Holder Refuses to Call Warrantless Spying Illegal
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2009-06-17 18:10.
Congress Spying Torture
By David Swanson
In probably the most disturbing testimony to hit Capitol Hill since Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before the House Judiciary Committee in May and refused to rule out lawless detention or to agree that government officials can sometimes be prosecuted for their crimes, on Wednesday Holder appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee and, among much else, refused five times to agree that warrantless spying is illegal and unconstitutional.
I spoke to Holder in April, and he assured me that I would be proud of my country.
When?
Over the months that have passed since Holder last testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearings, it has become clear that most, if not all, of the major criminal activities of the Bush Administration will be covered up and protected, and in fact continued, by the Obama Administration -- yes, including torture. Most recently in the media, including in Wednesday's New York Times, are accounts of ongoing warrantless spying.
At Wednesday's hearing, liveblogged here, illegal spying was the subject of a dramatic exchange.
Chairman Patrick Leahy was the first to raise the topic and to complain that he had to learn about the executive branch's crimes from the New York Times. I'm not sure who he would prefer or expect to hear such things from. Holder, in response, claimed not to know anything about it, because he hadn't "reviewed in any detail" the New York Times article. Senators Tom Coburn and Diane Feinstein both claimed that the New York Times article was not accurate.
But whether that article is accurate or not misses the broader question that was then raised by Senator Russ Feingold. He pointed out that executive "opinions" asserting the legality of torture have been overturned, but that those asserting the legality of warrantless wiretapping have not been. Senator Feinstein asked whether the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) "opinion" announcing that the 4th Amendment did not apply in the "war on terror" had been withdrawn.
Holder said he did not know.
Feingold pointed to past statements by Barack Obama and Eric Holder denouncing the warrantless wiretapping. And he asked Holder directly whether the warrantless wiretapping programs set up during Bush's presidency were illegal.
Holder replied that they were "unwise".
So Feingold asked again, and a third, fourth, and fifth time.
Holder would go so far as to say "inconsistent with FISA" and yet explicitly refused to say "illegal."
Holder said he hoped to someday release secret "opinions" on spying. But releasing something is not the same as overturning or "withdrawing" it. After five unsuccessful attempts to get Holder to call illegal spying illegal (even though Holder would, later in the same hearing, indicate his reliance on legislation that provided immunity for the crime), Feingold gave up and moved to another topic.
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TOMMY:
This pretendor named ERIC HOLDER...is a very good reason why...I DON'T WRITE OR SIGN ANYMORE US DOJ COMPLAINTS.
What is the point of wasting good energy when ERIC HOLDER is, always was, and always will be...NOTHING BUT ANOTHER, YES ANOTHER, EXTORTED MK ULTRA PATSY PRETENDING TO BE THE US ATTY GENERAL.
This guy Holder personifies the new motto for these times, "THE AUDACITY OF HOPELESSNESS" ...aka...an era of remarkeable arrogance, audacity, and madness by those holding public jobs who are always engaged in chicanery.
HOLDER...cannot say, "...TITLE III (aka TITLE 18 USC SEC 2510--et al.)...PROHIBITS WARRANTLESS EAVESDROPPING AND WIRETAPPING AND PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS IN HOMES"????......
HOLDER does not want to talk the truth while in public?
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Feingold asked Holder about abuse of the "state secrets" privilege. Since February, Feingold said, he has sought a classified briefing from the executive branch to explain three cases in which Holder's department has used the "state secrets" excuse to try to block court cases.
Feingold asked Holder to get him that briefing.
Holder refused twice, but did claim that within "a matter of days" he would make some proposals public.
The Senate Judiciary Committee plans on Thursday to mark up the State Secrets Protection Act, a bill to restrain executive abuse.
Holder told the committee on Wednesday that the executive branch would release its position on the matter within days, and that then no legislation should be needed. Leahy appeared to agree to that outrageous assertion of power, saying that unless the position was released, his committee would mark up the bill.
Senator Dick Durbin asked Holder about the endlessly delayed report from the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), within the Department of Justice, on Jay Bybee's, John Yoo's, and Steven Bradbury's complicity in torture. Durbin pointed out that it has been six weeks since the comment period for the subjects closed (that is to say, Yoo and Bybee and Bradbury concluded their unprecedented and outrageous opportunity to submit edits to a report on their own wrongdoing).
Holder told Durbin that changes are being made to the report as a result of those responses. He said that part of the report might be released in "a matter of weeks", but that other parts will be classified. Holder added that he believed the unclassified portion alone would give wrong impressions. He said that he would want to get more of the report declassified, but that doing so would take more time.
It's worth noting that leaders in both houses of Congress, including Leahy and his House counterpart Chairman John Conyers, have long since made clear that they will not seek to hold anyone accountable for torture until the OPR report is released.
Presumably they mean the full report.
And that could apparently be months or never.
No doubt the assurances that all action will wait for the report is strong motivation to delay the report.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse ran through the chronology of delays and stalling tactics thus far. He said that on February 18, 2008, he had been told the OPR report was underway, that a draft report had been delivered in December 2008, that on May 4, 2009, the comment period from the torture lawyers had ended, and that the CIA was given an opportunity for substantive comment and classification review.
Whitehouse asked whether the CIA was the current logjam.
Holder said No.
He said that the OPR is still working on the report in light of the responses it received from the torturers six weeks ago. Whitehouse focused on the CIA and asked Holder (a number of times) if he had any assurances from the CIA that those giving input to the report were not themselves involved in the torture. Holder made clear that the answer was no. He has no such assurances and isn't interested in them.
Wednesday's hearing also featured an amicable exchange in which Holder and Senator Lindsey Graham discussed the creation of a "review" procedure that might amount to "due process" for prisoners who would be held forever without trial. Graham also asked for an assurance from Holder that the President would decree torture photos to be classified before (or after) the next court order to release them. On that point, Holder refused to make such a commitment. But then, he's not the president.
Holder did say something encouraging about the nature of OLC opinions. Senator John Cornyn, who is concerned to prevent the residents of Washington D.C. from having voting representation in Congress, said that an OLC opinion that a proposal for DC voting rights was unconstitutional had not been released. Pressed repeatedly, Holder ended up saying that OLC opinions are just recommendations that he has the power to ignore. Of course, this should be true, but then Ashcroft, Gonzales, and Mukasey, not to mention Bush, had the same power and responsibility to reject absurd "opinions" that torture and warrantless spying and wars of aggression were legal.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
"I want a Big Mac with cheese, and I WANT IT RIGHT FUCKING...NOW!@#!
http://cbs4denver.com/investigates/denver.police.suspension.2.1049330.html
Jun 17, 2009 9:06 pm
McMenacing? Cop Accused Of Pulling Gun At McD's
Written by Brian Maass
A Denver police officer has been suspended after allegedly brandishing his gun at a McDonald's restaurant in Aurora after his order took too long to fill.
Aurora police confirmed the CBS4 investigation saying the incident occurred May 21 at the McDonald's at 18181 East Hampden Avenue.
A spokesperson for the Aurora Police Department said they plan to present the case -- now classified as a felony menacing incident -- to the Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office Thursday for possible filing of criminal charges.
Sources familiar with the case, and the fast food worker's account of what happened, say two off-duty Denver police officers placed an order from their car in the early morning hours of May 21. But once at the drive through window, the employee said the men became agitated and angry at how long their food was taking. The men thought they were being ignored, according to contacts familiar with the worker's account.
The male clerk then said one of the officer's flashed his police badge and pointed a pistol through the drive through window in a threatening manner, before driving off without paying.
Both officers are assigned to Denver International Airport although only one has been placed on administrative leave with pay, pending the outcome of the case.
Jun 17, 2009 9:06 pm
McMenacing? Cop Accused Of Pulling Gun At McD's
Written by Brian Maass
A Denver police officer has been suspended after allegedly brandishing his gun at a McDonald's restaurant in Aurora after his order took too long to fill.
Aurora police confirmed the CBS4 investigation saying the incident occurred May 21 at the McDonald's at 18181 East Hampden Avenue.
A spokesperson for the Aurora Police Department said they plan to present the case -- now classified as a felony menacing incident -- to the Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office Thursday for possible filing of criminal charges.
Sources familiar with the case, and the fast food worker's account of what happened, say two off-duty Denver police officers placed an order from their car in the early morning hours of May 21. But once at the drive through window, the employee said the men became agitated and angry at how long their food was taking. The men thought they were being ignored, according to contacts familiar with the worker's account.
The male clerk then said one of the officer's flashed his police badge and pointed a pistol through the drive through window in a threatening manner, before driving off without paying.
Both officers are assigned to Denver International Airport although only one has been placed on administrative leave with pay, pending the outcome of the case.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
CIA COVERS UP CHENEY'S CRIMES--TORTURE USED AS COINTELPRO NEUTRALIZATION OF US CITIZENS
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/is-cia-supressing-holy-grail-torture-report-that-would-undercut-cheney/
GREG SERGENT'S BLOG THE PLUM LINE:
IS CIA SUPPRESSING HOLY GRAIL TORTURE MEMO THAT WOULD UNDERCUT CHENEY"
On Friday, there may be a major development in the torture wars: The CIA is set to release portions of a 2004 report that reportedly found no proof that torture foiled any terror plots, which would dramatically undercut Dick Cheney’s claims that torture worked.
But a news story this morning raises the question: Is the CIA trying to keep chunks that would undermine Cheney under wraps?
As I’ve noted here before, Dem staffers on the Hill call this report the “Holy Grail” because it contains a whole chapter on the “effectiveness” — or lack thereof — of torture.
The report has already been released in connection with an ACLU lawsuit, but much of it has been redacted — including the “effectiveness” chapter. That chapter is reported to say there’s no proof that torture foiled any plots, but the details are unknown.
CIA officials have already announced they will release more of the report this coming Friday, in response to the Obama administration’s request to do so. But now today’s Washington Post reports that CIA officials are pushing to keep big chunks of the report classified.
It’s unclear what, precisely, the CIA wants kept under wraps. The Post says the CIA is resisting the declassification of parts “describing in graphic detail how the agency handled its detainees,” which may or may not include the “effectiveness” chapter.
The larger context here is important. Keep in mind that even though Cheney personally oversaw multiple briefings of Congress about torture, the CIA docs on the briefings didn’t mention Cheney at all. The question now is whether something similar will happen this Friday with the “Holy Grail” report.
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tommy:
1) DR MARK GORDON WAS TORTURED WITH A DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON while coerced into cooperating for MINNEAPOLIS FBI, coming after me....while using illegally obtained info so they could get my info on:
----MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, WITH APD AND AUSTIN FBI AND AUSTIN US ATTY all "taking payoffs" to protect a notorious RICO FELONY MAFIA CRIME FAMILY...info came from GEORGE REYES.
----JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM STING OPERATION in which...NSA and FBI used illegally obtained info to "focus on the Uncle Freddy Murder" (Notice: UNCLE FREDDY IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER on this comedy album). THE STING OPERATION caught FBI AND OTHERS VIOLATING TITLE III....Mueller then "protected and used sneak and peak" to steal my tapes of my phone calls to compare to the FBI--SFPD--APD sworn statements when "cops commit perjury" and "launder illegally obtained info through snitchs" who did not "have access to the info".
IT'S CALLED THE HAND OFF METHOD of violating state and fed laws.
----GOSS AND CHENEY AND MUELLER colluded to violate my Fifth Amendment rights when they ran a COUNTER INTEL SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING to "steal my evidence" that proved FBI FELONY CRIMES.
GLEN FINE should have talked to me.
PAT LEAHY should have talked to me.
PATRIOT ACT up for renewal...and...DEMS WILL NOT LET ME TESTIFY AGAINST THE PATRIOT ACT ABUSES USED BY FBI as part of ongoing conspiracies to OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, TAMPER WITH WITNESSES, INTERSTATE STALKING....etc.
NO INTEREST FROM PUNKS LIKE LEAHY, CONYERS, FEINGOLD...and...in the past...THEY HAVE USED MY INFO KNOWING IT IS GOOD (Gonzo resigned only, only, only, after SCHUMER threatened to question him on SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN, and HEFFLEFINGER'S INVESTIGATIONS BEING OBSTRUCTED?).
GREG SERGENT'S BLOG THE PLUM LINE:
IS CIA SUPPRESSING HOLY GRAIL TORTURE MEMO THAT WOULD UNDERCUT CHENEY"
On Friday, there may be a major development in the torture wars: The CIA is set to release portions of a 2004 report that reportedly found no proof that torture foiled any terror plots, which would dramatically undercut Dick Cheney’s claims that torture worked.
But a news story this morning raises the question: Is the CIA trying to keep chunks that would undermine Cheney under wraps?
As I’ve noted here before, Dem staffers on the Hill call this report the “Holy Grail” because it contains a whole chapter on the “effectiveness” — or lack thereof — of torture.
The report has already been released in connection with an ACLU lawsuit, but much of it has been redacted — including the “effectiveness” chapter. That chapter is reported to say there’s no proof that torture foiled any plots, but the details are unknown.
CIA officials have already announced they will release more of the report this coming Friday, in response to the Obama administration’s request to do so. But now today’s Washington Post reports that CIA officials are pushing to keep big chunks of the report classified.
It’s unclear what, precisely, the CIA wants kept under wraps. The Post says the CIA is resisting the declassification of parts “describing in graphic detail how the agency handled its detainees,” which may or may not include the “effectiveness” chapter.
The larger context here is important. Keep in mind that even though Cheney personally oversaw multiple briefings of Congress about torture, the CIA docs on the briefings didn’t mention Cheney at all. The question now is whether something similar will happen this Friday with the “Holy Grail” report.
__________________
tommy:
1) DR MARK GORDON WAS TORTURED WITH A DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON while coerced into cooperating for MINNEAPOLIS FBI, coming after me....while using illegally obtained info so they could get my info on:
----MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, WITH APD AND AUSTIN FBI AND AUSTIN US ATTY all "taking payoffs" to protect a notorious RICO FELONY MAFIA CRIME FAMILY...info came from GEORGE REYES.
----JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM STING OPERATION in which...NSA and FBI used illegally obtained info to "focus on the Uncle Freddy Murder" (Notice: UNCLE FREDDY IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER on this comedy album). THE STING OPERATION caught FBI AND OTHERS VIOLATING TITLE III....Mueller then "protected and used sneak and peak" to steal my tapes of my phone calls to compare to the FBI--SFPD--APD sworn statements when "cops commit perjury" and "launder illegally obtained info through snitchs" who did not "have access to the info".
IT'S CALLED THE HAND OFF METHOD of violating state and fed laws.
----GOSS AND CHENEY AND MUELLER colluded to violate my Fifth Amendment rights when they ran a COUNTER INTEL SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING to "steal my evidence" that proved FBI FELONY CRIMES.
GLEN FINE should have talked to me.
PAT LEAHY should have talked to me.
PATRIOT ACT up for renewal...and...DEMS WILL NOT LET ME TESTIFY AGAINST THE PATRIOT ACT ABUSES USED BY FBI as part of ongoing conspiracies to OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, TAMPER WITH WITNESSES, INTERSTATE STALKING....etc.
NO INTEREST FROM PUNKS LIKE LEAHY, CONYERS, FEINGOLD...and...in the past...THEY HAVE USED MY INFO KNOWING IT IS GOOD (Gonzo resigned only, only, only, after SCHUMER threatened to question him on SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN, and HEFFLEFINGER'S INVESTIGATIONS BEING OBSTRUCTED?).
PHONEY EXTORTED POSEING PUNK PAT FITZGERALD....pissed about PETER LANCE'S BOOK proveing FALSE FLAG AT US DOJ, FBI HQ
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/16/743373/-The-Wreck-of-the-Patrick-Fitzgerald
The Wreck of the Patrick Fitzgerald
by reprehensor
Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 07:15:36 PM PDT
Why is Patrick Fitzgerald threatening to sue HarperCollins for publishing the re-issue of Peter Lance's "Triple Cross"? Well, here are some actual reasons that a big-time player like Fitzgerald would want the book dead... and it's got nothing to do with defamation or libel.
reprehensor's diary :: ::
Well, I guess Patrick Fitzgerald is going to have to sue HarperCollins, just like he threatened. He says that Peter Lance's book, Triple Cross contains lies and false accusations about him, and thus, the book must be pulped!
The real problem with Lance's book is not that it is brimming with lies, but rather that Lance's tendentious prose enforces the general paradigm put forward by the 9/11 Torture Commission*, while at the same time exposing seriously problematic aspects of the run-up to 9/11 that fail to lay down and die like they should. (Or more accurately, like some people want them to die.)
Lance writes of his on-going brouhaha at Playboy.com;
"I’d become the latest target of Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney for Chicago and former special counsel in the CIA leak investigation. I’d raised some questions about his record on counterterrorism, and Fitzgerald, described by a former colleague at Justice as "Eliot Ness with a Harvard degree and a sense of humor," was not amused.
The man who jailed publishing magnate Conrad Black and got Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich indicted has enjoyed an extraordinary reputation for honesty and integrity, but he’s also used his power to intimidate the media. The story of how he came gunning for me sheds light on his methods as a prosecutor and calls into question certain decisions he made in the years leading up to 9/11.
The evidence I unearthed stems from Fitzgerald’s tenure in the mid-1990s as co-head of the Organized Crime-Terrorism Unit in the Southern District of New York, the U.S. attorney’s office that turned out Rudolph Guiliani and Louis Freeh. In 1995, after President Clinton issued Decision Directive 39—a secret order targeting domestic and international terrorism—Fitzgerald was assigned to effectively supervise I-49, the elite bin Laden squad in New York’s FBI office. It would be a career-making position for Fitzgerald, the son of an Irish immigrant doorman...
...Back on my trip in 2002 I’d received classified evidence about Yousef’s Manila plans from Colonel Rodolfo B. Mendoza of the Philippines National Police. I was shocked to find that Mendoza had sent the same intel in 1995 to the U.S. embassy in Manila, where it was forwarded to prosecutors in the Southern District.
I had traced the chain of custody, interviewing the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service agent who picked up the intel from Mendoza at Camp Crame in Manila and stood by as the FBI legal attaché at the U.S. embassy sent it to the SDNY. The agent confirmed an earlier account he’d given that Mike Garcia and Dietrich Snell, the assistant U.S. attorneys who later prosecuted Yousef, "almost certainly had access to the materials." By December 1995 Garcia and Snell were working directly under Patrick Fitzgerald.
In short, the SDNY had more than five years’ prior warning of Ramzi Yousef’s hijacking scenario."
Perhaps you haven't heard of this.
Most people haven't.
The 9/11 Torture Commission didn't bother mentioning it.
I mean, why worry anybody's pretty little head over the fact that the FBI and the SDNY had the nuts and bolts of the 9/11 plot in their hot little hands since 1995.
You see, along with the Bojinka Plot, the man in charge of decoding Ramzi Yousef's laptop also found an alternative to "Project Bojinka"**;
"Decoding Yousef's computer was not difficult. I bypassed the passwords and immediately accessed the files. The principal job was reading the files and summarizing them. This was done using a text search program.
This was how we found out about the various plots being hatched by the cell of Ramzi Yousef. First, there was the plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II. We learned that a suicide bomber would approach the Pope and detonate a bomb that he would be carrying, killing the bomber, the Pope, and the people around both of them. Because the Pope was coming to Manila, we thought this was the principal plot and prime reason for the group to be in Manila.
Then, we discovered a second, even more sinister plot: Project Bojinka, or a Yugoslav term for loud bang. This was a plot to blow up 11 airlines over the Pacific Ocean, all in a 48-hour period. The planes would have come from Seoul, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore, and Manila. Even the airlines and the specific flight numbers had been chosen. There was a document where calculations had been made on how to set the timers on the bomb to be placed on each flight so that they would explode within a set time.
Then we found another document that discussed a second alternative to crash the 11 planes into selected targets in the United States instead of just blowing them up in the air. These included the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia; the World Trade Center in New York; the Sears Tower in Chicago; the TransAmerica Tower in San Francisco; and the White House in Washington, DC. Murad himself was to fly the plane that would be crashed into the CIA headquarters.
Lance offers an explanation as to why the Torture Commission didn't share this info with the public; Snell was Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission.
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And then there's the whole Ali Mohamed thing.
Researcher Peter Dale Scott has given the Fitzgerald/Mohamed relationship close scrutiny;
...I wrote of Ali Mohamed, the close ally of Osama bin Laden and his mentor Ayman al-Zawahiri. It is now generally admitted that Ali Mohamed (known in the al Qaeda camps as Abu Mohamed al Amriki — "Father Mohamed the American") worked for the FBI, the CIA, and U.S. Special Forces. As he later confessed in court, he also aided the terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri, a co-founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and by then an aide to bin Laden, when he visited America to raise money.
The 9/11 Report mentioned him, and said that the plotters against the U.S. Embassy in Kenya were "led" (their word) by Ali Mohamed. That’s the Report’s only reference to him, though it’s not all they heard.
Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney who negotiated a plea bargain and confession from Ali Mohamed, said this in testimony to the Commission;
Ali Mohamed. .... trained most of al Qaeda’s top leadership – including Bin Laden and Zawahiri – and most of al Qaeda’s top trainers. He gave some training to persons who would later carry out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.... From 1994 until his arrest in 1998, he lived as an American citizen in California, applying for jobs as an FBI translator.
Patrick Fitzgerald knew Ali Mohamed well. In 1994 he had named him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the New York landmarks case, yet allowed him to remain free. This was because, as Fitzgerald knew, Ali Mohamed was an FBI informant, from at least 1993 and maybe 1989. Thus, from 1994 "until his arrest in 1998 , Mohamed shuttled between California, Afghanistan, Kenya, Somalia and at least a dozen other countries." ...
...Let me say this again: one of al-Qaeda’s top trainers in terrorism and how to hijack airplanes was an operative for FBI, CIA, and the Army.***
Ali Mohamed was questioned after 9/11, and apparently knew the plot well.
You know what? Go ahead and sue HarperCollins, Patrick Fitzgerald, because more people need to know about this stuff.
The Wreck of the Patrick Fitzgerald
by reprehensor
Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 07:15:36 PM PDT
Why is Patrick Fitzgerald threatening to sue HarperCollins for publishing the re-issue of Peter Lance's "Triple Cross"? Well, here are some actual reasons that a big-time player like Fitzgerald would want the book dead... and it's got nothing to do with defamation or libel.
reprehensor's diary :: ::
Well, I guess Patrick Fitzgerald is going to have to sue HarperCollins, just like he threatened. He says that Peter Lance's book, Triple Cross contains lies and false accusations about him, and thus, the book must be pulped!
The real problem with Lance's book is not that it is brimming with lies, but rather that Lance's tendentious prose enforces the general paradigm put forward by the 9/11 Torture Commission*, while at the same time exposing seriously problematic aspects of the run-up to 9/11 that fail to lay down and die like they should. (Or more accurately, like some people want them to die.)
Lance writes of his on-going brouhaha at Playboy.com;
"I’d become the latest target of Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney for Chicago and former special counsel in the CIA leak investigation. I’d raised some questions about his record on counterterrorism, and Fitzgerald, described by a former colleague at Justice as "Eliot Ness with a Harvard degree and a sense of humor," was not amused.
The man who jailed publishing magnate Conrad Black and got Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich indicted has enjoyed an extraordinary reputation for honesty and integrity, but he’s also used his power to intimidate the media. The story of how he came gunning for me sheds light on his methods as a prosecutor and calls into question certain decisions he made in the years leading up to 9/11.
The evidence I unearthed stems from Fitzgerald’s tenure in the mid-1990s as co-head of the Organized Crime-Terrorism Unit in the Southern District of New York, the U.S. attorney’s office that turned out Rudolph Guiliani and Louis Freeh. In 1995, after President Clinton issued Decision Directive 39—a secret order targeting domestic and international terrorism—Fitzgerald was assigned to effectively supervise I-49, the elite bin Laden squad in New York’s FBI office. It would be a career-making position for Fitzgerald, the son of an Irish immigrant doorman...
...Back on my trip in 2002 I’d received classified evidence about Yousef’s Manila plans from Colonel Rodolfo B. Mendoza of the Philippines National Police. I was shocked to find that Mendoza had sent the same intel in 1995 to the U.S. embassy in Manila, where it was forwarded to prosecutors in the Southern District.
I had traced the chain of custody, interviewing the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service agent who picked up the intel from Mendoza at Camp Crame in Manila and stood by as the FBI legal attaché at the U.S. embassy sent it to the SDNY. The agent confirmed an earlier account he’d given that Mike Garcia and Dietrich Snell, the assistant U.S. attorneys who later prosecuted Yousef, "almost certainly had access to the materials." By December 1995 Garcia and Snell were working directly under Patrick Fitzgerald.
In short, the SDNY had more than five years’ prior warning of Ramzi Yousef’s hijacking scenario."
Perhaps you haven't heard of this.
Most people haven't.
The 9/11 Torture Commission didn't bother mentioning it.
I mean, why worry anybody's pretty little head over the fact that the FBI and the SDNY had the nuts and bolts of the 9/11 plot in their hot little hands since 1995.
You see, along with the Bojinka Plot, the man in charge of decoding Ramzi Yousef's laptop also found an alternative to "Project Bojinka"**;
"Decoding Yousef's computer was not difficult. I bypassed the passwords and immediately accessed the files. The principal job was reading the files and summarizing them. This was done using a text search program.
This was how we found out about the various plots being hatched by the cell of Ramzi Yousef. First, there was the plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II. We learned that a suicide bomber would approach the Pope and detonate a bomb that he would be carrying, killing the bomber, the Pope, and the people around both of them. Because the Pope was coming to Manila, we thought this was the principal plot and prime reason for the group to be in Manila.
Then, we discovered a second, even more sinister plot: Project Bojinka, or a Yugoslav term for loud bang. This was a plot to blow up 11 airlines over the Pacific Ocean, all in a 48-hour period. The planes would have come from Seoul, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore, and Manila. Even the airlines and the specific flight numbers had been chosen. There was a document where calculations had been made on how to set the timers on the bomb to be placed on each flight so that they would explode within a set time.
Then we found another document that discussed a second alternative to crash the 11 planes into selected targets in the United States instead of just blowing them up in the air. These included the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia; the World Trade Center in New York; the Sears Tower in Chicago; the TransAmerica Tower in San Francisco; and the White House in Washington, DC. Murad himself was to fly the plane that would be crashed into the CIA headquarters.
Lance offers an explanation as to why the Torture Commission didn't share this info with the public; Snell was Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission.
--------------------
And then there's the whole Ali Mohamed thing.
Researcher Peter Dale Scott has given the Fitzgerald/Mohamed relationship close scrutiny;
...I wrote of Ali Mohamed, the close ally of Osama bin Laden and his mentor Ayman al-Zawahiri. It is now generally admitted that Ali Mohamed (known in the al Qaeda camps as Abu Mohamed al Amriki — "Father Mohamed the American") worked for the FBI, the CIA, and U.S. Special Forces. As he later confessed in court, he also aided the terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri, a co-founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and by then an aide to bin Laden, when he visited America to raise money.
The 9/11 Report mentioned him, and said that the plotters against the U.S. Embassy in Kenya were "led" (their word) by Ali Mohamed. That’s the Report’s only reference to him, though it’s not all they heard.
Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney who negotiated a plea bargain and confession from Ali Mohamed, said this in testimony to the Commission;
Ali Mohamed. .... trained most of al Qaeda’s top leadership – including Bin Laden and Zawahiri – and most of al Qaeda’s top trainers. He gave some training to persons who would later carry out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.... From 1994 until his arrest in 1998, he lived as an American citizen in California, applying for jobs as an FBI translator.
Patrick Fitzgerald knew Ali Mohamed well. In 1994 he had named him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the New York landmarks case, yet allowed him to remain free. This was because, as Fitzgerald knew, Ali Mohamed was an FBI informant, from at least 1993 and maybe 1989. Thus, from 1994 "until his arrest in 1998 , Mohamed shuttled between California, Afghanistan, Kenya, Somalia and at least a dozen other countries." ...
...Let me say this again: one of al-Qaeda’s top trainers in terrorism and how to hijack airplanes was an operative for FBI, CIA, and the Army.***
Ali Mohamed was questioned after 9/11, and apparently knew the plot well.
You know what? Go ahead and sue HarperCollins, Patrick Fitzgerald, because more people need to know about this stuff.
Another good reason to despise the punk, pussified, pretending lowlife faggots KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC OVERSIGHT
Top senator: NSA not violating surveillance law
FOX News
WASHINGTON – The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says there have not been flagrant violations of rules governing surveillance of American e-mails and phone calls.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is responding to a news report that said the secret program far exceeded its bounds.
The California Democrats said at a Senate hearing Wednesday that a New York Times story about widespread intercepts of private U.S. conversations by the National Security Agency is not accurate. But she said her committee will look into the matter more closely.
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TOMMY:
Feinstein has never once contacted me, to see my evidence ...nor has this lying corrupt cunt ever once came close to doing her job--OVERSIGHT OF THE US INTEL COMMUNITY as they MURDERED AND MAIMED MANY OF MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES...all done to prevent an impossible nonevent from occurring--IMPEACHMENT WAS OFF THE TABLE BY PELOSIWHORE BEFORE ANY FUCKING PUNK DEMOCRAT EVER ONCE CALLED A PRIMARY WITNESS NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN?
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The Justice Department said in April it had to rein in NSA electronic surveillance after learning that the monitoring improperly accessed American phone calls and e-mails. Such intercepts require a judge's OK.
The Times reported that the April violations were broader than previously acknowledged
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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/17/nsa-bill-clinton-email/
NSA analyst ‘improperly accessed’ Bill Clinton’s e-mail through domestic surveillance program.
The New York Times reports today that members of Congress are increasingly concerned about the extent of the NSA’s domestic surveillance program, particularly the overcollection of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans.
An anonymous former intelligence analyst tells reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau that during much of the Bush years, the NSA “tolerated significant collection and examination of domestic e-mail messages without warrants.” Reportedly, one of the accessed domestic e-mail accounts belonged to former President Bill Clinton:
He said he and other analysts were trained to use a secret database, code-named Pinwale, in 2005 that archived foreign and domestic e-mail messages. He said Pinwale allowed N.S.A. analysts to read large volumes of e-mail messages to and from Americans as long as they fell within certain limits — no more than 30 percent of any database search, he recalled being told — and Americans were not explicitly singled out in the searches.
The former analyst added that his instructors had warned against committing any abuses, telling his class that another analyst had been investigated because he had improperly accessed the personal e-mail of former President Bill Clinton.
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TOMMY:
FEINSTEIN is obviously a punk spook flipped dipshit lying cunt.
FEINSTEIN like LEAHY and CONYERS AND WAXMAN...have all conveniently rolled over...when some sort of "invisible menacing black hand" known as the POWER CONTROL GROUP...somehow got dirt or control over these dipshits.
NONE OF WHOM...had the guts to call a witness named THOMAS S. BEAN, DR MARK GORDON, FBI AGENT STEVEN PLUTA, SD HW PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT...etc.
NOTICE THAT FEINSTEIN kept the recent CIA SPOOK MURDER M.O....all covered up with closed door hearings that focused on WHETHER THE CIA MURDERING DRUG DEALING PUNKS, ACTUALLY TOLD PELOSIWHORE THAT THEY FRIED US CITIZENS WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION FROM A DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW.........leading to RICH GORDON MURDER....LEADING TO ATTEMPTED MURDER OF MINNEAPOLIS FBI COOPERATING WITNESS DR MARK GORDON....leading to FBI USING INFO FROM MY FATHER (DR DAVID W. BEAN) to target OMAHA ATTY LEROY ROGERS, TORTURED AND MAIMED, and incapacitated with brain stroke.
ALL DONE TO STOP MY CIVIL SUIT FILING AND MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF....giving me subpoenae powers over FBI PUNKS, BOB MUELLER, GEN HAYDEN, NATHAN GRIFFITH, WHITTINGTON, CHENEY, DUMSFIELD, DOD CIFA UNIT IN SIOUX FALLS, BLACKWATER INC, JACK ABRAMOFF'S CONTRACTIing with DOD CIFA UNIT.......etc.
ALL OF WHICH, LEAD TO EXPOSURE ON DASCHLE WIRETAPPING....CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER OF ENRON WITNESS BY CHENEY--WHITTINGTON--NSA--NSA TSP----and MUELLER AT FBI HQ, stood down not using my crime tips because PUSSYBOY MUELLER asserted his notorious, "...protocol..." (i.e....."MUELLER TESTIFIED THAT FBI GRANTED CRIM IMMUNITY TO CHENEY, while asserting their little flag waiving punk protocol").
FOX News
WASHINGTON – The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says there have not been flagrant violations of rules governing surveillance of American e-mails and phone calls.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is responding to a news report that said the secret program far exceeded its bounds.
The California Democrats said at a Senate hearing Wednesday that a New York Times story about widespread intercepts of private U.S. conversations by the National Security Agency is not accurate. But she said her committee will look into the matter more closely.
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TOMMY:
Feinstein has never once contacted me, to see my evidence ...nor has this lying corrupt cunt ever once came close to doing her job--OVERSIGHT OF THE US INTEL COMMUNITY as they MURDERED AND MAIMED MANY OF MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES...all done to prevent an impossible nonevent from occurring--IMPEACHMENT WAS OFF THE TABLE BY PELOSIWHORE BEFORE ANY FUCKING PUNK DEMOCRAT EVER ONCE CALLED A PRIMARY WITNESS NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN?
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The Justice Department said in April it had to rein in NSA electronic surveillance after learning that the monitoring improperly accessed American phone calls and e-mails. Such intercepts require a judge's OK.
The Times reported that the April violations were broader than previously acknowledged
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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/17/nsa-bill-clinton-email/
NSA analyst ‘improperly accessed’ Bill Clinton’s e-mail through domestic surveillance program.
The New York Times reports today that members of Congress are increasingly concerned about the extent of the NSA’s domestic surveillance program, particularly the overcollection of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans.
An anonymous former intelligence analyst tells reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau that during much of the Bush years, the NSA “tolerated significant collection and examination of domestic e-mail messages without warrants.” Reportedly, one of the accessed domestic e-mail accounts belonged to former President Bill Clinton:
He said he and other analysts were trained to use a secret database, code-named Pinwale, in 2005 that archived foreign and domestic e-mail messages. He said Pinwale allowed N.S.A. analysts to read large volumes of e-mail messages to and from Americans as long as they fell within certain limits — no more than 30 percent of any database search, he recalled being told — and Americans were not explicitly singled out in the searches.
The former analyst added that his instructors had warned against committing any abuses, telling his class that another analyst had been investigated because he had improperly accessed the personal e-mail of former President Bill Clinton.
______________________
TOMMY:
FEINSTEIN is obviously a punk spook flipped dipshit lying cunt.
FEINSTEIN like LEAHY and CONYERS AND WAXMAN...have all conveniently rolled over...when some sort of "invisible menacing black hand" known as the POWER CONTROL GROUP...somehow got dirt or control over these dipshits.
NONE OF WHOM...had the guts to call a witness named THOMAS S. BEAN, DR MARK GORDON, FBI AGENT STEVEN PLUTA, SD HW PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT...etc.
NOTICE THAT FEINSTEIN kept the recent CIA SPOOK MURDER M.O....all covered up with closed door hearings that focused on WHETHER THE CIA MURDERING DRUG DEALING PUNKS, ACTUALLY TOLD PELOSIWHORE THAT THEY FRIED US CITIZENS WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION FROM A DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW.........leading to RICH GORDON MURDER....LEADING TO ATTEMPTED MURDER OF MINNEAPOLIS FBI COOPERATING WITNESS DR MARK GORDON....leading to FBI USING INFO FROM MY FATHER (DR DAVID W. BEAN) to target OMAHA ATTY LEROY ROGERS, TORTURED AND MAIMED, and incapacitated with brain stroke.
ALL DONE TO STOP MY CIVIL SUIT FILING AND MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF....giving me subpoenae powers over FBI PUNKS, BOB MUELLER, GEN HAYDEN, NATHAN GRIFFITH, WHITTINGTON, CHENEY, DUMSFIELD, DOD CIFA UNIT IN SIOUX FALLS, BLACKWATER INC, JACK ABRAMOFF'S CONTRACTIing with DOD CIFA UNIT.......etc.
ALL OF WHICH, LEAD TO EXPOSURE ON DASCHLE WIRETAPPING....CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER OF ENRON WITNESS BY CHENEY--WHITTINGTON--NSA--NSA TSP----and MUELLER AT FBI HQ, stood down not using my crime tips because PUSSYBOY MUELLER asserted his notorious, "...protocol..." (i.e....."MUELLER TESTIFIED THAT FBI GRANTED CRIM IMMUNITY TO CHENEY, while asserting their little flag waiving punk protocol").
MORE OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE by BUSH CRIME FAMILY extorting punk pussies known as DEM OVERSIGHT
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/miers_testifies_in_us_attorneys_probe_--_when_will.php#more
Miers Testifies In US Attorneys Probe -- When Will Rove?
By Zachary Roth - June 16, 2009, 6:06PM
Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel under President Bush, has finally testified, behind closed doors, as part of Congress's investigation of the US attorney firings, reports FOXNews.com.
That raises an obvious question: When will Karl Rove do the same?
Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, told TPMmuckraker last month that he expected Rove to testify in early June. But today Luskin did not immediately return our call.
An agreement securing testimony from Rove and Miers was announced in March.
Until then, they had long refused to testify, citing President Bush's claims of executive privilege, prompting House Judiciary chair John Conyers to issue subpoenas, and the House to vote to hold them in contempt.
It remains unclear how much of Miers' and Rove's testimony Conyers will decide to release.
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TOMMY:
Important to note just how pathetic CONYERS, LEAHY, FEINSTEIN, HOLDER, OBAMA are on oversight...especially if you know the facts that should have been played out in front of the country:
----SD ATTY GEN LARRY LONG negotiated a "quid pro quo" with Bush White House lawyers...to OPEN A BOGUS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED MALICIOUS PROSECUTION ON DAN NELSON AUTO LOAN BUSINESS only because FORMER SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN'S SON was named in that illegal fraudulent SD AG criminal investigation...that...of course...WENT NO WHERE NEAR INDICTMENT OR PROSECUTION because there was no facts supporting any sort of reasonable criminal suspicion.
As part of that deal...LONG SOUGHT TO GAIN HIS FIRST ONE WAY TICKET OUT OF PRARIE POTHOLE LAND (South Dakota) when....GOV ROUNDS WOULD HAVE APPOINTED LONG THE NEW SD US SENATOR after SD US SENATOR TIM JOHNSON died from his torture with microwave radiation...aka...DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW.
JOHNSON SURVIVED THE DEW ATTACKS, unlike Rich Gordon who died of a brain tumor....and....LONG NO LONGER GOT WHAT HE WANTED....BUT...BUSH WHITE HOUSE MADE SURE THAT MICHELLE TAPKEN'S FED GRAND JURY IN SIOUX FALLS (LOOKING AT FACTS IN MY US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT) was somehow...uh...obstructed?...no indictment handed down when we all know, "...you can indict a ham sandwich in a Fed Grand Jury...".
CONYERS HAD ALOT MORE INFO TO DEAL WITH...LIKE...UH....WHAT HAPPENED TO FORMER US ATTY FOR MINNESOTA HEFFLEFINGER when he found out that GOSS AND CIA or was it DUMSFIELD AND DOD CIFA UNIT...fried, tortured and tried to murder a COOPERATING MINNEAPOLIS FBI WITNESS NAMED DR MARK GORDON....fried with DEW.
THESE ARE THE ISSUES THAT PELOSI AND PANETTA fagged around...accusing each other of
mendacity...since...CIA BRIEFED ON ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES...but CONYERS FORGOT TO ASK, "where are the interrogation tapes to prove this was NOT A PATRIOT ACT MURDER CONSPIRACY USING MICROWAVE RADIATION FROM DEW?"
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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/conyers_wife_facing_scrutiny_over_bribery_scandal.php
Conyers' Wife Facing Scrutiny Over Bribery Scandal
By Zachary Roth - June 17, 2009, 2:02PM
Rep. John Conyers, who chairs the House Judiciary committee, has played a prominent role in recent years exposing executive-branch muck, from the US Attorneys scandal to torture. So it's ironic that Conyers' wife is caught up in some serious muck of her own.
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TOMMY:
NEITHER conyers nor leahy or Feinstein...ever...ever...ever...once called me to get all the info....THEY DID NOT EVEN COME CLOSE TO ALL THE MURDERS BY GOSS, CHENEY, MUELLER, HAYDEN, GONZO, ASHCROFT, AND MUKASYKIKE.
THEY DID NOT GET CLOSE TO THE TRUTH...when I offered to take polygraphs before and after, and submit all my evidence...like CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT that gave FBI ALL THEY NEEDED TO WORK THE TITLE III FELONY, FLIPPING THEIR WAY TO CHENEY, WHITTINGTON, HAYDEN, NSA 902ND, AND NSA TSP MERC.
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The scandal has been brewing for a while, but it reached boiling point Monday, when Rayford Jackson, a Detroit businessman, admitted in a plea deal with prosecutors that he had bribed a council member in 2007, to gain approval for a $1.2-billion waste disposal contract. The Detroit Free Press had previously reported that the council member in question, described in court documents, is Monica Conyers.
Jackson's brother, Lennie, is said by the Feds to have carried thousands of dollars in bribes to Conyers and her then-aide, Sam Riddle.
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TOMMY:
Let's see the money. Let's see the evidence. FBI IS FAMOUS FOR BUYING OR EXTORTING TESTIMONY...IVINS SON IN ANTHRAX COVERUP WAS OFFERED 2.3 MILLION BY FBI TO JOIN FBI CONSPIRACY TO SUBORN PERJURY and or CONSPIRACY TO DEFAME AN INNOCENT WHISTLEBLOWER NAMED DR IVINS who knew that MOSSAD KIKE DR ZACK was the false flag terrorist who did Anthrax.
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And ominously for Conyers, Lennie Jackson is cooperating with authorities, according to court documents. Riddle, too, says he'll tell what he knows "at the appropriate time" but that right now he hasn't cut a deal with the Feds.
The president of the council has said he wants charges brought before Detroiters go to the polls in August for council elections.
Conyers is said to be in talks with the Feds about a plea deal of her own, which might allow her to avoid an indictment for corruption. She dodged reporters' questions yesterday.
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tommy:
THIS BRINGS UP THE POTENTIAL ETHICS QUESTION, "whether the Bush crime family US ATTY or local Detroit prosecutor" can cut a deal in which JON CONYERS HAS TO AGREE TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE AND CONSPIRE TO OBSTRUCT CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT.
IF THAT IS THE DEAL...CONYERS needs to get that deal on tape so he can EXTORT THE EXTORTIONIST....which is tough since....HOUSE NIGGER HOLDER IS ANOTHER PUNK ILLUMINATI STOOGE LOWLIFE CORRUPT FAGGOT who does nothing for nobody except himself and his secret team.
I can say that knowing what HOLDER HAS DONE, AND NOT DONE...WITH MY INFO.
HOLDER IS A JOKE WITH SPEAR CHUCKER PUPPET OBAMA joining the ILLUMINATI BULLSHIT CLOWN ACT, that destroyed this country in so many obvious ways.
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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/obama_admin_mimics_bush_again_white_house_records.php
Obama Admin Mimics Bush Again: White House Records Are Secret
By Zachary Roth - June 16, 2009, 10:03AM
Add another (perhaps more minor) entry to the list of ways in which the Obama administration is mimicking its predecessor on issues of transparency.
MSNBC.com reports that the Secret Service has denied the news outlet's request for the names of visitors to the White House since President Obama was sworn in. It also denied a narrower request by the good-government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington for records of visits by coal executives.
The Obama administration -- which had promised to usher in a new era of transparency -- argues that the visitor logs are presidential records, and therefore not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. A spokesman told MSNBC.com that the White House needs to be able to hold secret meetings in certain cases "such as an elected official interviewing for an administration position or an ambassador coming for a discussion on issues that would affect international negotiations."
But these are the same arguments made by the Bush administration -- and twice rejected by a federal judge.
CREW says it will file a lawsuit today.
The Obama administration has also been accused of following in Bush's footsteps on transparency issues relating to war on terror tactics. It has fought efforts to release photographs and other information relating to the treatment of detainees, and has several times tried to have lawsuits thrown out by invoking the state secrets privilege.
Miers Testifies In US Attorneys Probe -- When Will Rove?
By Zachary Roth - June 16, 2009, 6:06PM
Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel under President Bush, has finally testified, behind closed doors, as part of Congress's investigation of the US attorney firings, reports FOXNews.com.
That raises an obvious question: When will Karl Rove do the same?
Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, told TPMmuckraker last month that he expected Rove to testify in early June. But today Luskin did not immediately return our call.
An agreement securing testimony from Rove and Miers was announced in March.
Until then, they had long refused to testify, citing President Bush's claims of executive privilege, prompting House Judiciary chair John Conyers to issue subpoenas, and the House to vote to hold them in contempt.
It remains unclear how much of Miers' and Rove's testimony Conyers will decide to release.
__________________________
TOMMY:
Important to note just how pathetic CONYERS, LEAHY, FEINSTEIN, HOLDER, OBAMA are on oversight...especially if you know the facts that should have been played out in front of the country:
----SD ATTY GEN LARRY LONG negotiated a "quid pro quo" with Bush White House lawyers...to OPEN A BOGUS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED MALICIOUS PROSECUTION ON DAN NELSON AUTO LOAN BUSINESS only because FORMER SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN'S SON was named in that illegal fraudulent SD AG criminal investigation...that...of course...WENT NO WHERE NEAR INDICTMENT OR PROSECUTION because there was no facts supporting any sort of reasonable criminal suspicion.
As part of that deal...LONG SOUGHT TO GAIN HIS FIRST ONE WAY TICKET OUT OF PRARIE POTHOLE LAND (South Dakota) when....GOV ROUNDS WOULD HAVE APPOINTED LONG THE NEW SD US SENATOR after SD US SENATOR TIM JOHNSON died from his torture with microwave radiation...aka...DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW.
JOHNSON SURVIVED THE DEW ATTACKS, unlike Rich Gordon who died of a brain tumor....and....LONG NO LONGER GOT WHAT HE WANTED....BUT...BUSH WHITE HOUSE MADE SURE THAT MICHELLE TAPKEN'S FED GRAND JURY IN SIOUX FALLS (LOOKING AT FACTS IN MY US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT) was somehow...uh...obstructed?...no indictment handed down when we all know, "...you can indict a ham sandwich in a Fed Grand Jury...".
CONYERS HAD ALOT MORE INFO TO DEAL WITH...LIKE...UH....WHAT HAPPENED TO FORMER US ATTY FOR MINNESOTA HEFFLEFINGER when he found out that GOSS AND CIA or was it DUMSFIELD AND DOD CIFA UNIT...fried, tortured and tried to murder a COOPERATING MINNEAPOLIS FBI WITNESS NAMED DR MARK GORDON....fried with DEW.
THESE ARE THE ISSUES THAT PELOSI AND PANETTA fagged around...accusing each other of
mendacity...since...CIA BRIEFED ON ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES...but CONYERS FORGOT TO ASK, "where are the interrogation tapes to prove this was NOT A PATRIOT ACT MURDER CONSPIRACY USING MICROWAVE RADIATION FROM DEW?"
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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/conyers_wife_facing_scrutiny_over_bribery_scandal.php
Conyers' Wife Facing Scrutiny Over Bribery Scandal
By Zachary Roth - June 17, 2009, 2:02PM
Rep. John Conyers, who chairs the House Judiciary committee, has played a prominent role in recent years exposing executive-branch muck, from the US Attorneys scandal to torture. So it's ironic that Conyers' wife is caught up in some serious muck of her own.
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TOMMY:
NEITHER conyers nor leahy or Feinstein...ever...ever...ever...once called me to get all the info....THEY DID NOT EVEN COME CLOSE TO ALL THE MURDERS BY GOSS, CHENEY, MUELLER, HAYDEN, GONZO, ASHCROFT, AND MUKASYKIKE.
THEY DID NOT GET CLOSE TO THE TRUTH...when I offered to take polygraphs before and after, and submit all my evidence...like CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT that gave FBI ALL THEY NEEDED TO WORK THE TITLE III FELONY, FLIPPING THEIR WAY TO CHENEY, WHITTINGTON, HAYDEN, NSA 902ND, AND NSA TSP MERC.
__________________
The scandal has been brewing for a while, but it reached boiling point Monday, when Rayford Jackson, a Detroit businessman, admitted in a plea deal with prosecutors that he had bribed a council member in 2007, to gain approval for a $1.2-billion waste disposal contract. The Detroit Free Press had previously reported that the council member in question, described in court documents, is Monica Conyers.
Jackson's brother, Lennie, is said by the Feds to have carried thousands of dollars in bribes to Conyers and her then-aide, Sam Riddle.
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TOMMY:
Let's see the money. Let's see the evidence. FBI IS FAMOUS FOR BUYING OR EXTORTING TESTIMONY...IVINS SON IN ANTHRAX COVERUP WAS OFFERED 2.3 MILLION BY FBI TO JOIN FBI CONSPIRACY TO SUBORN PERJURY and or CONSPIRACY TO DEFAME AN INNOCENT WHISTLEBLOWER NAMED DR IVINS who knew that MOSSAD KIKE DR ZACK was the false flag terrorist who did Anthrax.
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And ominously for Conyers, Lennie Jackson is cooperating with authorities, according to court documents. Riddle, too, says he'll tell what he knows "at the appropriate time" but that right now he hasn't cut a deal with the Feds.
The president of the council has said he wants charges brought before Detroiters go to the polls in August for council elections.
Conyers is said to be in talks with the Feds about a plea deal of her own, which might allow her to avoid an indictment for corruption. She dodged reporters' questions yesterday.
_______________________
tommy:
THIS BRINGS UP THE POTENTIAL ETHICS QUESTION, "whether the Bush crime family US ATTY or local Detroit prosecutor" can cut a deal in which JON CONYERS HAS TO AGREE TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE AND CONSPIRE TO OBSTRUCT CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT.
IF THAT IS THE DEAL...CONYERS needs to get that deal on tape so he can EXTORT THE EXTORTIONIST....which is tough since....HOUSE NIGGER HOLDER IS ANOTHER PUNK ILLUMINATI STOOGE LOWLIFE CORRUPT FAGGOT who does nothing for nobody except himself and his secret team.
I can say that knowing what HOLDER HAS DONE, AND NOT DONE...WITH MY INFO.
HOLDER IS A JOKE WITH SPEAR CHUCKER PUPPET OBAMA joining the ILLUMINATI BULLSHIT CLOWN ACT, that destroyed this country in so many obvious ways.
___________________
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/obama_admin_mimics_bush_again_white_house_records.php
Obama Admin Mimics Bush Again: White House Records Are Secret
By Zachary Roth - June 16, 2009, 10:03AM
Add another (perhaps more minor) entry to the list of ways in which the Obama administration is mimicking its predecessor on issues of transparency.
MSNBC.com reports that the Secret Service has denied the news outlet's request for the names of visitors to the White House since President Obama was sworn in. It also denied a narrower request by the good-government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington for records of visits by coal executives.
The Obama administration -- which had promised to usher in a new era of transparency -- argues that the visitor logs are presidential records, and therefore not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. A spokesman told MSNBC.com that the White House needs to be able to hold secret meetings in certain cases "such as an elected official interviewing for an administration position or an ambassador coming for a discussion on issues that would affect international negotiations."
But these are the same arguments made by the Bush administration -- and twice rejected by a federal judge.
CREW says it will file a lawsuit today.
The Obama administration has also been accused of following in Bush's footsteps on transparency issues relating to war on terror tactics. It has fought efforts to release photographs and other information relating to the treatment of detainees, and has several times tried to have lawsuits thrown out by invoking the state secrets privilege.
Monday, June 15, 2009
POWER CONTROL GROUP RUNS OBAMA--HOLDER as puppet punks on string: GREENWALD ON OBSTRUCTION BY PUSSY OBAMA
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/15/brennan/index.html
Monday June 15, 2009 06:16 EDT
The Obama officials blocking accountability for Bush crimes
(updated below)
The battle against baseless, worthless grants of anonymity by journalists is, at this point, probably futile, since even many of the nation's best and most valuable reporters -- such as The New Yorker's Jane Mayer -- seem helplessly addicted to it. In an otherwise solid and at times enlightening article on CIA Director Leon Panetta and his resistance to investigating past CIA abuses, Mayer includes this passage at the beginning of her article to explain how Panetta was chosen only after Obama's first choice, John Brennan, was rejected:
A friend of Brennan’s from his C.I.A. days complained to me, "After a few Cheeto-eating people in the basement working in their underwear who write blogs voiced objections to Brennan, the Obama Administration pulled his name at the first sign of smoke, and then ruled out a whole class of people: anyone who had been at the agency during the past ten years couldn’t pass the blogger test."
What possible justification is there to grant anonymity to someone to spout these clichéd and factually false insults?
First, as I've documented numerous times and as Mayer herself well knows, the case against Brennan was not that he was "at the agency for the past ten years" or even that he had anything to do with the torture program, but rather that (as she herself documents later in the piece) he explicitly advocated and defended many of the worst torture techniques and other Bush abuses.
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TOMMY:
Which means...THIS IS ONE OF THE GUYS WORKING WITH GOSS AND MUELLER, to stop Bean's court filings that would have "exposed the CIA MIND CONTROL aka FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER" that was run on me....and involved FBI PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE WHEN THEY GOT A BOGUS FISA CT ORDER RUBBERSTAMPED.
BEAN is not...an agent of a foreign power?
That is a crucial element of the FISA CT LAW?
NO INTEREST FROM HOLDER on FBI's ongoing CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT AND ENGAGE IN TREASON WHEN THEY AID AND ABET THE MIND CONTROL CREATION OF MK ULTRA NUTS who shoot up our cities every day?
TORTURE WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION to murder DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF, RICHARD GORDON...was done...to stop any exposure on the RCMP ARREST WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI--CIA DRUG DEALING SPOOK, TERRY NELSON.
WAXMAN'S SUBPOENA OF RACICOT'S EMAILS....and bank records of the GOP Treasury...went where?...the hallway of lost pulitizer prize winning stories?
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Second, unlike the individual who is willing to spout these insults only while cowardly hiding behind Mayer's shield of anonymity, the bloggers who led the opposition to Brennan (including myself and The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan) all attached their names to their views and -- as Spencer Ackerman notes -- are about as far away as one can be from the trite, adolescent cartoons spewed by Mayer's anonymous insulter.
Third, one of the principal points of Mayer's long article is that the objections to Brennan have been vindicated, because -- as Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser -- he has led the way in urging Obama to keep past CIA abuses suppressed and Bush crimes protected from accountability.
The anonymous name-calling Mayer passes on appears on the first page of her piece, but on page 5, she includes the facts that show how factually false is the characterization of the objections to Brennan:
Brennan’s supporters have argued that he had no operational control over the interrogation program, and point out that his tenure as Tenet’s chief of staff ended in March, 2001, before the Al Qaeda attacks. But he was subsequently named deputy executive director, and served in that position until March, 2003—the period when the most brutal detainee treatment occurred.
In addition, Brennan often briefed President Bush about daily developments in the war on terror.
Brennan has described himself as an internal critic of waterboarding—a position that friends, such as Emile Nakhleh, a former senior officer, confirm. Yet, in an interview with me two years ago, Brennan defended the use of “enhanced” interrogation techniques and extraordinary renditions, in which the C.I.A. abducted terror suspects around the globe and transported them to other countries to be jailed and interrogated; many of those countries had execrable human-rights records. He also questioned some people’s definition of “torture.” “I think it’s torture when I have to ride in the car with my kids and they have loud rap music on,” he said. Asked if “enhanced” interrogation techniques were necessary to keep America safe, he replied, “Would the U.S. be handicapped if the C.I.A. was not, in fact, able to carry out these types of detention and debriefing activities? I would say yes.”
That – his comments defending "enhanced interrogation techniques," making light of torture, and justifying other Bush-era abuses (such as rendition) -- was the crux of the campaign against Brennan’s being named CIA director. So why pass on the false anonymous attack at the start that purports to define the case against Brennan in such a misleading way?
Far more important than that, Mayer documents that precisely the principal concern of Brennan objectors has already materialized -- namely, he has become Obama’s most forceful advocate for shielding those Bush-era crimes from investigation and protecting the wrongdoers, at the very same time that, as Mayer notes, he has a direct personal interest in blocking accountability:
[Brennan] has reportedly lobbied hard to maintain secrecy on past abuses. According to Newsweek, Brennan recently persuaded Panetta to join him in protesting Obama’s plan to release four shocking Justice Department memos about the interrogation program. . . .
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tommy:
Who tortured Omaha attorney LEROY ROGERS, using info from an FBI 302 INTERVIEW OF MY FATHER, DR DAVID W. BEAN, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota?
Who tortured Daschle's ex chief of staff, RICHARD GORDON, and successfully murdered him with a brain tumor?
Who did MUELLER AT FBI HQ PROTECT, when he and his MINNEAPOLIS FIELD OFFICE RECIEVED A MEMO FROM THE SIOUX FALLS JFLTTF (that came off of my computer)...when...I POINTED OUT TO DR MARK GORDON his pain was caused from the DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS manufactured by RAYTHEON and available to both CIA CONTRACTORS AND DOD CIFA UNIT office shareing with FBI at the Shriver Building in Sioux Falls, SD?
At the time of DR GORDON'S TORTURE...he had been stalked, assaulted, slandered, stalked interstate, and destroyed by SIOUX FALLS FBI.
DR GORDON'S coerced cooperation resulted in a forced FBI polygraph exam...that gave FBI AND SD US ATTY JAMES MCMAHON....all the exculpatory info they needed, and...FBI OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE ON THAT BRADY MATERIAL.
THAT IS WHY...MUELLER HAS GONE AFTER ME FOR 24 YEARS.
GORDON only worked with FBI after, after, only after...FBI EXTORTED 500$ USING A HONEY TRAP SNITCH PROTECTED BY MURDERED YANKTON PD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH who was murdered ten days before YANKTON, SD, ATTY JOHN KABIESEMAN was also murdered....and...
...HOW COME "PUNK COCKSUCKING LOWLIFE FAGGOTS KNOWN AS DEMOCRATS ON THE HILL" HAVE NO INTEREST IN SUBPOENAING THE TESTIMONY OF FORMER SD HIGHWAY PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT ?(who can testify about "state secrets used to obstruct his murder investigations" after, after, only after....I called Talbot and agreed to cooperate with his preliminary inquiry).
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Panetta’s resistance to public disclosure seemed out of character to some longtime colleagues. . . . Panetta’s advisers may have had a personal stake in opposing transparency. Another former C.I.A. official, who knows Brennan well, noted that, if the Bush torture program were to be further investigated, “potentially, both Brennan and [Deputy CIA Director Stephen] Kappes could have a lot to lose.
The argument Brennan made against release of the CIA torture memos is the same argument made to justify suppression of the torture photos: namely, "that exposing such details could spark an anti-American backlash." Precisely because Obama has retained so many people involved with or otherwise linked to Bush abuses, he is surrounded by people actively working to block any investigation into or accountability for those crimes. The most egregious example Mayer describes is the CIA official responsible for the abduction and rendition-for-torture of German citizen Khaled el-Masri, who turned out to be completely innocent:
From the start, the rendition team suspected that his case was one of mistaken identity. But the C.I.A. officer in charge at Langley—the agency asked that the officer’s name be withheld—insisted that Masri be further interrogated. “She just looked in her crystal ball and it said that he was bad,” a colleague recalls. Masri says that he was chained in a freezing cell with no bed, and given water so putrid that he could smell it across the room. He was threatened and stripped, and could hear other detainees crying all around him. After several weeks, the C.I.A. officer in charge learned that Masri’s German passport was not a forgery, as was originally suspected, and that he was not the terror suspect the agency thought he was. (The names were similar.) Even so, the officer in charge refused to release him.
Eventually, Masri went on a hunger strike, losing sixty pounds. Skeptics in the agency went directly over the officer’s head to Tenet, who realized that his agency had been brutalizing an innocent man. Masri was released after a hundred and forty-nine days. But the officer in charge was not disciplined; in fact, a former colleague says, “she’s been promoted—twice.” Masri, meanwhile, has been unable to sue the U.S. government for either an apology or damages, because the courts consider the very existence of rendition a state secret—a position that the Obama Justice Department has so far supported.
And there are numerous other instances in which Panetta is battling to keep evidence of Bush-era crimes suppressed, including his fight against an ACLU lawsuit for disclosure of documents relating to the (almost certainly illegal) destruction of interrogation videotapes. In many cases, the very same people who defended these abuses are the same ones succeeding in blocking any accountability for them. Those who defended Bush-era abuses are the last people who ought to be making intelligence decisions going forward. That was the primary objection to Brennan's becoming CIA Director, and his becoming Obama's top intelligence advisor has obviously vindicated those concerns.
Mayer notes Panetta's efforts (and Obama's) to reverse some of the polices that led to these abuses, including the ban on torture techniques, but the central question is the one posed by her headline: "Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past?" Ultimately, there is a real irony to the Obama administration’s active, concerted efforts to prevent accountability for past crimes: namely, the greater the suppression efforts, the greater the focus on past Bush abuses will be, since evidence of Bush crimes will seep out slowly and in increments, and there will be constant controversies concerning the Obama administration's suppression efforts themselves (as can be seen with his continuous invocation of the "state secrets" privilege to keep torture and eavesdropping victims out of court; the pressure exerted on Britain to do the same; and his extraordinary efforts to suppress photographic evidence of detainee abuse).
There are far too many proceedings -- from the prosecutions in Spain to the investigations in Britain to the ongoing (and increasingly successful) civil lawsuits in the U.S. -- to have any hope of preventing full-scale disclosure for much longer. The only question is whether Obama will be seen as one who worked to conceal the wrongdoing and protect the wrongdoers. Thus far, at least, the answer is quite clear. Mayer's new article -- highlighting who is behind these decisions and the personal stake they have in their outcome -- sheds some light into why this is taking place.
UPDATE: The Daily Beast's Scott Horton interviews Jane Mayer about her article, in which Mayer elaborates on several points, including: (1) Panetta originally favored a Truth Commission but backed down when it became clear that Obama (backed by political adviser David Axelrod) opposed any investigations into Bush crimes; and (2) John Brennan -- as his opponents continuously maintained -- "wasn’t just neutral, he was a supporter of using coercive interrogation techniques. He drew the line, according to his friends, at waterboarding prisoners, which they say he opposed. But otherwise he supported many of the coercive approaches that Obama has banned."
-- Glenn Greenwald
Monday June 15, 2009 06:16 EDT
The Obama officials blocking accountability for Bush crimes
(updated below)
The battle against baseless, worthless grants of anonymity by journalists is, at this point, probably futile, since even many of the nation's best and most valuable reporters -- such as The New Yorker's Jane Mayer -- seem helplessly addicted to it. In an otherwise solid and at times enlightening article on CIA Director Leon Panetta and his resistance to investigating past CIA abuses, Mayer includes this passage at the beginning of her article to explain how Panetta was chosen only after Obama's first choice, John Brennan, was rejected:
A friend of Brennan’s from his C.I.A. days complained to me, "After a few Cheeto-eating people in the basement working in their underwear who write blogs voiced objections to Brennan, the Obama Administration pulled his name at the first sign of smoke, and then ruled out a whole class of people: anyone who had been at the agency during the past ten years couldn’t pass the blogger test."
