Doubts about WOODWARD'S lying by omission version of WATERGATE--FELT--COINTELPRO

FROM ALEX CONSTANTINE'S BLACK LIST (a recommended blog research site):



http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2008/12/was-fbis-mark-felt-deep-throatdeep.html





Monday, December 29, 2008


Was the FBI's Mark Felt "Deep Throat?"/"Deep Throat"'s Operation COINTELPRO Dwarfed Watergate in Criminality




" ... Woodward limited the investigation to the cover-up of a routine phone tap, slush funds, bribes and "what the president knew." Behind the whitewash you find CHAOS, the interagency assassination program, and Nixon connections to the Kennedy murders, CIA & drugs and other atrocities. Woodward's intelligence function was to publicly contain these horror stories and limit the damage to the same intelligence community that had no qualms about recruiting Nazis and provoking genocidal wars. What do you expect from these bottom feeders? Woodward is one of them - a Linda Lovelace with no gag reflex. ... "

By Alex Constantine




Woodward didn't need a secret informant because he had the second-highest known security clearance as a Naval intelligence officer assigned to the Pentagon, where, it has been reported, he briefed steely-jawed fascist Al Haig. This was SIX mere months before taking a reporter's position (intelligence assignment?) at the Washington Post - a charge that he has publicly denied.

That's a serious lie - especially considering that he's entrusted with feeding the masses credible information on critical national issues- but he had to deny it or the whole charade behind the books and movie falls apart and he's no longer top cat.

But he's been caught fabricating facts since, offers no real explanation, just moves on to the next stretcher.

Remember, " ... Woodward asserted that the outing of Plame caused no serious damage ... " Etc.

Bald-faced about it, too.

http://nightlight.typepad.com/nightlight/2005/10/either_woodward.html

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tommy:


I point out that...being a former ONI operative, WOODWARD would be classified as a "patriot" who DOES NOT APPRECIATE TREASON when a CIA operative at BREWSTER JENNINGS is trying to stop nuke triggers from being passed by the KHAN NETWORK...right?

No comment about TREASON from Woody?

And...as WAYNE MADSEN REPORT reported...ALOT OF OPERATIVES GOT WHACKED OUT WHEN PLAME GOT OUTED...so...murder and obstruction are issues in this...right?

WOODWARD is a sneaky sumbitch who triangulated with HAIG and DEAN who sticks out as a sneaky two faced clever sumbitch who "talks a good line now a days about the importance of the Constitution and how criminal the GOP scum were under PRESIDENT CHENEY".

With DEAN, you cannot figure what team he is playing for...alot like Arlen Spector who flips and flops so much...no body knows WHO THE FUCK THESE GUYS REALLY ARE behind the kabuki theatre porcelin masks?

DEAN is famous for...showing up early at DOJ to "scout out info" from other attorneys desks?

DEAN also married a pretty blonde hooker (?) who was linked to the usual "honeytrap" setups when hookers, hotel rooms, and videotape all play a quick hand of "EXTORTION OF THE RICH, HORNY AND FAMOUS".

Got to remember that...ONI with Admiral MOORER was all over KISSINGER's nat sec papers...while NIXON tried to end Viet Nam...and...BROWN AND ROOT had a 1 billion dollar contract to dredge the harbor at Hai Phong.

That's a lot of money for ADMIRAL MOORER and his swabbie brass sumbitches.

Nixon had to go...too much money would be lost if Viet Nam ended...doncha know?

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Then we learned that Woodward had been leaked the CIA connection and had a secret, vested interest in lying about the case, conveniently not mentioning that he was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Plame investigation.

Academics challenged the claim that Mark Felt was Deep Throat, but the Mockingbird press ran with it anyways - with some cautions. Now they state it as a fact, disregarding those informed reservations.

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tommy:


FAR MORE LIKELY THAT "DEEP THROAT" was actually "illegally wiretaped" SIGINT wi HAIG--FELT--BUTTERFIELD--DEAN delivering the illegally obtained info.

Would not surprise me that FBI was all over this coup de'etat ON NIXON, only because NIXON WANTED OUT OF THE VIET NAM WAR causing a future loss in no bid front loaded government contracts.

Money is often the angle on these things.

CIA IS ALWAYS involved in making money.

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Par for the course - the corporate-military media (including the Post) are a garden for planted stories, and opinion formation around deliberate disinformation ("Chavez is a communist dictator!" - "Bird Flu will kill hundreds of millions worldwide!" - "Bruce Ivins did it all!" - "Nutrasweet is safe!" - "Oswald killed Kennedy!" "The CIA denies importing contra cocaine!" - "WMDs in Iraq!" - "Mark Felt was Deep Throat!') is commonplace.

"In his most recent book, Bush at War, Bob Woodward brags that he was given access to the deeply classified minutes of National Security Council meetings. ... "
http://nightlight.typepad.com/nightlight/2005/10/either_woodward.html

What do you say about a reporter like this, how to describe him? Red-lights come to mind ...

Deep Throat was a complex of Woodward himself in collusion with officials of the CIA, FBI and military intelligence. Woodward limited the investigation to the cover-up of a routine phone tap, slush funds, bribes and "what the president knew." Behind the whitewash you find Nixon connections to the Kennedy assassination, CIA & drugs and other atrocities. Woodward's intelligence function was to publicly contain these horror stories and limit the damage to the same intelligence community that had no qualms about recruiting Nazis and provoking genocidal wars.

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tommy:


A good source confirming CIA RECRUITING NAZIS is a story called "Conversations with the Crow" at TBRNEWS.com.

The "crow" is CROWLEY who allegedly talked to reporter before he died.

Cannot confirm the authenticity of "Conversations with the Crow" since...it appears from the transcript that both DOUGLAS AND CROWLEY are the same person using same metaphors, syntax...witticisms...attitude...style.
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What do you expect from these bottom feeders? Woodward is one of them - a Linda Lovelace with no gag reflex.
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Deep Throat's Operation COINTELPRO dwarfed Watergate in criminality

December 22, 2008

by Michael Richardson, Boston Progressive Examiner



William Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat' of Watergate infamy, but he was not the hero some have portrayed him for his disclosures of Richard Nixon's 'Plumbers' squad. Felt was a counter-intelligence agent during WWII as a new recruit to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For years leading up to the Watergate burglary, Felt was chief of the Inspection Division at the Bureau and oversaw a massive, clandestine operation against domestic political targets code-named COINTELPRO.

At the time of Watergate, J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI and was responsible for the creation of COINTELPRO. Felt's role was quality-control over field operations. Felt sat on the COINTELPRO directorate and never blew the whistle on illegal conduct by FBI agents nationwide that went on for years.

As chief inspector, Felt monitored and approved a host of illegal operations nationwide directed at hundreds of individual targets including harassment, false prosecutions, threats, blackmail, and inciting violence.

Hoover's secret war on domestic political activists had a lethal ferocity against the main targets, the Black Panther Party. The undercover operation functioned at full steam from the mid-60's until a break-in at the Media, Pennsylvania satellite FBI office in March 1971 which revealed COINTELPRO memos.

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tommy:

Breakin at MEDIA was...a way for honest FBI agents to get COINTELPRO out in the open at CHURCH HEARINGS.

WITH FBI...you get a battle between hard line zealots and honest constitutional agents.

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Noam Chomsky recently put Watergate and COINTELPRO in context during an interview with journalist Hans Bennett. Chomsky explained, "The information about COINTELPRO actually came out at the same time as the Watergate crisis (mid-70's)."

"Here's the national political police--for four administrations--carrying out a massive campaign of repression leading all the way to assassinations. It targeted everyone--including the women's-New Left-and Black movements--and the media simply didn't care."

Chomsky continued, "That shows how human and civil rights are valued by the political and intellectual elite."

Felt was hauled before a U.S. Senate committee investigating COINTELPRO five times but stonewalled the committee. In his autobiographical memoir, Felt was unrepentant calling the investigation "an exercise in futility and frustration."

Felt advocated continuing COINTELPRO's illegal tactics. "I emphasized as strongly as I could that our country's complacency against domestic terrorism would eventually lead to disaster."

Felt's enthusiasm for dirty tricks caused him to order illegal wiretaps after Hoover's death. Felt was prosecuted and convicted for his misdeeds but pardoned by President Ronald Reagan and escaped punishment for his crimes.

Posted by Alex Constantine at 8:22 PM

JESSE VENTURA as Gov of Minnesota TALKS ABOUT CIA INTERROGATION AT CAPITAL BUILDING IN MN?

Click blogpost title above to get the video of Jesse Ventura.





CIA wanted to know how Ventura got elected in Minnesota?

What does that have to do with A CIA INTERROGATION who do not have a perogative to violate POSSE COMITATUS ACT?

CIA is at every state house so they can coordinate the DRUG DISTRIBUTION FROM THE THIRD WORLD...with corrupt FED, STATE, AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.

THAT IS THE ANSWER TO JESSE VENTURA'S curiosity about CIA IN MINNESOTA?

ALEX CONSTANTINE has...ummm...sort of stepped back from his research?

ALEX CONSTANTINE, a very significant anti fascist researcher and blogger and author...has thrown in the towl.

Nobody knows why.

He had a real important blog called ALEX CONSTANTINE'S BLACK LIST.

I visited it all the time, and poached stories with citation to Alex...at this blog.

He will be missed.

Nobody knows what happened...but I suspect he "was targeted before, and the nazis got to him recently".




Alex has thrown in the towl http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/ :


"Monday, December 22, 2008

Blacklist will Remain a Going Concern


I'll be blogging here on a limited basis until further notice.

The other political AC blogs have been discontinued due to a lack of public support of any kind.

The Blacklist and my music blog will remain active, though I'll be scaling down my political research output here.

The Mae Brussell book and Psychic Dictatorship II are no longer available.

Explanation: Two thousand hits a day is not enough to have an effect on America's love affair with corporate fascism - and having been tortured and nearly lost my life on a few occasions trying to pull us out of this nightmare - I find that Americans are, in general, not worth the trouble.

They will have their fascism despite my warnings and best efforts to turn it back. When the smoke clears, I will wonder what everyone was thinking ... - AC





tommy:




I agree.

America is not worth getting tortured over.

ALEX AND HIS BOOKS, were some of the best alt research out there.

I'll miss his input.

But, I think he will always be addicted to connecting the dots, I just hope he takes my advice and gets to another safer country with real civil liberties.

FBI ROVING BUGS uses your cellphone...anytime without warrant...WHO IS POLICING BOB MUELLER'S GESTAPO?

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-150467.html


By Declan McCullagh

Posted on ZDNet News: Dec 1, 2006 10:20:00 PM



The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.


The technique is called a "roving bug," and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.

Nextel cell phones owned by two alleged mobsters, John Ardito and his attorney Peter Peluso, were used by the FBI to listen in on nearby conversations. The FBI views Ardito as one of the most powerful men in the Genovese family, a major part of the national Mafia.

The surveillance technique came to light in an opinion published this week by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan. He ruled that the "roving bug" was legal because federal wiretapping law is broad enough to permit eavesdropping even of conversations that take place near a suspect's cell phone.

Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set.

While the Genovese crime family prosecution appears to be the first time a remote-eavesdropping mechanism has been used in a criminal case, the technique has been discussed in security circles for years.

The U.S. Commerce Department's security office warns that "a cellular telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone." An article in the Financial Times last year said mobile providers can "remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call."

Nextel and Samsung handsets and the Motorola Razr are especially vulnerable to software downloads that activate their microphones, said James Atkinson, a counter-surveillance consultant who has worked closely with government agencies. "They can be remotely accessed and made to transmit room audio all the time," he said. "You can do that without having physical access to the phone."

Because modern handsets are miniature computers, downloaded software could modify the usual interface that always displays when a call is in progress. The spyware could then place a call to the FBI and activate the microphone--all without the owner knowing it happened. (The FBI declined to comment on Friday.)

"If a phone has in fact been modified to act as a bug, the only way to counteract that is to either have a bugsweeper follow you around 24-7, which is not practical, or to peel the battery off the phone," Atkinson said. Security-conscious corporate executives routinely remove the batteries from their cell phones, he added.



FBI's physical bugs discovered



The FBI's Joint Organized Crime Task Force, which includes members of the New York police department, had little luck with conventional surveillance of the Genovese family. They did have a confidential source who reported the suspects met at restaurants including Brunello Trattoria in New Rochelle, N.Y., which the FBI then bugged.

But in July 2003, Ardito and his crew discovered bugs in three restaurants, and the FBI quietly removed the rest. Conversations recounted in FBI affidavits show the men were also highly suspicious of being tailed by police and avoided conversations on cell phones whenever possible.

That led the FBI to resort to "roving bugs," first of Ardito's Nextel handset and then of Peluso's. U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones approved them in a series of orders in 2003 and 2004, and said she expected to "be advised of the locations" of the suspects when their conversations were recorded.

Details of how the Nextel bugs worked are sketchy. Court documents, including an affidavit (p1) and (p2) prepared by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Kolodner in September 2003, refer to them as a "listening device placed in the cellular telephone." That phrase could refer to software or hardware.

One private investigator interviewed by CNET News.com, Skipp Porteous of Sherlock Investigations in New York, said he believed the FBI planted a physical bug somewhere in the Nextel handset and did not remotely activate the microphone.

"They had to have physical possession of the phone to do it," Porteous said. "There are several ways that they could have gotten physical possession. Then they monitored the bug from fairly near by."

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TOMMY:


Fbi pulled this shit on me...when they ran my father as a the snitch who "...gave me a cell phone for christmas, and also...made the call to set up the account?...". This was all done as another form of ENTRAPMENT when I made it known to my father and FBI SNITCH MARK GORDON THAT "...I don't want a home phone installed...".

After I cancelled the home phone (That my father working with FBI paid for?) ...my Dad introduced the bugged cell phone.

Later, after being tortured and poisened and chipped and mind controlled...I had to leave my home and the FED DIST COURT IN SIOUX FALLS. Then...FBI AND THEIR ONGOING SURVEILLANCE (a never ending FBI surveillance using corporate civilian contractors working with NSA?...CIA?...DOD CIFA UNIT?...BLACKWATER CONTRACTORS DOING THE MURDERS IN SOUTH DAKOTA?) continually broke into my vehicle to steal my photos, tapes, tape recorder, clothes...auto parts...and cell phones.

FBI STOLD MY CELL PHONES...that were bugged

FBI AND SD US ATTORNEYS also got around the fact that title of my vehicle was in my name..and they did not have a GPS TRACKING DEVICE --LISTENING DEVICE TITLE III WARRANT FOR TEN WESTERN STATES. TO GET AROUND THIS...FBI DIRECTED MY FATHER TO TELL ME TO SIGN TITLE OF MY VEHICLE TO HIM, otherwise I would be in violation of the law requiring insurance on the vehicle.

WITHOUT INSURANCE, I WOULD BE TICKETED AND CHARGED AND ARRESTED.

SO I SIGNED TITLE TO MY FATHER, TO GET INSURANCE.

THEN FBI AGENT STEVEN PLUTA BACKDATED THE TITLE, to make it all look good.

CAN SOMEONE AT FBI HQ tell me why FBI AND SD US ATTY have possession of my vehicle title??

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But other experts thought microphone activation is the more likely scenario, mostly because the battery in a tiny bug would not have lasted a year and because court documents say the bug works anywhere "within the United States"--in other words, outside the range of a nearby FBI agent armed with a radio receiver.

In addition, a paranoid Mafioso likely would be suspicious of any ploy to get him to hand over a cell phone so a bug could be planted. And Kolodner's affidavit seeking a court order lists Ardito's phone number, his 15-digit International Mobile Subscriber Identifier, and lists Nextel Communications as the service provider, all of which would be unnecessary if a physical bug were being planted.

A BBC article from 2004 reported that intelligence agencies routinely employ the remote-activiation method. "A mobile sitting on the desk of a politician or businessman can act as a powerful, undetectable bug," the article said, "enabling them to be activated at a later date to pick up sounds even when the receiver is down."

For its part, Nextel said through spokesman Travis Sowders: "We're not aware of this investigation, and we weren't asked to participate."

Other mobile providers were reluctant to talk about this kind of surveillance. Verizon Wireless said only that it "works closely with law enforcement and public safety officials. When presented with legally authorized orders, we assist law enforcement in every way possible."

A Motorola representative said that "your best source in this case would be the FBI itself." Cingular, T-Mobile, and the CTIA trade association did not immediately respond to requests for comment.




Mobsters: The surveillance vanguard


This isn't the first time the federal government has pushed at the limits of electronic surveillance when investigating reputed mobsters.

In one case involving Nicodemo S. Scarfo, the alleged mastermind of a loan shark operation in New Jersey, the FBI found itself thwarted when Scarfo used Pretty Good Privacy software (PGP) to encode confidential business data.

So with a judge's approval, FBI agents repeatedly snuck into Scarfo's business to plant a keystroke logger and monitor its output.

Like Ardito's lawyers, Scarfo's defense attorneys argued that the then-novel technique was not legal and that the information gleaned through it could not be used. Also like Ardito, Scarfo's lawyers lost when a judge ruled in January 2002 that the evidence was admissible.

This week, Judge Kaplan in the southern district of New York concluded that the "roving bugs" were legally permitted to capture hundreds of hours of conversations because the FBI had obtained a court order and alternatives probably wouldn't work.

The FBI's "applications made a sufficient case for electronic surveillance," Kaplan wrote. "They indicated that alternative methods of investigation either had failed or were unlikely to produce results, in part because the subjects deliberately avoided government surveillance."

Bill Stollhans, president of the Private Investigators Association of Virginia, said such a technique would be legally reserved for police armed with court orders, not private investigators.

There is "no law that would allow me as a private investigator to use that type of technique," he said. "That is exclusively for law enforcement. It is not allowable or not legal in the private sector. No client of mine can ask me to overhear telephone or strictly oral conversations."

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tommy:



FBI HQ works with all gov contract surveillance...aka private investigators, ex cops, ex military, ex feds...who then "give the info to the FBI who use the info illegally in violation of Title III's prohibition on "...dissemination of illegally obtained info in violation of fed wiretapping...". IT'S CALLED THE HAND OFF METHOD OF LAUNDERING AND USING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO.

FBI DOES IT ALL THE TIME.

THAT'S WHY FBI STOLE MY TAPES AND SEARCHED MY FATHER'S HOME.

I HAD EVIDENCE OF MY PHONE CALLS, WHEN I GAVE THEM DISINFO...THAT SHOWED UP IN SWORN WIRETAP AFFADAVITS.

THOSE FALSE STATEMENTS AND EVIDENCE OF FBI CRIMES...was a big worry for SPECIAL AGENT STEVEN PLUTA, who then...worked with SFPD AND DOD CIFA UNIT TO DESTROY AN HONEST JUDGE NAMED PETER GREGORY who found out and WOULD NOT TURN OVER HIS JUDICIAL COPY OF THE BOGUS AFFADAVITS.

THOSE AFFADAVITS PROMOTED BY DAVE NELSON, local punk theif and prosecutor in Sioux Falls, contained more BRADY PROBLEMS WITH FBI HOLDING BACK THE EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE FROM THE COERCED POLYGRAPH SESSIONS WHEN DR GORDON WAS FORCED TO COOPERATE.

ALL THE INFO IS SUPPRESSED UNDER EXCLUSIONARY RULE AND FRANKS DOCTRINE.

FBI PUNK BOB MUELLER KNOWS THIS...AND SO DOES LEAHY AND CONYERS who still refuse to contact me or have me testify about HOW THE FBI BREAKS THE LAW, AND THEN BREAKS MORE LAWS TO COVER UP THE INITIAL FELONIES?

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Surreptitious activation of built-in microphones by the FBI has been done before. A 2003 lawsuit revealed that the FBI was able to surreptitiously turn on the built-in microphones in automotive systems like General Motors' OnStar to snoop on passengers' conversations.

When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in, passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations were being monitored.

Malicious hackers have followed suit. A report last year said Spanish authorities had detained a man who write a Trojan horse that secretly activated a computer's video camera and forwarded him the recordings.

The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.

The technique is called a "roving bug," and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.

Nextel cell phones owned by two alleged mobsters, John Ardito and his attorney Peter Peluso, were used by the FBI to listen in on nearby conversations. The FBI views Ardito as one of the most powerful men in the Genovese family, a major part of the national Mafia.

The surveillance technique came to light in an opinion published this week by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan. He ruled that the "roving bug" was legal because federal wiretapping law is broad enough to permit eavesdropping even of conversations that take place near a suspect's cell phone.

Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set.

While the Genovese crime family prosecution appears to be the first time a remote-eavesdropping mechanism has been used in a criminal case, the technique has been discussed in security circles for years.

The U.S. Commerce Department's security office warns that "a cellular telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone." An article in the Financial Times last year said mobile providers can "remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call."

Nextel and Samsung handsets and the Motorola Razr are especially vulnerable to software downloads that activate their microphones, said James Atkinson, a counter-surveillance consultant who has worked closely with government agencies. "They can be remotely accessed and made to transmit room audio all the time," he said. "You can do that without having physical access to the phone."

Because modern handsets are miniature computers, downloaded software could modify the usual interface that always displays when a call is in progress. The spyware could then place a call to the FBI and activate the microphone--all without the owner knowing it happened. (The FBI declined to comment on Friday.)

"If a phone has in fact been modified to act as a bug, the only way to counteract that is to either have a bugsweeper follow you around 24-7, which is not practical, or to peel the battery off the phone," Atkinson said. Security-conscious corporate executives routinely remove the batteries from their cell phones, he added.

FBI's physical bugs discovered
The FBI's Joint Organized Crime Task Force, which includes members of the New York police department, had little luck with conventional surveillance of the Genovese family. They did have a confidential source who reported the suspects met at restaurants including Brunello Trattoria in New Rochelle, N.Y., which the FBI then bugged.

But in July 2003, Ardito and his crew discovered bugs in three restaurants, and the FBI quietly removed the rest. Conversations recounted in FBI affidavits show the men were also highly suspicious of being tailed by police and avoided conversations on cell phones whenever possible.

That led the FBI to resort to "roving bugs," first of Ardito's Nextel handset and then of Peluso's. U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones approved them in a series of orders in 2003 and 2004, and said she expected to "be advised of the locations" of the suspects when their conversations were recorded.

Details of how the Nextel bugs worked are sketchy. Court documents, including an affidavit (p1) and (p2) prepared by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Kolodner in September 2003, refer to them as a "listening device placed in the cellular telephone." That phrase could refer to software or hardware.

One private investigator interviewed by CNET News.com, Skipp Porteous of Sherlock Investigations in New York, said he believed the FBI planted a physical bug somewhere in the Nextel handset and did not remotely activate the microphone.

"They had to have physical possession of the phone to do it," Porteous said. "There are several ways that they could have gotten physical possession. Then they monitored the bug from fairly near by."

But other experts thought microphone activation is the more likely scenario, mostly because the battery in a tiny bug would not have lasted a year and because court documents say the bug works anywhere "within the United States"--in other words, outside the range of a nearby FBI agent armed with a radio receiver.

In addition, a paranoid Mafioso likely would be suspicious of any ploy to get him to hand over a cell phone so a bug could be planted. And Kolodner's affidavit seeking a court order lists Ardito's phone number, his 15-digit International Mobile Subscriber Identifier, and lists Nextel Communications as the service provider, all of which would be unnecessary if a physical bug were being planted.

A BBC article from 2004 reported that intelligence agencies routinely employ the remote-activiation method. "A mobile sitting on the desk of a politician or businessman can act as a powerful, undetectable bug," the article said, "enabling them to be activated at a later date to pick up sounds even when the receiver is down."

For its part, Nextel said through spokesman Travis Sowders: "We're not aware of this investigation, and we weren't asked to participate."

Other mobile providers were reluctant to talk about this kind of surveillance. Verizon Wireless said only that it "works closely with law enforcement and public safety officials. When presented with legally authorized orders, we assist law enforcement in every way possible."

A Motorola representative said that "your best source in this case would be the FBI itself." Cingular, T-Mobile, and the CTIA trade association did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Mobsters: The surveillance vanguard
This isn't the first time the federal government has pushed at the limits of electronic surveillance when investigating reputed mobsters.

In one case involving Nicodemo S. Scarfo, the alleged mastermind of a loan shark operation in New Jersey, the FBI found itself thwarted when Scarfo used Pretty Good Privacy software (PGP) to encode confidential business data.

So with a judge's approval, FBI agents repeatedly snuck into Scarfo's business to plant a keystroke logger and monitor its output.

Like Ardito's lawyers, Scarfo's defense attorneys argued that the then-novel technique was not legal and that the information gleaned through it could not be used. Also like Ardito, Scarfo's lawyers lost when a judge ruled in January 2002 that the evidence was admissible.

This week, Judge Kaplan in the southern district of New York concluded that the "roving bugs" were legally permitted to capture hundreds of hours of conversations because the FBI had obtained a court order and alternatives probably wouldn't work.

The FBI's "applications made a sufficient case for electronic surveillance," Kaplan wrote. "They indicated that alternative methods of investigation either had failed or were unlikely to produce results, in part because the subjects deliberately avoided government surveillance."

Bill Stollhans, president of the Private Investigators Association of Virginia, said such a technique would be legally reserved for police armed with court orders, not private investigators.

There is "no law that would allow me as a private investigator to use that type of technique," he said. "That is exclusively for law enforcement. It is not allowable or not legal in the private sector. No client of mine can ask me to overhear telephone or strictly oral conversations."

Surreptitious activation of built-in microphones by the FBI has been done before. A 2003 lawsuit revealed that the FBI was able to surreptitiously turn on the built-in microphones in automotive systems like General Motors' OnStar to snoop on passengers' conversations.

When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in, passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations were being monitored.

Malicious hackers have followed suit. A report last year said Spanish authorities had detained a man who write a Trojan horse that secretly activated a computer's video camera and forwarded him the recordings.

Boston Mafia tied to MADOFF MOSSAD 50 BILLION DOLLAR SWINDLE

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/12/23/broker_tied_to_ex_hub_mob_leader/



Broker tied to ex-Hub mob leader

Jaffe did business with Angiulo in '70s

Robert Jaffe was never implicated in SEC inquiry.



By Casey Ross and Jenn Abelson

Boston Globe Staff / December 23, 2008

Before Bernard L. Madoff, Robert M. Jaffe did business with another notorious rogue: former Boston mob leader Gennaro Angiulo.


Jaffe, under investigation for his ties to the Wall Street investor who authorities say confessed to running a Ponzi scheme, was the stockbroker to Angiulo and his brothers, reputed members of the Boston Mafia, before they were sent to jail on racketeering charges in 1986.

He first represented the Angiulos when he worked at the investment firm E.F. Hutton in the 1970s, and the Angiulos followed him when he became the Boston branch manager at Cowen & Co. in 1980, according to a Boston Globe article in 1985 that quoted Cowen's lawyer, Lawrence Leibowitz.

Jaffe's name surfaced in an inquiry by federal securities regulators into whether Cowen failed to report large deposits the Angiulos made into their brokerage accounts there. It was part of a broader federal investigation of alleged money laundering by the Angiulos.

Neither Jaffe nor Cowen was ever implicated, and the Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry appears to have ended quietly. An SEC spokesman yesterday said such investigations are typically confidential and could not offer any more information on its results.

A spokesman for Jaffe, Elliot Sloane, confirmed he was the broker for the Angiulo family, but said: "This is ancient history and has no bearing on the current Madoff tragedy. . . . The investigation found that Cowen and Bob did nothing wrong. Cowen severed ties with the Angiulo family and Bob continued to work at Cowen for several years."

A separate investigation by Justice Department officials resulted in one bank, Provident Institution for Savings, pleading guilty and paying a $100,000 fine for failing to report 49 large transactions involving the Angiulos.

Among the transactions were $250,000 in cashier's checks the Angiulos purchased from Provident that were made payable to Cowen & Co., according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case against the Angiulos. The affidavit also said the Angiulos purchased $270,000 of cashier's checks from Bank of Boston that paid for investments with Cowen & Co.

When questioned about the transactions in February 1985, Jaffe told the Globe that a brokerage account for the Angiulos had been "initiated," but "no money had ever been deposited and no transactions enacted," according to a story published on Feb. 27, 1985.

Two weeks later, the Globe reported that an unidentified representative from Cowen & Co. acknowledged the company had in fact received money from the Angiulos, who maintained nine accounts with the firm.

The Angiulo brothers, Gennaro, Francesco, Donato, and Michele, were arrested in 1983 and convicted three years later in the region's first sweeping federal racketeering case against the mob. A woman who answered the phone at the home of Gennaro Angiulo, who was released from federal prison in 2007, yesterday said he would have no comment.

Jaffe, a 64-year-old Newton native, is under scrutiny for his role in connecting investors with Madoff, whose alleged fraud has resulted in billions of dollars in losses for individuals and the shuttering of several prominent charitable foundations. Since leaving Cowen, Jaffe has been a vice president of Cohmad Securities, a brokerage partly owned by Madoff. While Jaffe was based in Boston, Cohmad's office is on the same floor as Madoff's in Manhattan's Lipstick building.

Massachusetts securities regulators have subpoenaed Jaffe and Cohmad, and are trying to determine if they failed to protect the investors steered to Madoff, according to Secretary of State William F. Galvin.

Jenn Abelson can be reached at abelson@globe.com; Casey Ross at cross@globe.com.

Latest crap from FBI : MORE BREAKINS AND MORE PETTY THEFT BY ROBERT MUELLER'S secret surveillance?

More crap from BOB MUELLER'S SECRET FBI SURVEILLANCE PROGERAM (i.e. the NSA TSP a/o HLS contractors a/o JTTF contractors).



BOB MUELLER as Director of the FBI has coordinated, conspired, aided and abetted, and silently sanctioned a secret right wing political gestapo that LITERALLY OPERATES UNDER NO RULE OF LAW, and has religiously promoted the bogus ENABLING LAWS ENACTED BY A CORRUPT CONGRESS (The War Commissions Act, new FISA, PATRIOT ACT).


1) If you notice, the War Commissions Act "does apply to US Citizens" because....no language explicitly curtails the application of torture, harassment, stalking, assaults, breakins, etc...TO JUST DESIGNATED NON US CITIZENS. The legal issue is wide open, and...almost impossible to get appellate review because "THE TACTICS OF THE POLICE STATE INVOLVES TAMPERING WITH SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS" and all other rights.

The chilling of rights to association is facilitated by an interstate stalking campaign that requires and uses the GPS signal. In my case...the title to my vehicle was in my name...thus...THE LACK OF A WARRANT FOR TEN STATES AND 22 YEARS OF SURVEILLANCE CREATED A PROBLEM FOR DEAD LITTLE LYING PUNK STEVEN PLUTA, the Sioux Falls, SD, FBI counterinteligence special cocksucker WHO WAS DISPATCHED TO NEUTRALIZE BEAN.

So...to get around the warrant requirement for the GPS and bug in my car (22 years of secret FBI surveillance) ...PLUTA MANIPULATED MY FATHER, who was sent in to LIE TO ME.

THE LIE WAS, "...Tom we cannot get insurance on your car, unless the title is in my name".

This was done as an implicit coercive threat since IT IS AGAINST THE LAW TO OPERATE A MOTOR VEHICLE WITHOUT INSURANCE. In my mind, after being harassed by cops pulling me over with no legally obtained personal subjective suspicion personally observed by patrol cops (THE CIVILIAN VIGALANTE GROUP CALLS IN THE COPS AND USES THE GPS TO COORDINATE THE TERRY STOP), I knew that PLUTA'S TACTIC WAS TO HAVE ME ARRESTED FOR NOT HAVING INSURANCE.



My father was used by FBI to harass me on numerous occasions and would show up unannounced at my apartment--AFTER THIS GUY JOINED THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST MY CIVIL LIBERTIES?

After PLUTA--FBI--HELLER--REYNALDS--MUELLER used my father to "promote a bogus involuntary mental health commitment" based upon the FBI'S HARASSMENT, ASSAULTS, THREATS, AND NEVER ENDING SURVEILLANCE. OF COURSE THE FBI DOES NOT PROVIDE BRADY MATERIAL TO A BOGUS RUBBERSTAMP HEARING. Of course, the FBI does not volunteer exculpatory info. Nobody heard my due process rights.

No witnesses.

No evidence.

All ex parte bullshit from FBI.

No Brady Material.

The intent was to neutralize a cooperating witness by slandering Bean as a terorist?

A cooperating witness who offered to take a polygraph?

How do you disprove suspicion when you cannot be confronted with evidence or specific crimes?

You cannot.

That's the game.

The surveillance makes too much money.





2) Lately, the last punk game by MUELLER AND HIS CONTRACT SURVEILLANCE involved more illegal breakins to my vehicle to steal the auto parts I purchased to fix my muffler.

I bought some pipe fittings, glue, and a hanger to fix my muffler.

Somehow...all these auto parts disappeared?

I've caught the surveillance progam breaking into my vehicle without a warrant to steal my photos, tapes, personal items, etc.

NO comment from BOB MUELLER.


THAT'S THE GUY THAT RUNS THE GOP GESTAPO AT FBI HQ?



3) Remember the FBI hides their punk games and harassment behind a corporate civilian front (NSA TSP, HLS, DOD CIFA UNIT CONTRACTORS, etc) so they can take advantage of the "civilian rule exception to the Exclusionary Rule".


FBI DOES NOT PROMOTE THE EXPOSURE OF THIS OBVIOUS LEGAL ISSUE because they know "it is to their advantage to keep judges, prosecutors and attorneys in the dark.

FBI prefers to "hide this legal issue" with judges never knowing or asking who the source of the suspicion is or was and how a civilian vigalante surveillance program can violate someone's fourth amendment rights into perpetuity without being arrested?



4) I OFFER YOU A FAIR PLAYING FIELD TO SETTLE THIS SCORE.



MUELLER HAS NO COMMENT.


MUELLER HAS NO GUTS.





COME ON BOB....IT'S TIME WE DID THIS THING.

MOSSAD's chandra Levy...MCVEIGH...CARLOS LEHDER...MENA DRUGS-CLINTON...

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=138012



THE CHANDRA LEVY AFFAIR, Part two
by Sherman H. Skolnick 08/20/01
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/claffair2.html

The story I posted about Chandra Levy, 6/22/01, should be considered as Part One.

At that time I was about the first to raise questions as to how she somehow wiggled her way into the press office, in Washington, D.C., of the FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS. The oil-soaked, spy-riddled, war-mongering monopoly press seemed to spend all their time raising only tidbits of sexual matters about Chandra and Congressman Gary Condit.

The District of Columbia authorities and the FBI, at least according to press accounts, had not taken an interest in or interviewing fellow employees of hers in that press office. Notice the time-line, tending to show the importance of where Ms Levy was an intern.

===Late November, 2000. Having earned at a California university a Master's Degree in criminal justice and journalism, Ms Levy was given a job as an intern in a very sensitive place. [And what domestic and/or foreign intelligence agencies arranged THAT?] That was about the time Timothy McVeigh decided not to appeal further the murder conviction as to the bombing of the Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City, April 19, 1995.

In December, 2000, the Federal trial Judge Richard Matsch in Denver set the McVeigh execution date as May 16, 2001. That piece of data got lost in the press shuffle as it occurred on the same day that the "Gang of Five" on the U.S. Supreme Court installed George W. Bush as the "occupant" and "resident" of the White House. Albert Gore, Jr., having won the popular vote nationwide by some 600,000 votes, became the un-inaugurated President of the U.S. That was historically similar to the 1876 Presidential Election when U.S. troops blocked Tilden, who won the popular vote, from approaching the inauguration site where Hayes was sworn in as "President". The Hayes forces, like with George W. Bush, stole the White House through an Electoral College vote using a corrupt U.S. Supreme Court Judge as well as corruption in the FLORIDA voting. [Visit our website stories on the year 2000 Election and Gore Vidal's book called simply "1876".]

===As the time ticked away toward the execution date, Ms Levy reportedly had taken a great interest in unearthing details through her press office connection. After all, as a child she used to volunteer to assist the local police in her home district. At an early age she hoped to have a career reportedly in the American CIA. The McVeigh affair was a repository of numerous secrets tending to incriminate George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, and then White House occupant George W. Bush. Such as the suppressed and concealed Iraqi connection to the multiple bombings in Oklahoma City. Such as, the publicly-undisclosed FBI surveillance tapes showing in the month before the bombings, McVeigh in the company of Iraqi military officers, supposed "defectors" (actually double agents) brought into the U.S. by the Elder Bush.

Two thousand such Iraqi military officers, some from intelligence units, since the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, have been settled, financed, and housed in OKLAHOMA CITY. Making the arrangements was the Elder Bush as President, and continuing the same with Clinton as President and then George W. Bush as White House resident.

Visit our website related stories, such as "The Secrets of Timothy McVeigh"



===Some weeks after her disappearance on the afternoon of May 1, 2001, the FBI contends Ms Levy was last in her apartment in the District of Columbia that afternoon using her computer. [Could someone else having been using her computer, somehow knowing her password?] The FBI announced that they had retrieved, from her hard disk drive, from that afternoon, some 38 websites viewed by her.

They proclaimed that none of them was important.

REALLY?

They said she [or was it her alter ego and ghost] had clicked on GoFrance.About.com. It is a website for those wishing to visit France. Maps, travel guides, and such,are given on-line. The site is reportedly also used by the French CIA to track those interested in visiting France who should, in their view, be surveilled. In our original story, we raised the questions of Ms Levy with The Mossad, Israeli intelligence, comparing the situation to that of Monica Lewinsky. A section of The Mossad has long collaborated with a unit of the French CIA, sort of an open secret.


Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff, in a supposedly exclusive story, claimed Gary Condit had an alibi for the early afternoon of May 1, 2001. Condit was supposedly in the office of Vice President Richard Cheney. And that Cheney supposedly was trying to win Condit over to the GOP position as to the electric mess in California. [Newsweek website 7/20/01.] Going back to the time Isikoff was with the sister publication, the Washington Post, he seemed to always be a reputed front for foreign intelligence and the American CIA, poo-pooing any real information as merely the ravings of "conspiracy theorists".


Knowing a lot about him and the Washington Post as a front for the American CIA, we call him Michael ISAFRAUD. Visit our website story, "The Late Grand Dragon of The Washington Post".



===A few days after her disappearance, the FBI sheepishly admits on May 10, 2001, that they somehow "forgot" to give McVeigh's lawyers some three thousand documents. [Caused by details Ms Levy uncovered through the Bureau of Prisons?] So, the execution date is changed to June 11, 2001.

There are ten media people selected to be at the death house window at the Terre Haute, Indiana, prison, to witness the execution of McVeigh. One of them, not contradicted by the others, says that "he appeared to be still breathing or what appeared to be shallow breathing, even after being pronounced dead and his eyes remained open". Video interview on MSNBC, (video streaming,6/11/01), of Susan Carlson, reporter for WLS-AM Radio, Chicago. [Story was suppressed by most other media, including all mass media in Chicago, including apparently her own radio station.] Some doctors ridiculed the way the prison people put the go-to-sleep sedative in McVeigh's leg, not a major upper body vein. In the leg, the sedative would take, some doctors claim, four hours to act. Hey, isn't a go-to-sleep sedative supposed to make you do that, that is, close your eyes and go to sleep?




