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North Jersey: epicenter of 'Kosher Nostra' and Mossad activity
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jul 30, 2009, 00:22
(WMR) -- The recent rolling up of a Syrian Jewish criminal syndicate that was involved in buying off local elected and appointed government officials in north Jersey is but one in a long series of law enforcement operations directed, sometimes unsuccessfully due to the immense power of the Israel Lobby in the United States, against Jewish criminal networks in the New Jersey-New York region. These criminal networks also have one important thing in common: close connections to Israeli politicians and businessmen.
The FBI used a confidential witness to identify a number of Syrian Jewish rabbis who were using synagogues and yeshivas as money laundering fronts reportedly for the illegal sale of knock-off designer handbags and even human organs. The witness, Solomon Dwek, is a major real estate developer and gambling boat owner who was arrested in 2006 for trying to pass a bad check and defraud PNC Bank of $25 million. Dwek is a member of the powerful Syrian Jewish clan in New Jersey and New York, which has been called the SY Empire” and the “Dwek clan.”
Dwek’s father, Isaac Dwek, is a rabbi of a synagogue and yeshiva school in the Syrian Jewish enclave of Deal, New Jersey, on the Jersey shore. Deal is a nexus for the radical Israeli right that is opposed to any peace agreement with the Palestinians and the ultra-orthodox Israeli Shas Party, a member of the current Israeli coalition government, has held fundraisers in Deal. The Syrian Jewish community is also heavily involved in worldwide Chabad Houses, which WMR has previously linked to drug smuggling and money laundering, particularly in Mumbai, Bangkok, and other Asian cities. In 1992, the Syrian government lifted travel restrictions and limits on the disposition of property for the Syrian Jewish community. Syrian Jews were relatively free to travel, including to the United States.
Among the rabbis arrested was Saul Kassin, the 87-year-old chief rabbi of the 80,000-member Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn and New Jersey. Rabbis from Brooklyn and Deal were also arrested for money laundering operations that used the tax-exempt status of Jewish religious organizations to avoid detection and reporting to the government.
The mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus, and Ridgefield were also arrested as part of the bribery probe of the Syrian Jewish syndicate, as well as a Jersey City state assemblyman and an Ocean Township mayor and assemblyman. A member of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine’s cabinet was also arrested, along with appointed officials in Bayonne, Hoboken, and Jersey City.
The latest reported criminal activity among the region’s Syrian Jewish community is nothing new. One prominent member of the community, which traces its origins back to the Syrian city of Aleppo, was Eddie Antar, the owner of a regional chain of consumer electronics stories called “Crazy Eddie’s,” who fled the United States for Israel after being indicted for fraud.
Antar had laundered some $80 million through Panamanian and Israeli banks, much of it ending up at the Bank Leumi in Tel Aviv, Swiss banks, a “folding tent” Liberian company, and a Liechtenstein foundation. Antar used a fake passport and the alias of David Jacob Levi Cohen to enter Israel. Antar also used the alias of Alexander Stewart. Antar was eventually arrested near Tel Aviv and was extradited back to the United States where he eventually received an eight-year prison sentence. The chief federal prosecutor against Antar was Michael Chertoff.
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TOMMY:
Don't forget that CHERTOFF KIKE and MUKASY KIKE worked together as MOSSAD SPIES when they made sure the MOSSAD DANCING ISRAELIS got out of jail after serving 60 days???????????............AFTER MURDERING 3,000 AMERICANS?
Tell me why....MUKASY KIKE AND CHERTOFF KIKE feel safe walking the streets of America?
Answer: THERE IS NOT ENOUGH ANTISEMITISM IN AMERICA...right?
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Syrian-Jewish businessman Norman Jemal, the head of another influential Syrian-Jewish family and a consumer electronics competitor of Crazy Eddie, saw his store chain Nobody Beats the Wiz, collapse into bankruptcy in 2003.
Another prominent Syrian Jew was Edmond Safra who founded Banco Safra in Brazil in 1955. The Beirut-based Safra family had long served as important bankers for the Ottoman Empire. Safra eventually became a billionaire banking and investment tycoon.
Safra founded the Republic National Bank in New York in 1966. In 1999, Safra was killed in an arson attack on his Monte Carlo home. Safra’s U.S.-born nurse, Ted Maher, a former U.S. Army Green Beret, was arrested and charged with starting the fire but his conviction was overturned.
Safra’s killer or killers still remain at large. Safra’s security chief, Shmuile Cohen, had recruited a number of Israeli military special forces personnel to guard Safra, but Shmule and the guards were given the night off by Safra’s wife. Before his death, Safra was negotiating the sale of Republic Bank to HSBC. Safra was also cooperating with the FBI in its probe of the use of U.S. banks by the Russian-Israeli mafia to launder billions of dollars.
There is speculation that Safra was murdered by the Russian-Israeli mob to keep him from divulging more details of their operations to the FBI.
After the recent bust of prominent Syrian-Jews in New Jersey and New York, the FBI and Justice Department revealed their investigation had lasted for 10 years. The Safra murder occurred 10 years prior to the recent corruption arrests. WMR has learned that the FBI is actually probing a much bigger criminal syndicate, one that involves more powerful politicians and businessmen involved in real estate and financial services in New York and New Jersey.
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tommy:
RUDY GUILIANI is going to jail, or his own funeral after he gets flipped...doncha know?
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The arrest of mayors, other small-time politicians, and rabbis may lead to higher-ups if there is cooperation from those already arrested from plea deals with prosecutors.
One prominent member of the Syrian Jewish community is Joseph Cayre, the real estate business partner of Larry Silverstein and Lloyd Goldman in the pre-9/11 lease of the World Trade Center from the New York-New Jersey Port Authority and the subsequent redevelopment of the “Ground Zero” site.
Silverstein, Cayre, Goldman, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have recently been feuding with the Port Authority over the terms of the redevelopment scheme. Part of the redevelopment strategy is central to the “Cornerstones Project,” a project to establish four mega-entertainment and sports complexes in Manhattan connected to two other such centers on Coney Island and at the Meadowlands Xanadu entertainment and shopping complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, next to Secaucus. The Xanadu project is being underwritten by Goldman Sachs and is a favorite of Governor Corzine, a former chairman of Goldman Sachs.
In the criminal complaint against Rabbi Eliahu “Eli” Ben Haim of the Ohel Yaacob congregation in Deal, a co-conspirator only identified as “I.M.,” who is based in Israel and was a principal source of cash for Ben Haim, is cited. It is odd that “I.M.” is only identified by initials when two other co-conspirators of Ben Haim are identified by their full names: Schmulik Cohen of Brooklyn and Arye Weiss, also of Brooklyn. “I.M.”s modus operandi is described in the criminal complaint:
“Defendant BEN HAIM also mentioned that he owed another individual $495,000. This individual, according to defendant BEN HAIM, had wired money from Hong Kong to Israel, and stated that ‘he has money in Hong Kong from his -- the kickbacks from the factories.’ Defendant BEN HAIM also further described the activities of Coconspirator I.M. in the following terms: ‘the head contact’s in Israel . . .
He has different people, he has, . . . he has a hundred cus-, no customer in New York [u/i] [unintelligible] money in Israel [u/i] real estate investments, they, they want to hide their money. They don’t want it to show. So they give the cash here to him and he gives me the cash . . .
You see the merry-go-round? This guy’s been doing it for 20, 30 years.’ Defendant BEN HAIM also indicated that he would pick up cash, as coordinated by Coconspirator I.M., at locations in Brooklyn. The CW [confidential witness] offered to pick up the cash that defendant BEN HAIM anticipated would be available to him the following week.”
The complaint provides even greater details of “I.M.’s” money laundering activities:
“Defendant BEN HAIM told the CW about ‘customers from two, three years ago that are calling me,’ and indicated that “[t]hat’s a signal that the market is tight.’ Defendant BEN HAIM also discussed his source for cash, Coconspirator I.M., and stated that he spoke to Coconspirator I.M. ‘[e]very day - every other day.’ Referring to Coconspirator I.M., defendant BEN HAIM then asked the CW ‘[d]id you know that he had me in the last 4 years send out wires every time to a different place in the world to a different name? It’s unbelievable. I never saw anything like it.’ When the CW asked whether defendant BEN HAIM was referring to different locations in only Israel, defendant BEN HAIM replied ‘[n]o, all over the world . . .
All over the world. From Australia to New Zealand to Uganda. I mean [u/i] every country imaginable. Turkey, you can’t believe it. . . . All different names. It’s never the same name. . . .
Switzerland, everywhere, France, everywhere, Spain. . . . China, Japan.’ Defendant BEN HAIM also explained that the market for cash was tight ‘only in the beginning of the year and the end of the year.’”
It appears that the FBI was being careful about naming “I.M.” due to his extensive contacts from Israel to countries around the world, an indication that “I.M.,” unlike the rabbis and the New Jersey politicos, is a big fry who is laundering large sums of money, possibly from gambling operations, through synagogues and Jewish charities.
It is known that Solomon Dwek was involved in a casino boat business and that jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff was similarly involved in taking control of Sun Cruz Casino boats in Florida. Abramoff also funded radical Israeli settler movements on the West Bank.
WMR has learned from a reliable source that the identity of “I.M,,” if revealed, would serve as a body blow to the Likud government of Netanyahu and his major coalition partners, Yisrael Beiteinu of extreme right-wing Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and the ultra-orthodox Shas Party. The revelation of “I.M.’s” identity, we are told, will also provide encouragement to the Palestinians to stand their ground against Israeli encroachment in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. In fact, the timing of the recent arrests in New Jersey and New York may be directly tied to Israel’s move to build a residential complex in east Jerusalem over the objections of President Barack Obama.
On July 26, 2009, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Rabbi David Yosef, the son of Shas spiritual leader and former Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, left the Long Branch, New Jersey, home of Ben-Haim for Israel just hours before the FBI raid that saw the arrest of Ben-Haim. In May, Aryeh Deri visited the Syrian-Jewish community in the New York-New Jersey region seeking funds for a new political party. Deri’s successor as the head of Shas, Eliyahu “Eli” Yishai, currently serves as interior minister and a deputy prime minister of Israel.
Ovadia Yosef recently condemned President Barack Obama for pressuring Israel on the freeze of settlements. Yosef also called for the rebuilding of the Jewish temple on the site of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, one of Islam’s holiest sites. Yosef complained that there “are Arabs there.”
The North Jersey/Brooklyn area has long been a hub for intelligence and criminal activities by Israeli nationals. In many cases, those arrested have gotten off with light or no sentences.