What possible justification is there to grant anonymity to someone to spout these clichéd and factually false insults?
First, as I've documented numerous times and as Mayer herself well knows, the case against Brennan was not that he was "at the agency for the past ten years" or even that he had anything to do with the torture program, but rather that (as she herself documents later in the piece) he explicitly advocated and defended many of the worst torture techniques and other Bush abuses.
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TOMMY:
Which means...THIS IS ONE OF THE GUYS WORKING WITH GOSS AND MUELLER, to stop Bean's court filings that would have "exposed the CIA MIND CONTROL aka FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER" that was run on me....and involved FBI PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE WHEN THEY GOT A BOGUS FISA CT ORDER RUBBERSTAMPED.
BEAN is not...an agent of a foreign power?
That is a crucial element of the FISA CT LAW?
NO INTEREST FROM HOLDER on FBI's ongoing CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT AND ENGAGE IN TREASON WHEN THEY AID AND ABET THE MIND CONTROL CREATION OF MK ULTRA NUTS who shoot up our cities every day?
TORTURE WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION to murder DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF, RICHARD GORDON...was done...to stop any exposure on the RCMP ARREST WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI--CIA DRUG DEALING SPOOK, TERRY NELSON.
WAXMAN'S SUBPOENA OF RACICOT'S EMAILS....and bank records of the GOP Treasury...went where?...the hallway of lost pulitizer prize winning stories?
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Second, unlike the individual who is willing to spout these insults only while cowardly hiding behind Mayer's shield of anonymity, the bloggers who led the opposition to Brennan (including myself and The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan) all attached their names to their views and -- as Spencer Ackerman notes -- are about as far away as one can be from the trite, adolescent cartoons spewed by Mayer's anonymous insulter.
Third, one of the principal points of Mayer's long article is that the objections to Brennan have been vindicated, because -- as Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser -- he has led the way in urging Obama to keep past CIA abuses suppressed and Bush crimes protected from accountability.
The anonymous name-calling Mayer passes on appears on the first page of her piece, but on page 5, she includes the facts that show how factually false is the characterization of the objections to Brennan:
Brennan’s supporters have argued that he had no operational control over the interrogation program, and point out that his tenure as Tenet’s chief of staff ended in March, 2001, before the Al Qaeda attacks. But he was subsequently named deputy executive director, and served in that position until March, 2003—the period when the most brutal detainee treatment occurred.
In addition, Brennan often briefed President Bush about daily developments in the war on terror.
Brennan has described himself as an internal critic of waterboarding—a position that friends, such as Emile Nakhleh, a former senior officer, confirm. Yet, in an interview with me two years ago, Brennan defended the use of “enhanced” interrogation techniques and extraordinary renditions, in which the C.I.A. abducted terror suspects around the globe and transported them to other countries to be jailed and interrogated; many of those countries had execrable human-rights records. He also questioned some people’s definition of “torture.” “I think it’s torture when I have to ride in the car with my kids and they have loud rap music on,” he said. Asked if “enhanced” interrogation techniques were necessary to keep America safe, he replied, “Would the U.S. be handicapped if the C.I.A. was not, in fact, able to carry out these types of detention and debriefing activities? I would say yes.”
That – his comments defending "enhanced interrogation techniques," making light of torture, and justifying other Bush-era abuses (such as rendition) -- was the crux of the campaign against Brennan’s being named CIA director. So why pass on the false anonymous attack at the start that purports to define the case against Brennan in such a misleading way?
Far more important than that, Mayer documents that precisely the principal concern of Brennan objectors has already materialized -- namely, he has become Obama’s most forceful advocate for shielding those Bush-era crimes from investigation and protecting the wrongdoers, at the very same time that, as Mayer notes, he has a direct personal interest in blocking accountability:
[Brennan] has reportedly lobbied hard to maintain secrecy on past abuses. According to Newsweek, Brennan recently persuaded Panetta to join him in protesting Obama’s plan to release four shocking Justice Department memos about the interrogation program. . . .
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tommy:
Who tortured Omaha attorney LEROY ROGERS, using info from an FBI 302 INTERVIEW OF MY FATHER, DR DAVID W. BEAN, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota?
Who tortured Daschle's ex chief of staff, RICHARD GORDON, and successfully murdered him with a brain tumor?
Who did MUELLER AT FBI HQ PROTECT, when he and his MINNEAPOLIS FIELD OFFICE RECIEVED A MEMO FROM THE SIOUX FALLS JFLTTF (that came off of my computer)...when...I POINTED OUT TO DR MARK GORDON his pain was caused from the DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS manufactured by RAYTHEON and available to both CIA CONTRACTORS AND DOD CIFA UNIT office shareing with FBI at the Shriver Building in Sioux Falls, SD?
At the time of DR GORDON'S TORTURE...he had been stalked, assaulted, slandered, stalked interstate, and destroyed by SIOUX FALLS FBI.
DR GORDON'S coerced cooperation resulted in a forced FBI polygraph exam...that gave FBI AND SD US ATTY JAMES MCMAHON....all the exculpatory info they needed, and...FBI OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE ON THAT BRADY MATERIAL.
THAT IS WHY...MUELLER HAS GONE AFTER ME FOR 24 YEARS.
GORDON only worked with FBI after, after, only after...FBI EXTORTED 500$ USING A HONEY TRAP SNITCH PROTECTED BY MURDERED YANKTON PD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH who was murdered ten days before YANKTON, SD, ATTY JOHN KABIESEMAN was also murdered....and...
...HOW COME "PUNK COCKSUCKING LOWLIFE FAGGOTS KNOWN AS DEMOCRATS ON THE HILL" HAVE NO INTEREST IN SUBPOENAING THE TESTIMONY OF FORMER SD HIGHWAY PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT ?(who can testify about "state secrets used to obstruct his murder investigations" after, after, only after....I called Talbot and agreed to cooperate with his preliminary inquiry).
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Panetta’s resistance to public disclosure seemed out of character to some longtime colleagues. . . . Panetta’s advisers may have had a personal stake in opposing transparency. Another former C.I.A. official, who knows Brennan well, noted that, if the Bush torture program were to be further investigated, “potentially, both Brennan and [Deputy CIA Director Stephen] Kappes could have a lot to lose.
The argument Brennan made against release of the CIA torture memos is the same argument made to justify suppression of the torture photos: namely, "that exposing such details could spark an anti-American backlash." Precisely because Obama has retained so many people involved with or otherwise linked to Bush abuses, he is surrounded by people actively working to block any investigation into or accountability for those crimes. The most egregious example Mayer describes is the CIA official responsible for the abduction and rendition-for-torture of German citizen Khaled el-Masri, who turned out to be completely innocent:
From the start, the rendition team suspected that his case was one of mistaken identity. But the C.I.A. officer in charge at Langley—the agency asked that the officer’s name be withheld—insisted that Masri be further interrogated. “She just looked in her crystal ball and it said that he was bad,” a colleague recalls. Masri says that he was chained in a freezing cell with no bed, and given water so putrid that he could smell it across the room. He was threatened and stripped, and could hear other detainees crying all around him. After several weeks, the C.I.A. officer in charge learned that Masri’s German passport was not a forgery, as was originally suspected, and that he was not the terror suspect the agency thought he was. (The names were similar.) Even so, the officer in charge refused to release him.
Eventually, Masri went on a hunger strike, losing sixty pounds. Skeptics in the agency went directly over the officer’s head to Tenet, who realized that his agency had been brutalizing an innocent man. Masri was released after a hundred and forty-nine days. But the officer in charge was not disciplined; in fact, a former colleague says, “she’s been promoted—twice.” Masri, meanwhile, has been unable to sue the U.S. government for either an apology or damages, because the courts consider the very existence of rendition a state secret—a position that the Obama Justice Department has so far supported.
And there are numerous other instances in which Panetta is battling to keep evidence of Bush-era crimes suppressed, including his fight against an ACLU lawsuit for disclosure of documents relating to the (almost certainly illegal) destruction of interrogation videotapes. In many cases, the very same people who defended these abuses are the same ones succeeding in blocking any accountability for them. Those who defended Bush-era abuses are the last people who ought to be making intelligence decisions going forward. That was the primary objection to Brennan's becoming CIA Director, and his becoming Obama's top intelligence advisor has obviously vindicated those concerns.
Mayer notes Panetta's efforts (and Obama's) to reverse some of the polices that led to these abuses, including the ban on torture techniques, but the central question is the one posed by her headline: "Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past?" Ultimately, there is a real irony to the Obama administration’s active, concerted efforts to prevent accountability for past crimes: namely, the greater the suppression efforts, the greater the focus on past Bush abuses will be, since evidence of Bush crimes will seep out slowly and in increments, and there will be constant controversies concerning the Obama administration's suppression efforts themselves (as can be seen with his continuous invocation of the "state secrets" privilege to keep torture and eavesdropping victims out of court; the pressure exerted on Britain to do the same; and his extraordinary efforts to suppress photographic evidence of detainee abuse).
There are far too many proceedings -- from the prosecutions in Spain to the investigations in Britain to the ongoing (and increasingly successful) civil lawsuits in the U.S. -- to have any hope of preventing full-scale disclosure for much longer. The only question is whether Obama will be seen as one who worked to conceal the wrongdoing and protect the wrongdoers. Thus far, at least, the answer is quite clear. Mayer's new article -- highlighting who is behind these decisions and the personal stake they have in their outcome -- sheds some light into why this is taking place.
UPDATE: The Daily Beast's Scott Horton interviews Jane Mayer about her article, in which Mayer elaborates on several points, including: (1) Panetta originally favored a Truth Commission but backed down when it became clear that Obama (backed by political adviser David Axelrod) opposed any investigations into Bush crimes; and (2) John Brennan -- as his opponents continuously maintained -- "wasn’t just neutral, he was a supporter of using coercive interrogation techniques. He drew the line, according to his friends, at waterboarding prisoners, which they say he opposed. But otherwise he supported many of the coercive approaches that Obama has banned."
-- Glenn Greenwald
FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER chips, tortures, harasses to creat LONE WOLF DOMESTIC TERRORISTS as part of a spook psy op on America
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124501849215613523.html
JUNE 15, 2009
FBI Seeks to Target Lone Extremists
By GARY FIELDS and EVAN PEREZ
The recent killings of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum guard and a Kansas abortion doctor came a few months after the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped up efforts to pre-empt violence committed by just such political extremists working alone.
"Lone-wolf offenders continue to be of great concern to law enforcement," the agency said in a February memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The FBI is "trying to identify a potential lone wolf before he or she would act out violently," Michael Ward, the bureau's deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, said in an interview earlier this year.
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tommy:
Nope.
FBI had knowledge of these people...the FBI ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wants more fear, hysteria, and false flag. It was called OPERATION SLAMMER long ago when LOUIS FREEH WAS THE PUPPET PUNK FBI DIRECTOR.
It links to CIA MK ULTRA MIND CONTROL.
THREE SCHOOL SHOOTERS IN 7 DAYS right before the 2006 Congressional elections.
FBI SHRINK DWAYNE FUSILIER did the "post blood bath coverup" for FBI at Columbine...and...turns out his TWO SONS WERE PAID INFORMANTS WHO ACTUALLY SET UP THE TERRORIST GROUP CALLED "THE TRENCHCOAT MAFIA" used to recruit two innocent stooges who got TORTURED, CHIPPED, HARASSED, AND MIND CONTROLLED.
Dwayne Fusilier HAS NEVER BEEN POLYGRAPHED.
His sons were tied to the jewish people, and...in case you did not know...THERE IS NOT A JEWISH AMERICAN WHO DOES NOT OR WILL NOT WORK FOR MOSSAD .
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The lone-wolf initiative is one element of a broader strategy to fight domestic terrorism, dubbed "Operation Vigilant Eagle," launched late last year in response to what the memo identified as "an increase in recruitment, threatening communications, and weapons procurement by white supremacy extremist and militia/sovereign citizen extremist groups."
Vigilant Eagle's creation was first reported by the Journal in April.
The memo, and the recent killings, also show the limits of the lone-wolf effort. Both James von Brunn, who is charged with the Holocaust Museum shooting, and Scott Roeder, the man arrested in the murder of George Tiller in Kansas, had openly expressed to associates and on Web sites their extremist views, on anti-Semitism in Mr. von Brunn's case and on abortion in the case of Mr. Roeder. The FBI, in fact, was aware of Mr. von Brunn because of the postings but wasn't tracking him.
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tommy:
ANTISEMITISM can be "subliminally programmed"...or, ANY SORT OF SUSPICION ARTICULATED TO BRING ATTENTION TO MOSSAD'S CONTROL OF OUR FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICY, IS NOW PROOF THAT YOU ARE A TERRORIST.
TRUTH TELLERS, are...terrorists?
Anybody who knows the truth gets targeted as a terrorist:
A-- DANCING ISRAELI MOSSAD DEMOLITION TEAM did 9/11;
B--CHERTOFF AND MUKASY worked at DOJ to get these Mossad agents out of jail in 60 days....and....MUELLER AT FBI KNOWS HOW EASY IT IS TO GET A FISA CT ORDER TO CHIP AND SUBLIMINALLY PROGRAM AND DEBRIEF ANY obvious enemy of another country...and...NOBODY GRILLED MUELLER ON "WHY HE DID NOT GET A FISA CT ORDER TO CHIP THE DANCING ISRAELIS"....and...."How come Bean gets chipped and debriefed, when...in fact...Bean tried to alert SFPD and FBI about the Canistota, SD, detenators that went to the rock quarry where NICHOLS AND MCVEIGH STOLE THE DETENATORS?"
Stopping FALSE FLAG TERRORISM BY FBI (Trentadue deposition of Nichols...Nichols names the FBI controller running McVeigh?) is now....a LONE WOLF DOMESTIC TERRORIST?
(This is the same CIA SPOOK INFESTED FBI HQ named in the RCMP ARREST WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S BIG SKY MONTANA DRUG DISTRIBUTION NETWORK?)
C-- Three Israeli banks stole half of the first 700, 000, 000, 000$ bailout (to pay off in the Leo Wanta Trust Fund swindle?);
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Neither man appears to have been active in groups that might have tipped off authorities to the danger. In the search for potentially violent individual extremists, "an emphasis should be placed on the identification of individuals who have been ostracized from a group for their radical beliefs," the FBI memo said. It added that officials should look for "those who have voluntarily left a group due to their perception of the group's inactivity, or those forced from the group for being too extreme and or violent." That description doesn't appear to have fit either Mr. von Brunn or Mr. Roeder.
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TOMMY:
This FBI memo ignores FBI OPERATION SLAMMER used to create terrorists. I know...I got targeted, and...the MYSTERIOUS BREADTH AND SCOPE OF THE SECRET NSA TSP (now called FBI's INFRAGUARD) was never reviewed by SEN LEAHY, who somehow...negotiated a secret back room deal that GRANTED CRIMINAL IMMUNITY FOR ALL THE CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST ME, MY FAMILY, MY FRIENDS (all of whom are innocent).
WATCH FOR FBI STALKING, HARASSMENT, MALICIOUS BRADY VIOLATIONS, and secret off the books, compartmentalized PSY OP MIND CONTROLLERS harassing witnesses, complainants, and anybody trying to "clear his name by volunteering to take any polygraph from anybody at anytime?
Let BEAN testify....to clear up these matters...and....to EXPOSE THE FBI FOR WHAT IT IS--RIGHT WING RICO FELONY MAFIA TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE BEST INTERESTS OF THIS COUNTRY.
FBI offered 2.3 million dollars to DR IVIN'S SON...as part of another secret FBI CONSPIRACY TO SUBORN PERJURY and or, a CONSPIRACY TO WIN AT ALL COSTS IN THE INFO WARS.
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"The lone wolf is arguably one of the biggest challenges to American law enforcement," said Mike Rolince a former FBI counterterrorism official who spent years focused on domestic extremists. "How do you get into the mind of a terrorist?
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TOMMY:
I'll answer that question, "how do you get into the mind of the patsy terrorist" selected by guys like Denver FBI spook shrink Dwayne Fusilier.
The answer is....YOU GET A BOGUS FISA CT ORDER RUBBERSTAMPED USING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO...THEN YOU COMMIT PERJURY CLAIMING THOMAS S. BEAN IS AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN POWER...THEN YOU CHIP WITH A MIND CONTROL DEVICE, THEN YOU TORTURE WITH HARASSMENT, PROVOCATIONS, ASSAULTS, SLANDER, MALICIOUS PROSECUTIONS, TERRORISTIC THREATS, POINT LOADED GUNS AT THE TARGET....FRY WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION while Bean lives in his own home while monitored with a pin hole spy camera...............THEN, SUBLIMINALLY PROGRAM THE TARGET TO BECOME VIOLENT while also, OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE WHEN BEAN SIGNS A US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT.
That is how the FBI GETS INTO THE MIND OF THEIR SHOCK DOCTRINE FBI CREATED TERRORISTS.
THE ENEMY IS THE FBI HQ UNDER MUELLER.
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The FBI does not have the capability to know when a person gets up in middle America and decides: 'I'm taking my protest poster to Washington or I'm taking my gun.' "
While much of the focus in recent years has been on international terrorism and on militant groups, authorities say the lone-wolf syndrome has always been a major concern, borne out by high-profile incidents such as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta and the series of bombings carried out over nearly two decades by Theodore Kaczynski, who lived in a remote cabin in Montana.
The stepped-up attention to the issue in recent months is part of a broader worry about rising threats and violence from political extremists. There are no concrete data showing recent trends. The FBI's hate-crime reports are more than a year behind. Still, the most recent data showed that from 2005 to 2007, the number of such incidents rose more than 6%.
In addition to the recent killings in Washington, D.C., and Kansas, recent lone-wolf cases include the killing of a soldier in Little Rock, Ark., last month, allegedly by a converted Muslim extremist, Abdulhakim Muhammad. Last August, a Florida man attending bail-bondsman training was arrested for making threats against then-Sen. Barack Obama and President George W. Bush. And in October, two men who identified themselves as skinheads were arrested in Tennessee where they were plotting to go on a nationwide killing spree targeting African-Americans.
The FBI memo also noted the scant academic study to date of violent individual extremists, and said the agency had recently stepped up efforts to analyze their actions. A study launched in partnership with Harvard University, the memo said, would seek to define characteristics and behavior that signal a potential lone-wolf offender.
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TOMMY:
Not one idiot at Harvard, knows...what I know, and what former FBI WHISTLEBLOWER GERAL SOSBEE KNOWS: it's called MIND CONTROL, STALKING, HARASSMENT, FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER.
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Harvard spokesman who contacted various departments to ask about the study said he was unaware of it. The FBI said there was no date for completion.
The FBI memo also called on bureau offices around the country to assess whether the leaders of known extremist groups might be open to cooperating with law enforcement in identifying potential lone offenders. The FBU advised its offices not to initiate contact at this time.
Meantime, the bureau has been working with the U.S. military and with prison authorities to identify people who may raise concerns, hoping that "anyone who would be inclined to act out, we'd have a sporting chance to take any kind of preventative measures we can," Mr. Ward said.
One constraint facing authorities is the need to balance monitoring of potential violent extremists with the protection of a suspect's civil liberties. The memo noted that the study had been cleared by the FBI's "institutional review board, which reviews all FBI research involving human subjects in order to help protect the rights and welfare of those subjects."
"Their hands are tied a little bit," said Heidi Beirich, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. "We have to protect freedom of speech. It's kind of complicated."
Write to Gary Fields at gary.fields@wsj.com and Evan Perez at evan.perez@wsj.com
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TOMMY:
Not one of these lying faggots with FBI badges....will ever talk to MCKINNEY, a US Intel Comm whistleblower who "has already wrapped up the profile on lone wolf domestic terrorists" when....SHE HAS AN FBI AGENT ON TAPE ADMITTING TO THE FACT THAT THE FBI CALLS THEIR MIND CONTROL STALKING PROGRAM....OPERATION SLAMMER.
MCKINNEY contacted Kucinich at US House.
No hearing, no testimony, no action from LEAHY ON THIS SECRET SAP PROGRAM AT FBI HQ?
NOTICE MUELLER HAD THE INFO FROM ME ON THE WELLSTONE MURDER, JFK JR MURDER, CARNEHAN MURDER, CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER, RICH GORDON MURDER, DEFENBAUGH MURDER, AND KABIESEMAN MURDERS.
NO ARRESTS.
NO CRIM REFERRAL ON US ATTORNEYS DESK?
MUELLER DIRTY ON THE CONSPIRACY TO MURDER A LAWYER NAMED LEROY ROGERS, OMAHA, NEBRASKA...who got brain stroked with directed energy weapon (ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES...that create death, tumors, and strokes????????????).
NOTHING...FROM SEN FEINSTEIN?
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http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/15/neo-nazi-us-military/
Military accepting neo-Nazis, white supremacists, probe finds
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By John Byrne
Published: June 15, 2009
Updated 3 hours ago
The US military has effectively adopted a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy concerning white supremacists and neo-Nazis in an effort to bolster recruiting and retention, an article published Monday says.
Numerous articles have detailed the Army’s recruiting woes in the wake of two ongoing US wars abroad. Soldiers are less likely to enlist — or re-enlist — when faced with possible death overseas, though recruiting has gotten easier during the current recession.
But the Army’s recruiting difficulties have opened the floodgates to those who’d otherwise be turned away: neo-Nazis, white supremacists and gang members.
Writing in Salon, reporter Matt Kennard says the decision to open the military’s doors has had “drastic consequences.”
“Some neo-Nazis have been charged with crimes inside the military, and others have been linked to recruitment efforts for the white right,” Kennard writes. “Many white supremacists join the Army to secure training for, as they see it, a future domestic race war. Others claim to be shooting Iraqis not to pursue the military’s strategic goals but because killing ‘hajjis’ is their duty as white militants.”
“Soldiers’ associations with extremist groups, and their racist actions, contravene a host of military statutes instituted in the past three decades,” he adds. “But during the “war on terror,” U.S. armed forces have turned a blind eye on their own regulations. A 2005 Department of Defense report states, ‘Effectively, the military has a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy pertaining to extremism. If individuals can perform satisfactorily, without making their extremist opinions overt … they are likely to be able to complete their contracts.’”
JUNE 15, 2009
FBI Seeks to Target Lone Extremists
By GARY FIELDS and EVAN PEREZ
The recent killings of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum guard and a Kansas abortion doctor came a few months after the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped up efforts to pre-empt violence committed by just such political extremists working alone.
"Lone-wolf offenders continue to be of great concern to law enforcement," the agency said in a February memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The FBI is "trying to identify a potential lone wolf before he or she would act out violently," Michael Ward, the bureau's deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, said in an interview earlier this year.
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tommy:
Nope.
FBI had knowledge of these people...the FBI ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wants more fear, hysteria, and false flag. It was called OPERATION SLAMMER long ago when LOUIS FREEH WAS THE PUPPET PUNK FBI DIRECTOR.
It links to CIA MK ULTRA MIND CONTROL.
THREE SCHOOL SHOOTERS IN 7 DAYS right before the 2006 Congressional elections.
FBI SHRINK DWAYNE FUSILIER did the "post blood bath coverup" for FBI at Columbine...and...turns out his TWO SONS WERE PAID INFORMANTS WHO ACTUALLY SET UP THE TERRORIST GROUP CALLED "THE TRENCHCOAT MAFIA" used to recruit two innocent stooges who got TORTURED, CHIPPED, HARASSED, AND MIND CONTROLLED.
Dwayne Fusilier HAS NEVER BEEN POLYGRAPHED.
His sons were tied to the jewish people, and...in case you did not know...THERE IS NOT A JEWISH AMERICAN WHO DOES NOT OR WILL NOT WORK FOR MOSSAD .
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The lone-wolf initiative is one element of a broader strategy to fight domestic terrorism, dubbed "Operation Vigilant Eagle," launched late last year in response to what the memo identified as "an increase in recruitment, threatening communications, and weapons procurement by white supremacy extremist and militia/sovereign citizen extremist groups."
Vigilant Eagle's creation was first reported by the Journal in April.
The memo, and the recent killings, also show the limits of the lone-wolf effort. Both James von Brunn, who is charged with the Holocaust Museum shooting, and Scott Roeder, the man arrested in the murder of George Tiller in Kansas, had openly expressed to associates and on Web sites their extremist views, on anti-Semitism in Mr. von Brunn's case and on abortion in the case of Mr. Roeder. The FBI, in fact, was aware of Mr. von Brunn because of the postings but wasn't tracking him.
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tommy:
ANTISEMITISM can be "subliminally programmed"...or, ANY SORT OF SUSPICION ARTICULATED TO BRING ATTENTION TO MOSSAD'S CONTROL OF OUR FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICY, IS NOW PROOF THAT YOU ARE A TERRORIST.
TRUTH TELLERS, are...terrorists?
Anybody who knows the truth gets targeted as a terrorist:
A-- DANCING ISRAELI MOSSAD DEMOLITION TEAM did 9/11;
B--CHERTOFF AND MUKASY worked at DOJ to get these Mossad agents out of jail in 60 days....and....MUELLER AT FBI KNOWS HOW EASY IT IS TO GET A FISA CT ORDER TO CHIP AND SUBLIMINALLY PROGRAM AND DEBRIEF ANY obvious enemy of another country...and...NOBODY GRILLED MUELLER ON "WHY HE DID NOT GET A FISA CT ORDER TO CHIP THE DANCING ISRAELIS"....and...."How come Bean gets chipped and debriefed, when...in fact...Bean tried to alert SFPD and FBI about the Canistota, SD, detenators that went to the rock quarry where NICHOLS AND MCVEIGH STOLE THE DETENATORS?"
Stopping FALSE FLAG TERRORISM BY FBI (Trentadue deposition of Nichols...Nichols names the FBI controller running McVeigh?) is now....a LONE WOLF DOMESTIC TERRORIST?
(This is the same CIA SPOOK INFESTED FBI HQ named in the RCMP ARREST WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S BIG SKY MONTANA DRUG DISTRIBUTION NETWORK?)
C-- Three Israeli banks stole half of the first 700, 000, 000, 000$ bailout (to pay off in the Leo Wanta Trust Fund swindle?);
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Neither man appears to have been active in groups that might have tipped off authorities to the danger. In the search for potentially violent individual extremists, "an emphasis should be placed on the identification of individuals who have been ostracized from a group for their radical beliefs," the FBI memo said. It added that officials should look for "those who have voluntarily left a group due to their perception of the group's inactivity, or those forced from the group for being too extreme and or violent." That description doesn't appear to have fit either Mr. von Brunn or Mr. Roeder.
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TOMMY:
This FBI memo ignores FBI OPERATION SLAMMER used to create terrorists. I know...I got targeted, and...the MYSTERIOUS BREADTH AND SCOPE OF THE SECRET NSA TSP (now called FBI's INFRAGUARD) was never reviewed by SEN LEAHY, who somehow...negotiated a secret back room deal that GRANTED CRIMINAL IMMUNITY FOR ALL THE CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST ME, MY FAMILY, MY FRIENDS (all of whom are innocent).
WATCH FOR FBI STALKING, HARASSMENT, MALICIOUS BRADY VIOLATIONS, and secret off the books, compartmentalized PSY OP MIND CONTROLLERS harassing witnesses, complainants, and anybody trying to "clear his name by volunteering to take any polygraph from anybody at anytime?
Let BEAN testify....to clear up these matters...and....to EXPOSE THE FBI FOR WHAT IT IS--RIGHT WING RICO FELONY MAFIA TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE BEST INTERESTS OF THIS COUNTRY.
FBI offered 2.3 million dollars to DR IVIN'S SON...as part of another secret FBI CONSPIRACY TO SUBORN PERJURY and or, a CONSPIRACY TO WIN AT ALL COSTS IN THE INFO WARS.
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"The lone wolf is arguably one of the biggest challenges to American law enforcement," said Mike Rolince a former FBI counterterrorism official who spent years focused on domestic extremists. "How do you get into the mind of a terrorist?
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TOMMY:
I'll answer that question, "how do you get into the mind of the patsy terrorist" selected by guys like Denver FBI spook shrink Dwayne Fusilier.
The answer is....YOU GET A BOGUS FISA CT ORDER RUBBERSTAMPED USING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO...THEN YOU COMMIT PERJURY CLAIMING THOMAS S. BEAN IS AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN POWER...THEN YOU CHIP WITH A MIND CONTROL DEVICE, THEN YOU TORTURE WITH HARASSMENT, PROVOCATIONS, ASSAULTS, SLANDER, MALICIOUS PROSECUTIONS, TERRORISTIC THREATS, POINT LOADED GUNS AT THE TARGET....FRY WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION while Bean lives in his own home while monitored with a pin hole spy camera...............THEN, SUBLIMINALLY PROGRAM THE TARGET TO BECOME VIOLENT while also, OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE WHEN BEAN SIGNS A US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT.
That is how the FBI GETS INTO THE MIND OF THEIR SHOCK DOCTRINE FBI CREATED TERRORISTS.
THE ENEMY IS THE FBI HQ UNDER MUELLER.
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The FBI does not have the capability to know when a person gets up in middle America and decides: 'I'm taking my protest poster to Washington or I'm taking my gun.' "
While much of the focus in recent years has been on international terrorism and on militant groups, authorities say the lone-wolf syndrome has always been a major concern, borne out by high-profile incidents such as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta and the series of bombings carried out over nearly two decades by Theodore Kaczynski, who lived in a remote cabin in Montana.
The stepped-up attention to the issue in recent months is part of a broader worry about rising threats and violence from political extremists. There are no concrete data showing recent trends. The FBI's hate-crime reports are more than a year behind. Still, the most recent data showed that from 2005 to 2007, the number of such incidents rose more than 6%.
In addition to the recent killings in Washington, D.C., and Kansas, recent lone-wolf cases include the killing of a soldier in Little Rock, Ark., last month, allegedly by a converted Muslim extremist, Abdulhakim Muhammad. Last August, a Florida man attending bail-bondsman training was arrested for making threats against then-Sen. Barack Obama and President George W. Bush. And in October, two men who identified themselves as skinheads were arrested in Tennessee where they were plotting to go on a nationwide killing spree targeting African-Americans.
The FBI memo also noted the scant academic study to date of violent individual extremists, and said the agency had recently stepped up efforts to analyze their actions. A study launched in partnership with Harvard University, the memo said, would seek to define characteristics and behavior that signal a potential lone-wolf offender.
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TOMMY:
Not one idiot at Harvard, knows...what I know, and what former FBI WHISTLEBLOWER GERAL SOSBEE KNOWS: it's called MIND CONTROL, STALKING, HARASSMENT, FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER.
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Harvard spokesman who contacted various departments to ask about the study said he was unaware of it. The FBI said there was no date for completion.
The FBI memo also called on bureau offices around the country to assess whether the leaders of known extremist groups might be open to cooperating with law enforcement in identifying potential lone offenders. The FBU advised its offices not to initiate contact at this time.
Meantime, the bureau has been working with the U.S. military and with prison authorities to identify people who may raise concerns, hoping that "anyone who would be inclined to act out, we'd have a sporting chance to take any kind of preventative measures we can," Mr. Ward said.
One constraint facing authorities is the need to balance monitoring of potential violent extremists with the protection of a suspect's civil liberties. The memo noted that the study had been cleared by the FBI's "institutional review board, which reviews all FBI research involving human subjects in order to help protect the rights and welfare of those subjects."
"Their hands are tied a little bit," said Heidi Beirich, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. "We have to protect freedom of speech. It's kind of complicated."
Write to Gary Fields at gary.fields@wsj.com and Evan Perez at evan.perez@wsj.com
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TOMMY:
Not one of these lying faggots with FBI badges....will ever talk to MCKINNEY, a US Intel Comm whistleblower who "has already wrapped up the profile on lone wolf domestic terrorists" when....SHE HAS AN FBI AGENT ON TAPE ADMITTING TO THE FACT THAT THE FBI CALLS THEIR MIND CONTROL STALKING PROGRAM....OPERATION SLAMMER.
MCKINNEY contacted Kucinich at US House.
No hearing, no testimony, no action from LEAHY ON THIS SECRET SAP PROGRAM AT FBI HQ?
NOTICE MUELLER HAD THE INFO FROM ME ON THE WELLSTONE MURDER, JFK JR MURDER, CARNEHAN MURDER, CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER, RICH GORDON MURDER, DEFENBAUGH MURDER, AND KABIESEMAN MURDERS.
NO ARRESTS.
NO CRIM REFERRAL ON US ATTORNEYS DESK?
MUELLER DIRTY ON THE CONSPIRACY TO MURDER A LAWYER NAMED LEROY ROGERS, OMAHA, NEBRASKA...who got brain stroked with directed energy weapon (ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES...that create death, tumors, and strokes????????????).
NOTHING...FROM SEN FEINSTEIN?
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Military accepting neo-Nazis, white supremacists, probe finds
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By John Byrne
Published: June 15, 2009
Updated 3 hours ago
The US military has effectively adopted a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy concerning white supremacists and neo-Nazis in an effort to bolster recruiting and retention, an article published Monday says.
Numerous articles have detailed the Army’s recruiting woes in the wake of two ongoing US wars abroad. Soldiers are less likely to enlist — or re-enlist — when faced with possible death overseas, though recruiting has gotten easier during the current recession.
But the Army’s recruiting difficulties have opened the floodgates to those who’d otherwise be turned away: neo-Nazis, white supremacists and gang members.
Writing in Salon, reporter Matt Kennard says the decision to open the military’s doors has had “drastic consequences.”
“Some neo-Nazis have been charged with crimes inside the military, and others have been linked to recruitment efforts for the white right,” Kennard writes. “Many white supremacists join the Army to secure training for, as they see it, a future domestic race war. Others claim to be shooting Iraqis not to pursue the military’s strategic goals but because killing ‘hajjis’ is their duty as white militants.”
“Soldiers’ associations with extremist groups, and their racist actions, contravene a host of military statutes instituted in the past three decades,” he adds. “But during the “war on terror,” U.S. armed forces have turned a blind eye on their own regulations. A 2005 Department of Defense report states, ‘Effectively, the military has a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy pertaining to extremism. If individuals can perform satisfactorily, without making their extremist opinions overt … they are likely to be able to complete their contracts.’”
Saturday, June 13, 2009
CIA RENDITION FLIGHTS were cover for AFGHANI HEROIN DISTRIBUTION in every AMERICAN CITY...doncha know?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/13/BAD5186LUA.DTL
Feds want secrecy over alleged torture flights
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, June 13, 2009
The Obama administration increased its defense Friday of secrecy surrounding an alleged CIA program of torture flights, asking a federal appeals court to set aside its ruling allowing foreign captives to sue a Bay Area company that reportedly helped plan the flights.
The so-called extraordinary rendition program, and a private contractor's alleged relationship with the CIA, are so sensitive that any legal proceedings "would pose an unacceptable risk to national security," Justice Department lawyers said in a filing to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
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tommy:
What they meant to say is, "....CIA RENDITION FLIGHT LOGS SHOW OBVIOUS PROOF THAT AFGHANI HEROIN was flown under cover of an official National Security Terrorism War Umbrella..."....AND....THAT WAYNEMADSENREPORT posted flight logs showin obvious proof that major american cities with Heroin distribution were visited by CIA contractors and the incoming DRUG PLANES, ended up "taking the cash" down to the Carribean basin banks for laundering.
And...DON'T FORGET TO LOOK AT DANIEL HOPSICKE'S MAD COW MORNING NEWS and his archives showing HOMELAND SECURITY COVER being used by planes painted to look like official government planes.
click blog post title above to get MAD COW MORNING NEWS...and remember click on "archives" to get full story on BUSHCRIME FAMILY moving coke and heroin...money laundering...ponzi schemes...US INTEL COMM...contractors...nexus with 9/11...nexus with KIKE MAFIA SWINE...RUSSIAN MAFIA SWINE...AND of course...RUSSIAN KIKE MAFIA SWINE.
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Government lawyers said the court's April 28 ruling reinstating the lawsuit was both legally flawed and dangerous. They asked the court to reconsider the decision or order a new hearing before an 11-judge panel.
The attorneys said their position has been reaffirmed by a review "at the highest levels of the Department of Justice" and was consistent with President Obama's pledge, in a speech last month, that his administration would not use secrecy to conceal "the violation of a law or embarrassment to the government."
A lawyer for the plaintiffs responded that Obama's words can't be reconciled with his Justice Department's actions.
"The Obama administration has now fully embraced the Bush administration's shameful effort to immunize torturers and their enablers from any legal consequences for their actions," said Ben Wizner, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney. "The CIA's rendition and torture program is not a 'state secret'; it's an international scandal."
The five plaintiffs - two now held in Egypt and Morocco, the other three released without charges being filed in the United States - sued Jeppesen Dataplan, a San Jose subsidiary of the Boeing Co. A 2007 Council of Europe report described Jeppesen as the CIA's aviation services provider, and a former employee quoted a company director as telling staff members in 2006 that Jeppesen handled the CIA's "torture flights."
The plaintiffs say they were abducted in foreign countries, flown abroad and subjected to brutal interrogations in foreign or CIA prisons. They said their flights had been arranged by Jeppesen, which has denied wrongdoing.
A federal judge in San Jose dismissed the suit, saying it would expose state secrets, but a three-judge panel of the appeals court reinstated the case in April. The court said the nation's laws apply to all its programs, including those that involve state secrets.
In the 3-0 ruling, Judge Michael Hawkins said the suit should be dismissed only if secret information is essential for the plaintiffs to prove their case or for the company to defend itself. If specific evidence must be kept secret, Hawkins said, the government and Jeppesen can take steps to protect it.
In Friday's filing, the Justice Department said that to defend itself, Jeppesen would have to either admit or deny a relationship with the CIA - information that is a state secret.
Noting that every other suit challenging renditions has been dismissed on secrecy grounds, government lawyers said any inquiry into the legality of the program would "undermine the ability of the executive to prevent the release of highly sensitive information."
E-mail Bob Egelko at begelko@sfchronicle.com.
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Does Dept. of Homeland Security Threaten Homeland Security?
January 31, 2008
by Daniel Hopsicker
New revelations in the broadening scandal kicked off by two CIA and Dept of Homeland Security-linked airplanes busted in Mexico with multi-ton loads of cocaine point to a level of criminality and turpitude well beyond the corruption at U.S. Customs in South Florida to which officials have already admitted.
A central figure in the Customs corruption probe is Guyanese pilot Michael Francis Brassington, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, a name familiar to readers who have followed the unfolding and still largely untold story of the activities and associates of the terrorist hijackers while in Florida...
Michael Brassington was the co-pilot on a drug running Lear jet (N351WB) caught by DEA agents at Orlando Executive Airport in July of 2000 carrying 43 pounds of heroin.
The Lear jet’s owner, Wallace J Hilliard, also owned the Venice FL flight school where, at that very moment, the two terrorist pilots who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center Towers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, were receiving flight training.
Today's $64,000 Question
In the current Customs scandal Brassington is under suspicion for trafficking drugs, passports, people, currency, and diamonds into the U.S. through two airports in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with the assistance of high-level officials in U.S. Customs and the FAA.
Discovery of Brassington’s participation in the rampant Customs corruption in South Florida raises questions about whether the criminal turpitude of officials there may have contributed to the breech in American national security which allowed 19 terrorist hijackers, whose identities in some cases were already known to authorities, to roam freely in the U.S. before the 9/11 attack.
In other words, was a dirty operation engaged in drug trafficking and weapons smuggling, run with assistance from the highest levels of the U.S. Government, responsible for creating the opening which allowed 19 terrorists to murder 3000 people?
The Alphonso Bowe Smuggling Group, LTD.
We first learned of Brassington’s recent activity from a former Customs Agent, who was able to confirm that Brassington was the co-pilot when Wally Hilliard’s Lear jet was busted in Orlando.
When Brassington entered the U.S. through Customs at Fort Lauderdale International Airport on April 6th, 2004, the agent on duty was a rookie Customs inspector working the night shift at the General Aviation Facility.
J. L. Sanders was the unlucky Inspector charged with checking Brassington through Customs that night. When he entered Brassington’s name into his computer, the July 2000 heroin bust came up on his screen.
Nor was that Brassington's only red flag.
“In the 'active lookout' it stated Brassington was known for bringing in suspect passengers,” Sanders told us.
“Brassington handed me a manifest for the flight from Executive Flight Support, which I found out later was owned by Wally Hilliard, and managed by Afphonso Bowe,” Sanders stated. "So Brassington apparently still has some kind of financial relationship with Hilliard.”
Huffman Aviation flight school owner Wally Hilliard is the owner of Executive Flight Support FBO (fixed base of operations) in Nassau. Alphonso Bowe manages the facility for him.
“The charter company Brassington was flying for is controlled by a family suspected of running an organized drug ring," said Sanders.
“In the Customs computer system, the terminology used to describe the criminal organization associated with Executive Flight Support is the ‘Alfonso Bowe Smuggling Group.’
"Here's my card. Call us when she comes out of the coma."
Other indications that Michael Brassington might be operating with a wink and a nod' from corrupt government officials can be found in recent documents.
An “unusual” relationship between Brassington and U.S. officials is hinted at in the sometimes harsh wording of an NTSB decision affirming an emergency order of revocation issued against the pilot in 2005 for a variety of violations, including a spectacular near-fatal crash at Teeterboro Airport in New Jersey in February 2003.
The airplane accident for which he was facing the music was so colorful it led the local evening news that night in New York City...
Brassington's much-maligned charter company was flying a Challenger business jet which overran the runway during an aborted takeoff, ploughed through the airport fence, and went flying across a busy highway, slamming into a moving automobile before coming to rest after crashing into a warehouse. ........
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Dusty & 'the boys'
WORLD EXCLUSIVE
April 23 2007
by Daniel Hopsicker
The first anniversary of the April 10 2006 seizure in Mexico’s Yucatan of a American-registered DC9 caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine passed virtually unnoticed last week. It shouldn’t have...
Porter Goss resigned less than a month later, the same day the FBI executed a search warrant at the house of the No. 3 official in the Central Intelligence Agency, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, soon to go on trial for corruption with accomplice Brent Wilkes.
Not since the downing of a C-130 military cargo plane over Nicaragua in 1986 with Eugene Hasenfus onboard—kicking off the Iran Contra Scandal—has an aviation incident been remotely as important or as fraught with significance.
And not since the massive cocaine smuggling through Mena, Arkansas has the CIA’s hand been so flagrantly caught in the cookie jar.
Shocking details come as no surprise
In a series of stories beginning today, and continuing over the next ten days, the MadCowMorningNews will report the results of a year-long investigation into the secret history of this operation.
Some of the highlights include:
· SkyWay Aircraft of St Petersburg, FL., the company which owned the DC9 airliner stuffed to the top of the overhead bins with cocaine, was a CIA front.
· SkyWay’s genesis can be traced to In-Q-Tel Inc., a secretive, Arlington, Va., investment group owned, operated, and financed out of the black box budget of the Central Intelligence Agency.
· SkyWay was part of a network of companies, three of which—L-3 Communications, Net Command Tech Inc, and Triton Network Systems Inc.— were cited by Elliot Spitzer, then the Attorney General of New York State, for being used by Wall Street brokers in “pump and dump” schemes which cost unwary investors tens of millions of dollars.
· The suspicious involvement of L-3 Communications subsidiary Titan Corp of San Diego, the biggest donor to Southern California Congressmen convicted or being investigated by fired San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam.
· The Israeli connection to SkyWay, including the involvement of an Israeli tele-com firm, Tadiran, accused of being involved in worldwide espionage, and which owned the headquarters of SkyWay in Clearwater, Florida.
· The involvement of Gulf Arab financiers, including an overseas bank, Banque Francaise de l'Orient, long associated with the Saudi bin Laden family.
· Evidence of Republican party involvement in the network, which included the free use of one of the smuggling aircraft by the current head of fund-raising for the national Republican party, U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, who "traveled to nighttime rallies in luxury," the St. Petersburg Times reported, “on a DC-9 owned by Skyway Global, a Clearwater security company whose owners are Martinez supporters.”
Still more shocking details
Over the next ten days, we’ll present evidence for each of these heady claims, and attempt to find the answer to what is still a major mystery:
Why haven’t U.S. authorities arrested the owners of an American-registered plane busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine?
The story began here:
The drug trafficking operation was flying an airliner carrying 128 suitcases...but no passengers. There was no attempt to camouflage their activity.
Mexican soldiers unloaded the American-registered DC9, whose cargo consisted of 128 identical black suitcases stuffed with cocaine, onto the hot asphalt runway in Cuidad del Carmen, an out of the way airport nestled in the middle of the Yucatan jungle.
In what may have been someone’s idea of a joke, each suitcase bore a stamp on its side, with the single word “Privado.”
The DC9 sported a distinctive Seal on its fuselage: blue-and-white with gold trim surrounding an eagle clutching twin olive branches, making it virtually indistinguishable from official U.S. Government planes belonging to the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.
Even veteran plane-spotters were fooled.
This was perhaps not much of a stretch: SkyWay’s Chairman, Glenn Kovar, boasted of long-standing ties to the CIA. And today he and his son are operating another front company called “Homeland Security Tracking Enforcement.”
Walking on water in Tampa
Although owned by SkyWay, the airliner was registered to Royal Sons Inc., a company controlled by an aircraft broker from Tampa, FL. named Frederic Geffon.
Geffon partnered with SkyWay in the company’s three planes, two DC9’s and a Cessna, then illegally appropriated them when SkyWay went bankrupt in 2005, to the annoyance of SkyWay’s Federal Bankruptcy Trustee, who filed suit to get the planes returned.
“Geffon was under court order to not let the planes leave the St Petersburg-Clearwater Airport,” stated a source close to the Bankruptcy proceedings. “The Airport Tower had even been ordered not to let the plane take off."
"Geffon was in direct violation of the court order when that DC9 took off for Venezuela,” the source stated last week.
Yet Frederic Geffon has suffered no legal sanction at all, either for violating the court order, or for owning a plane busted with a plane filled with a box-car's worth of cocaine, evidence that, legally speaking, Frederic Geffon walks on water.........
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tommy:
WANT INFO ON CIA AFGHANI HEROIN COMING TO MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES?
WayneMadsen REport printed flight logs showing a nexus of criminal activity when CIA RENDITION Planes landed in....APPLE VALLEY, MN, outside the twin cities?
And flight logs showed same aircraft (Air America spooks?) filing flight logs to take the money down to SANFORD in the Carribean banking havens.
No arrest from FBI HQ?
No arrest from DEA HQ?
No enterest from IRS HQ?
Feds want secrecy over alleged torture flights
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, June 13, 2009
The Obama administration increased its defense Friday of secrecy surrounding an alleged CIA program of torture flights, asking a federal appeals court to set aside its ruling allowing foreign captives to sue a Bay Area company that reportedly helped plan the flights.
The so-called extraordinary rendition program, and a private contractor's alleged relationship with the CIA, are so sensitive that any legal proceedings "would pose an unacceptable risk to national security," Justice Department lawyers said in a filing to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
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tommy:
What they meant to say is, "....CIA RENDITION FLIGHT LOGS SHOW OBVIOUS PROOF THAT AFGHANI HEROIN was flown under cover of an official National Security Terrorism War Umbrella..."....AND....THAT WAYNEMADSENREPORT posted flight logs showin obvious proof that major american cities with Heroin distribution were visited by CIA contractors and the incoming DRUG PLANES, ended up "taking the cash" down to the Carribean basin banks for laundering.
And...DON'T FORGET TO LOOK AT DANIEL HOPSICKE'S MAD COW MORNING NEWS and his archives showing HOMELAND SECURITY COVER being used by planes painted to look like official government planes.
click blog post title above to get MAD COW MORNING NEWS...and remember click on "archives" to get full story on BUSHCRIME FAMILY moving coke and heroin...money laundering...ponzi schemes...US INTEL COMM...contractors...nexus with 9/11...nexus with KIKE MAFIA SWINE...RUSSIAN MAFIA SWINE...AND of course...RUSSIAN KIKE MAFIA SWINE.
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Government lawyers said the court's April 28 ruling reinstating the lawsuit was both legally flawed and dangerous. They asked the court to reconsider the decision or order a new hearing before an 11-judge panel.
The attorneys said their position has been reaffirmed by a review "at the highest levels of the Department of Justice" and was consistent with President Obama's pledge, in a speech last month, that his administration would not use secrecy to conceal "the violation of a law or embarrassment to the government."
A lawyer for the plaintiffs responded that Obama's words can't be reconciled with his Justice Department's actions.
"The Obama administration has now fully embraced the Bush administration's shameful effort to immunize torturers and their enablers from any legal consequences for their actions," said Ben Wizner, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney. "The CIA's rendition and torture program is not a 'state secret'; it's an international scandal."
The five plaintiffs - two now held in Egypt and Morocco, the other three released without charges being filed in the United States - sued Jeppesen Dataplan, a San Jose subsidiary of the Boeing Co. A 2007 Council of Europe report described Jeppesen as the CIA's aviation services provider, and a former employee quoted a company director as telling staff members in 2006 that Jeppesen handled the CIA's "torture flights."
The plaintiffs say they were abducted in foreign countries, flown abroad and subjected to brutal interrogations in foreign or CIA prisons. They said their flights had been arranged by Jeppesen, which has denied wrongdoing.
A federal judge in San Jose dismissed the suit, saying it would expose state secrets, but a three-judge panel of the appeals court reinstated the case in April. The court said the nation's laws apply to all its programs, including those that involve state secrets.
In the 3-0 ruling, Judge Michael Hawkins said the suit should be dismissed only if secret information is essential for the plaintiffs to prove their case or for the company to defend itself. If specific evidence must be kept secret, Hawkins said, the government and Jeppesen can take steps to protect it.
In Friday's filing, the Justice Department said that to defend itself, Jeppesen would have to either admit or deny a relationship with the CIA - information that is a state secret.
Noting that every other suit challenging renditions has been dismissed on secrecy grounds, government lawyers said any inquiry into the legality of the program would "undermine the ability of the executive to prevent the release of highly sensitive information."
E-mail Bob Egelko at begelko@sfchronicle.com.
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Does Dept. of Homeland Security Threaten Homeland Security?
January 31, 2008
by Daniel Hopsicker
New revelations in the broadening scandal kicked off by two CIA and Dept of Homeland Security-linked airplanes busted in Mexico with multi-ton loads of cocaine point to a level of criminality and turpitude well beyond the corruption at U.S. Customs in South Florida to which officials have already admitted.
A central figure in the Customs corruption probe is Guyanese pilot Michael Francis Brassington, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, a name familiar to readers who have followed the unfolding and still largely untold story of the activities and associates of the terrorist hijackers while in Florida...
Michael Brassington was the co-pilot on a drug running Lear jet (N351WB) caught by DEA agents at Orlando Executive Airport in July of 2000 carrying 43 pounds of heroin.
The Lear jet’s owner, Wallace J Hilliard, also owned the Venice FL flight school where, at that very moment, the two terrorist pilots who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center Towers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, were receiving flight training.
Today's $64,000 Question
In the current Customs scandal Brassington is under suspicion for trafficking drugs, passports, people, currency, and diamonds into the U.S. through two airports in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with the assistance of high-level officials in U.S. Customs and the FAA.
Discovery of Brassington’s participation in the rampant Customs corruption in South Florida raises questions about whether the criminal turpitude of officials there may have contributed to the breech in American national security which allowed 19 terrorist hijackers, whose identities in some cases were already known to authorities, to roam freely in the U.S. before the 9/11 attack.
In other words, was a dirty operation engaged in drug trafficking and weapons smuggling, run with assistance from the highest levels of the U.S. Government, responsible for creating the opening which allowed 19 terrorists to murder 3000 people?
The Alphonso Bowe Smuggling Group, LTD.
We first learned of Brassington’s recent activity from a former Customs Agent, who was able to confirm that Brassington was the co-pilot when Wally Hilliard’s Lear jet was busted in Orlando.
When Brassington entered the U.S. through Customs at Fort Lauderdale International Airport on April 6th, 2004, the agent on duty was a rookie Customs inspector working the night shift at the General Aviation Facility.
J. L. Sanders was the unlucky Inspector charged with checking Brassington through Customs that night. When he entered Brassington’s name into his computer, the July 2000 heroin bust came up on his screen.
Nor was that Brassington's only red flag.
“In the 'active lookout' it stated Brassington was known for bringing in suspect passengers,” Sanders told us.
“Brassington handed me a manifest for the flight from Executive Flight Support, which I found out later was owned by Wally Hilliard, and managed by Afphonso Bowe,” Sanders stated. "So Brassington apparently still has some kind of financial relationship with Hilliard.”
Huffman Aviation flight school owner Wally Hilliard is the owner of Executive Flight Support FBO (fixed base of operations) in Nassau. Alphonso Bowe manages the facility for him.
“The charter company Brassington was flying for is controlled by a family suspected of running an organized drug ring," said Sanders.
“In the Customs computer system, the terminology used to describe the criminal organization associated with Executive Flight Support is the ‘Alfonso Bowe Smuggling Group.’
"Here's my card. Call us when she comes out of the coma."
Other indications that Michael Brassington might be operating with a wink and a nod' from corrupt government officials can be found in recent documents.
An “unusual” relationship between Brassington and U.S. officials is hinted at in the sometimes harsh wording of an NTSB decision affirming an emergency order of revocation issued against the pilot in 2005 for a variety of violations, including a spectacular near-fatal crash at Teeterboro Airport in New Jersey in February 2003.
The airplane accident for which he was facing the music was so colorful it led the local evening news that night in New York City...
Brassington's much-maligned charter company was flying a Challenger business jet which overran the runway during an aborted takeoff, ploughed through the airport fence, and went flying across a busy highway, slamming into a moving automobile before coming to rest after crashing into a warehouse. ........
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http://www.madcowprod.com/04232007.html
Dusty & 'the boys'
WORLD EXCLUSIVE
April 23 2007
by Daniel Hopsicker
The first anniversary of the April 10 2006 seizure in Mexico’s Yucatan of a American-registered DC9 caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine passed virtually unnoticed last week. It shouldn’t have...
Porter Goss resigned less than a month later, the same day the FBI executed a search warrant at the house of the No. 3 official in the Central Intelligence Agency, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, soon to go on trial for corruption with accomplice Brent Wilkes.
Not since the downing of a C-130 military cargo plane over Nicaragua in 1986 with Eugene Hasenfus onboard—kicking off the Iran Contra Scandal—has an aviation incident been remotely as important or as fraught with significance.
And not since the massive cocaine smuggling through Mena, Arkansas has the CIA’s hand been so flagrantly caught in the cookie jar.
Shocking details come as no surprise
In a series of stories beginning today, and continuing over the next ten days, the MadCowMorningNews will report the results of a year-long investigation into the secret history of this operation.
Some of the highlights include:
· SkyWay Aircraft of St Petersburg, FL., the company which owned the DC9 airliner stuffed to the top of the overhead bins with cocaine, was a CIA front.
· SkyWay’s genesis can be traced to In-Q-Tel Inc., a secretive, Arlington, Va., investment group owned, operated, and financed out of the black box budget of the Central Intelligence Agency.
· SkyWay was part of a network of companies, three of which—L-3 Communications, Net Command Tech Inc, and Triton Network Systems Inc.— were cited by Elliot Spitzer, then the Attorney General of New York State, for being used by Wall Street brokers in “pump and dump” schemes which cost unwary investors tens of millions of dollars.
· The suspicious involvement of L-3 Communications subsidiary Titan Corp of San Diego, the biggest donor to Southern California Congressmen convicted or being investigated by fired San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam.
· The Israeli connection to SkyWay, including the involvement of an Israeli tele-com firm, Tadiran, accused of being involved in worldwide espionage, and which owned the headquarters of SkyWay in Clearwater, Florida.
· The involvement of Gulf Arab financiers, including an overseas bank, Banque Francaise de l'Orient, long associated with the Saudi bin Laden family.
· Evidence of Republican party involvement in the network, which included the free use of one of the smuggling aircraft by the current head of fund-raising for the national Republican party, U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, who "traveled to nighttime rallies in luxury," the St. Petersburg Times reported, “on a DC-9 owned by Skyway Global, a Clearwater security company whose owners are Martinez supporters.”
Still more shocking details
Over the next ten days, we’ll present evidence for each of these heady claims, and attempt to find the answer to what is still a major mystery:
Why haven’t U.S. authorities arrested the owners of an American-registered plane busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine?
The story began here:
The drug trafficking operation was flying an airliner carrying 128 suitcases...but no passengers. There was no attempt to camouflage their activity.
Mexican soldiers unloaded the American-registered DC9, whose cargo consisted of 128 identical black suitcases stuffed with cocaine, onto the hot asphalt runway in Cuidad del Carmen, an out of the way airport nestled in the middle of the Yucatan jungle.
In what may have been someone’s idea of a joke, each suitcase bore a stamp on its side, with the single word “Privado.”
The DC9 sported a distinctive Seal on its fuselage: blue-and-white with gold trim surrounding an eagle clutching twin olive branches, making it virtually indistinguishable from official U.S. Government planes belonging to the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.
Even veteran plane-spotters were fooled.
This was perhaps not much of a stretch: SkyWay’s Chairman, Glenn Kovar, boasted of long-standing ties to the CIA. And today he and his son are operating another front company called “Homeland Security Tracking Enforcement.”
Walking on water in Tampa
Although owned by SkyWay, the airliner was registered to Royal Sons Inc., a company controlled by an aircraft broker from Tampa, FL. named Frederic Geffon.
Geffon partnered with SkyWay in the company’s three planes, two DC9’s and a Cessna, then illegally appropriated them when SkyWay went bankrupt in 2005, to the annoyance of SkyWay’s Federal Bankruptcy Trustee, who filed suit to get the planes returned.
“Geffon was under court order to not let the planes leave the St Petersburg-Clearwater Airport,” stated a source close to the Bankruptcy proceedings. “The Airport Tower had even been ordered not to let the plane take off."
"Geffon was in direct violation of the court order when that DC9 took off for Venezuela,” the source stated last week.
Yet Frederic Geffon has suffered no legal sanction at all, either for violating the court order, or for owning a plane busted with a plane filled with a box-car's worth of cocaine, evidence that, legally speaking, Frederic Geffon walks on water.........
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tommy:
WANT INFO ON CIA AFGHANI HEROIN COMING TO MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES?
WayneMadsen REport printed flight logs showing a nexus of criminal activity when CIA RENDITION Planes landed in....APPLE VALLEY, MN, outside the twin cities?
And flight logs showed same aircraft (Air America spooks?) filing flight logs to take the money down to SANFORD in the Carribean banking havens.
No arrest from FBI HQ?
No arrest from DEA HQ?
No enterest from IRS HQ?
I got tortured in BOULDER CITY, NEVADA, in April 2009 after OBAMA BANNED TORTURE?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/yoo-obama-torture/
A prisoner who says he was tortured while being held for nearly four years as a suspected terrorist can sue former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo for coming up with the legal theories that justified his alleged treatment, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White's decision marks the first time a government lawyer has been held potentially responsible for the abuse of detainees.
"Like any other government official, government lawyers are responsible for the foreseeable consequences of their conduct," White said in refusing to dismiss Jose Padilla's lawsuit against Yoo.
If Padilla, now serving a 17-year prison sentence on terrorism charges, can prove his allegations, he can show that Yoo "set in motion a series of events that resulted in the deprivation of Padilla's constitutional rights," White said.
White, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, noted that Padilla's lawsuit accuses Yoo of helping to design administration policy on detention and torture, and then crafting legal opinions to justify it - stepping outside the usual role of a lawyer.
Yoo, a UC Berkeley law professor, was an attorney in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 to 2003 and wrote a series of memos on interrogation, detention and presidential powers.
The best-known memo, written to then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in 2002, said rough treatment of captives amounted to torture only if it caused the same level of pain as "organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death." The memo also said the president may have the constitutional power to authorize torture of enemy combatants.
'Any means necessary'
A 2001 Yoo memo, made public by the Obama administration, said U.S. military forces could use "any means necessary" to seize and hold terror suspects in the United States.
Yoo could not be reached at his Berkeley office Friday. A spokesman for the Justice Department, which is representing him and has argued for dismissal of the suit, was unavailable for comment.
Padilla's lawyers issued a statement saying they are "pleased that our client will get his day in court and the right to challenge the unconstitutional conduct to which he was subjected."
John Eastman, law school dean at Chapman University in Orange County, where Yoo taught for the past year, said the ruling is unique - the first to hold any administration official potentially liable for alleged mistreatment of terrorist suspects.
Eastman predicted that the Justice Department will file an immediate appeal, going to the Supreme Court if necessary. Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in Chicago in 2002 and accused by the Bush administration of plotting with al Qaeda to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb."
Declared an enemy combatant, Padilla was held in a Navy brig for three years and eight months and was denied all contact with the outside world for the first half of that period, his suit said. He was then taken out of the brig and charged with taking part in an unrelated conspiracy to provide money and supplies to Islamic extremist groups. He was convicted and has appealed.
His suit against Yoo covers his time in the brig. He says he was detained illegally, held for lengthy periods in darkness and blinding light, subjected to temperature extremes and sleep deprivation, confined in painful stress positions, and threatened with death to himself, harm to his family and transfer to a nation where he would be tortured.
Claims of mistreatment
The suit said Yoo - who has acknowledged being a member of an administration planning group known as the "war council" - personally reviewed and approved Padilla's detention in the brig and provided the legal cover for his treatment.
At a hearing in March, Justice Department lawyer Mary Mason told White that courts had no power to scrutinize high-level government decision-making, especially in wartime.
But White said Friday that Padilla had a right to sue "the alleged architect of the government policy" on enemy combatants. He said an examination of Yoo's publicly disclosed writings would not damage national security, and an inquiry into "allegations of unconstitutional treatment of an American citizen on American soil" would not affect foreign relations.
E-mail Bob Egelko at begelko@sfchronicle.com.
A prisoner who says he was tortured while being held for nearly four years as a suspected terrorist can sue former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo for coming up with the legal theories that justified his alleged treatment, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White's decision marks the first time a government lawyer has been held potentially responsible for the abuse of detainees.
"Like any other government official, government lawyers are responsible for the foreseeable consequences of their conduct," White said in refusing to dismiss Jose Padilla's lawsuit against Yoo.
If Padilla, now serving a 17-year prison sentence on terrorism charges, can prove his allegations, he can show that Yoo "set in motion a series of events that resulted in the deprivation of Padilla's constitutional rights," White said.
White, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, noted that Padilla's lawsuit accuses Yoo of helping to design administration policy on detention and torture, and then crafting legal opinions to justify it - stepping outside the usual role of a lawyer.
Yoo, a UC Berkeley law professor, was an attorney in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 to 2003 and wrote a series of memos on interrogation, detention and presidential powers.
