been unable to do in their six-year investigation.
The Post breathlessly reported in a story -- headlined "New Details Show Suspect Was Away On Key Day" -- that Ivins took part of the day off on Sept. 17.
A partial log of Ivins's work hours shows that he worked late in the lab on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 16, signing out at 9:52 p.m. after two hours and 15 minutes. The next morning, the sources said, he showed up as usual but stayed only briefly before taking leave hours. Authorities assume that he drove to Princeton immediately after that, dropping the letters in a mailbox on a well-traveled street across from the university campus. Ivins would have had to have left quickly to return for an appointment in the early evening, about 4 or 5 p.m.
But then Glenn Greenwald over at Salon drilled down into the details and found that the whole story didn't make any sense -- and that the timeline described by the FBI and the Post may actually give Ivins an alibi, since the anthrax letter was stamped Sept. 18.
Now today's story in the Post appears to propose a new theory on when Ivins allegedly drove to New Jersey.
Investigators now believe that Ivins waited until evening to make the drive to Princeton on Sept. 17, 2001. He showed up at work that day and stayed briefly, then took several hours of administrative leave from the lab, according to partial work logs. Based on information from receipts and interviews, authorities say Ivins filled up his car's gas tank, attended a meeting outside of the office in the late afternoon, and returned to the lab for a few minutes that evening before moving off the radar screen and presumably driving overnight to Princeton. The letters were postmarked Sept. 18.
That's a big shift. But the Post didn't play it that way. Today's story emphasized the incremental development that the feds recovered human hair at the New Jersey mailbox where the 2001 letters were dropped -- and they did not match Ivins.
It's clear that the FBI's case against Ivins is less than airtight. The main question at this point might be whether anyone is going to make the FBI cough up any more details of its investigation. Skeptical scientists are clamoring for more details. And there's movement from Congress, albeit slowly. The Post reports today that the House Judiciary Committee is also negotiating to hold a hearing with FBI officials. That comes on the heels of Sen. Chuck Grassley's questions for Mueller and Attorney General Michael Mukasey last week.
But the furor over the troubled investigation may be fading a bit. Former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD), who received one of the anthrax-laced letters in 2001, announced yesterday that he is satisfied that the FBI's investigation was "complete and persuasive." Meanwhile, the AP filed a story yesterday dismissing some of the doubters as conspiracy theorists, comparing Ivins to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Why are the FUCKING KIKES in control of AMERICA?
http://www.antiwar.com/scheuer/?articleid=13295
The Lobby Like No Other Wants a War Like No Other
by Michael Scheuer
Having watched John McCain and Barack Obama resolutely pledge their allegiance – and their countrymen's lives and treasure – to the defense of Israel via AIPAC, the media, and personal meetings with Israeli leaders, it is worth asking what could possibly drive these men to so ardently commit America to participation in other people's religious wars. This question is particularly important today as the Bush administration and the Israel-firsters continue to push for an unprovoked U.S. attack on Iran....
...The U.S. invasion of Iraq, it seems, was not enough for the Israel-firsters. Now, according to Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a U.S.-launched war on Iran is needed because "the threat that the U.S. and Israel face from the Islamic Republic of Iran is today greater than ever." Though based on the fantasy that Ahmedinejad's tin-pot regime is a threat to the world's only superpower, this is a perfectly commonsense position for Israel and its U.S.-citizen backers in AIPAC to champion.
In their view, U.S. wars with Muslims are the ultimate good for Israel. Recall, if you will, the perfectly accurate April 2008, words of Benjamin Netanyahu, likely Israel's next prime minister:
"We [Israel] are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq."
These wars, Netanyahu said, have "swung American public opinion in our favor." How much more must Netanyahu and AIPAC believe that a U.S. war with Iran would add to this "swing" in Israel's favor?
My own anger falls not on Israel, then, or on Palestine, for that matter; as I have written elsewhere, America would do just fine and would be better off without either or both. It falls rather on the lobbying efforts of AIPAC, that organization's blatant purchasing of fealty from U.S. politicians in both parties, and the media's obsequious parroting of specious canards about "Israel's right to exist" and "the duty of Americans to support an island of democracy in the Middle East."
While few would question the right of AIPAC leaders to lobby U.S. politicians, legally bribe them with campaign contributions, or limit their right to speak as they please in public, not matter how scurrilous or libelous their words, I sometimes wonder if Americans have focused on what AIPAC lobbies for and what its acolytes in politics and the media support.
It is a commonplace to say that lobbying is a pervasive activity in U.S. politics at all levels of government, especially at the federal level. People lobby for tax advantages for business or tax breaks for individuals; for the right to own guns or laws to ban them; for subsidies for agriculture or vouchers for private schools; for universal health care or smaller government. Across this diverse array of lobbyists there are two common threads:
----(A) None are working to push the United States to participate in other peoples' wars; and
----(B) All are arguing for things that will – from their perspective – improve America, whether by making it richer, better protected, more competently educated, healthier, freer, etc.
The anti-gun lobby, for example, is no less confident than the NRA and its affiliates that they are working for the best interests of Americans. One or the other is wrong, but their activities are shaped by their perception of what is best for America.
It is this last point that separates the lobbyists working for and with AIPAC – most of whom are U.S. citizens – from almost all other U.S.-based lobbyists. AIPAC does not lobby, bribe, and libel to make Americans and America better off. It lobbies solely, forthrightly, and cynically to make Israel richer, better protected, and able to do as it pleases in its relations with Muslim states. AIPAC makes no pretense of doing things meant to benefit America; rather, its members take pride in seeking a goal that runs directly counter to the economic welfare and physical security of almost all other U.S citizens by seeking to keep them involved in a religious war in which no U.S. national interest is at stake.
Now, there are a few other similar anti-American lobbies – those for Armenia, Lebanon, Greece, etc. – but AIPAC is clearly primus inter pares in this dastardly group. And given that every AIPAC success is a net loss for U.S. security and the U.S. Treasury, it seems odd that our so-called political leaders take orders and funds from this fundamentally anti-U.S. organization. Odd or not, however, that is the reality. Senators Obama and McCain have become AIPAC poster boys, each strengthening his support for Israel over the course of the current presidential campaign. Obama's position, in fact, has changed so drastically in a pro-Israel direction that the Illinois senator appears to have no mind of his own on this issue. He has simply and obsequiously adopted the Democrats' traditional abject subservience to their small but powerful pro-Israel constituency.
McCain is an Israel-firster of the deepest hue. Coached by Joe Lieberman – who argues there is a U.S. duty to ensure God's promise to Abraham about Israel is kept – McCain is now considering Republican Congressman Eric Cantor for his running mate. Rep. Cantor, needless to say, is eager to spend American blood and treasure to secure Israel. Speaking in Israel, Cantor pushed the same false assertion that is the staple of U.S. leaders in both parties. "What befalls Jerusalem," Cantor said, "threatens the security of the United States and its allies worldwide. That's because Jerusalem and Israel are Ground Zero in the global battle between tyranny and democracy, radicalism and moderation, terrorism and freedom."
This, of course, is nonsense of a high order, and Lieberman and Cantor know it. Both men are committed to Israel as a religious idea, not because it has anything to do with U.S. security. According to Lieberman, "The rabbis say in the Talmud that a lot of rabbinic law is to put a fence around the Torah so you don't get near to violating it. Well, McCain has a series of very clear-headed policies toward terrorism and Islamic extremism [that put] extra layers behind his support for Israel." He also told a conference of Christians United for Israel that he was pleased they recognized it was America's duty to defend Israel, blithely lying to them that "President Washington and the Founding Fathers" would support America fighting Israel's wars. Cantor, playing to both the Israel-firsters and their U.S. evangelical allies, also has made clear where his primary loyalty lies:
"Jerusalem is not merely the capital of Israel but the spiritual capital of Jews and Christians everywhere. It's the site of the First and Second Temples, which housed the Holy of Holies, and it's the direction in which we Jews face when we pray. This glorious City of David is bound to the Jewish people by an undeniable 3,000-year historical link."
My own view is that if God promised Palestine to the Israelis, God is perfectly capable of keeping that promise, and America is no way committed to expend the lives of its soldier-children in a war over conflicting interpretations of God's word. The Israelis and the Muslims should be perfectly free to fight over whether Yahweh and Abraham or Allah and Mohammed are right, and Americans should be perfectly free to draw the correct conclusion, that the United States does not have a dog in this fight. In addition, there is a genuine constitutional question of church-state separation on this issue.
Why should American taxpayers have their earnings and children's lives spent to defend a theocracy in Israel or, for that matter, to protect an Islamic theocracy in Saudi Arabia.? (Imagine the howls of protest and torrents of church-state separation rhetoric from the media and both parties if a congressman introduced a bill calling for the U.S. to designate that an amount equivalent to what's spent to protect Israel and Saudi Arabia be sent to the Vatican – a nation-state like Israel and Saudi Arabia – to improve its defenses against the now well-articulated threat from al-Qaeda and other Islamists.)
Objectively, three realities are clear:
---- (1) U.S. survival is not at stake in the Israeli-Muslim war;
----(2) the taxes of Americans should not be spent to defend theocratic states; and
----(3) holy books are insane tools to use as guides for U.S. foreign policy.
In America, however, these realities lie unspoken because of the lobbying efforts of AIPAC and the pro-Israel mantras of the politicians it purchases with campaign contributions and promises of media exposure, including McCain and Obama. By their consistent anti-American actions, AIPAC and the U.S. politicians who do its bidding have fully validated the words of the real George Washington – not the figment of Washington painted by Joe Lieberman. "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence," President Washington wrote in 1796, "the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."
The Lobby Like No Other Wants a War Like No Other
by Michael Scheuer
Having watched John McCain and Barack Obama resolutely pledge their allegiance – and their countrymen's lives and treasure – to the defense of Israel via AIPAC, the media, and personal meetings with Israeli leaders, it is worth asking what could possibly drive these men to so ardently commit America to participation in other people's religious wars. This question is particularly important today as the Bush administration and the Israel-firsters continue to push for an unprovoked U.S. attack on Iran....
...The U.S. invasion of Iraq, it seems, was not enough for the Israel-firsters. Now, according to Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a U.S.-launched war on Iran is needed because "the threat that the U.S. and Israel face from the Islamic Republic of Iran is today greater than ever." Though based on the fantasy that Ahmedinejad's tin-pot regime is a threat to the world's only superpower, this is a perfectly commonsense position for Israel and its U.S.-citizen backers in AIPAC to champion.
In their view, U.S. wars with Muslims are the ultimate good for Israel. Recall, if you will, the perfectly accurate April 2008, words of Benjamin Netanyahu, likely Israel's next prime minister:
"We [Israel] are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq."
These wars, Netanyahu said, have "swung American public opinion in our favor." How much more must Netanyahu and AIPAC believe that a U.S. war with Iran would add to this "swing" in Israel's favor?
My own anger falls not on Israel, then, or on Palestine, for that matter; as I have written elsewhere, America would do just fine and would be better off without either or both. It falls rather on the lobbying efforts of AIPAC, that organization's blatant purchasing of fealty from U.S. politicians in both parties, and the media's obsequious parroting of specious canards about "Israel's right to exist" and "the duty of Americans to support an island of democracy in the Middle East."
While few would question the right of AIPAC leaders to lobby U.S. politicians, legally bribe them with campaign contributions, or limit their right to speak as they please in public, not matter how scurrilous or libelous their words, I sometimes wonder if Americans have focused on what AIPAC lobbies for and what its acolytes in politics and the media support.
It is a commonplace to say that lobbying is a pervasive activity in U.S. politics at all levels of government, especially at the federal level. People lobby for tax advantages for business or tax breaks for individuals; for the right to own guns or laws to ban them; for subsidies for agriculture or vouchers for private schools; for universal health care or smaller government. Across this diverse array of lobbyists there are two common threads:
----(A) None are working to push the United States to participate in other peoples' wars; and
----(B) All are arguing for things that will – from their perspective – improve America, whether by making it richer, better protected, more competently educated, healthier, freer, etc.
The anti-gun lobby, for example, is no less confident than the NRA and its affiliates that they are working for the best interests of Americans. One or the other is wrong, but their activities are shaped by their perception of what is best for America.
It is this last point that separates the lobbyists working for and with AIPAC – most of whom are U.S. citizens – from almost all other U.S.-based lobbyists. AIPAC does not lobby, bribe, and libel to make Americans and America better off. It lobbies solely, forthrightly, and cynically to make Israel richer, better protected, and able to do as it pleases in its relations with Muslim states. AIPAC makes no pretense of doing things meant to benefit America; rather, its members take pride in seeking a goal that runs directly counter to the economic welfare and physical security of almost all other U.S citizens by seeking to keep them involved in a religious war in which no U.S. national interest is at stake.
Now, there are a few other similar anti-American lobbies – those for Armenia, Lebanon, Greece, etc. – but AIPAC is clearly primus inter pares in this dastardly group. And given that every AIPAC success is a net loss for U.S. security and the U.S. Treasury, it seems odd that our so-called political leaders take orders and funds from this fundamentally anti-U.S. organization. Odd or not, however, that is the reality. Senators Obama and McCain have become AIPAC poster boys, each strengthening his support for Israel over the course of the current presidential campaign. Obama's position, in fact, has changed so drastically in a pro-Israel direction that the Illinois senator appears to have no mind of his own on this issue. He has simply and obsequiously adopted the Democrats' traditional abject subservience to their small but powerful pro-Israel constituency.
McCain is an Israel-firster of the deepest hue. Coached by Joe Lieberman – who argues there is a U.S. duty to ensure God's promise to Abraham about Israel is kept – McCain is now considering Republican Congressman Eric Cantor for his running mate. Rep. Cantor, needless to say, is eager to spend American blood and treasure to secure Israel. Speaking in Israel, Cantor pushed the same false assertion that is the staple of U.S. leaders in both parties. "What befalls Jerusalem," Cantor said, "threatens the security of the United States and its allies worldwide. That's because Jerusalem and Israel are Ground Zero in the global battle between tyranny and democracy, radicalism and moderation, terrorism and freedom."
This, of course, is nonsense of a high order, and Lieberman and Cantor know it. Both men are committed to Israel as a religious idea, not because it has anything to do with U.S. security. According to Lieberman, "The rabbis say in the Talmud that a lot of rabbinic law is to put a fence around the Torah so you don't get near to violating it. Well, McCain has a series of very clear-headed policies toward terrorism and Islamic extremism [that put] extra layers behind his support for Israel." He also told a conference of Christians United for Israel that he was pleased they recognized it was America's duty to defend Israel, blithely lying to them that "President Washington and the Founding Fathers" would support America fighting Israel's wars. Cantor, playing to both the Israel-firsters and their U.S. evangelical allies, also has made clear where his primary loyalty lies:
"Jerusalem is not merely the capital of Israel but the spiritual capital of Jews and Christians everywhere. It's the site of the First and Second Temples, which housed the Holy of Holies, and it's the direction in which we Jews face when we pray. This glorious City of David is bound to the Jewish people by an undeniable 3,000-year historical link."
My own view is that if God promised Palestine to the Israelis, God is perfectly capable of keeping that promise, and America is no way committed to expend the lives of its soldier-children in a war over conflicting interpretations of God's word. The Israelis and the Muslims should be perfectly free to fight over whether Yahweh and Abraham or Allah and Mohammed are right, and Americans should be perfectly free to draw the correct conclusion, that the United States does not have a dog in this fight. In addition, there is a genuine constitutional question of church-state separation on this issue.
Why should American taxpayers have their earnings and children's lives spent to defend a theocracy in Israel or, for that matter, to protect an Islamic theocracy in Saudi Arabia.? (Imagine the howls of protest and torrents of church-state separation rhetoric from the media and both parties if a congressman introduced a bill calling for the U.S. to designate that an amount equivalent to what's spent to protect Israel and Saudi Arabia be sent to the Vatican – a nation-state like Israel and Saudi Arabia – to improve its defenses against the now well-articulated threat from al-Qaeda and other Islamists.)
Objectively, three realities are clear:
---- (1) U.S. survival is not at stake in the Israeli-Muslim war;
----(2) the taxes of Americans should not be spent to defend theocratic states; and
----(3) holy books are insane tools to use as guides for U.S. foreign policy.
In America, however, these realities lie unspoken because of the lobbying efforts of AIPAC and the pro-Israel mantras of the politicians it purchases with campaign contributions and promises of media exposure, including McCain and Obama. By their consistent anti-American actions, AIPAC and the U.S. politicians who do its bidding have fully validated the words of the real George Washington – not the figment of Washington painted by Joe Lieberman. "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence," President Washington wrote in 1796, "the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."
LYING PUNK SHITHEAD FBI CLOWNS....stalked innocent man to suicide.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303731_pf.html
Hair Samples in Anthrax Case Don't Match
Strands From Mailbox in Princeton Are Not From Ivins, Investigators Say
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 14, 2008; A02
Federal investigators probing the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks recovered samples of human hair from a mailbox in Princeton, N.J., but the strands did not match the lead suspect in the case, according to sources briefed on the probe.
FBI agents and U.S. Postal Service inspectors analyzed the data in an effort to place Fort Detrick, Md., scientist Bruce E. Ivins at the mailbox from which bacteria-laden letters were sent to Senate offices and media organizations, the sources said.
The hair sample is one of many pieces of evidence over which researchers continue to puzzle in the case, which ended after Ivins committed suicide July 29 as prosecutors prepared to seek his indictment.
Authorities released sworn statements and search warrants last week at a news conference in which they asserted that Ivins was their sole suspect. But the materials have not dampened speculation about the merits of the investigative findings and the government's aggressive pursuit of Ivins, a 62-year-old anthrax vaccine researcher. Conspiracy theories have flourished since the 2001 attacks, which killed five people and sickened 17 others.
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced it will call FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III to appear at an oversight hearing Sept. 17, when he is likely to be asked about the strength of the government's case against Ivins. A spokeswoman for Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), a vocal FBI critic, said he would demand more information about how authorities narrowed their search.
The House Judiciary panel, meanwhile, is negotiating to hold a separate oversight hearing in September with bureau officials, in a session that could mark the first public occasion in which Mueller faces questions about the FBI's handling of the anthrax case.
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tommy:
THIS IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT WHEN I COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FUCKING WORTHLESS PUNK COCKSUCKER IDIOTIC DEMOCRATIC MORONS.
MY POINT IS....................WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU NEGOTIATING ANYTHING WITH THE FUCKING LYING CRIMINAL SCUM AT FBI HQ?
MUELLER IS AS DIRTY AS CHENEY when FBI obstructed the CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS.....................?
FBI HAS CONTINUALLY VIOLATED THE RULE OF LAW...AND ALL COMPLAINTS ARE SHITCANNED?
FBI HAS CONTINUALLY RAN WILD WITH THEIR POWER...AND HAS NOTHING BUT SECRET CONSIRACIES TO OBSTRUCT WHILE REMAINING DELIBERATELY INDIFFERENT TO THE RULE OF LAW?
WHY NEGOTIATE A SCRIPTED HEARING WITH FUCKHEAD MUELLER?
ALL NEGOTIATED SCRIPTED HEARINGS...amount to nothing.
Tell America "what questions the FBI refused to discuss under oath" and why?
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Friends and former colleagues of Ivins, who died before he could see the full array of evidence prosecutors had gathered, continue to demand information about the DNA advances that authorities say led them to a flask in Ivins's lab.
Defense lawyer Paul F. Kemp yesterday said he wonders "where Ivins could have possibly stored this anthrax without any employees seeing it, or if he took it home, why there was no trace" of the deadly spores, despite repeated FBI searches over the past two years of Ivins's car, his work locker, a safe-deposit box and his house.
Meanwhile, government sources offered more detail about Ivins's movements on a critical day in the case: when letters were dropped into the postal box on Princeton's Nassau Street, across the street from the university campus.
Investigators now believe that Ivins waited until evening to make the drive to Princeton on Sept. 17, 2001. He showed up at work that day and stayed briefly, then took several hours of administrative leave from the lab, according to partial work logs. Based on information from receipts and interviews, authorities say Ivins filled up his car's gas tank, attended a meeting outside of the office in the late afternoon, and returned to the lab for a few minutes that evening before moving off the radar screen and presumably driving overnight to Princeton. The letters were postmarked Sept. 18.
