http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4744.shtml
Against the tortured logic of Obama's placebo presidency, a call for the audacity of hopelessness
By Phil Rockstroh
Online Journal Contributing Writer
May 29, 2009, 00:14
From time to time, events unfold that are so large in scope, so all-encompassing in their implications that one’s initial response is muted by an inability to categorize it all within the realm of experience. Previous reference points prove of little service. One’s image of oneself and one’s place in the world is under siege, perhaps even in danger of being torn away. One stare’s into the abyss, until the abyss removes its dark shades and makes direct eye contact. The mind buzzes; one’s thoughts scuttle in circles like stunned insects.
On a collective basis, we as a nation are living through such a time. At present, we are witnessing the descending spiral of Icarusian Capitalism; our sacred delusion of the perpetual ascendancy of a god-like market place lies broken in the dust. Malls and McMansions stand abandoned, desolate as the edifices of forgotten gods, as the come-ons of the salesmen of deregulated capitalism are churned to spittle amid a cacophony of collapsing market platitudes.
And not an uptick in public optimism, nor a surge of euphoria on Wall Street, nor the “invisible hand of the marketplace” sprinkling pixie dust will bring back the Olympian days of 2005, when the wise men of Washington and Wall Street knew the force of gravity was just a myth believed in by those embittered prophets of doom whose only joy in life is fantasizing the fall of their wealthy betters. It does not matter a damn how many dollars our present day believers of neoliberal tall tales, President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner, pour into the hole in the ground where the crash occurred, a beanstalk twining skyward towards a golden, debt-negating goose will not flower forth.
Fortunately, when false convictions fall, it is possible for a leveling of sanity to prevail.
But there can be no more hubristic flights borne on waxen wings.
No more multibillion dollar confidence scams from Wall Street.
No more smash and grab imperial wars. No more tea parties for the dim and deranged.
There is the banality of evil, and then there is the evil of banality.
The present era has produced both in abundance. From about the late nineteen-seventies to the present, The United States all but ceased manufacturing products and went into the business of manufacturing marketplace hype, baseless fears, and illusionary enemies. Due to this economic and cultural derangement, a dark tower of self-imprisoning delusions has circumscribed our nation’s fate.
Is it any wonder the quintessential dark lord of the darkest tower, Dick Cheney, will not exit the scene?
And what will foster real change?
Not pleasing sound bites and rousing oratory from President Obama, then a continuance of many of the pernicious policies of his criminal predecessors. Conversely, the iron gates of Hell must crash closed behind us. The absence of light must grow so unbearable to us that we’re willing to ask how is it we arrived in this place and become willing to challenge our most cherished concepts about ourselves and our place in the scheme of things.
That is the sort of “indefinite detention” the nation could use.
What is needed is the audacity of hopelessness.
President Obama and the Democratic Congress could have ridden a wave of public discontent towards meaningful reform, but instead they have hugged the shore. And they seem to be surveying the property, scouting locations to build beach house retreats for their elitist benefactors and the militarist fantasists whose tsunami-sized arrogance wrought the present destruction in the first place.
Meanwhile, right-wing radio haters, like penned dogs, bark into the empty air of their meaningless day. Daily, we negotiate our way through the encompassing banalities and casual brutalities of soft oligarchy, as beneath it all churns the nebulous rage of the powerless that creates an audience for the likes of Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh.
It is high season for those virtuosos of displaced anger, because not only the nation’s treasure, but its élan vital, has been squandered inflating the bubble-borne vanities of the ultra-wealthy up to the point of economic immolation. The elite have perpetrated an act of catastrophic clownishness so massive that it has left the rest of us stunned, and left to pick amid the debris of our exploded hopes.
But hopes do not die pretty.
Once dead, they do not rise like the redeemer gods of myth; instead, they stagger about, rotting and snarling like B-movie mummies. They leave us with our mouths tasting of ash. Our hearts choked by dry thistle.
Yet the buffoons of Wall Street and the killer clowns of our militarized Disneyland strut and swagger past the smoking ruins they left behind after their high-end looting spree. In their plundering, the only thing they didn’t steal for themselves was any sense of self-awareness.
Or is self-awareness necessary when you’re obscenely rewarded for your narcissistic follies?
What motivation would a highchair tyrant have to modify his self-centeredness when he is shielded from the consequences of his bratty machinations?
Why become an honest actor in the realm of human events when one can strut through life with a con artist’s inexplicable sense of entitlement?
And what about the rest of us?
The financial elite, by means of their bagman in the executive branch and Congress, continue to plunder our hopes for a meaningful future by way of that legal larceny popularly known as the bailout, i.e., the latest transfer of wealth from the bottom upward. This is why the buffoonish tea-bagger types hoard their resentments. All they’ve been left with is a heap of fragmented hatreds. Those toxic baubles they shore against reality.
Tragically, when not addressed, fear and resentment will increase in intensity and can become an exponentially growing feedback loop of paranoid rage. At present, such a process has created that haunted forest of the airwaves known as right-wing talk radio. It is the voice of anger feeding off of itself, and it seems dangerously close to reaching the point of hypertrophic breakdown. It is the audio analog of a belief system in exponential decay . . . The more the rot increases in the system the more Glen Beck babbles and weeps. It is physically manifested in the cataclysmic ecosystem of Rush Limbaugh’s repulsive bulk . . . his corpulent carcass is the morbid bloat of unregulated capitalism.
Right-wing hatred is a many-headed hydra that feeds on fear and desperation. It cannot be fought by attacking its spindling heads, each of its hissing mouths dripping with black poison. Instead, one must make thrusts at the noxious heart of the raging beast. But one cannot know where the heart of an external monster beats without suffering the agonies of one’s own. Accordingly, one must allow one’s heart to be broken. And don’t look to Barack Obama’s bland charm to mend it. Because the honest grief of the heart provides a point of reference, a foundation of knowledge, as to why the monster is inconsolable in its wounded fury; hence, this provides a strategic starting point as to how to fight it.
And that is why we must release the photographs of torture.
Moreover, we must bring public ignominy upon the respectable psychopaths in high places who mandated these policies, plus bring a leveling of shame upon the high-flying, highchair tyrants of high finance who exploded the global economy. Our ugliness must be public like a frog. The nasty secrets must be revealed; the mortifying pictures gazed upon. Our stomachs should seize up in revulsion. The ordeal must exact such a degree of revulsion within us that we will never again allow these despicable practices to transpire on our watch.
There is a stench of putrefaction rising from beneath our feet.
We must uncover the corpses laid under by empire.
Being placated by Barrack Obama’s bland charm -- in the same manner we were cowed by George W. Bush’s infantile petulance, amused by Bill Clinton’s brilliant, bad boy seductions, and drugged by Ronald Reagan’s stupefying 1940’s Hollywood bromides -- will only defer the reckoning and render us ignorant stooges in the impersonal sweep of history.
As a people, we have a choice: We can be strengthened by embracing uncomfortable truths, or we can grow enervated and enfeebled by pushing them away.
But sadly, Obama is attempting the tried and tested political trick -- used effectively by Washington hacks from Watergate (“Our long national nightmare is over”) to Iran-Contra (“We cannot have another failed presidency”) -- of inducing the uniquely American trait of Instant Amnesia that has, in the past, allowed the empire to stagger on, repeatedly committing variations of the same crimes, then coddling and protecting the same variety of corrupt elitists responsible, and thereby, reducing the Constitution to tatters and rendering the rule of law rubble.
But this time, the rot is too deep, the pathology too systemic.
Obama’s placebo presidency will not stem the hypertrophic decay.
Granted, it was good to evict the previous, psychotic tenants from the property (Although Dick Cheney seems to be stalking the place with his obsessive, media drive-bys.) but that does nothing to repair the collapsing foundation of the structure, its core eaten away by an infestation of anti-democratic termites. Rather than addressing the core issue, the deterioration of the rights and liberties granted by the U.S. Constitution, President Obama is wallpapering over the rot wrought by the national security state’s termite hive mind of authoritarian appetites, that has been, silently, and hidden by darkness, gnawing the house of state to sawdust.
Again our choice: Either open up the decay within the system to the light of day and start the process of rebuilding and renewal, or allow the republic-ravening pestilence to continue unchallenged, hence unabated, and let the nation go bughouse crazy as the house comes down around us to the strains of the insect-brain stridulations of Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh.
Phil Rockstroh, a self-described, auto-didactic, gasbag monologist, is a poet, lyricist and philosopher bard living in New York City. He may be contacted at: philangie2000@yahoo.com.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
The AUDACITY OF HOPELESSNESS, FRAUD, MENDACITY, WEAKNESS, APPEASEMENT, and pussified MK ULTRA PUPPETS
What is "ISTO" ? and why are the SPOOKS WHACKING OUT THIRD WORLD TARGETS?
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4746.shtml
By Wayne Madsen
Super-secret organization remains elusive as ever
Online Journal Contributing Writer
May 29, 2009, 00:20
(WMR) -- A super-secret entity, known as ISTO, or International Strategic and Tactical Organization, which this editor previously reported was involved in coups and assassinations primarily in Africa, including the April 6, 1994, double assassinations of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, remains as secretive and elusive as ever.
However, WMR has been informed by a well-placed source that ISTO has been active as late as 2006.
After French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere named a number of Rwandan government officials as behind the 1994 missile attack on the Rwandan presidential aircraft that resulted in the deaths of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, ISTO, which reportedly consists of U.S. defense contractors, oil company executives, and wealthy Republicans, began a campaign via the Belgian media to spread the disinformation that it was France that brought down the aircraft of its ally, Habyarimana, and three French military officers said to have shot down the plane -- Cyrille Lafortune, Michel Billet and Raymond Meghuira -- were supplied to the Rwandan embassy in Canada.
French investigators originally tracked down an ISTO operation in Canada.
There is also a strong indication that ISTO elements were represented in Rosslyn, Virginia, the home to a number of defense and intelligence contractors.
The three French officers identified by ISTO’s interlocutors in Belgium turned out to be bogus.
Neither the French St. Cyr military academy nor INTERPOL and the French Judicial Police had any record of the individuals identified.
There are strong indications that ISTO operates as a front for the CIA.
The CIA’s use of Canadian front operations to carry out some of its “wet affairs” is not new. The CIA’s use of a Canadian firm that interacted with then-Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is well documented.
After Tsvangirai became prime minister, following a lengthy political stalemate with President Robert Mugabe, Tsvangirai’s vehicle was struck on March 6 by a truck bearing U.S. embassy license plates.
Tsvangirai’s wife, Susan, was killed and Tsvangirai was injured.
The truck that killed Susan Tsvangirai and almost killed Zimbabwe’s new prime minister was owned by John Snow Inc., and contracted to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a long-time cipher for CIA clandestine activities in Africa and elsewhere.
However, three days after the crash, John Snow International sent out a confidential memo that stated that on the day of the crash with Tsvangirai’s car, the driver was not a JSI [John Snow Inc.] driver on that particular day.
John Snow Inc., named after a 19th century physician who worked on cleaning up drinking water supplies to prevent epidemic outbreaks, manages public health projects in over 38 countries
The JSI memo stated:
“‘As you may have heard, there was a tragic car accident on Friday [March 6] in Zimbabwe in which the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured and his wife was killed. The vehicle involved in this accident was registered to USAID/Deliver (a JSI Project) although not driven by a JSI driver, as far as we know. At this point, further details about the accident are unknown. Understandably, this tragedy has generated a lot of media interest. If you receive any inquiries from the media, we ask that you please direct them to Penelope Riseborough, WEI/JSI Director of Communication in Boston.”
After the crash, newspaper articles began to appear suggesting that Mugabe’s loyalists had something to do with the crash. It was the same modus operandi used by ISTO in the case of the aerial assassination of the Rwandan and Burundian presidents.
Independent Member of Parliament Jonathan Moyo demanded a full inquiry into USAID’s activities in Zimbabwe.
WMR has recently learned of a strong link between a top former USAID official and ISTO’s highly covert operations.
In October 2004, Tsvangirai was accused by Mugabe’s government of involvement in a plot to assassinate Mugabe. Tsvangirai’s comments, allegedly implicating him in the plot, were secretly tape recorded at a meeting in Canada between Tsvangirai and officials of the political lobbying firm Dickens & Madsen, which was representing Tsvangirai’s political party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in North America. The firm also had a long standing link to the Mugabe regime.
The alleged tape recording had been made by Israeli expatriate author and Dickens & Madsen employee Ari Ben-Mensahe, who claims to have once worked for Mossad and who was born in Tehran before emigrating to Israel. A dubiously edited copy of the tape was later aired on the Australian SBS television network and resulted in Tsvangirai’s trial in Zimbabwe on treason charges. Newsweek magazine and reporter Seymour Hersh, who previously used Ben-Menashe as a source, have called him a fabricator.
Whatever Tsvangirai knew about covert Western intelligence support for his party and presidential candidacy may have later earned him a death sentence by parties associated with ISTO.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
By Wayne Madsen
Super-secret organization remains elusive as ever
Online Journal Contributing Writer
May 29, 2009, 00:20
(WMR) -- A super-secret entity, known as ISTO, or International Strategic and Tactical Organization, which this editor previously reported was involved in coups and assassinations primarily in Africa, including the April 6, 1994, double assassinations of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, remains as secretive and elusive as ever.
However, WMR has been informed by a well-placed source that ISTO has been active as late as 2006.
After French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere named a number of Rwandan government officials as behind the 1994 missile attack on the Rwandan presidential aircraft that resulted in the deaths of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, ISTO, which reportedly consists of U.S. defense contractors, oil company executives, and wealthy Republicans, began a campaign via the Belgian media to spread the disinformation that it was France that brought down the aircraft of its ally, Habyarimana, and three French military officers said to have shot down the plane -- Cyrille Lafortune, Michel Billet and Raymond Meghuira -- were supplied to the Rwandan embassy in Canada.
French investigators originally tracked down an ISTO operation in Canada.
There is also a strong indication that ISTO elements were represented in Rosslyn, Virginia, the home to a number of defense and intelligence contractors.
The three French officers identified by ISTO’s interlocutors in Belgium turned out to be bogus.
Neither the French St. Cyr military academy nor INTERPOL and the French Judicial Police had any record of the individuals identified.
There are strong indications that ISTO operates as a front for the CIA.
The CIA’s use of Canadian front operations to carry out some of its “wet affairs” is not new. The CIA’s use of a Canadian firm that interacted with then-Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is well documented.
After Tsvangirai became prime minister, following a lengthy political stalemate with President Robert Mugabe, Tsvangirai’s vehicle was struck on March 6 by a truck bearing U.S. embassy license plates.
Tsvangirai’s wife, Susan, was killed and Tsvangirai was injured.
The truck that killed Susan Tsvangirai and almost killed Zimbabwe’s new prime minister was owned by John Snow Inc., and contracted to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a long-time cipher for CIA clandestine activities in Africa and elsewhere.
However, three days after the crash, John Snow International sent out a confidential memo that stated that on the day of the crash with Tsvangirai’s car, the driver was not a JSI [John Snow Inc.] driver on that particular day.
John Snow Inc., named after a 19th century physician who worked on cleaning up drinking water supplies to prevent epidemic outbreaks, manages public health projects in over 38 countries
The JSI memo stated:
“‘As you may have heard, there was a tragic car accident on Friday [March 6] in Zimbabwe in which the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured and his wife was killed. The vehicle involved in this accident was registered to USAID/Deliver (a JSI Project) although not driven by a JSI driver, as far as we know. At this point, further details about the accident are unknown. Understandably, this tragedy has generated a lot of media interest. If you receive any inquiries from the media, we ask that you please direct them to Penelope Riseborough, WEI/JSI Director of Communication in Boston.”
After the crash, newspaper articles began to appear suggesting that Mugabe’s loyalists had something to do with the crash. It was the same modus operandi used by ISTO in the case of the aerial assassination of the Rwandan and Burundian presidents.
Independent Member of Parliament Jonathan Moyo demanded a full inquiry into USAID’s activities in Zimbabwe.
WMR has recently learned of a strong link between a top former USAID official and ISTO’s highly covert operations.
In October 2004, Tsvangirai was accused by Mugabe’s government of involvement in a plot to assassinate Mugabe. Tsvangirai’s comments, allegedly implicating him in the plot, were secretly tape recorded at a meeting in Canada between Tsvangirai and officials of the political lobbying firm Dickens & Madsen, which was representing Tsvangirai’s political party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in North America. The firm also had a long standing link to the Mugabe regime.
The alleged tape recording had been made by Israeli expatriate author and Dickens & Madsen employee Ari Ben-Mensahe, who claims to have once worked for Mossad and who was born in Tehran before emigrating to Israel. A dubiously edited copy of the tape was later aired on the Australian SBS television network and resulted in Tsvangirai’s trial in Zimbabwe on treason charges. Newsweek magazine and reporter Seymour Hersh, who previously used Ben-Menashe as a source, have called him a fabricator.
Whatever Tsvangirai knew about covert Western intelligence support for his party and presidential candidacy may have later earned him a death sentence by parties associated with ISTO.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
Did HILDEBEAST STEAL MONEY AND MURDER VINCE FOSTER at the Saudi Embassy?
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=147509065&page=4
United States Descends Into Financial Anarchy
by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Sunday January 25, 2009
....The other sealed indictment versus Secretary of State loser and lesbian in-the-closet Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, issued by the Grand Jury itself, deals with the assassination of former Clinton White House Legal Counsel Vincent Foster.
The indictment accuses Hillary of actually organizing the Israeli Mossad assassination team of medical doctors and then having Foster’s body removed from the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C. where Foster was assassinated, and then taken to Fort Marcy Park where the body was moved twice before being placed next to a statue.
The other set of indictments still being held by the criminal co-conspirator Judge Royce Lamberth, deals with the indictment of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr himself....
Note: We can also divulge now that Judge Lamberth has been indicted by a new Federal Grand Jury for sealing these indictments under a false statute involving national security...
All of this is happening with the cooperation and patriotic efforts of 9/11 Whistleblower and Office of Naval Intelligence Officer Lt. Vreeland.
You now see, folks, why former President Jimmy Carter failed to even recognize the presence of daddy Bush’s little bitch, former President Bill Clinton, on Inauguration Day.
Back to the sealed indictments on Hillary and Starr.
Back in early 1997, when the Federal Grand Jury issued the indictments against Hillary and Starr, in just a matter of 48 hours Starr quickly tried to resign his position as Independent Counsel and go to Pepperdine University in California, while the Washington Post and its Naval Intelligence editor Bob Woodward immediately began a full scale bombardment of leaks and innuendos in an attempt to frame then Vice President, now duly elected year 2000 President Albert Gore Jr. for allegedly making phone calls from the wrong room in the White House.
This dovetails, folks, to what I have been telling you about the criminal media cabal that will nitpick and actually try to frame honest and straightforward politicians, like Al Gore and Caroline Kennedy, in an attempt to protect the massive criminal activity of the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate.....
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tommy:
TO UNDERSTAND HILDEBEAST'S COMPLICITY IN THE VINCE FOSTER MURDER...you have to understand "how and why Marc Rich" got a pardon, and what DOJ PUNK NAMED ERIC "house nigger punk" HOLDER is up to his black ass in conspiracies to promote, aid, abet, and facilitate more and more TREASONOUS CRIMES AND PATRIOT ACT MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS by the Secret Team (protected by SATAN WORSHIPPER, DRUG DEALER, SWINDLER, LYING PUNK ROBERT SWAN "sitting on the fence like a protocol pussy" MUELLER, III.
1) HILARY dispatched two white house aides to "review the brown manilla envelope containing deceased White House counsel Vince Foster's possessions at time of death".
These two aides put Vince's keys into the envelope.
Hilary gave orders.
Hilary had the keys so she could go through Vince's office, clear it, and take whatever she did not want Vince to turn over to Ken Star after he got subpoenaed.
Starr actually "had Vince murdered" when he subpoenaed him.
That was done because THE PAT KNOWLTON FACTS ARE CORRECT.
See...uh...Hilary realized that "Vince's keys were not on his body" when Park Police ran their dumbfuckery post murder investigation.
So...uh...HOW DID VINCE DRIVE HIS GREY HONDA ACCORD TO FORT MARCY PARK, WHEN THE COPS CANNOT FIND THE KEYS?
2) PAT KNOWLTON was a witness at Fort Marcy park. Do a google to find his lawsuit.
3) Assistant US Attorney MIQUEL RODRIGUEZ was a guy unlucky enough to be given an assignment by Starr to look at the Vince murder, Rich, etc. Google Miquel WHO WAS MIND CONTROLLED SO THAT THE SPOOKS COULD DISCREDIT HIM WITH A SEX CHANGE OPERATION...yup...they programmed him into becoming MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ.
He wrote a book...doncha know?
DON'T FAGGOTS AND PUSSIES AND LYING COCKSUCKING MORONS at the mainstream media putz faggot act...want to talk to this man?...or read his fucking book?
United States Descends Into Financial Anarchy
by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Sunday January 25, 2009
....The other sealed indictment versus Secretary of State loser and lesbian in-the-closet Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, issued by the Grand Jury itself, deals with the assassination of former Clinton White House Legal Counsel Vincent Foster.
The indictment accuses Hillary of actually organizing the Israeli Mossad assassination team of medical doctors and then having Foster’s body removed from the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C. where Foster was assassinated, and then taken to Fort Marcy Park where the body was moved twice before being placed next to a statue.
The other set of indictments still being held by the criminal co-conspirator Judge Royce Lamberth, deals with the indictment of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr himself....
Note: We can also divulge now that Judge Lamberth has been indicted by a new Federal Grand Jury for sealing these indictments under a false statute involving national security...
All of this is happening with the cooperation and patriotic efforts of 9/11 Whistleblower and Office of Naval Intelligence Officer Lt. Vreeland.
You now see, folks, why former President Jimmy Carter failed to even recognize the presence of daddy Bush’s little bitch, former President Bill Clinton, on Inauguration Day.
Back to the sealed indictments on Hillary and Starr.
Back in early 1997, when the Federal Grand Jury issued the indictments against Hillary and Starr, in just a matter of 48 hours Starr quickly tried to resign his position as Independent Counsel and go to Pepperdine University in California, while the Washington Post and its Naval Intelligence editor Bob Woodward immediately began a full scale bombardment of leaks and innuendos in an attempt to frame then Vice President, now duly elected year 2000 President Albert Gore Jr. for allegedly making phone calls from the wrong room in the White House.
This dovetails, folks, to what I have been telling you about the criminal media cabal that will nitpick and actually try to frame honest and straightforward politicians, like Al Gore and Caroline Kennedy, in an attempt to protect the massive criminal activity of the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate.....
___________________________
tommy:
TO UNDERSTAND HILDEBEAST'S COMPLICITY IN THE VINCE FOSTER MURDER...you have to understand "how and why Marc Rich" got a pardon, and what DOJ PUNK NAMED ERIC "house nigger punk" HOLDER is up to his black ass in conspiracies to promote, aid, abet, and facilitate more and more TREASONOUS CRIMES AND PATRIOT ACT MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS by the Secret Team (protected by SATAN WORSHIPPER, DRUG DEALER, SWINDLER, LYING PUNK ROBERT SWAN "sitting on the fence like a protocol pussy" MUELLER, III.
1) HILARY dispatched two white house aides to "review the brown manilla envelope containing deceased White House counsel Vince Foster's possessions at time of death".
These two aides put Vince's keys into the envelope.
Hilary gave orders.
Hilary had the keys so she could go through Vince's office, clear it, and take whatever she did not want Vince to turn over to Ken Star after he got subpoenaed.
Starr actually "had Vince murdered" when he subpoenaed him.
That was done because THE PAT KNOWLTON FACTS ARE CORRECT.
See...uh...Hilary realized that "Vince's keys were not on his body" when Park Police ran their dumbfuckery post murder investigation.
So...uh...HOW DID VINCE DRIVE HIS GREY HONDA ACCORD TO FORT MARCY PARK, WHEN THE COPS CANNOT FIND THE KEYS?
2) PAT KNOWLTON was a witness at Fort Marcy park. Do a google to find his lawsuit.
3) Assistant US Attorney MIQUEL RODRIGUEZ was a guy unlucky enough to be given an assignment by Starr to look at the Vince murder, Rich, etc. Google Miquel WHO WAS MIND CONTROLLED SO THAT THE SPOOKS COULD DISCREDIT HIM WITH A SEX CHANGE OPERATION...yup...they programmed him into becoming MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ.
He wrote a book...doncha know?
DON'T FAGGOTS AND PUSSIES AND LYING COCKSUCKING MORONS at the mainstream media putz faggot act...want to talk to this man?...or read his fucking book?
Friday, May 29, 2009
FOIA MEMO: Did TENET AT CIA make a false record after being fired?...and WHY WAS TENET FIRED?
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/27/why-did-tenet-create-a-false-record-on-the-day-after-he-quit/
Why Did Tenet Create a False Record on the Day After He “Quit”?
By: emptywheel Wednesday May 27, 2009 9:11 am
William Ockham made another really important discovery:
I’d like to point to a document that was released a year ago (5/27/2008) as part of the ACLU’s ongoing torture FOIA. It’s a heavily redacted memo dated June 4, 2004 from George Tenet to the National Security Advisor (Rice). By June 2004, Tenet is on his way out as CIA director, the Abu Ghraib scandal has hit with full force, the CIA IG’s report has just been finished (but not yet briefed to Congress) and the 2004 Presidential campaign is in full swing. The CIA prison system was mostly still secret, but they had just released Khaled el-Masri in May 2004. The story of the ghost detainees in Iraq was just about to break.
With that as the background, here’s the parts of the second page of the memo that aren’t redacted (all the rest except the date, sender, and addressee are redacted:
3. As you know, beginning in September 2002, the Justice Department authorized CIA in its discretion, to employ on selected HVDs [Redaction ~3 lines] waterboard, [Redaction ~2 lines] CIA has reserved use of these [Redaction] techniques to elicit ongoing threat information from the most hardcore, senior terrorist figures that have been captured– men such as Khalid Sheik Muhammad, Abu Zubaydeh, [Redaction ~ 7 lines] key members of Congress have been briefed from the beginning–CIA informed the leadership of the Congressional Intelligence Committees of the existence and nature of the Program when it commenced in late 2002, in early 2003 when members of the leadership changed, and again in September 2003.
Rice and Tenet both knew that most of that was not true. They knew the program commenced long before September 2002, that the DOJ memos (which were not authorizations) came in August, that the Congressional briefings were after the fact and completely inadequate from a statutory perspective.
What is this memo other than an attempt to create an after-the-fact coverup?
I'd add two details to those WO offers. The document appears not just after Tenet was on his way out, but the day after Bush announced his resignation. And it happened around the time Tenet asked for written endorsement from Bush of the torture program.
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.
[snip]
The memos were the first -- and, for years, the only -- tangible expressions of the administration's consent for the CIA's use of harsh measures to extract information from captured al-Qaeda leaders, the sources said.
[snip]
The second request from Tenet, in June 2004, reflected growing worries among agency officials who had just witnessed the public outcry over the Abu Ghraib scandal. Officials who held senior posts at the time also spoke of deteriorating relations between the CIA and the White House over the war in Iraq -- a rift that prompted some to believe that the agency needed even more explicit proof of the administration's support.
[snip]
By the spring of 2004, the concerns among agency officials had multiplied, in part because of shifting views among administration lawyers about what acts might constitute torture, leading Tenet to ask a second time for written confirmation from the White House. This time the reaction was far more reserved, recalled two former intelligence officials.
Now, take a look at the document itself (PDF). See how long the redaction is after the number "3"? The redaction appears to be the paragraph's classification mark, and the length suggests it has a pretty specific classification beyond the Top Secret.
If that's right, then it may well be a CYA document (as WO suggests), but not one targeted toward anyone public, such as Congress.
So, in addition to the good question that WO asks, I've got two more.
What do you bet the chances are that the document WO found is Tenet's request for that second written endorsement of torture from Bush?
And if so, were Condi and Tenet building in plausible deniability of the illegalities regarding timing for Bush?
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AIG British-Based Ponzi Scheme Exposed
by Thomas Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Monday March 2, 2009
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The other indictment Patrick Fitzgerald is keeping "sealed" deals with a Grand Jury indictment against current U.S. Secretary of State, loser and lesbian in-the-closet Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton.
Hillary was indicted for withdrawing a large sum of U.S. Treasury funds from the Crozier Bank in Grenada in 2003.
Hillary's defense, then a U.S. Senator, is that she was given special CIA instructions and documentation to make the withdrawal.
We can now divulge that the individuals that gave Hillary the instructions to make the withdrawal are none other than former CIA Director George Tenet, along with noted East German Stasi DVD-CIA agent and Israeli Mossad asset Colonel Dana Wilcox.
Also linked to this U.S. Treasury THEFT by Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton from the Crozier Bank in Grenada, includes East German DVD agent and former First Lady Hillary Clinton's White House confidant, 7/7 Londing bombings terrorist suspect, fugitive Eva Teleki.
Teleki was in direct communication with both Wilcox, CIA Director George Tenet, Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney and a noted British Intelligence asset working at the Iowa Nurses Association, code name "Purple".
The stolen U.S. Treasury funds from the Crozier Bank in Grenada was a blackmail payment to Hillary by the BushFRAUD Administration in regards to Hillary's silence concerning her knowledge of Libby, Cheney and Armitage's role in an attempt to plant WMDs in Iraq before the Iraq War started.
Hillary later used some of the funds in her 2006 New York senatorial re-election campaign and her failed year 2008 presidential run.".....
Why Did Tenet Create a False Record on the Day After He “Quit”?
By: emptywheel Wednesday May 27, 2009 9:11 am
William Ockham made another really important discovery:
I’d like to point to a document that was released a year ago (5/27/2008) as part of the ACLU’s ongoing torture FOIA. It’s a heavily redacted memo dated June 4, 2004 from George Tenet to the National Security Advisor (Rice). By June 2004, Tenet is on his way out as CIA director, the Abu Ghraib scandal has hit with full force, the CIA IG’s report has just been finished (but not yet briefed to Congress) and the 2004 Presidential campaign is in full swing. The CIA prison system was mostly still secret, but they had just released Khaled el-Masri in May 2004. The story of the ghost detainees in Iraq was just about to break.
With that as the background, here’s the parts of the second page of the memo that aren’t redacted (all the rest except the date, sender, and addressee are redacted:
3. As you know, beginning in September 2002, the Justice Department authorized CIA in its discretion, to employ on selected HVDs [Redaction ~3 lines] waterboard, [Redaction ~2 lines] CIA has reserved use of these [Redaction] techniques to elicit ongoing threat information from the most hardcore, senior terrorist figures that have been captured– men such as Khalid Sheik Muhammad, Abu Zubaydeh, [Redaction ~ 7 lines] key members of Congress have been briefed from the beginning–CIA informed the leadership of the Congressional Intelligence Committees of the existence and nature of the Program when it commenced in late 2002, in early 2003 when members of the leadership changed, and again in September 2003.
Rice and Tenet both knew that most of that was not true. They knew the program commenced long before September 2002, that the DOJ memos (which were not authorizations) came in August, that the Congressional briefings were after the fact and completely inadequate from a statutory perspective.
What is this memo other than an attempt to create an after-the-fact coverup?
I'd add two details to those WO offers. The document appears not just after Tenet was on his way out, but the day after Bush announced his resignation. And it happened around the time Tenet asked for written endorsement from Bush of the torture program.
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.
[snip]
The memos were the first -- and, for years, the only -- tangible expressions of the administration's consent for the CIA's use of harsh measures to extract information from captured al-Qaeda leaders, the sources said.
[snip]
The second request from Tenet, in June 2004, reflected growing worries among agency officials who had just witnessed the public outcry over the Abu Ghraib scandal. Officials who held senior posts at the time also spoke of deteriorating relations between the CIA and the White House over the war in Iraq -- a rift that prompted some to believe that the agency needed even more explicit proof of the administration's support.
[snip]
By the spring of 2004, the concerns among agency officials had multiplied, in part because of shifting views among administration lawyers about what acts might constitute torture, leading Tenet to ask a second time for written confirmation from the White House. This time the reaction was far more reserved, recalled two former intelligence officials.
Now, take a look at the document itself (PDF). See how long the redaction is after the number "3"? The redaction appears to be the paragraph's classification mark, and the length suggests it has a pretty specific classification beyond the Top Secret.
If that's right, then it may well be a CYA document (as WO suggests), but not one targeted toward anyone public, such as Congress.
So, in addition to the good question that WO asks, I've got two more.
What do you bet the chances are that the document WO found is Tenet's request for that second written endorsement of torture from Bush?
And if so, were Condi and Tenet building in plausible deniability of the illegalities regarding timing for Bush?
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AIG British-Based Ponzi Scheme Exposed
by Thomas Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Monday March 2, 2009
.....
The other indictment Patrick Fitzgerald is keeping "sealed" deals with a Grand Jury indictment against current U.S. Secretary of State, loser and lesbian in-the-closet Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton.
Hillary was indicted for withdrawing a large sum of U.S. Treasury funds from the Crozier Bank in Grenada in 2003.
Hillary's defense, then a U.S. Senator, is that she was given special CIA instructions and documentation to make the withdrawal.
We can now divulge that the individuals that gave Hillary the instructions to make the withdrawal are none other than former CIA Director George Tenet, along with noted East German Stasi DVD-CIA agent and Israeli Mossad asset Colonel Dana Wilcox.
Also linked to this U.S. Treasury THEFT by Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton from the Crozier Bank in Grenada, includes East German DVD agent and former First Lady Hillary Clinton's White House confidant, 7/7 Londing bombings terrorist suspect, fugitive Eva Teleki.
Teleki was in direct communication with both Wilcox, CIA Director George Tenet, Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney and a noted British Intelligence asset working at the Iowa Nurses Association, code name "Purple".
The stolen U.S. Treasury funds from the Crozier Bank in Grenada was a blackmail payment to Hillary by the BushFRAUD Administration in regards to Hillary's silence concerning her knowledge of Libby, Cheney and Armitage's role in an attempt to plant WMDs in Iraq before the Iraq War started.
Hillary later used some of the funds in her 2006 New York senatorial re-election campaign and her failed year 2008 presidential run.".....
GOLD MARKETS...GOLD STOLEN FROM FORT KNOX...the Leo Wanta Trust Fund swindle...CHINKS WANT TO BE PAID IN GOLD
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THE HITMEN COMETH
It has come to my attention that several private parties have accepted contract assignments to neuter the COMEX and London Metals Exchange, to render ruin to its gold market. That bears repeating from the rooftops.
MUTLIPLE HIRED HITMEN HAVE ASSIGNMENTS TO KILL THE COMEX GOLD MARKET.
That is the lynchpin to control the USDollar, the USTreasurys, and the corrupt mechanisms used by the New York and London syndicates. Their clear criminal behavior is beyond the reach of law enforcement, but they are not beyond the reach of hitmen.
The USDollar has been in violation of the US Constitution since 1971, perpetuated by a renegade series of administrations. The global creditors for the USTreasury Bonds are so angry at the past suffered losses, the prospect of deep future losses, and the corruption laced throughout the US financial system, that they have hired third parties to kill off the US$-gold platforms, to destroy the burdensome banking ballast dominated by protected entrenched fraud experts, to lay waste to the vehicles used by the US-UK bond trafficking syndicate totally saturated with corruption, dishonesty, and collusion, replete with greed, totally absent conscience.
They have systemically been dismantling the COMEX pillars and levers over the last several months, quietly and without fanfare, surely without publicity. If gold investors knew of their actions, they would become much bolder. Some want the bankers in their gunsights not to be warned. They await their fate with the Financial Grim Reaper. Their executions will be as swift as brutal.
The HITMEN have been hired, with highly lucrative contracts and wide berth in methods to be put to use. Their assigned task is to castrate the levered family jewels from some of the major players who illegally keep the gold price and silver price artificially low. The targeted victims know their awaited fate, and are presently defecating in their skivvies.
A short list of banks facing the firing squad is already known, details for Hat Trick Letter members. Some detailed speculation will be devoted to the June HTL reports, since too controversial. This will be an evolving story, with new chapters soon written. The executions will be sudden. The missing US-UK levers will be immediate. Since last autumn, the global powers have aligned against Wall Street, even if the central bankers have supported it.
If one wants to destroy a building, then weaken its pillars, cut a few support beams, then rush in a crowd of people, and wait for a turbulent storm. In the case of the COMEX, the wicked players will crowd the corrupted building. They will sink into ruin and then oblivion. They might become objects of mockery when they make noises from prison. If lucky, they will join Ken Lay from Enron fame in a remote Caribbean island where other favored operators live a secluded life, but a life nonetheless, complete with plenty of sunshine, fresh air, beaches, bikinis, and sailboats, but no intrusive cameras. Please, do not disturb the quasi-dead!
The financial cartel dominated by the United States and United Kingdom is soon to suffer some serious blows. The list of their financial crimes is as magnificent as it is long. Its list of victims is as prominent as it is long. The harbored resentment is great by many global players. They waited patiently for the Obama Admin to install a new group, but the old group remains due to a revolving door from the same smoky club, dominated by Goldman Sachs once more.
Their influence, if not bribery, of the USCongress is in continuation, sufficient for unwanted obsequious approval. The regulatory agencies are from the same encrusted chambers replete with stench. The Coup d’Etat of the USGovt financial offices has not changed with Obama, who sounds like a refreshing leader but who is actually a marionette under control by those who selected him, favored him with publicity, then enabled his election. Nothing has changed except the rhetoric of change and the pace on the path to bankruptcy for a few icon firms like General Motors and Chrysler, if not the desperate cries from the 50 states suffering from insolvency. More prominent failures will follow, since nothing has been remedied. The channeled funds directed to Wall Street firms continue unabated. The bread crumbs to Main Street and the people continue unabated. Even the war continues unabated. Forget not that Marie Antoinette once said “Let them eat cake” before the French Revolution and the Storming of the Bastille. Today, the Bastille is the entire USEconomy where insolvent Americans are stuck.
Some might wonder what was the turning point that resulted in hired hitmen to be under contract against certain US financial markets. Some might say the failures of Lehman Brothers, American Intl Group, and Fannie Mae. Not so! In my opinion, it was the invasion in the South Osettia region of Georgia in August 2008.
The events around Georgia, with the United States Military deeply involved, along with a certain tiny mischievous ally nation, lit a fuse that set off a chain of events. In time, events led to orders given by high level powers, for the US fraud kings on Wall Street to swallow the medicine no later than first thing Monday morning on September 15th. When the Jackass inquired as to the nature of the urgency leading into that understood stated deadline date, no answer was given.
The guess of the Bank For Intl Settlements was submitted by me, and it was confirmed. Other sources, the USTreasury Bond creditors, also applied the pressure, it was told. Rumor was thick that death threats had been delivered to certain Wall Street executives, such as Paulson. Thus the pressure passed on to the USCongress for passage of T.A.R.P. funds.
The disbursement of those funds have not been made public partly because Wall Street (read Goldman Sachs) does not want the US people to be aware of payoffs for bond fraud under death threats. Also, the Congressional Inspector has cited a few dozen recommendations for criminal fraud investigations of the same T.A.R.P. funds. The US financial sector has become a den of vipers, no longer the bastion of gentlemen, but rather of syndicate bosses.
COMEX STRESS NEAR A BREAKING POINT
Sources from GATA (the Gold Anti-Trust Action committee) report growing distress for participants in the COMEX gold contracts, where a commercial party is very short and in deep trouble. They have sold more gold bullion than they can deliver. They are likely one of the big banks who violate the law with impunity, with USGovt sanctioned protection. By that is meant they routinely do not post 90% of the metal as collateral that they illegally sell.
This is naked shorting by any other name.
There are reports of grave concern over the upcoming June gold option expiration.
If too many deliveries are ordered, then the commercial shorts would be under stress for exposure for naked shorting.
They will eventually be caught in a bind and default on contracts.
The important loaded monthly contracts are March, June, September, and December.
The COMEX has tried to limit the ability of buyers to take delivery, running them around in circles, and entangling them in red tape, all clearly restraint of trade endorsed by the USGovt.
Such rules are not in effect for cotton or soybeans or crude oil or pork bellies. After all, a financial crime syndicate has taken control of the USGovt, ever since Robert Rubin took charge at the USDept Treasury in 1992. His major project was to gut the nation of its gold, for the private profit of his friends. Recall Rubin came from Goldman Sachs. Rubin was the author of the Strong Dollar Policy which brought ruin to the nation. Hey, just my opinion!
Background inventory strain has come from unexpected sources. The Germans have demanded that gold bullion held in US custodial accounts be returned to their owners, with physical gold shipped back to Germany. The Dubai bankers have demanded that gold bullion held in London custodial accounts be returned to their owners, with physical gold shipped back to the United Arab Emirates. They are following the hired German counsel.
In all likelihood, neither US nor London sources are in possession of all the gold held in those custodial accounts, since at least some of it probably was improperly leased. By that is meant without owner permission or knowledge. So an uproar could come soon with charges of gold bullion theft, or at least failure of fiduciary responsibility. Theft is a simpler description.
China is the biggest gold producer in the world now, but none of its output is directed to the open market. Russia is a significant gold producer also, but none of its output is directed to the open market either.
A near default occurred in early April from a close call to Deutsche Bank on 850 thousand ounces of gold. The tarnished bankers at D-Bank dug up over a million ounces on the quick from the ready Euro Central Bank mine shifts in the nick of time. Never ignore the basic fact that COMEX lies through its teeth about the gold bullion in its vaults, since audits do not occur, some is leased (replaced by paper certificates), and some is committed in some fashion to very wealthy parties (unavailable).
Far less gold bullion rests in COMEX vaults than is advertised.
All signals point to serious strain in COMEX gold supply.
FEEDERS FOR GOLD FULLY LOADED
Two important feeder systems continue to be USDollar weakness and USTreasury Bond weakness. More important than these is the systematic ruin of the major global currencies generally, but a convenient chart is not offered to track it. Just note the near 0% official rates dictated by the failed franchised Politburos known as central banks in most countries, or the movement toward 0%. The USDollar has broken below important support at 81.
Expect it to fall further after more dithering.
The long-term USTreasury Note has suffered a fast rising surge in its bond yield.
Its target from different perspectives is 4.1%, and right quick.
These two highly favorable charts will power the gold price to new highs very soon.
Nobody knows how soon, but soon.
Rarely does one see both the USDollar and USTreasurys fall in value simultaneously.
They are now, and will provide a jet assist to gold, which is held back only by COMEX corruption. Their illicit maneuvers are more obvious and desperate with each passing week. Someday their actions might even be on the news. The imminent Standard & Poors debt downgrade of the UKGilt (bonds from British Govt) hit the credit market last week like a bolt of lightning. My belief is that it might have short-circuited the US-UK financial foundation, and burned out some major circuit boards. The US and UK share Third World finance characteristics. If a Fourth World existed, the US would merit it.
The gold price is on the verge of a breakout to new nominal highs. The chart demands it. It needs only a trigger, in a land where potential triggers dot the charred landscape. A gold event will be unavoidable. Its chronic strain has derived from the extreme disparities between the physical market mired in shortage, versus the paper market with unlimited supply. The tail is wagging the dog here, as it has been for years, soon to end. The silver price will easily recover to the 17 level in a flash. It has already surpassed the February high. It is loading up for the next little surge to resistance that awaits at the 17-19 range. The potential sling shot momentum boost for silver will be powerful, enough to send its price to 30 with ease. Think pendulum.
NOW FACTOR IN DISRUPTIVE EVENTS, THE PRICE DISLOCATIONS, AND THE OVER-ARCHING PARADIGM SHIFT IN PROGRESS.
THE GOLD PRICE COULD REACH 1300 SUDDENLY.
WITH EXTREME CONTROVERSY FROM COMEX, LIKE DELIVERY DEFAULTS, PUBLICIZED CORRUPTION, AND EVEN FRAUD INDICTMENTS, THE GOLD PRICE COULD OVER-RUN THE 1300 TARGET AND HEAD FOR 1500 AND BEYOND.
SILVER COULD AS A RESULT FOLLOW ITS WARRIOR BROTHER, HEAD PAST 20 IN A FLASH, AND PURSUE 30 EASILY.
Little attention has been given lately to one of the most reliable time-tested forward indicators of the gold price. The ratio of the 10-year USTreasury Note yield to the 2-year USTreasury Bill yield has always been highly reliable in predicting a move in the gold price. The simple chart of bond yields versus maturity years is known better as the Treasury Yield Curve. The ratio is more amenable to chart analysis.
A breakout in the Treasury Yield Ratio is in progress. All benefits from the mid-March monetization announcement have vanished. If the 2-year bond yield remains near 1%, where it appears stuck, then the breakout target would indicate that the 10-year bond yield is heading to 4.1% at least. Yet another method targets 4.1% in the long bond yield. The presented ratio contains information on the future prospect of price inflation, in a reliable contrast of time perspectives. Knuckleheads who insist on pounding the Deflation Tables might want to check this indicator, and look at the crude oil price. It is $63 per barrel, not the $20-25 predicted by these lost troopers. Yo Mish Bro, can you spare me a deflating dime? The strict definition of money is useless anymore. The Shadow Banking system is an actual part of the real world, which you do NOT count.
To the fools, dolts, and morons out there who cling to notions of recovery and Green Shoots, bless your heart.
Hope has clouded your minds.
Once more you believe the liars and purveyors of propaganda, after being nearly fatally burned.
You must believe in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the Tooth Fairy. You should not be in charge of investment funds, but rather of crayon supply cabinets and Beanie Baby collector items. The Case Shiller housing price index this week reported a 19.1% annual decline in 1Q2009 from Q1 last year. Foreclosures in April were up 32% over last year, as the nightmare continues. That is 1 in 374 homes with mortgages in America in some process of foreclosure.
A relentless decline in home prices erases household wealth, and the source of consumer spending. Consumer confidence is ephemeral and baseless. The mortgage rate has just gone above the pre-March levels, when the USFed announced they would monetize $1050 billion in both USTreasury Bonds and USAgency Mortgage Bonds. The benefit has been erased. Today’s underwater mortgage is tomorrow’s foreclosure, made worse by job losses. The FDIC this week reported a 25% rise in non-current loans in 1Q2009 from Q4 of last year. Greater bank losses will come, much like floods follow hurricanes.
And lastly, give credit to the USGovt statrats in their busy laboratories. They decided to ramp up the Q2 Gross Domestic Product by including all USGovt rescue funds for the big banks, including the diverse funds from the many liquidity facilities. All those funds will go directly into the GDP for Q2 as a special line item. Expect a miraculous economic recovery in the second quarter, based in vapor. The stock rally since March was based in accounting fraud. These are true American innovations, but too bad they are not exportable! They are not, since they have no value.
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SOMEHOW...MUELLER AT FBI, HOLDER AT DOJ, AND OBAMA in SPEARCHUCKING DUMBFUCK LAND...have all...uh...well...decided that...uh...well....STOLEN US RESERVES OF GOLD BARS is nothing that the FBI OR DOJ want to prosecute?
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Cash payoffs, bonds and murder linked to White House 911 finance
Documents point to attack on America by White House crime families
by Tom Flocco
Sioux City, Iowa -- September 4, 2005 -- TomFlocco.com --
According to leaked documents from an intelligence file obtained through a military source in the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), on or about September 12, 1991 non-performing and unauthorized gold-backed debt instruments were used to purchase ten-year "Brady" bonds. The bonds in turn were illegally employed as collateral to borrow $240 billion--120 in Japanese Yen and 120 in Deutsch Marks--exchanged for U.S. currency under false pretenses; or counterfeit and unlawful conversion of collateral against which an unlimited amount of money could be created in derivatives and debt instruments.
Crusing the Florida Keys (1984) Then VP George H. W. Bush (second from left) and former CIA Director who led the National Security Council during Iran contra, with Nicholas F. Brady (third from left) then chairman of Wall St. Investment firm Dillon Read and later Bush 41 Secretary of the Treasury.
The illegal transactions are also linked to the murder of a U.S. Army colonel charged with overseeing approximately 175 secret CIA bank accounts, according to the officer’s wife, Mrs. V. K. Durham. During multiple interviews, Durham told TomFlocco.com that Bush 41 and Clinton administration officials visited her husband Colonel Russell Hermann several times in the months prior to and three days before his torture and murder on August 29, 1994.
Durham told us the $240 billion in stolen currency was obtained resulting from George H. W. Bush’s presidential abuse of power, when he authorized former Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and former Secretary of State James Baker III to make fraudulent use of the Durham Family Trust collateral without her permission. There is evidence that Colonel Hermann’s and V. K. Durham’s signatures were forged on a Goldman-Sachs bank account certification requesting the conversions to U.S. currency.
The money was never repaid since the ten-year Brady bonds--purchased before September 13, 1991 using the fraudulent collateral and gold bullion as security came due on September 12, 2001--the day after the 9.11 attacks, having allegedly been underwritten and held by the trustee, Cantor-Fitzgerald bond brokerage firm [whose offices on floors 101-105 in the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) were destroyed on 9.11 along with the Brady bond evidence].
Three days before his suspicious death [warning: graphic photos], Colonel Hermann told his wife that former President George H. W. Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and U.S. Marine Colonel Oliver North (pardoned by Bush Sr. two years earlier for his Iran contra indictments when Bush Sr. was also facing indictments for his role in Iran contra) all passed V. K. Durham coming up in an adjacent elevator after all three had left Hermann’s room and gone down in another elevator at the Veterans Administration Health Care Center in Marion, Illinois. Hermann had been probing Bush 41 and Clinton links to narcotics money laundering, according to his wife.
Durham told us that Colonel Hermann told her "Bush, Greenspan and North were trying to get me to sign off on the CI Ltd., the Central Intelligence, Ltd. Iran and Latin American contra accounts. They held about $13-17 billion in physical gold." This, raising questions about an evidence trail for a grand jury to seek restoration of funds potentially stolen by high government officials from United States taxpayers.
Cheney, Rice & Bush aware crates of cash moved from Philippines
Part of an explosive November 1, 2001 U.S. Military / Intelligence Operations memo from former Somalian Ambassador to Switzerland Leo Wanta which is addressed to Vice President Richard Cheney reveals evidence that Cheney, President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other National Security Agency officials knew about the movement of boxes containing large amounts of U.S. currency out of the Philippines just seven weeks after the September 11 attacks. The document was passed from Mr. Cheney to Dr. Rice--who in turn passed it on to George W. Bush, according to knowledgeable sources familiar with the memo:
"...was approached and my help was requested in moving large sums of cash into (Foundations) Legal Groups [law firms laundering money--see below] to be formed for "charitable" work here in the Philippines. The approx. amount is 300T Php of which 30% is offered as a "gift" to the USA....[A] German in the family has financed a large group who were recovering ten boxes [crates of counterfeit cash, drug money, bearer bonds?] which were taken to US, Germany & Moldovia [Moldova/Rumania]....The group includes...Robert Wachtel, Brad U. Lee, Allan Nichols [Three FBI Division 5 counter-intelligence agents, providing evidence of presidential abuse of power using federal agents for illegal covert financial terrorism operations, according to whistleblower Stewart Webb who provided us with the document]....The "family" want their boxes!! [cash payoffs] ...Things are getting out of hand! [payees mad and impatient?]....MIL [Marvelous Investments, Ltd., Andover, MA according to intelligence sources] needs cash with which to purchase & remove these items [boxes of cash]...too much is in the wrong hands! If we are to be successful here, I have outlined how to do it. One other thing we must have is transportation "permits." [official cover and protection inside & outside the country] ...much is moving that no one can see." [Click here to read the full memo from Leo Wanta to Vice President Cheney]
The existence of fake "savings certificate funds," reportedly being peddled by an international crime syndicate ["family"?]--of which the Wanta-Chaney memo evidence indicates the possible involvement of the Vice President with the knowledge of both Dr. Rice and the President--was also confirmed in the spring after 9.11 by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) in BusinessWorld.com. (May 30, 2001)
U. S. Intel Op: FBI Agent met with individual in Osama bin Laden video
On December 14, 2001, a private and confidential letter from Leo Wanta to Vice President Richard Cheney just obtained by TomFlocco.com confirms the November 1 memo describing the movement of boxes of U.S. currency out of the Philippines, ostensibly to be used for cash payments for an as yet unidentified operation; however, a far more important piece of evidence in the letter indicates that U.S. Intelligence Operations thinks that one of the persons in the contemporaneous White House release of an Osama bin Laden (OBL) "terror" video met with an unidentified FBI Special Agent-in-Charge while in Manila after the 9.11 attacks:
"1. Approximately two months ago [October 14, 2001--30 days after 9.11], REDACTED was in Manila Philippines staying at the Midtown Hotel Metro Manila...she was in the company of Dr. Navarro...other persons present at the same time were REDACTED, rep of the "Company" and SAC [FBI Special Agent in Charge] REDACTED."
"2. Intel op advises that during these meetings a person identified as Datu ben Abu [identified as a KGB agent according to knowledgeable sources] was introduced and close contact was made with this person. This person was in a wheel chair. In observing the video recently released of OBL, intel op is of the opinion that the man against the wall with the blanket over his legs, full face beard, large hands, wide nose and dark set eyes is the same person identified as Datu ben Abu."
"3. Intel op further advises that a lady was present with SAC [FBI Special Agent-in-Charge ] REDACTED and it is believed that the lady is Myma Kleine. It is believed that this female is the same individual using various alias names that is a fugitive and wanted by authorities in Israel, USA, Germany and other areas of Europe."
"4. Intel op also advises that Datu ben Abu held further meetings (during the same time period) [30 days after 9.11] with a Russian group staying at the Pan Pacific Hotel Metro Manila Philippines."
"6. Intel op is also of the opinion that there is relevance to the meetings in the Philippines and the movement of certain "u boxes" (see previous communications) and the apparent same associate [Datu ben Abu] appearing in the subject video release." [Click here to read the complete intel op document from Wanta to Cheney re: FBI agent meeting with Osama associate right after 9.11 ]
The letter’s chain of authority from Cheney to Rice to Bush confirms for a second time that the White House was aware that boxes of U.S. cash were moved from the Philippines; but also that an unnamed FBI Special Agent-in-Charge in the Philippines met more than once with an individual who U.S. Intelligence Operations advises was one of the persons with Osama bin Laden in the White House-released television video shown world-wide.
The Wanta-Cheney letter raises serious evidence questions for a grand jury as to why an FBI agent, ostensibly representing the U.S. government, was meeting (just 30 days after the 9.11 attacks) with an Osama bin Laden associate important enough to be shown with the "terrorist" leader in a White House-produced video. But a grand jury could also ask why crates of cash were being moved to the U.S., Germany and Moldovia (Rumania).
V. K. Durham confirmed some of the contents of the November 1, 2001 memo (which she had not previously seen) when she told us in a separate interview, "Keith Johnson from Wachovia Bank is the Queen of England’s signatory there. ‘KJ’ said that President Clinton told him to go to the Philippines to move out crates of U.S. dollars. He told me himself that tons of crates of U.S. cash were warehoused in the Philippines, she said, "adding additional evidence that Manila is a Black Operations depository for payoff money used for White House crime family shadow government activities.
The intelligence file documents linked throughout this piece are significant because the evidence not only provides proof of suspicious and clandestine shipments of U.S. currency between foreign countries, but also that counterfeit debt instruments involving fraud in the U. S. banking system were due the day after the 9.11 attacks. Did the White House, Congress and the 9.11 Commission obstruct justice regarding this evidence?
Moreover, Durham alleges from conversations before her husband’s murder, that any 10-year Brady bond payoff for notes due on 9-12-2001 would have led to additional evidence of trillions in stolen funds from the U.S. Treasury and the identity of the perpetrators--providing an important reason to take out Cantor-Fitzgerald offices in the North Tower and a Pentagon ONI file section on September 11. Besides the intelligence file leaked to Durham, other documents were obtained by TomFlocco.com from whistleblower Stewart Webb’s intelligence sources.
Durham’s documents were delivered to the door of her home in February, 2000 by a uniformed Naval intelligence officer who told her, "the officer who asked me to bring these documents to you said you will know what to do with them," whereupon he quickly turned and left before she could see his uniform ID name tag.
The same documents from the leaked file were separately compared and authenticated by another unnamed (for personal safety reasons) intelligence officer who provided identical copies to Independent Presidential Candidate Karl Schwarz, who said that agent did not know the identity of the original Naval intelligence officer who passed the intelligence file through V. K. Durham to TomFlocco.com.
No statute of limitations on obstruction, murder and financial terrorism
Durham, who said her husband told her in front of another witness that on Friday, August 26, 1994 George Bush Sr., Greenspan and North had "attempted to force Russell to sign off on CIA contra accounts [Iran & Latin America] and other instruments not under his control," indicated she would testify under oath to this and other evidence linked to George H. W. Bush’s unauthorized use of her collateral if subpoenaed by a grand jury or by Congress.
Durham called Dave Ehler, a staff-member to her congressman, Iowa Representative Steve King (R-5-IA), to tell him that Bush, Greenspan and North were in her husband’s hospital room three days before his murder and to introduce him to three separate witnesses who identified the three and described the encounters to Ehler--one who saw North in Hermann’s hospital room on a separate occasion, one who witnessed (along with Durham) Colonel Hermann’s statement regarding the Bush Sr--Greenspan--North visit to his hospital room, and one who saw the actual murder contract on Colonel Hermann’s life and told Ehler he is in possession of the transcript. Durham said the conversations with Ehler were tape recorded and moved to multiple secure locations to protect the evidence.
Durham, 69 and living in Iowa, has also contacted her senator, Banking Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) and along with her congressman, Representative Steve King (R-5-IA), provided both with all the evidence in this report and much more; however, Durham said both legislators were told "not to investigate" by officials at the very highest levels of government. Dave Ehler, the aide from Congressman King’s Storm Lake, Iowa office (tape-recorded by Durham) told her that "orders had come down from the top: ‘do not investigate.’"
Another Grassley aide, Bill Anderson, helped in the Iowa Senator’s obstruction of the investigation regarding why Hermann’s wife was not given her husband’s benefits and social security, after also being told "not to investigate," according to V. K. Durham, who told us, "Russell did more than two 20-year hitches in all five branches of the military. It would have meant a lot to me; but Clinton’s people destroyed his files and Senator Grassley and his aides obstructed the investigation."
Grassley, King and their congressional aides have seen substantial and credible evidence of obstruction of justice regarding mass murder on 9.11; however, both have failed to publicly pressure New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau to commence a 9.11 criminal probe despite obvious jurisdiction, venue and receipt of the identical evidence made available to Grassley and King by Durham.
If the United States Code is still being enforced, this evidence will subject all four public officials to charges of obstruction of justice and misprison of treason. [Failure of a public official to give notice of a felony or treason by refusing to act on information and evidence: 18 U.S.C. 4 via the Federal Crime Reporting Act]
There is evidence that Greenspan and Brady knew about the illegal transactions since the leaked intelligence file included Federal Express airbill tracking receipts [Greenspan--#0916621952 and Brady--#0916621963 dated August 19, 1991--just prior to the September 13, 1991 exchange transaction] and sent to the Federal Reserve Chairman and former Secretary of the Treasury by John D’Acquisto, CEO, Ariel Life Systems, Inc., CEO, DFG, Inc and Trustee, Cosmos Seafood Energy Corp. [FedEx Acct. #1429-4274-7], whose name was on the currency transfer agreement with an Israeli corporation, Trans Tech International--represented by Jonathan Tiede.
Durham told us that a Central Intelligence agent said Cantor-Fitzgerald held the 10-year Brady bonds; and her secure family trust was the owner of BONUS COMMODITY CONTRACT 3392 AND CERTIFICATE OF DEBT NUMBER 181 OF MAY 1, 1875 [Special Bonus Certificate No. 3392 / 181], originally issued by the government of Peru in 1875 and illegally used by the U.S. government as the collateral to purchase the bonds which secured the currency transfers--all of which came due in the middle of the September 11 attacks.
Durham’s note is due and payable in "American gold coin, gold bullion and/or coin of the realm," having multiplied in value well into the trillions but its fraudulent use as collateral by Bush 41 and Clinton administration officials was unauthorized by her family trust, she told us.
There was no investigation of the suspicious circumstances surrounding her husband’s death, said Durham; and Bush, Greenspan and North were never subpoenaed and interrogated regarding the substance of their conversations with Herman just prior to his torture and murder.
Durham said she has continuously been denied social security payments, her husband’s service records were shredded in her presence so that she would not be afforded access to Hermann’s substantial military pension, and all paper trails were eradicated by Clinton and Bush 41 officials to obstruct justice regarding any future investigations.
Several U.S. intelligence agents spoke privately with Durham, informing her that the Cantor-Fitzgerald files identifying the bogus bonds were lost in what suppressed 9.11 television news footage in slow motion shows was a controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and WTC 7; moreover, ONI officials themselves--some of whom were probing the fraudulent 10-year debt instruments allegedly held by Cantor-Fitzgerald in the doomed North Tower--also perished along with the investigation files, all of which were curiously in the path of the 9.11 Pentagon impact.
Durham told us that Colonel Hermann had offices in the Northwest corner of the Pentagon and that he worked with David Rose of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s office for the Queen of England. She said that Keith Johnson, the Queen’s signatory at Wachovia Bank told her about the Office of Naval Intelligence being hit at the Pentagon on September 11--that there had been an ongoing investigation of money laundering.
Several other intelligence sources who spoke to longtime federal whistleblower Stewart Webb, alleged that the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and WTC 7 was called "Operation Code Angel," also known as Tripod II--a U.S. Department of Justice "war games" exercise involving the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA)--which Webb alleges was run by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s Police Chief Bernard Kerik at Pier 29 on the New York City waterfront, according to Webb’s intelligence sources who asked not to be named until subpoenas and testimony commence.
When Thomas Ridge resigned, Kerik was in line to become Secretary of Homeland Security after the passage of the U.S. Patriot Act; however, his appointment was derailed by Congress due to multiple irregularities and improprieties and he was never subpoenaed for interrogation about the allegations involving Defense Department operations "Code Angel" / Tripod II.
Misused collateral = gold security = bogus bonds = $240 billion stolen currency
Evidence indicates that on August 19, 1991, John D’ Aquisto of DFG Inc. mailed Federal Express packages to United States Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan and Bush 41 Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady to communicate details of currency exchange transactions which ultimately led to multiple allegations of bank fraud involving billions of dollars, according to V. K. Durham. It is not known whether this cash was laundered into the Philippines and then used for the "family," referred to in the Wanta-Cheney memo.
The FedEx receipts show contact between Greenspan, Brady and John D’ Aquisto and given the bank fraud links, Greenspan’s visit to Russell Hermann and the close proximity of the transactions to September 11, Durham says prosecutors should interrogate the three about their knowledge of improper banking activities which could be linked to the North Tower attacks at Cantor-Fitzgerald and the Pentagon impact reportedly involving the ONI on September 11--witnesses for a grand jury, should an official entity decide to prosecute mass murder on behalf of U.S. taxpayers.
On September 13, 1991, a currency exchange/transfer agreement was made involving Trans Tech International Ltd, located in Moshav Yishi, Israel--represented by Jonathan Tiede, who acted as the U.S. Dollar provider in a $120 billion dollar currency exchange involving four separate tranches (allocations) totaling $30 billion each.
John F. D’ Aquisto, President and CEO, DFG, Inc. and Trustee of Cosmos Seaford Energy Marketing Ltd. acted as provider of the Japanese Yen: Transaction Number 091291/JY/USD/30B/001 [September 12, 1991/Japanese Yen/U.S. Dollar/$30 billion/number1of4].
According to Stewart Webb, Nevada Secretary of State Frankie Sue Del Papa, a Bush shadow government player, participated as a co-conspirator to obstruct justice, intentionally switching forged documents pertaining to registrations and filings of corporations involving Bush 41 and Leonard Millman. One of the corporations connected to the gold-backed Brady bonds above was Cosmos Corporation of Nevada--one of several Cosmos corporations.
Robert D. Hammond, Vice President of the Securities Sales Department, Goldman Sachs & Co., wrote to John D’ Aquisto and DFG, Inc. on August 7, 1991, certifying that DFG had an account with Goldman, number 027-02082-2; however, the letter’s notary seal contained the forged signatures of both V. K. Durham and her husband, Colonel Russell Hermann. [ Durham initialed and attested to the alleged bank fraud directly on the notarized document, indicating the signatures Goldman sent to D’ Aquisto were forgeries ]:
"Please be advised that if DFG wishes to engage in foreign currency transactions, Goldman Sachs has extensive capabilities in this area. For instance, upon receipt of approximately 700 million Japanese yen into the above account, Goldman could convert such funds into approximately $5 million U.S. dollars."
D’ Aquisto also complained about more alleged bank fraud by Goldman Sachs in a letter to Phil Roberts in the Bank Fraud Division at the U. S. Department of the Treasury, written on September 10, 1991, regarding suspect banking procedures wherein "funds were reversed and withdrawn from our account without our permission."
In another letter on September 10, 1991 to Karl Ehm, D' Aquisto and Russell Hermann asked "did you receive the return of $5,117,280.00 back from Goldman-Sachs?" The letter also indicated "no zero balance shown after the activity summary," providing no evidence that $5+ million was withdrawn just minutes after it was deposited while showing that the money was still in the account.
The letter specifically referred to a partial Japanese Yen transfer which took place at Goldman’s Los Angeles office prior to the September 13, 1991 ten-year contract. The transaction in California provides potential U.S. jurisdiction and venue for another citizen grand jury should obstruction of justice continue in New York City where Spitzer and Morgenthau refuse to probe the suspect $240 billion dollar financial transaction which came due at Cantor-Fitzgerald two days after the 9.11 attacks:
"On September 10, 1991 we received our August 1st-August 31 statement from Goldman...On the statement enclosed you will see that the Japanese Yen went to Mitsui Bank of Tokyo, which is Goldman Sachs’ correspondent bank. The monies were then credited to the account and exchanged and deposited, U.S.D. equivalent at the rate of exchange. That part of the transaction was perfectly normal."
"What happened next is what concerns me. On August 7, 1991, the funds were reversed and withdrawn from our account without our permission! There is no reference to the whereabouts, or disclosure of the whereabouts of this money, or of the receipt of acknowledgement that this transaction even took place."
"As an ex-banker of 16 years, I feel that my rights have been violated to the highest degree, and the laws of the United States have been broken. I think you would call this bank fraud? According to Goldman Sachs, this was probably a clerical error on their part. I find it hard to believe that a company such as Goldman Sachs would be so negligent as to make a $5,117,280.00 "clerical error....you can call me at our other company Ariel Life Systems Inc., a government contracted corporation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)."
Clinton Treasury Secretary and George W. Bush advisor knew about transactions
On September 12, 1991 John D’ Aquisto wrote to Hans Reich at the Goldman Sachs Compliance Department regarding "missing funds from our Goldman Sachs account" but also "why was our Tax ID # on the statement stated as "88-8888888 instead of what our Tax ID # really is, 33-0457266?!"
This time, however, D’ Aquisto sent copies of the letter to two important individuals--describing alleged Goldman Sachs tax ID number improprieties and evidence of $5+ million in missing funds which would likely lead to more evidence of unaccounted for transfers as part of a $240 billion dollar currency exchange involving numerous scheduled tranches (allocations) in brokerages like Goldman Sachs and linked to 10-year Brady bonds purchased along the 9.11 timeline.
The executives received copies delineating the alleged bank fraud were Goldman’s Chairman (at the time) Stephen Friedman who is now President Bush’s Assistant for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council, and also Goldman Senior Partner (at the time) and former Clinton Administration Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, who is currently Citigroup’s Chairman of the Executive Committee.
The evidence provides a paper trail suggesting that current high Clinton and Bush officials, members of Congress, and the New York Attorney General and Manhattan DA (all with jurisdiction, venue, oversight responsibility or power--were and are aware of allegedly significant fraudulent banking activities at Goldman Sachs which is linked to transactions along the time-line of the 9.11 attacks--and an ongoing ONI intelligence probe where the investigators died at the Pentagon, information literally screaming for a separate grand jury investigation in and of itself.
On the same day, September 12, 1991, Jonathan Tiede, representing Israel's Trans Tech International, sent a fax through Dallas firm Daniel International to John D' Aquisto at DFG, Inc. referring to "problems," given the other directly related documents linked herein complaining about bank fraud:
"I have come to the conclusion that the only way I could sign this document would be to put in a clause that states the above is null and void. Please see Addendum "A" which would be our contract. Which seems to be a way full of problems and which could only make money for the attorneys, should there be problems. I must therefore insist on this transaction being done on our contract, which if they agree to our procedures should not really be a problem for them."
On September 13, 1991, Wayne H. Ellis, Vice President, City National Bank in La Jolla, CA wrote to Don Brucker at Ariel Life Systems, a contract company for NASA, outlining instructions for depositing funds into Ariel Life.
In a September 16, 1991 letter to John F. D' Aquisto from a German firm handling Deutsch mark transactions, Verhaelen GmbH, and signed by "Karl" Ehm, allegations of alleged bank fraud by Goldman Sachs are further addressed. The Durham intelligence file did not contain the Deutsch mark contracts; however, Colonel Hermann’s wife emphatically asserted to us that "there was another $120 billion in Deutsch mark currency transfers and it is possible the contracts are being withheld until a grand jury subpoenas the officials involved:
"The Goldman Sachs deal as you have informed me is absolutely disappointing. I have studied your papers and discussed with the European fiduciary of the Yen side to find a way to bring the real acting of Goldman Sachs to light. But nobody here can influence a deal between an American bank and a Japanese Bank."
"As you know, Goldman Sachs did not receive any information from our side to be in a situation to close because we have never contacted them. I agree entirely with you and Russell (Colonel Hermann) that it is most possible that Goldman Sachs has been inspired by you and this deal to find a source which can deliver Yen with discount. And as they found out that they cannot execute such a deal as a bank because a private partner has to be the USD supplier, they may have used the account of you or of DFG with Goldman Sachs to fulfill the condition of a private exchange. To me this seems to be the most important argument that the acting of Goldman Sachs is a fraud."
Another September 16, 1991 letter from the ONI intelligence file provides insight into the secretive nature of the financial transactions when Howard Daniel, owner of Daniel International Inc. in Dallas, Texas wrote to John D’ Aquisto. Banks involved in the transactions included Security Pacific (Washington) and New York’s Chemical Bank--and the letter provides more evidence of Durham’s assertions about $120 billion in Deutsch mark currency transfers coming from the Brady bond collateral:
"...please find the signed contracts together with the R.W.A.’s for both the Japanese Yen and Deutsch Mark contracts....Jonathan Tiede (Trans Tech Intl.) needs to know the time and name of the Bank Officer that will make the call to the Shearson Lehman Representative...he will pre-advise the Representative of the incoming call and then give you the go ahead for the call to be made."
"I must stress that the telephone call must absolutely follow the outline as laid down in the contract. NO OTHER CONVERSATION WILL BE ALLOWED OR TOPIC ADDRESSED. Failure to abide by the guidelines for this conversation will be deemed as non-performance, and the non-performance clause will be invoked by the U.S. DOLLAR account holder."
"Each party and their representative intermediaries warrant not to reveal the banking coordinates provided herein to any individuals or parties other than these banking officers necessary to complete this transaction."
Interestingly, some of the money was transferred through New York’s Chase Manhattan Bank into an account held by the Palm Springs Stars Baseball Club, using the security codes RH, VKD, and JFD for Russell Hermann, V.K. Durham and John F. D‘ Aquisto.
Durham asserts that DFG, Inc, and the Palm Springs Stars Baseball Club are associated through President Bush’s brother Neil, National Security Agency, Ariel Life Systems--affiliated with NASA, and former Vice President Jack Kemp and HUD--but also former Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady and current Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan. All this, giving rise to additional serious grand jury questions as to whether the above were receiving illicit money via the Durham Trust’s stolen collateral.
A letter to John D’ Aquisto on September 10, 1991 from Bay State Trust in Zurich provides evidence of gold used as security in the Brady bonds/currency transfer which is described as a pilot shipment of "one (1) kg bar of AU [gold] with full documentation to MAT Securitas AG, Kloten, Switzerland...we can issue a bank endorsed purchase order by 12 September 1991 covering the purchase of 1 kg bar AU, 999.5 fineness. We can also arrange to have a bank endorsed Purchase Order issued for 1-3 m/t AU weekly but only after successful conclusion of the 1 kg pilot shipment as covered herein."
An August 26, 1991 memo from William Sommerville of Contec Development PTY Ltd. in Sydney, Australia to John Hamilton of Hamilton & Hyun Investments provides information that the USSR Government Loan Facility, including a list of high-ranking Russian officials is "authorized to execute an agreement" for the "Republic of Yakutsko...a major gold-mining area and comes within the [Boris] Yeltsin controlled sector. We are advised that everything is ‘on track’ and we are pursuing detailed confirmation overnight."
The letter continues, adding "we have been told the Gold is in Kloten [Switzerland]," indicating that the Yeltsin government was also involved in the currency transactions, and that "we know that ten (10) Metric Tonnes [Gold security] will be immediately available, and this cannot be increased, so the LOAN must be geared to that amount of security [Gold]."
Another August 26, 1991 memo from John Hamilton and Peter Hyun outlined the loan transaction for $80 million dollars in what is ostensibly a currency exchange involving the USSA and using gold as security--but the gold security was obtained from the unauthorized use of collateral belonging to the Durham Family Trust, according to the owner, V. K. Durham.
An Addendum to the Hamilton-Hyun agreement indicates that Campbell and Campbell of La Jolla, California maintained the client account; and while the above documentation is not a complete representation of the Brady bond transactions, testimony from V. K. Durham, other intelligence sources and those mentioned in the documents and memos would provide a better understanding of the how Durham’s family collateral was misappropriated for bogus and non-performed debt instruments which could be used over and over again to perpetrate trillions in fraudulent loans.
Financing the 9.11 attacks
According to inside intelligence sources who provided additional documents, federal whistleblower Stewart Webb told us he has made the serious allegation that financing the September 11 attacks was facilitated through former CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg’s American International Group (AIG) and Florida’s Greenberg-Traurig law firm bank accounts established at New York’s Citibank where President George H. W. Bush’s former CIA legal counsel Norman Philip Brownstein sits as a Director.
Webb has spent 20 years investigating White House crime families and was credited for helping to expose the 1989-90 HUD and Savings & Loan Scandals. [Houston Chronicle, "S & L whistleblower faces federal charges," 9-16-1992 and Sarah McClendon‘s Washington Report, "Notes from the Editor," 12-24-1991]
On November 1, 2001--just seven weeks after the 9.11 attacks--former Somalia Ambassador to Switzerland Leo Emil Wanta--wrote to Vice President Richard Cheney to warn him about ongoing foreign transactions and to do something to stop the illegal activity:
"...my help was requested in moving large sums of cash into ‘Foundations’ Legal Groups...in the Philippines...German in the ‘family’ has financed a large group who were recovering ten boxes which were taken to US, Germany & Moldovia (Rumania)...The ‘family’ want their boxes!!....Things are getting out of hand!....Mil needs cash with which to purchase & remove these items...too much is in the wrong hands!"
The leaked memo raises serious questions as to what the Vice President of the United States knew about the movement of crates of cash out of the Philippines into the U.S.A. and two foreign countries almost immediately after the 9/11attacks.
Did Cheney do anything to stop the illegal activity?
Was Cheney linked to the operation?
What did Condoleezza Rice and President Bush do about it when Cheney told them?
Of equal importance is whether the Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee has obstructed justice in the matter by refusing to call Cheney to publicly testify about credible evidence of potential payoffs taking place along the 9.11 investigation time-line--just after the attacks.
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau will also have to explain why they are obstructing justice because they have been in possession of this evidence and much more for months and have not subpoenaed Mr. Cheney, Dr. Rice or the President.
Who are the members of the "family" that Leo Wanta warned Mr. Cheney about and why were they moving boxes of cash to other "family" members right after 9.11? Were these clandestine transactions linked to $240 billion in stolen collateral to purchase Brady bonds--and then to borrow currency which documents clearly show was linked to fraud in the U.S. banking system--money never repaid the day after the September 11 attacks?
Where is the money?
Who borrowed $240 billion and never repaid it?
Were the crates of cash in the Philippines used for payoffs to "9.11 terrorists" who met with an FBI Special Agent 30 days after the attacks, according to the December 14, 2001 Wanta-Cheney memo?
"Terrorists" like the eight British Intelligence agents attempting to blow up the Chicago subway last week? [The "family" want their boxes!!...Things are getting out of hand!]
The Goldman Sachs and AIG financial evidence above is similarly linked to what former FBI contract linguist Sibel Edmonds recently told TomFlocco.com in our fourth interview story with the FBI federal whistleblower. The shocking evidence content of Edmonds’ translations of wire intercepts prior to 9.11 revealed that ten well-known American politicians and heads of federal agencies are tied to drug-money laundering in the federal banking system--money used for political campaigns she said, but also for financing the 9.11 World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks. Under a court-ordered gag restriction, Edmonds has not divulged the names.
Edmonds' explosive evidence, linking the 9.11 attacks to ten well-known American politicians and federal agency heads could also subject former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and all judges and Department of Justice lawyers involved in her case to be targeted for obstruction of justice charges and as co-conspirators to misprison of treason. This, for withholding substantial and credible evidence from impaneled independent federal grand juries in New York and Arlington, VA, empowered to subpoena testimony and investigate crimes linked to September 11. [18 U.S.C. 4 ]
According to two witnesses, Greenberg-Traurig is allegedly tied to suspect legal entanglements surrounding the challenge for control of New Hampshire 9.11 widow Ellen Mariani's estate and her husband Neil’s death on September 11. Mariani’s litigation in New York and New Hampshire against President Bush and other top officials seeking court-ordered discovery about White House involvement in the attacks and obstruction of justice by members of Congress was blocked due to complications surrounding the challenge for control of her husband’s estate.