The best-known memo, written to then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in 2002, said rough treatment of captives amounted to torture only if it caused the same level of pain as "organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death." The memo also said the president may have the constitutional power to authorize torture of enemy combatants.
'Any means necessary'
A 2001 Yoo memo, made public by the Obama administration, said U.S. military forces could use "any means necessary" to seize and hold terror suspects in the United States.
Yoo could not be reached at his Berkeley office Friday. A spokesman for the Justice Department, which is representing him and has argued for dismissal of the suit, was unavailable for comment.
Padilla's lawyers issued a statement saying they are "pleased that our client will get his day in court and the right to challenge the unconstitutional conduct to which he was subjected."
John Eastman, law school dean at Chapman University in Orange County, where Yoo taught for the past year, said the ruling is unique - the first to hold any administration official potentially liable for alleged mistreatment of terrorist suspects.
Eastman predicted that the Justice Department will file an immediate appeal, going to the Supreme Court if necessary. Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in Chicago in 2002 and accused by the Bush administration of plotting with al Qaeda to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb."
Declared an enemy combatant, Padilla was held in a Navy brig for three years and eight months and was denied all contact with the outside world for the first half of that period, his suit said. He was then taken out of the brig and charged with taking part in an unrelated conspiracy to provide money and supplies to Islamic extremist groups. He was convicted and has appealed.
His suit against Yoo covers his time in the brig. He says he was detained illegally, held for lengthy periods in darkness and blinding light, subjected to temperature extremes and sleep deprivation, confined in painful stress positions, and threatened with death to himself, harm to his family and transfer to a nation where he would be tortured.
Claims of mistreatment
The suit said Yoo - who has acknowledged being a member of an administration planning group known as the "war council" - personally reviewed and approved Padilla's detention in the brig and provided the legal cover for his treatment.
At a hearing in March, Justice Department lawyer Mary Mason told White that courts had no power to scrutinize high-level government decision-making, especially in wartime.
But White said Friday that Padilla had a right to sue "the alleged architect of the government policy" on enemy combatants. He said an examination of Yoo's publicly disclosed writings would not damage national security, and an inquiry into "allegations of unconstitutional treatment of an American citizen on American soil" would not affect foreign relations.
E-mail Bob Egelko at begelko@sfchronicle.com.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
THOMAS S. BEAN has never once...heard from the Democrats? A DOJ COMPLAINANT GETS CHIPPED AND FRIED WITH DEW...and DEMS COVER IT ALL UP?
http://www.motherjones.com/bush/2009/06/will-senate-torture-probe-target-cheney
Will Senate Torture Probe Target Cheney?
Did the ex-veep tell Congress the truth? Sen. Feinstein and her investigators can find out—if they care to.
—By David Corn
Wed June 10, 2009 5:51 AM PST
Dick Cheney, as vice president, was once the president of the Senate. Now he could become the target of a Senate investigation, for the Senate intelligence committee is in the position--and perhaps has the obligation--to answer this question: did Cheney tell senior members of Congress the truth about the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation practices (a.k.a. torture) during hush-hush briefings on Capitol Hill?
Last week, The Washington Post revealed that in 2005 Cheney oversaw at least four classified briefings of congressional leaders about the interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. This was part of an effort to bolster congressional support for the program. Curiously--or not so curiously--the CIA didn't note Cheney's participation in these sessions when it recently released a list of the briefings the agency had provided to Congress regarding its interrogation methods.
Cheney's involvement in the CIA briefings began at a time when several senior Democrats were calling for an investigation of these interrogation techniques. In one of these sessions, Cheney met with Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), then the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller III (D-WV), then the senior Democrat on the committee. (Also present were Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the chairman of the House intelligence committee, and Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the top Democrat on that committee.) And it is this particular meeting that falls within the boundaries of the investigation of the CIA's interrogation program now being conducted by the Senate intelligence committee. But Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the current chair of the intelligence committee, is not saying whether her probe will cover Cheney's participation in these briefings.
In March, Feinstein and Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), the top GOPer on the committee, announced they were investigating the CIA's detainee and interrogation program. And while legislators, pundits, bloggers, and others have debated whether a special prosecutor or independent commission ought to be created to examine the Bush administration's interrogation practices, the Senate intelligence committee has quietly been pursuing its probe.
The committee's inquiry has stirred no fuss. There have been no public hearings. In fact, Feinstein has made no commitment to hold hearings on this subject or to release a public report when the investigation is completed. The committee said in March that its investigation would take about a year.
"The Senate intelligence committee's study includes an examination of how the committee was briefed on the CIA's detention and interrogation program," says Phil LaVelle, a Feinstein spokesperson. "This includes briefings of committee leadership, and is not limited by who conducted the briefing." The committee has restricted this part of its review and is not examining briefings provided to other committees--such as the House intelligence committee--according to a congressional source familiar with the probe. But given that Cheney briefed two senior members of the Senate intelligence panel, the committee can review what Cheney told Roberts and Rockefeller about the interrogation program and evaluate whether his assertions were supported by the facts. That is, the Cheney briefing is fair game for the Senate investigators.
In recent weeks, Cheney has insisted that the use of waterboarding and other extreme interrogation procedures produced essential intelligence and that classified documents prove that--while President Barack Obama and Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), the chair of the armed services committee, have taken issue with him on this point. So did Cheney make an honest presentation during the behind-closed-doors meetings with congressional leaders when he was veep? Feinstein can find out--if she wants to.
The Senate intelligence committee's investigation is not wide-ranging--which may be good news for Cheney. According to a press release it issued, the committee is mainly focusing on what the CIA did, whether it remained in compliance with guidance it received from the Justice Department, and what was the value of the intelligence it obtained through the use of "enhanced and standard interrogation techniques."
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TOMMY:
The value was, THE TORTURE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO LITIGATE A CIVIL SUIT FILING AND MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. Thus...no exposure, and no POSSIBLE IMPEACHEABLE CRIMES COULD BE OR WOULD BE INVESTIGATED.
With PELOSIWHORE obviously being a corrupt lowlife idiotic dipshit....IMPEACHMENT WAS OFF THE TABLE before "any facts were known" to Pelosi...so...WHY TORTURE BEAN AND DR GORDON, LEROY ROGERS, RICH GORDON?
Answer: TORTURE IS FUN...RETALIATING AGAINST POLITICAL ENEMIES IS FUN...and there is no chance that anybody at FBI OR DOJ would interfere or prosecute.
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That press release makes it seem unlikely that the committee is investigating whether the White House--with or without Cheney's involvement--pressured the Justice Department to cook up legal cover for the CIA's use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques.
When I asked LaVelle whether the committee was examining the 2005 Cheney briefing, he declined to comment. The committee is not confirming or denying any specific aspects of its inquiry, including the witnessess it has or will be interviewing. But the committee has granted itself the authority to investigate what Cheney told committee members about the CIA interrogations. If it chooses not to do so, its probe will be incomplete.
David Corn is Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief. He's on twitter.
Will Senate Torture Probe Target Cheney?
Did the ex-veep tell Congress the truth? Sen. Feinstein and her investigators can find out—if they care to.
—By David Corn
Wed June 10, 2009 5:51 AM PST
Dick Cheney, as vice president, was once the president of the Senate. Now he could become the target of a Senate investigation, for the Senate intelligence committee is in the position--and perhaps has the obligation--to answer this question: did Cheney tell senior members of Congress the truth about the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation practices (a.k.a. torture) during hush-hush briefings on Capitol Hill?
Last week, The Washington Post revealed that in 2005 Cheney oversaw at least four classified briefings of congressional leaders about the interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. This was part of an effort to bolster congressional support for the program. Curiously--or not so curiously--the CIA didn't note Cheney's participation in these sessions when it recently released a list of the briefings the agency had provided to Congress regarding its interrogation methods.
Cheney's involvement in the CIA briefings began at a time when several senior Democrats were calling for an investigation of these interrogation techniques. In one of these sessions, Cheney met with Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), then the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller III (D-WV), then the senior Democrat on the committee. (Also present were Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the chairman of the House intelligence committee, and Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the top Democrat on that committee.) And it is this particular meeting that falls within the boundaries of the investigation of the CIA's interrogation program now being conducted by the Senate intelligence committee. But Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the current chair of the intelligence committee, is not saying whether her probe will cover Cheney's participation in these briefings.
In March, Feinstein and Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), the top GOPer on the committee, announced they were investigating the CIA's detainee and interrogation program. And while legislators, pundits, bloggers, and others have debated whether a special prosecutor or independent commission ought to be created to examine the Bush administration's interrogation practices, the Senate intelligence committee has quietly been pursuing its probe.
The committee's inquiry has stirred no fuss. There have been no public hearings. In fact, Feinstein has made no commitment to hold hearings on this subject or to release a public report when the investigation is completed. The committee said in March that its investigation would take about a year.
"The Senate intelligence committee's study includes an examination of how the committee was briefed on the CIA's detention and interrogation program," says Phil LaVelle, a Feinstein spokesperson. "This includes briefings of committee leadership, and is not limited by who conducted the briefing." The committee has restricted this part of its review and is not examining briefings provided to other committees--such as the House intelligence committee--according to a congressional source familiar with the probe. But given that Cheney briefed two senior members of the Senate intelligence panel, the committee can review what Cheney told Roberts and Rockefeller about the interrogation program and evaluate whether his assertions were supported by the facts. That is, the Cheney briefing is fair game for the Senate investigators.
In recent weeks, Cheney has insisted that the use of waterboarding and other extreme interrogation procedures produced essential intelligence and that classified documents prove that--while President Barack Obama and Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), the chair of the armed services committee, have taken issue with him on this point. So did Cheney make an honest presentation during the behind-closed-doors meetings with congressional leaders when he was veep? Feinstein can find out--if she wants to.
The Senate intelligence committee's investigation is not wide-ranging--which may be good news for Cheney. According to a press release it issued, the committee is mainly focusing on what the CIA did, whether it remained in compliance with guidance it received from the Justice Department, and what was the value of the intelligence it obtained through the use of "enhanced and standard interrogation techniques."
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TOMMY:
The value was, THE TORTURE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO LITIGATE A CIVIL SUIT FILING AND MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF. Thus...no exposure, and no POSSIBLE IMPEACHEABLE CRIMES COULD BE OR WOULD BE INVESTIGATED.
With PELOSIWHORE obviously being a corrupt lowlife idiotic dipshit....IMPEACHMENT WAS OFF THE TABLE before "any facts were known" to Pelosi...so...WHY TORTURE BEAN AND DR GORDON, LEROY ROGERS, RICH GORDON?
Answer: TORTURE IS FUN...RETALIATING AGAINST POLITICAL ENEMIES IS FUN...and there is no chance that anybody at FBI OR DOJ would interfere or prosecute.
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That press release makes it seem unlikely that the committee is investigating whether the White House--with or without Cheney's involvement--pressured the Justice Department to cook up legal cover for the CIA's use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques.
When I asked LaVelle whether the committee was examining the 2005 Cheney briefing, he declined to comment. The committee is not confirming or denying any specific aspects of its inquiry, including the witnessess it has or will be interviewing. But the committee has granted itself the authority to investigate what Cheney told committee members about the CIA interrogations. If it chooses not to do so, its probe will be incomplete.
David Corn is Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief. He's on twitter.
FBI's OPERATION SLAMMER was known as CIA'S MK ULTRA: School Shooters on a shelf program as part of SHOCK DOCTRINE
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/11/mccoy/index.html
The CIA's secret history of psychological torture
Throughout the Cold War, the agency outsourced abuse to other nations. Will Obama put us back on this path?
Editor's note: This article has also appeared on TomDispatch.com.
By Alfred W. McCoy
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June 11, 2009 |
If, like me, you've been following America's torture policies not just for the last few years but for decades, you can't help but experience that eerie feeling of déjà vu these days. With the departure of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from Washington and the arrival of Barack Obama, it may just be back to the future when it comes to torture policy, a turn away from a dark, do-it-yourself ethos and a return to the outsourcing of torture that went on, with the support of both Democrats and Republicans, in the Cold War years.
Like Chile after the regime of General Augusto Pinochet or the Philippines after the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, Washington after Bush is now trapped in the painful politics of impunity. Unlike anything our allies have experienced, however, for Washington, and so for the rest of us, this may prove a political crisis without end or exit.
Despite dozens of official inquiries in the five years since the Abu Ghraib photos first exposed our abuse of Iraqi detainees, the torture scandal continues to spread like a virus, infecting all who touch it, including now Obama himself. By embracing a specific methodology of torture, covertly developed by the CIA over decades using countless millions of taxpayer dollars and graphically revealed in those Iraqi prison photos, we have condemned ourselves to retreat from whatever promises might be made to end this sort of abuse and are instead already returning to a bipartisan consensus that made torture America's secret weapon throughout the Cold War.
Despite the 24 version of events, the Bush administration did not simply authorize traditional, bare-knuckle torture. What it did do was develop to new heights the world's most advanced form of psychological torture, while quickly recognizing the legal dangers in doing so. Even in the desperate days right after 9/11, the White House and Justice Department lawyers who presided over the Bush administration's new torture program were remarkably punctilious about cloaking their decisions in legalisms designed to preempt later prosecution.
To most Americans, whether they supported the Bush administration torture policy or opposed it, all of this seemed shocking and very new. Not so, unfortunately. Concealed from Congress and the public, the CIA had spent the previous half-century developing and propagating a sophisticated form of psychological torture meant to defy investigation, prosecution, or prohibition -- and so far it has proved remarkably successful on all these counts. Even now, since many of the leading psychologists who worked to advance the CIA's torture skills have remained silent, we understand surprisingly little about the psychopathology of the program of mental torture that the Bush administration applied so globally.
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TOMMY:
They (the right wing police state) applied psychological torture here...in America...on US CITIZENS. THEY NAILED DR MARK GORDON, while he was a coerced, stalked, reluctant, destroyed COOPERATING WITNESS FOR MINNEAPOLIS FBI???
MUELLER did not arrest for OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE using microwave radiation as the murder weapon?
HEFFLEFINGER FOUND OUT...and resigned when DOJ HQ asserted "state secrets" to stop his prosecution for this series of crimes.
SENATOR LEAHY refuses to grill MUELLER ON THESE FACTS...and prefers to "join conspiracy to make all FBI TESTIMONY" as obtuse as possible so that...NOBODY KNOWS WHAT MUELLER COVERED UP USING HIS PUNK "PROTOCOL" that effectively gave CHENEY, GOSS criminal immunity?
They do it with the shameless secret complicity of US ATTORNEYS FAR REMOVED FROM DC OR DOJ HQ....And they do it with complicity by US ATTORNEYS GONZO, ASHCROFT, MUKASY, AND HOLDER.
They do it as part of an ongoing SURVEILLANCE STALKING MIND CONTROL SOCIETY that fronts behind: NSA TSP, INFRAGUARD, FBI JFLTTF, etc.
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Physical torture is a relatively straightforward matter of sadism that leaves behind broken bodies, useless information and clear evidence for prosecution. Psychological torture, on the other hand, is a mind maze that can destroy its victims, even while entrapping its perpetrators in an illusory, almost erotic, sense of empowerment. When applied skillfully, it leaves few scars for investigators who might restrain this seductive impulse. However, despite all the myths of these last years, psychological torture, like its physical counterpart, has proven an ineffective, even counterproductive, method for extracting useful information from prisoners.
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tommy:
IT (mind control, FBI's OPER SLAMMER) IS USEFUL to stop the filing of a lawsuit, or Motion for Injunctive Relief.
That is why I got chipped, mind controlled, harassed, and fried with a directed energy weapon while...AN FBI JOINT FED LOCAL TERRORISM TASK FORCE joined the conspiracy of silence...and fronts behind contract mercenary surveillance vigalantes who "secretly work for and with FBI agents" who have always played a "secret WIN AT ALL COSTS GAME" in which the ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS, and FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER--FREEH always....remained deliberately indifferent and criminally apathetic (as they cover up there own MISPRISION OF A FELONY AND CONSPIRACY LIABILITY).
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Where it has had a powerful effect is on those ordering and delivering it. With their egos inflated beyond imagining by a sense of being masters of life and death, pain and pleasure, its perpetrators, when in office, became forceful proponents of abuse, striding across the political landscape like Nietzschean supermen. After their fall from power, they have continued to maneuver with extraordinary determination to escape the legal consequences of their actions.
Before we head deeper into the hidden history of the CIA's psychological torture program, however, we need to rid ourselves of the idea that this sort of torture is somehow "torture lite" or merely, as the Bush administration renamed it, "enhanced interrogation." Although seemingly less brutal than physical methods, psychological torture actually inflicts a crippling trauma on its victims. "Ill treatment during captivity, such as psychological manipulations and forced stress positions," Dr. Metin Basoglu has reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry after interviewing 279 Bosnian victims of such methods, "does not seem to be substantially different from physical torture in terms of the severity of mental suffering."
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tommy:
THIS AUTHOR does not mention or know of a key US Intel Comm. whistleblower named MCKINNEY. She has FBI on tape identifying the program as OPERATION SLAMMER....which is....at different levels of intrusion...nothing more than a COINTELPRO ORWELL MEETS KAFKA interstate stalking campaign.
Mueller knows that.
Leahy knows that.
Holder knows that.
NOTHING WAS DONE....A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE?...especially from punk corrupt do nothing lowlife faggots called DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP IN THE US SENATE AND HOUSE.
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A secret history of psychological torture
The roots of our present paralysis over what to do about detainee abuse lie in the hidden history of the CIA's program of psychological torture. Early in the Cold War, panicked that the Soviets had somehow cracked the code of human consciousness, the Agency mounted a "Special Interrogation Program" whose working hypothesis was: "Medical science, particularly psychiatry and psychotherapy, has developed various techniques by means of which some external control can be imposed on the mind/or will of an individual, such as drugs, hypnosis, electric shock and neurosurgery."
All of these methods were tested by the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. None proved successful for breaking potential enemies or obtaining reliable information. Beyond these ultimately unsuccessful methods, however, the Agency also explored a behavioral approach to cracking that "code." In 1951, in collaboration with British and Canadian defense scientists, the Agency encouraged academic research into "methods concerned in psychological coercion." Within months, the Agency had defined the aims of its top-secret program, code-named Project Artichoke, as the "development of any method by which we can get information from a person against his will and without his knowledge."
__________________
TOMMY:
The police state does "get info from unknowing targets" by using what is called a SUBLIMINAL COUNTERINTELIGENCE DEBRIEFING. They can also...discredit witnesses with illegally obtained info using subliminal mind control. This is effective only because MUELLER'S FBI AND THE US ATTORNEYS do not investigate "state secrets" secure access programs...that are also used for ALL THE SCHOOL SHOOTERS AND OTHERS GOING POSTAL.
LOOK AT MUELLER to find a lowlife who knows, stands down, and benefits from TARGETS GOING POSTAL.
____________________
This secret research produced two discoveries central to the CIA's more recent psychological paradigm. In classified experiments, famed Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb found that he could induce a state akin to drug-induced hallucinations and psychosis in just 48 hours -- without drugs, hypnosis or electric shock. Instead, for two days student volunteers at McGill University simply sat in a comfortable cubicle deprived of sensory stimulation by goggles, gloves and earmuffs. "It scared the hell out of us," Hebb said later, "to see how completely dependent the mind is on a close connection with the ordinary sensory environment, and how disorganizing to be cut off from that support."
During the 1950s, two neurologists at Cornell Medical Center, under CIA contract, found that the most devastating torture technique of the Soviet secret police, the KGB, was simply to force a victim to stand for days while the legs swelled, the skin erupted in suppurating lesions, and hallucinations began -- a procedure which we now politely refer to as "stress positions."
Four years into this project, there was a sudden upsurge of interest in using mind control techniques defensively after American prisoners in North Korea suffered what was then called "brainwashing." In August 1955, President Eisenhower ordered that any soldier at risk of capture should be given "specific training and instruction designed to ... withstand all enemy efforts against him."
Consequently, the Air Force developed a program it dubbed SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) to train pilots in resisting psychological torture. In other words, two intertwined strands of research into torture methods were being explored and developed: aggressive methods for breaking enemy agents and defensive methods for training Americans to resist enemy inquisitors.
In 1963, the CIA distilled its decade of research into the curiously named KUBARK Counter-intelligence Interrogation manual, which stated definitively that sensory deprivation was effective because it made "the regressed subject view the interrogator as a father-figure ... strengthening ... the subject's tendencies toward compliance." Refined through years of practice on actual human beings, the CIA's psychological paradigm now relies on a mix of sensory overload and deprivation via seemingly banal procedures: the extreme application of heat and cold, light and dark, noise and silence, feast and famine -- all meant to attack six essential sensory pathways into the human mind.
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TOMMY:
The extreme application of heat CAN AND IS DONE USING DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS...AND OFTEN ENOUGH...there is no interrogation to speak of or tape since it was done as a form of MURDER TO STOP ANY POTENTIAL WITNESS FROM EVER TESTIFYING OR FILING A LAWSUIT.
RICH GORDON, MARK GORDON, THOMAS BEAN, LEROY ROGERS, JON VAN PATTEN, so many others...all got fried with DEW...and CIA SPINS THIS AS a tempreture technique involving "HEAT.....body heat...ya know...like a hotdog getting cooked in a microwave oven".
UNDERSTAND THAT....DEMS REFUSE TO USE THE WORD "DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON" PREFERRING TO LET THE SPOOKS AND TORTURERS CONTROL THE SPIN AND COVER STORY.
THAT IS MY TESTIMONY THAT THE DEMS IGNORE AT OUR PERIL: Torture is used as a punitive FBI COINTELPRO NEUTRALIZATION STOPPING ANY EXPOSURE.
NO INTERROGATION, and no proof of such....(CIA claims to have burned tapes?)....is necessary since THE TARGET CANNOT GET TO COURT, AND OVERSIGHT BY CONGRESS DOES NOT EXIST...with HOLDER AND US ATTY STANDING DOWN WITH FBI AGENTS?
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After codifying its new interrogation methods in the KUBARK manual, the Agency spent the next 30 years promoting these torture techniques within the U.S. intelligence community and among anti-communist allies. In its clandestine journey across continents and decades, the CIA's psychological torture paradigm would prove elusive, adaptable, devastatingly destructive, and powerfully seductive. So darkly seductive is torture's appeal that these seemingly scientific methods, even when intended for a few Soviet spies or al-Qaida terrorists, soon spread uncontrollably in two directions -- toward the torture of the many and into a paroxysm of brutality toward specific individuals.
During the Vietnam War, when the CIA applied these techniques in its search for information on top Vietcong cadre, the interrogation effort soon degenerated into the crude physical brutality of the Phoenix Program, producing 46,000 extrajudicial executions and little actionable intelligence.
In 1994, with the Cold War over, Washington ratified the U.N. Convention Against Torture, seemingly resolving the tension between its anti-torture principles and its torture practices. Yet when President Clinton sent this Convention to Congress, he included four little-noticed diplomatic "reservations" drafted six years before by the Reagan administration and focused on just one word in those 26 printed pages: "mental."
These reservations narrowed (just for the United States) the definition of "mental" torture to include four acts: the infliction of physical pain, the use of drugs, death threats or threats to harm another. Excluded were methods such as sensory deprivation and self-inflicted pain, the very techniques the CIA had propagated for the past 40 years. This definition was reproduced verbatim in Section 2340 of the U.S. Federal Code and later in the War Crimes Act of 1996. Through this legal legerdemain, Washington managed to agree, via the U.N. Convention, to ban physical abuse even while exempting the CIA from the U.N.'s prohibition on psychological torture.
This little noticed exemption was left buried in those documents like a landmine and would detonate with phenomenal force just 10 years later at Abu Ghraib prison.
War on terror, war of torture
Right after his public address to a shaken nation on Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush gave his staff secret orders to pursue torture policies, adding emphatically, "I don't care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass." In a dramatic break with past policy, the White House would even allow the CIA to operate its own global network of prisons, as well as charter air fleet to transport seized suspects and "render" them for endless detention in a supranational gulag of secret "black sites" from Thailand to Poland.
The Bush administration also officially allowed the CIA ten "enhanced" interrogation methods designed by agency psychologists, including "waterboarding." This use of cold water to block breathing triggers the "mammalian diving reflex," hardwired into every human brain, thus inducing an uncontrollable terror of impending death.
As Jane Mayer reported in the New Yorker, psychologists working for both the Pentagon and the CIA "reverse engineered" the military's SERE training, which included a brief exposure to waterboarding, and flipped these defensive methods for use offensively on al-Qaida captives. "They sought to render the detainees vulnerable -- to break down all of their senses," one official told Mayer. "It takes a psychologist trained in this to understand these rupturing experiences." Inside Agency headquarters, there was, moreover, a "high level of anxiety" about the possibility of future prosecutions for methods officials knew to be internationally defined as torture. The presence of Ph.D. psychologists was considered one "way for CIA officials to skirt measures such as the Convention Against Torture."
From recently released Justice Department memos, we now know that the CIA refined its psychological paradigm significantly under Bush. As described in the classified 2004 Background Paper on the CIA's Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques, each detainee was transported to an Agency black site while "deprived of sight and sound through the use of blindfolds, earmuffs, and hoods." Once inside the prison, he was reduced to "a baseline, dependent state" through conditioning by "nudity, sleep deprivation (with shackling ...), and dietary manipulation."
For "more physical and psychological stress," CIA interrogators used coercive measures such as "an insult slap or abdominal slap" and then "walling," slamming the detainee's head against a cell wall. If these failed to produce the results sought, interrogators escalated to waterboarding, as was done to Abu Zubaydah "at least 83 times during August 2002" and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad 183 times in March 2003 -- so many times, in fact, that the repetitiousness of the act can only be considered convincing testimony to the seductive sadism of CIA-style torture.
In a parallel effort launched by Bush-appointed civilians in the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave General Geoffrey Miller command of the new American military prison at Guantánamo in late 2002 with ample authority to transform it into an ad hoc psychology lab. Behavioral Science Consultation Teams of military psychologists probed detainees for individual phobias like fear of the dark. Interrogators stiffened the psychological assault by exploiting what they saw as Arab cultural sensitivities when it came to sex and dogs. Via a three-phase attack on the senses, on culture and on the individual psyche, interrogators at Guantánamo perfected the CIA's psychological paradigm.
After General Miller visited Iraq in September 2003, the U.S. commander there, General Ricardo Sanchez, ordered Guantánamo-style abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. My own review of the 1,600 still-classified photos taken by American guards at Abu Ghraib -- which journalists covering this story seem to share like Napster downloads -- reveals not random, idiosyncratic acts by "bad apples," but the repeated, constant use of just three psychological techniques: hooding for sensory deprivation, shackling for self-inflicted pain and (to exploit Arab cultural sensitivities) both nudity and dogs. It is no accident that Private Lynndie England was famously photographed leading an Iraqi detainee leashed like a dog.
These techniques, according to the New York Times, then escalated virally at five Special Operations field interrogation centers where detainees were subjected to extreme sensory deprivation, beating, burning, electric shock and waterboarding. Among the thousand soldiers in these units, 34 were later convicted of abuse and many more escaped prosecution only because records were officially "lost."
"Behind the green door" at the White House
Further up the chain of command, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, as she recently told the Senate, "convened a series of meetings of NSC [National Security Council] principals in 2002 and 2003 to discuss various issues … relating to detainees." This group, including Vice President Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Secretary of State Colin Powell and CIA director George Tenet, met dozens of times inside the White House Situation Room.
After watching CIA operatives mime what Rice called "certain physical and psychological interrogation techniques," these leaders, their imaginations stimulated by graphic visions of human suffering, repeatedly authorized extreme psychological techniques stiffened by hitting, walling and waterboarding. According to an April 2008 ABC News report, Attorney General Ashcroft once interrupted this collective fantasy by asking aloud, "Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly."
In mid-2004, even after the Abu Ghraib photos were released, these principals met to approve the use of CIA torture techniques on still more detainees. Despite mounting concerns about the damage torture was doing to America's standing, shared by Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice commanded Agency officials with the cool demeanor of a dominatrix. "This is your baby," she reportedly said. "Go do it."
Cleansing torture
Even as they exercise extraordinary power over others, perpetrators of torture around the world are assiduous in trying to cover their tracks. They construct recondite legal justifications, destroy records of actual torture and paper the files with spurious claims of success. Hence, the CIA destroyed 92 interrogation videotapes, while Vice President Cheney now berates Obama incessantly (five times in his latest Fox News interview) to declassify "two reports" which he claims will show the informational gains that torture offered -- possibly because his staff salted the files at the NSC or the CIA with documents prepared for this very purpose.
Not only were Justice Department lawyers aggressive in their advocacy of torture in the Bush years, they were meticulous from the start, in laying the legal groundwork for later impunity. In three torture memos from May 2005 that the Obama administration recently released, Bush's Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stephen Bradbury repeatedly cited those original U.S. diplomatic "reservations" to the U.N. Convention Against Torture, replicated in Section 2340 of the Federal code, to argue that waterboarding was perfectly legal since the "technique is not physically painful." Anyway, he added, careful lawyering at Justice and the CIA had punched loopholes in both the U.N. Convention and U.S. law so wide that these Agency techniques were "unlikely to be subject to judicial inquiry."
Just to be safe, when Vice President Cheney presided over the drafting of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, he included clauses, buried in 38 pages of dense print, defining "serious physical pain" as the "significant loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty." This was a striking paraphrase of the outrageous definition of physical torture as pain "equivalent in intensity to ... organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death" in John Yoo's infamous August 2002 "torture memo," already repudiated by the Justice Department.
Above all, the Military Commissions Act protected the CIA's use of psychological torture by repeating verbatim the exculpatory language found in those Clinton-era, Reagan-created reservations to the U.N. Convention and still embedded in Section 2340 of the Federal code. To make doubly sure, the act also made these definitions retroactive to November 1997, giving CIA interrogators immunity from any misdeeds under the Expanded War Crimes Act of 1997 which punishes serious violations with life imprisonment or death.
No matter how twisted the process, impunity -- whether in England, Indonesia or America -- usually passes through three stages:
1. Blame the supposed "bad apples."
2. Invoke the security argument. ("It protected us.")
3. Appeal to national unity. ("We need to move forward together.")
For a year after the Abu Ghraib exposé, Rumsfeld's Pentagon blamed various low-ranking bad apples by claiming the abuse was "perpetrated by a small number of U.S. military." In his statement on May 13, while refusing to release more torture photos, President Obama echoed Rumsfeld, claiming the abuse in these latest images, too, "was carried out in the past by a small number of individuals."
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Then, on April 16, President Obama brought us to the final stage when he released the four Bush-era memos detailing CIA torture, insisting: "Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past." During a visit to CIA headquarters four days later, Obama promised that there would be no prosecutions of Agency employees. "We've made some mistakes," he admitted, but urged Americans simply to "acknowledge them and then move forward."
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TOMMY:
Obama, Holder, Mueller HAVE ALL IGNORED THE RECENT APRIL 2009 TORTURE ATTACK OF THOMAS S. BEAN IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA?
Who ordered this torture?
Obama is a TORTURE COINTELPRO PRESIDENT PRETENDING TO BE A DEMOCRATIC INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE??????????????????
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The president's statements were in such blatant defiance of international law that the U.N.'s chief official on torture, Manfred Nowak, reminded him that Washington was actually obliged to investigate possible violations of the Convention Against Torture.
This process of impunity is leading Washington back to a global torture policy that, during the Cold War, was bipartisan in nature: publicly advocating human rights while covertly outsourcing torture to allied governments and their intelligence agencies.
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TOMMY:
once again, THIS AUTHOR IS IN THE DARK ABOUT TORTURE BEING OUTSOURCED INSIDE AMERICA TO TARGET US CITIZENS as part of another wave of FBI COINTELPRO NEUTRALIZATIONS OF COMPLAINANTS, WITNESSES, WHISTLEBLOWERS, AUTHORS, and...INNOCENCT WHITE COLLAR PROFESSIONALS AND LAWYERS who "may be a political threat" at some future time.
The issue and scandal...IS HERE IN AMERICA....US CITIZENS WITH PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS INSIDE THEIR HOMES, CHIPPED, MIND CONTROLLED, FRIED WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION IN THEIR FUCKING HOMES.
THAT IS THE FACT PATTERN THAT LEAHY, CONYERS, WAXMAN, FEINSTEIN, PELOSI, REID, HOLDER... have all ignored?
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In retrospect, it may become ever more apparent that the real aberration of the Bush years lay not in torture policies per se, but in the president's order that the CIA should operate its own torture prisons. The advantage of the bipartisan torture consensus of the Cold War era was, of course, that it did a remarkably good job most of the time of insulating Washington from the taint of torture, which was sometimes remarkably widely practiced.
There are already some clear signs of a policy shift in this direction in the Obama era. Since mid-2008, U.S. intelligence has captured a half-dozen al-Qaida suspects and, instead of shipping them to Guantánamo or to CIA secret prisons, has had them interrogated by allied Middle Eastern intelligence agencies. Showing that this policy is again bipartisan, Obama's new CIA director Leon Panetta announced that the Agency would continue to engage in the rendition of terror suspects to allies like Libya, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia where we can, as he put it, "rely on diplomatic assurances of good treatment." Showing the quality of such treatment, Time magazine reported on May 24 that Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, who famously confessed under torture that Saddam Hussein had provided al-Qaida with chemical weapons and later admitted his lie to Senate investigators, had committed "suicide" in a Libyan cell.
The price of impunity
This time around, however, a long-distance torture policy may not provide the same insulation as in the past for Washington. Any retreat into torture by remote control is, in fact, only likely to produce the next scandal that will do yet more damage to America's international standing.
Over a 40-year period, Americans have found themselves mired in this same moral quagmire on six separate occasions: following exposés of CIA-sponsored torture in South Vietnam (1970), Brazil (1974), Iran (1978), Honduras (1988) and then throughout Latin America (1997). After each exposé, the public's shock soon faded, allowing the Agency to resume its dirty work in the shadows.
Unless some formal inquiry is convened to look into a sordid history that reached its depths in the Bush era, and so begins to break this cycle of deceit, exposé and paralysis followed by more of the same, we're likely, a few years hence, to find ourselves right back where we are now. We'll be confronted with the next American torture scandal from some future iconic dungeon, part of a dismal, ever lengthening procession that has led from the tiger cages of South Vietnam through the Shah of Iran's prison cells in Tehran to Abu Ghraib and the prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
The next time, however, the world will not have forgotten those photos from Abu Ghraib. The next time, the damage to this country will be nothing short of devastating.
The CIA's secret history of psychological torture
Throughout the Cold War, the agency outsourced abuse to other nations. Will Obama put us back on this path?
Editor's note: This article has also appeared on TomDispatch.com.
By Alfred W. McCoy
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June 11, 2009 |
If, like me, you've been following America's torture policies not just for the last few years but for decades, you can't help but experience that eerie feeling of déjà vu these days. With the departure of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from Washington and the arrival of Barack Obama, it may just be back to the future when it comes to torture policy, a turn away from a dark, do-it-yourself ethos and a return to the outsourcing of torture that went on, with the support of both Democrats and Republicans, in the Cold War years.
Like Chile after the regime of General Augusto Pinochet or the Philippines after the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, Washington after Bush is now trapped in the painful politics of impunity. Unlike anything our allies have experienced, however, for Washington, and so for the rest of us, this may prove a political crisis without end or exit.
Despite dozens of official inquiries in the five years since the Abu Ghraib photos first exposed our abuse of Iraqi detainees, the torture scandal continues to spread like a virus, infecting all who touch it, including now Obama himself. By embracing a specific methodology of torture, covertly developed by the CIA over decades using countless millions of taxpayer dollars and graphically revealed in those Iraqi prison photos, we have condemned ourselves to retreat from whatever promises might be made to end this sort of abuse and are instead already returning to a bipartisan consensus that made torture America's secret weapon throughout the Cold War.
Despite the 24 version of events, the Bush administration did not simply authorize traditional, bare-knuckle torture. What it did do was develop to new heights the world's most advanced form of psychological torture, while quickly recognizing the legal dangers in doing so. Even in the desperate days right after 9/11, the White House and Justice Department lawyers who presided over the Bush administration's new torture program were remarkably punctilious about cloaking their decisions in legalisms designed to preempt later prosecution.
To most Americans, whether they supported the Bush administration torture policy or opposed it, all of this seemed shocking and very new. Not so, unfortunately. Concealed from Congress and the public, the CIA had spent the previous half-century developing and propagating a sophisticated form of psychological torture meant to defy investigation, prosecution, or prohibition -- and so far it has proved remarkably successful on all these counts. Even now, since many of the leading psychologists who worked to advance the CIA's torture skills have remained silent, we understand surprisingly little about the psychopathology of the program of mental torture that the Bush administration applied so globally.
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TOMMY:
They (the right wing police state) applied psychological torture here...in America...on US CITIZENS. THEY NAILED DR MARK GORDON, while he was a coerced, stalked, reluctant, destroyed COOPERATING WITNESS FOR MINNEAPOLIS FBI???
MUELLER did not arrest for OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE using microwave radiation as the murder weapon?
HEFFLEFINGER FOUND OUT...and resigned when DOJ HQ asserted "state secrets" to stop his prosecution for this series of crimes.
SENATOR LEAHY refuses to grill MUELLER ON THESE FACTS...and prefers to "join conspiracy to make all FBI TESTIMONY" as obtuse as possible so that...NOBODY KNOWS WHAT MUELLER COVERED UP USING HIS PUNK "PROTOCOL" that effectively gave CHENEY, GOSS criminal immunity?
They do it with the shameless secret complicity of US ATTORNEYS FAR REMOVED FROM DC OR DOJ HQ....And they do it with complicity by US ATTORNEYS GONZO, ASHCROFT, MUKASY, AND HOLDER.
They do it as part of an ongoing SURVEILLANCE STALKING MIND CONTROL SOCIETY that fronts behind: NSA TSP, INFRAGUARD, FBI JFLTTF, etc.
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Physical torture is a relatively straightforward matter of sadism that leaves behind broken bodies, useless information and clear evidence for prosecution. Psychological torture, on the other hand, is a mind maze that can destroy its victims, even while entrapping its perpetrators in an illusory, almost erotic, sense of empowerment. When applied skillfully, it leaves few scars for investigators who might restrain this seductive impulse. However, despite all the myths of these last years, psychological torture, like its physical counterpart, has proven an ineffective, even counterproductive, method for extracting useful information from prisoners.
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tommy:
IT (mind control, FBI's OPER SLAMMER) IS USEFUL to stop the filing of a lawsuit, or Motion for Injunctive Relief.
That is why I got chipped, mind controlled, harassed, and fried with a directed energy weapon while...AN FBI JOINT FED LOCAL TERRORISM TASK FORCE joined the conspiracy of silence...and fronts behind contract mercenary surveillance vigalantes who "secretly work for and with FBI agents" who have always played a "secret WIN AT ALL COSTS GAME" in which the ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS, and FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER--FREEH always....remained deliberately indifferent and criminally apathetic (as they cover up there own MISPRISION OF A FELONY AND CONSPIRACY LIABILITY).
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Where it has had a powerful effect is on those ordering and delivering it. With their egos inflated beyond imagining by a sense of being masters of life and death, pain and pleasure, its perpetrators, when in office, became forceful proponents of abuse, striding across the political landscape like Nietzschean supermen. After their fall from power, they have continued to maneuver with extraordinary determination to escape the legal consequences of their actions.
Before we head deeper into the hidden history of the CIA's psychological torture program, however, we need to rid ourselves of the idea that this sort of torture is somehow "torture lite" or merely, as the Bush administration renamed it, "enhanced interrogation." Although seemingly less brutal than physical methods, psychological torture actually inflicts a crippling trauma on its victims. "Ill treatment during captivity, such as psychological manipulations and forced stress positions," Dr. Metin Basoglu has reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry after interviewing 279 Bosnian victims of such methods, "does not seem to be substantially different from physical torture in terms of the severity of mental suffering."
_________________
tommy:
THIS AUTHOR does not mention or know of a key US Intel Comm. whistleblower named MCKINNEY. She has FBI on tape identifying the program as OPERATION SLAMMER....which is....at different levels of intrusion...nothing more than a COINTELPRO ORWELL MEETS KAFKA interstate stalking campaign.
Mueller knows that.
Leahy knows that.
Holder knows that.
NOTHING WAS DONE....A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE?...especially from punk corrupt do nothing lowlife faggots called DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP IN THE US SENATE AND HOUSE.
_____________________
A secret history of psychological torture
The roots of our present paralysis over what to do about detainee abuse lie in the hidden history of the CIA's program of psychological torture. Early in the Cold War, panicked that the Soviets had somehow cracked the code of human consciousness, the Agency mounted a "Special Interrogation Program" whose working hypothesis was: "Medical science, particularly psychiatry and psychotherapy, has developed various techniques by means of which some external control can be imposed on the mind/or will of an individual, such as drugs, hypnosis, electric shock and neurosurgery."
All of these methods were tested by the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. None proved successful for breaking potential enemies or obtaining reliable information. Beyond these ultimately unsuccessful methods, however, the Agency also explored a behavioral approach to cracking that "code." In 1951, in collaboration with British and Canadian defense scientists, the Agency encouraged academic research into "methods concerned in psychological coercion." Within months, the Agency had defined the aims of its top-secret program, code-named Project Artichoke, as the "development of any method by which we can get information from a person against his will and without his knowledge."
__________________
TOMMY:
The police state does "get info from unknowing targets" by using what is called a SUBLIMINAL COUNTERINTELIGENCE DEBRIEFING. They can also...discredit witnesses with illegally obtained info using subliminal mind control. This is effective only because MUELLER'S FBI AND THE US ATTORNEYS do not investigate "state secrets" secure access programs...that are also used for ALL THE SCHOOL SHOOTERS AND OTHERS GOING POSTAL.
LOOK AT MUELLER to find a lowlife who knows, stands down, and benefits from TARGETS GOING POSTAL.
____________________
This secret research produced two discoveries central to the CIA's more recent psychological paradigm. In classified experiments, famed Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb found that he could induce a state akin to drug-induced hallucinations and psychosis in just 48 hours -- without drugs, hypnosis or electric shock. Instead, for two days student volunteers at McGill University simply sat in a comfortable cubicle deprived of sensory stimulation by goggles, gloves and earmuffs. "It scared the hell out of us," Hebb said later, "to see how completely dependent the mind is on a close connection with the ordinary sensory environment, and how disorganizing to be cut off from that support."
During the 1950s, two neurologists at Cornell Medical Center, under CIA contract, found that the most devastating torture technique of the Soviet secret police, the KGB, was simply to force a victim to stand for days while the legs swelled, the skin erupted in suppurating lesions, and hallucinations began -- a procedure which we now politely refer to as "stress positions."
Four years into this project, there was a sudden upsurge of interest in using mind control techniques defensively after American prisoners in North Korea suffered what was then called "brainwashing." In August 1955, President Eisenhower ordered that any soldier at risk of capture should be given "specific training and instruction designed to ... withstand all enemy efforts against him."
Consequently, the Air Force developed a program it dubbed SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) to train pilots in resisting psychological torture. In other words, two intertwined strands of research into torture methods were being explored and developed: aggressive methods for breaking enemy agents and defensive methods for training Americans to resist enemy inquisitors.
In 1963, the CIA distilled its decade of research into the curiously named KUBARK Counter-intelligence Interrogation manual, which stated definitively that sensory deprivation was effective because it made "the regressed subject view the interrogator as a father-figure ... strengthening ... the subject's tendencies toward compliance." Refined through years of practice on actual human beings, the CIA's psychological paradigm now relies on a mix of sensory overload and deprivation via seemingly banal procedures: the extreme application of heat and cold, light and dark, noise and silence, feast and famine -- all meant to attack six essential sensory pathways into the human mind.
__________________
TOMMY:
The extreme application of heat CAN AND IS DONE USING DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS...AND OFTEN ENOUGH...there is no interrogation to speak of or tape since it was done as a form of MURDER TO STOP ANY POTENTIAL WITNESS FROM EVER TESTIFYING OR FILING A LAWSUIT.
RICH GORDON, MARK GORDON, THOMAS BEAN, LEROY ROGERS, JON VAN PATTEN, so many others...all got fried with DEW...and CIA SPINS THIS AS a tempreture technique involving "HEAT.....body heat...ya know...like a hotdog getting cooked in a microwave oven".
UNDERSTAND THAT....DEMS REFUSE TO USE THE WORD "DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON" PREFERRING TO LET THE SPOOKS AND TORTURERS CONTROL THE SPIN AND COVER STORY.
THAT IS MY TESTIMONY THAT THE DEMS IGNORE AT OUR PERIL: Torture is used as a punitive FBI COINTELPRO NEUTRALIZATION STOPPING ANY EXPOSURE.
NO INTERROGATION, and no proof of such....(CIA claims to have burned tapes?)....is necessary since THE TARGET CANNOT GET TO COURT, AND OVERSIGHT BY CONGRESS DOES NOT EXIST...with HOLDER AND US ATTY STANDING DOWN WITH FBI AGENTS?
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After codifying its new interrogation methods in the KUBARK manual, the Agency spent the next 30 years promoting these torture techniques within the U.S. intelligence community and among anti-communist allies. In its clandestine journey across continents and decades, the CIA's psychological torture paradigm would prove elusive, adaptable, devastatingly destructive, and powerfully seductive. So darkly seductive is torture's appeal that these seemingly scientific methods, even when intended for a few Soviet spies or al-Qaida terrorists, soon spread uncontrollably in two directions -- toward the torture of the many and into a paroxysm of brutality toward specific individuals.
During the Vietnam War, when the CIA applied these techniques in its search for information on top Vietcong cadre, the interrogation effort soon degenerated into the crude physical brutality of the Phoenix Program, producing 46,000 extrajudicial executions and little actionable intelligence.
In 1994, with the Cold War over, Washington ratified the U.N. Convention Against Torture, seemingly resolving the tension between its anti-torture principles and its torture practices. Yet when President Clinton sent this Convention to Congress, he included four little-noticed diplomatic "reservations" drafted six years before by the Reagan administration and focused on just one word in those 26 printed pages: "mental."
These reservations narrowed (just for the United States) the definition of "mental" torture to include four acts: the infliction of physical pain, the use of drugs, death threats or threats to harm another. Excluded were methods such as sensory deprivation and self-inflicted pain, the very techniques the CIA had propagated for the past 40 years. This definition was reproduced verbatim in Section 2340 of the U.S. Federal Code and later in the War Crimes Act of 1996. Through this legal legerdemain, Washington managed to agree, via the U.N. Convention, to ban physical abuse even while exempting the CIA from the U.N.'s prohibition on psychological torture.
This little noticed exemption was left buried in those documents like a landmine and would detonate with phenomenal force just 10 years later at Abu Ghraib prison.
War on terror, war of torture
Right after his public address to a shaken nation on Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush gave his staff secret orders to pursue torture policies, adding emphatically, "I don't care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass." In a dramatic break with past policy, the White House would even allow the CIA to operate its own global network of prisons, as well as charter air fleet to transport seized suspects and "render" them for endless detention in a supranational gulag of secret "black sites" from Thailand to Poland.
The Bush administration also officially allowed the CIA ten "enhanced" interrogation methods designed by agency psychologists, including "waterboarding." This use of cold water to block breathing triggers the "mammalian diving reflex," hardwired into every human brain, thus inducing an uncontrollable terror of impending death.
As Jane Mayer reported in the New Yorker, psychologists working for both the Pentagon and the CIA "reverse engineered" the military's SERE training, which included a brief exposure to waterboarding, and flipped these defensive methods for use offensively on al-Qaida captives. "They sought to render the detainees vulnerable -- to break down all of their senses," one official told Mayer. "It takes a psychologist trained in this to understand these rupturing experiences." Inside Agency headquarters, there was, moreover, a "high level of anxiety" about the possibility of future prosecutions for methods officials knew to be internationally defined as torture. The presence of Ph.D. psychologists was considered one "way for CIA officials to skirt measures such as the Convention Against Torture."
From recently released Justice Department memos, we now know that the CIA refined its psychological paradigm significantly under Bush. As described in the classified 2004 Background Paper on the CIA's Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques, each detainee was transported to an Agency black site while "deprived of sight and sound through the use of blindfolds, earmuffs, and hoods." Once inside the prison, he was reduced to "a baseline, dependent state" through conditioning by "nudity, sleep deprivation (with shackling ...), and dietary manipulation."
For "more physical and psychological stress," CIA interrogators used coercive measures such as "an insult slap or abdominal slap" and then "walling," slamming the detainee's head against a cell wall. If these failed to produce the results sought, interrogators escalated to waterboarding, as was done to Abu Zubaydah "at least 83 times during August 2002" and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad 183 times in March 2003 -- so many times, in fact, that the repetitiousness of the act can only be considered convincing testimony to the seductive sadism of CIA-style torture.
In a parallel effort launched by Bush-appointed civilians in the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave General Geoffrey Miller command of the new American military prison at Guantánamo in late 2002 with ample authority to transform it into an ad hoc psychology lab. Behavioral Science Consultation Teams of military psychologists probed detainees for individual phobias like fear of the dark. Interrogators stiffened the psychological assault by exploiting what they saw as Arab cultural sensitivities when it came to sex and dogs. Via a three-phase attack on the senses, on culture and on the individual psyche, interrogators at Guantánamo perfected the CIA's psychological paradigm.
After General Miller visited Iraq in September 2003, the U.S. commander there, General Ricardo Sanchez, ordered Guantánamo-style abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. My own review of the 1,600 still-classified photos taken by American guards at Abu Ghraib -- which journalists covering this story seem to share like Napster downloads -- reveals not random, idiosyncratic acts by "bad apples," but the repeated, constant use of just three psychological techniques: hooding for sensory deprivation, shackling for self-inflicted pain and (to exploit Arab cultural sensitivities) both nudity and dogs. It is no accident that Private Lynndie England was famously photographed leading an Iraqi detainee leashed like a dog.
These techniques, according to the New York Times, then escalated virally at five Special Operations field interrogation centers where detainees were subjected to extreme sensory deprivation, beating, burning, electric shock and waterboarding. Among the thousand soldiers in these units, 34 were later convicted of abuse and many more escaped prosecution only because records were officially "lost."
"Behind the green door" at the White House
Further up the chain of command, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, as she recently told the Senate, "convened a series of meetings of NSC [National Security Council] principals in 2002 and 2003 to discuss various issues … relating to detainees." This group, including Vice President Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Secretary of State Colin Powell and CIA director George Tenet, met dozens of times inside the White House Situation Room.
After watching CIA operatives mime what Rice called "certain physical and psychological interrogation techniques," these leaders, their imaginations stimulated by graphic visions of human suffering, repeatedly authorized extreme psychological techniques stiffened by hitting, walling and waterboarding. According to an April 2008 ABC News report, Attorney General Ashcroft once interrupted this collective fantasy by asking aloud, "Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly."
In mid-2004, even after the Abu Ghraib photos were released, these principals met to approve the use of CIA torture techniques on still more detainees. Despite mounting concerns about the damage torture was doing to America's standing, shared by Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice commanded Agency officials with the cool demeanor of a dominatrix. "This is your baby," she reportedly said. "Go do it."
Cleansing torture
Even as they exercise extraordinary power over others, perpetrators of torture around the world are assiduous in trying to cover their tracks. They construct recondite legal justifications, destroy records of actual torture and paper the files with spurious claims of success. Hence, the CIA destroyed 92 interrogation videotapes, while Vice President Cheney now berates Obama incessantly (five times in his latest Fox News interview) to declassify "two reports" which he claims will show the informational gains that torture offered -- possibly because his staff salted the files at the NSC or the CIA with documents prepared for this very purpose.
Not only were Justice Department lawyers aggressive in their advocacy of torture in the Bush years, they were meticulous from the start, in laying the legal groundwork for later impunity. In three torture memos from May 2005 that the Obama administration recently released, Bush's Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stephen Bradbury repeatedly cited those original U.S. diplomatic "reservations" to the U.N. Convention Against Torture, replicated in Section 2340 of the Federal code, to argue that waterboarding was perfectly legal since the "technique is not physically painful." Anyway, he added, careful lawyering at Justice and the CIA had punched loopholes in both the U.N. Convention and U.S. law so wide that these Agency techniques were "unlikely to be subject to judicial inquiry."
Just to be safe, when Vice President Cheney presided over the drafting of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, he included clauses, buried in 38 pages of dense print, defining "serious physical pain" as the "significant loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty." This was a striking paraphrase of the outrageous definition of physical torture as pain "equivalent in intensity to ... organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death" in John Yoo's infamous August 2002 "torture memo," already repudiated by the Justice Department.
Above all, the Military Commissions Act protected the CIA's use of psychological torture by repeating verbatim the exculpatory language found in those Clinton-era, Reagan-created reservations to the U.N. Convention and still embedded in Section 2340 of the Federal code. To make doubly sure, the act also made these definitions retroactive to November 1997, giving CIA interrogators immunity from any misdeeds under the Expanded War Crimes Act of 1997 which punishes serious violations with life imprisonment or death.
No matter how twisted the process, impunity -- whether in England, Indonesia or America -- usually passes through three stages:
1. Blame the supposed "bad apples."
2. Invoke the security argument. ("It protected us.")
3. Appeal to national unity. ("We need to move forward together.")
For a year after the Abu Ghraib exposé, Rumsfeld's Pentagon blamed various low-ranking bad apples by claiming the abuse was "perpetrated by a small number of U.S. military." In his statement on May 13, while refusing to release more torture photos, President Obama echoed Rumsfeld, claiming the abuse in these latest images, too, "was carried out in the past by a small number of individuals."
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Then, on April 16, President Obama brought us to the final stage when he released the four Bush-era memos detailing CIA torture, insisting: "Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past." During a visit to CIA headquarters four days later, Obama promised that there would be no prosecutions of Agency employees. "We've made some mistakes," he admitted, but urged Americans simply to "acknowledge them and then move forward."
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TOMMY:
Obama, Holder, Mueller HAVE ALL IGNORED THE RECENT APRIL 2009 TORTURE ATTACK OF THOMAS S. BEAN IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA?
Who ordered this torture?
Obama is a TORTURE COINTELPRO PRESIDENT PRETENDING TO BE A DEMOCRATIC INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE??????????????????
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The president's statements were in such blatant defiance of international law that the U.N.'s chief official on torture, Manfred Nowak, reminded him that Washington was actually obliged to investigate possible violations of the Convention Against Torture.
This process of impunity is leading Washington back to a global torture policy that, during the Cold War, was bipartisan in nature: publicly advocating human rights while covertly outsourcing torture to allied governments and their intelligence agencies.
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TOMMY:
once again, THIS AUTHOR IS IN THE DARK ABOUT TORTURE BEING OUTSOURCED INSIDE AMERICA TO TARGET US CITIZENS as part of another wave of FBI COINTELPRO NEUTRALIZATIONS OF COMPLAINANTS, WITNESSES, WHISTLEBLOWERS, AUTHORS, and...INNOCENCT WHITE COLLAR PROFESSIONALS AND LAWYERS who "may be a political threat" at some future time.
The issue and scandal...IS HERE IN AMERICA....US CITIZENS WITH PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS INSIDE THEIR HOMES, CHIPPED, MIND CONTROLLED, FRIED WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION IN THEIR FUCKING HOMES.
THAT IS THE FACT PATTERN THAT LEAHY, CONYERS, WAXMAN, FEINSTEIN, PELOSI, REID, HOLDER... have all ignored?
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In retrospect, it may become ever more apparent that the real aberration of the Bush years lay not in torture policies per se, but in the president's order that the CIA should operate its own torture prisons. The advantage of the bipartisan torture consensus of the Cold War era was, of course, that it did a remarkably good job most of the time of insulating Washington from the taint of torture, which was sometimes remarkably widely practiced.
There are already some clear signs of a policy shift in this direction in the Obama era. Since mid-2008, U.S. intelligence has captured a half-dozen al-Qaida suspects and, instead of shipping them to Guantánamo or to CIA secret prisons, has had them interrogated by allied Middle Eastern intelligence agencies. Showing that this policy is again bipartisan, Obama's new CIA director Leon Panetta announced that the Agency would continue to engage in the rendition of terror suspects to allies like Libya, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia where we can, as he put it, "rely on diplomatic assurances of good treatment." Showing the quality of such treatment, Time magazine reported on May 24 that Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, who famously confessed under torture that Saddam Hussein had provided al-Qaida with chemical weapons and later admitted his lie to Senate investigators, had committed "suicide" in a Libyan cell.
The price of impunity
This time around, however, a long-distance torture policy may not provide the same insulation as in the past for Washington. Any retreat into torture by remote control is, in fact, only likely to produce the next scandal that will do yet more damage to America's international standing.
Over a 40-year period, Americans have found themselves mired in this same moral quagmire on six separate occasions: following exposés of CIA-sponsored torture in South Vietnam (1970), Brazil (1974), Iran (1978), Honduras (1988) and then throughout Latin America (1997). After each exposé, the public's shock soon faded, allowing the Agency to resume its dirty work in the shadows.
Unless some formal inquiry is convened to look into a sordid history that reached its depths in the Bush era, and so begins to break this cycle of deceit, exposé and paralysis followed by more of the same, we're likely, a few years hence, to find ourselves right back where we are now. We'll be confronted with the next American torture scandal from some future iconic dungeon, part of a dismal, ever lengthening procession that has led from the tiger cages of South Vietnam through the Shah of Iran's prison cells in Tehran to Abu Ghraib and the prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
The next time, however, the world will not have forgotten those photos from Abu Ghraib. The next time, the damage to this country will be nothing short of devastating.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
the GREATER THE CRIME, THE MORE WE NEED TO COVER UP OUR ORWELL MEETS KAFKA CRIMES: from PANETTA AT CIA?
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Panetta: Too Dangerous To Release Torture Tape Docs
By Zachary Roth - June 9, 2009, 9:58AM
Do we have yet another case of the Obama administration mimicking its predecessor's notorious penchant for government secrecy?
The CIA argued yesterday that Bush-era documents detailing the videotaped interrogations of detainees should not be released, citing national security concerns, reports the Washington Post.
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tommy:
There is alot more to "videotapes of interrogations" and "why Panetta" does not want to release everything (much of which has already been alleged burned up in four suspicious arson fires at four....yes FOUR FUCKING FED BUILDINGS).
SIOUX FALLS FBI AGENTS STEVEN PLUTA, MATT MILLER AND SD US ATTORNEYS MARTY JACKLEY AND STEPHEN MULLINS ....all knew about CONTRACT SPOOK ROBERT DALE LILLY monitoring a pin hole spy camera placed in my home.
I'm guessing...there ain't no warrant for that since...I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A PIN HOLE SPY CAMERA WITH AUDIO FEED legally being court ordered...have you?
ONLY SECRET RUBBERSTAMPING CORRUPT COURT WHO WOULD PULL THAT SHIT IS THE PUNK GOP KANGAROO COURT CALLED FISA COURT.
ALL FISA COURT ORDERS are dubious since: FBI USES THE HAND OFF METHOD OF ILLEGALLY VIOLATING THE PROHIBITION ON DISSEMINATION OF ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO IN VIOLATION OF EITHER STATE, FED TITLE III, OR FISA COURT LAWS. These are issues for a very worthless, cowardly, corrupt, controlled lowlife punk named ERIC HOLDER....who to this day...refuses to show even a cursory flippant professional curiosity about my numerous complaints?
WHY DOES LEAHY delude himself that "he actually vetted Holder" who got a pass merely because he mumbled words supporting the FOURTH AMENDMENT?
What is Holder waiting on?
A WRIT OF MANDAMUS TO USE AS COVER TO AVOID ANY BLAME FOR DOING HIS JOB...perhaps?
Mr Holder...YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THE FBI MAKES SURE THAT LITIGANTS CANNOT ACCESS THE FED COURT SYSTEM, AND HOW THEY ALREADY GOT TO FED JUDGE LARRY PEIRSOL using their knowledge of "The Sioux Falls real estate speculative investment market" using inside info from former city planner STEVE METLI.
Lots of rich lawyers worked with Cutler and others...to make sure they had the jump on buying real estate that would later be "valuable because Metli brought sewer and gutter" that way...
YOU WOULD THINK THE PUNK CLOWN PUSSIES AT US SEN JUD COMM OR HOUSE JUD COMM...would want to contact me about testimony...and...HOW THE FBI RUNS OPERATION SLAMMER to get dirt on people while ignoring ALL THE CONTRACT PROVOCATIONS to "Tickle the Wire" to get tapes to discredit testimony.
LEAHY HAS NEVER ONCE...CAME CLOSE TO DOING HIS JOB.
NOT ONE CONTACT FROM LEAHY OR STAFF...which shows...they have NO PROFESSIONAL CURIOSITY ABOUT WHAT GOES ON, HOW, WHEN, WHY, WHO????
____________________________
The videotapes, which depicted harsh interrogation tactics, were famously destroyed in 2005. As part of a wide-ranging lawsuit, the ACLU is seeking the release of CIA emails discussing the tapes, handwritten notes taken after reviewing the tapes, and a photograph of one high-value detainee, Abu Zubaydah, among other items relating to the tapes.
CIA director Leon Panetta argued in a statement that releasing the material "could be expected to result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security by informing our enemies of what we knew about them, and when, and in some instances, how we obtained the intelligence we possessed."
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TOMMY:
Panetta is alluding to MIND CONTROL CHIPPING AND SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING...that was used on me....after I signed a DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT, DASCHLE CAMPAIGN MEMO, CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT, and TEN PAGE MEMO TO SEN GRASSLEY.
Much of the torture was like the April 2009 Directed Energy Weapon attacks in Boulder City, Neveda that could NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT INFRAGUARD, HOMELAND SECURITY AND FBI HQ using the "illegally placed GPS tracking device" placed in my car as part of MUELLER'S 24 YEAR INTERSTATE STALKING AND TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS CONSPIRACY that...HOUSE NIGGER HOLDER is too, too, too afraid of?
I POINT OUT...THE TORTURE OF BEAN, DR GORDON, RICH GORDON, LEROY ROGERS...OTHERS...had nothing to do with an interrogation and "CIA BURNING THE TAPES" is cover for a "crime that occurred differently" then the bogus cover story--"TORTURE WAS USED TO INTERROGATE TO GET INFO TO PREVENT TERRORIST ACTS THAT WOULD HAVE HURT INNOCENT AMERICANS".
The TORTURE on me was nothing but a conspiracy to commit murder while tampering with a witness.
THE INFO THEY WANTED IN THE SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING was focusing on "my possession of my evidence" of FBI--NSA--CIA--DOD CIFA UNIT crimes.
THE WORD 'TERRORISM' is used loosely so that...POSSESSION OF INFO PROVING TITLE III CRIMES AND PATRIOT ACT MURDERS facilitated by SIGINT FROM NSA 902ND.....is now spun at a "terrorism crime" when in fact...MISPRISION OF A FELONY requires disclosure of any felony crime (DASCHLE WIRETAPPING, GORDON WIRETAPPING, MURDERS).