Nearly seven years after the incidents, however, investigators have come up dry in their efforts to find direct evidence to place Ivins at the Nassau Street mailbox in September and October 2001.
Hair Samples in Anthrax Case Don't Match
Strands From Mailbox in Princeton Are Not From Ivins, Investigators Say
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 14, 2008; A02
Federal investigators probing the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks recovered samples of human hair from a mailbox in Princeton, N.J., but the strands did not match the lead suspect in the case, according to sources briefed on the probe.
FBI agents and U.S. Postal Service inspectors analyzed the data in an effort to place Fort Detrick, Md., scientist Bruce E. Ivins at the mailbox from which bacteria-laden letters were sent to Senate offices and media organizations, the sources said.
The hair sample is one of many pieces of evidence over which researchers continue to puzzle in the case, which ended after Ivins committed suicide July 29 as prosecutors prepared to seek his indictment.
Authorities released sworn statements and search warrants last week at a news conference in which they asserted that Ivins was their sole suspect. But the materials have not dampened speculation about the merits of the investigative findings and the government's aggressive pursuit of Ivins, a 62-year-old anthrax vaccine researcher. Conspiracy theories have flourished since the 2001 attacks, which killed five people and sickened 17 others.
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced it will call FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III to appear at an oversight hearing Sept. 17, when he is likely to be asked about the strength of the government's case against Ivins. A spokeswoman for Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), a vocal FBI critic, said he would demand more information about how authorities narrowed their search.
The House Judiciary panel, meanwhile, is negotiating to hold a separate oversight hearing in September with bureau officials, in a session that could mark the first public occasion in which Mueller faces questions about the FBI's handling of the anthrax case.
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tommy:
THIS IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT WHEN I COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FUCKING WORTHLESS PUNK COCKSUCKER IDIOTIC DEMOCRATIC MORONS.
MY POINT IS....................WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU NEGOTIATING ANYTHING WITH THE FUCKING LYING CRIMINAL SCUM AT FBI HQ?
MUELLER IS AS DIRTY AS CHENEY when FBI obstructed the CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS.....................?
FBI HAS CONTINUALLY VIOLATED THE RULE OF LAW...AND ALL COMPLAINTS ARE SHITCANNED?
FBI HAS CONTINUALLY RAN WILD WITH THEIR POWER...AND HAS NOTHING BUT SECRET CONSIRACIES TO OBSTRUCT WHILE REMAINING DELIBERATELY INDIFFERENT TO THE RULE OF LAW?
WHY NEGOTIATE A SCRIPTED HEARING WITH FUCKHEAD MUELLER?
ALL NEGOTIATED SCRIPTED HEARINGS...amount to nothing.
Tell America "what questions the FBI refused to discuss under oath" and why?
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Friends and former colleagues of Ivins, who died before he could see the full array of evidence prosecutors had gathered, continue to demand information about the DNA advances that authorities say led them to a flask in Ivins's lab.
Defense lawyer Paul F. Kemp yesterday said he wonders "where Ivins could have possibly stored this anthrax without any employees seeing it, or if he took it home, why there was no trace" of the deadly spores, despite repeated FBI searches over the past two years of Ivins's car, his work locker, a safe-deposit box and his house.
Meanwhile, government sources offered more detail about Ivins's movements on a critical day in the case: when letters were dropped into the postal box on Princeton's Nassau Street, across the street from the university campus.
Investigators now believe that Ivins waited until evening to make the drive to Princeton on Sept. 17, 2001. He showed up at work that day and stayed briefly, then took several hours of administrative leave from the lab, according to partial work logs. Based on information from receipts and interviews, authorities say Ivins filled up his car's gas tank, attended a meeting outside of the office in the late afternoon, and returned to the lab for a few minutes that evening before moving off the radar screen and presumably driving overnight to Princeton. The letters were postmarked Sept. 18.
Nearly seven years after the incidents, however, investigators have come up dry in their efforts to find direct evidence to place Ivins at the Nassau Street mailbox in September and October 2001.
ATTEMPTED MURDER spun by Cheney as justifiable torture because lawyers said so?
Using Law to Justify Torture
Constitutional Scholars Say Advice of Counsel Is Probably Not a Strong Defense
By Daphne Eviatar 07/23/2008
For months now, Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey has refused to investigate whether Bush administration officials committed war crimes by authorizing the torture of suspected terrorists.
His reasoning?
ny actions were authorized by the administration’s lawyers, and so cannot constitute a crime. As he wrote to Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), one of 56 House Democrats who last month called on Mukasey to appoint a special counsel: “It would be both unwise and unjust to expose to possible criminal penalties those who relied in good faith on ... prior Justice Department opinions.”
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tommy:
I WAS TORTURED...BECAUSE I SIGNED A 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT.
THERE WAS AND IS NO GOOD FAITH EXCUSE OR GRANT OF CRIMINAL IMMUNITY FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER, TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS, DEPRIVATIONS OF CIVIL LIBERTIES UNDER COLOR OF AUTHORITY, OBSTRUCTION OF THE US SEN JUD COMM.....CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE USING A DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW.
CONYERS AND HIS PUNK FAGGOT IDIOTIC STAFF...................know this.
They know...that is the only argument to make in front of the CSPAN2 cameras at US HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
I GOT CHIPPED IN MY HOME...WHILE I WAS ASLEEP.
THIS CHIP IS A MIND CONTROL TORTURE DEVICE used to prevent "my access to the fed court systmen when the DOD--FBI--DOJ--CHENEY WHITE HOUSE had knowledge (from the keystroke logger on my home computer) that I HAD DRAFTED A SECTION 1983--1985--BIVENS CIVIL SUIT WITH MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.
THAT IS WHY I WAS STOPPED AND NEUTRALIZED....WITH TORTURE.
AFTER SIGNING THE DOJ COMPLAINT (signed under penalty of prosecution...a prosecution that does not seem to apply to any lying punk cocksucker with an FBI badge?) I WAITED FOR THE DOJ CLOWNS TO RESPOND...AND WAS FORCED TO GO ABOVE THEIR HEADS TO THE US SEN JUD COMM when I gave a ten page memo to SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY.
Shortly after Grassley got the memo.........his finance aid was attacked by a mercenary working for Cheney--Dumsfield.
This TERRORISTIC ATTACK BY A PAID GOON, was covered up by little lying punk criminal coward, ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III, AT FBI HQ.
MUELLER ALSO COVERED UP WELLSTONE MURDER...CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER IN TEXAS...RICH GORDON MURDER...DEFENBAUGH MURDER ....KABIESEMAN MURDER...NELSON MURDER IN NORTH DAKOTA...ATTEMPTED MURDER OF DR MARK GORDON while he was coerced into working with Minneapolis FBI?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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But can the alleged use of torture be so easily waived away?
Since the so-called “war on terror” began, the Bush administration has, by its own admission, used "enhanced interrogation techniques" like forcing detainees to stand for 40 hours; simulated drowning and dousing detainees' naked bodies with cold water in chilled prison cells. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld formally approved the use of "stress positions," attack dogs, sexual humiliation and physical violence. And these are just the officially sanctioned techniques the public knows about.
As the photos and written accounts of torture, sodomy and murder at Abu Ghraib have revealed, the American public may only know a limited amount when it comes to abuse of detainees in U.S. custody. Indeed, Human Rights First in 2006 found that in the previous four years, at least eight U.S. prisoners had been tortured to death.
The Democrats’ call for an independent investigation has received little attention – perhaps because the Justice Dept. has consistently denied that policymakers could be culpable. After all, they were acting on the advice of legal counsel.
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tommy:
THE DEMS NEED TO SUBPOENA THOMAS S. BEAN..........LEADING TO SUBPOENA OF DR MARK GORDON...DR CHAD CARDA....FBI PUNK COCKSUCKER LIAR STEVEN PLUTA....
THE DEMS NEED TO FOCUS THE DEBATE ON "Whether Torture was used a form of political retribution for those who signed DOJ complaints" while upholding the prohibition on MISPRISON OF A FELONY (Daschle Campaign wiretapping using CALEA INTERFACE).
FBI AND SD US ATTORNEYS ALL KNOW ABOUT THE DASCHLE CAMPAIGN WIRETAPPING....WHO WAS PAID TO MONITOR THE SIGINT.
FBI IS A GOP POLITICAL GESTAPO that hides it's punk ass behind the bogus assertion that "national security" and "Bob "punk" Mueller's protocol" prevents any LEGITIMATE FBI INVESTIGATION INTO OUTRAGEOUS POLITICAL CRIMES THAT VIOLATE THE FED CRIMINAL CODE.
WHEN YOU CROSS EXAMINE BOB MUELLER...YOU START WITH THE QUESTION:
".............so, uh........does any fed law apply to any GOP police state actor that murders, tortures, chipps, harasses, stalks, and defames witnesses??????!!!!!!!!"
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Indeed, evidently anticipating the Democrats' charges, in 2002 the White House, Justice and Defense Departments began creating a paper trail of legal memos in the hopes of insulating their actions. Thus the infamous “torture memos,” written by former Justice Dept. lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee, were drafted to define torture narrowly – and were careful not to rule it out. Last week, the legal commentator Stuart Taylor Jr. accepted Mukasey’s position without question. Taylor wrote in Newsweek that there was no sense in prosecuting government officials. President George W. Bush, Taylor argued, should pardon everyone; the matter of culpability should be dropped.
But do the administration’s legal memos put the matter to rest?
Does soliciting a set of self-serving opinions actually shield senior government officials from prosecution?
Probably not, according to many constitutional scholars and lawyers. Indeed, the Justice Dept. itself would never accept, on face value, any suspected criminal’s defense that he had been relying on advice of counsel. Rather, legal experts say, that advice must have been a reasonable interpretation of the law, based on a thorough knowledge of the facts, and provided before the suspect acted. So when it comes to policymakers authorizing torture, the administration’s defense appears to fail on all grounds.
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tommy:
ONE STRATEGY THAT THE SECRET POLICE HAS USED AGAINST ME, DR MARK GORDON, MY FATHER, MY MOTHER, MY LITTLE SISTER LYNN BEAN....SIOUX FALLS CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE PETER GREGORY IS...................Demonize the victim with frameups, entrapment, coercion, mind control...harassment...stalking, physical threats....etc.
This is used to "tickle the wire" when "tapes are made" to be played later to dehumanize and discredit the cooperating witness who ACTUALLY TRIED TO STOP THE FBI FROM BLOWING UP THE MURRAY BUILDING IN OK CITY.
If the guy is clean...SUBLIMINAL PROGRAMMING IS USED TO GET DIRT AND PHOTOS ON THE TARGET.
DID YOU SEE HOW EASY IT WAS TO SUBLIMINALLY PROGRAM ELIOT SPITZER INTO engaging in risky deviant sex with hookers??????????????????????
SPITZER doesn't know how the mind control program works.
JON "house nigger" CONYERS at US HOUSE JUD COMM refuses to "...LET ME TESTIFY ABOUT MIND CONTROL" AS A FORM OF CONTROL TO DISCREDIT COOPERATING WITNESSES....and how MUKASY KIKE has refused to "file charges against those who are guilty of TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS, CONSPIRACY...VIOLATIONS OF SECTIONS 241, 242, etc, etc, etc.
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First, without an investigation establishing who advised whom, of what and when, we don’t even know if Mukasey’s claim is true. Sure, the White House has turned over legal memos written by the Justice Dept.’s Office of Legal Counsel. But at least 17 other memos, including the most recent, have not been released, on the basis of attorney-client privilege.
“We don’t know what these memoranda say,” said Scott Horton, a human-rights lawyer and professor at Hofstra Law School. “The ones operative now have not yet become public. We know that they go to the really rough stuff.” That includes "the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency," according to a New York Times report on a 2005 OLC memo.
For the Justice Dept. now to claim that an “advice of counsel” defense eliminates even the need to investigate is disingenuous at best. “Typically, in a white-collar case, DOJ is going to look to challenge your assertion that you have a viable ‘advice of counsel’ defense every way possible,” said a prominent criminal-defense attorney, who doesn’t want to be named because he frequently squares off against the Justice Dept. That means a suspect must reveal what he told his lawyer, and what his lawyer told him. In other words, he waives the attorney-client privilege that the government is now invoking.
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tommy:
That's why.......there is no charges...yet. Any defense...fails in court.
That's why I have never been in a real fed court room. The SECRET STAR CHAMBER MURDER INCORPORATED CALLED DOD CIFA UNIT...JFLTTF...NSA TSP...HLS..."allows punishment and harassment" while "gutting any due process or 6th Amendment rights"...so that THE GOVERNMENT AND POLICE STATE WILL ALWAYS APPEAR RIGHTEOUS AND TRUE, WHILE COVERING UP GESTAPO CRIMES that are criminal.
In seven months...it is up to BARACK OBAMA AND HIS NEW FBI DIRECTOR, HLS DIRECTOR, AND US ATTY GENERAL to listen to me.....and let me testify.
I will put that faggot criminal cocksucker ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III, IN THE FED PEN FOR NUMEROUS CRIMES AGAINST THIS COUNTRY (conspiracy...tampering with a witness...sections 241 242,....conspiracy...treason...misprion of treason...interstate stalking....abuse of a disabled adult....perjury...suborning perjury...etc).
To ignore the FBI'S FELONIES WHEN THEY "REFUSE TO INVESTIGATE, REFUSE TO ARREST, AND REFUSE TO PROTECT THEIR OWN COOPERATING WITNESSES" ignores the law on conspiracy, misprison of a felony, and obstruction of justice.
It always comes down to FBI's abuse and apathy.
CHRISTINA MOORE WAS MURDERED USING SIGINT FROM NSA 902ND COUNTERINTEL GROUP...and a punk FBI whore on the Round Rock PD task force...had my crime tip, "...CHECK THE CALEA INTERFACE FOR THE COMPUTERIZED WIRETAP HARD DISK INFO" that shows TITLE III FELONIES BY NSA....GENERAL HAYDEN....CHENEY....WHITTINGTON...NATHAN GRIFFITH, MCNAUGHTON, PHIL THE NARC (seen in the police sketch)...
MUELLER COVERED UP ALOT OF PATRIOT ACT CRIMES...now being spun as "war on terror" police state acts........................against a pregnant christian housewife?
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Even if it turns out a lawyer did sanction criminal conduct, no one gets a pass by saying they relied blindly on that advice. The reliance has to be reasonable. “They would have to subjectively believe what they were doing was not against the law,” said Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Could any U.S. official have reasonably believed torture was legal?
“Given the history of the U.S. adherence to the U.N. Torture Convention, it’s a well-established fact that torture is unlawful,” stated Amrit Singh, a lawyer for the ACLU, who has sued the Defense Dept. to obtain documents regarding the treatment of prisoners. “To then plead innocence based on legal advice would eviscerate the whole purpose of these laws.”
The United States has even codified the international ban on torture into federal law, providing for the death penalty when the torture turns fatal. Notably, by March 2005 more than 108 prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan had died in U.S. custody, most of them violently, according to government data provided to the Associated Press.
The United States is also a signatory to the torture prohibitions of the Geneva Conventions. These apply “not only to prisoners of war, but to all prisoners,” said Singh, a position the Supreme Court affirmed in the Hamdan case in 2006. The Geneva Conventions also outlaw “humiliating or degrading treatment.”
Not surprisingly, then, government officials have strongly disagreed about the legality of extreme interrogation techniques, like waterboarding. February 2003 memos from the Judge Advocate General’s Corps to the Pentagon opposed them unequivocally. A report last month by the Justice Dept.’s inspector general described White House meetings where the controversial methods were hotly debated.
“Many people in the government were nervous or upset about implementing the president’s post-9/11 counterterrorism policies,” writes Jack Goldsmith, head of OLC from October 2003 to June 2004, in his book, "The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration." That included some in the CIA “who were reportedly anxious about the special interrogation program for high-value detainees.”
John Rizzo, acting general counsel of the CIA in 2002, confirmed this in Congressional testimony last year. "There had been some concerns that were expressed" by CIA interrogators who feared prosecution, he said.
After Goldsmith took over OLC, he rescinded the now-infamous Aug. 1, 2002 “torture memo” that defined torture as inflicting pain as intense as "the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." The memo refused to rule out such torture for interrogation purposes.
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tommy:
In my case...there was no interrogation. There was no request for info?
In Mark Gordon's case...his testimony will show that "...THE FBI HAD ALREADY COERCED AND HARASSED THE GUY INTO COOPERATING BY DESTROYING HIS MEDICAL CARREER IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND TEXAS".
IN MY CASE......I WAS TORTURED IN MY HOME ONLY BECAUSE I CONTACTED SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY WITH MY TEN PAGE MEMO THAT RESULTED IN MUELLER FLIPPING ON THE NSA WHEN RISEN AT NY TIMES GOT LEAKED INFO TO CORROBORATE.
THE INFO WAS IGNORED BY NYTIMES...UNTIL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2004 WAS OVER WITH...THEN 11 MONTHS LATER, NY TIMES RAN THE STORY?
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“The message of the Aug. 1, 2002 opinion was clear,” writes Goldsmith. “Violent acts aren’t necessarily torture; if you do torture, you probably have a legal defense; and even if you don’t have a legal defense, the law doesn’t apply if you act under color of presidential authority.”
The CIA had been through this before. Most notoriously in 1975, when the Senate's Church Committee, headed by Sen. Frank Church, publicly scrutinized and penalized the agency for using illegal methods. So CIA officials desperately wanted what Goldsmith calls the “golden shield” to protect them from future prosecution -- which they hoped the torture memos would provide.
It turns out, with good reason. New Yorker writer Jane Mayer, in her new book, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals," writes that the International Committee of the Red Cross issued a secret report to the CIA concluding that interrogation techniques it had used on suspected Al Qaeda members, dating back to before August 2002, were “categorically” torture and “constituted war crimes, placing the highest officials in the U.S. government in jeopardy of being prosecuted."
One such case involves the 2002 interrogation of Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, whom the administration has admitted was subjected to waterboarding. Former Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft acknowledged the problematic timing of the Zubaydah interrogation just last week, when he testified to the Judiciary Committee that Zubaydah was likely mistreated months before such actions were legally sanctioned. According to Mayer, Zubaydah told the Red Cross that he was waterboarded "at least 10 times in a single week and as many as three times a day."
“I think the evidence is quite strong that the torture program began almost immediately after 9-11,” said Ratner of the CCR. “So the memos don’t help them there.”
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TOMMY:
Torture was used along time before Bush took office.
Go ask ALEX CONSTANTINE OR GERAL SOSBEE (former FBI agent living in Brownsville, Texas).
Not one punk house nigger clown named JON CONYERS AT US HOUSE JUD COMM has bother using "Geral Sobee's name" as a torture victim who blew whistle on FBI FELONIES STILL USED TODAY BY OUR LITTLE PUNK DRUG DEALER ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III.
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In fact, if lawyers wrote the memos approving torture techniques at the request of officials who had already used them, the lawyers themselves could be guilty of conspiring to commit war crimes. “If the lawyer’s opinion is seriously wrong," said Horton, "then the lawyer risks being tied into the criminal conduct.”
Indeed, after World War II, the U.S. military tribunal at Nuremberg prosecuted a group of German lawyers who had advised the Nazis on its wartime policies -- including the treatment of prisoners. “They were held criminally liable," said Horton, "on account of legal advice they gave.”
Lawyers are still held criminally accountable today. For example, Horton noted, the Justice Dept. is now prosecuting a prominent attorney in Miami, whose clients have included former Vice President Al Gore, for allegedly approving payments of legal fees that derived from illicit drug proceeds.
But legal experts say that authorizing torture rises to a whole other level of criminality. “The prohibition on torture is not just one rule among others, but a legal archetype – a provision which is emblematic of our larger commitment to non-brutality in the legal system,” Jeremy Waldron, professor of law and philosophy at New York University Law School, wrote in the Columbia Law Review.