WMR has reported extensively on these, including:
* On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, New Jersey police arrested five Israeli employees of Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, New Jersey, which is nestled between Jersey City and Hoboken, near Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, next to Secaucus. The Israelis were earlier seen celebrating, high-fiving, jumping up and down, and videotaping the first and second plane attacks on the World Trade Center.
* The five Israelis were later linked to an Israeli-owned office moving company called Urban Moving Systems headquartered in Weehawken, New Jersey at 3 West 18th Street. Another Urban Moving office was located on West 50th Street in Manhattan. Urban Moving’s owner, Dominik Otto Suter, identified by the CIA and FBI as a Mossad officer, fled to Israel shortly before he was to be re-questioned by the FBI. The five Israelis, after being jailed for five months, were quietly deported to Israel without criminal charges being filed.
* Information Spectrum, Inc. (ISI) of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, a subsidiary of the Fairfax, Virginia-based defense contractor, Anteon, took over the operation of the Jersey City police computer system that handled all incoming emergency phone calls on September 11 . . . According to Jersey City Police officials, after the emergency call system was changed from a Wang to a Windows environment, 8,000 emergency 911 system calls registered on September 11 were scrubbed from the archives. In fact, archives dating back to 1989, including those dealing with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, were similarly affected.
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tommy:
WELL, WELL, WELL...what does that say about the KIKE'S FAVORITE ARTFORM:FALSE FLAG TERRORISM inside America, aided and abetted by the GOP NEOCON COCKSUCKERS?
How many people know that, FBI HQ AND FIELD got violated by MOSSAD'S FUCKHEAD, DWAYNE FUSILIER who as DENVER FBI PUNK, orchestrated the MK ULTRA MIND CONTROLLED SCHOOL SHOOTER PROGRAM AT COLUMBINE?
Fusilier is tied to the Kikes...doncha know?
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* In October 2000, an Israeli veteran of the Israel Defense Force overheard a conversation between three men in the Gomel Chesed Cemetery in Newark, New Jersey. The three men speaking in Hebrew were discussing the “planes hitting the twins,” a reference to the 9/11 attacks some 11 months later. The FBI Newark office was informed of the conversation. There was no follow-up by the FBI.
* A Syrian Jew named Rimon Alkatri was indicted by a New York City grand jury for phoning a false terrorist threat to the New York City police in May 2006. The indictment charged Alkatri with making a false terrorist threat in the first degree. Alkatri was arrested on July 31, 2006, a little over a week from the hype generated by the “great airplane liquid bombing hoax.”
Alkatri, who owns the El Castillo de Oro jewelry store on Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn and who arrived in the United States in 1996, was arrested by police while he was leaving his apartment in a Syrian Jewish neighborhood on East 9th Street. In May, Alkatri, using the alias Jose Rodriguez, and claiming to be from Israel, said he overheard five Syrian employees of his store use the phrase “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) and that they were plotting to hide explosives in hollowed-out jewelry and perpetrate a suicide bombing in the New York subway system on the Fourth of July. Police later discovered that the five Syrian “conspirators” identified by Alkatri were not even Muslims, but Christians and Jews. Alkatri, who could have been sentenced to seven years in jail, was given a six-month sentence.
* In 2003, Yehuda Abraham, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, global diamond dealer, and native of Afghanistan, was charged with money laundering for an Indian weapons smuggler named Hemant Lakhani who was attempting to purchase Russian portable missile launchers to bring down American passenger planes, including Air Force One, in the United States. Abraham was later convicted in the scheme that also involved a Malaysian bagman associated with the Southeast Asian Al Qaeda offshoot Jemaah Islamiya. Abraham and Lakhani conducted their meetings near Newark International Airport. Abraham was sentenced to home detention.
* In 2003, Israeli-born Mark Brener, proprietor of Emperor’s Club VIP and three money laundering firms -- QAT Consulting Group, QAT International, and Protech Consulting -- moved from South Brunswick, New Jersey, to an affluent condo in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, with his 19-year-old girlfriend Cecil (“Ceci”) Suwal. Emperor’s Club VIP was the escort service that enmeshed New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and, which more recently is said to involve another governor, reportedly Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania. Brener received a 30-month prison sentence.
* The targeting of New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, a former mayor of Woodbridge, New Jersey, by Israeli intelligence operative Golan Cipel in a homosexual “honey trap” resulted in McGreevey’s sudden resignation from office in 2004. McGreevey appointed Cipel to a top homeland security job for the state of New Jersey. The Emperor’s Club VIP expose about Spitzer came on the same day that it was reported that emails from the McGreevey administration were erased from the state’s computer systems. Cipel today works as an independent consultant.
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tommy:
MOST MORONS like JON CONYERS AT US HOUSE JUD COMM (a guy who did not want THOMAS S. BEAN TO TESTIFY ABOUT THE MIND CONTROL PROGRAM used to set up "honey traps", "school shooters", "hitmen" etc, etc, etc....) don't realize that...uh...SUBLIMINAL PROGRAMMING CAN AND IS USED TO GET DIRT ON ANY WITNESS, CRITIC, COMPLAINAT, etc, etc...including THE WIFE OF JON CONYERS who was programmed to take the 6, 000$ bribe so that CONYERS WOULD BUCKLE UNDER TO NEO CON KIKE LOVING FATBOY KARL ROVE'S need for secrecy and a "bizarre agreement to testify" without taking an oath?
IF CONYERS WOULD HAVE DONE WHAT I TOLD HIM, his wife would not be looking at 6 years?
What can I do when nobody listens?
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* In December 1995, Israeli Interior Minister Haim Ramon barred from entering Israel six U.S. citizens, all members of the terrorist Jewish Defense League, as well as Rabbi Abraham Hecht of the Syrian Jewish community in New York, for involvement in illegal activities in Israel. Hecht had suggested that assassinated Prime Minister Rabin could have been a “moser,” a Jew who handed over Jews or Jewish property to non-Jews, and deserved the death penalty.
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WMR has also learned from sources in China of a significant Turkish angle to the illegal Israeli-run human organ smuggling trade. Apparently, Turkish military surgeons have worked with ethnic Uighurs to harvest organs from young Chinese.
The center of the human organ trade is in Israel.
Recently, police in Shenzen, China raided a Uighur-run restaurant where younger customers had a habit of disappearing. Police then discovered the restaurant had a grisly secret business: that it was an organ harvesting center, operated with medical expertise from Turkish military surgeons who identified usable organs for wealthy Israelis, as well as Arab potentates. The Turkish military surgeons apparently got their start after the 1999 Izmit-Istanbul earthquake, the first major operation for the organ harvesters.
The Shenzen eatery’s refrigerators were primed for cryogenics, the storage of human organs until transport to customers. The human remains -- limbs, spines, and heads . . . were boiled down and dumped into the sewer or sold to pig farmers for slop. Bones were crushed and likewise went down the sewer pipes. Police were originally stymied in collecting evidence in their investigation of the criminal enterprise.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
Copyright © 2009 WayneMadenReport.com
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The moneyman behind the Jewish expansion in East Jerusalem
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jul 31, 2009, 00:19
(WMR) -- The take down by the FBI of a group of Syrian-Jewish rabbis who have held fund raisers for the Binyamin Netanyahu coalition partner, the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, has highlighted the financing of the expansion of Jewish building in East Jerusalem, which is not recognized as part of Israel by the United Nations.
The key financier is a wealthy American Jewish bingo parlor and gambling tycoon named Irving Moskowitz, a noted neoconservative who has also backed such neocon operations as the Hudson Institute, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), American Enterprise Institute, and the Center for Security Policy.
Moskowitz has also been responsible for purchasing land from Arabs mostly in East Jerusalem to turn the city into an exclusive Jewish city. More troubling for long-term Middle East peace is Moskowitz’s funding of the right-wing Ateret Cohanim movement, which seeks to tear down Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, also known as the Dome of the Rock, to rebuild the Jewish temple.
Of more immediate concern, however, is Moskowitz’s purchase of East Jerusalem’s Shepherd Hotel, which overlooks Mount Scopus, in 1985 and reportedly with the support of Henry Kissinger. The hotel, which is still considered the property of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and was seized as “war booty” after the 1967 Israeli-Arab war, is at the center of the expansion controversy between the Obama administration and Netanyahu’s government over plans to turn the hotel into apartments exclusively for Jews.
In a July 27 op-ed in the Jerusalem Post by Jeff Baraq, a former editor-in-chief of the newspaper, it is stated:
“The fact is that while American Jews like Irving Moskowitz can buy land in East Jerusalem Arab neighborhoods, a Palestinian resident of, say, Sheikh Jarrah [where the Shepherd Hotel is located] cannot purchase an apartment in many parts of West Jerusalem, because the Israel Lands Administration, which owns the land, will only enter into a contract with Israeli citizens or persons entitled to citizenship under the Law of Return.” Noting the political instability of the Netanyahu government, Baraq titles his op-ed “Netanyahu Gov’t Unstable, Crisis With US Self-Inflicted.”
With Netanyahu coalition partner Shas now front-and-center in the Syrian-Jewish rabbi scandal, any new revelations about criminal activity by the party in the money laundering escapades in New Jersey and New York could bring down the Netanyahu government. WMR has learned from a White House press corps source that the hidden hand of Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was behind the Justice Department’s move against the Syrian Jews, major funders of Shas, and was meant as a warning shot across Netanyahu’s bow of his increasingly precarious ship of state.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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tommy:
How come BARACK has not offered a little reward and bonus for ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III?
Lately, Presidential Medals of Honor were handed out to just about anybody.
But not Mueller?
MUELLER has done more for this country in the last 6 months, than all the other faggot, fuckhead punk, cowardly, bureacratic cocksuckers at FBI HQ did or would have done...in the last 50 years.
I say that because...I know (and you will also know in the future) that AMERICA WAS DESTROYED, USED, ABUSED, SWINDLED, BLOWN UP, AND MISDIRECTED BY THE KIKE MOSSAD MAFIA SWINE WHO:
----Carried out 9/11 with the DANCING ISRAELIS CELEBRATING THE COMPLETION OF THEIR MILITARY MISSION ON 9/11, WHEN THEY SUCCESSFULLY COORDAINTED THE DEMOLITION OF THE WTC with the Airplane crashes;
----SUCCESSFULLY STOLE ABOUT AS MUCH MONEY IN THE FORM OF FOREIGN AID as any mafia crime family could;
----SUCCESSFULLY WORKED WITH DEAD EYE DICK TO USE AN EXTORTIONATE THREAT OF GOING INTO MARSHALL LAW, TO STEAL THE FIRST 700 BILLION TARP BAILOUT, with 3 Kike banks taking half of that money...and...uh...Barney Frank "still cannot tell us" just where the FUCKING MONEY IS AND WHO HAS IT, AND WHO IS GOING TOFUCKING JAIL?