===July 29, 2001, some five weeks after I raised the Levy-Bureau of Prisons issue, the Washington Times publishes a story entitled "Who is Chandra Levy?" In it they state, "Her job at the Bureau of Prisons information office required her to do internet searches and scan newspapers to prepare daily news summaries, answer telephone calls and mail, and help with SPECIAL PROJECTS. IN ONE, SHE COORDINATED MEDIA ATTENDANCE AT PLANNING SESSIONS FOR THE EXECUTION OF OKLAHOMA BOMBER TIMOTHY McVEIGH." (Emphasis added.)


The owners of the Washington Times reportedly are the Korean CIA by and through Rev. Sun Myung Moon who ostensibly launders billions of dollars from tax-dodging and illegal dealings of heavy industry in South Korea. It is more or less an open secret that Americans are seldom reminded of that. [The Elder Bush has been a paid lobbyist and consultant for Rev.

Moon's propaganda activities in South America.] By raising the McVeigh-Ms Levy issue, is the Korean CIA trying again to blackmail the American government for an advantage for South Korea? Some years ago, there was a tremendous scandal in Washington. The Korean CIA reportedly bribed or attempted to bribe, key members of the U.S. Congress. Have we all forgotten about this event? [For some years, crusading reporter Robert Parry has written stories for his newsletter exposing the clandestine dealings of Rev. Moon and his gang.]


In a moment of sarcasm, we call him REV. SUN EARTH MOON.

For some months I have been discussing this time-line on various radio talk-shows.

The McVeigh matter was not the only thing Ms Levy did using her position in the key place in the Federal Bureau of Prisons apparatus. She unearthed reportedly details tending to incriminate George Herbert Walker Bush and his sons George W. and Jeb, among others. Ms Levy was inquiring into a great little-mentioned secret. That is, the disappearance reportedly from the U.S. prison system of Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas, also known as CARLOS LEHDER. With the aid and blessings of the Elder Bush and his sons, and the American CIA, Lehder was the co-founder of the Medellin Dope Cartel in Colombia.



Lehder is the only drug cartel baron to have been extradited to the U.S. where he was put on trial on federal criminal charges, convicted, and originally sentenced to more than a life term.



Some background. In the late 1970s, Jeb Bush was installed as the head of the Venezuela unit of Texas Commerce Bank, a principal owner of which was his father, George Herbert Walker Bush. The bank unit reportedly became part of the money laundering of proceeds from the Colombia Medellin Drug Cartel co-founded by Carlos Lehder as a Bush Family business partner. The Drug Cartel was moreso headquartered in the U.S. than in Colombia. It was part of the whole CIA operation to the southern states of the United States, headquartered, in part, through an airport in western Arkansas, at Mena. The Elder Bush, his sons Jeb and George W., and Ollie North, and Bill Clinton, were all part of the operation. Guns were smuggled by CIA airflights to Central America with side-trips to Colombia to pick up huge shipments of cocaine which supported the Colombia economy moreso than coffee.


The tiny First National Bank of Mena, Arkansas, was purchased by the Riady family, ethnic Chinese tied to Bill Clinton and the Bush Family. The bank reportedly was a transmission point for the huge dope cash flow which went up to Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago. The Chicago bank for many years had as a principal stockholder Cong. Dan Rostenkowski. For years a Chairman of the Board of the Chicago bank was a reputed former U.S. Secret Service official, Dan Shannon. Rostenkowski, called Rosty for short, was closely aligned with the Chicago markets, the next transmission point of the dope loot from Rosty's bank. That is, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, and a sort of basement, step-sister operation called Chicago Board Options Exchange.


Rosty, as the long-time head of the tax-writing committee of Congress, got many "speech fees" and other benefits from the Chicago markets. He in turn pushed through almost private laws, favoring the Chicago markets with tax loopholes on straddles and hedging. So from Rosty's bank in Chicago the huge dope cash flow reportedly was transmitted to the Chicago markets and disguised as soybean and currency trading. Assisting this in all the years was international swindler Marc Rich tied to both the Bush Family and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Visit our website for stories on Marc Rich.


Rosty was eventually defrocked and sent to federal prison for defrauding the private bank of the U.S. Congress.


The Medellin Drug Cartel operating through Mena and the Chicago bank and the Chicago markets, has other collaborators. On occasion when the huge shipments of Colombia dope somehow became an issue in Chicago's highly corrupt federal courts, the Drug Cartel had corrupt federal judges to aid them. One such has been Chicago Federal Appeals Judge Iliana D. Rovner [(312)435-5608] Rovner has been part of the Jim Thompson gang of public office criminals. "Big Jim" formerly Illinois Governor has had Rovner as his legal advisor. In recent years he has been the head of the Winston & Strawn Chicago-based law firm octopus, with worldwide offices. Some years ago on our one-hour public access Cable TV Program, "Broadsides", we told how Winston & Strawn reportedly has an inner unit, walled off from the rest of the law firm, engaging not in lawfirm work but in dope cartel matters. Several employees of the firm after the show was aired confirmed the validity of our charges.


As in the historical example of 1876, the year 2000 election was corrupted in the Electoral College phase through FLORIDA. Cocaine money from the Medellin Cartel, with Carlos Lehder and his business partners the Bush family, was the principal corrupting force. Tens of millions of dope dollars were used to work a malign influence reportedly on DEMOCRAT officials in southern Florida, to have them stop the recounting of the ballots which would have put Gore over the top on the Electoral College vote. Gore was done in by corrupt members of his own party. In politics as a reality, can you talk publicly how your party's OWN KEY PEOPLE, by bribery, stabbed you in the back and helped the Bush Family steal the White House after also corrupting part of the U.S. Supreme Court [just like in 1876]?


The dope cartel loot used for these purposes was laundered for them by at least two Chicago-based commodity brokers funneling the dirty money through the Chicago markets. [The disguised accounts are known to some.]


You can see the tie-in to the Bush family. In the late 1970s, about the time just after the Elder Bush was the head of America's secret political police, the CIA; a major espionage agency operative, Barry Seal operated the airplanes to bring in dope from the Medellin Cartel, with the collaboration of the Bush family, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Ollie North. The co-founders of the drug cartel were Carlos Lehder, originally from Germany, and Pablo Escobar and his two brothers. To control matters in later years, the Elder Bush arranged to have Pablo assassinated, disguised as an "arrest" situation. [For related details, see "Killing Pablo" by Mark Bowden, 2001.]

The links of Barry Seal to the Bush family and the Medellin Cartel is evident in the recent book, "Barry & 'the boys'---The CIA, The Mob, and America's Secret History" by Daniel Hopsicker. Carlos Lehder fought extradition to the U.S. For that purpose, he arranged to shoot up the Colombia Supreme Court Building. The Justices there were considering the extradition issue. Assassinated on Lehder's orders were eleven high court justices and many other people. Lehder also reportedly arranged to have assassinated the Minister of Justice in Colombia.


Carlos Lehder was finally arrested and extradited to the U.S. He became a key witness in the dope trial against Panama strongman Manuel Noriega who had been seized by the Elder Bush as President and his Miliary/CIA. In his own trial, Lehder was convicted and sentenced to more than a life term. BUT, because in his testimony against Noriega, Lehder had evaded mentioning that the Bush family were implicated with Noriega in the dope business, Lehders's sentence was reduced to 55 years in prison.

On occasion, the U.S. federal prison system can be as corrupt as the press tells us the justice system is in Mexico. Why is the monopoly press always pointing to corruption ELSEWHERE instead of right here in America? For a price, we are often told, a major criminal in MEXICO can walk right out of prison and disappear. Is the same true in the U.S.?


Chandra Levy, through her sensitive position in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, through their computers and facilities, and human intelligence contacts, reportedly unearthed a dangerous group of details related to the foregoing. For example, that the Bush Family, to protect themselves from jail, arranged for their business partner, Carlos Lehder, to disappear from the U.S. prison system. Is Lehder in Germany, courtesy of German counter-intelligence?

Note, a key witness in the Oklahoma bombings, Andreas Strassmeir, part of German counter-intelligence, reportedly played a role in the bombings. He was allowed to be unlawfully in the U.S. and to disppear from the U.S., thanks to the corruption and connivance of the highest level of the U.S. government. And remember, German counter-intelligence in Frankfurt [tied to Strassmeir], had advance knowledge of the team on the way to the U.S. to assassinate Clinton White House Deputy Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr., and make some think it was a "suicide".


For the American Gestapo, that is, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to say they have no idea what happened to Chandra Levy is simply ridiculous. A deep down FBI secret is that they, early on, suspected she was being used by foreign intelligence agencies, the French CIA and The Mossad, to blackmail the Bush White House. So, the Counter-Intelligence Division of the FBI was tapping her phone. [Hey, does anyone realize that while all this is happening, the Hanssen spy case unfolds. We contend he is actually a CIA official who penetrated FBI counter-intelligence to expose a high-level mole. Hanssen somehow fell between the cracks. Visit our website story on this.]


As of now, there seem to be two possibilities. Either Ms Levy has been snuffed out to protect members of the Bush Family and their partnership with drug cartel baron Carlos Lehder and his disappearance from the Federal Prison System. With the Bush Family members if this opened up widely publicly, being subject to federal criminal prosecution for dope money laundering and treason. OR, Ms Levy is parked somewhere overseas, Paris or Tel Aviv, where her details would suddenly surface starting in some major foreign press outlet. In Europe, top officials mumble that George W. is incompetent on financial matters and foreign affairs. Overseas there has started an attack on the so-called U.S. Dollar. Are the profound secrets of McVeigh and Carlos Lehder in some small part, involved in the attack on the U.S. Dollar which some say started with the French Rothschilds?

More coming as it develops. Stay tuned.

CHENEY whacks out GOP email internet guru: MIKE CONNELL

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6765




BREAKING: MIKE CONNELL, GOP 'IT GURU', KILLED IN SOLO PLANE CRASH



Had been key witness in Ohio '04 election fraud lawsuit, create parallel White House email system, recently said to have been threatened by Karl Rove...

Guest blogged by Emily Levy of Velvet Revolution

[Additional material added on 12/20/08 by Brad Friedman]



The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that the private plane of the GOP's highly-placed "IT guru" Mike Connell's went down in Lake Township, Ohio on Friday evening. Connell was killed in the crash and is reported to have been the only person on board. There are no reports of anyone on the ground being hurt, though his plane crashed in a residential neighborhood.


Connell is a familiar name to readers of The BRAD BLOG as a key witness in the King-Lincoln v. Blackwell lawsuit regarding fraud in the 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio. That recently revived, long-standing lawsuit led to Connell's recent deposition on November 3, 2008, the day before this year's general election.

According to plaintiff's lead attorney Cliff Arnebeck in July, a tipster had warned that Connell had been threatened by Karl Rove, as The BRAD BLOG reported at the time, in an attempt to intimidate him into "taking the fall" for Ohio election fraud not long after a motion was filed to lift the stay in that case.


Connell had been memorably described as a "high IQ Forrest Gump", by the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Ohio fraud case, for his apparent penchant at the scene of "every single crime" from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 to the network firewall on a number of key Congressional committees to the case of the missing White House emails. (Video and text transcript of the interview with the attorneys here.)

In late September, the federal judge in the Ohio case agreed to lift the stay, and in late October he compelled Connell to give a deposition to plaintiff attorneys on the Monday before the Tuesday general election.

Connell had been served with a subpoena to appear in the federal courtroom in Ohio at the same College Park, MD airport where his single engine plane reportedly took off from last night, on his final solo flight...


The following clip (appx 6:45 mins) from the documentary film, FREE FOR ALL!, released just prior to the motion to lift the stay on the King-Lincoln case in order to compel the testimony of Connell and others, including possibly Rove, offers some background on how Connell and his companies fit into the bigger picture of the investigation into potential crimes masterminded Rove, the GOP and the White House...





Much more background on Mike Connell is available in these recent stories by The BRAD BLOG:


7/17/08: Ohio Attorney Files to Lift Stay on '04 Election Case, Cites Allegations, Evidence of Massive Fraud by a Number of GOP Operatives

7/22/08: GOP Tech Guru Mike Connell 'High IQ Forrest Gump...At Scene of Every Single Crime' Say Ohio Attorneys

7/24/08: Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not 'Take the Fall' for Election Fraud in Ohio, Says Attorney

7/25/08: Cliff Arnebeck, OH Attorney, Interviewed Live on Peter B. Collins Show

7/26/08: So Who Is Mike Connell? A Clip from 'Free For All' Gives You an Idea...

9/29/08: STAY LIFTED IN '04 OHIO ELECTION FRAUD CASE, GOP 'TECH GURU' SUBPOENAED

10/31/08: BREAKING: Federal Judge Compels GOP IT Guru Mike Connell To Give Deposition in Ohio '04 Election Case

11/24/08: 'Document Hold' Served by OH Attorney to GA SoS in Advance of State's U.S. Senate Run-off Election


VelvetRevolution.us, co-founded by The BRAD BLOG, has a website devoted to the King-Lincoln case and surrounding issues at RoveCybergate.com.

UPDATE: RAW STORY's Larisa Alexandrovna, who reports that both Connel and his wife were sources of hers, shares some thoughts on the circumstances of his death.

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http://www.atlargely.com/2008/12/one-of-my-sources-died-in-a-plane-crash-last-night.html


December 20, 2008

One of my sources died in a plane crash last night...

UPDATED BELOW


I don't usually reveal sources, but I think this is incredibly important. Michael Connell died in a plane crash last night. He was a key witness in the Ohio election fraud case that I have been reporting on. More importantly, however, he had information that he was ready to share.

You see, Mike Connell set-up the alternate email and communications system for the White House. He was responsible for creating the system that hosted the infamous GWB43.com accounts that Karl Rove and others used. When asked by Congress to provide these emails, the White House said that they were destroyed. But in reality, what Connell is alleged to have done is move these files to other servers after having allegedly scrubbed the files from all "known" Karl Rove accounts.

In addition, I have reason to believe that the alternate accounts were used to communicate with US Attorneys involved in political prosecutions, like that of Don Siegelman. This is what I have been working on to prove for over a year. In fact, it was through following the Siegelman-Rove trail that I found evidence leading to Connell.

That is how I became aware of him.

Mike was getting ready to talk.

He was frightened.



He has flown his private plane for years without incident. I know he was going to DC last night, but I don't know why. He apparently ran out of gas, something I find hard to believe. I am not saying that this was a hit nor am I resigned to this being simply an accident either. I am no expert on aviation and cannot provide an opinion on the matter. What I am saying, however, is that given the context, this event needs to be examined carefully. If you want to understand the context more broadly, I suggest you read this article I did a while back about the break-ins and arson cases that Siegelman and others have experienced.


Just to be very clear and state again, I am not claiming conspiracy theory or direct relation to Karl Rove or the White House in any of these events. What I am saying, however, is that these possible relationships cannot and should not be overlooked by investigators. There are far too many serious and reasonable questions that must be answered for the public.

I have been to Mr. Connell's home. Mr. Connell has confided that he was being threatened, something that his attorneys also told the judge in the Ohio election fraud case. When I met with Heather, his wife, I did so carefully because of the threats he was getting.


I left a note for her in her mailbox and asked her to meet me in a local park near their home. Heather came and through our conversation I got the sense that these were not bad people or corrupt people. The Connell's really believed that what they were involved in served God's plan. Regardless of of what any of us think about their religious views or allegations relating to Connell's involvement in various things, I do think these were good people who got caught up in something bigger than themselves. My heart goes out to Heather and the children.



UPDATE ONE



Okay children - because that is what I am going to call adults who willfully mis-read information. I will say this AGAIN (as I have twice in the above entry and also used bold case so that no one would miss the caveat), I am NOT - I repeat NOT - saying this was a). a murder, b). that it was in any way connected to the White House or to Karl Rove, and c). that I am convinced of any of the above three.


On the contrary, I have said - AND AM NOTING AGAIN - that I don't know what happened.

I am NOT an aviation expert. What I am saying - AGAIN - is that the context is important and must be considered. Investigators must conduct their work transparently on this case as to address the many serious and reasonable (not remotely CT-based questions) relating to this crash and the person who died. The public has a right to know and investigators must address these questions by conducting a very open investigation of the crash.

The facts are not all in yet and so I have no answers for you - AS I HAVE ALREADY NOTED. But I felt it important to share the context, obligated even to share it. Now if you folks (you know who you are) want to read this as me rolling myself in tin-foil, then that is your choice. Obviously that is not my hope, but I cannot help the lunacy that people want to engage in.



UPDATE TWO

Here are the reading materials in case you have not followed any of this closely. These are articles I have done over spanning over a year of investigative work:

Part 1 - Political Prisoner
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_Permanent_Republican_Majority_1125.html

Part 2 - Siegelman's Daughter Speaks Out
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_permanent_Republican_majority_Daughter_of_1127.html

Part 3 - Karl Rove Running Elections from the White House
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_Permanent_Republican_Majority_Part_III_1216.html

Part 4 - Mississippi Prosecution, Justice Oliver Diaz
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/How_Bush_US_attorney_riddled_with_0401.html

Part 5 - Justice Diaz Speaks
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Diaz_placeholder_0408.html

Part 6 - Break-ins plague targets of political prosecutions
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Breakins_plague_Justice_Department_whistleblowers_0430.html

Part 7 - Justice for Sale
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Justice_for_Sale_How_Big_Tobacco_0828.html


Related articles:


Judge who denied Paul Minor release was protoge of Karl Rove
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Judge_in_Paul_Minor_case_was_0821.html

DOJ Investigating 2 US Attorneys
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/DOJ_Investigating_two_US_Attorneys_involved_0604.html

60 Minutes Segemant on Siegelman "dropped" in Alabama
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/60_Minutes_broadcast_on_prosecution_of_0225.html

Republican IT Consultant Subpoenaed in Ohio election fraud case
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Republican_IT_consultant_subpoenaed_in_case_0929.html

Abramoff said he had agreement with White House aide just a month after Bush took office http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Abramoff_said_he_had_agreement_with_1117.html Treasury

Department investigating US Attorney for leaking state Supreme Court Justice's tax returns http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Treasury_Department_investigating_US_Attorney_f

war crimes: US CITIZENS TORTURED AND MURDERED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES BY CHENEY...nothing to do with war on terror

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/12/18/prosecutions/index.html



Thursday Dec. 18, 2008 09:24 EST

by GLENN GREENWALD:





Demands for war crimes prosecutions are now growing in the mainstream


For obvious reasons, the most blindly loyal Bush followers of the last eight years are desperate to claim that nobody cares any longer about what happened during the Bush administration, that everyone other than the most fringe, vindictive Bush-haters is eager to put it all behind us, forget about it all and, instead, look to the harmonious, sunny future. That's natural. Those who cheer on shameful and despicable acts always want to encourage everyone to forget what they did, and those who commit crimes naturally seek to dismiss demands for investigations and punishment as nothing more than distractions and vendettas pushed by those who want to wallow in the past.

Surprisingly, though, demands that Bush officials be held accountable for their war crimes are becoming more common in mainstream political discourse, not less so. The mountain of conclusive evidence that has recently emerged directly linking top Bush officials to the worst abuses -- combined with Dick Cheney's brazen, defiant acknowledgment of his role in these crimes (which perfectly tracked Bush's equally defiant 2005 acknowledgment of his illegal eavesdropping programs and his brazen vow to continue them) -- is forcing even the reluctant among us to embrace the necessity of such accountability.

It's almost as though everyone's nose is now being rubbed in all of this: now that the culpability of our highest government officials is no longer hidden, but is increasingly all out in the open, who can still defend the notion that they should remain immune from consequences for their patent lawbreaking? As Law Professor Jonathan Turley said several weeks ago on The Rachel Maddow Show: "It's the indictment of all of us if we walk away from a clear war crime." And this week, Turley pointed out to Keith Olbermann that "ultimately it will depend on citizens, and whether they will remain silent in the face of a crime that has been committed in plain view. . . . It is equally immoral to stand silent in the face of a war crime and do nothing."

That recognition, finally, seems to be spreading -- beyond the handful of blogs, civil liberties organizations and activists who have long been trumpeting the need for this accountability. The New York Times Editorial Page today has a lengthy, scathing decree demanding prosecutions: "It would be irresponsible for the nation and a new administration to ignore what has happened . . . . A prosecutor should be appointed to consider criminal charges against top officials at the Pentagon and others involved in planning the abuse." Today, Politico -- of all places -- is hosting a forum which asks: "Should the DOJ consider prosecuting Bush administration officials for detainee abuse as the NYT and others have urged?" Even Chris Matthews and Chris Hitchens yesterday entertained (albeit incoherently and apologetically) the proposition that top Bush officials committed war crimes.

Perhaps most notably of all -- and illustrating the importance of finally having someone like Rachel Maddow occupy such a prominent place in an establishment media venue -- Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, one of the Senate's most restrained, influential and Serious members, was prodded by Maddow last night into going about as far as someone like him could be expected to go, acknowledging the necessity of appointing a Prosecutor to investigate top Bush officials for the war crimes they committed and to determine if prosecutions are warranted:


To be sure, the political class still desperately wants to avoid meaningful investigations and prosecutions, in no small part because every key component of it -- including the leaders in both parties -- are implicated by so much of it. But as more undeniable evidence emerges of just how warped and criminal and heinous the conduct of our top political leaders has been -- and the more Dick Cheney and comrades resort to openly admitting what they did and proudly defending it, rather than obfuscating it behind euphemisms and secrecy claims -- the more difficult it will be to justify doing nothing meaningful. That is why, even as the desire to forget about the Bush era intensifies with the Promise of Obama ever-more-closely on the horizon, the recognition continues to grow of the need for real accountability.

The weapons used to prevent such accountability are quite familiar and will still be potent. Those who demand accountability will be derided as past-obsessed partisans who want to impede all the Glorious, Transcendent Gifts about to be bestowed on us by our new leaders. The manipulative claim will be endlessly advanced that our problems are too grand and pressing to permit the luxury of living under the rule of law. When all else fails in the stonewalling arsenal, impotent "fact-finding" commissions will be proposed to placate the demand for accountability but which will, in fact, be designed and empowered to achieve only one goal: to render actual prosecutions impossible.

But with these new, unprecedentedly stark revelations, this facade will be increasingly difficult to maintain. It is already the case, as the Times Editorial today notes, that "all but President Bush’s most unquestioning supporters [i.e., this] recognized the chain of unprincipled decisions that led to the abuse, torture and death in prisons run by the American military and intelligence services." That leaves only two choices: (1) treat these crimes as the serious war crimes they are by having a Prosecutor investigate and, if warranted, prosecute them, or (2) openly acknowledge -- to ourselves and the world -- that we believe that our leaders are literally entitled to commit war crimes at will, and that we -- but not the rest of the world -- should be exempt from the consequences. The clearer it becomes that those are the only two choices, the more difficult it will be to choose option (2), and either way, there is great benefit just from having that level of clarity and candor about what we are really doing.

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http://rawstory.com/news/2008/John_Dean_Serious_consequences_for_not_1219.html


John Dean: 'Serious consequences' if Obama doesn't prosecute torture

David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Published: Friday December 19, 2008



Vice President Dick Cheney's admission that he authorized waterboarding has focused attention on possible Bush administration war crimes, and former Nixon White House counsel John Dean believes there will be "serious consequences" if the Obama administration tries to avoid singling out those involved for prosecution.

"I would be surprised if Cheney really wants to test the law," Dean told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Thursday, "but he's getting out there pretty close to it. I think most of the people who might be involved are trying to stay below the cover and hope that the statute of limitations ... will pass."

Olbermann asked Dean why Democratic leaders like Sen. Carl Levin have been proposing a special commission to investigate allegations of torture, "rather than the incoming attorney general, Mr. Holder, just sending somebody out to arrest these guys before they leave the capital."

"There is a degree of conventional wisdom that suspects that Mr. Obama really doesn't want to take this issue on," Dean replied. "It's not a unifying move."

Olbermann noted that the problem with bipartisan special commissions, like the one created after 9/11, is that they are "almost openly dedicated to not pointing fingers."

"Don't we have to point fingers?" he asked Dean. "Is that not the way justice works?"

Dean agreed, saying that if those involved in war crimes are not singled out, "this is going to really reflect terribly on the entire country, not just on the Bush administration which has engaged in these activities, but it really will reflect on the Obama administration for its refusal to pursue them and prosecute them."

"I think there's serious consequences if they refuse to point fingers," Dean stated.

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tommy:


OBAMA has alot of problems...with...CLINTON'S THEFT OF CHILDRENS DEFENSE FUND ON TAPE AT BANK OF CROZIER....RAHMBO as "mega" in FBI counterintel files...GATES covering up or "on road to perjury himself" when asked about DOD CIFA UNIT working with FBI and Blackwater to whack out south dakotans tied to me.

HOLDER is also getting hit with OK CITY FALSE FLAG COVERUP of Trentadue deposition of NICHOLS, which could lead to obvious fact that "MUELLER AND FBI TRIED TO FRAME BEAN IN 2005 BY STEALING A BOX FROM MY FATHER'S HOME IN SIOUX FALLS, SD, AND PLANTING THE BOX WITH DETENATORS IN NICHOLS KANSAS HOME...ten years after the initial FBI search of Nichols home, showed no box of detenators with Bean's fingerprints or DNA??????????????????????????????????????

BEAN tipped SFPD off on the detenators from South Dakota...that DENVER US MARSHALLS INFORMANT CARY GAGEN (framed and in jail) saw with the Iraqis who had the MURRAY BUILDING SCHEMATIC???????

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Olbermann asked what Dean saw as the best and most realistic outcome, and Dean replied that it "would be if Mr. Obama, indeed, does exactly what he said during the campaign -- that he will, indeed, when his attorney general is seated, have him instructed to immediately look and see if these offenses have been committed, if they are prosecutable ... and then report to him and the nation to make it very clear that this is not the policy of the Obama administration or the United States."

When Olbermann then asked what he thought was the "most likely outcome," Dean laughed and replied, "Given ... the heat [Obama's] going to take on Rick Warren, he's going to take an awful lot more heat if he doesn't do something to honor his campaign commitments."


This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast Dec. 18, 2008.

when CIA--INDIAN RESERVATIONS--TRIPLE MURDER and nefarious sneaky spooks....all come together.

http://www.newsmakingnews.com/vm,fred,alvarez,executions,back,headlines,12,15,08.htm


(click blogpost title to get linked to NEWSMAKING NEWS.COM...good site...nice photos and documents.








On July 2, 1981 Indio, California Daily News staff reporter Paul Zalis had the sad duty of writing about the tragic murder of a man he had been speaking with for the past several weeks. The slain man, Cabazon Indian Fred Alvarez, had told the reporter, “as I speak with you I am a dead man”. The headline on the story told all that was known at the time: No leads, suspects:

PROBE CONTINUES IN TRIPLE SLAYING; VICTIMS NAMED.

(Dateline: Rancho Mirage) – The three bodies found in an apparent execution-style slaying Wednesday have been identified as Alfred “Fred” Alvarez, 32, Patricia Roberta Castro, 44, of Long Beach and Ralph Arthur Boger, 42, of San Bernardino.

All three had been shot in the head. Officials are estimating the shooting may have occurred sometime Monday.

Alvarez was a former vice-chairman and head of security for the Cabazon Indian band. He recently spoke with the Daily News about alleged mismanagement of tribal monies.
Cabazon officials denied the Alvarez allegations.

Alvarez lived with Ms. Castro, at his rented home on Bob Hope Drive. She was recently employed as a waitress in Palm Desert.

Ms. Castro and Boger were not Indians.

Joseph Benitez, 46, former chairman of the Cabazons and William Callaway, a tribal member, discovered the bodies at 6:40 a.m. Wednesday.

Deputy Coroner Robert Drake said his office still has not determined the caliber of the gun or the weapon used in the murders. He said that information would be released following an autopsy which was scheduled to begin today.

Riverside County Sheriff officials said the bodies were found fully clothed near the back veranda of a one-story concrete block building on Bob Hope Drive near Avenue 32.

The bodies were found in sitting and lying positions.

No weapons were found at the scene and there was no apparent sign of a struggle. The victims still had their wallets in their pockets.

Sheriff’s officials so far have said they had no leads or suspects.

Lt. David Landy of the sheriff’s department said this morning that seven .22 caliber shells found by a Daily News photographer near Alvarez’ back porch had “no bearing” on the shootings.

Dennis Loughran, a neighbor who lives more than a quarter-mile from the Alvarez home, said he did not hear any shots.

He said he spoke with other neighbors Wednesday and none of them heard any signs of a disturbance from the murder scene.

John Nichols, in charge of administrative services for the Cabazons, said he was “surprised and shocked” at the news of Alvarez’ death when notified of the murder Wednesday. Nichols was in Sacramento on a business trip.

Tribal chairman Art Welmas, who was at the casino Wednesday night, said the last time he had seen Alvarez was at a tribal meeting June 6.

Welmas said Alvarez had been working on some kind of “land deal” involving property his father owned in conjunction with several other tribal members near Dillon Road.

Welmas said he didn’t know much about Alvarez’ lifestyle, but said “he conducted his life in an orderly manner when he was with the tribe.”

Reporters at the Daily News communicated with reporters at The Herald Journal in Logan, Utah were Fred Alvarez had attended Utah State University on a football scholarship. He was the starting guard for the USU Aggies in 1967, 1968 and 1969 and he was considered an outstanding player. Alvarez was a massive man at 5 feet 11 inches and 250 pounds. He looked like a motorcycle-gang member with a fierce demeanor.

Fred Alvarez had been an integral part of the Cabazon Business Committee under the absolute control of “Dr” John Philip Nichols. J.P. Nichols took control of the Cabazon Indian Reservation in 1978. His background consisted of a strange mixture of union organization, social work, health planning, mental health and economic development. Click for Resume of John Philip Nichols. The one-time speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Carl Albert stated that “Dr. John P. Nichols likewise has an excellent background as a resource developer.”

In 1979 J.P. Nichols chose Fred Alvarez to head security at the Cabazon Reservation and appointed Alvarez to several important committees including assistant tribal manager. Board minutes for the business committee include the following paragraphs: Click for Cabazon Reservation minutes, 3 pages.

Dr. John Nichols suggested the Band should legally apply to the federal government to raise marijuana for medical purposes, in conformity with the tribe’s wishes. Fred Alvarez moved that John Nichols write such a grant request seconded by John James and passed unanimously.

John Nichols stated that he and Fred Alvarez would have a chance to go to Hawaii, Senegal and Morocco. John James made a motion authorizing Fred and John Nichols to go to research medicinal plants. Seconded by Fred Alvarez and passed unanimously.


But the close relationship between the two men did not last very long. Fred Alvarez began to suspect that the man who promoted himself as a savior to members of the poor 27-member tribe was, in reality, the devil in disguise.

Alliances were formed between international companies involving coal deals in Kentucky and gold deals transferring hundreds of millions, tribal lands were being rapidly developed, federal H.U.D. money was pouring into the Cabazons for projects that were never completed and Cabazon money was not only unaccounted for but funds were disappearing.

When members of the tribe dared to question the decisions made by manager J.P. Nichols they were severely disciplined and retaliated against by the Nichols family. When Nichols discovered the investigation Alvarez was conducting, Fred Alvarez was voted out by the tribal council.


Alvarez had entered the offices of J. P. Nichols late at night in order to “liberate” documents to support his suspicions of misconduct by J.P. Nichols. Following such forays Alvarez would often call his sister Linda and tell her about the documents he had just discovered. He also told Linda Alvarez that he feared for his life because of his investigation into the casino profits.


In the month prior to his death Fred Alvarez returned to his parent’s home in Truckee, California. He told his family and his other relatives that he had received death threats, his mail box had been shot up and the front wheel of his brand new motorcycle had come loose. He felt it had been tampered with by those intent on killing him. His sister later recalled that Fred Alvarez “had told me there was a contract on his life and who the hit men were.” His mother, father and sister urged him to leave the desert and come home where he would be safe.

When Fred Alvarez returned home in the desert, he also shared his discoveries and his concerns with two fellow Cabazon members, former Tribal Chairman Joe Benitez and friend William Callaway.


These two men arrived at Alvarez’s home at 6:40 a.m. on July 1, 1981. They had made arrangements to pick up Alvarez for a meeting the three of them had scheduled with San Juan Capistrano Lawyer Steven Michael Rios. The horror of what greeted the two men remained burned in their memory.


Three people had been professionally executed in the back yard of the Alvarez home. Fred Alvarez was shot in the temple, his body slumped in a wooden chair. Fred’s girlfriend Pat Castro lay a few feet away on a day bed. She was face down with a bullet wound over her right eye. Ralph Boger, 42, a friend of the couple, lay in the sand dried blood surrounding a wound above his right ear. Later it was determined that the three had been executed with .38 caliber weapon.

The 1981 Alvarez executions were Riverside County’s first triple homicide in 19 years. It bears all the signs of a professional contract hit whose target was clearly Fred Alvarez.


Almost from the first days there was documentation to support the victim’s statement that there was a contract on his life and that he knew who the hit men were. It is a cold case that has heated up regularly over the 27 years that followed.


It is a tragedy that has spawned two family executions resulting in 11 more deaths that bear the marks of professional contract hits.


The Alvarez executions do not lack suspects; in fact there is an abundance of suspects. Congressional investigations have taken place only to end in failure. Grand juries have been impaneled and dismissed without any indictments being returned.

Repeated investigations by the Riverside Sheriff and District Attorney’s office have taken place and have repeatedly sputtered out. It has been admitted by high profile politicians that the activities of the Nichols family, who until recently controlled the Cabazon Reservation, were influenced by the members of organized crime. Yet the politicians do nothing.


Various FBI agents have condemned and defended the actions of “Dr.” John Philip Nichols. The Cabazon nation has found itself at the center of the nefarious activities of such colorful characters as Michael Riconosciuto, Robert Booth Nichols, Iran Contra leader Raul Arana and a man named Jimmy Hughes who runs the Jimmy Hughes Ministries incorporated in Selma, California and headquartered in Honduras.

Now several reliable sources tell this reporter that the 1981 triple homicide executions is once again an active case. This reporter has also heard that Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco is finally ready to seek charges against a suspect in the Alvarez executions.

Virginia McCullough © 12/15/08
vmccullough@hotmail.com

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tommy:



go do a google on some of those names in the last paragraph...gets real SPOOKY like CIA kind of spooks.

More proof and cause for alarm

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=137962


From CHRIS STOREY at International currency review THROUGH "CASPAR":



Its evening now and word just arrived OBAMA was confronted with absolute proof today of what he did to block deliveries, and that he would henceforth be treated as the crook he has demonstrated himself to be.

There are various details we are asked not to discuss but the okay was given to inform you the $251M to the politicians and various Government types was taken from our funds by the Trustees. The cards have been cancelled.

Deliveries are back on go for Friday and Saturday.

casper 12-18-08 2nd







tommy:


THIS IS IN REFERENCE TO THE LEO WANTA TRUST FUND SWINDLE...AND THE TRILLIONS OWED TO JUST ABOUT EVERY INTERNATIONAL BANK AND RULING ELITE.

When Cheney stiffed Putin, Putin confronted Bush at the Olympics. Hmmmm...PUTIN then attacked Georgia to take the pipeline. He got paid that way. Cheney jeopardized nuke war AFTER STIFFING PUTIN.


More at http://www.worldreports.org/news



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http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/12/18/memo-to-obama-mary-schapiro-is-not-change-at-th/



Memo to Obama: Mary Schapiro is not 'change' at the SEC

Posted Dec 18th 2008 11:11AM

by Daniel Solin

Filed under: Other issues, Politics






Isn't it finally time to put someone in charge of the SEC who really cares about investors?

There are many well qualified candidates. Here are a few suggestions:

--William Galvin: The highly respected Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has taken on the industry and recovered millions of dollars of damages for aggrieved investors.

---Joe Borg: Executive Director of the Alabama Securities Commission. Mr. Borg has a stellar record of protecting the interests of investors in Alabama.

--Andrew Cuomo: The Attorney General of New York. He knows the industry and has shown great tenacity in exposing the recent fraud involving Auction Rate Bonds and other misdeeds.




Mary Schapiro, who is President-elect Obama's choice, has spent her career protecting the securities industry from investors.

Ms. Schapiro is the head of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, an industry organization that engages in self-regulation. It hasn't done a very good job, as recent events demonstrate.

FINRA administers the mandatory arbitration system, which forces investors to arbitrate all disputes with its members (virtually all brokerage firms in the U.S.). The arbitration rules are established by FINRA and supervised by the SEC. These tribunals have a well-documented (pdf) anti-investor bias. Investors who have been victimized by their brokers are often re-victimized by these panels.

Secretary Galvin testified before Congress that FINRA panels represented "an industry sponsored damage-containment and control program masquerading as a juridical proceeding."

With Mary Schapiro as SEC Chief, the fox will be guarding the hen house. In this case, instead of hens, it is investor rights that are at stake.

This is not "change." It is Washington business as usual.




Dan Solin is the author of Does Your Broker Owe You Money? (Perigee Books 2006), The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read (Perigee Books, 2006) and The Smartest 401(k) Book You'll Ever Read (Perigee Books, 2008)

Notice DUMBFUCK DEMOCRATS refuse to use FACTS LIKE BEAN (DOJ complainant) WAS A US CITIZEN TORTURED for writing a complaint?

Senator: 'As far as I'm concerned,' Cheney admitted condoning torture




David Edwards and Diane Sweet


Published: Thursday December 18, 2008








Vice President Dick Cheney confessed to approving torture, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Wednesday night.

During an interview with ABC News on Monday evening, Cheney had said "I supported it," referring to the practice known as "waterboarding," a form of simulated drowning.

"I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't do," Cheney said. "And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it."

"Did he just admit to condoning torture?" Maddow queries.

"As far as I'm concerned, that's exactly what he admitted," Levin said after a pause to shut his eyes, and shake his head as if still in disbelief.

"Now he'll say that he doesn't admit supporting torture," Levin added, "but facts are that the policies which were approved, the legal opinions authorized these harsh techniques, and when the Vice President of the United States says that he believes -- and he said that what, just a few nights ago -- that waterboarding is 'appropriate,' there is no other conclusion that I can reach other than I know it's a form of torture, it's been acknowledged as a form of torture I think since the Inquisition. Senator McCain who was the subject of torture is absolutely clear on it, but I think every authority on waterboarding and torture will say that waterboarding constitutes 'torture.'"

Senator Levin oversaw an 18-month long investigation into the Bush administration’s torture policy that established that the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay resulted from policies introduced by George W. Bush. Levin spoke on the need for further investigations, and the ultimate necessity for indictments in order to hold those responsible for torture policies accountable.

"You can't suddenly change something that's illegal into something that is legal by having a lawyer write an opinion saying it's legal," Levin said later.

"Do there need to be prosecutions?" Maddow asked, steering the discussion towards the possibility of prosecution and indictments by noting that the Armed Services Committee report on the treatment of U.S. detainees seemed as if its purpose had been the gathering facts for an indictment.

Levin spoke hopefully that the Obama administration would take some "major steps" as "clearly this Justice Department is not willing," and the need for an independent commission that could be appointed by the Obama administration to examine the role of the CIA in the treatment of U.S. detainees as their role has not yet been made clear. Then with all the facts they "may or may not lead to indictments, or civil action."

"You heard the "I" word here," Maddow concludes. "Indictments!"

This video is from MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast Dec. 17, 2008.