Civil suits and access to the fed court are now "spun at terrorism" requiring NATIONAL SECURITY AND STATE SECRETS TO COVER UP SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING AND MIND CONTROL?
How did DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON ATTACKS...result in info that protected citizens from crimes of violence? Answer: There was no crimes of violence planned and...THE TORTURE IS NOW USED TO TICKLE THE WIRE TO RECORD TAPES USED TO CREATE TERRORISM: it's called FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER as part of a "FBI Shock Doctrine" to use MK ULTRA NUTS to shoot up schools to create fear, appeasement.
All of which is...LEGAL UNDER WAR COMMISSIONS ACT THAT PELOSI, REID aided and abetted without ever reading the law or understanding the consequences because...SENATOR PAT LEAHY DID NOT CALL BEAN AS A WITNESS IN 2005, AND CONYERS DID NOT CALL BEAN IN 2006-2207???????
Without me testifying....all the ENABLING LAWS PASS WITHOUT DEBATE OR UNDERSTANDING?
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Panetta wrote that the "disclosure of explicit details of specific interrogations" would give al-Qaeda "propaganda it could use to recruit and raise funds." He called it "ready-made ammunition."
An ACLU lawyer told the Post that Panetta is in effect arguing: "The greater the abuse, the more important it is that it should remain secret."
This is hardly the first time that the Obama administration has disappointed open-government advocates, especially on issues relating to the war on terror. Last month, the president said he opposed the release of photographs that show harsh interrogation techniques at Abu Ghraib and other military prisons. And the administration has several times invoked the state secrecy privilege to argue for the dismissal of lawsuits on warrantless wiretapping and renditions -- despite the fact that, as a candidate for president, Barack Obama criticized President Bush for invoking the privilege too frequently.
We're going to try to get a read on how this new position taken by the CIA fits into that record, and will let you know what we learn.
________________________________
http://www.infowars.com/obama-intel-pick-tied-to-cia-torture-program/
Obama intel pick tied to CIA torture program
Ron Brynaert
The Raw Story
June 4, 2009Update:
A former Bush administration official nominated by President Barack Obama to serve at DHS was linked to the CIA’s torture program, a source tells the Associated Press.
An AP article claims that a congressional aide “who spoke on condition of anonymity,” and wasn’t “authorized to discuss the matter publicly,” has “confirmed that [Philip] Mudd, who was deputy director of the Office of Terrorism Analysis at the CIA during the Bush administration, had direct knowledge of the agency’s harsh interrogation program.”
The AP notes it could wind up becoming “an issue during Philip Mudd’s confirmation hearing, which is expected next week. Mudd was nominated to be under secretary of intelligence and analysis at Homeland Security.”
An updated AP story reveals that “Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said her staff is looking into the extent of Mudd’s involvement in these interrogation program.”
Panetta: Too Dangerous To Release Torture Tape Docs
By Zachary Roth - June 9, 2009, 9:58AM
Do we have yet another case of the Obama administration mimicking its predecessor's notorious penchant for government secrecy?
The CIA argued yesterday that Bush-era documents detailing the videotaped interrogations of detainees should not be released, citing national security concerns, reports the Washington Post.
________________
tommy:
There is alot more to "videotapes of interrogations" and "why Panetta" does not want to release everything (much of which has already been alleged burned up in four suspicious arson fires at four....yes FOUR FUCKING FED BUILDINGS).
SIOUX FALLS FBI AGENTS STEVEN PLUTA, MATT MILLER AND SD US ATTORNEYS MARTY JACKLEY AND STEPHEN MULLINS ....all knew about CONTRACT SPOOK ROBERT DALE LILLY monitoring a pin hole spy camera placed in my home.
I'm guessing...there ain't no warrant for that since...I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A PIN HOLE SPY CAMERA WITH AUDIO FEED legally being court ordered...have you?
ONLY SECRET RUBBERSTAMPING CORRUPT COURT WHO WOULD PULL THAT SHIT IS THE PUNK GOP KANGAROO COURT CALLED FISA COURT.
ALL FISA COURT ORDERS are dubious since: FBI USES THE HAND OFF METHOD OF ILLEGALLY VIOLATING THE PROHIBITION ON DISSEMINATION OF ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO IN VIOLATION OF EITHER STATE, FED TITLE III, OR FISA COURT LAWS. These are issues for a very worthless, cowardly, corrupt, controlled lowlife punk named ERIC HOLDER....who to this day...refuses to show even a cursory flippant professional curiosity about my numerous complaints?
WHY DOES LEAHY delude himself that "he actually vetted Holder" who got a pass merely because he mumbled words supporting the FOURTH AMENDMENT?
What is Holder waiting on?
A WRIT OF MANDAMUS TO USE AS COVER TO AVOID ANY BLAME FOR DOING HIS JOB...perhaps?
Mr Holder...YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THE FBI MAKES SURE THAT LITIGANTS CANNOT ACCESS THE FED COURT SYSTEM, AND HOW THEY ALREADY GOT TO FED JUDGE LARRY PEIRSOL using their knowledge of "The Sioux Falls real estate speculative investment market" using inside info from former city planner STEVE METLI.
Lots of rich lawyers worked with Cutler and others...to make sure they had the jump on buying real estate that would later be "valuable because Metli brought sewer and gutter" that way...
YOU WOULD THINK THE PUNK CLOWN PUSSIES AT US SEN JUD COMM OR HOUSE JUD COMM...would want to contact me about testimony...and...HOW THE FBI RUNS OPERATION SLAMMER to get dirt on people while ignoring ALL THE CONTRACT PROVOCATIONS to "Tickle the Wire" to get tapes to discredit testimony.
LEAHY HAS NEVER ONCE...CAME CLOSE TO DOING HIS JOB.
NOT ONE CONTACT FROM LEAHY OR STAFF...which shows...they have NO PROFESSIONAL CURIOSITY ABOUT WHAT GOES ON, HOW, WHEN, WHY, WHO????
____________________________
The videotapes, which depicted harsh interrogation tactics, were famously destroyed in 2005. As part of a wide-ranging lawsuit, the ACLU is seeking the release of CIA emails discussing the tapes, handwritten notes taken after reviewing the tapes, and a photograph of one high-value detainee, Abu Zubaydah, among other items relating to the tapes.
CIA director Leon Panetta argued in a statement that releasing the material "could be expected to result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security by informing our enemies of what we knew about them, and when, and in some instances, how we obtained the intelligence we possessed."
___________________
TOMMY:
Panetta is alluding to MIND CONTROL CHIPPING AND SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING...that was used on me....after I signed a DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT, DASCHLE CAMPAIGN MEMO, CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT, and TEN PAGE MEMO TO SEN GRASSLEY.
Much of the torture was like the April 2009 Directed Energy Weapon attacks in Boulder City, Neveda that could NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT INFRAGUARD, HOMELAND SECURITY AND FBI HQ using the "illegally placed GPS tracking device" placed in my car as part of MUELLER'S 24 YEAR INTERSTATE STALKING AND TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS CONSPIRACY that...HOUSE NIGGER HOLDER is too, too, too afraid of?
I POINT OUT...THE TORTURE OF BEAN, DR GORDON, RICH GORDON, LEROY ROGERS...OTHERS...had nothing to do with an interrogation and "CIA BURNING THE TAPES" is cover for a "crime that occurred differently" then the bogus cover story--"TORTURE WAS USED TO INTERROGATE TO GET INFO TO PREVENT TERRORIST ACTS THAT WOULD HAVE HURT INNOCENT AMERICANS".
The TORTURE on me was nothing but a conspiracy to commit murder while tampering with a witness.
THE INFO THEY WANTED IN THE SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING was focusing on "my possession of my evidence" of FBI--NSA--CIA--DOD CIFA UNIT crimes.
THE WORD 'TERRORISM' is used loosely so that...POSSESSION OF INFO PROVING TITLE III CRIMES AND PATRIOT ACT MURDERS facilitated by SIGINT FROM NSA 902ND.....is now spun at a "terrorism crime" when in fact...MISPRISION OF A FELONY requires disclosure of any felony crime (DASCHLE WIRETAPPING, GORDON WIRETAPPING, MURDERS).
Civil suits and access to the fed court are now "spun at terrorism" requiring NATIONAL SECURITY AND STATE SECRETS TO COVER UP SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING AND MIND CONTROL?
How did DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON ATTACKS...result in info that protected citizens from crimes of violence? Answer: There was no crimes of violence planned and...THE TORTURE IS NOW USED TO TICKLE THE WIRE TO RECORD TAPES USED TO CREATE TERRORISM: it's called FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER as part of a "FBI Shock Doctrine" to use MK ULTRA NUTS to shoot up schools to create fear, appeasement.
All of which is...LEGAL UNDER WAR COMMISSIONS ACT THAT PELOSI, REID aided and abetted without ever reading the law or understanding the consequences because...SENATOR PAT LEAHY DID NOT CALL BEAN AS A WITNESS IN 2005, AND CONYERS DID NOT CALL BEAN IN 2006-2207???????
Without me testifying....all the ENABLING LAWS PASS WITHOUT DEBATE OR UNDERSTANDING?
________________________________
_________________
Panetta wrote that the "disclosure of explicit details of specific interrogations" would give al-Qaeda "propaganda it could use to recruit and raise funds." He called it "ready-made ammunition."
An ACLU lawyer told the Post that Panetta is in effect arguing: "The greater the abuse, the more important it is that it should remain secret."
This is hardly the first time that the Obama administration has disappointed open-government advocates, especially on issues relating to the war on terror. Last month, the president said he opposed the release of photographs that show harsh interrogation techniques at Abu Ghraib and other military prisons. And the administration has several times invoked the state secrecy privilege to argue for the dismissal of lawsuits on warrantless wiretapping and renditions -- despite the fact that, as a candidate for president, Barack Obama criticized President Bush for invoking the privilege too frequently.
We're going to try to get a read on how this new position taken by the CIA fits into that record, and will let you know what we learn.
________________________________
http://www.infowars.com/obama-intel-pick-tied-to-cia-torture-program/
Obama intel pick tied to CIA torture program
Ron Brynaert
The Raw Story
June 4, 2009Update:
A former Bush administration official nominated by President Barack Obama to serve at DHS was linked to the CIA’s torture program, a source tells the Associated Press.
An AP article claims that a congressional aide “who spoke on condition of anonymity,” and wasn’t “authorized to discuss the matter publicly,” has “confirmed that [Philip] Mudd, who was deputy director of the Office of Terrorism Analysis at the CIA during the Bush administration, had direct knowledge of the agency’s harsh interrogation program.”
The AP notes it could wind up becoming “an issue during Philip Mudd’s confirmation hearing, which is expected next week. Mudd was nominated to be under secretary of intelligence and analysis at Homeland Security.”
An updated AP story reveals that “Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said her staff is looking into the extent of Mudd’s involvement in these interrogation program.”
OBAMA PUPPET issues CHENEY'S ORDERS TO EXTERMINATE AMAZON NATIVES to get oil and gas
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1239.htm
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June 9, 2009
Obama Issues Order For “Extermination” Of Amazon Indians
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that President Obama has authorized the United States Southern Military Command to “immediately assist” Peruvian President Alan Garcia’s plan to “virtually exterminate” Amazonian Indians who for the past month have been protesting US mandated laws in the newly signed US-Peru so called Free Trade Pact that would “open their region to oil and gas drilling, hydroelectric projects and biofuels farming”.
To the growing violence in Peru instigated by the energy starved Empire of the United States we can read as reported by Britain’s Guardian’s News Service, and which says:
“Peru has declared a curfew in its Amazon jungle after dozens died and hundreds were injured in bloody clashes between security forces and indigenous tribes protesting against oil and mining projects.
The situation remained volatile last nighttonight as army and police units used helicopters and armoured vehicles to try to regain control of remote northern areas which were the scene of the country's worst violence in a decade.
Authorities said at least 23 police were killed, some with spears, and that two were missing. Indigenous leaders said more than 40 Indians, including three children, were killed.”
Not being reported to the American people is that the extermination of the Amazon Indians began almost immediately after Obama’s implementation of the Free Trade Pact with Peru, and as we can further read:
“Twenty to thirty Peruvian indigenous people were shot dead from helicopters by Peruvian government forces. The Peruvian government has started enforcing rules established by the Peru free trade agreement that went into effect in February.
The agreement gives multinational oil companies access to Peruvian oil and other natural resources. Oil and mineral rights were taken from the native people without fair compensation by the state. The traditional land owners protested the stealing of their resources and the destruction of their land by blocking roads. These protests came after years of destruction of the Amazon rain forest, toxic waste dumping and human rights abuses by oil companies.”
Also going virtually unnoticed by the American people is that shortly before taking office, Obama backtracked on his campaign promise to impose a windfall profit tax on oil companies who have for decades been free to gouge these peoples with ever increasing energy costs and which just last year saw Exxon Mobil break its own record for the highest-ever quarterly profit for a US company as America began its plunge into the economic abyss.
To the brutal realities facing the Americans, these reports continue, are current energy prices that are being driven up by speculation and the chronic long-term inability of the US to access promising oil and gas reserves, and which in World facing a critical energy shortage, Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer warned yesterday that our Planets oil and gas industries cannot supply all the additional demand that will be needed in the future.
Sadly, these reports point out, that the United States is continuing upon a path that has long sought the complete destruction of the America’s indigenous peoples which accelerated with their immediate breaking of the 1814 Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 between the US and Great Britain which contained in its provisions, and agreed to by the Americans, that:
“The United States of America engage to put an end immediately after the Ratification of the present Treaty to hostilities with all the Tribes or Nations of Indians with whom they may be at war at the time of such Ratification, and forthwith to restore to such Tribes or Nations respectively all the possessions, rights, and privileges which they may have enjoyed or been entitled to in one thousand eight hundred and eleven previous to such hostilities.”
As the American peoples attention has been continually misdirected from South America by their propaganda media, the CATO Institutes 2003 report on the strategic importance of this region to the US bears witness to the United States plan for these peoples, and as we can read:
“General Peter Pace, the Commander in Chief of the US militaries Southern Command outlined these concerns clearly when he spoke of the three vital US national interests that guide US post-Cold War policy in South America. The first vital national interest is the "continued unhindered access to strategic natural resources in the USSOUTHCOM AOR [area of responsibility]".
“Pace outlined the importance of Colombian and Venezuelan oil to the US when he stated that there is a "common misperception" that the US "is completely dependent on the Middle East" for oil, when in fact Venezuela provides "15% - 19 % of our imported oil in any given month". Pace went on to note that the "internal conflict in Colombia poses a direct threat to regional stability" with "Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama" the "most vulnerable to destabilization due to Colombian insurgent activity along their borders".
Pace outlined the second vital interest as the preservation of pro-US governments in Latin America so as to provide stability "for access to markets in the USSOUTHCOM AOR, which is critical to the continued economic expansion and prosperity of the United States".
The third and final vital interest is the US's freedom of navigation, with particular concern over the "continued unencumbered access to the Panama Canal". In sum, US vital interests in Latin America are the unhindered access to Latin America's oil, the bolstering of pro-US governments or the overthrow of governments that might threaten US-led neo-liberalism (what is called 'stability' in official discourse), and open access to strategic land and water corridors.”
What remains unknown at this time is if the Empire of the United States can succeed, yet again, in exterminating the rightful inhabitants of South America and claiming for itself through its US Military backed puppet regimes the resources rightfully belonging to other peoples. But, if the examples of Iraq and Afghanistan are looked at in their starkest reality, the United States is fully prepared to annihilate all who stand in their way, even to the most defenseless of our Earth’s human beings.
One can only wonder how these bloodthirsty Americans can sleep at night knowing that their leaders are killing so many innocents in their name.
© June 9, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
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June 9, 2009
Obama Issues Order For “Extermination” Of Amazon Indians
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that President Obama has authorized the United States Southern Military Command to “immediately assist” Peruvian President Alan Garcia’s plan to “virtually exterminate” Amazonian Indians who for the past month have been protesting US mandated laws in the newly signed US-Peru so called Free Trade Pact that would “open their region to oil and gas drilling, hydroelectric projects and biofuels farming”.
To the growing violence in Peru instigated by the energy starved Empire of the United States we can read as reported by Britain’s Guardian’s News Service, and which says:
“Peru has declared a curfew in its Amazon jungle after dozens died and hundreds were injured in bloody clashes between security forces and indigenous tribes protesting against oil and mining projects.
The situation remained volatile last nighttonight as army and police units used helicopters and armoured vehicles to try to regain control of remote northern areas which were the scene of the country's worst violence in a decade.
Authorities said at least 23 police were killed, some with spears, and that two were missing. Indigenous leaders said more than 40 Indians, including three children, were killed.”
Not being reported to the American people is that the extermination of the Amazon Indians began almost immediately after Obama’s implementation of the Free Trade Pact with Peru, and as we can further read:
“Twenty to thirty Peruvian indigenous people were shot dead from helicopters by Peruvian government forces. The Peruvian government has started enforcing rules established by the Peru free trade agreement that went into effect in February.
The agreement gives multinational oil companies access to Peruvian oil and other natural resources. Oil and mineral rights were taken from the native people without fair compensation by the state. The traditional land owners protested the stealing of their resources and the destruction of their land by blocking roads. These protests came after years of destruction of the Amazon rain forest, toxic waste dumping and human rights abuses by oil companies.”
Also going virtually unnoticed by the American people is that shortly before taking office, Obama backtracked on his campaign promise to impose a windfall profit tax on oil companies who have for decades been free to gouge these peoples with ever increasing energy costs and which just last year saw Exxon Mobil break its own record for the highest-ever quarterly profit for a US company as America began its plunge into the economic abyss.
To the brutal realities facing the Americans, these reports continue, are current energy prices that are being driven up by speculation and the chronic long-term inability of the US to access promising oil and gas reserves, and which in World facing a critical energy shortage, Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer warned yesterday that our Planets oil and gas industries cannot supply all the additional demand that will be needed in the future.
Sadly, these reports point out, that the United States is continuing upon a path that has long sought the complete destruction of the America’s indigenous peoples which accelerated with their immediate breaking of the 1814 Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 between the US and Great Britain which contained in its provisions, and agreed to by the Americans, that:
“The United States of America engage to put an end immediately after the Ratification of the present Treaty to hostilities with all the Tribes or Nations of Indians with whom they may be at war at the time of such Ratification, and forthwith to restore to such Tribes or Nations respectively all the possessions, rights, and privileges which they may have enjoyed or been entitled to in one thousand eight hundred and eleven previous to such hostilities.”
As the American peoples attention has been continually misdirected from South America by their propaganda media, the CATO Institutes 2003 report on the strategic importance of this region to the US bears witness to the United States plan for these peoples, and as we can read:
“General Peter Pace, the Commander in Chief of the US militaries Southern Command outlined these concerns clearly when he spoke of the three vital US national interests that guide US post-Cold War policy in South America. The first vital national interest is the "continued unhindered access to strategic natural resources in the USSOUTHCOM AOR [area of responsibility]".
“Pace outlined the importance of Colombian and Venezuelan oil to the US when he stated that there is a "common misperception" that the US "is completely dependent on the Middle East" for oil, when in fact Venezuela provides "15% - 19 % of our imported oil in any given month". Pace went on to note that the "internal conflict in Colombia poses a direct threat to regional stability" with "Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama" the "most vulnerable to destabilization due to Colombian insurgent activity along their borders".
Pace outlined the second vital interest as the preservation of pro-US governments in Latin America so as to provide stability "for access to markets in the USSOUTHCOM AOR, which is critical to the continued economic expansion and prosperity of the United States".
The third and final vital interest is the US's freedom of navigation, with particular concern over the "continued unencumbered access to the Panama Canal". In sum, US vital interests in Latin America are the unhindered access to Latin America's oil, the bolstering of pro-US governments or the overthrow of governments that might threaten US-led neo-liberalism (what is called 'stability' in official discourse), and open access to strategic land and water corridors.”
What remains unknown at this time is if the Empire of the United States can succeed, yet again, in exterminating the rightful inhabitants of South America and claiming for itself through its US Military backed puppet regimes the resources rightfully belonging to other peoples. But, if the examples of Iraq and Afghanistan are looked at in their starkest reality, the United States is fully prepared to annihilate all who stand in their way, even to the most defenseless of our Earth’s human beings.
One can only wonder how these bloodthirsty Americans can sleep at night knowing that their leaders are killing so many innocents in their name.
© June 9, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
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WAR OF ATTRITION AGAINST THE U.S. CRIME CADRES
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Monday 8 June 2009 02:00
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POSSIBLE RATIONALE FOR AIR FRANCE 447 DISASTER
Initially, French authorities reacting to the loss of Air France 447 on Monday 1st June with 228 people on board, suggested that the aircraft had broken up in the course of a terrible electrical storm. Later, they conspicuously refrained from ruling out sabotage.
By the weekend of 6-7 June, it was being reported that the huge oil slick that had been identified earlier was now thought not to have been associated with the disappearance of the Airbus A330. If an explosion took place, there would be no oil slick.
On the other hand, since the oil in question was diesel oil, reports that a diesel-powered submarine may have launched a missile at the aircraft, as happened with TWA-800, when an Iranian submarine was suspected, are not to be dismissed – especially as France despatched a nuclear submarine to the area – we speculate, to search for the submarine in order to establish whether it was German or Iranian. The Iranians would have a motive, as France under President Sarkozy has ceased supply Iran with plutonium for its nuclear programme.
If the Iranians have demonstrated that they can destroy a French airliner, they could do so again. On the other hand, if the submarine is one of the German refurbished diesel fleet, the immediate consequences for the already (see previous reports) fractured Franco-German alliance, based on the timeless Treaty of the Elysée of January 1963, could be momentous.
Tensions between France, the United States, Germany and Britain are at an all-time high due to the chaotic and hideous struggle over the money, which has progressively eroded and destabilised all dimensions of these powers’ bilateral and broader relationships.
In the absence of an official list of passengers, we were able during the week ending 5th June to establish that passengers included Eric Heine, a senior executive of the German steel corporation Thyssen-Krupp, several executives from Michelin’s South American operations, and a 25-year-old relative of Portuguese Royalty.
On 2nd June it emerged that Michael ‘Butch’ Harris, a top geologist with Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corporation and his wife Anne, had been on the aircraft. A spokesman for the company, Chip Minty, confirmed that Harris was a geologist working out of Devon’s Rio de Janeiro office. The late Mr Harris had moved to Brazil from Houston in July 2008, according to Mrs Harris’s sister, Mary Riley, of Lafayette, LA, in an interview with the local newspaper, The Advertiser. The couple, married for 16 years, were originally from Lafayette and had lived there until 2004.
Mr Harris was a Clemson graduate and a brilliant geologist. The ‘Jack 2’ well drilled in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico 175 miles off the coast of Louisiana, is located in about 7,000 ft. of water. Chevron, which has a 50% stake in the oilfield, has two partners for this project, both of which have a 25% stake: Statoil ASA (Norway), and Devon Energy Corporation of Oklahoma City.
Fadel Gheit, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co., said on 4th June that ‘relative to its size, Devon has one of the greatest exposures to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico’. Devon’s shares rose by about 15% on the New York Stock Exchange following news about the ‘Jack 2’ oilfield.
Before moving to Brazil, Michael ‘Butch’ Harris and his wife Anne lived in the Woodlands area of Houston, which ‘just happens’ to be where George Herbert Walker Bush lives.
We ‘speculate’ that Mr Harris was en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris where he was to realise a brief from Bush Sr. to leverage Devon Energy Corporation's 25% stake in the ‘Jack 2’ oilfield with the corrupt ‘Kissinger-Bush’ bank, Paribas, for an enormous credit line, enabling the desperate Bush Crime Family to ‘start over’ with a pile of cash for the usual leveraging and hypothecation purposes. We further ‘speculate’ that Air France 447 was sabotaged, to close off this option.
That George Bush Sr. would have no compunction in arranging for one of his associates to run the risk of being murdered in mid-air given that the whole world (with the sole exception of the crime network’s remaining cornered assets) is intent upon removing the Bush Crime Family from the chessboard, goes without saying.
The sole motivation of this criminal group operating outside and within the US Intelligence Power, the White House and the Treasury, has all along been to retain control of the levers of Fraudulent Finance at all costs, without regard for collateral damage. Given the unconscionable level of their arrogance, these people never expected to encounter any opposition to their activities, and have accordingly received the overdue shock of their lives.
BLOWS RAIN DOWN UPON THE CRIMINAL ELEMENTS
Among the most recent shocks applied to these criminal operatives, the following developments were confirmed to us on 5th June and have subsequently been spontaneously reconfirmed twice:
• Bush 41, Clinton 42 and Bush 43 and US Chief Justice John Roberts were told that they would all be arrested if there was any further interference in the Settlements process. We were advised that heavy documentation is associated with this statement.
• Criminal former President Bush 41 and his wife Barbara Pierce Bush (illegitimate daughter of the late British intelligence operative and Satanist, Aleister Crowley) were instructed by enforcement to ‘pack light’ (i.e. to place necessary clothes and toiletries only, in two small suitcases) so that they would be ready to be conveyed to jail at a moment’s notice. Recall from the preceding report that on 24th May 2009, Bush 41’s passport was taken away from him,
• Dr Henry Kissinger has been and is being accompanied at all times by two Interpol agents with instructions to arrest him immediately and take him into high security custody, in the event that he attempts to intervene in the Settlements process. These agents are not for Kissinger’s protection.
• President Obama, faced with the issuance of a Contempt of Court Writ by the World Court following a two-day extension granted on 1st June, which was the value date originally ‘agreed’, finally became ‘upset’ (the word used by our sources), and exerted himself against forces standing in the way of the Settlements process, given that the World Court proceedings could lead to the arrest of the President of the United States himself.
• An unknown number of senior US Army and Air Force personnel were arrested during the week ending Friday 5th June.
• The ‘Connecticut Trustee’ (group) obtained access to ‘their’ funds in the evening of Thursday 4th June 2009. However access was subsequently denied, the explanation given to us being that no parties may draw funds down until arrangements for subsequent recipients have been completed. [This information was ‘good’ up to 6th June but cannot be further elaborated upon given lack of updated information at the time this report was being prepared].
• With the same batch of information, the following assertion was included: ‘Next time people lie to [the Editor of this service], THEY will be liable to be arrested and jailed/indicted for disseminating false information’.
• We stress as follows:
ALL of the above intelligence has been RECONFIRMED TWICE by impeccable sources.
According to separate reports, a key Trustee failed to appear at a bank in Dallas in accordance with instructions at 1:00 pm Texas time on Thursday 4th June, in a move thought to have represented a delaying tactic. An earlier report to the same effect was also received.
The same Trustee was reported to us not to have had his paperwork ready on Monday 1st June, when he asked for more time. However on 6th the Trustee was duly escorted to the bank by US Marshals and was reported to be in the bank at 2:00pm Texas time on that date.
Finally, the criminal compartments, including we presume US Treasury operatives such as Timothy Geithner, the Bush and Clinton cadres, Leon Panetta and the ruthless fools inside the CIA and the rogue military elements, were, on 5th June, decisively rebuffed along the lines of (as it was put to us): ‘Who are you to destroy the American and world economies and to fling the American people into poverty?’....
As late as Saturday 6th June, several operatives tried to block the progressing Settlements process, and were ‘dealt with’, according to reliable reports. There have also been unconfirmed reports of ‘horizontalisations’ and other drastic measures in the above overall context and within the timeframe referenced here.
EARLIER INTELLIGENCE RECEIVED [DIARY FORMAT]
Prior to receipt and confirmation of the foregoing data, the Editor obtained the following updates:
• The British head of State and Chinese Elders/authorities were reported to be working in ‘lock-step’ to insist upon the application of the Rule of Law inter alia through the World Court. We now believe that the primary momentum for resolution has been directed all along by Her Majesty The Queen and her special representatives.
It is likely that this momentum was greatly intensified following the stealing of The Queen’s gold on 29th-30th March 2007 which this service alone reported, and the subsequent scandal involving the misapplication of sovereign LOAN funds provided on 19th-20th June 2007 via the Bank of England to Bank of New York Mellon: [see reports: Archive], which had to be placed into ‘lockdown’ (10th-12th September 2008) inter alia after advice by the Editor of this service on 6th September 2008.
Prospective access to these LOAN funds was finally denied, again on our recommendation, on 29th January 2009, after the new Obama Administration had reneged on Barack Obama’s undertakings, signed during his earlier trip across Europe, to procure the Settlements without further ado and to allow the Refunding of the US Dollar System to proceed in a fully transparent taxable manner in the private sector with no US Government input and control. [Government creates debt only: it cannot generate taxable accruals. The private sector generates taxable income]....
• 29th May: A significant number of associates of George Bush Sr. and of Dr Henry Kissinger were reported to have been arrested on Thursday and Friday 28th/29th May.
• 30th May: A massive movement of funds between the Bank of America, Charlotte, and the Bank of America, Dallas, was reported to us to have occurred between noon on Saturday 30th May and noon on Sunday 31st May.
• 1st June: Former President George W. Bush (43) was reported to be ‘on suicide watch’ which, being interpreted, was taken to mean ‘suicidED watch’.
• 1st June: George Bush Sr. was reported to be adamantly refusing, as usual, to cooperate: ‘You know who to talk to’, he was reported as shouting (presumably a reference to the Bush/Clinton stooge Leon Panetta, Director of Central Intelligence). In the face of this crude display of Bushite intransigence, enforcement personnel were reported to us to have shown Bush Sr. a number of statements from ‘his’ bank accounts. According to our sources, the amounts shown on these statements read: $0.00.
From subsidiary questioning, the Editor then established the likelihood that some of these bank statements would have been issued by one or more of the German banks acting as custodians of Bush Sr.’s funny money accounts, over which Chancellor Angela Merkel, bribed by Bush Sr. to guard ‘his’ financial interests within the German banking jurisdiction, was supposed to have exercised surveillance, as previously reported.
• 3rd June 2009: The World Court Contempt Writ first mentioned to us after the 1st June value date was ‘missed’, was confirmed to be issued on Thursday 4th June against President B. Obama in the obstruction of justice context previously explained by this service.
• 3rd June: Bush Sr. was reported to be engaged in hyperactive, vituperative behaviour in frantic moves to recoup the situation from his perspective, demanding that payments must be blocked, and telling anyone who would listen: ‘Can’t pay, won’t pay’.
• A key source told the Editor; ‘From what I hear, not a lot of people are listening’.
DISCONNECT AT THE U.S. TREASURY
The continued reprobate behaviour of the US Treasury is one of the darker mysteries that has not yet been fully explained, given that everything the Geithner Treasury is doing contravenes the principles of commonsense and sound finance.
Our key sources have confirmed that foreign governments have generally been stunned by, and unable to comprehend, the quite extraordinarily bovine behaviour of the Geithner-led delegation during their recent visit to Peking, which ended in Geithner’s humiliation (in a repetition of what happened to the equally unpopular Henry M. Paulson on several similar occasions).
Unbelievably, Geithner et al presented the Chinese with a proposal for a trading operation using $4.0 trillion – just as John Snow and Henry M. Paulson had done earlier. It will be recalled that the $4.5 trillion brought over in May 2006 from the People’s Bank of China following a visit to Peking by the criminal operative Dr Alan Greenspan and John Snow, the former US Treasury Secretary, was placed under contract (with the Chinese) in June 2006. These funds were then criminally replicated by the usual leveraging and hypothecation means, to yield multiple trillions.
Evidently the Geithner Treasury thought it could ‘pull’ the same trick with the Chinese in May/June 2009. However, with their fingers badly burned on multiple occasions by these duplicitous Jewish Americans, the Chinese turned the offer down and sent Geither packing with ‘a flea in his ear’ (or, as London East-enders would say ‘GBH of the ‘ear-’ole’ [Grievous Bodily Harm of the Ear-hole].
It appears that, following a leak, loose talk and sabotage attributed to a renegade British-based possible double agent, the US Treasury operatives thought they could pre-empt, replicate and displace, by means of a bilateral deal with the Chinese, the G-7-approved Refunding Programme (that is to be operated through London without US official input and control).
They reckoned without the central reality of the close collaboration and lock-step determination of the British Head of State and the relevant Chinese parties that there are to be no changes to the revised agreed arrangements.
The Chinese rejected the US Treasury’s proposed $4.0 trillion trading contract when (inevitably) they discovered that the funds were compromised; and Geithner was accordingly advised that it would be prudent for him and his delegation to leave the Chinese capital forthwith [see above].
The US Treasury is now engaged in TALF-4 – representing the FOURTH phase of its operation to try to regalvanise the moribund Fraudulent Finance sector, as lusted after by the recalcitrant Wall Street institutions, in defiance of logic but in response to the greed of certain banks (which might otherwise be surplus to the real economy’s requirements), and of US holders of high office.
The US Treasury is therefore persisting with its obtuse, perverse intent to revive the derivatives sector that collapsed as a direct consequence of the events of 10th-12th September 2008 (as a result of which the Editor received, on 18th September, the three-gunshot voicemail). It was no coincidence, either, that the most vitriolic attack on the Editor of this service perpetrated by one of the CIA-controlled disinformation and confusion-building websites occurred on 13th September.
[As previously reported here, data based on Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) findings, published by the International Monetary Fund in April 2009, showed that the total notional market value of all derivatives contracts outstanding at the end of June 2008 (taking account of double-counting) stood at an estimated $683.7 trillion, leveraged from an actual gross market value of just $20.4 trillion.
However given the ‘events of September 2008’, the derivatives sector was sharply reduced for the first time, to $592 trillion by the end of December 2008, according to a BIS report released on 18th May 2009. This first-ever decline brought the aggregate notional value of global derivatives contracts outstanding back close to the level of $595.3 trillion at end- December 2007].
‘MAINSTREAM’ NOW USING THE WORD ‘CRIMINAL’
That the US Treasury’s intellectual, moral and practical perversity in this crisis has now at long last been grasped at least by the New York media, was revealed in a Wall Street Journal article by Barry Grey dated 4th June, which contained inter alia the following observations:
‘Under the guise of enhanced regulation, the Obama Administration is working with major Wall Street banks to sanction a continuation of the speculative practices that precipitated the financial meltdown and the deepest economic slump since the Great Depression’.....
The Wall Street Journal article dated 4th June continued:
‘Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has, according to a detailed exposé published May 1 by The New York Times, adopted a proposal drawn up by a group of Wall Street firms for new regulations on the lucrative trade in derivatives such as Credit Default Swaps. Geithner headed the New York Federal Reserve Bank and played a key rôle in the Bush II Administration’s bank bailout program before being named to his present post by Obama. His recently issued proposal on derivatives regulation, in opposition to measures backed by certain corporate interests, such as agribusiness firms and Congressmen who represent them, would exempt most trading in Credit Default Swaps from any serious public exposure or government regulation’.
‘Credit Default Swaps are contracts agreed to between corporations in which the seller insures the buyer against the default of specific corporate bonds or securities. The transactions are ‘over the counter’, i.e., arrived at privately without being listed on any public exchange. Since the passage of a law in 2000 supported and signed by then-President Clinton, they have been unregulated’.
This legislation triggered ‘an explosive growth of this form of financial gambling’.
Under the Geithner proposals, a ‘special dispensation’ is meant to apply to so-called ‘customized’ derivatives, a vague term that comprises most Credit Default Swaps, which would shield them from public scrutiny or government regulation’. This and other permissive ideas were incorporated into the current proposals for ‘increased’ oversight promoted by Geithner.
The article added that The New York Times had quoted Yra Harris, an independent commodities trader, as having summed up the situation as follows (this being of course entirely consistent with our own analysis):
‘The banks want to go back to business as usual – and then some. And they have a lot of audacity now that everyone has bailed them out. But we have to begin with the premise that Wall Street doesn’t want transparency because more transparency means less immediate profits’.
‘The instrument through which the banks are resuming at full throttle the criminal methods that have brought the US and world economy to its knees and inflicted growing social misery on the working class, is the Obama Administration’.
• Now, who would ever have imagined that there would come a time when the leading ‘mainstream’ newspapers in New York would at long last openly characterise the financial methods that are at the root of this crisis as CRIMINAL, as we have done these past three years?
• And who would ever have predicted that the leading New York ‘mainstream’ press would finally come to agree with us that the reason that sound finance is being rejected by the idiots in the driving seat is that practitioners of these CRIMINAL METHODS, abhor and fear TRANSPARENCY?
Which, of course, is precisely why the Group of Seven-Approved Refunding Programme, which is to be 100% TRANSPARENT, with the proceeds subject to taxation rather than being stashed untaxed in secret offshore bank accounts, is now to be operated wholly out of London, where the misguided Geithners, Paulsons, Bernankes and Dick Cheneys of this 'Black' world cannot interfere – and with Basel-II/Basel-III compliant UK and European banks exclusively, likely to be selected to participate in the programme because the big American banks have so consistently demonstrated throughout this crisis that, like the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve, they cannot be trusted.
PERVERSE INTENT TO REVIVE AND CONTINUE THE FRAUDULENT FINANCE CAROUSEL
So it is now glaringly obvious from all key quarters on both sides of the Atlantic that, following the obtuse lead of the wrong-headed US Treasury, the international financial community is dead-set on seeking the revival of the corrupt derivatives sector and the Fraudulent Finance trade operations underpinning it, without regard for the extreme dangers that will arise from the continuation of this criminal and speculative off-balance sheet trading.
Notwithstanding the power of this website, and the publicity we have given to the sound proposals developed by the US securities expert Michael C. Cottrell, B.A., M.S. – the most qualified technician in this specialist area who has not been compromised (and who would be a trillionaire by now had he succumbed on many occasions earlier) – the reprobate intention of the Wall Street institutions and the likes of Barclays Bank, Deutsche Bank, Paribas and the multiple other corrupted financial institutions including the Israeli banks which have brought the world to the brink of financial and economic disaster in their relentless pursuit of fiat profit, is to revert, as The Wall Street Journal has at last understood, to CRIMINAL ‘business as usual’.
For this reason, there is extreme concern in the relevant circles at the fact that the Refunding Programme, which was to have been run out of the United States, has been switched to London, where it will be operated exclusively in the private sector and in a 100% transparent manner, with all accruals subject to tax in the United Kingdom – as well as in the United States (via the profits earned on the intended trades by Pennsylvania Investments, Inc.). ....
The Geithner Treasury is pursuing the WRONG POLICIES for the primary and overriding reason that it seeks to retain control and cannot tolerate the prospect of losing it.
• FACT: As repeatedly stated here, Government, by definition, cannot generate taxable income. It can of itself only create DEBT. Taxable income can ONLY be generated by the private sector. The Government cannot tax itself (other than via the remuneration of its employees).
Therefore, the US Treasury’s policy of inventing convoluted mechanisms which have the objective of enabling it to retain control of trading, is perverse and represents a gross fraud perpetrated on the American taxpayer – since a corresponding mountain of new debt appears on the other side of the Treasury’s balance sheet.
This behaviour is correctly describable as FINANCIAL TERRORISM and we hereby again denounce it as such. The British Treasury have adopted a similar derivatives-centric stance.
Indeed, the point we made recently about the UK Treasury paying huge sums of money for advice from tainted City-based institutions, to guide the Treasury's response to the mayhem caused by those same criminalist institutions, has now been confirmed by Lord Oakshott of Seagrove Bay, the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman, who is cited in The Times of 8th June 2009, in a Business Section article by correspondent Suzy Jagger entitled 'City Banks send the Treasury a £9m bill for advice on solving the financial crisis', as saying:
'Taxpayers are paying through the nose for Treasury officials' ignorance of how the City [of London] works. From my experience of dealing with them in connection with the nationalisation of Northern Rock, it is matched only by the arrogance'.
'Because the Treasury has no core expertise, it has been running in desperation to the City which is not able to give proper independent advice. Many of these investment banks were on the one hand creating the toxic investments which made the crisis much worse, and on the other hand taking fees to get us out of it'.
• PRECISELY.
MACROFINANCIAL ASSESSMENT AND PROSPECTS
Asia-based analysts are pointing out that the size of the ‘hidden’ US financial bubble that has burst is so colossal that actual losses cannot be quantified, given the lack of transparency.
For several decades, the US banks, operating within the context that the Federal Reserve has one asset alone – the power to print money without limit – ‘went global’, issuing debt instruments to foreigners for proprietary ‘over-the-counter’ (private, unrecorded) speculative trading operations and investment – over-leveraging their base capital by several dozen times.
This ‘easy money’ policy, associated with the low interest rate policy pursued during the loose Greenspan era, created a bubble economy without historical precedent – against the background that the untaxed, off-balance sheet trading operations were ballooning the overall (unquantified) dollar money supply, with ongoing inflationary consequences.
Since Nixon and Bush Sr. implemented the long-range German strategy of de-industrialising ‘the Main Enemy’, starting in the early 1970s, the United States and Britain have both foolishly walked away from manufacturing, shifting the ‘productive’ economic focus towards consumption and the parasitical financial services feeding on the underlying inflationary environment – backed by the United States’ temporary privilege of being able to issue currency that foreigners were prepared to accumulate and hold. The US dollar was floated worldwide, functioning as the de facto medium of international transactions at virtually zero cost to the United States. Against this background, US consumers went on a consumption binge, enhancing their already high standard of living.
When the Editor first became ‘hands-on’ engaged in aspects of this crisis, he warned several parties (whose eyes duly glazed over) that this process could not continue for ever as there is no free lunch: and that when it ran into a brick wall, the shock would be devastating, with the real prospect that US living standards could collapse by 50% within a matter of months – as foreigners refused to accumulate more dollars and dollar-denominated assets, sought to dump those they already held, and the dollar then collapsed, driving foreign currencies sharply upwards so that Americans would be unable to afford many imports.
• When that happened, the only remaining ‘remedy’ for the Federal Reserve would be to print money, leading to the inevitable hyperinflation.
Dr Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has told Congress recently that the Fed is confident that this outcome can be avoided, without providing any back-up for this statement.
The mechanism whereby we wind up with a hyperinflation is slightly different to that envisaged when we first warned of such an outcome in our report dated 2nd September 2006 – due to the irresponsible behaviour of the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve in adopting the chronically unsound policies that will generate huge mountains of background debt that will burden many generations of Americans to come – in the absence of a hyperinflation, that is.
The dollar paper issued to foreign creditor institutions, funds and sovereign governments around the world, is becoming a vast liability. Global economic imbalances, associated with the mentioned US overconsumption, and with overproduction in key emerging market economies and Japan, are experiencing a sharp correction. The Americans over-consumed by issuing fiat debt to finance consumption, while foreign countries channelled reserves back to the United States, so that US consumers would continue to buy their cheap goods.
But since exports to the United States have collapsed, foreign creditors are wary of subscribing to new US debt, especially given their shrewd understanding that US official debt-issuance is out of control due to the fact that the US Treasury has chosen to follow the wrong course – having the US Government (and its cronies, and the Intelligence Power) involved in a resumption of the familiar criminal ‘business as usual’, against the background of technical arrangements which generate massive unnecessary Treasury ‘background debt’.
And foreign creditors understand perfectly well that this wrong-headed course is being pursued because the US Treasury and the Government’s cronies plus the CIA want to retain control of speculative trading, as though there was never any discontinuity last September.
FOREIGN CREDITORS ARE CUTTING THEIR LOSSES
Not surprisingly, foreign creditors are cutting their losses and are seeking to diversify out of US dollar-denominated holdings. As the permissive US official debt issuance proceeds, the alarm bells that have been ringing in foreign capitals will wax much louder.
It is a fact that without the contrived on-balance sheet liquidity-raising operations spawned by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, certain banks would have collapsed – which is why well-known names are refusing depositors’ requests for large withdrawals: indeed we have heard that at least one US institution has, in recent months, required its customers to give notice when they intend to withdraw more than $10,000. All of which implies that a run on the largest banks has only narrowly been avoided. Citibank of course, like General Motors, is no longer a stock exchange name.
Participating banks were issuing fraudulent ‘bundled’ mortgage-backed securities (itself a wholly fraudulent description) and other derivative financial ‘products’ in the same way that the Federal Reserve issues currency – backed by nothing at all, and ‘supported exclusively’ by the bank’s brand name. Despite the hyped ‘recovery’ rhetoric and a probably temporary illusion of renewed prosperity fuelled by the vast issuance of liquidity to stave off collapse, the banks that have issued these dubious (fraudulent) instruments are now having to take them back: and since they lack the necessary liquidity to finance such buy-backs as the credit market has long since stalled, the US banks are having to rely on the Federal Reserve for ‘cash’.
Partly as a consequences, US Treasury instruments, previously considered risk-free (backed by the ‘Full Faith and Credit of the United States’) are now under pressure.
Several key emerging countries, including Brazil, India, Russia, China and Iran, are discussing the possibility of abandoning the US dollar as a reserve currency (a prospect fraught with practical problems: but the point is that this is being discussed).
Due to our take-down of the idea during the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the proposal to expand the use of the Fund’s Special Drawing Rights for this purpose flopped immediately: but the point, again, is that this development reflected international nervousness about the US dollar as the reserve currency.
The huge deficits that the Obama Administration seeks to finance cannot be funded of course by the US Treasury itself, let alone by Americans whose savings and investments lost 50% of their value over one year prior to the recent stock market recovery fuelled by the Fed’s ‘quantitative easing’ policy. There are therefore only two obvious options, as US policymakers have rejected the private sector Refunding Programme option, which would solve the entire problem once and for all: selling ever more debt to reluctant foreigners, or the domestic printing press.
The above-board Refunding Programme to be operated from London will resolve all issues, even though we know for a fact that US authorities have tried, unsuccessfully, to sabotage it. Incredible as it may appear, the US Treasury, the recalcitrant Intelligence Power and the US ‘crony community’ would prefer to destroy the US financial and real economies, and to create conditions for a 50% collapse in American living standards, rather than to yield to the impeccable logic of the private sector Refunding Programme. This is clear from the unsuccessful steps they have taken to try to redirect, amend and hijack it in recent weeks.
One of these steps involved a UK-based intermediary, working indirectly for Cheney, failing to deliver papers to the highest level in the United Kingdom, and yet representing that he did so.
Since the Treasury will not back off from the misguided course it is pursuing, under Geithner as under his criminalist predecessor, Paulson, the United States will career towards the inevitable hyperinflation – with the GOOD MONEY generated by the private sector London operation quickly gaining the upper hand so that the US Treasury will no longer need to issue debt on the open-ended basis currently planned. This is because the Treasury will, ‘whether it likes it or not’, find itself at the receiving end of the windfall dollar tax receipts that it has refused to countenance.
It seems that nothing can be done to get the US authorities to see sense, beyond the fact that the Settlements process has been driven, of late, by the real prospect of the London-based Refunding Programme. Unfortunately, given the reckless intransigence, not to mention the criminal terrorist financing tendencies, of the US Treasury, the rapid US inflation that is now anticipated by the Bank of England, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank of Japan, will wind up chasing American goods domestically, because foreign goods (including crucial ‘just-in-time’ supplies) will be uncompetitive due to the appreciation of foreign currencies against the collapsing dollar.
• So to assume that the real crisis has even started, is naïve in the extreme.
POLICY DECISIONS WITHOUT THE MISSING INPUT
Moreover it appears that policymakers have acted on the assumption that the Settlements process will never be completed (as intended by the Bush-Greenspan ‘never-pay’ model).
That the controlled media have ignored this dimension of the crisis, and our own reports as well as those published in International Currency Review, is one thing (with which we are all familiar).
But for policymakers, who know all about this central dimension of the crisis, to take decisions that appear wholly to ignore the completion of the Settlements process, is extraordinary – implying that the US Treasury’s notorious myopia, untrustworthiness and moral perversity are replicated in other financial capitals as well.
It will therefore be ‘interesting’ to see how policymakers react to the completion of the Settlements process. Frankly, all decisions taken since the crisis erupted, due to the wrong decisions adopted by the Paulson and Geithner Treasury, will have to be reviewed in the light of this ‘unexpected circumstance’ (which was ‘never supposed to happen, you understand’).
As usual, there will be an overlap while the new environment takes hold – and even as national policymakers continue to take comfort from the erroneous assumption that deflationary data is inconsistent with a hyperinflation later.
INDICATORS OF GLOBAL DEFLATION
The World Bank’s Chief economist, Justin Yifu Lin, has reported that global capacity utilisation is running at the historically low level of between 50% and 60%, implying that firms will have to keep dismissing employees, which will depress domestic consumption further. Asian trade data look awful, too: the latest monthly export figures for Malaysia, South Korea and India show year-on-year contractions of 26%, 33% and 28.3% respectively; and the share of exports in Asian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has risen from 36% to 47% over the past decade, thereby exacerbating Asia’s fatal dependence on exports to the West.
Year-on-year deflation rates for selected countries look worse by the month:
China: – 1.5%; United States: – 0.7%; Singapore: – 0.7%; Ireland: – 3.5%; Japan: – 0.1%;
Thailand: – 3.3%; Switzerland: – 1.0%; Spain: – 0.8%; Taiwan: – 0.5%; Belgium: – 0.4%;
Sweden: – 0.1%; Germany: 0%.
According to the Association of American Railroads, traffic was 22% down in the third week of May 2009 compared with a year earlier, while Canadian rail freight was down year-on-year by 34%. The Chief Economist of the American Trucking Association has said that tonnage is down by 13% over 12 months, with monthly declines of 4.5% in March and a further 2.2% in April.
In Britain, where analysts rely inordinately on a recovery of housing prices, mortgage approvals rose for the third month running in April, to 43,000 – whereas the total volume of monthly approvals needed for UK house prices to stop declining is 80,000.
Overall, the loose talk of ‘green shoots’ is nothing more than propaganda fuelled by a slight ‘feel-better’ factor arising from the historically unprecedented orgy of ‘quantitative easing’ undertaken by central banks which were themselves heavily involved, along with huge institutions they were supposed to be supervising, in the criminal Fraudulent Finance that has been exposed.
And the US Treasury wants to revert to that discredited model!
CHENEY’S NEWSMAX OPERATION CLOSED DOWN?
In the preceding report [26th May 2009] we exposed an elaborate scheme [‘the new Cheney-linked dollar-collection scheme’] to mobilise smaller US investors’ dollars via the Newsmax service which, when analysed, boiled down to the provision of two-month interest-free loans via the purchase of refundable multiple subscriptions, by gullible participants who may well have learned nothing from recent events – ‘permitting’ the investors to ‘follow’ the investment trades to be undertaken by or for the Newsmax proprietor, Christopher Ruddy, on the advice of the CIA financial operative David Frazier.
We revealed that this operative works for Cheney, and that his task in the operation was to ‘free up’ ‘small money’ dollars in order to generate a pool of US dollars for exchange through the collaborating London-based US agent Dr Cynthia Dremel for the Euros stashed illegally by Cheney abroad while he was in office.
We pointed out inter alia that because this operation involved discounting the US dollar, it was de facto a fraud against the United States. It was also exposed as a form of Ponzi operation, given the incorporation of the 60-day 100% refund ‘guarantee’ which meant that if the subscriber wished, he or she could demand their money back within the 60-day period, during which time the promoters will have had the use of the subscriber’s funds interest-free, and will have been able to trade those funds for their own purposes.
• FACT: Following our exposure, nothing more has been heard of this operation.
Instead, on 6th June, Ruddy started promoting his own appearance at ‘FreedomFest’, scheduled for 9th-11th July 2009, at Bally’s in Las Vegas, to be attended by Steve Forbes and ‘my friend, Mark Skousen’. The Editor recalls that the first commentator to mention the Editor’s investigation into Fraudulent Finance (in 2003) was Mark Skousen, who pooh-poohed what we were doing, adding that ‘Christopher Story would be liable loose all his subscribers’, as a result of this investigation.
Anyway, the hassle-hassle Newsmax sales spiel promoting ‘Your Million Dollar Secret Code’ was suddenly switched from the Ponzi scheme to the urgency of needing to register at Bally’s: ‘You can book your deluxe accommodation for just $74 per night! Rooms are going fast, so register today for Newsmax’s special schedule at FreedomFest – and book your room today’.
• And for goodness sake, don’t ever mention ‘Your Million Dollar Secret Code’, please. Nope: a thick veil has been drawn over that one. Other careless CIA promoters of Ponzi schemes: please note: you may be exposed before you can even get started
WAR OF ATTRITION AGAINST THE U.S. CRIME CADRES
DOLLAR REFUNDING OPERATION TO PROCEED FROM LONDON
Monday 8 June 2009 02:00
NEW REPORT STARTS HERE:
POSSIBLE RATIONALE FOR AIR FRANCE 447 DISASTER
Initially, French authorities reacting to the loss of Air France 447 on Monday 1st June with 228 people on board, suggested that the aircraft had broken up in the course of a terrible electrical storm. Later, they conspicuously refrained from ruling out sabotage.
By the weekend of 6-7 June, it was being reported that the huge oil slick that had been identified earlier was now thought not to have been associated with the disappearance of the Airbus A330. If an explosion took place, there would be no oil slick.
On the other hand, since the oil in question was diesel oil, reports that a diesel-powered submarine may have launched a missile at the aircraft, as happened with TWA-800, when an Iranian submarine was suspected, are not to be dismissed – especially as France despatched a nuclear submarine to the area – we speculate, to search for the submarine in order to establish whether it was German or Iranian. The Iranians would have a motive, as France under President Sarkozy has ceased supply Iran with plutonium for its nuclear programme.
If the Iranians have demonstrated that they can destroy a French airliner, they could do so again. On the other hand, if the submarine is one of the German refurbished diesel fleet, the immediate consequences for the already (see previous reports) fractured Franco-German alliance, based on the timeless Treaty of the Elysée of January 1963, could be momentous.
Tensions between France, the United States, Germany and Britain are at an all-time high due to the chaotic and hideous struggle over the money, which has progressively eroded and destabilised all dimensions of these powers’ bilateral and broader relationships.
In the absence of an official list of passengers, we were able during the week ending 5th June to establish that passengers included Eric Heine, a senior executive of the German steel corporation Thyssen-Krupp, several executives from Michelin’s South American operations, and a 25-year-old relative of Portuguese Royalty.
On 2nd June it emerged that Michael ‘Butch’ Harris, a top geologist with Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corporation and his wife Anne, had been on the aircraft. A spokesman for the company, Chip Minty, confirmed that Harris was a geologist working out of Devon’s Rio de Janeiro office. The late Mr Harris had moved to Brazil from Houston in July 2008, according to Mrs Harris’s sister, Mary Riley, of Lafayette, LA, in an interview with the local newspaper, The Advertiser. The couple, married for 16 years, were originally from Lafayette and had lived there until 2004.
Mr Harris was a Clemson graduate and a brilliant geologist. The ‘Jack 2’ well drilled in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico 175 miles off the coast of Louisiana, is located in about 7,000 ft. of water. Chevron, which has a 50% stake in the oilfield, has two partners for this project, both of which have a 25% stake: Statoil ASA (Norway), and Devon Energy Corporation of Oklahoma City.
Fadel Gheit, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co., said on 4th June that ‘relative to its size, Devon has one of the greatest exposures to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico’. Devon’s shares rose by about 15% on the New York Stock Exchange following news about the ‘Jack 2’ oilfield.
Before moving to Brazil, Michael ‘Butch’ Harris and his wife Anne lived in the Woodlands area of Houston, which ‘just happens’ to be where George Herbert Walker Bush lives.
We ‘speculate’ that Mr Harris was en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris where he was to realise a brief from Bush Sr. to leverage Devon Energy Corporation's 25% stake in the ‘Jack 2’ oilfield with the corrupt ‘Kissinger-Bush’ bank, Paribas, for an enormous credit line, enabling the desperate Bush Crime Family to ‘start over’ with a pile of cash for the usual leveraging and hypothecation purposes. We further ‘speculate’ that Air France 447 was sabotaged, to close off this option.
That George Bush Sr. would have no compunction in arranging for one of his associates to run the risk of being murdered in mid-air given that the whole world (with the sole exception of the crime network’s remaining cornered assets) is intent upon removing the Bush Crime Family from the chessboard, goes without saying.
The sole motivation of this criminal group operating outside and within the US Intelligence Power, the White House and the Treasury, has all along been to retain control of the levers of Fraudulent Finance at all costs, without regard for collateral damage. Given the unconscionable level of their arrogance, these people never expected to encounter any opposition to their activities, and have accordingly received the overdue shock of their lives.
BLOWS RAIN DOWN UPON THE CRIMINAL ELEMENTS
Among the most recent shocks applied to these criminal operatives, the following developments were confirmed to us on 5th June and have subsequently been spontaneously reconfirmed twice:
• Bush 41, Clinton 42 and Bush 43 and US Chief Justice John Roberts were told that they would all be arrested if there was any further interference in the Settlements process. We were advised that heavy documentation is associated with this statement.
• Criminal former President Bush 41 and his wife Barbara Pierce Bush (illegitimate daughter of the late British intelligence operative and Satanist, Aleister Crowley) were instructed by enforcement to ‘pack light’ (i.e. to place necessary clothes and toiletries only, in two small suitcases) so that they would be ready to be conveyed to jail at a moment’s notice. Recall from the preceding report that on 24th May 2009, Bush 41’s passport was taken away from him,
• Dr Henry Kissinger has been and is being accompanied at all times by two Interpol agents with instructions to arrest him immediately and take him into high security custody, in the event that he attempts to intervene in the Settlements process. These agents are not for Kissinger’s protection.
• President Obama, faced with the issuance of a Contempt of Court Writ by the World Court following a two-day extension granted on 1st June, which was the value date originally ‘agreed’, finally became ‘upset’ (the word used by our sources), and exerted himself against forces standing in the way of the Settlements process, given that the World Court proceedings could lead to the arrest of the President of the United States himself.
• An unknown number of senior US Army and Air Force personnel were arrested during the week ending Friday 5th June.
• The ‘Connecticut Trustee’ (group) obtained access to ‘their’ funds in the evening of Thursday 4th June 2009. However access was subsequently denied, the explanation given to us being that no parties may draw funds down until arrangements for subsequent recipients have been completed. [This information was ‘good’ up to 6th June but cannot be further elaborated upon given lack of updated information at the time this report was being prepared].
• With the same batch of information, the following assertion was included: ‘Next time people lie to [the Editor of this service], THEY will be liable to be arrested and jailed/indicted for disseminating false information’.
• We stress as follows:
ALL of the above intelligence has been RECONFIRMED TWICE by impeccable sources.
According to separate reports, a key Trustee failed to appear at a bank in Dallas in accordance with instructions at 1:00 pm Texas time on Thursday 4th June, in a move thought to have represented a delaying tactic. An earlier report to the same effect was also received.
The same Trustee was reported to us not to have had his paperwork ready on Monday 1st June, when he asked for more time. However on 6th the Trustee was duly escorted to the bank by US Marshals and was reported to be in the bank at 2:00pm Texas time on that date.
Finally, the criminal compartments, including we presume US Treasury operatives such as Timothy Geithner, the Bush and Clinton cadres, Leon Panetta and the ruthless fools inside the CIA and the rogue military elements, were, on 5th June, decisively rebuffed along the lines of (as it was put to us): ‘Who are you to destroy the American and world economies and to fling the American people into poverty?’....
As late as Saturday 6th June, several operatives tried to block the progressing Settlements process, and were ‘dealt with’, according to reliable reports. There have also been unconfirmed reports of ‘horizontalisations’ and other drastic measures in the above overall context and within the timeframe referenced here.
EARLIER INTELLIGENCE RECEIVED [DIARY FORMAT]
Prior to receipt and confirmation of the foregoing data, the Editor obtained the following updates:
• The British head of State and Chinese Elders/authorities were reported to be working in ‘lock-step’ to insist upon the application of the Rule of Law inter alia through the World Court. We now believe that the primary momentum for resolution has been directed all along by Her Majesty The Queen and her special representatives.
It is likely that this momentum was greatly intensified following the stealing of The Queen’s gold on 29th-30th March 2007 which this service alone reported, and the subsequent scandal involving the misapplication of sovereign LOAN funds provided on 19th-20th June 2007 via the Bank of England to Bank of New York Mellon: [see reports: Archive], which had to be placed into ‘lockdown’ (10th-12th September 2008) inter alia after advice by the Editor of this service on 6th September 2008.
Prospective access to these LOAN funds was finally denied, again on our recommendation, on 29th January 2009, after the new Obama Administration had reneged on Barack Obama’s undertakings, signed during his earlier trip across Europe, to procure the Settlements without further ado and to allow the Refunding of the US Dollar System to proceed in a fully transparent taxable manner in the private sector with no US Government input and control. [Government creates debt only: it cannot generate taxable accruals. The private sector generates taxable income]....
• 29th May: A significant number of associates of George Bush Sr. and of Dr Henry Kissinger were reported to have been arrested on Thursday and Friday 28th/29th May.
• 30th May: A massive movement of funds between the Bank of America, Charlotte, and the Bank of America, Dallas, was reported to us to have occurred between noon on Saturday 30th May and noon on Sunday 31st May.
• 1st June: Former President George W. Bush (43) was reported to be ‘on suicide watch’ which, being interpreted, was taken to mean ‘suicidED watch’.
• 1st June: George Bush Sr. was reported to be adamantly refusing, as usual, to cooperate: ‘You know who to talk to’, he was reported as shouting (presumably a reference to the Bush/Clinton stooge Leon Panetta, Director of Central Intelligence). In the face of this crude display of Bushite intransigence, enforcement personnel were reported to us to have shown Bush Sr. a number of statements from ‘his’ bank accounts. According to our sources, the amounts shown on these statements read: $0.00.
From subsidiary questioning, the Editor then established the likelihood that some of these bank statements would have been issued by one or more of the German banks acting as custodians of Bush Sr.’s funny money accounts, over which Chancellor Angela Merkel, bribed by Bush Sr. to guard ‘his’ financial interests within the German banking jurisdiction, was supposed to have exercised surveillance, as previously reported.
• 3rd June 2009: The World Court Contempt Writ first mentioned to us after the 1st June value date was ‘missed’, was confirmed to be issued on Thursday 4th June against President B. Obama in the obstruction of justice context previously explained by this service.
• 3rd June: Bush Sr. was reported to be engaged in hyperactive, vituperative behaviour in frantic moves to recoup the situation from his perspective, demanding that payments must be blocked, and telling anyone who would listen: ‘Can’t pay, won’t pay’.
• A key source told the Editor; ‘From what I hear, not a lot of people are listening’.
DISCONNECT AT THE U.S. TREASURY
The continued reprobate behaviour of the US Treasury is one of the darker mysteries that has not yet been fully explained, given that everything the Geithner Treasury is doing contravenes the principles of commonsense and sound finance.
Our key sources have confirmed that foreign governments have generally been stunned by, and unable to comprehend, the quite extraordinarily bovine behaviour of the Geithner-led delegation during their recent visit to Peking, which ended in Geithner’s humiliation (in a repetition of what happened to the equally unpopular Henry M. Paulson on several similar occasions).
Unbelievably, Geithner et al presented the Chinese with a proposal for a trading operation using $4.0 trillion – just as John Snow and Henry M. Paulson had done earlier. It will be recalled that the $4.5 trillion brought over in May 2006 from the People’s Bank of China following a visit to Peking by the criminal operative Dr Alan Greenspan and John Snow, the former US Treasury Secretary, was placed under contract (with the Chinese) in June 2006. These funds were then criminally replicated by the usual leveraging and hypothecation means, to yield multiple trillions.