Norman Brownstein was a former Director and the current corporate attorney for the late Leonard Millman’s MDC Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Silverado Savings and Loan Association where President George W. Bush’s brother Neil was a Director of the failed institution which cost American taxpayers at least $50 billion dollars.
Webb revealed he has evidence that proves Silverado laundered $12 trillion dollars in narcotics money during the time period that President Bush’s brother Neil was on the board of directors of the failed bank organization.
According to Leonard Millman’s ex-son-in-law Stewart Webb, $2.6 billion in Mena, Arkansas/Iran contra drug money was laundered through the Rose Law firm [where New York Senator Hillary Clinton was a partner] into Millman’s failed M&L Business Machines Company of Denver.
Webb alleged that his documented evidence and first-hand witnesses prove that Hank Greenberg, Leonard Millman and Meyer Blinder were all involved in massive securities fraud involving National Brokerage Group of Companies, and its Stinger Securities, Coral Gables Securities and others that allegedly milked American investors for billions of dollars during the 1980s. This, while Webb also alleged that Hank Greenberg was involved in re-insurance fraud loans with Millman’s National Acceptance Company which owned First National Acceptance Company, both of which own Bank of America, with the first two being financially connected to AIG.
Attorney General Spitzer is in possession of part of the above evidence relating to Leonard Millman’s links to $6 trillion in American pension fund fraud; moreover, Webbtold us that former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr--who the whistleblower said obstructed justice in his investigation of Clinton/Bush-linked narcotics money laundering--had lunch with Mr. Spitzer a few weeks ago, raising additional questions regarding obstruction of justice for a grand jury with subpoena power.
Webb alleges that drug money was laundered by Millman into Hank Greenberg’s AIG and other Wall Street accounts by Gwendolyn Waymark of the Waymark Group and also the Foundations Group--which the Cheney memo above links to boxes of cash moved from the Philippines and tied to both the recently deceased Millman and George H. W. Bush.
The Foundations Group’s laundered drug money paid for a group of 9.11 terrorists secretly headed by the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) Gary Best--one of the former Iran contra shadow government players--according to Webb.
Most shockingly, Webb alleges that "ONI-CIA Marine officer Oliver North, CIA-DIA agent Gary Best, CIA agent Terry Lynn Nichols and CIA contract agent Timothy McVeigh were all paid through Waymark’s Foundations Group funding arm--directly or indirectly."
This raises the bar as to why the Vice President has not been subpoenaed when the Wanta memo directly links Cheney, Dr. Rice (and by authority and the obligation to act upon a financial terrorist threat--President Bush) to knowledge of the Foundations Group in what appears to be United States covert black operations involving financial terrorism and mass murder.
Webb told us, "this explosive evidence is why Eliot Spitzer and Robert Morgenthau are obstructing justice to let AIG off the 9.11 hook in the "public" part of their current and high-profile Wall Street probe. But it’s also why the Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee members are obstructing justice and committing treason by refusing to subpoena Cheney and other key intelligence officials regarding their awareness of a "family" extending from the Philippines to Europe and the United States--all with links to financing terrorism."
A comprehensive grand jury investigation, with subpoenas, testimony and interrogation by independent, a-political career prosecutors like Patrick Fitzgerald could well blow the lid off 30+ years of illegal operations, financial terrorism, 9.11 mass murder, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Kennedy assassination and pre-emptive war based upon lies--a lengthy pattern of illegal activities by a succession of White House crime families, according to both Webb and V. K. Durham.
All this, tacitly endorsed by quietly complicit congressmen--either too frightened to speak truth to power due to past small-plane assassinations or having been self-absorbed by pensions, perks and power to exercise their constitutional mandate to protect the very citizenry which honors them with high office.
CIA banker’s strange death
Colonel Russell Hermann--a 53-year career military officer, had been conducting a two-year internal investigation of President Clinton, White House counsel Vincent Foster and protracted drug shipments into Mena, Arkansas; but Central Intelligence would not let him retire since it was too expensive to train new personnel and re-start the investigative trail, according to his wife "V.K." who witnessed the first attempt on her husband’s life from her front porch in 1993.
Durham told us "he traveled in a big black truck with tons of surveillance equipment. I saw it, but he didn’t want me to come near it. He said ‘you don’t want to know about this;‘ and as he put his arms around me and kissed the back of my neck, he said ’we caught President [Clinton’s] man [Vince Foster] with Swiss bank accounts, so now I can file my investigation reports, retire, and we can start living a new life.’ "
"This was July 1, 1993. Vince Foster turned up dead on July 20 and my husband Russell was murdered on August 29, 1994," she said.
"The next day, while mowing his lawn on July 2, 1993, Russell was sprayed with some type of poison gas--possibly sarin--from a passing vehicle. He took a few steps and went down, bleeding from the eyes, ears and nose," said Durham who had married Hermann six years earlier on November 27, 1987.
"Russell had not finished his report on Clinton, Foster and the Mena, Arkansas drug money laundering, she said, adding that her husband had cryptically told her, "If I go to the hospital without that report being finished, I am a dead man." This, reminiscent of Michael Corleone’s "men are coming to kill my father" plea to a lone nurse caring for the Godfather in an empty wing of a New York City hospital.
"There was no sign of an ambulance," said Durham, "a 24 foot white box van with no lettering or markings took Colonel Herman away and he was missing and unaccounted for from 9:00 am till 10:00 pm at night. I found him the next day through a phone call at my neighbors."
"He was at St. Mary’s Hospital in Clayton, Missouri--in a wing all by himself, strapped down to a bed with no life support system when I got to him, nothing," she said, adding "Russell was a U.S. intelligence officer--a full Colonel--and he told me to ‘call my CWO2 [Chief Warrant Officer] and tell him to get my mandatory two men in here to protect my life."
Offering a warning to current CIA officers, Durham said "Russell told me they strung him up on meat hooks on the way to the hospital--I saw the [warning: graphic photos] hook marks under his collar bone: they beat him and burnt him with cigarettes, broke his ribs, left hand and left arm, and shoved a cattle prod into his rectum," said the furious widow, making a clear point: "they’ll do it again to any of the intelligence guys walking around now if they don’t do something to stop these criminals."
St. Mary’s hospital was described to us as some sort of secret military asylum--a hospital of horrors, by Durham, who said "the hospital was filled with naval officers and a woman named Ruth said ‘you have to sign these papers (4-inch stack),’ and I asked
‘where are my husband’s records;’ she pulled them back and shredded them right in front of me--all his military records--a full-bird U.S. Army Colonel."
"When Ruth had her back to me, another woman slipped me a piece of paper of the hours and medical log sheets with the hour Russell was taken to the hospital--helping to fix the hours of his torture and the fact that his ambulance authorization had not even been signed," she said, "proving he was tortured in the back of that white truck--and this is the United Stated Veterans Administration!"
"Russell was kept there against his will after he recovered until November 17, 1993. One of the doctors, another friend of Russell’s and I saw Marine Colonel Oliver North dressed in a white medical coat attempting to disguise himself while visiting Russell’s hospital room on November 13 or 15, just before he was released from the hospital.
Durham told us, "something was going on at that hospital. I saw a Navy Commander strapped to a gurney--from Seal Beach...tied down. A female doctor was sitting there with his wife and they were bartering over his body parts. I heard all this with Russell’s doctor friend. The Commander was alive and strapped there, his eyes looked terrified and his mouth was taped shut," she said, offering "his wife walked over to her husband and said ‘Now I’ll never have to know when you’re coming home again.’ We inquired about him later and found that he had come up ‘missing.’ "
Still weak and declining from the first murder attempt on his front lawn, Colonel Russell Hermann ended up at the Veterans Administration Health Care Center in Marion, Illinois; and Durham told us "Hillary Clinton’s operatives, David Horowitz and Karen Koffee came to meet with Russell, seeking money to underwrite the National Healthcare Program she was pushing in 1994."
"This was on July 20. Russell told me Clinton’s people said ‘you’re going to die before very long and your wife will disappear and no one will know where she is,’ and both of them are accessories to murder as far as I am concerned," said Durham, as we listened in stunned silence.
"Russell was doing pretty well around August, 1994, and on Friday, August 26, he said that George Bush Sr., Alan Greenspan and Oliver North came to see him in his hospital room at the VA, and tried to get him to sign off on the Iran and Latin America contra accounts so they could get control of them," Durham told us, adding, "but Russell told me he just reached down and grabbed a hand-full of excrement from his hospital bowel and threw it at President Bush, saying ‘go to hell.’ Then the three of them left the room as I was coming up the other elevator."
"I was planning to take Russell home from the VA the following Monday, August 29--a couple days after Bush, Greenspan and North visited on Friday. I came in to pick him up and he was dead," she said, adding "the attending physician, Dr. Pettit, refused to do an autopsy, even though Russell’s body was all red and he was given 8 or 9 injections on his hip and the base of his skull, and his back and body were as red as fire--but his eyes were as clear as mine."
"The coroner, Michael Vickery, took a number of photographs and told me ‘this man was murdered,’ and I had been refused possession of his body for six days--from August 29 until September 5--after being told there was evidence that he was frozen alive, she told us while still in stunned silence.
When we asked what happen next, Durham said "I found out the contra accounts were moved from Republic Bank in Texas to Republic Bank in New York; I think Teddy Lloyd was the banker in New York. I believe they knocked Russell out and I thought he was dead. Then they moved him to the Guernsey Islands near England and used his voice-activated and fingerprint codes to sign over control of the $13-17 billion in gold that was in the accounts," providing another paper trail for recovery of missing funds from the U.S. Treasury--but also a public view into the inner-working of intelligence bank account security.
V. K. Durham told us one of Russell’s men contacted her and said there had been a government contract to take out the Colonel by either a Commander McDonough or MacDonald, and that there are transcripts from the tape of his torture and death, but she does not know where they are.
"Control files" blackmail congressional and DOJ officials
Stewart Webb alleges that an important key to the "control" of the U.S. House and Senate has been the use of blackmail via "Operation Brownstone," led by individuals he calls CIA shadow government players like Ted Gunderson, Harold George Pinder and Clint Murchinson Jr.--setting up legislators for blackmail through child pedophilia rings using both vulnerable male and female children from orphanages all across the United States. This, according to scores of documents and witnesses.
Americans who are concerned about pedophilia, with near daily reports of kidnappings or disappearances of young children who later turn up dead or fall victim to Mexican, South American and Middle Eastern child sex slavery need only start with the ongoing cover-up of pedophilia in the halls of Congress and the White House. It’s still a hushed-up secret, waiting for irate parents and family victims to march on Washington.
Other congressional blackmail was employed, according to Webb, by the late Leonard Millman, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, Neil Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush in an entity known as the MCRD-Boulder Properties Limited Partnerships--financed by Silverado Savings & Loan; and Webb says this forced dozens of current and former congressmen into bankruptcy, including high-profile current New York Senator Charles Schumer. [Media Bypass, May, 2000]
Additional bribes and payoffs were affected through Millman’s cutout company, Denver’s M&L Business Machines to David Mann, Asst. DOJ Inspector General, who works under Lee Redneick, DOJ Inspector General, with money also paid to Denver U.S. Attorney Mike Norton and Robert Pence, head of the FBI Denver office.
Illegal campaign money laundering involved Millman’s MDC holdings--fined by the SEC in 1991 and covered up by former Colorado Attorney General Gail Norton, the current Bush 43 Secretary of Interior, according to Webb. [ TIME, "Rush for Gold--How Silverado Operated," 8-14-1990, and TIME "Running With A Bad Crowd," 10-3-1990]
Norman Philip Brownstein, a current Director of Denver’s Chubb Insurance Company, allegedly owned by George H. W. Bush and Webb’s ex father-in-law, the late Leonard Millman--through illegal trusts funded by laundered drug money controlled by Brownstein--paid President Clinton’s legal fees and also paid off Paula Jones in her sexual harassment suit against the President. Clinton’s personal attorney, James M. Lyons--engulfed in the Whitewater scandal--sits on the board of Millman’s MDC holdings.
All this, according to Webb’s documents and first-hand witnesses, but also Webb's grand jury demand--filed three times.
Webb told us as recently as August, 2004 in U.S. Federal Court in Denver [Case No. 95-Y-107], Chief Judge Richard Matsch has continued to ignore and obstruct his explosive evidence in a manner similar to when Matsch ruled in the Oklahoma City bombing case.
Lastly, another illegal operation employed to "control" and pay off House and Senate members was through Apartment Investment and Management Company (AIMCO)--a real estate investment trust (REIT) currently run by former Congressman Terry Considine and Bush 41 attorney Norman Brownstein.
Members of Congress have been bribed via the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) via Millman and Brownstein’s handing over hidden corporate ownerships in AIMCO’s stolen HUD properties, the federal whistleblower has alleged.
According to Webb, AIMCO is the largest landlord of U.S. apartments--with units that were stolen by Millman’s partner Phil Winn of Denver’s Winn Group, the focus of the 1989 congressional "HUD Scandal " investigation which led to Independent Prosecutor Arlen Adams convicting Switzerland Ambassador Phil Winn and others--but three months before leaving office, President Clinton pardoned Winn. And congressmen continue to profit from money stolen from the taxpayers.
All this, as the voices of thousands of American boys cry out from their graves on the bluffs above the Normandy beaches on the English Channel: "France!...now it’s your turn to help America."
Who will guard the guards?
Mary Schneider contributed additional research for this report.
[Mary was illegally fired by the Department of Homeland Security for her whistleblower activity in the Orlando, FL Immigration office to protect America. Rep. Ric Keller (R-8-FL) and Sen. Bill Nelson (R-FL) refused to help Mary even after I flew to Florida and met person
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Dubai to get back gold reserves from London banks
2009-05-26 17:05:00
DUBAI: All the gold of Dubai that is held in the vaults of various banks in London is coming back to the City of Gold.
The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) has opened new vaults to store the gold reserves in Dubai, currently being looked after by central banks in London.
DMCC officials disclosed that DMCC vaults will be a home to the gold allocated to the Dubai Gold Securities (DGS) Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). The vault may also become a natural choice for storage of gold reserves by central banks in the Middle East bullion market.
At present, gold allocated to DGS is kept at HSBC’s vaults in London and gold reserves held by GCC’s central banks are held by various other vaults in London. London has been home to safe and secure gold vaults for more than a century.
The new gold vaults at DMCC became operational in April. DMCC officials said that the gold held under DGS ETFs at the HSBC vaults in London will be bought to Dubai soon.
Dubai Gold Securities listed on Nasdaq Dubai in March. Each security represents ownership of 1/10th of an ounce of gold and is expected to initially trade in increments of $0.10.
HSBC has been storing gold bought by investors, charging 0.4% of the value a year. The price of Shariah compliant Dubai Gold is determined by bids and offers and is designed to follow spot gold prices.
Initially, a creation basket of 50,000 shares will be issued and up to one billion shares can be issued, according to market demand.
Liquidity for Dubai Gold is backed by the London OTC gold market. Mac Capital has said it 'believes that Dubai Gold makes a sound addition to an investment portfolio'.
The recently-launched Dubai Gold Securities offers investors Shariah-compliant access to gold bullion investment without the additional costs normally associated with insuring, storing and transacting in physical gold.
And, Shariah-compliant gold funds are offering better returns than the other funds as investment in the yellow metal has lifted its price by multiples of a thousand dollars, according to the managers of Shariah-compliant funds.
After the launch of Dubai Gold Securities at Nasdaq Dubai on March 2, the World Gold Council (WGC) had said that cross-listings of the product is being planned on regional markets.
WGC now thinks that it can cross-list the product on other exchanges in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia. As part of the WGC strategy for exchange traded gold, it has key partners worldwide. WGC can use them to cross-list the product.
Each security is 100% backed by physical allocated gold held in safekeeping by an independent custodian. One share represents an initial interest of one-tenth of a fine troy ounce of allocated gold bullion.
The current wisdom for central banks is that if they have more than 20% of their reserves in gold, they are overweight. Central banks with low reserves of gold are looking forward to increasing their reserves. They are trying to analyse what the right balance should be. They are getting aggressive. And this includes the banks in the Middle East and in the Bric countries, the WGC said.
In contrast, some countries hold 80%-85% of their reserves in gold. This includes Switzerland. The US Central Bank also has a high gold reserve. These banks also need to readjust their strategy.
Dubai also hosts gold futures trading at the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX). The state-run DMCC holds a majority stake in the DGCX.
According to a WGC report, gold investment in the Middle East jumped 38% in 2008 compared with 2007’s fourth quarter. Saudi Arabia saw a massive 300% jump in investment demand, Egypt 67% and other Gulf countries registered a 2% increase.
According to the WGC, several Middle East nations including Dubai are going to be action centres for gold investments.
A Shariah Supervisory Board has been constituted to supervise the issuance of Dubai Gold Securities and will conduct regular physical inspections of the gold held on behalf of investors.
DGS’s listing on Nasdaq Dubai follows the successful listing of similar bullion securities products on a number of stock exchanges around the world, including the NYSE Arca and London Stock Exchange.
Currency devaluations have particularly shifted the focus to gold. Printing more paper is eroding confidence in it. So, not only gold, but every hard asset is becoming more reliable. Gold especially has attracted a lot of investments.
Gold occupied five per cent of above ground financial asset in 2008. It occupied 22 per cent of it in 1982.
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THE HITMEN COMETH
It has come to my attention that several private parties have accepted contract assignments to neuter the COMEX and London Metals Exchange, to render ruin to its gold market. That bears repeating from the rooftops.
MUTLIPLE HIRED HITMEN HAVE ASSIGNMENTS TO KILL THE COMEX GOLD MARKET.
That is the lynchpin to control the USDollar, the USTreasurys, and the corrupt mechanisms used by the New York and London syndicates. Their clear criminal behavior is beyond the reach of law enforcement, but they are not beyond the reach of hitmen.
The USDollar has been in violation of the US Constitution since 1971, perpetuated by a renegade series of administrations. The global creditors for the USTreasury Bonds are so angry at the past suffered losses, the prospect of deep future losses, and the corruption laced throughout the US financial system, that they have hired third parties to kill off the US$-gold platforms, to destroy the burdensome banking ballast dominated by protected entrenched fraud experts, to lay waste to the vehicles used by the US-UK bond trafficking syndicate totally saturated with corruption, dishonesty, and collusion, replete with greed, totally absent conscience.
They have systemically been dismantling the COMEX pillars and levers over the last several months, quietly and without fanfare, surely without publicity. If gold investors knew of their actions, they would become much bolder. Some want the bankers in their gunsights not to be warned. They await their fate with the Financial Grim Reaper. Their executions will be as swift as brutal.
The HITMEN have been hired, with highly lucrative contracts and wide berth in methods to be put to use. Their assigned task is to castrate the levered family jewels from some of the major players who illegally keep the gold price and silver price artificially low. The targeted victims know their awaited fate, and are presently defecating in their skivvies.
A short list of banks facing the firing squad is already known, details for Hat Trick Letter members. Some detailed speculation will be devoted to the June HTL reports, since too controversial. This will be an evolving story, with new chapters soon written. The executions will be sudden. The missing US-UK levers will be immediate. Since last autumn, the global powers have aligned against Wall Street, even if the central bankers have supported it.
If one wants to destroy a building, then weaken its pillars, cut a few support beams, then rush in a crowd of people, and wait for a turbulent storm. In the case of the COMEX, the wicked players will crowd the corrupted building. They will sink into ruin and then oblivion. They might become objects of mockery when they make noises from prison. If lucky, they will join Ken Lay from Enron fame in a remote Caribbean island where other favored operators live a secluded life, but a life nonetheless, complete with plenty of sunshine, fresh air, beaches, bikinis, and sailboats, but no intrusive cameras. Please, do not disturb the quasi-dead!
The financial cartel dominated by the United States and United Kingdom is soon to suffer some serious blows. The list of their financial crimes is as magnificent as it is long. Its list of victims is as prominent as it is long. The harbored resentment is great by many global players. They waited patiently for the Obama Admin to install a new group, but the old group remains due to a revolving door from the same smoky club, dominated by Goldman Sachs once more.
Their influence, if not bribery, of the USCongress is in continuation, sufficient for unwanted obsequious approval. The regulatory agencies are from the same encrusted chambers replete with stench. The Coup d’Etat of the USGovt financial offices has not changed with Obama, who sounds like a refreshing leader but who is actually a marionette under control by those who selected him, favored him with publicity, then enabled his election. Nothing has changed except the rhetoric of change and the pace on the path to bankruptcy for a few icon firms like General Motors and Chrysler, if not the desperate cries from the 50 states suffering from insolvency. More prominent failures will follow, since nothing has been remedied. The channeled funds directed to Wall Street firms continue unabated. The bread crumbs to Main Street and the people continue unabated. Even the war continues unabated. Forget not that Marie Antoinette once said “Let them eat cake” before the French Revolution and the Storming of the Bastille. Today, the Bastille is the entire USEconomy where insolvent Americans are stuck.
Some might wonder what was the turning point that resulted in hired hitmen to be under contract against certain US financial markets. Some might say the failures of Lehman Brothers, American Intl Group, and Fannie Mae. Not so! In my opinion, it was the invasion in the South Osettia region of Georgia in August 2008.
The events around Georgia, with the United States Military deeply involved, along with a certain tiny mischievous ally nation, lit a fuse that set off a chain of events. In time, events led to orders given by high level powers, for the US fraud kings on Wall Street to swallow the medicine no later than first thing Monday morning on September 15th. When the Jackass inquired as to the nature of the urgency leading into that understood stated deadline date, no answer was given.
The guess of the Bank For Intl Settlements was submitted by me, and it was confirmed. Other sources, the USTreasury Bond creditors, also applied the pressure, it was told. Rumor was thick that death threats had been delivered to certain Wall Street executives, such as Paulson. Thus the pressure passed on to the USCongress for passage of T.A.R.P. funds.
The disbursement of those funds have not been made public partly because Wall Street (read Goldman Sachs) does not want the US people to be aware of payoffs for bond fraud under death threats. Also, the Congressional Inspector has cited a few dozen recommendations for criminal fraud investigations of the same T.A.R.P. funds. The US financial sector has become a den of vipers, no longer the bastion of gentlemen, but rather of syndicate bosses.
COMEX STRESS NEAR A BREAKING POINT
Sources from GATA (the Gold Anti-Trust Action committee) report growing distress for participants in the COMEX gold contracts, where a commercial party is very short and in deep trouble. They have sold more gold bullion than they can deliver. They are likely one of the big banks who violate the law with impunity, with USGovt sanctioned protection. By that is meant they routinely do not post 90% of the metal as collateral that they illegally sell.
This is naked shorting by any other name.
There are reports of grave concern over the upcoming June gold option expiration.
If too many deliveries are ordered, then the commercial shorts would be under stress for exposure for naked shorting.
They will eventually be caught in a bind and default on contracts.
The important loaded monthly contracts are March, June, September, and December.
The COMEX has tried to limit the ability of buyers to take delivery, running them around in circles, and entangling them in red tape, all clearly restraint of trade endorsed by the USGovt.
Such rules are not in effect for cotton or soybeans or crude oil or pork bellies. After all, a financial crime syndicate has taken control of the USGovt, ever since Robert Rubin took charge at the USDept Treasury in 1992. His major project was to gut the nation of its gold, for the private profit of his friends. Recall Rubin came from Goldman Sachs. Rubin was the author of the Strong Dollar Policy which brought ruin to the nation. Hey, just my opinion!
Background inventory strain has come from unexpected sources. The Germans have demanded that gold bullion held in US custodial accounts be returned to their owners, with physical gold shipped back to Germany. The Dubai bankers have demanded that gold bullion held in London custodial accounts be returned to their owners, with physical gold shipped back to the United Arab Emirates. They are following the hired German counsel.
In all likelihood, neither US nor London sources are in possession of all the gold held in those custodial accounts, since at least some of it probably was improperly leased. By that is meant without owner permission or knowledge. So an uproar could come soon with charges of gold bullion theft, or at least failure of fiduciary responsibility. Theft is a simpler description.
China is the biggest gold producer in the world now, but none of its output is directed to the open market. Russia is a significant gold producer also, but none of its output is directed to the open market either.
A near default occurred in early April from a close call to Deutsche Bank on 850 thousand ounces of gold. The tarnished bankers at D-Bank dug up over a million ounces on the quick from the ready Euro Central Bank mine shifts in the nick of time. Never ignore the basic fact that COMEX lies through its teeth about the gold bullion in its vaults, since audits do not occur, some is leased (replaced by paper certificates), and some is committed in some fashion to very wealthy parties (unavailable).
Far less gold bullion rests in COMEX vaults than is advertised.
All signals point to serious strain in COMEX gold supply.
FEEDERS FOR GOLD FULLY LOADED
Two important feeder systems continue to be USDollar weakness and USTreasury Bond weakness. More important than these is the systematic ruin of the major global currencies generally, but a convenient chart is not offered to track it. Just note the near 0% official rates dictated by the failed franchised Politburos known as central banks in most countries, or the movement toward 0%. The USDollar has broken below important support at 81.
Expect it to fall further after more dithering.
The long-term USTreasury Note has suffered a fast rising surge in its bond yield.
Its target from different perspectives is 4.1%, and right quick.
These two highly favorable charts will power the gold price to new highs very soon.
Nobody knows how soon, but soon.
Rarely does one see both the USDollar and USTreasurys fall in value simultaneously.
They are now, and will provide a jet assist to gold, which is held back only by COMEX corruption. Their illicit maneuvers are more obvious and desperate with each passing week. Someday their actions might even be on the news. The imminent Standard & Poors debt downgrade of the UKGilt (bonds from British Govt) hit the credit market last week like a bolt of lightning. My belief is that it might have short-circuited the US-UK financial foundation, and burned out some major circuit boards. The US and UK share Third World finance characteristics. If a Fourth World existed, the US would merit it.
The gold price is on the verge of a breakout to new nominal highs. The chart demands it. It needs only a trigger, in a land where potential triggers dot the charred landscape. A gold event will be unavoidable. Its chronic strain has derived from the extreme disparities between the physical market mired in shortage, versus the paper market with unlimited supply. The tail is wagging the dog here, as it has been for years, soon to end. The silver price will easily recover to the 17 level in a flash. It has already surpassed the February high. It is loading up for the next little surge to resistance that awaits at the 17-19 range. The potential sling shot momentum boost for silver will be powerful, enough to send its price to 30 with ease. Think pendulum.
NOW FACTOR IN DISRUPTIVE EVENTS, THE PRICE DISLOCATIONS, AND THE OVER-ARCHING PARADIGM SHIFT IN PROGRESS.
THE GOLD PRICE COULD REACH 1300 SUDDENLY.
WITH EXTREME CONTROVERSY FROM COMEX, LIKE DELIVERY DEFAULTS, PUBLICIZED CORRUPTION, AND EVEN FRAUD INDICTMENTS, THE GOLD PRICE COULD OVER-RUN THE 1300 TARGET AND HEAD FOR 1500 AND BEYOND.
SILVER COULD AS A RESULT FOLLOW ITS WARRIOR BROTHER, HEAD PAST 20 IN A FLASH, AND PURSUE 30 EASILY.
Little attention has been given lately to one of the most reliable time-tested forward indicators of the gold price. The ratio of the 10-year USTreasury Note yield to the 2-year USTreasury Bill yield has always been highly reliable in predicting a move in the gold price. The simple chart of bond yields versus maturity years is known better as the Treasury Yield Curve. The ratio is more amenable to chart analysis.
A breakout in the Treasury Yield Ratio is in progress. All benefits from the mid-March monetization announcement have vanished. If the 2-year bond yield remains near 1%, where it appears stuck, then the breakout target would indicate that the 10-year bond yield is heading to 4.1% at least. Yet another method targets 4.1% in the long bond yield. The presented ratio contains information on the future prospect of price inflation, in a reliable contrast of time perspectives. Knuckleheads who insist on pounding the Deflation Tables might want to check this indicator, and look at the crude oil price. It is $63 per barrel, not the $20-25 predicted by these lost troopers. Yo Mish Bro, can you spare me a deflating dime? The strict definition of money is useless anymore. The Shadow Banking system is an actual part of the real world, which you do NOT count.
To the fools, dolts, and morons out there who cling to notions of recovery and Green Shoots, bless your heart.
Hope has clouded your minds.
Once more you believe the liars and purveyors of propaganda, after being nearly fatally burned.
You must believe in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the Tooth Fairy. You should not be in charge of investment funds, but rather of crayon supply cabinets and Beanie Baby collector items. The Case Shiller housing price index this week reported a 19.1% annual decline in 1Q2009 from Q1 last year. Foreclosures in April were up 32% over last year, as the nightmare continues. That is 1 in 374 homes with mortgages in America in some process of foreclosure.
A relentless decline in home prices erases household wealth, and the source of consumer spending. Consumer confidence is ephemeral and baseless. The mortgage rate has just gone above the pre-March levels, when the USFed announced they would monetize $1050 billion in both USTreasury Bonds and USAgency Mortgage Bonds. The benefit has been erased. Today’s underwater mortgage is tomorrow’s foreclosure, made worse by job losses. The FDIC this week reported a 25% rise in non-current loans in 1Q2009 from Q4 of last year. Greater bank losses will come, much like floods follow hurricanes.
And lastly, give credit to the USGovt statrats in their busy laboratories. They decided to ramp up the Q2 Gross Domestic Product by including all USGovt rescue funds for the big banks, including the diverse funds from the many liquidity facilities. All those funds will go directly into the GDP for Q2 as a special line item. Expect a miraculous economic recovery in the second quarter, based in vapor. The stock rally since March was based in accounting fraud. These are true American innovations, but too bad they are not exportable! They are not, since they have no value.
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Cash payoffs, bonds and murder linked to White House 911 finance
Documents point to attack on America by White House crime families
by Tom Flocco
Sioux City, Iowa -- September 4, 2005 -- TomFlocco.com --
According to leaked documents from an intelligence file obtained through a military source in the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), on or about September 12, 1991 non-performing and unauthorized gold-backed debt instruments were used to purchase ten-year "Brady" bonds. The bonds in turn were illegally employed as collateral to borrow $240 billion--120 in Japanese Yen and 120 in Deutsch Marks--exchanged for U.S. currency under false pretenses; or counterfeit and unlawful conversion of collateral against which an unlimited amount of money could be created in derivatives and debt instruments.
Crusing the Florida Keys (1984) Then VP George H. W. Bush (second from left) and former CIA Director who led the National Security Council during Iran contra, with Nicholas F. Brady (third from left) then chairman of Wall St. Investment firm Dillon Read and later Bush 41 Secretary of the Treasury.
The illegal transactions are also linked to the murder of a U.S. Army colonel charged with overseeing approximately 175 secret CIA bank accounts, according to the officer’s wife, Mrs. V. K. Durham. During multiple interviews, Durham told TomFlocco.com that Bush 41 and Clinton administration officials visited her husband Colonel Russell Hermann several times in the months prior to and three days before his torture and murder on August 29, 1994.
Durham told us the $240 billion in stolen currency was obtained resulting from George H. W. Bush’s presidential abuse of power, when he authorized former Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and former Secretary of State James Baker III to make fraudulent use of the Durham Family Trust collateral without her permission. There is evidence that Colonel Hermann’s and V. K. Durham’s signatures were forged on a Goldman-Sachs bank account certification requesting the conversions to U.S. currency.
The money was never repaid since the ten-year Brady bonds--purchased before September 13, 1991 using the fraudulent collateral and gold bullion as security came due on September 12, 2001--the day after the 9.11 attacks, having allegedly been underwritten and held by the trustee, Cantor-Fitzgerald bond brokerage firm [whose offices on floors 101-105 in the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) were destroyed on 9.11 along with the Brady bond evidence].
Three days before his suspicious death [warning: graphic photos], Colonel Hermann told his wife that former President George H. W. Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and U.S. Marine Colonel Oliver North (pardoned by Bush Sr. two years earlier for his Iran contra indictments when Bush Sr. was also facing indictments for his role in Iran contra) all passed V. K. Durham coming up in an adjacent elevator after all three had left Hermann’s room and gone down in another elevator at the Veterans Administration Health Care Center in Marion, Illinois. Hermann had been probing Bush 41 and Clinton links to narcotics money laundering, according to his wife.
Durham told us that Colonel Hermann told her "Bush, Greenspan and North were trying to get me to sign off on the CI Ltd., the Central Intelligence, Ltd. Iran and Latin American contra accounts. They held about $13-17 billion in physical gold." This, raising questions about an evidence trail for a grand jury to seek restoration of funds potentially stolen by high government officials from United States taxpayers.
Cheney, Rice & Bush aware crates of cash moved from Philippines
Part of an explosive November 1, 2001 U.S. Military / Intelligence Operations memo from former Somalian Ambassador to Switzerland Leo Wanta which is addressed to Vice President Richard Cheney reveals evidence that Cheney, President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other National Security Agency officials knew about the movement of boxes containing large amounts of U.S. currency out of the Philippines just seven weeks after the September 11 attacks. The document was passed from Mr. Cheney to Dr. Rice--who in turn passed it on to George W. Bush, according to knowledgeable sources familiar with the memo:
"...was approached and my help was requested in moving large sums of cash into (Foundations) Legal Groups [law firms laundering money--see below] to be formed for "charitable" work here in the Philippines. The approx. amount is 300T Php of which 30% is offered as a "gift" to the USA....[A] German in the family has financed a large group who were recovering ten boxes [crates of counterfeit cash, drug money, bearer bonds?] which were taken to US, Germany & Moldovia [Moldova/Rumania]....The group includes...Robert Wachtel, Brad U. Lee, Allan Nichols [Three FBI Division 5 counter-intelligence agents, providing evidence of presidential abuse of power using federal agents for illegal covert financial terrorism operations, according to whistleblower Stewart Webb who provided us with the document]....The "family" want their boxes!! [cash payoffs] ...Things are getting out of hand! [payees mad and impatient?]....MIL [Marvelous Investments, Ltd., Andover, MA according to intelligence sources] needs cash with which to purchase & remove these items [boxes of cash]...too much is in the wrong hands! If we are to be successful here, I have outlined how to do it. One other thing we must have is transportation "permits." [official cover and protection inside & outside the country] ...much is moving that no one can see." [Click here to read the full memo from Leo Wanta to Vice President Cheney]
The existence of fake "savings certificate funds," reportedly being peddled by an international crime syndicate ["family"?]--of which the Wanta-Chaney memo evidence indicates the possible involvement of the Vice President with the knowledge of both Dr. Rice and the President--was also confirmed in the spring after 9.11 by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) in BusinessWorld.com. (May 30, 2001)
U. S. Intel Op: FBI Agent met with individual in Osama bin Laden video
On December 14, 2001, a private and confidential letter from Leo Wanta to Vice President Richard Cheney just obtained by TomFlocco.com confirms the November 1 memo describing the movement of boxes of U.S. currency out of the Philippines, ostensibly to be used for cash payments for an as yet unidentified operation; however, a far more important piece of evidence in the letter indicates that U.S. Intelligence Operations thinks that one of the persons in the contemporaneous White House release of an Osama bin Laden (OBL) "terror" video met with an unidentified FBI Special Agent-in-Charge while in Manila after the 9.11 attacks:
"1. Approximately two months ago [October 14, 2001--30 days after 9.11], REDACTED was in Manila Philippines staying at the Midtown Hotel Metro Manila...she was in the company of Dr. Navarro...other persons present at the same time were REDACTED, rep of the "Company" and SAC [FBI Special Agent in Charge] REDACTED."
"2. Intel op advises that during these meetings a person identified as Datu ben Abu [identified as a KGB agent according to knowledgeable sources] was introduced and close contact was made with this person. This person was in a wheel chair. In observing the video recently released of OBL, intel op is of the opinion that the man against the wall with the blanket over his legs, full face beard, large hands, wide nose and dark set eyes is the same person identified as Datu ben Abu."
"3. Intel op further advises that a lady was present with SAC [FBI Special Agent-in-Charge ] REDACTED and it is believed that the lady is Myma Kleine. It is believed that this female is the same individual using various alias names that is a fugitive and wanted by authorities in Israel, USA, Germany and other areas of Europe."
"4. Intel op also advises that Datu ben Abu held further meetings (during the same time period) [30 days after 9.11] with a Russian group staying at the Pan Pacific Hotel Metro Manila Philippines."
"6. Intel op is also of the opinion that there is relevance to the meetings in the Philippines and the movement of certain "u boxes" (see previous communications) and the apparent same associate [Datu ben Abu] appearing in the subject video release." [Click here to read the complete intel op document from Wanta to Cheney re: FBI agent meeting with Osama associate right after 9.11 ]
The letter’s chain of authority from Cheney to Rice to Bush confirms for a second time that the White House was aware that boxes of U.S. cash were moved from the Philippines; but also that an unnamed FBI Special Agent-in-Charge in the Philippines met more than once with an individual who U.S. Intelligence Operations advises was one of the persons with Osama bin Laden in the White House-released television video shown world-wide.
The Wanta-Cheney letter raises serious evidence questions for a grand jury as to why an FBI agent, ostensibly representing the U.S. government, was meeting (just 30 days after the 9.11 attacks) with an Osama bin Laden associate important enough to be shown with the "terrorist" leader in a White House-produced video. But a grand jury could also ask why crates of cash were being moved to the U.S., Germany and Moldovia (Rumania).
V. K. Durham confirmed some of the contents of the November 1, 2001 memo (which she had not previously seen) when she told us in a separate interview, "Keith Johnson from Wachovia Bank is the Queen of England’s signatory there. ‘KJ’ said that President Clinton told him to go to the Philippines to move out crates of U.S. dollars. He told me himself that tons of crates of U.S. cash were warehoused in the Philippines, she said, "adding additional evidence that Manila is a Black Operations depository for payoff money used for White House crime family shadow government activities.
The intelligence file documents linked throughout this piece are significant because the evidence not only provides proof of suspicious and clandestine shipments of U.S. currency between foreign countries, but also that counterfeit debt instruments involving fraud in the U. S. banking system were due the day after the 9.11 attacks. Did the White House, Congress and the 9.11 Commission obstruct justice regarding this evidence?
Moreover, Durham alleges from conversations before her husband’s murder, that any 10-year Brady bond payoff for notes due on 9-12-2001 would have led to additional evidence of trillions in stolen funds from the U.S. Treasury and the identity of the perpetrators--providing an important reason to take out Cantor-Fitzgerald offices in the North Tower and a Pentagon ONI file section on September 11. Besides the intelligence file leaked to Durham, other documents were obtained by TomFlocco.com from whistleblower Stewart Webb’s intelligence sources.
Durham’s documents were delivered to the door of her home in February, 2000 by a uniformed Naval intelligence officer who told her, "the officer who asked me to bring these documents to you said you will know what to do with them," whereupon he quickly turned and left before she could see his uniform ID name tag.
The same documents from the leaked file were separately compared and authenticated by another unnamed (for personal safety reasons) intelligence officer who provided identical copies to Independent Presidential Candidate Karl Schwarz, who said that agent did not know the identity of the original Naval intelligence officer who passed the intelligence file through V. K. Durham to TomFlocco.com.
No statute of limitations on obstruction, murder and financial terrorism
Durham, who said her husband told her in front of another witness that on Friday, August 26, 1994 George Bush Sr., Greenspan and North had "attempted to force Russell to sign off on CIA contra accounts [Iran & Latin America] and other instruments not under his control," indicated she would testify under oath to this and other evidence linked to George H. W. Bush’s unauthorized use of her collateral if subpoenaed by a grand jury or by Congress.
Durham called Dave Ehler, a staff-member to her congressman, Iowa Representative Steve King (R-5-IA), to tell him that Bush, Greenspan and North were in her husband’s hospital room three days before his murder and to introduce him to three separate witnesses who identified the three and described the encounters to Ehler--one who saw North in Hermann’s hospital room on a separate occasion, one who witnessed (along with Durham) Colonel Hermann’s statement regarding the Bush Sr--Greenspan--North visit to his hospital room, and one who saw the actual murder contract on Colonel Hermann’s life and told Ehler he is in possession of the transcript. Durham said the conversations with Ehler were tape recorded and moved to multiple secure locations to protect the evidence.
Durham, 69 and living in Iowa, has also contacted her senator, Banking Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) and along with her congressman, Representative Steve King (R-5-IA), provided both with all the evidence in this report and much more; however, Durham said both legislators were told "not to investigate" by officials at the very highest levels of government. Dave Ehler, the aide from Congressman King’s Storm Lake, Iowa office (tape-recorded by Durham) told her that "orders had come down from the top: ‘do not investigate.’"
Another Grassley aide, Bill Anderson, helped in the Iowa Senator’s obstruction of the investigation regarding why Hermann’s wife was not given her husband’s benefits and social security, after also being told "not to investigate," according to V. K. Durham, who told us, "Russell did more than two 20-year hitches in all five branches of the military. It would have meant a lot to me; but Clinton’s people destroyed his files and Senator Grassley and his aides obstructed the investigation."
Grassley, King and their congressional aides have seen substantial and credible evidence of obstruction of justice regarding mass murder on 9.11; however, both have failed to publicly pressure New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau to commence a 9.11 criminal probe despite obvious jurisdiction, venue and receipt of the identical evidence made available to Grassley and King by Durham.
If the United States Code is still being enforced, this evidence will subject all four public officials to charges of obstruction of justice and misprison of treason. [Failure of a public official to give notice of a felony or treason by refusing to act on information and evidence: 18 U.S.C. 4 via the Federal Crime Reporting Act]
There is evidence that Greenspan and Brady knew about the illegal transactions since the leaked intelligence file included Federal Express airbill tracking receipts [Greenspan--#0916621952 and Brady--#0916621963 dated August 19, 1991--just prior to the September 13, 1991 exchange transaction] and sent to the Federal Reserve Chairman and former Secretary of the Treasury by John D’Acquisto, CEO, Ariel Life Systems, Inc., CEO, DFG, Inc and Trustee, Cosmos Seafood Energy Corp. [FedEx Acct. #1429-4274-7], whose name was on the currency transfer agreement with an Israeli corporation, Trans Tech International--represented by Jonathan Tiede.
Durham told us that a Central Intelligence agent said Cantor-Fitzgerald held the 10-year Brady bonds; and her secure family trust was the owner of BONUS COMMODITY CONTRACT 3392 AND CERTIFICATE OF DEBT NUMBER 181 OF MAY 1, 1875 [Special Bonus Certificate No. 3392 / 181], originally issued by the government of Peru in 1875 and illegally used by the U.S. government as the collateral to purchase the bonds which secured the currency transfers--all of which came due in the middle of the September 11 attacks.
Durham’s note is due and payable in "American gold coin, gold bullion and/or coin of the realm," having multiplied in value well into the trillions but its fraudulent use as collateral by Bush 41 and Clinton administration officials was unauthorized by her family trust, she told us.
There was no investigation of the suspicious circumstances surrounding her husband’s death, said Durham; and Bush, Greenspan and North were never subpoenaed and interrogated regarding the substance of their conversations with Herman just prior to his torture and murder.
Durham said she has continuously been denied social security payments, her husband’s service records were shredded in her presence so that she would not be afforded access to Hermann’s substantial military pension, and all paper trails were eradicated by Clinton and Bush 41 officials to obstruct justice regarding any future investigations.
Several U.S. intelligence agents spoke privately with Durham, informing her that the Cantor-Fitzgerald files identifying the bogus bonds were lost in what suppressed 9.11 television news footage in slow motion shows was a controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and WTC 7; moreover, ONI officials themselves--some of whom were probing the fraudulent 10-year debt instruments allegedly held by Cantor-Fitzgerald in the doomed North Tower--also perished along with the investigation files, all of which were curiously in the path of the 9.11 Pentagon impact.
Durham told us that Colonel Hermann had offices in the Northwest corner of the Pentagon and that he worked with David Rose of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s office for the Queen of England. She said that Keith Johnson, the Queen’s signatory at Wachovia Bank told her about the Office of Naval Intelligence being hit at the Pentagon on September 11--that there had been an ongoing investigation of money laundering.
Several other intelligence sources who spoke to longtime federal whistleblower Stewart Webb, alleged that the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and WTC 7 was called "Operation Code Angel," also known as Tripod II--a U.S. Department of Justice "war games" exercise involving the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA)--which Webb alleges was run by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s Police Chief Bernard Kerik at Pier 29 on the New York City waterfront, according to Webb’s intelligence sources who asked not to be named until subpoenas and testimony commence.
When Thomas Ridge resigned, Kerik was in line to become Secretary of Homeland Security after the passage of the U.S. Patriot Act; however, his appointment was derailed by Congress due to multiple irregularities and improprieties and he was never subpoenaed for interrogation about the allegations involving Defense Department operations "Code Angel" / Tripod II.
Misused collateral = gold security = bogus bonds = $240 billion stolen currency
Evidence indicates that on August 19, 1991, John D’ Aquisto of DFG Inc. mailed Federal Express packages to United States Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan and Bush 41 Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady to communicate details of currency exchange transactions which ultimately led to multiple allegations of bank fraud involving billions of dollars, according to V. K. Durham. It is not known whether this cash was laundered into the Philippines and then used for the "family," referred to in the Wanta-Cheney memo.
The FedEx receipts show contact between Greenspan, Brady and John D’ Aquisto and given the bank fraud links, Greenspan’s visit to Russell Hermann and the close proximity of the transactions to September 11, Durham says prosecutors should interrogate the three about their knowledge of improper banking activities which could be linked to the North Tower attacks at Cantor-Fitzgerald and the Pentagon impact reportedly involving the ONI on September 11--witnesses for a grand jury, should an official entity decide to prosecute mass murder on behalf of U.S. taxpayers.
On September 13, 1991, a currency exchange/transfer agreement was made involving Trans Tech International Ltd, located in Moshav Yishi, Israel--represented by Jonathan Tiede, who acted as the U.S. Dollar provider in a $120 billion dollar currency exchange involving four separate tranches (allocations) totaling $30 billion each.
John F. D’ Aquisto, President and CEO, DFG, Inc. and Trustee of Cosmos Seaford Energy Marketing Ltd. acted as provider of the Japanese Yen: Transaction Number 091291/JY/USD/30B/001 [September 12, 1991/Japanese Yen/U.S. Dollar/$30 billion/number1of4].
According to Stewart Webb, Nevada Secretary of State Frankie Sue Del Papa, a Bush shadow government player, participated as a co-conspirator to obstruct justice, intentionally switching forged documents pertaining to registrations and filings of corporations involving Bush 41 and Leonard Millman. One of the corporations connected to the gold-backed Brady bonds above was Cosmos Corporation of Nevada--one of several Cosmos corporations.
Robert D. Hammond, Vice President of the Securities Sales Department, Goldman Sachs & Co., wrote to John D’ Aquisto and DFG, Inc. on August 7, 1991, certifying that DFG had an account with Goldman, number 027-02082-2; however, the letter’s notary seal contained the forged signatures of both V. K. Durham and her husband, Colonel Russell Hermann. [ Durham initialed and attested to the alleged bank fraud directly on the notarized document, indicating the signatures Goldman sent to D’ Aquisto were forgeries ]:
"Please be advised that if DFG wishes to engage in foreign currency transactions, Goldman Sachs has extensive capabilities in this area. For instance, upon receipt of approximately 700 million Japanese yen into the above account, Goldman could convert such funds into approximately $5 million U.S. dollars."
D’ Aquisto also complained about more alleged bank fraud by Goldman Sachs in a letter to Phil Roberts in the Bank Fraud Division at the U. S. Department of the Treasury, written on September 10, 1991, regarding suspect banking procedures wherein "funds were reversed and withdrawn from our account without our permission."
In another letter on September 10, 1991 to Karl Ehm, D' Aquisto and Russell Hermann asked "did you receive the return of $5,117,280.00 back from Goldman-Sachs?" The letter also indicated "no zero balance shown after the activity summary," providing no evidence that $5+ million was withdrawn just minutes after it was deposited while showing that the money was still in the account.
The letter specifically referred to a partial Japanese Yen transfer which took place at Goldman’s Los Angeles office prior to the September 13, 1991 ten-year contract. The transaction in California provides potential U.S. jurisdiction and venue for another citizen grand jury should obstruction of justice continue in New York City where Spitzer and Morgenthau refuse to probe the suspect $240 billion dollar financial transaction which came due at Cantor-Fitzgerald two days after the 9.11 attacks:
"On September 10, 1991 we received our August 1st-August 31 statement from Goldman...On the statement enclosed you will see that the Japanese Yen went to Mitsui Bank of Tokyo, which is Goldman Sachs’ correspondent bank. The monies were then credited to the account and exchanged and deposited, U.S.D. equivalent at the rate of exchange. That part of the transaction was perfectly normal."
"What happened next is what concerns me. On August 7, 1991, the funds were reversed and withdrawn from our account without our permission! There is no reference to the whereabouts, or disclosure of the whereabouts of this money, or of the receipt of acknowledgement that this transaction even took place."
"As an ex-banker of 16 years, I feel that my rights have been violated to the highest degree, and the laws of the United States have been broken. I think you would call this bank fraud? According to Goldman Sachs, this was probably a clerical error on their part. I find it hard to believe that a company such as Goldman Sachs would be so negligent as to make a $5,117,280.00 "clerical error....you can call me at our other company Ariel Life Systems Inc., a government contracted corporation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)."
Clinton Treasury Secretary and George W. Bush advisor knew about transactions
On September 12, 1991 John D’ Aquisto wrote to Hans Reich at the Goldman Sachs Compliance Department regarding "missing funds from our Goldman Sachs account" but also "why was our Tax ID # on the statement stated as "88-8888888 instead of what our Tax ID # really is, 33-0457266?!"
This time, however, D’ Aquisto sent copies of the letter to two important individuals--describing alleged Goldman Sachs tax ID number improprieties and evidence of $5+ million in missing funds which would likely lead to more evidence of unaccounted for transfers as part of a $240 billion dollar currency exchange involving numerous scheduled tranches (allocations) in brokerages like Goldman Sachs and linked to 10-year Brady bonds purchased along the 9.11 timeline.
The executives received copies delineating the alleged bank fraud were Goldman’s Chairman (at the time) Stephen Friedman who is now President Bush’s Assistant for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council, and also Goldman Senior Partner (at the time) and former Clinton Administration Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, who is currently Citigroup’s Chairman of the Executive Committee.
The evidence provides a paper trail suggesting that current high Clinton and Bush officials, members of Congress, and the New York Attorney General and Manhattan DA (all with jurisdiction, venue, oversight responsibility or power--were and are aware of allegedly significant fraudulent banking activities at Goldman Sachs which is linked to transactions along the time-line of the 9.11 attacks--and an ongoing ONI intelligence probe where the investigators died at the Pentagon, information literally screaming for a separate grand jury investigation in and of itself.
On the same day, September 12, 1991, Jonathan Tiede, representing Israel's Trans Tech International, sent a fax through Dallas firm Daniel International to John D' Aquisto at DFG, Inc. referring to "problems," given the other directly related documents linked herein complaining about bank fraud:
"I have come to the conclusion that the only way I could sign this document would be to put in a clause that states the above is null and void. Please see Addendum "A" which would be our contract. Which seems to be a way full of problems and which could only make money for the attorneys, should there be problems. I must therefore insist on this transaction being done on our contract, which if they agree to our procedures should not really be a problem for them."
On September 13, 1991, Wayne H. Ellis, Vice President, City National Bank in La Jolla, CA wrote to Don Brucker at Ariel Life Systems, a contract company for NASA, outlining instructions for depositing funds into Ariel Life.
In a September 16, 1991 letter to John F. D' Aquisto from a German firm handling Deutsch mark transactions, Verhaelen GmbH, and signed by "Karl" Ehm, allegations of alleged bank fraud by Goldman Sachs are further addressed. The Durham intelligence file did not contain the Deutsch mark contracts; however, Colonel Hermann’s wife emphatically asserted to us that "there was another $120 billion in Deutsch mark currency transfers and it is possible the contracts are being withheld until a grand jury subpoenas the officials involved:
"The Goldman Sachs deal as you have informed me is absolutely disappointing. I have studied your papers and discussed with the European fiduciary of the Yen side to find a way to bring the real acting of Goldman Sachs to light. But nobody here can influence a deal between an American bank and a Japanese Bank."
"As you know, Goldman Sachs did not receive any information from our side to be in a situation to close because we have never contacted them. I agree entirely with you and Russell (Colonel Hermann) that it is most possible that Goldman Sachs has been inspired by you and this deal to find a source which can deliver Yen with discount. And as they found out that they cannot execute such a deal as a bank because a private partner has to be the USD supplier, they may have used the account of you or of DFG with Goldman Sachs to fulfill the condition of a private exchange. To me this seems to be the most important argument that the acting of Goldman Sachs is a fraud."
Another September 16, 1991 letter from the ONI intelligence file provides insight into the secretive nature of the financial transactions when Howard Daniel, owner of Daniel International Inc. in Dallas, Texas wrote to John D’ Aquisto. Banks involved in the transactions included Security Pacific (Washington) and New York’s Chemical Bank--and the letter provides more evidence of Durham’s assertions about $120 billion in Deutsch mark currency transfers coming from the Brady bond collateral:
"...please find the signed contracts together with the R.W.A.’s for both the Japanese Yen and Deutsch Mark contracts....Jonathan Tiede (Trans Tech Intl.) needs to know the time and name of the Bank Officer that will make the call to the Shearson Lehman Representative...he will pre-advise the Representative of the incoming call and then give you the go ahead for the call to be made."
"I must stress that the telephone call must absolutely follow the outline as laid down in the contract. NO OTHER CONVERSATION WILL BE ALLOWED OR TOPIC ADDRESSED. Failure to abide by the guidelines for this conversation will be deemed as non-performance, and the non-performance clause will be invoked by the U.S. DOLLAR account holder."
"Each party and their representative intermediaries warrant not to reveal the banking coordinates provided herein to any individuals or parties other than these banking officers necessary to complete this transaction."
Interestingly, some of the money was transferred through New York’s Chase Manhattan Bank into an account held by the Palm Springs Stars Baseball Club, using the security codes RH, VKD, and JFD for Russell Hermann, V.K. Durham and John F. D‘ Aquisto.
Durham asserts that DFG, Inc, and the Palm Springs Stars Baseball Club are associated through President Bush’s brother Neil, National Security Agency, Ariel Life Systems--affiliated with NASA, and former Vice President Jack Kemp and HUD--but also former Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady and current Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan. All this, giving rise to additional serious grand jury questions as to whether the above were receiving illicit money via the Durham Trust’s stolen collateral.
A letter to John D’ Aquisto on September 10, 1991 from Bay State Trust in Zurich provides evidence of gold used as security in the Brady bonds/currency transfer which is described as a pilot shipment of "one (1) kg bar of AU [gold] with full documentation to MAT Securitas AG, Kloten, Switzerland...we can issue a bank endorsed purchase order by 12 September 1991 covering the purchase of 1 kg bar AU, 999.5 fineness. We can also arrange to have a bank endorsed Purchase Order issued for 1-3 m/t AU weekly but only after successful conclusion of the 1 kg pilot shipment as covered herein."
An August 26, 1991 memo from William Sommerville of Contec Development PTY Ltd. in Sydney, Australia to John Hamilton of Hamilton & Hyun Investments provides information that the USSR Government Loan Facility, including a list of high-ranking Russian officials is "authorized to execute an agreement" for the "Republic of Yakutsko...a major gold-mining area and comes within the [Boris] Yeltsin controlled sector. We are advised that everything is ‘on track’ and we are pursuing detailed confirmation overnight."
The letter continues, adding "we have been told the Gold is in Kloten [Switzerland]," indicating that the Yeltsin government was also involved in the currency transactions, and that "we know that ten (10) Metric Tonnes [Gold security] will be immediately available, and this cannot be increased, so the LOAN must be geared to that amount of security [Gold]."
Another August 26, 1991 memo from John Hamilton and Peter Hyun outlined the loan transaction for $80 million dollars in what is ostensibly a currency exchange involving the USSA and using gold as security--but the gold security was obtained from the unauthorized use of collateral belonging to the Durham Family Trust, according to the owner, V. K. Durham.
An Addendum to the Hamilton-Hyun agreement indicates that Campbell and Campbell of La Jolla, California maintained the client account; and while the above documentation is not a complete representation of the Brady bond transactions, testimony from V. K. Durham, other intelligence sources and those mentioned in the documents and memos would provide a better understanding of the how Durham’s family collateral was misappropriated for bogus and non-performed debt instruments which could be used over and over again to perpetrate trillions in fraudulent loans.
Financing the 9.11 attacks
According to inside intelligence sources who provided additional documents, federal whistleblower Stewart Webb told us he has made the serious allegation that financing the September 11 attacks was facilitated through former CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg’s American International Group (AIG) and Florida’s Greenberg-Traurig law firm bank accounts established at New York’s Citibank where President George H. W. Bush’s former CIA legal counsel Norman Philip Brownstein sits as a Director.
Webb has spent 20 years investigating White House crime families and was credited for helping to expose the 1989-90 HUD and Savings & Loan Scandals. [Houston Chronicle, "S & L whistleblower faces federal charges," 9-16-1992 and Sarah McClendon‘s Washington Report, "Notes from the Editor," 12-24-1991]
On November 1, 2001--just seven weeks after the 9.11 attacks--former Somalia Ambassador to Switzerland Leo Emil Wanta--wrote to Vice President Richard Cheney to warn him about ongoing foreign transactions and to do something to stop the illegal activity:
"...my help was requested in moving large sums of cash into ‘Foundations’ Legal Groups...in the Philippines...German in the ‘family’ has financed a large group who were recovering ten boxes which were taken to US, Germany & Moldovia (Rumania)...The ‘family’ want their boxes!!....Things are getting out of hand!....Mil needs cash with which to purchase & remove these items...too much is in the wrong hands!"
The leaked memo raises serious questions as to what the Vice President of the United States knew about the movement of crates of cash out of the Philippines into the U.S.A. and two foreign countries almost immediately after the 9/11attacks.
Did Cheney do anything to stop the illegal activity?
Was Cheney linked to the operation?
What did Condoleezza Rice and President Bush do about it when Cheney told them?
Of equal importance is whether the Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee has obstructed justice in the matter by refusing to call Cheney to publicly testify about credible evidence of potential payoffs taking place along the 9.11 investigation time-line--just after the attacks.
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau will also have to explain why they are obstructing justice because they have been in possession of this evidence and much more for months and have not subpoenaed Mr. Cheney, Dr. Rice or the President.
Who are the members of the "family" that Leo Wanta warned Mr. Cheney about and why were they moving boxes of cash to other "family" members right after 9.11? Were these clandestine transactions linked to $240 billion in stolen collateral to purchase Brady bonds--and then to borrow currency which documents clearly show was linked to fraud in the U.S. banking system--money never repaid the day after the September 11 attacks?
Where is the money?
Who borrowed $240 billion and never repaid it?
Were the crates of cash in the Philippines used for payoffs to "9.11 terrorists" who met with an FBI Special Agent 30 days after the attacks, according to the December 14, 2001 Wanta-Cheney memo?
"Terrorists" like the eight British Intelligence agents attempting to blow up the Chicago subway last week? [The "family" want their boxes!!...Things are getting out of hand!]
The Goldman Sachs and AIG financial evidence above is similarly linked to what former FBI contract linguist Sibel Edmonds recently told TomFlocco.com in our fourth interview story with the FBI federal whistleblower. The shocking evidence content of Edmonds’ translations of wire intercepts prior to 9.11 revealed that ten well-known American politicians and heads of federal agencies are tied to drug-money laundering in the federal banking system--money used for political campaigns she said, but also for financing the 9.11 World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks. Under a court-ordered gag restriction, Edmonds has not divulged the names.
Edmonds' explosive evidence, linking the 9.11 attacks to ten well-known American politicians and federal agency heads could also subject former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and all judges and Department of Justice lawyers involved in her case to be targeted for obstruction of justice charges and as co-conspirators to misprison of treason. This, for withholding substantial and credible evidence from impaneled independent federal grand juries in New York and Arlington, VA, empowered to subpoena testimony and investigate crimes linked to September 11. [18 U.S.C. 4 ]
According to two witnesses, Greenberg-Traurig is allegedly tied to suspect legal entanglements surrounding the challenge for control of New Hampshire 9.11 widow Ellen Mariani's estate and her husband Neil’s death on September 11. Mariani’s litigation in New York and New Hampshire against President Bush and other top officials seeking court-ordered discovery about White House involvement in the attacks and obstruction of justice by members of Congress was blocked due to complications surrounding the challenge for control of her husband’s estate.
Norman Brownstein was a former Director and the current corporate attorney for the late Leonard Millman’s MDC Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Silverado Savings and Loan Association where President George W. Bush’s brother Neil was a Director of the failed institution which cost American taxpayers at least $50 billion dollars.
Webb revealed he has evidence that proves Silverado laundered $12 trillion dollars in narcotics money during the time period that President Bush’s brother Neil was on the board of directors of the failed bank organization.
According to Leonard Millman’s ex-son-in-law Stewart Webb, $2.6 billion in Mena, Arkansas/Iran contra drug money was laundered through the Rose Law firm [where New York Senator Hillary Clinton was a partner] into Millman’s failed M&L Business Machines Company of Denver.
Webb alleged that his documented evidence and first-hand witnesses prove that Hank Greenberg, Leonard Millman and Meyer Blinder were all involved in massive securities fraud involving National Brokerage Group of Companies, and its Stinger Securities, Coral Gables Securities and others that allegedly milked American investors for billions of dollars during the 1980s. This, while Webb also alleged that Hank Greenberg was involved in re-insurance fraud loans with Millman’s National Acceptance Company which owned First National Acceptance Company, both of which own Bank of America, with the first two being financially connected to AIG.
Attorney General Spitzer is in possession of part of the above evidence relating to Leonard Millman’s links to $6 trillion in American pension fund fraud; moreover, Webbtold us that former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr--who the whistleblower said obstructed justice in his investigation of Clinton/Bush-linked narcotics money laundering--had lunch with Mr. Spitzer a few weeks ago, raising additional questions regarding obstruction of justice for a grand jury with subpoena power.
Webb alleges that drug money was laundered by Millman into Hank Greenberg’s AIG and other Wall Street accounts by Gwendolyn Waymark of the Waymark Group and also the Foundations Group--which the Cheney memo above links to boxes of cash moved from the Philippines and tied to both the recently deceased Millman and George H. W. Bush.
The Foundations Group’s laundered drug money paid for a group of 9.11 terrorists secretly headed by the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) Gary Best--one of the former Iran contra shadow government players--according to Webb.
Most shockingly, Webb alleges that "ONI-CIA Marine officer Oliver North, CIA-DIA agent Gary Best, CIA agent Terry Lynn Nichols and CIA contract agent Timothy McVeigh were all paid through Waymark’s Foundations Group funding arm--directly or indirectly."
This raises the bar as to why the Vice President has not been subpoenaed when the Wanta memo directly links Cheney, Dr. Rice (and by authority and the obligation to act upon a financial terrorist threat--President Bush) to knowledge of the Foundations Group in what appears to be United States covert black operations involving financial terrorism and mass murder.
Webb told us, "this explosive evidence is why Eliot Spitzer and Robert Morgenthau are obstructing justice to let AIG off the 9.11 hook in the "public" part of their current and high-profile Wall Street probe. But it’s also why the Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee members are obstructing justice and committing treason by refusing to subpoena Cheney and other key intelligence officials regarding their awareness of a "family" extending from the Philippines to Europe and the United States--all with links to financing terrorism."
A comprehensive grand jury investigation, with subpoenas, testimony and interrogation by independent, a-political career prosecutors like Patrick Fitzgerald could well blow the lid off 30+ years of illegal operations, financial terrorism, 9.11 mass murder, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Kennedy assassination and pre-emptive war based upon lies--a lengthy pattern of illegal activities by a succession of White House crime families, according to both Webb and V. K. Durham.
All this, tacitly endorsed by quietly complicit congressmen--either too frightened to speak truth to power due to past small-plane assassinations or having been self-absorbed by pensions, perks and power to exercise their constitutional mandate to protect the very citizenry which honors them with high office.
CIA banker’s strange death
Colonel Russell Hermann--a 53-year career military officer, had been conducting a two-year internal investigation of President Clinton, White House counsel Vincent Foster and protracted drug shipments into Mena, Arkansas; but Central Intelligence would not let him retire since it was too expensive to train new personnel and re-start the investigative trail, according to his wife "V.K." who witnessed the first attempt on her husband’s life from her front porch in 1993.
Durham told us "he traveled in a big black truck with tons of surveillance equipment. I saw it, but he didn’t want me to come near it. He said ‘you don’t want to know about this;‘ and as he put his arms around me and kissed the back of my neck, he said ’we caught President [Clinton’s] man [Vince Foster] with Swiss bank accounts, so now I can file my investigation reports, retire, and we can start living a new life.’ "
"This was July 1, 1993. Vince Foster turned up dead on July 20 and my husband Russell was murdered on August 29, 1994," she said.
"The next day, while mowing his lawn on July 2, 1993, Russell was sprayed with some type of poison gas--possibly sarin--from a passing vehicle. He took a few steps and went down, bleeding from the eyes, ears and nose," said Durham who had married Hermann six years earlier on November 27, 1987.
"Russell had not finished his report on Clinton, Foster and the Mena, Arkansas drug money laundering, she said, adding that her husband had cryptically told her, "If I go to the hospital without that report being finished, I am a dead man." This, reminiscent of Michael Corleone’s "men are coming to kill my father" plea to a lone nurse caring for the Godfather in an empty wing of a New York City hospital.
"There was no sign of an ambulance," said Durham, "a 24 foot white box van with no lettering or markings took Colonel Herman away and he was missing and unaccounted for from 9:00 am till 10:00 pm at night. I found him the next day through a phone call at my neighbors."
"He was at St. Mary’s Hospital in Clayton, Missouri--in a wing all by himself, strapped down to a bed with no life support system when I got to him, nothing," she said, adding "Russell was a U.S. intelligence officer--a full Colonel--and he told me to ‘call my CWO2 [Chief Warrant Officer] and tell him to get my mandatory two men in here to protect my life."
Offering a warning to current CIA officers, Durham said "Russell told me they strung him up on meat hooks on the way to the hospital--I saw the [warning: graphic photos] hook marks under his collar bone: they beat him and burnt him with cigarettes, broke his ribs, left hand and left arm, and shoved a cattle prod into his rectum," said the furious widow, making a clear point: "they’ll do it again to any of the intelligence guys walking around now if they don’t do something to stop these criminals."
St. Mary’s hospital was described to us as some sort of secret military asylum--a hospital of horrors, by Durham, who said "the hospital was filled with naval officers and a woman named Ruth said ‘you have to sign these papers (4-inch stack),’ and I asked
‘where are my husband’s records;’ she pulled them back and shredded them right in front of me--all his military records--a full-bird U.S. Army Colonel."
"When Ruth had her back to me, another woman slipped me a piece of paper of the hours and medical log sheets with the hour Russell was taken to the hospital--helping to fix the hours of his torture and the fact that his ambulance authorization had not even been signed," she said, "proving he was tortured in the back of that white truck--and this is the United Stated Veterans Administration!"
"Russell was kept there against his will after he recovered until November 17, 1993. One of the doctors, another friend of Russell’s and I saw Marine Colonel Oliver North dressed in a white medical coat attempting to disguise himself while visiting Russell’s hospital room on November 13 or 15, just before he was released from the hospital.
Durham told us, "something was going on at that hospital. I saw a Navy Commander strapped to a gurney--from Seal Beach...tied down. A female doctor was sitting there with his wife and they were bartering over his body parts. I heard all this with Russell’s doctor friend. The Commander was alive and strapped there, his eyes looked terrified and his mouth was taped shut," she said, offering "his wife walked over to her husband and said ‘Now I’ll never have to know when you’re coming home again.’ We inquired about him later and found that he had come up ‘missing.’ "
Still weak and declining from the first murder attempt on his front lawn, Colonel Russell Hermann ended up at the Veterans Administration Health Care Center in Marion, Illinois; and Durham told us "Hillary Clinton’s operatives, David Horowitz and Karen Koffee came to meet with Russell, seeking money to underwrite the National Healthcare Program she was pushing in 1994."
"This was on July 20. Russell told me Clinton’s people said ‘you’re going to die before very long and your wife will disappear and no one will know where she is,’ and both of them are accessories to murder as far as I am concerned," said Durham, as we listened in stunned silence.
"Russell was doing pretty well around August, 1994, and on Friday, August 26, he said that George Bush Sr., Alan Greenspan and Oliver North came to see him in his hospital room at the VA, and tried to get him to sign off on the Iran and Latin America contra accounts so they could get control of them," Durham told us, adding, "but Russell told me he just reached down and grabbed a hand-full of excrement from his hospital bowel and threw it at President Bush, saying ‘go to hell.’ Then the three of them left the room as I was coming up the other elevator."
"I was planning to take Russell home from the VA the following Monday, August 29--a couple days after Bush, Greenspan and North visited on Friday. I came in to pick him up and he was dead," she said, adding "the attending physician, Dr. Pettit, refused to do an autopsy, even though Russell’s body was all red and he was given 8 or 9 injections on his hip and the base of his skull, and his back and body were as red as fire--but his eyes were as clear as mine."
"The coroner, Michael Vickery, took a number of photographs and told me ‘this man was murdered,’ and I had been refused possession of his body for six days--from August 29 until September 5--after being told there was evidence that he was frozen alive, she told us while still in stunned silence.
When we asked what happen next, Durham said "I found out the contra accounts were moved from Republic Bank in Texas to Republic Bank in New York; I think Teddy Lloyd was the banker in New York. I believe they knocked Russell out and I thought he was dead. Then they moved him to the Guernsey Islands near England and used his voice-activated and fingerprint codes to sign over control of the $13-17 billion in gold that was in the accounts," providing another paper trail for recovery of missing funds from the U.S. Treasury--but also a public view into the inner-working of intelligence bank account security.
V. K. Durham told us one of Russell’s men contacted her and said there had been a government contract to take out the Colonel by either a Commander McDonough or MacDonald, and that there are transcripts from the tape of his torture and death, but she does not know where they are.
"Control files" blackmail congressional and DOJ officials
Stewart Webb alleges that an important key to the "control" of the U.S. House and Senate has been the use of blackmail via "Operation Brownstone," led by individuals he calls CIA shadow government players like Ted Gunderson, Harold George Pinder and Clint Murchinson Jr.--setting up legislators for blackmail through child pedophilia rings using both vulnerable male and female children from orphanages all across the United States. This, according to scores of documents and witnesses.
Americans who are concerned about pedophilia, with near daily reports of kidnappings or disappearances of young children who later turn up dead or fall victim to Mexican, South American and Middle Eastern child sex slavery need only start with the ongoing cover-up of pedophilia in the halls of Congress and the White House. It’s still a hushed-up secret, waiting for irate parents and family victims to march on Washington.
Other congressional blackmail was employed, according to Webb, by the late Leonard Millman, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, Neil Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush in an entity known as the MCRD-Boulder Properties Limited Partnerships--financed by Silverado Savings & Loan; and Webb says this forced dozens of current and former congressmen into bankruptcy, including high-profile current New York Senator Charles Schumer. [Media Bypass, May, 2000]
Additional bribes and payoffs were affected through Millman’s cutout company, Denver’s M&L Business Machines to David Mann, Asst. DOJ Inspector General, who works under Lee Redneick, DOJ Inspector General, with money also paid to Denver U.S. Attorney Mike Norton and Robert Pence, head of the FBI Denver office.
Illegal campaign money laundering involved Millman’s MDC holdings--fined by the SEC in 1991 and covered up by former Colorado Attorney General Gail Norton, the current Bush 43 Secretary of Interior, according to Webb. [ TIME, "Rush for Gold--How Silverado Operated," 8-14-1990, and TIME "Running With A Bad Crowd," 10-3-1990]
Norman Philip Brownstein, a current Director of Denver’s Chubb Insurance Company, allegedly owned by George H. W. Bush and Webb’s ex father-in-law, the late Leonard Millman--through illegal trusts funded by laundered drug money controlled by Brownstein--paid President Clinton’s legal fees and also paid off Paula Jones in her sexual harassment suit against the President. Clinton’s personal attorney, James M. Lyons--engulfed in the Whitewater scandal--sits on the board of Millman’s MDC holdings.
All this, according to Webb’s documents and first-hand witnesses, but also Webb's grand jury demand--filed three times.
Webb told us as recently as August, 2004 in U.S. Federal Court in Denver [Case No. 95-Y-107], Chief Judge Richard Matsch has continued to ignore and obstruct his explosive evidence in a manner similar to when Matsch ruled in the Oklahoma City bombing case.
Lastly, another illegal operation employed to "control" and pay off House and Senate members was through Apartment Investment and Management Company (AIMCO)--a real estate investment trust (REIT) currently run by former Congressman Terry Considine and Bush 41 attorney Norman Brownstein.
Members of Congress have been bribed via the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) via Millman and Brownstein’s handing over hidden corporate ownerships in AIMCO’s stolen HUD properties, the federal whistleblower has alleged.
According to Webb, AIMCO is the largest landlord of U.S. apartments--with units that were stolen by Millman’s partner Phil Winn of Denver’s Winn Group, the focus of the 1989 congressional "HUD Scandal " investigation which led to Independent Prosecutor Arlen Adams convicting Switzerland Ambassador Phil Winn and others--but three months before leaving office, President Clinton pardoned Winn. And congressmen continue to profit from money stolen from the taxpayers.
All this, as the voices of thousands of American boys cry out from their graves on the bluffs above the Normandy beaches on the English Channel: "France!...now it’s your turn to help America."
Who will guard the guards?
Mary Schneider contributed additional research for this report.
[Mary was illegally fired by the Department of Homeland Security for her whistleblower activity in the Orlando, FL Immigration office to protect America. Rep. Ric Keller (R-8-FL) and Sen. Bill Nelson (R-FL) refused to help Mary even after I flew to Florida and met person
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Dubai to get back gold reserves from London banks
2009-05-26 17:05:00
DUBAI: All the gold of Dubai that is held in the vaults of various banks in London is coming back to the City of Gold.
The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) has opened new vaults to store the gold reserves in Dubai, currently being looked after by central banks in London.
DMCC officials disclosed that DMCC vaults will be a home to the gold allocated to the Dubai Gold Securities (DGS) Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). The vault may also become a natural choice for storage of gold reserves by central banks in the Middle East bullion market.
At present, gold allocated to DGS is kept at HSBC’s vaults in London and gold reserves held by GCC’s central banks are held by various other vaults in London. London has been home to safe and secure gold vaults for more than a century.
The new gold vaults at DMCC became operational in April. DMCC officials said that the gold held under DGS ETFs at the HSBC vaults in London will be bought to Dubai soon.
Dubai Gold Securities listed on Nasdaq Dubai in March. Each security represents ownership of 1/10th of an ounce of gold and is expected to initially trade in increments of $0.10.
HSBC has been storing gold bought by investors, charging 0.4% of the value a year. The price of Shariah compliant Dubai Gold is determined by bids and offers and is designed to follow spot gold prices.
Initially, a creation basket of 50,000 shares will be issued and up to one billion shares can be issued, according to market demand.
Liquidity for Dubai Gold is backed by the London OTC gold market. Mac Capital has said it 'believes that Dubai Gold makes a sound addition to an investment portfolio'.
The recently-launched Dubai Gold Securities offers investors Shariah-compliant access to gold bullion investment without the additional costs normally associated with insuring, storing and transacting in physical gold.
And, Shariah-compliant gold funds are offering better returns than the other funds as investment in the yellow metal has lifted its price by multiples of a thousand dollars, according to the managers of Shariah-compliant funds.
After the launch of Dubai Gold Securities at Nasdaq Dubai on March 2, the World Gold Council (WGC) had said that cross-listings of the product is being planned on regional markets.
WGC now thinks that it can cross-list the product on other exchanges in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia. As part of the WGC strategy for exchange traded gold, it has key partners worldwide. WGC can use them to cross-list the product.
Each security is 100% backed by physical allocated gold held in safekeeping by an independent custodian. One share represents an initial interest of one-tenth of a fine troy ounce of allocated gold bullion.
The current wisdom for central banks is that if they have more than 20% of their reserves in gold, they are overweight. Central banks with low reserves of gold are looking forward to increasing their reserves. They are trying to analyse what the right balance should be. They are getting aggressive. And this includes the banks in the Middle East and in the Bric countries, the WGC said.
In contrast, some countries hold 80%-85% of their reserves in gold. This includes Switzerland. The US Central Bank also has a high gold reserve. These banks also need to readjust their strategy.
Dubai also hosts gold futures trading at the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX). The state-run DMCC holds a majority stake in the DGCX.
According to a WGC report, gold investment in the Middle East jumped 38% in 2008 compared with 2007’s fourth quarter. Saudi Arabia saw a massive 300% jump in investment demand, Egypt 67% and other Gulf countries registered a 2% increase.
According to the WGC, several Middle East nations including Dubai are going to be action centres for gold investments.
A Shariah Supervisory Board has been constituted to supervise the issuance of Dubai Gold Securities and will conduct regular physical inspections of the gold held on behalf of investors.
DGS’s listing on Nasdaq Dubai follows the successful listing of similar bullion securities products on a number of stock exchanges around the world, including the NYSE Arca and London Stock Exchange.
Currency devaluations have particularly shifted the focus to gold. Printing more paper is eroding confidence in it. So, not only gold, but every hard asset is becoming more reliable. Gold especially has attracted a lot of investments.
Gold occupied five per cent of above ground financial asset in 2008. It occupied 22 per cent of it in 1982.