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tommy:



I got tortured, chipped with mind control device, illegally debriefed by SIOUX FALLS FBI AGENT STEVEN PLUTA, and fried in my own home...with a directed energy weapon...all because:

--I tipped SFPD to the detenators that FBI USED TO BLOW UP THE MURRAY BUILDING AND OTHER NEFARIOUS ACTS;

--signed a US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT under penalty of prosecution for making false statements;

--Sent and signed a ten page memo to US SEN CHARLES GRASSLEY tipping him to the breadth and scope of the NSA TSP, OPERATION SLAMMER, LEO WANTA TRUST FUND SWINDLE that Cheney aided almost resulting in NUKE WAR WITH RUSSIA when PUTIN got stiffed and then TOOK BACK THE PIPELINE to get paid.

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=COH20081218&articleId=11431


Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes


Cheney has publicly confessed to ordering war crimes.


by Prof. Marjorie Cohn


Global Research, December 18, 2008









Dick Cheney has publicly confessed to ordering war crimes. Asked about waterboarding in an ABC News interview, Cheney replied, “I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared.” He also said he still believes waterboarding was an appropriate method to use on terrorism suspects. CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that the agency waterboarded three Al Qaeda suspects in 2002 and 2003.

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tommy:


WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MIND CONTROL CHIPPING OF THOMAS S. BEAN in his home after BEAN SIGNED A DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT, AND AFTER BEAN SIGNED A TEN PAGE MEMO TO SEN GRASSLEY that resulted in the NSA TSP being outed by NYTIMES who finally got the three sources they needed (KEN TICE, FBI, TAMM ).


WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE USE OF DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS THAT MAIMED AND MURDERED OTHERS...INCLUDING THE TORTURE OF AN FBI WITNESS NAMED DR MARK GORDON, AND THOMAS S. BEAN fried in his own home to induce A BRAIN TUMOR OR STROKE just like OMAHA ATTY LEROY ROGERS (targeted by SF FBI, BOB MUELLER, STEVEN PLUTA, DOD CIFA UNIT, BLACKWATER with orders from CHENEY AND RUMSFIELD AND MUELLER).

THAT IS THE STORY THAT DEMS AND MSM will not cover?

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U.S. courts have long held that waterboarding, where water is poured into someone’s nose and mouth until he nearly drowns, constitutes torture. Our federal War Crimes Act defines torture as a war crime punishable by life imprisonment or even the death penalty if the victim dies.



Under the doctrine of command responsibility, enshrined in U.S. law, commanders all the way up the chain of command to the commander-in-chief can be held liable for war crimes if they knew or should have known their subordinates would commit them and they did nothing to stop or prevent it.



Why is Cheney so sanguine about admitting he is a war criminal? Because he’s confident that either President Bush will preemptively pardon him or President-elect Obama won’t prosecute him.



Both of those courses of action would be illegal.



First, a president cannot immunize himself or his subordinates for committing crimes that he himself authorized. On February 7, 2002, Bush signed a memo erroneously stating that the Geneva Conventions, which require humane treatment, did not apply to Al Qaeda and the Taliban. But the Supreme Court made clear that Geneva protects all prisoners. Bush also admitted that he approved of high level meetings where waterboarding was authorized by Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld and George Tenet.



Attorney General Michael Mukasey says there’s no need for Bush to issue blanket pardons since there is no evidence that anyone developed the policies “for any reason other than to protect the security in the country and in the belief that he or she was doing something lawful.” But noble motives are not defenses to the commission of crimes.

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tommy:



I WAS CHIPPED, TORTURED, MIND CONTROLLED BECAUSE I WAS A COOPERATING WITNESS WHO ALSO SIGNED A DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT?

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Lt. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, said, “There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”



Second, the Constitution requires President Obama to faithfully execute the laws. That means prosecuting lawbreakers. When the United States ratified the Geneva Conventions and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, thereby making them part of U.S. law, we agreed to prosecute those who violate their prohibitions.



The bipartisan December 11 report of the Senate Armed Services Committee concluded that “senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees.”

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TOMMY:


HOw is DR MARK GORDON, AND THOMAS S. BEAN A DETAINEE? TORTURE WITH DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS BY CIA?...DOD CIFA UNIT?...NSA 902ND?...FBI DIV 5?....BLACKWATER CONTRACTORS?....needs to be understood especially after BOB MUELLER JUST BURNED DOCUMENTS IN THE LATEST BOGUS ARSON FIRE A FED BUILDING tied to my fact pattern?

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Lawyers who wrote the memos that purported to immunize government officials from war crimes liability include John Yoo, Jay Bybee, William Haynes, David Addington and Alberto Gonzales. There is precedent in our law for holding lawyers criminally liable for participating in a common plan to violate the law.



Committee chairman Senator Carl Levin told Rachel Maddow that you cannot legalize what’s illegal by having a lawyer write an opinion.



The committee’s report also found that “Rumsfeld’s authorization of aggressive interrogation techniques for use at Guantánamo Bay was a direct cause of detainee abuse there.” Those techniques migrated to Iraq and Afghanistan , where prisoners in U.S. custody were also tortured.



Pardons or failures to prosecute the officials who planned and authorized torture would also be immoral. Former Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee in June 2008 that “there are serving U.S. flag-rank officers who maintain that the first and second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq – as judged by their effectiveness in recruiting insurgent fighters into combat – are, respectively the symbols of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo.”



During the campaign, Obama promised to promptly review actions by Bush officials to determine whether “genuine crimes” were committed. He said, “If crimes have been committed, they should be investigated,” but “I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of the Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we’ve got too many problems we’ve got to solve.”

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tommy:



THIS IS THE WORDS OF A FUCKING PUSSY AND AN MK ULTRA UNCLE TOM. BIPARTISAN SPIRIT IS OUT THE DOOR WHEN GOP CHENEY--FBI--NSA--CIA--DOD targeted and murdered and maimed DASCHLE DEMOCRATS IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

NOW MR OBAMA, I will tell you again....HAVING POWER AND HOLDING POWER ARE TOO DIFFERENT THINGS:

----ASK RAHMBO if he saw it coming;

----ASK HILARY (Sec of State) if she can explain the BANK OF CROZIER THEFT OF 250 MILLION DOLLAR CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND used for her campaign;?

----Ask GATES if he wants my subpoena on his desk so he can tell us about the DOD CIFA UNIT WORKING WITH SPECIAL AGENT PLUTA UNDER MUELLER'S ORDERS TO MAIM AND TORTURE AND CONSPIRE TO MURDER OMAHA ATTORNEY LEROY ROGERS;.............targeted with FBI 302 ON MY FATHER, DR DAVID W. BEAN, who did not know that FBI DID NOT HAVE A LEGAL PEROGATIVE TO SEEK KNOWLEDGE OF WHO MY ATTORNEYS WERE.

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Two Obama advisors told the Associated Press that “there’s little-if any – chance that the incoming president’s Justice Department will go after anyone involved in authorizing or carrying out interrogations that provoked worldwide outrage.”

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tommy:


WHO ARE THE SOURCES?

NONE?


SPIN CONTROL to stop Barack's curiosity and understanding of the future impossible and untenable PR PROBLEMS WHEN BEAN COMES FORWARD AFTER THE INNAUGARATION (lots of whistleblowers are ready to talk, and...ain't no way HOLDER OR OBAMA will hold power unless JUSTICE IS DONE WITH FED GRAND JURY, and maybe...the usual bogus punk charade known as a COMMISSION AND ORDER SEN-HOUSE HEARING.

FED GRAND JURY...or Obama is gonna have problems with the dirt--videos.

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When he takes office, Obama should order his new attorney general to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate and prosecute those who ordered and authorized the commission of war crimes.

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tommy:


IF OBAMA DOES NOT DO THAT...I'LL GET A WRIT OF MANDAMUS ORDERING OBAMA TO DO HIS FUCKING JOB--JUSTICE.

EITHER WAY...OBAMA does not have a choice and can only lose, or lose bigger by playing ball with Cheney--Mueller--Dumsfield--kikes--Rahmbo.

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Obama has promised to bring real change. This must be legal and moral change, where those at the highest levels of government are held accountable for their heinous crimes. The new president should move swiftly to set an important precedent that you can’t authorize war crimes and get away with it.



Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and President of the National Lawyers Guild. She testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in May about official liability for torture. The author of Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law, her articles are archived at www.marjoriecohn.com.


Marjorie Cohn is a frequent contributor to Global Research.

FOUR TREASONOUS ARSON FIRES OF FED BUILDINGS UNDER DEAD EYE DICK CHENEY: FBI stands down...yes...again?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jz2z92QFdgFrIMAJC-4GQcHOm3MgD955ETCO0



Cheney claims power to decide his public records

By PAMELA HESS – 20 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dick Cheney's lawyers are asserting that the vice president alone has the authority to determine which records, if any, from his tenure will be handed over to the National Archives when he leaves office in January.

That claim is in federal court documents asking that a lawsuit over the records be dismissed. Cheney leaves office Jan. 20, potentially taking with him millions of records that might otherwise become public record.

"The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records, how his records will be created, maintained, managed and disposed, and are all actions that are committed to his discretion by law," according to a court filing by Cheney's office with the U.S. District Court on Dec. 8.

Cheney is being sued by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group that is trying to ensure that no presidential records are destroyed or handled in a way that makes them unavailable to the public.

The 1978 Presidential Records Act requires all presidential and vice presidential records to be transferred to the National Archives immediately upon the end of the president's last term of office and gives the archivist responsibility to preserve and control access to presidential records. The law ended the tradition of private ownership of presidential papers, opening White House records to the public and historians.

But the law carves out exceptions for personal or purely partisan records.

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tommy:


The list of ARSON FIRES AT FED BUILDINGS UNDER CHENEY began...when...Cheney's polling showed that the GOP would at least lose the House and possibly the Senate in the 2006 elections:

--NSA 902ND COUNTERINTELIGENCE GROUP at Fort Meade (a secure building with videotape security, armed guards, computer ID passport locks ) burned down before the election...Cheney ALSO HAD A SECURE SHREDDING SERVICE PULL UP TO THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY/VICE PRESIDENT'S HOME to cart away documents from his OFFICE OF PLANS;

--CHENEY'S OEB office had a fire, with one arsonist hanging out the window;

--BUSH HISTORICAL FAMILY HOME IN MIDLAND--ODESSA, TEXAS...FIRE;

--FBI HQ had a conspicuous fire after MUELLER found out that OBAMA was not biteing on Mueller's planted story about "...how Bob was willing to serve out a ten year appointment by Cheney";



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National Archives officials have said records of Cheney's dealings with the Republican National Committee would not require preservation under the law. As of November, it had not made a final determination on the status of Cheney's records produced when he acts as president of the Senate, which he says are exempt.

But the law is unclear on how disagreements will be decided about the preservation of disputed records, said Steven Aftergood, a government secrecy expert at the Federation of American Scientists.

"Decisions that are made in the next couple of weeks may prove irrevocable. If records are held from the archivist now they may never be recovered," Aftergood said.

A judge in September ordered Cheney to preserve all his records while the suit continued.

FAILURE IS SUCCESS at KIKE swindling neocon cabal of corrupt lying cocksuckers: THE MADOFF SCAM

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/



Cox "Worked to Dismantle The SEC," Says Commission Vet

By Zachary Roth -

December 19, 2008, 1:32PM



There's no longer much debate about the fact that the SEC badly slipped up by failing to catch Bernard Madoff's alleged "$50 billion ponzi scheme." Even commission chair Chris Cox lamented "multiple failures over at least a decade" in the matter. And yesterday President-elect Barack Obama declared that the commission had "dropped the ball."

But it's also becoming clear that the Madoff failures didn't arise out of nowhere. In recent years, particularly under Cox, a former California GOP congressman, the SEC has pursued a policy of de-emphasizing enforcement, part of the broader anti-regulatory philosophy of the Bush years -- helping to make Madoff, and perhaps others like him, possible.

"[Cox] in many ways worked to dismantle the SEC," Ed Nordlinger, a former longtime enforcement director in the commission's New York office, told TPMmuckraker. "He slowed everything down. I don't think he believed in heavy regulation."

That view has been echoed by several others in a position to know. Ross Albert told TPMmuckraker for a post published yesterday: "Under Cox, SEC had de-emphasized the enforcement program. Cox worshipped at the same altar of de-regulation that the rest of the Bush administration worshipped at."

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TOMMY:

Failure is success....at SHOCK DOCTRINE neocon mafia crime family...uh...so...uh...what ISRAELI BANKS GOT ALL THAT LOOTED 50 BILLION TO COMINGLE WITH THE 12 BILLION FOR IRAQ, AND THE 400 BILLION as part of "Cheney's TREASONOUS--SEDITIONS--EXTORTIONATE MARSHALL LAW THREAT with OBAMA" passing the Bailout swindle?

Where is the fucking money Barack--Holder?...and when do we seize our money from the fucking kikes like Rahmbo WHO HAS ALOT TO THINK ABOUT WITH BLAGO?

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And a former enforcement division supervisor told Portfolio for a lengthy October story about the SEC under Cox: "It was like someone poured molasses on the enforcement division."

How, specifically? Let us count the ways -- many of them detailed in that Portfolio story -- which focused on what it described as Cox's scaling back of the commission's enforcement role and was titled "SEC No Evil" -- as well as a followup web piece by the same writer, Scott Paltrow.

First, the SEC under Cox did not take steps to make sure that it had enough inspectors to look into the fast-growing number of financial institutions requiring regulation.

The enforcement division has actually lost staff under Cox, even as its workload increased. "Since Cox took office in 2005, the staff count in the division has dropped 9 percent, to 1,124 people this year," reports Portfolio.

Cox's predecessor, William Donaldson, a friend of the Bush family, told the magazine, carefully: "With the kind of problems we have now, any attempt to reduce the effective role of the S.E.C. as a policeman has been a mistake."

We're hoping to have more extensive numbers on this later today, but former SEC chair Arthur Levitt recently told Bloomberg that in 2004, the agency had 477 people in its inspection office, overseeing about 8,000 investment advisers, while today, 430 people regulate 11,300 advisers.

And a union rep for SEC workers told the Washington Post for a story published today that employees were "outgunned" and "underfunded."

Cox also, according to Portfolio, didn't replace the head of the S.E.C.'s new risk-assessment office -- created under Donaldson to improve the commission's ability to anticipate financial upheavals like the one we're in now -- for nearly two years.

But it's not just a human resources problem. According to the magazine, Cox instituted new rules which gave the commissioners, rather than the enforcement staffers, the power to negotiate fines against public companies in certain cases. The result has been a drop in penalties since the rule came into effect.

Portfolio added:


A January analysis by the law firm Morgan Lewis found that S.E.C. penalties have dropped by a "staggering degree" and that "the numbers suggest a philosophical shift by the Cox commission in what constitutes an appropriate penalty."


And Cox distanced himself from the enforcement division, according to Portfolio, rarely consulting with its director. His predecessors had conferred daily with their enforcement directors.

The commission also appears to have passed over for promotion staff members who were too aggressive in their approach to enforcement. Veteran S.E.C. lawyer James Coffman told Portfolio that he was told he didn't get a promotion because he was "too tough." He left the SEC soon after.

In addition, Cox failed to fix a communications problem within the commission, which made enforcement harder. Portfolio reports:


Madoff was required to tell one S.E.C. office how much money he managed as an investment adviser, but was required to report his actual trading positions to another office.

Katz [a former secretary to the commission] said if the two had been compared, investigators may well have discovered a big discrepancy that would have triggered a focused investigation.


Cox will step down when the Bush administration leaves office. Obama's pick for the job, Mary Schapiro, has a reputation as a dedicated regulator, and close SEC watchers expect her to move the commission back toward its enforcement mission -- a shift that appears to have been necessary long before Bernard Madoff became a household name.

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http://lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1769&c=1




Bernard Madoff: Wall Street Swindler Strikes Powerful Blows for Social Justice


Wall Street broker Bernard (‘Bernie’) Madoff, former president of NASDAQ, revered and respected investor confessed to pulling off the biggest fraud in history, a $50 billion dollar scam. Bernie was known for his generous philanthropy, especially to Zionist, Jewish and Israeli causes.




“We never thought he would do this to us, he was one of our people”,
member of Palm Beach Country Club.




An Introduction to the Mega-Swindle


Wall Street broker Bernard (‘Bernie’) Madoff, former president of NASDAQ, revered and respected investor confessed to pulling off the biggest fraud in history, a $50 billion dollar scam. Bernie was known for his generous philanthropy, especially to Zionist, Jewish and Israeli causes.


A one time life-guard on Long Island in the 1960’s, Bernie launched his financial career by raising money from colleagues, friends and relatives among wealthier Jews in the Long Island suburbs, Palm Beach, Florida and in Manhattan, promising a modest, steady and secure return of between 10 to 12%, covering any withdrawals in typical Ponzi fashion by drawing on funds from new investors who literally pleaded for Bernie to fleece them. Madoff personally managed at least $17 billion dollars. For almost four decades he built up a clientele, which came to include some of the biggest banks and investment houses in Scotland, Spain, England and France; as well as major hedge funds in the United States.


Madoff drew almost all of the funds from high net-worth private clients who were recruited by brokers working on commission. Bernie’s clients included many multi-millionaires and billionaires from Switzerland, Israel and elsewhere, as well as the US’s largest hedge funds (RMF Division of the Man Group and the Tremont).


Many of the swindled super-rich clients forced their money on Madoff, who sternly imposed rigorous conditions on potential clients: He insisted they have recommendations from existing investors, deposit a substantial amount and guarantee their own solvency. Most considered themselves lucky to have their funds taken by the highly respected Wall Street…swindler. Madoff’s standard message was that the fund was closed…but because they came from the same world (board members of Jewish charities, pro-Israel fund raising organizations or the ‘right’ country clubs) or were related to a friend, colleague or existing clients, he would take their money.
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TOMMY:


all part of the scam...ain't no way you can get away with stealing the ILLUMINATI's money, or the KIKE charities money without getting whacked or the money stolen back....so....this is all a scam.

What are tax issues for taking a bath?

Where did the money go--Israeli banks...right?

Rich people got good lawyers and own the judges and cops...so...ain't no way this ain't a very clever scam with patsies claiming the lost money...right?

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Madoff set up advisory councils with distinguished members, contributed heavily to museums, hospitals and upscale cultural organizations. He was a prominent member of exclusive country clubs in Palm Beach and Long Island. His reputation was enhanced by his funds record of never having a losing year – a big selling point in luring millionaire investors. Madoff shared with his super-rich clients (Jews and Gentiles) a common upper class life style, and mix of cultural philanthropy with low key financial profiteering. Madoff ‘played’ his colleagues with a soft-spoken, but authoritative, appearance of ‘expertise’, covered by a veneer of upper class collegiality, deep commitment to Zionism and long-term friendships.



Bernie’s mega-fund shared many signs with recent high level scams: The constant high returns, unmatched by any other broker; a lack of third party oversight; a backroom accounting firm physically incapable of auditing the multi-billion dollar operation; a broker-dealer operation directly under his thumb and the total obfuscation of what he was actually investing in.

The obvious similarity of signs with other fraudsters were overlooked by the rich and famous, the sophisticated investors and high paid consultants, the Harvard MBA’s and the entire army of regulators from the Security and Exchange Commissions (SEC) because they were totally embedded in the corrupt culture of ‘take the money and run’ and ‘if you’re making it, don’t ask questions’. The reputation of the superior wisdom of a seemingly successful Jewish Wall Streeter fed into the self-delusions of the wealthy and the stereotypes held by millionaire Gentiles.



The Big Swindle



Madoff’s investment fund only dealt with a limited clientele of multi-millionaire and billionaires who kept their funds in for the long haul; the occasional withdrawal were limited in amount and were easily covered by soliciting new funds from new investors fighting to have access to Madoff’s money management. The long-term big investors looked toward passing their investments to their kin or eventual retirement.

The wealthy lawyers, dentists, surgeons, distinguished Ivy league professors and others who might need to draw from their funds for an occasional fancy wedding or celebrity-studded bar-mitzvah, could draw from their funds because Madoff had no problem covering the withdrawal by attracting funds from rich owners of sweat shop garment factories, dangerous meat packing outfits and slumlords.


Madoff was no Robin Hood, his philanthropic and charity contributions facilitated access to the rich and wealthy who served on the boards of the recipient institutions and proved that he was ‘one of them’ a kind of super-rich ‘intimate’ of the same elite class. The shock, awe and heart attacks that followed Madoff’s confession that he was ‘running a Ponzi scheme’ drew as much anger for the money lost and the fall from the moneyed class as for the embarrassment of knowing that the world’s biggest exploiters and smartest swindlers on Wall Street, were completely ‘taken’ by one of their own.


Not only did they suffer big losses but their self-image of themselves as rich because they are so smart and of ‘superior stock’ was utterly shattered: They saw themselves as suffering the same fate as all the schmucks they had previously swindled, exploited and dispossessed in their climb to the top.


There is nothing worse for the ego of a respectable swindler than to be trumped by a bigger swindler. As a result, a number of the biggest losers have so far refused to give their names or the amount they lost, working instead through lawyers fighting off other losers.





The Positive Side of Madoff’s Mega-Swindle (The Inadvertent Hand of Justice)



While it is understandable that the super-rich and wealthy, who have lost a large portion of their retirement and investment funds are unanimous in their condemnation and cries of betrayal of trust, and the editorials of all the prestigious newspapers and weeklies have joined the chorus of moral critics, there is much to praise in Madoff’s deeds, even if such praise was not at the heart of his fraudulent endeavor.

It is worthwhile to list the inadvertent positive outcomes of Madoff’s mega-swindle. First of all the swindle of $50 plus billion dollars may make a big dent on US Zionist funding of illegal Israeli colonial settlements in the Occupied Territories, lessen funding for AIPAC’s purchase of Congressional influence and financing of propaganda campaigns in favor of a pre-emptive US military attack against Iran. Most investors will have to lower or eliminate their purchase of Israel bonds, which subsidize the Jewish State’s military budget.



Secondly, the swindle has further discredited the highly speculative hedge funds already reeling from massive withdrawals because of deep losses. Madoff’s funds were one of the last ‘respected’ operations still drawing new investors, but with the latest revelations it may accelerate their demise. The dismissed promoters may finally have to perform an honest, productive day’s work.


Thirdly, Madoff’s long-term, large-scale fraud was not detected by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) despite its claims of at least two investigations. As a result, there is a total loss of credibility. More generally, the SEC’s failure demonstrates the incapacity of capitalist government regulatory agencies to detect mega frauds. This failure raises the question of whether alternatives to investing in Wall Street are better suited to protect savings and pension funds.


Fourthly, Madoff’s long-term association with NASDAQ, including his chairmanship, while he was defrauding his clients of billions, strongly suggests that the members and leaders of this stock exchange are incapable of recognizing a crook, and are prone to overlook felonious behavior of ‘one of their own’. In other words, the investing public can no longer look to holders of high posts in NASDAQ as a sign of probity. After Madoff it may signal time to look for a king-size mattress for safe keeping of what remains of a family’s wealth.



The fifth point is that the investment advisors from top banks in Europe, Asia and the US managing billions of funds did not carry out the most elementary due diligence of Madoff’s operation. Apart from severe bank losses, tens of thousands of influential, affluent and super-rich lost their entire accumulated wealth. The result is total loss of confidence in the leading banks and financial instruments as well as the general discrediting of ‘expert knowledge’. The result is a weakening of the financial stranglehold over investor behavior and the demise of an important sector of the parasitic ‘rentier’ class, which gains without producing any useful commodities or providing needed services.


The sixth point is that since most of the money stolen by Madoff came from the upper classes around the world, his behavior has reduced inequalities – he is the ‘greatest leveler’ since the introduction of the progressive income tax. By ruining billionaires and bankrupting millionaires, Madoff has lessened their capacity to use their wealth to influence politicians in their favor – thus increasing the potential political influence of the less affluent sectors of class society…and inadvertently strengthening democracy against the financial oligarchs.


A seventh point can be made that by swindling life-long friends, self-same ethno-religious investors, narrow ethnically defined country club members and close family members, Madoff demonstrates that finance capital shows no respect for any of the pieties of everyday life: Great and small, holy and profane, all are subordinated to the rule of capital.


Eighth, among the many ruined investors in New York and New England, there are a number of mega slumlords (real estate moguls), sweatshop owners (fancy name-brand clothes and toy manufacturers) and others who barely paid the minimum wage to their women and immigrant laborers, evicted poor tenants and swindled employees out of their pensions before moving their operations to China. In other words, Madoff’s swindle was a kind of secular ‘divine’ retribution for past and present crimes against labor and the poor. Needless to say, this ‘unconscious Robin Hood’ did not redistribute the money fleeced from the employers to their workers, he reinvested part of it in charities which enhanced his philanthropic image and to payout to some of his early investors so sustain the overall Ponzi scam.

Point number nine is that Madoff struck a severe blow against anti-Semites who claim that there is a ‘close-knit Jewish conspiracy to defraud the Gentiles’, laying that canard to rest once and for all. Among Bernard Madoff’s principle victims were his closest Jewish friends and colleagues, people who shared Seder meals and frequented the same upscale temples in Long Island and Palm Beach.


Bernie was discriminating in accepting clients, but it was on the basis of their wealth and not their national origin, race, religion or sexual preference. He was very ecumenical and a strong backer of globalization.

There was nothing ethnocentric about Madoff: He defrauded the Anglo-Chinese bank HSBC of $1 billion dollars and several billions from the Dutch arm of the Belgian bank Fortes. $1.4 billion was from the Royal Bank of Scotland, the French bank BNP Paribas, the Spanish bank, Banco Santander, the Japanese Nomura; not to mention hedge funds in London and the US, which have admitted holdings in Bernard Madoff Investment Securities. Indeed Bernie was emblematic of the modern up-to-date, politically correct, multicultural, international…swindler. The ease with which the super rich of Europe forked their fortunes over caused one Madrid-based business consultant to observe that, “picking off Spain’s wealthiest was like clubbing seals…” (Financial Times, December 18, 2008 p.16)


The tenth point is that Madoff’s swindle will likely promote greater self-criticism and a more distrustful attitude toward other potential confidence people posing as reliable financial know-it-alls. Among self-critical Jews, they are less likely to confide in brokers simply because they are zealous backers of Israel and generous contributors to Zionist fund drives. That is no longer an adequate guarantee of ethical behavior and a certificate of good conduct. In fact it may raise suspicion of brokers who are excessively ardent boosters of Israel and promise consistent high returns to local Zionist affiliates – asking themselves whether this business about ‘what is good for the …’ is really a cover for another scam.

The final and 11th point is the demise of Madoff’s enterprise and his wealthy liberal Jewish victims will adversely affect contributions to the 52 Major Jewish American Organizations, numerous foundations in Boston, Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere, as well as the Clinton/Schumer militarist wing of the Democratic Party (Madoff bankrolled both of them as well as other unconditional Congressional supporters of Israel). This may open Congress to greater debate on Middle East policy without the usual high volume attacks.



Conclusion



Madoff’s swindle and fraudulent behavior is not the result of a personal moral failure. It is the product of a systemic imperative and the economic culture, which informs the highest circles of our class structure. The paper economy, hedge funds and all the ‘sophisticated financial instruments’ are all ‘Ponzi schemes’ – they are not based on producing and selling goods and services. They are financial bets on future financial paper growth based on securing future buyers to pay off earlier cash ins.

The ‘failure’ of the SEC is totally predictable and systemic: The regulators are selected from the regulatees, are beholden to them and defer to their judgments, claims and audit sheets. They are structured to ‘miss the signs’ and to avoid ‘over-regulating’ their financial superiors. Madoff operated in a milieu of a Wall Street where everything goes, where impunity for mega-bailouts for mega swindlers is the norm. As an individual swindler, he out-defrauded some of his bigger institutional competitors on the Street. The whole system of rewards and prestige goes to those best able to juggle the books, to cover the paper trails and who have willing victims begging to get fleeced. What a mensch, this Madoff!

In a few days, one individual, Bernard Madoff, has struck a bigger blow against global financial capital, Wall Street and the US Zionist Lobby/Israel-First Agenda than the entire US and European left combined over the past half century! He has been more successful in reducing vast wealth disparities in New York than all the white, black, Christian and Jewish, reform and mainline Democratic and Republican governors and Mayors over the past two centuries.

Some right-wing conspiracy theorists are claiming that Bernie is a secret Islamic-Palestinian agent (from Hamas) who set out to deliberately undermine the financial base of the Jewish State of Israel and its most powerful, affluent and generous US backers and foundations. Others claim that he is a closet Marxist whose swindles were carefully designed to discredit Wall Street and to funnel billions into clandestine radical organizations – after all… does anyone know where the lost billions have gone? Unlike the leftist pundits, bloggers and protest marchers, whose earnest and public activities have had no effect on the rich and powerful, Madoff has aimed his blows where it hurts the most: Their mega-bank accounts, their confidence in the capitalist system, their self-esteem and, yes, even their cardiac well-being.

Does that mean we on the left should form a Bernie Madoff Defense Committee and call for a bailout in line with Paulson’s bailout of his Citibank cronies? Should we proclaim “Equal bailout for equal swindlers!”? Should we advocate his flight (or his right of return) to Israel to avoid a trial? It might not fly with his many Jewish victims to make the case for an Israeli retirement for Bernie.

There is no reason to mount the barricades for Bernard Madoff. It’s enough to recognize that he has inadvertently rendered an historic service to popular justice by undermining some of the financial props of a class-ridden injustice system.

Postscript

Was it out of sheer admiration or because of some covert linkages with Madoff that our current Attorney General Michael Mukasey is removing himself from the investigation? Others of equal importance and influence are most certainly tied in the Madoff Affair, and not just the ‘victims’. We are facing a serious case of matters of State … No one can believe that a single person could by himself pull off a scam of this size and duration. Nor can any serious investigator believe that $50 billion dollars has simply ‘disappeared’ or been squirreled into personal accounts.

December 2008

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http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/12/18/us_attorney_removes_himself_from_madoff_probe/




US attorney removes himself from Madoff probe

Associated Press /

December 18, 2008



WASHINGTON - The fraud investigation of Wall Street money manager Bernard L. Madoff took unusual twists yesterday as the US attorney general removed himself from the probe and the Securities and Exchange Commission looked into the relationship between Madoff's niece and a former SEC attorney who reviewed Madoff's business.

The developments reflect growing criticism that Wall Street and regulators in Washington have grown too close. Madoff himself has boasted of his ties to the SEC.

In New York, Madoff showed up at the US courthouse to sign some papers in his case. Free on $10 million bail, Madoff is under curfew and wears an ankle bracelet to monitor his movements.

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey recused himself from the Madoff probe because his son, Marc Mukasey, is representing Frank DiPascali, a top financial officer at Madoff's investment firm. The Justice Department confirmed yesterday he was removing himself from all aspects of the case.

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tommy:


This tells you that MADOFF'S SCAM (Madoff stole 50 billion and has house arrest...and bail?) is a MOSSAD SCAM with MOSSAD AGENTS CHERTOFF KIKE AND MUKASY KIKE AND RAHMBO EMMANUEL (Mossad's "mega" who did Clinton with Lewinski) all in on it.

The guy won't go to jail for long....doncha know?

Follow the money...right?

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The turmoil at the SEC came as the investigation into the scandal widened.

Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin's office said he subpoenaed Madoff's brother, Peter Madoff, who is the chief compliance officer of Madoff's company, and Marcia Beth Cohn, chief compliance officer of Cohmad Securities Corp., which is in the same building in New York. Galvin is trying to determine the relationship between Madoff's firm and Cohmad Securities, and the names and numbers of all Massachusetts investors with both firms.


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Did Madoff act alone?

It's hard enough to legitimately manage $50 billion. To falsify books and hide that big a sum, though, experts suggest Bernard Madoff had help. But who?



Katie Benner

December 19, 2008: 1:50 PM ET


Furor over SEC failure





(Fortune) -- Like the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman, the theory that Bernard Madoff acted alone is hard to swallow.

True, Madoff has allegedly confessed that he perpetrated a massive fraud that left behind $50 billion in losses; and he claimed to have done this all alone.

But this is a man who kept false records, sent bogus documentation, bilked investors for billions, lied for years to friends and knowingly harmed charities. It's within the realm of acceptable behavior to cast a jaundiced eye upon his confession.

"Speaking as a Jew on Christmas, I would be less shocked if Santa Claus showed up to my house than if Bernie Madoff pulled off this fraud alone," says Ron Geffner, a partner at law firm Sadis & Goldberg who specializes in structuring, organizing and counseling hedge funds and other investment advisors.

"It's hard to imagine that given the amount of assets that he managed that people would not have been aware. If nothing else, employees, no matter what floor they were on, would have known that somewhere within the firm money was being lost," Geffner adds.

To put it into perspective, if a company generated $50 billion in revenue, it would be in the Fortune 50. That's a huge sum to hide, even over a period of years. To date, the largest similar fraud has been Sam Israel's Bayou Group, which turned out to be a $400 million ponzi scheme. Even Tom Petters, who managed to keep a huge investment scheme going for 13 years, only lost $3 billion for investors.

Not only is it difficult to hide $50 billion in losses without anyone knowing, it's hard to manage that much money. The amount of paperwork generated by a legitimate operation requires a huge backroom operation and lots of employees just to keep careful records of trades, profit and loss, and investor distributions and redemptions.

To successfully run a fraudulent operation for as long as Madoff did, he would not only need to keep records of what was actually going in and out of his operation, he would have to falsify an alternative sets of books, trading records and investor returns.


"This was a very large scheme, and he couldn't have done it without the cooperation and assistance of someone well informed who could process trades, report them and create monthly statements," says Doug Kass, founder of the dedicated short fund Seabreeze Partners. "Someone had to help him falsify all those reports, conduct mail fraud and create multiple sets of books."



The usual suspects


So who were his accomplices?

Bernard Madoff Investment Securities was essentially a family operated business. His brother Peter Madoff was the chief compliance officer. His son Andy Madoff was the director of trading, and his son Mark Madoff was the director of proprietary trading. Shana Madoff, his niece, was the firm's compliance attorney.

And account statements uncovered by the website CityFile show that Mark Madoff's charitable trust was handled by asset-management firm Neuberger Berman, rather than by his dad. The millions in Bernie Madoff's foundation were managed by his own investment firm.

Strikingly, his family has been largely ruled out as suspects in the case; and it is possible that they only ran the trading operation. In a move that distanced them from their father, neither son was willing to sign Bernie Madoff's bail papers.

As for outside help, Cohmad Securities, a Boston based investment firm is being subpoenaed by regulators to find out more about its relationship with Madoff.


The firm is 20% owned by Madoff and 80% owned by Maurice Cohn; and its name is a combination of the names Cohn and Madoff. Cohmad's New York office is in the same building as Bernard Madoff Investment Securities, on the 10th floor. On the 17th floor, Madoff allegedly carried out his ponzi scheme in private.

An executive at Cohmad is Robert "Bob" Jaffe, who helped introduce members of the Palm Beach Country Club to Madoff's investment outfit. He is also the son-in-law of Carl Shapiro, a man who made his fortune in New York City's Garment District and was one of Madoff's earliest and largest investors.

But as with Madoff's family, Jaffe has said that he was unaware of the fact that Madoff's investment arm was a fraud. And it has been exceedingly difficult to turn up any real leads in the case. Even those close with former Madoff employees are exceedingly frustrated by the opacity of the situation. No one knows with for sure how many people actually worked for Madoff. No one knows how many investors he had or how much money he actually managed.

"This is clearly the biggest financial scandal and cover up in history," says Kass.

Let's hope that the SEC is better at closing the case than the Warren Commission.

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tommy:



DON'T FORGET THAT MUKASYKIKE, (the same guy who worked with CHERTOFF KIKE to get the MOSSAD DEMOLITION TEAM OUT OF JAIL AFTER SUCCESSFULLY MURDERING 3,000 AMERICANS ON 9/11) had to recuse himself from this since MUKASYKIKE'S SON is a lawyer representing a defendant...to make sure DOJ--MUKASY--MOSSAD is in charge of the evidence of the ongoing fraud and multiheaded conspiracy all of which...goes right back to MOSSAD AND ISRAELI BANKS where the loot is safe behind a private wall of silence.

That's why...YOU MIGHT ON OCCASION HERE ME USE THE WORD "KIKE" to describe jews who are really just MAFIA SWINDLING PARASITES WHO HELPED DESTROY AMERICA.

ANYBODY WANT TO CALL ME AN ANTISEMITE...feel free.

JEFF TAYLOR: LYING GOP COCKSUCKER who saved CHENEY'S ASS...CORRUPTION...TIME FOR IRS AUDIT OF TAYLOR

FROM "ALEX CONSTANTINE'S BLACK LIST" (excellent blog...well worth your time...just click the blogtitle above to see Alex's blog, and story that...uh...looks like I poached his story.

Oh well...I think Alex will understand...since...I DO CHAMPION HIS BLOG, AND HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE EVERY WEEK to see what Alex has done.


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http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/




"Jeffrey A. Taylor is the interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Prior to his work in Washington, DC, Jeffrey Taylor served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1995–1999. [1] From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Taylor served as majority counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee where he advised Chairman Orrin Hatch and drafted provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. [2]

Before his appointment as U.S. Attorney, Mr. Taylor served as Counselor to Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales from 2002 to 2006 where he oversaw law enforcement operations by U.S. attorneys.[1]

He was appointed interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia by Alberto Gonzales on September 22, 2006 and was sworn in seven days later; interim U.S. attorneys do not need to be confirmed by the Senate.[1]

Interim U.S. attorneys have no term limit, as a result of an amendment to the law governing interim attorneys included in the USA Patriot Reauthorization Act of 2005;[2] formerly interim appointees had a 120-day term limit, and could be re-appointed (without term limit) at the end of the 120-day term by the chief judge of the district court.

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tommy:

THAT LAW WAS CHANGED WHEN SIOUX FALLS, SD, FED JUDGE LARRY PEIRSOL objected to the replacement of INTERIM SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN with OK CITY GOP STOOGE STEVEN MULLINS who did nothing except...OBSTRUCT JUSTICE ON 3 SD PATRIOT ACT MURDERS THAT BOB MUELLER'S GUTLESS COWARDLY PUNK COCKSUCKERS at FBI covered up.}

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U.S. Attorneys controversy


Mr. Taylor's position came under heightened interest in March 2007 during the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. On March 20, 2007, President Bush declared in a press conference that White House staff would not testify under oath on the matter if subpoenaed by Congress.[3] One who ignores a Congressional subpoena can be held in contempt of Congress, but the D.C. U.S. Attorney must convene a grand jury to start the prosecution of this crime.



Under 2 U.S.C. § 194, once either the House or the Senate issues a citation for contempt of Congress, it is referred to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, "whose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for its action."[4] It is unclear (as of March 20, 2007) whether Mr. Taylor would fulfill this duty to convene a grand jury, or resist Congress at the direction of Bush or Gonzales.



1. "Biography of U.S. Attorney: Jeffrey A. Taylor". United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
2. "3-19-2007 DOJ-Released Documents". U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
3. Stolberg, Sheryl Gay (March 21, 2007). "Bush Clashes With Congress on Prosecutors", New York Times. Retrieved on 21 March 2007.
4. Zimroth, Peter L. and David G. Kleiman (February 9, 2007). "Congressional Investigations: The Supoenas are Coming" (PDF). New York Law Journal 237 (8). Retrieved on 21 March 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_A._Taylor



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Taylor's Role in the Bush Regime

" ... He was appointed to put out a lot of fires. Jeffrey A. Taylor is one of the Bush administration's insurance policies, a brake on the rule of law now that there is no GOP majority in Congress to protect and obstruct for them. ... "
http://chickasawpicklesmell.blogspot.com/2007/06/jeffrey-taylor-us-attorney-in-palfrey_30.html

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DC Madam Connection to Attorney Fired by the DoJ - and a Murder

Thomas M. DiBiagio was one of the attorneys fired by Gonzales.