That’s certainly how it was viewed in the Nuremberg era. As the U.S. Supreme Court wrote in 1944: “There have been, and are now, certain foreign nations with governments ... which convict individuals with testimony obtained by police organizations possessed of an unrestrained power to seize persons suspected of crimes against the state, hold them in secret custody, and wring from them confessions by physical or mental torture. So long as the Constitution remains the basic law of our Republic, America will not have that kind of government.”
Today, Mukasey would add one caveat: unless the government’s lawyers say otherwise.
Constitutional Scholars Say Advice of Counsel Is Probably Not a Strong Defense
By Daphne Eviatar 07/23/2008
For months now, Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey has refused to investigate whether Bush administration officials committed war crimes by authorizing the torture of suspected terrorists.
His reasoning?
ny actions were authorized by the administration’s lawyers, and so cannot constitute a crime. As he wrote to Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), one of 56 House Democrats who last month called on Mukasey to appoint a special counsel: “It would be both unwise and unjust to expose to possible criminal penalties those who relied in good faith on ... prior Justice Department opinions.”
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tommy:
I WAS TORTURED...BECAUSE I SIGNED A 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT.
THERE WAS AND IS NO GOOD FAITH EXCUSE OR GRANT OF CRIMINAL IMMUNITY FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER, TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS, DEPRIVATIONS OF CIVIL LIBERTIES UNDER COLOR OF AUTHORITY, OBSTRUCTION OF THE US SEN JUD COMM.....CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE USING A DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW.
CONYERS AND HIS PUNK FAGGOT IDIOTIC STAFF...................know this.
They know...that is the only argument to make in front of the CSPAN2 cameras at US HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
I GOT CHIPPED IN MY HOME...WHILE I WAS ASLEEP.
THIS CHIP IS A MIND CONTROL TORTURE DEVICE used to prevent "my access to the fed court systmen when the DOD--FBI--DOJ--CHENEY WHITE HOUSE had knowledge (from the keystroke logger on my home computer) that I HAD DRAFTED A SECTION 1983--1985--BIVENS CIVIL SUIT WITH MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.
THAT IS WHY I WAS STOPPED AND NEUTRALIZED....WITH TORTURE.
AFTER SIGNING THE DOJ COMPLAINT (signed under penalty of prosecution...a prosecution that does not seem to apply to any lying punk cocksucker with an FBI badge?) I WAITED FOR THE DOJ CLOWNS TO RESPOND...AND WAS FORCED TO GO ABOVE THEIR HEADS TO THE US SEN JUD COMM when I gave a ten page memo to SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY.
Shortly after Grassley got the memo.........his finance aid was attacked by a mercenary working for Cheney--Dumsfield.
This TERRORISTIC ATTACK BY A PAID GOON, was covered up by little lying punk criminal coward, ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III, AT FBI HQ.
MUELLER ALSO COVERED UP WELLSTONE MURDER...CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER IN TEXAS...RICH GORDON MURDER...DEFENBAUGH MURDER ....KABIESEMAN MURDER...NELSON MURDER IN NORTH DAKOTA...ATTEMPTED MURDER OF DR MARK GORDON while he was coerced into working with Minneapolis FBI?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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But can the alleged use of torture be so easily waived away?
Since the so-called “war on terror” began, the Bush administration has, by its own admission, used "enhanced interrogation techniques" like forcing detainees to stand for 40 hours; simulated drowning and dousing detainees' naked bodies with cold water in chilled prison cells. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld formally approved the use of "stress positions," attack dogs, sexual humiliation and physical violence. And these are just the officially sanctioned techniques the public knows about.
As the photos and written accounts of torture, sodomy and murder at Abu Ghraib have revealed, the American public may only know a limited amount when it comes to abuse of detainees in U.S. custody. Indeed, Human Rights First in 2006 found that in the previous four years, at least eight U.S. prisoners had been tortured to death.
The Democrats’ call for an independent investigation has received little attention – perhaps because the Justice Dept. has consistently denied that policymakers could be culpable. After all, they were acting on the advice of legal counsel.
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tommy:
THE DEMS NEED TO SUBPOENA THOMAS S. BEAN..........LEADING TO SUBPOENA OF DR MARK GORDON...DR CHAD CARDA....FBI PUNK COCKSUCKER LIAR STEVEN PLUTA....
THE DEMS NEED TO FOCUS THE DEBATE ON "Whether Torture was used a form of political retribution for those who signed DOJ complaints" while upholding the prohibition on MISPRISON OF A FELONY (Daschle Campaign wiretapping using CALEA INTERFACE).
FBI AND SD US ATTORNEYS ALL KNOW ABOUT THE DASCHLE CAMPAIGN WIRETAPPING....WHO WAS PAID TO MONITOR THE SIGINT.
FBI IS A GOP POLITICAL GESTAPO that hides it's punk ass behind the bogus assertion that "national security" and "Bob "punk" Mueller's protocol" prevents any LEGITIMATE FBI INVESTIGATION INTO OUTRAGEOUS POLITICAL CRIMES THAT VIOLATE THE FED CRIMINAL CODE.
WHEN YOU CROSS EXAMINE BOB MUELLER...YOU START WITH THE QUESTION:
".............so, uh........does any fed law apply to any GOP police state actor that murders, tortures, chipps, harasses, stalks, and defames witnesses??????!!!!!!!!"
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Indeed, evidently anticipating the Democrats' charges, in 2002 the White House, Justice and Defense Departments began creating a paper trail of legal memos in the hopes of insulating their actions. Thus the infamous “torture memos,” written by former Justice Dept. lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee, were drafted to define torture narrowly – and were careful not to rule it out. Last week, the legal commentator Stuart Taylor Jr. accepted Mukasey’s position without question. Taylor wrote in Newsweek that there was no sense in prosecuting government officials. President George W. Bush, Taylor argued, should pardon everyone; the matter of culpability should be dropped.
But do the administration’s legal memos put the matter to rest?
Does soliciting a set of self-serving opinions actually shield senior government officials from prosecution?
Probably not, according to many constitutional scholars and lawyers. Indeed, the Justice Dept. itself would never accept, on face value, any suspected criminal’s defense that he had been relying on advice of counsel. Rather, legal experts say, that advice must have been a reasonable interpretation of the law, based on a thorough knowledge of the facts, and provided before the suspect acted. So when it comes to policymakers authorizing torture, the administration’s defense appears to fail on all grounds.
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tommy:
ONE STRATEGY THAT THE SECRET POLICE HAS USED AGAINST ME, DR MARK GORDON, MY FATHER, MY MOTHER, MY LITTLE SISTER LYNN BEAN....SIOUX FALLS CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE PETER GREGORY IS...................Demonize the victim with frameups, entrapment, coercion, mind control...harassment...stalking, physical threats....etc.
This is used to "tickle the wire" when "tapes are made" to be played later to dehumanize and discredit the cooperating witness who ACTUALLY TRIED TO STOP THE FBI FROM BLOWING UP THE MURRAY BUILDING IN OK CITY.
If the guy is clean...SUBLIMINAL PROGRAMMING IS USED TO GET DIRT AND PHOTOS ON THE TARGET.
DID YOU SEE HOW EASY IT WAS TO SUBLIMINALLY PROGRAM ELIOT SPITZER INTO engaging in risky deviant sex with hookers??????????????????????
SPITZER doesn't know how the mind control program works.
JON "house nigger" CONYERS at US HOUSE JUD COMM refuses to "...LET ME TESTIFY ABOUT MIND CONTROL" AS A FORM OF CONTROL TO DISCREDIT COOPERATING WITNESSES....and how MUKASY KIKE has refused to "file charges against those who are guilty of TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS, CONSPIRACY...VIOLATIONS OF SECTIONS 241, 242, etc, etc, etc.
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First, without an investigation establishing who advised whom, of what and when, we don’t even know if Mukasey’s claim is true. Sure, the White House has turned over legal memos written by the Justice Dept.’s Office of Legal Counsel. But at least 17 other memos, including the most recent, have not been released, on the basis of attorney-client privilege.
“We don’t know what these memoranda say,” said Scott Horton, a human-rights lawyer and professor at Hofstra Law School. “The ones operative now have not yet become public. We know that they go to the really rough stuff.” That includes "the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency," according to a New York Times report on a 2005 OLC memo.
For the Justice Dept. now to claim that an “advice of counsel” defense eliminates even the need to investigate is disingenuous at best. “Typically, in a white-collar case, DOJ is going to look to challenge your assertion that you have a viable ‘advice of counsel’ defense every way possible,” said a prominent criminal-defense attorney, who doesn’t want to be named because he frequently squares off against the Justice Dept. That means a suspect must reveal what he told his lawyer, and what his lawyer told him. In other words, he waives the attorney-client privilege that the government is now invoking.
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tommy:
That's why.......there is no charges...yet. Any defense...fails in court.
That's why I have never been in a real fed court room. The SECRET STAR CHAMBER MURDER INCORPORATED CALLED DOD CIFA UNIT...JFLTTF...NSA TSP...HLS..."allows punishment and harassment" while "gutting any due process or 6th Amendment rights"...so that THE GOVERNMENT AND POLICE STATE WILL ALWAYS APPEAR RIGHTEOUS AND TRUE, WHILE COVERING UP GESTAPO CRIMES that are criminal.
In seven months...it is up to BARACK OBAMA AND HIS NEW FBI DIRECTOR, HLS DIRECTOR, AND US ATTY GENERAL to listen to me.....and let me testify.
I will put that faggot criminal cocksucker ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III, IN THE FED PEN FOR NUMEROUS CRIMES AGAINST THIS COUNTRY (conspiracy...tampering with a witness...sections 241 242,....conspiracy...treason...misprion of treason...interstate stalking....abuse of a disabled adult....perjury...suborning perjury...etc).
To ignore the FBI'S FELONIES WHEN THEY "REFUSE TO INVESTIGATE, REFUSE TO ARREST, AND REFUSE TO PROTECT THEIR OWN COOPERATING WITNESSES" ignores the law on conspiracy, misprison of a felony, and obstruction of justice.
It always comes down to FBI's abuse and apathy.
CHRISTINA MOORE WAS MURDERED USING SIGINT FROM NSA 902ND COUNTERINTEL GROUP...and a punk FBI whore on the Round Rock PD task force...had my crime tip, "...CHECK THE CALEA INTERFACE FOR THE COMPUTERIZED WIRETAP HARD DISK INFO" that shows TITLE III FELONIES BY NSA....GENERAL HAYDEN....CHENEY....WHITTINGTON...NATHAN GRIFFITH, MCNAUGHTON, PHIL THE NARC (seen in the police sketch)...
MUELLER COVERED UP ALOT OF PATRIOT ACT CRIMES...now being spun as "war on terror" police state acts........................against a pregnant christian housewife?
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Even if it turns out a lawyer did sanction criminal conduct, no one gets a pass by saying they relied blindly on that advice. The reliance has to be reasonable. “They would have to subjectively believe what they were doing was not against the law,” said Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Could any U.S. official have reasonably believed torture was legal?
“Given the history of the U.S. adherence to the U.N. Torture Convention, it’s a well-established fact that torture is unlawful,” stated Amrit Singh, a lawyer for the ACLU, who has sued the Defense Dept. to obtain documents regarding the treatment of prisoners. “To then plead innocence based on legal advice would eviscerate the whole purpose of these laws.”
The United States has even codified the international ban on torture into federal law, providing for the death penalty when the torture turns fatal. Notably, by March 2005 more than 108 prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan had died in U.S. custody, most of them violently, according to government data provided to the Associated Press.
The United States is also a signatory to the torture prohibitions of the Geneva Conventions. These apply “not only to prisoners of war, but to all prisoners,” said Singh, a position the Supreme Court affirmed in the Hamdan case in 2006. The Geneva Conventions also outlaw “humiliating or degrading treatment.”
Not surprisingly, then, government officials have strongly disagreed about the legality of extreme interrogation techniques, like waterboarding. February 2003 memos from the Judge Advocate General’s Corps to the Pentagon opposed them unequivocally. A report last month by the Justice Dept.’s inspector general described White House meetings where the controversial methods were hotly debated.
“Many people in the government were nervous or upset about implementing the president’s post-9/11 counterterrorism policies,” writes Jack Goldsmith, head of OLC from October 2003 to June 2004, in his book, "The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration." That included some in the CIA “who were reportedly anxious about the special interrogation program for high-value detainees.”
John Rizzo, acting general counsel of the CIA in 2002, confirmed this in Congressional testimony last year. "There had been some concerns that were expressed" by CIA interrogators who feared prosecution, he said.
After Goldsmith took over OLC, he rescinded the now-infamous Aug. 1, 2002 “torture memo” that defined torture as inflicting pain as intense as "the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." The memo refused to rule out such torture for interrogation purposes.
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tommy:
In my case...there was no interrogation. There was no request for info?
In Mark Gordon's case...his testimony will show that "...THE FBI HAD ALREADY COERCED AND HARASSED THE GUY INTO COOPERATING BY DESTROYING HIS MEDICAL CARREER IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND TEXAS".
IN MY CASE......I WAS TORTURED IN MY HOME ONLY BECAUSE I CONTACTED SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY WITH MY TEN PAGE MEMO THAT RESULTED IN MUELLER FLIPPING ON THE NSA WHEN RISEN AT NY TIMES GOT LEAKED INFO TO CORROBORATE.
THE INFO WAS IGNORED BY NYTIMES...UNTIL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2004 WAS OVER WITH...THEN 11 MONTHS LATER, NY TIMES RAN THE STORY?
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“The message of the Aug. 1, 2002 opinion was clear,” writes Goldsmith. “Violent acts aren’t necessarily torture; if you do torture, you probably have a legal defense; and even if you don’t have a legal defense, the law doesn’t apply if you act under color of presidential authority.”
The CIA had been through this before. Most notoriously in 1975, when the Senate's Church Committee, headed by Sen. Frank Church, publicly scrutinized and penalized the agency for using illegal methods. So CIA officials desperately wanted what Goldsmith calls the “golden shield” to protect them from future prosecution -- which they hoped the torture memos would provide.
It turns out, with good reason. New Yorker writer Jane Mayer, in her new book, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals," writes that the International Committee of the Red Cross issued a secret report to the CIA concluding that interrogation techniques it had used on suspected Al Qaeda members, dating back to before August 2002, were “categorically” torture and “constituted war crimes, placing the highest officials in the U.S. government in jeopardy of being prosecuted."
One such case involves the 2002 interrogation of Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, whom the administration has admitted was subjected to waterboarding. Former Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft acknowledged the problematic timing of the Zubaydah interrogation just last week, when he testified to the Judiciary Committee that Zubaydah was likely mistreated months before such actions were legally sanctioned. According to Mayer, Zubaydah told the Red Cross that he was waterboarded "at least 10 times in a single week and as many as three times a day."
“I think the evidence is quite strong that the torture program began almost immediately after 9-11,” said Ratner of the CCR. “So the memos don’t help them there.”
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TOMMY:
Torture was used along time before Bush took office.
Go ask ALEX CONSTANTINE OR GERAL SOSBEE (former FBI agent living in Brownsville, Texas).
Not one punk house nigger clown named JON CONYERS AT US HOUSE JUD COMM has bother using "Geral Sobee's name" as a torture victim who blew whistle on FBI FELONIES STILL USED TODAY BY OUR LITTLE PUNK DRUG DEALER ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III.
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In fact, if lawyers wrote the memos approving torture techniques at the request of officials who had already used them, the lawyers themselves could be guilty of conspiring to commit war crimes. “If the lawyer’s opinion is seriously wrong," said Horton, "then the lawyer risks being tied into the criminal conduct.”
Indeed, after World War II, the U.S. military tribunal at Nuremberg prosecuted a group of German lawyers who had advised the Nazis on its wartime policies -- including the treatment of prisoners. “They were held criminally liable," said Horton, "on account of legal advice they gave.”
Lawyers are still held criminally accountable today. For example, Horton noted, the Justice Dept. is now prosecuting a prominent attorney in Miami, whose clients have included former Vice President Al Gore, for allegedly approving payments of legal fees that derived from illicit drug proceeds.
But legal experts say that authorizing torture rises to a whole other level of criminality. “The prohibition on torture is not just one rule among others, but a legal archetype – a provision which is emblematic of our larger commitment to non-brutality in the legal system,” Jeremy Waldron, professor of law and philosophy at New York University Law School, wrote in the Columbia Law Review.
That’s certainly how it was viewed in the Nuremberg era. As the U.S. Supreme Court wrote in 1944: “There have been, and are now, certain foreign nations with governments ... which convict individuals with testimony obtained by police organizations possessed of an unrestrained power to seize persons suspected of crimes against the state, hold them in secret custody, and wring from them confessions by physical or mental torture. So long as the Constitution remains the basic law of our Republic, America will not have that kind of government.”
Today, Mukasey would add one caveat: unless the government’s lawyers say otherwise.
MOSSAD'S KIKE MUKASY refuses to ENFORCE LAWS WHEN GOP SWINE obstruct justice
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Conyers Criticizes Attorney General For Ruling Out Charges in Hiring Scandal
By Andrew Tilghman - August 13, 2008, 5:55PM
Yesterday Attorney General Michael Mukasey made it clear he has no plans to prosecute any of the DOJ officials who clearly violated the law by using political criteria to select career judicial officials.
Apparently, that's not what Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) wanted to hear. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said there's good reason to think somebody broke the law -- not just for screening out Democrats from key positions, but also failing to fully cooperate with the DOJ Inspector General's investigation.
In a statement today, Conyers said:
I am distressed that Attorney General Mukasey has been so quick to determine that no criminal offense has been committed in connection with the illegal hiring practices at the Department of Justice.
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It is not enough for Mr. Mukasey to assert that things are different under his watch. The Department of Justice cannot reestablish its credibility so long as it persists in a strategy designed to avoid revealing all the facts that have so compromised the integrity of the Department of Justice and to prevent real accountability for misconduct by former DOJ officials.
Conyers Criticizes Attorney General For Ruling Out Charges in Hiring Scandal
By Andrew Tilghman - August 13, 2008, 5:55PM
Yesterday Attorney General Michael Mukasey made it clear he has no plans to prosecute any of the DOJ officials who clearly violated the law by using political criteria to select career judicial officials.
Apparently, that's not what Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) wanted to hear. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said there's good reason to think somebody broke the law -- not just for screening out Democrats from key positions, but also failing to fully cooperate with the DOJ Inspector General's investigation.
In a statement today, Conyers said:
I am distressed that Attorney General Mukasey has been so quick to determine that no criminal offense has been committed in connection with the illegal hiring practices at the Department of Justice.
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It is not enough for Mr. Mukasey to assert that things are different under his watch. The Department of Justice cannot reestablish its credibility so long as it persists in a strategy designed to avoid revealing all the facts that have so compromised the integrity of the Department of Justice and to prevent real accountability for misconduct by former DOJ officials.
MOSSAD'S MUKASY audaciously goes farther down road of fascism with new SECRET GUIDELINES?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/48078.html
FBI to get freer rein to look for terrorism suspects
By Marisa Taylor | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey confirmed plans Wednesday to loosen post-Watergate restrictions on the FBI's national security and criminal investigations, saying the changes were necessary to improve the bureau's ability to detect terrorists.
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TOMMY:
More lies.
FBI doesn't have a clue "who is the terrorist" and who is "the mind control false flag manchurian candidate".
FBI AND LAW ENFORCEMENT have used laws defining terrorism when the OPERATIONAL DEFINITION IS CONSTITUTIONALY VOID FOR VAGUENESS TO MAXIMIZE THE FBI POWER so that COINTELPRO AND THOUGHT CRIME STALKING is now "heroic validation" by babyburning nazi punkscum known as fed, state, and local law enforcement.
THE WHOLE TERRORISM SCAM AND NEW LAWS DESTROYING THE RULE OF LAW.........is all based on false flag terrorism....school schooters on a shelf mind control.
FBI destroyed an innocent medical doctor named MARK GORDON IN YANKTON, SD, AND SIOUX FALLS, SD...because he was a Democrat whose brother was SD US SEN TOM DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF...and because "MARK REPEATED THE DIALOGUE FROM THE JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM" in the privacy of his own home????????????????????????????????