Mueller, and only Mueller...has taken this big a bite out of the Kike's fat ass.
Kikes are the enemy...and I am no more antisemitic then the FBI.
Focusing on real enemies, rather than hobgoblins...is the first goal towards victory over our oppressors, the Kikes who own and sell the ferry ass punk Congressional slime.
Where is MUELLER'S PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF HONOR?
IF YOU READ THE ABOVE STORIES...DO YOU WONDER WHY I USE THE WORD, "CHINK" AND "KIKE"?
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Dozens arrested in Medicare fraud busts across US
By KELLI KENNEDY, AP
Wed Jul 29, 5:58 PM EDT
Federal agents escort suspects out of the FBI offices
Wednesday, July 29, 20...
MIAMI — Federal authorities arrested more than 30 suspects, including doctors, and were seeking others in a major Medicare fraud bust Wednesday in New York, Louisiana, Boston and Houston, targeting scams such as "arthritis kits" — expensive braces that many patients never used.
More than 200 agents worked on the $16 million bust that included 12 search warrants at health care businesses and homes across the Houston area, where the bulk of the arrests were made.
Federal authorities say those businesses were giving patients "arthritis kits," which were nothing more than expensive orthotics that included knee and shoulder braces and heating pads. Patients told authorities they were unnecessary and many never even received them. But health care clinic owners billed between $3,000 to $4,000 for each kit.
Houston's other scam involved billing Medicare for thousands of dollars worth of liquid food like Ensure for patients who can't eat solid food. Authorities said clinic owners never distributed the food to patients. In some cases, clinic owners billed patients who were dead when they allegedly received the items.
It's the third major sweep since Attorney General Eric Holder, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in May they were adding millions of dollars and dozens of agents to combat a problem that costs the U.S. billions each year.
Using about a dozen agents in targeted cities, including Miami, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, has recovered $371 million in false Medicare claims and charged 145 people across the country in just two months.
Two shocked female employees arriving for work Wednesday morning at Memorial Medical Supply in a strip mall in southwest Houston were met by federal agents. Authorities confiscated paperwork and a computer. Owners of the business did not respond to calls from the Associated Press.
The suspects arrested Wednesday in Houston will make court appearances Thursday morning. Suspects in Boston, New York and Louisiana were to have first appearances later Wednesday.
The first strike force started in 2007 in Miami, a city authorities say is responsible for more than $3 billion a year in Medicare fraud. Clinic owners there would bill Medicare dozens of times for the same wheelchair, while never giving the medical equipment to patients.
The problems have become more complex since then.
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TOMMY:
Remember: THE FBI STARTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CONSPIRACY and flips their way to the top...meaning THE WAR ON MOSSAD'S MAFIA KIKES is in full swing and it will result in this COUNTRY BEING SAVED AFTER THE DOJ AND FBI AND IRS use CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE TO STEAL OUR MONEY BACK FROM THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY AND THEIR LITTLE CHRIST KILLING, MAFIA, FAGGOTY KIKE SCUMBAG PALS.
THE WAR ON KIKES, is in full bloom.
More proof that MUELLER SHOULD GET A PRES MEDAL OF HONOR...doncha think?
MOST DON'T KNOW THAT THE MOSSAD KIKES are all over MEDICAID FRAUD and, another little KIKE MAFIA FUCK NAMED MICHAEL CHERTOFF REPRESENTED THIS MAFIA CRIME FAMILY long ago...before he worked with MUKASY KIKE to get the DANCING ISRAELIS OUT OF JAIL AFTER THEY BLEW UP WTC on 9/11
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Officials say the suspects have moved into more sophisticated scams including home health care, physical therapy and infusion drugs. They've even started tapping into Medicaid Advantage, which allows the elderly and disabled to get benefits through private health insurers. The plans receive a government subsidy and generally offer more benefits than traditional Medicare.
Federal authorities say Miami residents are also moving on to other cities, bringing their scams with them.
Strike force teams, each led by a federal prosecutor and a handful of agents, were started in Los Angeles, Detroit, Houston in the past year.
Since 2007, strike forces in Miami, Detroit and Los Angeles have indicted more than 293 suspects and organizations that collectively have billed the Medicare program for more than $674 million.
Agencies participating in the busts Wednesday included the FBI, the HHS Office of the Inspector General, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Texas Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
Along with issuing indictments, authorities freeze bank accounts and seize everything from Rolls Royce's to million dollar homes purchased with funds stolen from Medicare.
Suspects are being charged not just with health care fraud, but all relevant conduct. That means average prison sentences 50 percent more than the overall national average sentence in federal health care fraud cases in 2008.
While authorities are gratified by the arrests, the program's purpose is more than punitive. It's also about deterrence.
Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden says the interagency partnership is unprecedented in authorities' ability to track Medicare fraud "as it's happening, using real-time data analysis of Medicare billing records."
In the past, authorities have struggled to catch up with fast-moving crooks. By the time local authorities are alerted to potential fraud, it's already been committed.
"We are also working together across the federal government on important new innovations in the way we do business on the front end, to try and prevent crime like this from happening in the first place," said Bill Corr, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Associated Press Writer Arelis Hernandez in Houston contributed to this report.
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http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/August2006/280806suppressed.htm
U.S. federal prosecutors suppressed critical evidence in trial of 1993 World Trade Center bombers
Wayne Madsen | August 28 2006
Flashback: The FBI allowed the 1993 WTC bombing to happen
U.S. federal prosecutors suppressed critical evidence in trial of 1993 World Trade Center bombers. According to U.S. intelligence sources, the FBI and Justice Department sat on volumes of translations of Arabic telephone intercepts gathered before the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center from U.S.- and Sudan-based Muslim militants who once worked for U.S. intelligence in the mujaheddin war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
The critical intelligence, which demonstrated a link between the CIA and "Afghan Arab" muhajeddin forces, including those loyal to Osama bin Laden, was never introduced into the trial of the Brooklyn- and Jersey City-based based cell that included the blind Egyptian cleric Shaikh Omar Abdul Rahman, Ramzi Yousef, and Eyad Ismail.. The New York and New Jersey cell also included Ali Mohammed, a graduate of the U.S. Army's Special Forces School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who, while an active duty member of the Special Forces, secretly traveled to Afghanistan to train Bin Laden's forces and provide special intelligence on U.S. "soft targets" for terrorist attacks, and Wadih el-Hage, Osama bin Laden's personal secretary, who was also a resident of the United States.
Some of the surveillance intelligence came from decoded diplomatic communications between the Sudanese Mission to the United Nations and Khartoum, Sudan, where Osama Bin Laden then resided.
While in Sudan, Bin Laden coordinated attacks on U.S. forces in Somalia and Saudi Arabia.
WMR previously reported that a classified French intelligence report stated that Bin Laden and his Afghan forces remained under the operational control of Britain's MI-6 and the CIA until 1995.
Ironically, the two men responsible for the failure to present the surveillance intelligence on the 1993 World Trade Center bombers to the juries and grand juries hearing the charges -- the main federal prosecutors for New York City and New Jersey in the bombing case -- were Patrick J. Fitzgerald and Michael Chertoff, respectively.
According to an FBI source, the chief FBI investigator against Al Qaeda in the 1990s, the late John O'Neill, was upset that the much of the telephone surveillance of the bombers was never introduced as evidence and remained un-translated and classified.
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http://allspinzone.blogspot.com/2005/01/michael-chertoff-where-questions.html
Michael Chertoff - Where the Questions Should Start
....Interestingly enough, while in private practice in New Jersey back in the late 1990's, Chertoff had some tangential connections to the people and events of this clandestine attempt to infiltrate terrorist networks inside the U.S.
In an earlier posting on the Chertoff nomination, a quick link was provided to a article published on OpEdNews.com in September, 2004. The article ties together a variety of northern New Jersey "bad actors" of Arabic descent in telling a piece of the September 11, 2001 saga.
Here's what it boils down to:
* In 1995, A New Jersey neurologist, Magdy Elamir (a 20 year Egyptian national resident of the U.S.) started an HMO in New Jersey which ultimately failed three years later.
* In 1998, Congressman Ben Gilman was given a foreign intelligence report suggesting that money was being skimmed from the HMO and funneled to Osama bin-Laden's terrorist network.
* The State of New Jersey ultimately bailed out the HMO and found that $16.7 million was illegally diverted, about $5.7 million of which is unaccounted for and diverted to offshore banks (in other words, impossible to trace).
* In late 1998, Elamir retained Michael Chertoff (then in private practice) as his attorney to represent him in litigation with the State of New Jersey and HMO creditors seeking reimbursement.
* Elamir's brother Mohamed was apparently up to his hips in smuggling weapons for use by terrorist networks; in fact, both Magdy and Mohamed fess up to funding at least one arms smuggler with Al Qaida connections.
* Both Elamir's (also spelled 'el Amir') figured prominently in Operation Diamondback, a well-buried precursor to 9/11 that was discussed in (apparently) some depth during the congressional 9/11 investigation, but much testimony remains classified.
Here's a brief description of Operation Diamondback:
Randy Glass is a con artist turned government informant participating in a sting called Operation Diamondback. [Palm Beach Post, 9/29/01] He discusses an illegal weapons deal with an Egyptian American named Mohamed el Amir. In wiretapped conversations, Mohamed discusses the need to get false papers to disguise a shipment of illegal weapons. His brother, Dr. Magdy el Amir, has been a wealthy neurologist in Jersey City for the past twenty years. Two other weapons dealers later convicted in a sting operation involving Glass also lived in Jersey City, and both el Amirs admit knowing one of them, Diaa Mohsen. Mohsen has been paid at least once by Dr. el Amir.
In 1998, Congressman Ben Gilman was given a foreign intelligence report suggesting that Dr. el Amir owns an HMO that is secretly funded by bin Laden, and that money is being skimmed from the HMO to fund terrorist activities. The state of New Jersey later buys the HMO and determines that $15 million were unaccounted for and much of that has been diverted into hard-to-trace offshore bank accounts. However, investigators working with Glass are never given the report about Dr. el Amir. Both el Amirs have not been charged with any crime. Mohamed now lives in Egypt and Magdy continues to practice medicine in New Jersey. Glass's sting, which began in late 1998, will uncover many interesting leads before ending in June 2001 (see also July 14, 1999, Early August 2001 and August 2, 2002). [MSNBC 8/2/02]
In looking at this whole scenario, what I wanted to dig into was Mr. Chertoff's depth of involvement with Magdy Elamir, as his attorney -- a "follow the money" approach, if you will. Here's where the story of Chertoff's involvement starts:
Medical Economics magazine, Oct. 25, 1999:
The HMO Graveyard: Why was this doctor allowed to start a health plan?
