I was recently TORTURED IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA, by BOB MUELLER AND HIS INFRAGUARD INTERSTATE STALKING CAMPAIGN.

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If Torture Stopped In 2004, How Is Obama Endangering Americans By Banning It?

By Zachary Roth - May 15, 2009, 12:00PM


There's another part of Lawrence Wilkerson's widely circulated blog post from yesterday that hasn't been given the attention it deserves.

Wilkerson, the former US Army colonel who was Colin Powell's chief of staff at the State Department, wrote:


My investigations have revealed to me--vividly and clearly--that once the Abu Ghraib photographs were made public in the Spring of 2004, the CIA, its contractors, and everyone else involved in administering "the Cheney methods of interrogation", simply shut down. Nada. Nothing. No torture or harsh techniques were employed by any U.S. interrogator. Period. People were too frightened by what might happen to them if they continued.

What I am saying is that no torture or harsh interrogation techniques were employed by any U.S. interrogator for the entire second term of Cheney-Bush, 2005-2009. So, if we are to believe the protestations of Dick Cheney, that Obama's having shut down the "Cheney interrogation methods" will endanger the nation, what are we to say to Dick Cheney for having endangered the nation for the last four years of his vice presidency?




When we spoke to Wilkerson yesterday, he confirmed this point, and went further. He said he was now being told that the beginning of the end for the torture program may even have occurred far earlier. Wilkerson said he believes that a "chain reaction" was set off when Alberto Mora, the Navy general counsel who was investigating detainee abuse, first told William Haynes, the Pentagon's general counsel, that the DOD had, in Mora's view, illegally authorized torture. That occurred in December 2002 -- though of course we know that torture continued into at least 2003 and was practiced on detainees captured during the invasion of Iraq, both at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere.

What's the significance of all this?


If, as Wilkerson says -- and we know of no evidence that refutes him -- the Bush administration didn't torture during its second term, Dick Cheney's alarmist claim that President Obama is putting Americans in danger by refusing to torture becomes even more nonsensical.
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TOMMY:


Listen to me.



1) RECENTLY IN APRIL OF 2009, Mueller's FBI coordinated the INFRAGUARD CONTRACT VIGALANTE INTERSTATE STALKING CAMPAIGN that works with NSA, DOD, CIA, AND FBI HQ.

While sleeping in my RV in Boulder City, Nevada, on April 28, I got fried by a DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON made by Raytheon. This DEW attack is very common. That's how MUELLER AND HIS CRONIES murdered RICH GORDON who died of a brain tumor.

FBI HQ COVERS THESE SECRET MURDERS AND TORTURE MAIMINGS, with full knowledge that "no enhanced interrogation method" had any rational relationship to any interrogation or "request for info" from any suspected enemy of the state.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE: Mueller OBSTRUCTED THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF RICH GORDON'S BROTHER, DR MARK GORDON, while he worked for MINNEAPOLIS FBI, and took polygraphs.

MUELLER AND HIS FBI AGENTS COVERED THAT UP, DID NOT INVESTIGATE, DID NOT PUT A CRIMINAL REFERRAL ON MINNESOTA US ATTORNEY THOMAS HEFFLEFINGER'S DESK.

HEFFLEFINGER only found out from reading my posts at RAPID CITY JOURNAL DISCUSSION FORUM. Then, HEFFLEFINGER RESIGNED after GONZALEZ AT DOJ HQ would not "allow an investigation leading to indictment".


TO THIS DAY, SENATOR LEAHY, CONYERS, HOLDER AND OBAMA refuse to communicate with me to coordinate my testimony???????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





2) THOMAS S. BEAN WAS ALSO TORTURED IN HIS HOME AFTER HE SIGNED A US DOJ OIG COMPLAINT that initially was obstructed by GONZALEZ AT DOJ HQ. BEAN WAS TORTURED AFTER HE ALSO TENDERED A TEN PAGE MEMO TO IOWA SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY who did respond. The torture and chipping with the mind control device occurred, shortly after THE CHENEY WHITE HOUSE FOUND OUT ABOUT MY MEMO TO GRASSLEY.

ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES were not used as part of a "request for info to prevent a terrorist attack". They wanted to know where my evidence was hidden. That evidence included my tapes of my phone calls recorded to prove FBI--NSA TITLE III VIOLATIONS, and perjury in ex parte warrant applications.


3) Three weeks after sending the memo to Senator Grassley, the NSA TSP scandal broke open. Apparently, the NYTIMES had TAMM, TICE, and...someone else as a third source? And, NYTIMES only printed because RISEN AND LICTBLAU's books were coming out.


4) The US DOJ OIG COMPLAINT was sent in late NOVEMBER of 2004. The memo to Grassley was ll months later. Prior to that, the timeline includes:



--I called DENVER AND DALLAS OIG after I talked to special agents VAN LANKER, AND MONTE CASSON. Three weeks went by...and...uh...US DOJ OIG refused to contact me by phone, or mail and did NOT SEND THE USUAL FORM LETTER NOTIFYING ME THAT THEY ACTUALLY HAD THE COMPLAINT.

Three weeks later (on my wiretapped phone...See, tapes of SIOUX FALLS JFLTTF) I called the Denver office and got the assistant deputy dumbfuck to tell me that, "...the complaint got moved to FBI OPR..." (this was stated in whispered hushed fearful tones?).

FBI OPR obstructed the complaint to make sure that "no investigation occurred" so that no paperwork, or FBI302'S could be subpoenaed. FBI UNDER MUELLER, told his SPECIAL AGENTS VUKILICH, REYNALDS, HELLER, PEIRCE, to resign...so that...THE FBI OPR COMPLAINT AND INVESTIGATION WAS MOOT--the agents resigned, and therefore were not FBI employees, and therefore could not and should not be investigated?

SD US ATTORNEY JAMES MCMAHON resigned.

SOUTH DAKOTA FBI AGENTS also resigned.

MINNEAPOLIS FBI SAC KAREN STREIBEL PEIRCE, resigned.

We need to know why?

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After all, the Bush administration, it appears, didn't torture for essentially its latter half. Was it, too, putting Americans in danger during that time -- even though there were no successful attacks on the American mainland in that period?

Not that we necessarily needed further proof of Dick Cheney's dishonesty and moral bankruptcy. But this seems like a point that's worth keeping in mind when the former veep gives his next well-publicized interview.

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http://www.prisonplanet.com/police-state-study-ranks-us-as-6th-worst-in-the-world.html


Police State Study Ranks U.S. As 6th Worst In The World

UK in 5th, behind only the most ardent dictatorships

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, May 12, 2009



A study designed to rank countries in terms of how aggressively they monitor their populations electronically, has placed the US as 6th and the UK as 5th on a global index.

The two countries lag behind only China, North Korea, Belarus and Russia in terms of governmental surveillance.

The report, titled The Electronic Police State, (PDF link) was compiled from information available from different organizations such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Reporters Without Borders, Freedom House, the Ludwig von Mises Institute and The Heritage Foundation.

52 countries were rated on 17 criteria with regard to how far down the line they are toward a total electronic police state.

The study was undertaken by a private company called “CryptoHippie“, which specializes in privacy technologies.

“In an Electronic Police State, every surveillance camera recording, every e-mail you send, every Internet site you surf, every post you make, every check you write, every credit card swipe, every cell phone ping… are all criminal evidence, and they are held in searchable databases, for a long, long time,” the report states.


“Whoever holds this evidence can make you look very, very bad whenever they care enough to do so. You can be prosecuted whenever they feel like it – the evidence is already in their database,” the report continues. “Perhaps you trust that your ruler will only use his evidence archives to hurt bad people. Will you also trust his successor? Do you also trust all of his subordinates, every government worker and every policeman?”