When MINNEAPOLIS and SIOUX FALLS FBI had "Brady Material" from the coerced confessions and cooperation from Dr. Gordon who was literally EXTORTED INTO TAKING POLYGRAPH EXAMS AT THE ST . PAUL FED BUILDING.......these faggot pussy cocksucker criminal scumbags (DAVE HELLER, DAN REYNALDS, JAMES MCMAHON, STEVE PLUTA,) all "hid the exculpatory evidence" from local states attorney DAVE NELSON?
NELSON later found out after I delivered a memo to him......and was outraged that SIOUX FALLS FBI HAD COMMITTED OVERT ACTS AS PART OF CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE BY WITHHOLDING EXCULPATORY BRADY MATERIAL.......so Nelson had to "get dirt on JUDGE PETER GREGORY" to get him to "turn over his copy of the bogus ex parte eveasdropping applications" THAT CONTAINED MATERIAL FALSIFICATIONS AND USED ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO IN VIOLATION OF TITLE 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTIONS 2510--2517.
NO INDICTMENTS OR LEGITIMATE INVESTIGATION OF ANY OF MY ALLEGATIONS HAS OCCURRED BY DOJ OPR OR FBI OPR OR DOJ OIG OR US SEN JUD COMM OR US HOUSE JUD COMM???????????????
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Mukasey said he expected criticism of the new rules because "they expressly authorize the FBI to engage in intelligence collection inside the United States." However, he said the criticism would be misplaced because the bureau has long had authority to do so.
Mukasey said the new rules "remove unnecessary barriers" to cooperation between law enforcement agencies and "eliminate the artificial distinctions" in the way agents conduct surveillance in criminal and national security investigations.
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tommy:
Does anybody have a clue what the fuck this guy is talking about.
I can testify that THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO BARRIER IN THE WAY OF ANYTHING THE FBI WANTS TO GET AWAY WITH FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME.
THERE IS NO BARRIER TO USING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO IN VIOLATION OF THE RULE OF LAW...AND THERE IS NO BARRIER TO CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE....FRAMEUPS...PLANTING DRUGS....COERCION...MIND CONTROL...STEALING X RAYS...HARASSMENT...STALKING....TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS (who will never be called or subpoenaed...so why COMMIT THESE MANY FUCKING FELONY CRIMES??????????????????)
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"There was clear-eyed and bipartisan recognition after the attacks that we needed to be able — and allowed — to collect intelligence in the United States," he said in speech prepared for an anti-terrorism conference in Portland, Ore. "Indeed, there was a loud demand for it."
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tommy:
9/11 WAS FALSE FLAG....TIED TO OK CITY FALSE FLAG...TIED TO WTC 93...TIED TO USS COLE...TIED TO ANTHRAX....TIED TO SCHOOL SHOOTERS...TIED TO FBI'S OPER SLAMMER...FBI'S OPERATION HEAVONS GATE....SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF PROGRAM ran by Denver FBI agent DWAYNE FUSILIER and his two sons who set up a terrorist organization called THE TRENCH COAT MAFIA.
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Noting one area that needs to change, he said agents currently can rely on informants to gather information in ordinary criminal investigations, but are more limited in national security cases. The new rules, he said, will do away with those differences.
"Under the new guidelines, the investigative steps that the FBI may take in a particular investigation will not be driven by irrelevant factors, such as the type of paperwork the agent uses to open the investigation," he said.
In addition, agents assigned to national security investigations will be given more latitude to conduct surveillance based on a tip.
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TOMMY:
What MUKASY IS SAYING IS ............that tip may be from an illegally obtained source...like GPS TRACKING DEVICE USED BY NSA TSP MERCS...OR BUGS OR WIRETAPS OR BREAKINS OR EMAIL SEIZURES.
MUKASY has just said that...............ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM A CITIZEN POLICE VIGILANTE GROUP can be used to break the law when FBI VIOLATES TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 2517.
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Also, agents will be permitted to search more databases than allowed previously in criminal cases. As it stands now, agents who get a tip about a possible organized crime figure cannot use certain databases that they are allowed to access in national security cases, such as those containing information about state-issued drivers' licenses.
The Justice Department has kept the draft rules under wraps for at least a month and is expected to publicly release the final version within several more weeks. Even then, portions are expected to remain classified for national security reasons.
Mukasey said he planned to consult with Congress about the rules before releasing them. Nonetheless, Mukasey provided enough detail Wednesday to alarm civil libertarians.
Michael German, a former veteran FBI agent who is now policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said if Mukasey moves ahead with the new rules as he describes them, he'll be weakening restrictions originally put in place after the Watergate scandal to rein in the FBI's domestic Counter Intelligence Program, or COINTELPRO. At the time, the FBI spied on American political leaders and organizations deemed to be subversive throughout the late 1950s and into the 1960s.
"I'm concerned with the way the attorney general frames the problem," German said. "He talks about 'arbitrary or irrelevant differences' between criminal and national security investigations but these were corrections originally designed to prevent the type of overreach the FBI engaged in for years."
The Justice Department's Inspector General has found that between 2003 and 2006 the FBI sought personal records of Americans by relying improperly on so-called "national security letters", rather than seeking court approval. Last week, the FBI apologized to two newspapers for secretly obtaining reporters' phone records without following proper bureau procedures.
FBI officials have said the bureau has since instituted stronger oversight to prevent abuses, but German said recent events demonstrated that Mukasey needed to strengthen the FBI's guidelines, not "water them down."
"Nobody's complaining about the FBI collecting domestic intelligence when it's appropriate and authorized under the law," German said. "What the attorney general is doing is expanding the bureau's intelligence collection without addressing the mismanagement within the FBI. If you have an agency collecting more with less oversight, it's only going to get worse."
Mukasey denied that the new rules would allow agents to investigate someone simply based on race, religion or exercise of First Amendment rights.
Earlier, the Associated Press had reported that Mukasey was considering allowing agents to investigate someone based on a terrorism profile that could rely on race or ethnicity as a factor.
However, Mukasey did not say whether the new guidelines would give the FBI more leeway to rely on race or ethnicity as a significant factor in determining whether an investigation should be launched.
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TOMMY:
This is irrelevent.
FBI DOES NOT FOLLOW ANY LAW BECAUSE THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO OVERSIGHT FROM FBI OPR....US ATTORNEYS....STATE AND LOCAL PROSECUTORS......OR THE US SEN JUD COMM OR US HOUSE JUD COMM.
I assure you........THE FBI CAN AND WILL GET AWAY WITH ANY FELONY CRIME THEY WANT.
THEY CAN DESTROY ANYBODY.
THEY CAN HOUND, HARASS, SLANDER, STALK, HARASS, DEFAME, EXTORT, COERCE....ANYBODY THEY WANT FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME AND ABSOLUTELY NO DUE PROCESS EXISTS FOR THE TARGET...AT ANY POINT OF THE POLITICAL STALKING CONSPIRACY.
I'VE SEEN THE PUNK COCKSUCKERS AT FBI LOOK THE OTHER WAY AT NUMEROUS OUTRAGEOUS FELONY CRIMES COMMITTED BY INFORMANTS.....DIRECTED TO ASSAULT AND THREATEN TARGETS OF SURVEILLANCE AS PART OF AN ONGOING PATTERN AND PRACTISE BY FBI TO USE THE OPERATION SLAMMER MIND CONTROL PROGRAM TO force a guy like me.............to carry a gun for his own protection and seek justice on my own terms.
THAT IS WHAT A COWARDLY FAGGOT PUNK COCKSUCKER NAMED BOB MUELLER IS SILENTLY SANCTIONING........AND THE LITTLE PUNK REFUSES TO MEET ME ALL ALONE, GUN TO GUN, WITH NO WITNESSES...NO BADGES...NO KANGAROO COURTS.....NO FBI PUNK PERJURY...NO BRADY VIOLATIONS (lying by omission).
BOB MUELLER IS THE PROBLEM.
THIS PUNK REFUSES TO DELIVER JUSTICE.
REFUSES TO ADMIT POSSESSION OF MY FBI OPR COMPLAINT.
REFUSES TO TESTIFY TRUTHFULLY ABOUT FBI FELONIES.
REFUSES TO TESTIFY ABOUT FBI'S OVERT ACTS AS PART OF THE PATRIOT ACT MURDER OF MINNESOTA US SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE.
MUELLER SILENTLY SANCTIONED AND COVERED UP THE SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS....AND TOO MANY CONSPIRACIES TO VIOLATE THE FOLLOWING LAWS: Title 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242, 1512, 1513, 2510.
When SIOUX FALLS FBI AND SD US ATTORNEYS HAD KNOWLEDGE THAT A CONTRACT CIVILIAN SURVEILLANCE MERCENARY NAMED ROBERT DALE LILLY was monitoring a pin hole spy camera in my home.................................THE FBI AND SD US ATTORNEY DID NOTHING?
NO ARRESTS.
NO PROSECUTIONS.
NO BRADY NOTIFICATIONS TO JUDGES.
NO HONEST FORCEFUL VOLUNTARY TESTIMONY FROM MUELLER WHEN HE WAS IN FRONT OF US SEN JUD, AND US HOUSE JUD.
NOTHING...............IN SUPPORT OF THE US CONSTITUTION FROM BOB MUELLER...WHO KNOWS ALOT MORE THAN WHAT HE HAS TESTIFIED ABOUT.
MUELLER ORDERED THE MIND CONTROL CHIPPING OF THOMAS S. BEAN TO CONDUCT AN ILLEGAL COUNTERINTELIGENCE SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING OF THOMAS S. BEAN.........that was a clear violation of my FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS IN VIOLATION OF SECTIONS 242,242, 152M 153?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
AND THE PUNK HOUSE NIGGER UNCLE TOM CLOWN AT US HOUSE JUD COMMITTEE.....CONYERS......KNOWS THIS.....AND REFUSES TO LET ME TESTIFY WITH OR WITHOUT A SUBPOENA.
SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A BOGUS LYING PUNK JERKOFF APPEASING FAGGOT, TALK ABOUT HOUSE NIGGER UNCLE TOM CLOWN JON CONYERS.
THIS PUNK HAS IT ALL.
HE CAN CONTACT ME ANYTIME TO TESTIFY.
CONYERS AND HIS STAFF.....................are remaining silent and prefer to appease their way to "creating and sanctioning an Orwellian THOUGHT POLICE THAT BOB MUELLER BENEFITS FROM as FBI COVERS UP THEIR POLITICAL CRIMES AND MURDERS.
FBI to get freer rein to look for terrorism suspects
By Marisa Taylor | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey confirmed plans Wednesday to loosen post-Watergate restrictions on the FBI's national security and criminal investigations, saying the changes were necessary to improve the bureau's ability to detect terrorists.
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TOMMY:
More lies.
FBI doesn't have a clue "who is the terrorist" and who is "the mind control false flag manchurian candidate".
FBI AND LAW ENFORCEMENT have used laws defining terrorism when the OPERATIONAL DEFINITION IS CONSTITUTIONALY VOID FOR VAGUENESS TO MAXIMIZE THE FBI POWER so that COINTELPRO AND THOUGHT CRIME STALKING is now "heroic validation" by babyburning nazi punkscum known as fed, state, and local law enforcement.
THE WHOLE TERRORISM SCAM AND NEW LAWS DESTROYING THE RULE OF LAW.........is all based on false flag terrorism....school schooters on a shelf mind control.
FBI destroyed an innocent medical doctor named MARK GORDON IN YANKTON, SD, AND SIOUX FALLS, SD...because he was a Democrat whose brother was SD US SEN TOM DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF...and because "MARK REPEATED THE DIALOGUE FROM THE JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM" in the privacy of his own home????????????????????????????????
When MINNEAPOLIS and SIOUX FALLS FBI had "Brady Material" from the coerced confessions and cooperation from Dr. Gordon who was literally EXTORTED INTO TAKING POLYGRAPH EXAMS AT THE ST . PAUL FED BUILDING.......these faggot pussy cocksucker criminal scumbags (DAVE HELLER, DAN REYNALDS, JAMES MCMAHON, STEVE PLUTA,) all "hid the exculpatory evidence" from local states attorney DAVE NELSON?
NELSON later found out after I delivered a memo to him......and was outraged that SIOUX FALLS FBI HAD COMMITTED OVERT ACTS AS PART OF CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE BY WITHHOLDING EXCULPATORY BRADY MATERIAL.......so Nelson had to "get dirt on JUDGE PETER GREGORY" to get him to "turn over his copy of the bogus ex parte eveasdropping applications" THAT CONTAINED MATERIAL FALSIFICATIONS AND USED ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO IN VIOLATION OF TITLE 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTIONS 2510--2517.
NO INDICTMENTS OR LEGITIMATE INVESTIGATION OF ANY OF MY ALLEGATIONS HAS OCCURRED BY DOJ OPR OR FBI OPR OR DOJ OIG OR US SEN JUD COMM OR US HOUSE JUD COMM???????????????
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Mukasey said he expected criticism of the new rules because "they expressly authorize the FBI to engage in intelligence collection inside the United States." However, he said the criticism would be misplaced because the bureau has long had authority to do so.
Mukasey said the new rules "remove unnecessary barriers" to cooperation between law enforcement agencies and "eliminate the artificial distinctions" in the way agents conduct surveillance in criminal and national security investigations.
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tommy:
Does anybody have a clue what the fuck this guy is talking about.
I can testify that THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO BARRIER IN THE WAY OF ANYTHING THE FBI WANTS TO GET AWAY WITH FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME.
THERE IS NO BARRIER TO USING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO IN VIOLATION OF THE RULE OF LAW...AND THERE IS NO BARRIER TO CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE....FRAMEUPS...PLANTING DRUGS....COERCION...MIND CONTROL...STEALING X RAYS...HARASSMENT...STALKING....TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS (who will never be called or subpoenaed...so why COMMIT THESE MANY FUCKING FELONY CRIMES??????????????????)
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"There was clear-eyed and bipartisan recognition after the attacks that we needed to be able — and allowed — to collect intelligence in the United States," he said in speech prepared for an anti-terrorism conference in Portland, Ore. "Indeed, there was a loud demand for it."
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tommy:
9/11 WAS FALSE FLAG....TIED TO OK CITY FALSE FLAG...TIED TO WTC 93...TIED TO USS COLE...TIED TO ANTHRAX....TIED TO SCHOOL SHOOTERS...TIED TO FBI'S OPER SLAMMER...FBI'S OPERATION HEAVONS GATE....SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF PROGRAM ran by Denver FBI agent DWAYNE FUSILIER and his two sons who set up a terrorist organization called THE TRENCH COAT MAFIA.
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Noting one area that needs to change, he said agents currently can rely on informants to gather information in ordinary criminal investigations, but are more limited in national security cases. The new rules, he said, will do away with those differences.
"Under the new guidelines, the investigative steps that the FBI may take in a particular investigation will not be driven by irrelevant factors, such as the type of paperwork the agent uses to open the investigation," he said.
In addition, agents assigned to national security investigations will be given more latitude to conduct surveillance based on a tip.
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TOMMY:
What MUKASY IS SAYING IS ............that tip may be from an illegally obtained source...like GPS TRACKING DEVICE USED BY NSA TSP MERCS...OR BUGS OR WIRETAPS OR BREAKINS OR EMAIL SEIZURES.
MUKASY has just said that...............ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM A CITIZEN POLICE VIGILANTE GROUP can be used to break the law when FBI VIOLATES TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 2517.
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Also, agents will be permitted to search more databases than allowed previously in criminal cases. As it stands now, agents who get a tip about a possible organized crime figure cannot use certain databases that they are allowed to access in national security cases, such as those containing information about state-issued drivers' licenses.
The Justice Department has kept the draft rules under wraps for at least a month and is expected to publicly release the final version within several more weeks. Even then, portions are expected to remain classified for national security reasons.
Mukasey said he planned to consult with Congress about the rules before releasing them. Nonetheless, Mukasey provided enough detail Wednesday to alarm civil libertarians.
Michael German, a former veteran FBI agent who is now policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said if Mukasey moves ahead with the new rules as he describes them, he'll be weakening restrictions originally put in place after the Watergate scandal to rein in the FBI's domestic Counter Intelligence Program, or COINTELPRO. At the time, the FBI spied on American political leaders and organizations deemed to be subversive throughout the late 1950s and into the 1960s.
"I'm concerned with the way the attorney general frames the problem," German said. "He talks about 'arbitrary or irrelevant differences' between criminal and national security investigations but these were corrections originally designed to prevent the type of overreach the FBI engaged in for years."
The Justice Department's Inspector General has found that between 2003 and 2006 the FBI sought personal records of Americans by relying improperly on so-called "national security letters", rather than seeking court approval. Last week, the FBI apologized to two newspapers for secretly obtaining reporters' phone records without following proper bureau procedures.
FBI officials have said the bureau has since instituted stronger oversight to prevent abuses, but German said recent events demonstrated that Mukasey needed to strengthen the FBI's guidelines, not "water them down."
"Nobody's complaining about the FBI collecting domestic intelligence when it's appropriate and authorized under the law," German said. "What the attorney general is doing is expanding the bureau's intelligence collection without addressing the mismanagement within the FBI. If you have an agency collecting more with less oversight, it's only going to get worse."
Mukasey denied that the new rules would allow agents to investigate someone simply based on race, religion or exercise of First Amendment rights.
Earlier, the Associated Press had reported that Mukasey was considering allowing agents to investigate someone based on a terrorism profile that could rely on race or ethnicity as a factor.
However, Mukasey did not say whether the new guidelines would give the FBI more leeway to rely on race or ethnicity as a significant factor in determining whether an investigation should be launched.
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TOMMY:
This is irrelevent.
FBI DOES NOT FOLLOW ANY LAW BECAUSE THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO OVERSIGHT FROM FBI OPR....US ATTORNEYS....STATE AND LOCAL PROSECUTORS......OR THE US SEN JUD COMM OR US HOUSE JUD COMM.
I assure you........THE FBI CAN AND WILL GET AWAY WITH ANY FELONY CRIME THEY WANT.
THEY CAN DESTROY ANYBODY.
THEY CAN HOUND, HARASS, SLANDER, STALK, HARASS, DEFAME, EXTORT, COERCE....ANYBODY THEY WANT FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME AND ABSOLUTELY NO DUE PROCESS EXISTS FOR THE TARGET...AT ANY POINT OF THE POLITICAL STALKING CONSPIRACY.
I'VE SEEN THE PUNK COCKSUCKERS AT FBI LOOK THE OTHER WAY AT NUMEROUS OUTRAGEOUS FELONY CRIMES COMMITTED BY INFORMANTS.....DIRECTED TO ASSAULT AND THREATEN TARGETS OF SURVEILLANCE AS PART OF AN ONGOING PATTERN AND PRACTISE BY FBI TO USE THE OPERATION SLAMMER MIND CONTROL PROGRAM TO force a guy like me.............to carry a gun for his own protection and seek justice on my own terms.
THAT IS WHAT A COWARDLY FAGGOT PUNK COCKSUCKER NAMED BOB MUELLER IS SILENTLY SANCTIONING........AND THE LITTLE PUNK REFUSES TO MEET ME ALL ALONE, GUN TO GUN, WITH NO WITNESSES...NO BADGES...NO KANGAROO COURTS.....NO FBI PUNK PERJURY...NO BRADY VIOLATIONS (lying by omission).
BOB MUELLER IS THE PROBLEM.
THIS PUNK REFUSES TO DELIVER JUSTICE.
REFUSES TO ADMIT POSSESSION OF MY FBI OPR COMPLAINT.
REFUSES TO TESTIFY TRUTHFULLY ABOUT FBI FELONIES.
REFUSES TO TESTIFY ABOUT FBI'S OVERT ACTS AS PART OF THE PATRIOT ACT MURDER OF MINNESOTA US SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE.
MUELLER SILENTLY SANCTIONED AND COVERED UP THE SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS....AND TOO MANY CONSPIRACIES TO VIOLATE THE FOLLOWING LAWS: Title 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242, 1512, 1513, 2510.
When SIOUX FALLS FBI AND SD US ATTORNEYS HAD KNOWLEDGE THAT A CONTRACT CIVILIAN SURVEILLANCE MERCENARY NAMED ROBERT DALE LILLY was monitoring a pin hole spy camera in my home.................................THE FBI AND SD US ATTORNEY DID NOTHING?