In September 1995, the state of New Jersey was looking for HMOs to participate in its new mandatory Medicaid managed care program. Neurologist Magdy Elamir, who only the month before had been granted a state license to operate an HMO, was eager to take part. Initially approved to serve a single county, Elamir's HMO--American Preferred Provider Plan--was soon allowed into 13 counties and covered 42,000 Medicaid recipients.
Yet, barely three years after enrolling its first patient, APPP lay in financial ruins, its network doctors and hospitals were saddled with millions of dollars in unpaid claims, and its founder had retained the services of Michael Chertoff, a well-known criminal defense attorney. (Elamir, who declined to be interviewed for this story, continues to live and practice in New Jersey. Neither his lawyer nor the state would confirm or deny that the doctor is the subject of a criminal investigation.)...
Given that Chertoff was representing Dr. Elamir in financial legal proceedings related to the HMO, wouldn't it make sense that Chertoff and his firm would have had unfettered access to Elamir's books, particularly with the accusation by the State of NJ that $15 million was unaccounted for in "offshore banking"? Sure - and in fact, a story in The Record (Bergen County, NJ), dated 12/18/98 1, reported that during a hearing on the failing HMO before a NJ Superior Court Judge...
...Chertoff presented a thick document from Elamir's accountant, Mohamed Hanafy, offering explanations for the money transfers from [the HMO] to other Elamir-controlled corporations.
Neither the NJ Deputy Attorney General or the judge were satisfied with the accounting - and it turns out that indeed, Elamir had been cooking the books. On June 20th, 2000 The Record ran another article2 on Dr. Elamir being sued by the state over misappropriation of money from the failed HMO. In light of the Operation Diamondback story above, perhaps this paragraph takes on a bit more significance:
The state says it traced a good deal of the money transfers to the 17 affiliates, including medical imaging centers in Paterson, Passaic, Irvington, and Summit. But at least $ 5.7 million went "to unknown parties... by means of wire transfers to bank accounts where the beneficial owner of the account is unknown," the complaint says.
In other words, an offshore account for which no U.S. government agent could obtain information. And again in this article, Michael Chertoff is cited as Elamir's attorney.
Admittedly, this whole tale begins to take on strange proportions, particularly in light of the fact that one of the supposed defining qualities which Mr. Chertoff brings to the table is his apparent post-9/11 conversion in shutting down bin-Laden's financing network. Chertoff was the Bush administration's front man for Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act (also known as the International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001). On January 29, 2002 Chertoff testified before the Senate Banking Committee:
Accordingly, preventing future terrorist attacks and bringing terrorists to justice is now the top priority of the Department of Justice. Law enforcement is currently engaged in a cooperative effort to identify, disrupt and dismantle terrorist networks. Terrorism requires financing, and terrorists rely on the flow of funds across international borders. To conceal their identities and their unlawful purpose, terrorists exploit weaknesses in domestic and international financial systems. As this Committee well knows, therefore, curtailing terrorism requires a systemic approach to investigating the financial links to the terrorist organizations.
Apparently, then-U.S. DOJ Assistant Attorney General Chertoff experienced a convenient lapse of memory - he had represented a client with direct (and admitted) links to potential terrorist networks. Not only that, given the nature of the proceedings against Dr. Elamir, the representation over the course of least a two year period had to have happened with full knowledge of the financial dealings of his client.
It's difficult to say where this story leads from here. There's a lot of coincidence that leaves room for investigation into the details of Mr. Chertoff's working on at least the fringes of a terrorist network. And maybe that's where the story of his nomination should lead.
Update, 7:30PM - from Allan Duncan (the author of the OpEdNews.com piece) comes a link to an article which takes a similar view of the Chertoff nomination at Mad Cow Morning News. It's also my understanding that major news organizations are starting to sniff around this story...
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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=7211
Bush Nominates 9-11 Zionist Judge as Attorney General
Christopher Bollyn - Rumor Mill News September 17, 2007
....President Bush has reportedly settled on Mukasey and is expected to announce his selection today, Monday, September 17.
As such, he played a key role in the nation's response to the Sept. 11 attacks, which brought down the World Trade Center towers just blocks from Mukasey's courthouse.
In the days after the attacks, Mukasey and other New York judges worked behind closed doors, seeing some of the first material witnesses detained by federal authorities. This must have included a large number of Israelis, particularly the "five dancing Israelis," who were seen celebrating as they videotaped the destruction of the World Trade Center.
These five Israelis, two of whom were known Mossad agents to U.S. law enforcement, were returned to Israel after having failed lie-detector tests.
The jubilant Israeli intelligence agents caught photographing the attacks on the World Trade Center were allowed to return to Israel where they divulged the purpose of their mission on a television program: “Our purpose was to document the event," one of them said in Hebrew.
"They seemed to be taking a movie," the resident who noticed them said. The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. What struck her were the expressions on the men's faces. "They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange," she said.
She found the behavior so suspicious that she wrote down the license plate number of the van and called the police. The FBI was soon on the scene and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van.
The van belonged to a Mossad front company called Urban Moving Systems. Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 11, the van was pulled over, and five Israelis: Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari, all between 22 and 27 years old, were arrested at gunpoint. One had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock while another carried two foreign passports. Box cutters were found in the van.
The five men, disguised as moving men, had posed for their video camera with the burning towers in the background, smiling and celebrating by clicking their lighters. Hundreds of innocent Americans trapped in the burning towers were being roasted alive as these Israeli agents celebrated.
See: "The Five Dancing Israelis"
The round-up also included many innocent Muslims. An inspector general's report later found, many of the witnesses were subjected to physical and verbal abuse while held in a Brooklyn jail.
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Rabbi Fraud Case in Los Angeles Echoes N.J. Scandal (Update2)
By Linda Sandler, David Voreacos and Edvard Pettersson
Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Prosecutors in Los Angeles leveled charges in 2007 that sound like headlines in a fresh New Jersey corruption scandal: Rabbis in Brooklyn, New York, laundered money for an undercover informant, arranged phony charitable gifts and used secret Israeli bank accounts.
In Los Angeles, U.S. prosecutors charged Naftali Tzi Weisz, grand rabbi of a Brooklyn-based Orthodox Jewish group, seven other people and five charities with a scheme to evade taxes through use of phony donations. Weisz and four other defendants pleaded guilty today.
The case may prove a window onto New Jersey’s scandal. Defendants in California were charged with tax fraud, an accusation not yet made in New Jersey, and prosecutors in Los Angeles have targeted 100 more co-conspirators. Later indictments in California also provided enhanced details of illegal methods and of people and banks involved......
Friday, July 31, 2009
Why is BEAN so antisemitic? ANSWER: "He's not...he just doesn't like MOSSAD, MAFIA, HOOK NOSED, CHRIST KILLING CRIMINAL SCUM"...that's all...right?
9/11 FALSE FLAG EVIDENCE: Fag poseing Dems...ignore Sibel...as part of ILLUMINATI CORRUPTION....Revolution Now....Revolution in the streets
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/31/760117/-Bombshell:-Bin-Laden-worked-for-US-till-9-11
Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11
by lukery
Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11
Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 05:01:42 AM PDT
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman (audio, partial transcript).
In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11."
These 'intimate relations' included using Bin Laden for 'operations' in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China. These 'operations' involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner "as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict," that is, fighting 'enemies' via proxies.
* lukery's diary :: ::
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As Sibel has previously described, and as she reiterates in this latest interview, this process involved using Turkey (with assistance from 'actors from Pakistan, and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia') as a proxy, which in turn used Bin Laden and the Taliban and others as a proxy terrorist army.
Control of Central Asia
The goals of the American 'statesmen' directing these activities included control of Central Asia's vast energy supplies and new markets for military products.
The Americans had a problem, though. They needed to keep their fingerprints off these operations to avoid a) popular revolt in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan), and b) serious repercussions from China and Russia. They found an ingenious solution: Use their puppet-state Turkey as a proxy, and appeal to both pan-Turkic and pan-Islam sensibilities.
Turkey, a NATO ally, has a lot more credibility in the region than the US and, with the history of the Ottoman Empire, could appeal to pan-Turkic dreams of a wider sphere of influence. The majority of the Central Asian population shares the same heritage, language and religion as the Turks.
In turn, the Turks used the Taliban and al Qaeda, appealing to their dreams of a pan-Islamic caliphate (Presumably. Or maybe the Turks/US just paid very well.)
Accordingto Sibel:
This started more than a decade-long illegal, covert operation in Central Asia by a small group in the US intent on furthering the oil industry and the Military Industrial Complex, using Turkish operatives, Saudi partners and Pakistani allies, furthering this objective in the name of Islam.
Uighurs
Sibel was recently askedto write about the recent situation with the Uighurs in Xinjiang, but she declined, apart from saying that "our fingerprint is all over it."
Of course, Sibel isn't the first or only person to recognize any of this. Eric Margolis, one of the best reporters in the West on matters of Central Asia, stated that the Uighurs in the training camps in Afghanistan up to 2001:
"were being trained by Bin Laden to go and fight the communist Chinese in Xinjiang, and this was not only with the knowledge, but with the support of the CIA, because they thought they might use them if war ever broke out with China."
And also that:
"Afghanistan was not a hotbed of terrorism, these were commando groups, guerrilla groups, being trained for specific purposes in Central Asia."
In a separate interview, Margolis said:
"That illustrates Henry Kissinger's bon mot that the only thing more dangerous than being America's enemy is being an ally, because these people were paid by the CIA, they were armed by the US, these Chinese Muslims from Xinjiang, the most-Western province.
The CIA was going to use them in the event of a war with China, or just to raise hell there, and they were trained and supported out of Afghanistan, some of them with Osama Bin Laden's collaboration. The Americans were up to their ears with this."
Rogues Gallery
Last year, Sibel came up with a brilliant idea to expose some of the criminal activity that she is forbidden to speak about: she publishedeighteen photos, titled "Sibel Edmonds’ State Secrets Privilege Gallery," of people involved the operations that she has been trying to expose. One of those people is Anwar Yusuf Turani, the so-called 'President-in-exile' of East Turkistan (Xinjiang). This so-called 'government-in-exile' was 'established' on Capitol Hill in September, 2004, drawing a sharp rebuke from China.