Evidently the Geithner Treasury thought it could ‘pull’ the same trick with the Chinese in May/June 2009. However, with their fingers badly burned on multiple occasions by these duplicitous Jewish Americans, the Chinese turned the offer down and sent Geither packing with ‘a flea in his ear’ (or, as London East-enders would say ‘GBH of the ‘ear-’ole’ [Grievous Bodily Harm of the Ear-hole].
It appears that, following a leak, loose talk and sabotage attributed to a renegade British-based possible double agent, the US Treasury operatives thought they could pre-empt, replicate and displace, by means of a bilateral deal with the Chinese, the G-7-approved Refunding Programme (that is to be operated through London without US official input and control).
They reckoned without the central reality of the close collaboration and lock-step determination of the British Head of State and the relevant Chinese parties that there are to be no changes to the revised agreed arrangements.
The Chinese rejected the US Treasury’s proposed $4.0 trillion trading contract when (inevitably) they discovered that the funds were compromised; and Geithner was accordingly advised that it would be prudent for him and his delegation to leave the Chinese capital forthwith [see above].
The US Treasury is now engaged in TALF-4 – representing the FOURTH phase of its operation to try to regalvanise the moribund Fraudulent Finance sector, as lusted after by the recalcitrant Wall Street institutions, in defiance of logic but in response to the greed of certain banks (which might otherwise be surplus to the real economy’s requirements), and of US holders of high office.
The US Treasury is therefore persisting with its obtuse, perverse intent to revive the derivatives sector that collapsed as a direct consequence of the events of 10th-12th September 2008 (as a result of which the Editor received, on 18th September, the three-gunshot voicemail). It was no coincidence, either, that the most vitriolic attack on the Editor of this service perpetrated by one of the CIA-controlled disinformation and confusion-building websites occurred on 13th September.
[As previously reported here, data based on Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) findings, published by the International Monetary Fund in April 2009, showed that the total notional market value of all derivatives contracts outstanding at the end of June 2008 (taking account of double-counting) stood at an estimated $683.7 trillion, leveraged from an actual gross market value of just $20.4 trillion.
However given the ‘events of September 2008’, the derivatives sector was sharply reduced for the first time, to $592 trillion by the end of December 2008, according to a BIS report released on 18th May 2009. This first-ever decline brought the aggregate notional value of global derivatives contracts outstanding back close to the level of $595.3 trillion at end- December 2007].
‘MAINSTREAM’ NOW USING THE WORD ‘CRIMINAL’
That the US Treasury’s intellectual, moral and practical perversity in this crisis has now at long last been grasped at least by the New York media, was revealed in a Wall Street Journal article by Barry Grey dated 4th June, which contained inter alia the following observations:
‘Under the guise of enhanced regulation, the Obama Administration is working with major Wall Street banks to sanction a continuation of the speculative practices that precipitated the financial meltdown and the deepest economic slump since the Great Depression’.....
The Wall Street Journal article dated 4th June continued:
‘Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has, according to a detailed exposé published May 1 by The New York Times, adopted a proposal drawn up by a group of Wall Street firms for new regulations on the lucrative trade in derivatives such as Credit Default Swaps. Geithner headed the New York Federal Reserve Bank and played a key rôle in the Bush II Administration’s bank bailout program before being named to his present post by Obama. His recently issued proposal on derivatives regulation, in opposition to measures backed by certain corporate interests, such as agribusiness firms and Congressmen who represent them, would exempt most trading in Credit Default Swaps from any serious public exposure or government regulation’.
‘Credit Default Swaps are contracts agreed to between corporations in which the seller insures the buyer against the default of specific corporate bonds or securities. The transactions are ‘over the counter’, i.e., arrived at privately without being listed on any public exchange. Since the passage of a law in 2000 supported and signed by then-President Clinton, they have been unregulated’.
This legislation triggered ‘an explosive growth of this form of financial gambling’.
Under the Geithner proposals, a ‘special dispensation’ is meant to apply to so-called ‘customized’ derivatives, a vague term that comprises most Credit Default Swaps, which would shield them from public scrutiny or government regulation’. This and other permissive ideas were incorporated into the current proposals for ‘increased’ oversight promoted by Geithner.
The article added that The New York Times had quoted Yra Harris, an independent commodities trader, as having summed up the situation as follows (this being of course entirely consistent with our own analysis):
‘The banks want to go back to business as usual – and then some. And they have a lot of audacity now that everyone has bailed them out. But we have to begin with the premise that Wall Street doesn’t want transparency because more transparency means less immediate profits’.
‘The instrument through which the banks are resuming at full throttle the criminal methods that have brought the US and world economy to its knees and inflicted growing social misery on the working class, is the Obama Administration’.
• Now, who would ever have imagined that there would come a time when the leading ‘mainstream’ newspapers in New York would at long last openly characterise the financial methods that are at the root of this crisis as CRIMINAL, as we have done these past three years?
• And who would ever have predicted that the leading New York ‘mainstream’ press would finally come to agree with us that the reason that sound finance is being rejected by the idiots in the driving seat is that practitioners of these CRIMINAL METHODS, abhor and fear TRANSPARENCY?
Which, of course, is precisely why the Group of Seven-Approved Refunding Programme, which is to be 100% TRANSPARENT, with the proceeds subject to taxation rather than being stashed untaxed in secret offshore bank accounts, is now to be operated wholly out of London, where the misguided Geithners, Paulsons, Bernankes and Dick Cheneys of this 'Black' world cannot interfere – and with Basel-II/Basel-III compliant UK and European banks exclusively, likely to be selected to participate in the programme because the big American banks have so consistently demonstrated throughout this crisis that, like the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve, they cannot be trusted.
PERVERSE INTENT TO REVIVE AND CONTINUE THE FRAUDULENT FINANCE CAROUSEL
So it is now glaringly obvious from all key quarters on both sides of the Atlantic that, following the obtuse lead of the wrong-headed US Treasury, the international financial community is dead-set on seeking the revival of the corrupt derivatives sector and the Fraudulent Finance trade operations underpinning it, without regard for the extreme dangers that will arise from the continuation of this criminal and speculative off-balance sheet trading.
Notwithstanding the power of this website, and the publicity we have given to the sound proposals developed by the US securities expert Michael C. Cottrell, B.A., M.S. – the most qualified technician in this specialist area who has not been compromised (and who would be a trillionaire by now had he succumbed on many occasions earlier) – the reprobate intention of the Wall Street institutions and the likes of Barclays Bank, Deutsche Bank, Paribas and the multiple other corrupted financial institutions including the Israeli banks which have brought the world to the brink of financial and economic disaster in their relentless pursuit of fiat profit, is to revert, as The Wall Street Journal has at last understood, to CRIMINAL ‘business as usual’.
For this reason, there is extreme concern in the relevant circles at the fact that the Refunding Programme, which was to have been run out of the United States, has been switched to London, where it will be operated exclusively in the private sector and in a 100% transparent manner, with all accruals subject to tax in the United Kingdom – as well as in the United States (via the profits earned on the intended trades by Pennsylvania Investments, Inc.). ....
The Geithner Treasury is pursuing the WRONG POLICIES for the primary and overriding reason that it seeks to retain control and cannot tolerate the prospect of losing it.
• FACT: As repeatedly stated here, Government, by definition, cannot generate taxable income. It can of itself only create DEBT. Taxable income can ONLY be generated by the private sector. The Government cannot tax itself (other than via the remuneration of its employees).
Therefore, the US Treasury’s policy of inventing convoluted mechanisms which have the objective of enabling it to retain control of trading, is perverse and represents a gross fraud perpetrated on the American taxpayer – since a corresponding mountain of new debt appears on the other side of the Treasury’s balance sheet.
This behaviour is correctly describable as FINANCIAL TERRORISM and we hereby again denounce it as such. The British Treasury have adopted a similar derivatives-centric stance.
Indeed, the point we made recently about the UK Treasury paying huge sums of money for advice from tainted City-based institutions, to guide the Treasury's response to the mayhem caused by those same criminalist institutions, has now been confirmed by Lord Oakshott of Seagrove Bay, the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman, who is cited in The Times of 8th June 2009, in a Business Section article by correspondent Suzy Jagger entitled 'City Banks send the Treasury a £9m bill for advice on solving the financial crisis', as saying:
'Taxpayers are paying through the nose for Treasury officials' ignorance of how the City [of London] works. From my experience of dealing with them in connection with the nationalisation of Northern Rock, it is matched only by the arrogance'.
'Because the Treasury has no core expertise, it has been running in desperation to the City which is not able to give proper independent advice. Many of these investment banks were on the one hand creating the toxic investments which made the crisis much worse, and on the other hand taking fees to get us out of it'.
• PRECISELY.
MACROFINANCIAL ASSESSMENT AND PROSPECTS
Asia-based analysts are pointing out that the size of the ‘hidden’ US financial bubble that has burst is so colossal that actual losses cannot be quantified, given the lack of transparency.
For several decades, the US banks, operating within the context that the Federal Reserve has one asset alone – the power to print money without limit – ‘went global’, issuing debt instruments to foreigners for proprietary ‘over-the-counter’ (private, unrecorded) speculative trading operations and investment – over-leveraging their base capital by several dozen times.
This ‘easy money’ policy, associated with the low interest rate policy pursued during the loose Greenspan era, created a bubble economy without historical precedent – against the background that the untaxed, off-balance sheet trading operations were ballooning the overall (unquantified) dollar money supply, with ongoing inflationary consequences.
Since Nixon and Bush Sr. implemented the long-range German strategy of de-industrialising ‘the Main Enemy’, starting in the early 1970s, the United States and Britain have both foolishly walked away from manufacturing, shifting the ‘productive’ economic focus towards consumption and the parasitical financial services feeding on the underlying inflationary environment – backed by the United States’ temporary privilege of being able to issue currency that foreigners were prepared to accumulate and hold. The US dollar was floated worldwide, functioning as the de facto medium of international transactions at virtually zero cost to the United States. Against this background, US consumers went on a consumption binge, enhancing their already high standard of living.
When the Editor first became ‘hands-on’ engaged in aspects of this crisis, he warned several parties (whose eyes duly glazed over) that this process could not continue for ever as there is no free lunch: and that when it ran into a brick wall, the shock would be devastating, with the real prospect that US living standards could collapse by 50% within a matter of months – as foreigners refused to accumulate more dollars and dollar-denominated assets, sought to dump those they already held, and the dollar then collapsed, driving foreign currencies sharply upwards so that Americans would be unable to afford many imports.
• When that happened, the only remaining ‘remedy’ for the Federal Reserve would be to print money, leading to the inevitable hyperinflation.
Dr Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has told Congress recently that the Fed is confident that this outcome can be avoided, without providing any back-up for this statement.
The mechanism whereby we wind up with a hyperinflation is slightly different to that envisaged when we first warned of such an outcome in our report dated 2nd September 2006 – due to the irresponsible behaviour of the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve in adopting the chronically unsound policies that will generate huge mountains of background debt that will burden many generations of Americans to come – in the absence of a hyperinflation, that is.
The dollar paper issued to foreign creditor institutions, funds and sovereign governments around the world, is becoming a vast liability. Global economic imbalances, associated with the mentioned US overconsumption, and with overproduction in key emerging market economies and Japan, are experiencing a sharp correction. The Americans over-consumed by issuing fiat debt to finance consumption, while foreign countries channelled reserves back to the United States, so that US consumers would continue to buy their cheap goods.
But since exports to the United States have collapsed, foreign creditors are wary of subscribing to new US debt, especially given their shrewd understanding that US official debt-issuance is out of control due to the fact that the US Treasury has chosen to follow the wrong course – having the US Government (and its cronies, and the Intelligence Power) involved in a resumption of the familiar criminal ‘business as usual’, against the background of technical arrangements which generate massive unnecessary Treasury ‘background debt’.
And foreign creditors understand perfectly well that this wrong-headed course is being pursued because the US Treasury and the Government’s cronies plus the CIA want to retain control of speculative trading, as though there was never any discontinuity last September.
FOREIGN CREDITORS ARE CUTTING THEIR LOSSES
Not surprisingly, foreign creditors are cutting their losses and are seeking to diversify out of US dollar-denominated holdings. As the permissive US official debt issuance proceeds, the alarm bells that have been ringing in foreign capitals will wax much louder.
It is a fact that without the contrived on-balance sheet liquidity-raising operations spawned by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, certain banks would have collapsed – which is why well-known names are refusing depositors’ requests for large withdrawals: indeed we have heard that at least one US institution has, in recent months, required its customers to give notice when they intend to withdraw more than $10,000. All of which implies that a run on the largest banks has only narrowly been avoided. Citibank of course, like General Motors, is no longer a stock exchange name.
Participating banks were issuing fraudulent ‘bundled’ mortgage-backed securities (itself a wholly fraudulent description) and other derivative financial ‘products’ in the same way that the Federal Reserve issues currency – backed by nothing at all, and ‘supported exclusively’ by the bank’s brand name. Despite the hyped ‘recovery’ rhetoric and a probably temporary illusion of renewed prosperity fuelled by the vast issuance of liquidity to stave off collapse, the banks that have issued these dubious (fraudulent) instruments are now having to take them back: and since they lack the necessary liquidity to finance such buy-backs as the credit market has long since stalled, the US banks are having to rely on the Federal Reserve for ‘cash’.
Partly as a consequences, US Treasury instruments, previously considered risk-free (backed by the ‘Full Faith and Credit of the United States’) are now under pressure.
Several key emerging countries, including Brazil, India, Russia, China and Iran, are discussing the possibility of abandoning the US dollar as a reserve currency (a prospect fraught with practical problems: but the point is that this is being discussed).
Due to our take-down of the idea during the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the proposal to expand the use of the Fund’s Special Drawing Rights for this purpose flopped immediately: but the point, again, is that this development reflected international nervousness about the US dollar as the reserve currency.
The huge deficits that the Obama Administration seeks to finance cannot be funded of course by the US Treasury itself, let alone by Americans whose savings and investments lost 50% of their value over one year prior to the recent stock market recovery fuelled by the Fed’s ‘quantitative easing’ policy. There are therefore only two obvious options, as US policymakers have rejected the private sector Refunding Programme option, which would solve the entire problem once and for all: selling ever more debt to reluctant foreigners, or the domestic printing press.
The above-board Refunding Programme to be operated from London will resolve all issues, even though we know for a fact that US authorities have tried, unsuccessfully, to sabotage it. Incredible as it may appear, the US Treasury, the recalcitrant Intelligence Power and the US ‘crony community’ would prefer to destroy the US financial and real economies, and to create conditions for a 50% collapse in American living standards, rather than to yield to the impeccable logic of the private sector Refunding Programme. This is clear from the unsuccessful steps they have taken to try to redirect, amend and hijack it in recent weeks.
One of these steps involved a UK-based intermediary, working indirectly for Cheney, failing to deliver papers to the highest level in the United Kingdom, and yet representing that he did so.
Since the Treasury will not back off from the misguided course it is pursuing, under Geithner as under his criminalist predecessor, Paulson, the United States will career towards the inevitable hyperinflation – with the GOOD MONEY generated by the private sector London operation quickly gaining the upper hand so that the US Treasury will no longer need to issue debt on the open-ended basis currently planned. This is because the Treasury will, ‘whether it likes it or not’, find itself at the receiving end of the windfall dollar tax receipts that it has refused to countenance.
It seems that nothing can be done to get the US authorities to see sense, beyond the fact that the Settlements process has been driven, of late, by the real prospect of the London-based Refunding Programme. Unfortunately, given the reckless intransigence, not to mention the criminal terrorist financing tendencies, of the US Treasury, the rapid US inflation that is now anticipated by the Bank of England, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank of Japan, will wind up chasing American goods domestically, because foreign goods (including crucial ‘just-in-time’ supplies) will be uncompetitive due to the appreciation of foreign currencies against the collapsing dollar.
• So to assume that the real crisis has even started, is naïve in the extreme.
POLICY DECISIONS WITHOUT THE MISSING INPUT
Moreover it appears that policymakers have acted on the assumption that the Settlements process will never be completed (as intended by the Bush-Greenspan ‘never-pay’ model).
That the controlled media have ignored this dimension of the crisis, and our own reports as well as those published in International Currency Review, is one thing (with which we are all familiar).
But for policymakers, who know all about this central dimension of the crisis, to take decisions that appear wholly to ignore the completion of the Settlements process, is extraordinary – implying that the US Treasury’s notorious myopia, untrustworthiness and moral perversity are replicated in other financial capitals as well.
It will therefore be ‘interesting’ to see how policymakers react to the completion of the Settlements process. Frankly, all decisions taken since the crisis erupted, due to the wrong decisions adopted by the Paulson and Geithner Treasury, will have to be reviewed in the light of this ‘unexpected circumstance’ (which was ‘never supposed to happen, you understand’).
As usual, there will be an overlap while the new environment takes hold – and even as national policymakers continue to take comfort from the erroneous assumption that deflationary data is inconsistent with a hyperinflation later.
INDICATORS OF GLOBAL DEFLATION
The World Bank’s Chief economist, Justin Yifu Lin, has reported that global capacity utilisation is running at the historically low level of between 50% and 60%, implying that firms will have to keep dismissing employees, which will depress domestic consumption further. Asian trade data look awful, too: the latest monthly export figures for Malaysia, South Korea and India show year-on-year contractions of 26%, 33% and 28.3% respectively; and the share of exports in Asian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has risen from 36% to 47% over the past decade, thereby exacerbating Asia’s fatal dependence on exports to the West.
Year-on-year deflation rates for selected countries look worse by the month:
China: – 1.5%; United States: – 0.7%; Singapore: – 0.7%; Ireland: – 3.5%; Japan: – 0.1%;
Thailand: – 3.3%; Switzerland: – 1.0%; Spain: – 0.8%; Taiwan: – 0.5%; Belgium: – 0.4%;
Sweden: – 0.1%; Germany: 0%.
According to the Association of American Railroads, traffic was 22% down in the third week of May 2009 compared with a year earlier, while Canadian rail freight was down year-on-year by 34%. The Chief Economist of the American Trucking Association has said that tonnage is down by 13% over 12 months, with monthly declines of 4.5% in March and a further 2.2% in April.
In Britain, where analysts rely inordinately on a recovery of housing prices, mortgage approvals rose for the third month running in April, to 43,000 – whereas the total volume of monthly approvals needed for UK house prices to stop declining is 80,000.
Overall, the loose talk of ‘green shoots’ is nothing more than propaganda fuelled by a slight ‘feel-better’ factor arising from the historically unprecedented orgy of ‘quantitative easing’ undertaken by central banks which were themselves heavily involved, along with huge institutions they were supposed to be supervising, in the criminal Fraudulent Finance that has been exposed.
And the US Treasury wants to revert to that discredited model!
CHENEY’S NEWSMAX OPERATION CLOSED DOWN?
In the preceding report [26th May 2009] we exposed an elaborate scheme [‘the new Cheney-linked dollar-collection scheme’] to mobilise smaller US investors’ dollars via the Newsmax service which, when analysed, boiled down to the provision of two-month interest-free loans via the purchase of refundable multiple subscriptions, by gullible participants who may well have learned nothing from recent events – ‘permitting’ the investors to ‘follow’ the investment trades to be undertaken by or for the Newsmax proprietor, Christopher Ruddy, on the advice of the CIA financial operative David Frazier.
We revealed that this operative works for Cheney, and that his task in the operation was to ‘free up’ ‘small money’ dollars in order to generate a pool of US dollars for exchange through the collaborating London-based US agent Dr Cynthia Dremel for the Euros stashed illegally by Cheney abroad while he was in office.
We pointed out inter alia that because this operation involved discounting the US dollar, it was de facto a fraud against the United States. It was also exposed as a form of Ponzi operation, given the incorporation of the 60-day 100% refund ‘guarantee’ which meant that if the subscriber wished, he or she could demand their money back within the 60-day period, during which time the promoters will have had the use of the subscriber’s funds interest-free, and will have been able to trade those funds for their own purposes.
• FACT: Following our exposure, nothing more has been heard of this operation.
Instead, on 6th June, Ruddy started promoting his own appearance at ‘FreedomFest’, scheduled for 9th-11th July 2009, at Bally’s in Las Vegas, to be attended by Steve Forbes and ‘my friend, Mark Skousen’. The Editor recalls that the first commentator to mention the Editor’s investigation into Fraudulent Finance (in 2003) was Mark Skousen, who pooh-poohed what we were doing, adding that ‘Christopher Story would be liable loose all his subscribers’, as a result of this investigation.
Anyway, the hassle-hassle Newsmax sales spiel promoting ‘Your Million Dollar Secret Code’ was suddenly switched from the Ponzi scheme to the urgency of needing to register at Bally’s: ‘You can book your deluxe accommodation for just $74 per night! Rooms are going fast, so register today for Newsmax’s special schedule at FreedomFest – and book your room today’.
• And for goodness sake, don’t ever mention ‘Your Million Dollar Secret Code’, please. Nope: a thick veil has been drawn over that one. Other careless CIA promoters of Ponzi schemes: please note: you may be exposed before you can even get started
Monday, June 8, 2009
WAYNE MADSEN reports, "CHENEY STOLE CASH IN IRAQ"
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20090608
FROM WAYNEMADSEN REPORT:
Monday, June 08, 2009
Cheney tied to cash theft and possible murder in Iraq
According to an informed source, Dick Cheney, while Vice President, amassed a fortune in cash stolen by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq from Saddam Hussein and some of his leading officials and advisers.
Sources report to WMR that U.S. troops confiscated "billions" in currency found stored in aluminum containers in various secret caches in Baghdad and elsewhere.
Our sources report that the seized cash was transferred to accounts run by Cheney and the money is now being partly used to fund Cheney's growing political opposition movement to the Obama administration, including secretive payments to a "stay behind" group of Cheney loyalists who burrowed into senior civil service positions from political appointee jobs during the Bush administration.
Cheney's loyalists are now in key positions to stymie Obama's programs and policies within a variety of Cabinet departments and federal agencies.
The recent intelligence about Iraqi cash ending up in the coffers of American officials is not the first time WMR has reported on the theft of Iraqi cash by U.S. forces.
On November 14, 2005, WMR reported:
"In one of the worst intelligence fiascoes carried out by the neo-con administration of Iraq under Paul "Jerry' Bremer, Saddam Hussein's chief money mover and financial adviser was beaten to death by US interrogators in Tikrit after the U.S. invasion . . .
As Saddam's chief financial adviser and money mover, Abu Seger [Sa'ad Hassan Ali], a man who was fluent in American-style English, knew where all the "financial skeletons" were buried -- details of Halliburton's involvement with the UN's Oil-for-Food program, the purchase by Iraq of VX nerve gas and other WMD components from US and British sources in the 1980s, and various counter-intelligence operations run by Saddam against the United States and Britain. Abu Seger was also one of Saddam's trusted counter-intelligence agents . . .
After Samara was occupied by US forces, it was discovered that Abu Seger lived in a home on the Tigris River just 200 yards from the main U.S. military position in the city. It did not take long for U.S. troops to break down Seger's door and haul him off to a detention center. Seger's wife Sada, an English teacher, and U.S. military intelligence officers were witnesses to what soon transpired. U.S. forces discovered $30 million in plastic garbage bagsin an armoire in Seger's bedroom. Contained in the bags was $14 million in US currency, $28 million in convertible Iraqi dinars, and $12 million in euros.
Although the money was counted, signed for by two U.S. military witnesses,and transported to U.S. military headquarters in Samara, it was never seen again. A knowledgeable source present at the time revealed that the $30 million was stolen by U.S. authorities in Iraq."
Amid the other scandals surrounding Cheney, including his countenance of torture, the theft of cash and his possible involvement in the murder of Abu Seger may be added to the former vice president's rap sheet of crimes perpetrated in Iraq and in the United States.
Cheney recently built a multi-million dollar home in McLean, Virginia, a stone's throw from the CIA headquarters. He also owns luxury houses in Jackson, Wyoming and St. Michael's, Maryland.
Corporate U.S. news media drastically downplayed the amount of cash stolen from Iraq by U.S. forces and that the maximum amount of cash discovered in "cottages" was around $760 million, when, in fact, it was much higher. A handful of U.S. troops were charged with stealing some bundles of $100 bills. According to the May 28, 2004, Los Angeles Times some of the troops who admitted to stealing Iraqi cash tried to tell Army Criminal Investigative Division (CID) investigators that "higher-ups" stole much more, but their information was ignored.
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FROM WAYNEMADSEN REPORT:
Monday, June 08, 2009
Cheney tied to cash theft and possible murder in Iraq
According to an informed source, Dick Cheney, while Vice President, amassed a fortune in cash stolen by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq from Saddam Hussein and some of his leading officials and advisers.
Sources report to WMR that U.S. troops confiscated "billions" in currency found stored in aluminum containers in various secret caches in Baghdad and elsewhere.
Our sources report that the seized cash was transferred to accounts run by Cheney and the money is now being partly used to fund Cheney's growing political opposition movement to the Obama administration, including secretive payments to a "stay behind" group of Cheney loyalists who burrowed into senior civil service positions from political appointee jobs during the Bush administration.
Cheney's loyalists are now in key positions to stymie Obama's programs and policies within a variety of Cabinet departments and federal agencies.
The recent intelligence about Iraqi cash ending up in the coffers of American officials is not the first time WMR has reported on the theft of Iraqi cash by U.S. forces.
On November 14, 2005, WMR reported:
"In one of the worst intelligence fiascoes carried out by the neo-con administration of Iraq under Paul "Jerry' Bremer, Saddam Hussein's chief money mover and financial adviser was beaten to death by US interrogators in Tikrit after the U.S. invasion . . .
As Saddam's chief financial adviser and money mover, Abu Seger [Sa'ad Hassan Ali], a man who was fluent in American-style English, knew where all the "financial skeletons" were buried -- details of Halliburton's involvement with the UN's Oil-for-Food program, the purchase by Iraq of VX nerve gas and other WMD components from US and British sources in the 1980s, and various counter-intelligence operations run by Saddam against the United States and Britain. Abu Seger was also one of Saddam's trusted counter-intelligence agents . . .
After Samara was occupied by US forces, it was discovered that Abu Seger lived in a home on the Tigris River just 200 yards from the main U.S. military position in the city. It did not take long for U.S. troops to break down Seger's door and haul him off to a detention center. Seger's wife Sada, an English teacher, and U.S. military intelligence officers were witnesses to what soon transpired. U.S. forces discovered $30 million in plastic garbage bagsin an armoire in Seger's bedroom. Contained in the bags was $14 million in US currency, $28 million in convertible Iraqi dinars, and $12 million in euros.
Although the money was counted, signed for by two U.S. military witnesses,and transported to U.S. military headquarters in Samara, it was never seen again. A knowledgeable source present at the time revealed that the $30 million was stolen by U.S. authorities in Iraq."
Amid the other scandals surrounding Cheney, including his countenance of torture, the theft of cash and his possible involvement in the murder of Abu Seger may be added to the former vice president's rap sheet of crimes perpetrated in Iraq and in the United States.
Cheney recently built a multi-million dollar home in McLean, Virginia, a stone's throw from the CIA headquarters. He also owns luxury houses in Jackson, Wyoming and St. Michael's, Maryland.
Corporate U.S. news media drastically downplayed the amount of cash stolen from Iraq by U.S. forces and that the maximum amount of cash discovered in "cottages" was around $760 million, when, in fact, it was much higher. A handful of U.S. troops were charged with stealing some bundles of $100 bills. According to the May 28, 2004, Los Angeles Times some of the troops who admitted to stealing Iraqi cash tried to tell Army Criminal Investigative Division (CID) investigators that "higher-ups" stole much more, but their information was ignored.
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BUSH CRIME FAMILY PUNK JOHNNY SUTTON helped whack out the competition: DRUG WAR LIES ensure profits for all insiders
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2009/06/ice-us-prosecutors-turned-blind-eye-juarez-death-houses
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ICE, U.S. prosecutors turned blind eye to Juarez death houses
Posted by Bill Conroy - June 5, 2009 at 12:31 am
Informant claims his U.S. handlers ignored carnage because it occurred “on Mexican soil”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in El Paso, Texas, were made aware of multiple torture and death houses used by narco-trafficking cells in Juarez but failed to follow-up on the information or report it to the Mexican government, according to an informant who was employed by the federal law enforcement agency between 2000 and 2004.
“[ICE] was aware these people [in the Juarez drug organization] were ruthless and powerful,” the informant told Narco News during a recent telephone interview. “If they say kill someone, you do it, or you get killed. I explained that to Customs [ICE], that those are the conditions I would have to work under, and they [the informant’s ICE handlers] said ‘Yes,’ and I began to infiltrate the cartel.”
The informant said many of the people who were murdered at these death houses were operating in Juarez without the permission of the dominate Vicente Carrillo Fuentes drug organization (VCF).
“Nobody was allowed to work cocaine in the city, and if they did, they would be killed,” he said. “We [ICE through the informant] had infiltrated the most powerful criminal organization in the country [Mexico] and they kill people as part of their work. There’s n o way to avoid it .”
And ICE and the U.S. prosecutors in El Paso and San Antonio, Texas, working the investigation that utilized the informant understood that reality, according to the informant.
The informant told Narco News that there were a “number of death houses” in Juarez that he became familiar with as part of his work for ICE.
“ICE knew about these houses where they were torturing and killing people,” the informant said. “I would report on these houses in debriefings [with ICE] but they never asked me where the houses were. I had the addresses, but ICE never asked me for the addresses.”
The informant said U.S. law enforcers and prosecutors didn’t seem to care about the murders since they were happening “on Mexican soil.” The revelation that ICE and U.S. prosecutors were made aware that there were multiple death houses in operation while the informant was working for them is important because the informant has since been accused of helping to facilitate some of the murders — with the U.S. government’s knowledge.
Trail of Blood
The informant, a former Mexican cop named Guillermo E. Ramirez Peyro (also known as “Lalo”), admits to participating in at least one murder carried out at a death house at 3633 Parsioneros in Juarez. He also admitted in the interview with Narco News that he was present at the house when two additional victims were tortured and murdered. A gravedigger who worked with Lalo (the bodies were buried in the backyard of the house) claims the informant was actually present for at least five of the murders at the Parsioneros House of Death.
Overall, between August 2003 and mid-January 2004, a total of a dozen people were tortured, murdered and dumped in shallow graves in the backyard of the Parsioneros home, with Lalo serving as the gatekeeper for the murder chamber while working covertly for ICE (paid more than $200,000 overall by the U.S. government) and under the direction of Heriberto Santillan Tabares — a cell leader for the VCF drug organization.
After participating in the first murder and making his ICE handlers aware of that fact, Lalo was authorized through high-level approvals from ICE and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to continue his mission — resulting in at least 11 more murders and the near assassination of a DEA agent assigned to Juarez (who was mistakenly identified as a corrupt Customs inspector by one of Santillan’s torture victims).
Lalo told Narco News that while working for ICE, his phone was wired and he also carried a digital tape recorder provided to him by his handlers — and he occasionally wore a body wire during his assignment. As a result, Lalo said his ICE handlers, and the prosecutors they worked with, were fully aware that people were being murdered at the House of Death on Parsioneros, sometimes in advance of those murders.
“I would get a call to come [from El Paso or to contact someone else] to open up the house [in Juarez] for a carne asada [codeword for a torture/murder session],” Lalo said. “And I know at least five or six times those calls were being monitored by ICE.”
Lalo said he was not required to be present at every murder carried out at the Parsioneros house, but he was required to “check on” the activities and “to take charge if there was a problem.” In addition, Lalo said some bodies were delivered to the Parsioneros house for burial as a result of murders that took place elsewhere.
Lalo said his boss, Santillan, was part of a cell that reported to a “control group,” which oversaw numerous other cells that also operated death houses.
“So there were many houses,” Lalo said. “At some point, they would leave those houses and move to other houses [to carry out the torture and murders, often disposing of the bodies at the houses]. So there are a lot more of them [than just the Parsioneros house].”
Lalos said Santillan was under the direction of the “control group,” so “he was involved with some of the other houses.” Lalo stressed that he made his ICE handlers aware of the extent of this death machine, but they chose not to act on the information or to inform the Mexican government — though DOJ and ICE officials at the highest levels sanctioned the continuation of Lalo’s activities even after they were made aware of his participation in murder at the Parsioneros House of Death.
This all played out despite the fact that the U.S. Attorney overseeing the case at the time, Johnny Sutton in San Antonio, had enough evidence to close out the investigation against Santillan several months prior to the first House of Death murder.
“Why ICE [and Sutton] did not shut down the operation, I cannot say,” Lalo told Narco News. “They gave me the order to continue.”
Lalo points out, however, that at the same time he was working as an informant on the Santillan case, he also was working for ICE as an informant in a separate cigarette-smuggling case. Pulling the plug on either investigation too soon would have likely blown Lalo’s cover since he would probably have been required to testify in court. That, in turn, would have jeopardized any ongoing investigation.
When a lone DEA commander, Sandalio Gonzalez, in El Paso sought to expose the U.S. government’s complicity in the needless carnage, via a memo drafted in February 2004, rather than investigate the charges, U.S. Attorney Sutton chose instead to use his pull within DOJ to retaliate against the whistleblower and assure his message was silenced.
As it turned out, likely due to Gonzalez’s memo exposing the U.S. government’s role in the Parsioneros House of Death murders, Lalo was never called to testify in either the Santillan or cigarette-smuggling case — because Sutton cut plea deals in each, assuring that ICE and his office’s role in the Juarez carnage were never exposed to the light of day through public court proceedings.
Return to Sender
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, is now seeking to deport Lalo, who claims that, once returned to Mexico, the narco-traffickers he betrayed will murder him — with the help of Mexican government officials and law enforcers who are employed by those same narco-traffickers. In fact, even a DOJ attorney, in recent pleadings in Lalo’s deportation case, agreed that he will likely be murdered if returned to Mexico, yet DOJ continues to argue for his deportation.
Lalo’s case is currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He is now being held in solitary confinement in a county jail in Minnesota, where, he claims, he spends 21 hours a day in an eight-by-eight-foot cell and passes the time reading the Bible, mysteries or peering through his cell door to catch a glimpse of a TV in a nearby room.
Other than being granted an occasional phone call, “I can’t speak to anyone,” Lalo told Narco News. He added that he is willing to “have a face-to-face” interview with anyone in the media to discuss his case, “but the government will not approve it.”
Lalo was only able to speak with Narco News after his attorney forwarded contact information to him, along with a few bucks from this correspondent to pay for his prepaid phone card.
“They say it’s for my safety [being held in solitary confinement], yet they are trying to send me back to Mexico [to be killed],” Lalo said. “It’s ridiculous.”
Lalo explained that the leadership of the Juarez drug organization, along with the top leadership from the other major narco-trafficking groups in Mexico, “has good relations with the Mexican government.”
“I’ll even give [Mexican President] Calderon the benefit of the doubt in his war against narco-traffickers, but the problem is, to do it effectively, he would have to bring in people from another planet,” Lalo said, in offering his take on Calderon’s current military assault on drug traffickers. “That’s because many of his commanders, in the military and police, along with politicians, are already corrupted. … The Juarez cartel, military and law enforcement are all the same people.”
That reality, Lalo said, is why he is doomed if deported to Mexico, since he would in all likelihood be picked up by Mexican police “and it is Mexican law enforcement that does the killing for the cartels.”
Lalo explained that the leadership of the Juarez drug organization, along with that of other major drug organizations, such as the Sinaloa and Gulf “cartels,” work with each other and with the government “all the way up to the president’s office.”
Under this top leadership, Lalo claimed, exists what he termed the “control groups” that oversee operations for the various drug organizations in major markets under the direction of the top leaders — such as Vicente Carrillo Fuentes or Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman-Loera and others at the apex of the narco-trafficking business in Mexico. These control groups also are headed by bosses — an individual known only as “No. 1” in Juarez, for example, Lalo explained.
Under the control groups are a host of “cells,” such as the group that was headed by Santillan.
“The members of these cells don’t know who the other cells are,” Lalo said. “The cell leadership just reports to the control group in the city. So it is the control groups who give the orders.”
In addition, according to Lalo, these cells don’t work exclusively with one narco-trafficking organization. They may do a job for the Juarez organization one time and the Sinaloa organization another time, he said.
“So it’s not exclusive,” Lalo added. “It all depends on who their customers are. A cell does not belong to one [narco-trafficking organization]. The only exclusive [relationship] is between the control group [and the top drug-organization leadership].”
The ramp-up in violence in Juarez over the past few years (more than 1,600 murders in 2008 alone), even with the presence of the Mexican military, Lalo said, makes perfect sense if you consider the true dynamics of how the business works in Mexico.
“The [leadership] of the Juarez cartel is not worried about the military,” he said. “They are tipped off when something is taking place and simply lay low. What they [the military] is doing is combating the competition of the cartel.”
That competition, according to Lalo, is coming from the ranks of the poor in Mexico, who, as they have become increasingly desperate in an ailing free-trade economy, see the narco-trafficking business as an opportunity to overcome their plight, despite the grave risk.
“Regardless of the danger, they are willing to take a chance of having five good years of life rather than a whole life of poorness,” Lalo said. “What has increased in the last few years is the competition as a result.
“… There is this permanent war against narco-trafficking, and the U.S. is spending a lot of money to combat it, but nothing is changing. Things are the same as they were 20 years ago, only more ruthless now.”
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TOMMY:
You'll notice that former US ATTY FOR THE WEST DIST OF TEXAS, JOHNNY SUTTON recently had to resign after HOLDER started asking questions like...uh...."mind taking a polygraph on Bean's accusations that you OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE IN THE DICK CHENEY MURDER OF CHRISTINA MOORE?"
Sutton ducked a DOJ OPR polygraph...and resigned.
Now...DOJ OPR does not have jurisdiction or perogatives to demand a polygraph since...SUTTON is not a DOJ employee...right?
SUTTON slimed his way over to ASHCROFT'S LAW FIRM where he now helps our former US Attorney swindle 53 million dollars as part of a kick back scheme with the US Atty who deferred prosecution to insert a civil type payment of 53 million dollars that....ASHCROFT GETS PAID as some kind of court master or fiduciary.
Of course there are kickbacks to all involved when PROSECUTION is avoided after 53 MILLION IS PAID OUT.
Nice scam.
Nice fraud.
Nice EXTORTION by DOJ, Ashcroft and Sutton....doncha know?
copy and paste link into google:
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2009/05/ex-us-attorney-johnny-sutton-back-justice-game
CLICK BLOGPOST TITLE TO GET LINKED TO ARTICLE AT NARCO NEWS:
ICE, U.S. prosecutors turned blind eye to Juarez death houses
Posted by Bill Conroy - June 5, 2009 at 12:31 am
Informant claims his U.S. handlers ignored carnage because it occurred “on Mexican soil”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in El Paso, Texas, were made aware of multiple torture and death houses used by narco-trafficking cells in Juarez but failed to follow-up on the information or report it to the Mexican government, according to an informant who was employed by the federal law enforcement agency between 2000 and 2004.
“[ICE] was aware these people [in the Juarez drug organization] were ruthless and powerful,” the informant told Narco News during a recent telephone interview. “If they say kill someone, you do it, or you get killed. I explained that to Customs [ICE], that those are the conditions I would have to work under, and they [the informant’s ICE handlers] said ‘Yes,’ and I began to infiltrate the cartel.”
The informant said many of the people who were murdered at these death houses were operating in Juarez without the permission of the dominate Vicente Carrillo Fuentes drug organization (VCF).
“Nobody was allowed to work cocaine in the city, and if they did, they would be killed,” he said. “We [ICE through the informant] had infiltrated the most powerful criminal organization in the country [Mexico] and they kill people as part of their work. There’s n o way to avoid it .”
And ICE and the U.S. prosecutors in El Paso and San Antonio, Texas, working the investigation that utilized the informant understood that reality, according to the informant.
The informant told Narco News that there were a “number of death houses” in Juarez that he became familiar with as part of his work for ICE.
“ICE knew about these houses where they were torturing and killing people,” the informant said. “I would report on these houses in debriefings [with ICE] but they never asked me where the houses were. I had the addresses, but ICE never asked me for the addresses.”
The informant said U.S. law enforcers and prosecutors didn’t seem to care about the murders since they were happening “on Mexican soil.” The revelation that ICE and U.S. prosecutors were made aware that there were multiple death houses in operation while the informant was working for them is important because the informant has since been accused of helping to facilitate some of the murders — with the U.S. government’s knowledge.
Trail of Blood
The informant, a former Mexican cop named Guillermo E. Ramirez Peyro (also known as “Lalo”), admits to participating in at least one murder carried out at a death house at 3633 Parsioneros in Juarez. He also admitted in the interview with Narco News that he was present at the house when two additional victims were tortured and murdered. A gravedigger who worked with Lalo (the bodies were buried in the backyard of the house) claims the informant was actually present for at least five of the murders at the Parsioneros House of Death.
Overall, between August 2003 and mid-January 2004, a total of a dozen people were tortured, murdered and dumped in shallow graves in the backyard of the Parsioneros home, with Lalo serving as the gatekeeper for the murder chamber while working covertly for ICE (paid more than $200,000 overall by the U.S. government) and under the direction of Heriberto Santillan Tabares — a cell leader for the VCF drug organization.
After participating in the first murder and making his ICE handlers aware of that fact, Lalo was authorized through high-level approvals from ICE and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to continue his mission — resulting in at least 11 more murders and the near assassination of a DEA agent assigned to Juarez (who was mistakenly identified as a corrupt Customs inspector by one of Santillan’s torture victims).
Lalo told Narco News that while working for ICE, his phone was wired and he also carried a digital tape recorder provided to him by his handlers — and he occasionally wore a body wire during his assignment. As a result, Lalo said his ICE handlers, and the prosecutors they worked with, were fully aware that people were being murdered at the House of Death on Parsioneros, sometimes in advance of those murders.
“I would get a call to come [from El Paso or to contact someone else] to open up the house [in Juarez] for a carne asada [codeword for a torture/murder session],” Lalo said. “And I know at least five or six times those calls were being monitored by ICE.”
Lalo said he was not required to be present at every murder carried out at the Parsioneros house, but he was required to “check on” the activities and “to take charge if there was a problem.” In addition, Lalo said some bodies were delivered to the Parsioneros house for burial as a result of murders that took place elsewhere.
Lalo said his boss, Santillan, was part of a cell that reported to a “control group,” which oversaw numerous other cells that also operated death houses.
“So there were many houses,” Lalo said. “At some point, they would leave those houses and move to other houses [to carry out the torture and murders, often disposing of the bodies at the houses]. So there are a lot more of them [than just the Parsioneros house].”
Lalos said Santillan was under the direction of the “control group,” so “he was involved with some of the other houses.” Lalo stressed that he made his ICE handlers aware of the extent of this death machine, but they chose not to act on the information or to inform the Mexican government — though DOJ and ICE officials at the highest levels sanctioned the continuation of Lalo’s activities even after they were made aware of his participation in murder at the Parsioneros House of Death.
This all played out despite the fact that the U.S. Attorney overseeing the case at the time, Johnny Sutton in San Antonio, had enough evidence to close out the investigation against Santillan several months prior to the first House of Death murder.
“Why ICE [and Sutton] did not shut down the operation, I cannot say,” Lalo told Narco News. “They gave me the order to continue.”
Lalo points out, however, that at the same time he was working as an informant on the Santillan case, he also was working for ICE as an informant in a separate cigarette-smuggling case. Pulling the plug on either investigation too soon would have likely blown Lalo’s cover since he would probably have been required to testify in court. That, in turn, would have jeopardized any ongoing investigation.
When a lone DEA commander, Sandalio Gonzalez, in El Paso sought to expose the U.S. government’s complicity in the needless carnage, via a memo drafted in February 2004, rather than investigate the charges, U.S. Attorney Sutton chose instead to use his pull within DOJ to retaliate against the whistleblower and assure his message was silenced.
As it turned out, likely due to Gonzalez’s memo exposing the U.S. government’s role in the Parsioneros House of Death murders, Lalo was never called to testify in either the Santillan or cigarette-smuggling case — because Sutton cut plea deals in each, assuring that ICE and his office’s role in the Juarez carnage were never exposed to the light of day through public court proceedings.
Return to Sender
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, is now seeking to deport Lalo, who claims that, once returned to Mexico, the narco-traffickers he betrayed will murder him — with the help of Mexican government officials and law enforcers who are employed by those same narco-traffickers. In fact, even a DOJ attorney, in recent pleadings in Lalo’s deportation case, agreed that he will likely be murdered if returned to Mexico, yet DOJ continues to argue for his deportation.
Lalo’s case is currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He is now being held in solitary confinement in a county jail in Minnesota, where, he claims, he spends 21 hours a day in an eight-by-eight-foot cell and passes the time reading the Bible, mysteries or peering through his cell door to catch a glimpse of a TV in a nearby room.
Other than being granted an occasional phone call, “I can’t speak to anyone,” Lalo told Narco News. He added that he is willing to “have a face-to-face” interview with anyone in the media to discuss his case, “but the government will not approve it.”
Lalo was only able to speak with Narco News after his attorney forwarded contact information to him, along with a few bucks from this correspondent to pay for his prepaid phone card.
“They say it’s for my safety [being held in solitary confinement], yet they are trying to send me back to Mexico [to be killed],” Lalo said. “It’s ridiculous.”
Lalo explained that the leadership of the Juarez drug organization, along with the top leadership from the other major narco-trafficking groups in Mexico, “has good relations with the Mexican government.”
“I’ll even give [Mexican President] Calderon the benefit of the doubt in his war against narco-traffickers, but the problem is, to do it effectively, he would have to bring in people from another planet,” Lalo said, in offering his take on Calderon’s current military assault on drug traffickers. “That’s because many of his commanders, in the military and police, along with politicians, are already corrupted. … The Juarez cartel, military and law enforcement are all the same people.”
That reality, Lalo said, is why he is doomed if deported to Mexico, since he would in all likelihood be picked up by Mexican police “and it is Mexican law enforcement that does the killing for the cartels.”
Lalo explained that the leadership of the Juarez drug organization, along with that of other major drug organizations, such as the Sinaloa and Gulf “cartels,” work with each other and with the government “all the way up to the president’s office.”
Under this top leadership, Lalo claimed, exists what he termed the “control groups” that oversee operations for the various drug organizations in major markets under the direction of the top leaders — such as Vicente Carrillo Fuentes or Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman-Loera and others at the apex of the narco-trafficking business in Mexico. These control groups also are headed by bosses — an individual known only as “No. 1” in Juarez, for example, Lalo explained.
Under the control groups are a host of “cells,” such as the group that was headed by Santillan.
“The members of these cells don’t know who the other cells are,” Lalo said. “The cell leadership just reports to the control group in the city. So it is the control groups who give the orders.”
In addition, according to Lalo, these cells don’t work exclusively with one narco-trafficking organization. They may do a job for the Juarez organization one time and the Sinaloa organization another time, he said.
“So it’s not exclusive,” Lalo added. “It all depends on who their customers are. A cell does not belong to one [narco-trafficking organization]. The only exclusive [relationship] is between the control group [and the top drug-organization leadership].”
The ramp-up in violence in Juarez over the past few years (more than 1,600 murders in 2008 alone), even with the presence of the Mexican military, Lalo said, makes perfect sense if you consider the true dynamics of how the business works in Mexico.
“The [leadership] of the Juarez cartel is not worried about the military,” he said. “They are tipped off when something is taking place and simply lay low. What they [the military] is doing is combating the competition of the cartel.”
That competition, according to Lalo, is coming from the ranks of the poor in Mexico, who, as they have become increasingly desperate in an ailing free-trade economy, see the narco-trafficking business as an opportunity to overcome their plight, despite the grave risk.
“Regardless of the danger, they are willing to take a chance of having five good years of life rather than a whole life of poorness,” Lalo said. “What has increased in the last few years is the competition as a result.
“… There is this permanent war against narco-trafficking, and the U.S. is spending a lot of money to combat it, but nothing is changing. Things are the same as they were 20 years ago, only more ruthless now.”
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TOMMY:
You'll notice that former US ATTY FOR THE WEST DIST OF TEXAS, JOHNNY SUTTON recently had to resign after HOLDER started asking questions like...uh...."mind taking a polygraph on Bean's accusations that you OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE IN THE DICK CHENEY MURDER OF CHRISTINA MOORE?"
Sutton ducked a DOJ OPR polygraph...and resigned.
Now...DOJ OPR does not have jurisdiction or perogatives to demand a polygraph since...SUTTON is not a DOJ employee...right?
SUTTON slimed his way over to ASHCROFT'S LAW FIRM where he now helps our former US Attorney swindle 53 million dollars as part of a kick back scheme with the US Atty who deferred prosecution to insert a civil type payment of 53 million dollars that....ASHCROFT GETS PAID as some kind of court master or fiduciary.
Of course there are kickbacks to all involved when PROSECUTION is avoided after 53 MILLION IS PAID OUT.
Nice scam.
Nice fraud.
Nice EXTORTION by DOJ, Ashcroft and Sutton....doncha know?
copy and paste link into google:
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2009/05/ex-us-attorney-johnny-sutton-back-justice-game
Saturday, June 6, 2009
THOMAS S. BEAN has to testify about ENHANCED INTERROGATIONS...aka MIND CONTROL CHIPPING and DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON ATTACKS on a DOJ complainant
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/intel-firestorm-gop-reveals-briefing-info-2009-06-04.html
Intel firestorm: Republicans reveal briefing info
By Jared Allen
Posted: 06/04/09 09:45 PM [ET]
Republicans ignited a firestorm of controversy on Thursday by revealing some of what they had been told at a closed-door Intelligence Committee hearing on the interrogation of terrorism suspects.
Democrats immediately blasted the GOP lawmakers for publicly discussing classified information, while Republicans said Democrats are trying to hide the truth that enhanced interrogation of detainees is effective.
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tommy:
From my perspective the interrogation techniques used on me...were not INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES used to gather info to prevent attack.
Nope.
The interrogation was used as a "subliminal mind control debriefing" in clear violation of my 4th, 5th, and 6th amendment rights.
And the goal was...."location of my tapes" proving FBI--NSA CRIMES including TITLE III VIOLATIONS, PERJURY, SUBORNING PERJURY, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, MISPRISION OF A FELONY, etc.
The goal was...to find my cache of info and evidence,...to steal by FBI to prevent my use of my own property and evidence.
FBI USES SNEAK AND PEAK AND SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING TO STEAL MY EVIDENCE.
THERE WAS NO INTERROGATION TO PREVENT TERRORIST ATTACKS...only INTERROGATION AND TORTURE TO PREVENT THE FILING OF A CIVIL SUIT with emphasis on "FBI CONSPIRING TO BLOW UP MURRAY BUILDING IN OK CITY" and RCMP ARREST FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S DRUG PIPELINE IN MONTANA....and FBI HITMAN MIKE "chuckie" PETERS cleaning up the operation with murder of witnesses.
NOBODY EXCEPT GOSS--DUMSFIELD--MUELLER would TORTURE AND MIND CONTROL a COOPERATING WITNESS WHO SIGNED A US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT?
TORTURE used to neutralize a civil suit...FBI KNEW ABOUT FROM THEIR MAGIC LANTERN KEYSTROKE LOGGER PLACED ON MY COMPUTER.
FBI had to stop my access to the fed court system.
THEN...FBI STOLE X RAYS AND FLIPPED THE DOCTORS TO PREVENT ME FROM ENJOYING A DUE PROCESS LIBERTY INTEREST IN A COURSE OF MEDICAL CARE...to take the mind control chip out.
READ MY COMPLAINT...then understand the truth: TORTURE WAS USED TO STOP ME FROM FILING A SECTION 1983 CIVIL SUIT AND MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF....SCANDALS for FBI included the CIA TORTURES OF RICH GORDON, DR MARK GORDON, LEROY ROGERS, etc.
TORTURE used to murder and maim lawyers....preventing civil suit filing.
TORTURE used against POLITICAL ENEMIES WHO ACTUALLY COOPERATE WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND AGREE TO TAKE POLYGRAPHS. BEAN actually tried to stop FBI FROM BLOWING UP OK CITY IN 95 with tip to SFPD and my "offer to take a polygraph exam".
It's called UPHOLDING THE MISPRISION OF A FELONY STATUTE.
IT'S CALLED PATRIOTISM.
DR MARK GORDON also tortured with microwave radiation as a MURDER CONSPIRACY while Gordon had already taken polygraph exams at ST. PAUL FED BUILDING...exams gave FBI EXCULPATORY INFO that SF FBI PUNKS DAVE "fuckface" HELLER, little pussy DANNY "shithead" REYNALDS, and fired fuckhead and former SD US ATTY JAMES MCMAHON did not turn over to local MINNEHAHA CTY STATES ATTY DAVE NELSON who got local punk judges to rubberstamp ex parte warrant applications with "illegally obtained info" and "knowingly false info" used to mislead JUDGE PETER GREGORY.
JUDGE GREGORY...later destroyed by FBI--CIA--DOD--SFPD because "...GREGORY WOULD NOT TURN OVER HIS COPY OF THE BOGUS EX PARTE WARRANT APPLICATION" that proved FBI TITLE III FELONIES when FBI "uses and disseminates illegally obtained info in violation of Title III" and "launders illegally obtained info through bogus sources".
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GOP members on the Intelligence Committee on Thursday told The Hill in on-the-record interviews that they were informed that the controversial methods have led to information that prevented terrorist attacks.
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tommy:
NOPE.
THAT IS A SPIN CONTROL LIE THAT NEEDS TO BE EXPLAINED.
The FBI--CIA--DOD--GOP have spun "civil suit filings" alluding to outrageous crimes...as a "terrorist attack" when in fact...EXPOSURE IS NOT A TERRORIST ATTACK.
A CIVIL SUIT FILING...IS NOT A TERRORIST ATTACK.
But...the interrogation techniques did....give them valuable info and it did prevent my civil suit filing. So...IMPEACHMENT (also known as a "terrorist attack") was AVERTED USING ORWELL MEETS KAFKA FELONY CRIMES that BOB MUELLER, SF FBI, AND SD US ATTY MARTY JACKLEY silently sanctioned and "wish to this day to cover up" and "keep out of the news".
IF DEMS WOULD ASK ME TO TESTIFY WITH A POLYGRAPH BEFORE AND AFTER TESTIFYING...I CAN PUT DICK CHENEY ON FED DEATH ROW FOR THE SAVAGE MURDER OF CHRISTINA MOORE IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS, on 9/23/03.
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When told of the GOP claims, Democrats strongly criticized the members who revealed information that was provided at the closed House Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing. Democrats on the panel said they could not respond substantively, pointing out that the hearing was closed.
In the bowels of the Capitol Visitor Center, members of the panel gathered behind locked doors on Thursday morning to begin a series of hearings on the interrogation of terrorism suspects.
What began as a remarkably quiet and secretive hearing had, within a matter of hours, exploded into a political brawl over intelligence matters and national security.
Despite the weeks-long furor over how the CIA came to use enhanced interrogation techniques, and what members of Congress were told about their development and implementation, the committee’s first hearing on the issue during the 111th Congress almost came and went without notice. The hearing was announced publicly but was not open to the public.
According to Republicans, that was by design.
“Democrats weren’t sure what they were going to get,” said Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Mich.), ranking Republican on the Intelligence panel, referring to information on the merits of enhanced interrogation techniques. “Now that they know what they’ve got, they don’t want to talk about it.”
The hearing was publicly described only as a subcommittee hearing on “Interrogations.” A committee spokeswoman would not comment on whether the development and use of controversial interrogation tactics were discussed.
But Republicans on the panel said that not only did the use of interrogation techniques come up Thursday, but that the data shared about those techniques proved they had led to valuable information that in some instances prevented terrorist attacks.
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tommy:
HOW do you characterize as "terrorists" the following innocent white collar professionals:
--RICH GORDON,
--DR MARK GORDON,
--LEROY ROGERS,
--JOHN KABIESEMAN,
--MARK DEFENBAUGH,
--BOB NELSON,
--JON VAN PATTEN,
--THOMAS S. BEAN.
"Terrorists?...political crimes of violence?...."...why don't the DEMOCRATS HAVE THOMAS S. BEAN TESTIFY TRUTHFULLY TO LAY A FOUNDATION THAT IS LATER CORROBORATED BY SF FBI SPECIAL AGENT STEVEN PLUTA AND MATT MILLER who were "running a JFLTTF on me" at the time of the TORTURES AND MAIMINGS IN SOUTH DAKOTA that had...no rational reasonable relationship to any interrogation seeking info to prevent a terroristic attack?
A civil suit and Motion for Injunctive Relief...IS NOT A TERRORISTIC ATTACK...right?
HOW IS KNOWLEDGE OF THE DASCHLE WIRETAPPING...and potential exposure in a civil suit...a TERRORISTIC ATTACK?
HOW IS knowledge and civil suit filing citing "RCMP warrant for MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON", with money laundering by Racicot into GOP campaigns...with murder by FBI HITMAN AND STALKER MIKE "chuckie" PETERS....a terroristic attack/
THE GOP FBI PUNKS MENT TO SAY THAT....EXPOSURE ON IMPEACHEABLE CRIMES is terroristic, and it is a political attack...therefore...WE CAN MURDER, MAIM, MIND CONTROL, AND FRY WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION.
THAT is what the GOP meant to say.
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Hoekstra did not attend the hearing, but said he later spoke with Republicans on the subcommittee who did. He said he came away with even more proof that the enhanced interrogation techniques employed by the CIA proved effective.
“I think the people who were at the hearing, in my opinion, clearly indicated that the enhanced interrogation techniques worked,” Hoekstra said.
Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), a member of the subcommittee who attended the hearing, concurred with Hoekstra.
“The hearing did address the enhanced interrogation techniques that have been much in the news lately,” Kline said, noting that he was intentionally choosing his words carefully in observance of the committee rules and the nature of the information presented.
“Based on what I heard and the documents I have seen, I came away with a very clear impression that we did gather information that did disrupt terrorist plots,” Kline said.
Neither Hoekstra nor Kline revealed details about the specifics of what they were told Thursday or the identity of the briefers.
Democrats lambasted their Republican counterparts for discussing the information that was provided behind locked doors.
“I am absolutely shocked that members of the Intelligence committee who attended a closed-door hearing … then walked out that hearing — early, by the way — and characterized anything that happened in that hearing,” said Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). “My understanding is that’s a violation of the rules. It may be more than that.”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) said, “Members on both sides need to watch what they say.”
Both Schakowsky and Reyes accused GOP members of playing politics with national security.
“I think they are playing a very dangerous game when it comes to the discussion of matters that were sensitive enough to be part of a closed hearing,” Schakowsky said.
Asked about the validity of Republican contentions that information shared in Thursday’s hearing showed the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation techniques, Schakowsky said she could not comment on what was discussed at a closed hearing.
Reyes responded by saying he did not attend the entire hearing.
“I wasn’t at the whole hearing,” Reyes said. “As the chairman my view is we need to get the facts about how the enhanced interrogation techniques came about, not just the results.”
That task has become complicated for Democrats, as has the task of proving any effectiveness, or not, of waterboarding and other similar methods of interrogation.
While Democrats, led by President Obama, have firmly labeled those methods torture, cast doubt on their utility and called for their abolition, Republicans, led by former Vice President Cheney, have consistently said they have worked.
Cheney has called on Obama to declassify CIA information that he says will show that enhanced interrogation techniques have made the U.S. safer.
Since Obama’s release of the Bush administration legal memos justifying the use of many of those enhanced interrogation techniques, Democrats have been on the defensive on an issue they hoped would place them on the political and moral high ground.
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tommy:
WHENEVER THE PUNK DEMS want to go on the offensive...I have all the facts and documents showing that TORTURE WAS USED AS A COINTELPRO PATRIOT ACT CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER, WHILE TAMPERING WITH A DOJ WITNESS WHO ALSO SENT A TEN PAGE MEMO TO SEN GRASSLEY.
ANYTIME THE DEMS...get tired of being outlied based on "none of the dispositive facts" being available to "launch their attacks"...all they got to do is follow my orders to....SUBPOENA MY TESTIMONY...and follow that foundation to corroborating witnesses.
All you need to do...is meet with me to discuss your options and...once again...FEEL FREE TO PAY A HUNDRED BUCKS TO POLYGRAPH ME AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.
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And at the center of the storm has been House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Pelosi has been dogged for weeks about how much she was told by CIA officials about the development and use of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques.
Pelosi last month accused the CIA of lying to Congress about its treatment of suspected terrorists and detainees.
Republican leaders have since demanded that Pelosi either back up those claims or apologize.
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TOMMY:
I'll be happy to help Nancy back it up.
I know how CIA lied.
They lied by omission, and got the WAR COMMISSIONS ACT PASSED only because...the DEMS WERE LEFT WITHOUT DETAILED DISCLOSURE intentionally obscuring the MOST OUTRAGEOUS MURDERS OF POLITICAL ENEMIES all wrapped around "TORTURE USED TO STOP ATTACKS" AND SECURITY....when in fact....GOP--NSA--DOD--CIA--FBI--DOJ has alot to hide and "are terrorized" by any kind of due process fair playing field.
Call me to testify...I WILL PUT THEM ALL IN JAIL FOR MURDER, ATTEMPTED MURDER, AND PATRIOT ACT CRIMES well known to MINNEAPOLIS AND SIOUX FALLS SD FBI AGENTS.
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House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday pressed the issue.
“It’s been three weeks since I asked Speaker Pelosi to back up her allegations that the CIA lied to her or purposely misled her,” Boehner said at his weekly press conference. “Allowing this to hang out there is unconscionable. And I just think the silence from Speaker Pelosi is deafening.”
On Thursday Pelosi was asked if she was still receiving intelligence briefings.
“I’ve said what I’m going to say on that subject,” she immediately replied.
Before the reporter could repeat the question, Pelosi answered, “Yes, I am. Yes, I am.”
As part of their line of attack, Republicans have called not just for open hearings on interrogations, but for an inquiry in which Pelosi would testify about what she was told by the CIA, as well as for the release of still-classified documents they say will back up their claims that waterboarding and other methods have yielded valuable intelligence.
“We’ve asked for hearings,” Hoekstra said. “Clearly the chairman and I are of different thinking on this. But I think a whole lot of questions would be answered if those materials would be released.”
Reyes contended that the committee is acting appropriately.
“We want to know everything there is to know about interrogation, wherever that leads us,” Reyes said. “This was just the first hearing.”
“They can talk all they want and they can continue to make a political issue out of it,” he said of Republicans. “We will continue to do our work.”
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TOMMY:
IF THE REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING THEY WANT HEARINGS...HOW COME NOT ONE DEMOCRATIC PUSSY OR REPUBLICAN PUNK has ever once...used my name in public?...or the specific facts mentioned in numerous complaints?
LOOKS LIKE LEAHY has no other option but to let me testify?
The GOP just said they want to hold hearings on interrogations?