From Wiki:



"Thomas M. DiBiagio is a former United States Attorney in the state of Maryland. After eight U.S. attorneys were fired by te Bush administration in 2006 for performance-related issues under a clause of the PATRIOT Act (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy), stated in March 2007 that he was ousted because of political pressure over public corruption investigations into the administration of then-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. Investigations involved links between politicians and the D.C. Madam Scandal. Jonathan Luna, an assistant to DiBiagio who was involved in the probe. was murdered in 2003."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M._DiBiagio
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LUNA WAS STABBED 36 TIMES - "As of this date, the FBI hints Luna committed suicide. ... "

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tommy:


IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT A PALESTINIAN PEACE ACTIVIST NAMED HAMID was also...suicided...found floating in Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin, Texas....and...cops said "...must be suicide" (SUICIDES ALWAYS BIND THEIR OWN HANDS BEHIND THEIR BACKS...doncha know?).

HAMID was working with SYRIAN CIA ASSET CARNEBY IN HOUSTON...when...he was being followed and targeted by MOSSAD.

BLOWN OP in middle east when CHENEY was trying to steal a nuke...and trying to get a nuke exchange in middle east...so CHENEY CAN AVOID GOING TO FED PEN ON CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER OF AN ENRON--CHENEY ENERGY POLICY WITNESS.

SAME mercs used on Christina...and same m.o.....were used on me...when I lived in Austin, Texas...about 30 miles from Christina's home.

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FOR MORE ON JON LUNA'S MURDER, "the most intriguing true crime currently in process and still unsolved.":

http://patfish.blogspot.com/2004/12/true-crime-jonathan-p-luna-mystery.html
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Taylor & the 2001 Anthrax Cover-Up



Another "Suicide" - Bruce Ivins



Taylor: "Earlier today, several search warrant affidavits were unsealed in federal court in the District of Columbia. Among other things, these search warrants confirm that the government was investigating Dr. Ivins in connection with the attacks, which killed five individuals and injured 17 others in 2001. Dr. Ivins was a resident of Frederick, Maryland, and a long-time anthrax researcher who worked at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, known as USAMRIID. ...


We are now beginning the process of concluding this investigation. Once this process is complete, we will formally close the case. Had Dr. Ivins been
indicted, he would have been presumed innocent until proven guilty as in the case with any other criminal defendant. We regret that we will not have the opportunity to present the evidence to a jury to determine whether the
evidence establishes Dr. Ivins' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. ...




BLACKWATER "MANSLAUGHTER" CHARGE?

How mass murder committed by Blackwater guards stationed in Iraq was reduced to "manslaughter" in an American courtroom:

... The five guards were charged with 14 counts of manslaughter, 20 counts of attempted manslaughter and one count of using a machine gun to commit a crime of violence. The machine gun charge, typically used in drug cases, carries a 30-year minimum prison sentence. ...

Blackwater, which was not charged in the case, maintains its guards were protecting themselves from what they believed was an imminent car bomb attack.

“We think it’s pure and simple a case of self-defense,” defense attorney Paul Cassell said Monday as the guards were being booked. “Tragically, people did die.” ...

http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081209/NEWS04/812090305/0/news04



War crimes reports are routinely ignored by Taylor's office:


" There have been numerous cases, numerous instances of reported abuse that have either gone uninvestigated or, if investigated, the prosecution just was dropped. And there absolutely needs to be more resources put into these prosecutions. .... "

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/19/broadcast_exclusive_iraqi_witnesses_victims_describe



The handoff: Legal manipulations at Rice's State Department assured there would be no prosecution in the States (Iraq, of course, may actually see it through, per recent news reports):

Blackwater given Immunity - Now they can freely confess to everything

Excerpt:

Potential prosecution of Blackwater guards allegedly involved in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians may have been compromised because the guards received immunity for statements they made to State Department officials investigating the incident, federal law enforcement officials said yesterday.


FBI agents called in to take over the State Department's investigation two weeks after the Sept. 16 shootings cannot use any information gleaned during questioning of the guards by the department's Bureau of Diplomatic
Security, which is charged with supervising security contractors.


Some of the Blackwater guards have subsequently refused to be interviewed by the FBI, citing promises of immunity from State, one law enforcement official said. The restrictions on the FBI's use of their initial statements do not preclude prosecution by the Justice Department using other evidence, the official said, but "they make things a lot more complicated and difficult."
http://www.bartcop.com/2064.htm

This proved to be a prophetic statement: The Blackwater case is so "complicated and difficult" that Taylor's office has made no progress on it.

Mass murder takes a back seat at DoJ.

Meanwhile, a Democratic governor in Illinois is to be prosecuted and impeached or allegedly selling a Senate seat ...

- AC
Posted by Alex Constantine at 11:42 AM

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tommy:



OH ALEX....uh....this ain't first time that BLACKWATER INC (Cheney and Dumsfield's favorite murder incorporated...paid with no bid front loaded tax payers money) got away with MURDER.


SEEMS AS THOUGH....DOD CIFA UNIT was office shareing with SF FBI COUNTERINTELIGENCE SPECIAL AGENT STEVEN PLUTA at The Shriver Building in downtown Sioux Falls, SD.

PLUTA replaced the two other fuckheads at Sioux Falls SD FBI..., SPECIAL AGENTS DAVE "fuckface" HELLER...and little tough guy cocksucker s.a. DANNY "shithead" REYNALDS. Both fed fucksticks...were fired or reassigned after my US DOJ OIG COMPLAINT...made it past the surveillance screen.



PLUTA was MUELLER'S PICK TO AX ME BECAUSE...I had mentioned some info on FBI'S MURDER OF MINN US SEN PAUL WELLSTONE...using...of course...COUNTERINTELIGENCE SPECIAL AGENTS whose job was to "...point the finger at the pilot" to avoid the obvious murder--PATRIOT ACT MURDER evidence.


FBI worked with DOD CIFA UNIT WHO CONTRACTED THE MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS (now called War Crimes so that OBAMA AND HOLDER don't have to look at PATRIOT ACT MURDERS BY CHENEY--HAYDEN--MUELLER--DUMSFIELD--GATES--GOSS).

INFO FROM FBI 302 on my Dad....resulted in FBI HAVING INFO ON WHAT LAWYERS I MIGHT BE USING TO FILE A CIVIL SUIT? NOT AN FBI PEROGATIVE...no?

THEN...FBI AND MUELLER AND S.A. PLUTA...AND RUMSFIELD, CHENEY, BLACKWATER....ETC...ALL COLLUDED TO MURDER AND MAIM MY LAWYERS:

--LEROY ROGERS, OMAHA ATTY...BRAIN STROKE;

----JOHN KABIESEMAN, YANKTON, SD ATTY...staged vehicle accident;

----JON VAN PATTEN, VERMILLION,SD, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSOR...wheeled out of Sioux Valley Hospital after I left message on his machine.

FBI OBSTRUCTS MORE MURDERED US ATTYS(?): LUNA CASE...links to DC Madam, fired US ATTY DeBaggio?

A good website to visit is ALEX CONSTANTINE'S BLACK LIST.

ALEX was tortured as a political enemy of the right wing nazi fascist corrupt American Government. Alex wrote and researched a book called "The War against Rock and Roll" detailing some of the factual suspicion that...uh...looks like COINTELPRO was used on rock and rollers?

Anyway...RECENTLY ALEX has looked at the MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF A US ATTY LINKED TO THE DC MADAME case...that threatened DICK CHENEY WITH EXPOSURE SINCE HIS PHONE RECORDS WERE INCLUDED IN THE STACKS OF PHONE RECORDS that could have come out...and still can?

ELIOT SPITZER got taken out for becoming a subliminally programmed "grabass" who paid for sex. Big deal. Spitzer was a great hero to me.

Anyway...check out ALEX at his blog...click on blogtitle above, and get linked to ALEX's research on the LUNA murder of a US ATTY?


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http://patfish.blogspot.com/2004/12/true-crime-jonathan-p-luna-mystery.html


December 09, 2004

True Crime: The Jonathan P. Luna Mystery




The Intriguing and Bizarre Mystery of Jonathan P. Luna


Perhaps it was the proximity of this mystery to my home town of Baltimore. Perhaps it's my life long mild obsession with true crime. But the mystery of Jonathan P. Luna, Assistant US district attorney, 38 years of age, father of two young boys and by all accounts a serious and dedicated young man, is, I assert, the most intriguing true crime currently in process and still unsolved.

Much of the mystery remains because of the closed mouths of the investigators. As of this date, the FBI hints Luna committed suicide. The PA Coroner declares Luna's death a homicide. Whatever the case, and I do have an opinion should anyone be surprised, more on this later, Jonathan Luna died the strangest death of most any human on the planet.

For he had been stabbed 36 times, mostly shallow cuts. His body was found, face down, in the muddy waters of a small creek in Amish Pennsylvania. His death appears to have been from drowning, with the unstated supposition that had he not been in the creek he would have eventually bled out from his wounds.

There's many interesting facets of the Luna case, including one factoid I found so very telling yet is buried beneath the verbiage and reporting on this case.

Let's begin with the events of the night of Luna's death. There seems to have been a back and forth type of thing going on with Luna that night, having returned to the office, then returning home, then going back to the office. For whatever reason this type of activity was going on, the real strangeness began at almost midnight on 12/3/2003.

At that time, Luna left his office, this after promising to fax papers to the defendant's attorneys on a current case first thing in the morning. Around 1 am, he stopped at a Delaware rest stopped and withdrew $200. Videotapes of that transaction seem to show a normal and calm Luna doing this most ordinary of business. At 2:47 am, his car went through a Delaware toll plaza.

At 5:30 am, his body was found in dead in a small Pennsylvania creek.

Odder, the route Luna took to get to his final destination was roundabout, a route that added two hours to the normal travel time from Baltimore to the small Pa. Town where he was found of a little under two hours. It took four hours for him to finish a trip that should have only taken two hours is what I'm saying here.

From 11:30 pm 12/3/03 until around 4:30 am or so, Luna traveled all about the Delaware interstate in a circuitous route to a deadly end. Nowhere along his route that night is there any evidence that he was anything but all alone.

I use the ending of his travel time as 4:30 am as my own personal estimate as there had to be some time required to get the man stabbed 36 times and drag him to finish dying in the creek. This is my estimate alone but the discovery of his body at 5:30 am already dead in a manner that required some time to get that way makes me conclude there was at least an hour non-driving time for the "killing".


His car left the turnpike after 3:30 a.m. at Exit 286, south of Reading. The ticket turned in to the tollbooth worker had a speck of blood, a law enforcement source said, and DNA tests are being conducted to determine whether it was Luna's.


Which means Luna drove around 4 hours that night, mostly along the Delaware interstate route. It is known that he stopped at two places along that route and passed through a toll at almost 3:30 am. He was supposedly alone when he stopped at a gas station in King of Prussia, Pa. shortly before 3:30 am. though this is not clear. Add a half an hour to 45 minutes to get to his final destination at that little creek, that brings Luna to around 4:30 am, my timeline, when the killing probably began.

By most accounts Luna is a straight up sort of fellow. He worked his way through law school and helped his parents to move to Maryland to be closer to him. His mother-in-law lived with him, his wife and two sons.


But there's other tidbits that seem more juicy than they are germane.
Luna allegedly had a stash of porn on his home computer. Also, someone using his name had placed an ad for a "discrete" relationship on an Internet web site.
He had 25K in credit card debt of which his wife was unaware.

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TOMMY:


Luna worked on the DC Madame case....probabely leaked to the media, and..uh...FBI and coconspirators at BLACKWATER INC/DOD CIFA UNIT/NSA 902ND COUNTERINTELIGENCE GROUP went to work on this guy.

Very dangerous...to leak info about CHENEY'S NAME IN DC MADAME'S BLACK BOOK...ya know.

This ain't first time FBI COVERED UP A MURDER OF A US ATTORNEY who threatened THE ILLUMINATI/NAZI/NEO CON/BUSH CRIME FAMILY...doncha know?

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Even other tidbits are more germane, I assert. While his boss publicly declared that Luna was in no danger of losing his job, friends say he was very worried about being fired and even hired a lawyer in anticipation of a job related lawsuit.

At yet another rest stop in PA, The Peter J. Carmiel rest stop, Luna was well known and stopped there regularly in the six months prior to his death.

Most germane of all, Luna was the prosecutor in a case when $36K in cash went missing and has yet to be accounted for.

So what do I think happened to Jonathan P. Luna?

I think he committed suicide.

Yes, as bizarre as it sounds, given everything I know and understanding there's lots we don't know, I think Luna killed himself and, indeed, had been planning to do so for over six months prior.

Also of important note, there was NO, absolutely NONE, evidence, of anyone else ever being in that car with Luna. Not a fiber, a hair, a drop of blood from anyone else but those that belonged there. To stab someone 36 times inside of a car would require some engagement that would surely leave SOME evidence.

As for his home porn and credit card debt, even that little naughty ad, I say this is nothing. $25K worth of debt to a lawyer is not the stuff of suicide and I'm betting there's plenty of spouses out there who don't know about their better half's credit debt.

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tommy:


THE SECRET POLICE--FBI always dirties up a victim so that no one emphathizes with the crime victim. DONALD SETEN got framed on child porn (photos were not proven to be minor children) BECAUSE HE BLEW THE WHISTLE ON THE SIOUX FALLS POLICE MAFIA stealing 2.3 million dollars when MAYOR MUNSON illegally moved the money for a bogus cost overrun on a public works project.

FBI AND SD US DOJ did nothing on that.

Somehow...a mysterious 1.3 million dollars was given back to the City of Sioux Falls from an anonymous business?????????????/

Happens all the time....doncha know?

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I think Luna had been planning a suicide for the six months prior to his death and his trips past that rest stop were either times when he planned to do the deed but chickened out or preliminary planning trips.

There are some debatable details about the state of his car. Also, Luna's head supposedly had a massive wound. A pool of congealed blood was found on the floor behind the driver's seat. Money was alleged to be scattered all over his car and his wallet was missing.

As I see it, Luna kept stabbing himself, perhaps with each try he hoped it would be the one he would thrust in all the way. Or he might have been testing for his tolerance to pain. As for his head wound, I think that once he'd administered so many cuts to his body he just wanted it to end, to end, dammit. In desperation he banged his head forcefully against the side of the car, indeed he even tried to drive his car into the water but chickened out. His car was found with its wheels almost under water. Finally he stumbled, badly bleeding, into the creek and waited for the peace of the waters filling his lungs.

As for the money scattered all about and the missing wallet, I think Luna staged it this way, perhaps tossing the wallet somewhere along the last few miles of his trip. If there was a way for his family to gain double indemnity for his death he wanted it to look like a robbery. The congealed blood on the back floor could have been the normal route of the running blood as it exited his body to snake along the car seat lines to end up in various bloody pools.

Why did Luna kill himself?

This is the part we don't know but I suspect. I think Luna was involved in that missing money-the cash of $36K that went missing on a case he was trying. And I think Luna knew the Feds were closing in. And the Feds knew they were closing in and this is why they are more apt to think Luna committed suicide than those Pa. Cops, who probably never had a homicide at any rate.

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tommy:

If LUNA stole the money...and Feds were closing in...wouldn't the FBI have records from the GPS tracking device that they always put in suspects vehicles into perpetuity?

NSA does the record keeping and SIGINT on those GPS devices...doncha know?
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In honor of a man so desperate to kill himself for fear of the penalty of his theft, I suspect information about the status of that missing money is not being released. It's why some of Luna's friends say he was worried about being fired and explains that bit about him hiring an attorney.

I don't know why the man didn't just kill himself with a gun and get it done. Surely it would be less painful than death by a thousand cuts. When a person is so driven to suicide who knows what desperate thoughts fill their minds? For whatever reason, Luna wanted a way to end it slowly and, I'm supposing, as painless as possible. Maybe he thought bleeding from a lot of little cuts wouldn't hurt and he knew he would never have the courage to pull a trigger.

By my theory that missing money was being investigated for six months prior to Luna's death. And for the entire six months Luna was driving the Delaware/PA interstate, driving, thinking and looking for a place to end it all.


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From Wikipedia:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Luna


"....Luna left his glasses, which he needed to drive, and his cell phone on his desk. He had called defense attorneys earlier in the night saying he would fax over documents that night but they never arrived. The pool of blood in the back seat would suggest Luna was in back and someone else was driving. Luna was at the time working under fired US attorney Thomas M. DiBiagio, "finding [Maryland Governor Robert] Ehrlich and lobbyist Jack Abramoff were DC Madam (Deborah Jeane Palfrey) clients"[1]".......



TOMMY:


ONE OF THOSE CLIENTS WAS DEAD EYE DICK CHENEY...the guy who is gonna get a preemptive pardon, before being charged, arrrested, arraigned and prosecuted with final adjudication?????????????????????????????????/



Why did DEAD EYE DICK CHENEY HAVE SO MUCH BAD LUCK?


CHENEY sent PORTER GOSS over to CIA to kick ass and take names...firing all the significant covert ops bulls...including a guy named "The Great Santini" aka STEVE KAPPES.

KAPPES and his deputies were given short shrift, and shabby treatment.

Fired without good cause.

Linked to Bean and BEAN'S DASCHLE CAMPAIGN MEMO memorializing the NSA wiretapping on SD US SEN TOM DASCHLE'S 2004 CAMPAIGN?

So...uh...like I said when Kappes got fired with his buddies...."...ain't no way Porter Goss is gonna enjoy his civil liberties again...".

GOSS--SEN SPECTOR--WADE--CUNNINGHAM--ABRAMOFF--CHENEY all got some heat when the DC MADAME CASE STARTED REVVING UP.

CHENEY'S phone call records were in the pile of evidence....that somehow...never made it to the mainstream media who preferred to ignore the IMPEACHEABLE OFFENSE....while also...COVERING THE NEWS THAT ELIOT SPITZER LIKED HOOKERS?


SO...LUNA somehow got clipped, while his boss only got fired?

LUNA must have been leaking, or...uh...hmmm...aggressively pursuing the evidence AFTER BEING TOLD TO COVER IT UP?

NO SUICIDE.

NO STOLEN MONEY.

NO SEX DEVIANCE.

NOPE...just a guy who did not know, that SOMEBODY AIN'T PLAYING BY ANY RULES.

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From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M._DiBiagio




..."Thomas M. DiBiagio is a former United States Attorney in the state of Maryland. After eight U.S. attorneys were fired by the Bush administration in 2006 for performance-related issues under a clause of the PATRIOT Act (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy), stated in March 2007 that he was ousted because of political pressure over public corruption investigations into the administration of then-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.[1] Investigations involved links between politicians and the D.C. Madam Scandal. [1] Jonathan Luna, an assistant to DiBiagio who was involved in the probe was murdered in 2003. [2]"....




tommy:


FUNNY...THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND SEN LEAHY AND CONYERS never focused on DIBIAGIO
GETTING FIRED as part of the US ATTY scandal...and the firing is linked to CHENEY'S SEX DEVIANCE AND TAPES...DC MADAME...ABRAMOFF SCANDALS...WADE, DUKESTER....ten other Abramoff scandals....etc.......?

Anybody notice a pathetic clown pussy putz...named TOM BROKAW FROM YANKTON, SD....does not come close to covering the news?

conversations with Robert Trumbull Crowley, once a leader of the CIA's Clandestine Operations Division: KENNEDY ASSASINATION

part 39 CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CROW

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2887.htm#006


....


Editor’s note at TBRNEWS.COM:


When this series was prepared, a number of conversations were deliberately redacted because they were either very personal in nature or, more important, contained specific material which we felt might have considerable impact and present potential danger in publication. Now that all of the conversations are being readied for publication, along with illustrative specific notes, we are publishing many of the hitherto off-limits examples. Enjoy them!

On October 8th, 2000, Robert Trumbull Crowley, once a leader of the CIA's Clandestine Operations Division, died in a Washington hospital of heart failure and the end effects of Alzheimer's Disease. Before the late Assistant Director Crowley was cold, Joseph Trento, a writer of light-weight books on the CIA, descended on Crowley's widow at her town house on Cathedral Hill Drive in Washington and hauled away over fifty boxes of Crowley's CIA files.

Once Trento had his new find secure in his house in Front Royal , Virginia, he called a well-known Washington fix lawyer with the news of his success in securing what the CIA had always considered to be a potential major embarrassment. Three months before, July 20th of that year, retired Marine Corps colonel William R. Corson, and an associate of Crowley, died of emphysema and lung cancer at a hospital in Bethesda, Md.

After Corson's death, Trento and a well-known Washington fix-lawyer went to Corson's bank, got into his safe deposit box and removed a manuscript entitled 'Zipper.' This manuscript, which dealt with Crowley's involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, vanished into a CIA burn-bag and the matter was considered to be closed forever.

The small group of CIA officials gathered at Trento's house to search through the Crowley papers, looking for documents that must not become public. A few were found but, to their consternation, a significant number of files Crowley was known to have had in his possession had simply vanished.

When published material concerning the CIA's actions against Kennedy became public in 2002, it was discovered to the CIA's horror, that the missing documents had been sent by an increasingly erratic Crowley to another person and these missing papers included devastating material on the CIA's activities in South East Asia to include drug running, money laundering and the maintenance of the notorious 'Regional Interrogation Centers' in Viet Nam and, worse still, the Zipper files proving the CIA’s active organization of the assassination of President John Kennedy..

A massive, preemptive disinformation campaign was readied, using government-friendly bloggers, CIA-paid "historians" and others, in the event that anything from this file ever surfaced. The best-laid plans often go astray and in this case, one of the compliant historians, a former government librarian who fancied himself a serious writer, began to tell his friends about the CIA plan to kill Kennedy and eventually, word of this began to leak out into the outside world.



The originals had vanished and an extensive search was conducted by the FBI and CIA operatives but without success. Crowley's survivors, his aged wife and son, were interviewed extensively by the FBI and instructed to minimize any discussion of highly damaging CIA files that Crowley had, illegally, removed from Langley when he retired. Crowley had been a close friend of James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s notorious head of Counterintelligence. When Angleton was sacked by DCI William Colby in December of 1974, Crowley and Angleton conspired to secretly remove Angleton’s most sensitive secret files our of the agency. Crowley did the same thing right before his own retirement , secretly removing thousands of pages of classified information that covered his entire agency career.



Known as “The Crow” within the agency, Robert T. Crowley joined the CIA at its inception and spent his entire career in the Directorate of Plans, also know as the “Department of Dirty Tricks,”: Crowley was one of the tallest man ever to work at the CIA. Born in 1924 and raised in Chicago, Crowley grew to six and a half feet when he entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in N.Y. as a cadet in 1943 in the class of 1946. He never graduated, having enlisted in the Army, serving in the Pacific during World War II. He retired from the Army Reserve in 1986 as a lieutenant colonel. According to a book he authored with his friend and colleague, William Corson, Crowley’s career included service in military intelligence and Naval Intelligence, before joining the CIA at inception in 1947. His entire career at the agency was spent within the Directorate of Plans in covert operations. Before his retirement, Bob Crowley became assistant deputy director for operations, the second-in-command in the Clandestine Directorate of Operations.



One of Crowley’s first major assignments within the agency was to assist in the recruitment and management of prominent World War II Nazis, especially those with advanced intelligence experience. One of the CIA’s major recruitment coups was Heinrich Mueller, once head of Hitler’s Gestapo who had fled to Switzerland after the collapse of the Third Reich and worked as an anti-Communist expert for Masson of Swiss counterintelligence. Mueller was initially hired by Colonel James Critchfield of the CIA, who was running the Gehlen Organization out of Pullach in southern Germany. Crowley eventually came to despise Critchfield but the colonel was totally unaware of this, to his later dismay.



Crowley’s real expertise within the agency was the Soviet KGB. One of his main jobs throughout his career was acting as the agency liaison with corporations like ITT, which the CIA often used as fronts for moving large amounts of cash off their books. He was deeply involved in the efforts by the U.S. to overthrow the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile, which eventually got him into legal problems with regard to investigations of the U.S. government’s grand jury where he has perjured himself in an agency cover-up



After his retirement, Crowley began to search for someone who might be able to write a competent history of his career. His first choice fell on British author John Costello (author of Ten Days to Destiny, The Pacific War and other works) but, discovering that Costello was a very aggressive homosexual, he dropped him and tentatively turned to Joseph Trento who had assisted Crowley and William Corson in writing a book on the KGB. When Crowley discovered that Trento had an ambiguous and probably cooperative relationship with the CIA, he began to distrust him and continued his search for an author.



Bob Crowley first contacted Gregory Douglas in 1993 when he found out from John Costello that Douglas was about to publish his first book on Heinrich Mueller, the former head of the Gestapo who had become a secret, long-time asset to the CIA. Crowley contacted Douglas and they began a series of long and often very informative telephone conversations that lasted for four years. . In 1996, Crowley , Crowley told Douglas that he believed him to be the person that should ultimately tell Crowley’s story but only after Crowley’s death. Douglas, for his part, became so entranced with some of the material that Crowley began to share with him that he secretly began to record their conversations, later transcribing them word for word, planning to incorporate some, or all, of the material in later publications.



In 1998, when Crowley was slated to go into the hospital for exploratory surgery, he had his son, Greg, ship two large foot lockers of documents to Douglas with the caveat that they were not to be opened until after Crowley’s death. These documents, totaled an astonishing 15,000 pages of CIA classified files involving many covert operations, both foreign and domestic, during the Cold War.



After Crowley’s death and Trento’s raid on the Crowley files, huge gaps were subsequently discovered by horrified CIA officials and when Crowley’s friends mentioned Gregory Douglas, it was discovered that Crowley’s son had shipped two large boxes to Douglas. No one knew their contents but because Douglas was viewed as an uncontrollable loose cannon who had done considerable damage to the CIA’s reputation by his on-going publication of the history of Gestapo-Mueller, they bent every effort both to identify the missing files and make some effort to retrieve them before Douglas made any use of them.



All of this furor eventually came to the attention of Dr. Peter Janney, a Massachusetts clinical psychologist and son of Wistar Janney, another career senior CIA official, colleague of not only Bob Crowley but Cord Meyer, Richard Helms, Jim Angleton and others. Janney was working on a book concerning the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, former wife of Cord Meyer, a high-level CIA official, and later the mistress of President John F. Kennedy. Douglas had authored a book, ‘Regicide’ which dealt with Crowley’s part in the Kennedy assassination and he obviously had access to at least some of Crowley’s papers. Janney was very well connected inside the CIA’s higher levels and when he discovered that Douglas had indeed known, and had often spoken with, Crowley and that after Crowley’s death, the FBI had descended on Crowley’s widow and son, warning them to never speak with Douglas about anything, he contacted Douglas and finally obtained from him a number of original documents, including the originals of the transcribed conversations with Robert Crowley.

In spite of the burn bags, the top secret safes and the vigilance of the CIA to keep its own secrets, the truth has an embarrassing and often very fatal habit of emerging, albeit decades later.

While CIA drug running , money-launderings and brutal assassinations are very often strongly rumored and suspected, it has so far not been possible to actually pin them down but it is more than possible that the publication of the transcribed and detailed Crowley-Douglas conversations will do a great deal towards accomplishing this.



These many transcribed conversations are relatively short because Crowley was a man who tired easily but they make excellent reading. There is an interesting admixture of shocking revelations on the part of the retired CIA official and often rampant anti-social (and very entertaining) activities on the part of Douglas but readers of this new and on-going series are gently reminded to always look for the truth in the jest!


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CROWLEY: A question here, Gregory. Did Mueller ever mention the Kennedy business


to you?




G DOUGLAS: Yes.


I was having lunch with him when it happened.

As I recall, we were having a late lunch at Stickney’s Hickory House in Palo Alto when Mueller started staring at the restaurant television set which was behind and above me.

He said, ‘I see they shot your President in Dallas.’ I turned around and watched the uproar for a minute and then the food came. At one point, a little later, Mueller called me and asked me if I had been watching television and I said I had. He asked me if I had noticed Oswald being walked through crowded corridors in the Dallas police station and I said I had.


He said that Oswald was not guilty and those who did it were trying to get him killed by exposing him to strangers. And he did get shot in the same surroundings the next day. Mueller said that the business was now over and that Ruby would also either hang himself in his cell or be knifed in jail by an inmate wanting fame and fortune. When I told him much later that Ruby died of cancer, Mueller only laughed and said that he preferred the heart attack and that cancer took too long to work.



RTC: Astute. Anything else?


GD: Nothing that I remember.

RTC: You see, Gregory, Mueller was involved in the business.



GD: I was having lunch with him when it happened and I had known him for some time before, Robert. Was he?


RTC: Mueller was hired by us as probably the best expert on Soviet intelligence alive. When Jim Angleton learned that the most important secrets, the President’s Daily Briefing material was all over Moscow, he went over the edge. Only a very few people ever saw that paper.

I suggested that he have these salted with different information prior to distribution. This bit of fiction in one report and that in another. That way, Jim found out that the leaks came from the White House.

That’s when we dragged Mueller out of retirement and he pinpointed Bolshakov, the top KGB operative in this country, as the conduit. And a little bit of snooping discovered that Bobby Kennedy was in regular touch with Bolshakov. Obviously, the material went from JFK to RFK to Bolshakov to Nikita in Moscow.

That’s when it was decided to remove Kennedy, in fact both Kennedys.

We got the President and Hoover got Bobby.

The latter was more in the line of revenge but the President had to be stopped. And of course, he was. Mueller knew this and we, or rather they, are terrified as to what else he might have told you.


GD: He never told me any of this.


RTC: But of course we don’t know that, do we? So the plan has been to gain your confidence, promise you much, get even closer to you and then find out if you have any papers or tapes on any of this but especially the Kennedy business.

GD: And then they’ll shoot me.

RTC: Oh no, not that. With Critchfield in play, I told him that if any harm came to you, he would suffer terribly so I doubt if anyone would shoot you. They would lie to you, con you, trick you and maybe break into your house and steal anything that might make trouble. Did you get anything from Mueller?


GD: Oh yes, much.

RTC: And safe? And by safe, I don’t mean cunningly hidden in the attic or cellar or, worse, in a local storage facility under your name. You know what I mean.

GD: Oh I do indeed. I did not fall off the turnip truck yesterday, Robert. Very safe.

RTC: After Mueller died, we talked to his widow and went through all his papers but they were very thin and there were a lot of things missing that she had remembered seeing. Most important were documents with Mueller’s new name. I told you, they don’t know that name…

GD: But they know his wife so they must know the name.

RTC: Good chap here but he had a number of names and his married name was not the same as our cover. Anyway, old papers were missing and then after we found out about you and your friend Laegel, we became very concerned. Laegel died in ’66 and you had vanished into thin air.

GD: I went to Europe under a false identity. I have dozens of them.

RTC: Vanished and so on. And then the book. That got everyone’s bowels in a ferment, Gregory and that’s why Bill got ahold of you.

GD: But you got me earlier.

RTC: That was on another matter entirely but fortunate for both of us in the end.

GD: All this over Kennedy?

RTC: Kennedy’s demise and our employment of the Gestapo head and some very sensitive things he knew and had been involved in. And what he might have told you and, most important, what he might have given to you such as papers, files or the like. You can understand why you began to hear from Tom Kimmel of the FBI and others, can’t you? And weren’t they so pleasant and jovial with you?


GD: Certainly.

RTC: Of course they were. And invitations to come to Washington to talk at historical conferences where you met all kinds of interesting people. And how many of these nice, attentive people have asked you about what Mueller might have given to you, or told you about really interesting historical happenings?

GD: Kimmel and Andrew Grey…

RTC: Yes, one of ours. You obviously didn’t oblige them but then they got Bob Wolfe into the act. A fellow historian with, very important for your future researches because he had access to government files.

GD: I always wondered why a professional Jew with strong ties to the Holocaust industry would be so smarmy with me. It figures.

RTC: And were you overwhelmed by the attention? By the free hotel rooms? By the dinners for you?

GD: I take what I can get, Robert.

RTC: And give?

GD: I give nothing, Robert, that I don’t want to give. Oh yes, many little questions about Mueller and who he might have been and did I have his address in California and so on. But they knew where he was living after all.

RTC: They wanted to know what you knew. Kimmel told me, and Bill confirmed it and I learned myself first hand, that you can get on the phone and talk for three hours. Very interesting, very much in the know but you never, ever let anything slip. This drives them all crazy, Gregory.


GD: Oh yes, I am aware. For example, someone, whose name is not your business, would give me the name of a very sensitive government operation, and I mean very sensitive. But just the name and nothing else. I would casually drop it into a conversation with Wolfe, Andrew or Tom but just a drop, not a discussion. No response of course. It was too new and too important for them to know about it. They I would wait a few weeks and guess what? I would get a smarmy call from Wolfe, Andrew or Tom, or sometimes all three, with a query. Say, one or all of them would say, last week you mentioned Operation Bunghole. That’s really interesting because just yesterday someone was talking about it to me. What more do you know about it? I mean just between the two of us?


RTC: How did you get out from under that one?

GD: I would say, Oh yes, Operation Bunghole! Yes, well, it’s…oh, excuse me Robert, Andrew or Tom, but the UPS man is at the door with some packages and I have to get off. Let me get back to you on this. And of course I don’t and the next time they call on this, I say, Oh that thing. Such cold coffee. Let me tell you about the giant eagles we have around here. They just grabbed some small kid out of the parking lot and flew off with him! Is that what I should have done, Robert?


RTC: You are a very evil person, Gregory, causing so much trouble. I love it.

GD: But they obviously didn’t, did they?

RTC: No, you drove them crazy. Your natural arrogance coupled with the confusion you sowed among them has not made you a popular person.

GD: Good. Mueller would have loved it as much as we both do.

RTC: Well, that’s some background. You are beginning to get some of these people very annoyed.

GD: The Wolfe and Kimmel people?



RTC: No, the people they work for. There will, I think, be some intense efforts to get their hands on you. Someone said getting anything from you was like trying to pick up some mercury from a table top. You slide this way and that and nothing can be done. They know you have something but just what is a mystery. Keep it that way, Gregory. It’s insurance. And on that subject, I have been going through all of my files and I am going to ship you some really interesting material. Some of it, as I promised, has to do with the Kennedy business but the rest covers sundry other matters. I’m going to have my son ship these to you because I am long past dragging heavy boxes to the post office. Now when you get these papers, be very sure to put them in a very safe place and tell no one about them. And here is more information for you. Do not trust your son in any way.


GD: Are you serious? My son?

RTC: Yes, because of the name. They can use his name at one point. I have to tell you this and I realize it may have an adverse effect on you but it’s important. Bill told me that he has approached your son and offered him a job with the CIA.

GD: You really must be joking. He has no academic background and would never pass a security clearance.

RTC: It doesn’t matter. He has been offered a consultant job at forty thousand a year and has more or less accepted. Bill said he was more than willing to work with him, and through him, the Company. They want cooperation in the event you start to push them or they even suspect you are about to pull off their covers. He is not too friendly to you and, of course, the money matters. Once he served his purpose, naturally, the job would disconnect. Tell him nothing and never let him know that you got anything from me. If he quizzes you about your relationship with me or gets interested in specifics, be on your guard and do not trust him. I don’t say you should walk away from him but just watch yourself.


GD: Not surprising. He’s clever but a coward and would never come at me from the front. But he has had so much trouble with the law such as having fake driver’s licenses, huge bills and the like that I doubt if any government agency would hire him if he used standard employment techniques. He never mentioned Bill or his offer and I did not know he had talked with Corson.

He talked with Kimmel and Wolfe but not Bill. Well, it’s a disappointment, considering what it cost me to raise him and pay his bills but not a surprise. His favorite game is to knock up his girl friends, walk off and then expect me to pay for the abortion. Or the bill I knew nothing about. Or the car he ran into the week before. That sort of thing. He’s very clever but totally amoral and I don’t trust him to the corner, Robert, but I thank you for the input.

Now, I can stuff him with disinformation which, as it comes from the inside, just has to be right. I should be able to squeeze a few dollars out of the swine if I play it right and I can always find ways to get them after people I don’t like. I mean I can tell my kid that so and so has the papers and plans to blackmail Langley with them. Then we can read the paper about a terrible gas explosion or a car wreck somewhere and another enemy is crisped.


RTC: Yes, well, you know the game.

GD: Of course I do. What did they say during our Glorious Revolution? Trust in God but keep your powder dry? Trust in no one, not even God, and keep your knife sharp. I don’t suppose you’d like to fill me in on your surprise?

RTC: Not on the phone, Gregory.

GD: They might be listening, but I doubt it. I’m using a special phone. But they might be listening to you. If they are, Wolfe, Andrew or Tom, kiss my royal ass.

RTC: Don’t do that, Gregory. They might.

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CONERSATIONS WITH THE CROW PART 29:

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GDouglas: Well, theories abound on this. One says this and another says that. You have given me your background, pretty much, and I am trying to pick the wheat from the chaff as they say. Why use Oswald?


RTCrowley: Obvious, Gregory. We wanted a war with Soviet Russia, that’s why we used Oswald.

Here he is, a professed Marxist and defector to the Soviet Union, shooting the president. We had to establish a trail to the KGB so we got, or rather Jim Angleton got, our station chief in Mexico City, Win Scott, to work up a scenario placing Oswald in that city and visiting the Soviet and Cuban embassies.

They prepared a paper showing Oswald was in connection with Comrade V.V. Kostikov, head of the 13th section of the KGB…assassinations…and so on. They fucked the whole thing up so badly that we had to drop it.

Fake pictures of someone not even remotely resembling Oswald, fake stories and they were working on a fake letter from Oswald to Kostikov in which he told him he was going to become a great hero by killing Kennedy.

The motives? Kennedy’s humiliation of the Russians over the Cuban missile business. Howard Hunt was involved with this and he is a very vain and stupid person. He’s a little like Bill Corson, Gregory, but you mustn’t repeat any of this. Very self-important person, with delusions.



GD: Won’t say a word



RTC: I knew you wouldn’t. Bill can fool the Trentos who are as gullible as he is phony and they both deserve each other, believe me. No, they ruined the Russian plan at the beginning. You see, after Kennedy was dead, our agency would reveal to all the world that the Russians had plotted this and then Johnson would order a surprise nuclear attack on them.

Of course Johnson was a gutless wonder, going this way and going that so unless we got the New York Times and other papers we influenced, to start a firestorm of anger in Americans, that one was as dead as the dodo. We had it all planned out, too.

Later, they got Oswald’s bitch of a wife being deposed and two phony Russian translators who would claim that she had seen the very rifle in Russia. Of course that was a .22 target rifle and the one we planted was the cheap wop piece with a cheaper scope so that one went out.


GD: Posner claims that Marina’s uncle was only a deputy sheriff in Russia. He said uncle had been a local bigwig in the MVD which was “just like the sheriff’s office.” Even I know better than that. In fact, as you know, Robert, the MVD was the ministry that ran the KGB. Did Posner expect anyone to believe that silly shit?


RTC: I know what you mean but of course he did. Another self-important hebe with the brains of a cockroach but a willing tool, Gregory, You don’t have to love them to use them after all.

GD: So the war fell through. Did Johnson get wet pants?

RTC: No, it never went that far. Still, it was a distraction but I always wince when I read the breathless expose in the Warren sludge.

GD: And there are so many theories.


RTC: Tell me about it, Gregory.