NO ARRESTS.
NO PROSECUTIONS.
NO BRADY NOTIFICATIONS TO JUDGES.
NO HONEST FORCEFUL VOLUNTARY TESTIMONY FROM MUELLER WHEN HE WAS IN FRONT OF US SEN JUD, AND US HOUSE JUD.
NOTHING...............IN SUPPORT OF THE US CONSTITUTION FROM BOB MUELLER...WHO KNOWS ALOT MORE THAN WHAT HE HAS TESTIFIED ABOUT.
MUELLER ORDERED THE MIND CONTROL CHIPPING OF THOMAS S. BEAN TO CONDUCT AN ILLEGAL COUNTERINTELIGENCE SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING OF THOMAS S. BEAN.........that was a clear violation of my FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS IN VIOLATION OF SECTIONS 242,242, 152M 153?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
AND THE PUNK HOUSE NIGGER UNCLE TOM CLOWN AT US HOUSE JUD COMMITTEE.....CONYERS......KNOWS THIS.....AND REFUSES TO LET ME TESTIFY WITH OR WITHOUT A SUBPOENA.
SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A BOGUS LYING PUNK JERKOFF APPEASING FAGGOT, TALK ABOUT HOUSE NIGGER UNCLE TOM CLOWN JON CONYERS.
THIS PUNK HAS IT ALL.
HE CAN CONTACT ME ANYTIME TO TESTIFY.
CONYERS AND HIS STAFF.....................are remaining silent and prefer to appease their way to "creating and sanctioning an Orwellian THOUGHT POLICE THAT BOB MUELLER BENEFITS FROM as FBI COVERS UP THEIR POLITICAL CRIMES AND MURDERS.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Punk cowardly buttlicking faggot, BOB MUELLER AT FBI HQ, again stands down in murder of CIA agent in Houston
FROM WAYNE MADSEN REPORT:
August 8-10, 2008 -- Houston refuses to turn over evidence to widow in Carnaby assassination unless secrecy order invoked
The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday on new developments in the civil case brought against the city of Houston by Susan Carnaby, the widow of slain retired CIA Houston station chief Roland "Tony" Carnaby. Carnaby was shot to death by Houston police on April 29.
The city is trying to convince U.S. Judge Keith Ellison, who is trying the civil case, to order Susan Carnaby not to make public the "homicide report," the police internal investigation report of the shooting incident, 911 emergency phone call transcripts, or police dispatch tape transcripts to be made public if the city provides such material to her.
Susan Carnaby, in an affidavit to the court, said she believes the public has a right to know about the details of the incident, especially since the "police department is investigating itself." She also said that her late husband would have wanted the investigation "open and not hidden."
Recently, a Harris County grand jury declined to prosecute Houston police Sgt. Andrew Washington and officer Cecil Foster for murder in the shooting death of Carnaby. However, the Houston Chronicle, for the first time, referred to a "homicide report" in the incident.
The references to 911 emergency calls is the first indication that someone other than Carnaby may have called the police to report details of the shooting incident. WMR has learned from knowledgeable Houston sources that Carnaby was on the phone with an FBI supervisor when police surrounded his vehicle on the 610 West Loop in the Galleria section of Houston. Carnaby had apparently been stopped earlier by police for speeding but someone in the Houston Police Department ordered the retired CIA agent stopped again and arrested for anything the police could nail him on.
Contrary to earlier reports that police chased Carnaby through heavy traffic before they made their second stop, WMR has learned that Carnaby's vehicle ran out of gas when police surrounded it. The shooting was captured on local TV news helicopter video. The Houston police violated Judge Ellison's order to preserve all evidence in the case. The Houston police disposed of police dashboard video tapes of the incident, audio tapes of phone calls, and the evidence gathered from Carnaby's vehicle, including his laptop computer, cell phones, and other items.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
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August 13, 2008 -- Port of Houston security in hands of Israeli firm
WMR previously reported that slain retired CIA station chief in Houston, Roland "Tony" Carnaby, gunned down gangland-style on April 29 by Houston police after his vehicle ran out of gas, not after a "high-speed chase" as alleged by Houston police, had a tepid and wary relationship with Israeli intelligence operatives in Houston. Carnaby was contracted to the Port of Houston, as well as the two Houston area international airports, to provide security consultative services.
An Israeli firm, Orsus, is currently installing an integrated security monitoring system that will link video surveillance, visitor control, and police dispatch systems to a 24-hour Port Coordination Center. It is known that Carnaby used a number of cell phones to dial into port video cameras to turn them on, stop them, and download captured video data. The Israeli firm was scheduled to begin installation of its system this month.
The financial backers of Orsus include:
---- ComSor Venture Fund LDC, a joint operation of Comverse Technology, which includes its subsidiary Verint Systems, and Soros Fund Management's Quantum Industrial Holdings Ltd.
----Other investors in Orsus include Israel's Koor Industries, the leading shareholder of Tadiran, the Israeli defense electronics firm; Cial Industries and Investment, an Israeli holding company; the Cedar Fund, an "Israeli-related" venture capital firm; Israel Infinity Venture Capital Fund; and Poalim Capital Markets, a subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim, Israel's largest bank.
Some of Orsus' backers have faced legal problems stemming from dubious activities, not least of whom is George Soros, the international financier who conducted a "hostile takeover" of the Democratic Party in 2004 and has muted the message from the progressive media by pouring cash into various magazines, publishers, and web sites to control the message, ensuring the message does not include any criticism of Soros or his questionable activities, including his manipulation of democratic institutions abroad, including in the Republic of Georgia.
Soros' ComSor partner, Comverse, saw its CEO Jacob "Kobi' Alexander, arrested in the Namibian capital Windhoek in 2006 for manipulating Comverse's stock options. Alexander is facing extradition to the United States but he has managed to buy off a number of Namibian politicians in order to extend his exile in Namibia, a country that hosts a number of Israeli diamond poaching firms and traders.
The list of Soros' dubious associates does not stop with Alexander. James Marquez, a former Soros assistant, and co-founder of the Bayou Group hedge fund, was sentenced to prison for defrauding investors of $350 million. The manager of Bayou, Samuel Israel III, faked his own suicide in June before turning himself in for defrauding his investors.
Bank Hapoalim was investigated under Israel's new and relatively weak Prohibition of Laundering Law for exiled Russian-Israeli tycoon Arcadi Gaydamak.
Soros managed to derail any effort by the so-called "progressive media" sites he funds to properly investigate the shooting death of Carnaby. The reasons now appear quite apparent.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
August 8-10, 2008 -- Houston refuses to turn over evidence to widow in Carnaby assassination unless secrecy order invoked
The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday on new developments in the civil case brought against the city of Houston by Susan Carnaby, the widow of slain retired CIA Houston station chief Roland "Tony" Carnaby. Carnaby was shot to death by Houston police on April 29.
The city is trying to convince U.S. Judge Keith Ellison, who is trying the civil case, to order Susan Carnaby not to make public the "homicide report," the police internal investigation report of the shooting incident, 911 emergency phone call transcripts, or police dispatch tape transcripts to be made public if the city provides such material to her.
Susan Carnaby, in an affidavit to the court, said she believes the public has a right to know about the details of the incident, especially since the "police department is investigating itself." She also said that her late husband would have wanted the investigation "open and not hidden."
Recently, a Harris County grand jury declined to prosecute Houston police Sgt. Andrew Washington and officer Cecil Foster for murder in the shooting death of Carnaby. However, the Houston Chronicle, for the first time, referred to a "homicide report" in the incident.
The references to 911 emergency calls is the first indication that someone other than Carnaby may have called the police to report details of the shooting incident. WMR has learned from knowledgeable Houston sources that Carnaby was on the phone with an FBI supervisor when police surrounded his vehicle on the 610 West Loop in the Galleria section of Houston. Carnaby had apparently been stopped earlier by police for speeding but someone in the Houston Police Department ordered the retired CIA agent stopped again and arrested for anything the police could nail him on.
Contrary to earlier reports that police chased Carnaby through heavy traffic before they made their second stop, WMR has learned that Carnaby's vehicle ran out of gas when police surrounded it. The shooting was captured on local TV news helicopter video. The Houston police violated Judge Ellison's order to preserve all evidence in the case. The Houston police disposed of police dashboard video tapes of the incident, audio tapes of phone calls, and the evidence gathered from Carnaby's vehicle, including his laptop computer, cell phones, and other items.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
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August 13, 2008 -- Port of Houston security in hands of Israeli firm
WMR previously reported that slain retired CIA station chief in Houston, Roland "Tony" Carnaby, gunned down gangland-style on April 29 by Houston police after his vehicle ran out of gas, not after a "high-speed chase" as alleged by Houston police, had a tepid and wary relationship with Israeli intelligence operatives in Houston. Carnaby was contracted to the Port of Houston, as well as the two Houston area international airports, to provide security consultative services.
An Israeli firm, Orsus, is currently installing an integrated security monitoring system that will link video surveillance, visitor control, and police dispatch systems to a 24-hour Port Coordination Center. It is known that Carnaby used a number of cell phones to dial into port video cameras to turn them on, stop them, and download captured video data. The Israeli firm was scheduled to begin installation of its system this month.
The financial backers of Orsus include:
---- ComSor Venture Fund LDC, a joint operation of Comverse Technology, which includes its subsidiary Verint Systems, and Soros Fund Management's Quantum Industrial Holdings Ltd.
----Other investors in Orsus include Israel's Koor Industries, the leading shareholder of Tadiran, the Israeli defense electronics firm; Cial Industries and Investment, an Israeli holding company; the Cedar Fund, an "Israeli-related" venture capital firm; Israel Infinity Venture Capital Fund; and Poalim Capital Markets, a subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim, Israel's largest bank.
Some of Orsus' backers have faced legal problems stemming from dubious activities, not least of whom is George Soros, the international financier who conducted a "hostile takeover" of the Democratic Party in 2004 and has muted the message from the progressive media by pouring cash into various magazines, publishers, and web sites to control the message, ensuring the message does not include any criticism of Soros or his questionable activities, including his manipulation of democratic institutions abroad, including in the Republic of Georgia.
Soros' ComSor partner, Comverse, saw its CEO Jacob "Kobi' Alexander, arrested in the Namibian capital Windhoek in 2006 for manipulating Comverse's stock options. Alexander is facing extradition to the United States but he has managed to buy off a number of Namibian politicians in order to extend his exile in Namibia, a country that hosts a number of Israeli diamond poaching firms and traders.
The list of Soros' dubious associates does not stop with Alexander. James Marquez, a former Soros assistant, and co-founder of the Bayou Group hedge fund, was sentenced to prison for defrauding investors of $350 million. The manager of Bayou, Samuel Israel III, faked his own suicide in June before turning himself in for defrauding his investors.
Bank Hapoalim was investigated under Israel's new and relatively weak Prohibition of Laundering Law for exiled Russian-Israeli tycoon Arcadi Gaydamak.
Soros managed to derail any effort by the so-called "progressive media" sites he funds to properly investigate the shooting death of Carnaby. The reasons now appear quite apparent.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
COWARDLY LYING PUNK gutless loser, ROBERT MUELLER AT FBI...again ignores RIGHT WING TERRORISM
http://www.prisonplanet.com/anti-war-website-operator-threatened-by-armed-thugs.html
Information Clearing House editor victim of home invasions, warnings to “stop what he is doing on the Internet, NOW!”
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, August 7, 2008
The operator of a leading alternative news and strongly anti-war website has become the target of nefarious thugs apparently in the employ of the U.S. government who have continually harassed him and ordered him to shut down his website.
Tom Feeley, owner and editor of InformationClearingHouse.info, has endured public harassment, home invasions, death threats and threats to his family simply for running a website.
Counterpunch writer Mike Whitney has circulated an e mail describing what happened to Feeley in an attempt to draw attention to the matter.
Whitney writes that earlier this week Feeley’s wife was startled to suddenly discover three well dressed men standing in her kitchen who told her that Tom must “Stop what he is doing on the Internet, NOW!”
To emphasize the point, the thug pulled back his jacket to reveal a gun while barking out the warning.
Tom’s wife was hysterical and refuses to go back to the house. She contacted the FBI but was told there was nothing they could do.
According to Whitney, “The well-dressed man told Tom’s wife that he knew where her son lived, what line of work he was in, and how many children he had.”
Subsequently, two men in a parked car a block from Tom’s mother’s house were spotted using laptops and sped off when they were approached by Tom’s son.
A similar incident had happened four years previously, when Feeley was approached by a stranger in the parking lot of Long’s Drug store in Southern California, after being forced to remain in his car by an accomplice who blocked him from opening the car door. The man told him, “You need to stop what you are doing on the web”.
Tom said the man was overweight and had his shirt untucked. Tom was taken aback, but (after collecting himself said) “What the fuck? Who do you think you are telling me what I can do?”
The man answered, “Tom, I’m just giving you some good advice. You should take my advice, Tom.”
Alex Jones has experienced similar intimidation tactics on several occasions in the past, particularly the scenario that happened to Tom in the parking lot as well as thinly veiled threats against his family.
In every single instance, the best response is to stand up and be vocal in the face of such harassment. Mafia-like thugs only continue to feed on those who put up with such treatment. The most dangerous thing to do is cower and acquiesce to the will of tyrants.
These kind of tactics will only succeed if the thugs think their actions can have any kind of effect. Every time someone in our movement is intimidated or harassed, we should respond only by re-doubling and intensifying our efforts.
I’ll tell you this about Tom Feeley; he is no bullshitter,” writes Whitney, “He is the “real deal” and completely committed to exposing the mob that is presently running our country. He does not understand why, (as he says) “They are reaching down SO far to get someone who just runs web site”. But, the truth is, they are. Someone wants him to “shut up” and they apparently have the muscle to do it. He knows he is in danger.”
Feeley is ditching his cellphone and maintaining a low profile but to his credit, refuses to cave in to the threats and will continue to publish his website.
Drawing attention to Feeley’s situation is of paramount importance to ensure his protection and also to combat head on attempts to create a chilling atmosphere and intimidate journalists and website publishers.
Information Clearing House editor victim of home invasions, warnings to “stop what he is doing on the Internet, NOW!”
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, August 7, 2008
The operator of a leading alternative news and strongly anti-war website has become the target of nefarious thugs apparently in the employ of the U.S. government who have continually harassed him and ordered him to shut down his website.
Tom Feeley, owner and editor of InformationClearingHouse.info, has endured public harassment, home invasions, death threats and threats to his family simply for running a website.
Counterpunch writer Mike Whitney has circulated an e mail describing what happened to Feeley in an attempt to draw attention to the matter.
Whitney writes that earlier this week Feeley’s wife was startled to suddenly discover three well dressed men standing in her kitchen who told her that Tom must “Stop what he is doing on the Internet, NOW!”
To emphasize the point, the thug pulled back his jacket to reveal a gun while barking out the warning.
Tom’s wife was hysterical and refuses to go back to the house. She contacted the FBI but was told there was nothing they could do.
According to Whitney, “The well-dressed man told Tom’s wife that he knew where her son lived, what line of work he was in, and how many children he had.”
Subsequently, two men in a parked car a block from Tom’s mother’s house were spotted using laptops and sped off when they were approached by Tom’s son.
A similar incident had happened four years previously, when Feeley was approached by a stranger in the parking lot of Long’s Drug store in Southern California, after being forced to remain in his car by an accomplice who blocked him from opening the car door. The man told him, “You need to stop what you are doing on the web”.
Tom said the man was overweight and had his shirt untucked. Tom was taken aback, but (after collecting himself said) “What the fuck? Who do you think you are telling me what I can do?”
The man answered, “Tom, I’m just giving you some good advice. You should take my advice, Tom.”
Alex Jones has experienced similar intimidation tactics on several occasions in the past, particularly the scenario that happened to Tom in the parking lot as well as thinly veiled threats against his family.
In every single instance, the best response is to stand up and be vocal in the face of such harassment. Mafia-like thugs only continue to feed on those who put up with such treatment. The most dangerous thing to do is cower and acquiesce to the will of tyrants.
These kind of tactics will only succeed if the thugs think their actions can have any kind of effect. Every time someone in our movement is intimidated or harassed, we should respond only by re-doubling and intensifying our efforts.
I’ll tell you this about Tom Feeley; he is no bullshitter,” writes Whitney, “He is the “real deal” and completely committed to exposing the mob that is presently running our country. He does not understand why, (as he says) “They are reaching down SO far to get someone who just runs web site”. But, the truth is, they are. Someone wants him to “shut up” and they apparently have the muscle to do it. He knows he is in danger.”
Feeley is ditching his cellphone and maintaining a low profile but to his credit, refuses to cave in to the threats and will continue to publish his website.
Drawing attention to Feeley’s situation is of paramount importance to ensure his protection and also to combat head on attempts to create a chilling atmosphere and intimidate journalists and website publishers.
FBI LYing idiotic scum....OBSTRUCTS JUSTICE with bogus DNA matches.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/08/03/MNGA120OQ2.DTL
FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE:
Crime labs finding questionable DNA matches
FBI tries to keep national database away from lawyers
Jason Felch,Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times
Sunday, August 3, 2008
In 2001, Arizona crime laboratory analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on the state's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles.
The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people.
The FBI estimated the odds of unrelated people sharing those genetic markers to be 1 in 113 billion. But the mug shots of the two felons suggested that they were not related: One was black, the other white.
In the years after her discovery, Troyer found dozens of similar matches - each defying impossible odds.
As word spread, Troyer's findings raised questions about the accuracy of the FBI's DNA statistics and ignited a legal fight over whether the nation's genetic databases ought to be opened to wider scrutiny.
The laboratory of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which administers the national DNA database, tried to stop distribution of Troyer's results and began to block similar searches elsewhere, even those ordered by courts, according to an investigation by the Los Angeles Times.
At stake is the credibility of the compelling odds often cited in DNA cases, which suggests an all-but-certain link between a suspect and a crime scene. When DNA from blood or skin cells matches a suspect's genetic profile, it can seal the suspect's fate with a jury, even in the absence of other evidence. As questions arise about the reliability of ballistic, bite-mark and fingerprint analysis, genetic evidence has emerged as the forensic gold standard.
But DNA "matches" are not always what they appear to be. Although a person's genetic makeup is unique, his "genetic profile" - a sliver of the full genome - may not be. Siblings often share genetic markers, and unrelated people can share some by coincidence.
No one knows how rare DNA profiles are. The odds presented in court are best estimates from the FBI.
The Arizona search was a first test of those estimates in a large state database, and the results were surprising.
Defense attorneys seized on the Arizona discoveries as evidence that genetic profiles match more often than statistics imply and are not unique.
Now, lawyers around the country are asking for searches of their own state databases. Scientists and legal experts want to test the accuracy of statistics using the nearly 6 million profiles in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), the national network that includes state and local databases.
"DNA is terrific and nobody doubts it, but because it is so powerful, any chinks in its armor ought to be made as salient and clear as possible so jurors will not be overwhelmed by the seeming certainty of it," said David Faigman, a professor at the UC's Hastings College of the Law who specializes in scientific evidence.
FBI officials argue that the use of CODIS is limited to criminal justice agencies. Defense attorneys are allowed access to information about specific cases, not the databases in general. Bureau officials say critics have exaggerated or misunderstood Troyer's discoveries.
Indeed, experts agree that many - but not all - of the Arizona matches were to be expected statistically because of the unusual way Troyer searched for them.
In a typical criminal case, investigators look for matches to a specific profile. But Troyer looked for any matches among all the thousands of profiles in the database, greatly increasing the odds of finding them.
As a result, Thomas Callaghan, head of the FBI's CODIS unit, has dismissed Troyer's findings as misleading and meaningless.
Callaghan urged authorities in several states to object to "Arizona searches," as they came to be known, advising them that the probes could violate the privacy of convicted offenders, tie up databases and lead the FBI to expel offending states from CODIS - a penalty that could seriously hamper states' ability to solve crimes.
The FBI's arguments have persuaded courts in several states to block the searches. But in two states, judges overruled the objections. The resulting searches found nearly 1,000 more pairs that matched at nine or more loci.