So....how come no punk clown pussy at GOP or Dems will ever, ever, ever...let me testify truthfully in any sort of oversight hearing?
I am the only PRIMARY WITNESS who can put it all together and lay the foundation leading to SD HWPATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT'S MURDER INVESTIGATION BEING OBSTRUCTED BY SF FBI, AND SD DOJ, AND CHENEY WHITE HOUSE when...STATE SECRETS WERE USED TO STOP A SD INVESTIGATION OF TWO MURDERS OF TWO OF MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES?
Intel firestorm: Republicans reveal briefing info
By Jared Allen
Posted: 06/04/09 09:45 PM [ET]
Republicans ignited a firestorm of controversy on Thursday by revealing some of what they had been told at a closed-door Intelligence Committee hearing on the interrogation of terrorism suspects.
Democrats immediately blasted the GOP lawmakers for publicly discussing classified information, while Republicans said Democrats are trying to hide the truth that enhanced interrogation of detainees is effective.
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tommy:
From my perspective the interrogation techniques used on me...were not INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES used to gather info to prevent attack.
Nope.
The interrogation was used as a "subliminal mind control debriefing" in clear violation of my 4th, 5th, and 6th amendment rights.
And the goal was...."location of my tapes" proving FBI--NSA CRIMES including TITLE III VIOLATIONS, PERJURY, SUBORNING PERJURY, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, MISPRISION OF A FELONY, etc.
The goal was...to find my cache of info and evidence,...to steal by FBI to prevent my use of my own property and evidence.
FBI USES SNEAK AND PEAK AND SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING TO STEAL MY EVIDENCE.
THERE WAS NO INTERROGATION TO PREVENT TERRORIST ATTACKS...only INTERROGATION AND TORTURE TO PREVENT THE FILING OF A CIVIL SUIT with emphasis on "FBI CONSPIRING TO BLOW UP MURRAY BUILDING IN OK CITY" and RCMP ARREST FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S DRUG PIPELINE IN MONTANA....and FBI HITMAN MIKE "chuckie" PETERS cleaning up the operation with murder of witnesses.
NOBODY EXCEPT GOSS--DUMSFIELD--MUELLER would TORTURE AND MIND CONTROL a COOPERATING WITNESS WHO SIGNED A US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT?
TORTURE used to neutralize a civil suit...FBI KNEW ABOUT FROM THEIR MAGIC LANTERN KEYSTROKE LOGGER PLACED ON MY COMPUTER.
FBI had to stop my access to the fed court system.
THEN...FBI STOLE X RAYS AND FLIPPED THE DOCTORS TO PREVENT ME FROM ENJOYING A DUE PROCESS LIBERTY INTEREST IN A COURSE OF MEDICAL CARE...to take the mind control chip out.
READ MY COMPLAINT...then understand the truth: TORTURE WAS USED TO STOP ME FROM FILING A SECTION 1983 CIVIL SUIT AND MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF....SCANDALS for FBI included the CIA TORTURES OF RICH GORDON, DR MARK GORDON, LEROY ROGERS, etc.
TORTURE used to murder and maim lawyers....preventing civil suit filing.
TORTURE used against POLITICAL ENEMIES WHO ACTUALLY COOPERATE WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND AGREE TO TAKE POLYGRAPHS. BEAN actually tried to stop FBI FROM BLOWING UP OK CITY IN 95 with tip to SFPD and my "offer to take a polygraph exam".
It's called UPHOLDING THE MISPRISION OF A FELONY STATUTE.
IT'S CALLED PATRIOTISM.
DR MARK GORDON also tortured with microwave radiation as a MURDER CONSPIRACY while Gordon had already taken polygraph exams at ST. PAUL FED BUILDING...exams gave FBI EXCULPATORY INFO that SF FBI PUNKS DAVE "fuckface" HELLER, little pussy DANNY "shithead" REYNALDS, and fired fuckhead and former SD US ATTY JAMES MCMAHON did not turn over to local MINNEHAHA CTY STATES ATTY DAVE NELSON who got local punk judges to rubberstamp ex parte warrant applications with "illegally obtained info" and "knowingly false info" used to mislead JUDGE PETER GREGORY.
JUDGE GREGORY...later destroyed by FBI--CIA--DOD--SFPD because "...GREGORY WOULD NOT TURN OVER HIS COPY OF THE BOGUS EX PARTE WARRANT APPLICATION" that proved FBI TITLE III FELONIES when FBI "uses and disseminates illegally obtained info in violation of Title III" and "launders illegally obtained info through bogus sources".
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GOP members on the Intelligence Committee on Thursday told The Hill in on-the-record interviews that they were informed that the controversial methods have led to information that prevented terrorist attacks.
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tommy:
NOPE.
THAT IS A SPIN CONTROL LIE THAT NEEDS TO BE EXPLAINED.
The FBI--CIA--DOD--GOP have spun "civil suit filings" alluding to outrageous crimes...as a "terrorist attack" when in fact...EXPOSURE IS NOT A TERRORIST ATTACK.
A CIVIL SUIT FILING...IS NOT A TERRORIST ATTACK.
But...the interrogation techniques did....give them valuable info and it did prevent my civil suit filing. So...IMPEACHMENT (also known as a "terrorist attack") was AVERTED USING ORWELL MEETS KAFKA FELONY CRIMES that BOB MUELLER, SF FBI, AND SD US ATTY MARTY JACKLEY silently sanctioned and "wish to this day to cover up" and "keep out of the news".
IF DEMS WOULD ASK ME TO TESTIFY WITH A POLYGRAPH BEFORE AND AFTER TESTIFYING...I CAN PUT DICK CHENEY ON FED DEATH ROW FOR THE SAVAGE MURDER OF CHRISTINA MOORE IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS, on 9/23/03.
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When told of the GOP claims, Democrats strongly criticized the members who revealed information that was provided at the closed House Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing. Democrats on the panel said they could not respond substantively, pointing out that the hearing was closed.
In the bowels of the Capitol Visitor Center, members of the panel gathered behind locked doors on Thursday morning to begin a series of hearings on the interrogation of terrorism suspects.
What began as a remarkably quiet and secretive hearing had, within a matter of hours, exploded into a political brawl over intelligence matters and national security.
Despite the weeks-long furor over how the CIA came to use enhanced interrogation techniques, and what members of Congress were told about their development and implementation, the committee’s first hearing on the issue during the 111th Congress almost came and went without notice. The hearing was announced publicly but was not open to the public.
According to Republicans, that was by design.
“Democrats weren’t sure what they were going to get,” said Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Mich.), ranking Republican on the Intelligence panel, referring to information on the merits of enhanced interrogation techniques. “Now that they know what they’ve got, they don’t want to talk about it.”
The hearing was publicly described only as a subcommittee hearing on “Interrogations.” A committee spokeswoman would not comment on whether the development and use of controversial interrogation tactics were discussed.
But Republicans on the panel said that not only did the use of interrogation techniques come up Thursday, but that the data shared about those techniques proved they had led to valuable information that in some instances prevented terrorist attacks.
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tommy:
HOW do you characterize as "terrorists" the following innocent white collar professionals:
--RICH GORDON,
--DR MARK GORDON,
--LEROY ROGERS,
--JOHN KABIESEMAN,
--MARK DEFENBAUGH,
--BOB NELSON,
--JON VAN PATTEN,
--THOMAS S. BEAN.
"Terrorists?...political crimes of violence?...."...why don't the DEMOCRATS HAVE THOMAS S. BEAN TESTIFY TRUTHFULLY TO LAY A FOUNDATION THAT IS LATER CORROBORATED BY SF FBI SPECIAL AGENT STEVEN PLUTA AND MATT MILLER who were "running a JFLTTF on me" at the time of the TORTURES AND MAIMINGS IN SOUTH DAKOTA that had...no rational reasonable relationship to any interrogation seeking info to prevent a terroristic attack?
A civil suit and Motion for Injunctive Relief...IS NOT A TERRORISTIC ATTACK...right?
HOW IS KNOWLEDGE OF THE DASCHLE WIRETAPPING...and potential exposure in a civil suit...a TERRORISTIC ATTACK?
HOW IS knowledge and civil suit filing citing "RCMP warrant for MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON", with money laundering by Racicot into GOP campaigns...with murder by FBI HITMAN AND STALKER MIKE "chuckie" PETERS....a terroristic attack/
THE GOP FBI PUNKS MENT TO SAY THAT....EXPOSURE ON IMPEACHEABLE CRIMES is terroristic, and it is a political attack...therefore...WE CAN MURDER, MAIM, MIND CONTROL, AND FRY WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION.
THAT is what the GOP meant to say.
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Hoekstra did not attend the hearing, but said he later spoke with Republicans on the subcommittee who did. He said he came away with even more proof that the enhanced interrogation techniques employed by the CIA proved effective.
“I think the people who were at the hearing, in my opinion, clearly indicated that the enhanced interrogation techniques worked,” Hoekstra said.
Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), a member of the subcommittee who attended the hearing, concurred with Hoekstra.
“The hearing did address the enhanced interrogation techniques that have been much in the news lately,” Kline said, noting that he was intentionally choosing his words carefully in observance of the committee rules and the nature of the information presented.
“Based on what I heard and the documents I have seen, I came away with a very clear impression that we did gather information that did disrupt terrorist plots,” Kline said.
Neither Hoekstra nor Kline revealed details about the specifics of what they were told Thursday or the identity of the briefers.
Democrats lambasted their Republican counterparts for discussing the information that was provided behind locked doors.
“I am absolutely shocked that members of the Intelligence committee who attended a closed-door hearing … then walked out that hearing — early, by the way — and characterized anything that happened in that hearing,” said Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). “My understanding is that’s a violation of the rules. It may be more than that.”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) said, “Members on both sides need to watch what they say.”
Both Schakowsky and Reyes accused GOP members of playing politics with national security.
“I think they are playing a very dangerous game when it comes to the discussion of matters that were sensitive enough to be part of a closed hearing,” Schakowsky said.
Asked about the validity of Republican contentions that information shared in Thursday’s hearing showed the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation techniques, Schakowsky said she could not comment on what was discussed at a closed hearing.
Reyes responded by saying he did not attend the entire hearing.
“I wasn’t at the whole hearing,” Reyes said. “As the chairman my view is we need to get the facts about how the enhanced interrogation techniques came about, not just the results.”
That task has become complicated for Democrats, as has the task of proving any effectiveness, or not, of waterboarding and other similar methods of interrogation.
While Democrats, led by President Obama, have firmly labeled those methods torture, cast doubt on their utility and called for their abolition, Republicans, led by former Vice President Cheney, have consistently said they have worked.
Cheney has called on Obama to declassify CIA information that he says will show that enhanced interrogation techniques have made the U.S. safer.
Since Obama’s release of the Bush administration legal memos justifying the use of many of those enhanced interrogation techniques, Democrats have been on the defensive on an issue they hoped would place them on the political and moral high ground.
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tommy:
WHENEVER THE PUNK DEMS want to go on the offensive...I have all the facts and documents showing that TORTURE WAS USED AS A COINTELPRO PATRIOT ACT CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER, WHILE TAMPERING WITH A DOJ WITNESS WHO ALSO SENT A TEN PAGE MEMO TO SEN GRASSLEY.
ANYTIME THE DEMS...get tired of being outlied based on "none of the dispositive facts" being available to "launch their attacks"...all they got to do is follow my orders to....SUBPOENA MY TESTIMONY...and follow that foundation to corroborating witnesses.
All you need to do...is meet with me to discuss your options and...once again...FEEL FREE TO PAY A HUNDRED BUCKS TO POLYGRAPH ME AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.
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And at the center of the storm has been House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Pelosi has been dogged for weeks about how much she was told by CIA officials about the development and use of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques.
Pelosi last month accused the CIA of lying to Congress about its treatment of suspected terrorists and detainees.
Republican leaders have since demanded that Pelosi either back up those claims or apologize.
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TOMMY:
I'll be happy to help Nancy back it up.
I know how CIA lied.
They lied by omission, and got the WAR COMMISSIONS ACT PASSED only because...the DEMS WERE LEFT WITHOUT DETAILED DISCLOSURE intentionally obscuring the MOST OUTRAGEOUS MURDERS OF POLITICAL ENEMIES all wrapped around "TORTURE USED TO STOP ATTACKS" AND SECURITY....when in fact....GOP--NSA--DOD--CIA--FBI--DOJ has alot to hide and "are terrorized" by any kind of due process fair playing field.
Call me to testify...I WILL PUT THEM ALL IN JAIL FOR MURDER, ATTEMPTED MURDER, AND PATRIOT ACT CRIMES well known to MINNEAPOLIS AND SIOUX FALLS SD FBI AGENTS.
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House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday pressed the issue.
“It’s been three weeks since I asked Speaker Pelosi to back up her allegations that the CIA lied to her or purposely misled her,” Boehner said at his weekly press conference. “Allowing this to hang out there is unconscionable. And I just think the silence from Speaker Pelosi is deafening.”
On Thursday Pelosi was asked if she was still receiving intelligence briefings.
“I’ve said what I’m going to say on that subject,” she immediately replied.
Before the reporter could repeat the question, Pelosi answered, “Yes, I am. Yes, I am.”
As part of their line of attack, Republicans have called not just for open hearings on interrogations, but for an inquiry in which Pelosi would testify about what she was told by the CIA, as well as for the release of still-classified documents they say will back up their claims that waterboarding and other methods have yielded valuable intelligence.
“We’ve asked for hearings,” Hoekstra said. “Clearly the chairman and I are of different thinking on this. But I think a whole lot of questions would be answered if those materials would be released.”
Reyes contended that the committee is acting appropriately.
“We want to know everything there is to know about interrogation, wherever that leads us,” Reyes said. “This was just the first hearing.”
“They can talk all they want and they can continue to make a political issue out of it,” he said of Republicans. “We will continue to do our work.”
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TOMMY:
IF THE REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING THEY WANT HEARINGS...HOW COME NOT ONE DEMOCRATIC PUSSY OR REPUBLICAN PUNK has ever once...used my name in public?...or the specific facts mentioned in numerous complaints?
LOOKS LIKE LEAHY has no other option but to let me testify?
The GOP just said they want to hold hearings on interrogations?
So....how come no punk clown pussy at GOP or Dems will ever, ever, ever...let me testify truthfully in any sort of oversight hearing?
I am the only PRIMARY WITNESS who can put it all together and lay the foundation leading to SD HWPATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT'S MURDER INVESTIGATION BEING OBSTRUCTED BY SF FBI, AND SD DOJ, AND CHENEY WHITE HOUSE when...STATE SECRETS WERE USED TO STOP A SD INVESTIGATION OF TWO MURDERS OF TWO OF MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES?
HILDEBEAST...THE BUSH FAMILY CUNT...
http://whowhatwhy.com/2007/10/18/hillarys-bush-connection/
Hillary’s Bush Connection
By Russ Baker and Adam Federman on October 18, 2007
Research support for this story was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. Published in conjunction with The Nation.
IN THE CLINTONS’ PURSUIT OF POWER, there is no such thing as a strange bedfellow. One recently exposed inamorata was Norman Hsu, the mysterious businessman from Hong Kong who brought in $850,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign before being unmasked as a fugitive. Her campaign dismissed Hsu as someone who’d slipped through the cracks of an otherwise unimpeachable system for vetting donors, and perhaps he was. The same cannot be said for the notorious financier Alan Quasha, whose involvement with Clinton is at least as substantial – and still under wraps.
Political junkies will recall Quasha as the controversial figure who bailed out George W. Bush’s failing oil company in 1986, folding Bush into his company, Harken Energy, thus setting him on the path to a lucrative and high-profile position as an owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and the presidency. The persistently unprofitable Harken – many of whose board members, connected to powerful foreign interests and the intelligence community, nevertheless profited enormously – faced intense scrutiny in the early 1990s and again during Bush’s first term.
Now Quasha is back – on the other side of the aisle.
Operating below the radar, he entered Hillary Clinton’s circle even before she declared her candidacy by quietly hiring Clinton confidant and longtime Democratic Party money man Terry McAuliffe at one of his companies. During the interregnum between McAuliffe’s chairmanship of the Democratic Party and the time he officially joined Clinton’s campaign, Quasha set McAuliffe up with a salary and opened a Washington office for him.
Just a few years earlier, McAuliffe had publicly criticized Bush for his financial dealings with Harken, disparaging the company’s Enron-like accounting. Yet in 2005 McAuliffe accepted this cushy perch with Quasha’s newly acquired investment firm, Carret Asset Management, and even brought along former Clinton White House business liaison Peter O’Keefe, who had been his senior aide at the Democratic National Committee. McAuliffe remained with the company until he became national chair of Hillary’s presidential bid, and O’Keefe never left. McAuliffe’s connection to Quasha has, until now, never been noted.
Another strong link between Quasha and Clinton is Quasha’s business partner, Hassan Nemazee, a top Hillary fundraiser who was trotted out to defend her during the Hsu episode – in which the clothing manufacturer was unmasked as a swindler who seemingly funneled illegal contributions through “donors” of modest means.
In June, by liquidating a blind trust, the Clintons sought to distance themselves from any financial entanglements that might embarrass the campaign. Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson argued that the couple had gone “above and beyond” what was legally required “in order to avoid even the hint of a conflict of interest.” But throughout their political careers, Bill and Hillary Clinton have repeatedly associated with people whose objectives seemed a million miles from “a place called Hope.” Among these Alan Quasha and his menagerie – including Saudi frontmen, a foreign dictator, figures with intelligence ties and a maze of companies and offshore funds – stand out.
“That Hillary Clinton’s campaign is involved with this particular cast of characters should give people pause,” says John Moscow, a former Manhattan prosecutor. In the late 1980s and early ’90s he led the investigation of the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) global financial empire – a bank whose prominent shareholders included members of the Harken board. “Too many of the same names from earlier troubling circumstances suggests a lack of control over who she is dealing with,” says Moscow, “or a policy of dealing with anyone who can pay.”
Ideology does not seem to be the principal issue driving either Quasha or Nemazee. Nemazee backed the likes of archconservative Republican senators Jesse Helms, Sam Brownback and Al D’Amato before moving aggressively into the Democratic camp. Quasha, frequently identified as a Republican fundraiser, gave to both Bush and Al Gore in 2000 and so far in the 2008 race has given to Republicans Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani as well as Democrats Barack Obama and Chris Dodd, in addition to Hillary Clinton. But Quasha’s concerted efforts to get into Clinton’s inner circle are reminiscent of his relationship with a pre-Governor Bush.
A student at Harvard’s business school at the same time as Bush, Quasha was a little-known New York lawyer when he took over the small Abilene-based Harken Oil in 1983, using millions from offshore accounts held in the name of family members. Quasha’s now-deceased father, Manila-based attorney William Quasha, was known for his close friendship with Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his ties to US intelligence; he was also a member of the “Eagles Club” of major GOP contributors.
In 1986 Alan Quasha embraced a struggling George W. Bush, rescuing his failing Spectrum 7 oil company, folding it into Harken Energy and providing Bush with a directorship, more than $600,000 in stock and options and a consulting contract initially valued at $80,000 a year (which was raised in 1989 to $120,000). The financial setup allowed Bush to devote most of his time to the presidential campaign of his father, a former CIA director who as Vice President was the Reagan Administration’s overseer of a massive outsourcing of covert intelligence operations, and who had his own warm relationship with Marcos.
Harken’s financials were famously complicated. Reporters from top publications like the Wall Street Journal, Time and Fortune went at Harken with zest, but they ultimately failed to unravel all its labyrinthine activities.
In 2003 Harken was described in the trade publication Platt’s Energy Economist as “a toxic waste dump for bad deals, with a strong odor of US intelligence spookery and chicanery about it.” Indeed, the company was kept afloat by an all-star cast of financiers with ties to BCCI, Saudi intelligence, the South African apartheid regime, Marcos and the Shah of Iran. The company perennially lost money for ordinary investors while benefiting insiders like Bush, Quasha and Nemazee. Indeed, Harken has lost money nearly every year since Bush’s days there, piling up cumulative losses in the hundreds of millions.
Nevertheless, in 1990, when the Dallas Times Herald ranked Harken fifth on its list of worst-performing local firms, the tiny oil refiner beat out the giant exploration company Amoco for an offshore drilling contract in Bahrain that was potentially worth billions. As George W. Bush biographer Bill Minutaglio wrote, “Oil analysts were stunned that bottom-feeding Harken…could hook such a meaty international contract…not only hadn’t Harken drilled overseas, it had never drilled in water. Speculation immediately surged that it was because Bahrain wanted to do business with the son of the U.S. president.”
Bush appeared to benefit from insider trading when he sold two-thirds of his stock in Harken at a peak price after the Bahrain deal – and just before news emerged that the company had failed to find oil and its share price plummeted. He also failed to report his sale of company stock on time, leading many to believe that he had something to hide. Immediately after a 1991 Wall Street Journal article detailing Bush’s involvement with Harken, the SEC launched an investigation, but unsurprisingly, with George H.W. Bush in the White House, it came to nothing. The Journal article speculated that there was more to the picture:
What does emerge is a complex pattern of personal and financial relationships behind Harken’s sudden good fortune in the Middle East, raising the question of whether Bahrainis or others in the Middle East may have hoped to ingratiate themselves with the White House. Even more intriguing, there are numerous links among Harken, Bahrain and individuals close to the discredited Bank of Credit & Commerce International, a banking empire that used Mideast oil money to seek ties to political leaders in several countries.
Thanks to his income from Harken, Bush was able to become managing partner of the Texas Rangers – a glamorous and highly visible sinecure that would eventually earn him nearly $15 million and make him a credible front-runner for the Texas governorship. This rescue and makeover of a ne’er-do-well son was a key step in W.’s path to political power.
Quasha’s Clinton play began in 2003, when he bought Carret Asset Management, a once-revered private equity investment firm that manages nearly $2 billion in assets. Its founder, Philip Carret, a Wall Street legend and hero of Warren Buffett, died in 1998; the firm was sold twice before Quasha bought it for a song. Some were troubled when they learned the identity of the new owner. “I was horrified that he was going to hide behind my family’s name,” says Renee Carret, a longtime executive at the firm whose grandfather started the company in 1963. When Quasha took over, she resigned. “I just personally didn’t want to be affiliated with him. There were too many questions that were left unanswered.”
As his co-chair in the private firm, Quasha chose his old friend Nemazee, a fellow Harken investor. By the time of the Carret acquisition, Nemazee, a founding member of the Iranian-American Political Action Committee whose family was close with the late Shah of Iran, had become a significant fundraiser for the Clintons and the Democratic Party. In 1995 he raised money for the DNC. In 1998, in the midst of the Lewinsky affair, Nemazee collected $60,000 for Bill Clinton’s legal defense fund in $10,000 increments from relatives and friends. Clinton subsequently nominated Nemazee as ambassador to Argentina but withdrew the nomination after an article in Forbes raised questions about Nemazee’s business dealings in the 1980s and ’90s – which noted that the American-born Nemazee magically became “Hispanic” by acquiring Venezuelan citizenship because of a requirement that certain California public pension funds be run by minorities.
Failure to be named ambassador did not, however, hamper Nemazee’s rise within the Democratic Party. By 2004 he was New York finance chair for John Kerry’s campaign, and in 2006 he served under Senator Chuck Schumer as the national finance chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) – a period during which the committee raised about $25 million more than its Republican counterpart. This past March Nemazee, at the behest of McAuliffe, threw a dinner for Hillary at Manhattan’s swank Cipriani restaurant, which featured Bill Clinton and raised more than $500,000.
The exact nature of McAuliffe’s duties at Carret is unclear, and Quasha, Carret and McAuliffe all declined to answer The Nation’s questions on this matter. But McAuliffe seems to have served, at least occasionally, as a good will ambassador for Quasha’s business operations. He brought Wang Tianyi, head of a formerly state-owned Chinese firm and a business associate of Quasha’s, to meet with Bill Clinton. And Quasha has visited the ex-President at his Harlem office over the past several years, according to Joe Wozny, former president of a Carret affiliate. Wozny recalls that Quasha “was up there quite a few times, meeting with Bill Clinton.” As for that Washington office, the Carret website says only that it specialized in providing “information regarding products and services for institutions.”
But the office seems to have benefited McAuliffe – and Hillary Clinton. When McAuliffe stepped down as DNC chair in February 2005, he said he planned to hit the lecture circuit and spend more time with his family. He may have done both, but he did so as vice chair of Carret from the new company office on the seventh floor of the venerable McPherson Building, once the home of the John Kerry campaign and just off K Street’s lobbyist gulch. Simon Rosenberg’s New Democrat Network, where Mark Penn, chief pollster and strategist for Hillary’s campaign, has served as a fellow, was housed next door to McAuliffe and O’Keefe.
While there, McAuliffe found time to pen his memoir, What a Party!, his paean to the Clintons and his role in raising record amounts of money for them and the party. Yet the memoir itself, for which he earned a seven-figure advance, makes no mention of Carret or his role as its vice chair.
Three people working in nearby suites said they remembered McAuliffe and O’Keefe working out of the office, but none of them remembered the Carret name. Nor did any of them have any idea what McAuliffe was doing as Quasha’s vice chair. One person who visited McAuliffe in the suite recalled that he was working on his book but said he was unaware of the official function of the office. “Terry holds his cards pretty close on his business activities,” he said.
According to another visitor, McAuliffe was using his time to lay the groundwork for Hillary’s long-anticipated presidential bid. With McAuliffe leading Clinton’s ravenous fundraising operation, the possibility that Carret’s Washington office was opened up, at least in part, to serve just such a function is bolstered by the fact that Carret opened the office only after hiring McAuliffe – and closed it down once he left. During that period, though no Clinton campaign committee yet existed, there were signs that he was already operating on her behalf. In 2005 he appeared on CNN’s Crossfire, where the former Democratic chief did not bother to feign neutrality in the primaries: “Personally, I hope she runs,” he said. “We would be lucky if she did run, I’ll tell you that.” In 2006 he kept one foot in Clintondom as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, an organization whose membership is primarily by invitation to elite business leaders. Wang, whose China International Industry and Commerce partnered with Carret soon after McAuliffe joined the company, was also named to the initiative in 2006.
Meanwhile, during McAuliffe’s employment at Carret, Quasha himself donated large sums to the DSCC. He gave $26,700 in June 2006 and $25,000 that October and also personally contributed $4,600, the maximum allowed, to the Hillary Clinton presidential exploratory committee.
Since his start as a young fundraiser on Carter’s 1980 re-election campaign, McAuliffe has consistently melded politics, policy and private enterprise. By the time he was 30, he had launched a dozen companies, his own law firm and numerous venture capital companies. Perhaps his most controversial association was with the telecommunications company Global Crossing, where McAuliffe managed to turn a $100,000 personal investment into an $18 million windfall. After McAuliffe sold his shares and got out, the company collapsed; nearly 10,000 employees lost their jobs, and investors lost $54 billion. McAuliffe defended the firm’s top executives, who were close with both the Bushes and Clintons, but went on to attack President Bush for similar patterns at Harken.
At a DNC meeting in Las Vegas in 2002, McAuliffe spoke about the recent collapse of Enron and questioned whether Bush could “restore confidence to Wall Street when he has engaged in the same practices he condemns today,” a reference to Bush’s Harken profiteering. That same year, associates of McAuliffe, fronted by a fake grassroots organization, released an aggressive ad campaign seeking to highlight the Harken-Bush connection.
It is not surprising, then, to learn that neither McAuliffe’s connection to Carret nor Quasha’s role in the firm have been widely publicized. Carret employees said they were surprised that when Quasha acquired the prestigious firm he did not choose to publicize his coup, instead keeping it quiet. In fact, the company’s website does not reveal his role as chair – or much of anything about the firm. The company’s chief financial officer, Marco Vega, said he was unable to provide details on Quasha’s role in the company, or even to confirm his current title.
The silence is deafening. Repeated requests for interviews on this topic were ignored or rebuffed by the offices of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Bill Clinton, Alan Quasha, Hassan Nemazee, Terry McAuliffe and Peter O’Keefe. McAuliffe’s spokeswoman, Tracy Sefl, who works for the Clinton-connected communications firm the Glover Park Group but represents McAuliffe informally, said that McAuliffe would not grant an interview or respond to detailed e-mailed questions on these matters. Sefl minimized McAuliffe’s involvement with the company, claiming he was only “an adviser to Carret – as he was to many other companies.”
But a vice chair is much more than just an adviser, and Carret’s opening an office off K Street was not a casual gesture. Notably, though the DC office was closed after McAuliffe left for Hillary’s campaign, McAuliffe protégé O’Keefe has stayed on as Carret’s managing director for marketing – providing Quasha with an ongoing pipeline to the Clinton operation.
With an international man of mystery like Quasha, it’s nigh impossible to definitively identify his endgame. But one thing he seems to have a stake in is free rein for hedge funds – and preservation of the low rate at which their profits are taxed.
In 2005, while McAuliffe was on his payroll, Quasha traveled to Bermuda to speak at the MARHedge World Wealth Summit, which addressed the topic “Hedge Fund Management in a Perilous Investment Climate.” McAuliffe, too, weighed in on the well-being of hedge funds as the featured speaker at a 2006 investors’ conference of the Carret unit Brean Murray, Carret & Co., where, according to advance publicity material, he planned to address the “current political debate in Washington, DC and its impact on Wall Street and the status of potential further hedge fund regulation.” Also indicative of an interest in influencing hedge fund policy is the presence on Carret’s International Advisory Board of Philippa Malmgren, who served as George W. Bush’s liaison to the financial markets, and who often speaks and writes on politics and policy related to hedge funds.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Hillary Clinton, whose daughter, Chelsea, works for a hedge fund run by a prominent Democratic donor – came in second only to Joe Lieberman in cash raised from hedge fund managers during the 2006 election cycle. She has belatedly and reluctantly joined other presidential candidates in calling for a change in the law so that fund managers would pay taxes at the same rate as everybody else. Clearly, her supporters among hedge fund figures have much to gain by electing a President who feels Wall Street’s pain.
Whatever Carret’s overall objectives, the company is on the march. “We’ve taken the Brean Murray and the Carret platforms and expanded them into China, India, Eastern Europe and Russia, and we will be doing so in Latin America as well,” Nemazee said in a 2006 interview with Leaders magazine.
While Quasha & Co. keep an eye on hedge fund regulation, they also appear to be helping the repressive Chinese government keep an eye on its own people. Brean Murray, Carret recently acted as the sole placement agent in an $8 million deal with the Shenzhen-based China Security and Surveillance Technology. China Security won a contract last year from the quasi-governmental Shenzhen Cyber Café Association to install video monitoring systems for more than 1,000 local Internet cafes, popular outlets for criticism of the regime. A Brean Murray, Carret press release celebrates its cooperation with the clampdown: “the estimated 2.19 million registered entertainment halls in China must purchase video-monitoring systems covering entrances, exits and main corridors. The Company is actively pursuing similar opportunities within the other provinces of China.”
Is there cause for concern over Alan Quasha’s apparent efforts to gain influence with a potential President of the United States? Amazingly, to reassure the public on the integrity of its operation, the Clinton camp has rolled out none other than Quasha’s business partner Hassan Nemazee. In an interview with the New York Times on the implications of the Hsu affair, Nemazee, who describes himself as an economic policy adviser to Hillary but was identified by the Times as a “fundraising bundler for Mrs. Clinton, as Mr. Hsu had been,” declared, “The Clinton campaign has done as much if not more than any campaign to protect itself from situations such as this, and none of the other campaigns, other than hypocritically, can point a finger at the Clinton campaign on fundraising problems.”
Hillary’s Bush Connection
By Russ Baker and Adam Federman on October 18, 2007
Research support for this story was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. Published in conjunction with The Nation.
IN THE CLINTONS’ PURSUIT OF POWER, there is no such thing as a strange bedfellow. One recently exposed inamorata was Norman Hsu, the mysterious businessman from Hong Kong who brought in $850,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign before being unmasked as a fugitive. Her campaign dismissed Hsu as someone who’d slipped through the cracks of an otherwise unimpeachable system for vetting donors, and perhaps he was. The same cannot be said for the notorious financier Alan Quasha, whose involvement with Clinton is at least as substantial – and still under wraps.
Political junkies will recall Quasha as the controversial figure who bailed out George W. Bush’s failing oil company in 1986, folding Bush into his company, Harken Energy, thus setting him on the path to a lucrative and high-profile position as an owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and the presidency. The persistently unprofitable Harken – many of whose board members, connected to powerful foreign interests and the intelligence community, nevertheless profited enormously – faced intense scrutiny in the early 1990s and again during Bush’s first term.
Now Quasha is back – on the other side of the aisle.
Operating below the radar, he entered Hillary Clinton’s circle even before she declared her candidacy by quietly hiring Clinton confidant and longtime Democratic Party money man Terry McAuliffe at one of his companies. During the interregnum between McAuliffe’s chairmanship of the Democratic Party and the time he officially joined Clinton’s campaign, Quasha set McAuliffe up with a salary and opened a Washington office for him.
Just a few years earlier, McAuliffe had publicly criticized Bush for his financial dealings with Harken, disparaging the company’s Enron-like accounting. Yet in 2005 McAuliffe accepted this cushy perch with Quasha’s newly acquired investment firm, Carret Asset Management, and even brought along former Clinton White House business liaison Peter O’Keefe, who had been his senior aide at the Democratic National Committee. McAuliffe remained with the company until he became national chair of Hillary’s presidential bid, and O’Keefe never left. McAuliffe’s connection to Quasha has, until now, never been noted.
Another strong link between Quasha and Clinton is Quasha’s business partner, Hassan Nemazee, a top Hillary fundraiser who was trotted out to defend her during the Hsu episode – in which the clothing manufacturer was unmasked as a swindler who seemingly funneled illegal contributions through “donors” of modest means.
In June, by liquidating a blind trust, the Clintons sought to distance themselves from any financial entanglements that might embarrass the campaign. Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson argued that the couple had gone “above and beyond” what was legally required “in order to avoid even the hint of a conflict of interest.” But throughout their political careers, Bill and Hillary Clinton have repeatedly associated with people whose objectives seemed a million miles from “a place called Hope.” Among these Alan Quasha and his menagerie – including Saudi frontmen, a foreign dictator, figures with intelligence ties and a maze of companies and offshore funds – stand out.
“That Hillary Clinton’s campaign is involved with this particular cast of characters should give people pause,” says John Moscow, a former Manhattan prosecutor. In the late 1980s and early ’90s he led the investigation of the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) global financial empire – a bank whose prominent shareholders included members of the Harken board. “Too many of the same names from earlier troubling circumstances suggests a lack of control over who she is dealing with,” says Moscow, “or a policy of dealing with anyone who can pay.”
Ideology does not seem to be the principal issue driving either Quasha or Nemazee. Nemazee backed the likes of archconservative Republican senators Jesse Helms, Sam Brownback and Al D’Amato before moving aggressively into the Democratic camp. Quasha, frequently identified as a Republican fundraiser, gave to both Bush and Al Gore in 2000 and so far in the 2008 race has given to Republicans Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani as well as Democrats Barack Obama and Chris Dodd, in addition to Hillary Clinton. But Quasha’s concerted efforts to get into Clinton’s inner circle are reminiscent of his relationship with a pre-Governor Bush.
A student at Harvard’s business school at the same time as Bush, Quasha was a little-known New York lawyer when he took over the small Abilene-based Harken Oil in 1983, using millions from offshore accounts held in the name of family members. Quasha’s now-deceased father, Manila-based attorney William Quasha, was known for his close friendship with Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his ties to US intelligence; he was also a member of the “Eagles Club” of major GOP contributors.
In 1986 Alan Quasha embraced a struggling George W. Bush, rescuing his failing Spectrum 7 oil company, folding it into Harken Energy and providing Bush with a directorship, more than $600,000 in stock and options and a consulting contract initially valued at $80,000 a year (which was raised in 1989 to $120,000). The financial setup allowed Bush to devote most of his time to the presidential campaign of his father, a former CIA director who as Vice President was the Reagan Administration’s overseer of a massive outsourcing of covert intelligence operations, and who had his own warm relationship with Marcos.
Harken’s financials were famously complicated. Reporters from top publications like the Wall Street Journal, Time and Fortune went at Harken with zest, but they ultimately failed to unravel all its labyrinthine activities.
In 2003 Harken was described in the trade publication Platt’s Energy Economist as “a toxic waste dump for bad deals, with a strong odor of US intelligence spookery and chicanery about it.” Indeed, the company was kept afloat by an all-star cast of financiers with ties to BCCI, Saudi intelligence, the South African apartheid regime, Marcos and the Shah of Iran. The company perennially lost money for ordinary investors while benefiting insiders like Bush, Quasha and Nemazee. Indeed, Harken has lost money nearly every year since Bush’s days there, piling up cumulative losses in the hundreds of millions.
Nevertheless, in 1990, when the Dallas Times Herald ranked Harken fifth on its list of worst-performing local firms, the tiny oil refiner beat out the giant exploration company Amoco for an offshore drilling contract in Bahrain that was potentially worth billions. As George W. Bush biographer Bill Minutaglio wrote, “Oil analysts were stunned that bottom-feeding Harken…could hook such a meaty international contract…not only hadn’t Harken drilled overseas, it had never drilled in water. Speculation immediately surged that it was because Bahrain wanted to do business with the son of the U.S. president.”
Bush appeared to benefit from insider trading when he sold two-thirds of his stock in Harken at a peak price after the Bahrain deal – and just before news emerged that the company had failed to find oil and its share price plummeted. He also failed to report his sale of company stock on time, leading many to believe that he had something to hide. Immediately after a 1991 Wall Street Journal article detailing Bush’s involvement with Harken, the SEC launched an investigation, but unsurprisingly, with George H.W. Bush in the White House, it came to nothing. The Journal article speculated that there was more to the picture:
What does emerge is a complex pattern of personal and financial relationships behind Harken’s sudden good fortune in the Middle East, raising the question of whether Bahrainis or others in the Middle East may have hoped to ingratiate themselves with the White House. Even more intriguing, there are numerous links among Harken, Bahrain and individuals close to the discredited Bank of Credit & Commerce International, a banking empire that used Mideast oil money to seek ties to political leaders in several countries.
Thanks to his income from Harken, Bush was able to become managing partner of the Texas Rangers – a glamorous and highly visible sinecure that would eventually earn him nearly $15 million and make him a credible front-runner for the Texas governorship. This rescue and makeover of a ne’er-do-well son was a key step in W.’s path to political power.
Quasha’s Clinton play began in 2003, when he bought Carret Asset Management, a once-revered private equity investment firm that manages nearly $2 billion in assets. Its founder, Philip Carret, a Wall Street legend and hero of Warren Buffett, died in 1998; the firm was sold twice before Quasha bought it for a song. Some were troubled when they learned the identity of the new owner. “I was horrified that he was going to hide behind my family’s name,” says Renee Carret, a longtime executive at the firm whose grandfather started the company in 1963. When Quasha took over, she resigned. “I just personally didn’t want to be affiliated with him. There were too many questions that were left unanswered.”
As his co-chair in the private firm, Quasha chose his old friend Nemazee, a fellow Harken investor. By the time of the Carret acquisition, Nemazee, a founding member of the Iranian-American Political Action Committee whose family was close with the late Shah of Iran, had become a significant fundraiser for the Clintons and the Democratic Party. In 1995 he raised money for the DNC. In 1998, in the midst of the Lewinsky affair, Nemazee collected $60,000 for Bill Clinton’s legal defense fund in $10,000 increments from relatives and friends. Clinton subsequently nominated Nemazee as ambassador to Argentina but withdrew the nomination after an article in Forbes raised questions about Nemazee’s business dealings in the 1980s and ’90s – which noted that the American-born Nemazee magically became “Hispanic” by acquiring Venezuelan citizenship because of a requirement that certain California public pension funds be run by minorities.
Failure to be named ambassador did not, however, hamper Nemazee’s rise within the Democratic Party. By 2004 he was New York finance chair for John Kerry’s campaign, and in 2006 he served under Senator Chuck Schumer as the national finance chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) – a period during which the committee raised about $25 million more than its Republican counterpart. This past March Nemazee, at the behest of McAuliffe, threw a dinner for Hillary at Manhattan’s swank Cipriani restaurant, which featured Bill Clinton and raised more than $500,000.
The exact nature of McAuliffe’s duties at Carret is unclear, and Quasha, Carret and McAuliffe all declined to answer The Nation’s questions on this matter. But McAuliffe seems to have served, at least occasionally, as a good will ambassador for Quasha’s business operations. He brought Wang Tianyi, head of a formerly state-owned Chinese firm and a business associate of Quasha’s, to meet with Bill Clinton. And Quasha has visited the ex-President at his Harlem office over the past several years, according to Joe Wozny, former president of a Carret affiliate. Wozny recalls that Quasha “was up there quite a few times, meeting with Bill Clinton.” As for that Washington office, the Carret website says only that it specialized in providing “information regarding products and services for institutions.”
But the office seems to have benefited McAuliffe – and Hillary Clinton. When McAuliffe stepped down as DNC chair in February 2005, he said he planned to hit the lecture circuit and spend more time with his family. He may have done both, but he did so as vice chair of Carret from the new company office on the seventh floor of the venerable McPherson Building, once the home of the John Kerry campaign and just off K Street’s lobbyist gulch. Simon Rosenberg’s New Democrat Network, where Mark Penn, chief pollster and strategist for Hillary’s campaign, has served as a fellow, was housed next door to McAuliffe and O’Keefe.
While there, McAuliffe found time to pen his memoir, What a Party!, his paean to the Clintons and his role in raising record amounts of money for them and the party. Yet the memoir itself, for which he earned a seven-figure advance, makes no mention of Carret or his role as its vice chair.
Three people working in nearby suites said they remembered McAuliffe and O’Keefe working out of the office, but none of them remembered the Carret name. Nor did any of them have any idea what McAuliffe was doing as Quasha’s vice chair. One person who visited McAuliffe in the suite recalled that he was working on his book but said he was unaware of the official function of the office. “Terry holds his cards pretty close on his business activities,” he said.
According to another visitor, McAuliffe was using his time to lay the groundwork for Hillary’s long-anticipated presidential bid. With McAuliffe leading Clinton’s ravenous fundraising operation, the possibility that Carret’s Washington office was opened up, at least in part, to serve just such a function is bolstered by the fact that Carret opened the office only after hiring McAuliffe – and closed it down once he left. During that period, though no Clinton campaign committee yet existed, there were signs that he was already operating on her behalf. In 2005 he appeared on CNN’s Crossfire, where the former Democratic chief did not bother to feign neutrality in the primaries: “Personally, I hope she runs,” he said. “We would be lucky if she did run, I’ll tell you that.” In 2006 he kept one foot in Clintondom as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, an organization whose membership is primarily by invitation to elite business leaders. Wang, whose China International Industry and Commerce partnered with Carret soon after McAuliffe joined the company, was also named to the initiative in 2006.
Meanwhile, during McAuliffe’s employment at Carret, Quasha himself donated large sums to the DSCC. He gave $26,700 in June 2006 and $25,000 that October and also personally contributed $4,600, the maximum allowed, to the Hillary Clinton presidential exploratory committee.
Since his start as a young fundraiser on Carter’s 1980 re-election campaign, McAuliffe has consistently melded politics, policy and private enterprise. By the time he was 30, he had launched a dozen companies, his own law firm and numerous venture capital companies. Perhaps his most controversial association was with the telecommunications company Global Crossing, where McAuliffe managed to turn a $100,000 personal investment into an $18 million windfall. After McAuliffe sold his shares and got out, the company collapsed; nearly 10,000 employees lost their jobs, and investors lost $54 billion. McAuliffe defended the firm’s top executives, who were close with both the Bushes and Clintons, but went on to attack President Bush for similar patterns at Harken.
At a DNC meeting in Las Vegas in 2002, McAuliffe spoke about the recent collapse of Enron and questioned whether Bush could “restore confidence to Wall Street when he has engaged in the same practices he condemns today,” a reference to Bush’s Harken profiteering. That same year, associates of McAuliffe, fronted by a fake grassroots organization, released an aggressive ad campaign seeking to highlight the Harken-Bush connection.
It is not surprising, then, to learn that neither McAuliffe’s connection to Carret nor Quasha’s role in the firm have been widely publicized. Carret employees said they were surprised that when Quasha acquired the prestigious firm he did not choose to publicize his coup, instead keeping it quiet. In fact, the company’s website does not reveal his role as chair – or much of anything about the firm. The company’s chief financial officer, Marco Vega, said he was unable to provide details on Quasha’s role in the company, or even to confirm his current title.
The silence is deafening. Repeated requests for interviews on this topic were ignored or rebuffed by the offices of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Bill Clinton, Alan Quasha, Hassan Nemazee, Terry McAuliffe and Peter O’Keefe. McAuliffe’s spokeswoman, Tracy Sefl, who works for the Clinton-connected communications firm the Glover Park Group but represents McAuliffe informally, said that McAuliffe would not grant an interview or respond to detailed e-mailed questions on these matters. Sefl minimized McAuliffe’s involvement with the company, claiming he was only “an adviser to Carret – as he was to many other companies.”
But a vice chair is much more than just an adviser, and Carret’s opening an office off K Street was not a casual gesture. Notably, though the DC office was closed after McAuliffe left for Hillary’s campaign, McAuliffe protégé O’Keefe has stayed on as Carret’s managing director for marketing – providing Quasha with an ongoing pipeline to the Clinton operation.
With an international man of mystery like Quasha, it’s nigh impossible to definitively identify his endgame. But one thing he seems to have a stake in is free rein for hedge funds – and preservation of the low rate at which their profits are taxed.
In 2005, while McAuliffe was on his payroll, Quasha traveled to Bermuda to speak at the MARHedge World Wealth Summit, which addressed the topic “Hedge Fund Management in a Perilous Investment Climate.” McAuliffe, too, weighed in on the well-being of hedge funds as the featured speaker at a 2006 investors’ conference of the Carret unit Brean Murray, Carret & Co., where, according to advance publicity material, he planned to address the “current political debate in Washington, DC and its impact on Wall Street and the status of potential further hedge fund regulation.” Also indicative of an interest in influencing hedge fund policy is the presence on Carret’s International Advisory Board of Philippa Malmgren, who served as George W. Bush’s liaison to the financial markets, and who often speaks and writes on politics and policy related to hedge funds.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Hillary Clinton, whose daughter, Chelsea, works for a hedge fund run by a prominent Democratic donor – came in second only to Joe Lieberman in cash raised from hedge fund managers during the 2006 election cycle. She has belatedly and reluctantly joined other presidential candidates in calling for a change in the law so that fund managers would pay taxes at the same rate as everybody else. Clearly, her supporters among hedge fund figures have much to gain by electing a President who feels Wall Street’s pain.
Whatever Carret’s overall objectives, the company is on the march. “We’ve taken the Brean Murray and the Carret platforms and expanded them into China, India, Eastern Europe and Russia, and we will be doing so in Latin America as well,” Nemazee said in a 2006 interview with Leaders magazine.
While Quasha & Co. keep an eye on hedge fund regulation, they also appear to be helping the repressive Chinese government keep an eye on its own people. Brean Murray, Carret recently acted as the sole placement agent in an $8 million deal with the Shenzhen-based China Security and Surveillance Technology. China Security won a contract last year from the quasi-governmental Shenzhen Cyber Café Association to install video monitoring systems for more than 1,000 local Internet cafes, popular outlets for criticism of the regime. A Brean Murray, Carret press release celebrates its cooperation with the clampdown: “the estimated 2.19 million registered entertainment halls in China must purchase video-monitoring systems covering entrances, exits and main corridors. The Company is actively pursuing similar opportunities within the other provinces of China.”
Is there cause for concern over Alan Quasha’s apparent efforts to gain influence with a potential President of the United States? Amazingly, to reassure the public on the integrity of its operation, the Clinton camp has rolled out none other than Quasha’s business partner Hassan Nemazee. In an interview with the New York Times on the implications of the Hsu affair, Nemazee, who describes himself as an economic policy adviser to Hillary but was identified by the Times as a “fundraising bundler for Mrs. Clinton, as Mr. Hsu had been,” declared, “The Clinton campaign has done as much if not more than any campaign to protect itself from situations such as this, and none of the other campaigns, other than hypocritically, can point a finger at the Clinton campaign on fundraising problems.”
Thursday, June 4, 2009
obama-holder ONCE AGAIN STABS AMERICA IN BACK
Justice Dept. Backs Saudi Royal Family on 9/11 Lawsuit
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: May 29, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is supporting efforts by the Saudi royal family to defeat a long-running lawsuit seeking to hold it liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Justice Department, in a brief filed Friday before the Supreme Court, said it did not believe the Saudis could be sued in American court over accusations brought by families of the Sept. 11 victims that the royal family had helped finance Al Qaeda. The department said it saw no need for the court to review lower court rulings that found in the Saudis’ favor in throwing out the lawsuit.
The government’s position comes less than a week before President Obama is scheduled to meet in Saudi Arabia with King Abdullah as part of a trip to the Middle East and Europe intended to reach out to the Muslim world.
Lawyers for the Saudi family said that they were heartened by the department’s brief and that it served to strengthen their hand before the court, which has not decided whether to hear the case.
But family members of several Sept. 11 victims said they were deeply disappointed and questioned whether the decision was made to appease an important ally in the Middle East. The Saudis have aggressively lobbied both the Bush and Obama administrations to have the lawsuit dismissed, government officials say.
“I find this reprehensible,” said Kristen Breitweiser, a leader of the Sept. 11 families, whose husband was killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center. “One would have hoped that the Obama administration would have taken a different stance than the Bush administration, and you wonder what message this sends to victims of terrorism around the world.”
Bill Doyle, another leader of the Sept. 11 families whose son was killed in the attacks, said, “All we want is our day in court.”
The lawsuit, brought by a number of insurance companies for the victims and their families, accuses members of the royal family in Saudi Arabia of providing financial backing to Al Qaeda — either directly to Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders, or indirectly through donations to charitable organizations that they knew were in turn diverting money to Al Qaeda.
A district court threw out the lawsuit, finding that the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act provided legal protection from liability for Saudi Arabia and the members of the royal family for their official acts.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan said in the brief to the Supreme Court that her office agreed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit “that the princes are immune from petitioners’ claims,” although she pointed to somewhat different legal rationales in reaching that conclusion.
Ms. Kagan noted that the Supreme Court had historically looked to the executive branch to take the lead on such international matters because of “the potentially significant foreign relations consequences of subjecting another sovereign state to suit.”
The government said in its brief that the victims’ families never alleged that the Saudi government or members of the royal family “personally committed” the acts of terrorism against the United States “or directed others to do so.” And it said the claims that were made — that the Saudis helped to finance the plots — fell “outside the scope” of the legal parameters for suing foreign governments or leaders.
Justice Department officials declined to address the issue of whether the timing of the brief was related to Mr. Obama’s trip to Riyadh, but other lawyers involved in the case said the timing appeared to be coincidental. They said as a practical matter the department, which was invited to state its views in the case in February, needed to do so by this week if it hoped to influence the court’s decision on whether to accept the case before it leaves for summer recess in June.
William H. Jeffress, a Washington lawyer who is representing Prince Turki Al-Faisal, a former Saudi ambassador to the United States who is one of the princes named in the lawsuit, said the Justice Department came down on the right side of the law in supporting immunity.
Any suggestion that the timing of the brief was influenced by Mr. Obama’s upcoming visit was “baseless,” Mr. Jeffress said, as were the accusations in the lawsuit itself about the Saudi ties to Al Qaeda. “Osama bin Laden is a sworn enemy of the royal family of Saudi Arabia, and the idea that they would be providing financial support to Bin Laden is a little absurd,” Mr. Jeffress said.
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FBI SHUT DOWN SAUDI INVESTIGATION OF 9/11 TERRORISTS
February 5-- Venice, Florida.
by Daniel Hopsicker
A software company called Ptech, founded by a Saudi financier placed on America’s Terrorist List in October 2001, had access to the FAA’s entire computer system for two years before the 9/11 attack.
Last week, when the National 9/11 Commission held hearings on The Aviation Security System and the 9/11 Attack, government and aviation officials described a system unprepared for the events that unfolded on September 11. None of them, however, mentioned security breaches involving “Saudi terrorists in the basement of the FAA.”
Yet that's what happened, according to a high-level risk analyst who had troubling dealings with the firm.
"Ptech had a couple of very troubling client relationships," states risk architect and whistleblower Indira Singh, "one of which was with the FAA. One of the 'persons of interest' in the investigation had a team in the basement of the FAA for two years."
"P-tech worked on a project that revealed all information processes and issues that the FAA had with the National Airspace Systems Agency, NAS," Singh said
Before anyone breaks out the tin foil hats, our source for this ‘wild conspiracy theory’ is America’s paper of record: the very un-wacky NY Times.
A front page article in the New York Times reported that people who were on the ground in Afghanistan during the siege of Tora Bora believe that American commanders did not act with anything like the zeal you'd expect from people whose mission was hunting down America's Most Wanted Man.
American forces in Afghanistan, the Times reported, "have not been helped by the suspicion here at Tora Bora, where bin Laden was all but trapped, that Indecisiveness on the part of American commanders, or perhaps reluctance to risk casualties, may have helped him (bin Laden) escape."
"If (bin Laden) fled to Pakistan he did so over snow-choked mountain trails that were not blocked by American or other allied troops until after the bombing—an oversight that some of the allies point to as having squandered the best opportunity of the war to snare America's most wanted man."
"Within weeks high-ranking British officers were saying privately that American commanders had vetoed a proposal to guard the high-altitude trails, arguing that the risks of a firefight, in deep snow, gusting winds and low-slung clouds, were too high," said the article.
Low-slung clouds? The snow was too deep?
"Similar accounts abound among Afghan commanders who provided the troops stationed on the Tora Bora foothills—on the north side of the mountains, facing the Afghan city of Jalalabad," continued the Times. One Afghan commander told of pleading with Special Forces officers to block the trails to Pakistan. "Their attitude was, 'we must kill the enemy, but we must remain absolutely safe," said warlord Hajji Zaher. "This is crazy."
In a fight to capture the leader of the forces that attacked America on Sept 11 and took 3000 innocent lives, it is inconceivable that American Special Forces would back down or insist on remaining absolutely safe.
So an order to 'stand down,' if one was given, must have come from above.
Way above.
Bringing Osama bin Laden to justice, we thought, had been the U.S. objective in Afghanistan.
Apparently, we were mistaken.
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: May 29, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is supporting efforts by the Saudi royal family to defeat a long-running lawsuit seeking to hold it liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Justice Department, in a brief filed Friday before the Supreme Court, said it did not believe the Saudis could be sued in American court over accusations brought by families of the Sept. 11 victims that the royal family had helped finance Al Qaeda. The department said it saw no need for the court to review lower court rulings that found in the Saudis’ favor in throwing out the lawsuit.
The government’s position comes less than a week before President Obama is scheduled to meet in Saudi Arabia with King Abdullah as part of a trip to the Middle East and Europe intended to reach out to the Muslim world.
Lawyers for the Saudi family said that they were heartened by the department’s brief and that it served to strengthen their hand before the court, which has not decided whether to hear the case.
But family members of several Sept. 11 victims said they were deeply disappointed and questioned whether the decision was made to appease an important ally in the Middle East. The Saudis have aggressively lobbied both the Bush and Obama administrations to have the lawsuit dismissed, government officials say.
“I find this reprehensible,” said Kristen Breitweiser, a leader of the Sept. 11 families, whose husband was killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center. “One would have hoped that the Obama administration would have taken a different stance than the Bush administration, and you wonder what message this sends to victims of terrorism around the world.”
Bill Doyle, another leader of the Sept. 11 families whose son was killed in the attacks, said, “All we want is our day in court.”
The lawsuit, brought by a number of insurance companies for the victims and their families, accuses members of the royal family in Saudi Arabia of providing financial backing to Al Qaeda — either directly to Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders, or indirectly through donations to charitable organizations that they knew were in turn diverting money to Al Qaeda.
A district court threw out the lawsuit, finding that the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act provided legal protection from liability for Saudi Arabia and the members of the royal family for their official acts.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan said in the brief to the Supreme Court that her office agreed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit “that the princes are immune from petitioners’ claims,” although she pointed to somewhat different legal rationales in reaching that conclusion.
Ms. Kagan noted that the Supreme Court had historically looked to the executive branch to take the lead on such international matters because of “the potentially significant foreign relations consequences of subjecting another sovereign state to suit.”
The government said in its brief that the victims’ families never alleged that the Saudi government or members of the royal family “personally committed” the acts of terrorism against the United States “or directed others to do so.” And it said the claims that were made — that the Saudis helped to finance the plots — fell “outside the scope” of the legal parameters for suing foreign governments or leaders.
Justice Department officials declined to address the issue of whether the timing of the brief was related to Mr. Obama’s trip to Riyadh, but other lawyers involved in the case said the timing appeared to be coincidental. They said as a practical matter the department, which was invited to state its views in the case in February, needed to do so by this week if it hoped to influence the court’s decision on whether to accept the case before it leaves for summer recess in June.
William H. Jeffress, a Washington lawyer who is representing Prince Turki Al-Faisal, a former Saudi ambassador to the United States who is one of the princes named in the lawsuit, said the Justice Department came down on the right side of the law in supporting immunity.
Any suggestion that the timing of the brief was influenced by Mr. Obama’s upcoming visit was “baseless,” Mr. Jeffress said, as were the accusations in the lawsuit itself about the Saudi ties to Al Qaeda. “Osama bin Laden is a sworn enemy of the royal family of Saudi Arabia, and the idea that they would be providing financial support to Bin Laden is a little absurd,” Mr. Jeffress said.
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FBI SHUT DOWN SAUDI INVESTIGATION OF 9/11 TERRORISTS
February 5-- Venice, Florida.
by Daniel Hopsicker
A software company called Ptech, founded by a Saudi financier placed on America’s Terrorist List in October 2001, had access to the FAA’s entire computer system for two years before the 9/11 attack.
Last week, when the National 9/11 Commission held hearings on The Aviation Security System and the 9/11 Attack, government and aviation officials described a system unprepared for the events that unfolded on September 11. None of them, however, mentioned security breaches involving “Saudi terrorists in the basement of the FAA.”
Yet that's what happened, according to a high-level risk analyst who had troubling dealings with the firm.
"Ptech had a couple of very troubling client relationships," states risk architect and whistleblower Indira Singh, "one of which was with the FAA. One of the 'persons of interest' in the investigation had a team in the basement of the FAA for two years."
"P-tech worked on a project that revealed all information processes and issues that the FAA had with the National Airspace Systems Agency, NAS," Singh said
Before anyone breaks out the tin foil hats, our source for this ‘wild conspiracy theory’ is America’s paper of record: the very un-wacky NY Times.
A front page article in the New York Times reported that people who were on the ground in Afghanistan during the siege of Tora Bora believe that American commanders did not act with anything like the zeal you'd expect from people whose mission was hunting down America's Most Wanted Man.
American forces in Afghanistan, the Times reported, "have not been helped by the suspicion here at Tora Bora, where bin Laden was all but trapped, that Indecisiveness on the part of American commanders, or perhaps reluctance to risk casualties, may have helped him (bin Laden) escape."
"If (bin Laden) fled to Pakistan he did so over snow-choked mountain trails that were not blocked by American or other allied troops until after the bombing—an oversight that some of the allies point to as having squandered the best opportunity of the war to snare America's most wanted man."
"Within weeks high-ranking British officers were saying privately that American commanders had vetoed a proposal to guard the high-altitude trails, arguing that the risks of a firefight, in deep snow, gusting winds and low-slung clouds, were too high," said the article.
Low-slung clouds? The snow was too deep?
"Similar accounts abound among Afghan commanders who provided the troops stationed on the Tora Bora foothills—on the north side of the mountains, facing the Afghan city of Jalalabad," continued the Times. One Afghan commander told of pleading with Special Forces officers to block the trails to Pakistan. "Their attitude was, 'we must kill the enemy, but we must remain absolutely safe," said warlord Hajji Zaher. "This is crazy."
In a fight to capture the leader of the forces that attacked America on Sept 11 and took 3000 innocent lives, it is inconceivable that American Special Forces would back down or insist on remaining absolutely safe.
So an order to 'stand down,' if one was given, must have come from above.
Way above.
Bringing Osama bin Laden to justice, we thought, had been the U.S. objective in Afghanistan.
Apparently, we were mistaken.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Obama the puppet....helps CHENEY help the CHINKS...who are owed the money that DICK SWINDLED?
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RED China Successfully BLACKMAILS the Obama Administration
Federal Reserve will be Broke by August of 2009
by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Saturday May 30, 2009
UNITED STATES of America - It can now be reported that the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) received over $5 TRILLION from the U.S. Treasury in the last 48 hours.
The funds transfer to China was part of an agreement between the Obama Administration and the PRC, which allowed the Chinese to then come in and support the U.S. bond market, which was on the verge of collapse, given the imbalance created between short term and long term interest rates aka the yield curve.
The People's Republic of China has recently been using its surrogate puppet state, North Korea, as a vehicle of blackmail and extortion all aimed at the Obama Administration.
The nuclear test by North Korea, along with threats to cancel the 1953 Armistice agreement that ended the Korean War, was directed by the highest level of the Red Chinese Communist government.
The People's Republic of China recently confronted the Obama Administration, along with ...Secretary of State Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, with evidence that former President George Herbert Walker Bush, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former President Bill Clinton and his sociopath wife Hillary Clinton, and New World Order thug, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, have been involved in a massive criminal Ponzi Scheme that has looted TRILLIONS of dollars out of the Chinese Sovereign Fund.
Assisting the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate in this theft and extortion was the late Madam Wu, a major Chinese financial officer, who had been compromised by rogue U.S. and Israeli Intelligence assets in using the massive toxic derivative Federal Reserve worldwide Ponzi Scheme in its raid against the Chinese Sovereign Fund.
Note: It was former Clinton Secretary of State William Cohen that used the noted information sharing policy, an agreement between the U.S. and RED China during the 1990s, that allowed the creation of secret offshore U.S. CIA-Chinese Intelligence proprietary accounts, that set the foundation for what would become the massive financial catastrophe that has beset both the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Chinese Sovereign Fund.
Reference: It should also be noted that the transfer of the $5 TRILLION to the People's Republic of China, authorized by the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve, involved a wire transfer with the Bank of Hong Kong as the recipient bank.
The Bank of Hong Kong, which is still jointly owned by both the PRC and the United Kingdom, is a noted U.S. CIA-British MI6-Chinese Intel box bank aka a clearinghouse for laundering of STOLEN U.S. Treasury funds.
We can also divulge that former British Prime Minister and Dunblaine pedophile and war criminal, Anthony Blair, received a large commission tied to this massive THEFT of U.S. Treasury funds and Chinese Sovereign Funds, which found its way to the Bank of Hong Kong, which allowed Blair to use his illegal commission to replenish the coffers of her majesty, the queen of England, who is currently blackmailing the Obama Administration aka a $5 TRILLION loan that she made to former illegal White House occupant, George W. BushFRAUD, that has not been repaid.
We can report that the British government is now cooperating with the People's Republic of China in joint satellite and cyber attacks against the U.S. computer infrastructure and actually preparing for a possible World War III.