Some we cooked up but mostly they are the work of the tiny of brain and the huge of ego. Oh yes, it was the mob, out to get Kennedy because of his brother’s attacks on them ordered by Joe, the ex-bootlegger.

Listen, I know people in the Chicago mob and as much as they detested Kennedy, and they did get him elected by voting every cemetery early and often, they are far too smart to even try to kill a sitting president.

We had the cooperation of the leadership of the FBI, who would have the lead in the investigation but the mob would not and if that ever got out, Hoover would have to clean their respective clocks for them. No, in spite of their hatred of him, they would never have done such a thing.


GD: And the Cuban anti-Castro people…

RTC: Yes, emotional enough and after they felt Kennedy had deserted them during the Bay of Pigs disaster, they had plenty of motive but no opportunity and emotional as they are, they would boast and Hoover’s men would have nailed them.

GD: And Lansky and the mob people who wanted to get back into the gambling business in Cuba.

RTC: The same. Meyer Lansky was a very smart man and the same I said about the Chicago mob would hold true for him and his boys. They wished Kennedy dead but let someone else do it.

GD: Yes, and Castro.


RTC: Castro is not a stupid man and even though it leaked out, on purpose of course, that we were trying to kill him, Castro did not have the connections to reverse the attacks on him.

Like the mob and others, he was not sad to see Kennedy killed but had nothing to do with any real plotting.

This sort of silly shit keeps the buffs all a twitter and with all of the books, seminars, tapes and so on, they keep anyone from digging too deeply into the realities of the dastardly deed.

All the stories about mysterious tramps, men with umbrellas, men in the sewer, fake epileptics throwing convenient fits and so on are just smoke and mirrors. All the mob bosses, Cuban exiles, rich Texas oilmen, Richard Nixon and anyone else suggested either couldn’t or wouldn’t have tried to shoot Kennedy.

You see, we had Hoover and the Johnson people in our camp. With these, we could shut off any inconvenient revelations at any time. And we have iron influence, let’s call it, with the major media so no worry there.

We have various retrospective television programs, usually somewhere around November 22 each year that rehash all the idiot stories and I watch them with great humor. Beats ‘I Love Lucy’ for real humor.


GD: When you started this, was it solely to provide an excuse for nuking the Russians?


RTC: No, that was a sort of afterthought, Gregory. Angleton hated the Russians and he did know that the Kennedy people were in touch with the KGB and Khrushchev people so he went from there. You might say that Jim was the sparkplug on that engine, right along. I wouldn’t pay any attention to the conspiracy books, Gregory. You know better than that, don’t you?


GD: Yes, of course, but if I am going to write about it, I will have to know what others have said. And I can just hear the squealings if and when I do this.


RTC: Oh yes, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned or a tin-horned academic one-upped.

GD: That I agree with but the concept of one man, Jim Angleton, having the power to start a nuclear war is horrifying to me and I assume it will be to others. This is a manifestation of far too much power concentrated in too few hands.

What kind of oversight was there?

How many wars and assassinations were caused by someone’s upset stomach or throbbing piles?

I said this Kennedy business is a microcosm of ill-advised plots and I hope you aren’t upset with me when I tell you that I am very glad it never happened. You sent me the German intercepts of the Roosevelt and Churchill talks over their secret lines and that smacks of the same thing. Personal spite, vaunting ambition and tens of thousands or millions die. Not good, Robert, not good at all.


RTC: If you ever walked in the corridors of power, Gregory, you would have a more realistic view. I don’t mind that you have occasional lapses into idealism but please don’t let it cloud your judgment.

GD: It’s a little like doing the breast stroke in a septic tank.

TENET gets drunk...lashes out at the KIKES--CHENEY WHITE HOUSE

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/17/tenet-neocons/


Drunk George Tenet lashed out at Bush’s neocons: ‘The Jews’ who tried to ‘pin the Iraq WMD fiasco on him.’


Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg recently picked up a copy of Patrick Tyler’s forthcoming book, A World of Trouble, which focuses on “America’s tortured relations with the Middle East.” Goldberg says that the book’s prologue contains a “whopper of a scene” featuring former CIA director George Tenet “drunk on scotch, flailing about Prince Bandar’s Riyadh pool, screaming about the Bush Administration officials who were just then trying to pin the Iraq WMD fiasco on him.” Tyler reports that Tenet also “mocked the neoconservatives in the Bush administration” as “the Jews“:

According to one witness, he mocked the neoconservatives in the Bush administration and their alignment with the right wing of Israel’s political establishment, referring to them with exasperation as, “the Jews.”

A footnote in Tyler’s book says that Tenet “initially denied staying at Prince Bandar’s palace, then denied that he had said anything in the pool.” “He disputed the remarks attributed to him and denied that his memory might have been affected by the amount of alcohol he was reported to have consumed on top of a sleeping pill,” reports Tyler.

ROBERT CROWLEY, former CIA CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS DIVISION...death bed confessions

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Conversations with the Crow: Part 49



Editor’s note: When this series was prepared, a number of conversations were deliberately redacted because they were either very personal in nature or, more important, contained specific material which we felt might have considerable impact and present potential danger in publication. Now that all of the conversations are being readied for publication, along with illustrative specific notes, we are publishing many of the hitherto off-limits examples. Enjoy them!




On October 8th, 2000, Robert Trumbull Crowley, once a leader of the CIA's Clandestine Operations Division, died in a Washington hospital of heart failure and the end effects of Alzheimer's Disease. Before the late Assistant Director Crowley was cold, Joseph Trento, a writer of light-weight books on the CIA, descended on Crowley's widow at her town house on Cathedral Hill Drive in Washington and hauled away over fifty boxes of Crowley's CIA files.

Once Trento had his new find secure in his house in Front Royal , Virginia, he called a well-known Washington fix lawyer with the news of his success in securing what the CIA had always considered to be a potential major embarrassment. Three months before, July 20th of that year, retired Marine Corps colonel William R. Corson, and an associate of Crowley, died of emphysema and lung cancer at a hospital in Bethesda, Md.

After Corson's death, Trento and a well-known Washington fix-lawyer went to Corson's bank, got into his safe deposit box and removed a manuscript entitled 'Zipper.' This manuscript, which dealt with Crowley's involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, vanished into a CIA burn-bag and the matter was considered to be closed forever.

The small group of CIA officials gathered at Trento's house to search through the Crowley papers, looking for documents that must not become public. A few were found but, to their consternation, a significant number of files Crowley was known to have had in his possession had simply vanished.

When published material concerning the CIA's actions against Kennedy became public in 2002, it was discovered to the CIA's horror, that the missing documents had been sent by an increasingly erratic Crowley to another person and these missing papers included devastating material on the CIA's activities in South East Asia to include drug running, money laundering and the maintenance of the notorious 'Regional Interrogation Centers' in Viet Nam and, worse still, the Zipper files proving the CIA’s active organization of the assassination of President John Kennedy..

A massive, preemptive disinformation campaign was readied, using government-friendly bloggers, CIA-paid "historians" and others, in the event that anything from this file ever surfaced. The best-laid plans often go astray and in this case, one of the compliant historians, a former government librarian who fancied himself a serious writer, began to tell his friends about the CIA plan to kill Kennedy and eventually, word of this began to leak out into the outside world.



The originals had vanished and an extensive search was conducted by the FBI and CIA operatives but without success. Crowley's survivors, his aged wife and son, were interviewed extensively by the FBI and instructed to minimize any discussion of highly damaging CIA files that Crowley had, illegally, removed from Langley when he retired. Crowley had been a close friend of James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s notorious head of Counterintelligence. When Angleton was sacked by DCI William Colby in December of 1974, Crowley and Angleton conspired to secretly remove Angleton’s most sensitive secret files our of the agency. Crowley did the same thing right before his own retirement , secretly removing thousands of pages of classified information that covered his entire agency career.



Known as “The Crow” within the agency, Robert T. Crowley joined the CIA at its inception and spent his entire career in the Directorate of Plans, also know as the “Department of Dirty Tricks,”: Crowley was one of the tallest man ever to work at the CIA. Born in 1924 and raised in Chicago, Crowley grew to six and a half feet when he entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in N.Y. as a cadet in 1943 in the class of 1946. He never graduated, having enlisted in the Army, serving in the Pacific during World War II. He retired from the Army Reserve in 1986 as a lieutenant colonel. According to a book he authored with his friend and colleague, William Corson, Crowley’s career included service in military intelligence and Naval Intelligence, before joining the CIA at inception in 1947. His entire career at the agency was spent within the Directorate of Plans in covert operations. Before his retirement, Bob Crowley became assistant deputy director for operations, the second-in-command in the Clandestine Directorate of Operations.



One of Crowley’s first major assignments within the agency was to assist in the recruitment and management of prominent World War II Nazis, especially those with advanced intelligence experience. One of the CIA’s major recruitment coups was Heinrich Mueller, once head of Hitler’s Gestapo who had fled to Switzerland after the collapse of the Third Reich and worked as an anti-Communist expert for Masson of Swiss counterintelligence. Mueller was initially hired by Colonel James Critchfield of the CIA, who was running the Gehlen Organization out of Pullach in southern Germany. Crowley eventually came to despise Critchfield but the colonel was totally unaware of this, to his later dismay.



Crowley’s real expertise within the agency was the Soviet KGB. One of his main jobs throughout his career was acting as the agency liaison with corporations like ITT, which the CIA often used as fronts for moving large amounts of cash off their books. He was deeply involved in the efforts by the U.S. to overthrow the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile, which eventually got him into legal problems with regard to investigations of the U.S. government’s grand jury where he has perjured himself in an agency cover-up



After his retirement, Crowley began to search for someone who might be able to write a competent history of his career. His first choice fell on British author John Costello (author of Ten Days to Destiny, The Pacific War and other works) but, discovering that Costello was a very aggressive homosexual, he dropped him and tentatively turned to Joseph Trento who had assisted Crowley and William Corson in writing a book on the KGB. When Crowley discovered that Trento had an ambiguous and probably cooperative relationship with the CIA, he began to distrust him and continued his search for an author.



Bob Crowley first contacted Gregory Douglas in 1993 when he found out from John Costello that Douglas was about to publish his first book on Heinrich Mueller, the former head of the Gestapo who had become a secret, long-time asset to the CIA. Crowley contacted Douglas and they began a series of long and often very informative telephone conversations that lasted for four years. . In 1996, Crowley , Crowley told Douglas that he believed him to be the person that should ultimately tell Crowley’s story but only after Crowley’s death. Douglas, for his part, became so entranced with some of the material that Crowley began to share with him that he secretly began to record their conversations, later transcribing them word for word, planning to incorporate some, or all, of the material in later publications.



In 1998, when Crowley was slated to go into the hospital for exploratory surgery, he had his son, Greg, ship two large foot lockers of documents to Douglas with the caveat that they were not to be opened until after Crowley’s death. These documents, totaled an astonishing 15,000 pages of CIA classified files involving many covert operations, both foreign and domestic, during the Cold War.



After Crowley’s death and Trento’s raid on the Crowley files, huge gaps were subsequently discovered by horrified CIA officials and when Crowley’s friends mentioned Gregory Douglas, it was discovered that Crowley’s son had shipped two large boxes to Douglas. No one knew their contents but because Douglas was viewed as an uncontrollable loose cannon who had done considerable damage to the CIA’s reputation by his on-going publication of the history of Gestapo-Mueller, they bent every effort both to identify the missing files and make some effort to retrieve them before Douglas made any use of them.



All of this furor eventually came to the attention of Dr. Peter Janney, a Massachusetts clinical psychologist and son of Wistar Janney, another career senior CIA official, colleague of not only Bob Crowley but Cord Meyer, Richard Helms, Jim Angleton and others. Janney was working on a book concerning the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, former wife of Cord Meyer, a high-level CIA official, and later the mistress of President John F. Kennedy. Douglas had authored a book, ‘Regicide’ which dealt with Crowley’s part in the Kennedy assassination and he obviously had access to at least some of Crowley’s papers. Janney was very well connected inside the CIA’s higher levels and when he discovered that Douglas had indeed known, and had often spoken with, Crowley and that after Crowley’s death, the FBI had descended on Crowley’s widow and son, warning them to never speak with Douglas about anything, he contacted Douglas and finally obtained from him a number of original documents, including the originals of the transcribed conversations with Robert Crowley.

In spite of the burn bags, the top secret safes and the vigilance of the CIA to keep its own secrets, the truth has an embarrassing and often very fatal habit of emerging, albeit decades later.

While CIA drug running , money-launderings and brutal assassinations are very often strongly rumored and suspected, it has so far not been possible to actually pin them down but it is more than possible that the publication of the transcribed and detailed Crowley-Douglas conversations will do a great deal towards accomplishing this.



These many transcribed conversations are relatively short because Crowley was a man who tired easily but they make excellent reading. There is an interesting admixture of shocking revelations on the part of the retired CIA official and often rampant anti-social (and very entertaining) activities on the part of Douglas but readers of this new and on-going series are gently reminded to always look for the truth in the jest!

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tommy:

For this 49 part series called CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CROW, click blogtitle above to get link to TBRNEWS.COM....check archives for all 49 parts of this story.

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PART 49 http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2901.htm#007


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"RTCrowley: Did you know old Hoover was part black?



GDouglas: Besides being queer?



RTC: In addition to that.

But I think Hoover was more asexual that homosexual.

A really vicious old man.

Do you know how he kept from being kicked out by succeeding Presidents?

He kept files on everyone of consequence, both in business, the media and, especially, government. The real dirt as it were. And no one, not the President, the Attorney General or Congress to whom he had to go every year to get the yearly appropriations would every dare to cross J. Edgar.

Bobby Kennedy crossed him and Bobby was killed for his trouble.

No, Hoover was a vicious man.

We, on the other hand, use the same methodology but we are far smoother in applying it. We have a strong influence, for want of a better term, with the banking industry. We have the strongest and most effective influence with the print and television media. We have a much stronger hold on the Hill than Hoover ever had. At times, we’ve had iron control over the Oval Office.

Hell, the NSA snoops domestically and we get it all.

We have a strong in with the telephone people and we don’t need warrants to listen to anybody, domestically, we want, when we want. Now that the internet is in full bloom, trust it, Gregory, that we will establish our own form of control over that. It’s an invisible control and we never, ever talk about it and anyone who gets really close to the truth gets one in the back of the head from a doped-up burglar. And if something gets loose, who will publish it? Surely not our boys in the media. A book publisher? A joke, Gregory. Never.


Rather than off some snoop, it’s much more subtle to marginalize them in print, imply they are either liars or nuts and make fun of them. Discredit them so no one will listen to them and then later, the car runs over them in the crosswalk.

Oh, sorry about that, officer, but my foot slipped off the brake.

I am desolated by that. And we pay for fixing the front end of his car.




GD: Such an insight. Too much coffee, today, Robert?



RTC: No, just an old man and his memories.

GD: How come you never nailed Hoover about the homosexual business?


RTC: We had a working relationship with him, observed, I might add, in the breach more than not. The old faggot put his men in foreign embassies as legates while our men were the USIA. We tried to take them over but it never worked out. We just made their lives miserable instead......

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PART 48 http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2900.htm#007




RTC: I remember when they attacked the Liberty and were killing Americans. Deliberate of course and the Navy sent aircraft to wipe them out. Johnson found out about this and stopped the flight. Why? He didn’t want to offend Israel.

GD: What about dead Americans?


RTC: Pales into insignificance when balanced against the vital needs of precious Israel. At the time, they were murdering captured Egyptian soldiers and they didn’t want us listening in so the tried to sink the ship.

GD: And Pollard…

RTC: Oh my, yes and even now they want us to liberate him. They made him an honorary member of the Knesset and put big bucks away for him in a private account. And this for an American who was stealing important secrets and giving them to what was supposed to be an ally.

GD: Did you ever read the Bunche report?

RTC: Ralph Bunche. The UN man?

GD: Yes. After the Jews murdered Folke Bernadotte, head of the Swedish Red Cross and one of their royal family, solely because he refused to allow them to butcher Arab farmers, they killed him and Bunche, who was on Cypress dealing with refugees, was given his job.

The UN prepared a chronology of violence in Palestine from ’44 until ’48…day by day. A wonderful chronicle of arson, murder, kidnapping, poisoning and God alone knows what atrocities. Blowing up hotels full of people and so on.

I got a copy from an Army friend and if you like, I can send you a photo copy.



RTC: That I would like to see although there’s nothing I can do about it now.

GD: And when you were in the CIA?

RTC: I never liked dealing with those people. Jim Angleton loved them and kissed their asses but I never trusted any of them.


GD: Especially our allies?

RTC: Oh no, they are not our allies. If it weren’t for the fact that Jews have lots of money and own almost all the newspapers and TV stations, we wouldn’t be so eager to kiss their hairy asses, believe me." ....

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PART 47 http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2899.htm#008





...GD: Yes, of course. I’ll tell you about the market in a few minutes. Right now, I am going to fill you in on what I learned from James. I give you some background here on the very off chance that you know nothing about it. Since at least 1981 and probably earlier, there exists a worldwide network of 'free-standing', or especially and specifically., no direct U.S. government ties, companies, including airlines, aviation and military spare parts suppliers, and trading companies, set up that have been put to good use by the CIA and the U.S. government to illegally ship arms and military spare parts to Iran and to the Contras. And, of course, to smuggle people who can’t go by commercial airlines and, let us not forget, drugs



RTC: I rather wish you would forget about drugs. I don’t think brother Atwood was involved with drugs. Do go on.



GD: Yes. These companies were set up with the approval and knowledge of senior CIA officials and other senior U.S. government officials and staffed primarily by ex-CIA, ex-FBI and ex-military officers. I am correct here?

RTC: Yes. Go on.

GD: You will probably end up hating me if I do, Robert, but I note you asked me to continue.

RTC: I think I am above that, Gregory.



GD: OK. Now let’s look at the Iran Contra business. I know all about at least a part of this so we can go into it a little. Secord's arms shipments, arraigned through the CIA, transferred weapons destined for Central America to Merex.

This was known officially as Merex International Arms and was, and is, based in Savannah. The Merex address was occupied by Combat Military Ordinances Ltd., controlled by Jimmy Atwood.

He had been in the Army in MI and then went to work for your people. James, was involved in major arms trades with your sponsored international buyers, specifically Middle Eastern Arab states.

Monzer Al-Kassar utilized the Merex firm for some of his weapons transactions with the Enterprise. Now Merex was originally set up, after the war, by an old Skorzeny co-worker, one Gerhard Mertins. Gerhard had been a Hauptmann (captain to you, Robert) in the German paratroopers and got the Knight’s Cross in, I believe, ’45.

After the war, Mertins went to work in Bonn and the Merex arms business was considered a CIA proprietary firm. Merex was close to and worked with the BND, the German intelligence service evolved from the CIA-controlled Gehlen organization.

Atwood was involved with Interarmco, run by Samuel Cummings, an Englishman who ran the largest arms firm in the world. Cummings died in Monaco because he had looted his CIA employers and found that principality safer than Warrenton, Virginia.

Also connected with Atwood’s firm were Collector’s Armory, run by one Thomas Nelson, whose nickname was ‘Red Nelson’ because of his hair color, not his politics, and a George Petersen of Springfield, Virginia, and one Manny Wiegenberg, a Canadian arms dealer. Jimmy was heavily involved in your support of Canadian separatists and I know something of his role in supplying weapons and explosives to the Quebec Libré movement. The head of your Canada Desk was actively encouraging this group to split away from Canada. I know for a fact that your people do not want ever to mention this little historical aside.


RTC: No, we do not, Go on.


GD: Also, I know all about Atwood’s connections with Skorzeny and the IRA/Provo wing. I can give you chapter and verse on this one if you want it.

One of Atwood’s Irish connections is the man who blew up Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1979 and I have a file on this as well, in some safe and private place. You might also be aware of the shipping of weapons into the southern Mexican provinces by Atwood and his Guatemala-based consortium.

Atwood had a number of ex-Gestapo and SD people on board, some of whom were wanted. I recall a former SS officer, Frederich Schwend who worked with your people and was down in Lima. Schwend had been trained by the OSS in the early 1940s after he had informed Allen Dulles that the German SS had hidden millions in gold, cash, and loot as the European war was winding down.

Atwood knew about the Weissensee gold hoard that Müller told me about. Jimmy knew about it but I had the overlay so he courted me and we ended up, shovels in hand, in the beautiful mountains in ’90.



RTC: Thee are conflicting stories about that business.

You murdered two British intelligence people as I understand it.




GD: No such thing, Robert. As I understand it, and I was there, they fell off the boat in the middle of the Caribbean. Such lies your people make up.


RTC: Well, there are always two sides to every story, Gregory. You are better than two cups of coffee, I must say. I think I ought to get some Pepto Bismol pretty soon. After the Treasure Island adventure, what happened next?


GD: To Atwood? Well, as Jimmy told me, about 1992, he and your Jimmy Critchfield, along with a Russian Jew, formed a partnership in order to obtain a number of obsolete Soviet atomic artillery shells which they then sold to the Pakistanis.

I think the two of them kept the money and no one ever saw the Jew again, alive that is. If you don’t know this, I can tell you that both Critchfield and the Interarmco people had supplied weapons to the rebels in Afghanistan during their long and vicious guerrilla activities against the Soviet Union.

Critchfield also worked with the Dalai Lama of Tibet in a guerrilla war against Communist China and headed a CIA task force during the Cuban missile crisis. He ran regional agency operations when the U.S. and the Soviets were engaged in a grabbing match secure satellites first in Eastern Europe, then in the Middle East.

And note that in the early 1960s, Critchfield recommended to the CIA that the United States support the Baath Party, which staged a 1963 coup against the Iraqi government that the CIA believed, was falling under Soviet influence. Critchfield later boasted, during the Iran-Iraq war that he and the CIA had created Saddam Hussein.



RTC: Gregory, where in the sweet hell did you get all of this?


GD: From Atwood, when he was drunk.


RTC: You’ve just guaranteed that he will pass to his reward very soon. Does that bother you?


GD: I never liked him. He tried to rip me off once but he was so crude about it that I have no respect for him. Shall I go on?

RTC: I have approach-avoidance conflicts here, Gregory. You might as well ruin the rest of my evening. Proceed.

GD: Are you sure? You don’t sound too happy.

RTC: I am not but do go on.



GD: As you wish. When Arab oil became paramount, your Critchfield became your national intelligence officer for energy and was also an energy policy planner at the White House. He also fronted a dummy CIA corporation in the Middle East known as Basic Resources, which was used to gather OPEC-related intelligence for the Nixon administration.

Critchfield was the chief of the CIA's Near East and South Asia division in the 1960s and a national intelligence officer for energy as the oil shortage crisis began in the early 1970s. Of course your people, along with the oil barons, forced the price of oil up and up.

My, I wonder how much money you all made. Oh well, not important here. Critchfield retired in the mid ‘70s and ended up as both a consultant and the CEO of Tetra Tech International a Honeywell Inc. subsidiary and which managed oil, gas, and water projects in the strategic Masandam Peninsula. This, in case your geography is weak, is located on the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the West's oil is transported. And at the same time, Critchfield was a primary adviser to the Sultan of Oman, focusing on Middle East energy resources, especially those in Oman.


RTC: I should never have asked you about this.

GD: The Bible says ask and ye shall receive.

RTC: Yes. We can forget the Bible here. It has no part in the intelligence business. You mentioned Merex. Do you know of other friendly assets?

GD: Surely, Try Aero Systems, Arrow Air, Global International, and how about Zenith?

RTC: Did you get these names from Atwood?

GD: Of course I did. I told you Jimmy was not discreet while he was drinking. I listened to his tales of self-importance and remembered them all. Oh, and I wrote it up as well.

RTC: Gregory, for the Lord God’s sake, if not mine, or more important, yours, do not discuss any of this with anyone else, your son or people like Willis Carto. If you aren’t careful, Critchfield will have you eliminated. I shall have to warn him off on that topic but…I mean why would Atwood tell you such terrible things and if he told you, who else could he have told?


GD: One of his German whores, probably. Jimmy goes on and on.

RTC: So I note. And we can ring the curtain down on that one asap.

GD: From your reaction, Robert, I assume Jimmy was accurate.

RTC: No comment but Atwood is a dead man.


GD: Well, I might have gotten my insights from the back of a Wheaties’ box but Jimmy is a better candidate. Do you know why I dislike Jimmy and would frame his death notice? His wife stuck with him when he was arrested for tax evasion and smuggling in the ‘60s and as a mark of his appreciation, he deserted her and his two daughters to run off with one of his bar girls. The rest of his activities are one thing but I do not tolerate such domestic treachery. Do you think I’m being too critical?


RTC: What a question.

Who cares about his wife and children?

This man has gone way beyond the bounds.

Way beyond.

Of course I believe you.

You could never have made all that up and I can assure you it was never in the New York Times. They might know some of it but they wouldn’t dare publish it. No, you got it from Atwood or someone connected with him. Ah, well, I did ask and I did receive. They hate you Gregory, they hate you with a passion but at the same time, they are scared shitless of you.

They would have killed you some time ago but others counseled them against it. Who knows what you put down on paper? If you were run over by a truck in the middle of a shopping mall or attacked and eaten by a leopard in your own living room, who knows what might find its way out of some hiding hole and into the public view? The public is happy with its football games and beer so we had best not disturb them with such stories.

GD: They might make a good movie out of all this.

RTC: Never, Gregory, I can promise you that. A studio that even considered this would be bankrupt within a few months. No, none of this will ever see the light of day and if you want to continue walking around, remember that silence is golden.

GD: I have no problem with gold. Just think of all that looted concentration camp gold Jimmy and I dug up.

RTC: Yes and I understand you cheated him out of his share.

GD: When thieves fall out, Robert, honest men prosper.

RTC: Meaning no disrespect but do you consider yourself to be an honest man?

GD: Selectively, Robert, selectively. And Jimmy?

RTC: Don’t make book on his seeing Christmas."....

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NASA finds gigantic breach in EARTH's MAGNETIC FIELD: end times?

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/16dec_giantbreach.htm


A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field

12.16.2008




Dec. 16, 2008:



NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest surprise. Researchers are even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics.

"At first I didn't believe it," says THEMIS project scientist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This finding fundamentally alters our understanding of the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction."

The magnetosphere is a bubble of magnetism that surrounds Earth and protects us from solar wind. Exploring the bubble is a key goal of the THEMIS mission, launched in February 2007. The big discovery came on June 3, 2007, when the five probes serendipitously flew through the breach just as it was opening. Onboard sensors recorded a torrent of solar wind particles streaming into the magnetosphere, signaling an event of unexpected size and importance.

Right: One of the THEMIS probes exploring the space around Earth, an artist's concept. [more]

"The opening was huge—four times wider than Earth itself," says Wenhui Li, a space physicist at the University of New Hampshire who has been analyzing the data. Li's colleague Jimmy Raeder, also of New Hampshire, says "1027 particles per second were flowing into the magnetosphere—that's a 1 followed by 27 zeros. This kind of influx is an order of magnitude greater than what we thought was possible."

The event began with little warning when a gentle gust of solar wind delivered a bundle of magnetic fields from the Sun to Earth. Like an octopus wrapping its tentacles around a big clam, solar magnetic fields draped themselves around the magnetosphere and cracked it open. The cracking was accomplished by means of a process called "magnetic reconnection." High above Earth's poles, solar and terrestrial magnetic fields linked up (reconnected) to form conduits for solar wind. Conduits over the Arctic and Antarctic quickly expanded; within minutes they overlapped over Earth's equator to create the biggest magnetic breach ever recorded by Earth-orbiting spacecraft.


The size of the breach took researchers by surprise. "We've seen things like this before," says Raeder, "but never on such a large scale. The entire day-side of the magnetosphere was open to the solar wind."

The circumstances were even more surprising. Space physicists have long believed that holes in Earth's magnetosphere open only in response to solar magnetic fields that point south. The great breach of June 2007, however, opened in response to a solar magnetic field that pointed north.

"To the lay person, this may sound like a quibble, but to a space physicist, it is almost seismic," says Sibeck. "When I tell my colleagues, most react with skepticism, as if I'm trying to convince them that the sun rises in the west."


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Here is why they can't believe their ears: The solar wind presses against Earth's magnetosphere almost directly above the equator where our planet's magnetic field points north. Suppose a bundle of solar magnetism comes along, and it points north, too. The two fields should reinforce one another, strengthening Earth's magnetic defenses and slamming the door shut on the solar wind. In the language of space physics, a north-pointing solar magnetic field is called a "northern IMF" and it is synonymous with shields up!

"So, you can imagine our surprise when a northern IMF came along and shields went down instead," says Sibeck. "This completely overturns our understanding of things."

Northern IMF events don't actually trigger geomagnetic storms, notes Raeder, but they do set the stage for storms by loading the magnetosphere with plasma. A loaded magnetosphere is primed for auroras, power outages, and other disturbances that can result when, say, a CME (coronal mass ejection) hits.

The years ahead could be especially lively. Raeder explains: "We're entering Solar Cycle 24. For reasons not fully understood, CMEs in even-numbered solar cycles (like 24) tend to hit Earth with a leading edge that is magnetized north. Such a CME should open a breach and load the magnetosphere with plasma just before the storm gets underway. It's the perfect sequence for a really big event."

Sibeck agrees. "This could result in stronger geomagnetic storms than we have seen in many years."

A video version of this story may be found here. For more information about the THEMIS mission, visit http://nasa.gov/themis

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November 21, 2008

US Nuclear Strikes In Arctic Raise Fears Of Planetary Stability

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)









Reports from Russia’s Northern Fleet to Prime Minister Putin, who this past summer had expanded their operating range into the Arctic Ocean Regions, are stating that the United States has reinstituted its “Operation Plowshare” programme and detonated a series of hydrogen bomb explosions in the Arctic in an attempt to locate what these American’s claim are vast undersea oil and gas deposits belonging to their Nation.

Though the exact number of hydrogen bombs exploded during these tests by the United States are not mentioned in these reports one Canadian researcher, Zuerrnnovahh-Starr Livingstone, has stated that their were possibly 9 nuclear explosions detected, and as we can read:

“On November 17 and 18, 2008 nine H-Bombs were exploded below the Arctic Ocean near the North Magnetic Pole. I was unable to transfer this info from the IRIS Seismic Monitor, so I copied this information longhand and typed it back onto my computer.”

Russian Foreign Ministry sources are further reporting that due to these new nuclear explosions the United States has broken the agreement they made to President Medvedev last month after their first detonation of a hydrogen bomb in the Arctic Ocean on October 7th, and which reports from the United States say the effects of which were felt and recorded as far south as their State of Nevada and which the Americans had assured Russia that no further testing would be done without proper International notification.

These reports state the force of these explosions were equal to 0.212E+01-0.671E+02 levels of the US atomic bomb dropped upon the Japanese city of Hiroshima which corresponds to levels of magnitude on the Richter Scale of 5.0-6.0 in earthquake measurements, and which fall within the established parameters of both the United States Operation Plowshare and the former Soviet Unions Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy programmes overseeing the peaceful uses of nuclear weapons technology for exploration and research purposes.

For the reasons behind these desperate, and illegal, actions being perpetrated upon our Planet by the Untied States, these reports continue, is the Americans attempt to locate and claim as many verifiable sources of oil and gas deposits they have been ordered by the vast wealth funds in China and the Middle East to use as collateral insuring over $12 Trillion in US Treasury Bills due to be payable on December 20th, and which without the US will become the first First World Nation to default on their International debt.

Reports from the United States are stating that the Americans have already spent the ‘astronomical’ amount of $4.8 Trillion in their attempt to stabilize their finances, but with their citizens owing the ‘staggering’ amount of $14 Trillion, and the US government owing another $10.7 Trillion, one would be hard pressed to imagine any amount of new oil and gas deposits that can save these peoples, or for that matter our entire World.

And, not just to their desperate search for oil and gas in the Arctic Oceans are the Americans looking for their rescue as President Bush in a stunning move the other day opened over 2 million acres for the immediate exploration of fossil fuels too.

But, to the greatest danger, perhaps, of these new and reckless actions by the United States towards all humanity, and as we had previously reported on in our report “World Should Prepare For Cataclysmic Global Flood, Warn Russian Scientists”, there is no assurance that our fragile Planet can take many more such assaults upon it, and as we can read:

“The world geological community is warning that today's seismic activity on our planet is nothing compared with what's to come.

Over the past three years, Pakistan, for example, has been hit by dozens of earthquakes. In March 2005, 80,000 people died under the rubble there. On October 30, the last time nature went on the rampage, there were hundreds of victims. Tens of thousands of people drowned during an overwhelming Asian tsunami at the end of 2004. China and Afghanistan have been rocked by quakes again more recently.

These natural disasters, which have swept our planet in recent years, indicate that the world has entered an era not only of a political, but also of climatic instability. Most scientists - biologists and environmentalists - tend to blame the human race for the catastrophic climate change on the Earth. No doubt, the greenhouse effect due to industrial activity plays a considerable role in global warming, but there are other reasons worth considering.

The Earth is rotating around its own axis slower. The International Earth Rotation Service has regularly added a second or two to the length of a 24-hour day in recent years.

This is the main reason, according to Igor Kopylov, professor at Moscow Energy Institute, why the planet - a gigantic electrical machine - has had its energy balance upset. He expressed this viewpoint in 2004. Kopylov is convinced that the Earth has entered the first phase of a global change. A weakening of the Earth's magnetic field was first registered early in the 20th century, and a consistent drop in the speed of rotation, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It has been established that when the Earth's rotation slows by one second a year, it releases a tremendous amount of heat, hundreds of times the volume of energy released by human industrial activity.

If we accept that all processes on Earth run according to cosmic cycles, which, in turn, depend on the Solar System's position in our Galaxy, then humankind may be facing another Great Flood.”

To the American people themselves being allowed by their propaganda media organs to know the full extent of the horrors facing them it does not, and sadly, appear that they are going to be permitted to as new reports coming from the Untied States are stating that yet another two Top Level US Government Dissidents, Sean Nicholas Green and Kanika Powell, have been gunned down in their attempt to make the full truth known of these things.

But then again, and as these past many years have shown us, there are very few Americans left who even care to know the truth anymore, no matter how great the sacrifices are to those who keep trying to warn them.

© November 21, 2008 EU and US all rights reserved.

MOTIVE to neutralize SPITZER: NSA--FBI USE "HAND OFF METHOD" illegal use of illegal info: Title III sec 2517?

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/there-bigger-story-behind-spitzers-do



Is There A Bigger Story Behind Spitzer's Downfall?


By Susie Madrak

Tuesday Dec 16, 2008 9:00am Via Skimble, a most interesting theory:




I have yet to see this reported anywhere, but an anonymous commenter named trademonster on an investment forum said this (notice the dates):

01-09-06 06:49 AM

I've heard that SEC is going to shut down Madoff financial and all of their hedge funds for SEC violations. Can anyone confirm this?

And this:

01-14-06 02:52 PM
I actually got some update and found out that it's Spitzer's office doing the investigation not SEC. But I don't know what the scope of the investigation is.

Suddenly Spitzer's dalliances with a hooker don't seem quite as fundmentally important to the financial health of this country.

We need people who understand the system to police it. No matter how sanctimonious or egomaniacal you may find him, Spitzer understands the financial system. If these posts are true, somebody in power was more interested in the the details of Eliot Spitzer's transactions than Bernard L. Madoff's. They were obviously more interested in killing the watchdog than in catching the billionaire burglar.

And via Corrente, something even more interesting from Michael Isikoff's Newsweek story about the FISA whistleblower:



[Under the secret and illegal "Stellar Wind" program of domestic warrantless surveillance,] NSA was also able to access, for the first time, massive volumes of personal financial records—such as credit-card transactions, wire transfers and bank withdrawals—that were being reported to the Treasury Department by financial institutions. These included millions of "suspicious-activity reports," or SARS, according to two former Treasury officials who declined to be identified talking about sensitive programs. (It was one such report that tipped FBI agents to former New York governor Eliot Spitzer's use of prostitutes.) These records were fed into NSA supercomputers for the purpose of "data mining"—looking for links or patterns that might (or might not) suggest terrorist activity.



Lambert asks an important question: How did the suspicious activity report on Spitzer's financial transaction get from the NSA to the FBI?

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tommy: It's called THE HAND OFF METHOD of violating Title 18 USC section 2517

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He also notes the convenient timing, because Spitzer at the time was looking into the monoline insurance companies - another important piece of the Wall St. crash.

Was the Bush administration using illegally obtained information to take down political enemies? Oh, I think it's a safe bet. And do you suppose they were deliberately trying to keep Spitzer from exposing extensive Wall St. fraud?

What do you think?

ISIKOFF for Newsweek on THOMAS TAMM...aka DEEPTHROAT ON NSA WIRETAPPING SCANDAL

The Fed Who Blew the Whistle

Is he a hero or a criminal?



By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 13, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Dec 22, 2008


Thomas M. Tamm was entrusted with some of the government's most important secrets.


He had a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance, a level above Top Secret.

Government agents had probed Tamm's background, his friends and associates, and determined him trustworthy.

It's easy to see why: he comes from a family of high-ranking FBI officials.


During his childhood, he played under the desk of J. Edgar Hoover, and as an adult, he enjoyed a long and successful career as a prosecutor.


Now gray-haired, 56 and fighting a paunch, Tamm prides himself on his personal rectitude. He has what his 23-year-old son, Terry, calls a "passion for justice."

For that reason, there was one secret he says he felt duty-bound to reveal.

In the spring of 2004, Tamm had just finished a yearlong stint at a Justice Department unit handling wiretaps of suspected terrorists and spies—a unit so sensitive that employees are required to put their hands through a biometric scanner to check their fingerprints upon entering. While there, Tamm stumbled upon the existence of a highly classified National Security Agency program that seemed to be eavesdropping on U.S. citizens. The unit had special rules that appeared to be hiding the NSA activities from a panel of federal judges who are required to approve such surveillance.


When Tamm started asking questions, his supervisors told him to drop the subject.

He says one volunteered that "the program" (as it was commonly called within the office) was "probably illegal."

Tamm agonized over what to do.


He tried to raise the issue with a former colleague working for the Senate Judiciary Committee. But the friend, wary of discussing what sounded like government secrets, shut down their conversation. For weeks, Tamm couldn't sleep.

The idea of lawlessness at the Justice Department angered him.

Finally, one day during his lunch hour, Tamm ducked into a subway station near the U.S. District Courthouse on Pennsylvania Avenue. He headed for a pair of adjoining pay phones partially concealed by large, illuminated Metro maps. Tamm had been eyeing the phone booths on his way to work in the morning. Now, as he slipped through the parade of midday subway riders, his heart was pounding, his body trembling. Tamm felt like a spy. After looking around to make sure nobody was watching, he picked up a phone and called The New York Times.


That one call began a series of events that would engulf Washington—and upend Tamm's life. Eighteen months after he first disclosed what he knew, the Times reported that President George W. Bush had secretly authorized the NSA to intercept phone calls and e-mails of individuals inside the United States without judicial warrants. The drama followed a quiet, separate rebellion within the highest ranks of the Justice Department concerning the same program. (James Comey, then the deputy attorney general, together with FBI head Robert Mueller and several other senior Justice officials, threatened to resign.) President Bush condemned the leak to the Times as a "shameful act." Federal agents launched a criminal investigation to determine the identity of the culprit.

The story of Tamm's phone call is an untold chapter in the history of the secret wars inside the Bush administration.

The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for its story.