Also featured in Sibel's Rogues Gallery was 'former' spook Graham Fuller, who was instrumental in the establishment of Turani's 'government-in-exile' of East Turkistan. Fuller has written extensively on Xinjiang, and his "Xinjiang Project" for Rand Corp is apparentlythe blueprint for Turani's government-in-exile. Sibel has openly statedher contempt for Mr. Fuller.
Susurluk
The Turkish establishment has a long history of mingling matters of state with terrorism, drug trafficking and other criminal activity, best exemplified by the 1996 Susurluk incident which exposed the so-called Deep State.
Sibel states that "a few main Susurluk actors also ended up in Chicago where they centered 'certain' aspects of their operations (Especially East Turkistan-Uighurs)."
One of the main Deep State actors, Mehmet Eymur, former Chiefof Counter-Terrorism for Turkey's intelligence agency, the MIT, features in Sibel's Rogues Gallery. Eymur was given exile in the US. Another member of Sibel's gallery, Marc Grossman was Ambassador to Turkey at the time that the Susurluk incident exposed the Deep State. He was recalled shortly after, prior to the end of his assignment, as was Grossman's underling, Major Douglas Dickerson, who later tried to recruit Sibel into the spying ring.
The modus operandi of the Susurluk gang is the same as the activities that Sibel describes as taking place in Central Asia, the only difference is that this activity was exposed in Turkey a decade ago, whereas the organs of the state in the US, including the corporate media, have successfully suppressed this story.
Chechnya, Albania & Kosovo
Central Asia is not the only place where American foreign policy makers have shared interests with Bin Laden. Consider the war in Chechnya. As I documented here, Richard Perle and Stephen Solarz (both in Sibel's gallery) joined other leading neocon luminaries such as Elliott Abrams, Kenneth Adelman, Frank Gaffney, Michael Ledeen, James Woolsey, and Morton Abramowitz in a group called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). For his part, Bin Laden donated$25 million to the cause, as well as numerous fighters, and technical expertise, establishing training camps.
US interests also convergedwith those of al-Qaeda in Kosovo and Albania.
Of course, it is not uncommon for circumstances to arise where 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend.' On the other hand, in a transparent democracy, we expect a full accounting of the circumstances leading up to a tragic event like 9/11. The 9/11 Commission was supposed to provide exactly that.
State Secrets
Sibel has famously been dubbed the most gagged woman in America, having the State Secrets Privilege imposed on her twice. Her 3.5 hour testimony to the 9/11 Commission has been entirely suppressed, reduced to a single footnote which refers readers to her classified testimony. In the interview, she says that the information that was classified in her case specifically identifies that the US was using Bin Laden and the Taliban in Central Asia, including Xinjiang. In the interview, Sibel reiterates that when invoking the gag orders, the US government claims that it is protecting " 'sensitive diplomatic relations,' protecting Turkey, protecting Israel, protecting Pakistan, protecting Saudi Arabia..." This is no doubt partially true, but it is also true that they are protecting themselves too, and it is a crime in the US to use classification and secrecy to cover up crimes.
As Sibel says in the interview:
I have information about things that our government has lied to us about... those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.
Summary
The bombshell here is obviously that certain people in the US were using Bin Laden up to September 11, 2001.
It is important to understand why: the US outsourced terror operations to al Qaeda and the Taliban for many years, promoting the Islamization of Central Asia in an attempt to personally profit off military sales as well as oil and gas concessions.
The silence by the US government on these matters is deafening. So, too, is the blowback.
Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11
by lukery
Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11
Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 05:01:42 AM PDT
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman (audio, partial transcript).
In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11."
These 'intimate relations' included using Bin Laden for 'operations' in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China. These 'operations' involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner "as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict," that is, fighting 'enemies' via proxies.
* lukery's diary :: ::
*
As Sibel has previously described, and as she reiterates in this latest interview, this process involved using Turkey (with assistance from 'actors from Pakistan, and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia') as a proxy, which in turn used Bin Laden and the Taliban and others as a proxy terrorist army.
Control of Central Asia
The goals of the American 'statesmen' directing these activities included control of Central Asia's vast energy supplies and new markets for military products.
The Americans had a problem, though. They needed to keep their fingerprints off these operations to avoid a) popular revolt in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan), and b) serious repercussions from China and Russia. They found an ingenious solution: Use their puppet-state Turkey as a proxy, and appeal to both pan-Turkic and pan-Islam sensibilities.
Turkey, a NATO ally, has a lot more credibility in the region than the US and, with the history of the Ottoman Empire, could appeal to pan-Turkic dreams of a wider sphere of influence. The majority of the Central Asian population shares the same heritage, language and religion as the Turks.
In turn, the Turks used the Taliban and al Qaeda, appealing to their dreams of a pan-Islamic caliphate (Presumably. Or maybe the Turks/US just paid very well.)
Accordingto Sibel:
This started more than a decade-long illegal, covert operation in Central Asia by a small group in the US intent on furthering the oil industry and the Military Industrial Complex, using Turkish operatives, Saudi partners and Pakistani allies, furthering this objective in the name of Islam.
Uighurs
Sibel was recently askedto write about the recent situation with the Uighurs in Xinjiang, but she declined, apart from saying that "our fingerprint is all over it."
Of course, Sibel isn't the first or only person to recognize any of this. Eric Margolis, one of the best reporters in the West on matters of Central Asia, stated that the Uighurs in the training camps in Afghanistan up to 2001:
"were being trained by Bin Laden to go and fight the communist Chinese in Xinjiang, and this was not only with the knowledge, but with the support of the CIA, because they thought they might use them if war ever broke out with China."
And also that:
"Afghanistan was not a hotbed of terrorism, these were commando groups, guerrilla groups, being trained for specific purposes in Central Asia."
In a separate interview, Margolis said:
"That illustrates Henry Kissinger's bon mot that the only thing more dangerous than being America's enemy is being an ally, because these people were paid by the CIA, they were armed by the US, these Chinese Muslims from Xinjiang, the most-Western province.
The CIA was going to use them in the event of a war with China, or just to raise hell there, and they were trained and supported out of Afghanistan, some of them with Osama Bin Laden's collaboration. The Americans were up to their ears with this."
Rogues Gallery
Last year, Sibel came up with a brilliant idea to expose some of the criminal activity that she is forbidden to speak about: she publishedeighteen photos, titled "Sibel Edmonds’ State Secrets Privilege Gallery," of people involved the operations that she has been trying to expose. One of those people is Anwar Yusuf Turani, the so-called 'President-in-exile' of East Turkistan (Xinjiang). This so-called 'government-in-exile' was 'established' on Capitol Hill in September, 2004, drawing a sharp rebuke from China.
Also featured in Sibel's Rogues Gallery was 'former' spook Graham Fuller, who was instrumental in the establishment of Turani's 'government-in-exile' of East Turkistan. Fuller has written extensively on Xinjiang, and his "Xinjiang Project" for Rand Corp is apparentlythe blueprint for Turani's government-in-exile. Sibel has openly statedher contempt for Mr. Fuller.
Susurluk
The Turkish establishment has a long history of mingling matters of state with terrorism, drug trafficking and other criminal activity, best exemplified by the 1996 Susurluk incident which exposed the so-called Deep State.
Sibel states that "a few main Susurluk actors also ended up in Chicago where they centered 'certain' aspects of their operations (Especially East Turkistan-Uighurs)."
One of the main Deep State actors, Mehmet Eymur, former Chiefof Counter-Terrorism for Turkey's intelligence agency, the MIT, features in Sibel's Rogues Gallery. Eymur was given exile in the US. Another member of Sibel's gallery, Marc Grossman was Ambassador to Turkey at the time that the Susurluk incident exposed the Deep State. He was recalled shortly after, prior to the end of his assignment, as was Grossman's underling, Major Douglas Dickerson, who later tried to recruit Sibel into the spying ring.
The modus operandi of the Susurluk gang is the same as the activities that Sibel describes as taking place in Central Asia, the only difference is that this activity was exposed in Turkey a decade ago, whereas the organs of the state in the US, including the corporate media, have successfully suppressed this story.
Chechnya, Albania & Kosovo
Central Asia is not the only place where American foreign policy makers have shared interests with Bin Laden. Consider the war in Chechnya. As I documented here, Richard Perle and Stephen Solarz (both in Sibel's gallery) joined other leading neocon luminaries such as Elliott Abrams, Kenneth Adelman, Frank Gaffney, Michael Ledeen, James Woolsey, and Morton Abramowitz in a group called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). For his part, Bin Laden donated$25 million to the cause, as well as numerous fighters, and technical expertise, establishing training camps.
US interests also convergedwith those of al-Qaeda in Kosovo and Albania.
Of course, it is not uncommon for circumstances to arise where 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend.' On the other hand, in a transparent democracy, we expect a full accounting of the circumstances leading up to a tragic event like 9/11. The 9/11 Commission was supposed to provide exactly that.
State Secrets
Sibel has famously been dubbed the most gagged woman in America, having the State Secrets Privilege imposed on her twice. Her 3.5 hour testimony to the 9/11 Commission has been entirely suppressed, reduced to a single footnote which refers readers to her classified testimony. In the interview, she says that the information that was classified in her case specifically identifies that the US was using Bin Laden and the Taliban in Central Asia, including Xinjiang. In the interview, Sibel reiterates that when invoking the gag orders, the US government claims that it is protecting " 'sensitive diplomatic relations,' protecting Turkey, protecting Israel, protecting Pakistan, protecting Saudi Arabia..." This is no doubt partially true, but it is also true that they are protecting themselves too, and it is a crime in the US to use classification and secrecy to cover up crimes.
As Sibel says in the interview:
I have information about things that our government has lied to us about... those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.
Summary
The bombshell here is obviously that certain people in the US were using Bin Laden up to September 11, 2001.
It is important to understand why: the US outsourced terror operations to al Qaeda and the Taliban for many years, promoting the Islamization of Central Asia in an attempt to personally profit off military sales as well as oil and gas concessions.
The silence by the US government on these matters is deafening. So, too, is the blowback.
Like RUMINANT ANIMALS WITH BLUNTED HORNS....neither can actually harm each other....as they rub up against each other pretending to be doing oversight
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/emails_show_roves_role_in_us_attorney_friing.php#more
Emails Show Rove's Role In U.S. Attorney Firings
By Zachary Roth - July 30, 2009, 3:14PM
Karl Rove did his second and final day of testimony before Congress about his role in the U.S. attorney firings today. And we're getting more confirmation that that role was more extensive than he's yet let on.
The Washington Post and New York Times have obtained emails that offer glimpses into Rove's role in the firing of certain of the U.S. attorneys. They jibe closely with many similar emails that were released last year as part of a Justice Department inspector general report which essentially found that the firings were engineered by Rove and other White House officials.