MILITARY UNDER COLIN POWELL ready to go after puppets (Obama) and the puppet masters (CHENY'S KIKE MAFIA CRIME FAGGOT FAMILY)
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Active and retired top military brass met to discuss what really happened on 9/11
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
May 28, 2009, 00:18
(WMR) -- WMR has learned from a well-informed source that in the months after the 9/11 attacks, a group of retired and active duty military officers, with ranks as high as general, met in an informal and hush-hush working group to discuss what actually occurred on September 11, 2001.
WMR has been told that those who met did not believe, in whole or in part, the official line that 19 Arabs nationals armed with box cutters hijacked four U.S. passenger planes and flew three of them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
The officers included veterans of Marine Corps Special Operations.
The officers concluded that it was impossible for the military’s command and control, intelligence, and other defense systems to cascade in a total failure on the morning of September 11. They quietly set out to find out what actually occurred that morning and who or what influenced the total failure of defense, intelligence, and air traffic control systems.
The officers were forced to hold their meetings in secret because of retaliation brought against those who revealed information embarrassing to the Bush administration about both 9/11 and the concocted war against Iraq.
It is now being reported that investigators for the 9/11 Commission drafted a memo in April 2004 stating they believed that the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lied to commission investigators by indicating the military’s readiness was sufficient on 9/11. Commission staffer John Azzerello is reported to have given the memo to Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow, a leading neocon, who then “buried it.”
Commission investigators wanted a strongly worded criminal referral on NORAD and FAA perjury sent to the Justice Department but Zelikow downplayed the complaint and later told Phil Shenon, the author of “The Commission” and New York Times reporter, that he did not know of the criminal referral issue at the time.
The 9/11 Commission documents about the perjury of NORAD and FAA officials corroborates the concerns expressed by the retired military officers about the true version of events on 9/11.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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The Three Branches of the AIPAC: The Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial
By Mohamed Khodr • May 28th, 2009 at 17:06 •
“The actions of some of our United States Zionists will eventually prejudice everyone against what they are trying to get done. I fear very much that the Jews are like all underdogs. When they get on top they are just as intolerant and as cruel as the people were to them when they were underneath.”
–President Harry Truman in a Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt (“Truman”, David McCullough, p. 598). Although Truman is the one most directly responsible for the creation of Israel, he has now joined the Pantheon of “Anti-Semites”.
“Back in the 1950s, the frustrated Secretary of State John Foster Dulles unambiguously stated: We cannot have all our policies made in Jerusalem. ” To the owner of Time Inc. Henry Luce he said: “I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews. [But] I am going to try to have one. This does not mean I am anti-Jewish, but I believe in what George Washington said in his farewell address, that an emotional attachment to another country should not interfere.”
–B. R. Gowani, “The Lobby as Juggernaut”, Counterpunch, September 1, 2008
A.I.P.A.C.: American Israel Public Affairs Committee
According to the New York Times, April 26, 1998, article, “For 47 Years, a Lobby Group With Muscle Has Tirelessly Tended U.S.-Israel Ties.”
“Of all the Jewish organizations devoted to channeling that popular opinion into American policy, there is none so influential — or so feared — as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, known as AIPAC.”
AIPAC’s main influence and domination is in Congress although it certainly impacts all levels of the U.S. Government. Its main concern is U.S. foreign policy vis à vis Israel, the Middle East, and the Muslim world in general. It has succeeded for decades in preventing the development of any good relations between the Arab, Muslim world and the U.S. It focuses primarily on diplomatic, military, and financial aid to Israel as well as forcing the adoption of Israel’s enemies as America’s enemies so that what’s good for Israel is automatically good for America; yet if all of that is true, why have a lobby?
The very word AIPAC strikes the deepest fear and intimidation into the very souls of every American politician from the smallest town in America to the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court. This lobby for decades has demonstrated its power in electing subservient Congressmen and destroying those who dare speak against Israel. Every new Congressmen gets a crash course on how to respond when AIPAC calls, or else. It indoctrinates our politicians through what it calls “educational trips” to Israel, all expenses paid. It trains Jewish interns and staffers to join Congressional offices. It has a national network of stealth political action committees (PAC’s) in every state ready to donate campaign money to the pandering politician, attack Israel’s opponents, rapidly respond to any hint of criticism of divine Israel, provide staffers to Governors and State Legislatures, and have media savvy spokespersons dominate media reporting.
AIPAC holds an annual conference in Washington D.C. where one half to three fourths of all members of Congress are obliged to attend. The President, Vice President, Cabinet officers, Supreme Court Justices, as well as Israel’s Prime Minister are usually in attendance. Candidates for higher office compete to present their devotional commitment to Israel for Jewish money and media support. AIPAC has annual themes meant to be adopted as governmental policy, recall the devastation of Iraq; and now the agenda has shifted to Iran.
For this annual conference (May 3-5, 2009) AIPAC provided a private jet to Shimon Peres, President of Israel, to travel within the U.S. while attending AIPAC’s annual conference. According to Haaretz, May 12, 2009, Odit Sirkis, the legal counsel to President Peres justified her approval of the use of the private plane by saying that "since AIPAC is a known organization, which works in the U.S. for Israel, I thought there was no legal obstacle to having the organizing group pay for the flight…”.
Yet AIPAC has never been required to register as a foreign lobbying agent for Israel due to its clout on Congress.
America, when a soldier dies in Iraq, think AIPAC.
When American Embassies are bombed in Kenya And Tanzania, think AIPAC.
When you remember 9/11, think AIPAC.
When you recall the bombing of the USS Cole, think AIPAC.
When you remember the massive treasonous cover-up of Israel’s deliberate bombing and shelling of the USS Liberty in 1967 killing 34 Americans and wounding 172 that has festered without any Congressional investigation, think AIPAC.
When you think of the murder of the young beautiful idealistic American woman, Rachel Corrie, by an Israeli bulldozer and the silence of our Congress and media toward this tragedy, think AIPAC.
When you learn of trillions of your tax dollars being funneled to Israel free of charge, the sixteenth richest nation on earth, at a time of huge budget deficits, at a time when American families are struggling to find food and shelter, think AIPAC.
Yes, America, whenever you visit Washington D.C. and see the White House and Congress, think AIPAC, for that is the true power, the true government, the true intimidator and terminator of politicians who don’t tow Israel’s line.
The problem America is that we have become unthinking spectators and consumers of lies, myths, and corporate products that dominate our superficial existence as we live our bland lives as worker bees for the small powerful illuminati elite who run our corporations and our government while herding us from one sale to another awaiting the next hallmark moment to give meaning to our empty lives. How tragic and pitiful that we pay and die for their pockets and causes, not our national interests. How long must we suffer before we revolt and reclaim our government, for the people, by the people?
Bring up the issues of Jews, Judaism, and Israel in a conversation and you’ll discover the most tense, uncomfortable silence in any conversation. It’s as if we’ve been vaccinated with the Eleventh Commandment—Thou shall not speak, think, feel, or do anything against the Chosen Few and the Holy Land they stole from the followers of Jesus and Muhammad, peace be upon them both.
The Judaziation of the world’s intellect, emotions, and policies is almost complete.
“We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny. “
–Theodore Herzl (Father of Zionism)
Three brief recent examples will illustrate how the tribal network of committed organized Jews to Israel and to each other manifest in AIPAC’s city, Washington D.C.
1. AIPAC’s Espionage Case:
In May 2004 the FBI arrested Larry Franklin, the Pentagon’s top Iran analysts, after he was caught transferring secret documents to two AIPAC employees; Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, along with the Israeli Embassy’s Mossad station chief Naor Gilon. While Franklin was jailed for 12 years, the two indicted AIPAC employees underwent a lengthy, often postponed, and cumbersome trial due to the Judge’s friendly rulings in favor of AIPAC.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, the Department of Justice, apparently with Obama’s approval, dropped the case without any rational explanations. Bottom line is that our government fears confronting AIPAC, it’s U.S. Congress and the media. This despite Attorney General Eric Holder’s proclamation that “no one is above the law”. Obviously, unlike U.S. citizens, AIPAC is above the law.
The influential Jewish paper the Washington Post even carried an editorial supporting AIPAC in this espionage case by urging the Justice Department to drop the case against Rosen and Weissman. The editorial was titled, “Time to Call It Quits: The Justice Department should drop its misguided prosecution of two former AIPAC officials”. March 11, 2009
2. The Case Against the Jewish Representative Jane Harman of California.
Shortly after the arrests of the two AIPAC employees on spying for Israel another issue arose that is related to these two employees. Apparently a “suspected Israeli agent” contacted Rep. Jane Harman who sits on the House Intelligence Committee on a quid pro quo deal. If she can use her influence to reduce the charges against the two men, the agent would arrange for an AIPAC fundraiser from California, suspected to be Billionaire Haim Saban who’s said his one issue in life is Israel, and a large donor to Representative Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House to be, to place pressure on Ms. Pelosi to appoint Harman as Chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Harman agreed, however, the conversation with the suspected Israeli agent was caught on tape by federal investigators. Thus a Congressional Jew was selling her country for a powerful position, a position that could allegedly even be more helpful to Israel’s interests. Pelosi refused to appoint Harman to the position. The Justice Department lawyers wanted to proceed to investigate this matter which they called a “completed crime”. But remember, this is AIPAC. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales killed the investigation in appreciation of Harman’s role in killing a New York Times story on wireless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and for her strong support of the Iraq War.
Tribal support in the mainly Jewish media for Harman was palpable in two ways—in avoiding the story, and two, coming to her defense. David Frum, former speech writer for George W. Bush and author of “axis of evil” wrote an article defending Harman in “Theweek.com”, April 23, 2009, titled; “The real Jane Harman scandal. Sometimes in Washington, what is most scandalous is the attempt to create a scandal where none exists”.
3. The AIPAC Smear of Ambassador Chas Freeman, nominated to head the National Intelligence Council.
The highly respected and qualified veteran diplomat, Chas Freeman, was nominated by Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence to head the National Intelligence Council, the same Council that reported in 2007 that Iran had halted its nuclear program in 2003 that infuriated Israel. Because of Freeman’s known positions against the Iraq War and Israeli policies in the Occupied Territories a strong smear campaign was launched to derail his appointment, begun by none other than the AIPAC indicted espionage man, Steve Rosen.
The attacks spread like wildfire through all the right wing Pro Israel media along with enormous pressure on the Congress to deny supporting his appointment although he did not require Senate approval. In Congress the attacks were led by Senators Joseph Lieberman and Charles Schumer, both Jewish, along with Rep’s Steve Israel, Shelley Berkley, and Eric Cantor, all Jewish. Representative Frank Wolf, (R-Va) even took to writing an op-ed in the Washington Post criticizing Freeman on a whole host of issues that had no basis in fact; what was a fact is the much increased campaign donation Mr. Wolf received from Pro Israel PAC’s.
Ambassador Freeman withdrew his nomination and wrote a scathing letter attacking AIPAC and the Israel Lobby for their power of intimidation and their silencing of any debate on Israel and its impact on U.S. Foreign Policy.
“The libels on me and their easily traceable email trails show conclusively that there is a powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired, still less to factor in American understanding of trends and events in the Middle East. The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth. The aim of this Lobby is control of the policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its views, the substitution of political correctness for analysis, and the exclusion of any and all options for decision by Americans and our government other than those that it favors”
–Text of Ambassador Chas Freeman’s Withdrawal Letter, March 10, 2009, (Chas Freeman speaks: By vetoing U.S. appointments, the Israel lobby is enforcing adherence to a foreign government (1)
The Washington Post again came to the defense of AIPAC in an editorial entitled “Blame the Lobby. The Obama administration's latest failed nominee peddles a conspiracy theory”. March 12, 2009
One only needs to look at who the columnists and contributors are at the Washington Post to understand the power of the tribe in influencing policy and in defending each other.
Stephen Stromberg, Richard Cohen, Charles Krauthammer, Anne Applebaum, Michael Kinsley, Michael Gerson, Fred Hiatt, Robert Kagan, Marisa Katz, William Kistol, Haold Meyerson, Steven Stein
AIPAC and the Supreme Court: (2)
In 1989 seven prominent veteran diplomats sued the Federal Election Commission for failing to require AIPAC to publish details of its income and expenditures as required by law.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia decided against the complainants and ruled for the FEC, i.e. for AIPAC, not to have to disclose its financial activities. The decision was appealed to the Court of Appeals which reversed the lower court’s ruling and upheld the Complaint against the FEC to require AIPAC to publish the details of its finances.
AIPAC appealed the Court of Appeals decision to the Supreme Court in 1998. Arguing the case for the FEC and in favor of AIPAC at the Supreme Court was Seth Paul Waxman (Jewish) who was the Solicitor General of the United States
The case was decided by Associate Justice Stephen Breyer (Jewish). Justice Breyer’s twisted and illogical decision in favor of the FEC and AIPAC rested on semantic definitions as to what constitutes a “political committee” and a “membership organization”. He sent the case back to the lower courts for further review.
AIPAC despite boasting of being Israel’s most powerful lobby has still avoided the requirement to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department or to disclose its financial activities to the F.E.C. It was kismet that both the Solicitor General defending their case and the Supreme Court Justice who was assigned the case just happened to be Jewish.
Mr. Waxman later received the Anti-Defamation League’s Benjamin N. Cardozo Certificate of Merit. (Cardozo was a Jewish Supreme Court Justice)
A.I.P.A.C. and the Executive and Legislative Branches:
For decades AIPAC ensured that in the Executive Branch there is a large and disproportionate Jewish representation in the key areas of foreign policy, defense, intelligence, and the treasury—areas that impact Israel’s interests. It operates closely with the Israeli government, the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C., and the Israeli Intelligence Agency, the Mossad, whose motto is “By Way of Deception”.
Barack Obama’s talents were first recognized by Chicago’s Jewish Mafia. In fact they’ve called him “The First Jewish President”. They selected him, funded him, put him front and center to give his famous speech at the D.N.C.’s 2004 national convention, and Jewish money started pouring in to allow his campaign to be the most expensive in history. It’s almost a commandment in the Democratic Party; no one can win without Jewish money and support.
Money, not substance, makes the candidate. Here’s a brief list of the mainly Jewish banks, financial institutions, and insurers who donated money to Obama’s campaign. Their investment was well placed for when they crashed they could depend on Obama and their former executives who are the main economic officials in his government to bail them out.
“Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who makes its Laws.”
–Anselm Meyer ROTHSCHILD (Powerful British Jewish Banker)
”Can anything be more absurd than that a nation should apply to an individual (Rothschild) to maintain its credit, and with its credit its existence as an empire, and its comfort as a people…”
–Benjamin Disraeli, Jewish Prime Minister, Great Britain
The following recipients of President Obama’s bailout billions rank among his top 20 contributors to his 2008 presidential election campaign, according to Open Secrets.
Goldman Sachs: $955,473
Citigroup: $653,468
JP Morgan Chase & Co.: $646,058
Morgan Stanley: $485,823
Bank of America: $274,493
Wachovia: $214,151
AIG: $112,170
Lehman Brothers: $276,088.
In an article in Bloomberg.com, April 17: 2009; (”Stiglitz Says Ties to Wall Street Doom Bank Rescue”), Nobel Prize Economist Joseph Stiglitz (Jewish) warned of the corruptive revolving door between Wall Street and the Government. He stated: “America has had a revolving door. People go from Wall Street to Treasury and back to Wall Street. ” He gave the example of the, “Hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co. that paid National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers, a managing director of the firm, more than $5 million in salary and other compensation in the 16 months before he joined the administration. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. “ Senator Dick Durbin went even further saying that the banks “frankly own the place (Congress)”.
Barack Obama's Economic Team: All Kosher, No Gentile Economists Available in U.S.A.
Benjamin Bernanke: Chairman, Federal Reserve System
Timothy Geithner: Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department
Neal Wolin: Deputy Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department
Lael Brainard: Under Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department for International Affairs
Stuart Levey: Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
Lawrence Summers: Chairman, National Economic Council
Paul Volcker: Chairman, Economic Recovery Advisory Board
Jared Bernstein: Chief Economist and Economic Adviser, Vice President Joe Biden
Peter Orszag: Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Jason Furman: Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Jeffrey Zeints: Chief Performance Officer to streamline government and cut costs as well as
Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Gary Gensler: Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Mary Schapiro: Chairwoman, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Sheila Bair: Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Karen Mills: Administrator, Small Business Administration (SBA)
Jon Leibowitz: Chairman, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Steve Rattner: Car Czar in Treasury Department, Billionaire
Douglas Shulman Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.)
Neil M. Barofsky: Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“SIGTARP”)–provide oversight, monitor, and audit to the hundreds of billions of tax money is going
There are other Jewish Economic Advisors not listed here
Obama’s Foreign Policy Team:
Foreign Policy positions, as they relate to the Middle East, are primarily filled by Jewish Americans, all Pro Israel, with an open revolving door between the Israel Lobby (AIPAC) and so called “think tanks” and top national security positions in government. This Jewish American cabal had their greatest success in pushing this nation into its illegal murderous invasion of Iraq. Now their drums are beating for a war with Iran demanding more American treasure and blood in Israel’s cause.
James B. Steinberg: Deputy Secretary of State
Jacob Lew: Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
Jeffrey D. Feltman: Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (Includes Mideast)
Lee Feinstein: Foreign Policy Advisor
Eric Lynn: Middle East Policy Advisor
Dennis Ross: Special Advisor for the Gulf (Iran) and Southwest Asia to the Secretary of State
Mara Rudman: Foreign Policy Advisor
Dan Shapiro: Head of Middle East desk at the National Security Council
Three Important Obama Ambassadorial Nominees:
During the Campaign Obama criticized Bush for appointing allies and fundraisers as Ambassadors. He promised to end the culture of cronyism and appointing Lobbyists in his administration. But, money makes the world go round.
England: Louis Susman, Jewish billionaire, Primary fundraiser for Obama, former Citibank Executive
Germany: Phil Murphy; former Goldman Sachs investment banker, Obama fundraiser
Ireland: Dan Rooney, football team owner, Obama fundraiser
Other Important Obama Nominees/Appointees who are Jewish:
Julius Genachowski: Chair, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Elena Kagan: Solicitor General of the U.S., Department of Justice
Dr. Margaret Hamburg: Commissioner, of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein: Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden: Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Alan Bersin: Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and “Mexican Border Czar” at the Department of Homeland Security (A Jew rather than a Hispanic American will monitor the U.S.-Mexican border)
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Second Coming as Israel’s Prime Minister:
"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."
– Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s (Bibi) second coming as Prime Minister of Israel follows his first premiership from 1996 to 1999 during Bill Clinton’s administration. Bibi’s approach to Obama’s peace initiatives for the Middle East is a resurrection of the same intransigence, total rejection of the formula “land for peace”, hard line tough talk, frustrating promises and lies, denial of any Palestinian rights, and dependence on Congress and a compliant media to support him against the President’s policies.
In his first stint as Prime Minister Bibi so angered and frustrated Bill Clinton that Clinton stated, “he thinks he is the superpower and we are here to do whatever he requires."
Why shouldn’t he? Bibi and Israel for decades have known that as long as they and their lobby, AIPAC, control the Congress, no President can pressure Israel to make any real effort to ending the sixty one year conflict and forty three years of the most brutal illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and lives in modern history.
Netanyahu’s Position toward President Clinton’s Peace initiative:
1. No Palestinian State
2. No Stopping of Settlement Construction
3. No Dividing/Sharing Jerusalem
4. No Right of Return for Palestinian Refugees
5. No Sharing of Water Resources in Occupied Territories
6. No to the Arab Peace Initiative of 1982 that offers Israel total recognition and diplomatic relations in exchange for total withdrawal from all occupied territories.
7. All Peace Efforts so far have Failed
8. Yes for peace for the sake of peace only.
At the time the Washington Post, May 7, 1998, carried this headline:
“Netanyahu: U.S. “Cannot Dictate to Us”
[Note: The late Moshe Dayan spoke of not allowing the U.S. to dictate policy to Israel: “Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.”
When Clinton was pushing Bibi to withdraw from a smaller portion of the West Bank that Israel already agreed to, a Congressional and media firestorm erupted in “our” capitol city against Clinton and in salivating support of Israel. None other than the Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, shockingly encouraged Netanyahu to “defy” Clinton, his own President.
As reported by the Washington Report on the Middle East (July/August 1998): “On May 19, 1998, the top congressional leaders of both parties-Gingrich, Lott, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-MO)-fell all over themselves to demonstrate their support for Israel before 2,000 of the faithful at the end of AIPAC's annual policy conference. However, Gingrich was clearly the star of the show! He brazenly called upon Israel to defy the U.S. government, saying that Israel's "right of self-determination has to be defended at all costs, even against the best intention of some of Israel's friends, including the United States."
When Clinton planned a trip to Israel he was met with this outrageous comment by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the ultra orthodox Shas Party that currently holds 5 Cabinet posts in Netanyahu’s government.
According to Israelwire.com, December 13, 1998 “Rabbi Ovadia Yosef at his weekly Saturday lecture at Tifferet Yerushalay spoke thus about welcoming President Bill Clinton to Israel; “God plans to return the past glory to the Israel and President Bill Clinton must kiss our feet when visiting”.
Incredulous how a small nation can tell its benefactor and only real ally in the world to basically “shove it”.
AIPAC/Congressional Letter to President Clinton: Don’t Pressure Israel to Compromise:
AIPAC is known to either write congressional resolutions or author legislation in support of Israel.
On April 6, 1998, 81 Senators signed a letter to President Clinton demanding that he not pressure Israel to compromise.
[Note: "The Israelis control the policy in the congress and the senate ... somewhere around 80 percent of the senate of the United States is completely in support of Israel -- of anything Israel wants...."
-- Senator William Fulbright, Chairman Senate Foreign Relations Committee, October 7, 1973 on CBS' "Face the Nation".
After much maneuvering, Netanyahu agreed to withdraw from eleven percent of the West Bank (much less than agreed to with the Palestinians) in exchange, as usual, for $1.2 Billion. However, and as usual again, Israel took the money and ran and within a short time even broke that agreement called the Wye River Agreement.
Prior to his meeting with Netanyahu, Obama, already a committed supporter of Israel, took some good will gestures toward Israel and the American Jewish community in the hope of smoothing his meeting with Israel’s Likud hard liner.
1. He declared May, “Jewish Heritage Month”
2. He held the first ever White House Passover Seder dinner, which ironically celebrates Jewish “liberation” from slavery in Egypt.
3. He cancelled America’s attendance at the U.N. Durbin Conference on Racism to support Israel’s contention that this conference is simply an Anti-Israel bashing meeting. It was incredulous to see all of Europe prostrate to Israel leave the conference during the Iranian President’s speech.
4. He decided to rejoin the U.N. Human Rights Council which according to Israel is an “Anti-Semitic” body to protect Israel. The American U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice put this decision bluntly as America’s way to battle “the Anti-Israel Crap”. This despite that every U.N. organization, every human rights organization, the International Red Cross, and even the U.S. State Department slam Israel as the biggest and most consistent violator of human rights in the world.
In addition to the same rejectionist conditions Bibi held during Clinton’s era, this time he took an even harder line with Obama. Bibi added the following poisons and non-starters to Obama’s peace initiative.
1. All previous agreements with the Palestinians are null and void including the 2007 Annapolis Agreement espoused by President Bush. Thus all the negotiations now are at a “dead end”
{Note: New York Times, April 1, 2009. “Israeli Minister Dismisses Peace Effort”]
“In a blunt and belligerent speech on his first day as Israel’s new foreign minister, the hawkish nationalist Avigdor Lieberman declared Wednesday that “those who wish for peace should prepare for war” and that Israel was not obligated by understandings on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached at an American-sponsored peace conference in late 2007”.
[Note: Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2009: “Lieberman: Peace talks with Palestinians are at a 'dead end']
"What we state unequivocally is that we are completely opposed to what has been and still is the guiding principle of Israel's foreign policy: 'land for peace' –Avigdor Lieberman Quote
[Note: Haaretz, May 23, 2009: “Israel won't yield to U.S. demands, won't halt settlement construction”]
Thus with total confidence that Congress, AIPAC’s safety net, will support Israel to again defy an American President who seeks a two state solution, a halt to settlement construction, a negotiated settlement on Jerusalem, and the restarting of peace negotiations based on all previous agreements including U.N. Resolutions, the American Road Map, and the Annapolis Agreement, Avigdor Lieberman issues this confident yet shocking statement reported in Haaretz, April 22, 2009.
“The Obama Administration will put forth new peace initiatives only if Israel wants it to, said Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in his first comprehensive interview on foreign policy since taking office….. "Believe me, America accepts all our decisions."
Again such confidence arises from Congress’s total fealty to Israel’s interests above America’s national interest. Even during huge deficits Congress prefers to send billions to Israel rather than feed one homeless hungry American child.
Gingrich, this time out of office but considered a legitimate GOP candidate for 2012, gave this assessment on Obama’s approach to the Middle East. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, May 4, 2009 titled: “Gingrich: 'Obama endangering Israel', and prior to his obligatory candidate slobbering speech at AIPAC’s annual conference, Gingrich blasted Obama by saying: "They are systematically setting up the most decisive confrontation that we've ever seen…There's almost an eagerness to take on the Israeli government to make a point with the Arab world."
AIPAC/Congressional/ Letter to President Obama: Mind “risk” to Israel
In addition and as usual, an AIPAC Congressional Letter was sent to President Obama telling him not to put Israel at “risk” in his Mideast peace initiative.
“A group of 76 US senators sent a letter to President Obama urging him to mind the "risks" to Israel in any Middle East peace accord as he presses for a two-state solution to the six-decade conflict. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) supported the senators' letter…The four senators who organized the letter are Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Arlen Specter (D-PA) and John Thune (R-SD). The House version was rallied by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA).”
–Ynet (Website for Israel’s largest paper), May 20, 2009, “U.S. Senators to Obama: Consider Risks to Israel”
To further prove that AIPAC is usually the author of Congressional Resolutions against the Muslim state du jour, or letters to the President of the U.S. supporting Israel, or more importantly legislation, a letter sent by Representatives Hoyer and Cantor should’ve elicited a huge scandal and outcry from the American people had the media given the issue its proper attention, but this is Israel, which means our kosher media saw fit to kill the story.
But according to Rawstory.com, May 15, 2009, “Congressional Leaders Inadvertently Expose Israeli Lobbyists Behind Letter”.
“GOP House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) circulated a letter to colleagues this week urging President Obama to support Israel when moving forward with any Israeli peace process…Trouble is, they forgot to delete the name of the lobbying group involved in the letter from the document…. Attached to the email message they circulated when seeking signatures from other members of Congress was the document, titled, “AIPAC Letter Hoyer Cantor May 2009.pdf.”…The email to congress members seeking their support said they hoped they’d sign onto “the attached letter to President Obama regarding the Middle East peace process,” which argued that the US “must be both a trusted mediator and a devoted friend to Israel” and added, “Israel will be taking the greatest risks in any peace agreement.” (3)
2. As a pre-condition to considering peace talks, Bibi insists that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a “Jewish State”; thereby fulfilling the right wing’s long held policy of ethnically cleansing all Israeli Arab Christian and Muslim citizens out of Israel. This is obviously a deliberate poison pill.
3. Bibi insists that Obama first deal with Israel’s priority, i.e. attack Iran, then discuss the “secondary” issue of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, people, and their future. Contrary to Obama’s position, Ntanyahu denies that there is any “linkage” between resolving the Palestinian issue and Iran or any other Middle East conflict.
“Israel plans to present U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a series of "red lines" it wants Washington to incorporate into its planned dialogue with Tehran about Iran's nuclear program.” Chief among them, “A time limit must be set for the talks, to prevent Iran from merely buying time to complete its nuclear development. The talks should also be defined as a "one-time opportunity" for Tehran.”
–Haaretz March 3, 2009; “Israel to Present Clinton with “RED LINES” on talks with Iran”
“In an interview conducted shortly before he was sworn in today as prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and quickly or an imperiled Israel may be forced to “
–The Atlantic, March 31, 2009, “Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran—Or I Will”
Outrageous, shocking, incredulous—yes–but even more outrageous is that Dennis Ross, an observant Jew and strong supporter of Israel allies himself with Netanyahu on the lack of “linkage” between the Palestinian conflict, Iran, or any other Mideast issue, against his own President and Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, who hired him to deal with Iran
Here’s what Ha’aretz reported on this issue in an article May 27, 2009. NOTICE the headline.
”Dennis Ross vs. Obama: No link between Iran, Mideast peace”
“Dennis Ross, the U.S. Secretary of State's special adviser on Iran, says in a new book that the United States will not make progress toward peace in the Middle East with the Obama administration's new plan…. The book entitled "Myths, illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East," opposes the Obama administration's concept of linkage… Contrary to the position of the president and other advisers, Ross writes that efforts to advance dialogue with Iran should not be connected to the renewal of talks between Israel and the Palestinians…. In the second chapter, entitled "Linkage: The Mother of All Myths," Ross writes: "Of all the policy myths that have kept us from making real progress in the Middle East, one stands out for its impact and longevity: the idea that if only the Palestinian conflict were solved, all other Middle East conflicts would melt away. This is the argument of 'linkage.'"
What Chutzpah, what ugly arrogance, that a tiny nation founded and dependent on American largesse ‘DICTATES' to this alleged superpower “red lines” for its policy toward a third nation, while a mere government civil servant has the audacity to oppose his boss, the President of the United States. Only in America and only a Jewish Zionist can get away with this just as Israel has gotten away with murder, even of Americans, for decades with total impunity.
Israelis know they can take advantage of the large presence of Jewish Americans in key positions in the government, of their dual loyalty, and their emotional attachment to a foreign nation that usually supersedes their allegiance to their native country of America that has made them the most powerful, successful, and wealthiest minority in American history.
A brazen example of such opportunistic manipulation to do Israel’s bidding comes from the Chairman of Israel’s National Union, Ya’acov Katz, who upon hearing that the Israeli American former Israeli soldier and now the White House’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel told a Jewish American that Obama plans to pursue a two state solution wrote him a letter reminding him of his Jewish and Israeli origins.
“National Union chairman Ya'acov "Ketzele" Katz sent a letter to White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel last week admonishing him not to forget his Jewish and Israeli origins…. In the letter…Katz wrote: "For many Israelis, this report is a cause for worry because it reveals a condescending attitude toward our prime minister and Israeli public opinion. This is an attitude that Israel does not expect from a real friend such as the US, and all the more so from an Israeli Jew who has succeeded in being appointed White House chief-of-staff."
–The Jerusalem Post, April 19, 2009, “NU's Katz reminds Emanuel he's Jewish”
In the end Obama surrendered to Netanyahu’s “red lines” and his demand for a deadline on his Iran policy. After their meeting and during a White House press conference Obama sheepishly caved in to Bibi and gave Iran a seven month deadline, to the end of this year, to respond on its nuclear policy, all Obama could do is beg Netanyahu not to surprise him with a preemptive attack on Iran, but at least have the courtesy to tell him before all hell breaks loose in the Mideast.
Anyone watching the body language of these two men can easily identify who leads America’s foreign policy, and it’s not the man of “hope and change”. When it comes to Israel, Obama like all his predecessors, clearly proclaims “No We Can’t”.
In the usual pattern of making nice while in Washington D.C. but resorting to insulting and defying the American President and the American people upon their return to Israel, Netanyahu’s senior aides had this to say in response to Obama’s push for a two state solution.
“(Netanyahu’s) aides are already hard at work in bid to discredit US fixation on two-state plan.'Two states for two peoples is a stupid and childish solution to a very complex problem,' they say…. They were further adamant to emphasize that Israel would continue to build in the larger settlement blocs and Jerusalem despite US President Barack Obama's resolute opposition.”
— AFP, May 20, 2009, “'Fixation on two-state solution is childish”
The President of the United States is offering a “stupid and childish” solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict? We, Americans, take it on the chin with silence because it’s our specially ally Israel. One can only imagine the hysterics if Iran’s President said this.
Netanyahu stated that the illegal settlements need to expand due to “natural growth”, the same lie used by every previous Israeli prime minister to continue confiscating Palestinian land. According to Ha’aretz, May 17, 2009, “New residents account for 33% of West Bank settlement growth”, figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics show that 33% of settlement growth is due to new residents leaving Israel proper” to live in the settlements given the very generous subsidies they receive from the government (in reality from the U.S. taxpayer which violates U.S. law). Thus Netanyahu’s argument to Obama on settlement expansion is as with all things coming out of Israel—a Lie.
Of course, lest anyone forget, Israel has made it painfully clear that if her existence is ever threatened, it has the nuclear weapons to take the world down with it. This policy in Israel is known as the “Samson Option” after the biblical figure Samson, history’s first suicide bomber, who killed himself by collapsing the Philistine temple on himself and the Philistines.
“I recall an interview I did for the BBC’s Panorama programme with Mother Israel, Golda Meir. At a point I interrupted her to say: “Prime Minister, I want to be sure that I understand what you’re saying… You are saying that if ever Israel was in danger of being defeated on the battlefield, it would be prepared to take the region and the whole world down with it?” Without the shortest of pauses for reflection, and in the gravel voice that could charm or intimidate American presidents according to need, Golda replied, “Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying.” Within an hour of that interview being transmitted, the Times of London changed its lead editorial. The new one quoted what Golda had said to me and added its own opinion - “We’d better believe her.”)
–http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18716.htm
“The Book That Can’t Be Published In America By Alan Hart, author of Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews”
"We have the (nuclear) capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen, before Israel goes under." He quoted General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
–Martin van Creveld, Professor of Military History at Israel’s Hebrew University, quoted in David Hirst’s “The Gun and Oliver Branch”, 2003, page 119
“Israel has been building nuclear weapons for 30 years…. What would serve
The Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter. For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away–unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans–have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice?”
–Professor David Perlmutter (Louisiana State University), “Israel: Dark Thoughts and Quiet Desperation”, Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2002
For the world to stand by paralyzed in its institutions and all its power while Israel continues to brutalize millions of Palestinians, having stolen their land by force and terrorism, having ethnically cleansed them from their homes, farms, and villages, destroying and eliminating close to 500 villages from the annals of geographic history causing the world’s largest and longest refugee problem, continuing an illegal, immoral, and evil occupation that rules the lives of millions at the slightest whim of a politician, general, or soldier, killing and murdering at will, imprisoning and torturing women and children, terrorizing the innocent humanity under their armed boots, is explicable if one accepts these facts.
The power of wealthy Jews embodied in banking, financial, and investment institutions, their control and ownership of the majority of the western world’s media, all of Hollywood, majority of public relations firms, dominance in academia, political “think tanks” that provide the thinking for cowardly politicians, and most of all the most sophisticated, organized, financed, and entrenched lobby ever known in western history.
Deviate from Jewish or Israeli interests and the sledgehammers of ‘Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Denier, Genocidal Liar, Denier of Israel’s right to exist”; all accompanied with the media sobs, cries, and tears of packaged punditry pour into the already guilty conscience of western governments.
Ironically, while the majority of the Christian and Muslim world are silent in incompetence and complicity, the most active and courageous persons who criticize Zionism and its political and moral destruction of Israel as well as threatening the very future of Jews in this world are Jews themselves, many who support Israel but are ashamed and horrified at Israel’s brutality against another people.
If only Gentiles would join such admirable Jews in their fight for Justice in the Holy Land.
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
–Thomas Jefferson
Sources:
1. http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/03/freeman-the-powerful-israel-lobby-is-determined-to-prevent-any-view-other-than-its-own-from-being-ai.html
http://thehill.com/letters/rep.-wolfs-assault-on-me-was-shoddy-and-inaccurate-2009-03-23.html
Chas Freeman’s Letter to Rep. Frank Wolf Responding to Wolf’s attacks on him in a Washington Post OpEd where he defends AIPAC/Israel Lobby
http://www.forward.com/articles/103815/
Forward, Jewish Weekly Magazine, Good Summary Article on AIPAC/Lobby Pushing Chas Freeman from Intelligence Position. Obama, in his silence, supported Freeman’s Withdrawal
2. http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/boundvolumes/524bv.pdf
(Page 11: Supreme Court Case by U.S. Diplomats Against AIPAC/FEC)
3. http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/15/gop-democratic-leader-inadvertently-expose-israeli-lobbyists-behind-their-letter-to-obama/
Additional Important Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k90Jw4AVT-4
MUST WATCH Video of Israel’s Genocide on Gaza
http://www.freespeech.org/videodb/index.php?action=detail&video_id=11295&browse=0
Video of Jewish American Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivors on the Palestinian Suffering in the Occupied Territories
http://www.freespeech.org/videodb/index.php?action=detail&video_id=11283&browse=0
Professor Illan Pappe on Israel’s Founding and its Catastrophe upon the Palestinians
AIPAC/Congressional Letter to President Bush:
Despite being Israel’s greatest Christian Zionist supporter and genocidal ally in its attacks on Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria; even he didn’t escape the wrath of AIPACongress.
“In a letter to President Bush today, 89 senators urged him not to restrain
Israel from retaliating fully against Palestinian violence and to express
his solidarity publicly with Israel soon.”
–New York Times, November 17, 2001, “Senators Urge Bush Not to Hamper Israel”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/81sens.html
Letter content from 81 Senators to President Clinton: “don’t pressure Israel”.
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/uploads/cmimg_12349.pdf
Letter from 76 Senators to President Obama
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/revolving-door-bailout-edition
Revolving Door, Bailout Edition, April 9, 2009: Documenting the Revolving Door between Congress and Wall Street
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html
William Black, the former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention now teaches Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. During the savings and loan crisis, it was Black who accused then-house speaker Jim Wright and five US Senators, including John Glenn and John McCain, of doing favors for the S&L's in exchange for contributions and other perks. The senators got off with a slap on the wrist. Now Black is focused on an even greater scandal, and he spares no one — not even the President he worked hard to elect, Barack Obama. But his main targets are the Wall Street barons, heirs of an earlier generation whose scandalous rip-offs of wealth back in the 1930s earned them comparison to Al Capone and the mob, and the nickname "banksters."
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/zionist_plan.html
“The Zionist Plan for the Middle East”, translated by Professor Israel Shahak, (see Greater Israel Map)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Fs73XZqm8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpulsemedia%2Eorg%2F&feature=player_embedded
(AIPAC Annual 2009 Conference. Watch Our Politicians Prostitute themselves)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzbh4_FBImw
(Former GOP Rep. Gilchrest on how Pressure Groups, AIPAC included, prevent debate)
http://www.counterpunch.org/gowani09012008.html
Great Article on the Power of AIPAC and the men and women it smeared and defeated, Great Quotes
Active and retired top military brass met to discuss what really happened on 9/11
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
May 28, 2009, 00:18
(WMR) -- WMR has learned from a well-informed source that in the months after the 9/11 attacks, a group of retired and active duty military officers, with ranks as high as general, met in an informal and hush-hush working group to discuss what actually occurred on September 11, 2001.
WMR has been told that those who met did not believe, in whole or in part, the official line that 19 Arabs nationals armed with box cutters hijacked four U.S. passenger planes and flew three of them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
The officers included veterans of Marine Corps Special Operations.
The officers concluded that it was impossible for the military’s command and control, intelligence, and other defense systems to cascade in a total failure on the morning of September 11. They quietly set out to find out what actually occurred that morning and who or what influenced the total failure of defense, intelligence, and air traffic control systems.
The officers were forced to hold their meetings in secret because of retaliation brought against those who revealed information embarrassing to the Bush administration about both 9/11 and the concocted war against Iraq.
It is now being reported that investigators for the 9/11 Commission drafted a memo in April 2004 stating they believed that the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lied to commission investigators by indicating the military’s readiness was sufficient on 9/11. Commission staffer John Azzerello is reported to have given the memo to Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow, a leading neocon, who then “buried it.”
Commission investigators wanted a strongly worded criminal referral on NORAD and FAA perjury sent to the Justice Department but Zelikow downplayed the complaint and later told Phil Shenon, the author of “The Commission” and New York Times reporter, that he did not know of the criminal referral issue at the time.
The 9/11 Commission documents about the perjury of NORAD and FAA officials corroborates the concerns expressed by the retired military officers about the true version of events on 9/11.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
Copyright © 2009 WayneMadenReport.com
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http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/05/28/mohamed-khodr-the-three-branches-of-the-aipac-the-executive-
The Three Branches of the AIPAC: The Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial
By Mohamed Khodr • May 28th, 2009 at 17:06 •
“The actions of some of our United States Zionists will eventually prejudice everyone against what they are trying to get done. I fear very much that the Jews are like all underdogs. When they get on top they are just as intolerant and as cruel as the people were to them when they were underneath.”
–President Harry Truman in a Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt (“Truman”, David McCullough, p. 598). Although Truman is the one most directly responsible for the creation of Israel, he has now joined the Pantheon of “Anti-Semites”.
“Back in the 1950s, the frustrated Secretary of State John Foster Dulles unambiguously stated: We cannot have all our policies made in Jerusalem. ” To the owner of Time Inc. Henry Luce he said: “I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews. [But] I am going to try to have one. This does not mean I am anti-Jewish, but I believe in what George Washington said in his farewell address, that an emotional attachment to another country should not interfere.”
–B. R. Gowani, “The Lobby as Juggernaut”, Counterpunch, September 1, 2008
A.I.P.A.C.: American Israel Public Affairs Committee
According to the New York Times, April 26, 1998, article, “For 47 Years, a Lobby Group With Muscle Has Tirelessly Tended U.S.-Israel Ties.”
“Of all the Jewish organizations devoted to channeling that popular opinion into American policy, there is none so influential — or so feared — as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, known as AIPAC.”
AIPAC’s main influence and domination is in Congress although it certainly impacts all levels of the U.S. Government. Its main concern is U.S. foreign policy vis à vis Israel, the Middle East, and the Muslim world in general. It has succeeded for decades in preventing the development of any good relations between the Arab, Muslim world and the U.S. It focuses primarily on diplomatic, military, and financial aid to Israel as well as forcing the adoption of Israel’s enemies as America’s enemies so that what’s good for Israel is automatically good for America; yet if all of that is true, why have a lobby?
The very word AIPAC strikes the deepest fear and intimidation into the very souls of every American politician from the smallest town in America to the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court. This lobby for decades has demonstrated its power in electing subservient Congressmen and destroying those who dare speak against Israel. Every new Congressmen gets a crash course on how to respond when AIPAC calls, or else. It indoctrinates our politicians through what it calls “educational trips” to Israel, all expenses paid. It trains Jewish interns and staffers to join Congressional offices. It has a national network of stealth political action committees (PAC’s) in every state ready to donate campaign money to the pandering politician, attack Israel’s opponents, rapidly respond to any hint of criticism of divine Israel, provide staffers to Governors and State Legislatures, and have media savvy spokespersons dominate media reporting.
AIPAC holds an annual conference in Washington D.C. where one half to three fourths of all members of Congress are obliged to attend. The President, Vice President, Cabinet officers, Supreme Court Justices, as well as Israel’s Prime Minister are usually in attendance. Candidates for higher office compete to present their devotional commitment to Israel for Jewish money and media support. AIPAC has annual themes meant to be adopted as governmental policy, recall the devastation of Iraq; and now the agenda has shifted to Iran.
For this annual conference (May 3-5, 2009) AIPAC provided a private jet to Shimon Peres, President of Israel, to travel within the U.S. while attending AIPAC’s annual conference. According to Haaretz, May 12, 2009, Odit Sirkis, the legal counsel to President Peres justified her approval of the use of the private plane by saying that "since AIPAC is a known organization, which works in the U.S. for Israel, I thought there was no legal obstacle to having the organizing group pay for the flight…”.
Yet AIPAC has never been required to register as a foreign lobbying agent for Israel due to its clout on Congress.
America, when a soldier dies in Iraq, think AIPAC.
When American Embassies are bombed in Kenya And Tanzania, think AIPAC.
When you remember 9/11, think AIPAC.
When you recall the bombing of the USS Cole, think AIPAC.
When you remember the massive treasonous cover-up of Israel’s deliberate bombing and shelling of the USS Liberty in 1967 killing 34 Americans and wounding 172 that has festered without any Congressional investigation, think AIPAC.
When you think of the murder of the young beautiful idealistic American woman, Rachel Corrie, by an Israeli bulldozer and the silence of our Congress and media toward this tragedy, think AIPAC.
When you learn of trillions of your tax dollars being funneled to Israel free of charge, the sixteenth richest nation on earth, at a time of huge budget deficits, at a time when American families are struggling to find food and shelter, think AIPAC.
Yes, America, whenever you visit Washington D.C. and see the White House and Congress, think AIPAC, for that is the true power, the true government, the true intimidator and terminator of politicians who don’t tow Israel’s line.
The problem America is that we have become unthinking spectators and consumers of lies, myths, and corporate products that dominate our superficial existence as we live our bland lives as worker bees for the small powerful illuminati elite who run our corporations and our government while herding us from one sale to another awaiting the next hallmark moment to give meaning to our empty lives. How tragic and pitiful that we pay and die for their pockets and causes, not our national interests. How long must we suffer before we revolt and reclaim our government, for the people, by the people?
Bring up the issues of Jews, Judaism, and Israel in a conversation and you’ll discover the most tense, uncomfortable silence in any conversation. It’s as if we’ve been vaccinated with the Eleventh Commandment—Thou shall not speak, think, feel, or do anything against the Chosen Few and the Holy Land they stole from the followers of Jesus and Muhammad, peace be upon them both.
The Judaziation of the world’s intellect, emotions, and policies is almost complete.
“We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny. “
–Theodore Herzl (Father of Zionism)
Three brief recent examples will illustrate how the tribal network of committed organized Jews to Israel and to each other manifest in AIPAC’s city, Washington D.C.
1. AIPAC’s Espionage Case:
In May 2004 the FBI arrested Larry Franklin, the Pentagon’s top Iran analysts, after he was caught transferring secret documents to two AIPAC employees; Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, along with the Israeli Embassy’s Mossad station chief Naor Gilon. While Franklin was jailed for 12 years, the two indicted AIPAC employees underwent a lengthy, often postponed, and cumbersome trial due to the Judge’s friendly rulings in favor of AIPAC.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, the Department of Justice, apparently with Obama’s approval, dropped the case without any rational explanations. Bottom line is that our government fears confronting AIPAC, it’s U.S. Congress and the media. This despite Attorney General Eric Holder’s proclamation that “no one is above the law”. Obviously, unlike U.S. citizens, AIPAC is above the law.
The influential Jewish paper the Washington Post even carried an editorial supporting AIPAC in this espionage case by urging the Justice Department to drop the case against Rosen and Weissman. The editorial was titled, “Time to Call It Quits: The Justice Department should drop its misguided prosecution of two former AIPAC officials”. March 11, 2009
2. The Case Against the Jewish Representative Jane Harman of California.
Shortly after the arrests of the two AIPAC employees on spying for Israel another issue arose that is related to these two employees. Apparently a “suspected Israeli agent” contacted Rep. Jane Harman who sits on the House Intelligence Committee on a quid pro quo deal. If she can use her influence to reduce the charges against the two men, the agent would arrange for an AIPAC fundraiser from California, suspected to be Billionaire Haim Saban who’s said his one issue in life is Israel, and a large donor to Representative Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House to be, to place pressure on Ms. Pelosi to appoint Harman as Chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Harman agreed, however, the conversation with the suspected Israeli agent was caught on tape by federal investigators. Thus a Congressional Jew was selling her country for a powerful position, a position that could allegedly even be more helpful to Israel’s interests. Pelosi refused to appoint Harman to the position. The Justice Department lawyers wanted to proceed to investigate this matter which they called a “completed crime”. But remember, this is AIPAC. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales killed the investigation in appreciation of Harman’s role in killing a New York Times story on wireless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and for her strong support of the Iraq War.
Tribal support in the mainly Jewish media for Harman was palpable in two ways—in avoiding the story, and two, coming to her defense. David Frum, former speech writer for George W. Bush and author of “axis of evil” wrote an article defending Harman in “Theweek.com”, April 23, 2009, titled; “The real Jane Harman scandal. Sometimes in Washington, what is most scandalous is the attempt to create a scandal where none exists”.
3. The AIPAC Smear of Ambassador Chas Freeman, nominated to head the National Intelligence Council.
The highly respected and qualified veteran diplomat, Chas Freeman, was nominated by Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence to head the National Intelligence Council, the same Council that reported in 2007 that Iran had halted its nuclear program in 2003 that infuriated Israel. Because of Freeman’s known positions against the Iraq War and Israeli policies in the Occupied Territories a strong smear campaign was launched to derail his appointment, begun by none other than the AIPAC indicted espionage man, Steve Rosen.
The attacks spread like wildfire through all the right wing Pro Israel media along with enormous pressure on the Congress to deny supporting his appointment although he did not require Senate approval. In Congress the attacks were led by Senators Joseph Lieberman and Charles Schumer, both Jewish, along with Rep’s Steve Israel, Shelley Berkley, and Eric Cantor, all Jewish. Representative Frank Wolf, (R-Va) even took to writing an op-ed in the Washington Post criticizing Freeman on a whole host of issues that had no basis in fact; what was a fact is the much increased campaign donation Mr. Wolf received from Pro Israel PAC’s.
Ambassador Freeman withdrew his nomination and wrote a scathing letter attacking AIPAC and the Israel Lobby for their power of intimidation and their silencing of any debate on Israel and its impact on U.S. Foreign Policy.
“The libels on me and their easily traceable email trails show conclusively that there is a powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired, still less to factor in American understanding of trends and events in the Middle East. The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth. The aim of this Lobby is control of the policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its views, the substitution of political correctness for analysis, and the exclusion of any and all options for decision by Americans and our government other than those that it favors”
–Text of Ambassador Chas Freeman’s Withdrawal Letter, March 10, 2009, (Chas Freeman speaks: By vetoing U.S. appointments, the Israel lobby is enforcing adherence to a foreign government (1)
The Washington Post again came to the defense of AIPAC in an editorial entitled “Blame the Lobby. The Obama administration's latest failed nominee peddles a conspiracy theory”. March 12, 2009
One only needs to look at who the columnists and contributors are at the Washington Post to understand the power of the tribe in influencing policy and in defending each other.
Stephen Stromberg, Richard Cohen, Charles Krauthammer, Anne Applebaum, Michael Kinsley, Michael Gerson, Fred Hiatt, Robert Kagan, Marisa Katz, William Kistol, Haold Meyerson, Steven Stein
AIPAC and the Supreme Court: (2)
In 1989 seven prominent veteran diplomats sued the Federal Election Commission for failing to require AIPAC to publish details of its income and expenditures as required by law.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia decided against the complainants and ruled for the FEC, i.e. for AIPAC, not to have to disclose its financial activities. The decision was appealed to the Court of Appeals which reversed the lower court’s ruling and upheld the Complaint against the FEC to require AIPAC to publish the details of its finances.
AIPAC appealed the Court of Appeals decision to the Supreme Court in 1998. Arguing the case for the FEC and in favor of AIPAC at the Supreme Court was Seth Paul Waxman (Jewish) who was the Solicitor General of the United States
The case was decided by Associate Justice Stephen Breyer (Jewish). Justice Breyer’s twisted and illogical decision in favor of the FEC and AIPAC rested on semantic definitions as to what constitutes a “political committee” and a “membership organization”. He sent the case back to the lower courts for further review.
AIPAC despite boasting of being Israel’s most powerful lobby has still avoided the requirement to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department or to disclose its financial activities to the F.E.C. It was kismet that both the Solicitor General defending their case and the Supreme Court Justice who was assigned the case just happened to be Jewish.
Mr. Waxman later received the Anti-Defamation League’s Benjamin N. Cardozo Certificate of Merit. (Cardozo was a Jewish Supreme Court Justice)
A.I.P.A.C. and the Executive and Legislative Branches:
For decades AIPAC ensured that in the Executive Branch there is a large and disproportionate Jewish representation in the key areas of foreign policy, defense, intelligence, and the treasury—areas that impact Israel’s interests. It operates closely with the Israeli government, the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C., and the Israeli Intelligence Agency, the Mossad, whose motto is “By Way of Deception”.
Barack Obama’s talents were first recognized by Chicago’s Jewish Mafia. In fact they’ve called him “The First Jewish President”. They selected him, funded him, put him front and center to give his famous speech at the D.N.C.’s 2004 national convention, and Jewish money started pouring in to allow his campaign to be the most expensive in history. It’s almost a commandment in the Democratic Party; no one can win without Jewish money and support.
Money, not substance, makes the candidate. Here’s a brief list of the mainly Jewish banks, financial institutions, and insurers who donated money to Obama’s campaign. Their investment was well placed for when they crashed they could depend on Obama and their former executives who are the main economic officials in his government to bail them out.
“Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who makes its Laws.”
–Anselm Meyer ROTHSCHILD (Powerful British Jewish Banker)
”Can anything be more absurd than that a nation should apply to an individual (Rothschild) to maintain its credit, and with its credit its existence as an empire, and its comfort as a people…”
–Benjamin Disraeli, Jewish Prime Minister, Great Britain
The following recipients of President Obama’s bailout billions rank among his top 20 contributors to his 2008 presidential election campaign, according to Open Secrets.
Goldman Sachs: $955,473
Citigroup: $653,468
JP Morgan Chase & Co.: $646,058
Morgan Stanley: $485,823
Bank of America: $274,493
Wachovia: $214,151
AIG: $112,170
Lehman Brothers: $276,088.
In an article in Bloomberg.com, April 17: 2009; (”Stiglitz Says Ties to Wall Street Doom Bank Rescue”), Nobel Prize Economist Joseph Stiglitz (Jewish) warned of the corruptive revolving door between Wall Street and the Government. He stated: “America has had a revolving door. People go from Wall Street to Treasury and back to Wall Street. ” He gave the example of the, “Hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co. that paid National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers, a managing director of the firm, more than $5 million in salary and other compensation in the 16 months before he joined the administration. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. “ Senator Dick Durbin went even further saying that the banks “frankly own the place (Congress)”.
Barack Obama's Economic Team: All Kosher, No Gentile Economists Available in U.S.A.
Benjamin Bernanke: Chairman, Federal Reserve System
Timothy Geithner: Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department
Neal Wolin: Deputy Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department
Lael Brainard: Under Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department for International Affairs
Stuart Levey: Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
Lawrence Summers: Chairman, National Economic Council
Paul Volcker: Chairman, Economic Recovery Advisory Board
Jared Bernstein: Chief Economist and Economic Adviser, Vice President Joe Biden
Peter Orszag: Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Jason Furman: Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Jeffrey Zeints: Chief Performance Officer to streamline government and cut costs as well as
Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Gary Gensler: Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Mary Schapiro: Chairwoman, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Sheila Bair: Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Karen Mills: Administrator, Small Business Administration (SBA)
Jon Leibowitz: Chairman, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Steve Rattner: Car Czar in Treasury Department, Billionaire
Douglas Shulman Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.)
Neil M. Barofsky: Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“SIGTARP”)–provide oversight, monitor, and audit to the hundreds of billions of tax money is going
There are other Jewish Economic Advisors not listed here
Obama’s Foreign Policy Team:
Foreign Policy positions, as they relate to the Middle East, are primarily filled by Jewish Americans, all Pro Israel, with an open revolving door between the Israel Lobby (AIPAC) and so called “think tanks” and top national security positions in government. This Jewish American cabal had their greatest success in pushing this nation into its illegal murderous invasion of Iraq. Now their drums are beating for a war with Iran demanding more American treasure and blood in Israel’s cause.
James B. Steinberg: Deputy Secretary of State
Jacob Lew: Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
Jeffrey D. Feltman: Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (Includes Mideast)
Lee Feinstein: Foreign Policy Advisor
Eric Lynn: Middle East Policy Advisor
Dennis Ross: Special Advisor for the Gulf (Iran) and Southwest Asia to the Secretary of State
Mara Rudman: Foreign Policy Advisor
Dan Shapiro: Head of Middle East desk at the National Security Council
Three Important Obama Ambassadorial Nominees:
During the Campaign Obama criticized Bush for appointing allies and fundraisers as Ambassadors. He promised to end the culture of cronyism and appointing Lobbyists in his administration. But, money makes the world go round.
England: Louis Susman, Jewish billionaire, Primary fundraiser for Obama, former Citibank Executive
Germany: Phil Murphy; former Goldman Sachs investment banker, Obama fundraiser
Ireland: Dan Rooney, football team owner, Obama fundraiser
Other Important Obama Nominees/Appointees who are Jewish:
Julius Genachowski: Chair, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Elena Kagan: Solicitor General of the U.S., Department of Justice
Dr. Margaret Hamburg: Commissioner, of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein: Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden: Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Alan Bersin: Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and “Mexican Border Czar” at the Department of Homeland Security (A Jew rather than a Hispanic American will monitor the U.S.-Mexican border)
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Second Coming as Israel’s Prime Minister:
"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."
– Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s (Bibi) second coming as Prime Minister of Israel follows his first premiership from 1996 to 1999 during Bill Clinton’s administration. Bibi’s approach to Obama’s peace initiatives for the Middle East is a resurrection of the same intransigence, total rejection of the formula “land for peace”, hard line tough talk, frustrating promises and lies, denial of any Palestinian rights, and dependence on Congress and a compliant media to support him against the President’s policies.
In his first stint as Prime Minister Bibi so angered and frustrated Bill Clinton that Clinton stated, “he thinks he is the superpower and we are here to do whatever he requires."
Why shouldn’t he? Bibi and Israel for decades have known that as long as they and their lobby, AIPAC, control the Congress, no President can pressure Israel to make any real effort to ending the sixty one year conflict and forty three years of the most brutal illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and lives in modern history.
Netanyahu’s Position toward President Clinton’s Peace initiative:
1. No Palestinian State
2. No Stopping of Settlement Construction
3. No Dividing/Sharing Jerusalem
4. No Right of Return for Palestinian Refugees
5. No Sharing of Water Resources in Occupied Territories
6. No to the Arab Peace Initiative of 1982 that offers Israel total recognition and diplomatic relations in exchange for total withdrawal from all occupied territories.
7. All Peace Efforts so far have Failed
8. Yes for peace for the sake of peace only.
At the time the Washington Post, May 7, 1998, carried this headline:
“Netanyahu: U.S. “Cannot Dictate to Us”
[Note: The late Moshe Dayan spoke of not allowing the U.S. to dictate policy to Israel: “Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.”
When Clinton was pushing Bibi to withdraw from a smaller portion of the West Bank that Israel already agreed to, a Congressional and media firestorm erupted in “our” capitol city against Clinton and in salivating support of Israel. None other than the Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, shockingly encouraged Netanyahu to “defy” Clinton, his own President.
As reported by the Washington Report on the Middle East (July/August 1998): “On May 19, 1998, the top congressional leaders of both parties-Gingrich, Lott, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-MO)-fell all over themselves to demonstrate their support for Israel before 2,000 of the faithful at the end of AIPAC's annual policy conference. However, Gingrich was clearly the star of the show! He brazenly called upon Israel to defy the U.S. government, saying that Israel's "right of self-determination has to be defended at all costs, even against the best intention of some of Israel's friends, including the United States."
When Clinton planned a trip to Israel he was met with this outrageous comment by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the ultra orthodox Shas Party that currently holds 5 Cabinet posts in Netanyahu’s government.
According to Israelwire.com, December 13, 1998 “Rabbi Ovadia Yosef at his weekly Saturday lecture at Tifferet Yerushalay spoke thus about welcoming President Bill Clinton to Israel; “God plans to return the past glory to the Israel and President Bill Clinton must kiss our feet when visiting”.
Incredulous how a small nation can tell its benefactor and only real ally in the world to basically “shove it”.
AIPAC/Congressional Letter to President Clinton: Don’t Pressure Israel to Compromise:
AIPAC is known to either write congressional resolutions or author legislation in support of Israel.
On April 6, 1998, 81 Senators signed a letter to President Clinton demanding that he not pressure Israel to compromise.
[Note: "The Israelis control the policy in the congress and the senate ... somewhere around 80 percent of the senate of the United States is completely in support of Israel -- of anything Israel wants...."
-- Senator William Fulbright, Chairman Senate Foreign Relations Committee, October 7, 1973 on CBS' "Face the Nation".
After much maneuvering, Netanyahu agreed to withdraw from eleven percent of the West Bank (much less than agreed to with the Palestinians) in exchange, as usual, for $1.2 Billion. However, and as usual again, Israel took the money and ran and within a short time even broke that agreement called the Wye River Agreement.
Prior to his meeting with Netanyahu, Obama, already a committed supporter of Israel, took some good will gestures toward Israel and the American Jewish community in the hope of smoothing his meeting with Israel’s Likud hard liner.
1. He declared May, “Jewish Heritage Month”
2. He held the first ever White House Passover Seder dinner, which ironically celebrates Jewish “liberation” from slavery in Egypt.
3. He cancelled America’s attendance at the U.N. Durbin Conference on Racism to support Israel’s contention that this conference is simply an Anti-Israel bashing meeting. It was incredulous to see all of Europe prostrate to Israel leave the conference during the Iranian President’s speech.
4. He decided to rejoin the U.N. Human Rights Council which according to Israel is an “Anti-Semitic” body to protect Israel. The American U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice put this decision bluntly as America’s way to battle “the Anti-Israel Crap”. This despite that every U.N. organization, every human rights organization, the International Red Cross, and even the U.S. State Department slam Israel as the biggest and most consistent violator of human rights in the world.
In addition to the same rejectionist conditions Bibi held during Clinton’s era, this time he took an even harder line with Obama. Bibi added the following poisons and non-starters to Obama’s peace initiative.
1. All previous agreements with the Palestinians are null and void including the 2007 Annapolis Agreement espoused by President Bush. Thus all the negotiations now are at a “dead end”
{Note: New York Times, April 1, 2009. “Israeli Minister Dismisses Peace Effort”]
“In a blunt and belligerent speech on his first day as Israel’s new foreign minister, the hawkish nationalist Avigdor Lieberman declared Wednesday that “those who wish for peace should prepare for war” and that Israel was not obligated by understandings on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached at an American-sponsored peace conference in late 2007”.
[Note: Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2009: “Lieberman: Peace talks with Palestinians are at a 'dead end']
"What we state unequivocally is that we are completely opposed to what has been and still is the guiding principle of Israel's foreign policy: 'land for peace' –Avigdor Lieberman Quote
[Note: Haaretz, May 23, 2009: “Israel won't yield to U.S. demands, won't halt settlement construction”]
Thus with total confidence that Congress, AIPAC’s safety net, will support Israel to again defy an American President who seeks a two state solution, a halt to settlement construction, a negotiated settlement on Jerusalem, and the restarting of peace negotiations based on all previous agreements including U.N. Resolutions, the American Road Map, and the Annapolis Agreement, Avigdor Lieberman issues this confident yet shocking statement reported in Haaretz, April 22, 2009.
“The Obama Administration will put forth new peace initiatives only if Israel wants it to, said Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in his first comprehensive interview on foreign policy since taking office….. "Believe me, America accepts all our decisions."
Again such confidence arises from Congress’s total fealty to Israel’s interests above America’s national interest. Even during huge deficits Congress prefers to send billions to Israel rather than feed one homeless hungry American child.
Gingrich, this time out of office but considered a legitimate GOP candidate for 2012, gave this assessment on Obama’s approach to the Middle East. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, May 4, 2009 titled: “Gingrich: 'Obama endangering Israel', and prior to his obligatory candidate slobbering speech at AIPAC’s annual conference, Gingrich blasted Obama by saying: "They are systematically setting up the most decisive confrontation that we've ever seen…There's almost an eagerness to take on the Israeli government to make a point with the Arab world."
AIPAC/Congressional/ Letter to President Obama: Mind “risk” to Israel
In addition and as usual, an AIPAC Congressional Letter was sent to President Obama telling him not to put Israel at “risk” in his Mideast peace initiative.
“A group of 76 US senators sent a letter to President Obama urging him to mind the "risks" to Israel in any Middle East peace accord as he presses for a two-state solution to the six-decade conflict. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) supported the senators' letter…The four senators who organized the letter are Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Arlen Specter (D-PA) and John Thune (R-SD). The House version was rallied by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA).”
–Ynet (Website for Israel’s largest paper), May 20, 2009, “U.S. Senators to Obama: Consider Risks to Israel”
To further prove that AIPAC is usually the author of Congressional Resolutions against the Muslim state du jour, or letters to the President of the U.S. supporting Israel, or more importantly legislation, a letter sent by Representatives Hoyer and Cantor should’ve elicited a huge scandal and outcry from the American people had the media given the issue its proper attention, but this is Israel, which means our kosher media saw fit to kill the story.
But according to Rawstory.com, May 15, 2009, “Congressional Leaders Inadvertently Expose Israeli Lobbyists Behind Letter”.
“GOP House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) circulated a letter to colleagues this week urging President Obama to support Israel when moving forward with any Israeli peace process…Trouble is, they forgot to delete the name of the lobbying group involved in the letter from the document…. Attached to the email message they circulated when seeking signatures from other members of Congress was the document, titled, “AIPAC Letter Hoyer Cantor May 2009.pdf.”…The email to congress members seeking their support said they hoped they’d sign onto “the attached letter to President Obama regarding the Middle East peace process,” which argued that the US “must be both a trusted mediator and a devoted friend to Israel” and added, “Israel will be taking the greatest risks in any peace agreement.” (3)
2. As a pre-condition to considering peace talks, Bibi insists that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a “Jewish State”; thereby fulfilling the right wing’s long held policy of ethnically cleansing all Israeli Arab Christian and Muslim citizens out of Israel. This is obviously a deliberate poison pill.
3. Bibi insists that Obama first deal with Israel’s priority, i.e. attack Iran, then discuss the “secondary” issue of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, people, and their future. Contrary to Obama’s position, Ntanyahu denies that there is any “linkage” between resolving the Palestinian issue and Iran or any other Middle East conflict.
“Israel plans to present U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a series of "red lines" it wants Washington to incorporate into its planned dialogue with Tehran about Iran's nuclear program.” Chief among them, “A time limit must be set for the talks, to prevent Iran from merely buying time to complete its nuclear development. The talks should also be defined as a "one-time opportunity" for Tehran.”
–Haaretz March 3, 2009; “Israel to Present Clinton with “RED LINES” on talks with Iran”
“In an interview conducted shortly before he was sworn in today as prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and quickly or an imperiled Israel may be forced to “
–The Atlantic, March 31, 2009, “Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran—Or I Will”
Outrageous, shocking, incredulous—yes–but even more outrageous is that Dennis Ross, an observant Jew and strong supporter of Israel allies himself with Netanyahu on the lack of “linkage” between the Palestinian conflict, Iran, or any other Mideast issue, against his own President and Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, who hired him to deal with Iran
Here’s what Ha’aretz reported on this issue in an article May 27, 2009. NOTICE the headline.
”Dennis Ross vs. Obama: No link between Iran, Mideast peace”
“Dennis Ross, the U.S. Secretary of State's special adviser on Iran, says in a new book that the United States will not make progress toward peace in the Middle East with the Obama administration's new plan…. The book entitled "Myths, illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East," opposes the Obama administration's concept of linkage… Contrary to the position of the president and other advisers, Ross writes that efforts to advance dialogue with Iran should not be connected to the renewal of talks between Israel and the Palestinians…. In the second chapter, entitled "Linkage: The Mother of All Myths," Ross writes: "Of all the policy myths that have kept us from making real progress in the Middle East, one stands out for its impact and longevity: the idea that if only the Palestinian conflict were solved, all other Middle East conflicts would melt away. This is the argument of 'linkage.'"
What Chutzpah, what ugly arrogance, that a tiny nation founded and dependent on American largesse ‘DICTATES' to this alleged superpower “red lines” for its policy toward a third nation, while a mere government civil servant has the audacity to oppose his boss, the President of the United States. Only in America and only a Jewish Zionist can get away with this just as Israel has gotten away with murder, even of Americans, for decades with total impunity.
Israelis know they can take advantage of the large presence of Jewish Americans in key positions in the government, of their dual loyalty, and their emotional attachment to a foreign nation that usually supersedes their allegiance to their native country of America that has made them the most powerful, successful, and wealthiest minority in American history.
A brazen example of such opportunistic manipulation to do Israel’s bidding comes from the Chairman of Israel’s National Union, Ya’acov Katz, who upon hearing that the Israeli American former Israeli soldier and now the White House’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel told a Jewish American that Obama plans to pursue a two state solution wrote him a letter reminding him of his Jewish and Israeli origins.
“National Union chairman Ya'acov "Ketzele" Katz sent a letter to White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel last week admonishing him not to forget his Jewish and Israeli origins…. In the letter…Katz wrote: "For many Israelis, this report is a cause for worry because it reveals a condescending attitude toward our prime minister and Israeli public opinion. This is an attitude that Israel does not expect from a real friend such as the US, and all the more so from an Israeli Jew who has succeeded in being appointed White House chief-of-staff."
–The Jerusalem Post, April 19, 2009, “NU's Katz reminds Emanuel he's Jewish”
In the end Obama surrendered to Netanyahu’s “red lines” and his demand for a deadline on his Iran policy. After their meeting and during a White House press conference Obama sheepishly caved in to Bibi and gave Iran a seven month deadline, to the end of this year, to respond on its nuclear policy, all Obama could do is beg Netanyahu not to surprise him with a preemptive attack on Iran, but at least have the courtesy to tell him before all hell breaks loose in the Mideast.
Anyone watching the body language of these two men can easily identify who leads America’s foreign policy, and it’s not the man of “hope and change”. When it comes to Israel, Obama like all his predecessors, clearly proclaims “No We Can’t”.
In the usual pattern of making nice while in Washington D.C. but resorting to insulting and defying the American President and the American people upon their return to Israel, Netanyahu’s senior aides had this to say in response to Obama’s push for a two state solution.
“(Netanyahu’s) aides are already hard at work in bid to discredit US fixation on two-state plan.'Two states for two peoples is a stupid and childish solution to a very complex problem,' they say…. They were further adamant to emphasize that Israel would continue to build in the larger settlement blocs and Jerusalem despite US President Barack Obama's resolute opposition.”
— AFP, May 20, 2009, “'Fixation on two-state solution is childish”
The President of the United States is offering a “stupid and childish” solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict? We, Americans, take it on the chin with silence because it’s our specially ally Israel. One can only imagine the hysterics if Iran’s President said this.
Netanyahu stated that the illegal settlements need to expand due to “natural growth”, the same lie used by every previous Israeli prime minister to continue confiscating Palestinian land. According to Ha’aretz, May 17, 2009, “New residents account for 33% of West Bank settlement growth”, figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics show that 33% of settlement growth is due to new residents leaving Israel proper” to live in the settlements given the very generous subsidies they receive from the government (in reality from the U.S. taxpayer which violates U.S. law). Thus Netanyahu’s argument to Obama on settlement expansion is as with all things coming out of Israel—a Lie.
Of course, lest anyone forget, Israel has made it painfully clear that if her existence is ever threatened, it has the nuclear weapons to take the world down with it. This policy in Israel is known as the “Samson Option” after the biblical figure Samson, history’s first suicide bomber, who killed himself by collapsing the Philistine temple on himself and the Philistines.
“I recall an interview I did for the BBC’s Panorama programme with Mother Israel, Golda Meir. At a point I interrupted her to say: “Prime Minister, I want to be sure that I understand what you’re saying… You are saying that if ever Israel was in danger of being defeated on the battlefield, it would be prepared to take the region and the whole world down with it?” Without the shortest of pauses for reflection, and in the gravel voice that could charm or intimidate American presidents according to need, Golda replied, “Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying.” Within an hour of that interview being transmitted, the Times of London changed its lead editorial. The new one quoted what Golda had said to me and added its own opinion - “We’d better believe her.”)
–http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18716.htm
“The Book That Can’t Be Published In America By Alan Hart, author of Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews”
"We have the (nuclear) capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen, before Israel goes under." He quoted General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
–Martin van Creveld, Professor of Military History at Israel’s Hebrew University, quoted in David Hirst’s “The Gun and Oliver Branch”, 2003, page 119
“Israel has been building nuclear weapons for 30 years…. What would serve
The Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter. For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away–unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans–have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice?”
–Professor David Perlmutter (Louisiana State University), “Israel: Dark Thoughts and Quiet Desperation”, Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2002
For the world to stand by paralyzed in its institutions and all its power while Israel continues to brutalize millions of Palestinians, having stolen their land by force and terrorism, having ethnically cleansed them from their homes, farms, and villages, destroying and eliminating close to 500 villages from the annals of geographic history causing the world’s largest and longest refugee problem, continuing an illegal, immoral, and evil occupation that rules the lives of millions at the slightest whim of a politician, general, or soldier, killing and murdering at will, imprisoning and torturing women and children, terrorizing the innocent humanity under their armed boots, is explicable if one accepts these facts.
The power of wealthy Jews embodied in banking, financial, and investment institutions, their control and ownership of the majority of the western world’s media, all of Hollywood, majority of public relations firms, dominance in academia, political “think tanks” that provide the thinking for cowardly politicians, and most of all the most sophisticated, organized, financed, and entrenched lobby ever known in western history.
Deviate from Jewish or Israeli interests and the sledgehammers of ‘Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Denier, Genocidal Liar, Denier of Israel’s right to exist”; all accompanied with the media sobs, cries, and tears of packaged punditry pour into the already guilty conscience of western governments.
Ironically, while the majority of the Christian and Muslim world are silent in incompetence and complicity, the most active and courageous persons who criticize Zionism and its political and moral destruction of Israel as well as threatening the very future of Jews in this world are Jews themselves, many who support Israel but are ashamed and horrified at Israel’s brutality against another people.
If only Gentiles would join such admirable Jews in their fight for Justice in the Holy Land.
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
–Thomas Jefferson
Sources:
1. http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/03/freeman-the-powerful-israel-lobby-is-determined-to-prevent-any-view-other-than-its-own-from-being-ai.html
http://thehill.com/letters/rep.-wolfs-assault-on-me-was-shoddy-and-inaccurate-2009-03-23.html
Chas Freeman’s Letter to Rep. Frank Wolf Responding to Wolf’s attacks on him in a Washington Post OpEd where he defends AIPAC/Israel Lobby
http://www.forward.com/articles/103815/
Forward, Jewish Weekly Magazine, Good Summary Article on AIPAC/Lobby Pushing Chas Freeman from Intelligence Position. Obama, in his silence, supported Freeman’s Withdrawal
2. http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/boundvolumes/524bv.pdf
(Page 11: Supreme Court Case by U.S. Diplomats Against AIPAC/FEC)
3. http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/15/gop-democratic-leader-inadvertently-expose-israeli-lobbyists-behind-their-letter-to-obama/
Additional Important Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k90Jw4AVT-4
MUST WATCH Video of Israel’s Genocide on Gaza
http://www.freespeech.org/videodb/index.php?action=detail&video_id=11295&browse=0
Video of Jewish American Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivors on the Palestinian Suffering in the Occupied Territories
http://www.freespeech.org/videodb/index.php?action=detail&video_id=11283&browse=0
Professor Illan Pappe on Israel’s Founding and its Catastrophe upon the Palestinians
AIPAC/Congressional Letter to President Bush:
Despite being Israel’s greatest Christian Zionist supporter and genocidal ally in its attacks on Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria; even he didn’t escape the wrath of AIPACongress.
“In a letter to President Bush today, 89 senators urged him not to restrain
Israel from retaliating fully against Palestinian violence and to express
his solidarity publicly with Israel soon.”
–New York Times, November 17, 2001, “Senators Urge Bush Not to Hamper Israel”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/81sens.html
Letter content from 81 Senators to President Clinton: “don’t pressure Israel”.
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/uploads/cmimg_12349.pdf
Letter from 76 Senators to President Obama
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/revolving-door-bailout-edition
Revolving Door, Bailout Edition, April 9, 2009: Documenting the Revolving Door between Congress and Wall Street
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html
William Black, the former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention now teaches Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. During the savings and loan crisis, it was Black who accused then-house speaker Jim Wright and five US Senators, including John Glenn and John McCain, of doing favors for the S&L's in exchange for contributions and other perks. The senators got off with a slap on the wrist. Now Black is focused on an even greater scandal, and he spares no one — not even the President he worked hard to elect, Barack Obama. But his main targets are the Wall Street barons, heirs of an earlier generation whose scandalous rip-offs of wealth back in the 1930s earned them comparison to Al Capone and the mob, and the nickname "banksters."
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/zionist_plan.html
“The Zionist Plan for the Middle East”, translated by Professor Israel Shahak, (see Greater Israel Map)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Fs73XZqm8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpulsemedia%2Eorg%2F&feature=player_embedded
(AIPAC Annual 2009 Conference. Watch Our Politicians Prostitute themselves)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzbh4_FBImw
(Former GOP Rep. Gilchrest on how Pressure Groups, AIPAC included, prevent debate)
http://www.counterpunch.org/gowani09012008.html
Great Article on the Power of AIPAC and the men and women it smeared and defeated, Great Quotes
DEMONIZING DISSENT as part of FBI COINTELPRO: Dipshit Shrinks enabling the police state's conspiracy to neutralize THOMAS S. BEAN as a witness
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/05/conspiracies-and-martha-mitchell-effect.html
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Psychologists and the Mitchell Effect
John Mitchell was the Attorney-General during the Nixon administration.
His wife - Martha Mitchell - told her psychologist that top White House officials were engaged in illegal activities. Her psychologist labeled these claims as caused by mental illness.
Ultimately, however, the relevant facts of the Watergate scandal vindicated her.
In fact, psychologists have now given a label - the "Martha Mitchell Effect" - to "the process by which a psychiatrist, psychologist, or other mental health clinician mistakes the patient's perception of real events as delusional and misdiagnoses accordingly".