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TOMMY:


Believe me, the TIMES DID NOT EVEN COME CLOSE TO COVERING THE STORY.

NYTIMES did not cover "how the SIGINT WAS USED, WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHERE, HOW....and how THE WIRETAPPING FACILITATED PATRIOT ACT CRIMES including ENRON WITNESS CHRISTINA MOORE, whose throat was sliced open in front of her toddler....and....SEE, MY AFFADAVIT ON CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER that apparently was not recieved by JOHN BRADLEY, the Williamson Cty Prosecutor on this case.

Notice that...uh...I GAVE THE FBI AND RRPD THE TIP THEY NEEDED TO SECURE AND SEARCH THE CALEA WIRETAP INTERFACE MEMORIALIZED ON THE HARD DISC OF THE MAIN FRAME COMPUTER AT EVERY TELECOMM PROVIDER.

SHOWS THE PHONE LINE TAPPED...AND THE PHONE LINE THE TAP IS RUN BACK TO.

SHOWS ALOT MORE.

SHOWS DATES, TIME OF CALLS....ETC.


SIGINT USING CALEA INTERFACE USED BY NSA 902ND COUNTERINTELIGENCE UNIT (files burned in arson fire) who gave info to the "cutout" AUSTIN LAWYER WHITTINGTON SHOT BY A DRUNKEN DEAD EYE DICK AFTER THEY ARGUED ABOUT "some woman" (Secret Service at Quail Hunt in South Texas).

WHITTINGTON gave info to the NSA TSP foot, vehicle surveillance team seen at the homesite murder scene.

THE WIRETAPPING HELPED THE MURDERERS GET CHRISTINA HOME ALONE...when JAN BOEL was on her way to catch a California flight...and...when ROBERT MOORE (wrote stories on Cheney's secretive energy policy for THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY) was at Bible study.


HOW DO i KNOW THIS?

Same NSA TSP MERCS...were sent after me.

I recognized the m.o....and the police sketch...did not get RRPD to show me the other police sketch?
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The two reporters who worked on it each published books. Congress, after extensive debate, last summer passed a major new law to govern the way such surveillance is conducted. But Tamm—who was not the Times's only source, but played the key role in tipping off the paper—has not fared so well.

The FBI has pursued him relentlessly for the past two and a half years. Agents have raided his house, hauled away personal possessions and grilled his wife, a teenage daughter and a grown son. More recently, they've been questioning Tamm's friends and associates about nearly every aspect of his life.

Tamm has resisted pressure to plead to a felony for divulging classified information.

But he is living under a pall, never sure if or when federal agents might arrest him.



Exhausted by the uncertainty clouding his life, Tamm now is telling his story publicly for the first time. "I thought this [secret program] was something the other branches of the government—and the public—ought to know about. So they could decide: do they want this massive spying program to be taking place?" Tamm told NEWSWEEK, in one of a series of recent interviews that he granted against the advice of his lawyers. "If somebody were to say, who am I to do that? I would say, 'I had taken an oath to uphold the Constitution.' It's stunning that somebody higher up the chain of command didn't speak up."


Tamm concedes he was also motivated in part by his anger at other Bush-administration policies at the Justice Department, including its aggressive pursuit of death-penalty cases and the legal justifications for "enhanced" interrogation techniques that many believe are tantamount to torture.

But, he insists, he divulged no "sources and methods" that might compromise national security when he spoke to the Times. He told reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen nothing about the operational details of the NSA program because he didn't know them, he says. He had never been "read into," or briefed, on the details of the program. All he knew was that a domestic surveillance program existed, and it "didn't smell right.".....


....But still, Tamm says he was fully committed to the prosecution of the war on terror and wanted to play a bigger role in it. So in early 2003, he applied and was accepted for transfer to the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR), probably the most sensitive unit within the Justice Department. It is the job of OIPR lawyers to request permission for national-security wiretaps. These requests are made at secret hearings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a body composed of 11 rotating federal judges.

Congress created the FISA court in 1978 because of well-publicized abuses by the intelligence community. It was designed to protect the civil liberties of Americans who might come under suspicion. The court's role was to review domestic national-security wiretaps to make sure there was "probable cause" that the targets were "agents of a foreign power"—either spies or operatives of a foreign terrorist organization. The law creating the court, called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, made it a federal crime—punishable by up to five years in prison—for any official to engage in such surveillance without following strict rules, including court approval.

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tommy:


In my case...THE FBI COUNTERINTELIGENCE SPECIAL AGENT STEVEN PLUTA at Sioux Falls, SD FBI testified against me...and...uh....gee....I DID NOT KNOW THOMAS S. BEAN WAS AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN POWER?.....AND...THE PRESIDING JUDGE ADMITTED SHE DOES NOT ALWAYS SWEAR IN FBI AGENTS?....and...uh...ONE FISA CT JUDGE RESIGNED IN DISGUST....

And more importantly , the FISA CT SECRETLY SIGNS WARRANTS SO FBI CAN INVOLUNTARILY PERFORM SURGERY ON A SUSPECT TO IMPLANT AN RFID MIND CONTROL TORTURE DEVICE seen on my x rays.

FBI STOLE MY X RAYS AND TAMPERED WITH MY COURSE OF CARE...long after their bogus investigation was over (GLEN FINE'S TESTIMONY IN FRONT OF LEAHY).

SO...LIKE I SAID TO PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HOLDER....ain't no fucking way you are gonna hide this fact pattern behind a bogus commission fact finding cover up.

THIS IS GONNA BE A FED GRAND JURY CASE ALL THE WAY.

AIN'T NO FUCKING WAY...this thing gets covered up.

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But after arriving at OIPR, Tamm learned about an unusual arrangement by which some wiretap requests were handled under special procedures. These requests, which could be signed only by the attorney general, went directly to the chief judge and none other.

It was unclear to Tamm what was being hidden from the other 10 judges on the court (as well as the deputy attorney general, who could sign all other FISA warrants). All that Tamm knew was that the "A.G.-only" wiretap requests involved intelligence gleaned from something that was obliquely referred to within OIPR as "the program."

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tommy:


THEY ARE HIDING THE FACT THAT ALL POLITICAL ENEMIES WILL BE CHIPPED, MIND CONTROLLED AND TORTURED IN THEIR OWN HOMES....................TO STOP BEAN FROM FILING A CIVIL SUIT AND OR MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.

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The program was in fact a wide range of covert surveillance activities authorized by President Bush in the aftermath of 9/11.

At that time, White House officials, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, had become convinced that FISA court procedures were too cumbersome and time-consuming to permit U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies to quickly identify possible Qaeda terrorists inside the country. (Cheney's chief counsel, David Addington, referred to the FISA court in one meeting as that "obnoxious court," according to former assistant attorney general Jack Goldsmith.)


Under a series of secret orders, Bush authorized the NSA for the first time to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails between the United States and a foreign country without any court review. The code name for the NSA collection activities—unknown to all but a tiny number of officials at the White House and in the U.S. intelligence community—was "Stellar Wind."



The NSA identified domestic targets based on leads that were often derived from the seizure of Qaeda computers and cell phones overseas.


If, for example, a Qaeda cell phone seized in Pakistan had dialed a phone number in the United States, the NSA would target the U.S. phone number—which would then lead agents to look at other numbers in the United States and abroad called by the targeted phone. Other parts of the program were far more sweeping.


The NSA, with the secret cooperation of U.S. telecommunications companies, had begun collecting vast amounts of information about the phone and e-mail records of American citizens. Separately, the NSA was also able to access, for the first time, massive volumes of personal financial records—such as credit-card transactions, wire transfers and bank withdrawals—that were being reported to the Treasury Department by financial institutions.

These included millions of "suspicious-activity reports," or SARS, according to two former Treasury officials who declined to be identified talking about sensitive programs. (It was one such report that tipped FBI agents to former New York governor Eliot Spitzer's use of prostitutes.) These records were fed into NSA supercomputers for the purpose of "data mining"—looking for links or patterns that might (or might not) suggest terrorist activity....


But all this created a huge legal quandary. Intelligence gathered by the extralegal phone eavesdropping could never be used in a criminal court. So after the NSA would identify potential targets inside the United States, counterterrorism officials would in some instances try to figure out ways to use that information to get legitimate FISA warrants—giving the cases a judicial stamp of approval.

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TOMMY:


It's called THE HAND OFF METHOD of laundering and illegally using illegally obtained info...results in future BRADY VIOLATIONS by unsuspecting prosecutors...also...leads to the bogus invocation of THE CITIZENS RULE EXCEPTION TO THE EXCLUSIONARY RULES' SUPPRESSION OF THE TAINTED FRUIT OF THE POISENOUS TREE EVIDENCE................of course................uh....................THIS BACK UP DEFENSE FOR THE PROSECUTION IS RARELY USED BECAUSE....defense counsel works with prosecutors and judges to plea bargain everyone.

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It's unclear to what extent Tamm's office was aware of the origins of some of the information it was getting.

But Tamm was puzzled by the unusual procedures—which sidestepped the normal FISA process—for requesting wiretaps on cases that involved program intelligence. He began pushing his supervisors to explain what was going on. Tamm says he found the whole thing especially curious since there was nothing in the special "program" wiretap requests that seemed any different from all the others. They looked and read the same.

It seemed to Tamm there was a reason for this: the intelligence that came from the program was being disguised.

He didn't understand why.

But whenever Tamm would ask questions about this within OIPR, "nobody wanted to talk about it."



At one point, Tamm says, he approached Lisa Farabee, a senior counsel in OIPR who reviewed his work, and asked her directly, "Do you know what the program is?"

According to Tamm, she replied: "Don't even go there," and then added, "I assume what they are doing is illegal."

Tamm says his immediate thought was, "I'm a law-enforcement officer and I'm participating in something that is illegal?" A few weeks later Tamm bumped into Mark Bradley, the deputy OIPR counsel, who told him the office had run into trouble with Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the chief judge on the FISA court. Bradley seemed nervous, Tamm says. Kollar-Kotelly had raised objections to the special program wiretaps, and "the A.G.-only cases are being shut down," Bradley told Tamm. He then added, "This may be [a time] the attorney general gets indicted," according to Tamm. (Told of Tamm's account, Justice spokesman Boyd said that Farabee and Bradley "have no comment for your story.")

One official who was aware of Kollar-Kotelly's objections was U.S. Judge Royce C. Lamberth, a former chief of the FISA court. Lamberth tells NEWSWEEK that when the NSA program began in October 2001, he was not informed. But the then chief of OIPR, James Baker, discovered later that year that program intelligence was being used in FISA warrants—and he raised concerns.

At that point, Lamberth was called in for a briefing by Ashcroft and Gen. Michael Hayden, the NSA chief at the time. Lamberth made clear to Ashcroft that NSA program intelligence should no longer be allowed in any FISA warrant applications without his knowledge. If it did appear, Lamberth warned, he would be forced to rule on the legality of what the administration was doing, potentially setting off a constitutional clash about the secret program.


Lamberth stepped down as chief FISA judge when his term ended in May 2002, but Kollar-Kotelly asked him to continue as an adviser about matters relating to the program. In early 2004, Kollar-Kotelly thought something was amiss. According to Lamberth, she had concerns that the intelligence community, after collecting information on U.S. citizens without warrants, was again attempting to launder that intelligence through her court—without her knowledge.


She "had begun to suspect that they were back-dooring information from the program into" FISA applications, Lamberth tells NEWSWEEK. Kollar-Kotelly drew the line and wouldn't permit it. "She was as tough as I was," says Lamberth, who had once barred a top FBI agent from his court when he concluded the bureau hadn't been honest about FISA applications. "She was going to know what she was signing off on before she signed off … I was proud of her." (Kollar-Kotelly declined to speak with NEWSWEEK.)


Unbeknownst to Tamm, something else was going on at the Justice Department during this period.

A new assistant attorney general, a law professor named Jack Goldsmith, had challenged secret legal opinions justifying the NSA surveillance program. (The controversial opinions, written by a young and very conservative legal scholar named John Yoo, had concluded that President Bush had broad executive authority during wartime to override laws passed by Congress and order the surveillance of U.S. citizens.)

James Comey, the deputy attorney general, had agreed with Goldsmith and refused to sign off on a renewal of the domestic NSA program in March 2004. Attorney General Ashcroft was in the hospital at the time.

The White House first tried to get an extremely ill Ashcroft, drugged and woozy, to overrule Comey, and then, after he refused, President Bush ordered the program to continue anyway. Comey, in turn, drafted a resignation letter. He described the situation he was confronting as "apocalyptic" and then added, "I and the Justice Department have been asked to be part of something that is fundamentally wrong," according to a copy of the letter quoted in "Angler," a book by Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman.


Tamm—who had no knowledge of the separate rebellion within the ranks of the Justice Department—decided independently to get in touch with Sandra Wilkinson, a former colleague of his on the Capital Case Unit who had been detailed to work on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He met with Wilkinson for coffee in the Senate cafeteria, where he laid out his concerns about the program and the unusual procedures within OIPR. "Look, the government is doing something weird here," he recalls saying. "Can you talk to somebody on the intelligence committee and see if they know about this?"

Some weeks passed, and Tamm didn't hear back. So he e-mailed Wilkinson from his OIPR computer (not a smart move, he would later concede) and asked if they could get together again for coffee. This time, when they got together, Wilkinson was cool, Tamm says. What had she learned about the program? "I can't say," she replied and urged him to drop the subject. "Well, you know, then," he says he replied, "I think my only option is to go to the press." (Wilkinson would not respond to phone calls from NEWSWEEK, and her lawyer says she has nothing to say about the matter.)...

After the raid, Justice Department prosecutors encouraged Tamm to plead guilty to a felony for disclosing classified information—an offer he refused.

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tommy:


NOTICE THAT...JUST LIKE MY KNOWLEDGE AND REPORTING ON DASCHLE CAMPAIGN WIRETAPPING IN SOUTH DAKOTA THAT.........THE PUNK COCKSUCKER FBI CLOWN ACT did not work the case as a violation of TITLE III?

And...FBI used my knowledge of felonies...as a pretext to go to the Fisa Ct to mind control and illegally chip me with an RFID torture device?

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More recently, Agent Lawless, a former prosecutor from Tennessee, has been methodically tracking down Tamm's friends and former colleagues. The agent and a partner have asked questions about Tamm's associates and political meetings he might have attended, apparently looking for clues about his motivations for going to the press, according to three of those interviewed.


In the meantime, Tamm lives in a perpetual state of limbo, uncertain whether he's going to be arrested at any moment. He could be charged with violating two laws, one concerning the disclosure of information harmful to "the national defense," the other involving "communications intelligence." Both carry penalties of up to 10 years in prison. "This has been devastating to him," says Jeffrey Taylor, an old law-school friend of Tamm's. "It's just been hanging over his head for such a long time … Sometimes Tom will just zone out. It's like he goes off in a special place. He's sort of consumed with this because he doesn't know where it's going."

Taylor got a few clues into what the case was about last September when Agent Lawless and a partner visited him. The FBI agents sat in his office for more than an hour, asking what he knew about Tamm. The agents even asked about Tamm's participation in a political lunch group headed by his former boss, Andrew Sonner, that takes place once a month at a Rockville, Md., restaurant. "What does that have to do with anything?" Taylor asked.

Agent Lawless explained. "This kind of activity"—leaking to the news media—"can be motivated by somebody who is a do-gooder who thinks that something wrong occurred," Lawless said, according to Taylor. "Or it could be politically motivated by somebody who wants to cause harm." If it was the former—if Tamm was a "do-gooder"—the government could face a problem if it tried to bring a case to trial. The jurors might sympathize with Tamm and "you'd face jury nullification," said Lawless, according to Taylor, referring to a situation in which a jury refuses to convict a defendant regardless of the law.

Just this month, Lawless and another agent questioned Sonner, the retired judge who had served as a mentor to Tamm. The agents wanted to know if Tamm had ever confided in Sonner about leaking to the Times. Sonner said he hadn't, but he told the agents what he thought of their probe. "I told them I thought operating outside of the FISA law was one of the biggest injustices of the Bush administration," says Sonner. If Tamm helped blow the whistle, "I'd be proud of him for doing that."

Paul Kemp, one of Tamm's lawyers, says he was recently told by the Justice Department prosecutor in charge of Tamm's case that there will be no decision about whether to prosecute until next year—after the Obama administration takes office.

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tommy:


ALOT OF TIMES THE FBI OPERATES EXTRAJUDICIALLY TO HARASS PEOPLE AND TO SADISTICALLY ENJOY THEIR OWN POWER OVER OTHER PEOPLE.

AIN'T NO FUCKING WAY TAMM WOULD EVER GET PROSECUTED FOR REPORTING THOUSANDS OF TITLE III FELONIES.

SAME ANALYSIS APPLIES TO ME....on the Daschle wiretapping that a lying faggot punk cocksucker named ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III, ignored as an IMPEACHEABLE TITLE III FELONY CRIME SPREE.
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The case could present a dilemma for the new leadership at Justice. During the presidential campaign, Obama condemned the warrantless-wiretapping program. So did Eric Holder, Obama's choice to become attorney general. In a tough speech last June, Holder said that Bush had acted "in direct defiance of federal law" by authorizing the NSA program.


Tamm's lawyers say his case should be judged in that light. "When I looked at this, I was convinced that the action he took was based on his view of a higher responsibility," says Asa Hutchinson, the former U.S. attorney in Little Rock and under secretary of the Department of Homeland Security who is assisting in Tamm's defense.


"It reflected a lawyer's responsibility to protect the rule of law." Hutchinson also challenged the idea—argued forcefully by other Bush administration officials at the time—that The New York Times story undermined the war on terror by tipping off Qaeda terrorists to surveillance.


"Anybody who looks at the overall result of what happened wouldn't conclude there was any harm to the United States," he says. After reviewing all the circumstances, Hutchinson says he hopes the Justice Department would use its "discretion" and drop the investigation. In judging Tamm's actions—his decision to reveal what little he knew about a secret domestic spying program that still isn't completely known—it can be hard to decipher right from wrong. Sometimes the thinnest of lines separates the criminal from the hero.


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NOTE: FIVE MORE PAGES AT THE LINK http://www.newsweek.com/id/174601/page/1 ...OR JUST CLICK ON BLOGPOST TITLE ABOVE TO get linked

more proof that DENVER FBI mind controller, s.a. DWAYNE FUSILIER did COLUMBINE as part of FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER aka MIND CONTROL

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_11238899


Court upholds decision to keep Columbine depositions sealed

By Felisa Cardona

The Denver Post

Updated: 12/15/2008 07:09:56 PM MST



The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver upheld a decision to keep depositions of the parents of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold under seal for 20 years.

Circuit Judges Paul J. Kelly, Carlos F. Lucero and Harris L. Hartz issued the decision Monday, with Lucero writing a dissenting opinion.

The depositions of Harris and Klebold's parents — taken in two civil suits brought by the parents of slain Columbine student Daniel Rohrbough and a student who was injured in the 1999 shooting — are now kept in the National Archives.

The 10th Circuit was asked to determine whether U.S. District Judge Lewis T. Babcock erred when he found the depositions should be sealed under the Federal Records Act.

Kelly and Hartz decided that the depositions qualify as records "made" by a court and therefore qualify under the Federal Records Act. Lucero disagreed and wrote that the records should have been returned to the parties who produced the depositions.

The judges also determined that Babcock did not err when he declined to allow an expert in youth violence to review the depositions.

Felisa Cardona: 303-954-1219 or fcardona@denverpost.com

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TOMMY:


when the FBI did OPERATION SLAMMER on me, my father was recruited as part of the bogus conspiracy against my rights.

The abuse and harassment is always predicated on illegally obtained info, and or FRAMEUPS, PROVOCATIONS, ASSAULTS, SLANDER, etc.

So...the depositions of the parents of KLEBOLDT AND HARRIS...would have shed light on the FBI'S NEFARIOUS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE including DENVER FBI AGENT FUSILIER'S SONS BEING PAID AS FBI INFORMANTS AS THEY SET UP A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION CALLED THE TRENCH COAT MAFIA.




note: CLICK ON BLOGPOST TITLE ABOVE to be linked to more info on the coverup of THE INFAMOUS FBI OPEATION SLAMMER MIND CONTROL FALSE FLAG EVENT.

DEEP THROAT exposes the missing puzzle pieces on NSA TSP, WIRETAPPING, SECRET MURDER INC PROGRAMS used by Cheney to kill CHRISTINA MOORE in Texas

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/003805.php

(copy and paste above URL into Google for link or click on blogpost title above)


NOTE: This is an anonymous post at TPMMUCKRAKER.COM (preferred site for DC news and discussion by high muckety mucks and in the know lawyers at fed agencies)


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Anonymous wrote on July 27, 2007 5:37 PM:


NSC-RUN PROGRAM, LIKE IRAN-CONTRA, OUTSIDE CONGRESSIONAL-LEGAL OVERSIGHT

An "NSA/NSC" supporting function/unit does not necessarily mean intelligence gathering or intercepts. NSA-NSC-related units can be assigned anywhere; and their intelligence gathering is not isolated to electronic methods. It could involve civilian contractors assigned to commercial entities not obviously connected with the US government; and not obviously involved with verification of Signals intelligence. The personnel may or may not have any idea that they are assigned to a group that relies on NSA-collect information or that they are involved with verifying information the NSA/NSC has an interest.

. . . . .
"Why I suspect Darth Cheney involved in program origination? Comey Testimony. Philbin objected to legality of NSA program, and Addington had the biggest hand in ending Philbin's career. Payback for ruining Addington's pretty NSA operation. Comey dropped that name for a reason...."

Posted by: drational
Date: July 27, 2007 4:14 PM
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Recall, it's CIA that was sharing info with the EU on the rendition; and Plame was retaliated against by OVP: and the OVP blocking the archivist audit. Addington knew about the European Detention centers.Not getting info on the naval-based detention centers.

Recall, Iran-Contra was an NSC-run operation: Cheney was involved. Could be the same kid of thing -- something run out of NSC, not the DoJ or NSA. Not clear that the "NSA" vs "NSC" is a typo: Suspect its different: NSC, not NSA, appears to be running these things.

Recall DoJ met with the intelligence personnel at various sports facilitates in DC. Keep thinking Plame and Cheney were about sending a message to Cheney' private intelligence network -- likely linked through Halliburton -- to send a message: "Plame outing" is what will happen if you crosss the VP. Seems to simplistic to say this is only about oil, and retaliating against others who spill the beans. Libby's name was mentioned in the context of "basketball," another program -- that came up during the Grand Jury reviews; his counsel was worried Fitzgerald had access to NSA-GCHQ-intercepted information of legal counsel.
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Philbin was former OLC, meaning he probably clashed with Addington on the legal aspects of Rendition/prisoner abuse as well. Philbin documented his concerns, which the Congress can ask for since those memoranda and their existence on this subject have been disclosed. Mentioning Philbin may have been merely a suggestion of which people/memoranda to specifically ask for.


Philbin was aware of the "security" issues of GTMO; and likely would have been involved with discussions in detaining prisoners in Eastern Europe.



1. Support Aspect: NSA resources supporting, or outsourced


"NSA" or "NSC" program doesn't necessarily have to mean just data interception, but _use_ and _support_ of other activities: Combat, intelligence analysis, interrogation, or direct support for the CIA. Problem NSA and DOJ have is when CIA -- possibly connected with this "other program" -- have talked to the EU. EU may have more information about this "other program" than the Congress has been directly told or understands.



2. Direct reporting to NSC, outside Congressional oversight



IF this is an NSA "program" it could be a support function for the NSC, or one of the combatant commanders; or made to _look_ that way to hide the real objective of the activity. They may have classified it as an "NSA Program" to bury its real objective as a domestic-CIA-cover action program, which is illegal, an "open secret" but explained away as a "training program" like Operation Falcon: Use of Federal resources at the local level for training, manning support, and domestic intelligence gathering in conjunction with CIFA.



3. Posse Comitatus


This could be a special access program within DoD that is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, hidden as an "NSA program" but a domestic security force backed by combat forces/special forces units which have the power to issue arrest warrants, detain people, and target those who oppose the illegal activities.



4. Individual Cells, untraceable, multi-agency


I haven't seen anything to suggest that the President could not, through DoD and CIFA, establish a Gestapo-like "NSA program" within the DoD community, and then outsource this to local law enforcement -- JTTF. They've got people that cross flow between the guard units, local law enforcement, FBI, and to civilian jobs all day. They could be creating individual cells within JTTF units that are comprised of NSC contractors, data analysis, and law enforcement whose sole goal is to act as a direct reporting entity to the NSC. They could very well be reporting directly to people working for Cheney, and Congress and JCS might never realize who or what was actually assigned, or relying on DoD assets.



5. DoD Entities With Personnel Assigned Stateside

DoD could ery well have created "foreign entities" in other countries, who then are in charge of these personnel stationed in the US. DoD was given this power to establish foreign intelligence and combat support entities overseas; however, if that's mutated, the NSC may have subcontracted to these DoD entities US-based personnel who directly support NSC: In effect, creating an NSC-NSA support function under DoD foreign entities, but basing their contractors in the US..



SUMMARY


Mueller appears to be referring to a sub-contracted effort which indirectly supports the NSC with a special domestic security unit. These units engage in direct engagement with state-side personnel and civilians. Contractors, law enforcement, and intelligence personnel are assigned under non-direct-NSC-NSA units, but are hidden inside commercial entities. The groups appear capable of moving quickly, with no direct supervision, but act as internal security forces, completely outside FISA oversight. They appear to be entities unrelated to FISA, but are front line units which verify information, gather intelligence domestically, and help NSC pinpoint targets which NSC contractors are assigned.




RECOMMENDATIONS


A. Congress examine the Operation Falcon; determine which NSA/NSC personnel were assigned to oversee.


B. Examine the budget lines inside the DOD foreign entities support accounts; and determine which banks are used to challenge those funds. Determine how the DOD funds are funnelled overseas through the NSC entities, then back to the US to these individual groups.


C. Review the "investigative leads" and ground rules JTTF and local law enforcement use to dissuade detection of the domestic intelligence gathering efforts.


D. Review the destruction logs of the CIFA; and determine who was supposed to keep the logs related to these classified documents.


Determine which signalling systems, monitoring, and other intelligence gathering the JTTF are using; and where this information is sent. Ultimately, it winds up somewhere: Which contractors, NSC staffers have access to these reports.


E. Examine with Congressional Counsel whether it is the intent that these domestic security services operate this way; and whether, as FISA is written, this type of activity would fall outside what the FISA Court can engage.


F. Review the DHS domestic interrogation facilities. Look at the gas mileage for the DHS pick up teams. Review the files they've had access to; and the basis for detaining someone. Review the complaints of citizens being forcibly removed from their cars, engines running, or being taken from their homes while school children are present in the early morning. Evidence includes car impound fees.


G. Discuss with POST and local LE efforts used to dissuade public awareness of intelligence gathering: Excuses given to hide pre-textual stops; and examine whether local officials do or do not keep adequate records related to officer complaints and requests for civilian oversight to examine officer misconduct.


H. Examine problems during audits: To what extent officers in LE, FBI, and DHS are concerned when reports of officer misconduct arise; and what methods auditors are aware to segregate complaints about officer misconduct from auditors:



1. Have they been asked to leave the room; were concerns explained away; were officers complaining they were "short manned" an unable to supervise; and how do these explanations square with the officer conduct.

2. How often are these units employed to provoke innocent civilians to respond to abuse?

3. To what extent are these domestic units used to harass civilians based on a "hunch"?

4. Would these units put the children of minors at risk to entrap a suspected target?

5. Is there no report of any of these personnel ever exposing a minor to a potentially unsafe situation to engage a target?

6. Has the FISA court, Congress, and Judiciary been fully apprised of how these units operate; their procedures; and oversight requirement to ensure 42 USC 1983 claims are minimized?

7. What insurance do these units have if they are engaged in liable action?


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Who blew whistle on CHENEY'S secet GESTAPO WIRETAPPING--NSA TSP?

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Whistleblower_FBI_lawyers_knew_warrantless_wiretaps_1215.html


Whistleblower: FBI lawyers knew warrantless wiretaps were 'probably illegal'

Nick Juliano

Published: Monday December 15, 2008






The former FBI agent who blew the whistle on the Bush administration's decision to circumvent the law in order to warrantlessly eavesdrop on Americans decided to go to the press after a senior government lawyer tried to steer him away from questioning the "probably illegal" surveillance program.

Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff profiled Thomas M. Tamm this weekend, revealing the circumstances surrounding the decorated agent's decision to become a secret source for the New York Times reporters who would reveal the story of the warrantless wiretapping activities.

Tamm uncovered evidence of the extra legal surveillance while working with the Justice Department's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, which handled sensitive wiretaps of suspected terrorists, when he discovered that some surveillance seemed to be happening outside the boundaries of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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tommy:

I was illegally wiretapped and surveilled since 1986 to the present. I submitted a 47 page US DOJ OIG--fbi opr complaint in November of 2004. The complaint went to DENVER AND DALLAS FIELD AGENTS....whose chain of command took the complaint out of the loop and sent it to MUELLER'S FBI OPR who did not respond to the complaint?

More facts and laws in a second complaint...that will await the new US ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE NEW FBI DIRECTOR.

The NYTIMES wrote their story in late 2005, three weeks after SEN GRASSLEY GOT MY TEN PAGE MEMO complaining about FBI surveillance (ACTUALLY THE FBI DOES ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE FOR DECADES BY HIDING THE SURVEILLANCE BEHIND A CORPORATE FRONT, and if the FBI wants to use the info, they simply COMMIT LATER BRADY VIOLATIONS while hiding the HAND OFF METHOD of laundering and using illegally obtained info in violation of Title III.

These are all pertinent facts that....LEAHY AND CONYERS AND THEIR STAFFERS PREFERRED TO COVER UP???????????

I NEVER ONCE WAS GIVEN A CHANCE TO TESTIFY OR CONTACT THE SEN JUD COMM AND HOUSE JUD COMM?
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At one point, Tamm says, he approached Lisa Farabee, a senior counsel in OIPR who reviewed his work, and asked her directly, "Do you know what the program is?" According to Tamm, she replied: "Don't even go there," and then added, "I assume what they are doing is illegal."

Tamm says his immediate thought was, "I'm a law-enforcement officer and I'm participating in something that is illegal?"


A few weeks later Tamm bumped into Mark Bradley, the deputy OIPR counsel, who told him the office had run into trouble with Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the chief judge on the FISA court.

Bradley seemed nervous, Tamm says.

Kollar-Kotelly had raised objections to the special program wiretaps, and "the A.G.-only cases are being shut down," Bradley told Tamm.


He then added, "This may be [a time] the attorney general gets indicted," according to Tamm. (Told of Tamm's account, Justice spokesman Boyd said that Farabee and Bradley "have no comment for your story.")


Tamm became one of a dozen anonymous sources for Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen with a phone call to the paper's newsroom from a payphone in a Washington, DC, subway station in the spring of 2004. It was more than a year until their story appeared in the paper.

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TOMMY:


NYTIMES sat on the story to avoid IMPEACHMENT and were told it would be nice to let it pass until the 2004 CONGRESSIONAL AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WERE OVER.

THEN...once SEN GRASSLEY GOT MY TEN PAGE MEMO...it was only a matter of time until GRASSLEY CONFRONTED MUELLER AT FBI HQ...and...then...uh...well...somehow the NYTIMES HAD THE THREE SOURCES THEY PREFER TO HAVE before writing stories that could result in Impeachment.

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The whistleblower "grew frustrated" at the delay in publication, Isikoff reports.

Tamm had hoped the story would appear before the 2004 election, but the Times delayed its publication more than a year based on the Bush administration's arguments that publishing details of the surveillance program would harm national security.

Since the program's existence has been revealed, the administration has fought every attempt to narrow its scope, although Congress did amend FISA earlier this year with what critics said was a weak law that essentially legalized parts of the program.

Bush's Justice Department has, however, vigorously pursued Tamm and other suspected leakers. In August of 2007, FBI agents raided his home, confiscated his family's computers and questioned his wife and children, Isikoff reports, and Tamm fears he could be arrested any day.

Isikoff reported on the raid at the time, and there was some contemporaneous speculation that Tamm had been posting Deepthroat-esque comments on liberal blogs like TPMMuckraker, leading to the raid.

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tommy: I used to post at TPMMUCKRAKER in detail using my name.

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In the Tamm profile, which appeared online over the weekend, Isikoff reports that the former agent "began blogging about the Justice Department for liberal Web sites."

He offered no more specifics.

The Justice Department's investigation into Tamm and other whistleblowers is expected to continue past Bush's exit from the White House.

Isikoff notes that President-elect Obama, who was harshly critical of the warrantless surveillance program, could quietly drop the investigation into those who helped bring it to light.

CHENEY admits what we know: HE AUTHORIZED VIOLATIONS OF THE RULE OF LAW--TORTURE of anybody for any reason

Cheney Admits to Authorizing Torture Against Guantanamo Detainees

By Jason Leopold
The Public Record
Monday, December 15, 2008

Favoured : 4

Published in : Nation/World


Vice President Dick Cheney admitted for the first time Monday that CIA sought his guidance about implementing a brutal interrogation program at Guantanamo Bay less than a year after 9/11 and he helped get the “process cleared.”

In a wide-ranging interview with ABC News, Cheney was unapologetic about the harsh techniques used against suspected terrorist detainees—included the long outlawed technique known as waterboarding--calling it a “successful effort.”

“I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency, in effect, came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it,” Cheney said in response to a question about whether he personally approved the tactics used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

"There was a period of time there, three or four years ago, when about half of everything we knew about al Qaeda came from that one source," Cheney said, adding that he does not believe any of the interrogation techniques went too far. "So, it's been a remarkably successful effort. I think the results speak for themselves."

The waterboarding of Mohammad was videotaped, but that record was destroyed in November 2005 after the Washington Post published a story that exposed the CIA's use of so-called "black site" prisons overseas to interrogate terror suspects.

John Durham, an assistant attorney general in Connecticut, was appointed special counsel earlier this year to investigate the destruction of that videotape as well as destroyed film on other interrogations. The probe is ongoing.

Cheney also defended the decision to invade Iraq, a war predicated on the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and made erroneous claims to justify the invasion despite the absence of WMD’s.

Cheney was largely responsible for pressuring analysts to cook intelligence to support a preemptive strike.

“I think -- as I look at the intelligence with respect to Iraq -- what they got wrong was that there weren't any stockpiles,” Cheney told ABC News. “What we found in the after-action reports, after the intelligence report was done and then various special groups went and looked at the intelligence and what its validity was. What they found was that Saddam Hussein still had the capability to produce weapons of mass destruction. He had the technology, he had the people, he had the basic feed stocks.

“They also found that he had every intention of resuming production once the international sanctions were lifted. He had a long reputation and record of having started two wars. Of having brutalized and killed hundreds of thousands of people, some of them with weapons of mass destruction in his own country. He had violated 16 National Security Council resolutions. He had established a relationship as a terror-sponsoring state, according to the State Department. He was making $25,000 payments to the families of suicide bombers.

“This was a bad actor and the country's better off, the world's better off, with Saddam gone, and I think we made the right decision, in spite of the fact that the original NIE was off in some of its major judgments.”

But an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee found that Bush and Cheney knowingly lied to Congress and the public about the threat that Iraq posed to the United States in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion.

“Before taking the country to war, this administration owed it to the American people to give them a 100 percent accurate picture of the threat we faced. Unfortunately, our Committee has concluded that the administration made significant claims that were not supported by the intelligence,” said committee chairman, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D-West Virginia, who released a report in June on prewar Iraq intelligence.

The Senate report is the first document to state that Bush and Cheney knowingly made false allegations about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator who was overthrown in April 2003 and executed in December 2006.

“There is no question we all relied on flawed intelligence. But there is a fundamental difference between relying on incorrect intelligence and deliberately painting a picture to the American people that you know is not fully accurate," Rockefeller said in a statement.

The Senate report confirmed British intelligence assertions that surfaced in a document widely known as the Downing Street Memo that the facts against the threat posed by Iraq were being “fixed” around the Bush administration's desire to invade Iraq.

The Senate report singled out erroneous statements that Cheney made during the run-up to war that the Vice President knew was not supported by the available intelligence, such as allegations that Mohammed Atta, the lead 9/11 hijacker met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in 2001.

John Dean, former counsel to President Richard Nixon, made a case for impeaching Bush if he intentionally misled Congress and the public into going to war with Iraq, which is what the Senate Intelligence Committee report suggests happened.

"To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked," Dean wrote in a June 6, 2003 column for findlaw.com.

"Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be ‘a high crime’ under the Constitution's impeachment clause. It would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony ‘to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose.’”

Cheney’s comments to ABC News were made less than a week after a bipartisan Senate committee report found that the vice president, President George W. Bush, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and other administration officials were responsible for the abuse of detainees that took place at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.

The tactics have been denounced by President-elect Barack Obama and lawmakers, civil rights organizations, and human rights activists have said the methods interrogators used to obtain information from terrorist suspects are tantamount to torture.

Earlier this year, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers wrote to Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether Bush and senior members of his Cabinet committed war crimes by authorizing CIA and military interrogators to use harsh tactics against detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq.

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tommy:


WHAT ABOUT A US CITIZEN NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN being tortured and chipped with a mind control device....after he signed a US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT?

WHAT ABOUT FORMER FBI AGENT GERAL SOSBEE being chipped, tortured and monitored in his home with a pin hole spy camera?

What about author ALEX CONSTANTINE, "The War against rock and roll"...getting tortured for writing a book about RIGHT WING FBI COINTELPRO?

Why is CONYERS AND THE SENATE holding the water for the bogus spin control on TORTURE when the TORTURE IS USED ON ANYBODY WHO THREATENS TO EXPOSE THE RIGHT WING SHADOW GOVERNMENT'S CRIMES?

US CITIZENS ARE CHIPPED, MIND CONTROLLED, FRIED WITH DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS...AND...all this is ignored by LEAHY AND CONYERS as they focus on so called terrorist suspects from the middle east?

WHAT ABOUT TORTURE OF US CITIZENS IN THEIR HOMES?...with no trial, no due process...and no right to confront the accusers and torturers in court?

THIS IS WHY I DESPISE THE FUCKING DEMOCRATS....they are in on the coverup of OUTRAGEOUS CRIMES, MURDERS, ATTEMPTED MURDERS by Cheney and DOD CIFA UNIT...in violation of THE PATRIOT ACT?????????????

HOW FUCKING STUPID IS CONYERS AND LEAHY AND just how corrupt are they....to avoid my testimony because it relates to FBI DRUG DEALING IN MONTANA with laundering by RACICOT into CORRUPT CONGRESSIONAL HANDS???????????

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That request followed an investigation by the International Committee of the Red Cross into interrogation practices at Guantanamo Bay, which “documented several instances of acts of torture against detainees, including soaking a prisoner’s hand in alcohol and lighting it on fire, subjecting a prisoner to sexual abuse and forcing a prisoner to eat a baseball.”

But Cheney dismissed comments like those made by Conyers claiming the United States doesn’t torture not has anyone committed war crimes by authorizing the interrogation program.

"I think those who allege that we've been involved in torture, or that somehow we violated the Constitution or laws with the terrorist surveillance program, simply don't know what they're talking about,” Cheney told ABC News.

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TOMMY:


If Conyers or Leahy would have contacted me...I would have testified about being illegally hounded, stalked, assaulted, and monitored because I was a cooperating witness tipping SFPD about the detenators that CARY GAGEN SAW WITH THE IRAQIS who had the schematic to the Murray Building?