In one email, from November 2006, just a month before the firings, Rove commanded his deputy:
Give me a report on what U.S. Attorneys slot are vacant or expected to be open soon.
The deputy, Scott Jennings, replied: "Yes, sir."
Another of the new emails shows Rove's office discussing a GOP senator's request that David Iglesias be fired, and appearing to suggest that the White House itself, rather than the Justice Department, would be responsible for doing so.
The Post reports:
In an Oct. 10, 2006, e-mail from White House political affairs aide Scott Jennings to Rove, Jennings reported:
"I received a call from Steve Bell tonight. . . . Last week Sen. Domenici reached the chief of staff and asked that we remove the U.S. Atty. Steve wanted to make sure we all understood that they couldn't be more serious about this request."
A second group of emails shows Rove suggesting that a protege of his, Tim Griffin, might be a good candidate for a U.S. attorney post in Arkansas. The man holding the job at the time, Bud Cummins, was later one of the victims of the firings, and the White House attempted to appoint Griffin in his place.
From the Post:
In a Feb. 11, 2005, e-mail, Rove wrote to deputy Sara Taylor: "Give [Griffin] options. Keep pushing for Justice and let him decide. I want him on the team." Then White House counsel Miers e-mailed Taylor a month later, writing, "Sara, Karl asked me to forward you a list of locations where we may consider replacing the USAs..."
Rove himself suggested Little Rock, where Cummins was U.S. attorney, as a post for Griffin, reminding Miers in March 2005 that "that's where he's from." The next day, Sara Taylor forwarded some communications about Griffin to RNC chairman Ken Mehlman, who wrote, "let me know his reaction," according to the e-mails.
The papers also did an interview with Rove, on the understanding that it couldn't be released until his testimony was complete. In that sit-down, Rove acknowledged: "Yes, I was a recipient of complaints, and I passed them on to the counsel's office to be passed onto Justice,"
He added that complaints about weak enforcement of voter fraud laws -- the issue Domenici had raised about Iglesias -- "had the sound of authenticity to me."
In fact, Rove took the opportunity to keep beating the drum about voter fraud -- though there's no evidence whatsoever of the phenomenon occurring on a significant scale.
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tommy:
THE ONLY VOTER FRAUD WAS BY THE POWER CONTROL GROUP....go to TOM HENEGHEN MYSPACE to understand how elections were stolen using NSA satelites...and how murders occurred to cover those crimes.
Notice how ROVE COVERED HIS TRACKS?
NOTICE PUNK DEMS did not TALK TO MINNESOTA US ATTY THOMAS HEFFLEFINGER ABOUT DR MARK GORDON being slowely murdered with microwave radiation from a DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW?
Notice MUELLER DID NOT MAKE AN ARREST, OR OPEN A PRE LIM INQUIRY INTO THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF MINNEAPOLIS FBI'S COOPERATING, COERCED WITNESS ...DR MARK GORDON...AND PUNK LYING FAG MUELLER also did not BRING JUSTICE FOR THE RICH GORDON MURDER as part of a series of murders in South Dakota that...Big, Bad, Fag Bob Mueller explained away with the infamous, "...we were following our protocol..." (Testimony in front of weak dumbfuck Sen Pat Leahy at US SEN JUD COMM IN 2007).
My hatred for the weak ferries at US SEN JUD AND US HOUSE JUD involves the fact that...ALL OVERSIGHT IS INTENTIONALLY DONE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO SPECIFIC FACTS OR PERSONAL PRONOUNS so that...NOBODY BUT THE CORRUPT INSIDERS HAVE THE POWER SO THEY CAN FAG AROUND AND EXTORT MORE BRIBES all deposited at UBS bank.
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Reports the Times:
"I am concerned about voter fraud," [Rove] said, noting that it was "far more of a problem and widespread" than has been acknowledged. "It always mystified me why the issue was not a higher priority for the Justice Department. I never got a satisfactory answer."
Rove also said in the interview that he's "sure" that President Bush was told about the firings in advance. "Maybe Harriet [Miers] talked to him about it," Rove told the Post. "I'm sure they did walk in at the end and say, 'Mr. President, we want to make a change here.'"
Why did Rove -- who hasn't so far been known for being forthcoming on this subject, to put it mildly -- agree to these interviews and release the emails with them? Presumably, he believes they'll come out eventually thanks to the House Judiciary committee probe, and he wants to get ahead of the story and start spinning things his way. (On that score, he must be heartened by the Times' headline.)
So this may be an indication that the committee is signaling it intends to soon release a substantial amount of new material, including the transcript of Rove's testimony. There's also a special prosecutor, Nora Dannehy, looking into whether laws were broken in connection to the firings. So this story is a long way from over.
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tommy:
ALL BULLSHIT AND CHICANERY BY DUMBFUCKS...TO CREATE WHAT I CALL, "DUMBFUCKERY: when chicanery is used by Dumbfucks to avoid responsibility for any act or omission".
NOTICE HOW....NOBODY AT DEM FAG LAND...HAS EVER ONCE SUBPOENAED ME?...OR SD HW PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT?...OR WILLIAMSON CTY PROSECUTOR JOHN "zero tolerence tough guy GOP punk" BRADLEY? (CHENEY'S MURDER OF CHRISTINA MOORE IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS).
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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-rove31-2009jul31,0,843904.story?track=rss
Rove declares his innocence in 2006 U.S. attorney firings
Paul Abell / Associated Press
Karl Rove made prearranged deals with the New York Times and Washington Post, under which he allowed them to see some of his e-mail messages. He also gave an interview with both newspapers in which he insisted he had done nothing wrong.
Bush's top political advisor breaks his silence after two days of closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. His outspokenness prompts calls of foul play by Democrats.
By Josh Meyer
July 31, 2009
Reporting from Washington -- After years of silence, top Bush administration political advisor Karl Rove went on a public relations offensive Thursday, saying he did nothing wrong in the controversial firings of nine U.S. attorneys.
He said soon-to-be-released White House documents and his testimony from a closed-door congressional hearing will bear him out.
But Rove's comments, made through his lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, prompted immediate calls of foul play by congressional Democrats, who accused him of sidestepping an agreement not to discuss his two days of testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
"It's hardly surprising that Mr. Rove would minimize his involvement in the U.S. attorney firings or that selectively leaked documents would serve his version of events," said committee spokesman Jonathan Godfrey. "The committee believes that the full record will show Mr. Rove's role in the firing of the U.S. attorneys was more substantial than his statements to the media indicate."
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), who led the questioning, agreed with the committee's statement, adding: "Plainly Mr. Rove is trying to jump ahead and shape the story before the documents and interviews are released."
The committee is expected to release the Rove material in the next few weeks after all participants have approved the accuracy of the testimony transcripts.
Rove's testimony, which wrapped up Thursday, came after a protracted legal battle in which Rove and other senior Bush administration officials refused to testify in what they called a partisan witch hunt by congressional Democrats.
The Democrats believe the top prosecutors were fired in 2006 because they refused to go along with the Republican political agenda.
As a compromise, Rove agreed to field questions from one congressman and one staff lawyer from each party. Also in the room were staff members and lawyers for congressional officers, the Bush and Obama administrations, and the Justice Department, which appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the firings for possible criminal violations.
Since the firings, other Bush administration officials have defended their and Rove's actions, saying that Bush's political advisor was merely passing along complaints from some Republicans about various U.S. attorneys, particularly David C. Iglesias in New Mexico, Bud Cummins in Arkansas and Todd Graves in Missouri.
Until Thursday, however, Rove had declined to comment, Luskin said. But he made prearranged deals with the New York Times and Washington Post, under which he allowed them to see some of his e-mail messages, which the White House had closely guarded. He also gave an interview with both newspapers in which he insisted he had done nothing wrong.
"There has been a lot of speculation about what his role might have been," Luskin said of Rove. "I think there was a feeling that the time had come for him to lay out his understanding of those events, following the conclusion of his testimony before the House committee."
There were few, if any, disclosures in Rove's e-mails or his interviews with the newspapers. For the most part, Rove said, as the White House did earlier, that he was providing political guidance about larger policy issues and was interested in helping put the best people into prosecutor positions that were either already open or about to become open.
josh.meyer@latimes.com
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TOMMY:
Notice how weak, uninformed, cowardly fag democrats avoid all the REAL OVERSIGHT BY HIDING ALL THE REAL SCANDALS:
----FBI HQ COMPLETES CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE WHEN FAG SPOOK LYING COCKSUCKER BOB MUELLER avoids his duty...and...uh....HAS NOT AND WILL NOT DELIVER JUSTICE WHEN AN ASS. US ATTY LUNA got whacked out?
NUMEROUS OTHER DEAD US ATTORNEYS and....BOB HAS NOTHING TO SAY OTHER THAN..."...WE FOLLOWED OUR PROTOCOL" AND THEREFORE EFFECTIVELY OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE WHEN CIA--DOD CIFA UNIT--CHENEY murdered any "enemy of the state"?!
Emails Show Rove's Role In U.S. Attorney Firings
By Zachary Roth - July 30, 2009, 3:14PM
Karl Rove did his second and final day of testimony before Congress about his role in the U.S. attorney firings today. And we're getting more confirmation that that role was more extensive than he's yet let on.
The Washington Post and New York Times have obtained emails that offer glimpses into Rove's role in the firing of certain of the U.S. attorneys. They jibe closely with many similar emails that were released last year as part of a Justice Department inspector general report which essentially found that the firings were engineered by Rove and other White House officials.
In one email, from November 2006, just a month before the firings, Rove commanded his deputy:
Give me a report on what U.S. Attorneys slot are vacant or expected to be open soon.
The deputy, Scott Jennings, replied: "Yes, sir."
Another of the new emails shows Rove's office discussing a GOP senator's request that David Iglesias be fired, and appearing to suggest that the White House itself, rather than the Justice Department, would be responsible for doing so.
The Post reports:
In an Oct. 10, 2006, e-mail from White House political affairs aide Scott Jennings to Rove, Jennings reported:
"I received a call from Steve Bell tonight. . . . Last week Sen. Domenici reached the chief of staff and asked that we remove the U.S. Atty. Steve wanted to make sure we all understood that they couldn't be more serious about this request."
A second group of emails shows Rove suggesting that a protege of his, Tim Griffin, might be a good candidate for a U.S. attorney post in Arkansas. The man holding the job at the time, Bud Cummins, was later one of the victims of the firings, and the White House attempted to appoint Griffin in his place.
