CIA RENDITION FLIGHTS were cover for AFGHANI HEROIN DISTRIBUTION in every AMERICAN CITY...doncha know?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/13/BAD5186LUA.DTL



Feds want secrecy over alleged torture flights

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, June 13, 2009


The Obama administration increased its defense Friday of secrecy surrounding an alleged CIA program of torture flights, asking a federal appeals court to set aside its ruling allowing foreign captives to sue a Bay Area company that reportedly helped plan the flights.


The so-called extraordinary rendition program, and a private contractor's alleged relationship with the CIA, are so sensitive that any legal proceedings "would pose an unacceptable risk to national security," Justice Department lawyers said in a filing to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

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tommy:



What they meant to say is, "....CIA RENDITION FLIGHT LOGS SHOW OBVIOUS PROOF THAT AFGHANI HEROIN was flown under cover of an official National Security Terrorism War Umbrella..."....AND....THAT WAYNEMADSENREPORT posted flight logs showin obvious proof that major american cities with Heroin distribution were visited by CIA contractors and the incoming DRUG PLANES, ended up "taking the cash" down to the Carribean basin banks for laundering.

And...DON'T FORGET TO LOOK AT DANIEL HOPSICKE'S MAD COW MORNING NEWS and his archives showing HOMELAND SECURITY COVER being used by planes painted to look like official government planes.


click blog post title above to get MAD COW MORNING NEWS...and remember click on "archives" to get full story on BUSHCRIME FAMILY moving coke and heroin...money laundering...ponzi schemes...US INTEL COMM...contractors...nexus with 9/11...nexus with KIKE MAFIA SWINE...RUSSIAN MAFIA SWINE...AND of course...RUSSIAN KIKE MAFIA SWINE.






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Government lawyers said the court's April 28 ruling reinstating the lawsuit was both legally flawed and dangerous. They asked the court to reconsider the decision or order a new hearing before an 11-judge panel.

The attorneys said their position has been reaffirmed by a review "at the highest levels of the Department of Justice" and was consistent with President Obama's pledge, in a speech last month, that his administration would not use secrecy to conceal "the violation of a law or embarrassment to the government."

A lawyer for the plaintiffs responded that Obama's words can't be reconciled with his Justice Department's actions.


"The Obama administration has now fully embraced the Bush administration's shameful effort to immunize torturers and their enablers from any legal consequences for their actions," said Ben Wizner, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney. "The CIA's rendition and torture program is not a 'state secret'; it's an international scandal."

The five plaintiffs - two now held in Egypt and Morocco, the other three released without charges being filed in the United States - sued Jeppesen Dataplan, a San Jose subsidiary of the Boeing Co. A 2007 Council of Europe report described Jeppesen as the CIA's aviation services provider, and a former employee quoted a company director as telling staff members in 2006 that Jeppesen handled the CIA's "torture flights."

The plaintiffs say they were abducted in foreign countries, flown abroad and subjected to brutal interrogations in foreign or CIA prisons. They said their flights had been arranged by Jeppesen, which has denied wrongdoing.

A federal judge in San Jose dismissed the suit, saying it would expose state secrets, but a three-judge panel of the appeals court reinstated the case in April. The court said the nation's laws apply to all its programs, including those that involve state secrets.

In the 3-0 ruling, Judge Michael Hawkins said the suit should be dismissed only if secret information is essential for the plaintiffs to prove their case or for the company to defend itself. If specific evidence must be kept secret, Hawkins said, the government and Jeppesen can take steps to protect it.

In Friday's filing, the Justice Department said that to defend itself, Jeppesen would have to either admit or deny a relationship with the CIA - information that is a state secret.

Noting that every other suit challenging renditions has been dismissed on secrecy grounds, government lawyers said any inquiry into the legality of the program would "undermine the ability of the executive to prevent the release of highly sensitive information."

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

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Does Dept. of Homeland Security Threaten Homeland Security?


January 31, 2008

by Daniel Hopsicker



New revelations in the broadening scandal kicked off by two CIA and Dept of Homeland Security-linked airplanes busted in Mexico with multi-ton loads of cocaine point to a level of criminality and turpitude well beyond the corruption at U.S. Customs in South Florida to which officials have already admitted.