"I can appreciate why the FBI is worried about this," said David Kaye, an expert on science and the law at Arizona State University and former member of a national committee that studied forensic DNA.
But "people's lives do ride on this evidence," he said. "It has got to be explained."
After her discovery, Troyer and colleagues in the Arizona Department of Public Safety's Phoenix DNA lab were intrigued.
At the time, states looked at nine or fewer loci when searching for suspects. (States now compare 13 loci, though often fewer are available from old or contaminated crime scene evidence.) Based on Troyer's results, colleagues believed that a nine-locus match could point investigators to the wrong person.
"If you're going to search at nine loci, you need to be aware of what it means," said Todd Griffith, director of the Phoenix lab. "It's not necessarily absolutely the guy."
Troyer made a poster for a national conference of DNA analysts. It showed photos of the white man and the younger black man next to their remarkably similar genetic profiles. Some conferees had seen similar matches in their own labs.
Three years later, Bicka Barlow, a San Francisco defense attorney, came across Troyer's poster information on the Internet as she prepared to defend a client accused of a 20-year-old rape and murder.
A database search had found a nine-locus match between her client's DNA profile and semen found in the victim's body. Based on FBI estimates, the odds of a coincidental match were 1 in 108 trillion.
Barlow wondered if there might be similar coincidental matches in California's database - the world's third-largest, with 360,000 DNA profiles. She called Troyer.
Barlow learned that Troyer had searched the growing Arizona database and found more pairs of profiles matching at nine and even 10 loci.
Encouraged, Barlow subpoenaed a new search of the Arizona database. Among about 65,000 felons were 122 pairs that matched at nine of 13 loci. Twenty pairs matched at 10 loci. One matched at 11 and one at 12, though both belonged to relatives.
Barlow was stunned. Such matches were almost unheard of.
After Barlow received the search results, Callaghan reprimanded Troyer's lab in Phoenix, saying it should have sought FBI permission before complying with the court order.
Asked later whether Callaghan had threatened her lab, Troyer testified, "I wouldn't say it's been threatened, but we have been reminded."
Dwight Adams, then director of the FBI lab, faxed a letter to Griffith, Troyer's supervisor, saying the lab was "under review" for releasing search results.
Arizona officials obtained a court order to prevent Barlow from sharing the results. But it was too late. Barlow had e-mailed the results to colleagues and DNA experts around the country. Soon, defense lawyers in other states were seeking "Arizona searches."
In January 2006, not long after Barlow distributed the results of the court-ordered search in Arizona, the FBI sent out a nationwide alert to crime labs warning of similar defense requests.
Soon after, the bureau's arguments against Arizona searches were being made in courtrooms around the country.
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tommy:
EVER WONDER IF THERE IS SOMETHING OBVIOUSLY VERY, VERY, VERY WRONG WITH THE FUCKING FAGGOT COCKSUCKER IDIOTIC MORONIC SCUMSUCKING JERKOFF FAGGOTS AT THE PUNK FBI?
Tell me why...gutless babyburning punks...cannot handle PEER REVIEW SCIENCE to test FBI credibility...in pursuit of JUSTICE...NO?
JUST WHAT THE FUCK IS THE FBI'S MOTHERFUCKING PROBLEM?
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In California, Michael Chamberlain, a state Department of Justice official, persuaded judges that such a search could have "dire consequences" - violating the privacy of convicted offenders, shutting down the database and risking the state's expulsion from the DNA system.
When similar arguments were made in an Arizona case, the judge ruled that the search would be "nothing more than an interesting deep sea fishing expedition."
But in Illinois and Maryland, courts ordered the searches to proceed, despite opposition from the FBI and state officials.
In July 2006, after Chicago-area defense attorneys sought a database search on behalf of a murder suspect, Callaghan held a telephone conference with Illinois crime lab officials.
The topic was "how to fight this," according to lab officials' summary of the conversation, which became part of the court record.
Callaghan suggested they tell the judge that Illinois could be disconnected from the database system, the summary shows. Callaghan then told lab officials that "it would in fact be unlikely that IL would be disconnected," according to the summary.
"I didn't say it was unlikely to happen," Callaghan said in an interview. "I was asked specifically, what's the likelihood here? I said, I don't know, but it takes a lot for a state to be cut off from the national database."
A week later, the judge ordered the search. Lawyers for the lab then took the matter to the Illinois Supreme Court, arguing in part that Illinois could lose access to the federal database. The court refused to block the search.
The result: 903 pairs of profiles matching at nine or more loci in a database of about 220,000.
State officials obtained a court order to prevent distribution of the results. The Times obtained them from a scientist who works closely with the FBI.
A similar fight occurred in a death penalty case in Maryland during the summer and fall of 2006.
The prosecutor saw a DNA match between a baseball cap at the crime scene and the suspect as so definitive that he didn't plan to tell the jury about the chance of a coincidental match, records show.
Seeking to cast doubt on the evidence, the defense persuaded the judge to order an "Arizona search" of the Maryland database. The state did not comply.
After the defense filed a contempt-of-court motion, Michelle Groves, the state's DNA administrator, argued in court and in an affidavit that, based on conversations with Callaghan, she believed the request was burdensome and possibly illegal.
According to Groves, Callaghan had told her that complying with the court order could lead Maryland to be disconnected from CODIS - a result Groves' lawyer said would be catastrophic.
Groves' affidavit was edited by FBI officials and the technology contractor that designed CODIS, court records show.
Before submitting the affidavit, Groves wrote the group an e-mail saying, "Let's see if this will work," court records show.
It didn't.
After Judge Steven Platt rejected her arguments, Groves returned to court, saying the search was too risky. FBI officials had now warned her that it could corrupt the entire state database, something they would not help fix, she said.
Platt reaffirmed his earlier order, decrying Callaghan's "unilateral" decision to block the search.
"The court will not accept the notion that the extent of a person's due process rights hinges solely on whether some employee of the FBI chooses to authorize the use of the (database) software," Platt wrote.
The search went ahead in January 2007. The system did not go down, nor was Maryland expelled from the system.
In a database of fewer than 30,000 profiles, 32 pairs matched at nine or more loci. Three of those pairs were identical at 13 out of 13 loci.
Experts say they most likely are duplicates or belong to identical twins or brothers. It's also possible that one of the matches is between unrelated people - defying odds of 1 in 1 quadrillion.
Maryland officials never did the research to find out.
FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE:
Crime labs finding questionable DNA matches
FBI tries to keep national database away from lawyers
Jason Felch,Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times
Sunday, August 3, 2008
In 2001, Arizona crime laboratory analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on the state's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles.
The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people.
The FBI estimated the odds of unrelated people sharing those genetic markers to be 1 in 113 billion. But the mug shots of the two felons suggested that they were not related: One was black, the other white.
In the years after her discovery, Troyer found dozens of similar matches - each defying impossible odds.
As word spread, Troyer's findings raised questions about the accuracy of the FBI's DNA statistics and ignited a legal fight over whether the nation's genetic databases ought to be opened to wider scrutiny.
The laboratory of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which administers the national DNA database, tried to stop distribution of Troyer's results and began to block similar searches elsewhere, even those ordered by courts, according to an investigation by the Los Angeles Times.
At stake is the credibility of the compelling odds often cited in DNA cases, which suggests an all-but-certain link between a suspect and a crime scene. When DNA from blood or skin cells matches a suspect's genetic profile, it can seal the suspect's fate with a jury, even in the absence of other evidence. As questions arise about the reliability of ballistic, bite-mark and fingerprint analysis, genetic evidence has emerged as the forensic gold standard.
But DNA "matches" are not always what they appear to be. Although a person's genetic makeup is unique, his "genetic profile" - a sliver of the full genome - may not be. Siblings often share genetic markers, and unrelated people can share some by coincidence.
No one knows how rare DNA profiles are. The odds presented in court are best estimates from the FBI.
The Arizona search was a first test of those estimates in a large state database, and the results were surprising.
Defense attorneys seized on the Arizona discoveries as evidence that genetic profiles match more often than statistics imply and are not unique.
Now, lawyers around the country are asking for searches of their own state databases. Scientists and legal experts want to test the accuracy of statistics using the nearly 6 million profiles in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), the national network that includes state and local databases.
"DNA is terrific and nobody doubts it, but because it is so powerful, any chinks in its armor ought to be made as salient and clear as possible so jurors will not be overwhelmed by the seeming certainty of it," said David Faigman, a professor at the UC's Hastings College of the Law who specializes in scientific evidence.
FBI officials argue that the use of CODIS is limited to criminal justice agencies. Defense attorneys are allowed access to information about specific cases, not the databases in general. Bureau officials say critics have exaggerated or misunderstood Troyer's discoveries.
Indeed, experts agree that many - but not all - of the Arizona matches were to be expected statistically because of the unusual way Troyer searched for them.
In a typical criminal case, investigators look for matches to a specific profile. But Troyer looked for any matches among all the thousands of profiles in the database, greatly increasing the odds of finding them.
As a result, Thomas Callaghan, head of the FBI's CODIS unit, has dismissed Troyer's findings as misleading and meaningless.
Callaghan urged authorities in several states to object to "Arizona searches," as they came to be known, advising them that the probes could violate the privacy of convicted offenders, tie up databases and lead the FBI to expel offending states from CODIS - a penalty that could seriously hamper states' ability to solve crimes.
The FBI's arguments have persuaded courts in several states to block the searches. But in two states, judges overruled the objections. The resulting searches found nearly 1,000 more pairs that matched at nine or more loci.
"I can appreciate why the FBI is worried about this," said David Kaye, an expert on science and the law at Arizona State University and former member of a national committee that studied forensic DNA.
But "people's lives do ride on this evidence," he said. "It has got to be explained."
After her discovery, Troyer and colleagues in the Arizona Department of Public Safety's Phoenix DNA lab were intrigued.
At the time, states looked at nine or fewer loci when searching for suspects. (States now compare 13 loci, though often fewer are available from old or contaminated crime scene evidence.) Based on Troyer's results, colleagues believed that a nine-locus match could point investigators to the wrong person.
"If you're going to search at nine loci, you need to be aware of what it means," said Todd Griffith, director of the Phoenix lab. "It's not necessarily absolutely the guy."
Troyer made a poster for a national conference of DNA analysts. It showed photos of the white man and the younger black man next to their remarkably similar genetic profiles. Some conferees had seen similar matches in their own labs.
Three years later, Bicka Barlow, a San Francisco defense attorney, came across Troyer's poster information on the Internet as she prepared to defend a client accused of a 20-year-old rape and murder.
A database search had found a nine-locus match between her client's DNA profile and semen found in the victim's body. Based on FBI estimates, the odds of a coincidental match were 1 in 108 trillion.
Barlow wondered if there might be similar coincidental matches in California's database - the world's third-largest, with 360,000 DNA profiles. She called Troyer.
Barlow learned that Troyer had searched the growing Arizona database and found more pairs of profiles matching at nine and even 10 loci.
Encouraged, Barlow subpoenaed a new search of the Arizona database. Among about 65,000 felons were 122 pairs that matched at nine of 13 loci. Twenty pairs matched at 10 loci. One matched at 11 and one at 12, though both belonged to relatives.
Barlow was stunned. Such matches were almost unheard of.
After Barlow received the search results, Callaghan reprimanded Troyer's lab in Phoenix, saying it should have sought FBI permission before complying with the court order.
Asked later whether Callaghan had threatened her lab, Troyer testified, "I wouldn't say it's been threatened, but we have been reminded."
Dwight Adams, then director of the FBI lab, faxed a letter to Griffith, Troyer's supervisor, saying the lab was "under review" for releasing search results.
Arizona officials obtained a court order to prevent Barlow from sharing the results. But it was too late. Barlow had e-mailed the results to colleagues and DNA experts around the country. Soon, defense lawyers in other states were seeking "Arizona searches."
In January 2006, not long after Barlow distributed the results of the court-ordered search in Arizona, the FBI sent out a nationwide alert to crime labs warning of similar defense requests.
Soon after, the bureau's arguments against Arizona searches were being made in courtrooms around the country.
_____________________
tommy:
EVER WONDER IF THERE IS SOMETHING OBVIOUSLY VERY, VERY, VERY WRONG WITH THE FUCKING FAGGOT COCKSUCKER IDIOTIC MORONIC SCUMSUCKING JERKOFF FAGGOTS AT THE PUNK FBI?
Tell me why...gutless babyburning punks...cannot handle PEER REVIEW SCIENCE to test FBI credibility...in pursuit of JUSTICE...NO?
JUST WHAT THE FUCK IS THE FBI'S MOTHERFUCKING PROBLEM?
________________
In California, Michael Chamberlain, a state Department of Justice official, persuaded judges that such a search could have "dire consequences" - violating the privacy of convicted offenders, shutting down the database and risking the state's expulsion from the DNA system.
When similar arguments were made in an Arizona case, the judge ruled that the search would be "nothing more than an interesting deep sea fishing expedition."
But in Illinois and Maryland, courts ordered the searches to proceed, despite opposition from the FBI and state officials.
In July 2006, after Chicago-area defense attorneys sought a database search on behalf of a murder suspect, Callaghan held a telephone conference with Illinois crime lab officials.
The topic was "how to fight this," according to lab officials' summary of the conversation, which became part of the court record.
Callaghan suggested they tell the judge that Illinois could be disconnected from the database system, the summary shows. Callaghan then told lab officials that "it would in fact be unlikely that IL would be disconnected," according to the summary.
"I didn't say it was unlikely to happen," Callaghan said in an interview. "I was asked specifically, what's the likelihood here? I said, I don't know, but it takes a lot for a state to be cut off from the national database."
A week later, the judge ordered the search. Lawyers for the lab then took the matter to the Illinois Supreme Court, arguing in part that Illinois could lose access to the federal database. The court refused to block the search.
The result: 903 pairs of profiles matching at nine or more loci in a database of about 220,000.
State officials obtained a court order to prevent distribution of the results. The Times obtained them from a scientist who works closely with the FBI.
A similar fight occurred in a death penalty case in Maryland during the summer and fall of 2006.
The prosecutor saw a DNA match between a baseball cap at the crime scene and the suspect as so definitive that he didn't plan to tell the jury about the chance of a coincidental match, records show.
Seeking to cast doubt on the evidence, the defense persuaded the judge to order an "Arizona search" of the Maryland database. The state did not comply.
After the defense filed a contempt-of-court motion, Michelle Groves, the state's DNA administrator, argued in court and in an affidavit that, based on conversations with Callaghan, she believed the request was burdensome and possibly illegal.
According to Groves, Callaghan had told her that complying with the court order could lead Maryland to be disconnected from CODIS - a result Groves' lawyer said would be catastrophic.
Groves' affidavit was edited by FBI officials and the technology contractor that designed CODIS, court records show.
Before submitting the affidavit, Groves wrote the group an e-mail saying, "Let's see if this will work," court records show.
It didn't.
After Judge Steven Platt rejected her arguments, Groves returned to court, saying the search was too risky. FBI officials had now warned her that it could corrupt the entire state database, something they would not help fix, she said.
Platt reaffirmed his earlier order, decrying Callaghan's "unilateral" decision to block the search.
"The court will not accept the notion that the extent of a person's due process rights hinges solely on whether some employee of the FBI chooses to authorize the use of the (database) software," Platt wrote.
The search went ahead in January 2007. The system did not go down, nor was Maryland expelled from the system.
In a database of fewer than 30,000 profiles, 32 pairs matched at nine or more loci. Three of those pairs were identical at 13 out of 13 loci.
Experts say they most likely are duplicates or belong to identical twins or brothers. It's also possible that one of the matches is between unrelated people - defying odds of 1 in 1 quadrillion.
Maryland officials never did the research to find out.
Corporate GOP tough guy flag waivers DO NOT PAY TAXES?
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002937306&parm1=3&cpage=1
Most Corporations Don’t Pay Income Taxes: GAO
By Richard Rubin, CQ Staff
Most corporations, including the vast majority of foreign companies doing business in the United States, pay no income taxes, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday.
During the eight-year period covered by the report, 72 percent of foreign-owned corporations went at least one year without owing taxes, and the same was true for 55 percent of domestic corporations.
Small companies were much more likely to pay no taxes than larger companies. Still, more than 3,500 large domestic corporations — with more than $250 million in assets or $50 million in gross receipts — did not pay taxes in 2005.
The report said about 80 percent of the companies studied paid no taxes because they didn’t generate any profit after expenses. Money-losing companies can legitimately owe no tax, and others can use provisions of the tax code to lower or eliminate their liability.
But the lawmakers who sought the data seized on the report as proof of corporate gamesmanship.
“It’s shameful that so many corporations make big profits and pay nothing to support our country,” said Byron L. Dorgan , D-N.D., who requested the report along with Carl Levin , D-Mich. “The tax system that allows this wholesale tax avoidance is an embarrassment and unfair to hardworking Americans who pay their fair share of taxes. We need to plug these tax loopholes and put these corporations back on the tax rolls.”
The report covered the period from 1998 through 2005. During that time, corporate income taxes as a share of gross domestic product dipped, from 2.2 percent in 1998 to 1.2 percent in 2003, the lowest share since 1983. But receipts jumped after that, hitting 2.7 percent in 2006 and 2007, according to the Office of Management and Budget. That was the highest share since the late 1970s.
The GAO report also found that foreign-owned corporations were somewhat more likely to report no income than domestic corporations. There are several possible reasons for that. Foreign corporations may be younger, and startups are more likely to have no net income after expenses. They may also be in industries with lower profit margins.
Another possibility could be the use of transfer pricing, which companies use to account for transactions between subsidiaries in different countries. Creative, rule-stretching use of transfer pricing can allow companies to push their profits into lower-taxed jurisdictions. The report does not attempt to examine whether illegal transfer-pricing caused the difference between foreign and domestic companies.
But companies looking for lower-taxed jurisdictions often take profits out of the United States. The country’s 35 percent top rate on corporate income is among the highest in the industrialized world.
Many tax experts and lawmakers from both parties, including Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel , D-N.Y., and presidential candidate Sen. John McCain , R-Ariz., have called for lowering the corporate tax rate. Lawmakers are likely to differ on what revenue-raising measures, if any, should be paired with a corporate rate cut.
In addition, Levin, Finance Chairman Max Baucus , D-Mont., and other senators have been trying to close the “tax gap,” the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected.
In a statement, Baucus said, “I’m committed to finding ways to improve compliance and reduce taxpayer burden so that we begin to bridge the tax gap, which accounts for $345 billion in legally owed but uncollected federal revenues each year.”
Most Corporations Don’t Pay Income Taxes: GAO
He said the GAO report “shows yet again the need for full-fledged [tax] reform next year....”
“We are constantly reviewing the tax code to find ways to crack down on those who are trying to avoid paying their fair share, without placing undue compliance or reporting burdens on honest taxpayers. As part of this on-going effort, we are reviewing the GAO report to see what it might suggest about where to target tax gap efforts,” Baucus said.
Most Corporations Don’t Pay Income Taxes: GAO
By Richard Rubin, CQ Staff
Most corporations, including the vast majority of foreign companies doing business in the United States, pay no income taxes, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday.
During the eight-year period covered by the report, 72 percent of foreign-owned corporations went at least one year without owing taxes, and the same was true for 55 percent of domestic corporations.
Small companies were much more likely to pay no taxes than larger companies. Still, more than 3,500 large domestic corporations — with more than $250 million in assets or $50 million in gross receipts — did not pay taxes in 2005.
The report said about 80 percent of the companies studied paid no taxes because they didn’t generate any profit after expenses. Money-losing companies can legitimately owe no tax, and others can use provisions of the tax code to lower or eliminate their liability.
But the lawmakers who sought the data seized on the report as proof of corporate gamesmanship.
“It’s shameful that so many corporations make big profits and pay nothing to support our country,” said Byron L. Dorgan , D-N.D., who requested the report along with Carl Levin , D-Mich. “The tax system that allows this wholesale tax avoidance is an embarrassment and unfair to hardworking Americans who pay their fair share of taxes. We need to plug these tax loopholes and put these corporations back on the tax rolls.”