From the Post:
In a Feb. 11, 2005, e-mail, Rove wrote to deputy Sara Taylor: "Give [Griffin] options. Keep pushing for Justice and let him decide. I want him on the team." Then White House counsel Miers e-mailed Taylor a month later, writing, "Sara, Karl asked me to forward you a list of locations where we may consider replacing the USAs..."
Rove himself suggested Little Rock, where Cummins was U.S. attorney, as a post for Griffin, reminding Miers in March 2005 that "that's where he's from." The next day, Sara Taylor forwarded some communications about Griffin to RNC chairman Ken Mehlman, who wrote, "let me know his reaction," according to the e-mails.
The papers also did an interview with Rove, on the understanding that it couldn't be released until his testimony was complete. In that sit-down, Rove acknowledged: "Yes, I was a recipient of complaints, and I passed them on to the counsel's office to be passed onto Justice,"
He added that complaints about weak enforcement of voter fraud laws -- the issue Domenici had raised about Iglesias -- "had the sound of authenticity to me."
In fact, Rove took the opportunity to keep beating the drum about voter fraud -- though there's no evidence whatsoever of the phenomenon occurring on a significant scale.
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tommy:
THE ONLY VOTER FRAUD WAS BY THE POWER CONTROL GROUP....go to TOM HENEGHEN MYSPACE to understand how elections were stolen using NSA satelites...and how murders occurred to cover those crimes.
Notice how ROVE COVERED HIS TRACKS?
NOTICE PUNK DEMS did not TALK TO MINNESOTA US ATTY THOMAS HEFFLEFINGER ABOUT DR MARK GORDON being slowely murdered with microwave radiation from a DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW?
Notice MUELLER DID NOT MAKE AN ARREST, OR OPEN A PRE LIM INQUIRY INTO THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF MINNEAPOLIS FBI'S COOPERATING, COERCED WITNESS ...DR MARK GORDON...AND PUNK LYING FAG MUELLER also did not BRING JUSTICE FOR THE RICH GORDON MURDER as part of a series of murders in South Dakota that...Big, Bad, Fag Bob Mueller explained away with the infamous, "...we were following our protocol..." (Testimony in front of weak dumbfuck Sen Pat Leahy at US SEN JUD COMM IN 2007).
My hatred for the weak ferries at US SEN JUD AND US HOUSE JUD involves the fact that...ALL OVERSIGHT IS INTENTIONALLY DONE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO SPECIFIC FACTS OR PERSONAL PRONOUNS so that...NOBODY BUT THE CORRUPT INSIDERS HAVE THE POWER SO THEY CAN FAG AROUND AND EXTORT MORE BRIBES all deposited at UBS bank.
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Reports the Times:
"I am concerned about voter fraud," [Rove] said, noting that it was "far more of a problem and widespread" than has been acknowledged. "It always mystified me why the issue was not a higher priority for the Justice Department. I never got a satisfactory answer."
Rove also said in the interview that he's "sure" that President Bush was told about the firings in advance. "Maybe Harriet [Miers] talked to him about it," Rove told the Post. "I'm sure they did walk in at the end and say, 'Mr. President, we want to make a change here.'"
Why did Rove -- who hasn't so far been known for being forthcoming on this subject, to put it mildly -- agree to these interviews and release the emails with them? Presumably, he believes they'll come out eventually thanks to the House Judiciary committee probe, and he wants to get ahead of the story and start spinning things his way. (On that score, he must be heartened by the Times' headline.)
So this may be an indication that the committee is signaling it intends to soon release a substantial amount of new material, including the transcript of Rove's testimony. There's also a special prosecutor, Nora Dannehy, looking into whether laws were broken in connection to the firings. So this story is a long way from over.
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tommy:
ALL BULLSHIT AND CHICANERY BY DUMBFUCKS...TO CREATE WHAT I CALL, "DUMBFUCKERY: when chicanery is used by Dumbfucks to avoid responsibility for any act or omission".
NOTICE HOW....NOBODY AT DEM FAG LAND...HAS EVER ONCE SUBPOENAED ME?...OR SD HW PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT?...OR WILLIAMSON CTY PROSECUTOR JOHN "zero tolerence tough guy GOP punk" BRADLEY? (CHENEY'S MURDER OF CHRISTINA MOORE IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS).
_______________________________________
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-rove31-2009jul31,0,843904.story?track=rss
Rove declares his innocence in 2006 U.S. attorney firings
Paul Abell / Associated Press
Karl Rove made prearranged deals with the New York Times and Washington Post, under which he allowed them to see some of his e-mail messages. He also gave an interview with both newspapers in which he insisted he had done nothing wrong.
Bush's top political advisor breaks his silence after two days of closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. His outspokenness prompts calls of foul play by Democrats.
By Josh Meyer
July 31, 2009
Reporting from Washington -- After years of silence, top Bush administration political advisor Karl Rove went on a public relations offensive Thursday, saying he did nothing wrong in the controversial firings of nine U.S. attorneys.
He said soon-to-be-released White House documents and his testimony from a closed-door congressional hearing will bear him out.
But Rove's comments, made through his lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, prompted immediate calls of foul play by congressional Democrats, who accused him of sidestepping an agreement not to discuss his two days of testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
"It's hardly surprising that Mr. Rove would minimize his involvement in the U.S. attorney firings or that selectively leaked documents would serve his version of events," said committee spokesman Jonathan Godfrey. "The committee believes that the full record will show Mr. Rove's role in the firing of the U.S. attorneys was more substantial than his statements to the media indicate."
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), who led the questioning, agreed with the committee's statement, adding: "Plainly Mr. Rove is trying to jump ahead and shape the story before the documents and interviews are released."
The committee is expected to release the Rove material in the next few weeks after all participants have approved the accuracy of the testimony transcripts.
Rove's testimony, which wrapped up Thursday, came after a protracted legal battle in which Rove and other senior Bush administration officials refused to testify in what they called a partisan witch hunt by congressional Democrats.
The Democrats believe the top prosecutors were fired in 2006 because they refused to go along with the Republican political agenda.
As a compromise, Rove agreed to field questions from one congressman and one staff lawyer from each party. Also in the room were staff members and lawyers for congressional officers, the Bush and Obama administrations, and the Justice Department, which appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the firings for possible criminal violations.
Since the firings, other Bush administration officials have defended their and Rove's actions, saying that Bush's political advisor was merely passing along complaints from some Republicans about various U.S. attorneys, particularly David C. Iglesias in New Mexico, Bud Cummins in Arkansas and Todd Graves in Missouri.
Until Thursday, however, Rove had declined to comment, Luskin said. But he made prearranged deals with the New York Times and Washington Post, under which he allowed them to see some of his e-mail messages, which the White House had closely guarded. He also gave an interview with both newspapers in which he insisted he had done nothing wrong.
"There has been a lot of speculation about what his role might have been," Luskin said of Rove. "I think there was a feeling that the time had come for him to lay out his understanding of those events, following the conclusion of his testimony before the House committee."
There were few, if any, disclosures in Rove's e-mails or his interviews with the newspapers. For the most part, Rove said, as the White House did earlier, that he was providing political guidance about larger policy issues and was interested in helping put the best people into prosecutor positions that were either already open or about to become open.
josh.meyer@latimes.com
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TOMMY:
Notice how weak, uninformed, cowardly fag democrats avoid all the REAL OVERSIGHT BY HIDING ALL THE REAL SCANDALS:
----FBI HQ COMPLETES CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE WHEN FAG SPOOK LYING COCKSUCKER BOB MUELLER avoids his duty...and...uh....HAS NOT AND WILL NOT DELIVER JUSTICE WHEN AN ASS. US ATTY LUNA got whacked out?
NUMEROUS OTHER DEAD US ATTORNEYS and....BOB HAS NOTHING TO SAY OTHER THAN..."...WE FOLLOWED OUR PROTOCOL" AND THEREFORE EFFECTIVELY OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE WHEN CIA--DOD CIFA UNIT--CHENEY murdered any "enemy of the state"?!
ECONOMIC TERRORISM by the swindling Kikes? Will the Dems finally stand up? More bullshit from ferry ass faggot Dem clown oversight?
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/report_senate_subpoenas_goldman_deutsche_bank_on_s.php#more
Report: Senate Subpoenas Goldman, Deutsche Bank, On Subprime Statements
By Zachary Roth - July 30, 2009, 4:42PM
Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank have received subpoenas from a Senate committee that's probing whether they committed fraud in connection to last year's financial collapse, the Wall Street Journal reports (sub. req.).
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tommy:
NOTICE THE FERRY ASS CORRUPT FAG DEMS don't want to subpoena UBS to get a hold of the bank records showing all the ILLEGAL OFF SHORE BANK ACCOUNTS USED BY CONGRESSIONAL BELTWAY INSIDERS who have "joined too many conspiracies" to screw and steal this country into....TOTAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN MODE?
Notice pussified fag dems...DON'T READ THIS BLOG because they are too weak, undisciplined and HAPPILY MISDIRECTED BY THEIR SPOOK STAFFERS?
I'm talking about DEM FAGS refusing to read CHRIS STORY AT INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY REVIEW (MI-5) who "...ALREADY SHOWED YOU WHERE THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY HID THEIR TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS" that we....WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO SEIZE USING CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE LAWS AND MOTIONS alleging ECONOMIC TERRORISM.
Look at Story's legal analysis of the CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE NEO CON KIKE LOVING FUCKHEADS WHO STOLE AND DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY?
What am I talking about?
Go here fuckheads......
http://worldreports.org/news/224_the_heading_for_this_report_is_censored_by_the_nsa
or...CLICK BLOGPOST TITLE ABOVE TO FIND BANKS WHERE OUR...OUR MONEY IS AT.
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The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Carl Levin, is said to be looking into whether those firms, and perhaps others, had private doubts about the mortgage-backed securities they were putting together, despite their rosy public pronouncements about the complex products.
This is serious stuff.
As we've told you, both the Justice Department and a House committee are investigating similar charges in connection to AIG, whose executives told investors as late as December 2007 that the company was not significantly exposed to the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. Knowingly lying to investors about such questions can potentially constitute criminal securities fraud. Both Goldman and Deutsche Bank had billions exposed to AIG's disastrous credit default swaps, and were ultimately made whole, indirectly, through AIG's bailouts.
Goldman has been in Congress's crosshairs lately.
As the Journal notes, ten lawmakers recently sent a letter to Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, suggesting that the Wall Street behemoth is being given too free a rein to make risky investments once again.
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TOMMY:
Don't worry....THE POWER CONTROL GROUP is still running HOLDER PUNK AND OBAMA like little ferries.