The authors of a paper on this phenomenon ( Bell, V., Halligan, P.W., Ellis, H.D. (2003) Beliefs About Delusions. The Psychologist, 6 (8), 418-422) conclude:
Sometimes, improbable reports are erroneously assumed to be symptoms of mental illness [due to a] failure or inability to verify whether the events have actually taken place, no matter how improbable intuitively they might appear to the busy clinician.
In other words, psychologists who haven't taken the time to examine for themselves the claims of their patients will tend to label as delusional anything which they "intuitively" feel is improbable.
Many psychologists - just as Martha Mitchell's - will tend to assume any claim of conspiracy is improbable. However, conspiracies are actually common occurences which are well-recognized by the law.
Psychologists are even more apt to label government conspiracies as improbable. However, as Martha Mitchell's psychologist learned, they do happen. Watergate, for example, was a conspiracy.
Psychologists who have attempted to label as delusional those who raise the possibility of government conspiracies do not have even a basic understanding of the Martha Mitchell Effect, or have not examined whether or not there is any factual basis for their patient's claims.
Obviously, some people are delusional, and see conspiracies where none exist. But it is equally true that when millions of scientists, military leaders, historians, legal scholars, intelligence officials and other rational people say the government is lying, psychologists who dismiss similar claims by their patients are falling prey to the Martha Mitchell Effect. They are too busy and/or arrogant to actually examine their assumptions as to whether or not the claims which feel improbable to them are true.
____________________________________
tommy:
Important to note:
1) FBI AND LAW ENFORCEMENT IN SOUTH DAKOTA, TEXAS, AND TEN WESTERN STATES engaged in an unconstitutional INTERSTATE STALKING CAMPAIGN based on "uncorroborated and unexamined suspicion" that came from an illegal violation of the fed wiretap laws.
2) This harassment campaign involved alot of stalking, breakins, vehicle sabotage,terrorist threats, malicious prosecutions, deliberate indifference, obstruction of justice, assaults, petty theft, illegal seizures....JUST ABOUT THE ENTIRE PRACTISE GUIDE OF POTENTIAL CAUSES OF ACTION UNDER SECTION 1983, 1985, FED TORT CLAIMS ACT, PRIVACY ACT, etc.
3) This is also known at FBI HQ as OPERATION SLAMMER.
See, US Intel community whistleblower MCKINNEY'S knowledge of this, and her letters to congress.
4) Thus, I got slandered and destroyed as a DELUSIONAL PERSONALITY--PERSECUTORY TYPE by a litany of smug, incompetent dumbfucks masquarading as clinical psychiatrists and psychologists.
I even had the dubious distinction of being found MENTALLY DISORDERED SUFFERING FROM A MENTAL ILLNESS WHILE ALSO A DANGER TO MYSELF AND OTHERS?
5) These facts might have been reviewed and investigated by SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN'S FED GRAND JURY IN SIOUX FALLS, SD...but...we will never know.
PUSSIFIED FAGGOTS KNOWN AS DEMOCRATS AT US SENATE AND HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEES apparently are so weak, stupid, gutless, and corrupt to have...some how...ignored all the specific facts and crimes committed by FBI TASK FORCES AND SECRET FBI TASK FORCES known as NSA TSP working with cops...and MUELLER'S KNEW PUNK CLOWN ACT CALLED INFRAGUARD.
Don't worry...the pussies at OBAMA'S WHITE HOUSE AND HOLDER'S PUNK ACT...have all...stood down hoping that THIS REALITY ALL SOMEHOW GOES AWAY?
_______________________________________________
http://www.naturalnews.com/026345_medical_police_state_chemotherapy_cancer.html
Top 10 Ways to Know You're Living in a Medical Police State
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Are Americans really living in a medical police state? The recent news with Daniel Hauser and his family's fight over chemotherapy seems to indicate so. Here are ten ways to recognize whether you're living under the oppressive tyranny of a medical police state.
#1 - If an armed U.S. Marshall is posted outside your house at night -- just to make sure you don't escape "treatment" -- you're probably living in a medical police state.
Source: "Daniel was allowed to spend the night at home, but County Attorney James Olson said a deputy was posted at the Hauser farm in Sleepy Eye." (FoxNews)
#2 - If saying "I'd rather not inject my child with that poison" to your doctor results in him calling Child Protective Services, you're most likely living in a medical police state.
#3 - If a nationwide manhunt (involving FBI agents) is unleashed just to find you and drag you back to the hospital to submit to dangerous pharmaceuticals, there's little doubt you're living in a medical police state.
#4 - If you find yourself suddenly wondering if you should flee to Mexico in order to find freedom, you're probably living in a medical police state.
#5 - If doctors call the police to prevent you from visiting competing cancer clinics outside the country, that's a warning sign that you're living in a medical police state.
#6 - If your doctor claims to be practicing "integrative medicine" but then calls the police when you don't submit to chemotherapy, you're definitely living in a medical police state.
Quote from Daniel Hauser's oncologist, Dr. Bostrom: "Although I've had patients concerned about getting chemo, this is the first time I've ever had to report someone." Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Cancer...
#7 - If you're blasted by the mainstream media for supporting a mother's right to protect her teenage son from an injection of toxic chemicals, you're almost certainly living in a medical police state (populated by sheeple).
#8 - If you walk into a hospital and they handcuff you, steal your child and forcibly inject him with dangerous poisons while explaining, "It's for your own good," then you're almost certainly living in a medical police state.
#9 - If the State calls you "medically negligent" for feeding your child raw foods, or medicinal herbs, or holistic diets that are free from sugar, red meat and chemical additives, then you're definitely living in a medical police state. (Fact: Parents who feed their children diets of raw, living foods have been accused of medical neglect.)
#10 - If you disagree with your psychiatrist, and in response he diagnosis you with "Oppositional Defiance Disorder" and demands you take his mind-altering psych drugs, you are absolutely living in a medical police state!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lindauer
Susan Lindauer (born 17 July 1963) is an American journalist and antiwar activist. She was accused of conspiring to act as an agent for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein.[1]
She is the daughter of John Howard Lindauer II, the newspaper publisher and former Republican nominee for Governor of Alaska. Susan's mother was Jackie Lindauer (1932-1992) who died of cancer in 1992. In 1995 her father married Dorothy Oremus, a Chicago attorney who along with other members of her family owned the largest cement company in the Midwest.[3]
[edit] Education and employment
Lindauer attended East High in Anchorage, Alaska where she was an honor student and was in school plays.[4] She graduated from Smith College in 1985. She earned a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the London School of Economics.[1] She worked as a temporary reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for 13 weeks in 1987, and as an editorial writer at the The Everett Herald in Everett, Washington in 1989. She then was a reporter and researcher at U.S. News & World Report in 1990 and 1991.[4][5][3][6] Her co-workers said she was a woman "prone to mood swings and erratic behavior".[6]
She then worked for Representative Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon (1993) and then Representative Ron Wyden, D-Oregon (1994) before joining the office of Senator Carol Moseley Braun, D-Illinois, where she worked as a press secretary and speech writer.[5][3]
[edit] Activism
She started making visits to the Libyan Mission to the United Nations in 1995.[5] She held meetings with Iraqi Intelligence Service officials at the United Nations in 1999.[1] Andrew Card is her second cousin. Her first contact with the former Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush was around 2001.[1] On January 8, 2003 she delivered a letter to Card urging the White House to not invade Iraq.[7][8]
[edit] Arrest
Lindauer was arrested on Thursday, 11 March 2004 in Takoma Park, Maryland and charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government". The indictment alleged that she accepted US$10,000 from Iraqi intelligence services in 2002. Lindauer denies receiving the money, but admits taking a trip to Baghdad.[1] She was released on bond on March 13, 2004 to attend an arraignment the following week.[2] She was later incarcerated in Carswell, Texas then the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.[8]
Lindauer disputes much of what has been written about her in the media. In a lengthy set of interviews with her by Michael Collins, she takes on her critics. In one interview she claims to have been working for the CIA prior to her arrest under the provisions of the Patriot Act. [9]
[edit] Unfit to stand trial
In 2006 she was released from prison after Michael B. Mukasey ruled that Lindauer was unfit to stand trial but that she could not be forced to take antipsychotic medication to make her competent to stand trial.[8] In 2008 Loretta A. Preska of the Federal District Court in New York City reaffirmed that Lindauer was mentally unfit to stand trial.[3][10]
[edit] References
1. ^ a b c d e "Susan Lindauer's Mission To Baghdad". New York Times. August 29, 2004. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE2DC143EF93AA1575BC0A9629C8B63. Retrieved on 2008-11-07. "On the morning of March 11, 2004, Susan Lindauer woke to find five F.B.I. agents at her front door. After reading her her rights, the agents took Lindauer from her home in Takoma Park, Md., to the F.B.I. field office in Baltimore, where she was charged with having acted as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government and otherwise having elevated the interests of a foreign country above her allegiance to the United States."
2. ^ a b "Suspect in Iraq Spy Case Released. Lindauer, a Takoma Park Antiwar Activist, to Be Arraigned Monday.". Washington Post. March 13, 2004. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-154325.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-26. "A former congressional staffer accused of aiding spies for Saddam Hussein before the U.S.-led war with Iraq was released from federal custody yesterday as some residents of Takoma Park, her home city, voiced differing reactions to the unique case, including puzzlement, anger and indifference. Susan P. Lindauer, 40, a self-described antiwar activist who was a press aide to several Democratic members of Congress in the 1990s, appeared at a detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Baltimore and was released to the custody of her father."
3. ^ a b c d "Ex-journalist in spy case unfit for trial". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. September 16, 2008. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/379317_iraqspy17.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-26. "Lindauer is the daughter of John Howard Lindauer II, a newspaper publisher who once was a Republican candidate for governor of Alaska. ... Lindauer's mother died of cancer in 1992. Her stepmother, Dorothy Oremus Lindauer, is a prominent Chicago lawyer and heiress to a concrete business fortune. Her parents reportedly live in Chicago."
4. ^ a b "Suspect is remembered as worldly". Anchorage Daily News. March 13, 2004. http://dwb.adn.com/front/story/4841671p-4779085c.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-26. "At East High, Susan Lindauer was an honor student and a thespian. ... Lindauer worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for a few months in 1987, then worked at The Everett Herald from August 1987 to July 1989. By 1991 she had moved to Washington and was working for U.S. News and World Report."
5. ^ a b c "An Antiwar Activist Known for Being Committed Yet Erratic". New York Times. March 12, 2004. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E0DF103EF931A25750C0A9629C8B63. Retrieved on 2008-06-11. "Ms. Lindauer also worked as a reporter, freelance writer or researcher at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Fortune Magazine and U.S. News & World Report. Spokesmen for those publications said her employment was so short few people remembered much about her. Ms. Lindauer took jobs as a press secretary or speechwriter with Democratic members of Congress, including Representatives Peter A. DeFazio and Ron Wyden of Oregon in 1993 and 1994, Senator Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1996 and Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, for eight weeks in 2002."
6. ^ a b "Neighbor Seemed Activist, Not Agent". Washington Post. March 12, 2004. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51972-2004Mar11?language=printer. Retrieved on 2009-01-26. "A Smith College graduate with a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics, she worked as a temporary business reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1987 and then as an editorial writer at the Herald of Everett, Wash., for two years. The Herald is owned by The Washington Post Co."
7. ^ "Ex-Congressional Aide Accused of Working With Iraqi Intelligence Before War". New York Times. March 12, 2004. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E4DC103EF931A25750C0A9629C8B63. Retrieved on 2008-06-11. "Federal prosecutors charged a former Congressional aide on Thursday with working with the Iraqi intelligence service before the war, and investigators said she had sought to influence American policy by presenting herself to a highly placed relative, Andrew H. Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, as an intermediary."
8. ^ a b c "Ex-Congress Aide Accused in Spy Case Is Free on Bail". New York Times. September 9, 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/nyregion/09spy.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-26. "A former journalist and Congressional aide accused of working with Iraqi intelligence before the war was released from prison yesterday after a federal judge ruled that she could not be forced to take antipsychotic medication in an effort to make her competent to stand trial. ... At least a half dozen doctors for both the defense and the prosecution have found that Ms. Lindauer suffers from delusions of grandeur and paranoia, which makes her incompetent to stand trial, the judge said. But she refuses to accept the diagnosis or to take medication, he said. One doctor found that Ms. Lindauer had a history of psychotic episodes going back to her childhood, possibly at the age of 7, the judge said. These include her contention that she had gifts of prophecy that allowed her to report 11 bombings before they happened, that she spoke with divine inspiration and that she was an angel."
9. ^ |http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00130.htm
10. ^ "Woman Accused of Iraq Ties Is Ruled Unfit for Trial Again". New York Times. September 16, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/nyregion/17lindauer.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-06. "A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that Susan P. Lindauer, a former journalist and Congressional aide who was accused of working with Iraqi intelligence before the war, is still mentally incompetent to stand trial. Ms. Lindauer, who had been declared incompetent for trial by Judge Michael B. Mukasey, now the United States attorney general, tried to persuade a different judge that she was now competent. But the second judge, Loretta A. Preska of Federal District Court, ruled late Monday that while Ms. Lindauer was “highly intelligent” and “generally capable of functioning at a high level in many ways,” she also was suffering from a mental disease or defect."
[edit] External links
* Susan Lindauer Blows the 9/11 Whistle Again
* Lockerbie Trial Document: Susan Lindauer deposition
* Susan Lindauer bibliography
* Woman Accused Of Spying For Saddam; The Smoking Gun.
* Interview with Susan Lindauer
* American Cassandra - Susan Lindauer’s Story
* 911 Prediction Revealed at Lindauer Competency Hearing in New York City
* Susan Lindauer’s last letter to Andrew Card, Jan. 6, 2003
* The American Cassandra Collection: 11 Articles on Susan Lindauer in "Scoop" Independent News from Oct 17, 2007 through Mar 10, 2009
Seven ways to free yourself from a medical police state (satire)
1) Bring your lawyer with you for each visit to the doctor, and bill your doctor for the time your lawyer spends in the waiting room.
2) Practice medical tourism and visit Thailand, Mexico, the Bahamas or other countries where real medicine remains legal.
3) Bring a fake prosthetic arm with you when you visit the doctor, and offer it up for any injections (acting like it's yours, of course). Be sure to fake a wince when they insert the catheter.
4) Before you visit the doctor, go to his house and kidnap his dog. Bring it to his clinic with you, and if the doctor insists on calling law enforcement to have your child kidnapped, offer to swap his dog for ransom.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Psychologists and the Mitchell Effect
John Mitchell was the Attorney-General during the Nixon administration.
His wife - Martha Mitchell - told her psychologist that top White House officials were engaged in illegal activities. Her psychologist labeled these claims as caused by mental illness.
Ultimately, however, the relevant facts of the Watergate scandal vindicated her.
In fact, psychologists have now given a label - the "Martha Mitchell Effect" - to "the process by which a psychiatrist, psychologist, or other mental health clinician mistakes the patient's perception of real events as delusional and misdiagnoses accordingly".
The authors of a paper on this phenomenon ( Bell, V., Halligan, P.W., Ellis, H.D. (2003) Beliefs About Delusions. The Psychologist, 6 (8), 418-422) conclude:
Sometimes, improbable reports are erroneously assumed to be symptoms of mental illness [due to a] failure or inability to verify whether the events have actually taken place, no matter how improbable intuitively they might appear to the busy clinician.
In other words, psychologists who haven't taken the time to examine for themselves the claims of their patients will tend to label as delusional anything which they "intuitively" feel is improbable.
Many psychologists - just as Martha Mitchell's - will tend to assume any claim of conspiracy is improbable. However, conspiracies are actually common occurences which are well-recognized by the law.
Psychologists are even more apt to label government conspiracies as improbable. However, as Martha Mitchell's psychologist learned, they do happen. Watergate, for example, was a conspiracy.
Psychologists who have attempted to label as delusional those who raise the possibility of government conspiracies do not have even a basic understanding of the Martha Mitchell Effect, or have not examined whether or not there is any factual basis for their patient's claims.
Obviously, some people are delusional, and see conspiracies where none exist. But it is equally true that when millions of scientists, military leaders, historians, legal scholars, intelligence officials and other rational people say the government is lying, psychologists who dismiss similar claims by their patients are falling prey to the Martha Mitchell Effect. They are too busy and/or arrogant to actually examine their assumptions as to whether or not the claims which feel improbable to them are true.
____________________________________
tommy:
Important to note:
1) FBI AND LAW ENFORCEMENT IN SOUTH DAKOTA, TEXAS, AND TEN WESTERN STATES engaged in an unconstitutional INTERSTATE STALKING CAMPAIGN based on "uncorroborated and unexamined suspicion" that came from an illegal violation of the fed wiretap laws.
2) This harassment campaign involved alot of stalking, breakins, vehicle sabotage,terrorist threats, malicious prosecutions, deliberate indifference, obstruction of justice, assaults, petty theft, illegal seizures....JUST ABOUT THE ENTIRE PRACTISE GUIDE OF POTENTIAL CAUSES OF ACTION UNDER SECTION 1983, 1985, FED TORT CLAIMS ACT, PRIVACY ACT, etc.
3) This is also known at FBI HQ as OPERATION SLAMMER.
See, US Intel community whistleblower MCKINNEY'S knowledge of this, and her letters to congress.
4) Thus, I got slandered and destroyed as a DELUSIONAL PERSONALITY--PERSECUTORY TYPE by a litany of smug, incompetent dumbfucks masquarading as clinical psychiatrists and psychologists.
I even had the dubious distinction of being found MENTALLY DISORDERED SUFFERING FROM A MENTAL ILLNESS WHILE ALSO A DANGER TO MYSELF AND OTHERS?
5) These facts might have been reviewed and investigated by SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN'S FED GRAND JURY IN SIOUX FALLS, SD...but...we will never know.
PUSSIFIED FAGGOTS KNOWN AS DEMOCRATS AT US SENATE AND HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEES apparently are so weak, stupid, gutless, and corrupt to have...some how...ignored all the specific facts and crimes committed by FBI TASK FORCES AND SECRET FBI TASK FORCES known as NSA TSP working with cops...and MUELLER'S KNEW PUNK CLOWN ACT CALLED INFRAGUARD.
Don't worry...the pussies at OBAMA'S WHITE HOUSE AND HOLDER'S PUNK ACT...have all...stood down hoping that THIS REALITY ALL SOMEHOW GOES AWAY?
_______________________________________________
http://www.naturalnews.com/026345_medical_police_state_chemotherapy_cancer.html
Top 10 Ways to Know You're Living in a Medical Police State
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Are Americans really living in a medical police state? The recent news with Daniel Hauser and his family's fight over chemotherapy seems to indicate so. Here are ten ways to recognize whether you're living under the oppressive tyranny of a medical police state.
#1 - If an armed U.S. Marshall is posted outside your house at night -- just to make sure you don't escape "treatment" -- you're probably living in a medical police state.
Source: "Daniel was allowed to spend the night at home, but County Attorney James Olson said a deputy was posted at the Hauser farm in Sleepy Eye." (FoxNews)
#2 - If saying "I'd rather not inject my child with that poison" to your doctor results in him calling Child Protective Services, you're most likely living in a medical police state.
#3 - If a nationwide manhunt (involving FBI agents) is unleashed just to find you and drag you back to the hospital to submit to dangerous pharmaceuticals, there's little doubt you're living in a medical police state.
#4 - If you find yourself suddenly wondering if you should flee to Mexico in order to find freedom, you're probably living in a medical police state.
#5 - If doctors call the police to prevent you from visiting competing cancer clinics outside the country, that's a warning sign that you're living in a medical police state.
#6 - If your doctor claims to be practicing "integrative medicine" but then calls the police when you don't submit to chemotherapy, you're definitely living in a medical police state.
Quote from Daniel Hauser's oncologist, Dr. Bostrom: "Although I've had patients concerned about getting chemo, this is the first time I've ever had to report someone." Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Cancer...
#7 - If you're blasted by the mainstream media for supporting a mother's right to protect her teenage son from an injection of toxic chemicals, you're almost certainly living in a medical police state (populated by sheeple).
#8 - If you walk into a hospital and they handcuff you, steal your child and forcibly inject him with dangerous poisons while explaining, "It's for your own good," then you're almost certainly living in a medical police state.
#9 - If the State calls you "medically negligent" for feeding your child raw foods, or medicinal herbs, or holistic diets that are free from sugar, red meat and chemical additives, then you're definitely living in a medical police state. (Fact: Parents who feed their children diets of raw, living foods have been accused of medical neglect.)
#10 - If you disagree with your psychiatrist, and in response he diagnosis you with "Oppositional Defiance Disorder" and demands you take his mind-altering psych drugs, you are absolutely living in a medical police state!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lindauer
Susan Lindauer (born 17 July 1963) is an American journalist and antiwar activist. She was accused of conspiring to act as an agent for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein.[1]
She is the daughter of John Howard Lindauer II, the newspaper publisher and former Republican nominee for Governor of Alaska. Susan's mother was Jackie Lindauer (1932-1992) who died of cancer in 1992. In 1995 her father married Dorothy Oremus, a Chicago attorney who along with other members of her family owned the largest cement company in the Midwest.[3]
[edit] Education and employment
Lindauer attended East High in Anchorage, Alaska where she was an honor student and was in school plays.[4] She graduated from Smith College in 1985. She earned a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the London School of Economics.[1] She worked as a temporary reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for 13 weeks in 1987, and as an editorial writer at the The Everett Herald in Everett, Washington in 1989. She then was a reporter and researcher at U.S. News & World Report in 1990 and 1991.[4][5][3][6] Her co-workers said she was a woman "prone to mood swings and erratic behavior".[6]
She then worked for Representative Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon (1993) and then Representative Ron Wyden, D-Oregon (1994) before joining the office of Senator Carol Moseley Braun, D-Illinois, where she worked as a press secretary and speech writer.[5][3]
[edit] Activism
She started making visits to the Libyan Mission to the United Nations in 1995.[5] She held meetings with Iraqi Intelligence Service officials at the United Nations in 1999.[1] Andrew Card is her second cousin. Her first contact with the former Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush was around 2001.[1] On January 8, 2003 she delivered a letter to Card urging the White House to not invade Iraq.[7][8]
[edit] Arrest
Lindauer was arrested on Thursday, 11 March 2004 in Takoma Park, Maryland and charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government". The indictment alleged that she accepted US$10,000 from Iraqi intelligence services in 2002. Lindauer denies receiving the money, but admits taking a trip to Baghdad.[1] She was released on bond on March 13, 2004 to attend an arraignment the following week.[2] She was later incarcerated in Carswell, Texas then the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.[8]
Lindauer disputes much of what has been written about her in the media. In a lengthy set of interviews with her by Michael Collins, she takes on her critics. In one interview she claims to have been working for the CIA prior to her arrest under the provisions of the Patriot Act. [9]
[edit] Unfit to stand trial
In 2006 she was released from prison after Michael B. Mukasey ruled that Lindauer was unfit to stand trial but that she could not be forced to take antipsychotic medication to make her competent to stand trial.[8] In 2008 Loretta A. Preska of the Federal District Court in New York City reaffirmed that Lindauer was mentally unfit to stand trial.[3][10]
[edit] References
1. ^ a b c d e "Susan Lindauer's Mission To Baghdad". New York Times. August 29, 2004. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE2DC143EF93AA1575BC0A9629C8B63. Retrieved on 2008-11-07. "On the morning of March 11, 2004, Susan Lindauer woke to find five F.B.I. agents at her front door. After reading her her rights, the agents took Lindauer from her home in Takoma Park, Md., to the F.B.I. field office in Baltimore, where she was charged with having acted as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government and otherwise having elevated the interests of a foreign country above her allegiance to the United States."
2. ^ a b "Suspect in Iraq Spy Case Released. Lindauer, a Takoma Park Antiwar Activist, to Be Arraigned Monday.". Washington Post. March 13, 2004. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-154325.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-26. "A former congressional staffer accused of aiding spies for Saddam Hussein before the U.S.-led war with Iraq was released from federal custody yesterday as some residents of Takoma Park, her home city, voiced differing reactions to the unique case, including puzzlement, anger and indifference. Susan P. Lindauer, 40, a self-described antiwar activist who was a press aide to several Democratic members of Congress in the 1990s, appeared at a detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Baltimore and was released to the custody of her father."
3. ^ a b c d "Ex-journalist in spy case unfit for trial". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. September 16, 2008. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/379317_iraqspy17.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-26. "Lindauer is the daughter of John Howard Lindauer II, a newspaper publisher who once was a Republican candidate for governor of Alaska. ... Lindauer's mother died of cancer in 1992. Her stepmother, Dorothy Oremus Lindauer, is a prominent Chicago lawyer and heiress to a concrete business fortune. Her parents reportedly live in Chicago."
4. ^ a b "Suspect is remembered as worldly". Anchorage Daily News. March 13, 2004. http://dwb.adn.com/front/story/4841671p-4779085c.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-26. "At East High, Susan Lindauer was an honor student and a thespian. ... Lindauer worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for a few months in 1987, then worked at The Everett Herald from August 1987 to July 1989. By 1991 she had moved to Washington and was working for U.S. News and World Report."
5. ^ a b c "An Antiwar Activist Known for Being Committed Yet Erratic". New York Times. March 12, 2004. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E0DF103EF931A25750C0A9629C8B63. Retrieved on 2008-06-11. "Ms. Lindauer also worked as a reporter, freelance writer or researcher at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Fortune Magazine and U.S. News & World Report. Spokesmen for those publications said her employment was so short few people remembered much about her. Ms. Lindauer took jobs as a press secretary or speechwriter with Democratic members of Congress, including Representatives Peter A. DeFazio and Ron Wyden of Oregon in 1993 and 1994, Senator Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1996 and Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, for eight weeks in 2002."
6. ^ a b "Neighbor Seemed Activist, Not Agent". Washington Post. March 12, 2004. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51972-2004Mar11?language=printer. Retrieved on 2009-01-26. "A Smith College graduate with a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics, she worked as a temporary business reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1987 and then as an editorial writer at the Herald of Everett, Wash., for two years. The Herald is owned by The Washington Post Co."
7. ^ "Ex-Congressional Aide Accused of Working With Iraqi Intelligence Before War". New York Times. March 12, 2004. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E4DC103EF931A25750C0A9629C8B63. Retrieved on 2008-06-11. "Federal prosecutors charged a former Congressional aide on Thursday with working with the Iraqi intelligence service before the war, and investigators said she had sought to influence American policy by presenting herself to a highly placed relative, Andrew H. Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, as an intermediary."
8. ^ a b c "Ex-Congress Aide Accused in Spy Case Is Free on Bail". New York Times. September 9, 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/nyregion/09spy.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-26. "A former journalist and Congressional aide accused of working with Iraqi intelligence before the war was released from prison yesterday after a federal judge ruled that she could not be forced to take antipsychotic medication in an effort to make her competent to stand trial. ... At least a half dozen doctors for both the defense and the prosecution have found that Ms. Lindauer suffers from delusions of grandeur and paranoia, which makes her incompetent to stand trial, the judge said. But she refuses to accept the diagnosis or to take medication, he said. One doctor found that Ms. Lindauer had a history of psychotic episodes going back to her childhood, possibly at the age of 7, the judge said. These include her contention that she had gifts of prophecy that allowed her to report 11 bombings before they happened, that she spoke with divine inspiration and that she was an angel."
9. ^ |http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00130.htm
10. ^ "Woman Accused of Iraq Ties Is Ruled Unfit for Trial Again". New York Times. September 16, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/nyregion/17lindauer.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-06. "A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that Susan P. Lindauer, a former journalist and Congressional aide who was accused of working with Iraqi intelligence before the war, is still mentally incompetent to stand trial. Ms. Lindauer, who had been declared incompetent for trial by Judge Michael B. Mukasey, now the United States attorney general, tried to persuade a different judge that she was now competent. But the second judge, Loretta A. Preska of Federal District Court, ruled late Monday that while Ms. Lindauer was “highly intelligent” and “generally capable of functioning at a high level in many ways,” she also was suffering from a mental disease or defect."
[edit] External links
* Susan Lindauer Blows the 9/11 Whistle Again
* Lockerbie Trial Document: Susan Lindauer deposition
* Susan Lindauer bibliography
* Woman Accused Of Spying For Saddam; The Smoking Gun.
* Interview with Susan Lindauer
* American Cassandra - Susan Lindauer’s Story
* 911 Prediction Revealed at Lindauer Competency Hearing in New York City
* Susan Lindauer’s last letter to Andrew Card, Jan. 6, 2003
* The American Cassandra Collection: 11 Articles on Susan Lindauer in "Scoop" Independent News from Oct 17, 2007 through Mar 10, 2009
Seven ways to free yourself from a medical police state (satire)
1) Bring your lawyer with you for each visit to the doctor, and bill your doctor for the time your lawyer spends in the waiting room.
2) Practice medical tourism and visit Thailand, Mexico, the Bahamas or other countries where real medicine remains legal.
3) Bring a fake prosthetic arm with you when you visit the doctor, and offer it up for any injections (acting like it's yours, of course). Be sure to fake a wince when they insert the catheter.
4) Before you visit the doctor, go to his house and kidnap his dog. Bring it to his clinic with you, and if the doctor insists on calling law enforcement to have your child kidnapped, offer to swap his dog for ransom.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
How do you get rid of a lying, extorted, gutless, punk puppet pussy? OBAMA'S BETRAYAL AND WEAKNESS as today's NEVILL CHAMBERLAIN
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/28-3
Published on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by TedRall.com
An Early Call for Obama's Resignation
With Democrats Like Him, Who Needs Dictators?
by Ted Rall
We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama's inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through.
From healthcare to torture to the economy to war, Obama has reneged on pledges real and implied. So timid and so owned is he that he trembles in fear of offending, of all things, the government of Turkey. Obama has officially reneged on his campaign promise to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. When a president doesn't have the 'nads to annoy the Turks, why does he bother to show up for work in the morning?
Obama is useless. Worse than that, he's dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now--before he drags us further into the abyss.
I refer here to Obama's plan for "preventive detentions." If a cop or other government official thinks you might want to commit a crime someday, you could be held in "prolonged detention." Reports in U.S. state-controlled media imply that Obama's shocking new policy would only apply to Islamic terrorists (or, in this case, wannabe Islamic terrorists, and also kinda-sorta-maybe-thinking-about-terrorism dudes). As if that made it OK.
In practice, Obama wants to let government goons snatch you, me and anyone else they deem annoying off the street.
Preventive detention is the classic defining characteristic of a military dictatorship. Because dictatorial regimes rely on fear rather than consensus, their priority is self-preservation rather than improving their people's lives. They worry obsessively over the one thing they can't control, what Orwell called "thoughtcrime"--contempt for rulers that might someday translate to direct action.
Locking up people who haven't done anything wrong is worse than un-American and a violent attack on the most basic principles of Western jurisprudence. It is contrary to the most essential notion of human decency. That anyone has ever been subjected to "preventive detention" is an outrage. That the President of the United States, a man who won an election because he promised to elevate our moral and political discourse, would even entertain such a revolting idea offends the idea of civilization itself.
Obama is cute.
He is charming.
But there is something rotten inside him.
Unlike the Republicans who backed Bush, I won't follow a terrible leader just because I voted for him.
Obama has revealed himself.
He is a monster, and he should remove himself from power.
"Prolonged detention," reported The New York Times, would be inflicted upon "terrorism suspects who cannot be tried."
"Cannot be tried." Interesting choice of words.
Any "terrorism suspect" (can you be a suspect if you haven't been charged with a crime?) can be tried. Anyone can be tried for anything. At this writing, a Somali child is sitting in a prison in New York, charged with piracy in the Indian Ocean, where the U.S. has no jurisdiction. Anyone can be tried. Why is it, exactly, that some prisoners "cannot be tried"?
The Old Grey Lady explains why Obama wants this "entirely new chapter in American law" in a boring little sentence buried a couple past the jump and a couple of hundred words down page A16: "Yet another question is what to do with the most problematic group of Guantánamo detainees: those who pose a national security threat but cannot be prosecuted, either for lack of evidence or because evidence is tainted."
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TOMMY:
If someone poses a national security threat...tell me...what evidence exists to make that stigma plus deprivation: TERRORIST SUSPECT?
What the police state is saying is, "...THE FACTS AT TRIAL WOULD MAKEUS LOOK SO BAD THAT...WE PREFER TO DETAIN AND NEUTRALIZE TO PREVENT EXPOSURE...ya know...LIKE FALSE FLAG AT OK CITY, 9/11, SWINDLING OUR MONEY FOR ISRAEL'S BENEFIT...SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF aka FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER....etc.
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In democracies with functioning legal systems, it is assumed that people against whom there is a "lack of evidence" are innocent. They walk free. In countries where the rule of law prevails, in places blessedly free of fearful leaders whose only concern is staying in power, "tainted evidence" is no evidence at all. If you can't prove that a defendant committed a crime--an actual crime, not a thoughtcrime--in a fair trial, you release him and apologize to the judge and jury for wasting their time.
It is amazing and incredible, after eight years of Bush's lawless behavior, to have to still have to explain these things. For that reason alone, Obama should resign.
© 2009 Ted Rall
Published on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by TedRall.com
An Early Call for Obama's Resignation
With Democrats Like Him, Who Needs Dictators?
by Ted Rall
We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama's inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through.
From healthcare to torture to the economy to war, Obama has reneged on pledges real and implied. So timid and so owned is he that he trembles in fear of offending, of all things, the government of Turkey. Obama has officially reneged on his campaign promise to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. When a president doesn't have the 'nads to annoy the Turks, why does he bother to show up for work in the morning?
Obama is useless. Worse than that, he's dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now--before he drags us further into the abyss.
I refer here to Obama's plan for "preventive detentions." If a cop or other government official thinks you might want to commit a crime someday, you could be held in "prolonged detention." Reports in U.S. state-controlled media imply that Obama's shocking new policy would only apply to Islamic terrorists (or, in this case, wannabe Islamic terrorists, and also kinda-sorta-maybe-thinking-about-terrorism dudes). As if that made it OK.
In practice, Obama wants to let government goons snatch you, me and anyone else they deem annoying off the street.
Preventive detention is the classic defining characteristic of a military dictatorship. Because dictatorial regimes rely on fear rather than consensus, their priority is self-preservation rather than improving their people's lives. They worry obsessively over the one thing they can't control, what Orwell called "thoughtcrime"--contempt for rulers that might someday translate to direct action.
Locking up people who haven't done anything wrong is worse than un-American and a violent attack on the most basic principles of Western jurisprudence. It is contrary to the most essential notion of human decency. That anyone has ever been subjected to "preventive detention" is an outrage. That the President of the United States, a man who won an election because he promised to elevate our moral and political discourse, would even entertain such a revolting idea offends the idea of civilization itself.
Obama is cute.
He is charming.
But there is something rotten inside him.
Unlike the Republicans who backed Bush, I won't follow a terrible leader just because I voted for him.
Obama has revealed himself.
He is a monster, and he should remove himself from power.
"Prolonged detention," reported The New York Times, would be inflicted upon "terrorism suspects who cannot be tried."
"Cannot be tried." Interesting choice of words.
Any "terrorism suspect" (can you be a suspect if you haven't been charged with a crime?) can be tried. Anyone can be tried for anything. At this writing, a Somali child is sitting in a prison in New York, charged with piracy in the Indian Ocean, where the U.S. has no jurisdiction. Anyone can be tried. Why is it, exactly, that some prisoners "cannot be tried"?
The Old Grey Lady explains why Obama wants this "entirely new chapter in American law" in a boring little sentence buried a couple past the jump and a couple of hundred words down page A16: "Yet another question is what to do with the most problematic group of Guantánamo detainees: those who pose a national security threat but cannot be prosecuted, either for lack of evidence or because evidence is tainted."
_______________
TOMMY:
If someone poses a national security threat...tell me...what evidence exists to make that stigma plus deprivation: TERRORIST SUSPECT?
What the police state is saying is, "...THE FACTS AT TRIAL WOULD MAKEUS LOOK SO BAD THAT...WE PREFER TO DETAIN AND NEUTRALIZE TO PREVENT EXPOSURE...ya know...LIKE FALSE FLAG AT OK CITY, 9/11, SWINDLING OUR MONEY FOR ISRAEL'S BENEFIT...SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF aka FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER....etc.
_______________
In democracies with functioning legal systems, it is assumed that people against whom there is a "lack of evidence" are innocent. They walk free. In countries where the rule of law prevails, in places blessedly free of fearful leaders whose only concern is staying in power, "tainted evidence" is no evidence at all. If you can't prove that a defendant committed a crime--an actual crime, not a thoughtcrime--in a fair trial, you release him and apologize to the judge and jury for wasting their time.
It is amazing and incredible, after eight years of Bush's lawless behavior, to have to still have to explain these things. For that reason alone, Obama should resign.
© 2009 Ted Rall
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK: spooks at the airport?
For Memorial day, I went to CANYONLANDS outside of Moab, Utah.
This is a favorite park because it's not a developed commercialized National Park.
Great overlooks looking down at Ed Abbey's Desert Solitaire wilderness. Ain't a bad view in this whole area, and...you don't want to miss driving a 4x4 on the one hundred mile rim road.
That would be a 2-3 day trip, with little or no other "two legged shit makers" (humans) to make noise and screw it up.
I am a freak about noise.
Don't like it when I'm out there in the wilderness.
It drowns out the power of it all...and...bird songs are meant to be heard without competition from machinery, squalling children, and the usual dumbfuckers who end up "arguing loudly" as part of their dubious enjoyment of "getting into the wilderness" to enjoy solitude...while on vacation with their loved ones? Can't tell you how many times morons camp near me and end up arguing about what?
1) Met a nice German couple who have decided to tour America. Tried to make conversation with them, and was lucky to have Germans speaking English. We shared some laughs about how bad my German is ("Ich bin Ein Berliner").
Then, went to another wonderful overlook and found the young Rangers moving into action with a boredom breaking response. An old guy hiked down a canyon, and found out that coming up is alot longer and harder. So...the young park rangers went down to help the guy back up.
It happens.
Sure are alot of young adults working park jobs.
2) Lately we had some rain in the orange muddy red rock country. Thank God for rain to cool things down. It can and will get real hot, miserable, and sweaty when you are down on the rivers. My new white Ford truck is now caked with "Moab Orange" mud. Hmmm....no point in washing a vehicle in Moab, until you head north into the hard rock canyons.
3) Drove down the Mineral road to the bottom along the Green River (they should call it the muddy brown river because...it ain't green). Found the best campsite with shade and birds singing all day. Mosquitoes came out, and I had enough 3.2 beer to get me through the holiday. Even did some hiking, got my blood flowing, and...had a damn good time of it.
There are old uranium mines all over the place, and I was surprised that the temperature changes drastically in those mines. Twenty feet...and twenty degree change in temp?
Later I visited the museum in Moab, and it covered uranium mining going back to the 50's. Turns out that they were mining YELLOW CAKE. Yup...just like the Valeria Plame--Joe Wilson YELLOW CAKE INQUIRY designing to "discredit the bogus con" that Saddam could assemble WMD with yellow cake. This later resulted in NOVAK getting neutralized with a suspicious DUI with some paid stooge jumping in front of his car, and...TIM RUSSERT GETS WHACKED. Yup...the trigger was Scott McClellan's book and later testimony in front of Conyers. The Vainity Fair article ties it in. You'll have to find story at this blog.
3) Hmmm...I guess HOMELAND INSECURITY is now staking out MOAB, UTAH, AND CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK for "homegrown domestic pot smoking dumbfuck terrorists" trying to build dirty bombs?
Hate to tell HOMELAND INSECURITY BUT...ever Jeep, hiker, camper and idiot who walks anywhere near the this vicinity...is gonna make a Geiger counter go off. Uranium yellow cake dust...is all over the South East Utah area?
Better bring the Orwellian threat level up to DOUBLE SECRET FUCK YOU INDEFINITE DETENTION LEVEL so we can "FEMA CAMP DETAIN" all foreign hikers, and campers who ever set foot in a South Eastern Utah National Park.
4) Looking up at the canyon walls, you'll find Raven family homes with the best view. I thought the Ravens were cussing me a bit for intruding, and I always wondered if they weren't spirits of long ago indigenous people?
5) I was at my site when Eddie Muzak came stomping through the Tamarask swamp from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sweating and obviously dedicated to taking the most difficult miserable route, old Edd needed my help. He had his RayBan sunglasses on with a blue tucked in button down oxford shirt which made me wonder if The CIA spooks were back in action?
The airport was close by, and...the spooks love landing sites far out in wilderness areas?
If Ed and his wife aren't spooks...it still makes a nice Walter Middy fictional adventure to spin out.
He was backtracking to some canyon about a mile and half away where he might have left his camera. So, Ed left the canoe and wife back at the landing site.
I packed up, made room in the cab, and showed him some wilderness hospitality. We almost got the truck stuck but prevailed with better strategy and better wheel placement (I'm not used to driving and pointing a Ford F-150 Long bed truck). I wasn't sure if Ed was gonna find his lost camera, but...we gave it a shot.
He came around the bend with victory in his grasp. Ed's a real historian and had a good map and logbook showing the scratched name of the first trapper who found this route and scratched his name on a rock back in 1832.
1832?
Yup.
Ed's got a photo.
6) When we drove up back at the canoe landing site, his wife seemed pleased to see her husband alive after he left her on a lark.
These two met long ago at a bar listening to Irish music in Milwaukee.
Ed said he and his wife "locked in" when a short initial preliminary dialogue resulted in disclosure. That disclosure centered around his wife using the same kind of back country stove that Ed had.
Apparently this camp stove is an infamous "classic stove" from long ago.
Kind of like a couple meeting together at a Studebaker Car Club outing.
It was a match made in heaven, sealed by the mutual respect for good camping gear.
Hey man...that's all it takes for Cupid's arrow to seal the deal.
This came out in the post event beer drinking. Ed had some Fosters beer, and that's what I needed to finish off a limited Memorial day buzz.
Ed and his wife are canoeing South...hopefully taking out before the dangerous wild ass CATARACT CANYON. A class 4--5 ONE MILE RAPID.
Be ready.
Take a guide who knows the rapids and ran the river recently.
They timed their trip and were lucky to have relatively pleasant wet cool weather to enjoy. We had some light showers that always blow through this area fast.
7) Ed and his wife are from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and understand the importance of Brett Favre speculation and gossip. His wife is a poet, and feigns interest in Bret Favre gossip and the Packers rumors.
I don't blame poets and artists making fun of NFL football fans.
I can see how the poet could learn to despise the sophmoronic love for football in cheesehead land.
8) Ed also knows one of the most significant and unknown investigative journalists working in obscurity in America's bogus pathetic police state--BILL CONROY, at NARCO NEWS.
I used some of CONROY'S reporting from San Antonio for my Probable Cause Memo SUPPORTING AN FBI INVESTIGATION OF TEXAS MURDERS USED TO FACILITATE CIVIL SUIT SETTLEMENTS (Yogurt Shop Murders of 4 teenage girls in Austin, Texas).
http://www.narconews.com/ TO FIND CONROY'S CACHE of articles.
Tonight, I'll be in the La Salle Nat. Forest up high looking down...listening to the birds.
This is a favorite park because it's not a developed commercialized National Park.
Great overlooks looking down at Ed Abbey's Desert Solitaire wilderness. Ain't a bad view in this whole area, and...you don't want to miss driving a 4x4 on the one hundred mile rim road.
That would be a 2-3 day trip, with little or no other "two legged shit makers" (humans) to make noise and screw it up.
I am a freak about noise.
Don't like it when I'm out there in the wilderness.
It drowns out the power of it all...and...bird songs are meant to be heard without competition from machinery, squalling children, and the usual dumbfuckers who end up "arguing loudly" as part of their dubious enjoyment of "getting into the wilderness" to enjoy solitude...while on vacation with their loved ones? Can't tell you how many times morons camp near me and end up arguing about what?
1) Met a nice German couple who have decided to tour America. Tried to make conversation with them, and was lucky to have Germans speaking English. We shared some laughs about how bad my German is ("Ich bin Ein Berliner").
Then, went to another wonderful overlook and found the young Rangers moving into action with a boredom breaking response. An old guy hiked down a canyon, and found out that coming up is alot longer and harder. So...the young park rangers went down to help the guy back up.
It happens.
Sure are alot of young adults working park jobs.
2) Lately we had some rain in the orange muddy red rock country. Thank God for rain to cool things down. It can and will get real hot, miserable, and sweaty when you are down on the rivers. My new white Ford truck is now caked with "Moab Orange" mud. Hmmm....no point in washing a vehicle in Moab, until you head north into the hard rock canyons.
3) Drove down the Mineral road to the bottom along the Green River (they should call it the muddy brown river because...it ain't green). Found the best campsite with shade and birds singing all day. Mosquitoes came out, and I had enough 3.2 beer to get me through the holiday. Even did some hiking, got my blood flowing, and...had a damn good time of it.
There are old uranium mines all over the place, and I was surprised that the temperature changes drastically in those mines. Twenty feet...and twenty degree change in temp?
Later I visited the museum in Moab, and it covered uranium mining going back to the 50's. Turns out that they were mining YELLOW CAKE. Yup...just like the Valeria Plame--Joe Wilson YELLOW CAKE INQUIRY designing to "discredit the bogus con" that Saddam could assemble WMD with yellow cake. This later resulted in NOVAK getting neutralized with a suspicious DUI with some paid stooge jumping in front of his car, and...TIM RUSSERT GETS WHACKED. Yup...the trigger was Scott McClellan's book and later testimony in front of Conyers. The Vainity Fair article ties it in. You'll have to find story at this blog.
3) Hmmm...I guess HOMELAND INSECURITY is now staking out MOAB, UTAH, AND CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK for "homegrown domestic pot smoking dumbfuck terrorists" trying to build dirty bombs?
Hate to tell HOMELAND INSECURITY BUT...ever Jeep, hiker, camper and idiot who walks anywhere near the this vicinity...is gonna make a Geiger counter go off. Uranium yellow cake dust...is all over the South East Utah area?
Better bring the Orwellian threat level up to DOUBLE SECRET FUCK YOU INDEFINITE DETENTION LEVEL so we can "FEMA CAMP DETAIN" all foreign hikers, and campers who ever set foot in a South Eastern Utah National Park.
4) Looking up at the canyon walls, you'll find Raven family homes with the best view. I thought the Ravens were cussing me a bit for intruding, and I always wondered if they weren't spirits of long ago indigenous people?
5) I was at my site when Eddie Muzak came stomping through the Tamarask swamp from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sweating and obviously dedicated to taking the most difficult miserable route, old Edd needed my help. He had his RayBan sunglasses on with a blue tucked in button down oxford shirt which made me wonder if The CIA spooks were back in action?
The airport was close by, and...the spooks love landing sites far out in wilderness areas?
If Ed and his wife aren't spooks...it still makes a nice Walter Middy fictional adventure to spin out.
He was backtracking to some canyon about a mile and half away where he might have left his camera. So, Ed left the canoe and wife back at the landing site.
I packed up, made room in the cab, and showed him some wilderness hospitality. We almost got the truck stuck but prevailed with better strategy and better wheel placement (I'm not used to driving and pointing a Ford F-150 Long bed truck). I wasn't sure if Ed was gonna find his lost camera, but...we gave it a shot.
He came around the bend with victory in his grasp. Ed's a real historian and had a good map and logbook showing the scratched name of the first trapper who found this route and scratched his name on a rock back in 1832.
1832?
Yup.
Ed's got a photo.
6) When we drove up back at the canoe landing site, his wife seemed pleased to see her husband alive after he left her on a lark.
These two met long ago at a bar listening to Irish music in Milwaukee.
Ed said he and his wife "locked in" when a short initial preliminary dialogue resulted in disclosure. That disclosure centered around his wife using the same kind of back country stove that Ed had.
Apparently this camp stove is an infamous "classic stove" from long ago.
Kind of like a couple meeting together at a Studebaker Car Club outing.
It was a match made in heaven, sealed by the mutual respect for good camping gear.
Hey man...that's all it takes for Cupid's arrow to seal the deal.
This came out in the post event beer drinking. Ed had some Fosters beer, and that's what I needed to finish off a limited Memorial day buzz.
Ed and his wife are canoeing South...hopefully taking out before the dangerous wild ass CATARACT CANYON. A class 4--5 ONE MILE RAPID.
Be ready.
Take a guide who knows the rapids and ran the river recently.
They timed their trip and were lucky to have relatively pleasant wet cool weather to enjoy. We had some light showers that always blow through this area fast.
7) Ed and his wife are from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and understand the importance of Brett Favre speculation and gossip. His wife is a poet, and feigns interest in Bret Favre gossip and the Packers rumors.
I don't blame poets and artists making fun of NFL football fans.
I can see how the poet could learn to despise the sophmoronic love for football in cheesehead land.
8) Ed also knows one of the most significant and unknown investigative journalists working in obscurity in America's bogus pathetic police state--BILL CONROY, at NARCO NEWS.
I used some of CONROY'S reporting from San Antonio for my Probable Cause Memo SUPPORTING AN FBI INVESTIGATION OF TEXAS MURDERS USED TO FACILITATE CIVIL SUIT SETTLEMENTS (Yogurt Shop Murders of 4 teenage girls in Austin, Texas).
http://www.narconews.com/ TO FIND CONROY'S CACHE of articles.
Tonight, I'll be in the La Salle Nat. Forest up high looking down...listening to the birds.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
JOE SCARBOROUGH (shill punk) NEEDS TO EXPLAIN HIS DEAD INTERN: LORI KLAUSUTIS
http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/911WidowQuestions.htm
Tom Flocco.com
http://tomflocco.com/
9-11 widow questions why MSNBC host silenced her
Scarborough Country becomes “9-11 Spin Country” as Ellen Mariani says her microphone was abruptly shut off in the middle of her September 11 expose during an interview Monday night. U.S. intelligence sources say the national cover-up of the mysterious death of host Joe Scarborough’s former female congressional aide—found in his district office—is linked to why the truth about 9-11 was cut off by the MSNBC host
by Tom Flocco and Stew Webb
Denver—December 8, 2005—StewWebb.com & TomFlocco.com—
9-11 widow Ellen Mariani’s allegations of disrespect by the host Joe Scarborough during her MSNBC interview attempt to explain government involvement in the September 11 attacks raises questions as to whether the national cover-up of the dead body of Scarborough’s former 28-year-old female staffer found in his Fort Walton Beach, Florida congressional office in 2001 is linked to the MSNBC job protecting the public’s right to know—or preventing truth about 9-11 from becoming a factor in exposing White House crime family evidence.
After Mariani called us yesterday in dismay regarding how she was treated on-air by Scarborough, members of U.S. intelligence were contacted to find out why the normally affable Scarborough cut off Mariani’s comments about September 11 since she was the first victim family member to sue the Bush administration for direct involvement in the attacks—also refusing to join the other victim families in accepting millions in congressional “compensation” in return for signing a legal document promising never to sue the U.S. government or seek 9-11 criminal evidence in a courtroom.
Sources within United States intelligence Special Operations Group told us yesterday that former congressional staff aide Lori Kaye Klausutis was found dead at her desk in Scarborough’s office and that she had been reading secret explosive “True Colors” documents, raising questions as to how and why Scarborough was in possession of transcripts detailing illegal covert operations conducted by and linked directly to White House crime families.
U.S. intelligence officials were specific in their reports that “a P-2 team of three operatives from Central Intelligence suffocated her in Scarborough’s Florida district office recently after his divorce,” information blacked out by all U.S. national media outlets.
The source told us he would be willing to come forward at a later date if subpoenaed by the Fitzgerald grand jury or possibly appear on a major cable news outlet.
Intelligence officials said the top-secret True Colors files dealt with:
-- 1) government involvement in the 9-11 attacks,
--2) White House-sponsored “death squads”—including state and local police known as “red squad” units also involving FBI Division 5 and other federal counter-intelligence groups within government agencies,
--3) the Oklahoma City bombing and
--4) evidence involving some 150 witnesses implicating former President George H. W. Bush, former President Bill and First Lady Hillary Clinton and then-Texas Governor George W. Bush and others in the assassination of John F. Kennedy Jr., who told family members he was planning to run against Hillary Clinton or George W. Bush in 2000.
The agents said federal, state and local prosecutors were and still are being employed to frame innocent citizens on false charges to silence and neutralize patriot activists, whistleblowers and public officials.
Creating a cable news media spin doctor?
The strange death of Lori Klausutis received only a few short stories in the Northern Florida press; and the Washington Post printed only 44 words in a Nation-in-brief report dealing with the covered up and mysterious death of a female staffer in a Republican congressman’s district office—a story that shocked us after hearing about it from federal agents because the revelation was kept from the public. The 44 words released were:
"FORT WALTON BEACH, FL—Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old office worker for Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-FL), was found dead in the congressman's district office. Police said preliminary findings from the medical examiner's office showed no foul play or any outward indication of suicide."
Curiously, Klausutis was reportedly active in Florida’s Bush v. Gore 2000 election recount activity—raising questions about what she knew; and on Friday, July 20th, 2001, her body was found slumped next to a desk on the floor of Scarborough’s Fort Walton Beach office where Lori served as a constituent services coordinator since May, 1999.
Klausutis was found around 8:00 a.m. on Friday morning by a couple arriving for an appointment, and she had been dead for some time as the police cordoned off the office for an investigation; but they later announced that there was no reason to suspect foul play, nor were there signs of suicide—but national news outlets commenced a total television blackout.
Scarborough had recently resigned from Congress—prematurely and unexpectedly—on the heels of reported rumors about his marital fidelity and shortly after his marriage ended in divorce.
Not choosing to bring to bear the substantial power of a U.S. congressional office to get to the bottom of Miss Klausutis’ death or force a full investigation given the secret documents to which she had access according to U.S. intelligence, Scarborough’s office released a short statement several hours after the discovery of her body:
“My staff and family are greatly saddened by the loss of Lori Klausutis. I know Lori will be missed by the thousands of citizens who regularly contact my office to seek assistance with a variety of problems. May God grant Lori’s family the grace, comfort and hope that will get them through this difficult time.”
Intelligence “roster” of autopsy cover-up physicians and hit teams
Reports revealed that Scarborough’s press secretary Miguel Serrano mentioned health problems in Klausutis’ past and Associate Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Berkland said "She had a past medical history that was significant, but it remains to be seen whether that played a role in her death.”
A member of her immediate family rejected the Scarborough office intimations that Lori had medical problems, reporting that Klausutis was a fine athlete, having recently run an 8 kilometer race with a good time as a member of the Northwest Florida Track Club.
Dr. Michael Berkland, who found inconclusive results after performing the Klausutis autopsy, had recently relocated to Florida; and public reports reveal that Berkland's medical license in the state of Missouri was revoked in 1998 as a result of Berkland reporting false information regarding brain tissue samples in a 1996 autopsy report—charges that Berkland does not deny.
A former agency official who spoke to us directly recognized the name of Dr. Michael Berkland and identified him as being “on the roster of secret CIA operatives used in sensitive and controversial deaths involving government officials to cover up evidence and keep families and American citizens from learning the truth about a loved one’s death,” cover-ups which can then be “employed to blackmail particular government officials involved.”
Berkland was also reportedly suspended from his position as a medical examiner in the state of Florida in July, 1999.
According to an August 8, 2001 American Politics Journal (APJ) report, repeated requests to Dr. Stephen Nelson, Chairman of the Medical Examiners Commission, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, failed to verify that Dr. Berkland's suspension was lifted and that his license and disciplinary record were clear at the time of the Klausutis autopsy. Dr. Nelson was appointed Chairman of the Commission by Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Berkland acknowledged on Monday, August 6 according to APJ, that Lori had sustained a "scratch and a bruise" on her head and that his original denials were to prevent undue speculation about the cause of death. "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury,” Berkland said.
An August 29, 2001 report in the Northwest Florida Daily News revealed that “Klausutis’ head injury was more severe than previously reported,” raising additional obstruction of justice questions for any future grand jury probe.
The same North Florida newspaper removed its September 1, 2001 story revealing that a “controversial autopsy report by ‘where’s the brain section’ Berkland raises more questions than it answers.” There are no indications why the report was removed.
This, reminiscent of Arkansas medical examiner Dr. Fahmy Malak who was involved with the “dead boys on the railroad tracks” and other important autopsies involving suspicious and curious deaths during the Clinton gubernatorial administrations.
The long-time intelligence official who spoke with us about Dr. Michael Berkland also immediately recognized the name of Dr. Malak as “another one of the ‘roster’ doctors called in to cover up suspicious deaths involving high government officials,” raising more serious questions about similar deaths involving government physicians.
The intelligence agent told us “these physicians are also known in our circles as ‘suicide doctors,’ employed to cover up government-sponsored murders of public officials, legislators, political candidates, whistleblowers, journalists and activists attempting to expose government corruption—in other words, orchestrating a ‘suicide’ to cover up ‘red squad’ hits.”
Toxicology and pregnancy tests have been sealed by Florida authorities according to reports, which adds to speculation concerning why the national media blacked out coverage of the suspicious death of a young female congressional staff aide in the member’s own office.
Interestingly, the Klausutis family refused to acknowledge the fact that their daughter knew or even worked for Scarborough for nearly three years as a congressional aide, leaving her important position of state-wide honor out of her obituary altogether.
Moreover, as a high-profile deceased member of the Young Republicans of America national organization, a search of the Young Republicans web site found no mention of Lori or her contributions to the Florida Republican Party, nor any tribute to her memory, or comments about her passing, or position as Rep. Scarborough’s aide, also according to APJ.
Cutting off White House crime family involvement in 9-11
An NBC insider told U.S. intelligence yesterday that Scarbororgh was drinking heavily in the afternoon while complaints came in to MSNBC questioning his treatment of Mariani and his reasons for shutting off the widow’s microphone just as she was discussing 9-11 evidence never heard before during a national news broadcast in the United States.
Ellen Mariani’s husband Neil was a passenger on United Airlines flight 175 that allegedly crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001—after which it was later reported by the Associated Press that the plane landed at the Cleveland-Hopkins, Ohio airport where the passengers were told that a bomb might be aboard the aircraft and that they were to be taken into the NASA Glen Research Center.
It has further been reported that other 9-11 flights were taken to this clandestine government facility.
Ellen was then asked by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to express her opinion of the 9-11 Commission’s final report.
When Scarborough asked Mariani what she thought of the 9-11 Commission’s report, she said, “1) 9-11 Report is nothing more than obstruction of justice and a continuous cover-up by the Bush administration, 2) 9-11 commissioners were all hand picked by Mr. Bush to obstruct justice and maintain a cover-up of the facts and the evidence, 3) The Bush crime family was behind the attack on America.”
When the 9-11 widow started with “4) Lets talk about Able Danger, the scripted 9-11 attack on America, the Oklahoma City Bombing, with direct ties to the Philippines and Wachovia Bank--also known as Project Bojinka, and then, let’s connect the dots: Oklahoma City, 9-11 & Able Danger, Scarborough cut off Mariani’s mike, took the camera off her and never allowed her to complete her statements.
Mariani referred to another Scarborough guest last night, Richard Miniter, as a professional presidential spin doctor who referred to Able Danger as a former operation to rid terrorists throughout the world, which Mariani maintains is not true.
Avoiding the 9-11 evidence factor
Mariani explained that she was about to expose and explain her 9-11 research to listeners before she was cut off by Scarborough—evidence that she had heard and learned about from federal whistleblowers Tom Heneghan and Stew Webb’s weekly American-French Alliance U.S. Intel News Hour on Thursday evenings from 8 to 9 PM Eastern, linked through www.stewwebb.com.
She told us, “It is Joe's privilege as host to cut me off; but he did it before hearing the rest of the facts. How can Americans find the common sense and truth when I’m not allowed to speak out on what I know and believe it to be.”
The widow showed us her notes and went over what she was going to present on MSNBC Scarborough Country:
“Able Danger was the secretive bucket shop operation in Brooklyn, New York where alleged terrorist Mohamed Atta, a known Mossad-Defense Intelligence operative, had direct ties to the Bush-Clinton crime families.”
“The bucket shop was known as a cash cow linked to Maurice ‘Hank’ Greenberg,former CEO of AIG Insurance and the Greenburg-Traurig law firm. Mossad lobbyists and paymaster Jack Abramoff were partners with White House-linked money launderers Leonard & Elaine Millman who owned Silverado Savings where Neil Bush was a director of the failed Savings & Loan. Millman controlled CITI Group-CITI Bank before his death two years ago, and was a direct partner in re-insurance and securities fraud with Greenberg and Meyer Blinder also linked to a failed 1990-91 penny stock collapse during a federal investigation involving billions in securities fraud in Denver, Colorado.”
“New York Attorney General Elliott Spitzer, filed a RICO Suit against Greenberg instead of putting him in jail in 2005 after whistleblowers Stew Webb and Tom Heneghan provided evidence to Spitzer who then covered it up. But Greenberg had to resign as CEO of AIG to take the heat off of the connections to Greenberg-Traurig.”
“There is substantial evidence that the Greenberg-Traurig firm is connected to the challenge over control of my dead husband’s estate in order to silence my 9-11 RICO suit against the Bush crime family, several stories of which are found at TomFlocco.com.”
“Maurice Hank Greenberg controlled through Greenberg/Traurig a foundation known as the Waymark Group which was set up to finance the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9-11 attack on America. Silverado Savings and Loan owner Leonard Millman laundered narcotics money into the Waymark Group—and the narcotics were brought into Mena, Arkansas, a part of Iran contra which involved George H. W. Bush, Fox News Host Oliver North and Bill and Hillary Clinton.”
“Jack Abramoff had direct ties to Mohamed Atta and Florida casinos. One casino owner linked to the group was murdered. Abramoff was laundering money through the casinos and Mohammad Atta was seen gambling at the Florida casinos.”
“The information documents that Mohamed Atta was a Defense Intelligence Mossad agent were taken out of the national security archives by former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Burger with current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's permission to steal the evidence.”
“Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton’s former NSA Director, took the Able Danger document evidence out of the National Archives and literally ate some of the documents, while stuffing some of the other documents in his underwear and socks. Burger was fined a few months ago and never sent to prison; but U.S. intelligence agents have concrete evidence of Berger’s actions—but he still got away with selling out America.”
“President Bush ordered the Washington, DC missile defense system to stand down in late July 2001. Bush also signed an executive order that told the FBI to back of their investigations of Muslims. The reason Mr. Bush told the FBI to allow the Brooklyn, New York bucket shop cell to operate as an active entity and not be apprehended was so the cell could carry out the planned 9-11-2001 attack on America.”
“FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, who recently lost her certiorari appeal before the United States Supreme Court after having been ordered gagged by three Republican appeals court judges to help obstruct justice, intercepted the Turkish American Council communications of Defense Intelligence rogue agent Gary Best and others who were involved in the 9-11 attacks. Best was an Iran-contra Shadow Government player now in French custody for trying to blow up the French satellite launch pad in French Guyanna.”
“Other US intelligence agents also intercepted the Turkish American council communications when George H. W. Bush discussed the 9-11 attack on America. George H. W. Bush and Richard Cheney were 400 feet below ground in the White House situation room controlling the Justice Department Tripod II Brooklyn, New York bucket shop operation attacking America on 9-11-2001. This, while George W. Bush was reading a goat story in a Florida classroom, far away from the action—and why did he select a story about a goat?”
“Federal Whistleblower Karl Swartz's investigation revealed that missiles were retrofitted by Hughes Corp on one of their A-3 Airplanes at the Ft Collins Colorado Airport and that one of them was the missile that hit the Pentagon—not an airplane.”
“The warehouse was owned by several people including Maurice Hank Greenberg, former CEO of AIG Insurance, the largest U.S. insurance group allegedly linked to narcotics money laundering and re-insurance frauds, and connected to Leonard Millman's National Acceptance-First National Acceptance Company at 50 S. Steel, Denver Colorado.”
Ellen Mariani
“Whistleblowers Schwartz, Heneghan and Webb provided evidence to New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer who continues the cover-up, which is obstruction of Justice.”
“Let’s look at the facts and evidence that friends of mine, federal whistleblowers and US intelligence agents have and want to present before a Federal Grand Jury and have filed in US DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO (in Denver) Case # 95-Y-107 Filed Aug. 4, 2004 by Stewart Webb.”
“My research found a number of 9-11 Commission" conflicts: Jamie Gorelick covered up Iraq-gate/BNL Bank/Gulf War Syndrome—the scandal which keeps changing names. Bob Kerry of Nebraska has been identified by U.S. intelligence as a pedophile and the Clintons have blackmailed him. Former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean had oil investments linked to both Bush and the bin Laden family but sold them just before being named chairman of the 9-11 Commission."
Ellen told us, “I was interviewed in May of 2002 by FOX News Network and their top spin doctor, Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly and Joe Scarborough are nothing more than little boys doing an adult job as spin doctors for the Bushes; and Americans know this,” adding, “I finally realize that the major media in America is nothing but a cover-up machine for the Bush-Clinton crime families.”
Sadly, Mariani told us, “On September 11, I not only lost my husband Neil, but I lost my country as well—especially my freedom of speech and my rights in the federal judicial system.”
The 9-11 widow’s distasteful experience on Scarborough Country and facts uncovered by U.S. intelligence regarding explosive documents in Scarborough’s possession—linked to his congressional aide—raise questions as to whether there is more to this story than meets the eye, the paucity of national media coverage notwithstanding.
“The American people will have to decide whether the potential to blackmail a U.S. congressman with the power to a) send our children to war based on lies, b) allow our pension funds to be stolen or c) bribe 9-11 victims so they promise never to sue the government for the facts is more important than a potentially compromised national cable news host with the power to cut off my microphone before I expose the Bush administration’s involvement in the death of my husband,” said the 9-11 widow.
Tom Flocco.com
http://tomflocco.com/
9-11 widow questions why MSNBC host silenced her
Scarborough Country becomes “9-11 Spin Country” as Ellen Mariani says her microphone was abruptly shut off in the middle of her September 11 expose during an interview Monday night. U.S. intelligence sources say the national cover-up of the mysterious death of host Joe Scarborough’s former female congressional aide—found in his district office—is linked to why the truth about 9-11 was cut off by the MSNBC host
by Tom Flocco and Stew Webb
Denver—December 8, 2005—StewWebb.com & TomFlocco.com—
9-11 widow Ellen Mariani’s allegations of disrespect by the host Joe Scarborough during her MSNBC interview attempt to explain government involvement in the September 11 attacks raises questions as to whether the national cover-up of the dead body of Scarborough’s former 28-year-old female staffer found in his Fort Walton Beach, Florida congressional office in 2001 is linked to the MSNBC job protecting the public’s right to know—or preventing truth about 9-11 from becoming a factor in exposing White House crime family evidence.
After Mariani called us yesterday in dismay regarding how she was treated on-air by Scarborough, members of U.S. intelligence were contacted to find out why the normally affable Scarborough cut off Mariani’s comments about September 11 since she was the first victim family member to sue the Bush administration for direct involvement in the attacks—also refusing to join the other victim families in accepting millions in congressional “compensation” in return for signing a legal document promising never to sue the U.S. government or seek 9-11 criminal evidence in a courtroom.
Sources within United States intelligence Special Operations Group told us yesterday that former congressional staff aide Lori Kaye Klausutis was found dead at her desk in Scarborough’s office and that she had been reading secret explosive “True Colors” documents, raising questions as to how and why Scarborough was in possession of transcripts detailing illegal covert operations conducted by and linked directly to White House crime families.
U.S. intelligence officials were specific in their reports that “a P-2 team of three operatives from Central Intelligence suffocated her in Scarborough’s Florida district office recently after his divorce,” information blacked out by all U.S. national media outlets.
The source told us he would be willing to come forward at a later date if subpoenaed by the Fitzgerald grand jury or possibly appear on a major cable news outlet.
Intelligence officials said the top-secret True Colors files dealt with:
-- 1) government involvement in the 9-11 attacks,
--2) White House-sponsored “death squads”—including state and local police known as “red squad” units also involving FBI Division 5 and other federal counter-intelligence groups within government agencies,
--3) the Oklahoma City bombing and
--4) evidence involving some 150 witnesses implicating former President George H. W. Bush, former President Bill and First Lady Hillary Clinton and then-Texas Governor George W. Bush and others in the assassination of John F. Kennedy Jr., who told family members he was planning to run against Hillary Clinton or George W. Bush in 2000.
The agents said federal, state and local prosecutors were and still are being employed to frame innocent citizens on false charges to silence and neutralize patriot activists, whistleblowers and public officials.
Creating a cable news media spin doctor?
The strange death of Lori Klausutis received only a few short stories in the Northern Florida press; and the Washington Post printed only 44 words in a Nation-in-brief report dealing with the covered up and mysterious death of a female staffer in a Republican congressman’s district office—a story that shocked us after hearing about it from federal agents because the revelation was kept from the public. The 44 words released were:
"FORT WALTON BEACH, FL—Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old office worker for Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-FL), was found dead in the congressman's district office. Police said preliminary findings from the medical examiner's office showed no foul play or any outward indication of suicide."
Curiously, Klausutis was reportedly active in Florida’s Bush v. Gore 2000 election recount activity—raising questions about what she knew; and on Friday, July 20th, 2001, her body was found slumped next to a desk on the floor of Scarborough’s Fort Walton Beach office where Lori served as a constituent services coordinator since May, 1999.
Klausutis was found around 8:00 a.m. on Friday morning by a couple arriving for an appointment, and she had been dead for some time as the police cordoned off the office for an investigation; but they later announced that there was no reason to suspect foul play, nor were there signs of suicide—but national news outlets commenced a total television blackout.
Scarborough had recently resigned from Congress—prematurely and unexpectedly—on the heels of reported rumors about his marital fidelity and shortly after his marriage ended in divorce.
Not choosing to bring to bear the substantial power of a U.S. congressional office to get to the bottom of Miss Klausutis’ death or force a full investigation given the secret documents to which she had access according to U.S. intelligence, Scarborough’s office released a short statement several hours after the discovery of her body:
“My staff and family are greatly saddened by the loss of Lori Klausutis. I know Lori will be missed by the thousands of citizens who regularly contact my office to seek assistance with a variety of problems. May God grant Lori’s family the grace, comfort and hope that will get them through this difficult time.”
Intelligence “roster” of autopsy cover-up physicians and hit teams
Reports revealed that Scarborough’s press secretary Miguel Serrano mentioned health problems in Klausutis’ past and Associate Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Berkland said "She had a past medical history that was significant, but it remains to be seen whether that played a role in her death.”
A member of her immediate family rejected the Scarborough office intimations that Lori had medical problems, reporting that Klausutis was a fine athlete, having recently run an 8 kilometer race with a good time as a member of the Northwest Florida Track Club.
Dr. Michael Berkland, who found inconclusive results after performing the Klausutis autopsy, had recently relocated to Florida; and public reports reveal that Berkland's medical license in the state of Missouri was revoked in 1998 as a result of Berkland reporting false information regarding brain tissue samples in a 1996 autopsy report—charges that Berkland does not deny.
A former agency official who spoke to us directly recognized the name of Dr. Michael Berkland and identified him as being “on the roster of secret CIA operatives used in sensitive and controversial deaths involving government officials to cover up evidence and keep families and American citizens from learning the truth about a loved one’s death,” cover-ups which can then be “employed to blackmail particular government officials involved.”
Berkland was also reportedly suspended from his position as a medical examiner in the state of Florida in July, 1999.
According to an August 8, 2001 American Politics Journal (APJ) report, repeated requests to Dr. Stephen Nelson, Chairman of the Medical Examiners Commission, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, failed to verify that Dr. Berkland's suspension was lifted and that his license and disciplinary record were clear at the time of the Klausutis autopsy. Dr. Nelson was appointed Chairman of the Commission by Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Berkland acknowledged on Monday, August 6 according to APJ, that Lori had sustained a "scratch and a bruise" on her head and that his original denials were to prevent undue speculation about the cause of death. "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury,” Berkland said.
An August 29, 2001 report in the Northwest Florida Daily News revealed that “Klausutis’ head injury was more severe than previously reported,” raising additional obstruction of justice questions for any future grand jury probe.
The same North Florida newspaper removed its September 1, 2001 story revealing that a “controversial autopsy report by ‘where’s the brain section’ Berkland raises more questions than it answers.” There are no indications why the report was removed.
This, reminiscent of Arkansas medical examiner Dr. Fahmy Malak who was involved with the “dead boys on the railroad tracks” and other important autopsies involving suspicious and curious deaths during the Clinton gubernatorial administrations.
The long-time intelligence official who spoke with us about Dr. Michael Berkland also immediately recognized the name of Dr. Malak as “another one of the ‘roster’ doctors called in to cover up suspicious deaths involving high government officials,” raising more serious questions about similar deaths involving government physicians.
The intelligence agent told us “these physicians are also known in our circles as ‘suicide doctors,’ employed to cover up government-sponsored murders of public officials, legislators, political candidates, whistleblowers, journalists and activists attempting to expose government corruption—in other words, orchestrating a ‘suicide’ to cover up ‘red squad’ hits.”
Toxicology and pregnancy tests have been sealed by Florida authorities according to reports, which adds to speculation concerning why the national media blacked out coverage of the suspicious death of a young female congressional staff aide in the member’s own office.
Interestingly, the Klausutis family refused to acknowledge the fact that their daughter knew or even worked for Scarborough for nearly three years as a congressional aide, leaving her important position of state-wide honor out of her obituary altogether.
Moreover, as a high-profile deceased member of the Young Republicans of America national organization, a search of the Young Republicans web site found no mention of Lori or her contributions to the Florida Republican Party, nor any tribute to her memory, or comments about her passing, or position as Rep. Scarborough’s aide, also according to APJ.
Cutting off White House crime family involvement in 9-11
An NBC insider told U.S. intelligence yesterday that Scarbororgh was drinking heavily in the afternoon while complaints came in to MSNBC questioning his treatment of Mariani and his reasons for shutting off the widow’s microphone just as she was discussing 9-11 evidence never heard before during a national news broadcast in the United States.
Ellen Mariani’s husband Neil was a passenger on United Airlines flight 175 that allegedly crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001—after which it was later reported by the Associated Press that the plane landed at the Cleveland-Hopkins, Ohio airport where the passengers were told that a bomb might be aboard the aircraft and that they were to be taken into the NASA Glen Research Center.
It has further been reported that other 9-11 flights were taken to this clandestine government facility.
Ellen was then asked by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to express her opinion of the 9-11 Commission’s final report.
When Scarborough asked Mariani what she thought of the 9-11 Commission’s report, she said, “1) 9-11 Report is nothing more than obstruction of justice and a continuous cover-up by the Bush administration, 2) 9-11 commissioners were all hand picked by Mr. Bush to obstruct justice and maintain a cover-up of the facts and the evidence, 3) The Bush crime family was behind the attack on America.”
When the 9-11 widow started with “4) Lets talk about Able Danger, the scripted 9-11 attack on America, the Oklahoma City Bombing, with direct ties to the Philippines and Wachovia Bank--also known as Project Bojinka, and then, let’s connect the dots: Oklahoma City, 9-11 & Able Danger, Scarborough cut off Mariani’s mike, took the camera off her and never allowed her to complete her statements.
Mariani referred to another Scarborough guest last night, Richard Miniter, as a professional presidential spin doctor who referred to Able Danger as a former operation to rid terrorists throughout the world, which Mariani maintains is not true.
Avoiding the 9-11 evidence factor
Mariani explained that she was about to expose and explain her 9-11 research to listeners before she was cut off by Scarborough—evidence that she had heard and learned about from federal whistleblowers Tom Heneghan and Stew Webb’s weekly American-French Alliance U.S. Intel News Hour on Thursday evenings from 8 to 9 PM Eastern, linked through www.stewwebb.com.
She told us, “It is Joe's privilege as host to cut me off; but he did it before hearing the rest of the facts. How can Americans find the common sense and truth when I’m not allowed to speak out on what I know and believe it to be.”
The widow showed us her notes and went over what she was going to present on MSNBC Scarborough Country:
“Able Danger was the secretive bucket shop operation in Brooklyn, New York where alleged terrorist Mohamed Atta, a known Mossad-Defense Intelligence operative, had direct ties to the Bush-Clinton crime families.”
“The bucket shop was known as a cash cow linked to Maurice ‘Hank’ Greenberg,former CEO of AIG Insurance and the Greenburg-Traurig law firm. Mossad lobbyists and paymaster Jack Abramoff were partners with White House-linked money launderers Leonard & Elaine Millman who owned Silverado Savings where Neil Bush was a director of the failed Savings & Loan. Millman controlled CITI Group-CITI Bank before his death two years ago, and was a direct partner in re-insurance and securities fraud with Greenberg and Meyer Blinder also linked to a failed 1990-91 penny stock collapse during a federal investigation involving billions in securities fraud in Denver, Colorado.”
“New York Attorney General Elliott Spitzer, filed a RICO Suit against Greenberg instead of putting him in jail in 2005 after whistleblowers Stew Webb and Tom Heneghan provided evidence to Spitzer who then covered it up. But Greenberg had to resign as CEO of AIG to take the heat off of the connections to Greenberg-Traurig.”
“There is substantial evidence that the Greenberg-Traurig firm is connected to the challenge over control of my dead husband’s estate in order to silence my 9-11 RICO suit against the Bush crime family, several stories of which are found at TomFlocco.com.”
“Maurice Hank Greenberg controlled through Greenberg/Traurig a foundation known as the Waymark Group which was set up to finance the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9-11 attack on America. Silverado Savings and Loan owner Leonard Millman laundered narcotics money into the Waymark Group—and the narcotics were brought into Mena, Arkansas, a part of Iran contra which involved George H. W. Bush, Fox News Host Oliver North and Bill and Hillary Clinton.”
“Jack Abramoff had direct ties to Mohamed Atta and Florida casinos. One casino owner linked to the group was murdered. Abramoff was laundering money through the casinos and Mohammad Atta was seen gambling at the Florida casinos.”