“If some leader behaves badly, will you really stand up to oppose him or her?

Would you still do it if he had all the e-mails you sent when you were depressed?

Or if she has records of every porn site you’ve ever surfed?

Or if he knows every phone call you’ve ever made?

Or if she knows everyone you’ve ever sent money to?” the report asks.


“This system hasn’t yet reached its full shape, but all of the basics are in place and it is not far from complete in some places,”.





The report contains a colour coded world map, with red representing the most advanced electronic police states, orange for strongly developing electronic police states and yellow for nations that are further behind in terms of surveillance:



It is no surprise to see the UK ranking higher than the US, with it’s estimated 4.5 million CCTV cameras, it’s active DNA database, and given that the British government has openly announced the fact that it wants the authority to monitor and store all phone calls, text messages and emails, a practice already strongly rumoured to be in operation.

The 17 criteria that were used to define an electronic police state are listed below:



--Daily documents: How much is required day-to-day for residents to present state-issued identity documents or registration.

--Border issues: What is demanded for a border entry.

--Financial tracking: The state’s ability to search and record financial transactions.

--Gag orders: The penalties for revealing to someone else the state is searching their records.

--Anti-crypto laws: Bans on cryptography.

--Constitutional protections: Either a lack of protections or someone overriding them.

--Data storage: The state’s ability to record and keep what it uncovers.

--Data search: The processes to search through data.

--ISP data retention: The demand for ISPs to save customers’ records.

--Telephone data retention: States’ requirements for communications companies to record and save records.

--Cell phone records: The saving and using of cell phone users’ records.

--Medical records: Demands from states that medical records retain information.

--Enforcement: The state’s ability to use force (SWAT teams) to seize someone.

--Habeus corpus: Either an absence of such rights or someone overriding them.


--Police-Intel barrier: the absence of a barrier between police and intelligence organizations.

--Covert hacking: State operatives meddling in data on private computers covertly.

--Loose warrants: Warrants that are being issued without careful review of police claims by a truly independent judge.




The countries making up the top ten in the rankings are Singapore, Israel, France and Germany.

Following the top ten the rankings are:


11. Malaysia, 12. Ireland, 13. United Kingdom, Scotland, 14. Netherlands, 15. South Korea, 16. Ukraine, 17. Belgium, 18. Australia, 19. Japan, 20. New Zealand, 21. Austria, 22. Norway, 23. India, 24. Italy, 25. Taiwan, 26. Denmark, 27. Hungary, 28. Greece, 29. Canada, 30. Switzerland, 31. Slovenia, 32. Poland, 33. Finland, 34. Sweden, 35. Latvia, 36. Lithuania, 37. Cyprus, 38. Malta, 39. Estonia, 40. Czech Republic, 41. Iceland, 42. South Africa, 43. Spain, 44. Portugal, 45. Luxembourg, 46. Argentina, 47. Romania, 48. Thailand, 49. Bulgaria, 50. Brazil, 51. Mexico, 52. Philippines.


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http://www.alternet.org/story/140022




Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama

By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. Posted May 15, 2009.



The 'Black Shirts' of Guantanamo routinely terrorize prisoners, breaking bones, gouging eyes, squeezing testicles, and 'dousing' them with chemicals. Tools









Officially known as the the Immediate Reaction Force, it has rarely been mentioned in the U.S. media or in congressional inquiries into torture. On paper, IRF teams are on constant stand-by to respond to emergencies. In practice they are used to brutally beat prisoners on the flimsiest of excuses -- a key part of the systemic torture process.

As the Obama administration continues to fight the release of some 2,000 photos that graphically document U.S. military abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, an ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the ever-emerging portrait of the torture inside and outside Guantánamo.