A central figure in the Customs corruption probe is Guyanese pilot Michael Francis Brassington, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, a name familiar to readers who have followed the unfolding and still largely untold story of the activities and associates of the terrorist hijackers while in Florida...

Michael Brassington was the co-pilot on a drug running Lear jet (N351WB) caught by DEA agents at Orlando Executive Airport in July of 2000 carrying 43 pounds of heroin.

The Lear jet’s owner, Wallace J Hilliard, also owned the Venice FL flight school where, at that very moment, the two terrorist pilots who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center Towers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, were receiving flight training.




Today's $64,000 Question



In the current Customs scandal Brassington is under suspicion for trafficking drugs, passports, people, currency, and diamonds into the U.S. through two airports in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with the assistance of high-level officials in U.S. Customs and the FAA.

Discovery of Brassington’s participation in the rampant Customs corruption in South Florida raises questions about whether the criminal turpitude of officials there may have contributed to the breech in American national security which allowed 19 terrorist hijackers, whose identities in some cases were already known to authorities, to roam freely in the U.S. before the 9/11 attack.


In other words, was a dirty operation engaged in drug trafficking and weapons smuggling, run with assistance from the highest levels of the U.S. Government, responsible for creating the opening which allowed 19 terrorists to murder 3000 people?




The Alphonso Bowe Smuggling Group, LTD.



We first learned of Brassington’s recent activity from a former Customs Agent, who was able to confirm that Brassington was the co-pilot when Wally Hilliard’s Lear jet was busted in Orlando.

When Brassington entered the U.S. through Customs at Fort Lauderdale International Airport on April 6th, 2004, the agent on duty was a rookie Customs inspector working the night shift at the General Aviation Facility.

J. L. Sanders was the unlucky Inspector charged with checking Brassington through Customs that night. When he entered Brassington’s name into his computer, the July 2000 heroin bust came up on his screen.

Nor was that Brassington's only red flag.

“In the 'active lookout' it stated Brassington was known for bringing in suspect passengers,” Sanders told us.

“Brassington handed me a manifest for the flight from Executive Flight Support, which I found out later was owned by Wally Hilliard, and managed by Afphonso Bowe,” Sanders stated. "So Brassington apparently still has some kind of financial relationship with Hilliard.”

Huffman Aviation flight school owner Wally Hilliard is the owner of Executive Flight Support FBO (fixed base of operations) in Nassau. Alphonso Bowe manages the facility for him.

“The charter company Brassington was flying for is controlled by a family suspected of running an organized drug ring," said Sanders.

“In the Customs computer system, the terminology used to describe the criminal organization associated with Executive Flight Support is the ‘Alfonso Bowe Smuggling Group.’




"Here's my card. Call us when she comes out of the coma."



Other indications that Michael Brassington might be operating with a wink and a nod' from corrupt government officials can be found in recent documents.

An “unusual” relationship between Brassington and U.S. officials is hinted at in the sometimes harsh wording of an NTSB decision affirming an emergency order of revocation issued against the pilot in 2005 for a variety of violations, including a spectacular near-fatal crash at Teeterboro Airport in New Jersey in February 2003.

The airplane accident for which he was facing the music was so colorful it led the local evening news that night in New York City...

Brassington's much-maligned charter company was flying a Challenger business jet which overran the runway during an aborted takeoff, ploughed through the airport fence, and went flying across a busy highway, slamming into a moving automobile before coming to rest after crashing into a warehouse. ........


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Dusty & 'the boys'

WORLD EXCLUSIVE
April 23 2007
by Daniel Hopsicker




The first anniversary of the April 10 2006 seizure in Mexico’s Yucatan of a American-registered DC9 caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine passed virtually unnoticed last week. It shouldn’t have...

Porter Goss resigned less than a month later, the same day the FBI executed a search warrant at the house of the No. 3 official in the Central Intelligence Agency, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, soon to go on trial for corruption with accomplice Brent Wilkes.

Not since the downing of a C-130 military cargo plane over Nicaragua in 1986 with Eugene Hasenfus onboard—kicking off the Iran Contra Scandal—has an aviation incident been remotely as important or as fraught with significance.

And not since the massive cocaine smuggling through Mena, Arkansas has the CIA’s hand been so flagrantly caught in the cookie jar.