Reference: This explains the recent cyber attacks against the U.S. Marshal Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
P.S. The new evidence dealing with the theft of Chinese Sovereign Funds, along with the THEFT of U.S. Treasury by the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate, is once again being covered up by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald....
...A major link has been established between the theft of Chinese Sovereign Funds and U.S. Treasury funds involving major Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate corporations called SF Holdings Corporation in Little Rock, Arkansas, SF Holdings LLC located at 200 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois and SF Holdings Ltd out of the Cayman Islands.
This massive money laundry, which also involves a major Chicago-based securities and commodities discount brokerage firm, has a backdoor link to the noted Jackson Stevens Corporation located in Little Rock, Arkansas and midtown New York City on Park Avenue.
A shell company called the Freedom Corporation administered by both Israeli Mossad agent Rahm Emanuel, current Obama White House Chief of Staff, former BushFRAUD White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, and noted Clinton stooge, former U.S. General Wesley Clark, have actually laundered STOLEN U.S. Treasury and Chinese Sovereign Funds through Chicago and Little Rock, Arkansas onto the noted Dominion Bank out of Toronto, Canada (TD aka Toronto Dominion).
It was just yesterday that both former President Bill Clinton aka daddy Bush's little bitch, and former illegal White House occupant George W. BushFRAUD, appeared together in Toronto, Canada and, of course, made a massive withdrawal from the Toronto, Canada-based Dominion Bank.
Note: The withdrawal of funds by BushFRAUD and Clinton were also used to BRIBE and pay off former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and other members of the Canadian political class who continue to blackmail the U.S. government aka the secrets of 9/11.
Related:
Obama-Bush-Cheney-U.S. Media Psyop
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=147509065&blogId=490884585
Paul Martin owns a Canadian steamship company that has been used in illegal narcotics and weapons trafficking for the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate.
Martin is now retired from politics and clearly still operates as a bagman and extortionist for the Bush-Clinton Crime Family.
The massive withdrawal of both STOLEN U.S. Treasury and Chinese Sovereign Funds from the Toronto, Canada-based Dominion Bank made by Bush Jr. and Bill Clinton also involve withdrawal of laundered Bush-Clinton Katrina Foundation funds that were laundered out of the Central Bank of Iraq through Jackson Stephens Inc. onto the Dominion Bank in Toronto....
...Note: It was just recently that foreign born alleged President Obama blocked the U.S. Marshal Service from executing a warrant for the arrest of Obama's Secretary of State, loser and lesbian in-the-closet Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton.
Reference: Hillary was about to be arrested by the U.S. Marshal Service while she was in Baghdad, Iraq trying to arrange an illegal wire transfer of laundered Bush-Clinton Katrina Foundation funds from the Central Bank of Iraq to none other than the Toronto, Canada based Dominion Bank....
Note: Loser Hillary has had a long and checkered past when it comes to North Korea. In the early 1990s Hillary, along with a lesbian team headed by a Diane Lewis, headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, all faced indictment for their involvement in procuring uranium for the government of North Korea.
The nuclear grade uranium that was sent to North Korea was disguised as food subsidies linked to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and none other than the then head of the North American Israeli Mossad Rahm Emanuel.
The uranium sent to North Korea disguised as food subsidies was part of the overall Iraq-Gate scandal aka illegal weapons sent to Iraq disguised subsidies that engulfed the George Herbert Walker Bush Administration and Bush cabinet member Robert Mosbacher.
A Federal Grand Jury headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois was ready to indict Hillary Clinton, Diane Lewis and daddy Bush's Secretary of Agriculture Robert Mosbacher for violation of the Neutrality Act aka arms shipment to the enemy.
It was then daddy Bush's U.S. Attorney General William Barr that eventually declared "national security" vis a vis the Downers Grove Federal Grand Jury investigation and eventually, illegally disbanded before the indictment could be issued.
Later, in 1994, then alleged Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, a UN-registered foreign lobbyist for the RED Chinese, was given the IraqGate-North Korea case involving Hillary Clinton and Robert Mosbacher by the Clinton Justice Department.
Starr proceeded, of course, to cover it all up.
After the Congressional elections of 1994, which thanks to nepotistic takeover of the Clinton-Gore Administration by the closet lesbian Hillary, the Democratic Party was basically wiped out and lost its Congressional majority.
Hillary's response to her first national defeat, she would eventually suffer a second, was to plot a black op that would encourage North Korea to start military hostilities with South Korea, which would then give her politically wounded husband a chance to be a war time president.
Note: It was only through the efforts of then Vice President Albert Gore Jr. and then Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell that the situation in North Korea was neutralized and World War III was avoided.
An agreement was later struck between Clinton's envoy at the time, former President Jimmy Carter, and the government of North Korea that brought some sense of sanity to the Korean peninsula.
What has gone un-reported for years is that the Clintons, with the help of the Swedish monarchy procured various Swedish prostitutes that would visit the North Korean dictator at least three times a month.
The sexual services provided the North Korean dictator helped placate him and kept him from causing major problems although North Korea continued its nuclear program under the radar screen.
Reference: Jackson Stephens Inc. operates as a CIA money laundry and is, accordingly, not subject to any oversight by Congress.
P.P.S. We can also divulge that both Clintons, along with former President George Herbert Walker Bush, and CIA Director Leon Panetta, recently ignored and countermanded President Obama's attempt to finally implement the noted Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols.
The Clintons, the Bushes and Panetta have told Obama that his Executive Order, actually signed twice, is illegal and violates national security.
Of course, this has nothing to do with national security, folks. It has to do with protecting the secret offshore accounts of the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate that deal with STOLEN U.S. Treasury funds and misuse of the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols for their own selfish, criminal interests.
Note: It is, of course, Obama White House legal counsel Greg Craig, a noted "Skull and Bonesman", and the attorney for Cuban Elian Gonzalez in the year 2000 anti Al Gore Florida presidential election psyop, that is enabling the Bushes and Clintons by issuing legal opinions that have no basis in the law or U.S. Constitution.
"Skull and Bonesman" Greg Craig recently issued a legal brief defending the BushFRAUD Administration's illegal spying against a charity foundation as legal under the state secrets act.
Folks, there is NO state's secrets act anywhere in the U.S. Constitution ~ only in Great Britain....
We have now reached the point of no return when rogue elements of the CIA and other criminal U.S. Intelligence agencies assets are now superseding the U.S. Constitution and Executive Orders of the President.
Note: Nancy Pelosi, who argued for implementation of the Protocols, was recently smeared by the controlled U.S. media in an alleged confrontation over terror interrogations with current CIA Director Leon Panetta.
So you see, folks, the alleged Pelosi vs Panetta confrontation had little to do with waterboarding but had everything to do with money.
Note: Pelosi was recently in China discussing the implementation of the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols and actually brought with her the evidence of the Federal Reserve banking codes that were used in the theft of the Chinese Sovereign Funds.
This is typical of the corporate controlled, fascist American media filth who like to run diversionary stories, change the subject and go after the smaller fish rather than the big fish....
Note: Burris recently survived an assassination attempt aka the use of electronic magnetic pulse on his United Airlines flight from Washington to O'Hare, which had to make an emergency landing in Pittsburg a week ago.
Burris, Schakowsky ride out emergency landing unscathed
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1587317,united-flight-burris-emergency-landing-052209.article
Burris has received "smoking gun" evidence from White House social secretary Desiree Rogers, who was also present on the flight with Burris, that U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald has coordinated at least forty-five (45) illegal Federal Grand Jury leaks to former Chicago Tribune editor, closet homosexual and British Intelligence asset James Warren.
Warren, also a lifelong archenemy of duly elected President Albert Gore Jr., received leaks not only designed to frame both Blagojevich and Burris, but also received Federal Grand Jury illegal leaks from Fitzgerald that was able to give a heads up to both Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and BushFRAUD's former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove on the status of Fitzgerald's investigation, including elements tied to both Emanuel and Rove.
Fitzgerald talks to his "handler" daddy Bush on a weekly basis!
Reference: Patrick Fitzgerald and James Warren are currently under a Special Master's Justice Department investigation for illegal leaking of Federal Grand Jury evidence.
Patrick Fitzgerald is using the Kenneth Starr "national security" defense and closet homosexual James Warren is using the Judith Miller defense.....
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June 3, 2009
Obama Sells Top US Defense Contractor To Chinese Military For Pennies On The Dollar
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
In what Russian Military Analysts in a ‘strategic action report’ prepared for Prime Minister Putin are calling the ‘largest abdication in history’ of one countries military power to another, the now United States Government owned, and 24th largest defense contractor to the American Military, General Motors, has been ordered by President Obama to sell its AM General Division to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company for $500 million, which these reports state is a price that is ‘pennies on the dollar’ compared to this vital defense companies actual worth.
AM General is an American heavy vehicle manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana best known for the civilian Hummer and military High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee) which China’s Dongfeng Motor Corporation and Shenyang Aircraft Corporation have long sought to duplicate with limited success.
According to these reports, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was literally laughed at this week by Chinese students when he said “Chinese assets in US Dollars are very safe”, brokered the deal for the sale of AM General under threat by China’s leadership that it would no longer buy up any more American debt unless this sale was made.
China’s Communist leadership class has in recent weeks been warning Obama about their growing concern over the staggering debt load being accumulated by the United States to include:
“I wish to tell the U.S. government: ‘Don’t be complacent and think there isn’t any alternative for China to buy your bills and bonds’” - Yu Yongding, China’s former central bank advisor. “The euro is an alternative. And there are lots of raw materials we can still buy.’’
China’s Premier Wen Jiabao in March called for the US to “guarantee the safety of China’s assets”.
Central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan proposed a new global currency in a paper posted to the central bank’s website.
Failing to be told to the American people about the sale of one of their most vital defense industries to Communist China is that every single company in China is partially owned by the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), the World’s third largest military force after Iran (the World’s largest) and Vietnam.
Though mainly too complex to be understood by the American people, who have been under a forced reduction of allowed learning since the early 1970’s, the basics of China’s Peoples Liberation Army relationships with their corporations has long been known, and as we can read from one report published by the Rand Corporation titled “Chinese Military Commerce and US National Security”, and which in part says:
“A large percentage of the foreign earnings of defense-industrial companies are repatriated back to the factory or group of factories in China, in order to reinvest at the firm level, purchase new technology or alleviate some of the socials pressures currently drowing these factories in red ink, such as raising worker's wages and subsidzing other security burdens.
The second major recipients are the traders themselves, who must pay for the foreign operations base and often reward themselves with large official and unofficial commissions from the transactions.
The final group of recipients, the superior ministry and/or COSTIND, may extract a tax from the factories, although this money is generally assumed to be a relatively small percentage of the overall pie. In the case of the ministry level receipts, these funds are believed to be used for a wide variety of legitimate and illegitimate purposes, ranging from modernization of industrial plant to the padding of the Swiss bank accounts of top ministry officials. For COSTIND, the case is much the same, although the funds might also be used to fund defense conversion activities, technology purchases, or R&D. With all these "taxes," "commissions," and bureaucratic handouts along the way, it is very unlikely that any significant sums of money are transferred to the military side of the system.
Where do these profits go and what are they used for?
Most analysts belive that military enterprises are permitted to keep a substantial proportion of their earnings. According to Tai Ming Cheung, the amount retained varies according to the type of military enterprises and the profitability of the operation, but they are generally able to retain 20-40 percent of their profits for reinvestment and other uses. The remaining moneies are divided between the General Logistics Department (40-60%), regional and provincial military authorities (10-20%) and the local PLA unit that owns the enterprise (10-20%).
The profits passed to the local PLA unit, in turn, are diverted to two general areas. Some of the money is used for training, as well as to improve the living standards of the troops, including barracks construction and repair, food subsidies, and medical coverage. Other funds, however, are used for more corrupt purposes, such as paying for lavish meals, expensive foreign luxury automobiles, and Swiss bank accounts.
For those who oppose any subsidization of the PLA, there is thus ample evidence that profits from PLA-affiliated enterprises directly benefit the main-line forces of the Chinese military, although the actual amount is not very substantial in the context of the overall budget.”
Most appallingly too, in preparing the background research for this report I failed to find in any US propaganda media report on the sale of AM General to China by President Obama the mention of the fact that China is the World’s largest Communist totalitarian state allowing no freedom whatsoever for its citizens and who even today, nearing the 20th anniversary Thursday of the crushing of pro-democracy Tiananmen Square demonstrations has “pulled the plug” on the social networking site Twitter and dozens of other Internet sites and blogs in order to stifle dissent against its power hungry rulers.
To truly see, though, how far these once great Americans have fallen, one need only look at the fact that, since the Great Russian Motherland threw off the shackles of godless Communism, the Holy Bible is available in every single classroom, but, and I quote directly from the Associated Press news report on this:
“A kindergartner's mother cannot read Scripture during show and tell, even if the Bible is the boy's favorite book, a U.S. appeals court said Monday in the latest challenge over religion in public schools.”
And, perhaps, these events are best put into context when reading the latest information being reported about their new President Obama and which say:
“ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report: The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or general election campaign.
During a conference call in preparation for President Obama's trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said "the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to -- or before he's been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world -- you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father -- obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago.”
“Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory”, the Spanish novelist of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, once wrote…words that every American should sear into their minds as their once great Nation is sold out and destroyed right before their very unseeing eyes.
© June 3, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
[Ed. Note: Western governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagrees with in believing that it is every human beings right to know the truth. Due to our missions conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ against us has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit and which is addressed in the report “Who Is Sorcha Faal?”.]
Translation to Spanish by: Sister Maru Barraza, Mazatlán, Mexico
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tommy:
It's time for GENERAL COLIN POWELL AND HIS SIX REVOLT OF THE GENERALS to do...what they got to do:
MARSHALL LAW USING ECONOMIC TERRORISM BY CHENEY, NEOCONS, ILLUMINATI...as a pretext to "DETAIN CHENEY, BUSH, CLINTONS, MUELLER, HAYDEN, EMMANUEL, AIPAC, PANETTA, GATES"....etc...until...WE WEED AND SEED THE US SENATE AND CONGRESSIONAL COCKSUCKERS who should be "waterboarded, chipped, mind controlled, and fried with DEW" until they reveal the truth about THEIR TREASON.
Then and only then...should POWELL AND THE MILITARY....(not the CIA or US Intel Community...just THE US ARMY UNDER POWELL) reseed democracy with a total crackdown on THE BUSH AND CLINTON CRIME FAMILIES, AND THEIR MAINSTREAM MEDIA, DRUG MONEY BOUGHT STOOGES.
Then, and only then...will America survive, and then and only then...WILL THE US MILITARY EVER SURVIVE AND AFFORD THE COST OF THEIR OPERATIONS, all of which is jeopardized by CHENEY AND HIS KIKES getting away with the ECONOMIC TERRORISM that has destroyed us all.
It is all up to the Generals now.
BARKY IS AN EXTORTED PUPPET, far more dangerous then Cheney.
That is obvious to anybody by now...right?
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RED China Successfully BLACKMAILS the Obama Administration
Federal Reserve will be Broke by August of 2009
by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Saturday May 30, 2009
UNITED STATES of America - It can now be reported that the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) received over $5 TRILLION from the U.S. Treasury in the last 48 hours.
The funds transfer to China was part of an agreement between the Obama Administration and the PRC, which allowed the Chinese to then come in and support the U.S. bond market, which was on the verge of collapse, given the imbalance created between short term and long term interest rates aka the yield curve.
The People's Republic of China has recently been using its surrogate puppet state, North Korea, as a vehicle of blackmail and extortion all aimed at the Obama Administration.
The nuclear test by North Korea, along with threats to cancel the 1953 Armistice agreement that ended the Korean War, was directed by the highest level of the Red Chinese Communist government.
The People's Republic of China recently confronted the Obama Administration, along with ...Secretary of State Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, with evidence that former President George Herbert Walker Bush, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former President Bill Clinton and his sociopath wife Hillary Clinton, and New World Order thug, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, have been involved in a massive criminal Ponzi Scheme that has looted TRILLIONS of dollars out of the Chinese Sovereign Fund.
Assisting the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate in this theft and extortion was the late Madam Wu, a major Chinese financial officer, who had been compromised by rogue U.S. and Israeli Intelligence assets in using the massive toxic derivative Federal Reserve worldwide Ponzi Scheme in its raid against the Chinese Sovereign Fund.
Note: It was former Clinton Secretary of State William Cohen that used the noted information sharing policy, an agreement between the U.S. and RED China during the 1990s, that allowed the creation of secret offshore U.S. CIA-Chinese Intelligence proprietary accounts, that set the foundation for what would become the massive financial catastrophe that has beset both the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Chinese Sovereign Fund.
Reference: It should also be noted that the transfer of the $5 TRILLION to the People's Republic of China, authorized by the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve, involved a wire transfer with the Bank of Hong Kong as the recipient bank.
The Bank of Hong Kong, which is still jointly owned by both the PRC and the United Kingdom, is a noted U.S. CIA-British MI6-Chinese Intel box bank aka a clearinghouse for laundering of STOLEN U.S. Treasury funds.
We can also divulge that former British Prime Minister and Dunblaine pedophile and war criminal, Anthony Blair, received a large commission tied to this massive THEFT of U.S. Treasury funds and Chinese Sovereign Funds, which found its way to the Bank of Hong Kong, which allowed Blair to use his illegal commission to replenish the coffers of her majesty, the queen of England, who is currently blackmailing the Obama Administration aka a $5 TRILLION loan that she made to former illegal White House occupant, George W. BushFRAUD, that has not been repaid.
We can report that the British government is now cooperating with the People's Republic of China in joint satellite and cyber attacks against the U.S. computer infrastructure and actually preparing for a possible World War III.
Reference: This explains the recent cyber attacks against the U.S. Marshal Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
P.S. The new evidence dealing with the theft of Chinese Sovereign Funds, along with the THEFT of U.S. Treasury by the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate, is once again being covered up by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald....
...A major link has been established between the theft of Chinese Sovereign Funds and U.S. Treasury funds involving major Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate corporations called SF Holdings Corporation in Little Rock, Arkansas, SF Holdings LLC located at 200 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois and SF Holdings Ltd out of the Cayman Islands.
This massive money laundry, which also involves a major Chicago-based securities and commodities discount brokerage firm, has a backdoor link to the noted Jackson Stevens Corporation located in Little Rock, Arkansas and midtown New York City on Park Avenue.
A shell company called the Freedom Corporation administered by both Israeli Mossad agent Rahm Emanuel, current Obama White House Chief of Staff, former BushFRAUD White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, and noted Clinton stooge, former U.S. General Wesley Clark, have actually laundered STOLEN U.S. Treasury and Chinese Sovereign Funds through Chicago and Little Rock, Arkansas onto the noted Dominion Bank out of Toronto, Canada (TD aka Toronto Dominion).
It was just yesterday that both former President Bill Clinton aka daddy Bush's little bitch, and former illegal White House occupant George W. BushFRAUD, appeared together in Toronto, Canada and, of course, made a massive withdrawal from the Toronto, Canada-based Dominion Bank.
Note: The withdrawal of funds by BushFRAUD and Clinton were also used to BRIBE and pay off former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and other members of the Canadian political class who continue to blackmail the U.S. government aka the secrets of 9/11.
Related:
Obama-Bush-Cheney-U.S. Media Psyop
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=147509065&blogId=490884585
Paul Martin owns a Canadian steamship company that has been used in illegal narcotics and weapons trafficking for the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate.
Martin is now retired from politics and clearly still operates as a bagman and extortionist for the Bush-Clinton Crime Family.
The massive withdrawal of both STOLEN U.S. Treasury and Chinese Sovereign Funds from the Toronto, Canada-based Dominion Bank made by Bush Jr. and Bill Clinton also involve withdrawal of laundered Bush-Clinton Katrina Foundation funds that were laundered out of the Central Bank of Iraq through Jackson Stephens Inc. onto the Dominion Bank in Toronto....
...Note: It was just recently that foreign born alleged President Obama blocked the U.S. Marshal Service from executing a warrant for the arrest of Obama's Secretary of State, loser and lesbian in-the-closet Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton.
Reference: Hillary was about to be arrested by the U.S. Marshal Service while she was in Baghdad, Iraq trying to arrange an illegal wire transfer of laundered Bush-Clinton Katrina Foundation funds from the Central Bank of Iraq to none other than the Toronto, Canada based Dominion Bank....
Note: Loser Hillary has had a long and checkered past when it comes to North Korea. In the early 1990s Hillary, along with a lesbian team headed by a Diane Lewis, headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, all faced indictment for their involvement in procuring uranium for the government of North Korea.
The nuclear grade uranium that was sent to North Korea was disguised as food subsidies linked to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and none other than the then head of the North American Israeli Mossad Rahm Emanuel.
The uranium sent to North Korea disguised as food subsidies was part of the overall Iraq-Gate scandal aka illegal weapons sent to Iraq disguised subsidies that engulfed the George Herbert Walker Bush Administration and Bush cabinet member Robert Mosbacher.
A Federal Grand Jury headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois was ready to indict Hillary Clinton, Diane Lewis and daddy Bush's Secretary of Agriculture Robert Mosbacher for violation of the Neutrality Act aka arms shipment to the enemy.
It was then daddy Bush's U.S. Attorney General William Barr that eventually declared "national security" vis a vis the Downers Grove Federal Grand Jury investigation and eventually, illegally disbanded before the indictment could be issued.
Later, in 1994, then alleged Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, a UN-registered foreign lobbyist for the RED Chinese, was given the IraqGate-North Korea case involving Hillary Clinton and Robert Mosbacher by the Clinton Justice Department.
Starr proceeded, of course, to cover it all up.
After the Congressional elections of 1994, which thanks to nepotistic takeover of the Clinton-Gore Administration by the closet lesbian Hillary, the Democratic Party was basically wiped out and lost its Congressional majority.
Hillary's response to her first national defeat, she would eventually suffer a second, was to plot a black op that would encourage North Korea to start military hostilities with South Korea, which would then give her politically wounded husband a chance to be a war time president.
Note: It was only through the efforts of then Vice President Albert Gore Jr. and then Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell that the situation in North Korea was neutralized and World War III was avoided.
An agreement was later struck between Clinton's envoy at the time, former President Jimmy Carter, and the government of North Korea that brought some sense of sanity to the Korean peninsula.
What has gone un-reported for years is that the Clintons, with the help of the Swedish monarchy procured various Swedish prostitutes that would visit the North Korean dictator at least three times a month.
The sexual services provided the North Korean dictator helped placate him and kept him from causing major problems although North Korea continued its nuclear program under the radar screen.
Reference: Jackson Stephens Inc. operates as a CIA money laundry and is, accordingly, not subject to any oversight by Congress.
P.P.S. We can also divulge that both Clintons, along with former President George Herbert Walker Bush, and CIA Director Leon Panetta, recently ignored and countermanded President Obama's attempt to finally implement the noted Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols.
The Clintons, the Bushes and Panetta have told Obama that his Executive Order, actually signed twice, is illegal and violates national security.
Of course, this has nothing to do with national security, folks. It has to do with protecting the secret offshore accounts of the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate that deal with STOLEN U.S. Treasury funds and misuse of the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols for their own selfish, criminal interests.
Note: It is, of course, Obama White House legal counsel Greg Craig, a noted "Skull and Bonesman", and the attorney for Cuban Elian Gonzalez in the year 2000 anti Al Gore Florida presidential election psyop, that is enabling the Bushes and Clintons by issuing legal opinions that have no basis in the law or U.S. Constitution.
"Skull and Bonesman" Greg Craig recently issued a legal brief defending the BushFRAUD Administration's illegal spying against a charity foundation as legal under the state secrets act.
Folks, there is NO state's secrets act anywhere in the U.S. Constitution ~ only in Great Britain....
We have now reached the point of no return when rogue elements of the CIA and other criminal U.S. Intelligence agencies assets are now superseding the U.S. Constitution and Executive Orders of the President.
Note: Nancy Pelosi, who argued for implementation of the Protocols, was recently smeared by the controlled U.S. media in an alleged confrontation over terror interrogations with current CIA Director Leon Panetta.
So you see, folks, the alleged Pelosi vs Panetta confrontation had little to do with waterboarding but had everything to do with money.
Note: Pelosi was recently in China discussing the implementation of the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols and actually brought with her the evidence of the Federal Reserve banking codes that were used in the theft of the Chinese Sovereign Funds.
This is typical of the corporate controlled, fascist American media filth who like to run diversionary stories, change the subject and go after the smaller fish rather than the big fish....
Note: Burris recently survived an assassination attempt aka the use of electronic magnetic pulse on his United Airlines flight from Washington to O'Hare, which had to make an emergency landing in Pittsburg a week ago.
Burris, Schakowsky ride out emergency landing unscathed
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1587317,united-flight-burris-emergency-landing-052209.article
Burris has received "smoking gun" evidence from White House social secretary Desiree Rogers, who was also present on the flight with Burris, that U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald has coordinated at least forty-five (45) illegal Federal Grand Jury leaks to former Chicago Tribune editor, closet homosexual and British Intelligence asset James Warren.
Warren, also a lifelong archenemy of duly elected President Albert Gore Jr., received leaks not only designed to frame both Blagojevich and Burris, but also received Federal Grand Jury illegal leaks from Fitzgerald that was able to give a heads up to both Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and BushFRAUD's former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove on the status of Fitzgerald's investigation, including elements tied to both Emanuel and Rove.
Fitzgerald talks to his "handler" daddy Bush on a weekly basis!
Reference: Patrick Fitzgerald and James Warren are currently under a Special Master's Justice Department investigation for illegal leaking of Federal Grand Jury evidence.
Patrick Fitzgerald is using the Kenneth Starr "national security" defense and closet homosexual James Warren is using the Judith Miller defense.....
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http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1238.htm
June 3, 2009
Obama Sells Top US Defense Contractor To Chinese Military For Pennies On The Dollar
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
In what Russian Military Analysts in a ‘strategic action report’ prepared for Prime Minister Putin are calling the ‘largest abdication in history’ of one countries military power to another, the now United States Government owned, and 24th largest defense contractor to the American Military, General Motors, has been ordered by President Obama to sell its AM General Division to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company for $500 million, which these reports state is a price that is ‘pennies on the dollar’ compared to this vital defense companies actual worth.
AM General is an American heavy vehicle manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana best known for the civilian Hummer and military High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee) which China’s Dongfeng Motor Corporation and Shenyang Aircraft Corporation have long sought to duplicate with limited success.
According to these reports, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was literally laughed at this week by Chinese students when he said “Chinese assets in US Dollars are very safe”, brokered the deal for the sale of AM General under threat by China’s leadership that it would no longer buy up any more American debt unless this sale was made.
China’s Communist leadership class has in recent weeks been warning Obama about their growing concern over the staggering debt load being accumulated by the United States to include:
“I wish to tell the U.S. government: ‘Don’t be complacent and think there isn’t any alternative for China to buy your bills and bonds’” - Yu Yongding, China’s former central bank advisor. “The euro is an alternative. And there are lots of raw materials we can still buy.’’
China’s Premier Wen Jiabao in March called for the US to “guarantee the safety of China’s assets”.
Central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan proposed a new global currency in a paper posted to the central bank’s website.
Failing to be told to the American people about the sale of one of their most vital defense industries to Communist China is that every single company in China is partially owned by the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), the World’s third largest military force after Iran (the World’s largest) and Vietnam.
Though mainly too complex to be understood by the American people, who have been under a forced reduction of allowed learning since the early 1970’s, the basics of China’s Peoples Liberation Army relationships with their corporations has long been known, and as we can read from one report published by the Rand Corporation titled “Chinese Military Commerce and US National Security”, and which in part says:
“A large percentage of the foreign earnings of defense-industrial companies are repatriated back to the factory or group of factories in China, in order to reinvest at the firm level, purchase new technology or alleviate some of the socials pressures currently drowing these factories in red ink, such as raising worker's wages and subsidzing other security burdens.
The second major recipients are the traders themselves, who must pay for the foreign operations base and often reward themselves with large official and unofficial commissions from the transactions.
The final group of recipients, the superior ministry and/or COSTIND, may extract a tax from the factories, although this money is generally assumed to be a relatively small percentage of the overall pie. In the case of the ministry level receipts, these funds are believed to be used for a wide variety of legitimate and illegitimate purposes, ranging from modernization of industrial plant to the padding of the Swiss bank accounts of top ministry officials. For COSTIND, the case is much the same, although the funds might also be used to fund defense conversion activities, technology purchases, or R&D. With all these "taxes," "commissions," and bureaucratic handouts along the way, it is very unlikely that any significant sums of money are transferred to the military side of the system.
Where do these profits go and what are they used for?
Most analysts belive that military enterprises are permitted to keep a substantial proportion of their earnings. According to Tai Ming Cheung, the amount retained varies according to the type of military enterprises and the profitability of the operation, but they are generally able to retain 20-40 percent of their profits for reinvestment and other uses. The remaining moneies are divided between the General Logistics Department (40-60%), regional and provincial military authorities (10-20%) and the local PLA unit that owns the enterprise (10-20%).
The profits passed to the local PLA unit, in turn, are diverted to two general areas. Some of the money is used for training, as well as to improve the living standards of the troops, including barracks construction and repair, food subsidies, and medical coverage. Other funds, however, are used for more corrupt purposes, such as paying for lavish meals, expensive foreign luxury automobiles, and Swiss bank accounts.
For those who oppose any subsidization of the PLA, there is thus ample evidence that profits from PLA-affiliated enterprises directly benefit the main-line forces of the Chinese military, although the actual amount is not very substantial in the context of the overall budget.”
Most appallingly too, in preparing the background research for this report I failed to find in any US propaganda media report on the sale of AM General to China by President Obama the mention of the fact that China is the World’s largest Communist totalitarian state allowing no freedom whatsoever for its citizens and who even today, nearing the 20th anniversary Thursday of the crushing of pro-democracy Tiananmen Square demonstrations has “pulled the plug” on the social networking site Twitter and dozens of other Internet sites and blogs in order to stifle dissent against its power hungry rulers.
To truly see, though, how far these once great Americans have fallen, one need only look at the fact that, since the Great Russian Motherland threw off the shackles of godless Communism, the Holy Bible is available in every single classroom, but, and I quote directly from the Associated Press news report on this:
“A kindergartner's mother cannot read Scripture during show and tell, even if the Bible is the boy's favorite book, a U.S. appeals court said Monday in the latest challenge over religion in public schools.”
And, perhaps, these events are best put into context when reading the latest information being reported about their new President Obama and which say:
“ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report: The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or general election campaign.
During a conference call in preparation for President Obama's trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said "the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to -- or before he's been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world -- you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father -- obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago.”
“Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory”, the Spanish novelist of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, once wrote…words that every American should sear into their minds as their once great Nation is sold out and destroyed right before their very unseeing eyes.
© June 3, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
[Ed. Note: Western governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagrees with in believing that it is every human beings right to know the truth. Due to our missions conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ against us has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit and which is addressed in the report “Who Is Sorcha Faal?”.]
Translation to Spanish by: Sister Maru Barraza, Mazatlán, Mexico
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tommy:
It's time for GENERAL COLIN POWELL AND HIS SIX REVOLT OF THE GENERALS to do...what they got to do:
MARSHALL LAW USING ECONOMIC TERRORISM BY CHENEY, NEOCONS, ILLUMINATI...as a pretext to "DETAIN CHENEY, BUSH, CLINTONS, MUELLER, HAYDEN, EMMANUEL, AIPAC, PANETTA, GATES"....etc...until...WE WEED AND SEED THE US SENATE AND CONGRESSIONAL COCKSUCKERS who should be "waterboarded, chipped, mind controlled, and fried with DEW" until they reveal the truth about THEIR TREASON.
Then and only then...should POWELL AND THE MILITARY....(not the CIA or US Intel Community...just THE US ARMY UNDER POWELL) reseed democracy with a total crackdown on THE BUSH AND CLINTON CRIME FAMILIES, AND THEIR MAINSTREAM MEDIA, DRUG MONEY BOUGHT STOOGES.
Then, and only then...will America survive, and then and only then...WILL THE US MILITARY EVER SURVIVE AND AFFORD THE COST OF THEIR OPERATIONS, all of which is jeopardized by CHENEY AND HIS KIKES getting away with the ECONOMIC TERRORISM that has destroyed us all.
It is all up to the Generals now.
BARKY IS AN EXTORTED PUPPET, far more dangerous then Cheney.
That is obvious to anybody by now...right?
CHENEY muscles dipshit punk clown congressional whores: AT THIS TIME MINN. FBI KNEW THAT CHENEY TORTURED DR GORDON--FBI witness
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/cheneys_camapign_to_keep_lawmakers_in_line_on_tort.php#more
Cheney's Campaign To Keep Lawmakers In Line On Torture
By Zachary Roth - June 3, 2009, 12:11PM
The Washington Post reports today that, during 2005, Dick Cheney sat in on several of those CIA torture briefings, in an effort to persuade wavering lawmakers to keep backing the torture program.
The news doesn't really come as a shock -- indeed, some close observers had already guessed that the then-veep was involved in the briefings. But it does add to the picture of Cheney embarking during the middle years of the Bush administration on a focused, stealthy campaign to make sure the US didn't give up what he saw as its right to torture.
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tommy:
If you knew the facts and my timeline from my OBSTRUCTED 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT you would know that CHENEY HAD ALREADY MURDERED DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF RICHARD GORDON using a "slow death ray" called a DARPA DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON manufactured by RAYTHEON.
THERE WAS NO INTERROGATION OF RICH GORDON.
NO VIDEOTAPE.
NO RATIONAL REASONABLE RELATIONSHIP TO "USING ENHANCED INTERROGATION METHODS" to prevent a terroristic attack.
MY FACTS ALSO SHOW CAUSE THAT MINNEAPOLIS AND SIOUX FALLS, SD, FBI had knowledge that there "cooperating, coerced, intimidated, stalked, assaulted, extorted" witness DR MARK GORDON had also "been monitored in his home with pin hole spy cameras" and also FRIED WITH DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON.
BOB MUELLER STOOD DOWN.
BOB MUELLER SILENTLY SANCTIONED THE FOLLOWING CRIMES COMMITTED BY CHENEY:
----CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A PATRIOT ACT CRIME OF VIOLENCE;
----CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE;
----CONSPIRACY TO TAMPER WITH A COOPERATING POLYGRAPHED FRIGHTENED WITNESS NAMED MARK GORDON (after FBI AND CHENEY MURDERED RICH GORDON, Mark's brother, former chief of staff for SD US SEN TOM DASCHLE);
MUELLER PUNK was...according to his US SEN JUD COMM TESTIMONY....was...uh..."just following FBI protocol" to tip off Cheney that he knew about his crimes...and also...to let CHENEY KNOW THAT BOB WAS NOT OPENING A PRE. INQUIRY AND WOULD OBSTRUCT JUSTICE...to the applause of his corrupt, drug dealing, babyburning, punk clown idiotic field agents?!
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There's evidence that Cheney's efforts paid off by keeping GOP members in line on torture. For instance, according to the Post, the first briefing in which Cheney was involved occurred in March 2005 -- two days after the New York Times ran a detailed report on harsh interrogation techniques.
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tommy:
Look at the facts and my timeline.
March 2005 was also AFTER CHENEY AND GOSS AND MUELLER AND SF FBI COUNTERINTEL PUNK STEVEN PLUTA colluded to violate my civil liberties when they got a bogus FISA order to "break into my home to surgically install an RFID MIND CONTROL TORTURE CHIP" that is still in my skull?
Then...AFTER I CALLED FORMER LOWLIFE PUNK STEPHEN MULLINS AT SD US ATTY....Cheney--Mueller--Goss--Dumsfield enjoyed the mind control torture of Bean in his home...using the chip and a directed energy weapon to fry me with microwave radiation...in pursuit of SNUFFING OUT MY LAWSUIT, AND TESTIMONY AFTER I SENT A TEN PAGE MEMO TO US SEN CHARLES GRASSLEY AT US SEN JUD COMM.
MR HOLDER...knows...and so did MUKASYKIKE...that...this is and was a prime facie case for TAMPERING WITH A DOJ WITNESS AND US SEN JUD COMM WITNESS?
NO CHARGES from HOUSE NIGGER PUNK HOLDER WHO IS TOO BUSY SITTING ON THE PORCH EATING CHICKEN WINGS AND WATERMELON like the darky punk Uncle Tom that he is...and always will be.
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One of the lawmakers briefed, Senate Intelligence chair Pat Roberts, had at the time been indicating he might support calls for an investigation of the techniques used on high-level detainees. But it looks like just two days after sitting down with the veep, Roberts announced his opposition to such a probe.
And at another briefing, this one in October 2005, Cheney tried to persuade Sen. John McCain to back off an amendment that aimed to ban practices like waterboarding, and that had broad support in the Senate. (In the end, the measure passed, though in a weakened form.)
This all jibes with what we know about those classified CIA memos which Cheney claims will, if declassified, show that harsh interrogation techniques produced intelligence that saved lives.
Those memos, we now know, were dated July 13, 2004, and June 1, 2005.
As former TPMmuckraker Spencer Ackerman has pointed out, those dates are significant.
OK, July 13, 2004. What had happened then?
Two important developments.
First, in May, CIA Inspector General John Helgerson had completed his review of how the interrogation program worked in practice, a still-classified document that appears to have found the agency had exceeded the boundaries demarcated for it by the 2002 Office of Legal Counsel memo that gave the program legal sanction.
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tommy:
The above is a reference to the SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS, MAIMINGS, AND TORTURE OF FBI WITNESSES AND DOJ COMPLAINANTS like THOMAS S. BEAN, AND DR MARK GORDON, LEROY ROGERS (who MUELLER AT FBI HQ TARGETED FOR ASSASINATION USING THE INFO FROM THE FBI 302 INTERVIEW FORM FROM MY FATHER, DR DAVID W. BEAN).
BOB MUELLER...does not like lawsuits naming Bob Mueller and his punk agent scum.
Mueller did not want RCMP ARREST WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S MONTANA DRUG PIPELINE with MIKE CHUCKIE PETERS whacking out witnesses as the FBI HITMAN, THAT BOB MUELLER SENT AFTER ME ON 4--26--04 in Luverne, Mn at a fast food restaurant.
BOB scripts his hearings with LEAHY PUNK AND CONYERS FAGGOT.
BOB cannot handle the real cross examination that I PREPARED FOR HIM IN THE MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF HEARING IN SIOUX FALLS, SD, FED COURT.
THAT HEARING AND MOTION was not completed by me....because....FBI MADE SURE I WAS BEING TORTURED AT THE TIME, AND...FBI MADE SURE ALL CONTACTS WITH LAWYERS WERE CHILLED WITH FBI BADGES USED TO SLANDER BEAN AT LAW FIRMS.
That's how Mueller killed the problem...and that is why....MUELLER DOES NOT SLEEP AT NIGHT, DESPITE THE FACT I GAVE FBI A CHANCE TO TAKE THE DEMAND LETTER ON TOP OF THE CIVIL SUIT to avoid exposure.
TURNS OUT MUELLER swindled 150 million from US SEN APP...and...stalled the settlement (ten offers from me to SD US ATTY) SO HE COULD STEAL THE INTEREST ON THE 150, 000, 000$ that Bob and his staff...continually steal using the interest to play the stock market...perhaps?
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And second, in June, the new OLC chief, Jack Goldsmith, revoked that 2002 memoranda, which sent Cheney legal adviser David Addington into a sputtering rage.
And:
Next, June 1, 2005. No, not merely a birthday present for me. That's the day after new OLC chief Steven Bradbury had released the final of his three May 2005 memos that reauthorized the CIA's interrogation program -- rulings that found, among other things, that waterboarding (which the CIA says it had not performed since 2003) did not cause "severe physical pain." All the memos, taken together, determined the CIA's interrogation program was, in every material respect, legal. But it's likely that Cheney recognized this wouldn't be the end of the debate on torture -- either internally, or with Congress and the Courts. Having material from the CIA -- especially a CIA helmed by his ally, Porter Goss -- arguing for the need for the program's continuation would be powerful ammunition for any bureaucratic fight.
In other words, the evidence suggests that Cheney commissioned those memos at specific times in order to bolster his position in fighting efforts to crack down on torture. And today's report in the Post suggests another element of Cheney's campaign -- directly lobbying key lawmakers, at critical times, about what he saw as the vital importance of the program.
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tommy:
I WOULD NOT CALL EXTORTION AND MURDER THREATS FROM CHENEY...."lobbying Congress"....ya know?
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Of course, Senators Carl Levin and Russ Feingold have both said they've seen the CIA memos at issue, and that they don't support Cheney's claim that enhanced interrogation got results. Rather, said Levin, they discuss the program for high-value detainees as a whole, which included harsh techniques but also other methods.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060203999.html?wprss=rss_politics
Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers To Defend Interrogation Techniques
No Indication of Whether Waterboarding Was Discussed
By Paul Kane and Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogation program, part of a secretive and forceful defense he mounted throughout 2005 in an effort to maintain support for the harsh techniques used on detainees.
The Cheney-led briefings came at some of the most critical moments for the program, as congressional oversight committees were threatening to investigate or even terminate the techniques, according to lawmakers, congressional officials, and current and former intelligence officials.
Cheney's role in helping handle intelligence issues in the Bush administration -- particularly his advocacy for the use of aggressive methods and warrantless wiretapping against alleged terrorists -- has been well documented. But his hands-on role in defending the interrogation program to lawmakers has not been previously publicized.
The CIA made no mention of his role in documents delivered to Capitol Hill last month that listed every lawmaker who had been briefed on "enhanced interrogation techniques" since 2002. For meetings that were overseen by Cheney, the agency told the intelligence committees that information about who oversaw those briefings was "not available."
The revelations do not shed light on whether top Democrats, as Republicans contend, were aware that waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning, was being used on terrorism suspects as early as the fall of 2002. That discussion has dominated Capitol Hill since last month, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who was not present at any of the briefings that included Cheney, accused the agency of intentionally misleading her in a 2002 briefing about the use of waterboarding.
An official who witnessed one of Cheney's briefing sessions with lawmakers said the vice president's presence appeared calculated to give additional heft to the CIA's case for maintaining the program. Cheney left it to the professional briefers to outline the interrogation practices, while he mounted an impassioned defense of the program.
"This is a really important issue for the security of the United States," the official recalled Cheney saying.
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tommy:
NO.
DEAD EYE DICK MENT TO SAY, THAT...UH....BEAN WROTE A SIGNED AFFADAVIT POINTING THE PUNK MURDERING, DRUG DEALING, LYING FBI FERRIES to search the CALEA INTERFACE AT THE TELECOMM PROVIDERS MAIN FRAME COMPUTER so they had evidence of the wiretapping used by "NSA TSP MERCS--WHITTINGTON--NSA 902ND" to facilitate CHENEY'S MURDER OF A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE.
CHENEY TORTURED ME...BECAUSE I SIGNED THE AFFADAVIT UNDER PENALTY OF PROSECUTION...AND...I ALWAYS OFFERED TO TAKE AN FBI POLYGRAPH that MUELLER KNEW WAS UNNECESSARY because...FBI ALREADY WAS INTENT ON OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE WITH JOHNNY SUTTON AT W.D.OF TEXAS US ATTY.
SUTTON recently got fired and or resigned after HOLDER ORDERED HIS POLYGRAPH EXAM....without SUBPOENAING SUTTON IN A SPECIAL GRAND JURY?????
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The CIA declined to comment on why Cheney's presence in some meetings was left out of the records.
One senior intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the names of individual briefers are omitted in all cases -- they do not appear in any of the public documents that describe congressional briefings. In at least some cases, he added, the identity of the briefer was never recorded in the agency's records.
For all but seven of the 40 meetings listed, however, the documents outlined which agency led the briefing and which provided support. And on at least five occasions, they spelled out that then-CIA Director Michael V. Hayden led the classified meetings.
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TOMMY:
Read above comment.
HAYDEN AND MUELLER AND GOSS AND DUMSFIELD, AND ADDINGTON, AND CHENEY are all guilty of committing overt acts as part of the conspiracy to MURDER CHRISTINA MOORE, RICH GORDON, MARK DEFENBAUGH, JOHN KABIESEMAN, and attempted murders of targets who became targets when FBI USED INTEL FROM FBI 302 INTERVIEWS so they could torture my attorneys (OMAHA ATTY LEROY ROGERS, JOHN KABIESEMAN, JON VAN PATTEN, etc.).
HAYDEN dirty on TITLE III FELONIES used to find SIGINT BY NSA 902ND...who fed info to AUSTIN LAWYER WHITTINGTON who was the "cutout".
WHITTINGTON LATER SHOT BY DRUNKEN PUNK CHENEY at South Texas quail hunt.
That is the story...that LEAHY PUNK, AND CONYERS FAGGOT are too afraid of...while I stick my neck out everyday....?
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Since leaving office in January, Cheney has mounted a vigorous public defense of the interrogation practices. Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, he said CIA officials approached the White House in 2002 with the request to use harsher techniques such as waterboarding.
"We all approved it. I'm a strong believer in it. I think it was the right thing to do," said Cheney, who is now pushing for the declassification of the information gained from the detainees who were subjected to the most brutal techniques.
Several members of Congress who took part in the Cheney meetings declined to comment on them, citing secrecy concerns. But there was little doubt that he was leading the charge on the issue.
"His office was ground zero. It was his office you dealt with at the end of the day," recalled Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who jousted with Cheney over the system of interrogations.
One of the most critical Cheney-led briefings came in late October 2005, when the vice president and Porter J. Goss, then director of the CIA, read Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) into the program on the interrogation methods, according to congressional and intelligence sources.
One knowledgeable official described the meeting as contentious.
Cheney and Goss, with other CIA officials present, tried to persuade the former Vietnam POW to back off an anti-torture amendment that had already won the support of 90 senators.
The McCain amendment would have ended practices such as waterboarding by forbidding "cruel, degrading and inhumane" treatment of detainees. The CIA had not used waterboarding since 2003, but the White House sought to maintain the ability to employ it.
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tommy:
THE ISSUE IS USE OF DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS to murder DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF, RICHARD GORDON...who died of a brain tumor.
DR MARK GORDON, also fried...after FBI HARASSED, EXTORTED, DEFAMED AT JOBSITE, TRASHED HIS MEDICAL CARREER...DIRECTED A LATINO GANGBANGING CONVICT TO SPIT IN DR GORDON'S FACE AT AN OK CITY GAS STATION, while FBI WATCHED AND VIDEOTAPED to use in a bogus frame up malicious prosecution under the heading of a HATE CRIME AGAINST SPICS.
FBI had Gordon's tape when "me and Mark" repeated the dialogue from THE JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM.
THE ISSUE IS NOT WATERBOARDING.
THE ISSUE IS FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER USED TO CREATE "going postal MK ULTRA nuts"...like I am...after being MIND CONTROLLED, TORTURED, STALKED, HARASSED...ETC...ALL BECAUSE I TRIED TO STOP FBI FROM BLOWING UP THE MURRAY BUILDING WHERE THE CHILDREN WERE COLORING BOOKS at the Daycare center.
IT'S CALLED FALSE FLAG.
IT'S CALLED THE SHOCK DOCTRINE.
SEE, HOLDER NIGGER's memo "Trentadues and Trentadon'ts" when he tried to OBSTRUCT THE CRUCIAL TRENTADUE DEPOSITION OF TERRY NICHOLS who has already named the FBI HANDLER RUNNING MCVEIGH AND NICHOLS as the MK ULTRA PATSIES AT OK CITY.
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In the meetings with lawmakers, Cheney was adamant that the enhanced interrogations were needed to preserve national security, according to two participants. He advocated briefing more lawmakers about the program, against the wishes of National Security Council officials who sought to inform only the top members of the intelligence committees.
Lawmakers at times challenged Cheney and CIA officials about the legality of the program and pressed for specific results that would show whether the techniques worked. In response, the CIA briefers said that half of the agency's knowledge about al-Qaeda's plans and structure had been obtained through the interrogations.
Before the McCain briefing, Cheney met with a friendlier audience, his longtime friends Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who oversaw the Pentagon's annual spending bill, to which the McCain amendment was attached. Cochran said yesterday that it was the first time he had been given a full description of what waterboarding entailed.
"I found the conversation with the vice president to be very candid, straightforward, helpful," Cochran said.
CIA records indicate that another briefing -- for which the briefer's name is "not available" -- was given to Senate GOP leaders on Nov. 1, 2005. That was the same day Cheney made a regular appearance at the weekly Tuesday luncheon for Senate Republicans. Cheney usually engaged only in brief, quiet asides with senators at the lunches. But at this meeting -- the day before The Washington Post published a detailed account of the CIA's secret overseas prison system -- Cheney rose to speak, and the room was cleared of all staff.
He discussed the value of the interrogation program and the information gleaned by using the harsh techniques, according to numerous contemporaneous media accounts.
Cheney's briefings on interrogations began in the winter of 2005 as the top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence committees, Sen. John D. Rockefeller III (W.Va.) and Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.), publicly advocated a full-scale investigation of the tactics used against top al-Qaeda suspects.
On March 8, 2005 -- two days after a detailed report in the New York Times about interrogations -- Cheney gathered Rockefeller, Harman and the chairmen of the intelligence panels, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), according to current and former intelligence officials. Weeks earlier, Roberts had given public statements suggesting possible support for the investigation sought by Rockefeller. But by early March 2005, Roberts announced that he opposed a separate probe, and the matter soon died.
Cheney's efforts to sway Congress toward supporting waterboarding went beyond secret meetings in Washington. In July 2005, he sent David S. Addington, his chief counsel at the time, to travel with five senators -- four of them opponents of the CIA interrogation methods -- to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On the trip, Sen. Graham urged Addington to put the interrogations at secret prisons and the use of military tribunals into a stronger constitutional position by pushing legislation through Congress, rather than relying on executive orders and secret rulings from Justice Department lawyers.
Subsequent court rulings would challenge the legality of the system, and Justice Department lawyers were privately drafting new rules on interrogations. Addington dismissed the views of Graham, who had been a military lawyer.
"I've got all the authority I need right here," Addington said, pulling from his coat a pocket-size copy of the Constitution, according to the senator, suggesting there was no doubt about the system's legal footing.
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tommy:
HOW COME ADDINGTON HAS NOT BEEN SUBPOENAED AND GRILLED USING MY FACTS?
ANSWER: PAT LEAHY is a gutless, sitting on the fence, dumbfucking pussy...who is and always was...TOTALLY MISLEAD BY HIS STAFF, did all he could to "make all hearings scripted and obtuse" with "no ARTICULATION OF SPECIFIC PERSONAL PRONOUNS" LIKE:
----Thomas S. Bean
----DR MARK GORDON
----RICHARD GORDON
----CHRISTINA MOORE, See, MY AFFADAVIT THAT MUELLER OBSTRUCTED...no polygraph in the MURDER OF AN ENRON WITNESS MURDERED BY CHENEY--HAYDEN--NSA 902ND SIGINT--WHITTINGTON--NSA TSP MERCS--NATHAN GRIFFITH, PHIL THE NARC, ROBERT MCNAUGHTON...etc?
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Staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.
Cheney's Campaign To Keep Lawmakers In Line On Torture
By Zachary Roth - June 3, 2009, 12:11PM
The Washington Post reports today that, during 2005, Dick Cheney sat in on several of those CIA torture briefings, in an effort to persuade wavering lawmakers to keep backing the torture program.
The news doesn't really come as a shock -- indeed, some close observers had already guessed that the then-veep was involved in the briefings. But it does add to the picture of Cheney embarking during the middle years of the Bush administration on a focused, stealthy campaign to make sure the US didn't give up what he saw as its right to torture.
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tommy:
If you knew the facts and my timeline from my OBSTRUCTED 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT you would know that CHENEY HAD ALREADY MURDERED DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF RICHARD GORDON using a "slow death ray" called a DARPA DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON manufactured by RAYTHEON.
THERE WAS NO INTERROGATION OF RICH GORDON.
NO VIDEOTAPE.
NO RATIONAL REASONABLE RELATIONSHIP TO "USING ENHANCED INTERROGATION METHODS" to prevent a terroristic attack.
MY FACTS ALSO SHOW CAUSE THAT MINNEAPOLIS AND SIOUX FALLS, SD, FBI had knowledge that there "cooperating, coerced, intimidated, stalked, assaulted, extorted" witness DR MARK GORDON had also "been monitored in his home with pin hole spy cameras" and also FRIED WITH DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON.
BOB MUELLER STOOD DOWN.
BOB MUELLER SILENTLY SANCTIONED THE FOLLOWING CRIMES COMMITTED BY CHENEY:
----CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A PATRIOT ACT CRIME OF VIOLENCE;
----CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE;
----CONSPIRACY TO TAMPER WITH A COOPERATING POLYGRAPHED FRIGHTENED WITNESS NAMED MARK GORDON (after FBI AND CHENEY MURDERED RICH GORDON, Mark's brother, former chief of staff for SD US SEN TOM DASCHLE);
MUELLER PUNK was...according to his US SEN JUD COMM TESTIMONY....was...uh..."just following FBI protocol" to tip off Cheney that he knew about his crimes...and also...to let CHENEY KNOW THAT BOB WAS NOT OPENING A PRE. INQUIRY AND WOULD OBSTRUCT JUSTICE...to the applause of his corrupt, drug dealing, babyburning, punk clown idiotic field agents?!
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There's evidence that Cheney's efforts paid off by keeping GOP members in line on torture. For instance, according to the Post, the first briefing in which Cheney was involved occurred in March 2005 -- two days after the New York Times ran a detailed report on harsh interrogation techniques.
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tommy:
Look at the facts and my timeline.
March 2005 was also AFTER CHENEY AND GOSS AND MUELLER AND SF FBI COUNTERINTEL PUNK STEVEN PLUTA colluded to violate my civil liberties when they got a bogus FISA order to "break into my home to surgically install an RFID MIND CONTROL TORTURE CHIP" that is still in my skull?
Then...AFTER I CALLED FORMER LOWLIFE PUNK STEPHEN MULLINS AT SD US ATTY....Cheney--Mueller--Goss--Dumsfield enjoyed the mind control torture of Bean in his home...using the chip and a directed energy weapon to fry me with microwave radiation...in pursuit of SNUFFING OUT MY LAWSUIT, AND TESTIMONY AFTER I SENT A TEN PAGE MEMO TO US SEN CHARLES GRASSLEY AT US SEN JUD COMM.
MR HOLDER...knows...and so did MUKASYKIKE...that...this is and was a prime facie case for TAMPERING WITH A DOJ WITNESS AND US SEN JUD COMM WITNESS?
NO CHARGES from HOUSE NIGGER PUNK HOLDER WHO IS TOO BUSY SITTING ON THE PORCH EATING CHICKEN WINGS AND WATERMELON like the darky punk Uncle Tom that he is...and always will be.
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One of the lawmakers briefed, Senate Intelligence chair Pat Roberts, had at the time been indicating he might support calls for an investigation of the techniques used on high-level detainees. But it looks like just two days after sitting down with the veep, Roberts announced his opposition to such a probe.
And at another briefing, this one in October 2005, Cheney tried to persuade Sen. John McCain to back off an amendment that aimed to ban practices like waterboarding, and that had broad support in the Senate. (In the end, the measure passed, though in a weakened form.)
This all jibes with what we know about those classified CIA memos which Cheney claims will, if declassified, show that harsh interrogation techniques produced intelligence that saved lives.
Those memos, we now know, were dated July 13, 2004, and June 1, 2005.
As former TPMmuckraker Spencer Ackerman has pointed out, those dates are significant.
OK, July 13, 2004. What had happened then?
Two important developments.
First, in May, CIA Inspector General John Helgerson had completed his review of how the interrogation program worked in practice, a still-classified document that appears to have found the agency had exceeded the boundaries demarcated for it by the 2002 Office of Legal Counsel memo that gave the program legal sanction.
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tommy:
The above is a reference to the SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS, MAIMINGS, AND TORTURE OF FBI WITNESSES AND DOJ COMPLAINANTS like THOMAS S. BEAN, AND DR MARK GORDON, LEROY ROGERS (who MUELLER AT FBI HQ TARGETED FOR ASSASINATION USING THE INFO FROM THE FBI 302 INTERVIEW FORM FROM MY FATHER, DR DAVID W. BEAN).
BOB MUELLER...does not like lawsuits naming Bob Mueller and his punk agent scum.
Mueller did not want RCMP ARREST WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S MONTANA DRUG PIPELINE with MIKE CHUCKIE PETERS whacking out witnesses as the FBI HITMAN, THAT BOB MUELLER SENT AFTER ME ON 4--26--04 in Luverne, Mn at a fast food restaurant.
BOB scripts his hearings with LEAHY PUNK AND CONYERS FAGGOT.
BOB cannot handle the real cross examination that I PREPARED FOR HIM IN THE MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF HEARING IN SIOUX FALLS, SD, FED COURT.
THAT HEARING AND MOTION was not completed by me....because....FBI MADE SURE I WAS BEING TORTURED AT THE TIME, AND...FBI MADE SURE ALL CONTACTS WITH LAWYERS WERE CHILLED WITH FBI BADGES USED TO SLANDER BEAN AT LAW FIRMS.
That's how Mueller killed the problem...and that is why....MUELLER DOES NOT SLEEP AT NIGHT, DESPITE THE FACT I GAVE FBI A CHANCE TO TAKE THE DEMAND LETTER ON TOP OF THE CIVIL SUIT to avoid exposure.
TURNS OUT MUELLER swindled 150 million from US SEN APP...and...stalled the settlement (ten offers from me to SD US ATTY) SO HE COULD STEAL THE INTEREST ON THE 150, 000, 000$ that Bob and his staff...continually steal using the interest to play the stock market...perhaps?
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And second, in June, the new OLC chief, Jack Goldsmith, revoked that 2002 memoranda, which sent Cheney legal adviser David Addington into a sputtering rage.
And:
Next, June 1, 2005. No, not merely a birthday present for me. That's the day after new OLC chief Steven Bradbury had released the final of his three May 2005 memos that reauthorized the CIA's interrogation program -- rulings that found, among other things, that waterboarding (which the CIA says it had not performed since 2003) did not cause "severe physical pain." All the memos, taken together, determined the CIA's interrogation program was, in every material respect, legal. But it's likely that Cheney recognized this wouldn't be the end of the debate on torture -- either internally, or with Congress and the Courts. Having material from the CIA -- especially a CIA helmed by his ally, Porter Goss -- arguing for the need for the program's continuation would be powerful ammunition for any bureaucratic fight.
In other words, the evidence suggests that Cheney commissioned those memos at specific times in order to bolster his position in fighting efforts to crack down on torture. And today's report in the Post suggests another element of Cheney's campaign -- directly lobbying key lawmakers, at critical times, about what he saw as the vital importance of the program.
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tommy:
I WOULD NOT CALL EXTORTION AND MURDER THREATS FROM CHENEY...."lobbying Congress"....ya know?
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Of course, Senators Carl Levin and Russ Feingold have both said they've seen the CIA memos at issue, and that they don't support Cheney's claim that enhanced interrogation got results. Rather, said Levin, they discuss the program for high-value detainees as a whole, which included harsh techniques but also other methods.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060203999.html?wprss=rss_politics
Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers To Defend Interrogation Techniques
No Indication of Whether Waterboarding Was Discussed
By Paul Kane and Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogation program, part of a secretive and forceful defense he mounted throughout 2005 in an effort to maintain support for the harsh techniques used on detainees.
The Cheney-led briefings came at some of the most critical moments for the program, as congressional oversight committees were threatening to investigate or even terminate the techniques, according to lawmakers, congressional officials, and current and former intelligence officials.
Cheney's role in helping handle intelligence issues in the Bush administration -- particularly his advocacy for the use of aggressive methods and warrantless wiretapping against alleged terrorists -- has been well documented. But his hands-on role in defending the interrogation program to lawmakers has not been previously publicized.
The CIA made no mention of his role in documents delivered to Capitol Hill last month that listed every lawmaker who had been briefed on "enhanced interrogation techniques" since 2002. For meetings that were overseen by Cheney, the agency told the intelligence committees that information about who oversaw those briefings was "not available."
The revelations do not shed light on whether top Democrats, as Republicans contend, were aware that waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning, was being used on terrorism suspects as early as the fall of 2002. That discussion has dominated Capitol Hill since last month, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who was not present at any of the briefings that included Cheney, accused the agency of intentionally misleading her in a 2002 briefing about the use of waterboarding.
An official who witnessed one of Cheney's briefing sessions with lawmakers said the vice president's presence appeared calculated to give additional heft to the CIA's case for maintaining the program. Cheney left it to the professional briefers to outline the interrogation practices, while he mounted an impassioned defense of the program.
"This is a really important issue for the security of the United States," the official recalled Cheney saying.
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tommy:
NO.
DEAD EYE DICK MENT TO SAY, THAT...UH....BEAN WROTE A SIGNED AFFADAVIT POINTING THE PUNK MURDERING, DRUG DEALING, LYING FBI FERRIES to search the CALEA INTERFACE AT THE TELECOMM PROVIDERS MAIN FRAME COMPUTER so they had evidence of the wiretapping used by "NSA TSP MERCS--WHITTINGTON--NSA 902ND" to facilitate CHENEY'S MURDER OF A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE.
CHENEY TORTURED ME...BECAUSE I SIGNED THE AFFADAVIT UNDER PENALTY OF PROSECUTION...AND...I ALWAYS OFFERED TO TAKE AN FBI POLYGRAPH that MUELLER KNEW WAS UNNECESSARY because...FBI ALREADY WAS INTENT ON OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE WITH JOHNNY SUTTON AT W.D.OF TEXAS US ATTY.
SUTTON recently got fired and or resigned after HOLDER ORDERED HIS POLYGRAPH EXAM....without SUBPOENAING SUTTON IN A SPECIAL GRAND JURY?????
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The CIA declined to comment on why Cheney's presence in some meetings was left out of the records.
One senior intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the names of individual briefers are omitted in all cases -- they do not appear in any of the public documents that describe congressional briefings. In at least some cases, he added, the identity of the briefer was never recorded in the agency's records.
For all but seven of the 40 meetings listed, however, the documents outlined which agency led the briefing and which provided support. And on at least five occasions, they spelled out that then-CIA Director Michael V. Hayden led the classified meetings.
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TOMMY:
Read above comment.
HAYDEN AND MUELLER AND GOSS AND DUMSFIELD, AND ADDINGTON, AND CHENEY are all guilty of committing overt acts as part of the conspiracy to MURDER CHRISTINA MOORE, RICH GORDON, MARK DEFENBAUGH, JOHN KABIESEMAN, and attempted murders of targets who became targets when FBI USED INTEL FROM FBI 302 INTERVIEWS so they could torture my attorneys (OMAHA ATTY LEROY ROGERS, JOHN KABIESEMAN, JON VAN PATTEN, etc.).
HAYDEN dirty on TITLE III FELONIES used to find SIGINT BY NSA 902ND...who fed info to AUSTIN LAWYER WHITTINGTON who was the "cutout".