Among them: "blows to [the] testicles;" "detention underground in total darkness for three weeks with deprivation of food and sleep;" being "inoculated … through injection with 'a disease for dog cysts;'" the smearing of feces on prisoners; and waterboarding. The torture, according to the Spanish investigation, all occurred "under the authority of American military personnel" and was sometimes conducted in the presence of medical professionals.

More significantly, however, the investigation could for the first time place an intense focus on a notorious, but seldom discussed, thug squad deployed by the U.S. military to retaliate with excessive violence to the slightest resistance by prisoners at Guantánamo.

The force is officially known as the the Immediate Reaction Force or Emergency Reaction Force, but inside the walls of Guantánamo, it is known to the prisoners as the Extreme Repression Force. Despite President Barack Obama's publicized pledge to close the prison camp and end torture -- and analysis from human rights lawyers who call these forces' actions illegal -- IRFs remain very much active at Guantánamo.

IRF: An Extrajudicial Terror Squad


The existence of these forces has been documented since the early days of Guantánamo, but it has rarely been mentioned in the U.S. media or in congressional inquiries into torture. On paper, IRF teams are made up of five military police officers who are on constant stand-by to respond to emergencies. "The IRF team is intended to be used primarily as a forced-extraction team, specializing in the extraction of a detainee who is combative, resistive, or if the possibility of a weapon is in the cell at the time of the extraction," according to a declassified copy of the Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta at Guantánamo.

The document was signed on March 27, 2003, by Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the man credited with eventually "Gitmoizing" Abu Ghraib and other U.S.-run prisons and who reportedly ordered subordinates to treat prisoners "like dogs." Gen. Miller ran Guantánamo from November 2002 until August 2003 before moving to Iraq in 2004.

When an IRF team is called in, its members are dressed in full riot gear, which some prisoners and their attorneys have compared to "Darth Vader" suits. Each officer is assigned a body part of the prisoner to restrain: head, right arm, left arm, left leg, right leg. According to the SOP memo, the teams are to give verbal warnings to prisoners before storming the cell: "Prior to the use of the IRF team, an interpreter will be used to tell the detainee of the discipline measures to be taken against him and ask whether he intends to resist. Regardless of his answer, his recent behavior and demeanor should be taken into account in determining the validity of his answer."The IRF team is authorized to spray the detainee in the face with mace twice before entering the cell.

According to Gen. Miller's memo: "The physical security of U.S. forces and detainees in U.S. care is paramount. Use the minimum force necessary for mission accomplishment and force protection ... Use of the IRF team and levels of force are not to be used as a method of punishment."

But human rights lawyers, former prisoners and former IRF team members with extensive experience at Guantánamo paint a very different picture of the role these teams played. "They are the Black Shirts of Guantánamo," says Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has represented the most Guantánamo prisoners. "IRFs can't be separated from torture. They are a part of the brutalization of humans treated as less than human."

Clive Stafford Smith, who has represented 50 Guantánamo prisoners, including 31 still imprisoned there, has seen the IRF teams up close. "They're goons," he says. "They've played a huge role."

While much of the "torture debate" has emphasized the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" defined by the twisted legal framework of the Office of Legal Council memos, IRF teams in effect operate at Guantánamo as an extrajudicial terror squad that has regularly brutalized prisoners outside of the interrogation room, gang beating them, forcing their heads into toilets, breaking bones, gouging their eyes, squeezing their testicles, urinating on a prisoner's head, banging their heads on concrete floors and hog-tying them -- sometimes leaving prisoners tied in excruciating positions for hours on end.

The IRF teams "were fully approved at the highest levels [of the Bush administration], including the Secretary of Defense and with outside consultation of the Justice Department," says Scott Horton, one of the leading experts on U.S. Military and Constitutional law. This force "was designed to disabuse the prisoners of any idea that they would be free from physical assault while in U.S. custody," he says. "They were trained to brutally punish prisoners in a brief period of time, and ridiculous pretexts were taken to justify" the beatings......