If I testify....CHENEY WILL EAT THOSE WORDS.

TOO BAD THE DEMS...ARE TOO WEAK, STUPID, MISDIRECTED, AND LACK ANY SORT OF INTEREST IN DUE PROCESS RIGHTS--my right to give my side of the story?????

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Cheney’s denials stand in stark contrast to former top military officials, like Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who led the investigation of abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and said “there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”

Last April, President Bush told an ABC News reporter during an interview that he approved meetings of the NSC’s Principals Committee to discuss specific interrogation techniques the CIA could use against detainees. The Principals Committee included Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General Ashcroft as well as Rumsfeld and Rice.

Three months ago, Rice admitted that she led high-level discussions beginning in 2002 with other senior Bush administration officials about subjecting suspected al-Qaeda terrorists to the harsh interrogation technique known as waterboarding, according to documents released by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

In an interview with a conservative radio host in October 2006, Cheney said waterboarding suspected terrorists was a “no-brainer.”

For a while there, I was criticized as being the Vice President "for torture." We don't torture. That's not what we're involved in. We live up to our obligations in international treaties that we're party to and so forth. But the fact is, you can have a fairly robust interrogation program without torture, and we need to be able to do that.”

However, thousands of pages of documents released publicly since that interview would appear to show that methods used against detainees constitute cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment in violation of international laws and treaties.

For example, the treatment of Mohammed al-Qahtani the alleged “20th hijacker” who has been held at Guantanamo since 2005, was catalogued in an 84-page log of his interrogation that was leaked in 2006. The so-called “torture log” shows that beginning in November 2002 and continuing well into January 2003, al-Qahtani was subjected to sleep deprivation, interrogated in 20-hour stretches, poked with IV’s, and left to urinate on himself.

Yet in another interview Monday with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Cheney says Guantanamo “has been very well run.”

“I think if you look at it from the perspective of the requirements we had, once you go out and capture a bunch of terrorists, as we did in Afghanistan and elsewhere, then you’ve got to have some place to put them,” Cheney said.

Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, whose organization represents al-Qahtani, said last week its imperative that Obama authorize his attorney general to launch a criminal investigation into Cheney and others in the White House.

“One of Barack Obama’s first acts as President should be to instruct his Attorney General to appoint an independent prosecutor to initiate a criminal investigation of former Bush administration officials who gave the green light to torture,” Ratner said in a column he published in the magazine The Progressive.

Ratner said anything less than a full-scale criminal investigation – a substitute like a Truth Commission assigned simply to ascertain the facts – would be unacceptable.



“If Obama and Holder want to adhere to our Constitution and uphold our highest values, they must pursue those in the Bush administration who violated that Constitution, broke our laws, and tarnished our values,” Ratner wrote. “To simply let those officials walk off the stage sends a message of impunity that will only encourage future law breaking. The message that we need to send is that they will be held accountable.

“This is not Latin America; this is not South Africa. We are not trying to end a civil war, heal a wounded country and reconcile warring factions. We are a democracy trying to hold accountable officials that led our country down the road to torture. And in a democracy, it is the job of a prosecutor and not the pundits to determine whether crimes were committed.”

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tommy:


My point exactly.


How come the punk clown pussies (LEAHY, CONYERS) have never once used the facts in my complaints...or the facts after I submitted the DOJ OIG--FBI OPR Complaint?

How come nobody wants to "know the facts" and expand the debate to the legal issue, "WHETHER OR NOT THE WAR COMMISSIONS ACT CONSTITUTIONALLY SANCTIONS ANY TORTURE OF ANY US CITIZEN BASED ON THE MERE POLITICAL SUBJECTIVE DESIGNATION OF THE PRESIDENT TARGETING SO CALLED "enemy non combatants" (i.e. "political enemies who sign DOJ complaints"...."political enemies tied to Daschle Democrats"..."political enemies who know about the DASCHLE WIRETAPPING that Mueller's FBI covered up" while FBI also used "Bean's knowledge of the wiretapping" to rationalize a COUNTERINTELIGENCE SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING USING A BOGUS SECRET FISA CT AFFADAVIT IN WHICH THE COURT DID NOT SWEAR IN WITNESSES AND DID NOT FOLLOW THE FISA STATUTE REQUIRING THE SHOWING THAT THE TARGET BEING CHIPPED IS AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN POWER?)


These are the facts and issues for HOLDER and OBAMA...both of whom speak the same smoke and mirrors careful pussified bullshit that LEAHY AND CONYERS USE to make sure, CHENEY'S ACTIONS SEEM RATIONAL ON THE SURFACE BUT FAIL WHEN CONFRONTED WITH REAL FACTS, REAL DUE PROCESS, AND REAL MOTIVATIONS FOR POLITICIZING TORTURE AND MURDER AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS?


I WANT TO HEAR LEAHY AND CONYERS SAY, "....How is DR MARK GORDON A TERRORIST, WHILE WORKING WITH MINNEAPOLIS FBI TO GO AFTER BEAN?"

"HOW IS BEAN A TERRORIST, WHEN FBI RAN OPERATION SLAMMER TO PROGRAM, HARASS, AND PROVOKE A WITNESS who tried to stop the FBI from blowing up the Murray Building?" (See, TRENTADUE DEPOSITION OF TERRY NICHOLS).

Are the lying swindling treasonous dual citizenship KIKES being run out of our Government?

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1178.htm



December 15, 2008

Obama Forces Stage Massive Takedown Of Mossad Forces In US

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)





Russian Intelligence Analysts are stating today that US Military and Police Forces loyal to President-Elect Obama have staged the largest takedown in American history of a foreign Nations spy service operating within its borders.

According to these reports, New York financier Bernard Madoff [pictured top left] was the target of Obama Forces as he is believed to have masterminded the financing of Israel’s vast espionage operations in the United States since the 1960’s.

Mr. Madoff, who holds duel citizenship in both the United States and Israel, was apprehended this past week while attempting to flee the United States and move billions of Mossad funds out of New York, and which was thwarted by US District Court Judge Louis Stanton who said ‘the order he issued appeared necessary to prevent Madoff or an agent from moving funds out of the court's jurisdiction and to "preserve the status quo" for whatever may come from future proceedings’.

These reports further state that the powerful US Attorney, and Obama ally, Patrick Fitzgerald was behind the takedown of Madoff and his Mossad backers who Fitzgerald has been investigation since the 2005 arrest of Pentagon Official Lawrence Franklin, and who was charged with passing American Military secrets to the powerful American-Jewish Lobby AIPAC which is known to be one of Mossad’s most powerful front organizations operating in the US.

To the power of the Mossad’s influence of the United States Government through the use of its ‘lobby’s’ we can read:

“The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) which directly lobbies the legislative branch of the U.S. Government

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations which "is the main contact between the Jewish community and the executive branch" of the U.S. Government.

These two key groups aim to present policy makers with unified and representative messages via the aggregation and filtering of the diversity of opinions held by smaller pro-Israel lobby groups and the American Jewish community at large. The diverse spectrum of opinions held by American Jewry is reflected in the many formal pro-Israel groups, and as such some analysts make a distinction within the Israel lobby between right-leaning and left-leaning groups.

US Foreign Policy scholars John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt define the core of the lobby as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Anti-Defamation League and Christians United for Israel.Other key organizations which they state work to benefit Israel, in many cases by influencing US foreign policy, include the American Jewish Congress, Zionist Organization of America, the Israel Policy Forum, the American Jewish Committee, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Americans for a Safe Israel, American Friends of Likud, Mercaz-USA, and Hadassah.

Chaim Waxman in 1992 in the American Jewish Yearbook listed more that 80 Jewish organisations specifically devoted to Zionist and pro-Israel activities. Fifty one of the largest and most important come together in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, whose self described mission includes “forging diverse groups into a unified force for Israel’s well-being” and working to “strengthen and foster the special US-Israel relationship.”




Reports from Israel are detailing how the takedown of Madoff by Obama’s Forces are also now affecting the Mossad’s many front operations in the US called foundations, and as we can read as reported by Israel’s Haaretz News Service:

“An alleged $50 billion fraud by Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff has caused deep ripples in the Jewish philanthropic world, forcing the closure of two prominent U.S.-based charities and threatening the financial lifeline of a slew of other groups.

The Chais Family Foundation, a California-based charity group invested entirely with Madoff, was forced to shut down operations on Sunday after years of donating some $12.5 million annually to Jewish causes in Israel and Eastern Europe, the JTA announced.

"I can confirm that the Chais foundation has closed," the JTA quoted Chais President Avraham Infeld as saying on Sunday. "All of its funds were exposed with Mr. Madoff. We have made a decision regrettably and with much pain to close down the foundation."


The Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, a Massachusetts-based group which financed trips for Jewish youth to Israel, was also forced to close on Friday because the money that supported its programs was invested with the former Nasdaq chairman.”



The timing of this takedown of the powerful Mossad backed Jewish Lobby, and its associated spies, by Obama’s Forces, these reports continue, was due to President-Elect Obama’s plans to ‘radically shift’ American foreign policy away from Israeli influence upon his taking office.

To Obama’s implementation of his new foreign policy shift towards the Arab World and against the Israelis we can read as reported by the Christian Monitor News Service:



“During the campaign, President-elect Obama put the goal of repairing America’s image abroad – and in particular in the Muslim world – at the top of his foreign-policy agenda. Mr. Obama began defining how he intends to do that this week by discussing his plans to deliver a major speech in an Islamic capital, perhaps within the first 100 days of his presidency.

Obama’s plan, still in the formative stages, immediately set off speculation over where the new American president would choose to deliver his message and what he would say.”



And, to the ‘major Islamic capital’ where Obama would make this historic speech to the Arab peoples of the Middle East, these reports state, lies at the ‘very heart’ of the Obama Forces ‘immediate need’ to takedown Madoff and Mossad, as the only Arab capital that could be utilized that is that of the secular but Islamic leaning Turkish capital of Istanbul as the traditional American allied Nation of Egypt was ruled by Obama Forces to be ‘totally unacceptable’ as that Nations continued horrific abuse of its citizens, and its being ruled by the despotic ‘president for life’ Mubarak, have deemed it unsuitable to be used in attempting to re-portray the United States ‘new image’ to a highly estranged Arab populace.

In knowing this fact, these reports continue, Madoff and Mossad had begun the launching of a coup against the Turkish government, and of this plot we can read in part:



“Daniel Levi, Daniel Guney or Tuncay Guney? Who is this person whom the prosecution in Turkey last week said it wanted to summon to interrogate? According to reports in the Turkish newspaper Milliyet, he is a Mossad agent who was a member of the right-wing nationalist underground known as Ergenekon. It is alleged that Ergenekon planned to topple the pro-Islamic government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Another Turkish newspaper, Yeni Safak, reported that documents were found in Guney's apartment that allegedly link members of Israel's business community with important Turkish figures also involved in the Ergenekon affair.

According to other reports in the Turkish press, Guney was an agent of the Turkish intelligence service who penetrated both the ranks of the Turkish police's intelligence service and the Ergenekon organization so as to expose the identity of its members. In 2004, Guney was smuggled out of Turkey and clandestinely sent to the United States; he subsequently moved to Canada, where his name appears in the membership list of Congregation Beit Yaakov as Daniel T. Guney.”



To the final ending of this sage it is not in our knowing, other than to state that as of this date, and nearly 4 years removed from his initial arrest, the Israeli Pentagon spy Franklin and his AIPAC cohorts have yet to be prosecuted by Fitzgerald as the implications of the American people knowing the full extent of Mossad’s penetration of their government is being too catastrophic to contemplate.

The same reticence against moving against Mossad however, cannot be said against the US Military, which due to its longstanding regulations forbidding Jewish Americans to enter into its high ranking Officer Corp or its Intelligence Services due to their duel US-Israeli citizenship, has left them as the ‘last protector’ against having their Nation be used solely for the benefit of Israel, and which Obama is now utilizing to its fullest effect in his attempt to shift his country away from that catastrophic path.

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tommy:


Doesn't that ignore all the embedded neocon jews that...among other things, somehow managed to "not account" for 2.3 Trillion dollars while DOV Zelikow was working at The Pentagon as the Comptroller?

Zelikow then moved to the bogus 9/11 commission to cover up ISRAEL FALSE FLAG WITH GOP--DOD--FBI--DOJ--neocon swine.

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Intern. Currency Review reports that AL QAEDA FUNDING linked to Bush Crime Family...CITIBANK

http://www.worldreports.org/news/183_washington_exposed_as_secretly_financing_al_qaeda



WASHINGTON EXPOSED AS SECRETLY FINANCING AL-QAEDA

PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA DEMANDS PAYMENT OF THE SETTLEMENTS

Wednesday 3 December 2008 02:30

BIGGEST TERRORISM SCANDAL IN WORLD HISTORY UNFOLDING BEFORE OUR EYES

SECRET ROOM INSIDE MORGAN STANLEY FUNDING AL-QAEDA AND GLOBAL TERRORISM

COVER-UP OPERATIONS 'BLOWN': WASHINGTON HAS BEEN FINANCING GLOBAL TERROR





....ILLEGAL INTERFERENCE BY U.S. AIR FORCE PERSONNEL

Ahead of the election, Barack Obama had been approached by US Air Force personnel, and asked to step down. It is believed that an attempt to bribe him to do so was also made. The US Air Force is heavily indoctrinated, while supporters of the Constitution holding high-level Air Force posts were removed earlier in 2008, leaving key people in charge who are corrupt and involved in the financial fraud and thefts. Interference by armed forces personnel in the civilian political process (albeit that it is manipulated and controlled by the Intelligence Power: see below) is strictly prohibited by the Universal Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and of course as a constitutional expert, Barack Obama immediately told the Air Force representatives to ‘get lost’. He will presumably also have made a note of their identities so that their illegal behaviour catches up with them later.

Following our report on 31st October that the corrupted former British Prime Minister Tony Blair had ‘rolled over’ on all the familiar highest-level criminalists and their institutional and state co-conspirators, from Bush 41 and 43, the Clintons and the Pope, to Chancellor Merkel, Deutsche Bank and elements of the Hungarian Government (always secretly aligned with the STASI/DVD), it had become imperative to divulge to the new President-elect what had been going on behind the scenes in the darkness.

We understand that Blair’s testimony has now thrown so many grenades into the blazing furnace that explosions are going off in all directions, causing the previously asbestos-clad rats to rush around all over the place inside the furnace trying to escape the heat and flames before they are all engulfed by them. This is a late factor that has briefly 'delayed' resolution of the Settlements. It has had this effect because the Blair capitulation has CHANGED EVERYTHING for the criminalists, in that their bluff has been called and THESE RATS cannot now escape.



• SERVES THEM RIGHT FOR AGAIN ABUSING THE GENEROSITY OF THEIR 'CLOSEST ALLY'.

Especially given Blair’s revelations of the relevant sensitive issues, in which he shopped all the main financial criminals and his fellow highest-level co-conspirators and accessories to the fact of these immense crimes, the US intelligence authorities had been left with no choice in the matter, since they had not been in the driving seat for many months (see below) and risked very severe consequences should they themselves withhold crucial information about the corruption, from the President-elect. The ‘sensible’ decision was therefore taken to brief Barack Obama at the earliest opportunity. We are advised that he received what he was told with shock and contempt.



OBAMA ALSO SHOCKED TO FIND THAT BIDEN KNEW ALL ABOUT IT



Of particular concern, we understand, to President-Elect Obama was his realisation that his Vice-Presidential colleague, Mr Biden, knew all about the financial corruption (let us leave the matter there) and so, by definition, may have committed an offence under the Misprision of Felony Statute (1), at the very least, and will, on further investigation, have been a co-conspirator to some degree or another. This realisation explains why Biden was subsequently described as being ‘unhappy’ with the situation in which he now found himself. Could it be that Biden, to put the worst possible construction on the matter, may have expected his future boss to succumb to the bribery pressure that the corrupt incumbent in the White House would be likely to impose upon him?

The Editor’s original notes on information received at 8.20pm UK time on 6th November include a reference to indications that Senator Obama was first informed to a limited extent that a gigantic scandal with explosive implications was out of control back in May 2008, but that he was not given pertinent details at the time. Our notes state that Mr Obama ‘only started to find out after he was elected and received private security briefings by CIA agents. He’s starting to find out how many figures were involved, and he’s saying [expletive deleted]. His meetings started yesterday and continued all day today. He’s furious and also very angry at Biden. It has never been known for a President-Elect to receive CIA briefings immediately his election has been confirmed'. Our sources elaborated that ‘Obama’s meeting with his financial team. He learned this stuff and was horrified'.

Briefing Obama on this occasion must in any case have been a distrinctly painful experience for the compromised General Hayden, Director of Central Intelligence, and also for John Negroponte, the former Director of National Intelligence (see below), if he too had to attend the briefing, since the CIA and its numerous appendages and so-called subsidiary agencies are notoriously disruptive revolutionary criminal enterprises that have themselves been fully engaged in spearheading the fraudulent finance dimension of the World Revolution.




VOLCKER, A TRUSTEE, HAS SOUND REASONS FOR HIS ADVICE



In this connection, the key member of Obama’s financial advisory team, and a powerful adviser during the later stages of Mr Obama’s campaign, is Paul Volcker, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and a man who, whatever critics may say, is held in the highest esteem internationally. As a ‘righteous Jew’, this expert is believed to abhor all the financial corruption, although he IS a Trustee for ‘the Settlements'.

• Over 1,000 Trustees were originally appointed, all of them connected in some way to Bush Sr.

This does not necessarily mean that all Trustees are or will have been compromised (although Bush Sr. always seeks to double-cross, intimidate and/or compromise those with whom he has dealings). In the present context, what it means is that Volcker himself, as a Trustee, needed to be paid, so that he, too, could fulfil his obligations as a Trustee towards other parties. That has been a very significant fact in the overall quadrilateral equation.

• On 27th November, Reuters reported that Mr Obama had picked Volcker to head a special office to advise on economic and financial recovery.




SATELLITE-LINKED TRADING AND ECONOMIC TERRORISM


One dimension of this pointless activity has typically included the distribution inside the United States of special satellite-linked ‘grey screen’ trading equipment enabling selected operatives to conduct secret off-balance sheet and therefore illegal 'terrorist' trading from their own homes, often ostensibly unknown even to their own family members. This activity has been very severely curtailed or stopped altogether, as all transactions and funds associated with this trading is tracked 24/7. Many operatives engaged in these illegal trades have had to close down their operations, have gone to ground, or have been arrested.

When tackled about these activities in the past, members of such US operatives’ families, who ‘sort of’ knew what was going on, have typically tended to fall back on the words ‘national security’ when asked direct questions about what such unusual satellite trading equipment was being used for – this phrase being favoured as cover for the reality that the trading equipment had been given to the operatives by the CIA et al. to enable them to conduct illegal, off-balance sheet, untaxed, secret fraudulent finance counterparty trading operations undetected, as such transactions are or were of course all unaudited and subject to no checks and balances at all.

• By their involvement in such hidden fraudulent financial trading activity, the secret Agency-linked traders, located all over the United States, were engaged in economic terrorism and are accordingly vulnerable, as the purge widens, to being arrested and indicted for such crimes.

Of course even family members who knew what their spouses were up to may genuinely have assumed that their secret trading activities were covered by the National Security Act of 1947 et seq.; but since most of these people knew perfectly well what was going on, their toleration of such corrosive activities, amounting to economic terrorism, which have created such growing havoc by accelerating the rate of expansion of the overhang of unrealisable outstanding fiat obligations, represents a prima facie breach of the Misprision of Felony Statute.



DOUBLE-MINDED CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE SERVES DVD’S AGENDA


The CIA’s fraudulent finance operations have been systematically destroying the global financial economy in accordance with the bribery-oriented blueprint developed by George Bush Sr. and the corrupt Dr Alan Greenspan for Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst (DVD), Dachau, the heirs of the Nazi Abwehr originally directed from Oklahoma City by the late Admiral Canaris, who operated under the assumed name of Samuel Randall Pittman until he fell ill in 1974, when his place was occupied on a temporary basis by the triple or quadruple agent Dr Henry Kissinger, who has never managed to discard his hideously guttural German accent, which no American ever seems to have questioned!

Kissinger persuaded President Gerald Ford (a.k.a. the pornographer Leslie Lynch King Jr.) to fire William Colby (later ‘suicided’ during a ‘canoe trip’ on the Potomac) and to replace him as DCI with George Henry Walker Bush Sr. (Scherff), a long-time Abwehr/DVD asset and CIA agent implicated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in a manoeuvre whereby the DVD came to control the Central Intelligence Agency totally (rather than partially through the notorious earlier postwar penetrations). In April 2008, a ‘connected’ US visitor who appeared at our London office without an appointment on Good Friday, volunteered that our DVD analysis ‘is 100% correct’.



LONG-RANGE PAN-GERMAN REVANCHIST STRATEGIC DECEPTION



The pan-German ‘Black’ DVD Nazi strategic deception Continuum is motivated by a hatred of the ‘Anglo-Saxons’ for having supposedly ‘won’ two World Wars as a consequence of which Germany was virtually destroyed. In 1941-42, the Nazis set up a German Geopolitical Centre in Madrid, which became a haven for Gestapo officers, who occupied all the main hotels there for many years. In the early 1950s, the Allies intercepted a document that they labelled the ‘Madrid Circular Letter’ which spelled out pan-German long-range plans to reverse the outcomes of the two World Wars.

This document elaborated on Nazi policy papers captured by the Allies at the end of the Second Illuminati War, one of which boasted that ‘we shall build the Thousand-Year Reich on the Ruins of the United States’, as explained in great detail in the Editor’s book ‘The New Underworld Order’.

The ‘Madrid Circular Letter' claimed that ‘für uns ist der Krieg niemals vorbei’ (for us, the war never ended). But the West in general , and the United States in particular, complacently assumed that, having personalised the enemy in the format of the hate-figure of Hitler, that operative’s demise represented the end of the Nazi menace. This view was catastrophically mistaken.

For, as described in the Editor’s book and widely elaborated elsewhere, the Nazi repression and intelligence chief in the Soviet Union, General Reinhard Gehlen, not only managed to persuade a willing US political and intelligence class that Mr Stalin was preparing to invade Western Europe (whereas in reality Josef Djiugashivili-Kochba had only one and a half mechanised divisions, the rest being either decimated or still horse-drawn, while his repression cadres were bogged down with imposing their control over the newly-annexed satellites), but also over time procured the mass penetration of the US intelligence community and other US structures with ‘former’ Nazi operatives and scientists, finally backing the reconstituted European elements of his former networks into the Germany-based US intelligence structures themselves (CIA-1, Frankfurt).




WORLD NOW ENGULFED IN A CHAOTIC INTELLIGENCE WAR


All intelligence organisations today are at war within themselves, as all have been penetrated by foreign powers and domestic enemies, as a consequence of which no intelligence operative can ever trust any of his or her colleagues and must live with the knowledge that he or she is liable to be deceived, double-crossed or entrapped without warning at any stage of a given operation.

The upshot is that the whole world is now engulfed in a ruthless, no-holds-barred, long-running and now red-hot intelligence war over money, which is actually destroying all money and asset values on a scale with no historical precedent. We did predict this outcome in our reports dated 2nd September 2006, and in reports posted, for instance, on 18th and 27th July 2007 [see Archive].

As indicated earlier, the intelligence war over money had been raging largely below the radar, with periodic eruptions, certainly since the Second World War. But given the terrible intransigence of the organised intelligence community-linked criminals who hijacked the White House and the US Treasury under the Bush and Clinton Crime Families, we need hardly be surprised that many unruly elements of the darkness are taking matters into their own hands, seeking to ignite flashpoints in the cynical expectation of being able to foment wars and rumours of wars which can subsequently be exploited to cover up their financial thefts and fraudulent operations. For instance, the Bombay atrocities could well have been associated with the Bush-linked ‘Black’ forces' fury that the Indian authorities may have ‘ceased to cooperate’ over $2.0 trillion that was illegally transferred, you will recall, to UBS New Delhi, in the course of 2007, when the criminal financial operations were at their peak, before our exposures had started to bring the perpetrators to book.

Amazingly, however, these penetrated and internally warring intelligence communities ‘rely upon’ the ‘Rule of Law’ as a back-stop, even though some of them (headed by the CIA) treat the ‘Rule of Law’ with absolute contempt and consider that they have an open-ended license to break the law, the only rule being ‘you are on you’re own if you get caught’.



CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE INCOMPATIBLE WITH GOOD GOVERNANCE



Self-evidently, the existence of criminal enterprise intelligence communities as evil as the CIA and its ‘subsidiaries’ is quite incompatible with good governance and indeed with national and external stability and wellbeing. Moreover, as we have explained both electronically and in several of our publications, the aggressive Intelligence Power acquires hegemony over the other two sides of the power triangle, the Military Power and ‘The Party’ which, in the geomasonic control model, is split between two main factions (Thesis, Republicans and the Conservative Party; Antithesis, the US Democrats or the Labour Party).


The Intelligence Power typically develops its odious status as the immense, arrogant ‘State within the State’ by exploiting its power of penetration and its ‘licence to deceive’, so that it places its own operatives inside the Military Power and The Party. In both Britain and the United States, the Intelligence Power selects and prepares candidates for the highest offices from among the ranks of its operatives or assets – giving rise to our aphorisms:

• ‘The Intelligence Power is in control, out of control
and needs to be brought under control’; and:

• ‘It is neither here nor there which faction of The Party wins elections,
because the Intelligence Power always wins’.


In the parallel and almost identical (covert) Soviet model, exactly the same phenomenon applies. This central reality (which few Americans yet seem to grasp) does not detract from the fact that the two wings of The Party are or can be at almost perpetual loggerheads with each other, and bitter enemies at all times. After all, enmity, hatred, conflict, antagonism, lying, deceit, reprobate abuse, paedophilia, double-crossing, bearing false witness and all the other familiar ‘Black’ behaviour that is characteristic of the darkness are presupposed, given that Evil Spirit is in charge here.


Perpetual conflict and tension (which the controlled operatives Trotsky and Mao Tse-Tung took to the extreme of advocating and promoting 'Permanent Revolution') are the necessary prerequisites for 'fruitful' manipulation of the dialectical process (Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis), with successive dialectical cycles occurring until (in theory) such time as the pre-intended 'Synthesis' is achieved.

But of course, as all this is the work of the Devil, that never actually happens: hence the use of the word 'Revolution', meaning going round and round in circles.

The word 'reactionary' was developed as a label to be used against all who oppose going round and round in circles, with the completely illogical connotation that those who prefer standing still and not getting dizzy by going round in circles, are boring stick-in-the muds who can be dismissed as beyond their sell-by-date. The use of twisted semantics is an important revolutionary tool.



TABLES DECISIVELY TURNED AGAINST PARTS OF THE OCTOPUS


Anyway, we diverge (on purpose), don’t we?

Actually, a modicum of scene-setting has been considered necessary, in particular so as to address two rearguard agitprop campaigns that erupted the moment John McCain conceded the election, leaving Barack Obama as the President-elect. McCain is reported to have decided to ‘throw’ the election in part because, finally, he had become sick of the endless corruption, and preferred the prospect of retiring to a status of 'elder statesman', not least so that the far-reaching purge that we identified and predicted in our report dated 6th November 2007, would not be liable to be focused in his direction. In that report, we published paragraphs headed as follows:

• 'Why the overdue purge, once started, will now continue';

• 'The bad apples will continue to be purged'; and:

• 'The American people will suffer because they cannot get on top of
the most dangerous pack of deceiving and thieving wolves in the world'.



DEFEATED 'GERMAN FACTION' FURIOUS THAT IT HAS BEEN COMPREHENSIVELY THRASHED



The good news, as will be explained below, is that, at long last, the tables are now being decisively turned against these ruthless criminal operatives – a fact which has so far escaped the attention of most Americans, and has certainly not been well understood by many correspondents in the United States impatient for progress but lacking adequate information, who appear to imagine that these evils can somehow be remedied overnight, let alone by various frantic authors of certain hysterical electronic postings which have their known origins in last-ditch US counterintgelligence agitprop operations separately designed to destabilise the President-elect, and the British.

Both these sewage outflows of disinformation have been driven by the following realities:



• THE UNITED STATES IS NOW RANK BUST.


It is IN HOCK to the European powers. This is NOT a result of deliberate entrapment by these European powers: it is a consequence of the unfortunate failure of the American people to clean up their country's mess, which is to say, their failure to find a mechanism for ridding the political structures of the corrupt organised criminals who hijacked the US political process many years ago for illegal and corrupt self-enrichment purposes.

• No-one in Europe blames the American people for this failure: it is hardly THEIR fault that such a ruthless gang of criminals and thieves took over their Government and turned it into a murderous money-making machine for their own purposes, to the detriment of the American people and of the whole world, leaving the United States with a degraded reputation as a pariah state.

• After all, the United States 'replaced' Britain as the leading power in the world, and expects the Rest of the World to hold its currency, as prescribed under the Bretton Woods system, which ALSO laid down that the second, offsetting, world currency shall remain the pound sterling (which is why, contrary to what the President of the European Commission is now claiming, Britain is NOT about to dump the pound and substitute the European Collective Currency, which is backed by nothing, has no Treasury and lacks any Government in the true sense).

• Contrary to the bitter propaganda motivated precisely by the fact that the DVD-linked criminals holding the highest offices have now been COMPREHENSIVELY DEFEATED, a nasty rearguard 'Blacking' operation (which no-one other than the less well-informed (through no fault of their own) takes seriously) has suggested that the Brits have got the 'upper hand': whereas what has really happened is that the thefts of The Queen's gold and attempted thefts of Her Majesty's loan funds, and other financial crimes against the Sovereign arising from the surreptitious instalment by Bush-Blair of fraudulent finance operations involving Deutsche Bank and the Vatican Bank run through Coutts Bank as clearing house, have been 'put in order'.

At the same time, since the financial crimes were committed abroad, especially in Britain, British law enforcement, intelligence and justice have been deployed to procure the intended outcome against the intransigent intentions of the scorched and defeated criminalists and some of their intelligence and banking associates, and latterly now of Gordon Brown [see below].

• The pan-German Fifth Column headed by the DVD’s Bush Sr. (Scherff) have now been thrashed so badly, and repeatedly thrashed so badly, that they are bleeding and screaming and bellyaching as they wallow in the mess resulting from their newly exposed criminality, alike a spoilt child who has been disciplined and refuses to submit to any discipline whatsoever.

• There is nothing (apart from organising retaliatory flashpoint atrocities such as shipping trigger-happy mind-controlled False Flag terrorist cadres by boat into Bombay and ordering them through compartmentalised cutouts to indulge in a sadistic bloodbath of Jews and other foreigners) that they can now do about this massive defeat that they are experiencing.



DIVERSIONARY PURPOSE OF PANICKY ANTI-BRITISH AGITPROP


The purpose of the crude attacks on the British that we have been seeing of late is therefore to reverse the truth – which is that the criminal financial operations, equating to financing terrorism, were and have continued to be recklessly perpetrated by these arrogant US criminal operatives against The Queen (see below) and Britain generally, as well as against certain other key European countries.


Those controlled diversion and redirection outlets that have been pointing the finger at the British have been ordered or encouraged to do so by their handlers, as part of a crude, belated and futile rearguard response to the stark and decisive defeat these criminals have suffered and are facing, to try to obfuscate what has been going on, and to salvage the wounded pride of those agents of influence who have been unwilling to comprehend that the criminality originated at home but had to be exported to Europe and beyond because the relevant financial fraud operations were and remain illegal under, inter alia, the US securities laws.

See also, appended at the foot of this report, the list of US Statutes that the American perpetrators flouted, and for which many of their number, including representatives of the criminal enterprises, will certainly be called to account as a consequence of crucial US judicial processes which remain empanelled and are intensively engaged in comprehensive reviews of the epidemic of Bush-linked fraudulent finance highlighted by these exposures. These processes will impinge upon the Senate confirmation hearings, which will need to consider the criminal activities of certain nominees.

Recall that nine aircraft were commandeered, as reported in our posting dated 6th November 2007, to transport thousands of arrested US bankers to European centres, especially Britain, where they were taken into custody under the European anti-terrorism legislation. As we reported recently, the bankers and others, including some of their lawyers, were duly jailed for periods of 25 years, with the aggregate number of such prisoners languishing in British and European jails now believed to exceed 10,000. Further information about what they were up to, is contained in the present report.



BUSH TRIED TO BRIBE OBAMA WHEN HE VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE


When considering what follows, it will be as well to remind ourselves that what is presented for public consumption may of course diverge 100% from the reality. Hence widely distributed press photographs of President-elect Obama and his wife flanked by a mean-looking President George W. Bush who has made a complete mess of his Presidency, and his wife Laura with her stiff false smile, at the White House on Monday 10th November, were intended to imply that the outgoing team had been engaged in a polite encounter, smoothing the way for the President-Elect to assume power – and displaying before the whole world that the United States transfers power without acrimony.

Nothing could have been further from the truth about what happened on Monday 10th November, when Mr and Mrs Obama appeared at the White House on schedule. For according to our special sources, what then happened was that Mr Obama was immediately subjected to the Bush bribery routine. Specifically, heavy pressure was exerted on him to meet the wishes of the Bush-Cheney criminalist gangsters in exchange for a huge payout, the proportions of which have not yet been specified (whereas it is known that a huge volume of gold was paid to a previous contender for high office on an earlier occasion).

Reflecting his innate strength of character, his standards of belief and conduct and his extensive knowledge as a former professor of constitutional law in Chicago, Barack Obama reacted with an outright rejection, along the lines inter alia of ‘you must be joking’ – whereupon there really wasn’t much more to be said. The Bush Crime Family had finally ‘blown it’.

These criminal operatives behaved as they have behaved all along – assuming that the Cheney-favoured post-war neo-Nazi-originated power-building technique of bribery, with its corollary of blackmail and control, would ‘work’, as had been the case in innumerable instances before. They took the desperate risk that their offer might be turned down, without stopping to think what the consequences of such an 'inconceivable' rejection would be likely to be.



BUSH WARNED: ‘DO NOT TOUCH OBAMA, OR ELSE…’


In order to register the momentous consequences of this encounter on 10th November 2008, a concomitant development must be reported here. Following Obama’s election victory, George Bush Sr. and associates, including his cokehead son, were informed by powerful but unspecified parties that if they proceeded with their project to have President-Elect Barack Obama 'removed' – an intention that had been discovered to be a reality, as opposed to wishful thinking – all those concerned would immediately be liquidated without further ado.

• Now it will be recalled that we have previously reported that Bush Sr., the Personification of Evil, has previously been warned that he would be shot dead on sight – a warning he has ignored.

• In 2004, when confronted by representatives of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about his open-ended criminal operations at home and abroad, the charming Mr George Bush Sr. is reported to have shouted: ‘Go take a flying [expletive deleted] at the moon’. [Verbatim].

But this time, the force of the warning appears to have penetrated one ear of the relevant skulls without immediately shooting out of the other one – as usually happens, given that there is not a lot in between. It was borne in upon these crooks that the Intelligence Power had long since made up its mind WHO was to be President of the United States, and that the US Intelligence Power was supported by the Military Power as well – not least, at this late stage, because the Military Power knows what the consequences in terms of domestic revolutionary social unrest would be liable to be, should anything happen to the new President-Elect.



BLAIR SUBJECTED TO INTENSE INTERROGATION IN THE UNITED STATES



In other words, the temperature immediately following the election could be described as close to boiling point, especially as the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, had crossed the Atlantic for a second time, to appear in Washington DC for further questioning.

• This followed his capitulation two weeks or so earlier when, faced with a summons to appear, as ordered by Speaker Michael Martin, before a House of Commons Committee ostensibly called upon to investigate the 11-year-old matter of Blair’s exemption of the Formula One motor racing sector from a ban on tobacco advertising shortly after Blair had seen its controller, the dubious Monaco-based Bernie Ecclestone in 1997, Blair had decided to ‘roll over’ on all the primary participants in this fraudulent finance epidemic, as we reported here on 31st October 2008.

As explained in that report, UK Parliamentary committees will only address issues that are before the relevant House and concern its specific business; so the intention had been to entrap Blair with evidence based inter alia (but not exclusively) upon evidence that surfaced following the raids on the ‘safety lock boxes’ by 300 armed Metropolitan Police masterminded by Assistant Deputy Metropolitan Police Commissioner John Yates on 2nd June 2008 – an absolutely crucial, decisive development in the process of unravelling the criminal operations of the Octopus.



BLAIR AND BUSH SET LONDON UP AS FRAUDULENT FINANCE PLATFORM


On Sunday 2nd November, Blair had been obliged to rush to the United States for the first time since he had ‘rolled over’, inter alia to sign certain key release documents in the presence, it is believed, of two Supreme Court Black Robes. With such information surfacing, it now began to emerge that Blair had been much more deeply involved (see below) with the fraudulent finance operations than may have previously been understood. For on 3rd November, we were able to establish from two reliable sources that:



• Following 9/11 (when a large portfolio of contracts had perished given that the offices and 652 personnel of Cantor Fitzgerald, the British-based money brokerage firm, had been destroyed when the Twin Towers were blown up), and certainly by May 2003 when the Editor of this service started to become aware of this, former President Bush 41 and Prime Minister Blair had been instrumental in procuring the exploitation of London as the main ‘platform’ for a new wave of fraudulent finance operations inter alia using stolen assets as base.

The Bank of England provided secret offshore account facilities for this purpose as well, and has been directly involved in these activities: hence (a) the arrest of the former Governor, Eddie (Lord) George, in July 2007, and (b) the tension that is evident on the face of the current Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King.


• Specifically, Coutts Bank, ‘The Queen’s bank’, was selected to serve as clearing house (money laundry) to move secret fiat funds through to Deutsche Bank, the DVD’s ‘house bank’, and on to the Vatican Bank, by now directed by the former President of the Bundesbank, Herr Dr Hans Tietmeyer, under the control of the German Pope Ratzinger. At Coutts, there is or was a lock box containing substantial usurped collateral assets which may have underpinned at least part of this operation.

• Nefarious intentions here included a blatant attempt to compromise Her Majesty the Queen by exploiting the services of this institution, Coutts Bank, known to have connections with Royalty.

• More generally, cover for this illicit financial activity was to be provided, crudely put, by The Queen, unknown to her, and the Pope simultaneously.

• Incredibly, the conduit ‘enabling’ aspects of this criminalist assault to be perpetrated is reported to us to have been a certain Bernie Ecclestone, whose Formula One (cover?) operations are based in Monaco which is the CIA’s main European money-laundering centre.

Formula One. which may be a massively ‘lucrative’ money laundry (serving the necessary 'project' purpose applicable to all such finance), is known to have very extensive German dimensions and is ultimately controlled by Max Mosely, son of Sir Oswald Mosley, head of the British Fascist Party and a Mussolini symathiser, and the supremely snobby socialite Diana Mitford, who had been a personal friend of Adolf Hitler-Schickelgrüber and a Nazi sympathiser (both of whom were interned by the British Government at the outbreak of the Second Illuminati War).

Hence the significance of Speaker Michael Martin’s order for Blair to appear before a House of Commons investigating committee over the 1997 'Ecclestone affair'.

• There is also an extraordinary separate ‘Ecclestone’ dimension which would appear to have represented an early attempt by UK authorities to bear false witness against the Editor of this service in order to discourage him from pursuing these enquiries (an operation which of course had the opposite effect). This dimension is elaborated on pages F-03 et seq. of the new issue of International Currency Review [Volume 34, Number 1], published at the end of November 2008, excerpts from which are posted below in the Appendix.