“The information documents that Mohamed Atta was a Defense Intelligence Mossad agent were taken out of the national security archives by former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Burger with current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's permission to steal the evidence.”
“Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton’s former NSA Director, took the Able Danger document evidence out of the National Archives and literally ate some of the documents, while stuffing some of the other documents in his underwear and socks. Burger was fined a few months ago and never sent to prison; but U.S. intelligence agents have concrete evidence of Berger’s actions—but he still got away with selling out America.”
“President Bush ordered the Washington, DC missile defense system to stand down in late July 2001. Bush also signed an executive order that told the FBI to back of their investigations of Muslims. The reason Mr. Bush told the FBI to allow the Brooklyn, New York bucket shop cell to operate as an active entity and not be apprehended was so the cell could carry out the planned 9-11-2001 attack on America.”
“FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, who recently lost her certiorari appeal before the United States Supreme Court after having been ordered gagged by three Republican appeals court judges to help obstruct justice, intercepted the Turkish American Council communications of Defense Intelligence rogue agent Gary Best and others who were involved in the 9-11 attacks. Best was an Iran-contra Shadow Government player now in French custody for trying to blow up the French satellite launch pad in French Guyanna.”
“Other US intelligence agents also intercepted the Turkish American council communications when George H. W. Bush discussed the 9-11 attack on America. George H. W. Bush and Richard Cheney were 400 feet below ground in the White House situation room controlling the Justice Department Tripod II Brooklyn, New York bucket shop operation attacking America on 9-11-2001. This, while George W. Bush was reading a goat story in a Florida classroom, far away from the action—and why did he select a story about a goat?”
“Federal Whistleblower Karl Swartz's investigation revealed that missiles were retrofitted by Hughes Corp on one of their A-3 Airplanes at the Ft Collins Colorado Airport and that one of them was the missile that hit the Pentagon—not an airplane.”
“The warehouse was owned by several people including Maurice Hank Greenberg, former CEO of AIG Insurance, the largest U.S. insurance group allegedly linked to narcotics money laundering and re-insurance frauds, and connected to Leonard Millman's National Acceptance-First National Acceptance Company at 50 S. Steel, Denver Colorado.”
Ellen Mariani
“Whistleblowers Schwartz, Heneghan and Webb provided evidence to New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer who continues the cover-up, which is obstruction of Justice.”
“Let’s look at the facts and evidence that friends of mine, federal whistleblowers and US intelligence agents have and want to present before a Federal Grand Jury and have filed in US DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO (in Denver) Case # 95-Y-107 Filed Aug. 4, 2004 by Stewart Webb.”
“My research found a number of 9-11 Commission" conflicts: Jamie Gorelick covered up Iraq-gate/BNL Bank/Gulf War Syndrome—the scandal which keeps changing names. Bob Kerry of Nebraska has been identified by U.S. intelligence as a pedophile and the Clintons have blackmailed him. Former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean had oil investments linked to both Bush and the bin Laden family but sold them just before being named chairman of the 9-11 Commission."
Ellen told us, “I was interviewed in May of 2002 by FOX News Network and their top spin doctor, Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly and Joe Scarborough are nothing more than little boys doing an adult job as spin doctors for the Bushes; and Americans know this,” adding, “I finally realize that the major media in America is nothing but a cover-up machine for the Bush-Clinton crime families.”
Sadly, Mariani told us, “On September 11, I not only lost my husband Neil, but I lost my country as well—especially my freedom of speech and my rights in the federal judicial system.”
The 9-11 widow’s distasteful experience on Scarborough Country and facts uncovered by U.S. intelligence regarding explosive documents in Scarborough’s possession—linked to his congressional aide—raise questions as to whether there is more to this story than meets the eye, the paucity of national media coverage notwithstanding.
“The American people will have to decide whether the potential to blackmail a U.S. congressman with the power to a) send our children to war based on lies, b) allow our pension funds to be stolen or c) bribe 9-11 victims so they promise never to sue the government for the facts is more important than a potentially compromised national cable news host with the power to cut off my microphone before I expose the Bush administration’s involvement in the death of my husband,” said the 9-11 widow.
The Pelosi Diversion on Torture covers up alot: HENEGHEN'S VERSION OF REALITY
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FROM TOM HENEGHEN MYSPACE:
....P.P.P.S. Do not be fooled by the Nancy Pelosi diversion, folks. As much of a traitor and an incompetent that Pelosi is [threatened Congress with MARTIAL LAW in September of 2008 aka their support of the first BushFRAUD "bail out"], the corporate fascist, extortion-friendly media elite would rather discuss an irrelevant statement Pelosi made in regards to CIA credibility than the mounting criminal evidence aka BushFRAUD's TREASONOUS rendition flights and torture chambers, along with the escalating Israeli espionage scandal, which is engulfing Washington, D.C.
At this hour, we can also divulge that Pelosi is being blackmailed by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina in regards to the Clinton rendition flights aka the kidnapping of Ambassador Leo Wanta from Switzerland in 1993 when Wanta, along with former FBI Director William Sessions, General Vernon Walter, French President Francois Mitterrand, FBI informant Vince Foster and then Vice President, now year 2000 duly elected, natural born President Albert Gore Jr., tried to have Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate bagman, fugitive Marc Rich arrested, when Rich was in between Switzerland and France on his way to Monte Carlo.
The other illegal activity involving the kidnapping of Ambassador Leo Wanta in early 1997, is when Ambassador Wanta, on the orders of daddy Bush's little bitch, Bill Clinton, and his sociopath loser wife, lesbian in-the-closet Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, along with former Republican Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, ordered Wanta kidnapped from his temporary residence in Wisconsin to a holding facility aka gulag-type prison in Sayre, Oklahoma.
Former Clinton era Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr who, at the time of his appointment represented the Wisconsin division of the Children's Defense Fund, which was tied directly to Hillary Clinton.
Starr was also the attorny for Ambassador Wanta but abrutly resigned as Wanta's attorney when he was appointed Independent Counsel. Starr's conflict of interest was glaring. We can see now why he covered up Vince Foster's murder and resigned as Wanta's attorney since Ambassador Wanta could have been a witness in implicating Hillary Clinton in the murder of Foster.
Now you see, folks, why Wanta was kidnapped by the Clintons with the acquiescence of Kenneth Starr and put in the Sayre, Oklahoma gulag.
Not only were the Clintons misusing the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocol funds, but they also wished to silence Ambassador Wanta considering Wanta's knowledge of massive criminal misconduct by then Clinton Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr involving Starr's cover up of the murder of Wanta's partner in the Marc Rich arrest attempt, former Clinton White House aide Vincent W. Foster.
Final note: Stay tuned for our future intelligence briefings, which will include an update on the theft of former Vice President, now year 2000 duly elected President Albert Gore Jr.'s daughter's personal files and social security number from the U.S. National Archives.
Do not believe any computer glitch spin, folks. The Clintons were notified of the missing files but not Gore; and it was the Bush Administration that was in power during this crime....."
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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4389
The Cover-Up Of Vince Foster's Murder Gets Stranger and Stranger
By Greg Szymanski – Arctic Beacon April 12, 2006
The cover-up of Vince Foster's 1993 murder gets stranger and stranger, as the U.S. Attorney who blew the whistle on massive, high-level White House criminality has apparently undergone a sex change.
Lead investigator in the Foster case and U.S. Attorney Miguel Rodriguez, who went public in 1995 with allegations independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr and others purposely withheld evidence and intimidated witnesses to cover-up Foster's murder, is now working in Sacramento, Ca., apparently under the name of U.S. Attorney Michelle Rodriguez.
Although Rodriguez failed to return phone calls, a secretary in the U.S. Attorney's office Tuesday in Sacramento confirmed Michelle was once Miguel, although not coming right out and saying it.
Asked if the name Michelle was a mistake and the attorney in the office really was Miguel from Washington D.C., the secretary said:
"When was the last time you talked with Miguel?" asked the secretary, who then responded to the answer. "If it has been that long, she is now Michelle."
To further verify Michelle Rodriguez worked in the office, a Sept.29, 2005, Sacramento Bee news article referred to Rodriguez, saying:
"Jared Oreste Giampaoli and Steven Foster Little are accused of "interference with federally protected rights," according to documents filed by Assistant U.S Attorney Michelle Rodriguez."
Although Rodriguez's sex change could easily be dismissed as a man being trapped in a woman's body, bigger questions need to answered about Rodriguez's actions since he talked "a blue streak" in 1995, pointing the dirty finger of corruption in the Foster case all the way up to the doorstep of the white House.
But 13 years later why is Rodriguez remaining 'mum' about the case? How and why could he still be holding a job in the U.S. Attorney's Office after hitting the big boys below the belt so hard?
And the biggest question is what happened to the photograph Rodriguez took when he left Starr's office as the chief investigator, a photograph which allegedly shows a bullet hole in Foster's neck when the official report claimed he shot himself to death by sticking a gun in his mouth?
The photograph, which would clearly nail the top dogs in Washington with withholding evidence, has never been published and, according to the main researchers in the Foster case, it has somehow disappeared.
Although it is only speculation where the photograph ended up since Rodriguez isn't talking, the best explanation given is that he sold it for a hefty sum of money to an influential British newspaper.
In turn, investigators speculate the British newspaper, with MI6 and CIA ties, turned the evidence back over to the government without publishing it. Whether Rodriguez has a duplicate copy of the photo is unknown and it is also unknown whether Rodriguez has cut a deal with government officials to keep quiet in return for his life, a life he now leads as a woman.
Regarding the sex change, the final question needs to be asked whether it had anything remotely to do with the Foster case or whether it can be dismissed as a natural progression in Rodriguez's personal life.
One thing for sure, the importance of Rodriguez's testimony in getting at the truth behind the Foster murder should never be diminished or discredited, according to author Huh Turley, one of three writers who wrote a 511 page book/legal document categorically proving beyond a reasonable doubt Foster was murdered and it was cover-ed up.
The 1999 book, entitled Failure of the Public Trust, pins Starr and others with withholding evidence and intimidating witnesses to reach a premature conclusion in the case, a conclusion reached even before the evidence was gathered.
Turley and the authors meticulously gathered crime scene irregularities, including evidence tampering, witness intimidation and grand jury manipulation, using taped testimony by Rodriguez, the lead investigator, to prove the Starr report was corrupted from the outset.
Regarding the possibility of Rodriguez going public again, Turley recently said he isn't talking but doesn't know why.
"It is doubtful that he will talk again," said Turley in an email this week after appearing on Greg Szymanski's radio show, The Investigative Journal, where he talked extensively about the government and media cover-up. "He is no longer talking to anyone. Attorney John H. Clarke, (co-author of the book) made a trip to Sacramento several years ago to see him, before we had the audio tapes, without success. I think he is afraid to talk.
"However, his comments, legally tape recorded by the late Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media, on our audio CD are the next best thing to interviewing him. For more background on Rodriguez see Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's book "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton" and also Christopher Ruddy's book, "The Strange Death of Vincent Foster." Ruddy's book is only good in calling attention to the suspicious death but Mr. Ruddy goes out of his way to conceal the role of the FBI and the media in the cover-up."
One other element of the Foster case which has never received proper attention is the involvement of three former Mossad agents, two men and a woman, seen and captured on video exiting the Foster apartment on July 20, 1993, the day he was killed.
The Starr investigation never followed up the leads and the first mention of it appeared in the Washington Post, when an article dismissed the possibility as wild and unsubstantiated rumors.
However, critics suggest The Post was engaged in a smear job to cover the tracks of the government sponsored hit team, as a concerted media investigation never took place.
"If they had looked into it," said an investigator from Italy who wanted to remain anonymous, "they might have uncovered the same hit team, two men and a blonde woman, former known Mossad expert killers and agents, who traveled to Italy three days after Foster was killed and were thought to be involved in the murder of Raul Gardini, a wealthy Italian businessman with ties to America."
Gardini, one of Italy's most wealthy businessmen, was found dead in his hotel room on July 23, 1993.The incident was quickly reported as a suicide even though some Italian investigators claim the gun supposedly used by Gardini was found on a table across the room from where the body was found.
As in the Foster case, Italian critics claim a proper investigation was never undertaken and a premature suicide result was reached in order to protect the real killers. Also, like in America, the leads tracing the movements of the three Mossad agents were never followed up, leaving on speculation that the same hit team killed Foster and Gardini.
According to insiders who knew Gardini, suicide was the last thing on his mind, as he was flamboyant and fun loving, displaying extravagant tastes, racing yachts worth millions of dollars in prestige events, and even making it to the America's Cup final in his first attempt before losing to America 3.
Like in the Foster case who died shortly after returning from Switzerland with $250 million dollars, Gardini's inside information and financial dealings may have been what finally led to his death.
As recently as a month before Gardini was died, he was conducting a spirited public defense of his tenure as head of Ferruzzi, saying its present indebtedness -- totaling a staggering $20 billion -- was not his fault.
According to leaked testimony by company insiders, however, Mr. Gardini falsified company balance sheets to hide losses totaling between $200 million and $300 million incurred in speculations on the Chicago futures market in 1989. He also accused Mr. Gardini of having used real estate deals to build up covert slush funds.
Coincidently, the $250 million given to Foster in Switzerland, verified by U.S. Treasury agent Leo Wanta, was never tracked down, as recent investigations have uncovered it was headed for the Childrens' Fund, a covert fund created by an executive order and chaired by Hillary Clinton, who supposedly used it as her own personal slush fund.
For more informative articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com
www.arcticbeacon.com/12-Apr-2006.html
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REPUBLICANS WARN HOLDER ON TORTURE
From NBC's Pete Williams
At a hearing today with Attorney General Eric Holder, Republican members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee suggested that any potential criminal investigation into the CIA's harsh interrogation methods might not easily be contained.
Both Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Richard Shelby of Alabama pressed Holder on the CIA's "rendition" program that moved terrorism suspects from one country to another.
Didn't that happen during the Clinton administration?
Yes, Holder said.
"How many did you approve?" they asked.
Holder said he'd check the record.
The clear suggestion was, if any criminal investigation is opened, Republicans would push to get it expanded beyond events during the Bush administration. Alexander, for example, asked several times whether members of Congress, who were told about the interrogation methods, should also be investigated.
As for a potential investigation of the lawyers who wrote the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel opinions approving harsh interrogation methods, Holder said -- as he has several times now -- that he remains skeptical.
"We're not trying to do anything that would be perceived as partisan,” he said. “We want to move forward to the extent we can."
Today's hearing also provided another avenue for members of Congress to tell the Obama administration they're very worried about bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees into the U.S., where they might be released. Holder said no one who was dangerous or a threat to the community would be released anywhere in the world.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this post incorrectly identified the committee Holder testified before as Judiciary. This version corrects that, pointing out that it was an Appropriations subcommittee.]
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Fitzgerald probe: Sen. Clinton withdrew stolen funds from Grenada bank
Date: Thursday, March 13
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Fitzgerald probe: Sen. Clinton withdrew stolen funds from Grenada bank
Prosecutor in possession of documents, numbered bank accounts, trusts—and alleged film evidence of Senator Hillary Clinton withdrawing stolen U.S. Treasury funds from bank in Grenada as Fitzgerald probe expands to $742 billion theft
by Tom Flocco
Washington—April 13, 2006—TomFlocco.com—
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is in possession of filmed evidence allegedly showing Senator Hillary Clinton entering Bank Crozier in the British territory of Grenada during early 2003 for the purpose of withdrawing stolen and laundered U.S. Treasury funds for alleged personal use after presenting the bank with CIA code numbers in her capacity as a U.S. senator, CIA operative and wife of a former president, according to a team of intelligence sources.
One source requesting anonymity told us that “competing teams” of fired intelligence agents and military, federal whistleblowers and patriotic government operatives committed to restoring the U.S. Constitution established private teams “to follow and track Senator Clinton for years” in an effort to validate the intelligence operative’s crimes with the kind of evidence presented to Mr. Fitzgerald.
“Bank account numbers, entities and trust documents also linked to former Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton have been delivered to Fitzgerald by agents who originally leaked the evidence for the purpose of exposing the largest embezzlement of taxpayer funds in the history of the United States,” according to informed sources close to the investigation who spoke with TomFlocco.com.
Mrs. Clinton’s trip to Grenada may have been linked to personal and private control over an old Reagan CIA [executive order 12333] proprietary trust account called the Children’s Defense Fund—a Title 18 Section 6 USG corporation set up for intelligence operations—not for use in upcoming election campaigns.
Certain Washington Riggs Bank ties to its world banking system correspondent Bank Crozier in Grenada indicate that the stolen, laundered and back-dated U.S. treasury notes may allegedly be linked to funding the September 11 attacks in violation of U.S. racketeering laws [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act—RICO statutes], the intelligence sources said.
This, providing additional evidence circuitously linked to the Valerie Plame leak case, since intelligence sources say Plame was also looking into the 9-11 money trail—but also an attempt to plant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to buttress the case for war, thus requiring Fitzgerald to probe the money-trail connections and strong incentives for the Bush administration to “out” Mrs. Plame-Wilson for her intelligence operations.
TomFlocco.com has previously detailed and published the contents of a hand-written memo to Vice President Richard Cheney proving the White House knew that boxes containing large amounts of U.S. currency were moved from the Philippines seven weeks after the 9 11 attacks—with phrases in the document revealing that “the ‘family’ wants their boxes!!...Things are getting out of hand! MIL [Marvelous Investments, Ltd., Andover, MA according to intelligence sources] needs cash with which to purchase & remove these items [boxes of currency]…too much is in the wrong hands!”
House and Senate members are quite aware of these authentic documents, but are likely powerless to investigate their explosive implications—perhaps due to “control files” and other financial, sexual and criminal activities preventing due process of law, given past bribery and blackmail linked to judges.
The Swedish-owned Bank Crozier was under a court order to be liquidated by Garvey Louison of Louison Consulting which took place on July 24, 2003, so it would seem that Senator Clinton would have had to withdraw the funds prior to the liquidation.
[ The preceding pdf file webpage at bankcroziergd.com was removed after this story was posted; however, we saved the file and it is now available here TF ]
This, amid what became a great deal of internet chatter about Crozier fraud and money laundering by investors who were unaware that U.S. intelligence already knew that a sitting United States senator had already allegedly looted the bank prior to its liquidation.
Former Presidents Bush and Clinton have also reportedly been using Children’s Defense Fund bank accounts to expand, control and leverage secret national security—CIA front proprietary accounts for their personal use in direct violation of Title 18, Section 6, the Corporate Proprietary Banking Statutes—accounts intended to be used for U.S. intelligence operations only, according to informed sources who are aware that U.S. legislators are also implicated.
18 U.S.C. 4 mandates congressional probe
The numbered accounts presented to Fitzgerald will be sent to all members of the House Financial Services and Senate Banking Committees under 18 United States Code 4, the misprision of felony statute: “Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
18 U.S.C. 4 would therefore designate congressional members and prosecutors receiving meritorious evidence of a crime as legally responsible for investigating and preventing the concealment of that crime—what may be the greatest financial scandal in world history.
The documents linked above have been collated from the original handwritten notes with named trust identifications—and numbered bank accounts in most cases, copies of which are held by TomFlocco.com and scores of other individuals throughout the United States and foreign countries—inside and outside the intelligence community.
The originals and collated notes in Fitzgerald’s possession were published in a more easily readable format in International Currency Review, Volume 30, Numbers 2 and 3, February 2005 and in previous issues of the Review.
Riggs-Crozier tied to illegal use of U.S. Special Forces in coup attempt?
Jonathan James Bush
According to the federal agents, the same Crozier account from which Senator Clinton was video-taped withdrawing stolen U.S. Treasury funds was also used by the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to help fund a failed coup d’ etat to unseat the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
U.S. intelligence agents familiar with Senator Clinton’s past CIA operative affiliations and her control over the Bank Crozier account said some U.S. Special Forces members were involved in the coup attempt and were illegally under the foreign command and control of Mark Thatcher—with Mrs. Thatcher operating behind the scenes, according to sources familiar with the probe.
Questions can be raised whether U.S. legislators are covering up misappropriated taxpayer funds for the misuse of American troops to acquire control of more oil in the coup attempt, and whether House and Senate Armed Services and Banking Committee members may also have knowledge of Bush-Clinton use of Washington’s Riggs Bank which was the prosecuted correspondent entity fined for multiple suspicious transactions involving Bank Crozier in Grenada.
Jonathan Bush—George W. Bush’s uncle and brother of Bush 41, ran Riggs Bank National Corporation subsidiary J. Bush & Co. money management; and Riggs was alleged to have laundered funds from the account of Saudi Prince Bandar’s wife that reached two alleged September 11 “hijackers,” providing more evidence along the 9-11 money trail.
Sir Mark Thatcher
Bank Crozier’s ties to Riggs and the coup attempt are allegedly implicated in the bank’s guilty plea on January 27, 2005 for repeatedly failing to report suspicious transactions in bank accounts held by Equatorial Guinea leaders and agreeing to pay a $16 million penalty.
Mrs. Thatcher’s 51 year old son Sir Mark Thatcher was arrested in July, 2004 and pleaded guilty to helping finance “mercenaries” suspected of the plot in order to avoid a prison sentence; but Sir Mark was refused a visa to enter the U.S. due to his conviction in South Africa, according to American news reports.
Sir Mark Thatcher, E-Systems—Dallas, and the Bush family
Former Pentagon intelligence officer Bill McCoy who died mysteriously after implicating German intelligence officer Andreas Carl Strassmeier in the Oklahoma city bombing provided proof before his death that Sir Mark Thatcher was on the payroll of E-Systems in Dallas, Texas with George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Neil Bush and others.
Indicted Fox News host Colonel Oliver North, who was pardoned by George H. W. Bush which resulted in obstruction of justice, referred to E-Systems as “the company” in his testimony before Congress; but Bill McCoy called E-Systems the illegal shadow government within the government—a covert and ongoing system of black operations, drugs and weapons money-laundering via off-shore banks.
McCoy possessed the documents to validate Bush shadow government connections to Mark Thatcher and E-Systems, and allowed federal whistleblower Stewart Webb to bring a copy machine into McCoy’s Fairfax, Virginia home to duplicate thousands of top secret documents and affidavits of living, deceased and assassinated U.S. intelligence, military and government whistleblowers, some evidence of which has already been provided to prosecutors.
Serious questions can be raised as to whether the Clinton-Crozier account was employed to facilitate the illegal use of American soldiers in an oil country coup attempt funded by stolen and laundered U.S. taxpayer dollars—and whether Congress is obstructing justice and covering up the operation.
Riggs Bank quickly paid the fine, but the House and Senate banking committees have failed in their oversight to probe the above links to 9-11, Valerie Plame, Riggs and Crozier Banks while federalizing what amounts to the counterfeiting of U.S. currency by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and declining to report the M 3 data on currency in circulation [as of March 23, 2006] which serves to covertly prop up the U.S. economy with Federal Reserve Cartel printing presses.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/16/holder.confirmation/index.html
updated 12:38 p.m. EST, Fri January 16, 2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former FBI Director Louis Freeh said Friday that Attorney General-designate Eric Holder allowed himself "to be used" by the Clinton White House in the pardon process for then-fugitive financier Marc Rich in January 2001.
But Freeh told senators at Holder's confirmation that Holder was nevertheless a man of "tremendous integrity" who "will never allow himself again to be put in that position."
"The pardon of Marc Rich was a corrupt act," Freeh said, but was not Holder's responsibility. Freeh asserted that President Bill Clinton's White House staff kept the FBI and Justice Department "in the dark" and "actively conspired" to ensure that nobody knew what pardons were being considered shortly before Clinton left office.
"The [Clinton] White House went to extraordinary lengths to deceive the attorney general, myself, the Department of Justice and everyone about who was on the secret pardon list. ... I don't think it's fair to put that blame totally on Eric Holder," Freeh said. "He takes responsibility, and he will never make that mistake again."
Holder, Freeh said, had a proven track record of "political independence" and an ability "to say no" to the White House when necessary.
Freeh was the opening witness on the second day of Holder's confirmation hearing.
Holder, who was deputy attorney general during Clinton's second term, acknowledged at the outset of his confirmation hearing that many of his past "decisions were not always perfect" and that he "made mistakes," but, if confirmed, he said, he would "faithfully execute" his duties in a "fair, just and independent manner."
He was particularly quick to admit that he made mistakes during the Rich pardon incident at the end of the Clinton administration that were "not typical" of his conduct over most of his career.
Holder said he "made assumptions that turned out not to be true" during Rich's pardon process, which turned out to be the "most intense" and "searing" experience he "ever had as a lawyer." He said that as a result of the experience, he would "be a better attorney general."
One of the lessons of the Rich case, Holder stated, is the need for "full consultation with all lawyers in the pardon process." He said there is a need to improve the pardon process, which seems to experience a "deterioration ... at the end of every administration."
Holder was also harshly criticized Friday for "playing Russian roulette" with the safety of Americans for making an "egregious recommendation" in 1999 of clemency for 16 members of a Puerto Rican nationalist group convicted of conspiracy and bomb-making charges.
Joseph Connor, the son of a victim of a 1975 New York City restaurant bombing by the FALN -- or Armed Forces of National Liberation -- testified that the former federal judge and prosecutor was "soft on terror" and, as a result, should be "disqualified" for the position of attorney general.
"These terrorists took away my dad's life," Connor said. "Did he actually believe in their cause? Did he not know what they did?"
Holder stated during his confirmation hearing Thursday that Clinton's decision to grant clemency to the 16 FALN members "was reasonable."
Holder also noted that there were "a lot of people in support of that clemency request," including former President Jimmy Carter and Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The FALN is responsible for multiple attacks on U.S. military installations.
When Holder appeared before senators Thursday, he drew a clear distinction with President Bush's Justice Department by stating unambiguously that the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding "is torture" and a violation of the Geneva Conventions. Watch Holder call waterboarding torture »
Holder, who will be the nation's first African-American attorney general if confirmed, pledged to support interrogation techniques that are "effective," but don't "serve as recruiting tools for the enemy" or violate America's treaty obligations.
Any techniques used by the government, Holder said, need to be "consistent with who we are as Americans."
Justice Department officials have admitted that waterboarding -- one of the greatest points of dispute between the Bush administration and both congressional Democrats and civil liberties watchdog groups -- was used in the past, but is no longer practiced, officials have said.
The debate over waterboarding was one of a series of issues covered in Holder's confirmation hearing that have sharply and often bitterly divided Democrats and Republicans over the past eight years.
Other issues raised during the hearing included the decision to hold prisoners at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; the implementation of the Patriot Act; and the broader need to strike an appropriate balance between protecting civil liberties and effectively prosecuting the war on terror.
Former FBI director: Holder was 'used' in Rich pardon
FROM TOM HENEGHEN MYSPACE:
....P.P.P.S. Do not be fooled by the Nancy Pelosi diversion, folks. As much of a traitor and an incompetent that Pelosi is [threatened Congress with MARTIAL LAW in September of 2008 aka their support of the first BushFRAUD "bail out"], the corporate fascist, extortion-friendly media elite would rather discuss an irrelevant statement Pelosi made in regards to CIA credibility than the mounting criminal evidence aka BushFRAUD's TREASONOUS rendition flights and torture chambers, along with the escalating Israeli espionage scandal, which is engulfing Washington, D.C.
At this hour, we can also divulge that Pelosi is being blackmailed by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina in regards to the Clinton rendition flights aka the kidnapping of Ambassador Leo Wanta from Switzerland in 1993 when Wanta, along with former FBI Director William Sessions, General Vernon Walter, French President Francois Mitterrand, FBI informant Vince Foster and then Vice President, now year 2000 duly elected, natural born President Albert Gore Jr., tried to have Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate bagman, fugitive Marc Rich arrested, when Rich was in between Switzerland and France on his way to Monte Carlo.
The other illegal activity involving the kidnapping of Ambassador Leo Wanta in early 1997, is when Ambassador Wanta, on the orders of daddy Bush's little bitch, Bill Clinton, and his sociopath loser wife, lesbian in-the-closet Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, along with former Republican Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, ordered Wanta kidnapped from his temporary residence in Wisconsin to a holding facility aka gulag-type prison in Sayre, Oklahoma.
Former Clinton era Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr who, at the time of his appointment represented the Wisconsin division of the Children's Defense Fund, which was tied directly to Hillary Clinton.
Starr was also the attorny for Ambassador Wanta but abrutly resigned as Wanta's attorney when he was appointed Independent Counsel. Starr's conflict of interest was glaring. We can see now why he covered up Vince Foster's murder and resigned as Wanta's attorney since Ambassador Wanta could have been a witness in implicating Hillary Clinton in the murder of Foster.
Now you see, folks, why Wanta was kidnapped by the Clintons with the acquiescence of Kenneth Starr and put in the Sayre, Oklahoma gulag.
Not only were the Clintons misusing the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocol funds, but they also wished to silence Ambassador Wanta considering Wanta's knowledge of massive criminal misconduct by then Clinton Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr involving Starr's cover up of the murder of Wanta's partner in the Marc Rich arrest attempt, former Clinton White House aide Vincent W. Foster.
Final note: Stay tuned for our future intelligence briefings, which will include an update on the theft of former Vice President, now year 2000 duly elected President Albert Gore Jr.'s daughter's personal files and social security number from the U.S. National Archives.
Do not believe any computer glitch spin, folks. The Clintons were notified of the missing files but not Gore; and it was the Bush Administration that was in power during this crime....."
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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4389
The Cover-Up Of Vince Foster's Murder Gets Stranger and Stranger
By Greg Szymanski – Arctic Beacon April 12, 2006
The cover-up of Vince Foster's 1993 murder gets stranger and stranger, as the U.S. Attorney who blew the whistle on massive, high-level White House criminality has apparently undergone a sex change.
Lead investigator in the Foster case and U.S. Attorney Miguel Rodriguez, who went public in 1995 with allegations independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr and others purposely withheld evidence and intimidated witnesses to cover-up Foster's murder, is now working in Sacramento, Ca., apparently under the name of U.S. Attorney Michelle Rodriguez.
Although Rodriguez failed to return phone calls, a secretary in the U.S. Attorney's office Tuesday in Sacramento confirmed Michelle was once Miguel, although not coming right out and saying it.
Asked if the name Michelle was a mistake and the attorney in the office really was Miguel from Washington D.C., the secretary said:
"When was the last time you talked with Miguel?" asked the secretary, who then responded to the answer. "If it has been that long, she is now Michelle."
To further verify Michelle Rodriguez worked in the office, a Sept.29, 2005, Sacramento Bee news article referred to Rodriguez, saying:
"Jared Oreste Giampaoli and Steven Foster Little are accused of "interference with federally protected rights," according to documents filed by Assistant U.S Attorney Michelle Rodriguez."
Although Rodriguez's sex change could easily be dismissed as a man being trapped in a woman's body, bigger questions need to answered about Rodriguez's actions since he talked "a blue streak" in 1995, pointing the dirty finger of corruption in the Foster case all the way up to the doorstep of the white House.
But 13 years later why is Rodriguez remaining 'mum' about the case? How and why could he still be holding a job in the U.S. Attorney's Office after hitting the big boys below the belt so hard?
And the biggest question is what happened to the photograph Rodriguez took when he left Starr's office as the chief investigator, a photograph which allegedly shows a bullet hole in Foster's neck when the official report claimed he shot himself to death by sticking a gun in his mouth?
The photograph, which would clearly nail the top dogs in Washington with withholding evidence, has never been published and, according to the main researchers in the Foster case, it has somehow disappeared.
Although it is only speculation where the photograph ended up since Rodriguez isn't talking, the best explanation given is that he sold it for a hefty sum of money to an influential British newspaper.
In turn, investigators speculate the British newspaper, with MI6 and CIA ties, turned the evidence back over to the government without publishing it. Whether Rodriguez has a duplicate copy of the photo is unknown and it is also unknown whether Rodriguez has cut a deal with government officials to keep quiet in return for his life, a life he now leads as a woman.
Regarding the sex change, the final question needs to be asked whether it had anything remotely to do with the Foster case or whether it can be dismissed as a natural progression in Rodriguez's personal life.
One thing for sure, the importance of Rodriguez's testimony in getting at the truth behind the Foster murder should never be diminished or discredited, according to author Huh Turley, one of three writers who wrote a 511 page book/legal document categorically proving beyond a reasonable doubt Foster was murdered and it was cover-ed up.
The 1999 book, entitled Failure of the Public Trust, pins Starr and others with withholding evidence and intimidating witnesses to reach a premature conclusion in the case, a conclusion reached even before the evidence was gathered.
Turley and the authors meticulously gathered crime scene irregularities, including evidence tampering, witness intimidation and grand jury manipulation, using taped testimony by Rodriguez, the lead investigator, to prove the Starr report was corrupted from the outset.
Regarding the possibility of Rodriguez going public again, Turley recently said he isn't talking but doesn't know why.
"It is doubtful that he will talk again," said Turley in an email this week after appearing on Greg Szymanski's radio show, The Investigative Journal, where he talked extensively about the government and media cover-up. "He is no longer talking to anyone. Attorney John H. Clarke, (co-author of the book) made a trip to Sacramento several years ago to see him, before we had the audio tapes, without success. I think he is afraid to talk.
"However, his comments, legally tape recorded by the late Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media, on our audio CD are the next best thing to interviewing him. For more background on Rodriguez see Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's book "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton" and also Christopher Ruddy's book, "The Strange Death of Vincent Foster." Ruddy's book is only good in calling attention to the suspicious death but Mr. Ruddy goes out of his way to conceal the role of the FBI and the media in the cover-up."
One other element of the Foster case which has never received proper attention is the involvement of three former Mossad agents, two men and a woman, seen and captured on video exiting the Foster apartment on July 20, 1993, the day he was killed.
The Starr investigation never followed up the leads and the first mention of it appeared in the Washington Post, when an article dismissed the possibility as wild and unsubstantiated rumors.
However, critics suggest The Post was engaged in a smear job to cover the tracks of the government sponsored hit team, as a concerted media investigation never took place.
"If they had looked into it," said an investigator from Italy who wanted to remain anonymous, "they might have uncovered the same hit team, two men and a blonde woman, former known Mossad expert killers and agents, who traveled to Italy three days after Foster was killed and were thought to be involved in the murder of Raul Gardini, a wealthy Italian businessman with ties to America."
Gardini, one of Italy's most wealthy businessmen, was found dead in his hotel room on July 23, 1993.The incident was quickly reported as a suicide even though some Italian investigators claim the gun supposedly used by Gardini was found on a table across the room from where the body was found.
As in the Foster case, Italian critics claim a proper investigation was never undertaken and a premature suicide result was reached in order to protect the real killers. Also, like in America, the leads tracing the movements of the three Mossad agents were never followed up, leaving on speculation that the same hit team killed Foster and Gardini.
According to insiders who knew Gardini, suicide was the last thing on his mind, as he was flamboyant and fun loving, displaying extravagant tastes, racing yachts worth millions of dollars in prestige events, and even making it to the America's Cup final in his first attempt before losing to America 3.
Like in the Foster case who died shortly after returning from Switzerland with $250 million dollars, Gardini's inside information and financial dealings may have been what finally led to his death.
As recently as a month before Gardini was died, he was conducting a spirited public defense of his tenure as head of Ferruzzi, saying its present indebtedness -- totaling a staggering $20 billion -- was not his fault.
According to leaked testimony by company insiders, however, Mr. Gardini falsified company balance sheets to hide losses totaling between $200 million and $300 million incurred in speculations on the Chicago futures market in 1989. He also accused Mr. Gardini of having used real estate deals to build up covert slush funds.
Coincidently, the $250 million given to Foster in Switzerland, verified by U.S. Treasury agent Leo Wanta, was never tracked down, as recent investigations have uncovered it was headed for the Childrens' Fund, a covert fund created by an executive order and chaired by Hillary Clinton, who supposedly used it as her own personal slush fund.
For more informative articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com
www.arcticbeacon.com/12-Apr-2006.html
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http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/05/07/1925394.aspx
REPUBLICANS WARN HOLDER ON TORTURE
From NBC's Pete Williams
At a hearing today with Attorney General Eric Holder, Republican members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee suggested that any potential criminal investigation into the CIA's harsh interrogation methods might not easily be contained.
Both Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Richard Shelby of Alabama pressed Holder on the CIA's "rendition" program that moved terrorism suspects from one country to another.
Didn't that happen during the Clinton administration?
Yes, Holder said.
"How many did you approve?" they asked.
Holder said he'd check the record.
The clear suggestion was, if any criminal investigation is opened, Republicans would push to get it expanded beyond events during the Bush administration. Alexander, for example, asked several times whether members of Congress, who were told about the interrogation methods, should also be investigated.
As for a potential investigation of the lawyers who wrote the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel opinions approving harsh interrogation methods, Holder said -- as he has several times now -- that he remains skeptical.
"We're not trying to do anything that would be perceived as partisan,” he said. “We want to move forward to the extent we can."
Today's hearing also provided another avenue for members of Congress to tell the Obama administration they're very worried about bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees into the U.S., where they might be released. Holder said no one who was dangerous or a threat to the community would be released anywhere in the world.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this post incorrectly identified the committee Holder testified before as Judiciary. This version corrects that, pointing out that it was an Appropriations subcommittee.]
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http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/SenClintonGrenada.htm
Tom Flocco.com
http://tomflocco.com/
Fitzgerald probe: Sen. Clinton withdrew stolen funds from Grenada bank
Date: Thursday, March 13
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Fitzgerald probe: Sen. Clinton withdrew stolen funds from Grenada bank
Prosecutor in possession of documents, numbered bank accounts, trusts—and alleged film evidence of Senator Hillary Clinton withdrawing stolen U.S. Treasury funds from bank in Grenada as Fitzgerald probe expands to $742 billion theft
by Tom Flocco
Washington—April 13, 2006—TomFlocco.com—
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is in possession of filmed evidence allegedly showing Senator Hillary Clinton entering Bank Crozier in the British territory of Grenada during early 2003 for the purpose of withdrawing stolen and laundered U.S. Treasury funds for alleged personal use after presenting the bank with CIA code numbers in her capacity as a U.S. senator, CIA operative and wife of a former president, according to a team of intelligence sources.
One source requesting anonymity told us that “competing teams” of fired intelligence agents and military, federal whistleblowers and patriotic government operatives committed to restoring the U.S. Constitution established private teams “to follow and track Senator Clinton for years” in an effort to validate the intelligence operative’s crimes with the kind of evidence presented to Mr. Fitzgerald.
“Bank account numbers, entities and trust documents also linked to former Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton have been delivered to Fitzgerald by agents who originally leaked the evidence for the purpose of exposing the largest embezzlement of taxpayer funds in the history of the United States,” according to informed sources close to the investigation who spoke with TomFlocco.com.
Mrs. Clinton’s trip to Grenada may have been linked to personal and private control over an old Reagan CIA [executive order 12333] proprietary trust account called the Children’s Defense Fund—a Title 18 Section 6 USG corporation set up for intelligence operations—not for use in upcoming election campaigns.
Certain Washington Riggs Bank ties to its world banking system correspondent Bank Crozier in Grenada indicate that the stolen, laundered and back-dated U.S. treasury notes may allegedly be linked to funding the September 11 attacks in violation of U.S. racketeering laws [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act—RICO statutes], the intelligence sources said.
This, providing additional evidence circuitously linked to the Valerie Plame leak case, since intelligence sources say Plame was also looking into the 9-11 money trail—but also an attempt to plant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to buttress the case for war, thus requiring Fitzgerald to probe the money-trail connections and strong incentives for the Bush administration to “out” Mrs. Plame-Wilson for her intelligence operations.
TomFlocco.com has previously detailed and published the contents of a hand-written memo to Vice President Richard Cheney proving the White House knew that boxes containing large amounts of U.S. currency were moved from the Philippines seven weeks after the 9 11 attacks—with phrases in the document revealing that “the ‘family’ wants their boxes!!...Things are getting out of hand! MIL [Marvelous Investments, Ltd., Andover, MA according to intelligence sources] needs cash with which to purchase & remove these items [boxes of currency]…too much is in the wrong hands!”
House and Senate members are quite aware of these authentic documents, but are likely powerless to investigate their explosive implications—perhaps due to “control files” and other financial, sexual and criminal activities preventing due process of law, given past bribery and blackmail linked to judges.
The Swedish-owned Bank Crozier was under a court order to be liquidated by Garvey Louison of Louison Consulting which took place on July 24, 2003, so it would seem that Senator Clinton would have had to withdraw the funds prior to the liquidation.
[ The preceding pdf file webpage at bankcroziergd.com was removed after this story was posted; however, we saved the file and it is now available here TF ]
This, amid what became a great deal of internet chatter about Crozier fraud and money laundering by investors who were unaware that U.S. intelligence already knew that a sitting United States senator had already allegedly looted the bank prior to its liquidation.
Former Presidents Bush and Clinton have also reportedly been using Children’s Defense Fund bank accounts to expand, control and leverage secret national security—CIA front proprietary accounts for their personal use in direct violation of Title 18, Section 6, the Corporate Proprietary Banking Statutes—accounts intended to be used for U.S. intelligence operations only, according to informed sources who are aware that U.S. legislators are also implicated.
18 U.S.C. 4 mandates congressional probe
The numbered accounts presented to Fitzgerald will be sent to all members of the House Financial Services and Senate Banking Committees under 18 United States Code 4, the misprision of felony statute: “Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
18 U.S.C. 4 would therefore designate congressional members and prosecutors receiving meritorious evidence of a crime as legally responsible for investigating and preventing the concealment of that crime—what may be the greatest financial scandal in world history.
The documents linked above have been collated from the original handwritten notes with named trust identifications—and numbered bank accounts in most cases, copies of which are held by TomFlocco.com and scores of other individuals throughout the United States and foreign countries—inside and outside the intelligence community.
The originals and collated notes in Fitzgerald’s possession were published in a more easily readable format in International Currency Review, Volume 30, Numbers 2 and 3, February 2005 and in previous issues of the Review.
Riggs-Crozier tied to illegal use of U.S. Special Forces in coup attempt?
Jonathan James Bush
According to the federal agents, the same Crozier account from which Senator Clinton was video-taped withdrawing stolen U.S. Treasury funds was also used by the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to help fund a failed coup d’ etat to unseat the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
U.S. intelligence agents familiar with Senator Clinton’s past CIA operative affiliations and her control over the Bank Crozier account said some U.S. Special Forces members were involved in the coup attempt and were illegally under the foreign command and control of Mark Thatcher—with Mrs. Thatcher operating behind the scenes, according to sources familiar with the probe.
Questions can be raised whether U.S. legislators are covering up misappropriated taxpayer funds for the misuse of American troops to acquire control of more oil in the coup attempt, and whether House and Senate Armed Services and Banking Committee members may also have knowledge of Bush-Clinton use of Washington’s Riggs Bank which was the prosecuted correspondent entity fined for multiple suspicious transactions involving Bank Crozier in Grenada.
Jonathan Bush—George W. Bush’s uncle and brother of Bush 41, ran Riggs Bank National Corporation subsidiary J. Bush & Co. money management; and Riggs was alleged to have laundered funds from the account of Saudi Prince Bandar’s wife that reached two alleged September 11 “hijackers,” providing more evidence along the 9-11 money trail.
Sir Mark Thatcher
Bank Crozier’s ties to Riggs and the coup attempt are allegedly implicated in the bank’s guilty plea on January 27, 2005 for repeatedly failing to report suspicious transactions in bank accounts held by Equatorial Guinea leaders and agreeing to pay a $16 million penalty.
Mrs. Thatcher’s 51 year old son Sir Mark Thatcher was arrested in July, 2004 and pleaded guilty to helping finance “mercenaries” suspected of the plot in order to avoid a prison sentence; but Sir Mark was refused a visa to enter the U.S. due to his conviction in South Africa, according to American news reports.
Sir Mark Thatcher, E-Systems—Dallas, and the Bush family
Former Pentagon intelligence officer Bill McCoy who died mysteriously after implicating German intelligence officer Andreas Carl Strassmeier in the Oklahoma city bombing provided proof before his death that Sir Mark Thatcher was on the payroll of E-Systems in Dallas, Texas with George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Neil Bush and others.
Indicted Fox News host Colonel Oliver North, who was pardoned by George H. W. Bush which resulted in obstruction of justice, referred to E-Systems as “the company” in his testimony before Congress; but Bill McCoy called E-Systems the illegal shadow government within the government—a covert and ongoing system of black operations, drugs and weapons money-laundering via off-shore banks.
McCoy possessed the documents to validate Bush shadow government connections to Mark Thatcher and E-Systems, and allowed federal whistleblower Stewart Webb to bring a copy machine into McCoy’s Fairfax, Virginia home to duplicate thousands of top secret documents and affidavits of living, deceased and assassinated U.S. intelligence, military and government whistleblowers, some evidence of which has already been provided to prosecutors.
Serious questions can be raised as to whether the Clinton-Crozier account was employed to facilitate the illegal use of American soldiers in an oil country coup attempt funded by stolen and laundered U.S. taxpayer dollars—and whether Congress is obstructing justice and covering up the operation.
Riggs Bank quickly paid the fine, but the House and Senate banking committees have failed in their oversight to probe the above links to 9-11, Valerie Plame, Riggs and Crozier Banks while federalizing what amounts to the counterfeiting of U.S. currency by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and declining to report the M 3 data on currency in circulation [as of March 23, 2006] which serves to covertly prop up the U.S. economy with Federal Reserve Cartel printing presses.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/16/holder.confirmation/index.html
updated 12:38 p.m. EST, Fri January 16, 2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former FBI Director Louis Freeh said Friday that Attorney General-designate Eric Holder allowed himself "to be used" by the Clinton White House in the pardon process for then-fugitive financier Marc Rich in January 2001.
But Freeh told senators at Holder's confirmation that Holder was nevertheless a man of "tremendous integrity" who "will never allow himself again to be put in that position."
"The pardon of Marc Rich was a corrupt act," Freeh said, but was not Holder's responsibility. Freeh asserted that President Bill Clinton's White House staff kept the FBI and Justice Department "in the dark" and "actively conspired" to ensure that nobody knew what pardons were being considered shortly before Clinton left office.
"The [Clinton] White House went to extraordinary lengths to deceive the attorney general, myself, the Department of Justice and everyone about who was on the secret pardon list. ... I don't think it's fair to put that blame totally on Eric Holder," Freeh said. "He takes responsibility, and he will never make that mistake again."
Holder, Freeh said, had a proven track record of "political independence" and an ability "to say no" to the White House when necessary.
Freeh was the opening witness on the second day of Holder's confirmation hearing.
Holder, who was deputy attorney general during Clinton's second term, acknowledged at the outset of his confirmation hearing that many of his past "decisions were not always perfect" and that he "made mistakes," but, if confirmed, he said, he would "faithfully execute" his duties in a "fair, just and independent manner."
He was particularly quick to admit that he made mistakes during the Rich pardon incident at the end of the Clinton administration that were "not typical" of his conduct over most of his career.
Holder said he "made assumptions that turned out not to be true" during Rich's pardon process, which turned out to be the "most intense" and "searing" experience he "ever had as a lawyer." He said that as a result of the experience, he would "be a better attorney general."
One of the lessons of the Rich case, Holder stated, is the need for "full consultation with all lawyers in the pardon process." He said there is a need to improve the pardon process, which seems to experience a "deterioration ... at the end of every administration."
Holder was also harshly criticized Friday for "playing Russian roulette" with the safety of Americans for making an "egregious recommendation" in 1999 of clemency for 16 members of a Puerto Rican nationalist group convicted of conspiracy and bomb-making charges.
Joseph Connor, the son of a victim of a 1975 New York City restaurant bombing by the FALN -- or Armed Forces of National Liberation -- testified that the former federal judge and prosecutor was "soft on terror" and, as a result, should be "disqualified" for the position of attorney general.
"These terrorists took away my dad's life," Connor said. "Did he actually believe in their cause? Did he not know what they did?"
Holder stated during his confirmation hearing Thursday that Clinton's decision to grant clemency to the 16 FALN members "was reasonable."
Holder also noted that there were "a lot of people in support of that clemency request," including former President Jimmy Carter and Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The FALN is responsible for multiple attacks on U.S. military installations.
When Holder appeared before senators Thursday, he drew a clear distinction with President Bush's Justice Department by stating unambiguously that the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding "is torture" and a violation of the Geneva Conventions. Watch Holder call waterboarding torture »
Holder, who will be the nation's first African-American attorney general if confirmed, pledged to support interrogation techniques that are "effective," but don't "serve as recruiting tools for the enemy" or violate America's treaty obligations.
Any techniques used by the government, Holder said, need to be "consistent with who we are as Americans."
Justice Department officials have admitted that waterboarding -- one of the greatest points of dispute between the Bush administration and both congressional Democrats and civil liberties watchdog groups -- was used in the past, but is no longer practiced, officials have said.
The debate over waterboarding was one of a series of issues covered in Holder's confirmation hearing that have sharply and often bitterly divided Democrats and Republicans over the past eight years.
Other issues raised during the hearing included the decision to hold prisoners at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; the implementation of the Patriot Act; and the broader need to strike an appropriate balance between protecting civil liberties and effectively prosecuting the war on terror.
Former FBI director: Holder was 'used' in Rich pardon
Friday, May 22, 2009
We need the Generals to perform a coup d'etat today...NO MORE CHENEY--KIKE BURNS
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/20/us-promises-to-fully-fund-israeli-missile-defense-system-while-cutting-their-own/
US Promises to Fully Fund Israeli Missile Defense System, While Cutting Its Own
Gates Defends Cuts to US Program
by Jason Ditz, May 20, 2009
Even as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was being raked over the coals in Congress for the decision to cut funding to America’s missile defense systems, Israeli defense officials have revealed that Israel’s own Arrow 3 missile defense system will be “fully funded” by the United States yet again this year.
Israel has been working on the Arrow defense system for over 20 years with heavy US backing. It is reported that the costs for the upcoming year will be nearly $100 million. Israel’s system will be showcased later this year in a joint operation with the US military.
A successful test of a long-range Iranian missile today brought the issue of America’s missile defense systems in Europe into focus, though the missile’s maximum range still put it well short of the US bases in Poland and the Czech Republic, ostensibly being built for that purpose.
Secretary Gates defended the $1.2 billion in cuts to the Missile Defense Agency, despite criticism from some members of Congress. Gates said the suitability of some of the cut programs for their purposes were “highly questionable.” The new found concern over the usefulness of US weapons programs will not, it seems, extend to foreign military aid.
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TOMMY:
The military is gonna have to perform a coup d'etat to get rid of Cheney...and that is the only way to GET RID OF THE FUCKING KIKES.
THE KIKES DID 9/11 WITH CHENEY.
One advantage for Israel was...our Armies would split Iraq according to plan to consternation of the "revolting generals" who said "DUMSFIELD WAS INCOMPETENT LOGISTICALLY, TACTICALLY, STRATEGICALLY"...when in fact DUMSFIELD--KIKES--CHENEY accomplished everything they set out to do.
Israel's enemy IRAQ, is split and weak...just like the kikes want, and America pays in blood and money that we borrowed from the Chinese, who got our gold bars, and our public lands, and god knows what (FIAT DOLLARS RAN OFF THE KOREAN PRINTING PRESS USING OUR TREASURY PLATES?...Cheney stopped the reporting of THE M3 MONEY SUPPLY STATISTIC...and nobody has a clue what is going on?).
DANCING ISRAEL MOSSAD DEMOLITION TEAM taken out of jail by MUKASY working with CHERTOFF.
CHENEY was President at the time...no?
THE KIKES AND CHENEY STOLE THE FIRST 700 BILLION DOLLAR BAILOUT.
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT BANKS IT WENT TO?
3 ISRAELI BANKS TOOK HALF...RIGHT?
THE KIKES are all over our NAT SEC STATE, AND INFO SEC STATE?
THE KIKES EXTORTED PRESIDENT OBAMA, using the BERG LAWSUIT questioning Obama's citizenship.
Now the CHENEY MILITARY GROUP is on the US SUP CT DOCKET with another, yes another....birth certificate issue?
SOMEHOW CHENEY'S US SUP CT has time to bring citizenship suits.....while ignoring any other filing?
TODAY, the generals...are gonna have to perform a coup d'etat...to remove THE KIKES AND CHENEY FROM D.C....otherwise, we are screwed.
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http://worldreports.org/news/203_wheels_coming_off_white_house_corruption_engine
FROM "INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY REVIEW" by The Queen of England's favorite blogger, Chris Story with info from The queen's MI-5 wrote:
...."....HUGE THEFT OR 'REASSIGNMENT' OF FUNDS TOOK PLACE ON 17TH MARCH
On arrival in the United States, the Editor was almost immediately informed that a very large theft or 'diversion' or 'reallocation' of giga-funds, KNOWN ABOUT IN ADVANCE, was said to be scheduled to take place on 17th March 2009. At the end of that day, the Editor learned that Chinese interests had been paid a large sum IN CASH, not in Treasuries, to which they had objected.
Thus the 'reallocation', or part of it, about which we were warned in 'real-time', financed a payoff to the Chinese, in accordance with the pattern that has now become apparent. When a really large debtor gets nasty, the people in charge 'find a way' to make the necessary payment, in order, like drunks falling out of the pub, to sidestep an even 'worse' outcome.
Examples of this syndrome include a vast sum of money that was conveyed to the Vatican during the visit of the German Pope to America in April last year; payments made to the Mormon Church; payments to the Knights of Malta; and payments (or a payment) to the Knights Templar.
Now we have an instalment paid out to the Chinese, who are indeed owed colssal sums arising from transactions in the late 1930s and the recent expiry of the 70-year period after which the Chinese are required to be paid.
• The sums are so enormous that it will take the United States TWO GENERATIONS to pay what is owed. Let us consider why this payment (may have) finally 'happened'.
Earlier in March, Chinese representatives of the Peking Government appeared at the World Court and demanded payment of monies owed following the recent expiry of the 70 years arising from the old Morgenthau 'box deal' of the late 1930s. The Chinese were reported to us by several sources to have obtained, in the week of 6th March, a lien on the Fed, which 'works for' the US Treasury.
On 12th March, against the background of 'tensions' between China and the United States over a staged confrontation at sea, the Chinese Foreign Minister, Yang Jiechi, paid a sudden visit to the White House. Mr Yang was also scheduled to meet Mr Barack Obama's National Security Adviser, former Marine Corps General James Jones. On 11th March, Mr Yang had met Mrs Hillary (who is now relabelled 'Rodham', for Rodinski) Clinton, who pontificated that the United States and China needed to reduce tensions and to avoid a repeat of a weekend confrontation between American and Chinese vessels in the South China Sea.
However the 'confrontation at sea' represented a proxy 'tension' hotspot conjured up for the sole purpose of masking the ACTUAL source of tension between the two countries: namely the ongoing illegal and criminal behaviour of the US official financial fraudsters, and the Chinese intention of exercising their lien on the Federal Reserve, reportedly obtained from the World Court.
If exercised, this would have led to the immediate seizure by the Chinese authorities of all US assets within their jurisdiction, in Hong Kong, Singapore and elsewhere, and thus to a dramatic open-ended, publicised escalation of international tensions, which are explicitly and exclusively a consequence of the hijacking of the US power centres by organised criminal elements as exposed for several years now in these reports.
Any such development would also have collapsed what remains of international economic and financial confidence, would have dealt the final blow to what remains of the self-appointed elite's deception called 'globalism' and would have catapulted the world much closer to World War: where we would appear to be headed anyway, thanks to the crass behaviour of the US authorities. Indeed, if they go on like this, World War III will be their sole recourse.
So, to 'get round the Chinese problem', funds had to be 'reallocated', like, 'immediately'. A small part of the funds were found, we understand, by taking them from two projects:
(1) The two British aircraft carriers that were to have been constructed and 'owned' by The Queen, and probably also the two further aircraft carriers that were to have been made available to the European Union Collective; and:
(2) The Bush-era 'missile shield' project for Eastern Europe, much to the fury of Poland, which greatly distrusts the Russians and thought that this protective mechanism would go ahead.
These projects, representing Bush-era quid pro quos, have been ditched by the Obama clique in order to help pay off the Chinese parties, in order to achieve a belated stay of execution of the Chinese lien against the Federal Reserve, according to sources 'special' to this service.
And nor is this the first such 'reallocation' to have taken place under Obama's watch.".....
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http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1218.htm
March 29, 2009
Obama Gets Massive New Law To Force All Americans Into Cities
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
In what a new Kremlin report is calling one of the most ‘astounding’ capitulations in World history, President Obama and the United States Congress, while using the current Global economic crisis as ‘cover’, have given over control of nearly their entire country to the United Nations by passing in near secrecy the most massive law in United States history this past fortnight called the “Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009”.
This stunning information has also been confirmed by Western propaganda news sources, and as we can read from this March 25th report by the Environmental News Service:
“Congress today approved a massive public lands bill that protects two million acres of wilderness in nine states and a thousand miles of rivers, a 50 percent increase in the wild and scenic river system. It establishes new national trails, national parks and a new national monument and provides legal status for the National Landscape Conservation System, which will protect some of the country's most spectacular landscapes
The package of 164 separate bills bundled together, known as the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 (H.R.146), has been stalled several times on its way to approval, most recently on March 11, when the measure fell two votes short of the two-thirds majority in the House required at that time.
Today, only a simple majority was required and the House passed the bill by a vote of 285 to 140. The bill was approved by the Senate last week and now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature into law. President Obama is expected to sign the measure.”
The radical US environmental group known as The Wilderness Society, who have long advocated that all Americans be forced out of their rural homes and into vast urban zones, further states about this chilling new law:
“This is a tremendous day for wilderness and for all who cherish our public lands. Congress just passed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act, the largest addition to the National Wilderness Preservation System in over a decade and one of the biggest public land conservation measures ever.”
These Kremlin reports, however, point out that this massive new law authorizes President Obama to ‘evacuate’ all American citizens from what are being called United Nations Biosphere Reserves and Corridors by ‘no later than’ April, 2011, and which in effect will nearly totally depopulate the United States rural areas forcing tens of millions of Americans into vast urban zones where they can be better controlled and watched over by their police authorities.
Virtually unknown to the masses of these American people are that the warnings of what is now happening to them now has been forewarned about, including in March, 2006, when the World Net Daily News Service warned in their report titled “The U.N.'s global land grab” that:
“The agenda for U.N. Biosphere Reserves is set in UNESCO documents known as the Statutory Framework and the Seville Strategy, both of which were developed with "consultation" from the IUCN.
Biosphere Reserves, by definition, include "core wilderness areas" protected from human use, which are surrounded by "buffer zones," which are managed for conservation objectives. Those are surrounded by "zones of cooperation," which are "laboratories for sustainable development.”
Demographic statistics from the United States are further showing that these Americans already have the World’s most urbanized society with over 81% of their population residing in cities and suburbs, and which by reason of the current collapse of their economy is forcing millions more of their citizens to flee their small towns and rural areas as they are left homeless and jobless.
Even more chilling for these Americans is that their current leader President Obama has inherited from his predecessor all of the powers needed to radically alter their society into a virtual police state, and as we can read as reported by the Prison Planet News Service in their report titled “Top Constitutional Scholar: Secret Bush Memos Reveal Plan For “Massive Military Takeover Of US”, and which says:
“A top constitutional scholar has said that recently released Justice Department memos prove that nefarious elements within the Bush Administration were planning a massive military takeover of the country and that the documents should be used to bring charges of treason.
In an interview with author Naomi Wolf, legal expert Michael Ratner explains how the move toward total elimination of First, Fourth and Fifth amendment rights, as outlined in the memos, cannot be taken in isolated relation to terrorism related prosecutions and instead represents a smoking gun of a larger intention toward the general population.
“The memos revealed how massive the takeover of our democracy was to be — that this wasn’t just going to be a few individuals here or there who suffered the arrows of a police state.” Ratner says.
“These memos lay the groundwork for a massive military takeover of the United States in cahoots with the president. And if that’s not a coup d’etat then, nothing is.”
To the ultimate goal of these New World Order Globalists in destroying the United States we can read as reported by the Fox News Service “U.N. 'Climate Change' Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy”, and which warns:
“A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.
Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations "information note" on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009. The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an "effective framework" for dealing with global warming.”
But to the real goal of these Global elitists we can, perhaps, gain a greater insight into their agenda by examining one of their top leaders, Henry Kissinger, and of whom it is written:
“President Obama’s National Security Advisor, General Jim Jones made a very curious comment at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy in Germany. He said:
“Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here.”
Jones’ comment appeared to be an unsuccessful attempt at dry humor – only a few in the audience actually laughed – in acknowledging Dr Henry Kissinger’s enormous influence in U.S. foreign policy which had been acknowledged a day earlier with a prestigious award. Many, however, immediately viewed Jones’ comment as an unguarded admission of who really is in charge of U.S. policy. Jones comment raises two serious questions. How much influence does Kissinger exert over the Obama administration and the policy making process? Furthermore, what influence does Kissinger have over U.S. policy on UFOs and extraterrestrial life?
Kissinger’s influential role in setting U.S. foreign policy is generally viewed as starting with his role as President Nixon’s National Security Advisor in 1969 during the Vietnam War. Kissinger’s role in steering U.S. policy, and his failed efforts to bring an end to the Vietnam war have led to many criticisms against him. The most controversial is Kissinger’s role in the failure of President Johnson’s peace efforts during the final months of his administration in 1968. Released Presidential tapes reveal that Johnson concluded that Nixon’s associates were engaging in treason. Kissinger’s covert activities during both the 1968 Presidential campaign and later as National Security Advisor has led to accusations that he unnecessarily prolonged the Vietnam War for political gain.
Kissinger’s influence over U.S. foreign policy, however, dates from much earlier than the Vietnam War. His influence dates from experiences in Germany during World War II when he was part of the Army’s Counterintelligence Corps, and helped identify Nazi scientists familiar with advanced technologies of interest to the U.S. Some of the Nazi scientists retrieved in Operation Paperclip were directly involved in advanced technological projects that according to the father of modern rocketry, Hermann Oberth, had been assisted by knowledge of extraterrestrial life and technology. He said:
… we cannot take credit for our record advancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped." When asked by whom, he replied, “the peoples of other worlds.”
To the fullest understanding of all of these events, one need look no further than the Sorcha Faal’s seminal work “Battle Begins For Throne of This World: The Return of the Einherjar Warriors” to which she warned:
“On July 4, 1996, the 3,000 anniversary of the establishment of Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel by King David, and the 220th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, British Prime Minister Ron Major announced that the “Jeremiah Stone”, also known as “The Stone of Scone”, was to be removed from its 700-year-long resting place in Westminster Abbey and returned to Scotland where it had been stolen by King Edward I in 1296.
To the greatest significance, however, of this historic event lies not in the year of the Jeremiah Stone being moved, 1996, but that 2008 marks the year that the “12 Cycles of the Zodiac” have been passed since the moving and which, according to the ancient prophecies, shows that this coming year marks the beginning of the Battle for the Throne of this World.”
Little do these Americans know the catastrophes soon to befall them as this battle for our Earth, our very existence, hangs in the balance as the ‘days of the ancient gods’ come upon our human race once again.
© March 29, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
US Promises to Fully Fund Israeli Missile Defense System, While Cutting Its Own
Gates Defends Cuts to US Program
by Jason Ditz, May 20, 2009
Even as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was being raked over the coals in Congress for the decision to cut funding to America’s missile defense systems, Israeli defense officials have revealed that Israel’s own Arrow 3 missile defense system will be “fully funded” by the United States yet again this year.
Israel has been working on the Arrow defense system for over 20 years with heavy US backing. It is reported that the costs for the upcoming year will be nearly $100 million. Israel’s system will be showcased later this year in a joint operation with the US military.
A successful test of a long-range Iranian missile today brought the issue of America’s missile defense systems in Europe into focus, though the missile’s maximum range still put it well short of the US bases in Poland and the Czech Republic, ostensibly being built for that purpose.
Secretary Gates defended the $1.2 billion in cuts to the Missile Defense Agency, despite criticism from some members of Congress. Gates said the suitability of some of the cut programs for their purposes were “highly questionable.” The new found concern over the usefulness of US weapons programs will not, it seems, extend to foreign military aid.
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TOMMY:
The military is gonna have to perform a coup d'etat to get rid of Cheney...and that is the only way to GET RID OF THE FUCKING KIKES.
THE KIKES DID 9/11 WITH CHENEY.
One advantage for Israel was...our Armies would split Iraq according to plan to consternation of the "revolting generals" who said "DUMSFIELD WAS INCOMPETENT LOGISTICALLY, TACTICALLY, STRATEGICALLY"...when in fact DUMSFIELD--KIKES--CHENEY accomplished everything they set out to do.
Israel's enemy IRAQ, is split and weak...just like the kikes want, and America pays in blood and money that we borrowed from the Chinese, who got our gold bars, and our public lands, and god knows what (FIAT DOLLARS RAN OFF THE KOREAN PRINTING PRESS USING OUR TREASURY PLATES?...Cheney stopped the reporting of THE M3 MONEY SUPPLY STATISTIC...and nobody has a clue what is going on?).
DANCING ISRAEL MOSSAD DEMOLITION TEAM taken out of jail by MUKASY working with CHERTOFF.
CHENEY was President at the time...no?
THE KIKES AND CHENEY STOLE THE FIRST 700 BILLION DOLLAR BAILOUT.
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT BANKS IT WENT TO?
3 ISRAELI BANKS TOOK HALF...RIGHT?
THE KIKES are all over our NAT SEC STATE, AND INFO SEC STATE?
THE KIKES EXTORTED PRESIDENT OBAMA, using the BERG LAWSUIT questioning Obama's citizenship.
Now the CHENEY MILITARY GROUP is on the US SUP CT DOCKET with another, yes another....birth certificate issue?
SOMEHOW CHENEY'S US SUP CT has time to bring citizenship suits.....while ignoring any other filing?
TODAY, the generals...are gonna have to perform a coup d'etat...to remove THE KIKES AND CHENEY FROM D.C....otherwise, we are screwed.
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http://worldreports.org/news/203_wheels_coming_off_white_house_corruption_engine
FROM "INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY REVIEW" by The Queen of England's favorite blogger, Chris Story with info from The queen's MI-5 wrote:
...."....HUGE THEFT OR 'REASSIGNMENT' OF FUNDS TOOK PLACE ON 17TH MARCH
On arrival in the United States, the Editor was almost immediately informed that a very large theft or 'diversion' or 'reallocation' of giga-funds, KNOWN ABOUT IN ADVANCE, was said to be scheduled to take place on 17th March 2009. At the end of that day, the Editor learned that Chinese interests had been paid a large sum IN CASH, not in Treasuries, to which they had objected.
Thus the 'reallocation', or part of it, about which we were warned in 'real-time', financed a payoff to the Chinese, in accordance with the pattern that has now become apparent. When a really large debtor gets nasty, the people in charge 'find a way' to make the necessary payment, in order, like drunks falling out of the pub, to sidestep an even 'worse' outcome.
Examples of this syndrome include a vast sum of money that was conveyed to the Vatican during the visit of the German Pope to America in April last year; payments made to the Mormon Church; payments to the Knights of Malta; and payments (or a payment) to the Knights Templar.
Now we have an instalment paid out to the Chinese, who are indeed owed colssal sums arising from transactions in the late 1930s and the recent expiry of the 70-year period after which the Chinese are required to be paid.
• The sums are so enormous that it will take the United States TWO GENERATIONS to pay what is owed. Let us consider why this payment (may have) finally 'happened'.
Earlier in March, Chinese representatives of the Peking Government appeared at the World Court and demanded payment of monies owed following the recent expiry of the 70 years arising from the old Morgenthau 'box deal' of the late 1930s. The Chinese were reported to us by several sources to have obtained, in the week of 6th March, a lien on the Fed, which 'works for' the US Treasury.
On 12th March, against the background of 'tensions' between China and the United States over a staged confrontation at sea, the Chinese Foreign Minister, Yang Jiechi, paid a sudden visit to the White House. Mr Yang was also scheduled to meet Mr Barack Obama's National Security Adviser, former Marine Corps General James Jones. On 11th March, Mr Yang had met Mrs Hillary (who is now relabelled 'Rodham', for Rodinski) Clinton, who pontificated that the United States and China needed to reduce tensions and to avoid a repeat of a weekend confrontation between American and Chinese vessels in the South China Sea.
However the 'confrontation at sea' represented a proxy 'tension' hotspot conjured up for the sole purpose of masking the ACTUAL source of tension between the two countries: namely the ongoing illegal and criminal behaviour of the US official financial fraudsters, and the Chinese intention of exercising their lien on the Federal Reserve, reportedly obtained from the World Court.
If exercised, this would have led to the immediate seizure by the Chinese authorities of all US assets within their jurisdiction, in Hong Kong, Singapore and elsewhere, and thus to a dramatic open-ended, publicised escalation of international tensions, which are explicitly and exclusively a consequence of the hijacking of the US power centres by organised criminal elements as exposed for several years now in these reports.
Any such development would also have collapsed what remains of international economic and financial confidence, would have dealt the final blow to what remains of the self-appointed elite's deception called 'globalism' and would have catapulted the world much closer to World War: where we would appear to be headed anyway, thanks to the crass behaviour of the US authorities. Indeed, if they go on like this, World War III will be their sole recourse.
So, to 'get round the Chinese problem', funds had to be 'reallocated', like, 'immediately'. A small part of the funds were found, we understand, by taking them from two projects:
(1) The two British aircraft carriers that were to have been constructed and 'owned' by The Queen, and probably also the two further aircraft carriers that were to have been made available to the European Union Collective; and:
(2) The Bush-era 'missile shield' project for Eastern Europe, much to the fury of Poland, which greatly distrusts the Russians and thought that this protective mechanism would go ahead.
These projects, representing Bush-era quid pro quos, have been ditched by the Obama clique in order to help pay off the Chinese parties, in order to achieve a belated stay of execution of the Chinese lien against the Federal Reserve, according to sources 'special' to this service.
And nor is this the first such 'reallocation' to have taken place under Obama's watch.".....
___________________________________
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1218.htm
March 29, 2009
Obama Gets Massive New Law To Force All Americans Into Cities
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
In what a new Kremlin report is calling one of the most ‘astounding’ capitulations in World history, President Obama and the United States Congress, while using the current Global economic crisis as ‘cover’, have given over control of nearly their entire country to the United Nations by passing in near secrecy the most massive law in United States history this past fortnight called the “Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009”.
This stunning information has also been confirmed by Western propaganda news sources, and as we can read from this March 25th report by the Environmental News Service:
“Congress today approved a massive public lands bill that protects two million acres of wilderness in nine states and a thousand miles of rivers, a 50 percent increase in the wild and scenic river system. It establishes new national trails, national parks and a new national monument and provides legal status for the National Landscape Conservation System, which will protect some of the country's most spectacular landscapes
The package of 164 separate bills bundled together, known as the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 (H.R.146), has been stalled several times on its way to approval, most recently on March 11, when the measure fell two votes short of the two-thirds majority in the House required at that time.
Today, only a simple majority was required and the House passed the bill by a vote of 285 to 140. The bill was approved by the Senate last week and now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature into law. President Obama is expected to sign the measure.”
The radical US environmental group known as The Wilderness Society, who have long advocated that all Americans be forced out of their rural homes and into vast urban zones, further states about this chilling new law:
“This is a tremendous day for wilderness and for all who cherish our public lands. Congress just passed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act, the largest addition to the National Wilderness Preservation System in over a decade and one of the biggest public land conservation measures ever.”
These Kremlin reports, however, point out that this massive new law authorizes President Obama to ‘evacuate’ all American citizens from what are being called United Nations Biosphere Reserves and Corridors by ‘no later than’ April, 2011, and which in effect will nearly totally depopulate the United States rural areas forcing tens of millions of Americans into vast urban zones where they can be better controlled and watched over by their police authorities.
Virtually unknown to the masses of these American people are that the warnings of what is now happening to them now has been forewarned about, including in March, 2006, when the World Net Daily News Service warned in their report titled “The U.N.'s global land grab” that:
“The agenda for U.N. Biosphere Reserves is set in UNESCO documents known as the Statutory Framework and the Seville Strategy, both of which were developed with "consultation" from the IUCN.
Biosphere Reserves, by definition, include "core wilderness areas" protected from human use, which are surrounded by "buffer zones," which are managed for conservation objectives. Those are surrounded by "zones of cooperation," which are "laboratories for sustainable development.”
Demographic statistics from the United States are further showing that these Americans already have the World’s most urbanized society with over 81% of their population residing in cities and suburbs, and which by reason of the current collapse of their economy is forcing millions more of their citizens to flee their small towns and rural areas as they are left homeless and jobless.
Even more chilling for these Americans is that their current leader President Obama has inherited from his predecessor all of the powers needed to radically alter their society into a virtual police state, and as we can read as reported by the Prison Planet News Service in their report titled “Top Constitutional Scholar: Secret Bush Memos Reveal Plan For “Massive Military Takeover Of US”, and which says:
“A top constitutional scholar has said that recently released Justice Department memos prove that nefarious elements within the Bush Administration were planning a massive military takeover of the country and that the documents should be used to bring charges of treason.
In an interview with author Naomi Wolf, legal expert Michael Ratner explains how the move toward total elimination of First, Fourth and Fifth amendment rights, as outlined in the memos, cannot be taken in isolated relation to terrorism related prosecutions and instead represents a smoking gun of a larger intention toward the general population.
“The memos revealed how massive the takeover of our democracy was to be — that this wasn’t just going to be a few individuals here or there who suffered the arrows of a police state.” Ratner says.
“These memos lay the groundwork for a massive military takeover of the United States in cahoots with the president. And if that’s not a coup d’etat then, nothing is.”
To the ultimate goal of these New World Order Globalists in destroying the United States we can read as reported by the Fox News Service “U.N. 'Climate Change' Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy”, and which warns:
“A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.
Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations "information note" on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009. The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an "effective framework" for dealing with global warming.”
But to the real goal of these Global elitists we can, perhaps, gain a greater insight into their agenda by examining one of their top leaders, Henry Kissinger, and of whom it is written:
“President Obama’s National Security Advisor, General Jim Jones made a very curious comment at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy in Germany. He said:
“Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here.”
Jones’ comment appeared to be an unsuccessful attempt at dry humor – only a few in the audience actually laughed – in acknowledging Dr Henry Kissinger’s enormous influence in U.S. foreign policy which had been acknowledged a day earlier with a prestigious award. Many, however, immediately viewed Jones’ comment as an unguarded admission of who really is in charge of U.S. policy. Jones comment raises two serious questions. How much influence does Kissinger exert over the Obama administration and the policy making process? Furthermore, what influence does Kissinger have over U.S. policy on UFOs and extraterrestrial life?
Kissinger’s influential role in setting U.S. foreign policy is generally viewed as starting with his role as President Nixon’s National Security Advisor in 1969 during the Vietnam War. Kissinger’s role in steering U.S. policy, and his failed efforts to bring an end to the Vietnam war have led to many criticisms against him. The most controversial is Kissinger’s role in the failure of President Johnson’s peace efforts during the final months of his administration in 1968. Released Presidential tapes reveal that Johnson concluded that Nixon’s associates were engaging in treason. Kissinger’s covert activities during both the 1968 Presidential campaign and later as National Security Advisor has led to accusations that he unnecessarily prolonged the Vietnam War for political gain.
Kissinger’s influence over U.S. foreign policy, however, dates from much earlier than the Vietnam War. His influence dates from experiences in Germany during World War II when he was part of the Army’s Counterintelligence Corps, and helped identify Nazi scientists familiar with advanced technologies of interest to the U.S. Some of the Nazi scientists retrieved in Operation Paperclip were directly involved in advanced technological projects that according to the father of modern rocketry, Hermann Oberth, had been assisted by knowledge of extraterrestrial life and technology. He said:
… we cannot take credit for our record advancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped." When asked by whom, he replied, “the peoples of other worlds.”
To the fullest understanding of all of these events, one need look no further than the Sorcha Faal’s seminal work “Battle Begins For Throne of This World: The Return of the Einherjar Warriors” to which she warned:
“On July 4, 1996, the 3,000 anniversary of the establishment of Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel by King David, and the 220th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, British Prime Minister Ron Major announced that the “Jeremiah Stone”, also known as “The Stone of Scone”, was to be removed from its 700-year-long resting place in Westminster Abbey and returned to Scotland where it had been stolen by King Edward I in 1296.
To the greatest significance, however, of this historic event lies not in the year of the Jeremiah Stone being moved, 1996, but that 2008 marks the year that the “12 Cycles of the Zodiac” have been passed since the moving and which, according to the ancient prophecies, shows that this coming year marks the beginning of the Battle for the Throne of this World.”
Little do these Americans know the catastrophes soon to befall them as this battle for our Earth, our very existence, hangs in the balance as the ‘days of the ancient gods’ come upon our human race once again.
© March 29, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
How you know the POWER CONTROL GROUP has their hooks into our President who needs all of our help
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21obama.html?_r=3&emc=eta1
Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: May 20, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said.
The discussion, in a 90-minute meeting in the Cabinet Room that included Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other top administration officials, came on the eve of a much-anticipated speech Mr. Obama is to give Thursday on a number of thorny national security matters, including his promise to close the detention center at the naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Human rights advocates are growing deeply uneasy with Mr. Obama’s stance on these issues, especially his recent move to block the release of photographs showing abuse of detainees, and his announcement that he is willing to try terrorism suspects in military commissions — a concept he criticized bitterly as a presidential candidate.
The two participants, outsiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the session was intended to be off the record, said they left the meeting dismayed.
They said Mr. Obama told them he was thinking about “the long game” — how to establish a legal system that would endure for future presidents. He raised the issue of preventive detention himself, but made clear that he had not made a decision on it. Several senior White House officials did not respond to requests for comment on the outsiders’ accounts.