Shocking details come as no surprise



In a series of stories beginning today, and continuing over the next ten days, the MadCowMorningNews will report the results of a year-long investigation into the secret history of this operation.

Some of the highlights include:

· SkyWay Aircraft of St Petersburg, FL., the company which owned the DC9 airliner stuffed to the top of the overhead bins with cocaine, was a CIA front.

· SkyWay’s genesis can be traced to In-Q-Tel Inc., a secretive, Arlington, Va., investment group owned, operated, and financed out of the black box budget of the Central Intelligence Agency.

· SkyWay was part of a network of companies, three of which—L-3 Communications, Net Command Tech Inc, and Triton Network Systems Inc.— were cited by Elliot Spitzer, then the Attorney General of New York State, for being used by Wall Street brokers in “pump and dump” schemes which cost unwary investors tens of millions of dollars.

· The suspicious involvement of L-3 Communications subsidiary Titan Corp of San Diego, the biggest donor to Southern California Congressmen convicted or being investigated by fired San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam.

· The Israeli connection to SkyWay, including the involvement of an Israeli tele-com firm, Tadiran, accused of being involved in worldwide espionage, and which owned the headquarters of SkyWay in Clearwater, Florida.

· The involvement of Gulf Arab financiers, including an overseas bank, Banque Francaise de l'Orient, long associated with the Saudi bin Laden family.

· Evidence of Republican party involvement in the network, which included the free use of one of the smuggling aircraft by the current head of fund-raising for the national Republican party, U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, who "traveled to nighttime rallies in luxury," the St. Petersburg Times reported, “on a DC-9 owned by Skyway Global, a Clearwater security company whose owners are Martinez supporters.”


Still more shocking details

Over the next ten days, we’ll present evidence for each of these heady claims, and attempt to find the answer to what is still a major mystery:

Why haven’t U.S. authorities arrested the owners of an American-registered plane busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine?

The story began here:

The drug trafficking operation was flying an airliner carrying 128 suitcases...but no passengers. There was no attempt to camouflage their activity.

Mexican soldiers unloaded the American-registered DC9, whose cargo consisted of 128 identical black suitcases stuffed with cocaine, onto the hot asphalt runway in Cuidad del Carmen, an out of the way airport nestled in the middle of the Yucatan jungle.

In what may have been someone’s idea of a joke, each suitcase bore a stamp on its side, with the single word “Privado.”

The DC9 sported a distinctive Seal on its fuselage: blue-and-white with gold trim surrounding an eagle clutching twin olive branches, making it virtually indistinguishable from official U.S. Government planes belonging to the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.

Even veteran plane-spotters were fooled.

This was perhaps not much of a stretch: SkyWay’s Chairman, Glenn Kovar, boasted of long-standing ties to the CIA. And today he and his son are operating another front company called “Homeland Security Tracking Enforcement.”


Walking on water in Tampa

Although owned by SkyWay, the airliner was registered to Royal Sons Inc., a company controlled by an aircraft broker from Tampa, FL. named Frederic Geffon.

Geffon partnered with SkyWay in the company’s three planes, two DC9’s and a Cessna, then illegally appropriated them when SkyWay went bankrupt in 2005, to the annoyance of SkyWay’s Federal Bankruptcy Trustee, who filed suit to get the planes returned.

“Geffon was under court order to not let the planes leave the St Petersburg-Clearwater Airport,” stated a source close to the Bankruptcy proceedings. “The Airport Tower had even been ordered not to let the plane take off."

"Geffon was in direct violation of the court order when that DC9 took off for Venezuela,” the source stated last week.

Yet Frederic Geffon has suffered no legal sanction at all, either for violating the court order, or for owning a plane busted with a plane filled with a box-car's worth of cocaine, evidence that, legally speaking, Frederic Geffon walks on water.........

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tommy:


WANT INFO ON CIA AFGHANI HEROIN COMING TO MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES?


WayneMadsen REport printed flight logs showing a nexus of criminal activity when CIA RENDITION Planes landed in....APPLE VALLEY, MN, outside the twin cities?


And flight logs showed same aircraft (Air America spooks?) filing flight logs to take the money down to SANFORD in the Carribean banking havens.

No arrest from FBI HQ?

No arrest from DEA HQ?

No enterest from IRS HQ?