WHITTINGTON LATER SHOT BY DRUNKEN PUNK CHENEY at South Texas quail hunt.
That is the story...that LEAHY PUNK, AND CONYERS FAGGOT are too afraid of...while I stick my neck out everyday....?
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Since leaving office in January, Cheney has mounted a vigorous public defense of the interrogation practices. Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, he said CIA officials approached the White House in 2002 with the request to use harsher techniques such as waterboarding.
"We all approved it. I'm a strong believer in it. I think it was the right thing to do," said Cheney, who is now pushing for the declassification of the information gained from the detainees who were subjected to the most brutal techniques.
Several members of Congress who took part in the Cheney meetings declined to comment on them, citing secrecy concerns. But there was little doubt that he was leading the charge on the issue.
"His office was ground zero. It was his office you dealt with at the end of the day," recalled Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who jousted with Cheney over the system of interrogations.
One of the most critical Cheney-led briefings came in late October 2005, when the vice president and Porter J. Goss, then director of the CIA, read Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) into the program on the interrogation methods, according to congressional and intelligence sources.
One knowledgeable official described the meeting as contentious.
Cheney and Goss, with other CIA officials present, tried to persuade the former Vietnam POW to back off an anti-torture amendment that had already won the support of 90 senators.
The McCain amendment would have ended practices such as waterboarding by forbidding "cruel, degrading and inhumane" treatment of detainees. The CIA had not used waterboarding since 2003, but the White House sought to maintain the ability to employ it.
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tommy:
THE ISSUE IS USE OF DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS to murder DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF, RICHARD GORDON...who died of a brain tumor.
DR MARK GORDON, also fried...after FBI HARASSED, EXTORTED, DEFAMED AT JOBSITE, TRASHED HIS MEDICAL CARREER...DIRECTED A LATINO GANGBANGING CONVICT TO SPIT IN DR GORDON'S FACE AT AN OK CITY GAS STATION, while FBI WATCHED AND VIDEOTAPED to use in a bogus frame up malicious prosecution under the heading of a HATE CRIME AGAINST SPICS.
FBI had Gordon's tape when "me and Mark" repeated the dialogue from THE JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM.
THE ISSUE IS NOT WATERBOARDING.
THE ISSUE IS FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER USED TO CREATE "going postal MK ULTRA nuts"...like I am...after being MIND CONTROLLED, TORTURED, STALKED, HARASSED...ETC...ALL BECAUSE I TRIED TO STOP FBI FROM BLOWING UP THE MURRAY BUILDING WHERE THE CHILDREN WERE COLORING BOOKS at the Daycare center.
IT'S CALLED FALSE FLAG.
IT'S CALLED THE SHOCK DOCTRINE.
SEE, HOLDER NIGGER's memo "Trentadues and Trentadon'ts" when he tried to OBSTRUCT THE CRUCIAL TRENTADUE DEPOSITION OF TERRY NICHOLS who has already named the FBI HANDLER RUNNING MCVEIGH AND NICHOLS as the MK ULTRA PATSIES AT OK CITY.
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In the meetings with lawmakers, Cheney was adamant that the enhanced interrogations were needed to preserve national security, according to two participants. He advocated briefing more lawmakers about the program, against the wishes of National Security Council officials who sought to inform only the top members of the intelligence committees.
Lawmakers at times challenged Cheney and CIA officials about the legality of the program and pressed for specific results that would show whether the techniques worked. In response, the CIA briefers said that half of the agency's knowledge about al-Qaeda's plans and structure had been obtained through the interrogations.
Before the McCain briefing, Cheney met with a friendlier audience, his longtime friends Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who oversaw the Pentagon's annual spending bill, to which the McCain amendment was attached. Cochran said yesterday that it was the first time he had been given a full description of what waterboarding entailed.
"I found the conversation with the vice president to be very candid, straightforward, helpful," Cochran said.
CIA records indicate that another briefing -- for which the briefer's name is "not available" -- was given to Senate GOP leaders on Nov. 1, 2005. That was the same day Cheney made a regular appearance at the weekly Tuesday luncheon for Senate Republicans. Cheney usually engaged only in brief, quiet asides with senators at the lunches. But at this meeting -- the day before The Washington Post published a detailed account of the CIA's secret overseas prison system -- Cheney rose to speak, and the room was cleared of all staff.
He discussed the value of the interrogation program and the information gleaned by using the harsh techniques, according to numerous contemporaneous media accounts.
Cheney's briefings on interrogations began in the winter of 2005 as the top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence committees, Sen. John D. Rockefeller III (W.Va.) and Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.), publicly advocated a full-scale investigation of the tactics used against top al-Qaeda suspects.
On March 8, 2005 -- two days after a detailed report in the New York Times about interrogations -- Cheney gathered Rockefeller, Harman and the chairmen of the intelligence panels, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), according to current and former intelligence officials. Weeks earlier, Roberts had given public statements suggesting possible support for the investigation sought by Rockefeller. But by early March 2005, Roberts announced that he opposed a separate probe, and the matter soon died.
Cheney's efforts to sway Congress toward supporting waterboarding went beyond secret meetings in Washington. In July 2005, he sent David S. Addington, his chief counsel at the time, to travel with five senators -- four of them opponents of the CIA interrogation methods -- to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On the trip, Sen. Graham urged Addington to put the interrogations at secret prisons and the use of military tribunals into a stronger constitutional position by pushing legislation through Congress, rather than relying on executive orders and secret rulings from Justice Department lawyers.
Subsequent court rulings would challenge the legality of the system, and Justice Department lawyers were privately drafting new rules on interrogations. Addington dismissed the views of Graham, who had been a military lawyer.
"I've got all the authority I need right here," Addington said, pulling from his coat a pocket-size copy of the Constitution, according to the senator, suggesting there was no doubt about the system's legal footing.
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tommy:
HOW COME ADDINGTON HAS NOT BEEN SUBPOENAED AND GRILLED USING MY FACTS?
ANSWER: PAT LEAHY is a gutless, sitting on the fence, dumbfucking pussy...who is and always was...TOTALLY MISLEAD BY HIS STAFF, did all he could to "make all hearings scripted and obtuse" with "no ARTICULATION OF SPECIFIC PERSONAL PRONOUNS" LIKE:
----Thomas S. Bean
----DR MARK GORDON
----RICHARD GORDON
----CHRISTINA MOORE, See, MY AFFADAVIT THAT MUELLER OBSTRUCTED...no polygraph in the MURDER OF AN ENRON WITNESS MURDERED BY CHENEY--HAYDEN--NSA 902ND SIGINT--WHITTINGTON--NSA TSP MERCS--NATHAN GRIFFITH, PHIL THE NARC, ROBERT MCNAUGHTON...etc?
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Staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
GOLD EXPERT, "Gold is not there": CHENEY CRIME FAMILY STOLE THE US GOLD BARS?
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U.S. Gold, Going or Completely Gone?
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This past Tuesday evening I found myself reading a snippet from Enrico Orlandini’s, DTAnalysis [DT stands for “Dow Theory”] - where Mr. Orlandini opined,
"I believe the [U.S.] trade gap will surprise people and continue to shrink and may even turn positive for the first time in decades. Unfortunately, this will only facilitate the flow out of the US dollar and bond and that’s not a good thing.”
With Enrico being “technically oriented” and me being more fundamentally oriented, I recall how I intuitively did not believe the U.S. Census Bureau’s published U.S. Trade numbers and how I might go about proving that they were falsified:
My primary field of research is focused on precious metals; namely, gold and silver, and I know that recent reports indicate that various countries are contemplating repatriating their sovereign gold reserves. Further, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve have balked at GATA’s recent Freedom of Information [F.O.I] requests and demands for an independent, verifiable audit of the Sovereign U.S. Gold Reserve – thus a little bit of forensic investigation of U.S. gold exports was in order.
I just needed to figure out how to access the relevant numbers.
The United States Geological Survey [USGS] publishes monthly Mineral Industry Surveys designed to provide a macro-import/export-overview of the U.S. precious metals [gold] industry. The data in these surveys is supplied to the USGS principally by industry trade groups such as the World Gold Council as well as official sources like the U.S. Census Bureau:
took special note of how 2,920 metric tonnes of “Gold Compounds” had been exported from the U.S. in 2008. This number seemed BIGGER than BIG – because the U.S is only alleged to have stockpiles of sovereign gold of 8,100 metric tonnes while annual U.S. mine production of gold is roughly 228 metric tonnes. This figure of 2,920 metric tonnes is equal to 36 % of all alleged sovereign U.S. gold stocks or more than 14 times annual U.S. gold mine production. So, I was left wondering, “just what is/are ‘gold compounds’?
I contacted the USGS and queried a qualified individual [who had working knowledge of this data stream] about the definition of “Gold Compounds”. I was told that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau – who supplies not only the definition but the actual reported numbers, gold compounds were typified by industrial type products containing low percentages/amounts of actual gold content – like gold paint.
I then reasoned with the USGS person, if such were the case, why would U.S. exports have increased in 2008 to nearly 3,000 metric tonnes [when the Global Economy was slowing and the U.S. Dollar was strong] from 2007, when U.S. exports totaled approximately 2,000 metric tonnes [when the U.S. Dollar was weaker and the Global Economy was booming]? I noted that this was counter-intuitive and made no fundamental economic sense:
When confronted with reason, the individual for the USGS agreed that the data, as published, did not make logical sense and explained that the U.S. Census Bureau was questioned as to the veracity of this particular line item in their data.
I asked the USGS employee if the gross weight or the gross value [not shown in the table but known to the USGS] of the “Gold Compounds” was queried.
The individual confirmed that their query to the U.S. Census Bureau dealt with the gross value being assigned to these exported goods.
I responded rhetorically, “being an issue of gross value – then let me guess that the U.S. Census Bureau is assigning an astronomically high value to these goods. Such a high value would be COMPLETELY INCONSISTENT with what the U.S. Census Bureau claims these items are- namely, industrial goods. The values being reported would be more in line with these goods being gold bullion or equivalents”.
The individual from the USGS confirmed my reasoning when he responded, “that would be CORRECT”.
The Implications
Ladies and gentlemen, the foregoing data and discussion with the USGS individual is proof that the United States of America [or criminal elements within its Treasury and/or The Federal Reserve] “HAS” surreptitiously exported physical gold - and continues to do so.
It is confirmed.
The exports are likely coin melt [or gold compound, if you prefer] from the great gold confiscation back in 1933; or alternatively, this terminology is being used to disguise physical repatriation of foreign gold bullion formerly on deposit with the N.Y. Federal Reserve.
Such repatriations are recorded as “exports” in U.S. Trade data.
Public acknowledgement of same would scream like a siren call that the global financial community has totally lost faith in American financial stewardship – hence the need to do so on the sly.
This is being done in a vain/desperate/losing battle to satiate “off the charts” global demand for physical gold bullion arising from the profligacy of the American Empire’s two previous Administrations and to prop up the failing U.S. Dollar.
Over the course of 2007 / 2008 – more than 5,000 metric tonnes of “Gold Compounds” have been exported from the United States of America representing more than 62 % of reported sovereign U.S. gold reserves or about 24 times annual U.S. mine production.
5000 metric tonnes = 160 753 733 troy ounces [$128 billion+ at today’s prices]
The fact that industry funded trade groups like the World Gold Council and other professional gold consultancies, who shall remain nameless, have not reported these facts negates their credibility and illuminates them as dupes or willing shills. These fraudulent or ignorant organizations deserve to be shuttered and disbanded.
U.S. Trade Data Is Bogus
The value of these bullion exports significantly “skew” the doctored U.S. Trade numbers [coincidentally, also prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau] in an attempt to convey a picture that the U.S. financial position is improving.
The reality is this, when gold exports are backed-out, the U.S. Trade picture is decidedly worse.
The United States of America claims to possess a little more than 8,100 metric tonnes of sovereign gold stored principally at Fort Knox, Kentucky, West Point, N.Y., the Denver Mint and The New York Fed.
The sovereign U.S. gold reserve has not been independently audited since the 1950’s during the Eisenhower Administration. GATA’s freedom of information requests are all about ensuring that the 8,100 metric tonnes of U.S. sovereign gold is still owned by the U.S.
In April, 2008 the Federal Reserve responded to GATA’s request, releasing hundreds of pages of worthless information with significant portions redacted. They also claimed that they were withholding hundreds of additional pages of documents. The status of the withheld documents is currently under appeal.
These stonewalling tactics – withholding details - are eerily similar to those employed by Messer’s Bernanke, Paulson and Geithner refusing to divulge frank details as to “who” the beneficial recipients were of TARP and TALF funds.
No credible audit of the Sovereign U.S. Gold Reserve will EVER be allowed – because the gold is simply not there.
Hope you have some.
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This past Tuesday evening I found myself reading a snippet from Enrico Orlandini’s, DTAnalysis [DT stands for “Dow Theory”] - where Mr. Orlandini opined,
"I believe the [U.S.] trade gap will surprise people and continue to shrink and may even turn positive for the first time in decades. Unfortunately, this will only facilitate the flow out of the US dollar and bond and that’s not a good thing.”
With Enrico being “technically oriented” and me being more fundamentally oriented, I recall how I intuitively did not believe the U.S. Census Bureau’s published U.S. Trade numbers and how I might go about proving that they were falsified:
My primary field of research is focused on precious metals; namely, gold and silver, and I know that recent reports indicate that various countries are contemplating repatriating their sovereign gold reserves. Further, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve have balked at GATA’s recent Freedom of Information [F.O.I] requests and demands for an independent, verifiable audit of the Sovereign U.S. Gold Reserve – thus a little bit of forensic investigation of U.S. gold exports was in order.
I just needed to figure out how to access the relevant numbers.
The United States Geological Survey [USGS] publishes monthly Mineral Industry Surveys designed to provide a macro-import/export-overview of the U.S. precious metals [gold] industry. The data in these surveys is supplied to the USGS principally by industry trade groups such as the World Gold Council as well as official sources like the U.S. Census Bureau:
took special note of how 2,920 metric tonnes of “Gold Compounds” had been exported from the U.S. in 2008. This number seemed BIGGER than BIG – because the U.S is only alleged to have stockpiles of sovereign gold of 8,100 metric tonnes while annual U.S. mine production of gold is roughly 228 metric tonnes. This figure of 2,920 metric tonnes is equal to 36 % of all alleged sovereign U.S. gold stocks or more than 14 times annual U.S. gold mine production. So, I was left wondering, “just what is/are ‘gold compounds’?
I contacted the USGS and queried a qualified individual [who had working knowledge of this data stream] about the definition of “Gold Compounds”. I was told that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau – who supplies not only the definition but the actual reported numbers, gold compounds were typified by industrial type products containing low percentages/amounts of actual gold content – like gold paint.
I then reasoned with the USGS person, if such were the case, why would U.S. exports have increased in 2008 to nearly 3,000 metric tonnes [when the Global Economy was slowing and the U.S. Dollar was strong] from 2007, when U.S. exports totaled approximately 2,000 metric tonnes [when the U.S. Dollar was weaker and the Global Economy was booming]? I noted that this was counter-intuitive and made no fundamental economic sense:
When confronted with reason, the individual for the USGS agreed that the data, as published, did not make logical sense and explained that the U.S. Census Bureau was questioned as to the veracity of this particular line item in their data.
I asked the USGS employee if the gross weight or the gross value [not shown in the table but known to the USGS] of the “Gold Compounds” was queried.
The individual confirmed that their query to the U.S. Census Bureau dealt with the gross value being assigned to these exported goods.
I responded rhetorically, “being an issue of gross value – then let me guess that the U.S. Census Bureau is assigning an astronomically high value to these goods. Such a high value would be COMPLETELY INCONSISTENT with what the U.S. Census Bureau claims these items are- namely, industrial goods. The values being reported would be more in line with these goods being gold bullion or equivalents”.
The individual from the USGS confirmed my reasoning when he responded, “that would be CORRECT”.
The Implications
Ladies and gentlemen, the foregoing data and discussion with the USGS individual is proof that the United States of America [or criminal elements within its Treasury and/or The Federal Reserve] “HAS” surreptitiously exported physical gold - and continues to do so.
It is confirmed.
The exports are likely coin melt [or gold compound, if you prefer] from the great gold confiscation back in 1933; or alternatively, this terminology is being used to disguise physical repatriation of foreign gold bullion formerly on deposit with the N.Y. Federal Reserve.
Such repatriations are recorded as “exports” in U.S. Trade data.
Public acknowledgement of same would scream like a siren call that the global financial community has totally lost faith in American financial stewardship – hence the need to do so on the sly.
This is being done in a vain/desperate/losing battle to satiate “off the charts” global demand for physical gold bullion arising from the profligacy of the American Empire’s two previous Administrations and to prop up the failing U.S. Dollar.
Over the course of 2007 / 2008 – more than 5,000 metric tonnes of “Gold Compounds” have been exported from the United States of America representing more than 62 % of reported sovereign U.S. gold reserves or about 24 times annual U.S. mine production.
5000 metric tonnes = 160 753 733 troy ounces [$128 billion+ at today’s prices]
The fact that industry funded trade groups like the World Gold Council and other professional gold consultancies, who shall remain nameless, have not reported these facts negates their credibility and illuminates them as dupes or willing shills. These fraudulent or ignorant organizations deserve to be shuttered and disbanded.
U.S. Trade Data Is Bogus
The value of these bullion exports significantly “skew” the doctored U.S. Trade numbers [coincidentally, also prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau] in an attempt to convey a picture that the U.S. financial position is improving.
The reality is this, when gold exports are backed-out, the U.S. Trade picture is decidedly worse.
The United States of America claims to possess a little more than 8,100 metric tonnes of sovereign gold stored principally at Fort Knox, Kentucky, West Point, N.Y., the Denver Mint and The New York Fed.
The sovereign U.S. gold reserve has not been independently audited since the 1950’s during the Eisenhower Administration. GATA’s freedom of information requests are all about ensuring that the 8,100 metric tonnes of U.S. sovereign gold is still owned by the U.S.
In April, 2008 the Federal Reserve responded to GATA’s request, releasing hundreds of pages of worthless information with significant portions redacted. They also claimed that they were withholding hundreds of additional pages of documents. The status of the withheld documents is currently under appeal.
These stonewalling tactics – withholding details - are eerily similar to those employed by Messer’s Bernanke, Paulson and Geithner refusing to divulge frank details as to “who” the beneficial recipients were of TARP and TALF funds.
No credible audit of the Sovereign U.S. Gold Reserve will EVER be allowed – because the gold is simply not there.
Hope you have some.
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Rob Kirby is proprietor of Kirbyanalytics.com and sales agent for Bullion Custodial Services.
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FIRST US ATTY fired by BUSH--ROVE was DiBiagio...ass USATTY was LUNA (murdered in 03)
DC Madam scandal widens: Cheney, Giuliani, Abramoff
by Gustav Wynn Page 1 of 1 page(s)
www.opednews.com
The media black-out on the scandal involving DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey is surprising in light of the lack of lawsuits being leveled at the Wayne Madsen Report website.
Instead of Dick Cheney and the recently resigned Randall Tobias filing libel and slander lawsuits against the site, we see only their silence. Moreover, the Wayne Madsen site has been continually expanding on this story - making this either the scoop of the century, or the biggest fairy tale in DC history.
Consider this: WMR is now reporting specifically who at ABC News' 20/20 became fully aware of not only Cheney's use of the escort service, but dozens more "high profile" names - culled from the phone records only since 2002 (the escort services full records go back to 1994).
ABC's crack team was reportedly gagged by their bosses after concerned calls from the White House.
This would be amazing if true, yet no White House denial has been forthcoming as of this writing...
WMR also reports that the DC Madam first came under DOJ scrutiny after US Attorney Thomas DiBiagio got a crooked cop Ed Norris (a pal of NYC Police Commish Bernard Kerik) to squeal on the escort service in May 2004, admitting the service had received illicit payouts from official police funds.
Less then a year after Norris was hired as State Superintendent by Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich, another US Attorney, Johnathan Luna, who had also investigated Norris and Kerik back in NY turned up murdered in December of 2003.
Luna at the time was working under DiBagio on the DC Madam case, finding Ehrlich and lobbyist Jack Abramoff were DC Madam clients. Then, DiBiagio became the first U.S. Attorney fired by the Justice Department after Bush's re-election in 2004.
Vastly underreported, DiBagio's probe had linked Republican governor Ehrlich to Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham and others but the investigation died when he was fired.
It wasn't until Palfrey attempted to leave the country and sell her house that interest in the DC Madam was revived. A warrant eventually seized her assets. WMR reports that one DC law firm representing Saudi clients turned up on the phone list and that another patron on the list was a client of the law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani. Though Madsen can be a little quick to speculate, he stands by his claim, purportedly confirmed by three different sources, that Cheney's beltway phone number appeared in the records numerous time when he was CEO of Halliburton.
No major media has picked up the story, though David Letterman mentioned it in a recent monologue, quipping that Cheney paid the hooker $2 billion dollars. Washington Post did cover an aspect of the story but omitted any mention of Cheney.
**Users may repost this article, provided a link to this page is included** (OpEdNews Editor)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Luna
Jonathan P. Luna (October 21, 1965–December 4, 2003) was a Baltimore-based Assistant United States Attorney who was stabbed 36 times with his own penknife and found drowned in a creek in Pennsylvania.
Personal background
Luna grew up in the projects in the South Bronx near Yankee Stadium. He was of African-American and Filipino ancestry. He was a graduate of Fordham University and the law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He worked at Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC in 1993–1994 and the Federal Trade Commission in 1994–1997. He worked as a prosecutor in Brooklyn before moving to Baltimore. He was married to an obstetrician and had two children. He was 38 years old when he died.
The night he died: December 3–4, 2003
11:38 pm: Luna left the Baltimore courthouse and went northeast on I-95. He used his E-ZPass on I-95 into Delaware but not on the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turnpikes. After three toll interchanges, he switched to buying toll tickets.
12:57 am: $200 was withdrawn from Luna's bank account from the ATM at the JFK Plaza service center near Newark, Delaware.
02:47 am: he crossed the Delaware toll bridge to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
03:20 am: his debit card bought gas at the King of Prussia service plaza.
04:04 am: his car exited the turnpike at the Reading-Lancaster interchange. The toll ticket had a spot of his blood on it suggesting that he was already injured. His car was parked at the back of the Sensenig & Weaver Well Drilling company at 1439 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, Pennsylvania (Brecknock Township) before it was later driven into the creek.
05:00 am: the first employee of Sensenig & Weaver arrived.
05:30 am: the car was noticed, with its lights off and the front end into the stream. Blood was smeared over the driver's door and the front left of the car. Luna was face down in the stream under the car engine. He was wearing a suit and a black overcoat with his court ID around his neck. A pool of blood was found on the rear seat floor. Although stabbed 36 times with his own penknife around the chest and neck plus a head injury, the death was due to drowning.
No suspects or motive for murder was determined. The federal authorities lean towards calling it a suicide but the local Lancaster County authorities, including two successive coroners, ruled it a homicide. There is an unclaimed federal reward of $100,000 for information leading to a conviction.
[edit] Suicide theory
Luna was to take a polygraph test concerning $36,000 which disappeared from a bank robbery case that he had prosecuted.[citation needed] Luna did not have the expected substantial defense wounds on his hands. Many of the wounds are shallow which are called "hesitation" wounds in a suicide victim. Luna had a charge card which his wife, Angela, did not know about.[citation needed] His name was on an Internet dating site and he had a $25,000 credit card debt.[citation needed] There's also an accidental suicide theory that Luna was fabricating a kidnapping and attack and that he went too far.[citation needed]
[edit] Homicide theory
Luna left his glasses, which he needed to drive, and his cell phone on his desk. He had called defense attorneys earlier in the night saying he would fax over documents that night but they never arrived. The pool of blood in the back seat would suggest Luna was in back and someone else was driving. Luna was at the time working under fired US attorney Thomas M. DiBiagio, "finding [Maryland Governor Robert] Ehrlich and lobbyist Jack Abramoff were DC Madam (Deborah Jeane Palfrey) clients"[1]
[edit] Inquest
In early February 2007, a private investigator and an attorney, both hired by Luna's family, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in order to force the Lancaster County coroner to conduct an inquest into Luna's death, after an earlier request was declined.[2][3]
[edit] References
^ OpEdNews
^ "Attorney, PI ask for inquest in Md. prosecutor's death" ([dead link]), The Examiner, 2007-02-26, http://www.examiner.com/a-586106~Attorney__PI_ask_for_inquest_in_Md__prosecutor_s_death.html
^ "Private Investigator Wants Jonathan Luna Case Reopened". WBAL Radio. 2007-02-26. http://wbal.com/news/story.asp?articleid=54479. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Luna"
by Gustav Wynn Page 1 of 1 page(s)
www.opednews.com
The media black-out on the scandal involving DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey is surprising in light of the lack of lawsuits being leveled at the Wayne Madsen Report website.
Instead of Dick Cheney and the recently resigned Randall Tobias filing libel and slander lawsuits against the site, we see only their silence. Moreover, the Wayne Madsen site has been continually expanding on this story - making this either the scoop of the century, or the biggest fairy tale in DC history.
Consider this: WMR is now reporting specifically who at ABC News' 20/20 became fully aware of not only Cheney's use of the escort service, but dozens more "high profile" names - culled from the phone records only since 2002 (the escort services full records go back to 1994).
ABC's crack team was reportedly gagged by their bosses after concerned calls from the White House.
This would be amazing if true, yet no White House denial has been forthcoming as of this writing...
WMR also reports that the DC Madam first came under DOJ scrutiny after US Attorney Thomas DiBiagio got a crooked cop Ed Norris (a pal of NYC Police Commish Bernard Kerik) to squeal on the escort service in May 2004, admitting the service had received illicit payouts from official police funds.
Less then a year after Norris was hired as State Superintendent by Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich, another US Attorney, Johnathan Luna, who had also investigated Norris and Kerik back in NY turned up murdered in December of 2003.
Luna at the time was working under DiBagio on the DC Madam case, finding Ehrlich and lobbyist Jack Abramoff were DC Madam clients. Then, DiBiagio became the first U.S. Attorney fired by the Justice Department after Bush's re-election in 2004.
Vastly underreported, DiBagio's probe had linked Republican governor Ehrlich to Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham and others but the investigation died when he was fired.
It wasn't until Palfrey attempted to leave the country and sell her house that interest in the DC Madam was revived. A warrant eventually seized her assets. WMR reports that one DC law firm representing Saudi clients turned up on the phone list and that another patron on the list was a client of the law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani. Though Madsen can be a little quick to speculate, he stands by his claim, purportedly confirmed by three different sources, that Cheney's beltway phone number appeared in the records numerous time when he was CEO of Halliburton.
No major media has picked up the story, though David Letterman mentioned it in a recent monologue, quipping that Cheney paid the hooker $2 billion dollars. Washington Post did cover an aspect of the story but omitted any mention of Cheney.
**Users may repost this article, provided a link to this page is included** (OpEdNews Editor)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Luna
Jonathan P. Luna (October 21, 1965–December 4, 2003) was a Baltimore-based Assistant United States Attorney who was stabbed 36 times with his own penknife and found drowned in a creek in Pennsylvania.
Personal background
Luna grew up in the projects in the South Bronx near Yankee Stadium. He was of African-American and Filipino ancestry. He was a graduate of Fordham University and the law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He worked at Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC in 1993–1994 and the Federal Trade Commission in 1994–1997. He worked as a prosecutor in Brooklyn before moving to Baltimore. He was married to an obstetrician and had two children. He was 38 years old when he died.
The night he died: December 3–4, 2003
11:38 pm: Luna left the Baltimore courthouse and went northeast on I-95. He used his E-ZPass on I-95 into Delaware but not on the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turnpikes. After three toll interchanges, he switched to buying toll tickets.
12:57 am: $200 was withdrawn from Luna's bank account from the ATM at the JFK Plaza service center near Newark, Delaware.
02:47 am: he crossed the Delaware toll bridge to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
03:20 am: his debit card bought gas at the King of Prussia service plaza.
04:04 am: his car exited the turnpike at the Reading-Lancaster interchange. The toll ticket had a spot of his blood on it suggesting that he was already injured. His car was parked at the back of the Sensenig & Weaver Well Drilling company at 1439 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, Pennsylvania (Brecknock Township) before it was later driven into the creek.
05:00 am: the first employee of Sensenig & Weaver arrived.
05:30 am: the car was noticed, with its lights off and the front end into the stream. Blood was smeared over the driver's door and the front left of the car. Luna was face down in the stream under the car engine. He was wearing a suit and a black overcoat with his court ID around his neck. A pool of blood was found on the rear seat floor. Although stabbed 36 times with his own penknife around the chest and neck plus a head injury, the death was due to drowning.
No suspects or motive for murder was determined. The federal authorities lean towards calling it a suicide but the local Lancaster County authorities, including two successive coroners, ruled it a homicide. There is an unclaimed federal reward of $100,000 for information leading to a conviction.
[edit] Suicide theory
Luna was to take a polygraph test concerning $36,000 which disappeared from a bank robbery case that he had prosecuted.[citation needed] Luna did not have the expected substantial defense wounds on his hands. Many of the wounds are shallow which are called "hesitation" wounds in a suicide victim. Luna had a charge card which his wife, Angela, did not know about.[citation needed] His name was on an Internet dating site and he had a $25,000 credit card debt.[citation needed] There's also an accidental suicide theory that Luna was fabricating a kidnapping and attack and that he went too far.[citation needed]
[edit] Homicide theory
Luna left his glasses, which he needed to drive, and his cell phone on his desk. He had called defense attorneys earlier in the night saying he would fax over documents that night but they never arrived. The pool of blood in the back seat would suggest Luna was in back and someone else was driving. Luna was at the time working under fired US attorney Thomas M. DiBiagio, "finding [Maryland Governor Robert] Ehrlich and lobbyist Jack Abramoff were DC Madam (Deborah Jeane Palfrey) clients"[1]
[edit] Inquest
In early February 2007, a private investigator and an attorney, both hired by Luna's family, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in order to force the Lancaster County coroner to conduct an inquest into Luna's death, after an earlier request was declined.[2][3]
[edit] References
^ OpEdNews
^ "Attorney, PI ask for inquest in Md. prosecutor's death" ([dead link]), The Examiner, 2007-02-26, http://www.examiner.com/a-586106~Attorney__PI_ask_for_inquest_in_Md__prosecutor_s_death.html
^ "Private Investigator Wants Jonathan Luna Case Reopened". WBAL Radio. 2007-02-26. http://wbal.com/news/story.asp?articleid=54479. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Luna"
Was SEIGLEMAN PROSECUTION linked to HEALTH SOUTH FRAUD and BLAGOVITCH?
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/79645/new_evidence_in_siegelman_case_points_to_republican_cabal/
New Evidence in Siegelman Case Points to Republican Cabal
By Sam Stein, Huffington Post. Posted March 13, 2008.
A group of Republicans were seeking to profit from the trial of former Alabama Gov. .
A new review of evidence suggests that an aligned group of Republican interests were pressing for -- and seeking to profit financially from -- the trial of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on charges of bribery.
According to court documents and official testimony, months before Siegelman was charged, Rob Riley, the son of the state's governor, expressed confidence that an indictment would occur and that Siegelman's political financier, Richard Scrushy, would be drawn into case.
Around the same time, moreover, Riley managed to maneuver himself into an extremely profitable position: lead local counsel on a separate, massive civil suit against Scrushy and his company, HealthSouth.
How he received the assignment aroused some suspicion.
Riley had limited experience in securities litigation. And, for critics, his appointment gave of the appearance of legal-political insider trading: the governor's son, cognizant that Scrushy would be dragged into Siegelman's case, saw the benefits to be had from the civil suit against Scrushy's company, and positioned himself to profit.
Riley denied these charges in an interview with the Huffington Post, saying that he had no prior knowledge of Siegelman's forthcoming indictment and arguing that he had been recruited to come on board the HealthSouth case, not the other way around.
What is agreed upon, however, is that Riley earned big money from his work. Ten months after he signed onto the HealthSouth suit, Siegelman was indicted. Less than a year after that, the former governor was convicted of bribery along with Scrushy. And months later, Health South settled for $445 million one of the largest settlements in securities litigation history.
In the early days of 2005, HealthSouth and Scrushy were in the midst of a long-waged battle over whether the company had "perpetrated an elaborate scheme to deceive HealthSouth's investors." The case alleged that the company, and its financial supporters, had "committed deceptive acts whose primary purpose and effect was to create a false appearance" of good financial results and future prospects. There were no connections to Siegelman.
On January 13, Rob Riley, a lawyer for the firm Riley & Jackson P.C. and the son of the state's governor, was abruptly added as local counsel to the New Mexico State Investment Council, a relatively new plaintiff in the case against HealthSouth.
It was an interesting move.
Riley, who specialized in medical malpractice law, had little history in complex securities litigation. Co-plaintiffs complained, as they often do, that his presence would simply drive up the cost of the case and cut into the pot of any settlement. But their appeal was denied.
Why did Riley come on board?
According to him, it was a product of local stature and a bit of luck.
"A guy in New Mexico said, 'Hey, we are trying to get involved in this case,'" Riley recalled. "At that point, it was pretty well out in the papers that there had been fraud at HealthSouth. So I felt like it was probably a good case. I didn't know what chance we had at being lead counsel."
Another official with knowledge of the case said Riley was chosen primarily for his political connections.
But around that time, Jill Simpson, an Alabama Republican official and opposition researcher, told the House Judiciary Committee that Riley called her and said the state's legal apparatus was gearing up to re-investigate Don Siegelman. Moreover, Simpson recalled Riley as saying that Republicans would tie the former governor with Scrushy, "a reviled figure in Alabama."
Less than a year earlier, Siegelman had been indicted for conspiracy and Medicaid fraud but his trial -- which seemed politically motivated -- fell apart within a day in court.
On this new go-around, the prosecution had a more favorable judge. Mark Fuller, who had been appointed by President Bush to the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Alabama, was well connected in Republican circles and, according to local Alabama journalist Glynn Wilson, had personal ties to Rob Riley.
Ten months after Riley signed onto the HealthSouth case, Siegelman and Scrushy were indicted on charges of political bribery. At the center of the charge was a $500,000 donation Scrushy made to the former governor's 1999 campaign. The money had gone to the state's education lottery and in exchange Scrushy got a position on a hospital regulatory board.
The connection, critics claim, was weak and prejudiced. Scrushy had been appointed to the board under several governors and his firm had no interests under the board's purview. But the trial, which began ion April 2006, reverberated throughout Alabama's political and legal circles. Siegelman's bid to become governor again was snuffed out. And the civil trial against HealthSouth was altered.
"[Riley] very aggressively he thrust himself into that suit as a late comer," said Scott Horton, a law professor at Columbia University who has written extensively on these issues for Harper's magazine. "He knew that Fuller had made statements suggesting that he felt he had once been a target of a politically motivated attack by Siegelman. He knew that this would make someone predisposed against Siegelman and perfect hanging judge. And he would reap the benefit of the class action suit on the side."
As the criminal case against Siegelman proceeded, so too did the suit against HealthSouth. And in the spring and summer of 2006, the two cases intersected.
According to the Associated Press, in May 2006, William McGahan, an official at UBS, one of HealthSouth's investment bankers, testified in the Siegelman case that he had been pressured to pony up $250,000 for the donations to the state's education lottery. The testimony had limited relevance to the class action suit.
But, over objections, it found its way into the court record. McGahan, the document read, was eager to please Scrushy and "arranged for UBS to be the source of the funds for the bribe."
What affect this, and Scrushy's ongoing criminal trial, had on the proceedings is a subject of debate. Riley, pointing to earlier HealthSouth executives who had pleaded guilty to fraud, said he saw no tangible cross-over between the two cases.
"I don't believe that had anything to do with the settlement," he said. "I don't think that it aided it at all."
Two other lawyers who served with other plaintiffs on the class action suit against HealthSouth, however, offered different opinions.
"It is not common that you have criminal trials of corporate executive at the same time that a class action suit is taking place involving the same individual," said Louis Mallone, an attorney for O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP and liaison counsel on the case. "It certainly didn't hurt the prospects of the [class action case]."
A second official, who declined to speak on the record, said that while the HealthSouth case was a "slam dunk" even before the Scrushy-Siegelman trial began, having Scrushy as a convicted felon "obviously helped" the suit against HealthSouth.
In June 2006, both Siegelman and Scrushy were convicted on charges of bribery. Siegelman was sentenced to seven years and four months in federal prison. Scrushy was given six years and ten months.
Months later the HealthSouth case, after years of trial, was finally settled. The company announced that it would pay a whopping $445 million. It was, said Malone, "one of the top fifteen or twenty [settlements] of all time."
Riley declined to reveal what he made from the case, saying that the amount was "evolving." But he did acknowledge that it was substantial. "It was a very good settlement," he said. "But at the same time there was a lot of work that went into it.
For critics, however, the message was clear. Riley knew Scrushy going down in the criminal trial and saw a way to reap the benefits on the separate civil suit. In other words: Good work, if you can get it.
"Rob Riley approved of the strategy of the dragging Scrushy into the [criminal] case because it would have benefits for him in the class action suit," said Horton. "It was clear that he was intently following what was going on in Fuller's court and knew that the conviction of Scrushy in that case would have strong benefits in the class action suit."
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http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=147509065&blogId=489449923
It is the 9/11 TREASON, stupid, not the torture! Matt Drudge dying of AIDS
by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Saturday May 16, 2009
On Wednesday, May 13, 2009, the former head of the North American Israeli Mossad, Rahm Emanuel, barged into the office of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and demanded that U. S. Attorney General Holder have the Obama Justice Department grant former Federal Reserve Bank of New York Chairman Stephen Friedman immunity from prosecution in regards to Friedman's role with former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and noted convicted Ponzi Scheme artist, Bernard Madoff, in the looting of the U.S. Treasury and the transfer of TRILLIONS of dollars to Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate offshore secret CIA proprietary accounts in Pakistan.
This was Emanuel's spitting in the face of the Joints Chief of Staff who have warned him on many occasions that if he crossed the line one more time there would be severe consequences.
Question: Does Emanuel now face severe consequences from the U.S. Military?
Note: Israel was used as the middleman in the transfer of funds.
All of this dovetails to a new escalating investigation of former BushFRAUD White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's firing of U.S. Attorneys with a specific emphasis on the U.S. Attorney case involving the frame up of former Democratic Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
Siegelman, a former FBI informant and Bush-Clinton-Mena, Arkansas-Iran/Contra whistleblower, had also uncovered evidence that the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate laundered proceeds from the old Iran-Contra money laundry through a medical supply and rehabilitative health company called HealthSouth with evidence linking Stephen Friedman's Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme, the General Electric Corporation and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
The proceeds from this money laundry were then used, not only to transfer funds to secret offshore CIA proprietary accounts, but to BRIBE both Republican and Democratic elected officials in the state of Illinois with massive General Electric Medical Systems campaign contributions that would effectively prevent cheaper prescription Canadian drugs from reaching the United States and, accordingly, competing with the General Electric-HealthSouth medical supply Ponzi Scheme....
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http://worldreports.org/news/203_wheels_coming_off_white_house_corruption_engine
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STANFORD OPERATIONS AND THE OCTOPUS
.....a photograph of Mr Obama and Stanford published by Wayne Madsen’s service on 19th February, and public domain intelligence to the effect that Stanford’s island base of Antigua has featured prominently as a center of operations for the Israeli-Russian mafiya, make it clear
(a) that President Obama knew about Stanford before he came to office and
(b) that Stanford’s activities, in which many governments have taken an interest for years, were unsavoury.
Stanford, who has been exposed as a long-time associate of the Bush Crime Family, has his Houston offices, Madsen reported, ‘directly across Westheimer Road in the part of the Galleria complex where the Carlyle Group offices are located. Coincidence? Not with the Bush criminal cartel’.
• On 18th March it was reported that Madsen was arrested while he was meeting a source with knowledge of Stanford’s connections, but both were later released.
According to ABC TV, in 2008 Mexican authorities seized one of Stanford’s private jets as part of an investigation into the Gulf Cartel by both the Mexican authorities and the FBI. Inside the cabin of the Gulfstream jet, police found cheques connected to drug cartel recipients. On 1st January 2009, the one-man-band accountant based in Antigua who had provided Stanford with ‘auditing’ and related services, died mysteriously just one day after the expiry of his contract with Stanford.
STANFORD ‘TOOK OVER’ FROM NORIEGA AGAINST WHOM LEHDER TESTIFIED
As previously reported, R. Allen Stanford ‘took over’ from Noriega, after Bush Sr. had double-crossed the Panamanian operative; and indeed, drug-running connections to Stanford are widely accessible in the public domain. Which brings in the covert DVD operative, Carlos Lehder Rivas, born in the United States of a Colombian mother and a German father.
Carlos Lehder began his life of crime as a low-level drug dealer in Michigan, and after doing time in jail for a drug-related car theft, Lehder ‘decided’ to seek his fortune in Colombia, according to the open ‘legend’. In reality, he was targeted and then recruited by or on behalf of the German ‘Black’ counterintelligence agency which is the heir of the Nazi Abwehr, Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst (DVD), based in Dachau, near Munich, almost certainly with the knowledge or on the instructions of George H. W. Bush Sr., the top Godfather implementing long-range DVD criminalism strategy in the Americas.
As we have repeatedly mentioned, the headquarters building of the Central Intelligence Agency is named the George Bush Center for Intelligence, a simple fact which itself confirms the pinpoint accuracy of Congressman Dan Burton’s revealing admission above.
Lehder was so well-placed that when housed in a two-cell unit at the US Penitentiary in Marion, IL, he was given a telephone, which he used to contact aides to the then-Vice President George H. W. Bush, who had been in charge of the CIA during the early years of the Medellín Cartel. The Editor’s book The New Underworld Order develops intelligence to reveal that the Colombian drug cartels were in fact established with the close assistance of the CIA and that foreign operations inside the CIA (which turned out to be German and Soviet) were instrumental in their evolution....
....LEHDER EXFILTRATED TO GERMANY UNDER CORRUPT 2000 ELECTION PAYOFF DEAL
When the time came for the 2000 US Presidential election to be stolen, ready money was needed to pay off the Democratic National Committee (which received a $32 million payoff) plus the judicial, law enforcement and legal parties whose cooperation suddenly became necessary and who were to be paid $8 million: whereupon Lehder was tapped in jail for the necessary $40 million in bribes.
The deal was that the top representative of the Bush Crime Family who required the ready cash (because of course the Bush Crime Family could not be expected to part with a single rotten cent of their own ill-gotten gains) would arrange for Lehder’s immediate exfiltration to GERMANY in exchange for Carlos Lehder Rivas extracting $40 million from a bank account on demand.....
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Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly into the CIA’s Highest Ranks
CIA Executive Director “Buzzy” Krongard managed firm that handled “PUT” options on United Airline Stock
by Michael C. Ruppert
Update: Krongard on Blackwater Advisory Board
FTW - October 9, 2001 – Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the “put options” on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Until 1997 A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown.
A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker’s Trust in 1997.
Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U.S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering.
Krongard’s last position at Banker’s Trust (BT) was to oversee “private client relations.” In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U.S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money.
Krongard joined the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George Tenet.
He was promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this year.
BT was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999.
The combined firm is the single largest bank in Europe.
And, as we shall see, Deutsche Bank played several key roles in events connected to the September 11 attacks.
THE SCOPE OF KNOWN INSIDER TRADING
Before looking further into these relationships it is necessary to look at the insider trading information that is being ignored by Reuters, The New York Times and other mass media. It is well documented that the CIA has long monitored such trades – in real time – as potential warnings of terrorist attacks and other economic moves contrary to U.S. interests. Previous stories in FTW have specifically highlighted the use of Promis software to monitor such trades.....
....A September 21 story by the Israeli Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, entitled “Black Tuesday: The World’s Largest Insider Trading Scam?” documented the following trades connected to the September 11 attacks:
- Between September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put options on United Airlines, but only 396 call options… Assuming that 4,000 of the options were bought by people with advance knowledge of the imminent attacks, these “insiders” would have profited by almost $5 million.
- On September 10, 4,516 put options on American Airlines were bought on the Chicago exchange, compared to only 748 calls. Again, there was no news at that point to justify this imbalance;… Again, assuming that 4,000 of these options trades represent “insiders,” they would represent a gain of about $4 million.
- [The levels of put options purchased above were more than six times higher than normal.]
- No similar trading in other airlines occurred on the Chicago exchange in the days immediately preceding Black Tuesday.
- Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Center, saw 2,157 of its October $45 put options bought in the three trading days before Black Tuesday; this compares to an average of 27 contracts per day before September 6. Morgan Stanley’s share price fell from $48.90 to $42.50 in the aftermath of the attacks.
Assuming that 2,000 of these options contracts were bought based upon knowledge of the approaching attacks, their purchasers could have profited by at least $1.2 million. Merrill Lynch & Co., with headquarters near the Twin Towers, saw 12,215 October $45 put options bought in the four trading days before the attacks; the previous average volume in those shares had been 252 contracts per day [a 1200% increase!].
When trading resumed, Merrill’s shares fell from $46.88 to $41.50; assuming that 11,000 option contracts were bought by “insiders,” their profit would have been about $5.5 million.
- European regulators are examining trades in Germany’s Munich Re, Switzerland’s Swiss Re, and AXA of France, all major reinsurers with exposure to the Black Tuesday disaster. [FTW Note: AXA also owns more than 25% of American Airlines stock making the attacks a “double whammy” for them.]
On September 29, 2001 – in a vital story that has gone unnoticed by the major media –the San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Investors have yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, according to a source familiar with the trades and market data.
“The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors – whose identities and nationalities have not been made public – had advance knowledge of the strikes.” They don’t dare show up now. The suspension of trading for four days after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out quickly and claim the prize before investigators started looking.
“… October series options for UAL Corp. were purchased in highly unusual volumes three trading days before the terrorist attacks for a total outlay of $2,070; investors bought the option contracts, each representing 100 shares, for 90 cents each. [This represents 230,000 shares]. Those options are now selling at more than $12 each. There are still 2,313 so-called “put” options outstanding [valued at $2.77 million and representing 231,300 shares] according to the Options Clearinghouse Corp.”
“…The source familiar with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options…” This was the operation managed by Krongard until as recently as 1998.
As reported in other news stories, Deutsche Bank was also the hub of insider trading activity connected to Munich Re. just before the attacks. .....
....Maurice “Hank” Greenburg – The CEO of AIG insurance, manager of the third largest capital investment pool in the world, was floated as a possible CIA Director in 1995. FTW exposed Greenberg’s and AIG’s long connection to CIA drug trafficking and covert operations in a two-part series that was interrupted just prior to the attacks of September 11. AIG’s stock has bounced back remarkably well since the attacks.
To read that story, please go to http://www.copvcia.com/stories/part_2.html. ....
[© COPYRIGHT, 2001, Michael C. Ruppert and FTW Publications, www.copvcia.com. All Rights Reserved. – May be reprinted or distributed for non-profit purposes only.]
New Evidence in Siegelman Case Points to Republican Cabal
By Sam Stein, Huffington Post. Posted March 13, 2008.
A group of Republicans were seeking to profit from the trial of former Alabama Gov. .
A new review of evidence suggests that an aligned group of Republican interests were pressing for -- and seeking to profit financially from -- the trial of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on charges of bribery.
According to court documents and official testimony, months before Siegelman was charged, Rob Riley, the son of the state's governor, expressed confidence that an indictment would occur and that Siegelman's political financier, Richard Scrushy, would be drawn into case.
Around the same time, moreover, Riley managed to maneuver himself into an extremely profitable position: lead local counsel on a separate, massive civil suit against Scrushy and his company, HealthSouth.
How he received the assignment aroused some suspicion.
Riley had limited experience in securities litigation. And, for critics, his appointment gave of the appearance of legal-political insider trading: the governor's son, cognizant that Scrushy would be dragged into Siegelman's case, saw the benefits to be had from the civil suit against Scrushy's company, and positioned himself to profit.
Riley denied these charges in an interview with the Huffington Post, saying that he had no prior knowledge of Siegelman's forthcoming indictment and arguing that he had been recruited to come on board the HealthSouth case, not the other way around.
What is agreed upon, however, is that Riley earned big money from his work. Ten months after he signed onto the HealthSouth suit, Siegelman was indicted. Less than a year after that, the former governor was convicted of bribery along with Scrushy. And months later, Health South settled for $445 million one of the largest settlements in securities litigation history.
In the early days of 2005, HealthSouth and Scrushy were in the midst of a long-waged battle over whether the company had "perpetrated an elaborate scheme to deceive HealthSouth's investors." The case alleged that the company, and its financial supporters, had "committed deceptive acts whose primary purpose and effect was to create a false appearance" of good financial results and future prospects. There were no connections to Siegelman.
On January 13, Rob Riley, a lawyer for the firm Riley & Jackson P.C. and the son of the state's governor, was abruptly added as local counsel to the New Mexico State Investment Council, a relatively new plaintiff in the case against HealthSouth.
It was an interesting move.
Riley, who specialized in medical malpractice law, had little history in complex securities litigation. Co-plaintiffs complained, as they often do, that his presence would simply drive up the cost of the case and cut into the pot of any settlement. But their appeal was denied.
Why did Riley come on board?
According to him, it was a product of local stature and a bit of luck.
"A guy in New Mexico said, 'Hey, we are trying to get involved in this case,'" Riley recalled. "At that point, it was pretty well out in the papers that there had been fraud at HealthSouth. So I felt like it was probably a good case. I didn't know what chance we had at being lead counsel."
Another official with knowledge of the case said Riley was chosen primarily for his political connections.
But around that time, Jill Simpson, an Alabama Republican official and opposition researcher, told the House Judiciary Committee that Riley called her and said the state's legal apparatus was gearing up to re-investigate Don Siegelman. Moreover, Simpson recalled Riley as saying that Republicans would tie the former governor with Scrushy, "a reviled figure in Alabama."
Less than a year earlier, Siegelman had been indicted for conspiracy and Medicaid fraud but his trial -- which seemed politically motivated -- fell apart within a day in court.
On this new go-around, the prosecution had a more favorable judge. Mark Fuller, who had been appointed by President Bush to the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Alabama, was well connected in Republican circles and, according to local Alabama journalist Glynn Wilson, had personal ties to Rob Riley.
Ten months after Riley signed onto the HealthSouth case, Siegelman and Scrushy were indicted on charges of political bribery. At the center of the charge was a $500,000 donation Scrushy made to the former governor's 1999 campaign. The money had gone to the state's education lottery and in exchange Scrushy got a position on a hospital regulatory board.
The connection, critics claim, was weak and prejudiced. Scrushy had been appointed to the board under several governors and his firm had no interests under the board's purview. But the trial, which began ion April 2006, reverberated throughout Alabama's political and legal circles. Siegelman's bid to become governor again was snuffed out. And the civil trial against HealthSouth was altered.
"[Riley] very aggressively he thrust himself into that suit as a late comer," said Scott Horton, a law professor at Columbia University who has written extensively on these issues for Harper's magazine. "He knew that Fuller had made statements suggesting that he felt he had once been a target of a politically motivated attack by Siegelman. He knew that this would make someone predisposed against Siegelman and perfect hanging judge. And he would reap the benefit of the class action suit on the side."
As the criminal case against Siegelman proceeded, so too did the suit against HealthSouth. And in the spring and summer of 2006, the two cases intersected.
According to the Associated Press, in May 2006, William McGahan, an official at UBS, one of HealthSouth's investment bankers, testified in the Siegelman case that he had been pressured to pony up $250,000 for the donations to the state's education lottery. The testimony had limited relevance to the class action suit.
But, over objections, it found its way into the court record. McGahan, the document read, was eager to please Scrushy and "arranged for UBS to be the source of the funds for the bribe."
What affect this, and Scrushy's ongoing criminal trial, had on the proceedings is a subject of debate. Riley, pointing to earlier HealthSouth executives who had pleaded guilty to fraud, said he saw no tangible cross-over between the two cases.
"I don't believe that had anything to do with the settlement," he said. "I don't think that it aided it at all."
Two other lawyers who served with other plaintiffs on the class action suit against HealthSouth, however, offered different opinions.
"It is not common that you have criminal trials of corporate executive at the same time that a class action suit is taking place involving the same individual," said Louis Mallone, an attorney for O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP and liaison counsel on the case. "It certainly didn't hurt the prospects of the [class action case]."
A second official, who declined to speak on the record, said that while the HealthSouth case was a "slam dunk" even before the Scrushy-Siegelman trial began, having Scrushy as a convicted felon "obviously helped" the suit against HealthSouth.
In June 2006, both Siegelman and Scrushy were convicted on charges of bribery. Siegelman was sentenced to seven years and four months in federal prison. Scrushy was given six years and ten months.
Months later the HealthSouth case, after years of trial, was finally settled. The company announced that it would pay a whopping $445 million. It was, said Malone, "one of the top fifteen or twenty [settlements] of all time."
Riley declined to reveal what he made from the case, saying that the amount was "evolving." But he did acknowledge that it was substantial. "It was a very good settlement," he said. "But at the same time there was a lot of work that went into it.
For critics, however, the message was clear. Riley knew Scrushy going down in the criminal trial and saw a way to reap the benefits on the separate civil suit. In other words: Good work, if you can get it.
"Rob Riley approved of the strategy of the dragging Scrushy into the [criminal] case because it would have benefits for him in the class action suit," said Horton. "It was clear that he was intently following what was going on in Fuller's court and knew that the conviction of Scrushy in that case would have strong benefits in the class action suit."
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It is the 9/11 TREASON, stupid, not the torture! Matt Drudge dying of AIDS
by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Saturday May 16, 2009
On Wednesday, May 13, 2009, the former head of the North American Israeli Mossad, Rahm Emanuel, barged into the office of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and demanded that U. S. Attorney General Holder have the Obama Justice Department grant former Federal Reserve Bank of New York Chairman Stephen Friedman immunity from prosecution in regards to Friedman's role with former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and noted convicted Ponzi Scheme artist, Bernard Madoff, in the looting of the U.S. Treasury and the transfer of TRILLIONS of dollars to Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate offshore secret CIA proprietary accounts in Pakistan.
This was Emanuel's spitting in the face of the Joints Chief of Staff who have warned him on many occasions that if he crossed the line one more time there would be severe consequences.
Question: Does Emanuel now face severe consequences from the U.S. Military?
Note: Israel was used as the middleman in the transfer of funds.
All of this dovetails to a new escalating investigation of former BushFRAUD White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's firing of U.S. Attorneys with a specific emphasis on the U.S. Attorney case involving the frame up of former Democratic Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
Siegelman, a former FBI informant and Bush-Clinton-Mena, Arkansas-Iran/Contra whistleblower, had also uncovered evidence that the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate laundered proceeds from the old Iran-Contra money laundry through a medical supply and rehabilitative health company called HealthSouth with evidence linking Stephen Friedman's Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme, the General Electric Corporation and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
The proceeds from this money laundry were then used, not only to transfer funds to secret offshore CIA proprietary accounts, but to BRIBE both Republican and Democratic elected officials in the state of Illinois with massive General Electric Medical Systems campaign contributions that would effectively prevent cheaper prescription Canadian drugs from reaching the United States and, accordingly, competing with the General Electric-HealthSouth medical supply Ponzi Scheme....
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STANFORD OPERATIONS AND THE OCTOPUS
.....a photograph of Mr Obama and Stanford published by Wayne Madsen’s service on 19th February, and public domain intelligence to the effect that Stanford’s island base of Antigua has featured prominently as a center of operations for the Israeli-Russian mafiya, make it clear
(a) that President Obama knew about Stanford before he came to office and
(b) that Stanford’s activities, in which many governments have taken an interest for years, were unsavoury.
Stanford, who has been exposed as a long-time associate of the Bush Crime Family, has his Houston offices, Madsen reported, ‘directly across Westheimer Road in the part of the Galleria complex where the Carlyle Group offices are located. Coincidence? Not with the Bush criminal cartel’.
• On 18th March it was reported that Madsen was arrested while he was meeting a source with knowledge of Stanford’s connections, but both were later released.
According to ABC TV, in 2008 Mexican authorities seized one of Stanford’s private jets as part of an investigation into the Gulf Cartel by both the Mexican authorities and the FBI. Inside the cabin of the Gulfstream jet, police found cheques connected to drug cartel recipients. On 1st January 2009, the one-man-band accountant based in Antigua who had provided Stanford with ‘auditing’ and related services, died mysteriously just one day after the expiry of his contract with Stanford.
STANFORD ‘TOOK OVER’ FROM NORIEGA AGAINST WHOM LEHDER TESTIFIED
As previously reported, R. Allen Stanford ‘took over’ from Noriega, after Bush Sr. had double-crossed the Panamanian operative; and indeed, drug-running connections to Stanford are widely accessible in the public domain. Which brings in the covert DVD operative, Carlos Lehder Rivas, born in the United States of a Colombian mother and a German father.
Carlos Lehder began his life of crime as a low-level drug dealer in Michigan, and after doing time in jail for a drug-related car theft, Lehder ‘decided’ to seek his fortune in Colombia, according to the open ‘legend’. In reality, he was targeted and then recruited by or on behalf of the German ‘Black’ counterintelligence agency which is the heir of the Nazi Abwehr, Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst (DVD), based in Dachau, near Munich, almost certainly with the knowledge or on the instructions of George H. W. Bush Sr., the top Godfather implementing long-range DVD criminalism strategy in the Americas.
As we have repeatedly mentioned, the headquarters building of the Central Intelligence Agency is named the George Bush Center for Intelligence, a simple fact which itself confirms the pinpoint accuracy of Congressman Dan Burton’s revealing admission above.
Lehder was so well-placed that when housed in a two-cell unit at the US Penitentiary in Marion, IL, he was given a telephone, which he used to contact aides to the then-Vice President George H. W. Bush, who had been in charge of the CIA during the early years of the Medellín Cartel. The Editor’s book The New Underworld Order develops intelligence to reveal that the Colombian drug cartels were in fact established with the close assistance of the CIA and that foreign operations inside the CIA (which turned out to be German and Soviet) were instrumental in their evolution....
....LEHDER EXFILTRATED TO GERMANY UNDER CORRUPT 2000 ELECTION PAYOFF DEAL
When the time came for the 2000 US Presidential election to be stolen, ready money was needed to pay off the Democratic National Committee (which received a $32 million payoff) plus the judicial, law enforcement and legal parties whose cooperation suddenly became necessary and who were to be paid $8 million: whereupon Lehder was tapped in jail for the necessary $40 million in bribes.
The deal was that the top representative of the Bush Crime Family who required the ready cash (because of course the Bush Crime Family could not be expected to part with a single rotten cent of their own ill-gotten gains) would arrange for Lehder’s immediate exfiltration to GERMANY in exchange for Carlos Lehder Rivas extracting $40 million from a bank account on demand.....
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Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly into the CIA’s Highest Ranks
CIA Executive Director “Buzzy” Krongard managed firm that handled “PUT” options on United Airline Stock
by Michael C. Ruppert
Update: Krongard on Blackwater Advisory Board
FTW - October 9, 2001 – Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the “put options” on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Until 1997 A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown.
A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker’s Trust in 1997.
Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U.S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering.
Krongard’s last position at Banker’s Trust (BT) was to oversee “private client relations.” In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U.S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money.
Krongard joined the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George Tenet.
He was promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this year.
BT was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999.
The combined firm is the single largest bank in Europe.
And, as we shall see, Deutsche Bank played several key roles in events connected to the September 11 attacks.
THE SCOPE OF KNOWN INSIDER TRADING
Before looking further into these relationships it is necessary to look at the insider trading information that is being ignored by Reuters, The New York Times and other mass media. It is well documented that the CIA has long monitored such trades – in real time – as potential warnings of terrorist attacks and other economic moves contrary to U.S. interests. Previous stories in FTW have specifically highlighted the use of Promis software to monitor such trades.....
....A September 21 story by the Israeli Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, entitled “Black Tuesday: The World’s Largest Insider Trading Scam?” documented the following trades connected to the September 11 attacks:
- Between September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put options on United Airlines, but only 396 call options… Assuming that 4,000 of the options were bought by people with advance knowledge of the imminent attacks, these “insiders” would have profited by almost $5 million.
- On September 10, 4,516 put options on American Airlines were bought on the Chicago exchange, compared to only 748 calls. Again, there was no news at that point to justify this imbalance;… Again, assuming that 4,000 of these options trades represent “insiders,” they would represent a gain of about $4 million.
- [The levels of put options purchased above were more than six times higher than normal.]
- No similar trading in other airlines occurred on the Chicago exchange in the days immediately preceding Black Tuesday.
- Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Center, saw 2,157 of its October $45 put options bought in the three trading days before Black Tuesday; this compares to an average of 27 contracts per day before September 6. Morgan Stanley’s share price fell from $48.90 to $42.50 in the aftermath of the attacks.
Assuming that 2,000 of these options contracts were bought based upon knowledge of the approaching attacks, their purchasers could have profited by at least $1.2 million. Merrill Lynch & Co., with headquarters near the Twin Towers, saw 12,215 October $45 put options bought in the four trading days before the attacks; the previous average volume in those shares had been 252 contracts per day [a 1200% increase!].
When trading resumed, Merrill’s shares fell from $46.88 to $41.50; assuming that 11,000 option contracts were bought by “insiders,” their profit would have been about $5.5 million.
- European regulators are examining trades in Germany’s Munich Re, Switzerland’s Swiss Re, and AXA of France, all major reinsurers with exposure to the Black Tuesday disaster. [FTW Note: AXA also owns more than 25% of American Airlines stock making the attacks a “double whammy” for them.]
On September 29, 2001 – in a vital story that has gone unnoticed by the major media –the San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Investors have yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, according to a source familiar with the trades and market data.
“The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors – whose identities and nationalities have not been made public – had advance knowledge of the strikes.” They don’t dare show up now. The suspension of trading for four days after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out quickly and claim the prize before investigators started looking.
“… October series options for UAL Corp. were purchased in highly unusual volumes three trading days before the terrorist attacks for a total outlay of $2,070; investors bought the option contracts, each representing 100 shares, for 90 cents each. [This represents 230,000 shares]. Those options are now selling at more than $12 each. There are still 2,313 so-called “put” options outstanding [valued at $2.77 million and representing 231,300 shares] according to the Options Clearinghouse Corp.”
“…The source familiar with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options…” This was the operation managed by Krongard until as recently as 1998.
As reported in other news stories, Deutsche Bank was also the hub of insider trading activity connected to Munich Re. just before the attacks. .....
....Maurice “Hank” Greenburg – The CEO of AIG insurance, manager of the third largest capital investment pool in the world, was floated as a possible CIA Director in 1995. FTW exposed Greenberg’s and AIG’s long connection to CIA drug trafficking and covert operations in a two-part series that was interrupted just prior to the attacks of September 11. AIG’s stock has bounced back remarkably well since the attacks.
To read that story, please go to http://www.copvcia.com/stories/part_2.html. ....
[© COPYRIGHT, 2001, Michael C. Ruppert and FTW Publications, www.copvcia.com. All Rights Reserved. – May be reprinted or distributed for non-profit purposes only.]
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