“He was almost ruminating over the need for statutory change to the laws so that we can deal with individuals who we can’t charge and detain,” one participant said. “We’ve known this is on the horizon for many years, but we were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning.”
The other participant said Mr. Obama did not seem to be thinking about preventive detention for terrorism suspects now held at Guantánamo Bay, but rather for those captured in the future, in settings other than a legitimate battlefield like Afghanistan. “The issue is,” the participant said, “What are the options left open to a future president?”
Mr. Obama did not specify how he intended to deal with Guantánamo detainees who posed a threat and could not be tried, nor did he share the contents of Thursday’s speech, the participants said.
He will deliver the speech at a site laden with symbolism — the National Archives, home to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Across town, his biggest Republican critic, former Vice President Dick Cheney, will deliver a speech at the American Enterprise Institute.
Mr. Cheney and other hawkish critics have sought to portray Mr. Obama as weak on terror, and their argument seems to be catching on with the public. On Tuesday, Senate Democrats, in a clear rebuke to the White House, blocked the $80 million Mr. Obama had requested in financing to close the Guantánamo prison.
The lawmakers say they want a detailed plan before releasing the money; there is deep opposition on Capitol Hill to housing terrorism suspects inside the United States.
“He needs to convince people that he’s got a game plan that will protect us as well as be fair to the detainees,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who agrees with Mr. Obama that the prison should be closed. “If he can do that, then we’re back on track. But if he doesn’t make that case, then we’ve lost control of this debate.”
But Mr. Obama will not use the speech to provide the details lawmakers want.
“What it’s not going to be is a prescriptive speech,” said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser. “The president wants to take some time and put this whole issue in perspective to identify what the challenges are and how he will approach dealing with them.”
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tommy:
IF MR OBAMA wants to know "what the challenges are" and "how to deal with them"...I suggest Mr Obama do the following:
1) EXTORT THOSE WHO HAVE EXTORTED YOU. It is treason to extort the President. Obama would make a great witness...doncha think?
2) ATTACK, ATTACK, AND ATTACK some more, by...getting the facts out with subpoenaed testimony.
A DOJ COMPLAINANT (THOMAS S. BEAN) WHO COOPERATED TO STOP FALSE FLAG AT OK CITY...was tortured, chipped, mind controlled, and fried with a directed energy weapon after he signed and sent a 47 page US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT that was obstructed.
On SATURDAY, APRIL 11TH, 2009, (at VONS SUPERMARKET PARKING LOT IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA, at 9:00 pm) I was once again TORTURED AND FRIED WITH A DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON POINTED AT MY TRUCK WHERE I WAS ASLEEP IN THE BACK. I was forced to live out of my vehicle, after being tortured in my home (Sioux Falls, SD).
I got tortured with "enhanced interrogation techniques" to PREVENT THE FILING OF SECTION 1983 LAWSUIT with a MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF (to get the chip removed from my skull...a course of medical care is a due process liberty issue that was unilaterally violated by CHENEY--GOSS--MUELLER standing down?).
ANY outrageous violation of CIVIL LIBERTIES UNDER COLOR OF AUTHORITY OR A CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE ANY CIVIL LIBERTY is a violation of TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242.
What is HOLDER holding up?
HOLDER is the acting US ATTORNEY GENERAL, and...OBAMA needs everyone's help to get the Cheney 3,000 pound gorilla (right wing false flag police state) back in it's cage.
3) "STATE SECRETS" was USED TO STOP SOUTH DAKOTA HIGHWAY PATROL CAPTAIN JEFF TALBOT'S preliminary inquiry into the Murder of Talbot's friend, YPD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH. I know. I called Talbot on my wiretapped phone.
I also know that TALBOT mysteriously resigned 60 days later in disgust and frustration.
I talked to both DEFENBAUGH AND KABIESEMAN before their suspicious, untimely deaths. The surveillance has tapes and knowledge of all my known associations.
More people linked to me, my association, and my info...ended up dead, or maimed.
I have never seen this many known associates all end up dead, hospitalized, or maimed?
Very powerful info...and a very secret President Cheney linked to Executive Office Death Squads...all hidden behind corporate fronts?...using NSA 902ND COUNTERINTEL GROUP'S SIGINT to facilitate the neutralizations?...doncha know?
4) TAKE CONTROL OF DOJ.
If someone picked your cabinet for you, then...uh...you got to extort the power control group.
Easy...ya know...you are a very likeable and reliable witness to being extorted with the birth certificate issue that always appears on the US SUPREME COURT docket...then goes away?
We need final resolution...or better yet...a CHENEY TRICK: PASS A NEW LAW requiring final resolution of the issue within a hundred days of Barack's inaugaration. Since their was no "final resolution of the birth certificate issue-citizenship" within a reasonable amount of time, then...uh...you would have final resolution.
The Dems will have to live in reality, and fight together, and that...seems...to be almost impossible for REID, and Nancy "there will be no Impeachment" Pelosi.
If you don't fight together, you will all lose together individually.
You don't cut deals with the devil...and not live to regret those assumptions. I think Reid and Pelosi "sold out a long time ago" don't you think?
5) NOTICE THAT HOLDER did not protect OBAMA from the extortionists jerking his chain with the birth certificate issue?
This issue is on the US SUP CT docket again?
HOLDER can subpoena witnesses to the extortion, with Barack as the key pivot...and...EXTORTION OF THE PRESIDENT IS TREASON...no?
WE NEED FINAL ADJUDICATION ON THE citizenship issue, with BARACK TESTIFYING LATER IF HE LOSES THE PRESIDENCY (which I do not think THE US SUP CT would do).
I'm also wondering if...JUSTICE SOUTER has something to say about "how he was forced out" with dirt on him, and how that dirt was obtained (OPER SLAMMER-Mind Control?).
HOLDER should have a "contingent threat made known" that "if Obama loses the Presidency in that corrupt SCOTUS, then...EXTORTION AND TREASON WILL BE CHARGED WITH BARACK as the key witness. CONSPIRACY is also a crime.
Barack needs to "rattle their cage" to get them on tape...as evidence...then release that evidence so that...the internet court of common pleas can carry the news to the people.
Right now, Barack is not Barack.
Obviously compromised by Cheney's power control group (MUELLER, CLINTON, PANETTA, EMMANUEL, GEITHNER, GATES, others).
HOLDER should have already made arrests and announced prosecutions.
THOMAS S. BEAN gets tortured and implanted with a mind control chip after an FBI INVESTIGATION WAS OVER WITH?...or did FBI DO A BOGUS ILLEGAL SUBLIMINAL COUNTERINTELIGENCE BRIEFING WITH A BOGUS FISA CT ORDER (that the presiding Judge has already claimed "will not be revealed"?).
LET'S look at that ex parte FISA CT order...because...BEAN IS NOT AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN POWER, and...FBI USES THE HAND OFF METHOD OF VIOLATING TITLE 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 2517 (prohibits the illegal dissemination of illegally obtained info in violation of Title III......aka "no warrant, cannot disseminate, use, testify about the info...").
LET'S see the warrant to "steal my x ray evidence" showing the chip, and lets analize the legal issue when "Police State actors with FBI badges" flipped my medical team (DRS CARDA, BURGER) into "falsely reporting medical test results" in successful attempt at "hindering the best interests of the patient" who was intentionally misinformed about a "course of medical care".
Let's look at the CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, especially when my SD BD OF MED AND OSTEOPATHIC EXAMINERS COMPLAINT was obstructed by...who? Subpoena SD AG DON SRSTKA who was brought in by LARRY LONG (prior bad actor who neutralized SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN'S FED GRAND JURY INDICTMENTS?) to "cover it all up under a secret unspoken assertion that 'state secrets' unilaterally obstructed any outside police investigation of my fact pattern.
Big story.
Big scandal.
Witnesses still alive.
No enterest from Holder?
Only way out for Obama.
Only way out for all of us...doncha know?
6) Make a deal with the military, and make sure COLIN POWELL is organizing the coup d'etat with promise of being SEC OF DEF, OR SEC OF STATE.
POWELL I can trust.
The Revolt of the generals...those generals can be trusted.
Obviously, MUELLER IS A KEY PLAYER, OR HE IS NOT ON THIS BUS.
One thing is for sure...we cannot afford to have CHENEY IN D.C., OR TO HAVE HIS POWER CONTROL GROUP IN THIS WHITE HOUSE, especially the wackos of Israel.
The military and FBI field agents....want to run BOTH CHENEY AND THE KIKES out of D.C.
Who would not want that after 9/11 was obviously an inside job with CHERTOFF AND MUKASY getting the Dancing Israelis out of jail after ABLE DANGER tipped off NYPD.
All you got to do is ask COLIN POWELL about "bringing in the military" to remove CHENEY and his punks.
If nothing else, RAHMBO (MOSSAD's man) has to go, and nobody in the Nat. Security state who is an American could or should oppose that.
Anybody opposing that, is to be declared an "enemy non combatant" likely to be chipped, mind controlled, and fried with a directed energy weapon (like me, and others...including former FBI agent and whistleblower GERAL SOSBEE...see his website).
BELIEVE ME, THE DOD AND JCS are ready to RUN THE KIKES OUT OF D.C. AND OUR NAT. SEC. STATE...TODAY.
BELIEVE ME, Obama needs some muscle...and most JCS and DOD are ready to help remove the problem using THE WAR COMMISSIONS ACT on the neocon power control group.
These are the only possible solutions and options.
_______________________________________
http://www.infowars.com/obama-signing-statement-weakens-whistle-blower-protections/
Obama signing statement weakens “whistle-blower” protections
WSWS
May 21, 2009
When he signed into law a $410 billion omnibus spending bill on March 10, President Barack Obama included a “signing statement” weakening a rider in the bill that would have given protection to government officials who turn over information to Congress.
As a candidate for the presidency, Obama campaigned in favor of broad protection for federal whistle-blowers and against the sort of presidential signing statements that, under the Bush administration, had eviscerated the intent of congressional legislation.
The traditional purpose of signing statements was largely symbolic or pertained to the practical implementation of new laws by federal employees. President Bush used this mechanism more than 1,200 times—a record by far—to interpret and substantially alter the intent of laws, effectively usurping power from both the legislative branch of the government, which the Constitution tasks with creating laws, and from the judicial, which is invested with the power to interpret laws.
Prior to the Reagan administration, all previous presidents used the signing statement only 75 times combined—mostly for celebratory purposes. The scope and scale of the practice accelerated rapidly under the Reagan administration, who issued 250 such statements. A young staff attorney in Reagan’s Office of Legal Counsel, Samuel Alito—now a US Supreme Court Justice—argued in 1986 that “interpretive signing statements” could be used to “increase the power of the Executive to shape the law.” The practice continued under George H.W. Bush (228 statements) Clinton (381 statements), and increased enormously under George W. Bush.
Obama’s signing statement on the omnibus spending bill suggests that he will carry on Bush’s policy, in spite of his campaign pledges to the contrary. In reference to the congressional rider, which had appeared on appropriations bills since the mid-1990s, Obama wrote, “I do not interpret this provision to detract from my authority to direct the heads of executive departments to supervise, control and correct employees’ communications with the Congress in cases where such communications would be unlawful or would reveal information that is properly privileged or otherwise confidential.”
The signing statement asserts broad executive privilege over the control of information. Its vague reference to Obama’s ability to “supervise, control and correct employees’ communications,” and to “information that is properly privileged” are clearly designed to have a chilling effect on any government employee that might step forward to expose the ways in which government appropriations are being used.
A top Republican lawmaker, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, has drawn attention to the whistle-blower signing statement to embarrass Obama. Grassley cites specific Obama campaign promises, including his pledge to only “sign legislation in the light of day without attaching signing statements that undermine the legislative intent,” and that he would not “use signing statements as a way of doing an end run around Congress.”
Yet Obama’s use of the signing statement to usurp powers of the legislative and judicial branches is only secondarily a partisan issue, as Bush’s rampant use of the stratagem shows. Rather, its use by recent administrations is bound up with the development of the “imperial presidency.”
________________
tommy:
Remember, this is not the Barack Obama we voted for.
He got reached, and we all need to come together to help him extort the extortionists.
If we don't...we are sunk.
Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: May 20, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said.
The discussion, in a 90-minute meeting in the Cabinet Room that included Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other top administration officials, came on the eve of a much-anticipated speech Mr. Obama is to give Thursday on a number of thorny national security matters, including his promise to close the detention center at the naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Human rights advocates are growing deeply uneasy with Mr. Obama’s stance on these issues, especially his recent move to block the release of photographs showing abuse of detainees, and his announcement that he is willing to try terrorism suspects in military commissions — a concept he criticized bitterly as a presidential candidate.
The two participants, outsiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the session was intended to be off the record, said they left the meeting dismayed.
They said Mr. Obama told them he was thinking about “the long game” — how to establish a legal system that would endure for future presidents. He raised the issue of preventive detention himself, but made clear that he had not made a decision on it. Several senior White House officials did not respond to requests for comment on the outsiders’ accounts.
“He was almost ruminating over the need for statutory change to the laws so that we can deal with individuals who we can’t charge and detain,” one participant said. “We’ve known this is on the horizon for many years, but we were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning.”
The other participant said Mr. Obama did not seem to be thinking about preventive detention for terrorism suspects now held at Guantánamo Bay, but rather for those captured in the future, in settings other than a legitimate battlefield like Afghanistan. “The issue is,” the participant said, “What are the options left open to a future president?”
Mr. Obama did not specify how he intended to deal with Guantánamo detainees who posed a threat and could not be tried, nor did he share the contents of Thursday’s speech, the participants said.
He will deliver the speech at a site laden with symbolism — the National Archives, home to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Across town, his biggest Republican critic, former Vice President Dick Cheney, will deliver a speech at the American Enterprise Institute.
Mr. Cheney and other hawkish critics have sought to portray Mr. Obama as weak on terror, and their argument seems to be catching on with the public. On Tuesday, Senate Democrats, in a clear rebuke to the White House, blocked the $80 million Mr. Obama had requested in financing to close the Guantánamo prison.
The lawmakers say they want a detailed plan before releasing the money; there is deep opposition on Capitol Hill to housing terrorism suspects inside the United States.
“He needs to convince people that he’s got a game plan that will protect us as well as be fair to the detainees,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who agrees with Mr. Obama that the prison should be closed. “If he can do that, then we’re back on track. But if he doesn’t make that case, then we’ve lost control of this debate.”
But Mr. Obama will not use the speech to provide the details lawmakers want.
“What it’s not going to be is a prescriptive speech,” said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser. “The president wants to take some time and put this whole issue in perspective to identify what the challenges are and how he will approach dealing with them.”
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tommy:
IF MR OBAMA wants to know "what the challenges are" and "how to deal with them"...I suggest Mr Obama do the following:
1) EXTORT THOSE WHO HAVE EXTORTED YOU. It is treason to extort the President. Obama would make a great witness...doncha think?
2) ATTACK, ATTACK, AND ATTACK some more, by...getting the facts out with subpoenaed testimony.
A DOJ COMPLAINANT (THOMAS S. BEAN) WHO COOPERATED TO STOP FALSE FLAG AT OK CITY...was tortured, chipped, mind controlled, and fried with a directed energy weapon after he signed and sent a 47 page US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT that was obstructed.
On SATURDAY, APRIL 11TH, 2009, (at VONS SUPERMARKET PARKING LOT IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA, at 9:00 pm) I was once again TORTURED AND FRIED WITH A DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON POINTED AT MY TRUCK WHERE I WAS ASLEEP IN THE BACK. I was forced to live out of my vehicle, after being tortured in my home (Sioux Falls, SD).
I got tortured with "enhanced interrogation techniques" to PREVENT THE FILING OF SECTION 1983 LAWSUIT with a MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF (to get the chip removed from my skull...a course of medical care is a due process liberty issue that was unilaterally violated by CHENEY--GOSS--MUELLER standing down?).
ANY outrageous violation of CIVIL LIBERTIES UNDER COLOR OF AUTHORITY OR A CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE ANY CIVIL LIBERTY is a violation of TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242.
What is HOLDER holding up?
HOLDER is the acting US ATTORNEY GENERAL, and...OBAMA needs everyone's help to get the Cheney 3,000 pound gorilla (right wing false flag police state) back in it's cage.
3) "STATE SECRETS" was USED TO STOP SOUTH DAKOTA HIGHWAY PATROL CAPTAIN JEFF TALBOT'S preliminary inquiry into the Murder of Talbot's friend, YPD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH. I know. I called Talbot on my wiretapped phone.
I also know that TALBOT mysteriously resigned 60 days later in disgust and frustration.
I talked to both DEFENBAUGH AND KABIESEMAN before their suspicious, untimely deaths. The surveillance has tapes and knowledge of all my known associations.
More people linked to me, my association, and my info...ended up dead, or maimed.
I have never seen this many known associates all end up dead, hospitalized, or maimed?
Very powerful info...and a very secret President Cheney linked to Executive Office Death Squads...all hidden behind corporate fronts?...using NSA 902ND COUNTERINTEL GROUP'S SIGINT to facilitate the neutralizations?...doncha know?
4) TAKE CONTROL OF DOJ.
If someone picked your cabinet for you, then...uh...you got to extort the power control group.
Easy...ya know...you are a very likeable and reliable witness to being extorted with the birth certificate issue that always appears on the US SUPREME COURT docket...then goes away?
We need final resolution...or better yet...a CHENEY TRICK: PASS A NEW LAW requiring final resolution of the issue within a hundred days of Barack's inaugaration. Since their was no "final resolution of the birth certificate issue-citizenship" within a reasonable amount of time, then...uh...you would have final resolution.
The Dems will have to live in reality, and fight together, and that...seems...to be almost impossible for REID, and Nancy "there will be no Impeachment" Pelosi.
If you don't fight together, you will all lose together individually.
You don't cut deals with the devil...and not live to regret those assumptions. I think Reid and Pelosi "sold out a long time ago" don't you think?
5) NOTICE THAT HOLDER did not protect OBAMA from the extortionists jerking his chain with the birth certificate issue?
This issue is on the US SUP CT docket again?
HOLDER can subpoena witnesses to the extortion, with Barack as the key pivot...and...EXTORTION OF THE PRESIDENT IS TREASON...no?
WE NEED FINAL ADJUDICATION ON THE citizenship issue, with BARACK TESTIFYING LATER IF HE LOSES THE PRESIDENCY (which I do not think THE US SUP CT would do).
I'm also wondering if...JUSTICE SOUTER has something to say about "how he was forced out" with dirt on him, and how that dirt was obtained (OPER SLAMMER-Mind Control?).
HOLDER should have a "contingent threat made known" that "if Obama loses the Presidency in that corrupt SCOTUS, then...EXTORTION AND TREASON WILL BE CHARGED WITH BARACK as the key witness. CONSPIRACY is also a crime.
Barack needs to "rattle their cage" to get them on tape...as evidence...then release that evidence so that...the internet court of common pleas can carry the news to the people.
Right now, Barack is not Barack.
Obviously compromised by Cheney's power control group (MUELLER, CLINTON, PANETTA, EMMANUEL, GEITHNER, GATES, others).
HOLDER should have already made arrests and announced prosecutions.
THOMAS S. BEAN gets tortured and implanted with a mind control chip after an FBI INVESTIGATION WAS OVER WITH?...or did FBI DO A BOGUS ILLEGAL SUBLIMINAL COUNTERINTELIGENCE BRIEFING WITH A BOGUS FISA CT ORDER (that the presiding Judge has already claimed "will not be revealed"?).
LET'S look at that ex parte FISA CT order...because...BEAN IS NOT AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN POWER, and...FBI USES THE HAND OFF METHOD OF VIOLATING TITLE 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 2517 (prohibits the illegal dissemination of illegally obtained info in violation of Title III......aka "no warrant, cannot disseminate, use, testify about the info...").
LET'S see the warrant to "steal my x ray evidence" showing the chip, and lets analize the legal issue when "Police State actors with FBI badges" flipped my medical team (DRS CARDA, BURGER) into "falsely reporting medical test results" in successful attempt at "hindering the best interests of the patient" who was intentionally misinformed about a "course of medical care".
Let's look at the CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, especially when my SD BD OF MED AND OSTEOPATHIC EXAMINERS COMPLAINT was obstructed by...who? Subpoena SD AG DON SRSTKA who was brought in by LARRY LONG (prior bad actor who neutralized SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN'S FED GRAND JURY INDICTMENTS?) to "cover it all up under a secret unspoken assertion that 'state secrets' unilaterally obstructed any outside police investigation of my fact pattern.
Big story.
Big scandal.
Witnesses still alive.
No enterest from Holder?
Only way out for Obama.
Only way out for all of us...doncha know?
6) Make a deal with the military, and make sure COLIN POWELL is organizing the coup d'etat with promise of being SEC OF DEF, OR SEC OF STATE.
POWELL I can trust.
The Revolt of the generals...those generals can be trusted.
Obviously, MUELLER IS A KEY PLAYER, OR HE IS NOT ON THIS BUS.
One thing is for sure...we cannot afford to have CHENEY IN D.C., OR TO HAVE HIS POWER CONTROL GROUP IN THIS WHITE HOUSE, especially the wackos of Israel.
The military and FBI field agents....want to run BOTH CHENEY AND THE KIKES out of D.C.
Who would not want that after 9/11 was obviously an inside job with CHERTOFF AND MUKASY getting the Dancing Israelis out of jail after ABLE DANGER tipped off NYPD.
All you got to do is ask COLIN POWELL about "bringing in the military" to remove CHENEY and his punks.
If nothing else, RAHMBO (MOSSAD's man) has to go, and nobody in the Nat. Security state who is an American could or should oppose that.
Anybody opposing that, is to be declared an "enemy non combatant" likely to be chipped, mind controlled, and fried with a directed energy weapon (like me, and others...including former FBI agent and whistleblower GERAL SOSBEE...see his website).
BELIEVE ME, THE DOD AND JCS are ready to RUN THE KIKES OUT OF D.C. AND OUR NAT. SEC. STATE...TODAY.
BELIEVE ME, Obama needs some muscle...and most JCS and DOD are ready to help remove the problem using THE WAR COMMISSIONS ACT on the neocon power control group.
These are the only possible solutions and options.
_______________________________________
http://www.infowars.com/obama-signing-statement-weakens-whistle-blower-protections/
Obama signing statement weakens “whistle-blower” protections
WSWS
May 21, 2009
When he signed into law a $410 billion omnibus spending bill on March 10, President Barack Obama included a “signing statement” weakening a rider in the bill that would have given protection to government officials who turn over information to Congress.
As a candidate for the presidency, Obama campaigned in favor of broad protection for federal whistle-blowers and against the sort of presidential signing statements that, under the Bush administration, had eviscerated the intent of congressional legislation.
The traditional purpose of signing statements was largely symbolic or pertained to the practical implementation of new laws by federal employees. President Bush used this mechanism more than 1,200 times—a record by far—to interpret and substantially alter the intent of laws, effectively usurping power from both the legislative branch of the government, which the Constitution tasks with creating laws, and from the judicial, which is invested with the power to interpret laws.
Prior to the Reagan administration, all previous presidents used the signing statement only 75 times combined—mostly for celebratory purposes. The scope and scale of the practice accelerated rapidly under the Reagan administration, who issued 250 such statements. A young staff attorney in Reagan’s Office of Legal Counsel, Samuel Alito—now a US Supreme Court Justice—argued in 1986 that “interpretive signing statements” could be used to “increase the power of the Executive to shape the law.” The practice continued under George H.W. Bush (228 statements) Clinton (381 statements), and increased enormously under George W. Bush.
Obama’s signing statement on the omnibus spending bill suggests that he will carry on Bush’s policy, in spite of his campaign pledges to the contrary. In reference to the congressional rider, which had appeared on appropriations bills since the mid-1990s, Obama wrote, “I do not interpret this provision to detract from my authority to direct the heads of executive departments to supervise, control and correct employees’ communications with the Congress in cases where such communications would be unlawful or would reveal information that is properly privileged or otherwise confidential.”
The signing statement asserts broad executive privilege over the control of information. Its vague reference to Obama’s ability to “supervise, control and correct employees’ communications,” and to “information that is properly privileged” are clearly designed to have a chilling effect on any government employee that might step forward to expose the ways in which government appropriations are being used.
A top Republican lawmaker, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, has drawn attention to the whistle-blower signing statement to embarrass Obama. Grassley cites specific Obama campaign promises, including his pledge to only “sign legislation in the light of day without attaching signing statements that undermine the legislative intent,” and that he would not “use signing statements as a way of doing an end run around Congress.”
Yet Obama’s use of the signing statement to usurp powers of the legislative and judicial branches is only secondarily a partisan issue, as Bush’s rampant use of the stratagem shows. Rather, its use by recent administrations is bound up with the development of the “imperial presidency.”
________________
tommy:
Remember, this is not the Barack Obama we voted for.
He got reached, and we all need to come together to help him extort the extortionists.
If we don't...we are sunk.
BILDERBERG FUCKHEADS: decide to destroy dollar, and AMERICA IS DEAD THANKS TO MUELLER AT FBI HQ.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1234.htm
May 21, 2009
Bilderberg Group Orders “Total” Destruction Of US Dollar
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
A new Kremlin report on the shadowy Bilderberg Group, who this past week held their annual meeting in Greece, states that the West’s financial, political and corporate elite emerged from their conclave after coming to an agreement that in order to continue their drive towards a New World Order dominated by the Western Powers, the US Dollar has to be “totally” destroyed.
Even worse, a new US report on these secret Bilderberg meetings states:
“Investigative journalist Daniel Estulin, whose information from inside Bilderberg has routinely proven accurate, states that the global elite’s plan to completely destroy the economy and ultimately lower global population by two thirds has stoked fears even within Bilderberg itself that the fallout from such chaos could ultimately result in the globalists losing their control over the world.”
Prior to the Bilderberg Meeting, the Kremlin report continues, most of the West’s wealthiest elite convened at an unprecedented secret meeting in New York called for and led by the staunch New World Orderlist David Rockefeller to plot the demise of the US Dollar and which, strangely, was reported in the US mainstream propaganda media, but to which the dissident American website PrisonPlanet.Com questioned by stating:
“ABC News today devoted a prominently featured three page story to a “secret meeting” of rich philanthropists which took place earlier this month in New York, and yet one of the biggest news corporations in America was completely silent during a far more important meeting of around 150 of the world’s powerbrokers at the Bilderberg conference last week.”
To the ‘ultimate’ outcome of the plans of the West’s elite classes, connived under the auspicious of the Nazi backed Bilderberg Group, Russian Intelligence Analysts predict that their fears of “losing control” due to the catastrophic chaos they are embroiling our World in are, indeed, valid, especially since the unleashing upon our Earth’s population the bioengineered H1N1 Swine Flu variant that is continuing its unrelenting march of death and illness across our entire Earth, and when coupled with the total collapse of the Global economic system can only lead to Total War.
Russian President Medvedev has joined calls by China, Brazil, and other Nations, to prepare for the collapse of the US Dollar and has put forth the Russian Ruble as one of a number of International Reserve Currencies to replace the soon to collapse American currency, and as warned about by the St. Petersburg Times News Service:
“Last week, despite the apparent appeal of the dollar in the midst of this global crisis, the U.S. bond market — often a harbinger of future trends — suddenly panicked, and the prices of U.S. Treasury bonds plummeted with 10-year yields jumping to over 3.3 percent. This could be ominous for the future of the dollar.”
Even worse for these American people is how horrific their immediate economic future is going to be, and as best articulated by Gary Dorsch, the editor of Global Money Trends, who writes:
“No one is asking who will purchase the $1-trillion of US Treasuries to be offered to the market by September. Once that colossal amount of paper is bought, who will purchase another $5-trillion of Treasury paper over the next four-years, as the US-government plunges deeper into insolvency. The Federal Reserve would be forced to print (monetize) vast quantities of US-dollars to pay the principal and interest on the national debt that is not covered by tax revenue.”
Bloomberg News Service is further reporting today that the concerns of the US Federal Reserve Bank are also growing, and as we can read, “Policy makers, meeting April 28-29 in Washington, saw “significant downside risks” to the outlook for the economy, with the global financial system still “vulnerable to further shocks,” minutes of the session released yesterday said.”
With the US now reporting another record being set in the number of their citizens out of work and claiming unemployment benefits, the true number of American jobless has reached a staggering 15.8% of their workforce with no relief in sight and many Russian analysts predicting a summer of violence due to massive discord among these beleaguered people as once their relief payments run out there exists no more money to pay them.
It is important to note that Great Britain is preceding the US into bankruptcy and is reported close to losing its AAA Credit Rating as it suffers its worst economic crisis since World War II, with the Financial Post issuing a further warning to the Americans, and as we can read:
“The U.S. dollar's day of reckoning may be inching closer as its status as a safe-haven currency fades with every uptick in stocks and commodities and its potential risks - debt and inflation - are brought under a harsher spotlight. Ashraf Laidi, chief market strategist at CMC Markets, said Wednesday a "serious case of dollar damage" was underway. "We long warned about the day of reckoning for the dollar emerging at the next economic recovery," Mr. Laidi said in a note.”
After the deliberate collapsing of the US Dollar, these reports continue, the Bilderberg ‘plan’ for the Global economy rests on what are called Special Drawing Rights issued by the Western controlled International Monetary Fund, and which the Telegraph News Service succinctly warns:
“The International Monetary Fund is poised to embark on what analysts have described as "global quantitative easing" by printing billions of dollars worth of a global "super-currency" in an unprecedented new effort to address the economic crisis.”
Russian economists warn that this IMF attempt to destroy the value of Eastern European, Asian and Middle Eastern economies is ‘doomed to failure’, and now being reported that oil rich Saudi Arabia has now joined Russia, China and Brazil by refusing to lend to this travesty of a bank backed by the West and intent upon massive destruction to obtain their goals.
The American people continue to remain, for the most part, blissfully unaware of catastrophe looming before them and continue to believe the litany of Orwellian lies being poured upon them by their propaganda media organs, never once raising any objection to trillions of dollars that have been stolen from them and which continues to flow the pockets of their political and corporate overlords intent upon destroying, forever, their once great Nation and which the US Federal Reserve Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman stated brazenly before the US Congress that she has “no idea” where $9 Trillion of US taxpayer has gone, or who got it.
But, to the worst actions being done by these witless Americans is their continuing to pay into their bankrupt banks their hard-earned monies which within the next year will cease to have any value whatsoever instead of using what little time they have left to prepare for the many catastrophes to come. And, what makes this especially appalling is that these Americans are continuing to pay their debts so that they can remain good credit risks, while at the same time their banks are bankrupt, their government broke and their way of life changed forever.
One wonders if these people have truly lost the instinct to survive or, before all is said and done, they will explode with righteous anger over the destruction of their homes, families and Nation as a whole.
The historical framework of these events shows but two possibilities, the Nazi Germans who continued following their doomed leaders to the utter destruction of their homeland, or the Russian people who rose in mass to throw off the manacle’s of communism after decades of slavery….one can only hope these people choose wisely, and fast, before all is lost.
© May 21, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
May 21, 2009
Bilderberg Group Orders “Total” Destruction Of US Dollar
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
A new Kremlin report on the shadowy Bilderberg Group, who this past week held their annual meeting in Greece, states that the West’s financial, political and corporate elite emerged from their conclave after coming to an agreement that in order to continue their drive towards a New World Order dominated by the Western Powers, the US Dollar has to be “totally” destroyed.
Even worse, a new US report on these secret Bilderberg meetings states:
“Investigative journalist Daniel Estulin, whose information from inside Bilderberg has routinely proven accurate, states that the global elite’s plan to completely destroy the economy and ultimately lower global population by two thirds has stoked fears even within Bilderberg itself that the fallout from such chaos could ultimately result in the globalists losing their control over the world.”
Prior to the Bilderberg Meeting, the Kremlin report continues, most of the West’s wealthiest elite convened at an unprecedented secret meeting in New York called for and led by the staunch New World Orderlist David Rockefeller to plot the demise of the US Dollar and which, strangely, was reported in the US mainstream propaganda media, but to which the dissident American website PrisonPlanet.Com questioned by stating:
“ABC News today devoted a prominently featured three page story to a “secret meeting” of rich philanthropists which took place earlier this month in New York, and yet one of the biggest news corporations in America was completely silent during a far more important meeting of around 150 of the world’s powerbrokers at the Bilderberg conference last week.”
To the ‘ultimate’ outcome of the plans of the West’s elite classes, connived under the auspicious of the Nazi backed Bilderberg Group, Russian Intelligence Analysts predict that their fears of “losing control” due to the catastrophic chaos they are embroiling our World in are, indeed, valid, especially since the unleashing upon our Earth’s population the bioengineered H1N1 Swine Flu variant that is continuing its unrelenting march of death and illness across our entire Earth, and when coupled with the total collapse of the Global economic system can only lead to Total War.
Russian President Medvedev has joined calls by China, Brazil, and other Nations, to prepare for the collapse of the US Dollar and has put forth the Russian Ruble as one of a number of International Reserve Currencies to replace the soon to collapse American currency, and as warned about by the St. Petersburg Times News Service:
“Last week, despite the apparent appeal of the dollar in the midst of this global crisis, the U.S. bond market — often a harbinger of future trends — suddenly panicked, and the prices of U.S. Treasury bonds plummeted with 10-year yields jumping to over 3.3 percent. This could be ominous for the future of the dollar.”
Even worse for these American people is how horrific their immediate economic future is going to be, and as best articulated by Gary Dorsch, the editor of Global Money Trends, who writes:
“No one is asking who will purchase the $1-trillion of US Treasuries to be offered to the market by September. Once that colossal amount of paper is bought, who will purchase another $5-trillion of Treasury paper over the next four-years, as the US-government plunges deeper into insolvency. The Federal Reserve would be forced to print (monetize) vast quantities of US-dollars to pay the principal and interest on the national debt that is not covered by tax revenue.”
Bloomberg News Service is further reporting today that the concerns of the US Federal Reserve Bank are also growing, and as we can read, “Policy makers, meeting April 28-29 in Washington, saw “significant downside risks” to the outlook for the economy, with the global financial system still “vulnerable to further shocks,” minutes of the session released yesterday said.”
With the US now reporting another record being set in the number of their citizens out of work and claiming unemployment benefits, the true number of American jobless has reached a staggering 15.8% of their workforce with no relief in sight and many Russian analysts predicting a summer of violence due to massive discord among these beleaguered people as once their relief payments run out there exists no more money to pay them.
It is important to note that Great Britain is preceding the US into bankruptcy and is reported close to losing its AAA Credit Rating as it suffers its worst economic crisis since World War II, with the Financial Post issuing a further warning to the Americans, and as we can read:
“The U.S. dollar's day of reckoning may be inching closer as its status as a safe-haven currency fades with every uptick in stocks and commodities and its potential risks - debt and inflation - are brought under a harsher spotlight. Ashraf Laidi, chief market strategist at CMC Markets, said Wednesday a "serious case of dollar damage" was underway. "We long warned about the day of reckoning for the dollar emerging at the next economic recovery," Mr. Laidi said in a note.”
After the deliberate collapsing of the US Dollar, these reports continue, the Bilderberg ‘plan’ for the Global economy rests on what are called Special Drawing Rights issued by the Western controlled International Monetary Fund, and which the Telegraph News Service succinctly warns:
“The International Monetary Fund is poised to embark on what analysts have described as "global quantitative easing" by printing billions of dollars worth of a global "super-currency" in an unprecedented new effort to address the economic crisis.”
Russian economists warn that this IMF attempt to destroy the value of Eastern European, Asian and Middle Eastern economies is ‘doomed to failure’, and now being reported that oil rich Saudi Arabia has now joined Russia, China and Brazil by refusing to lend to this travesty of a bank backed by the West and intent upon massive destruction to obtain their goals.
The American people continue to remain, for the most part, blissfully unaware of catastrophe looming before them and continue to believe the litany of Orwellian lies being poured upon them by their propaganda media organs, never once raising any objection to trillions of dollars that have been stolen from them and which continues to flow the pockets of their political and corporate overlords intent upon destroying, forever, their once great Nation and which the US Federal Reserve Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman stated brazenly before the US Congress that she has “no idea” where $9 Trillion of US taxpayer has gone, or who got it.
But, to the worst actions being done by these witless Americans is their continuing to pay into their bankrupt banks their hard-earned monies which within the next year will cease to have any value whatsoever instead of using what little time they have left to prepare for the many catastrophes to come. And, what makes this especially appalling is that these Americans are continuing to pay their debts so that they can remain good credit risks, while at the same time their banks are bankrupt, their government broke and their way of life changed forever.
One wonders if these people have truly lost the instinct to survive or, before all is said and done, they will explode with righteous anger over the destruction of their homes, families and Nation as a whole.
The historical framework of these events shows but two possibilities, the Nazi Germans who continued following their doomed leaders to the utter destruction of their homeland, or the Russian people who rose in mass to throw off the manacle’s of communism after decades of slavery….one can only hope these people choose wisely, and fast, before all is lost.
© May 21, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
Explaining DUMBFUCKERY after DARTH CHENEY'S DEATH STAR left our solar system
I've made quite a few negative statements concerning what I considered to be APPEASEMENT OF FASCISM by our new President, new ATTORNEY GENERAL, and the shameless, sniveling, gutless, bought off, posing, weak, pathetic, cowardly butt licking, slime known as DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP AND OVER SIGHT.
None of which can be divided (Glen Greenwald's cognitive distortion) because IT DOES NOT EXIST AS A FIGHTING UNIT WILLING TO DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE--recognition of a fiduciary duty, and the carrying out of that fiduciary duty.
Those statements were correct, and I take nothing back.
1) I will say this, OBAMA got reached (EXTORTED in HAWAII), and...I WANT IT TO STOP.
FUNNY how the corrupt lowlife GOP stooges at US SUP COURT, have no problem moving TERRORISTIC EXTORTIONATE THREATS made toward Obama...in front of all the other filings?
I'm talking about the never ending jerking of Obama with the birth certificate issues.
EVERY TIME CHENEY shows up in DC, ANOTHER CHALLENGE TO OBAMA'S birth is made, and...US SUP COURT acts as DICK CHENEY'S FAVORITE DUCK HUNTING PARTNER IN CRIME?
IT'S TIME TO GET THE FINAL ADJUDICATION OVER AND DONE WITH ON BIRTH CERTIFICATE ISSUE.
AND REMEMBER, OBAMA WILL TESTIFY ABOUT BEING EXTORTED WITH THAT ISSUE, and...THE EXTORTION OF OBAMA IN HAWAII, when Barack was told who his cabinet would be (BUSH AND CLINTON CRIME FAMILY PUNKS ALL SUCKING DICK CHENEY).
EXTORTION AND COERCION 0F THE PRESIDENT...IS A CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT TREASON, and US SUPREME COURT JUDGES are also UNINDICTED COCONSPIRATORS.
SO...UH...go ahead and take OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY, the PUBLIC WILL LYNCH YOU IN THE END, AND HOLDER WILL BE FORCED TO ASSIGN A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO INDICT FOR TREASON, MISPRISON OF TREASON, CONSPIRACY, and RICO.
OBAMA'S testimony.........................on this....................makes him more of a threat to the secret team, then they could possibly understand.
ENOUGH OF THIS SECRET COVERT CRIMINAL LYING CRIME FAMILY (BUSH, CLINTON, US INTEL COMMUNITY SECRET TEAM MUTHERFUCKERS) destroying this country.
I will do all I can (polygraphs, sign complaints, FILE MOTIONS IN FED DIST COURTS, testimony) to make sure this ATTORNEY GENERAL AND PRESIDENT has all the facts that could easily PUT DICK CHENEY AND OTHERS IN THE FED PEN. See, CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT with crime tips for FBI and WILLIAMSON CTY PROSECUTOR JOHN "GOP punk stooge" BRADLEY.
2) THE PROBLEM so far is...ERIC HOLDER.
This guy should have moved on all this along time ago, and subpoenas should have already been served on CHENEY, HAYDEN, MUELLER, FBI AGENTS, BRADLEY, DET. COOMBS, MICHAEL KEITH MOORE, TERRY NICHOLS, NICHOLS LAWYER, THOMAS S. BEAN, special agent STEVEN PLUTA, SPECIAL AGENT MATT MILLER, DR CHAD CARDA, DR JENNIFER BURGER, SD HW PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT, DON SRSTKA (the suckerfish of hope at Sioux Falls SD Atty Generals Office)....etc.
THIS HOLDER GUY was selected by whom?
THIS GUY was vetted by whom?
THIS GUY HAS DONE WHAT after 120 days of....blatant misdirected confusion?
3) I was recently fried and tortured with a DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON in April (The BOULDER CITY, NEVADA INCIDENT).
I recently was confronted with another FBI PUNK INFRAGUARD STALKER who was caught BREAKING INTO MY RV while I was asleep?
INTERSTATE STALKING while TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS WHO ACTUALLY SIGNS US DOJ COMPLAINTS AND AFFADAVITS????????
MR HOLDER.................just what is your fucking problem with enforcing the law?
MR HOLDER either fight or fuck off.
Mr Holder you are either in the way, off the bus, or totally fucked in the head.
You decide, and we report (you're a pussy, a dumbfuck, a GOP stooge, or a gutless sniveling idiot who has something to hide that is used to extort your criminal apathy?).
4) In my mind...I'm fascinated with the obvious grandiose truth: "...somehow justice and safety from CHENEY'S MAFIA CRIME FAMILY, depends upon my court filings..."?!
I'm supposed to be a "lone werewolf domestic terrorist" who is subjectively slandered as a "mentally disturbed Dumbfuck dangerous to himself or others"?
Yet...somehow...ONE BRIEF FOUR HOUR HEARING IN A SIOUX FALLS FED COURT ROOM, effectively blows all the smoke out of the way.
CHENEY, GOSS, OTHERS...go to jail.
Then WE CAN ALL SEE "HOW THE WAR ON TERRORISM" under Dead Eye Dick (ordered murder of CHRISTINA MOORE IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS, ON 9/23/03) USED ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES not rationally related to any legitimate preventative purpose involving the nations' SECURITY.
Those techniques that the mainstream media faggots refuse to investigate includes:
--MURDER (airplane crashes, staged car wrecks in Bon Homme Cty, South Dakota);
--ATTEMPTED MURDER;
--MAIMING (brain strokes, brain tumors, Russert's heart attack);
--MICROWAVE RADIATION from DOD DARPA WEAPON manufactured by RAYTHEON called "Directed Energy Weapon";
--MIND CONTROL CHIPPING of DOJ COMPLAINANTS who CONTACTED US SEN JUD COMM?;
--FBI "OPERATION SLAMMER" TO CREATE SCHOOL SHOOTERS;
5) FATBOY PUNK MURDERING KIKE LOVING LOWLIFE, Richard Cheney...still has not left D.C. for the comfort of his DEATH STAR...right?
You would think...that...uh....CHENEY WOULD LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE, right?
He is out of office...right?
SO...UH...HMMM....JUST WHAT IS CHENEY SO AFRAID OF?
THE FACTS AS I KNOW THEM...right Dick?
It's called smoke.
6) Watching all the punks in D.C. fag around the TORTURE ISSUES, is enough to make anybody sick.
Look at how weak the Dem pussies are?
The pussies are afraid of the truth...and refuse to use the words like "DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON ATTACKS" to maim, murder, and intimidate...when...THE TARGET IS NOT A DETAINEE, IS NOT AN ENEMY COMBATANT, IS NOT A TERRORISTIC THREAT to anybody?
HOW IS DR MARK GORDON, RICH GORDON, CHRISTINA MOORE, MARK DEFENBAUGH, LEROY ROGERS....all terrorists dangerous to the nations' security?
YOU TELL US DEAD EYE DICK........HOW A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE is a "subjective threat" to Dick's SECRETIVE RICO FELONY CONSPIRACY called "The Cheney Energy Task Force"?
AND JUST WHAT THE FUCK IS FAGGOT MUELLER'S PROBLEM at FBI HQ, when this shameless, cowardly, dumbfuck continually destroys our country...while fagging around following his punk pussified "protocol" in which....FBI JOINS THE CONSPIRACIES BY DOING NOTHING?
It's called a bogus rationalization, based on an intellectualization...when the KNOWN FACTS SUPPORT CHENEY'S WALK DOWN FED DEATH ROW, where he is going....if I got anything to say about it.
PATRIOT ACT MURDERS are being spun at heroic and patriotic, and righteous?
7) How did justice get confused?
How did this satanic mafia crime family get away with these crimes?
It's called ROVIAN SPIN with ADDINGTON crunching the legal terms and laws to make sure that LOWLIFE FAGGOTY BOUGHT OFF WHORES (Pelosi, Reid, Hoyer working with GOP punks) passed Enabling Laws that legalized ANY MURDER, AND ANY OUTRAGE.
The Dems have not and will not "lead this nation to security from CHENEY'S ARMED NUTHOUSE SECRET TREASONOUS MAFIA CRIME FAMILY" who still run the country after destroying the country.
NOBODY seems to know...what happened and what to do...except me.
It's like JERRY GARCIA of The Grateful Dead said, "...it's pathetic that someone has to do something, and it ends up being a guy like me who has to do it...?"
8) MY ADVICE TO OBAMA, HOLDER, DEMOCRATS:
----A) Either flip MUELLER, POLYGRAPH HIM, SUBPOENA HIM, OR FIRE HIM.
He and the agents are "either with us, or against us" but...N0 MORE FUCKING SITTING ON THE FUCKING FENCE WITH A BLOCK OF CHEESE AND A DICK IN ONE HAND.
----B) IMMEDIATELY ARREST, DETAIN, CHIP, SUBLIMINALLY DEBRIEF, MIND CONTROL, AND POSSIBLY TORTURE.............THE NOTORIOUS MUTHERFUCKER WHO WILL NOT GO BACK TO HIS DEATH STAR TO DESTROY ANOTHER PLANET.
I'M TALKING ABOUT DICK CHENEY being interrogated like I was.
I'm talking about Cheney and his pals getting the same ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES that were used on an innocent South Dakota medical doctor named Dr Mark Gordon.
CHENEY AND HIS FALSE FLAG KIKE PALS SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM SOCIETY AND DETAINED.
After the murder of CIA ASSET ROLAND CARNEBY in Houston....we need to know CHENEY'S PLANS FOR FURTHER DESTROYING AMERICA.
WE NEED INFO ON THE NEXT RIGHT WING FALSE FLAG TERRORIST EVENT planned by Dick, his mafia crime family, and his shameless swindling murdering MOSSAD KIKE PALS.
----C) SUBPOENA THE WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS WHO NEGOTIATED THE QUID PRO QUA IN SOUTH DAKOTA, to get LARRY LONG TO OPEN A BOGUS HARASSMENT CAMPAIGN TARGETING MICHELLE TAPKEN'S SON.
THAT WAS DONE TO STOP MICHELLE'S FED GRAND JURY.
Enough is enough.
9). THE TIME IS NOW, BEFORE CHENEY blows up a suitcase nuke, with MUELLER STANDING DOWN LIKE THE LYING PUSSY.
"CHENEY--DUMSFIELD--GOSS--HAYDEN" were running an EXECUTIVE ASSASSINATION RING to stop THOMAS S. BEAN FROM FILING A CIVIL SUIT with a MOTION FOR PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.....and....Bob Mueller stood down like a punk.
Mueller also ignored the MURDERED US ATTORNEYS while following Bob's punk protocol?
10) After CHENEY'S last BIRD FLU THREAT AND FALSE FLAG EVENT....the military flipped.
MUELLER is ready to flip as long as "he gets his deal" .
Give Mueller his deal...and make that fuckhead talk straight.
AFTER THAT, nobody will stand with DICK--DUMSFIELD--ADDINGTON--ROVE--MEIRS--BOLTEN--GOSS--HAYDEN.
Flip the soldiers or put them in jail...flip all the way to The White House.
11) "EAGLES don't hunt FLIES"...."Eagles hunt the game at the top calling all the shots".....doncha know?
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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/05/the_fbi_agent_w.php
FBI Agent on Synagogue Case Has Questionable Record
By Graham Rayman in 9/11, Crime, Graham Rayman, Terror and War
Thursday, May. 21 2009 @ 3:22PM
The FBI agent with a high-profile role in yesterday's arrests of four men for plotting a terror attack in New York has a pretty interesting -- and controversial -- track record.
Special Agent Robert Fuller, whose name appears at the top of the federal criminal complaint in the case, had a hand in the FBI's failure to nab two of the 9/11 hijackers, had one of his informants set himself on fire in front of the White House, and was involved in misidentifying a Canadian man as a terrorist leading to his secret arrest and torture -- a case that is now the subject of a major lawsuit.
Fuller is listed as the lead agent in the arrests of four men yesterday who officials say were trying to blow up a couple of synagogues and shoot a military jet from the sky. But as in other cases of seemingly inept homegrown terrorists, the four suspects were supplied (inert) weapons from an FBI informant, and in coming weeks we'll learn more about how much that informant goaded the four suspects into carrying out the supposed acts of terrorism. The case is being prosecuted in the Southern District of New York. (James Margolin, an FBI spokesman said the agency declines to comment for this story, because Fuller is a potential witness in an ongoing prosecution.)
Fuller was involved in the earlier Canadian case as the man who interrogated a wounded Afghani teenager named Omar Khadr. (We've written extensively about Khadr's bizarre case here.) Under Fuller's interrogation, Khadr dubiously identified a Canadian citizen named Maher Arar as someone he had seen in Afghanistan. Arar was then shipped to Syria where he was imprisoned and tortured for a year. It's now been proven that Arar could not have been in Afghanistan when Khadr, under intense pressure from Fuller, said he saw him there.
In January, Fuller took the witness stand in Khadr's trial at Guantanamo Bay. He testified that during the interrogation at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, Khadr identified Arar from a photo and said he had seen him in Afghanistan.
Under cross examination, though, Fuller disclosed that Khadr didn't actually identify Arar. Instead, he first said Arar "looked familiar," and then "in time" he felt he recognized the man in the photo, according to Fuller's testimony.
"We don't know what was happening, whether that was hours or days later," Kerry Pither, a Canadian journalist whose book Dark Days: The story of four Canadians tortured in the name of fighting terror focuses on the Arar case.
According to Steven Watt, one of Arar's lawyers now with the ACLU, Khadr's identification should have been treated as highly suspect...
"Khadr would have been about 14, blind in one eye and suffering from serious wounds," Watt says. "It was totally ridiculous."
A Canadian commission of inquiry had already established that Arar was in Canada at the time that Fuller claims that Khadr said he was supposedly in Afghanistan.
"Fuller very clearly has a questionable track record," Pither says. "Even if his claims about what Khadr said were true, there's no doubt that Khadr would have said anything. He is on the record as having said he would have said anything to get better treatment."
Arar's "extraordinary rendition" was a huge story in Canada. He was the first person so treated to go public and demand accountability.
His lawsuit against the Canadian government was settled for $10 million. He also got an apology from the Canadian prime minister on national television (Imagine a U.S. president doing the same).
The apology was given after a high ranking Canadian minister had the opportunity to view the American intelligence file on Arar -- confirming, Pither says, once and for all that Arar was innocent. Arar's lawsuit against the U.S. government is still pending.
Fuller was also on the team that was tasked to track down two of the 9/11 hijackers in August, 2001, prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
The New York Observer reported that after the CIA told the FBI that the two hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hamzi were in the United States, Fuller was assigned to bring them into custody on Aug. 23, 2001, 19 days prior to the attacks.
A fellow agent, the Observer reported, had labeled the lead "routine," meaning that Fuller had 30 days to catch them. Fuller went through local databases, checked Mihdhar's New York hotel and then let it drop. Standard procedure, the papers said, held that he also should have search commercial databases, but he did not.
He later claimed that he consulted ChoicePoint database on Sept. 4 or 5, but the 9/11Commission later concluded that the FBI did not consult that database until after the attacks, the newspaper said.
And in November, 2004, an informant Fuller was working with named Mohamed Alanssi made his way to the sidewalk in front of the White House and set himself on fire. Alanssi's suicide letter was addressed to Fuller, who, at the time, had been his chief case agent for three years, according to a court affidavit he filed.
Alanssi, 52, emotionally unbalanced and distraught, said in the rambling letter that he wanted to go home to Yemen to see his wife before he testified in open court. Alanssi also complained that his case agents broke their promises to pay him, to get him citizenship and to protect his identity, the Washington Post wrote at the time.
"Why you don't care about my life and my family's life," he wrote. " Once I testify my family will be killed in Yemen, me too I will be dead man."
Alanssi told the Post that the FBI paid him $100,000 in 2003. "It is my big mistake that I have cooperated with FBI. The FBI have already destroyed my life and my family's life and made us in a very danger position . . . I am not crazy to destroy my life and my family's life to get $100,000," he said.
A 2004 New York Times story reported that the FBI had used Alanssi in the prosecution of 20 people.
"Mr. Alanssi's bizarre actions also put on full display another vulnerability in high-pressure investigations: The strained relationships that are often the foundation of investigators' dealings with their informants can suddenly careen out of control," wrote the Times' William Glaberson.
Alanssi survived but was left in critical condition with burns over 30 percent of his body.
You can read more on the Arar case at: www.maherarar.ca or www.kerrypither.ca
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FROM TOM HENEGHEN'S MYSPACE:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=147509065&blogId=490214438
..."P.P.S. We can also report that the BushFRAUD Administration used rendition flights to take the alleged terrorists, 9/11 and illegal Iraq War whistleblowers, to Libya and Syria.
Related March 10, 2008 intelligence briefing on rendition flights:
Canadian national Maher Arar, who was cleared of terrorist charges by the Canadian Government, was the individual that actually emailed the 9/11 evidence to Lt. Vreeland's computer.
FACT: MAHER ARAR WAS ACTUALLY A DEEP COVER FRENCH INTELLIGENCE AGENT WHO, SOON AFTER 9/11, FLEW TO NEW YORK CITY TO SHARE HIS EVIDENCE WITH THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND BOTH NEW YORK SENATORS CHUCK SCHUMER AND HILLARY CLINTON.
MAHER ARAR WAS ABRUPTLY ILLEGALLY ARRESTED AT NEW YORK CITY'S JFK AIRPORT AND CHARGED WITH BEING A TERRORIST.
Maher Arar's evidence was seized by New York state officials and handed over to then Deputy Attorney General, MOSSAD agent and 9/11 co-conspirator and Bush-Crime Family Syndicate fixer, dual ISRAELI-U.S. citizen TRAITOR Michael Chertoff.
Maher Arar was eventually flown to Syria on the noted Bushfraud rendition flights on an aircraft owned by none other than Bush-Clinton Crime Family 9/11 linked TERRORIST Viktor Bout.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=147509065&blogId=365536199
Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received MILLIONS of dollars in BRIBES in return for allowing these alleged terrorists aka whistleblowers to be taken out of the United States and then tortured in known terrorist nations.
The alleged terrorists aka whistleblowers continue to be tortured by private mercenaries, some of them Israeli Mossad agents, tied to the British-owned Blackwater Corporation.
We can also now reveal that the bagman involved in the bribery of both Libyan Gaddafi and Syrian al-Assad, in reference to the aforementioned rendition flights to allow torture in attempts to procure false confessions, is none other than former CIA Director and known Bush Crime Family Syndicate bagman Porter Goss.
Reference: The funds Goss used to bribe Gaddafi and al-Assad aka the rendition flights, the torture and the black prisons, were funds tied to none other than the Federal Reserve Bank of New York aka Stephen Friedman and the Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme. photo AFP
Note: We can also divulge that new evidence has surfaced linking the Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme to a secret SEC trading platform.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is currently under investigation for money laundering to Pakistan involving the theft of U.S. Taxpayers' Treasury funds aka secret offshore Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate accounts.
Item: It is interesting today that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner finally proposed setting up a "bad" bank to house the noted toxic derivatives.
The implementation of this "bad" bank had been originally proposed early on in the Obama Administration.
Question: Could it be that with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under investigation that Geithner decided it was time to Obstruct Justice and finally take the toxic assets out of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Question: Could it be the fundraiser staged for Israeli Mossad agent and TRAITOR Jane Harman, D-CA, came from the same Federal Reserve Bank of New York-Bernard Madoff-Steven Spielberg Hollywood money laundry?
Stay tuned. More details will be forthcoming in our future intelligence briefings.
We are focusing on the Central Bank of Iraq.
P.P.P.S. Do not be fooled by the Nancy Pelosi diversion, folks. As much of a traitor and an incompetent that Pelosi is [threatened Congress with MARTIAL LAW in September of 2008 aka their support of the first BushFRAUD "bail out"], the corporate fascist, extortion-friendly media elite would rather discuss an irrelevant statement Pelosi made in regards to CIA credibility than the mounting criminal evidence aka BushFRAUD's TREASONOUS rendition flights and torture chambers, along with the escalating Israeli espionage scandal, which is engulfing Washington, D.C.
At this hour, we can also divulge that Pelosi is being blackmailed by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina in regards to the Clinton rendition flights aka the kidnapping of Ambassador Leo Wanta from Switzerland in 1993 when Wanta, along with former FBI Director William Sessions, General Vernon Walter, French President Francois Mitterrand, FBI informant Vince Foster and then Vice President, now year 2000 duly elected, natural born President Albert Gore Jr., tried to have Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate bagman, fugitive Marc Rich arrested, when Rich was in between Switzerland and France on his way to Monte Carlo.
The other illegal activity involving the kidnapping of Ambassador Leo Wanta in early 1997, is when Ambassador Wanta, on the orders of daddy Bush's little bitch, Bill Clinton, and his sociopath loser wife, lesbian in-the-closet Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, along with former Republican Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, ordered Wanta kidnapped from his temporary residence in Wisconsin to a holding facility aka gulag-type prison in Sayre, Oklahoma.
Former Clinton era Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr who, at the time of his appointment represented the Wisconsin division of the Children's Defense Fund, which was tied directly to Hillary Clinton.
Starr was also the attorny for Ambassador Wanta but abrutly resigned as Wanta's attorney when he was appointed Independent Counsel. Starr's conflict of interest was glaring. We can see now why he covered up Vince Foster's murder and resigned as Wanta's attorney since Ambassador Wanta could have been a witness in implicating Hillary Clinton in the murder of Foster.
Now you see, folks, why Wanta was kidnapped by the Clintons with the acquiescence of Kenneth Starr at put in the Sayre, Oklahoma gulag.
Not only were the Clintons misusing the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocol funds, but they also wished to silence Ambassador Wanta considering Wanta's knowledge of massive criminal misconduct by then Clinton Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr involving Starr's cover up of the murder of Wanta's partner in the Marc Rich arrest attempt, former Clinton White House aide Vincent W. Foster.
Final note: Stay tuned for our future intelligence briefings, which will include an update on the theft of former Vice President, now year 2000 duly elected President Albert Gore Jr.'s daughter's personal files and social security number from the U.S. National Archives.
Do not believe any computer glitch spin, folks. The Clintons were notified of the missing files but not Gore; and it was the Bush Administration that was in power during this crime.
One of Gore's daughters, in December of 2008, met with a NASA space agency official who gave her the "smoking gun" evidence of the satellite programs that were used to electronically steal West Virginia, Missouri, Florida, New Hampshire and Gore's home state of Tennessee in the year 2000 presidential coup d'état.
Gore's daughter received copies of the NASA electronic computer program coded "Gator" for Florida and "Rocky Top" for Tennessee.
Note: It was Washington Post criminal journalist and CIA asset David Ignatius that actually tipped off Karl Rove and the Bush White House about Gore's daughter meeting with the NASA space agency official in Florida and actually placed Gore's daughter's life in jeopardy.
We will have more on Ignatius' role in the year 2000 presidential election coup and the threats against Al Gore and his daughters in the next intelligence briefing...."...
None of which can be divided (Glen Greenwald's cognitive distortion) because IT DOES NOT EXIST AS A FIGHTING UNIT WILLING TO DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE--recognition of a fiduciary duty, and the carrying out of that fiduciary duty.
Those statements were correct, and I take nothing back.
1) I will say this, OBAMA got reached (EXTORTED in HAWAII), and...I WANT IT TO STOP.
FUNNY how the corrupt lowlife GOP stooges at US SUP COURT, have no problem moving TERRORISTIC EXTORTIONATE THREATS made toward Obama...in front of all the other filings?
I'm talking about the never ending jerking of Obama with the birth certificate issues.
EVERY TIME CHENEY shows up in DC, ANOTHER CHALLENGE TO OBAMA'S birth is made, and...US SUP COURT acts as DICK CHENEY'S FAVORITE DUCK HUNTING PARTNER IN CRIME?
IT'S TIME TO GET THE FINAL ADJUDICATION OVER AND DONE WITH ON BIRTH CERTIFICATE ISSUE.
AND REMEMBER, OBAMA WILL TESTIFY ABOUT BEING EXTORTED WITH THAT ISSUE, and...THE EXTORTION OF OBAMA IN HAWAII, when Barack was told who his cabinet would be (BUSH AND CLINTON CRIME FAMILY PUNKS ALL SUCKING DICK CHENEY).
EXTORTION AND COERCION 0F THE PRESIDENT...IS A CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT TREASON, and US SUPREME COURT JUDGES are also UNINDICTED COCONSPIRATORS.
SO...UH...go ahead and take OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY, the PUBLIC WILL LYNCH YOU IN THE END, AND HOLDER WILL BE FORCED TO ASSIGN A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO INDICT FOR TREASON, MISPRISON OF TREASON, CONSPIRACY, and RICO.
OBAMA'S testimony.........................on this....................makes him more of a threat to the secret team, then they could possibly understand.
ENOUGH OF THIS SECRET COVERT CRIMINAL LYING CRIME FAMILY (BUSH, CLINTON, US INTEL COMMUNITY SECRET TEAM MUTHERFUCKERS) destroying this country.
I will do all I can (polygraphs, sign complaints, FILE MOTIONS IN FED DIST COURTS, testimony) to make sure this ATTORNEY GENERAL AND PRESIDENT has all the facts that could easily PUT DICK CHENEY AND OTHERS IN THE FED PEN. See, CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT with crime tips for FBI and WILLIAMSON CTY PROSECUTOR JOHN "GOP punk stooge" BRADLEY.
2) THE PROBLEM so far is...ERIC HOLDER.
This guy should have moved on all this along time ago, and subpoenas should have already been served on CHENEY, HAYDEN, MUELLER, FBI AGENTS, BRADLEY, DET. COOMBS, MICHAEL KEITH MOORE, TERRY NICHOLS, NICHOLS LAWYER, THOMAS S. BEAN, special agent STEVEN PLUTA, SPECIAL AGENT MATT MILLER, DR CHAD CARDA, DR JENNIFER BURGER, SD HW PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT, DON SRSTKA (the suckerfish of hope at Sioux Falls SD Atty Generals Office)....etc.
THIS HOLDER GUY was selected by whom?
THIS GUY was vetted by whom?
THIS GUY HAS DONE WHAT after 120 days of....blatant misdirected confusion?
3) I was recently fried and tortured with a DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON in April (The BOULDER CITY, NEVADA INCIDENT).
I recently was confronted with another FBI PUNK INFRAGUARD STALKER who was caught BREAKING INTO MY RV while I was asleep?
INTERSTATE STALKING while TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS WHO ACTUALLY SIGNS US DOJ COMPLAINTS AND AFFADAVITS????????
MR HOLDER.................just what is your fucking problem with enforcing the law?
MR HOLDER either fight or fuck off.
Mr Holder you are either in the way, off the bus, or totally fucked in the head.
You decide, and we report (you're a pussy, a dumbfuck, a GOP stooge, or a gutless sniveling idiot who has something to hide that is used to extort your criminal apathy?).
4) In my mind...I'm fascinated with the obvious grandiose truth: "...somehow justice and safety from CHENEY'S MAFIA CRIME FAMILY, depends upon my court filings..."?!
I'm supposed to be a "lone werewolf domestic terrorist" who is subjectively slandered as a "mentally disturbed Dumbfuck dangerous to himself or others"?
Yet...somehow...ONE BRIEF FOUR HOUR HEARING IN A SIOUX FALLS FED COURT ROOM, effectively blows all the smoke out of the way.
CHENEY, GOSS, OTHERS...go to jail.
Then WE CAN ALL SEE "HOW THE WAR ON TERRORISM" under Dead Eye Dick (ordered murder of CHRISTINA MOORE IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS, ON 9/23/03) USED ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES not rationally related to any legitimate preventative purpose involving the nations' SECURITY.
Those techniques that the mainstream media faggots refuse to investigate includes:
--MURDER (airplane crashes, staged car wrecks in Bon Homme Cty, South Dakota);
--ATTEMPTED MURDER;
--MAIMING (brain strokes, brain tumors, Russert's heart attack);
--MICROWAVE RADIATION from DOD DARPA WEAPON manufactured by RAYTHEON called "Directed Energy Weapon";
--MIND CONTROL CHIPPING of DOJ COMPLAINANTS who CONTACTED US SEN JUD COMM?;
--FBI "OPERATION SLAMMER" TO CREATE SCHOOL SHOOTERS;
5) FATBOY PUNK MURDERING KIKE LOVING LOWLIFE, Richard Cheney...still has not left D.C. for the comfort of his DEATH STAR...right?
You would think...that...uh....CHENEY WOULD LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE, right?
He is out of office...right?
SO...UH...HMMM....JUST WHAT IS CHENEY SO AFRAID OF?
THE FACTS AS I KNOW THEM...right Dick?
It's called smoke.
6) Watching all the punks in D.C. fag around the TORTURE ISSUES, is enough to make anybody sick.
Look at how weak the Dem pussies are?
The pussies are afraid of the truth...and refuse to use the words like "DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON ATTACKS" to maim, murder, and intimidate...when...THE TARGET IS NOT A DETAINEE, IS NOT AN ENEMY COMBATANT, IS NOT A TERRORISTIC THREAT to anybody?
HOW IS DR MARK GORDON, RICH GORDON, CHRISTINA MOORE, MARK DEFENBAUGH, LEROY ROGERS....all terrorists dangerous to the nations' security?
YOU TELL US DEAD EYE DICK........HOW A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE is a "subjective threat" to Dick's SECRETIVE RICO FELONY CONSPIRACY called "The Cheney Energy Task Force"?
AND JUST WHAT THE FUCK IS FAGGOT MUELLER'S PROBLEM at FBI HQ, when this shameless, cowardly, dumbfuck continually destroys our country...while fagging around following his punk pussified "protocol" in which....FBI JOINS THE CONSPIRACIES BY DOING NOTHING?
It's called a bogus rationalization, based on an intellectualization...when the KNOWN FACTS SUPPORT CHENEY'S WALK DOWN FED DEATH ROW, where he is going....if I got anything to say about it.
PATRIOT ACT MURDERS are being spun at heroic and patriotic, and righteous?
7) How did justice get confused?
How did this satanic mafia crime family get away with these crimes?
It's called ROVIAN SPIN with ADDINGTON crunching the legal terms and laws to make sure that LOWLIFE FAGGOTY BOUGHT OFF WHORES (Pelosi, Reid, Hoyer working with GOP punks) passed Enabling Laws that legalized ANY MURDER, AND ANY OUTRAGE.
The Dems have not and will not "lead this nation to security from CHENEY'S ARMED NUTHOUSE SECRET TREASONOUS MAFIA CRIME FAMILY" who still run the country after destroying the country.
NOBODY seems to know...what happened and what to do...except me.
It's like JERRY GARCIA of The Grateful Dead said, "...it's pathetic that someone has to do something, and it ends up being a guy like me who has to do it...?"
8) MY ADVICE TO OBAMA, HOLDER, DEMOCRATS:
----A) Either flip MUELLER, POLYGRAPH HIM, SUBPOENA HIM, OR FIRE HIM.
He and the agents are "either with us, or against us" but...N0 MORE FUCKING SITTING ON THE FUCKING FENCE WITH A BLOCK OF CHEESE AND A DICK IN ONE HAND.
----B) IMMEDIATELY ARREST, DETAIN, CHIP, SUBLIMINALLY DEBRIEF, MIND CONTROL, AND POSSIBLY TORTURE.............THE NOTORIOUS MUTHERFUCKER WHO WILL NOT GO BACK TO HIS DEATH STAR TO DESTROY ANOTHER PLANET.
I'M TALKING ABOUT DICK CHENEY being interrogated like I was.
I'm talking about Cheney and his pals getting the same ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES that were used on an innocent South Dakota medical doctor named Dr Mark Gordon.
CHENEY AND HIS FALSE FLAG KIKE PALS SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM SOCIETY AND DETAINED.
After the murder of CIA ASSET ROLAND CARNEBY in Houston....we need to know CHENEY'S PLANS FOR FURTHER DESTROYING AMERICA.
WE NEED INFO ON THE NEXT RIGHT WING FALSE FLAG TERRORIST EVENT planned by Dick, his mafia crime family, and his shameless swindling murdering MOSSAD KIKE PALS.
----C) SUBPOENA THE WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS WHO NEGOTIATED THE QUID PRO QUA IN SOUTH DAKOTA, to get LARRY LONG TO OPEN A BOGUS HARASSMENT CAMPAIGN TARGETING MICHELLE TAPKEN'S SON.
THAT WAS DONE TO STOP MICHELLE'S FED GRAND JURY.
Enough is enough.
9). THE TIME IS NOW, BEFORE CHENEY blows up a suitcase nuke, with MUELLER STANDING DOWN LIKE THE LYING PUSSY.
"CHENEY--DUMSFIELD--GOSS--HAYDEN" were running an EXECUTIVE ASSASSINATION RING to stop THOMAS S. BEAN FROM FILING A CIVIL SUIT with a MOTION FOR PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.....and....Bob Mueller stood down like a punk.
Mueller also ignored the MURDERED US ATTORNEYS while following Bob's punk protocol?
10) After CHENEY'S last BIRD FLU THREAT AND FALSE FLAG EVENT....the military flipped.
MUELLER is ready to flip as long as "he gets his deal" .
Give Mueller his deal...and make that fuckhead talk straight.
AFTER THAT, nobody will stand with DICK--DUMSFIELD--ADDINGTON--ROVE--MEIRS--BOLTEN--GOSS--HAYDEN.
Flip the soldiers or put them in jail...flip all the way to The White House.
11) "EAGLES don't hunt FLIES"...."Eagles hunt the game at the top calling all the shots".....doncha know?
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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/05/the_fbi_agent_w.php
FBI Agent on Synagogue Case Has Questionable Record
By Graham Rayman in 9/11, Crime, Graham Rayman, Terror and War
Thursday, May. 21 2009 @ 3:22PM
The FBI agent with a high-profile role in yesterday's arrests of four men for plotting a terror attack in New York has a pretty interesting -- and controversial -- track record.
Special Agent Robert Fuller, whose name appears at the top of the federal criminal complaint in the case, had a hand in the FBI's failure to nab two of the 9/11 hijackers, had one of his informants set himself on fire in front of the White House, and was involved in misidentifying a Canadian man as a terrorist leading to his secret arrest and torture -- a case that is now the subject of a major lawsuit.
Fuller is listed as the lead agent in the arrests of four men yesterday who officials say were trying to blow up a couple of synagogues and shoot a military jet from the sky. But as in other cases of seemingly inept homegrown terrorists, the four suspects were supplied (inert) weapons from an FBI informant, and in coming weeks we'll learn more about how much that informant goaded the four suspects into carrying out the supposed acts of terrorism. The case is being prosecuted in the Southern District of New York. (James Margolin, an FBI spokesman said the agency declines to comment for this story, because Fuller is a potential witness in an ongoing prosecution.)
Fuller was involved in the earlier Canadian case as the man who interrogated a wounded Afghani teenager named Omar Khadr. (We've written extensively about Khadr's bizarre case here.) Under Fuller's interrogation, Khadr dubiously identified a Canadian citizen named Maher Arar as someone he had seen in Afghanistan. Arar was then shipped to Syria where he was imprisoned and tortured for a year. It's now been proven that Arar could not have been in Afghanistan when Khadr, under intense pressure from Fuller, said he saw him there.
In January, Fuller took the witness stand in Khadr's trial at Guantanamo Bay. He testified that during the interrogation at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, Khadr identified Arar from a photo and said he had seen him in Afghanistan.
Under cross examination, though, Fuller disclosed that Khadr didn't actually identify Arar. Instead, he first said Arar "looked familiar," and then "in time" he felt he recognized the man in the photo, according to Fuller's testimony.
"We don't know what was happening, whether that was hours or days later," Kerry Pither, a Canadian journalist whose book Dark Days: The story of four Canadians tortured in the name of fighting terror focuses on the Arar case.
According to Steven Watt, one of Arar's lawyers now with the ACLU, Khadr's identification should have been treated as highly suspect...
"Khadr would have been about 14, blind in one eye and suffering from serious wounds," Watt says. "It was totally ridiculous."
A Canadian commission of inquiry had already established that Arar was in Canada at the time that Fuller claims that Khadr said he was supposedly in Afghanistan.
"Fuller very clearly has a questionable track record," Pither says. "Even if his claims about what Khadr said were true, there's no doubt that Khadr would have said anything. He is on the record as having said he would have said anything to get better treatment."
Arar's "extraordinary rendition" was a huge story in Canada. He was the first person so treated to go public and demand accountability.
His lawsuit against the Canadian government was settled for $10 million. He also got an apology from the Canadian prime minister on national television (Imagine a U.S. president doing the same).
The apology was given after a high ranking Canadian minister had the opportunity to view the American intelligence file on Arar -- confirming, Pither says, once and for all that Arar was innocent. Arar's lawsuit against the U.S. government is still pending.
Fuller was also on the team that was tasked to track down two of the 9/11 hijackers in August, 2001, prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
The New York Observer reported that after the CIA told the FBI that the two hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hamzi were in the United States, Fuller was assigned to bring them into custody on Aug. 23, 2001, 19 days prior to the attacks.
A fellow agent, the Observer reported, had labeled the lead "routine," meaning that Fuller had 30 days to catch them. Fuller went through local databases, checked Mihdhar's New York hotel and then let it drop. Standard procedure, the papers said, held that he also should have search commercial databases, but he did not.
He later claimed that he consulted ChoicePoint database on Sept. 4 or 5, but the 9/11Commission later concluded that the FBI did not consult that database until after the attacks, the newspaper said.
And in November, 2004, an informant Fuller was working with named Mohamed Alanssi made his way to the sidewalk in front of the White House and set himself on fire. Alanssi's suicide letter was addressed to Fuller, who, at the time, had been his chief case agent for three years, according to a court affidavit he filed.
Alanssi, 52, emotionally unbalanced and distraught, said in the rambling letter that he wanted to go home to Yemen to see his wife before he testified in open court. Alanssi also complained that his case agents broke their promises to pay him, to get him citizenship and to protect his identity, the Washington Post wrote at the time.
"Why you don't care about my life and my family's life," he wrote. " Once I testify my family will be killed in Yemen, me too I will be dead man."
Alanssi told the Post that the FBI paid him $100,000 in 2003. "It is my big mistake that I have cooperated with FBI. The FBI have already destroyed my life and my family's life and made us in a very danger position . . . I am not crazy to destroy my life and my family's life to get $100,000," he said.
A 2004 New York Times story reported that the FBI had used Alanssi in the prosecution of 20 people.
"Mr. Alanssi's bizarre actions also put on full display another vulnerability in high-pressure investigations: The strained relationships that are often the foundation of investigators' dealings with their informants can suddenly careen out of control," wrote the Times' William Glaberson.
Alanssi survived but was left in critical condition with burns over 30 percent of his body.
You can read more on the Arar case at: www.maherarar.ca or www.kerrypither.ca
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FROM TOM HENEGHEN'S MYSPACE:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=147509065&blogId=490214438
..."P.P.S. We can also report that the BushFRAUD Administration used rendition flights to take the alleged terrorists, 9/11 and illegal Iraq War whistleblowers, to Libya and Syria.
Related March 10, 2008 intelligence briefing on rendition flights:
Canadian national Maher Arar, who was cleared of terrorist charges by the Canadian Government, was the individual that actually emailed the 9/11 evidence to Lt. Vreeland's computer.
FACT: MAHER ARAR WAS ACTUALLY A DEEP COVER FRENCH INTELLIGENCE AGENT WHO, SOON AFTER 9/11, FLEW TO NEW YORK CITY TO SHARE HIS EVIDENCE WITH THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND BOTH NEW YORK SENATORS CHUCK SCHUMER AND HILLARY CLINTON.
MAHER ARAR WAS ABRUPTLY ILLEGALLY ARRESTED AT NEW YORK CITY'S JFK AIRPORT AND CHARGED WITH BEING A TERRORIST.
Maher Arar's evidence was seized by New York state officials and handed over to then Deputy Attorney General, MOSSAD agent and 9/11 co-conspirator and Bush-Crime Family Syndicate fixer, dual ISRAELI-U.S. citizen TRAITOR Michael Chertoff.
Maher Arar was eventually flown to Syria on the noted Bushfraud rendition flights on an aircraft owned by none other than Bush-Clinton Crime Family 9/11 linked TERRORIST Viktor Bout.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=147509065&blogId=365536199
Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received MILLIONS of dollars in BRIBES in return for allowing these alleged terrorists aka whistleblowers to be taken out of the United States and then tortured in known terrorist nations.
The alleged terrorists aka whistleblowers continue to be tortured by private mercenaries, some of them Israeli Mossad agents, tied to the British-owned Blackwater Corporation.
We can also now reveal that the bagman involved in the bribery of both Libyan Gaddafi and Syrian al-Assad, in reference to the aforementioned rendition flights to allow torture in attempts to procure false confessions, is none other than former CIA Director and known Bush Crime Family Syndicate bagman Porter Goss.