On 21st November it was extensively publicised that the diminutive (5ft 4ins) Ecclestone is to be divorced by his extremely tall Croatian wife (and DVD handler?) Slavica, who could be in line for a record-breaking divorce settlement, as many of his assets are reported to be lodged in her name. The timing of this development is ‘curious’, to say the last.



POWERS OF ATTORNEY TO INVESTIGATE COUTTS LOCK BOX


In March 2005, the Editor of this service was granted a strictly limited (at his request) Power of Attorney empowering him to investigate and report on the existence of certain assets held at Coutts Bank. The Editor attended the offices of Attorney Steven Goodwin in Richmond, VA, from where a conference call to Coutts Bank was arranged at which Mr Goodwin was to inform the bank that he would be attending at Coutts with the Editor in this connection.

The phone call was initially directed to a Mrs Burgess, a contact previously established by the Editor; but when put through, it was diverted to a Mr Robertson, a Scot presumably installed by Royal Bank of Scotland, of which Coutts, via Natwest Bank, was by now a subsidiary (such hasty banking mergers facilitate the hiding of irregular transactions).

• This Mr Robertson did his best to affect total ignorance of the assets in question. At the end of the said conference call, the Editor surprised Mr Robertson by interjecting to say that as Editor of International Currency Review, he was conducting an extensive investigation into missing and hijacked finances worldwide, which was one reason why he would be attending at Coutts Bank accompanied by Mr Goodwin, as had been tentatively arranged for early April 2005.

On 3rd April [see Figure 23, International Currency Review, Volume 33, Numbers 3 & 4, page F-124, facsimile], Mr Goodwin wrote to Robertson at Coutts Bank's central London address, 440 Strand, London WC2R 0QS, demanding information about certain corporate accounts and noting (by way of illustration) as follows:

‘Enclosed herewith please find a specific Power of Attorney granting me access to this [specified] information. I would specifically refer you to an account in the name of Pacific Victory S.A., having an account number of Z 63 66 76. It is my understanding that on or about April 26 1999, a significant transfer was made into this account at your bank from Standard Chartered Bank, and [that] this transaction was handled by bank officer J. D. Fleming, and/or John S. de C. Firth, Vice-President’.

‘Please contact me immediately regarding these accounts. I look forward to your prompt response’.



CONFERENCE CALL IGNITED RED LIGHTS EVERYWHERE


In the light of the fact that Coutts Bank had been selected, we now know, as the clearing house for the illicit transactions referenced above, you can imagine that the reaction of US and international eavesdroppers to that conference call will have been, shall we say, one of considerable alarm – especially, one would imagine, at Fort Meade, GCHQ Cheltenham, and at the DVD's listening post near Munich. How was it possible that a mere investigative journalist was so rapidly onto the tail of this newly relaunched fraudulent finance undercover money-laundering operation sponsored by George Bush Sr. and the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair?

At that stage of the investigations, the Editor had been advised that the intention was to repatriate all the funds deposited outside the United States and illegally deployed (both by the institutions and by corrupt US operatives) as collateral following the ‘takedown’ of the Soviet Union, with the collaboration of the bribed Gorbachëv and of the key GRU operative Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

But not long after this telephone conference call, a clandestine ‘switch’ took place, and the Editor was in due course informed that $4.5 trillion, by way of a settlement, had been sent over from the People’s Bank of China in May 2006 (after the no-longer-dead Howie Kwong Kok’s signature for the release had been obtained). These funds were supposed to have been made available to finance what is now called the G-7-Approved Refunding Programme, with effect from June 2006: instead of which, the US Treasury Secretary-designate, Henry M. Paulson, secretly signed a certain contract alienating the funds on 20th or 21st June 2006.


• Since this was of course all done behind closed doors, the Editor was not informed and we embarked, as requested, upon what became our globally disseminated ‘Wantagate’ quest for fulfilment of the delivery, which never materialised.

• It now appears that we were encouraged to do precisely this (which was why the Editor was ‘left alone’) as COVER for the switch and diversion of the funds that had already taken place.


GROSS ERROR OF JUDGEMENT BY U.S. COUNTERINTELLIGENCE


If so, that was a catastrophic mistake on the part of the US intelligence community’s cack-handed strategists. OK, we were deceived at the time, and for a long time. But the deception led directly to the global crisis that is now unfolding, because in pursuing the whereabouts and handling of the $4.5 trillion, we unexpectedly exposed successive layers of US official and banking sector duplicity and corruption, which led in December 2006 to Paulson’s arrest in Germany, and thereafter to the successive peeling away of the onion of gross deceit and fraudulent finance which precipitated what became known as the ‘sub-prime crisis’ – a ‘slide’ imposed by US counterintelligence on the situation, designed to prevent the ‘mainstream’ media from investigating further.


As this catastrophe expanded, we specifically warned that the outcome would be a ‘train wreck’: see, for instance, our reports dated 18th July 2007 (‘Touch and Go’); 27th July 2008 (‘Global Train Wreck’); 10th August 2007 (‘And so it came to pass: (Subtitled) Finally, years of financial fraud start unravelling’); 30th August 2007 (‘The ‘sub-prime’ link: How Wantagate unravelled the ‘sub-prime’ scams’) [see Archive], not to mention innumerable other posted warnings along the same lines, starting with our earliest prediction of what would happen in the financial and the ‘real’ worlds if Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, continued with his corrupt practices (2nd September 2006).

In other words, the highest-level perpetrators of these fraudulent financial manoeuvres, headed by the Bush and Clinton Crime Families, Paulson, Cheney, Greenspan and the rest, PERSISTED with their illegal, unconstitutional behaviour as economic terrorists, in the face of both our warnings of what their behaviour would lead to, and the rapidly accumulating confirmations that these warnings were soundly based. Even when that was OBVIOUS to all who were not sitting on their brains, they CONTINUED WITH THEIR MANIPULATIONS AND DECEPTION MANOEUVRES.

It is thought that during this period, because the ‘mainstream’, controlled and directed by Cheney, remained fast asleep, the US criminalists assumed complacently that the warnings posted on this website could be safely ignored. But what was also ignored was that the Editor of this service is the longest-serving editor of economic and financial publications in the world.

• We were writing and analysing this stuff when Bush Jr. was evading the draft, and Paulson was still metaphorically speaking in short pants.


BLAIR INFLUENCED BY THE GERMAN MOLE ROY JENKINS


A relevant word here about Tony Blair’s political pedigree. Blair, an intelligence officer, was a protégé of Roy Jenkins, one of the Oxford undergraduates who, with Edward Heath and Geoffrey Rippon (the joint signatories of the illegal British Treaty of Accession to the European Economic Community in 1972) had been recruited decades earlier by pan-German interests, as exposed in the first report to have been posted on this website (dated 12th October 2005).

Heath, in fact, was the longest-serving mole ever to have been exposed (which occurred, by the way, in 2003). Hence Blair’s geopolitical orientation was influenced by Heath’s fellow traitor Roy Jenkins. Blair was responsible for appointing John Scarlett as head of MI6; and as also reported here, John Scarlett serves the interests of the pan-German agenda (i.e., the Abwehr/DVD), which initiated and controls the European Union Collective, an anti-nation state entrapment instrument, the purpose of which is to defang, collectivise, ‘enronise’ and also entrap its constituent Member States, in accordance with the blueprint specified in the Nazis’ 1941 compendium ‘Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft’ (‘European Economic Community), published by Haude & Spenersche Verlagsbuchhandlung Max Pashke in Berlin in 1943, copies of which may be inspected in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, and in the British Library (on request).

• As previously reiterated here, the chapter headings of this Nazi tome are almost identical to the chapter headings of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, which represented the culmination of this Nazi blueprint for achieving political control and regional hegemony.



MISGUIDED BRITISH IDOLATRY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION


The British Establishment’s blind idolatry of our membership of the disastrous and institutionally corrupt European Union Collective is of course a scandal of immense proportions, not least in the prevailing economic and financial context, when the Government’s financial problems could be addressed, as proposed in the preceding report, by diverting all UK payments destined for the European Commission into a suspense account, pending the rectification of the Commission’s fraudulent financing and accounting practices.

Since the Commission’s accounts have been adjudged to be irregular for the past 14 years by the European Court of Auditors, it is beyond scandalous that the British Government still continues to squander more than £50 billion of taxpayers’ funds per year to finance this corrupt and reprobate geopolitical, globalist sink-hole.

• The only reason this idolatry remains intact is that operatives at the highest levels of the British political system, such as Blair and now Brown (see below), are/were compromised.



EMPANELLED INVESTIGATIONS LOOKING INTO WIDE SPECTRUM OF THIS CORRUPTION


Concerning the United States, there is a dimension of the ever-broadening unravelling process that we are prevented by US practice and legal constraints from reviewing.

We refer again to certain empanelled, ongoing judicial processes that have been engaged in comprehensive investigations into multiple US dimensions of the fraudulent finance operations, including the criminal alienation of the original $4.5 trillion, as discussed below, and for instance the Halliburton operations installed inside the Central Intelligence Agency and in the Pentagon which have been systematically defrauding the two structures and the US taxpayer (see report of 26th May 2008: Archive), profiting from the Iraqi and Afghan wars and deaths on a prodigious scale.


• Given these ongoing processes, it seems to us, and others, to be most unlikely that the high-profile perpetrators will escape the devastating consequences of their serial financial crimes.

• The machinery of the Rule of Law grinds slowly, but excessively finely. This all TAKES TIME.



PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS ARE NO USE: CRIMES WERE COMMITTED ABROAD



There has been talk, inevitably, of Presidential pardons, which was what President Bush Jr. was clearly signalling when, immediately ahead of Thanksgiving, he was reported to have conducted a ceremony in the Rose Garden at which he pardoned two turkeys.

• In practice, Presidential pardons will provide perpetrators of these crimes with no protection at all, since the grotesque serial financial crimes in question, including the stealing of The Queen’s gold, from which the Clintons profited (see below), were perpetrated against foreign powers and sovereigns, starting with Her Majesty The Queen.

One can well imagine, therefore, that, as Secretary of State, Mrs Clinton would be liable to receive the frostiest of welcomes in foreign capitals, especially in London, where she might be told in no uncertain terms that she would not be welcome. (On 1st December, The Times of London, globalist Rupert Murdoch’s mouthpiece, perversely said the exact opposite, namely that the appointment of this ‘brilliant woman’ would be enthusiastically welcomed in London, implying either its crass and culpable ignorance of Queen Melusina’s crimes, or an incompetent failure to understand that her CIA husband ‘works for’ DVD chieftain Bush Sr. who has systematically ‘enronised' both the United States and Britain).


How dare this criminal operative purport to tell other countries what to do when she herself should be behind bars for at least the 25-year tariff that lesser (banking) criminals were having to endure due in part to her own open-ended immorality.



• Irrespective of her position, she would certainly be eligible for immediate arrest, incarceration and indictment without further ado: after all, if the current British Prime Minister can be threatened with arrest (see below) by Barack Obama even before he has taken over as President, so can this arrogant Queen Melusina. There are said to be a number of sealed indictments against this woman.

Of course the impact of Bush Jr.’s ludicrous theatrical performance was to reconfirm that this deluded fellow may indeed himself be indistinguishable these days from a terrified turkey – an impression reinforced by the parallel fact that on 24th, 25th and 26th November, President-Elect Obama gave press conferences at which he was universally seen to be ‘behaving presidentially’ – an impression being fostered by no means by accident.





OBAMA ADVISED HE MAY HAVE TO ASSUME POWER EARLY



For Mr Obama has been advised that he must be prepared to assume office early, if necessary – which is to say that there are indications, confirmed by several separate sources to this service, that the prescribed Inauguration Day of 20th January 2008 may be brought forward, or that the new President may have taken office some time in advance of that date. This information has not been accompanied by any elaboration: but it must be obvious that the pressure of events and of ‘the processes’ alluded to above may not allow for the luxury of a transition period of normal duration.

• This, in turn, accounts for the fact that Mr Obama has already assembled the key members of his team for his first term, although we also know, do we not, that all the key people are selected by the Intelligence Power which runs the Government, and its structures, not the other way round. The team has been assembled 'early' because the Obama Administration may start early.

Whatever the failing agitpropagandists wanted, the reality is that, in contrast to earlier presidential elections, the outcome in November 2008 was decisive – enabling John McCain to escape from his agony by conceding defeat and making a very generous speech congratulating his opponent at the earliest possible moment. At 8.20pm on 6th November, we were further informed that the current Provost Marshal had retrieved the controversial NESARA (that is, National Economic Security and Recovery Act) documents from Chief Justice John Roberts.



NESARA APPARENTLY REMOVED FROM THE EQUATION



Since the United States now at last possessed (so far as the controlling Intelligence Power was concerned, at any rate, which was ALL THAT MATTERED IN PRACTICE) a constitutionally chosen President-Elect, NESARA was now clearly redundant. It is finished.

• Criminalist President Clinton had signed the legislation, WHICH WOULD ONLY COME INTO EFFECT WHEN ANNOUNCED, in the presence of Navy Seals, who eat Marines for breakfast.

It contained provisions for the reform of the United States' finances and the removal from office of the President, the Vice President and the Cabinet, and their immediate replacement by an Interim Administration charged with organising elections within six months. NESARA, by the way, explains the original nickname applied to Bush Jr. of ‘Temporary’. It had somehow been assumed that the Clinton legislation, effectively signed under military duress, would be implemented under Bush Jr.

• John Roberts, appointed by Bush Jr. to head the Supreme Court, was briefed to confiscate and 'sit on' the NESARA papers, presumably because Bush Jr. saw them as a threat to his rule.

The decisive 2008 election outcome was of course another reason why John McCain conceded so promptly. Given the outcome, NESARA was no longer prospectively ‘needed’, so the Chief Justice could no longer ‘justify’ holding on to the relevant documents, which the current Provost Marshal accordingly ‘confiscated’. President-Elect Barack Obama has since indicated that the authority of the Provost Marshal is to be strengthened under his Presidency, or else has made it plain that the holder of this office has the President-Elect’s full support in the fulfilment of his duties, which, in the prevailing circumstances, amounts to the same thing.



FINALLY, ‘MAINSTREAM’ OUTLETS HINT AT THE REAL CRISIS


On 8th November, CNN came closer than ever before to exposing the institutionalised financial corruption (which, despite everything we have published, has been continuing, although Bush Sr. himself has encountered increasing difficulty in identifying counterparties willing to play financial games with him any more). Specifically, CNN reported on its One O’Clock News that day that ‘two major banks have been caught misusing funds. They are having to settle once and for all’.

The ordinary viewer would not have understood the meaning of ‘once and for all’: but those aware of the immense pressure for completion of the Settlements, which President-Elect Obama was known (by 13th November) to have said ‘must be paid immediately’, will have understood.

• This, by the way, reveals that, as has been known for several years (for certain reasons), CNN has been aware of this nexus of financial scandals all along.

On 27th November, we were explicitly informed, and it was duly confirmed, that the US ‘mainstream’ print and broadcast media had been instructed by Vice President Cheney’s office to refrain from any mention of these matters whatsoever. Earlier, on 25th November 2008, it had been asserted on MSNBC that Cheney had been controlling the ‘mainstream’ media throughout his term in office.


These sudden admissions by ‘mainstream’ outlets did nothing to salvage the tarnished reputation of the ‘mainstream’, which clearly assumed, following the election outcome, that it was now ‘safe’ to start hinting tentatively at the corruption that it has systematically suppressed for years.

• What this means, of course, is that ‘mainstream’ organisations that have suppressed knowledge of criminal operations and practices in high places and within the financial structures are de facto co-conspirators, accessories to the fact of these crimes, and clearly guilty, in the first instance, of offences under the Misprision of Felony Statute.



FIFTH ESTATE HAS PERFORMED AN ‘END-RUN’ ROUND THE ‘MAINSTREAM’


They are uncomfortable because the Fifth Estate (the Internet) has performed an ‘end-run’ around the ‘mainstream’ (sidestream) media, with the consequence that millions of thinking Americans and Europeans are now aware, to some extent, of the existence and implications of this grandfather of all financial corruption scandals. A visitor newly arrived from Germany told the Editor on the 29th November of his sense that many people’s eyes have been opened to the gross criminality of their governments, of financial institutions, and of holders of high office across Europe, as well as in the United States. In other words, the cat is indeed well and truly out of the bag.

FRAMEUP of Cele Castillo by BATF: Mexican Drug war uses American Iraqi veterans as hitmen, goons, and gun traffickers

Juarez murders shine light on an emerging 'Military Cartel'

by BILL CONROY writing for NARCONEWS.COM:


http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2008/12/juarez-murders-shine-light-emerging-military-cartel




America’s drug war has made murder a growth industry in Juarez, a sprawling Mexican border town of some 1.2 million people located a stone’s throw from the Texas city of El Paso.

The growth of this industry is measured in corpses and coffins. Some say the number of murders in Juarez so far this year exceeds 1,400, but no one really knows for sure, because not all the corpses have been found, so they can’t all be counted.

In recent weeks, the U.S. media has added a new subplot to its time-tested narrative explaining the bloodshed sparked by the narco-trafficking business — an enterprise valued at as much $500 billion globally, according to the United Nations, with up to a quarter of that business flowing through Mexico to feed the U.S. drug habit.

Again, no one really knows the true size of this enterprise, because it is hidden in the shadows, but few could argue against the reality that the flow of money from illegal drug sales is helping to prop up the economy of Mexico — and the bank accounts of both legitimate and illegitimate businesses on both sides of the border, since that money spends like all other money.

The baseline of the media narrative explaining the carnage in Juarez goes something like this: The death count in Juarez is the result of a bloody turf war being waged to control the critical narco-exporting port of Juarez. This street battle has sparked a shootout between rival drug “cartels” — headed by quasi-mythical figures like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes — who are now in retreat due to the Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s decision to use the military to defeat them and return law and order to Juarez and Mexico in general.

This narrative is so convincing that the United States is prepared to commit some $1.5 billion over the next few years, under its Merida Initiative (also dubbed Plan Mexico), to provide training and equipment (including sophisticated surveillance technology and aircraft) to Mexico’s law enforcers and its military to assist Calderon in his battle against these criminal cartels.

The latest twist in this plot reveals that these ruthless drug cartels are now ratcheting up the violence due to the flow across the border of thousands of weapons — high-powered rifles, machine guns, cop-killer ammo, even grenades — from the U.S., all enabled by lax U.S. gun laws and enterprising criminals on both sides of the border.

But is it really that simple?

Well, the devil is always in the details, it seems.

Narco News recently obtained a thorough accounting (really a police blotter) detailing all of the murders in Juarez between Jan. 1 and July 10 of this year — information compiled by U.S. federal law enforcers and leaked to Narco News by a source who prefers to remain anonymous. In addition, Narco News also was leaked a law-enforcement-sensitive PowerPoint presentation prepared by the DEA, which outlines the agency’s assessment of the escalating drug-war violence along the border.

An analysis of this “police blotter” by Narco News, coupled with data from the PowerPoint, turned up some interesting patterns that don’t fit neatly into the existing media narrative about the drug violence in Juarez. But you, kind read, will have to be the ultimate judge of what these numbers mean.

I hope, at this point, I still have your attention.




Powderburns

Celerino “Cele” Castillo III is a former DEA agent who played a key role in exposing the U.S. government’s role in narco-trafficking as part of the Iran/Contra scandal.

Castillo subsequently, after a 12-year career, retired from the DEA, but to this day he has remained an outspoken critic of the hypocrisy of the war on drugs, penning a book about his experiences in DEA, called Powderburns, and appearing on numerous radio and TV shows.

Recently Castillo, a decorated Vietnam veteran who has no prior criminal record, was convicted of dealing firearms without the proper license and sentenced to 37 months in a federal pen. (See prior Narco News story on Castillo’s case here.)

Several law enforcement agents who spoke with Narco News are convinced Castillo was targeted, even framed, by elements of the U.S. government — specifically, corrupt agents — because he was digging into matters that ruffled the wrong feathers.

One of Castillo’s discoveries, in particular, likely incurred the wrath of a particular federal agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco (ATF), Castillo claims. As part of his part-time work as a consultant on criminal cases, Castillo contends that he uncovered evidence that two ATF agents “were on the payroll of a Mexican cartel.” That “cartel,” Castillo asserts, is a paramilitary offshoot of the Mexican military that is being supplied with U.S. weapons, some only available through the U.S. military, by operatives on the U.S. side of the border. (The use of weaspons smuggled in from the U.S., as opposed to employing Mexican-issued firearms, provides for a convenient arms-length excuse should they be recovered by the wrong parties in the course of operations.)

Castillo also points out that ATF was the agency responsible for building the gun case against him and that one of the alleged corrupt ATF agents involved with this Mexican paramilitary unit assisted with the case against him. Now that he has been convicted of a crime — Castillo’s case is on appeal — he can be discounted and his allegations discredited, or so the theory goes in such matters.

But Castillo’s allegations, if investigated and verified, could prove to be extremely explosive and even threaten the underpinnings of U.S./Mexican relations and the very premise of the drug war.




Here’s what Castillo told Narco News:


During the presidential elections, El Chapo [Joaquin Guzman, leader of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organization, or DTO] supported [Mexican President] Calderon. Calderon then rented the military to El Chapo to take out Osiel [Cardenas Guillen, leader of the Gulf DTO, which controlled the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo]. Keep in the back of your mind, why has Chapo not been arrested?

Calderon took back the military and is now working hand in hand with El Chapo. … [U.S.] Iraq [War] veterans were acting as mercs for the Mexican military. Right now, as we speak, there are U.S. Iraq veterans work ing for this organization. They are doing the enforcement work on this side [of the U.S. border] for the Mexican military. They are collecting the … profits of drug sales in the U.S. They [targets who owe money to the drug organization] are grabbed and given 24 hours to wire some of the money into Mexico bank accounts. If not, they are executed. ...

The old M-79 grenade launcher uses the 40 mm round. The ones that were laying on the table in the picture [see photo below of weapons confiscated by Mexican authories] of today’s paper. What the story is not telling is these 40mm [rounds] are U.S. military issued. How about them apples?



[click blogpost {HOLLOWMANTRAS of VISION} title to get link photos]




Castillo adds that he recently was provided information that indicates another group made quite famous by the media, the Zetas (a U.S.-trained Mexican special operations group that defected from the Mexican military) is now assisting the Mexican military in its narco-trafficking operations along the border.


If you follow the mainstream media narrative to date involving Calderon’s drug war initiative, the Zetas have cropped up being aligned initially with the Gulf DTO (drug trafficking organization), when Calderon sent troops into Nuevo Laredo in 2007 to restore law and order. That same year, media and DEA reports indicated the Zetas were in Tijuana, another critical border port of entry, working in the interest of the local DTO in that city. More recently, reports indicate the Zetas have popped up in Juarez, aligned with that city’s local DTO and a break-away faction of the Sinaloa DTO.

If you have a hard time keeping it all straight, don’t fret too much; it’s supposed to be confusing.

The media narrative across all three major Mexican border cities — Nuevo Laredo, Tijuana and Juarez — where thousands of Mexican soldiers have been dispatched by Calderon last year and this year to fight the “cartels” seems to have one consistent pattern, though, almost as though it is designed to aid the propaganda of his drug-war assault.

The elusive Chapo Guzman pops up challenging the local DTO in the border city. Then the Zetas pop up, aligned with the local DTO, which employs corrupt elements of the city and state police forces as enforcers. Violence begins to escalate as Guzman’s forces attempt to battle the local DTO, cops and Zetas for turf.

Calderon then sends in thousands of Mexican troops, disarms or otherwise wrests power from the local cops (who also, in all three cities, are subsequently the targets of assassinations as this all plays out) and the violence in the cities actually escalates even further — until, as in Nuevo Laredo, there are simply fewer people in the local business left to kill.

However, it’s never really made clear where Guzman is getting his manpower from to fight this war across the 2,000-mile-plus stretch of the U.S./Mexican border, but it’s just assumed that he uses his money to buy a mercenary force. Have the Zetas really worked for Guzman all along, or factions of them; or are they only now realizing Guzman is winning the war, and are switching sides; or are they simply die-hard mercenaries who will play for the highest bidder?

No one can really say for sure unless they are involved, but they do not seem to be a particularly loyal sort, except to their own interests. That might explain why last year Calderon set up his own private military unit, which reports directly to him, numbers at least 3,500 and was culled from the same Mexican special ops units that gave birth to the Zetas.

Now, whether we believe Castillo’s take on all of this, which he says is based on intelligence he has gathered, an expertise honed by his years as a law enforcer in conflict zones in Latin America, is really a matter of individual choice. But several other federal law enforcers who spoke with Narco News, on the condition their names not be used, don’t find his analysis to be far-fetched.

“The Mexican military and government are corrupt,” one law enforcer says. “The Military escorts smugglers to the border. It’s a daily occurrence. The video cameras at the El Paso Intelligence Center have it all on video, filed away. If we report the suspicious activity to our superiors, nothing ever happens. It’s just covered up.

“The Mexican military cartel has taken over Juarez. Our government knows it; they’re not stupid, but they’ve made some backroom deal with the Mexican government.”

Another federal law enforcer who spent years in Latin America puts it this way:



Ever since I can remember, every government in Mexico has been dirty. Usually, a new president comes in and makes noise about cleaning things up, and before his term is up, he’s making money off the corruption.

Recent Mexican media reports have revealed that the federal law enforcement ranks in Mexico are replete with narco-corruption. In fact, one of Calderon’s cabinet members, Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna, is described in a recent story in the Mexican news magazine Proceso [translated here by Narco News’ Kristin Bricker] as a “spoiled official,” untouchable, despite numerous allegations that he and officials under him have links to the Sinaloa DTO.



From Bricker’s translation of the Proceso story:



With his powerful tentacles and his ability to corrupt police and infiltrate the institutions responsible for combating drug trafficking -- including the National Defense Department [emphasis added] -- Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia [of the Sinaloa DTO] has extensive control within the Public Security Ministry (SSP in its Spanish initials), which is led by Genaro Garcia Luna, whose main collaborators -- some of them currently held under administrative detention -- are accused of being at the service of the man who today is considered to be the top boss of the Sinaloa cartel.

The informant, Guillermo Ramirez Peyro, a former high-ranking member of a Juarez DTO cell who was at the center of the infamous House of Death case — which involved the torture and murders of a dozen people in Juarez with the assistance of the informant under the watch of U.S. federal agents — describes the Juarez DTO’s relationship with Mexican law enforcement and the military, as it existed in the early 2000s, as follows (in testimony he gave in immigration court in the U.S.):

Yeah, the police, the cartel, the government, it’s all the same people. … Well, the cartel [the Juarez DTO] had arrangements with people that were close to President Fox [of Mexico]. He [Ramriez’ boss, Juarez DTO cell leader Heriberto Santillan Tabares] explained to me that President Fox took, took the position to arrange, consult with the cartel from Juarez to — which it, which it means that he was going to attack the, the enemy cartels being from Tijuana and from the Gulf, and then the cartel from Juarez would be operating with this court, you know, without the government being — on top of them.


... Also, when I did go to Colombia to make arrangement with the Colombians, the plans was to come by sea, and the Mexico's navy, the ships, they're the ones that would get the drugs in the, in the sea - marina - ocean borders, you know, of the national territories. … and the PGR [the Mexican Attorney General’s Office, which oversees AFI, Mexico’s federal police now under the effective control of Garcia Luna, Calderon’s Public Security Minister] then would fly this drugs to the - to Juarez, the city of Juarez.

So, if we are to at least consider any of the above evidence, it seems the existing media narrative about the drug war, and the violence in Juarez, is lacking, since it assumes the Mexican government, and Calderon, are playing by the rule of law. And at least when it comes to the Mexican military, it’s clear DEA does not buy that assumption. The DEA PowerPoint leaked to Narco News includes the following information to demonstrate that reality:



Between Jan 2000-Dec 2006: More than 163,000 military members were criminally processed during former president Vicente Fox’s 6 years term of office. The majority of the crimes were: [the list includes abuse of power, homicide, embezzlement, kidnapping, bank robbery, illegal possession of firearms and health crimes [essentially organized crime].



Another slide in the PowerPoint provides this analysis:

• DTOs will further reach out to the Mexican military and foreign paramilitary and possible insurgent organizations in order to acquire much needed human and material support to fend off advances by competing Cartels.

• The result will be the emergence of a new type of drug trafficking organization in Mexico and the US precipitating a general militarization of the DTOs.



Now, ask yourself, how is it possible that Calderon has sent some 40,000 Mexican troops into the field to combat narco-trafficking, 2,500 or more dispersed to Juarez alone, yet the violence continues to escalate under the watch of this massive military force, DTO leaders like Guzman still roam free, and the flow of drugs into the U.S. (a multi-billion dollar business where apprehending a couple hundred million dollars worth of narcotics a year represents little more than a tolerable tariff) remains largely unchecked.

Common sense seems to dictate that something is awry with Calderon’s game plan (and the U.S. plan to send his government some $1.5 billion worth of special training and equipment via Plan Mexico) — leaving aside the question of whether Calderon is simply a fool who doesn’t have control of his own military or is actually complicit in the corruption.




Iraq Comes Home



Castillo’s charge that “Iraq veterans” are on the payroll of the DTOs, acting as enforcers and helping to fuel the violence in Juarez by moving weapons — including U.S.-issued munitions — from the U.S. into Mexico (which has very restrictive gun laws) might seem over the top at first glance.

But as Narco News checked into the allegation, federal agents directed us to another law-enforcement-sensitive report that apparently was not well received by the U.S. Department of Defense. The law enforcers indicate that the report sheds some light on Castillo’s allegations concerning the Mexican DTOs’ reach into the U.S. military itself.

The report [link here] was issued last year by the National Gang Intelligence Center, which serves as an intelligence bank for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in the U.S.

Following are some highlights from the report:



• Members of nearly every major street gang, including the Bloods, Crips, Black Disciples, Gangster Disciples, Hells Angels, Latin Kings, The 18th Street Gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Mexican Mafia, Nortenos, Surenos, Vice Lords, and various white supremacist groups, have been documented on military installations both domestically and internationally.

• Gang members may enlist in the military to escape their current environment or gang lifestyle. Some gang members may also enlist to receive weapons, combat, and convoy support training; to obtain access to weapons and explosives; or as an alternative to incarceration. Upon discharge, they may employ their military training against law enforcement officials and rival gang members. Such military training could ultimately result in more organized, sophisticated, and deadly gangs, as well as an increase in deadly assaults on law enforcement officers.

• Gang members in the military are commonly assigned to military support units where they have access to weapons and explosives. Military personnel may steal items by improperly documenting supply orders or by falsifying paperwork. Law enforcement officials throughout the United States have recovered military-issued weapons and explosives — such as machine guns and grenades — from criminals and gang members while conducting search warrants and routine traffic stops

• According to open source reporting and multiple law enforcement reporting, soldiers — including gang members — are currently being taught urban warfare for combat in Iraq, including how to encounter hostile gunfire.





Some case examples from the report:



• In June 2006 an incarcerated US Army soldier and active gang member identified 60 to 70 gang-affiliated military personnel in his unit allegedly involved in the theft and sale of military equipment and weapons. The solider reported that many of the military personnel in charge of ammunition and grenade distribution are sergeants who are active gang members. The soldier also reported that military commanders were aware of the actions of these gang-affiliated personnel

• In August 2005 a US soldier in San Antonio was suspected of supplying arms — including hand grenades and bullet-proof vests—to the Texas Mexican Mafia (Mexikanemi), according to uncorroborated but reliable FBI source information

• Since 2004, the FBI and El Paso Police Department have identified over 40 military-affiliated Folk Nation gang members stationed at the Fort Bliss Army Installation in Texas who have been involved in drug distribution, robberies, assaults, weapons offenses, and a homicide, both on and off the installation.



So, it seems there is a pool of labor available, in addition to U.S. black-ops private contractors, to put in place a U.S. network of military trained enforcers and weapons smugglers, as Castillo alleges already exists and is currently assisting the “military cartel” in Mexico.




The Police Blotter



And what do the murder stats in Juarez show?

After all, if the Mexican military is now the major force behind the narco-trafficking business along the border, then we should see some signs of its operations in those statistics, right?

Narco News ran the numbers from the U.S. law-enforcement accounting leaked to it by a source who cannot be named. You can do your own analysis of the data, which is available at this link.

The data included names, dates and narratives about each incident and victim; however, in some cases, due to insufficient information about some incidents, the identity of the victim or the precise nature of the crime cannot be determined.

Following is what our analysis found.

Between Jan. 1 and July 10, the period covered by the data, there was a total of 473 victims in Juarez, of which 412 were murdered, 50 survived (though some may be dead by now), and 11 individuals were identified as kidnap victims. Those victims show up in a total of 352 separate crime incidents over the period covered (which means some incidents involved more than one victim).

Based on the cases where the identity of the murder targets could be determined, the average age of the victims was 31.7, though they ranged in age from 1 to 68, with 163 being age 30 or younger; 257 were age 39 or younger.

A total of 9 murder victims were identified as women, about 2 percent of all murders. Another 4 women survived murder attempts.

A total of 40 Mexican law enforcers were targets over the five-month period — of which 29 were killed, 7 survived and 4 are missing. Three ex-cops also were murdered; one Mexican Customs agent; three attorneys; one journalist; and, most interesting, only one soldier, a military officer. It would seem if the military was truly battling the “cartels” in Juarez, the casualties on that front should be much higher, no?

Since Calderon sent the military into Juarez in late March 2008, the murder toll in the city has jumped dramatically. The data obtained by Narco News shows the death toll on a steady climb from 18 in January — and after a slight lull in April — to 119 in June (see chart). The murder figure for November, according to Mexican news reports, hit 192.


Some additional data worth mentioning:



• About a dozen incidents involved victims whose vehicles had U.S. plates.

• More than 20 incidents, where witnesses were willing to talk, involved multiple vehicles coordinating in an assault on a victim or victims; armed commandos, masked men or men in black, or a group of armed men.

• About five of the murder victims were identified as Aztecas [a gang with El Paso roots that is allegedly aligned with the Juarez DTO), including one described as a “captain.”

• At least 14 incidents involved a note left on the body, most signed by “La Linea” and referencing Chapo Guzman, or words to the effect that the person killed was a snitch: ie. “X dedo and banado” [finger washed/snitch killed] or “Este Mensaje es para los siguen creyendo y para los que no la creen, sigan hacienda caso al Chapo Guzman que solo les garantiza la muerte, bola de pendejos. La Linea” [THIS MESSAGE IS FOR THOSE THAT KEEP BELIEVEING AND FOR THOSE WHO DON’T BELIEVE. LISTENING TO CHAPO GUZMAN WILL ONLY GUARANTEE YOUR DEATH, YOU BUNCH OF IDIOTS. LA LINEA]

Interestingly, not a single body note surfaces referencing the Zetas, nor anything in the any of the crime incident narratives refers to the group; also, there are no notes found on bodies from Guzman/Sinaloa DTO-affiliated groups working against La Linea.



La Linea is the "Juarez Cartel," specifically the local cops who work as enforcers, and they are now allegedly, according to the media script, working with the Zetas against Chapo Guzman and the Sinaloa Cartel, with the Mexican military playing the good-guy role of Über policeman.

The media has advance a similar script for the narco-violence in Nuevo Laredo [there involving the Zetas/Gulf cartel vs. Guzman’s Sinaloa organization] and in Tijuana — there involving a cluster-gang war between the Tijuana DTO led by the Arrelano Felix family, the Zetas and Guzman’s Sinaloa organization. Calderon’s Mexican troops were brought into the mix in both border cities as of early 2007.

From the DEA PowerPoint leaked to Narco News:



• June 2007. DEA Intelligence reported ZETA representatives in Tijuana and will commence kidnapping/killing of ... Police Officers aligned to Sinaloa Cartel.

• Under guise of assisting NWDTO [the Arellano Felix organization], once in place they will ignore the NWDTO, take over the territory, and continue their battle against the Sinaloa Cartel.


Again, in this script, we are asked to ignore the fact that these internecine battles between rival cartels are playing out under the watch of thousands of Mexican troops in each of these border cities, with the drug trade continuing largely unabated as the murder count rises and the “cartel” leadership remains — other than the occasional sacrificial lamb to appease the U.S. — still in place operating the business.

More Data

Narco News was able to analyze a total of 256 incidents from the Juarez murder data leaked by the source. The narratives accompanying those incident reports (from which we excluded the Mexican police assaults) provide enough information to determine the circumstances of the murders or murder attempts. (See chart.)

That incident analysis was broken down into six major categories, as follows:

Vehicle: Murder attempts involving victims in or near vehicles, most while driving in Juarez and attacked by gunmen in vehicles.

Sample narrative from murder report:



The victims were driving a green convertible Cutlass when they were being followed by two vehicles with a group of armed men. The vehicle wrecked at Municipio Libre and 5 de Febrero against another vehicle. The front passenger exited at which time the armed men shot him. The driver then exited and he also was shot dead. An innocent woman looked out her house and was shot in the abdomen.

Street: Shot or found dead on the streets of Juarez.

Sample narrative:

The three victims were found shot dead at 4063 Bahia and Montevideo in the Colonia Industrial. Witnesses said that the victims were shot by eight masked armed men that were driving a white station wagon.

Tortured/bodies found various places: Bodies were discovered showing signs of torture. This is typically a sign of DTO enforcement activity — informants or others killed for violating the rules of the DTO or in some other way crossing them. If victims fell into this category, they were not counted in other categories, regardless of where their bodies were found.

Sample narrative:

Two decapitated victims were found at Lazaro Cardenas and Hermengildo Luna in the pueblo of El Sauzal Nuevo. The bodies were found wrapped in blankets and the heads in black plastic bags. One of the heads was found three blocks away apparently taken by a stray dog.

Business: Shot at a place of business, primarily bars and restaurants, often involving a group of armed/masked men.

Sample narrative:

The victims were shot while inside the Club 16 located at 16 de Septiembre and Constitucion. The victims were gunned down with an AK47 and .308 rifles. The witnesses said that the two armed men were dressed in black and had their face covered.

House: Victims were attacked in or near a residence.

Sample narrative:

The victim was gunned down at his house by an armed commando who threw grenades and gas grenades into his house. The victim lived at 2312 Bosque de Granados. Forty two casings of 90 calibers, .308 calibers, and .223 calibers were found at the scene.

Parking/vacant lot: Victims were attacked or their bodies were found in an open lot.

Sample narrative:

The body of a male victim was found in an empty lot located at Manuel Talamas Camandari. The victim was shot. Several 9mm casings were found at the scene.

The one clear pattern that emerges from the data is that the murders in Juarez are, in almost all cases, not the result of random violence or shootouts between rival drug gangs. In most cases, they are cold-blooded assassinations, often involving coordinated teams of armed, sometimes masked, men who are making use of intelligence, surveillance and paramilitary-like tactics to take out their victims.

And those doing the dying don’t appear to be the military or the leadership of the DTOs, but rather DTO foot soldiers, snitches and occasionally innocent victims who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In that kind of environment, political targets (those who happen to be burrs in the saddle of government officials) also could easily be in the mix.

One federal agent who reviewed the data for Narco News had this to say about his take on the Juarez bloodshed:

They’re anything but random acts. Some of these murders are likely the result of cartel turf battles, but the numbers seem to high for the cartels alone. I don’t think they would be killing each other at that rate.



So if this is not as the media script depicts