The report covered the period from 1998 through 2005. During that time, corporate income taxes as a share of gross domestic product dipped, from 2.2 percent in 1998 to 1.2 percent in 2003, the lowest share since 1983. But receipts jumped after that, hitting 2.7 percent in 2006 and 2007, according to the Office of Management and Budget. That was the highest share since the late 1970s.
The GAO report also found that foreign-owned corporations were somewhat more likely to report no income than domestic corporations. There are several possible reasons for that. Foreign corporations may be younger, and startups are more likely to have no net income after expenses. They may also be in industries with lower profit margins.
Another possibility could be the use of transfer pricing, which companies use to account for transactions between subsidiaries in different countries. Creative, rule-stretching use of transfer pricing can allow companies to push their profits into lower-taxed jurisdictions. The report does not attempt to examine whether illegal transfer-pricing caused the difference between foreign and domestic companies.
But companies looking for lower-taxed jurisdictions often take profits out of the United States. The country’s 35 percent top rate on corporate income is among the highest in the industrialized world.
Many tax experts and lawmakers from both parties, including Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel , D-N.Y., and presidential candidate Sen. John McCain , R-Ariz., have called for lowering the corporate tax rate. Lawmakers are likely to differ on what revenue-raising measures, if any, should be paired with a corporate rate cut.
In addition, Levin, Finance Chairman Max Baucus , D-Mont., and other senators have been trying to close the “tax gap,” the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected.
In a statement, Baucus said, “I’m committed to finding ways to improve compliance and reduce taxpayer burden so that we begin to bridge the tax gap, which accounts for $345 billion in legally owed but uncollected federal revenues each year.”
Most Corporations Don’t Pay Income Taxes: GAO
He said the GAO report “shows yet again the need for full-fledged [tax] reform next year....”
“We are constantly reviewing the tax code to find ways to crack down on those who are trying to avoid paying their fair share, without placing undue compliance or reporting burdens on honest taxpayers. As part of this on-going effort, we are reviewing the GAO report to see what it might suggest about where to target tax gap efforts,” Baucus said.
More smoke from a kike lying JERKOFF PUNK named MUKASY and MUELLER
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/07/exigentinvestigation
FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act Abuse
Ryan Singel
FBI personnel who used misleading emergency letters to acquire thousands of Americans' phone records are the subject of a criminal investigation, top bureau officials told civil liberties groups Monday.
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TOMMY:
Anybody notice that NO SPECIFIC FBI OFFICIALS OR FBI AGENTS WHO ARE TARGETED are mentioned in this bogus story?
I can tell you this about FBI OPR: they do nothing, they did nothing, they will again DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR JUSTICE, THE CONSTITUTION OR THE DOJ GUIDELINES.
THERE WILL BE NO INDICTMENT OR ARREST OF ANY FBI AGENTS.
MUELLER has known about alot of crimes committed by both AUSTIN, TEXAS...SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA FBI AGENTS....and to this date, MUELLER AND HIS LYING PUNKS FAGGOTS AT FBI OPR have never once put a criminal referal on a US ATTORNEY'S DESK.
I'VE ALLEGED facts that prove FBI COMPLICITY IN MURDER OF JOE SANTOS JR...RICO FELONY CRIMES IN AUSTIN, TEXAS...TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS...OBSTRUCTIO OF JUSTICE....
...CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE WHEN SEN WELLSTONE WAS MURDERED
WITH Minneapolis FBI special agent and counterintel specialist STEVEN PLUTA using prior knowledge to cover up the crime (stolen air port logs at Duluth, Mn airport where Minneapolis FBI landed with prior knowledge).
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The unprecedented criminal probe, revealed at an outreach meeting led by FBI director Robert Mueller and general counsel Valerie Caproni at FBI headquarters, is looking at the actions of an antiterrorism team known as the Communications Analysis Unit, according to two people who attended the meeting independently and who informed Wired News, requesting anonymity.
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tommy:
Since when does FBI AGENTS LEAK TO WIRED...AND the leaker is not pisspounded...or expected to be pisspounded to stop leaks.
I don't believe it.
Bullshit.
This does not happen...and will not happen.
This is all smoke...amounting to nothing and no justice.
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The privately disclosed investigation would mark the first time government officials have faced possible prosecution for misuse of Patriot Act investigative tools, and highlights the seriousness of recent reports about the FBI's misuse of a powerful self-issued subpoena known as a National Security Letter.
Unit employees, who are not authorized to request records in investigations, sent form letters to telephone companies to acquire detailed billing information on specific phone numbers by falsely promising that subpoenas were already in the works.
According to a third source, FBI officials also said at the meeting that some bureau employees have already been granted immunity from prosecution in the investigation. The third source, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, did not recall, however, that FBI officials described the investigation as "criminal."
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tommy:
THIS IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT...A BOGUS INTERNAL FAGGOT CON ARTIST INVESTIGATION...in which no contact with the crime victim occurs, and of course...no real ZERO TOLERNECE PUBLIC INDICTMENT, ARREST, AND PROSECUTION OCCURS.
So uh...."how could this be 'not criminal'...while someone already has CRIMINAL IMMUNITY?"
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FBI spokesman Richard Kolko confirmed that the meeting took place but declined to comment on the content of the conversation, saying only, "The FBI does not confirm or deny investigations."
Neither the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General nor the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility returned calls for comment.
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TOMMY:
I signed a 47 page US DOJ OIG COMPLAINT that was obstructed...until Sen Leahy contacted Glen Fine and got him to reluctantly do his fucking job.
The complaint was moved by DOJ HQ...TO FBI OPR.
NEVER HEARD FROM MUELLER'S LITTLE PUNK ACT AT FBI OPR.
NEVER HEARD FROM MUELLER OR ANY US ATTORNEY IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
FBI OPR REFUSED TO corroborate the complaint with the usual form letter?
I only heard that FBI OPR HAD THE COMPLAINT, after I called Denver DOJ OIG...who told me in hushed tones?
WHAT KIND OF GUTLESS SNIVELING WEASEL DICK PUNK COCKSUCKER NAMED ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III....refuses to police the FBI or any police state actor...who continually commit outrageous stupid torts and crimes...while HOTDOG PUNK MUELLER GRANDSTANDS ALL DAY LONG TELLING YOU HOW GREAT HIS FBI SPECIAL ROBOTS ARE and always were?
MUELLER AND HIS BITCH CAPRONI...have refused to meet with me....to discuss justice or to notify me that any aspect of my complaints have ever been vetted, recieved, analyzed, and or zealously and professionally investigated by a pro constitutional objective decision maker?
BOB MUELLER IS THE PROBLEM.
THERE IS ALOT MORE ON BOB: Wellstone Murder...conspiracy to Obstruct Justice....MARK GORDON HARASSMENT...HARASSMENT OF MY 71 YEAR OLD FATHER....HARASSMENT AND ILLEGAL STALKING OF MY LITTLE SISTER LYNN BEAN...HARASSMENT AND STALKING OF ME, THOMAS S. BEAN because "I had knowledge of the FBI's TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY TO MURDER THE CHILDREN AT THE MURRAY BUILDING" when FBI used their manchurians McVeigh and Nichols to steal the detenators sent to a rock quarry.
Those detenators came from South Dakota...and ALLAN DOERING, an electrical engineer saw the schematic...and FBI AND SD BATF AND SFPD all had this info. THEY DID NOTHING.
THE CHILDREN WERE MURDERED....and MUELLER AND PLUTA AND HELLER AND MCMAHON AND BRONW, AND PATERSON all colluded to TAMPER WITH THE WITNESS, Thomas S. Bean.
I have not heard from LEAHY OR CONYERS ABOUT TESTIFYING ABOUT THIS FACT PATTERN?
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While the scope of the alleged investigation is unknown, investigators could be examining whether the unit violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or committed fraud by falsely swearing that subpoenas were being prepared.
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TOMMY:
There are alot more crimes being hidden...but no one (GLEN FINE...CAPRONI...FBI OPR...MUKASYKIKE...LEAHY, CONYERS....will talk to me about it?).
IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT FISA COURT WARRANTS WERE ALSO FALSELY PROCURED...alleging that THOMAS S. BEAN was an agent of a foreign power?
MUELLER ordered PLUTA AT SIOUX FALLS FBI to steal my x rays, while colluding with DR CHAD CARDA AND JENNIFER BURGER to OBSTRUCT MY COURSE OF MEDICAL CARE.
I HAVE NOT HEARD FROM MUELLER ABOUT MY COMPLAINT?
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National Security Letters are self-issued subpoenas that allow investigators in terrorism and espionage cases to require phone companies, banks, credit reporting agencies and internet service providers to turn over records on Americans considered "relevant" to an investigation. Those records are then fed into three computer systems, including a shared data-mining tool known as the Investigative Data Warehouse.
Though warned in 2001 to use this power sparingly, FBI agents issued more than 47,000 National Security Letters in 2005, more than half of which targeted Americans.
Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, have downplayed the gravity of the reported errors while attempting to mollify critics by promising to strengthen internal oversight.
The Communications Analysis Unit, part of the FBI's Communications Exploitation Section based in the agency's headquarters building, is tasked with analyzing terrorist communications and providing intelligence to the FBI's Counterterrorism Division. However, because it only supports investigators, unit employees cannot issue subpoenas and instead need to have counterterrorism investigators do so.
However, the Justice Department's Inspector General reported (.pdf) in March that the office issued 739 "exigent letters" to AT&T, Verizon and MCI seeking information on more than 3,000 phone numbers. The letters stated: "Due to exigent circumstances, it is requested that records for the attached list of telephone numbers be provided. Subpoenas requesting this information have been submitted to the U.S. Attorney's Office who will process and serve them formally to (Phone Company Name) as expeditiously as possible."
However, no such subpoenas had been filed with U.S. Attorneys and only later were some of the requests followed up with proper legal process, according to the Inspector General's report.
Several of the letters included requests for records for more than 100 phone numbers.
Bassem Youssef, the current head of the Communications Analysis Unit, told Congress in March that key FBI lawyers knew about the problem in 2005, when he notified them and put an end to the false letters.
Youssef first noticed the problem with the letters in 2005 when he took over the unit and quickly brought the matter to the attention of his supervisor and the FBI's Office of the General Counsel, according to a March letter (.pdf) sent by his lawyer, Stephen Kohn, to Sen. Chuck Grassley.
"At all times, the (National Security Law Branch) and the FBI (Office of the General Counsel) knew that the field offices and operational units were non-compliant in obtaining the legal documentation," Kohn wrote.
Youssef is currently suing the FBI for retaliating against him for complaining that the bureau was wasting his Arabic-language skills and antiterrorism experience. He attempted to get proper National Security Letters filed to provide post-facto legal backing for the exigent letters but was hampered by uncooperative field offices, according to the Senate letter.
Kohn did not respond to requests for comment.
FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act Abuse
Ryan Singel
FBI personnel who used misleading emergency letters to acquire thousands of Americans' phone records are the subject of a criminal investigation, top bureau officials told civil liberties groups Monday.
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TOMMY:
Anybody notice that NO SPECIFIC FBI OFFICIALS OR FBI AGENTS WHO ARE TARGETED are mentioned in this bogus story?
I can tell you this about FBI OPR: they do nothing, they did nothing, they will again DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR JUSTICE, THE CONSTITUTION OR THE DOJ GUIDELINES.
THERE WILL BE NO INDICTMENT OR ARREST OF ANY FBI AGENTS.
MUELLER has known about alot of crimes committed by both AUSTIN, TEXAS...SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA FBI AGENTS....and to this date, MUELLER AND HIS LYING PUNKS FAGGOTS AT FBI OPR have never once put a criminal referal on a US ATTORNEY'S DESK.
I'VE ALLEGED facts that prove FBI COMPLICITY IN MURDER OF JOE SANTOS JR...RICO FELONY CRIMES IN AUSTIN, TEXAS...TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS...OBSTRUCTIO OF JUSTICE....
...CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE WHEN SEN WELLSTONE WAS MURDERED
WITH Minneapolis FBI special agent and counterintel specialist STEVEN PLUTA using prior knowledge to cover up the crime (stolen air port logs at Duluth, Mn airport where Minneapolis FBI landed with prior knowledge).
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The unprecedented criminal probe, revealed at an outreach meeting led by FBI director Robert Mueller and general counsel Valerie Caproni at FBI headquarters, is looking at the actions of an antiterrorism team known as the Communications Analysis Unit, according to two people who attended the meeting independently and who informed Wired News, requesting anonymity.
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tommy:
Since when does FBI AGENTS LEAK TO WIRED...AND the leaker is not pisspounded...or expected to be pisspounded to stop leaks.
I don't believe it.
Bullshit.
This does not happen...and will not happen.
This is all smoke...amounting to nothing and no justice.
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The privately disclosed investigation would mark the first time government officials have faced possible prosecution for misuse of Patriot Act investigative tools, and highlights the seriousness of recent reports about the FBI's misuse of a powerful self-issued subpoena known as a National Security Letter.
Unit employees, who are not authorized to request records in investigations, sent form letters to telephone companies to acquire detailed billing information on specific phone numbers by falsely promising that subpoenas were already in the works.
According to a third source, FBI officials also said at the meeting that some bureau employees have already been granted immunity from prosecution in the investigation. The third source, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, did not recall, however, that FBI officials described the investigation as "criminal."
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tommy:
THIS IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT...A BOGUS INTERNAL FAGGOT CON ARTIST INVESTIGATION...in which no contact with the crime victim occurs, and of course...no real ZERO TOLERNECE PUBLIC INDICTMENT, ARREST, AND PROSECUTION OCCURS.
So uh...."how could this be 'not criminal'...while someone already has CRIMINAL IMMUNITY?"
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FBI spokesman Richard Kolko confirmed that the meeting took place but declined to comment on the content of the conversation, saying only, "The FBI does not confirm or deny investigations."
Neither the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General nor the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility returned calls for comment.
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TOMMY:
I signed a 47 page US DOJ OIG COMPLAINT that was obstructed...until Sen Leahy contacted Glen Fine and got him to reluctantly do his fucking job.
The complaint was moved by DOJ HQ...TO FBI OPR.
NEVER HEARD FROM MUELLER'S LITTLE PUNK ACT AT FBI OPR.
NEVER HEARD FROM MUELLER OR ANY US ATTORNEY IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
FBI OPR REFUSED TO corroborate the complaint with the usual form letter?
I only heard that FBI OPR HAD THE COMPLAINT, after I called Denver DOJ OIG...who told me in hushed tones?
WHAT KIND OF GUTLESS SNIVELING WEASEL DICK PUNK COCKSUCKER NAMED ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III....refuses to police the FBI or any police state actor...who continually commit outrageous stupid torts and crimes...while HOTDOG PUNK MUELLER GRANDSTANDS ALL DAY LONG TELLING YOU HOW GREAT HIS FBI SPECIAL ROBOTS ARE and always were?
MUELLER AND HIS BITCH CAPRONI...have refused to meet with me....to discuss justice or to notify me that any aspect of my complaints have ever been vetted, recieved, analyzed, and or zealously and professionally investigated by a pro constitutional objective decision maker?
BOB MUELLER IS THE PROBLEM.
THERE IS ALOT MORE ON BOB: Wellstone Murder...conspiracy to Obstruct Justice....MARK GORDON HARASSMENT...HARASSMENT OF MY 71 YEAR OLD FATHER....HARASSMENT AND ILLEGAL STALKING OF MY LITTLE SISTER LYNN BEAN...HARASSMENT AND STALKING OF ME, THOMAS S. BEAN because "I had knowledge of the FBI's TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY TO MURDER THE CHILDREN AT THE MURRAY BUILDING" when FBI used their manchurians McVeigh and Nichols to steal the detenators sent to a rock quarry.
Those detenators came from South Dakota...and ALLAN DOERING, an electrical engineer saw the schematic...and FBI AND SD BATF AND SFPD all had this info. THEY DID NOTHING.
THE CHILDREN WERE MURDERED....and MUELLER AND PLUTA AND HELLER AND MCMAHON AND BRONW, AND PATERSON all colluded to TAMPER WITH THE WITNESS, Thomas S. Bean.
I have not heard from LEAHY OR CONYERS ABOUT TESTIFYING ABOUT THIS FACT PATTERN?
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While the scope of the alleged investigation is unknown, investigators could be examining whether the unit violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or committed fraud by falsely swearing that subpoenas were being prepared.
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TOMMY:
There are alot more crimes being hidden...but no one (GLEN FINE...CAPRONI...FBI OPR...MUKASYKIKE...LEAHY, CONYERS....will talk to me about it?).
IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT FISA COURT WARRANTS WERE ALSO FALSELY PROCURED...alleging that THOMAS S. BEAN was an agent of a foreign power?
MUELLER ordered PLUTA AT SIOUX FALLS FBI to steal my x rays, while colluding with DR CHAD CARDA AND JENNIFER BURGER to OBSTRUCT MY COURSE OF MEDICAL CARE.
I HAVE NOT HEARD FROM MUELLER ABOUT MY COMPLAINT?
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National Security Letters are self-issued subpoenas that allow investigators in terrorism and espionage cases to require phone companies, banks, credit reporting agencies and internet service providers to turn over records on Americans considered "relevant" to an investigation. Those records are then fed into three computer systems, including a shared data-mining tool known as the Investigative Data Warehouse.
Though warned in 2001 to use this power sparingly, FBI agents issued more than 47,000 National Security Letters in 2005, more than half of which targeted Americans.
Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, have downplayed the gravity of the reported errors while attempting to mollify critics by promising to strengthen internal oversight.
The Communications Analysis Unit, part of the FBI's Communications Exploitation Section based in the agency's headquarters building, is tasked with analyzing terrorist communications and providing intelligence to the FBI's Counterterrorism Division. However, because it only supports investigators, unit employees cannot issue subpoenas and instead need to have counterterrorism investigators do so.
However, the Justice Department's Inspector General reported (.pdf) in March that the office issued 739 "exigent letters" to AT&T, Verizon and MCI seeking information on more than 3,000 phone numbers. The letters stated: "Due to exigent circumstances, it is requested that records for the attached list of telephone numbers be provided. Subpoenas requesting this information have been submitted to the U.S. Attorney's Office who will process and serve them formally to (Phone Company Name) as expeditiously as possible."
However, no such subpoenas had been filed with U.S. Attorneys and only later were some of the requests followed up with proper legal process, according to the Inspector General's report.
Several of the letters included requests for records for more than 100 phone numbers.
Bassem Youssef, the current head of the Communications Analysis Unit, told Congress in March that key FBI lawyers knew about the problem in 2005, when he notified them and put an end to the false letters.
Youssef first noticed the problem with the letters in 2005 when he took over the unit and quickly brought the matter to the attention of his supervisor and the FBI's Office of the General Counsel, according to a March letter (.pdf) sent by his lawyer, Stephen Kohn, to Sen. Chuck Grassley.
"At all times, the (National Security Law Branch) and the FBI (Office of the General Counsel) knew that the field offices and operational units were non-compliant in obtaining the legal documentation," Kohn wrote.
Youssef is currently suing the FBI for retaliating against him for complaining that the bureau was wasting his Arabic-language skills and antiterrorism experience. He attempted to get proper National Security Letters filed to provide post-facto legal backing for the exigent letters but was hampered by uncooperative field offices, according to the Senate letter.
Kohn did not respond to requests for comment.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Latest from GREENWALD on bogus ANTHRAX LETTERS FRAMEUP of suicide--stalking victim
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/06/fbi_documents/#
Glenn Greenwald
Wednesday Aug. 6, 2008 16:11 EDT
The FBI's selective release of documents in the anthrax case
(updated below - Update II - Update III)
After obtaining a federal judge's approval to unseal the documents in the anthrax investigation, the FBI has released selected documents relating to its case against Bruce Ivins. Those documents can be viewed here.
I'm in the process of reviewing these documents and will post preliminary thoughts here as I do so, updating this post as I make my way through them, and then will undoubtedly have more to write after I am able to speak with some experts with regard to the FBI's scientific claims.
One critical caveat to keep at the forefront of one's mind is that when one side is in exclusive possession of all documents and can pick and choose which ones to release in full or in part in order to make their case, while leaving out the parts that undercut the picture they want to paint - which is exactly what the FBI is doing here -- then it is very easy to make things look however you want.