Reference: The funds Goss used to bribe Gaddafi and al-Assad aka the rendition flights, the torture and the black prisons, were funds tied to none other than the Federal Reserve Bank of New York aka Stephen Friedman and the Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme. photo AFP
Note: We can also divulge that new evidence has surfaced linking the Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme to a secret SEC trading platform.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is currently under investigation for money laundering to Pakistan involving the theft of U.S. Taxpayers' Treasury funds aka secret offshore Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate accounts.
Item: It is interesting today that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner finally proposed setting up a "bad" bank to house the noted toxic derivatives.
The implementation of this "bad" bank had been originally proposed early on in the Obama Administration.
Question: Could it be that with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under investigation that Geithner decided it was time to Obstruct Justice and finally take the toxic assets out of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Question: Could it be the fundraiser staged for Israeli Mossad agent and TRAITOR Jane Harman, D-CA, came from the same Federal Reserve Bank of New York-Bernard Madoff-Steven Spielberg Hollywood money laundry?
Stay tuned. More details will be forthcoming in our future intelligence briefings.
We are focusing on the Central Bank of Iraq.
P.P.P.S. Do not be fooled by the Nancy Pelosi diversion, folks. As much of a traitor and an incompetent that Pelosi is [threatened Congress with MARTIAL LAW in September of 2008 aka their support of the first BushFRAUD "bail out"], the corporate fascist, extortion-friendly media elite would rather discuss an irrelevant statement Pelosi made in regards to CIA credibility than the mounting criminal evidence aka BushFRAUD's TREASONOUS rendition flights and torture chambers, along with the escalating Israeli espionage scandal, which is engulfing Washington, D.C.
At this hour, we can also divulge that Pelosi is being blackmailed by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina in regards to the Clinton rendition flights aka the kidnapping of Ambassador Leo Wanta from Switzerland in 1993 when Wanta, along with former FBI Director William Sessions, General Vernon Walter, French President Francois Mitterrand, FBI informant Vince Foster and then Vice President, now year 2000 duly elected, natural born President Albert Gore Jr., tried to have Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate bagman, fugitive Marc Rich arrested, when Rich was in between Switzerland and France on his way to Monte Carlo.
The other illegal activity involving the kidnapping of Ambassador Leo Wanta in early 1997, is when Ambassador Wanta, on the orders of daddy Bush's little bitch, Bill Clinton, and his sociopath loser wife, lesbian in-the-closet Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, along with former Republican Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, ordered Wanta kidnapped from his temporary residence in Wisconsin to a holding facility aka gulag-type prison in Sayre, Oklahoma.
Former Clinton era Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr who, at the time of his appointment represented the Wisconsin division of the Children's Defense Fund, which was tied directly to Hillary Clinton.
Starr was also the attorny for Ambassador Wanta but abrutly resigned as Wanta's attorney when he was appointed Independent Counsel. Starr's conflict of interest was glaring. We can see now why he covered up Vince Foster's murder and resigned as Wanta's attorney since Ambassador Wanta could have been a witness in implicating Hillary Clinton in the murder of Foster.
Now you see, folks, why Wanta was kidnapped by the Clintons with the acquiescence of Kenneth Starr at put in the Sayre, Oklahoma gulag.
Not only were the Clintons misusing the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocol funds, but they also wished to silence Ambassador Wanta considering Wanta's knowledge of massive criminal misconduct by then Clinton Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr involving Starr's cover up of the murder of Wanta's partner in the Marc Rich arrest attempt, former Clinton White House aide Vincent W. Foster.
Final note: Stay tuned for our future intelligence briefings, which will include an update on the theft of former Vice President, now year 2000 duly elected President Albert Gore Jr.'s daughter's personal files and social security number from the U.S. National Archives.
Do not believe any computer glitch spin, folks. The Clintons were notified of the missing files but not Gore; and it was the Bush Administration that was in power during this crime.
One of Gore's daughters, in December of 2008, met with a NASA space agency official who gave her the "smoking gun" evidence of the satellite programs that were used to electronically steal West Virginia, Missouri, Florida, New Hampshire and Gore's home state of Tennessee in the year 2000 presidential coup d'état.
Gore's daughter received copies of the NASA electronic computer program coded "Gator" for Florida and "Rocky Top" for Tennessee.
Note: It was Washington Post criminal journalist and CIA asset David Ignatius that actually tipped off Karl Rove and the Bush White House about Gore's daughter meeting with the NASA space agency official in Florida and actually placed Gore's daughter's life in jeopardy.
We will have more on Ignatius' role in the year 2000 presidential election coup and the threats against Al Gore and his daughters in the next intelligence briefing...."...
OBAMA flips and flops as CHENEY EXTORTS USING BIRTH CERTIFICATE: DOJ under HOLDER has done nothing on 3 South Dakota Murders by FBI--CIA--DOD--NSA
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/21/obama-torture-doj/
Obama: Existing U.S. Institutions Can ‘Work Through And Punish’ Bush’s ‘Violations Of Our Laws’
President Obama has repeatedly discussed the need to “look forward” when it comes to examining the Bush administration’s torture program. But in March, he did not rule out prosecutions of the Bush lawyers who authorized enhanced interrogations, saying he would leave prosecutions up to the discretion of Attorney General Eric Holder.
Today, during his much-anticipated speech on national security policy at the National Archives, Obama addressed lingering questions about his views on a truth commission and torture accountability. Obama said that instead of a 9/11-style commission, he favors an investigation of “abuses of our values” done through Congress. Most notably, the President reiterated his view that the DOJ “and our courts can work through and punish any violations of our laws”:
That is what I mean when I say that we need to focus on the future. I recognize that many still have a strong desire to focus on the past. When it comes to the actions of the last eight years, some Americans are angry; others want to re-fight debates that have been settled, most clearly at the ballot box in November. And I know that these debates lead directly to a call for a fuller accounting, perhaps through an Independent Commission.
I have opposed the creation of such a Commission because I believe that our existing democratic institutions are strong enough to deliver accountability. The Congress can review abuses of our values, and there are ongoing inquiries by the Congress into matters like enhanced interrogation techniques. The Department of Justice and our courts can work through and punish any violations of our laws.
Watch it:
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TOMMY:
Obama could not have decieved America more outrageously than to say that OUR COURT SYSTEM, DOJ, FBI, POLICE STATE CAN DELIVER JUSTICE?!
I SIGNED A 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG/FBI OPR COMPLAINT.
THAT fact pattern got quite a few people murdered, maimed, tortured, illegally monitored, and totally destroyed at their job sites.
NO INTEREST FROM HOLDER?
Not one person with a badge or oversight capability...has...ever...once talked to me about justice for PATRIOT ACT MURDERS, TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS, ILLEGAL TORTURE for punitive reasons not seeking info to prevent attacks, INTERSTATE STALKING, ILLEGAL BREAKINS AS PART OF A POLICTICALLY MOTIVATED FBI COINTELPRO NEUTRALIZATION OF BOB MUELLER'S HARSHEST AND MOST FOCUSED CRITIC.
MUELLER COVERED UP THE FOLLOWING MURDERS proven with the CALEA computerized wiretap interface hard disc tip I gave him:
----CHRISTINA MOORE;
----RICH GORDON (Daschle's ex chief of staff);
----MEL CARNEHAN;
----JFJ JR;
----YPD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH;
----YANKTON, SD, ATTY JOHN KABIESEMAN;
----BOB NELSON, of North Dakota.
----DEAD US ATTORNEYS, including DE LUNA (had DC MADAME'S PHONE LIST showing Cheney's phone number?);
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In his confirmation hearings, Holder flatly said that “no one is above the law. … There are obligations that we have as a result of treaties that we have signed — obligations, obviously, in the Constitution.”
The Senate Intelligence Committee is already pursuing an investigation into interrogation of detainees, having examined the treatment of two “high value” detainees. “We have adopted a scope of work; we have hired independent staff. They are intelligence professionals and we will be doing this look back, which will probably take 6, 8 months,” Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said.
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TOMMY:
Why do the pussies at DNC, focus on DETAINEES, WHEN YOU CAN FOCUS ON LIKEABLE, WHITE COLLAR PROFESSIONALS, and democrats tied to DASCHLE, RICH GORDON, etc.,?
I'm not a detainee?
Dr Mark Gordon is not a detainee?
Obama: Existing U.S. Institutions Can ‘Work Through And Punish’ Bush’s ‘Violations Of Our Laws’
President Obama has repeatedly discussed the need to “look forward” when it comes to examining the Bush administration’s torture program. But in March, he did not rule out prosecutions of the Bush lawyers who authorized enhanced interrogations, saying he would leave prosecutions up to the discretion of Attorney General Eric Holder.
Today, during his much-anticipated speech on national security policy at the National Archives, Obama addressed lingering questions about his views on a truth commission and torture accountability. Obama said that instead of a 9/11-style commission, he favors an investigation of “abuses of our values” done through Congress. Most notably, the President reiterated his view that the DOJ “and our courts can work through and punish any violations of our laws”:
That is what I mean when I say that we need to focus on the future. I recognize that many still have a strong desire to focus on the past. When it comes to the actions of the last eight years, some Americans are angry; others want to re-fight debates that have been settled, most clearly at the ballot box in November. And I know that these debates lead directly to a call for a fuller accounting, perhaps through an Independent Commission.
I have opposed the creation of such a Commission because I believe that our existing democratic institutions are strong enough to deliver accountability. The Congress can review abuses of our values, and there are ongoing inquiries by the Congress into matters like enhanced interrogation techniques. The Department of Justice and our courts can work through and punish any violations of our laws.
Watch it:
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TOMMY:
Obama could not have decieved America more outrageously than to say that OUR COURT SYSTEM, DOJ, FBI, POLICE STATE CAN DELIVER JUSTICE?!
I SIGNED A 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG/FBI OPR COMPLAINT.
THAT fact pattern got quite a few people murdered, maimed, tortured, illegally monitored, and totally destroyed at their job sites.
NO INTEREST FROM HOLDER?
Not one person with a badge or oversight capability...has...ever...once talked to me about justice for PATRIOT ACT MURDERS, TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS, ILLEGAL TORTURE for punitive reasons not seeking info to prevent attacks, INTERSTATE STALKING, ILLEGAL BREAKINS AS PART OF A POLICTICALLY MOTIVATED FBI COINTELPRO NEUTRALIZATION OF BOB MUELLER'S HARSHEST AND MOST FOCUSED CRITIC.
MUELLER COVERED UP THE FOLLOWING MURDERS proven with the CALEA computerized wiretap interface hard disc tip I gave him:
----CHRISTINA MOORE;
----RICH GORDON (Daschle's ex chief of staff);
----MEL CARNEHAN;
----JFJ JR;
----YPD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH;
----YANKTON, SD, ATTY JOHN KABIESEMAN;
----BOB NELSON, of North Dakota.
----DEAD US ATTORNEYS, including DE LUNA (had DC MADAME'S PHONE LIST showing Cheney's phone number?);
_____________________________
In his confirmation hearings, Holder flatly said that “no one is above the law. … There are obligations that we have as a result of treaties that we have signed — obligations, obviously, in the Constitution.”
The Senate Intelligence Committee is already pursuing an investigation into interrogation of detainees, having examined the treatment of two “high value” detainees. “We have adopted a scope of work; we have hired independent staff. They are intelligence professionals and we will be doing this look back, which will probably take 6, 8 months,” Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said.
__________________________
TOMMY:
Why do the pussies at DNC, focus on DETAINEES, WHEN YOU CAN FOCUS ON LIKEABLE, WHITE COLLAR PROFESSIONALS, and democrats tied to DASCHLE, RICH GORDON, etc.,?
I'm not a detainee?
Dr Mark Gordon is not a detainee?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
AMERICAN DEATH SQUADS UNDER GOSS--HAYDEN--CHENEY--DUMSFIELD all protected by MUELLER AT FBI HQ
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/19/american-death-squad/
American Death Squad
Obama inherits Cheney's army of assassins – and promotes their commander
by Justin Raimondo, May 20, 2009
As the story of Bush administration’s war crimes comes out in fits and starts, it appears that torture is only one aspect – and not the worst, by any means – of this horrific history. In an interview in mid-March, Seymour Hersh let slip the following:
"After 9/11 – I haven’t written about this yet – but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. That does happen."
Well, yes, that’s hardly surprising.
The PATRIOT Act and other legislation [.pdf] passed by Congress gives the government the legal "right" to spy on American citizens and, in the case of Jose Padilla, lock them up without a trial and throw away the key. But, as Hersh reveals, it gets worse.
Much worse:
“Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command – JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. …
“Congress has no oversight of it.It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. … Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us."
Well, yes, that’s not too surprising, either, actually. It’s so – what’s the word? – Cheneyesque. Those Rethuglicans! Well, we’re past all that now. The Dear Leader’s in the White House, and it’s time to move on, right? Oh wait…
It turns out the commander of this international order of assassins has just been appointed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. As part of the "fresh thinking" in the Obama administration, epitomized by the COIN crowd, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal replaces Gen. David McKiernan. So who is McChrystal? A 2006 profile in Newsweek put it this way:
"JSOC is part of what Vice President Dick Cheney was referring to when he said America would have to ‘work the dark side’ after 9/11. To many critics, the veep’s remark back in 2001 fostered his rep as the Darth Vader of the war on terror and presaged bad things to come, like the interrogation abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. But America also has its share of Jedi Knights who are fighting in what Cheney calls ‘the shadows.’ And McChrystal, an affable but tough Army Ranger, and the Delta Force and other elite teams he commands are among them."
The dark side includes McChrystal’s overseeing of Camp Nama, a detainee center outside of Baghdad (since renamed and relocated) notorious for its brutality. The very same administration that is up on its high horse about forbidding torture has just elevated one of the chief torturers to direct Obama’s war in Afghanistan. It is hardly inconceivable that what we saw at Camp Nama – beatings, degradation of prisoners, and outright, cold-blooded murder – is going to be replicated on a nationwide scale.
That’s what they call "fresh thinking" over at Obama’s Pentagon.
The response to all this – or, rather, the non-response – indicates to me that torture is not really the issue, as far as the Obamaites and their amen corner in the media are concerned, it’s who’s doing the torturing. If Bush and Cheney ordered it, it’s reprehensible and might even be a war crime. If, however, a known torture-enabler is elevated by Obama’s secretary of defense to the position of commander of our armed forces in Afghanistan – well, then, that’s a far different matter.
Yes, I know, it’s hard to believe such brazen hypocrisy really exists, but here it is, right in front of us, in the person of Human Rights Watch investigator Marc Garlasco. Garlasco, who investigated and helped expose the abuses at Camp Nama, thinks the question of whether McChrystal ought to be confirmed as Afghan commander is "a tough one." Really? Well, yes, according to him:
"I defend McChrystal to myself because I think he’s the right guy for the job. [He is] in the Petraeus model, a new-thinking guy who is not thinking in terms of massive troops and kinetic kills, but non-lethal power – economic issues, winning the population over. In that mold, he’s the right guy.”
It was McChrystal who had operational command over Camp Nama. He kept out the International Red Cross, and he was personally present in the camp while torture was going on. Now he’s going to be overseeing the conduct of the "Af-Pak" war, so don’t be too surprised to see an entire country, and portions of another, turned into one giant Camp Nama. What gets me is that it’s all being done in the name of a kinder, gentler approach to the "art" of counterinsurgency, and presided over by the best, the brightest, the most liberal administration since FDR.
I don’t know what’s worse: the crimes themselves, or those who rationalize them, such as the author of the Esquire piece that exposed Camp Nama, linked to above, who has decided that McChrystal is one of the good guys – and that Cheney might not be that bad after all. A more egregious apologia has never been uttered, at least not since the war criminals of yesteryear declared they were only following orders. Okay, he admits, excusing Cheney may be going a bit "too far," but hands off McChrystal – and, of course, Obama.
That someone so conversant with the abuses perpetrated by Commander Dark Side could take this position is an indicator of just how far the moral corruption that characterized the Bush era has penetrated – and how long it’s going to take for us to return to some semblance of normality. Author John H. Richardson ridicules McChrystal’s critics as "armchair moralists," to which the only appropriate reply is: Better an armchair moralist than an armchair torturer and executioner.
Yet Camp Nama is hardly the worst of McChrystal’s walks on the "dark side." Remember, Hersh reported that JSOC was (and presumably still is) going around killing "high-value targets" on a global scale, murdering people from the Middle East to Central America. The criterion for selecting the victims was (and presumably still is) whether, in Hersh’s phrase, they had engaged in or were planning "anti-American activities."
Isn’t anyone curious as to who qualified for a hit? Congress is threatening to investigate the use of torture techniques during interrogations, but what about the murderous rampage we’ve been conducting for the past eight years? Who fell victim to our army of assassins?
Along these lines, I note a completely phony – and obviously planted – story that "reports" Hersh saying JSOC murdered Rafik Hariri, the Lebanese leader whose assassination set off a countrywide crisis. He has naturally denied saying this, but what’s interesting is that the false story was timed just as questions about McChrystal’s tenure at JSOC and Camp Nama were being raised. Not that the U.S. government or anyone connected with it would ever try to discredit one of its most credible critics – heaven forbid!
With the appointment, and likely confirmation, of McChrystal, it is clear that the "change" we were promised by Obama is just a change of faces: the policies, at least on the foreign policy front, are remarkably similar. Indeed, the Obamaites may prove to be even more brutal and arrogant than their immediate predecessors, and they’ll get away with it far longer than the Bushies did. That’s because the media is in the tank for Obama, as our fundraising copy put it the other day – just like Marc Garlasco.
Speaking of our fundraising drive: we’re going into the final stretch now, and this is a good time to remind all of you out there that Antiwar.com is performing an essential function, ensuring that the hopes and dreams of the many antiwar voters who cast their ballots for Obama aren’t betrayed in silence, without a peep of protest. As our government continues to fight an endless "war on terrorism," with some of the same commanders and tactics – albeit fronted by the smiling face of a popular president – Antiwar.com is speaking truth to power. And we’re almost alone in doing so.
That’s got to be worth something.
Our fundraising drive is our sole source of support. We don’t have any big backers, foundation grants, or corporate contributors to pay our tiny staff and keep this site going. Without your contribution, we’re sunk. It’s as simple as that.
So please – take the time, right now, to make your contribution if you haven’t already donated. If you have donated, please consider upping your donation, or signing on to our monthly sustainers’ program. We don’t have the big bucks at the War Party’s command – all we have is you.
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American Death Squad
Obama inherits Cheney's army of assassins – and promotes their commander
by Justin Raimondo, May 20, 2009
As the story of Bush administration’s war crimes comes out in fits and starts, it appears that torture is only one aspect – and not the worst, by any means – of this horrific history. In an interview in mid-March, Seymour Hersh let slip the following:
"After 9/11 – I haven’t written about this yet – but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. That does happen."
Well, yes, that’s hardly surprising.
The PATRIOT Act and other legislation [.pdf] passed by Congress gives the government the legal "right" to spy on American citizens and, in the case of Jose Padilla, lock them up without a trial and throw away the key. But, as Hersh reveals, it gets worse.
Much worse:
“Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command – JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. …
“Congress has no oversight of it.It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. … Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us."
Well, yes, that’s not too surprising, either, actually. It’s so – what’s the word? – Cheneyesque. Those Rethuglicans! Well, we’re past all that now. The Dear Leader’s in the White House, and it’s time to move on, right? Oh wait…
It turns out the commander of this international order of assassins has just been appointed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. As part of the "fresh thinking" in the Obama administration, epitomized by the COIN crowd, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal replaces Gen. David McKiernan. So who is McChrystal? A 2006 profile in Newsweek put it this way:
"JSOC is part of what Vice President Dick Cheney was referring to when he said America would have to ‘work the dark side’ after 9/11. To many critics, the veep’s remark back in 2001 fostered his rep as the Darth Vader of the war on terror and presaged bad things to come, like the interrogation abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. But America also has its share of Jedi Knights who are fighting in what Cheney calls ‘the shadows.’ And McChrystal, an affable but tough Army Ranger, and the Delta Force and other elite teams he commands are among them."
The dark side includes McChrystal’s overseeing of Camp Nama, a detainee center outside of Baghdad (since renamed and relocated) notorious for its brutality. The very same administration that is up on its high horse about forbidding torture has just elevated one of the chief torturers to direct Obama’s war in Afghanistan. It is hardly inconceivable that what we saw at Camp Nama – beatings, degradation of prisoners, and outright, cold-blooded murder – is going to be replicated on a nationwide scale.
That’s what they call "fresh thinking" over at Obama’s Pentagon.
The response to all this – or, rather, the non-response – indicates to me that torture is not really the issue, as far as the Obamaites and their amen corner in the media are concerned, it’s who’s doing the torturing. If Bush and Cheney ordered it, it’s reprehensible and might even be a war crime. If, however, a known torture-enabler is elevated by Obama’s secretary of defense to the position of commander of our armed forces in Afghanistan – well, then, that’s a far different matter.
Yes, I know, it’s hard to believe such brazen hypocrisy really exists, but here it is, right in front of us, in the person of Human Rights Watch investigator Marc Garlasco. Garlasco, who investigated and helped expose the abuses at Camp Nama, thinks the question of whether McChrystal ought to be confirmed as Afghan commander is "a tough one." Really? Well, yes, according to him:
"I defend McChrystal to myself because I think he’s the right guy for the job. [He is] in the Petraeus model, a new-thinking guy who is not thinking in terms of massive troops and kinetic kills, but non-lethal power – economic issues, winning the population over. In that mold, he’s the right guy.”
It was McChrystal who had operational command over Camp Nama. He kept out the International Red Cross, and he was personally present in the camp while torture was going on. Now he’s going to be overseeing the conduct of the "Af-Pak" war, so don’t be too surprised to see an entire country, and portions of another, turned into one giant Camp Nama. What gets me is that it’s all being done in the name of a kinder, gentler approach to the "art" of counterinsurgency, and presided over by the best, the brightest, the most liberal administration since FDR.
I don’t know what’s worse: the crimes themselves, or those who rationalize them, such as the author of the Esquire piece that exposed Camp Nama, linked to above, who has decided that McChrystal is one of the good guys – and that Cheney might not be that bad after all. A more egregious apologia has never been uttered, at least not since the war criminals of yesteryear declared they were only following orders. Okay, he admits, excusing Cheney may be going a bit "too far," but hands off McChrystal – and, of course, Obama.
That someone so conversant with the abuses perpetrated by Commander Dark Side could take this position is an indicator of just how far the moral corruption that characterized the Bush era has penetrated – and how long it’s going to take for us to return to some semblance of normality. Author John H. Richardson ridicules McChrystal’s critics as "armchair moralists," to which the only appropriate reply is: Better an armchair moralist than an armchair torturer and executioner.
Yet Camp Nama is hardly the worst of McChrystal’s walks on the "dark side." Remember, Hersh reported that JSOC was (and presumably still is) going around killing "high-value targets" on a global scale, murdering people from the Middle East to Central America. The criterion for selecting the victims was (and presumably still is) whether, in Hersh’s phrase, they had engaged in or were planning "anti-American activities."
Isn’t anyone curious as to who qualified for a hit? Congress is threatening to investigate the use of torture techniques during interrogations, but what about the murderous rampage we’ve been conducting for the past eight years? Who fell victim to our army of assassins?
Along these lines, I note a completely phony – and obviously planted – story that "reports" Hersh saying JSOC murdered Rafik Hariri, the Lebanese leader whose assassination set off a countrywide crisis. He has naturally denied saying this, but what’s interesting is that the false story was timed just as questions about McChrystal’s tenure at JSOC and Camp Nama were being raised. Not that the U.S. government or anyone connected with it would ever try to discredit one of its most credible critics – heaven forbid!
With the appointment, and likely confirmation, of McChrystal, it is clear that the "change" we were promised by Obama is just a change of faces: the policies, at least on the foreign policy front, are remarkably similar. Indeed, the Obamaites may prove to be even more brutal and arrogant than their immediate predecessors, and they’ll get away with it far longer than the Bushies did. That’s because the media is in the tank for Obama, as our fundraising copy put it the other day – just like Marc Garlasco.
Speaking of our fundraising drive: we’re going into the final stretch now, and this is a good time to remind all of you out there that Antiwar.com is performing an essential function, ensuring that the hopes and dreams of the many antiwar voters who cast their ballots for Obama aren’t betrayed in silence, without a peep of protest. As our government continues to fight an endless "war on terrorism," with some of the same commanders and tactics – albeit fronted by the smiling face of a popular president – Antiwar.com is speaking truth to power. And we’re almost alone in doing so.
That’s got to be worth something.
Our fundraising drive is our sole source of support. We don’t have any big backers, foundation grants, or corporate contributors to pay our tiny staff and keep this site going. Without your contribution, we’re sunk. It’s as simple as that.
So please – take the time, right now, to make your contribution if you haven’t already donated. If you have donated, please consider upping your donation, or signing on to our monthly sustainers’ program. We don’t have the big bucks at the War Party’s command – all we have is you.
Yes, I know, it’s tiresome to be hectored, especially for money, but we don’t have much choice. So contribute today – and make this fundraising campaign go away!
DC MAINSTREAM MEDIA PUSSIES, screw America, and avoid the SIBEL EDMONDS STORY: Dumbfuckery all the way...no?
http://lukery.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-am-not-going-to-piss-off-my-source.html
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
I am not going to piss off my source
Sibel has a another must-read post up at her blog: Dissecting the Mainstream Media: Part 2- Pressure Points.
Sibel describes some of the various ways that the government can stop production and publication of various stories, including using legal threats and threatening to cut off a reporter's access.
Sibel tells a remarkable story from her own case:
I am going to provide you with another first-hand witnessed and documented incident. The only reason I am not naming ‘the well-known reporter & publication’ is to protect the source who obtained and passed on the incriminating documented evidence - the communication that occurred in writing between him and this particular ‘reporter.’
The individual who dealt with the congressional and press side of my case during the early stages of my whistleblowing journey wrote an e-mail to a well-known and well-placed journalist, saying, ‘Man, I can’t believe you guys did not cover this!!! Ashcroft comes out and invokes the State Secrets Privilege, first time ever asserted by the Bush administration, and you don’t write about it?! What the hell, man?! What’s the deal? I sent you the press release and attached a bunch of documents on that e-mail…’
Here is the response from that well-known journalist, and stupidly enough in writing:
‘I was going to call you. A few months ago I finally got this big DOJ guy, I mean BIG! Our deal-exclusive. You can’t do better than that in Washington. Anyhow, he doesn’t want us to touch Edmonds’ story. Period. I am not going to piss off my source for some God Damn translator whistleblower…’
There you have the problem in a nutshell.
Another example of 'pressure' from Sibel's case that she doesn't mention in her post is that the FBI made a "formal complaint" with the UK's Times when American journalist Joe Lauria was investigating the story.
Incidentally, I have filed a FOIA request with the FBI for information about this incident, and any other similar examples where the FBI used any form of pressure to attempt to stop or otherwise influence any reporting about Sibel's case. They've been messing me around, of course, but hopefully we'll get something interesting. They have to give me the Joe Lauria records, presumably, or at least tell me which exception they are claiming, and now we have another reference point to judge whether the FBI is being responsive.
Posted by lukery at 5/19/2009 05:13:00 PM
Labels: FOIA, MSM., Sibel Edmonds
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
I am not going to piss off my source
Sibel has a another must-read post up at her blog: Dissecting the Mainstream Media: Part 2- Pressure Points.
Sibel describes some of the various ways that the government can stop production and publication of various stories, including using legal threats and threatening to cut off a reporter's access.
Sibel tells a remarkable story from her own case:
I am going to provide you with another first-hand witnessed and documented incident. The only reason I am not naming ‘the well-known reporter & publication’ is to protect the source who obtained and passed on the incriminating documented evidence - the communication that occurred in writing between him and this particular ‘reporter.’
The individual who dealt with the congressional and press side of my case during the early stages of my whistleblowing journey wrote an e-mail to a well-known and well-placed journalist, saying, ‘Man, I can’t believe you guys did not cover this!!! Ashcroft comes out and invokes the State Secrets Privilege, first time ever asserted by the Bush administration, and you don’t write about it?! What the hell, man?! What’s the deal? I sent you the press release and attached a bunch of documents on that e-mail…’
Here is the response from that well-known journalist, and stupidly enough in writing:
‘I was going to call you. A few months ago I finally got this big DOJ guy, I mean BIG! Our deal-exclusive. You can’t do better than that in Washington. Anyhow, he doesn’t want us to touch Edmonds’ story. Period. I am not going to piss off my source for some God Damn translator whistleblower…’
There you have the problem in a nutshell.
Another example of 'pressure' from Sibel's case that she doesn't mention in her post is that the FBI made a "formal complaint" with the UK's Times when American journalist Joe Lauria was investigating the story.
Incidentally, I have filed a FOIA request with the FBI for information about this incident, and any other similar examples where the FBI used any form of pressure to attempt to stop or otherwise influence any reporting about Sibel's case. They've been messing me around, of course, but hopefully we'll get something interesting. They have to give me the Joe Lauria records, presumably, or at least tell me which exception they are claiming, and now we have another reference point to judge whether the FBI is being responsive.
Posted by lukery at 5/19/2009 05:13:00 PM
Labels: FOIA, MSM., Sibel Edmonds
CHENEY'S BUDDIES GOT AWAY WITH RAPE: what is HOLDER--MUELLER'S COMMENT ON THIS OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE?
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/waroniraq/94410
KBR/Haliburton Worker Raped, Locked in Shipping Container
Posted by Cara , Feministe at 12:51 PM on August 8, 2008.
"It shows that when it comes to rape cover up, KBR knows what the hell it's doing, and knows that no one will even bother trying to stop them." Post Tools
KBR, the defense contractor doing a lot of heavy lifting in the upholding of our occupation of Iraq, has banned the use of personal cell phones by its employees. KBR and its previous parent company Halliburton are notorious for many things. One of those things is the rape and cover up of rape committed by its male employees against its female employees.
How are the two related?
Well, the first and most widely-known woman to come forward with an allegation of rape and cover up is Jamie Leigh Jones. Jones was gang raped by her coworkers, then locked inside of a shipping container for days in order to prevent her from reporting the attack. The Justice Department never brought charges against her assailants, and extremely important evidence in the case was "lost" by KBR. But the relevant part is how Jones escaped: through the use of a cell phone.
A "sympathetic guard" loaned the phone to her, which she used to call her father in the United States. Her father subsequently called his congressperson, who ended up securing Jones' release. If that "sympathetic guard" (you know, the one who didn't set her free) hadn't handed her that cell phone, god only knows where Jamie Leigh Jones would be today. But it just might not be alive, let alone acting as a major anti-rape and anti-KBR activist.
So. KBR employee is raped by her coworkers and then kidnapped and held prisoner. Employee secures her release through use of a personal cell phone. KBR doesn't really give a shit about any of it. Employee makes a lot of noise about the incident, making KBR look really bad, even if not actually impacting the company financially. KBR bans personal cell phone use.
Now, whether or not Jones' case and the number of similar allegations of rape and cover up that have come to light directly led to the ban of cell phones, we do not know. KBR isn't talking, and only says that the ban is related to "a safety and security concern."
But clearly, the safety and security of its female employees is not a concern. Maybe there was a valid safety and security concern that led to the ban. Or maybe "safety and security concern" means "the safety and security of our government contracts and image." Looking at KBR's long, repulsive history in this area, I tend to lean towards the latter, and I'm far from being the only one.
But let's assume for a moment that KBR's decision to ban cell phones has absolutely nothing to do with Jones' case and others like it. Let's be extraordinarily generous and pretend that their goal is not to prevent more rape victims from reporting the attacks perpetrated against them or speaking to loved ones about their rapes and rapists. Doesn't matter. Even if KBR was not intentionally trying to stifle rape victims and put them in even more danger, I don't give a shit, because that's the end result we're looking at. It will give the large number of victims one less recourse to ensure their safety. It will further isolate them from everyone outside of the company, leaving them with little to no support in a hostile climate. And it will embolden rapists within KBR, as if they needed that extra help. At this point, Jamie Leigh Jones' story is well-known, and one has to assume that this is particularly the case within KBR. What exactly is stopping rapists from trying the whole thing all over again -- now that they know there will be no real consequences for their actions, and even if their were, they're now less likely to get caught in the first place?
If nothing else, best case scenario, this move shows KBR's incredibly callousness towards rape survivors, its indifference if not promotion of its corporate rape culture, and its total obliviousness to the consequences of its own actions.
But KBR long ago gave up its right to be given the benefit of the doubt. So I still think it shows that when it comes to rape cover up, KBR knows what the hell it's doing, and knows that no one will even bother trying to stop them.
KBR/Haliburton Worker Raped, Locked in Shipping Container
Posted by Cara , Feministe at 12:51 PM on August 8, 2008.
"It shows that when it comes to rape cover up, KBR knows what the hell it's doing, and knows that no one will even bother trying to stop them." Post Tools
KBR, the defense contractor doing a lot of heavy lifting in the upholding of our occupation of Iraq, has banned the use of personal cell phones by its employees. KBR and its previous parent company Halliburton are notorious for many things. One of those things is the rape and cover up of rape committed by its male employees against its female employees.
How are the two related?
Well, the first and most widely-known woman to come forward with an allegation of rape and cover up is Jamie Leigh Jones. Jones was gang raped by her coworkers, then locked inside of a shipping container for days in order to prevent her from reporting the attack. The Justice Department never brought charges against her assailants, and extremely important evidence in the case was "lost" by KBR. But the relevant part is how Jones escaped: through the use of a cell phone.
A "sympathetic guard" loaned the phone to her, which she used to call her father in the United States. Her father subsequently called his congressperson, who ended up securing Jones' release. If that "sympathetic guard" (you know, the one who didn't set her free) hadn't handed her that cell phone, god only knows where Jamie Leigh Jones would be today. But it just might not be alive, let alone acting as a major anti-rape and anti-KBR activist.
So. KBR employee is raped by her coworkers and then kidnapped and held prisoner. Employee secures her release through use of a personal cell phone. KBR doesn't really give a shit about any of it. Employee makes a lot of noise about the incident, making KBR look really bad, even if not actually impacting the company financially. KBR bans personal cell phone use.
Now, whether or not Jones' case and the number of similar allegations of rape and cover up that have come to light directly led to the ban of cell phones, we do not know. KBR isn't talking, and only says that the ban is related to "a safety and security concern."
But clearly, the safety and security of its female employees is not a concern. Maybe there was a valid safety and security concern that led to the ban. Or maybe "safety and security concern" means "the safety and security of our government contracts and image." Looking at KBR's long, repulsive history in this area, I tend to lean towards the latter, and I'm far from being the only one.
But let's assume for a moment that KBR's decision to ban cell phones has absolutely nothing to do with Jones' case and others like it. Let's be extraordinarily generous and pretend that their goal is not to prevent more rape victims from reporting the attacks perpetrated against them or speaking to loved ones about their rapes and rapists. Doesn't matter. Even if KBR was not intentionally trying to stifle rape victims and put them in even more danger, I don't give a shit, because that's the end result we're looking at. It will give the large number of victims one less recourse to ensure their safety. It will further isolate them from everyone outside of the company, leaving them with little to no support in a hostile climate. And it will embolden rapists within KBR, as if they needed that extra help. At this point, Jamie Leigh Jones' story is well-known, and one has to assume that this is particularly the case within KBR. What exactly is stopping rapists from trying the whole thing all over again -- now that they know there will be no real consequences for their actions, and even if their were, they're now less likely to get caught in the first place?
If nothing else, best case scenario, this move shows KBR's incredibly callousness towards rape survivors, its indifference if not promotion of its corporate rape culture, and its total obliviousness to the consequences of its own actions.
But KBR long ago gave up its right to be given the benefit of the doubt. So I still think it shows that when it comes to rape cover up, KBR knows what the hell it's doing, and knows that no one will even bother trying to stop them.
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Hoekstra: It's Wrong To Call CIA Liars -- Except When I Do It
By Zachary Roth - May 19, 2009, 5:34PM
We told you earlier this afternoon about how Rep. Pete Hoekstra, who has called Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA lied to her "outrageous," has himself initiated a probe into whether the agency misled lawmakers about a 2001 shooting incident in Peru that caused the death of an American citizen.
And it looks like Hoekstra's hypocrisy goes even further. Think Progress points out that Hoekstra last night went on Fox News, where he explained to Greta Van Susteren that it's fine to criticize the CIA's performance, but not to accuse it of lying:
HOEKSTRA:
I think you do go back and you break it into two different issues.
One is the performance, how well, they're doing their job.
The second is whether they have misled or lied to Congress, two very, very different issues.
And yet, as Think Progress also notes, Hoekstra said last November in regard to the Peru incident, that the CIA "may have been lying or concealing part of the truth." And: "We cannot have an intelligence community that covers up what it does and then lies to Congress."
Although maybe there's an amendment to Hoekstra's rule that provides an exception if Peru is involved?
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CIA: Like We Said Before, Briefing Document Could Be Wrong
By Zachary Roth - May 19, 2009, 3:23PM
The CIA has given another indication that the briefing document with which Republicans are trying to attack Nancy Pelosi is unreliable.
Yesterday, Rep. David Obey sent a letter to CIA director Leon Panetta pointing out yet another apparent error in the document. The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman asked CIA for a response to Obey's claim, and got the following statement:
While CIA's information has Mr. Juola attending briefings on September 19, 2006 and October 11, 2007, there are different recollections of these events, which Mr. Obey's letter describes. As the agency has pointed out more than once, its list -- compiled in response to congressional requests -- reflects the records it has. These are notes, memos, and recollections, not transcripts and recordings.
In other words, don't hold us to any of this.
And that comes on top of a cover letter that Panetta attached to the document when it was released, noting that it might not be accurate, as well as Panetta's later assertion that Congress would have to figure out the truth of the matter. Not to mention, the fact that, as we noted earlier today, four Democratic lawmakers are now on record disputing concrete facts in the document.
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Lawmaker: CIA Already Being Probed For Misleading Congress
By Zachary Roth - May 19, 2009, 2:25PM
As they go after Nancy Pelosi over those CIA briefings, Republicans have been putting the burden of proof on the Speaker, suggesting that it's all but unheard of for the CIA to mislead others in government. But in fact, the agency is currently being probed for doing exactly that on a different issue -- and the effort was initiated by one of Pelosi's fiercest critics on the torture briefings kerfuffle.
Last night, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who chairs the oversight subcommittee of the House intelligence committee, told MSNBC's Ed Schultz (h/t Democratic Underground):
On our subcommittee we are beginning an inquiry into a situation ... initiated by the ranking minority member to look at a situation where the CIA did mislead the Congress ... a documented issue of the CIA misleading the Congress.
A Schakowsky spokesman told TPMmuckraker that she was referring to the findings of a CIA inspector general report, portions of which were released last fall, which concluded that the agency had withheld crucial information from Congress and DOJ investigators who were probing whether CIA personnel committed crimes relating to the shooting of a missionary plane in Peru in 2001.
As the New York Times described it last November:
A C.I.A. surveillance aircraft mistakenly identified the plane as a drug-smuggling aircraft, and a Peruvian military jet shot it down, killing an American missionary and her 7-month-old daughter. The Justice Department closed its investigation into the matter in 2005, declining to prosecute agency officers for any actions related to the episode.
But [the inspector general's] report, parts of which were made public on Thursday, said that the Justice Department investigators and Congress were never allowed access to internal C.I.A. reviews that portrayed the downing as one mistake among many in the agency's counternarcotics program in Peru. The report said the agency routinely authorized interceptions of suspected drug planes "without adequate safeguards to protect against the loss of innocent life." (our itals)
____________________
TOMMY:
1) First of all, THE CIA DOES NOT ENGAGE IN COUNTER DRUG INTERDICTION. It engages in bogus PR scoops to "remove all competition in the lucrative drug trade".
THE CIA under PORTER GOSS, used airplanes painted to look like HOMELAND SECURITY planes, to move suitcases full of cocaine.
SEE, MADCOWMORNING NEWS archives.....click BLOGPOST TITLE ABOVE TO GET LINKED...see all the archives to understand.
WAYNEMADSENREPORT, long ago...2005-2006 posted the flight logs of CIA RENDITION AIRCRAFT delivering Heroin from Afghanistan to major american cities, and logs show the money went south to the CARRIBEAN BASIN BANKS like STANFORD, etc.
I MADE SURE THAT MUELLER'S FBI HQ, AND MINNEAPOLIS FBI had the flight logs on the milk runs into APPLE VALLEY, MN, airport where, the SECRET CIA--FBI--DEA facilitate RICO FELONY DRUG CRIMES under our nose. SAME SECRET TEAM demanded an interview with JESSE VENTURA shortly after he won the MINNESOTA GOVERNORSHIP?
SAME GUYS.
ALL TIED TO BUSH AND CLINTON CRIME FAMILIES.
ALL TIED TO RCMP WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S MONTANA--RACICOT drug conspiracy WITH FBI HITMAN MIKE "chuckie" PETERS cleaning up the operation and witnesses using murder. PETERS was one STALKER THAT BOB MUELLER SENT AFTER ME ON 4-26-04 in Luverne, Mn, at a fast food restaurant. Hope, for Bob, that...uh...there ain't any photos of BOB'S HITMAN STALKING ME USING THE WARRANTLESS GPS TRACKING DEVICE THAT WAS IN MY OLD CAR, AND ALSO WAS PUT IN MY NEW TRUCK.
2) THE CIA IS KNOWn AS THE "COCAINE IMPORT AGENCY" by anybody who knows anything:
-- (MIKE LEVINE at EXPERT WITNESS RADIO SHOW, author of "The Big White Lie"...
--FORMER FBI AGENT RICHARD TAUS looking at CIA K TEAM moving coke into Long Island, New York (framed on pedophile charges, and the local prosecutor also got framed after he found out about The Brady Material--SUBORNING PERJURY...
--Former DEA agent CELE CASTILLLO ...recently framed by BUSH BUTT BUDDY AND MAFIA COCKSUCKER JOHNNY "house of Death" SUTTON (recently confronted by HOLDER and an offer to take a polygraph exam on the US ATTY AT WEST DIST OF TEXAS, JOHNNY SUTTON, JOINED A CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE IN THE SAVAGE "DICK CHENEY--NSA--NSA TSP--WHITTINGTON murder" of a pregnant christian housewife named CHRISTINA MOORE (murdered for giving info to HER HUSBAND ROBERT MOORE, who broke story on Cheney's secretive energy task force/ENRON PUMP AND DUMP USING FERC RULING GIVING ENRON sole right to "trade in energy futures" linked to the conspiracy to "take energy off the market" to create profits.
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It continued:
The inspector general's report said that after the downing of the missionaries' plane, the C.I.A. had conducted internal reviews "that documented sustained and significant violations of required intercept procedures." But it said that the agency had denied Congress, the Department of Justice and the National Security Council access to these findings.
...
The report ... says that C.I.A. lawyers from the office of the general counsel "advised agency managers to avoid written products lest they be subject to legal scrutiny" in connection with the downing of the plane.
Who was it who released portions of the report last fall, and, according to Schakowsky, initiated the current inquiry?
That would be Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the intel committee.
At the same time that he released the report's excerpts, Hoekstra said he was asking DOJ to look into whether the CIA had obstructed justice, and called the incident "about as ugly as it gets." Schakowsky told Schultz last night that Hoekstra is "furious" about the incident.
That's the same Pete Hoekstra, of course, who's been front and center in portraying the agency as the embodiment of transparency and integrity in an effort to vilify Pelosi over the torture briefings. Appearing on CNN yesterday, Hoekstra called Pelosi's claims that the CIA had misled her "outrageous accusations."
But given that the agency is currently being probed on similar grounds -- in an inquiry initiated by Hoekstra himself -- perhaps Pelosi's claims aren't quite so outrageous after all.
Late Update: Thanks to reader XP, here's a bit more on Hoekstra's response to the IG report on the Peru shooting. Under the headline, "Republican Rep. Hoekstra Accuses CIA Of Coverup", CNN reported last November:
Rep. Pete Hoekstra on Thursday criticized "rogue" CIA employees involved in a joint CIA-Peruvian anti-narcotics program of withholding information after declassification of a CIA report identifying "routine disregard" of safety procedures that led to the plane being shot down.
...
"This issue goes to the heart of the American people's ability to trust the CIA," the Michigan lawmaker said Thursday. "Americans deserve to know that agencies given the power to operate on their behalf aren't abusing that power or their trust."
_________________________
TOMMY:
Let's make a distinction between CIA UNDER GOSS, and CIA after STEVE KAPPES AND HIS PALS GOT THEIR JOBS BACK.
THAT IS A BIG DISTINCTION.
GOSS-CHENEY replaced TENET, THEN KAPPES, AND HIS PALS KNOWN AS THE COVERT OP BULLS.
Cheney retaliated against CIA COVERT OPS thinking wrongly that "...I was tied to TENET--KAPPES--CIA COVERT OPS BULLS".
NOPE.
BAD MISTAKE.
BAD ASSUMPTION.
NO LINK TO ME AND KAPPES OR TENET.
NOPE.
RETALIATION CAME IN THE FORM OF:
--GOP PEDERAST scandal before 2006 election;
-- ABRAMOFF, DUKE, GUS BOULIS MURDER;
-- WATERGATE II;
-- DC MADAME PHONE RECORDS with Cheney's number...and....FBI HQ IGNORED THE CIA MURDER UNDER GOSS OF ASS. US ATTY DE LUNA, stabbed 33 times....DE LUNA thought to be leaker to WAYNE MADSEN REPORT? on "CHENEY'S NAME ON DC MADAME'S PHONE CALL RECORDS" which are...still available.
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In Savaging Pelosi For "Attacking" CIA, GOP Ignores Its Own Record Of Similar Attacks
By Zachary Roth - May 20, 2009, 1:08PM
We really shouldn't have to do this. As we've said before, the idea that it's some kind of outlandish and unconscionable slur to point out that the CIA -- the CIA, for chrissakes! -- can sometimes be economical with the truth is absurd on its face. But the Republican attacks on Nancy Pelosi for daring to make that claim just keep coming, so it looks like we're going to have to point this out:
Shocking as it sounds, the GOP hasn't always been so sensitive about harsh criticism of the CIA -- including leveling the charge that the CIA is being deliberately deceptive -- when it's served the party's political interest.
Before we delve into what Republicans have said about the spy agency in the past, let's refresh our memories on what they've been saying lately about Pelosi's charge that the CIA misled her, in a briefing on torture, about whether waterboarding had already been used.
Sen. Kit Bond, the vice chair of the Senate intel committee, today said Pelosi should apologize to CIA employees and called it "a tragedy that we are seeing this massive attack on our intelligence community."
Elsewhere, Bond said:
"It's outrageous that a member of Congress would call our terror-fighters liars."
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking GOP member of the House intel committee, called Pelosi's claim "outrageous."
Rep. John Boehner, he GOP House leader, said Pelosi "ought to either present the evidence or apologize."
Former speaker Newt Gingrich judged that Pelosi "disqualified herself to be the speaker." He said the allegation "smears everyone who's trying to defend her."
And former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, in a column in today's Washington Post, called Pelosi's charge one of "a series of blows to the pride and morale of the Central Intelligence Agency" leveled lately by Democrats.
So that's the now. (And believe us, we could go on, but we know your time is limited.)
What about then then?
What have Republicans said about the CIA over the last few years?
As we reported yesterday, top Pelosi antagonist Hoekstra has gone so far as to initiate a congressional inquiry into whether the CIA misled Congress on a different matter -- the 2001 shooting of a plane carrying an American missionary in Peru.
Here's what Hoekstra said about the subject last fall:
"This issue goes to the heart of the American people's ability to trust the CIA," the Michigan lawmaker said Thursday. "Americans deserve to know that agencies given the power to operate on their behalf aren't abusing that power or their trust."
And here's another case of Hoekstra questioning the CIA's veracity -- on an issue remarkably similar to the Pelosi controversy -- dug up by commenter juccikucci. When CIA director Michael Hayden said that Congress had been briefed in advance on the agency's decision to destroy tapes that showed torture, a Hoekstra spokesman contradicted that claim, saying that Hoekstra was "never briefed or advised that these tapes existed, or that they were going to be destroyed."
And here's yet another, from Laura Rozen.
Last year, Hoekstra accused the CIA of withholding from Congress information about negotiations with North Korea. Hoekstra accused the administration of failing to treat Congress with "respect," adding: "We regret to say the administration has deliberately attempted to sideline Congress in the fear that providing us with information about the North Korean regime's continuing lies and reckless behavior would undermine the current diplomatic approach."
It's not just Hoekstra, of course, who's been smearing our terror-fighters.
When, in 2007, the CIA put out a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran that Republicans viewed as insufficiently alarmist, Boehner told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "Either I don't have confidence in what they told me several months ago or I don't have confidence in what they're telling me today."
In 2006, Sen. Pat Roberts, who then chaired the Senate intel committee, accused the CIA of an "egregious intelligence failure" in declaring, under White House pressure, that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Said Roberts: "This committee simply cannot accept intelligence assessments at face value," Roberts said. "Not having your actions second-guessed is something that is earned."
We could go on here, too.
We haven't even gotten into the 2001-2003 period, when it was fashionable in hawkish Republican circles to depict the CIA as a nest of liberal bureaucrats who, in order to undermine President Bush, were deliberately downplaying evidence that Saddam had WMD and was tied to al Qaeda, .
Needless to say, it doesn't look like any of the Republicans who are now going after Pelosi expressed similar outrage at their own party's CIA bashing. In fact, in several cases it's been the same people on both sides of the issue.
Not that there's anything wrong with criticizing the CIA when it's deserved. In fact, when the Church commission recommended giving Congress a role in overseeing the CIA, back in the 1970s, everyone probably understood that criticizing the agency might be part of the job. And even that that criticism might sometimes involve suggesting that the agency was being less than truthful. As harsh as those words might be for the tender ears of some of today's Republicans.
Hoekstra: It's Wrong To Call CIA Liars -- Except When I Do It
By Zachary Roth - May 19, 2009, 5:34PM
We told you earlier this afternoon about how Rep. Pete Hoekstra, who has called Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA lied to her "outrageous," has himself initiated a probe into whether the agency misled lawmakers about a 2001 shooting incident in Peru that caused the death of an American citizen.
And it looks like Hoekstra's hypocrisy goes even further. Think Progress points out that Hoekstra last night went on Fox News, where he explained to Greta Van Susteren that it's fine to criticize the CIA's performance, but not to accuse it of lying:
HOEKSTRA:
I think you do go back and you break it into two different issues.
One is the performance, how well, they're doing their job.
The second is whether they have misled or lied to Congress, two very, very different issues.
And yet, as Think Progress also notes, Hoekstra said last November in regard to the Peru incident, that the CIA "may have been lying or concealing part of the truth." And: "We cannot have an intelligence community that covers up what it does and then lies to Congress."
Although maybe there's an amendment to Hoekstra's rule that provides an exception if Peru is involved?
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CIA: Like We Said Before, Briefing Document Could Be Wrong
By Zachary Roth - May 19, 2009, 3:23PM
The CIA has given another indication that the briefing document with which Republicans are trying to attack Nancy Pelosi is unreliable.
Yesterday, Rep. David Obey sent a letter to CIA director Leon Panetta pointing out yet another apparent error in the document. The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman asked CIA for a response to Obey's claim, and got the following statement:
While CIA's information has Mr. Juola attending briefings on September 19, 2006 and October 11, 2007, there are different recollections of these events, which Mr. Obey's letter describes. As the agency has pointed out more than once, its list -- compiled in response to congressional requests -- reflects the records it has. These are notes, memos, and recollections, not transcripts and recordings.
In other words, don't hold us to any of this.
And that comes on top of a cover letter that Panetta attached to the document when it was released, noting that it might not be accurate, as well as Panetta's later assertion that Congress would have to figure out the truth of the matter. Not to mention, the fact that, as we noted earlier today, four Democratic lawmakers are now on record disputing concrete facts in the document.
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Lawmaker: CIA Already Being Probed For Misleading Congress
By Zachary Roth - May 19, 2009, 2:25PM
As they go after Nancy Pelosi over those CIA briefings, Republicans have been putting the burden of proof on the Speaker, suggesting that it's all but unheard of for the CIA to mislead others in government. But in fact, the agency is currently being probed for doing exactly that on a different issue -- and the effort was initiated by one of Pelosi's fiercest critics on the torture briefings kerfuffle.
Last night, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who chairs the oversight subcommittee of the House intelligence committee, told MSNBC's Ed Schultz (h/t Democratic Underground):
On our subcommittee we are beginning an inquiry into a situation ... initiated by the ranking minority member to look at a situation where the CIA did mislead the Congress ... a documented issue of the CIA misleading the Congress.
A Schakowsky spokesman told TPMmuckraker that she was referring to the findings of a CIA inspector general report, portions of which were released last fall, which concluded that the agency had withheld crucial information from Congress and DOJ investigators who were probing whether CIA personnel committed crimes relating to the shooting of a missionary plane in Peru in 2001.
As the New York Times described it last November:
A C.I.A. surveillance aircraft mistakenly identified the plane as a drug-smuggling aircraft, and a Peruvian military jet shot it down, killing an American missionary and her 7-month-old daughter. The Justice Department closed its investigation into the matter in 2005, declining to prosecute agency officers for any actions related to the episode.
But [the inspector general's] report, parts of which were made public on Thursday, said that the Justice Department investigators and Congress were never allowed access to internal C.I.A. reviews that portrayed the downing as one mistake among many in the agency's counternarcotics program in Peru. The report said the agency routinely authorized interceptions of suspected drug planes "without adequate safeguards to protect against the loss of innocent life." (our itals)
____________________
TOMMY:
1) First of all, THE CIA DOES NOT ENGAGE IN COUNTER DRUG INTERDICTION. It engages in bogus PR scoops to "remove all competition in the lucrative drug trade".
THE CIA under PORTER GOSS, used airplanes painted to look like HOMELAND SECURITY planes, to move suitcases full of cocaine.
SEE, MADCOWMORNING NEWS archives.....click BLOGPOST TITLE ABOVE TO GET LINKED...see all the archives to understand.
WAYNEMADSENREPORT, long ago...2005-2006 posted the flight logs of CIA RENDITION AIRCRAFT delivering Heroin from Afghanistan to major american cities, and logs show the money went south to the CARRIBEAN BASIN BANKS like STANFORD, etc.
I MADE SURE THAT MUELLER'S FBI HQ, AND MINNEAPOLIS FBI had the flight logs on the milk runs into APPLE VALLEY, MN, airport where, the SECRET CIA--FBI--DEA facilitate RICO FELONY DRUG CRIMES under our nose. SAME SECRET TEAM demanded an interview with JESSE VENTURA shortly after he won the MINNESOTA GOVERNORSHIP?
SAME GUYS.
ALL TIED TO BUSH AND CLINTON CRIME FAMILIES.
ALL TIED TO RCMP WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S MONTANA--RACICOT drug conspiracy WITH FBI HITMAN MIKE "chuckie" PETERS cleaning up the operation and witnesses using murder. PETERS was one STALKER THAT BOB MUELLER SENT AFTER ME ON 4-26-04 in Luverne, Mn, at a fast food restaurant. Hope, for Bob, that...uh...there ain't any photos of BOB'S HITMAN STALKING ME USING THE WARRANTLESS GPS TRACKING DEVICE THAT WAS IN MY OLD CAR, AND ALSO WAS PUT IN MY NEW TRUCK.
2) THE CIA IS KNOWn AS THE "COCAINE IMPORT AGENCY" by anybody who knows anything:
-- (MIKE LEVINE at EXPERT WITNESS RADIO SHOW, author of "The Big White Lie"...
--FORMER FBI AGENT RICHARD TAUS looking at CIA K TEAM moving coke into Long Island, New York (framed on pedophile charges, and the local prosecutor also got framed after he found out about The Brady Material--SUBORNING PERJURY...
--Former DEA agent CELE CASTILLLO ...recently framed by BUSH BUTT BUDDY AND MAFIA COCKSUCKER JOHNNY "house of Death" SUTTON (recently confronted by HOLDER and an offer to take a polygraph exam on the US ATTY AT WEST DIST OF TEXAS, JOHNNY SUTTON, JOINED A CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE IN THE SAVAGE "DICK CHENEY--NSA--NSA TSP--WHITTINGTON murder" of a pregnant christian housewife named CHRISTINA MOORE (murdered for giving info to HER HUSBAND ROBERT MOORE, who broke story on Cheney's secretive energy task force/ENRON PUMP AND DUMP USING FERC RULING GIVING ENRON sole right to "trade in energy futures" linked to the conspiracy to "take energy off the market" to create profits.
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It continued:
The inspector general's report said that after the downing of the missionaries' plane, the C.I.A. had conducted internal reviews "that documented sustained and significant violations of required intercept procedures." But it said that the agency had denied Congress, the Department of Justice and the National Security Council access to these findings.
...
The report ... says that C.I.A. lawyers from the office of the general counsel "advised agency managers to avoid written products lest they be subject to legal scrutiny" in connection with the downing of the plane.
Who was it who released portions of the report last fall, and, according to Schakowsky, initiated the current inquiry?
That would be Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the intel committee.
At the same time that he released the report's excerpts, Hoekstra said he was asking DOJ to look into whether the CIA had obstructed justice, and called the incident "about as ugly as it gets." Schakowsky told Schultz last night that Hoekstra is "furious" about the incident.
That's the same Pete Hoekstra, of course, who's been front and center in portraying the agency as the embodiment of transparency and integrity in an effort to vilify Pelosi over the torture briefings. Appearing on CNN yesterday, Hoekstra called Pelosi's claims that the CIA had misled her "outrageous accusations."
But given that the agency is currently being probed on similar grounds -- in an inquiry initiated by Hoekstra himself -- perhaps Pelosi's claims aren't quite so outrageous after all.
Late Update: Thanks to reader XP, here's a bit more on Hoekstra's response to the IG report on the Peru shooting. Under the headline, "Republican Rep. Hoekstra Accuses CIA Of Coverup", CNN reported last November:
Rep. Pete Hoekstra on Thursday criticized "rogue" CIA employees involved in a joint CIA-Peruvian anti-narcotics program of withholding information after declassification of a CIA report identifying "routine disregard" of safety procedures that led to the plane being shot down.
...
"This issue goes to the heart of the American people's ability to trust the CIA," the Michigan lawmaker said Thursday. "Americans deserve to know that agencies given the power to operate on their behalf aren't abusing that power or their trust."
_________________________
TOMMY:
Let's make a distinction between CIA UNDER GOSS, and CIA after STEVE KAPPES AND HIS PALS GOT THEIR JOBS BACK.
THAT IS A BIG DISTINCTION.
GOSS-CHENEY replaced TENET, THEN KAPPES, AND HIS PALS KNOWN AS THE COVERT OP BULLS.
Cheney retaliated against CIA COVERT OPS thinking wrongly that "...I was tied to TENET--KAPPES--CIA COVERT OPS BULLS".
NOPE.
BAD MISTAKE.
BAD ASSUMPTION.
NO LINK TO ME AND KAPPES OR TENET.
NOPE.
RETALIATION CAME IN THE FORM OF:
--GOP PEDERAST scandal before 2006 election;
-- ABRAMOFF, DUKE, GUS BOULIS MURDER;
-- WATERGATE II;
-- DC MADAME PHONE RECORDS with Cheney's number...and....FBI HQ IGNORED THE CIA MURDER UNDER GOSS OF ASS. US ATTY DE LUNA, stabbed 33 times....DE LUNA thought to be leaker to WAYNE MADSEN REPORT? on "CHENEY'S NAME ON DC MADAME'S PHONE CALL RECORDS" which are...still available.
_______________________________
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In Savaging Pelosi For "Attacking" CIA, GOP Ignores Its Own Record Of Similar Attacks
By Zachary Roth - May 20, 2009, 1:08PM
We really shouldn't have to do this. As we've said before, the idea that it's some kind of outlandish and unconscionable slur to point out that the CIA -- the CIA, for chrissakes! -- can sometimes be economical with the truth is absurd on its face. But the Republican attacks on Nancy Pelosi for daring to make that claim just keep coming, so it looks like we're going to have to point this out:
Shocking as it sounds, the GOP hasn't always been so sensitive about harsh criticism of the CIA -- including leveling the charge that the CIA is being deliberately deceptive -- when it's served the party's political interest.
Before we delve into what Republicans have said about the spy agency in the past, let's refresh our memories on what they've been saying lately about Pelosi's charge that the CIA misled her, in a briefing on torture, about whether waterboarding had already been used.
Sen. Kit Bond, the vice chair of the Senate intel committee, today said Pelosi should apologize to CIA employees and called it "a tragedy that we are seeing this massive attack on our intelligence community."
Elsewhere, Bond said:
"It's outrageous that a member of Congress would call our terror-fighters liars."
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking GOP member of the House intel committee, called Pelosi's claim "outrageous."
Rep. John Boehner, he GOP House leader, said Pelosi "ought to either present the evidence or apologize."
Former speaker Newt Gingrich judged that Pelosi "disqualified herself to be the speaker." He said the allegation "smears everyone who's trying to defend her."
And former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, in a column in today's Washington Post, called Pelosi's charge one of "a series of blows to the pride and morale of the Central Intelligence Agency" leveled lately by Democrats.
So that's the now. (And believe us, we could go on, but we know your time is limited.)
What about then then?
What have Republicans said about the CIA over the last few years?
As we reported yesterday, top Pelosi antagonist Hoekstra has gone so far as to initiate a congressional inquiry into whether the CIA misled Congress on a different matter -- the 2001 shooting of a plane carrying an American missionary in Peru.
Here's what Hoekstra said about the subject last fall:
"This issue goes to the heart of the American people's ability to trust the CIA," the Michigan lawmaker said Thursday. "Americans deserve to know that agencies given the power to operate on their behalf aren't abusing that power or their trust."
And here's another case of Hoekstra questioning the CIA's veracity -- on an issue remarkably similar to the Pelosi controversy -- dug up by commenter juccikucci. When CIA director Michael Hayden said that Congress had been briefed in advance on the agency's decision to destroy tapes that showed torture, a Hoekstra spokesman contradicted that claim, saying that Hoekstra was "never briefed or advised that these tapes existed, or that they were going to be destroyed."
And here's yet another, from Laura Rozen.
Last year, Hoekstra accused the CIA of withholding from Congress information about negotiations with North Korea. Hoekstra accused the administration of failing to treat Congress with "respect," adding: "We regret to say the administration has deliberately attempted to sideline Congress in the fear that providing us with information about the North Korean regime's continuing lies and reckless behavior would undermine the current diplomatic approach."
It's not just Hoekstra, of course, who's been smearing our terror-fighters.
When, in 2007, the CIA put out a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran that Republicans viewed as insufficiently alarmist, Boehner told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "Either I don't have confidence in what they told me several months ago or I don't have confidence in what they're telling me today."
In 2006, Sen. Pat Roberts, who then chaired the Senate intel committee, accused the CIA of an "egregious intelligence failure" in declaring, under White House pressure, that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Said Roberts: "This committee simply cannot accept intelligence assessments at face value," Roberts said. "Not having your actions second-guessed is something that is earned."
We could go on here, too.
We haven't even gotten into the 2001-2003 period, when it was fashionable in hawkish Republican circles to depict the CIA as a nest of liberal bureaucrats who, in order to undermine President Bush, were deliberately downplaying evidence that Saddam had WMD and was tied to al Qaeda, .
Needless to say, it doesn't look like any of the Republicans who are now going after Pelosi expressed similar outrage at their own party's CIA bashing. In fact, in several cases it's been the same people on both sides of the issue.
Not that there's anything wrong with criticizing the CIA when it's deserved. In fact, when the Church commission recommended giving Congress a role in overseeing the CIA, back in the 1970s, everyone probably understood that criticizing the agency might be part of the job. And even that that criticism might sometimes involve suggesting that the agency was being less than truthful. As harsh as those words might be for the tender ears of some of today's Republicans.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Chutzpah: AUDACITY of STUPIDITY....News of the Weird
NOTE: click blogpost title above to get linked to NEWS OF THE WEIRD, bar none...the best site if you really need a laugh.
No other site, delivers the laughs for me.
You can also check out "The Darwin Awards" site...featuring stories of stupidity by humans who should not have their DNA passed down to another generation.
If you NEED TO LAUGH, THEN YOU GOT TO VISIT THESE TWO SITES.
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http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html
Questionable Judgments:
Remo Spencer, who works at the Wal-Mart in Great Falls, Mont., was arrested in April and charged with stealing eight laptop computers and seven iPods from the store's inventory. He aroused suspicion when he offered those items for sale on Wal-Mart's employee bulletin board. [Billings Gazette, 4-21-09]
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In March, a judge in Jefferson County, Texas, probated the 90-day DUI sentence for Jeffrey Latham, 37, on condition that he not drink alcohol, and he ordered Latham to report to the probation office.
Two hours later, Latham showed up as scheduled, drunk, and was promptly shuttled back to court. [Beaumont Enterprise, 3-13-09]
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Recently the Washington Supreme Court ruled that Seattle had for two years improperly charged water customers for servicing hydrants when the city should have covered the service from general tax funds, and it ordered customer refunds averaging $45.
However, Seattle then discovered it had insufficient general funds to pay for hydrant service and thus imposed a water surcharge of $59 per customer, according to a February KOMO-TV report.
The most likely reason the surcharge was higher is that the city had to pay $4.2 million to the attorneys who filed the account-shuffling lawsuit. [KOMO-TV, 2-13-09]
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After three years of providing worker-training grants to a San Francisco-area multimedia coalition that includes a maker of sexualized torture videos, the California Employment Training Panel cut off funding in April, claiming that it had not realized the nature of what an outfit called "Kink.com" does.
The coalition protested the panel's decision, pointing out that Kink is a law-abiding, tax-paying entity that employs 100 local people and keeps California adult video "competitive in the international marketplace" by training employees in video editing, Photoshop and other multimedia skills.
A typical Kink.com production may feature paid, consenting women bound, gagged and supposedly electrically shocked. [SF Weekly, 4-22-09]
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East St. Louis, Ill., policeman Kristopher Weston apprehended a murder suspect about 20 minutes after the crime in April, which was such a nice piece of police work that the mayor called Weston before the city council to commend him.
Five minutes after Weston left the room, the council got down to regular business, the first order of which was to approve a list of police and firefighter layoffs due to budget shortfalls, and on the list because of low seniority was Officer Kristopher Weston. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4-15-09]
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http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw090510.html
A 58-year-old man was arrested in Baltimore in February for allegedly stabbing his 19-year-old son after an argument over the son's refusal to remove his hat during church service. [Fox News-AP, 2-24-09]
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Not Ready for Prime Time:
A 16-year-old boy was arrested in Centerville, Utah, in April as he roamed a neighborhood at night trying to break into several cars.
The last one he tried was the private vehicle of a sheriff's deputy, who was still in it, in uniform and finishing a phone call after coming off his shift.
After arresting the kid, the deputy reported that the boy had been so stunned when he saw the deputy inside the car that he immediately soiled his pants.
Said the deputy, "You could smell him." [Deseret News, 4-21-09]
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http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw090503.html
Bright Ideas
Coming Soon to Reality TV: The CMT cable channel has scheduled an August start-up for "Runnin' Wild ... From Ted Nugent," in which the rock singer, hunter and uninhibited gun advocate will spend five episodes training three novices on how to survive in the woods, and then, in the final episodes, Nugent and his 18-year-old son will go hunt them down, with the last one to avoid capture declared the winner. [Press Release from TedNugent.com, 4-2-09]
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In April, police in Copley Township, Ohio, were called to a restaurant where Erik Salmons, 39, was allegedly intoxicated and annoying customers. Officers declined to arrest him but did insist that he call someone for a ride home, and Salmons complied.
However, at home, Salmons decided that he was insulted at being thought of as intoxicated and so drove himself to the police station and demanded a breathalyzer test, which of course he failed, and he was arrested. [Akron Beacon Journal, 4-7-09]
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http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw090426.html
When Alcoa Inc. prepared to build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland in 2004, the government forced it to hire an expert to assure that none of the country's legendary "hidden people" lived underneath the property.
The elf-like goblins provoke genuine apprehensiveness in many of the country's 300,000 natives (who are all, reputedly, related by blood).
An Alcoa spokesman told Vanity Fair writer Michael Lewis (for an April 2009 report) that the inspection (which delayed construction for six months) was costly but necessary: "(W)e couldn't be in the position of acknowledging the existence of hidden people." (Lewis offered several explanations for the country's spectacular financial implosion in 2008, including Icelanders' incomprehensible superiority complex that convinced many lifelong fishermen that they were gifted investment bankers.) [Vanity Fair, April 2009
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Joseph Milano, owner of Goomba's Pizza in Palm Coast, Fla., was in the federal witness protection program for squealing on Bonanno crime family members in New York but lost his anonymity in January when he was arrested for allegedly pistol-whipping a customer who had dared to criticize his calzone. [New York Daily News, 2-7-09]
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http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw090419.html
The GAO report came two months after the German Interior Ministry reported to Parliament that over a 10-year period, it had lost 332 secret files that were in fact so secret that no one in the Ministry could recall what was in them. [The Local (Berlin), 12-13-08]
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A News of the Weird Classic (May 2001)
Inexplicable:
Police in West Vancouver, British Columbia, assured residents in April 2001 that they had stopped a three-year petty-crime spree in an upscale neighborhood when they arrested multimillionaire Eugene Mah, 64, and his son, Avery, 32.
Police said the two were responsible for stealing hundreds of their neighbors' downscale knick-knacks, such as garbage cans, lawn decorations and even municipal recycling boxes, and hiding them at their own luxury home.
Mah's Vancouver real estate holdings are reported at about US$13 million, but among the recovered goods were such tacky items as one neighbor's doormat and, subsequently, each of the 14 doormats the neighbor purchased as replacements. [Canadian Press, 4-26-01]
No other site, delivers the laughs for me.
You can also check out "The Darwin Awards" site...featuring stories of stupidity by humans who should not have their DNA passed down to another generation.
If you NEED TO LAUGH, THEN YOU GOT TO VISIT THESE TWO SITES.
_______________________
http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html
Questionable Judgments:
Remo Spencer, who works at the Wal-Mart in Great Falls, Mont., was arrested in April and charged with stealing eight laptop computers and seven iPods from the store's inventory. He aroused suspicion when he offered those items for sale on Wal-Mart's employee bulletin board. [Billings Gazette, 4-21-09]
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In March, a judge in Jefferson County, Texas, probated the 90-day DUI sentence for Jeffrey Latham, 37, on condition that he not drink alcohol, and he ordered Latham to report to the probation office.
Two hours later, Latham showed up as scheduled, drunk, and was promptly shuttled back to court. [Beaumont Enterprise, 3-13-09]
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Recently the Washington Supreme Court ruled that Seattle had for two years improperly charged water customers for servicing hydrants when the city should have covered the service from general tax funds, and it ordered customer refunds averaging $45.
However, Seattle then discovered it had insufficient general funds to pay for hydrant service and thus imposed a water surcharge of $59 per customer, according to a February KOMO-TV report.
The most likely reason the surcharge was higher is that the city had to pay $4.2 million to the attorneys who filed the account-shuffling lawsuit. [KOMO-TV, 2-13-09]
____________________________
After three years of providing worker-training grants to a San Francisco-area multimedia coalition that includes a maker of sexualized torture videos, the California Employment Training Panel cut off funding in April, claiming that it had not realized the nature of what an outfit called "Kink.com" does.
The coalition protested the panel's decision, pointing out that Kink is a law-abiding, tax-paying entity that employs 100 local people and keeps California adult video "competitive in the international marketplace" by training employees in video editing, Photoshop and other multimedia skills.
A typical Kink.com production may feature paid, consenting women bound, gagged and supposedly electrically shocked. [SF Weekly, 4-22-09]
______________________________
East St. Louis, Ill., policeman Kristopher Weston apprehended a murder suspect about 20 minutes after the crime in April, which was such a nice piece of police work that the mayor called Weston before the city council to commend him.
Five minutes after Weston left the room, the council got down to regular business, the first order of which was to approve a list of police and firefighter layoffs due to budget shortfalls, and on the list because of low seniority was Officer Kristopher Weston. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4-15-09]
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http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw090510.html
A 58-year-old man was arrested in Baltimore in February for allegedly stabbing his 19-year-old son after an argument over the son's refusal to remove his hat during church service. [Fox News-AP, 2-24-09]
________________________
Not Ready for Prime Time:
A 16-year-old boy was arrested in Centerville, Utah, in April as he roamed a neighborhood at night trying to break into several cars.
The last one he tried was the private vehicle of a sheriff's deputy, who was still in it, in uniform and finishing a phone call after coming off his shift.
After arresting the kid, the deputy reported that the boy had been so stunned when he saw the deputy inside the car that he immediately soiled his pants.
Said the deputy, "You could smell him." [Deseret News, 4-21-09]
________________________
http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw090503.html
Bright Ideas
Coming Soon to Reality TV: The CMT cable channel has scheduled an August start-up for "Runnin' Wild ... From Ted Nugent," in which the rock singer, hunter and uninhibited gun advocate will spend five episodes training three novices on how to survive in the woods, and then, in the final episodes, Nugent and his 18-year-old son will go hunt them down, with the last one to avoid capture declared the winner. [Press Release from TedNugent.com, 4-2-09]
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In April, police in Copley Township, Ohio, were called to a restaurant where Erik Salmons, 39, was allegedly intoxicated and annoying customers. Officers declined to arrest him but did insist that he call someone for a ride home, and Salmons complied.
However, at home, Salmons decided that he was insulted at being thought of as intoxicated and so drove himself to the police station and demanded a breathalyzer test, which of course he failed, and he was arrested. [Akron Beacon Journal, 4-7-09]
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http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw090426.html
When Alcoa Inc. prepared to build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland in 2004, the government forced it to hire an expert to assure that none of the country's legendary "hidden people" lived underneath the property.
The elf-like goblins provoke genuine apprehensiveness in many of the country's 300,000 natives (who are all, reputedly, related by blood).
An Alcoa spokesman told Vanity Fair writer Michael Lewis (for an April 2009 report) that the inspection (which delayed construction for six months) was costly but necessary: "(W)e couldn't be in the position of acknowledging the existence of hidden people." (Lewis offered several explanations for the country's spectacular financial implosion in 2008, including Icelanders' incomprehensible superiority complex that convinced many lifelong fishermen that they were gifted investment bankers.) [Vanity Fair, April 2009
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Joseph Milano, owner of Goomba's Pizza in Palm Coast, Fla., was in the federal witness protection program for squealing on Bonanno crime family members in New York but lost his anonymity in January when he was arrested for allegedly pistol-whipping a customer who had dared to criticize his calzone. [New York Daily News, 2-7-09]
__________________
http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw090419.html
The GAO report came two months after the German Interior Ministry reported to Parliament that over a 10-year period, it had lost 332 secret files that were in fact so secret that no one in the Ministry could recall what was in them. [The Local (Berlin), 12-13-08]
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A News of the Weird Classic (May 2001)
Inexplicable:
Police in West Vancouver, British Columbia, assured residents in April 2001 that they had stopped a three-year petty-crime spree in an upscale neighborhood when they arrested multimillionaire Eugene Mah, 64, and his son, Avery, 32.
Police said the two were responsible for stealing hundreds of their neighbors' downscale knick-knacks, such as garbage cans, lawn decorations and even municipal recycling boxes, and hiding them at their own luxury home.
Mah's Vancouver real estate holdings are reported at about US$13 million, but among the recovered goods were such tacky items as one neighbor's doormat and, subsequently, each of the 14 doormats the neighbor purchased as replacements. [Canadian Press, 4-26-01]
JOURNALIST STALKED over story linking BERNIE THE SWINDLING KIKE to Mafia, Miliken, Boesky
http://www.deepcapture.com/bernard-madoff-the-mafia-and-the-friends-of-michael-milken/
Bernard Madoff, the Mafia, and the Friends of Michael Milken
Posted on 03 February 2009 by Mark Mitchell
In 2005, Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock.com and future Deep Capture investigative reporter, began a public crusade against illegal naked short selling (hedge funds and brokers creating phantom stock to manipulate stock prices down). He said, over and over, that the crime was destroying public companies and had the potential to trigger a systemic meltdown of our financial markets.
Soon after, I began to investigate a network of short sellers, journalists, and miscreants. I concluded that many of the people in this network were connected to two famous criminals – “junk bond king” Michael Milken and his associate, Ivan Boesky. I also began taking a close look at the Mafia’s involvement in naked short selling.
In my last installment (click here to read), I described some of the strange occurrences that attended this investigation. Where the story left off, I’d recently been threatened in a bookstore, and then ambushed by three thugs who told me to stay away from this story. My unwitting employer had been bribed by short sellers, Patrick had been told by a U.S. Senator that his life was in danger, and a Russian matryoshka doll had appeared on the desk of an offshore businessman.
Inside this matryoshka doll was a slip of paper marked with the letter “F”…
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Soon after receiving the matryoshka doll, the offshore businessman invited Patrick Byrne to a greasy spoon diner in Long Island. Over the previous year, the businessman had provided Patrick with some information about the naked short selling scam, and the hope was that he might have something more to say.
But that day at the diner, all he had was a message.
“I’ll make this quick,” the businessman said, with two other witnesses present. “I have a message for you from Russia. The message is, ‘We are about to kill you. We are about to kill you.’ Patrick, they are going to kill you. If you do not stop this crusade [against naked short selling], they will kill you. Normally they’d have already hurt someone close to you as a warning, but you’re so weird, they don’t know how you’d react.”
In a later conversation with a colleague of Patrick’s the businessman said [verbatim]: “These things don’t happen to me anymore. I mean, I’ve been out of that world [the world of Mafia stock manipulation] for a dozen years or more. These…there are defined signals here that lead me to believe that they [the Mafia] have been disturbed. The only way they coulda been disturbed is if they own Rocker or if he is using them for leverage.”
Rocker. That’s David Rocker.
At the time, David Rocker was a “prominent” hedge fund manager specialized in short selling (betting that stock prices will fall). It was also the case that Rocker had spent the last couple decades insinuating to people on Wall Street that he was somehow tied to the Mob.
But Rocker was probably full of it. He didn’t have ties to the Mob. Perhaps he merely believed that his insinuations lent him a certain cachet.
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From 1973 to 1981, Rocker was a general partner in a short selling hedge fund managed by Michael Steinhardt, who is one of Wall Street’s most “prominent” investors, regularly hailed by The Wall Street Journal and CNBC as a genius and a font of wisdom.
Some years ago, Steinhardt belatedly acknowledged that he is the son of Sol “Red” Steinhardt, who was once a major player in the Genovese Mafia organization. Steinhardt, Sr. spent several years in Sing-Sing prison after a New York City prosecutor described him as the “biggest Mafia fence in America.”
Incidentally, experts concur that the Genovese Mafia family brought the Russian Mob to America.
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The largest investors in Steinhardt Jr.’s first hedge fund were associates of the Genovese Mafia (whose investments came in large sacks of cash), Marty Peretz (future founder, with Jim Cramer, of TheStreet.com), Marc Rich (future fugitive charged with tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran and Libya), and Ivan Boesky (later imprisoned on multiple counts, most of them involving stock manipulation schemes orchestrated with “junk bond king” Michael Milken).
By 1991, Steinhardt owned another hedge fund — JGM Management – with a “prominent investor” named James Marquez. The star employee at JGM was “prominent investor” Samuel Israel III.
A few years later, Israel and Marquez founded the Bayou Group, one of the biggest hedge fund frauds in history. A significant part of the Bayou fraud involved Israel “feeding” his investors’ money into a Ponzi scheme run by Robert Booth Nichols, who has been targeted by authorities as a business associate of the Genovese Mafia family.
When Israel was sentenced to prison last year, he briefly disappeared. His car was found on a bridge. Scrawled in the dust on the hood was a note: “Suicide is Painless.”
Authorities arrested Israel’s girlfriend, whom they suspected of harboring a fugitive. Shortly after, Israel rode a red motor scooter to a Boston police station and turned himself in. Apparently, he was not dead. He had tried to fool us.
Meanwhile, Israel had filed a lawsuit against Nichols, alleging that Nichols had ripped him off. Apparently, Israel (who could not be reached for this article) would like us to believe that he is not tied to Nichols or the Genovese Mafia.
Nonetheless, Israel has a certain cachet. So do Steinhardt and James Marquez.
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In the 1990s, Steinhardt founded another hedge fund, Steinhardt Partners. The co-founder and head trader of Steinhardt Partners was a “prominent investor” named John Lattanzio.
The limited public information about Lattanzio concerns a Russian prostitute.
Apparently, Lattanzio proposed marriage to the prostitute and gave her a diamond ring. Alas, the couple separated, and Lattanzio asked for his ring back. After all, it had cost him $289,275.00.
But the prostitute seemed to believe that the ring was payment for services rendered. The dispute ended up in court, where the prostitute testified that Lattanzio had told her that he had ties to the Mafia.
Yes, said the prostitute, Lattanzio (Steinhardt Partners’ co-founder and head trader) had big-time Mafia connections, and he “would not hesitate to use them to harm me.”
From what I know of Russian strumpets, there is at least one area where they cannot be trusted – and that is where it concerns their love life. So perhaps Lattanzio had his heart broken. Perhaps, in the heat of passion, he said some crazy stuff about the Mafia to make himself seem dangerous. If that is the case, I send Mr. Lattanzio my condolences.
Indeed, I would enjoy meeting him. He has a certain cachet.
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Rocker left Steinhardt’s hedge fund in 1981 and went to work for an investment management firm called Century Capital Associates.
Information on this firm is limited, but it seems to have been largely owned in the 1980s by the Belzberg brothers — William, Sam and Hymie.
The Belzbergs were among Michael Milken’s closest cronies (family member Mark Belzberg was in fact implicated by the SEC in Milken’s stock manipulation schemes). They were at the inner core of the Milken machine – buying and selling the junk bonds of other Milken cronies. Often, the Belzbergs collaborated with Milken to blackmail, seize, or destroy public companies. .
In the late 1980s, the Belzbergs announced that they were going to take over Crazy Eddie, which was then a famous home electronics retail chain. The Belzbergs joined forces with Crazy Eddie’s founder, Eddie Antar, and the company’s chief financial officer, Sam Antar, in a supposed effort to take the company private.
This is a story for another time, but for now it suffices to say that Crazy Eddie was a massive fraud, the Belzbergs (and Milken) likely knew this already, and when the company was raided by the FBI a few months later, it emerged that Sam Antar had been feeding information to both the FBI and a lawyer, Howard Sirota, who was preparing to sue the company.
The Belzberg’s did not buy Crazy Eddie. Instead, just before the FBI arrived, the company was sold to another investor, Victor Palmieri. Robert A. Marmon, who was hired by Palmieri to run Crazy Eddie, told me that he arrived to find that the company’s top employees – the only people who had had direct access to the Antars – were all burly, armed thugs who claimed to be former employees of the Mossad, Israel’s secret intelligence agency.
It was Marmon’s job to fire the Antars’ corporate goons. “I’ve never been so scared in my life,” he said. “There weren’t any explicit death threats. They just stared you down, so you got the message.”
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Sam Antar is a convicted felon, but he never went to prison because he testified against his cousin, Eddie Antar, in return for house arrest. Now he is paid by short sellers with ties to David Rocker and associates of Michael Milken. The assignment to which he devotes the majority of his time is to use the Internet to harass and smear the reputations of Deep Capture founder Patrick Byrne and his colleagues.
At one point, Antar threatened the young children of Deep Capture reporter Judd Bagley, posting their names, ages, and address on the Internet. As I described in my last installment, Antar has made what I can only interpret to be veiled references to two seminal events in my life – the time I was ambushed and punched in the eye by three thugs, and the day that a goon in a bookstore threatened my close relative.
When he is not harassing us, Antar helps Howard Sirota (the attorney who sued Crazy Eddie) file bogus class action lawsuits against companies targeted by short sellers. A recent court case also describes Antar delivering $250,000 in cash to a man named Barry Minkow
In the 1980s, Minkow built a carpet cleaning and insurance restoration company called ZZZZ Best, with the bulk of his finance coming from Michael Milken, and other funds coming from associates of the Genovese organized crime family.
ZZZZ Best was a massive fraud that manufactured false restoration claims – some of them on Las Vegas casinos that had been financed by Michael Milken and investors tied to the Genovese organized crime family.
Minkow spent some time in prison. Now he runs an outfit called the Fraud Discovery Institute out of the Community Bible Church in San Diego, where he is a preacher. The Fraud Discovery Unit is in the business of publishing negative information about public companies targeted by Howard Sirota and short sellers tied to David Rocker, Michael Steinhardt, and associates of Michael Milken.
In one of Sam Antar’s famous Internet messages (he signs them, “Sam Antar, Convicted Felon”), he warned that we at Deep Capture were taking chances by writing about the Mafia connections of Barry Minkow, whom Antar described as his “friend.”
“You have awakened a sleeping giant,” Antar wrote.
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In addition to their involvement with Crazy Eddie and David Rocker’s operation, the Belzberg brothers – William, Sam, and Hymie – also tried in the 1980s to take over a investment services concern called the Bache Group. But executives of the Bache Group did not want the Belzbergs to seize their company.
According to the executives, the Belzbergs had ties to the Mafia. The executives went public with their allegations, citing, among other things, a U.S. Customs report that described the Belzbergs cavorting with some Genovese mafiosi in Acapulco.
Fortune magazine reported that these allegations were “unsubstantiated.”
But the Belzbergs have a certain cachet
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The Belzbergs were also the largest providers of capital to John Mulheren, a “prominent investor” who was famous in the 1980s for the arbitrage operation that he ran out of Spear Leeds & Kellogg, a broker-dealer and notorious naked short seller that was later merged into Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing (which currently employs Elliot Faivinov, a Russian man who in 2006 was, for reasons of his own, receiving copies of the phone records of a woman who was then Deep Capture reporter Patrick Byrne’s girlfriend).
The Department of Justice alleged that Mulheren routinely engaged in stock manipulation schemes with Ivan Boesky, targeting companies financed by Milken. In 1987, when Boesky was indicted, and the government began to investigate Milken, Mulheren announced that he was going to murder Boesky.
Depending on the story, Mulheren either forgot to take his psychiatric medication, or he was worried that Boesky was going to squeal. Either way, he was arrested on the way to Boesky’s house. In Mulheren’s car, police found a 9-millimeter pistol, a .357 Magnum, a 12-gauge pistol-grip shotgun, a .233-caliber Israeli Galil assault rifle, and 300 rounds of ammunition.
It is a common misperception that Boesky’s testimony led to the 98-count indictment of Michael Milken. Considering the scope of business the two criminals did together, Boesky actually provided very little information to the government. He told prosecutors that he was afraid that he might be killed. On several occasions he told prosecutors that he might be killed by Milken’s “friends in Vegas.”
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Far more important to the government’s case against Milken was evidence that it obtained when 50 armed troopers stormed the offices of a hedge fund called Princeton-Newport. The founder of this hedge fund, Edward Thorp, once partnered with the Genovese organized crime family to develop a system for cheating Las Vegas casinos. He wrote a seminal book on counting cards in black jack, and soon after, he was a critical – perhaps the most critical – figure in the Milken operation.
The base of Milken’s operation was the high-yield debt department of Drexel Burnham Lambert in Beverly Hills. From there, he underwrote and sold billions upon billions of dollars worth of junk bonds. Hence the moniker, “the junk bond king.”
But most observers believe that Milken derived a greater part of his fortune from a web of private partnerships and personal brokerages that traded, and often manipulated, not just the debt, but also the stock of public companies. Most profitable of all Milken’s businesses were two Chicago-based brokerages – Belvedere Securities and EGM partners – that he co-owned with the Genovese Mafia card-counter Edward Thorp.
In 2006, Thorp’s son, Jeffrey, was charged by the SEC with destroying more than 20 companies in a scheme that involved unbridled naked short selling (millions upon millions of phantom shares sold into the market). Jeffrey Thorp also collaborated closely in short selling schemes with Anthony Elgindy, a notorious phantom stock peddler who is now serving an 11 year prison sentence for stock manipulation, extortion, and bribing FBI agents.
Elgindy, like Thorp’s father, is tied to the Genovese organized crime family.
When Elgindy appeared in court for sentencing, the judge noticed that Elgindy was missing the tip of one finger. Elgindy could not provide a straight answer as to what had happened, but a source close to the Elgindy investigation claims that Elgindy was forced by Russian mobsters to saw off his own finger as a warning not to squeal on his partners in crime.
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When delivering the death threat to Patrick Byrne, the offshore businessman mentioned David Rocker, and as we now know, Rocker was a general partner in Michael Steinhardt’s first hedge fund — largely capitalized by the Genovese Mafia and Ivan Boesky. We also know that Rocker later worked for Century Capital, largely owned by the Belzbergs – William, Sam, and Hymie – who might or might not have been cavorting with Genovese mafiosi in Acapulco, but were certainly the largest funders of John Mulheren.
After getting caught on his way to murder Ivan Boesky, Mulheren went to jail, where he spent most of his time in consultation with Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, a Genovese Mafia capo who had recently begun a 100 year prison sentence.
Upon his release, Mulheren (whose convictions were later reversed on appeal) went into business with a “prominent investor” named Israel Englander. Soon after that, Mulheren died (apparently of a heart attack), but Englander continued to manage Millennium Partners, a “prominent” short selling hedge fund whose major investors are the Belzbergs – William, Sam, and Hymie.
By this time, David Rocker had left the Belzberg’s Century Capital to start his own hedge fund – Rocker Partners.
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Here I must skip ahead more than a decade: In 2004, Deep Capture reporter Patrick Byrne (pursuant to his day job of being CEO of Overstock.com) was on a Lehman Brothers-sponsored road show seeing dozens of hedge funds, attempting to sell a $120 million convertible bond in Overstock. When he sat down in Millennium’s offices, a man entered. His opening words were, “Millennium wants to take the entire $120 million of this offering. Of course, we’ll need a board seat to go with that.”
This would have given the hedge fund access to inside information about Overstock. And it would have given Millennium the ability to sell the company short without borrowing shares in the open market.
This is a common strategy employed by short sellers tied to Michael Milken or his associates. As I will show in future stories, many companies that agree to this arrangement are eventually destroyed or seriously wounded by naked short selling – hedge funds offloading phantom stock.
Overstock board member Gordon Macklin, the former chairman of Hambrecht & Quist, a straight-shooting investment bank, warned Patrick not to do the deal with Millennium.
Millennium, after all, had a certain cachet.
Patrick declined Millennium’s offer, and went ahead with the offering to a number of hedge funds.
A few months after Millennium’s offer to acquire the bonds, affiliated hedge fund managers, including David Rocker, began a short selling attack on Overstock.
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One hedge fund closely affiliated with David Rocker is SAC Capital, which is managed by Steven Cohen, and is said to account for more than 3 percent of all the trading on the New York Stock Exchange. BusinessWeek magazine has described Cohen as “The Most Powerful Trader on Wall Street.”
Some years ago, there was an article by Fortune magazine called “The Shabby Side of the Street.” This article did not mention Steve Cohen. It did not mention him because, by this time, Cohen was a “prominent investor.”
But while “The Shabby Side of the Street” does not mention Cohen, it is all about Gruntal & Co., which is where Cohen spent his formative years. Cohen was a proprietary trader for Gruntal in the 1980s and early 1990s – up until the day when he founded SAC Capital.
Gruntal, we can assume, is where Cohen developed his network and learned the tricks that made him the “most powerful trader on Wall Street.”
Fortune magazine interviewed a former Gruntal employee, who described the ambience there: “Gruntal was the Island of the Misfit Toys. But they didn’t care what was going on in our sick, dysfunctional office as long as we were making money. We had no manager, and it’s illegal not to supervise brokers. I remember doing cartwheels down the hall, drinking beer at my desk, smoking pot, having sex in the stairwell. Whatever!”
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The Fortune magazine article about Gruntal also failed to mention Michael Milken. It did not mention Milken because Milken was, by then, a “prominent philanthropist.” But Milken had been intimately involved with Gruntal, whose parent company, a financial services and insurance conglomerate called the Home Group, had been central to the Michael Milken empire.
As nearly every account of Michael Milken’s schemes will tell you, Milken worked with a select group of cronies (many of whom controlled large insurance and financial services conglomerates) to operate what amounted to a Ponzi scheme.
The cronies would sell junk bonds through Milken to raise finance. Then the cronies would use much of this finance to buy (from Milken) the junk bonds of other cronies in the group. The cronies and Milken would then trade the junk bonds among themselves, raising their prices incrementally as they passed them on to the next crony (a process known as “daisy-chaining”), before fobbing them off to little old ladies and dimwitted pension fund managers.
Until the scheme collapsed, Milken’s junk-bond merry-go-round generated enormous profits and seemingly unlimited finance for his select cronies. So the cronies could not only buy more junk bonds from Milken, but they could also use their billions to harass, destroy, or initiate hostile takeovers of public companies.
Meanwhile, Milken presided over a nationwide network of private partnerships (such as those he had with the Mafia card-counter Edward Thorp), arbitrage and short selling partnerships (such as Ivan Boesky’s criminal operation), short selling hedge funds (such as Michael Steinhardt’s Mafia-funded outfit), and brokerages that could help put public companies on the defensive.
Home Insurance was a key buyer and issuer of Milken junk bonds. It was the second largest unsecured creditor to Milken’s operation at Drexel. It also owned about $15 million worth of Ivan Boesky’s short selling and arbitrage outfit. Meanwhile, Home’s subsidiary, Gruntal & Co., employed traders who were on quite friendly terms with Milken and others in his network.
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Gruntal’s options department was founded by a man named Carl Icahn. After leaving Gruntal, Icahn formed Icahn & Co., receiving most of his finance from Michael Milken, but also a significant chunk of capital from a “prominent investor” named Zen Wolfson.
Since then, Wolfson has been involved with a number of Wall Street brokerages that are tied to the Genovese Mafia. One such brokerage is Pond Securities, which, in 2001, was implicated by the SEC in a massive naked short selling (phantom stock) fraud. Among the victims of Pond Securities were companies that had employed the services of Ladenburg Thalmann, an investment bank largely controlled by Carl Icahn.
In an upcoming story, I will tell you more about Ladenburg Thalmann’s role in the naked short selling scandal. I will tell you more about Pond Securities and its relationship with a man who remains a fugitive in Austria. And I will tell you more about Carl Icahn, who is not only one of the most “prominent investors” in America, but also a man with a certain cachet.
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Another employee of Gruntal – a fellow who sat next to Steve Cohen (later known as “the most powerful trader on the Street”) – was Stephen Feinberg, who had moved to Gruntal from Michael Milken’s operation at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Feinberg had been one of Milken’s most favored employees. Most likely, he moved to Gruntal (“the “shabby side of the Street,” as Fortune magazine described it) to reinforce the relationship between Gruntal and Milken’s nation-wide stock manipulation network.
Nowadays, Feinberg runs Cerberus Capital, one of the most powerful private equity firms in America. In an upcoming story, I will tell you how Cerberus loots the companies it seizes.
Its techniques have a certain cachet.
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Yet another “prominent investor” who sat on Steve Cohen’s trading floor at Gruntal was Samuel Israel III.
Israel left Gruntal to work for a hedge fund owned by Steinhardt (the son of the “biggest Mafia fence in America”). As you will recall, Israel later wrote “Suicide is Painless” on his car and briefly disappeared after being sentenced for masterminding one of the largest hedge fund frauds in history – a fraud that Israel ran with help from a co-founder of Steinhardt’s hedge fund and another fellow connected to the Genovese Mafia.
Also on Steve Cohen’s trading floor at Gruntal was Maurice A. Gross, whose biggest client was Thomas Gambino, a prominent member of the Gambino Mafia family. This was in the days when the Gambinos and the Genovese still collaborated on Wall Street.
Gross later left Gruntal, and in 1997, he and a Pakistani fellow named Mohammad Ali Khan tried to steal the Gambinos’ money.
Fortunately, Elliot Spitzer intervened. At the time, Spitzer was New York’s attorney general. Throughout his political career, Spitzer received by far the greatest percentage of his campaign funding from short sellers (such as Jim Chanos, who provided a rent-free beach house to the hooker who later forced Spitzer to resign as governor) who are closely tied to Steve Cohen and SAC Capital.
Spitzer forced the former Gruntal broker to give the Gambinos their money back. There is no evidence, however, that Spitzer was concerned that New York’s second largest organized crime family was running money through a brokerage owned by cronies of Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky.
In 1996, Gruntal was charged with embezzling millions of dollars. By then, Steve Cohen had left to begin his career as the “most powerful trader on the Street.”
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So in 2006, I was investigating Steve Cohen’s SAC Capital, David Rocker, Michael Steinhardt and their network of miscreants. I was also investigating “prominent” journalists (at The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNBC and other major news organizations) who had unusual relationships with this network and who were going to extraordinary lengths to cover up the naked short selling (phantom stock) scandal.
That’s when three guys in Armani suits saddled up to me in a quiet bar. As you will recall from my last installment, one of the Armanis introduced himself to me as a former Boesky employee, and told me a story about a fellow who got his brains blown out after “peeking” into the ladies underwear department at Saks Fifth Avenue.
Steve Cohen’s SAC Capital is known colloquially as “Sak.” I do not know for certain that Armani was telling me I shouldn’t be “peeking” at Cohen’s dirty underwear. It was a strange encounter, to say the least.
But if you doubt that journalists sometimes receive such threats, consider the case of Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch. One day after work, Busch found, in the front seat of her car, a dead fish and a rose. In the windshield of her car, there was bullet hole and a note that said, simply, “Stop!”
Later, the LA Times reporter was nearly killed when two men in a black Mercedes tried to run her over.
All of this was the handiwork of Anthony Pellicano, a former soldier in the Genovese Mafia organization who had found employment as a hired-thug and private investigator. Most of Pellicano’s clients had been Hollywood actors like Steven Seagal (who has been reported by some news organizations to have ties to the Mob, though I have not confirmed those reports) and various billionaires, a significant number of whom had ties to Michael Milken.
When Pellicano put the dead fish and the bullet hole in the reporter’s car, he was working for Michael Ovitz, the Hollywood mogul. Busch and the LA Times were investigating the business dealings of Ovitz, and Ovitz apparently hired the former Genovese Mafia soldier to stop the story in its tracks.
Ovitz, as you may know, is one of Michael Milken’s closest friends. They were high school classmates. In later years, Milken and Ovitz did a lot of business together.
While Pellicano was threatening an L.A. Times reporter, he was also employed by Adam Sender, who runs a hedge fund called Exis Capital. Sender is a former employee of Steve Cohen at SAC Capital. Steve Cohen — the “most powerful trader on the Street” — provided Sender with most of his start-up capital. Exis and Sender are considered by most everyone on Wall Street to be essentially subsidiaries of SAC (a.k.a. “Sak”).
Apparently, Sender had some kind of dispute with a business partner, so he called Pellicano, the former Genovese Mafia soldier. In a conversation that was recorded by the FBI, Sender said to Pellicano: “You have 100% free reign to do whatever you feel will make this cocksucker as unhappy as possible…I’d like to make the fucking asshole as uncomfortable as possible…I’m going to continue the lawsuit until doomsday… when the time is right I’m going to fix him.”
You can listen to the full conversation here.
In a later conversation, Pellicano allegedly offered to have Sender’s business partner disappear. The former Genovese soldier said he’d make his move while the business partner was driving to Los Angeles from Las Vegas. He’d force the business partner off the road. Then Pellicano would kill the business partner and bury him in the Nevada desert. Nobody would know a thing.
In court, Sender testified that he turned down Pellicano’s murder-for-hire offer. But Pellicano was convicted for multiple crimes – such as offering to have a man buried in the Nevada desert and putting a dead fish, a rose, and bullet hole in the car of a journalist investigating Michael Milken’s best friend from high school.
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I do not know whether any merit can be given to the offshore businessman’s speculation that Rocker might be “owned” by the Mafia. I do not know whether Rocker had anything to do with the message that the Russian Mafia was going to kill Patrick Byrne.
I do know, however, that in a later phone conversation, the offshore businessman explained how the death threat had been conveyed to him. He said he returned home one night and his wife told him there was a package on his desk. “And there was a beautiful little box, and inside was a matryoshka.”
“And I opened up the…matryoshka, and inside is an `F’ with a cross on it — which is from Felix.”
The businessman said he contacted Felix. And Felix said, “tell [Patrick]….we’re going to fucking take it private.”
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In 1998, Felix – that’s Felix Sater – forgot to pay the rent on a locker at the Manhattan Mini Storage in Soho. As a result, police found inside this locker two pistols, a shotgun, and a gym bag stuffed with documents outlining various money laundering and stock manipulation schemes orchestrated by Felix Sater and his partners.
Felix is a Russian immigrant said by authorities to have ties to both the Russian Mafia and the Genovese organized crime family.
In 1991, Felix stabbed a stock broker in the face with a broken stem of a wine glass.
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After reviewing the contents of Felix’s locker, the FBI launched a sweeping investigation that culminated, in the summer of 2000, with the bureau’s famous “Operation Uptick” – sometimes referred to as the “Mob on Wall Street” operation. More than 100 stock brokers and investors allegedly tied to the Mafia were arrested – the biggest securities bust in FBI history.
Among those arrested in the “Mob on Wall Street” operation were a number of people tied to Michael Milken or his closest cronies. One of them was Gene Phillips.
In the 1980s, Phillips ran a company called Southmark, which was at the center of the Milken Ponzi. Southmark was, in fact, the single largest real estate conglomerate ever financed by Milken. But it didn’t just buy real estate. In only one of many transactions, Milken delivered over $400 million in junk bond finance to Phillips, and Phillips used every penny of that finance to buy (from Milken) the junk bonds of other Milken cronies.
The “Mob on Wall Street” case alleged that Phillips engaged in stock manipulation schemes with a coterie of miscreants who were tied to the Genovese organized crime family. Ultimately, Phillips was acquitted.
But even before he was arrested, Phillips had a certain cachet.
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Felix Sater (the man who allegedly sent the matryoshka doll) was ultimately named as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a Mafia-run stock fraud. One of his friends co-authored a book, “The Scorpion and the Frog,” which suggests that Sater (whom the author of the book gives a pseudonym, “Lex Tersa”) cut a deal allowing him to avoid prosecution if he helped the CIA set up a phony arms deal with Osama Bin Laden. Anything is possible, I suppose.
At any rate, Sater is now the (silent) proprietor of the Bayrock Group, a real estate investment company. The Bayrock Group has eleven partners. All are of interest, but let’s focus on two of them.
One is The Sapir Organization, which is an organization run by a Russian immigrant named Tamir Sapir. A lawyer for The Sapir Organization said the organization would answer no questions because the organization is “very, very private.” So information about Sapir’s background is spotty.
Sapir has stated publicly that he once owned a home electronics store that catered to Russian KGB officials living in New York. The name of the store remains a mystery. All Sapir has said is that he was “the Crazy Eddie of Russia” – a playful reference to Sam Antar’s electronics company (i.e., the massive fraud that the Antars were going to take private with those Milken cronies, the Belzbergs – Walter, Sam, and Hymie).
After electronics, Sapir began trading oil. Then he struck it big in real estate. Now, he is believed to be a billionaire.
He might also be a Russian Mafia boss. Journalists have danced around this issue. Sapir himself has stated to The New York Times that “I am not Mob.” But he once had Genovese Mafia associates running his real estate empire. So if Sapir is not a Russian Mafia boss, he is at least a Russian boss of Mafia employees.
By way of example: The man who formerly ran The Sapir Organization’s real estate portfolio is named Frederick J. Contini. In addition to being associated with the Genovese Mafia clan, Contini once entered a secret plea to racketeering.
Also, Contini once stabbed a man in the face with the broken stem of a wine glass.
He said it was just a bar fight.
This was some months after Felix Sater stabbed a man in the face with the broken stem of a wine glass.
Felix said it was just a bar fight, too.
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The second important partner of Felix Sater’s Bayrock Group is Apollo Real Estate Advisors, which is part of the empire controlled by a famous billionaire – Leon Black.
If Michael Milken were to name the ten people who are closest to him, Leon Black would surely be one of them. The two men have known each other since at least 1975, when “prominent investor” Carl Lindner, who was one of Milken’s key junk bond cronies, was acquiring shares in United Brands, formerly known as United Fruit, a company that has been accused of everything from bribing heads of state to funneling money to Latin American drug gangs.
Lindner eventually gained control over the company, but not before Eli Black — United Brands’ CEO and the father of Leon Black — crashed through a thick plate-glass window on the 44th floor of the Pan Am building, and plunged to his death.
They said Black broke through the plate glass window with his briefcase.
They said it was suicide.
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Some years after his father crashed through the window, Leon Black was heading up mergers and acquisitions at Drexel Burnham Lambert, home base of Milken’s junk bond operation. Black was Milken’s most ardent ally at Drexel. After Milken was indicted, Black rallied to Milken’s defense. It was Black, more than anyone, who prevented Drexel from firing Milken. And Black has remained obstinately loyal to the criminal Milken ever since.
After Milken went to prison, Black founded the Apollo Group, an investment partnership that received most of its initial funding from a French aristocrat named Rene Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet.
Among Black’s first moves as an independent “prominent investor” was to launch a takeover bid for Executive Life, a bankrupt insurance and financial services conglomerate.
The Black group won the bid after a fierce battle with a group of competing bidders, led by Jack Byrne, who was then the chairman of Fireman’s Fund, a major insurance company.
Later, though, it emerged that Black’s takeover of Executive Life had been illegal because he had secretly been fronting for certain French investors, including Monsieur Rene Thierry de La Villehuchet. Some of the French investors had illegally parked stock with Black to hide their involvement (“parking stock” being one of the favorite techniques of the Milken-Boesky-Thorp crew, and a recurrent theme in the 98-count indictment that sent Milken to jail).
There were indictments (though, somehow, not of Black or Monsieur Rene Thierry de La Villehuchet). After the indictments, Jack Byrne, recognizing that he’d been cheated out of a deal, sued Black and won an $80 million dollar judgment, some $30 million of which was ultimately paid to Jack Byrne’s company.
Jack Byrne, of course, is the father of Patrick Byrne, who a few years later received a vicious death threat, allegedly by way of a Russian matryoshka doll delivered by Leon Black’s Mafia business partner Felix Sater.
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None of which is to suggest that Black or Michael Milken had anything to do with the matryoshka doll or the death threat. Milken is now a “prominent philanthropist,” and Black is a “prominent investor.” But if anybody sees Mr. Black, please ask him if he thinks his Mafia friends could help us get to the bottom of this.
(Neither Black nor Felix nor Milken return my calls).
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Executive Life, the company that Black’s group illegally purchased, was in bankruptcy because it had been transformed into a Ponzi scheme by Fred Carr, who is widely regarded to have been Michael Milken’s single most important junk bond crony.
Milken delivered billions of dollars in junk bond finance to Carr, and Carr used much of his Milken finance to buy (from Milken) junk bonds that had been issued by Gene Phillips, the Belzbergs, Carl Lindner, and few others in Milken’s close circle of cronies.
Prior to destroying Executive Life, Carr was tied to a mutual fund company called Investors Overseas Services. Carr was a “feeder” (somebody who raised money) for Investors Overseas Services, and at one point he announced that he was a major shareholder in the company and planned to take it over.
Another “feeder” to Investor Overseas Services (OIS) was John Pullman, a reputed associate of the Genovese organized crime family. At one point, Canadian police taped a conversation in which Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno (the fellow whom John Mulheren befriended in prison after failing to assassinate Ivan Boesky) suggested that Pullman owed him money.
There was also Sylvain Ferdman. He couriered cash to IOS from clients in South America. Ferdman testified before a grand jury in New York that he had also been a courier for the Genovese organized crime family.
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No story about Michael Milken is complete without reference to a “prominent investor” named Meshulum Riklis. By most every account, Riklis was Milken’s first big client and his most important mentor – the man who taught Milken the art of junk bond Ponzis and stock manipulation.
Riklis, who was also known as the husband of Hollywood starlet Pia Zadora, began working with Milken not long after Riklis bought Schenley Distributors, a distillery, in a deal that was clouded by accusations of pay-offs to organized crime. Schenley retained as its major distributors one Joseph Fusco, reputed to be a former member of Al Capone’s gang in Chicago, and Joseph Linsey, a colleague of the Genovese family mobster Meyer Lansky (who worked closely with Michael Steinhardt’s father).
Riklis’s next move was to buy the Riviera casino in Las Vegas. Reportedly, he was hand-picked for this deal by the sellers, a group of Mafia-affiliated characters led by Morris Shenker, who was the personal attorney, close confidant, and business partner of Jimmy Hoffa, the Mafia-connected president of the Teamsters.
One day, Hoffa had a meeting scheduled with Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone and Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano, two capos of the Genovese organized crime family. Hoffa disappeared on the way to the meeting and was never seen again.
By then, though, the Teamsters had become one of Milken’s most important customers –dependable buyers of junk bonds that Milken issued for select cronies – Riklis, Carr, Gene Phillips, Carl Lindner (who was acquiring United Brands when Leon Black’s father fell through a thick plate glass window), and just a few others.
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Through Riklis and the Teamsters, Milken built a solid clientele of Las Vegas casino operators, such as Carl Icahn, and related enterprises (such as the Genovese-financed ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning outfit).
One of Milken’s biggest clients was Steve Wynn, a “prominent investor” who received lots of Milken finance to open casinos and buy (from Milken) junk bonds issued by other Milken cronies – Lindner, Riklis, Gene Phillips, Icahn, and a just a few others (all of whom had a certain cachet – more on the others in upcoming stories).
Wynn is now widely credited with transforming Las Vegas into the kind of place where you can go with the kids.
Meanwhile, Milken describes Wynn as one of his closest friends.
In 1983, which is right around the time that Milken and Wynn began doing business together, the Criminal Investigation Department of London’s Scotland Yard produced a report stating that “the strong inference which can be drawn from the new intelligence is that Stephen Wynn…has been operating under the aegis of the Genovese [Mafia] family since he first went to Las Vegas in the 1960s…”
Scotland Yard determined that there was an especially strong relationship between Wynn’s father, Mike, and Genovese mobster Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno. Around this time, the FBI caught “Fat Tony” on tape, in a conversation that suggested that the mobster had ties to the younger Wynn as well. Among other things, “Fat Tony” told his colleagues that they should try to get the younger Wynn to reign back his activities in Las Vegas. Wynn had become too conspicuous.
This was before “Fat Tony” entered into jail-cell consultations with John Mulheren, the Milken crony who had sought to murder Ivan Boesky. It was after “Fat Tony” was caught on tape describing his relationship with the “feeder” who worked with Milken crony Fred Carr on the Investors Overseas Services.
Wynn vigorously denies any connection to “Fat Tony” and the Mafia.
By the way, “Fat Tony” wore a fedora and usually had big Cuban cigar in his mouth. These people really do exist.
They have a certain cachet.
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Meshulum Riklis also denies having any connection to the Mafia.
But he does not deny that he at one point tried to buy Investors Overseas Services. This was right about the time that Milken-crony Fred Carr began buying up shares in IOS. It was also right about the time that Investors Overseas Services was found to be the biggest Ponzi fraud in history.
Soon after, Investors Overseas Services was handed over to a “prominent investor” named Robert Vesco, who looted it dry, and fled to Cuba.
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Investors Overseas Services was the biggest Ponzi scheme in history until last month, when Bernard Madoff’s Mafia-affiliated operation was revealed to be the new all-time biggest Ponzi scheme.
Investors Overseas Services was a straight-forward swindle. Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi was more complicated, involving not just his fund management business, but also his brokerages.
Madoff’s brokerages engaged in naked short selling (offloading stock that had not been borrowed or purchased—phantom stock), likely on behalf of miscreant hedge funds looking to drive down prices. In fact, Madoff successfully lobbied the SEC to enact a rule that allowed market makers such as himself to engage in naked short selling. At the SEC, this rule was called “The Madoff Exception.”
Moreover, a source who has seen some of Madoff’s trading records says that Madoff filled buy orders for stock by naked short selling the stock to his customers’ accounts. So, perversely, significant buying volume through Madoff’s brokerages in a firm’s stock would generate yet more phantom shares, putting downward pressure on the price of that stock.
All of this naked short selling created massive liabilities (probably accounted for as “stock sold, and not yet delivered”). Those liabilities, plus the money that Madoff simply pocketed instead of buying or borrowing real stock, surely accounted for a large chunk of that $50 billion figure.
Last summer, naked short selling (phantom stock) burst into public view as an integral factor in the implosion of the U.S. financial system. In November 2008, former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt, echoing the words of many other experts and officials, said, “Naked short selling is what’s causing a lot of the problems in the market.”
In other words, Madoff’s operation was not just the largest known swindle in history. It was also a phantom stock machine. And that makes it but one participant in a much bigger scandal — a crime that might have brought us to the brink of a second Great Depression.
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At any rate, historic achievements tend to have overlapping protagonists. So it was no surprise to learn that one of Madoff’s most important “feeders” was Fairfield Greenwich Group, part-owned by a “prominent investor” named Philip Taub. Philip’s father, Said Taub, a “prominent investor” from Europe, had been an important “feeder,” along with Michael Milken’s cronies and other people affiliated with the Genovese Mafia, for the Investors Overseas Services Ponzi.
Another Madoff “feeder” (and a partner with Madoff in a brokerage called Cohmad) was a “prominent investor” named Robert Jaffe. Previously, while working for E.F. Hutton, Jaffe ran money for the Anguilo brothers, the Boston dons of the Genovese organized crime family.
There was also Sonja Kohn, who was a “prominent” member of the Wall Street investment community before moving to Austria to set up Bank Medici, the primary purpose of which seems to have been to find Russian oligarchs and mafiosi (often one and the same) to participate in Madoff’s schemes.
According to The New York Times, Kohn has disappeared. She apparently told people that she feared that somebody would have her killed.
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And, finally, there is the sad story of the French aristocrat Monsieur Rene Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet.
As you will recall, this aristocrat almost single-handedly funded Leon Black’s Apollo Group. And you will remember that this aristocrat also played a key role in Black’s bid for Executive Life – a bid that turned out to be illegal, resulting in Black losing an $80 million lawsuit to the father of Deep Capture reporter Patrick Byrne.
In later years, this French aristocrat remained one of Leon Black’s most important business associates. He was a loyal friend – a committed member of the Michael Milken network – even after Black’s Mafia business partner Felix Sater threatened to murder Patrick Byrne (This according to the courier of that threat, who quoted Felix as saying, “we’re going to fucking take it private” if Patrick continued his crusade against illegal naked short selling.).
All of which makes it interesting to know that this French aristocrat also raised billions of dollars for the greatest Ponzi scheme the world has ever known – a Ponzi scheme that entailed illegal naked short selling that probably helped topple the American financial system.
That’s right, Monsieur Rene Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet not only provided most of the initial funding to Milken-crony Leon Black’s Apollo Group. He was also one of the most devoted “feeders” to the Bernard Madoff $50 billion phantom stock Mafia swindle.
And one day last month, police entered a luxurious office in a New York skyscraper. On the desk, there were pills (what kind of pills has not yet been revealed). On the floor, there was a box cutter. There was no note.
But there he was — Monsieur Rene Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet.
He was dead.
They said it was suicide.
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To be continued….
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Mark Mitchell is a reporter for DeepCapture.com.
He previously worked as an editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal in Europe, chief business correspondent for Time magazine in Asia, and as an assistant managing editor responsible for the Columbia Journalism Review’s online critique of business journalism. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Bernard Madoff, the Mafia, and the Friends of Michael Milken
Posted on 03 February 2009 by Mark Mitchell
In 2005, Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock.com and future Deep Capture investigative reporter, began a public crusade against illegal naked short selling (hedge funds and brokers creating phantom stock to manipulate stock prices down). He said, over and over, that the crime was destroying public companies and had the potential to trigger a systemic meltdown of our financial markets.
Soon after, I began to investigate a network of short sellers, journalists, and miscreants. I concluded that many of the people in this network were connected to two famous criminals – “junk bond king” Michael Milken and his associate, Ivan Boesky. I also began taking a close look at the Mafia’s involvement in naked short selling.
In my last installment (click here to read), I described some of the strange occurrences that attended this investigation. Where the story left off, I’d recently been threatened in a bookstore, and then ambushed by three thugs who told me to stay away from this story. My unwitting employer had been bribed by short sellers, Patrick had been told by a U.S. Senator that his life was in danger, and a Russian matryoshka doll had appeared on the desk of an offshore businessman.
Inside this matryoshka doll was a slip of paper marked with the letter “F”…
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Soon after receiving the matryoshka doll, the offshore businessman invited Patrick Byrne to a greasy spoon diner in Long Island. Over the previous year, the businessman had provided Patrick with some information about the naked short selling scam, and the hope was that he might have something more to say.
But that day at the diner, all he had was a message.
“I’ll make this quick,” the businessman said, with two other witnesses present. “I have a message for you from Russia. The message is, ‘We are about to kill you. We are about to kill you.’ Patrick, they are going to kill you. If you do not stop this crusade [against naked short selling], they will kill you. Normally they’d have already hurt someone close to you as a warning, but you’re so weird, they don’t know how you’d react.”
In a later conversation with a colleague of Patrick’s the businessman said [verbatim]: “These things don’t happen to me anymore. I mean, I’ve been out of that world [the world of Mafia stock manipulation] for a dozen years or more. These…there are defined signals here that lead me to believe that they [the Mafia] have been disturbed. The only way they coulda been disturbed is if they own Rocker or if he is using them for leverage.”
Rocker. That’s David Rocker.
At the time, David Rocker was a “prominent” hedge fund manager specialized in short selling (betting that stock prices will fall). It was also the case that Rocker had spent the last couple decades insinuating to people on Wall Street that he was somehow tied to the Mob.
But Rocker was probably full of it. He didn’t have ties to the Mob. Perhaps he merely believed that his insinuations lent him a certain cachet.
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From 1973 to 1981, Rocker was a general partner in a short selling hedge fund managed by Michael Steinhardt, who is one of Wall Street’s most “prominent” investors, regularly hailed by The Wall Street Journal and CNBC as a genius and a font of wisdom.
Some years ago, Steinhardt belatedly acknowledged that he is the son of Sol “Red” Steinhardt, who was once a major player in the Genovese Mafia organization. Steinhardt, Sr. spent several years in Sing-Sing prison after a New York City prosecutor described him as the “biggest Mafia fence in America.”
Incidentally, experts concur that the Genovese Mafia family brought the Russian Mob to America.
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The largest investors in Steinhardt Jr.’s first hedge fund were associates of the Genovese Mafia (whose investments came in large sacks of cash), Marty Peretz (future founder, with Jim Cramer, of TheStreet.com), Marc Rich (future fugitive charged with tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran and Libya), and Ivan Boesky (later imprisoned on multiple counts, most of them involving stock manipulation schemes orchestrated with “junk bond king” Michael Milken).
By 1991, Steinhardt owned another hedge fund — JGM Management – with a “prominent investor” named James Marquez. The star employee at JGM was “prominent investor” Samuel Israel III.
A few years later, Israel and Marquez founded the Bayou Group, one of the biggest hedge fund frauds in history. A significant part of the Bayou fraud involved Israel “feeding” his investors’ money into a Ponzi scheme run by Robert Booth Nichols, who has been targeted by authorities as a business associate of the Genovese Mafia family.
When Israel was sentenced to prison last year, he briefly disappeared. His car was found on a bridge. Scrawled in the dust on the hood was a note: “Suicide is Painless.”
Authorities arrested Israel’s girlfriend, whom they suspected of harboring a fugitive. Shortly after, Israel rode a red motor scooter to a Boston police station and turned himself in. Apparently, he was not dead. He had tried to fool us.
Meanwhile, Israel had filed a lawsuit against Nichols, alleging that Nichols had ripped him off. Apparently, Israel (who could not be reached for this article) would like us to believe that he is not tied to Nichols or the Genovese Mafia.
Nonetheless, Israel has a certain cachet. So do Steinhardt and James Marquez.
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In the 1990s, Steinhardt founded another hedge fund, Steinhardt Partners. The co-founder and head trader of Steinhardt Partners was a “prominent investor” named John Lattanzio.
The limited public information about Lattanzio concerns a Russian prostitute.
Apparently, Lattanzio proposed marriage to the prostitute and gave her a diamond ring. Alas, the couple separated, and Lattanzio asked for his ring back. After all, it had cost him $289,275.00.
But the prostitute seemed to believe that the ring was payment for services rendered. The dispute ended up in court, where the prostitute testified that Lattanzio had told her that he had ties to the Mafia.
Yes, said the prostitute, Lattanzio (Steinhardt Partners’ co-founder and head trader) had big-time Mafia connections, and he “would not hesitate to use them to harm me.”
From what I know of Russian strumpets, there is at least one area where they cannot be trusted – and that is where it concerns their love life. So perhaps Lattanzio had his heart broken. Perhaps, in the heat of passion, he said some crazy stuff about the Mafia to make himself seem dangerous. If that is the case, I send Mr. Lattanzio my condolences.
Indeed, I would enjoy meeting him. He has a certain cachet.
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Rocker left Steinhardt’s hedge fund in 1981 and went to work for an investment management firm called Century Capital Associates.
Information on this firm is limited, but it seems to have been largely owned in the 1980s by the Belzberg brothers — William, Sam and Hymie.
The Belzbergs were among Michael Milken’s closest cronies (family member Mark Belzberg was in fact implicated by the SEC in Milken’s stock manipulation schemes). They were at the inner core of the Milken machine – buying and selling the junk bonds of other Milken cronies. Often, the Belzbergs collaborated with Milken to blackmail, seize, or destroy public companies. .
In the late 1980s, the Belzbergs announced that they were going to take over Crazy Eddie, which was then a famous home electronics retail chain. The Belzbergs joined forces with Crazy Eddie’s founder, Eddie Antar, and the company’s chief financial officer, Sam Antar, in a supposed effort to take the company private.
This is a story for another time, but for now it suffices to say that Crazy Eddie was a massive fraud, the Belzbergs (and Milken) likely knew this already, and when the company was raided by the FBI a few months later, it emerged that Sam Antar had been feeding information to both the FBI and a lawyer, Howard Sirota, who was preparing to sue the company.
The Belzberg’s did not buy Crazy Eddie. Instead, just before the FBI arrived, the company was sold to another investor, Victor Palmieri. Robert A. Marmon, who was hired by Palmieri to run Crazy Eddie, told me that he arrived to find that the company’s top employees – the only people who had had direct access to the Antars – were all burly, armed thugs who claimed to be former employees of the Mossad, Israel’s secret intelligence agency.
It was Marmon’s job to fire the Antars’ corporate goons. “I’ve never been so scared in my life,” he said. “There weren’t any explicit death threats. They just stared you down, so you got the message.”
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Sam Antar is a convicted felon, but he never went to prison because he testified against his cousin, Eddie Antar, in return for house arrest. Now he is paid by short sellers with ties to David Rocker and associates of Michael Milken. The assignment to which he devotes the majority of his time is to use the Internet to harass and smear the reputations of Deep Capture founder Patrick Byrne and his colleagues.
At one point, Antar threatened the young children of Deep Capture reporter Judd Bagley, posting their names, ages, and address on the Internet. As I described in my last installment, Antar has made what I can only interpret to be veiled references to two seminal events in my life – the time I was ambushed and punched in the eye by three thugs, and the day that a goon in a bookstore threatened my close relative.
When he is not harassing us, Antar helps Howard Sirota (the attorney who sued Crazy Eddie) file bogus class action lawsuits against companies targeted by short sellers. A recent court case also describes Antar delivering $250,000 in cash to a man named Barry Minkow
In the 1980s, Minkow built a carpet cleaning and insurance restoration company called ZZZZ Best, with the bulk of his finance coming from Michael Milken, and other funds coming from associates of the Genovese organized crime family.
ZZZZ Best was a massive fraud that manufactured false restoration claims – some of them on Las Vegas casinos that had been financed by Michael Milken and investors tied to the Genovese organized crime family.
Minkow spent some time in prison. Now he runs an outfit called the Fraud Discovery Institute out of the Community Bible Church in San Diego, where he is a preacher. The Fraud Discovery Unit is in the business of publishing negative information about public companies targeted by Howard Sirota and short sellers tied to David Rocker, Michael Steinhardt, and associates of Michael Milken.
In one of Sam Antar’s famous Internet messages (he signs them, “Sam Antar, Convicted Felon”), he warned that we at Deep Capture were taking chances by writing about the Mafia connections of Barry Minkow, whom Antar described as his “friend.”
“You have awakened a sleeping giant,” Antar wrote.
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In addition to their involvement with Crazy Eddie and David Rocker’s operation, the Belzberg brothers – William, Sam, and Hymie – also tried in the 1980s to take over a investment services concern called the Bache Group. But executives of the Bache Group did not want the Belzbergs to seize their company.
According to the executives, the Belzbergs had ties to the Mafia. The executives went public with their allegations, citing, among other things, a U.S. Customs report that described the Belzbergs cavorting with some Genovese mafiosi in Acapulco.
Fortune magazine reported that these allegations were “unsubstantiated.”
But the Belzbergs have a certain cachet
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The Belzbergs were also the largest providers of capital to John Mulheren, a “prominent investor” who was famous in the 1980s for the arbitrage operation that he ran out of Spear Leeds & Kellogg, a broker-dealer and notorious naked short seller that was later merged into Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing (which currently employs Elliot Faivinov, a Russian man who in 2006 was, for reasons of his own, receiving copies of the phone records of a woman who was then Deep Capture reporter Patrick Byrne’s girlfriend).
The Department of Justice alleged that Mulheren routinely engaged in stock manipulation schemes with Ivan Boesky, targeting companies financed by Milken. In 1987, when Boesky was indicted, and the government began to investigate Milken, Mulheren announced that he was going to murder Boesky.
Depending on the story, Mulheren either forgot to take his psychiatric medication, or he was worried that Boesky was going to squeal. Either way, he was arrested on the way to Boesky’s house. In Mulheren’s car, police found a 9-millimeter pistol, a .357 Magnum, a 12-gauge pistol-grip shotgun, a .233-caliber Israeli Galil assault rifle, and 300 rounds of ammunition.
It is a common misperception that Boesky’s testimony led to the 98-count indictment of Michael Milken. Considering the scope of business the two criminals did together, Boesky actually provided very little information to the government. He told prosecutors that he was afraid that he might be killed. On several occasions he told prosecutors that he might be killed by Milken’s “friends in Vegas.”
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Far more important to the government’s case against Milken was evidence that it obtained when 50 armed troopers stormed the offices of a hedge fund called Princeton-Newport. The founder of this hedge fund, Edward Thorp, once partnered with the Genovese organized crime family to develop a system for cheating Las Vegas casinos. He wrote a seminal book on counting cards in black jack, and soon after, he was a critical – perhaps the most critical – figure in the Milken operation.
The base of Milken’s operation was the high-yield debt department of Drexel Burnham Lambert in Beverly Hills. From there, he underwrote and sold billions upon billions of dollars worth of junk bonds. Hence the moniker, “the junk bond king.”
But most observers believe that Milken derived a greater part of his fortune from a web of private partnerships and personal brokerages that traded, and often manipulated, not just the debt, but also the stock of public companies. Most profitable of all Milken’s businesses were two Chicago-based brokerages – Belvedere Securities and EGM partners – that he co-owned with the Genovese Mafia card-counter Edward Thorp.
In 2006, Thorp’s son, Jeffrey, was charged by the SEC with destroying more than 20 companies in a scheme that involved unbridled naked short selling (millions upon millions of phantom shares sold into the market). Jeffrey Thorp also collaborated closely in short selling schemes with Anthony Elgindy, a notorious phantom stock peddler who is now serving an 11 year prison sentence for stock manipulation, extortion, and bribing FBI agents.
Elgindy, like Thorp’s father, is tied to the Genovese organized crime family.
When Elgindy appeared in court for sentencing, the judge noticed that Elgindy was missing the tip of one finger. Elgindy could not provide a straight answer as to what had happened, but a source close to the Elgindy investigation claims that Elgindy was forced by Russian mobsters to saw off his own finger as a warning not to squeal on his partners in crime.
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When delivering the death threat to Patrick Byrne, the offshore businessman mentioned David Rocker, and as we now know, Rocker was a general partner in Michael Steinhardt’s first hedge fund — largely capitalized by the Genovese Mafia and Ivan Boesky. We also know that Rocker later worked for Century Capital, largely owned by the Belzbergs – William, Sam, and Hymie – who might or might not have been cavorting with Genovese mafiosi in Acapulco, but were certainly the largest funders of John Mulheren.
After getting caught on his way to murder Ivan Boesky, Mulheren went to jail, where he spent most of his time in consultation with Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, a Genovese Mafia capo who had recently begun a 100 year prison sentence.
Upon his release, Mulheren (whose convictions were later reversed on appeal) went into business with a “prominent investor” named Israel Englander. Soon after that, Mulheren died (apparently of a heart attack), but Englander continued to manage Millennium Partners, a “prominent” short selling hedge fund whose major investors are the Belzbergs – William, Sam, and Hymie.
By this time, David Rocker had left the Belzberg’s Century Capital to start his own hedge fund – Rocker Partners.
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Here I must skip ahead more than a decade: In 2004, Deep Capture reporter Patrick Byrne (pursuant to his day job of being CEO of Overstock.com) was on a Lehman Brothers-sponsored road show seeing dozens of hedge funds, attempting to sell a $120 million convertible bond in Overstock. When he sat down in Millennium’s offices, a man entered. His opening words were, “Millennium wants to take the entire $120 million of this offering. Of course, we’ll need a board seat to go with that.”
This would have given the hedge fund access to inside information about Overstock. And it would have given Millennium the ability to sell the company short without borrowing shares in the open market.
This is a common strategy employed by short sellers tied to Michael Milken or his associates. As I will show in future stories, many companies that agree to this arrangement are eventually destroyed or seriously wounded by naked short selling – hedge funds offloading phantom stock.
Overstock board member Gordon Macklin, the former chairman of Hambrecht & Quist, a straight-shooting investment bank, warned Patrick not to do the deal with Millennium.
Millennium, after all, had a certain cachet.
Patrick declined Millennium’s offer, and went ahead with the offering to a number of hedge funds.
A few months after Millennium’s offer to acquire the bonds, affiliated hedge fund managers, including David Rocker, began a short selling attack on Overstock.
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One hedge fund closely affiliated with David Rocker is SAC Capital, which is managed by Steven Cohen, and is said to account for more than 3 percent of all the trading on the New York Stock Exchange. BusinessWeek magazine has described Cohen as “The Most Powerful Trader on Wall Street.”
Some years ago, there was an article by Fortune magazine called “The Shabby Side of the Street.” This article did not mention Steve Cohen. It did not mention him because, by this time, Cohen was a “prominent investor.”
But while “The Shabby Side of the Street” does not mention Cohen, it is all about Gruntal & Co., which is where Cohen spent his formative years. Cohen was a proprietary trader for Gruntal in the 1980s and early 1990s – up until the day when he founded SAC Capital.
Gruntal, we can assume, is where Cohen developed his network and learned the tricks that made him the “most powerful trader on Wall Street.”
Fortune magazine interviewed a former Gruntal employee, who described the ambience there: “Gruntal was the Island of the Misfit Toys. But they didn’t care what was going on in our sick, dysfunctional office as long as we were making money. We had no manager, and it’s illegal not to supervise brokers. I remember doing cartwheels down the hall, drinking beer at my desk, smoking pot, having sex in the stairwell. Whatever!”
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The Fortune magazine article about Gruntal also failed to mention Michael Milken. It did not mention Milken because Milken was, by then, a “prominent philanthropist.” But Milken had been intimately involved with Gruntal, whose parent company, a financial services and insurance conglomerate called the Home Group, had been central to the Michael Milken empire.
As nearly every account of Michael Milken’s schemes will tell you, Milken worked with a select group of cronies (many of whom controlled large insurance and financial services conglomerates) to operate what amounted to a Ponzi scheme.
The cronies would sell junk bonds through Milken to raise finance. Then the cronies would use much of this finance to buy (from Milken) the junk bonds of other cronies in the group. The cronies and Milken would then trade the junk bonds among themselves, raising their prices incrementally as they passed them on to the next crony (a process known as “daisy-chaining”), before fobbing them off to little old ladies and dimwitted pension fund managers.
Until the scheme collapsed, Milken’s junk-bond merry-go-round generated enormous profits and seemingly unlimited finance for his select cronies. So the cronies could not only buy more junk bonds from Milken, but they could also use their billions to harass, destroy, or initiate hostile takeovers of public companies.
Meanwhile, Milken presided over a nationwide network of private partnerships (such as those he had with the Mafia card-counter Edward Thorp), arbitrage and short selling partnerships (such as Ivan Boesky’s criminal operation), short selling hedge funds (such as Michael Steinhardt’s Mafia-funded outfit), and brokerages that could help put public companies on the defensive.
Home Insurance was a key buyer and issuer of Milken junk bonds. It was the second largest unsecured creditor to Milken’s operation at Drexel. It also owned about $15 million worth of Ivan Boesky’s short selling and arbitrage outfit. Meanwhile, Home’s subsidiary, Gruntal & Co., employed traders who were on quite friendly terms with Milken and others in his network.
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Gruntal’s options department was founded by a man named Carl Icahn. After leaving Gruntal, Icahn formed Icahn & Co., receiving most of his finance from Michael Milken, but also a significant chunk of capital from a “prominent investor” named Zen Wolfson.
Since then, Wolfson has been involved with a number of Wall Street brokerages that are tied to the Genovese Mafia. One such brokerage is Pond Securities, which, in 2001, was implicated by the SEC in a massive naked short selling (phantom stock) fraud. Among the victims of Pond Securities were companies that had employed the services of Ladenburg Thalmann, an investment bank largely controlled by Carl Icahn.
In an upcoming story, I will tell you more about Ladenburg Thalmann’s role in the naked short selling scandal. I will tell you more about Pond Securities and its relationship with a man who remains a fugitive in Austria. And I will tell you more about Carl Icahn, who is not only one of the most “prominent investors” in America, but also a man with a certain cachet.
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Another employee of Gruntal – a fellow who sat next to Steve Cohen (later known as “the most powerful trader on the Street”) – was Stephen Feinberg, who had moved to Gruntal from Michael Milken’s operation at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Feinberg had been one of Milken’s most favored employees. Most likely, he moved to Gruntal (“the “shabby side of the Street,” as Fortune magazine described it) to reinforce the relationship between Gruntal and Milken’s nation-wide stock manipulation network.
Nowadays, Feinberg runs Cerberus Capital, one of the most powerful private equity firms in America. In an upcoming story, I will tell you how Cerberus loots the companies it seizes.
Its techniques have a certain cachet.
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Yet another “prominent investor” who sat on Steve Cohen’s trading floor at Gruntal was Samuel Israel III.
Israel left Gruntal to work for a hedge fund owned by Steinhardt (the son of the “biggest Mafia fence in America”). As you will recall, Israel later wrote “Suicide is Painless” on his car and briefly disappeared after being sentenced for masterminding one of the largest hedge fund frauds in history – a fraud that Israel ran with help from a co-founder of Steinhardt’s hedge fund and another fellow connected to the Genovese Mafia.
Also on Steve Cohen’s trading floor at Gruntal was Maurice A. Gross, whose biggest client was Thomas Gambino, a prominent member of the Gambino Mafia family. This was in the days when the Gambinos and the Genovese still collaborated on Wall Street.
Gross later left Gruntal, and in 1997, he and a Pakistani fellow named Mohammad Ali Khan tried to steal the Gambinos’ money.
Fortunately, Elliot Spitzer intervened. At the time, Spitzer was New York’s attorney general. Throughout his political career, Spitzer received by far the greatest percentage of his campaign funding from short sellers (such as Jim Chanos, who provided a rent-free beach house to the hooker who later forced Spitzer to resign as governor) who are closely tied to Steve Cohen and SAC Capital.
Spitzer forced the former Gruntal broker to give the Gambinos their money back. There is no evidence, however, that Spitzer was concerned that New York’s second largest organized crime family was running money through a brokerage owned by cronies of Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky.
In 1996, Gruntal was charged with embezzling millions of dollars. By then, Steve Cohen had left to begin his career as the “most powerful trader on the Street.”
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So in 2006, I was investigating Steve Cohen’s SAC Capital, David Rocker, Michael Steinhardt and their network of miscreants. I was also investigating “prominent” journalists (at The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNBC and other major news organizations) who had unusual relationships with this network and who were going to extraordinary lengths to cover up the naked short selling (phantom stock) scandal.
That’s when three guys in Armani suits saddled up to me in a quiet bar. As you will recall from my last installment, one of the Armanis introduced himself to me as a former Boesky employee, and told me a story about a fellow who got his brains blown out after “peeking” into the ladies underwear department at Saks Fifth Avenue.
Steve Cohen’s SAC Capital is known colloquially as “Sak.” I do not know for certain that Armani was telling me I shouldn’t be “peeking” at Cohen’s dirty underwear. It was a strange encounter, to say the least.
But if you doubt that journalists sometimes receive such threats, consider the case of Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch. One day after work, Busch found, in the front seat of her car, a dead fish and a rose. In the windshield of her car, there was bullet hole and a note that said, simply, “Stop!”
Later, the LA Times reporter was nearly killed when two men in a black Mercedes tried to run her over.
All of this was the handiwork of Anthony Pellicano, a former soldier in the Genovese Mafia organization who had found employment as a hired-thug and private investigator. Most of Pellicano’s clients had been Hollywood actors like Steven Seagal (who has been reported by some news organizations to have ties to the Mob, though I have not confirmed those reports) and various billionaires, a significant number of whom had ties to Michael Milken.
When Pellicano put the dead fish and the bullet hole in the reporter’s car, he was working for Michael Ovitz, the Hollywood mogul. Busch and the LA Times were investigating the business dealings of Ovitz, and Ovitz apparently hired the former Genovese Mafia soldier to stop the story in its tracks.
Ovitz, as you may know, is one of Michael Milken’s closest friends. They were high school classmates. In later years, Milken and Ovitz did a lot of business together.
While Pellicano was threatening an L.A. Times reporter, he was also employed by Adam Sender, who runs a hedge fund called Exis Capital. Sender is a former employee of Steve Cohen at SAC Capital. Steve Cohen — the “most powerful trader on the Street” — provided Sender with most of his start-up capital. Exis and Sender are considered by most everyone on Wall Street to be essentially subsidiaries of SAC (a.k.a. “Sak”).
Apparently, Sender had some kind of dispute with a business partner, so he called Pellicano, the former Genovese Mafia soldier. In a conversation that was recorded by the FBI, Sender said to Pellicano: “You have 100% free reign to do whatever you feel will make this cocksucker as unhappy as possible…I’d like to make the fucking asshole as uncomfortable as possible…I’m going to continue the lawsuit until doomsday… when the time is right I’m going to fix him.”
You can listen to the full conversation here.
In a later conversation, Pellicano allegedly offered to have Sender’s business partner disappear. The former Genovese soldier said he’d make his move while the business partner was driving to Los Angeles from Las Vegas. He’d force the business partner off the road. Then Pellicano would kill the business partner and bury him in the Nevada desert. Nobody would know a thing.
In court, Sender testified that he turned down Pellicano’s murder-for-hire offer. But Pellicano was convicted for multiple crimes – such as offering to have a man buried in the Nevada desert and putting a dead fish, a rose, and bullet hole in the car of a journalist investigating Michael Milken’s best friend from high school.
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I do not know whether any merit can be given to the offshore businessman’s speculation that Rocker might be “owned” by the Mafia. I do not know whether Rocker had anything to do with the message that the Russian Mafia was going to kill Patrick Byrne.
I do know, however, that in a later phone conversation, the offshore businessman explained how the death threat had been conveyed to him. He said he returned home one night and his wife told him there was a package on his desk. “And there was a beautiful little box, and inside was a matryoshka.”
“And I opened up the…matryoshka, and inside is an `F’ with a cross on it — which is from Felix.”
The businessman said he contacted Felix. And Felix said, “tell [Patrick]….we’re going to fucking take it private.”
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In 1998, Felix – that’s Felix Sater – forgot to pay the rent on a locker at the Manhattan Mini Storage in Soho. As a result, police found inside this locker two pistols, a shotgun, and a gym bag stuffed with documents outlining various money laundering and stock manipulation schemes orchestrated by Felix Sater and his partners.
Felix is a Russian immigrant said by authorities to have ties to both the Russian Mafia and the Genovese organized crime family.
In 1991, Felix stabbed a stock broker in the face with a broken stem of a wine glass.
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After reviewing the contents of Felix’s locker, the FBI launched a sweeping investigation that culminated, in the summer of 2000, with the bureau’s famous “Operation Uptick” – sometimes referred to as the “Mob on Wall Street” operation. More than 100 stock brokers and investors allegedly tied to the Mafia were arrested – the biggest securities bust in FBI history.
Among those arrested in the “Mob on Wall Street” operation were a number of people tied to Michael Milken or his closest cronies. One of them was Gene Phillips.
In the 1980s, Phillips ran a company called Southmark, which was at the center of the Milken Ponzi. Southmark was, in fact, the single largest real estate conglomerate ever financed by Milken. But it didn’t just buy real estate. In only one of many transactions, Milken delivered over $400 million in junk bond finance to Phillips, and Phillips used every penny of that finance to buy (from Milken) the junk bonds of other Milken cronies.
The “Mob on Wall Street” case alleged that Phillips engaged in stock manipulation schemes with a coterie of miscreants who were tied to the Genovese organized crime family. Ultimately, Phillips was acquitted.
But even before he was arrested, Phillips had a certain cachet.
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Felix Sater (the man who allegedly sent the matryoshka doll) was ultimately named as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a Mafia-run stock fraud. One of his friends co-authored a book, “The Scorpion and the Frog,” which suggests that Sater (whom the author of the book gives a pseudonym, “Lex Tersa”) cut a deal allowing him to avoid prosecution if he helped the CIA set up a phony arms deal with Osama Bin Laden. Anything is possible, I suppose.
At any rate, Sater is now the (silent) proprietor of the Bayrock Group, a real estate investment company. The Bayrock Group has eleven partners. All are of interest, but let’s focus on two of them.
One is The Sapir Organization, which is an organization run by a Russian immigrant named Tamir Sapir. A lawyer for The Sapir Organization said the organization would answer no questions because the organization is “very, very private.” So information about Sapir’s background is spotty.
Sapir has stated publicly that he once owned a home electronics store that catered to Russian KGB officials living in New York. The name of the store remains a mystery. All Sapir has said is that he was “the Crazy Eddie of Russia” – a playful reference to Sam Antar’s electronics company (i.e., the massive fraud that the Antars were going to take private with those Milken cronies, the Belzbergs – Walter, Sam, and Hymie).
After electronics, Sapir began trading oil. Then he struck it big in real estate. Now, he is believed to be a billionaire.
He might also be a Russian Mafia boss. Journalists have danced around this issue. Sapir himself has stated to The New York Times that “I am not Mob.” But he once had Genovese Mafia associates running his real estate empire. So if Sapir is not a Russian Mafia boss, he is at least a Russian boss of Mafia employees.
By way of example: The man who formerly ran The Sapir Organization’s real estate portfolio is named Frederick J. Contini. In addition to being associated with the Genovese Mafia clan, Contini once entered a secret plea to racketeering.
Also, Contini once stabbed a man in the face with the broken stem of a wine glass.
He said it was just a bar fight.
This was some months after Felix Sater stabbed a man in the face with the broken stem of a wine glass.
Felix said it was just a bar fight, too.
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The second important partner of Felix Sater’s Bayrock Group is Apollo Real Estate Advisors, which is part of the empire controlled by a famous billionaire – Leon Black.
If Michael Milken were to name the ten people who are closest to him, Leon Black would surely be one of them. The two men have known each other since at least 1975, when “prominent investor” Carl Lindner, who was one of Milken’s key junk bond cronies, was acquiring shares in United Brands, formerly known as United Fruit, a company that has been accused of everything from bribing heads of state to funneling money to Latin American drug gangs.
Lindner eventually gained control over the company, but not before Eli Black — United Brands’ CEO and the father of Leon Black — crashed through a thick plate-glass window on the 44th floor of the Pan Am building, and plunged to his death.
They said Black broke through the plate glass window with his briefcase.
They said it was suicide.
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Some years after his father crashed through the window, Leon Black was heading up mergers and acquisitions at Drexel Burnham Lambert, home base of Milken’s junk bond operation. Black was Milken’s most ardent ally at Drexel. After Milken was indicted, Black rallied to Milken’s defense. It was Black, more than anyone, who prevented Drexel from firing Milken. And Black has remained obstinately loyal to the criminal Milken ever since.
After Milken went to prison, Black founded the Apollo Group, an investment partnership that received most of its initial funding from a French aristocrat named Rene Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet.
Among Black’s first moves as an independent “prominent investor” was to launch a takeover bid for Executive Life, a bankrupt insurance and financial services conglomerate.
The Black group won the bid after a fierce battle with a group of competing bidders, led by Jack Byrne, who was then the chairman of Fireman’s Fund, a major insurance company.
Later, though, it emerged that Black’s takeover of Executive Life had been illegal because he had secretly been fronting for certain French investors, including Monsieur Rene Thierry de La Villehuchet. Some of the French investors had illegally parked stock with Black to hide their involvement (“parking stock” being one of the favorite techniques of the Milken-Boesky-Thorp crew, and a recurrent theme in the 98-count indictment that sent Milken to jail).
There were indictments (though, somehow, not of Black or Monsieur Rene Thierry de La Villehuchet). After the indictments, Jack Byrne, recognizing that he’d been cheated out of a deal, sued Black and won an $80 million dollar judgment, some $30 million of which was ultimately paid to Jack Byrne’s company.
Jack Byrne, of course, is the father of Patrick Byrne, who a few years later received a vicious death threat, allegedly by way of a Russian matryoshka doll delivered by Leon Black’s Mafia business partner Felix Sater.
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None of which is to suggest that Black or Michael Milken had anything to do with the matryoshka doll or the death threat. Milken is now a “prominent philanthropist,” and Black is a “prominent investor.” But if anybody sees Mr. Black, please ask him if he thinks his Mafia friends could help us get to the bottom of this.
(Neither Black nor Felix nor Milken return my calls).
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Executive Life, the company that Black’s group illegally purchased, was in bankruptcy because it had been transformed into a Ponzi scheme by Fred Carr, who is widely regarded to have been Michael Milken’s single most important junk bond crony.
Milken delivered billions of dollars in junk bond finance to Carr, and Carr used much of his Milken finance to buy (from Milken) junk bonds that had been issued by Gene Phillips, the Belzbergs, Carl Lindner, and few others in Milken’s close circle of cronies.
Prior to destroying Executive Life, Carr was tied to a mutual fund company called Investors Overseas Services. Carr was a “feeder” (somebody who raised money) for Investors Overseas Services, and at one point he announced that he was a major shareholder in the company and planned to take it over.
Another “feeder” to Investor Overseas Services (OIS) was John Pullman, a reputed associate of the Genovese organized crime family. At one point, Canadian police taped a conversation in which Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno (the fellow whom John Mulheren befriended in prison after failing to assassinate Ivan Boesky) suggested that Pullman owed him money.
There was also Sylvain Ferdman. He couriered cash to IOS from clients in South America. Ferdman testified before a grand jury in New York that he had also been a courier for the Genovese organized crime family.
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No story about Michael Milken is complete without reference to a “prominent investor” named Meshulum Riklis. By most every account, Riklis was Milken’s first big client and his most important mentor – the man who taught Milken the art of junk bond Ponzis and stock manipulation.
Riklis, who was also known as the husband of Hollywood starlet Pia Zadora, began working with Milken not long after Riklis bought Schenley Distributors, a distillery, in a deal that was clouded by accusations of pay-offs to organized crime. Schenley retained as its major distributors one Joseph Fusco, reputed to be a former member of Al Capone’s gang in Chicago, and Joseph Linsey, a colleague of the Genovese family mobster Meyer Lansky (who worked closely with Michael Steinhardt’s father).
Riklis’s next move was to buy the Riviera casino in Las Vegas. Reportedly, he was hand-picked for this deal by the sellers, a group of Mafia-affiliated characters led by Morris Shenker, who was the personal attorney, close confidant, and business partner of Jimmy Hoffa, the Mafia-connected president of the Teamsters.
One day, Hoffa had a meeting scheduled with Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone and Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano, two capos of the Genovese organized crime family. Hoffa disappeared on the way to the meeting and was never seen again.
By then, though, the Teamsters had become one of Milken’s most important customers –dependable buyers of junk bonds that Milken issued for select cronies – Riklis, Carr, Gene Phillips, Carl Lindner (who was acquiring United Brands when Leon Black’s father fell through a thick plate glass window), and just a few others.
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Through Riklis and the Teamsters, Milken built a solid clientele of Las Vegas casino operators, such as Carl Icahn, and related enterprises (such as the Genovese-financed ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning outfit).
One of Milken’s biggest clients was Steve Wynn, a “prominent investor” who received lots of Milken finance to open casinos and buy (from Milken) junk bonds issued by other Milken cronies – Lindner, Riklis, Gene Phillips, Icahn, and a just a few others (all of whom had a certain cachet – more on the others in upcoming stories).
Wynn is now widely credited with transforming Las Vegas into the kind of place where you can go with the kids.
Meanwhile, Milken describes Wynn as one of his closest friends.
In 1983, which is right around the time that Milken and Wynn began doing business together, the Criminal Investigation Department of London’s Scotland Yard produced a report stating that “the strong inference which can be drawn from the new intelligence is that Stephen Wynn…has been operating under the aegis of the Genovese [Mafia] family since he first went to Las Vegas in the 1960s…”
Scotland Yard determined that there was an especially strong relationship between Wynn’s father, Mike, and Genovese mobster Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno. Around this time, the FBI caught “Fat Tony” on tape, in a conversation that suggested that the mobster had ties to the younger Wynn as well. Among other things, “Fat Tony” told his colleagues that they should try to get the younger Wynn to reign back his activities in Las Vegas. Wynn had become too conspicuous.
This was before “Fat Tony” entered into jail-cell consultations with John Mulheren, the Milken crony who had sought to murder Ivan Boesky. It was after “Fat Tony” was caught on tape describing his relationship with the “feeder” who worked with Milken crony Fred Carr on the Investors Overseas Services.
Wynn vigorously denies any connection to “Fat Tony” and the Mafia.
By the way, “Fat Tony” wore a fedora and usually had big Cuban cigar in his mouth. These people really do exist.
They have a certain cachet.
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Meshulum Riklis also denies having any connection to the Mafia.
But he does not deny that he at one point tried to buy Investors Overseas Services. This was right about the time that Milken-crony Fred Carr began buying up shares in IOS. It was also right about the time that Investors Overseas Services was found to be the biggest Ponzi fraud in history.
Soon after, Investors Overseas Services was handed over to a “prominent investor” named Robert Vesco, who looted it dry, and fled to Cuba.
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Investors Overseas Services was the biggest Ponzi scheme in history until last month, when Bernard Madoff’s Mafia-affiliated operation was revealed to be the new all-time biggest Ponzi scheme.
Investors Overseas Services was a straight-forward swindle. Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi was more complicated, involving not just his fund management business, but also his brokerages.
Madoff’s brokerages engaged in naked short selling (offloading stock that had not been borrowed or purchased—phantom stock), likely on behalf of miscreant hedge funds looking to drive down prices. In fact, Madoff successfully lobbied the SEC to enact a rule that allowed market makers such as himself to engage in naked short selling. At the SEC, this rule was called “The Madoff Exception.”
Moreover, a source who has seen some of Madoff’s trading records says that Madoff filled buy orders for stock by naked short selling the stock to his customers’ accounts. So, perversely, significant buying volume through Madoff’s brokerages in a firm’s stock would generate yet more phantom shares, putting downward pressure on the price of that stock.
All of this naked short selling created massive liabilities (probably accounted for as “stock sold, and not yet delivered”). Those liabilities, plus the money that Madoff simply pocketed instead of buying or borrowing real stock, surely accounted for a large chunk of that $50 billion figure.
Last summer, naked short selling (phantom stock) burst into public view as an integral factor in the implosion of the U.S. financial system. In November 2008, former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt, echoing the words of many other experts and officials, said, “Naked short selling is what’s causing a lot of the problems in the market.”
In other words, Madoff’s operation was not just the largest known swindle in history. It was also a phantom stock machine. And that makes it but one participant in a much bigger scandal — a crime that might have brought us to the brink of a second Great Depression.
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At any rate, historic achievements tend to have overlapping protagonists. So it was no surprise to learn that one of Madoff’s most important “feeders” was Fairfield Greenwich Group, part-owned by a “prominent investor” named Philip Taub. Philip’s father, Said Taub, a “prominent investor” from Europe, had been an important “feeder,” along with Michael Milken’s cronies and other people affiliated with the Genovese Mafia, for the Investors Overseas Services Ponzi.
Another Madoff “feeder” (and a partner with Madoff in a brokerage called Cohmad) was a “prominent investor” named Robert Jaffe. Previously, while working for E.F. Hutton, Jaffe ran money for the Anguilo brothers, the Boston dons of the Genovese organized crime family.
There was also Sonja Kohn, who was a “prominent” member of the Wall Street investment community before moving to Austria to set up Bank Medici, the primary purpose of which seems to have been to find Russian oligarchs and mafiosi (often one and the same) to participate in Madoff’s schemes.
According to The New York Times, Kohn has disappeared. She apparently told people that she feared that somebody would have her killed.
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And, finally, there is the sad story of the French aristocrat Monsieur Rene Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet.
As you will recall, this aristocrat almost single-handedly funded Leon Black’s Apollo Group. And you will remember that this aristocrat also played a key role in Black’s bid for Executive Life – a bid that turned out to be illegal, resulting in Black losing an $80 million lawsuit to the father of Deep Capture reporter Patrick Byrne.
In later years, this French aristocrat remained one of Leon Black’s most important business associates. He was a loyal friend – a committed member of the Michael Milken network – even after Black’s Mafia business partner Felix Sater threatened to murder Patrick Byrne (This according to the courier of that threat, who quoted Felix as saying, “we’re going to fucking take it private” if Patrick continued his crusade against illegal naked short selling.).
All of which makes it interesting to know that this French aristocrat also raised billions of dollars for the greatest Ponzi scheme the world has ever known – a Ponzi scheme that entailed illegal naked short selling that probably helped topple the American financial system.
That’s right, Monsieur Rene Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet not only provided most of the initial funding to Milken-crony Leon Black’s Apollo Group. He was also one of the most devoted “feeders” to the Bernard Madoff $50 billion phantom stock Mafia swindle.
And one day last month, police entered a luxurious office in a New York skyscraper. On the desk, there were pills (what kind of pills has not yet been revealed). On the floor, there was a box cutter. There was no note.
But there he was — Monsieur Rene Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet.
He was dead.
They said it was suicide.
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To be continued….
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Mark Mitchell is a reporter for DeepCapture.com.
He previously worked as an editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal in Europe, chief business correspondent for Time magazine in Asia, and as an assistant managing editor responsible for the Columbia Journalism Review’s online critique of business journalism. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.