The first FBI listed document -- the October, 2007 Probable Cause Affidavit from Postal Inspector Thomas Dellafera (here -- .pdf), summarizes the Government's case against Ivins as of that time, and it is a good starting point. That document, standing alone, contains some persuasive circumstantial evidence against Ivins -- no doubt about it. But it also contains very little scientific evidence, and more to the point, circumstantial evidence is extremely easy to manipulate when you're the only one who has it.
One of the most notable aspects of that document is the motive attributed to Ivins, which is several-fold (much of which is grounded in its attribution to Ivins of a right-wing political agenda):
----Ivins harbored animosity towards Catholic politicians who were pro-choice, particularly Sen. Daschle and Sen. Leahy, two of the targets of the most virulent anthrax strain that was sent;
----particularly in the wake of 9/11, he was angry towards those who embraced the ACLU position that civil liberties must be safeguarded, and Sens. Daschle and Leahy, at the time, were widely perceived to have been holding up passage of the Patriot Act, and he also was furious at those who wanted to "coddle" or "excuse" terrorists;
----he was angry at NBC News because one of its journalists, Gary Matsumoto (who subsequently was the producer of the ABC bentonite stories) was investigating the safety of the anthrax vaccine; and one of the anthrax letters was sent to Tom Brokaw at NBC; and,
----he was afraid that Government support for the anthrax vaccine he helped develop, and funding for future research, would dissipate, and an anthrax attack would revitalize that support.
On the ABC/Iraq front, Media Bistro today conducted an interview with Brian Ross regarding the bentonite story, which is here. In an article examining these issues, The Columbia Journalism Review supports my position, and that of Professors Rosen and Gillmor's, that Ross should disclose the identity of his sources, and adds several more questions he and ABC should answer. I will undoubtedly have more on that issue and the rest of the issues raised by the DOJ documents shortly. The Accountability Now petition to key members of Congress for an investigation -- needed more than ever -- is here.
UPDATE: One of the pieces of circumstantial evidence which the FBI stressed most heavily and which has clearly impressed The New York Times is that Ivins, in a September 26, 2001 email to a colleague (which the FBI appears not to have released in full), wrote: "Osama bin Laden has just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans." After citing that email, the FBI then claims in each of its Search Warrant affidavits (emphasis in original) that this is "language similar to the text of the anthrax letters postmarked two weeks later warning 'DEATH TO AMERICA,' 'DEATH TO ISRAEL.'"
Everyone can decide for themselves how persuasive they find that, but "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" were hardly some exotic or unique phrases the use of which by both Ivins and the anthrax attacker would constitute anything incriminating. To the contrary, those phrases were very common, and routinely appeared in press reports, particularly around the time of 9/11, for obvious reasons:
The Washington Post, 9/27/2001 -- Dateline: October 26, 2001:
Iran's top political and religious leader said today his country would not join a U.S.-led coalition against terrorism, dousing hopes that Iran's recent condemnations of terrorist attacks in the United States might lead to warming relations between the longtime antagonists. . . .
[Khamenei]'s speech, delivered to a group of war veterans and their families, was punctuated by chants from the crowd of "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" the traditional rallying cries of hard-liners in Iran.
Chicago Tribune, 9/27/2001:
In his speech to families of victims of the 1980-88 war against Iraq, Khamenei ruled out Iran's participation in any attack on Afghanistan or in a wider U.S.-led battle against terrorism.
"Iran will not provide any help in an attack by the U.S. and its allies. You who have always hurt Iran's interests, how can you ask for our help in attacking an oppressed country?" the ayatollah asked. The gathering of several thousand shouted their approval with cries of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel."
It's hardly surprising -- let alone shocking -- that Ivins would use those phrases to argue why Islamic radicals were a threat. Indeed, those exact phrases had long been prominent in the news in connection with numerous reports of Islamic radicals.
As but a few examples:
The Guardian, 12/28/2000:
Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told tens of thousands of worshippers gathered in and around a north Tehran mosque: "It is a human, religious, wise and historical duty for all the Muslim nations to support the oppressed Palestinian nation as much as possible."
Some hardliners responded with calls of "Death to Israel! Death to America!"
The Journal of Counterterrorism & Security International, Winter, 1999:
"Death to America; death to Israel! Israel is the enemy of Islam, America is the Great Satan!"
- Hizballah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah leading mourners in an angry chant at the funeral of Ali Deeb, a slain officer of the group (August 1999).
And news report -- particularly in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks -- had very vocally touted Osama bin Laden's 1996 "fatwa" against Americans and "Zionist Jews".
The persuasiveness of this "evidence" depends upon your believing that those phrases are so rare that Ivins' invocation of them in an email -- followed by the anthrax attacker's use of similar phrases two weeks later -- is striking or something, but if anything is true, it's that attributing to Islamic radicals the phrases "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" was a cliché, not some unique rhetorical fingerprint marking Ivins as the author of the anthrax letters. That's almost certainly why the anthrax attacker invoked those images in the letters -- because they were such common fears among Americans in the wake of 9/11.
For exactly the same reasons, in September, 2001, speculating about whether Osama bin Laden had anthrax was just as common -- for any Americans, let alone an anthrax vaccine researcher as Ivins was. As but one of countless examples, here's what Maureen Dowd wrote in The New York Times on September 26, 2001:
After all these finicky years of fighting everyday germs and inevitable mortality with fancy products, Americans are now confronted with the specter of terrorists in crop dusters and hazardous-waste trucks spreading really terrifying, deadly toxins like plague, smallpox, blister agents, nerve gas and botulism.
Women I know in New York and Washington debate whether to order Israeli vs. Marine Corps gas masks, half-hour lightweight gas masks vs. $400 eight-hour gas masks, baby gas masks and pet gas masks, with the same meticulous attention they gave to ordering no-foam-no-fat-no-whip lattes in more innocent days. They share information on which pharmacies still have Cipro, Zithromax and Doxycycline, all antibiotics that can be used for anthrax, the way they once traded tips on designer shoe bargains. They talk more now about real botulism than its trendy cosmetic derivative Botox.
I could spend the rest of the night listing all the examples of people in the media during that time talking about Osama bin Laden, bioterrorism, and anthrax specifically. The fact that Ivins was doing so -- with a colleague in the field -- is anything but surprising. It would be surprising if he hadn't been. I want to stress again that there does appear to be some convincing circumstantial evidence presented by the FBI (at least as of now, in its one-sided form), but I don't think that email remotely qualifies as such.
UPDATE II: What is most conspicuously absent from these FBI documents is any real forensic evidence linking Ivins to the anthrax that was sent. That's particularly striking because the FBI took numerous swabs of Ivins' residence, his office space, his laboratory devices (presumably including the lyothilizer he used), his locker, his cars. If they had discovered any anthrax traces that genetically matched what was sent in 2001, they certainly would have said so. But they don't.
It's long been claimed that the property that rendered so dangerous the anthrax sent to Daschle and Leahy was that it was airborne. At times it was even claimed that the anthrax was aerosolized. Under all circumstances, in order for it to be inhalation anthrax, it would have to disperse rather easily. Wouldn't one expect that the FBI's swabs would reveal traces of anthrax somewhere on the clothes, in the home or other physical surroundings of the anthrax attacker? Yet apparently those multiple swabbing episodes turned up nothing, at least based on the documents that were released today.
Nor are there any real answers to the question of how Ivins would have manufactured, on his own and without being detected, anthrax grade of the type that was used in the attacks. The numerous hours he spent alone in the lab doesn't address what many of his colleagues said would have been his technological inability to produce anthrax of this type.
Rep. Rush Holt today received a briefing from the FBI Director and just said this:
I appreciate the preliminary briefing that FBI Director Mueller gave me today. I am pleased the FBI finally has begun to answer the questions that the families of the victims have had for nearly seven years. While the circumstantial evidence pointing to Dr. Ivins that the Department of Justice released today is compelling, a number of important questions remain unanswered, such as why investigators remained focused on Dr. Hatfill long after they had begun to suspect Dr. Ivins of the crime and why investigators are so certain that Ivins acted alone. In addition, there are important policy questions for handling any future incidents of bioterrorism. I will continue to conduct additional oversight on this issue over the course of the next several months.
There are other questions besides those, too. And there will undoubtedly be more when and if the FBI releases the actual documents and data underlying their conclusions. It is critical to keep in mind that all they released is their own claims and summary about the evidence they have. The evidence itself continues to remain concealed, in their exclusive possession, examined by nobody.
What happened today with this selective document release is akin to a criminal trial where only the Prosecutor is allowed to see the relevant evidence, only the Prosecutor is allowed to select which evidence is presented, and only the Prosecutor speaks. Such a distorted, one-sided process doesn't even happen at Guantanamo, which should, by itself, indicate how much skepticism is warranted here until the FBI makes the actual evidence available so that its claims can be subjected to critical scrutiny.
UPDATE III: Long-time anthrax expert Dr. Meryl Nass (Curriculum Vitae here) uses crystal clear rationality to point out just some of the glaring flaws in what the FBI presented today. The fact that the FBI is plainly unable to place him near Princeton, New Jersey on either of the two dates on which the letters were sent -- and, worse, the fact that the FBI included several facts which cut against such a finding -- is, as Dr. Nass points out, by itself an enormous omission:
Put up or shut up: this is the most critical evidence in this case. If Ivins cannot be placed in New Jersey on those dates, he is not the attacker, or he did not act alone.
I highly recommend that her analysis be read in its entirety, particularly by any journalists who are preparing to opine on what took place today.
And while NPR's reporting on this matter earlier in the week left much to be desired, kudos to them for their article today, weaving in substantial commentary from Ivins' lawyer, Paul Kemp, and thus including vigorous challenges to and criticisms of most of the FBI's claim.
Glenn Greenwald
Wednesday Aug. 6, 2008 16:11 EDT
The FBI's selective release of documents in the anthrax case
(updated below - Update II - Update III)
After obtaining a federal judge's approval to unseal the documents in the anthrax investigation, the FBI has released selected documents relating to its case against Bruce Ivins. Those documents can be viewed here.
I'm in the process of reviewing these documents and will post preliminary thoughts here as I do so, updating this post as I make my way through them, and then will undoubtedly have more to write after I am able to speak with some experts with regard to the FBI's scientific claims.
One critical caveat to keep at the forefront of one's mind is that when one side is in exclusive possession of all documents and can pick and choose which ones to release in full or in part in order to make their case, while leaving out the parts that undercut the picture they want to paint - which is exactly what the FBI is doing here -- then it is very easy to make things look however you want.
The first FBI listed document -- the October, 2007 Probable Cause Affidavit from Postal Inspector Thomas Dellafera (here -- .pdf), summarizes the Government's case against Ivins as of that time, and it is a good starting point. That document, standing alone, contains some persuasive circumstantial evidence against Ivins -- no doubt about it. But it also contains very little scientific evidence, and more to the point, circumstantial evidence is extremely easy to manipulate when you're the only one who has it.
One of the most notable aspects of that document is the motive attributed to Ivins, which is several-fold (much of which is grounded in its attribution to Ivins of a right-wing political agenda):
----Ivins harbored animosity towards Catholic politicians who were pro-choice, particularly Sen. Daschle and Sen. Leahy, two of the targets of the most virulent anthrax strain that was sent;
----particularly in the wake of 9/11, he was angry towards those who embraced the ACLU position that civil liberties must be safeguarded, and Sens. Daschle and Leahy, at the time, were widely perceived to have been holding up passage of the Patriot Act, and he also was furious at those who wanted to "coddle" or "excuse" terrorists;
----he was angry at NBC News because one of its journalists, Gary Matsumoto (who subsequently was the producer of the ABC bentonite stories) was investigating the safety of the anthrax vaccine; and one of the anthrax letters was sent to Tom Brokaw at NBC; and,
----he was afraid that Government support for the anthrax vaccine he helped develop, and funding for future research, would dissipate, and an anthrax attack would revitalize that support.
On the ABC/Iraq front, Media Bistro today conducted an interview with Brian Ross regarding the bentonite story, which is here. In an article examining these issues, The Columbia Journalism Review supports my position, and that of Professors Rosen and Gillmor's, that Ross should disclose the identity of his sources, and adds several more questions he and ABC should answer. I will undoubtedly have more on that issue and the rest of the issues raised by the DOJ documents shortly. The Accountability Now petition to key members of Congress for an investigation -- needed more than ever -- is here.
UPDATE: One of the pieces of circumstantial evidence which the FBI stressed most heavily and which has clearly impressed The New York Times is that Ivins, in a September 26, 2001 email to a colleague (which the FBI appears not to have released in full), wrote: "Osama bin Laden has just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans." After citing that email, the FBI then claims in each of its Search Warrant affidavits (emphasis in original) that this is "language similar to the text of the anthrax letters postmarked two weeks later warning 'DEATH TO AMERICA,' 'DEATH TO ISRAEL.'"
Everyone can decide for themselves how persuasive they find that, but "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" were hardly some exotic or unique phrases the use of which by both Ivins and the anthrax attacker would constitute anything incriminating. To the contrary, those phrases were very common, and routinely appeared in press reports, particularly around the time of 9/11, for obvious reasons:
The Washington Post, 9/27/2001 -- Dateline: October 26, 2001:
Iran's top political and religious leader said today his country would not join a U.S.-led coalition against terrorism, dousing hopes that Iran's recent condemnations of terrorist attacks in the United States might lead to warming relations between the longtime antagonists. . . .
[Khamenei]'s speech, delivered to a group of war veterans and their families, was punctuated by chants from the crowd of "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" the traditional rallying cries of hard-liners in Iran.
Chicago Tribune, 9/27/2001:
In his speech to families of victims of the 1980-88 war against Iraq, Khamenei ruled out Iran's participation in any attack on Afghanistan or in a wider U.S.-led battle against terrorism.
"Iran will not provide any help in an attack by the U.S. and its allies. You who have always hurt Iran's interests, how can you ask for our help in attacking an oppressed country?" the ayatollah asked. The gathering of several thousand shouted their approval with cries of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel."
It's hardly surprising -- let alone shocking -- that Ivins would use those phrases to argue why Islamic radicals were a threat. Indeed, those exact phrases had long been prominent in the news in connection with numerous reports of Islamic radicals.
As but a few examples:
The Guardian, 12/28/2000:
Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told tens of thousands of worshippers gathered in and around a north Tehran mosque: "It is a human, religious, wise and historical duty for all the Muslim nations to support the oppressed Palestinian nation as much as possible."
Some hardliners responded with calls of "Death to Israel! Death to America!"
The Journal of Counterterrorism & Security International, Winter, 1999:
"Death to America; death to Israel! Israel is the enemy of Islam, America is the Great Satan!"
- Hizballah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah leading mourners in an angry chant at the funeral of Ali Deeb, a slain officer of the group (August 1999).
And news report -- particularly in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks -- had very vocally touted Osama bin Laden's 1996 "fatwa" against Americans and "Zionist Jews".
The persuasiveness of this "evidence" depends upon your believing that those phrases are so rare that Ivins' invocation of them in an email -- followed by the anthrax attacker's use of similar phrases two weeks later -- is striking or something, but if anything is true, it's that attributing to Islamic radicals the phrases "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" was a cliché, not some unique rhetorical fingerprint marking Ivins as the author of the anthrax letters. That's almost certainly why the anthrax attacker invoked those images in the letters -- because they were such common fears among Americans in the wake of 9/11.
For exactly the same reasons, in September, 2001, speculating about whether Osama bin Laden had anthrax was just as common -- for any Americans, let alone an anthrax vaccine researcher as Ivins was. As but one of countless examples, here's what Maureen Dowd wrote in The New York Times on September 26, 2001:
After all these finicky years of fighting everyday germs and inevitable mortality with fancy products, Americans are now confronted with the specter of terrorists in crop dusters and hazardous-waste trucks spreading really terrifying, deadly toxins like plague, smallpox, blister agents, nerve gas and botulism.
Women I know in New York and Washington debate whether to order Israeli vs. Marine Corps gas masks, half-hour lightweight gas masks vs. $400 eight-hour gas masks, baby gas masks and pet gas masks, with the same meticulous attention they gave to ordering no-foam-no-fat-no-whip lattes in more innocent days. They share information on which pharmacies still have Cipro, Zithromax and Doxycycline, all antibiotics that can be used for anthrax, the way they once traded tips on designer shoe bargains. They talk more now about real botulism than its trendy cosmetic derivative Botox.
I could spend the rest of the night listing all the examples of people in the media during that time talking about Osama bin Laden, bioterrorism, and anthrax specifically. The fact that Ivins was doing so -- with a colleague in the field -- is anything but surprising. It would be surprising if he hadn't been. I want to stress again that there does appear to be some convincing circumstantial evidence presented by the FBI (at least as of now, in its one-sided form), but I don't think that email remotely qualifies as such.
UPDATE II: What is most conspicuously absent from these FBI documents is any real forensic evidence linking Ivins to the anthrax that was sent. That's particularly striking because the FBI took numerous swabs of Ivins' residence, his office space, his laboratory devices (presumably including the lyothilizer he used), his locker, his cars. If they had discovered any anthrax traces that genetically matched what was sent in 2001, they certainly would have said so. But they don't.
It's long been claimed that the property that rendered so dangerous the anthrax sent to Daschle and Leahy was that it was airborne. At times it was even claimed that the anthrax was aerosolized. Under all circumstances, in order for it to be inhalation anthrax, it would have to disperse rather easily. Wouldn't one expect that the FBI's swabs would reveal traces of anthrax somewhere on the clothes, in the home or other physical surroundings of the anthrax attacker? Yet apparently those multiple swabbing episodes turned up nothing, at least based on the documents that were released today.
Nor are there any real answers to the question of how Ivins would have manufactured, on his own and without being detected, anthrax grade of the type that was used in the attacks. The numerous hours he spent alone in the lab doesn't address what many of his colleagues said would have been his technological inability to produce anthrax of this type.
Rep. Rush Holt today received a briefing from the FBI Director and just said this:
I appreciate the preliminary briefing that FBI Director Mueller gave me today. I am pleased the FBI finally has begun to answer the questions that the families of the victims have had for nearly seven years. While the circumstantial evidence pointing to Dr. Ivins that the Department of Justice released today is compelling, a number of important questions remain unanswered, such as why investigators remained focused on Dr. Hatfill long after they had begun to suspect Dr. Ivins of the crime and why investigators are so certain that Ivins acted alone. In addition, there are important policy questions for handling any future incidents of bioterrorism. I will continue to conduct additional oversight on this issue over the course of the next several months.
There are other questions besides those, too. And there will undoubtedly be more when and if the FBI releases the actual documents and data underlying their conclusions. It is critical to keep in mind that all they released is their own claims and summary about the evidence they have. The evidence itself continues to remain concealed, in their exclusive possession, examined by nobody.
What happened today with this selective document release is akin to a criminal trial where only the Prosecutor is allowed to see the relevant evidence, only the Prosecutor is allowed to select which evidence is presented, and only the Prosecutor speaks. Such a distorted, one-sided process doesn't even happen at Guantanamo, which should, by itself, indicate how much skepticism is warranted here until the FBI makes the actual evidence available so that its claims can be subjected to critical scrutiny.
UPDATE III: Long-time anthrax expert Dr. Meryl Nass (Curriculum Vitae here) uses crystal clear rationality to point out just some of the glaring flaws in what the FBI presented today. The fact that the FBI is plainly unable to place him near Princeton, New Jersey on either of the two dates on which the letters were sent -- and, worse, the fact that the FBI included several facts which cut against such a finding -- is, as Dr. Nass points out, by itself an enormous omission:
Put up or shut up: this is the most critical evidence in this case. If Ivins cannot be placed in New Jersey on those dates, he is not the attacker, or he did not act alone.
I highly recommend that her analysis be read in its entirety, particularly by any journalists who are preparing to opine on what took place today.
And while NPR's reporting on this matter earlier in the week left much to be desired, kudos to them for their article today, weaving in substantial commentary from Ivins' lawyer, Paul Kemp, and thus including vigorous challenges to and criticisms of most of the FBI's claim.