DON'T WORRY...The clown dems...are only poseing and positioning themselves for...yes....more QUID PRO QUO known as BRIBERY.
It works just like HOLDER'S LATEST LITTLE FAG CON....when Holder got his fat pussy face in NEWSWEEK because he said "....he might leaning towards ordering a special prosecutor to talk to THOMAS S. BEAN...".
This was ERIC'S WAY OF PUTTING 50, 000, 000$ in his pocket....for AGREEING TO TAKE MONEY TO BRIBE HIS WAY TOWARDS ONCE AGAIN, AVOIDING HIS DUTY WHILE NOT...NOT...INVESTIGATING ANY POLICE STATE ACTORS FOR NUMEROUS MURDERS, ATTEMPTED MURDERS, CHIPPING, MIND CONTROL, SCHOOL SHOOTERS, MK ULTRA....etc.
BEAN HAS TO TESTIFY...but don't worry...the fag DEMS KNOW, MY FACTS AND TESTIMONY CAN BE USED TO EXTORT MONEY FROM THE POWER CONTROL GROUP (as proven by all the other bribes deposited at UBS BANK).
Who ever has those bank records....OWNS THE PUNK LYING WHORES (GOP, PELOSIWHORE, REID FAGGOT, HOYER to stooge scumbag, etc, etc, etc.).
_____________________________________
http://worldreports.org/news/224_the_heading_for_this_report_is_censored_by_the_nsa
...."....while also conveniently papering over the uncomfortable reality, for public consumption purposes, that Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank are George H. W. Bush Sr.'s Fraudulent Finance hidey-holes, too (and that she, this 'financial reformer' is or has long been the recipient of Bush Sr.'s bribes, as previously reported)....."....
NOTE: This info from CHRIS STORY AT MI-5, ...because?...THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND GOT STIFFED BY BUSH CRIME FAMILY...just like Putin...right?
READ INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY REVIEW if you want to know what is going on...and remember....BILL "jack off" O'Reilly is still fagging around with his punk talking points while choking his chicken while talking dirty to one of his employees....
Report: Senate Subpoenas Goldman, Deutsche Bank, On Subprime Statements
By Zachary Roth - July 30, 2009, 4:42PM
Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank have received subpoenas from a Senate committee that's probing whether they committed fraud in connection to last year's financial collapse, the Wall Street Journal reports (sub. req.).
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tommy:
NOTICE THE FERRY ASS CORRUPT FAG DEMS don't want to subpoena UBS to get a hold of the bank records showing all the ILLEGAL OFF SHORE BANK ACCOUNTS USED BY CONGRESSIONAL BELTWAY INSIDERS who have "joined too many conspiracies" to screw and steal this country into....TOTAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN MODE?
Notice pussified fag dems...DON'T READ THIS BLOG because they are too weak, undisciplined and HAPPILY MISDIRECTED BY THEIR SPOOK STAFFERS?
I'm talking about DEM FAGS refusing to read CHRIS STORY AT INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY REVIEW (MI-5) who "...ALREADY SHOWED YOU WHERE THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY HID THEIR TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS" that we....WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO SEIZE USING CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE LAWS AND MOTIONS alleging ECONOMIC TERRORISM.
Look at Story's legal analysis of the CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE NEO CON KIKE LOVING FUCKHEADS WHO STOLE AND DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY?
What am I talking about?
Go here fuckheads......
http://worldreports.org/news/224_the_heading_for_this_report_is_censored_by_the_nsa
or...CLICK BLOGPOST TITLE ABOVE TO FIND BANKS WHERE OUR...OUR MONEY IS AT.
______________________________
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Carl Levin, is said to be looking into whether those firms, and perhaps others, had private doubts about the mortgage-backed securities they were putting together, despite their rosy public pronouncements about the complex products.
This is serious stuff.
As we've told you, both the Justice Department and a House committee are investigating similar charges in connection to AIG, whose executives told investors as late as December 2007 that the company was not significantly exposed to the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. Knowingly lying to investors about such questions can potentially constitute criminal securities fraud. Both Goldman and Deutsche Bank had billions exposed to AIG's disastrous credit default swaps, and were ultimately made whole, indirectly, through AIG's bailouts.
Goldman has been in Congress's crosshairs lately.
As the Journal notes, ten lawmakers recently sent a letter to Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, suggesting that the Wall Street behemoth is being given too free a rein to make risky investments once again.
________________________
TOMMY:
Don't worry....THE POWER CONTROL GROUP is still running HOLDER PUNK AND OBAMA like little ferries.
DON'T WORRY...The clown dems...are only poseing and positioning themselves for...yes....more QUID PRO QUO known as BRIBERY.
It works just like HOLDER'S LATEST LITTLE FAG CON....when Holder got his fat pussy face in NEWSWEEK because he said "....he might leaning towards ordering a special prosecutor to talk to THOMAS S. BEAN...".
This was ERIC'S WAY OF PUTTING 50, 000, 000$ in his pocket....for AGREEING TO TAKE MONEY TO BRIBE HIS WAY TOWARDS ONCE AGAIN, AVOIDING HIS DUTY WHILE NOT...NOT...INVESTIGATING ANY POLICE STATE ACTORS FOR NUMEROUS MURDERS, ATTEMPTED MURDERS, CHIPPING, MIND CONTROL, SCHOOL SHOOTERS, MK ULTRA....etc.
BEAN HAS TO TESTIFY...but don't worry...the fag DEMS KNOW, MY FACTS AND TESTIMONY CAN BE USED TO EXTORT MONEY FROM THE POWER CONTROL GROUP (as proven by all the other bribes deposited at UBS BANK).
Who ever has those bank records....OWNS THE PUNK LYING WHORES (GOP, PELOSIWHORE, REID FAGGOT, HOYER to stooge scumbag, etc, etc, etc.).
_____________________________________
http://worldreports.org/news/224_the_heading_for_this_report_is_censored_by_the_nsa
...."....while also conveniently papering over the uncomfortable reality, for public consumption purposes, that Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank are George H. W. Bush Sr.'s Fraudulent Finance hidey-holes, too (and that she, this 'financial reformer' is or has long been the recipient of Bush Sr.'s bribes, as previously reported)....."....
NOTE: This info from CHRIS STORY AT MI-5, ...because?...THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND GOT STIFFED BY BUSH CRIME FAMILY...just like Putin...right?
READ INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY REVIEW if you want to know what is going on...and remember....BILL "jack off" O'Reilly is still fagging around with his punk talking points while choking his chicken while talking dirty to one of his employees....
Thursday, July 30, 2009
When there is this much DUMBFUCKERY...you know all the actors are GUILTY LYING DUMBFUCK PUSSIES...right?
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/27/legal-experts-raise-questions-about-rove-testimony-deal/
Legal experts raise questions about Rove testimony deal
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By Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
Published: July 27, 2009
Updated 3 days ago
A deal brokered by the Obama White House to obtain Karl Rove’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee contains a number of unusual provisions, prominent legal scholars say.
Rove testified before the Judiciary Committee on July 7 concerning his alleged involvement in the December 2006 firings of seven US Attorneys and the prosecution of Don Siegelman. The Committee is being extremely tight-mouthed about the result, and Rove himself has also declined to comment.
The secrecy is in line with the agreement (pdf) worked out last March to secure testimony from Rove and from former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, which guaranteed that no information would be released until the completion of all interviews. However, under the terms of that agreement it appears likely that certain crucial facts, especially about the US Attorney firings, may never come out.
Legal experts consulted for this article are also concerned about the role played by current White House Council Greg Craig, who negotiated the arrangement made by Miers and Rove with the House Judiciary Committee.
The US Attorney firings
A central question in the US Attorney firings has always been whether President Bush was aware of them at the time. No White House official has ever confirmed whether or not Bush was informed of the plans by Rove or by anyone else.
A few days after the scandal broke in March 2007, an email exchange among White House officials was revealed which showed that Rove had been one of the first people to raise the idea in January 2005 of replacing all 93 US Attorneys.
A Senate Judiciary Committee report released last fall also indicated that “the list for firings was compiled with participation from the highest political ranks in the White House, including former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove.”
The firings are alleged to have been deeply political in nature. David Iglesias, who was fired as the US Attorney for New Mexico, has charged that he was forced out because of his refusal to prosecute Democrats.
Observers have also suggested that John McKay was fired in Washington after he decided that there was no reason to bring conspiracy charges in that state’s 2004 gubernatorial election and that several of the firings – including that of Igelsias – may have stemmed from a refusal to pursue dubious allegations of voter fraud.
The Four Pages
Perhaps the most mysterious clause in the agreement is a reference to four pages of material which Congress will not be allowed to see but will only have described to them: “With the exception of 4 pages of particularly sensitive privileged material (which will be described for Committee staff by a representative of the former President), Committee staff (majority and minority) will be allowed to review the documents for the period December 2004 through March 8, 2007.”
The House Judiciary Committee refused to comment or elaborate on this question.
However, Scott Horton, a Columbia Law School professor and contributor to Harper’s Magazine, believes the “4 pages” may relate to briefings of the former president on either the US Attorney firings or the Siegelman prosecution.
“My bet is that these four pages touch in some way on communications with the president and thus are close to the heart of the legitimate claim of executive privilege,” Horton explained in an email exchange. “The process of ‘describing’ [and] withhold has a legitimate basis [if these were presidential briefings.]”
There are two forms of executive privilege. The weaker, known as the deliberative privilege, covers policy-making discussions among presidential advisors. The presidential communications privilege, which is much stronger and less likely to be challenged, is restricted to communications made directly to the president.
If those four pages are being kept secret under the presidential communications privilege, it could imply that Rove may have discussed one of the two scandals with President Bush at the time of its occurrence. Rove has denied (pdf) having played any role in the Siegelman case, and the Bush administration has never claimed executive privilege in that area, but it has done so repeatedly with regard to the US Attorney firings.
The claim of executive privilege was first raised when Rove, Miers, and White House political aide Sara Taylor were subpoenaed in June 2007 by the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. When the most recent subpoena was issued to Rove last winter, Bush again attempted to invoke executive privilege in regard to the firings, even though he was no longer president.
This executive privilege question was raised explicitly by Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy when Sara Taylor testified before his committee in July 2007.
Leahy asked Taylor repeatedly, “Did you speak with President Bush about replacing U.S. attorneys? Taylor at first responded by claiming that for her even to admit whether or not such a conversation had occurred would violate the president’s claim of executive privilege, but she finally said she had not discussed the firings with the president or been at any meetings with Bush where the issue was mentioned.
Leahy responded to that admission by saying, “I do note your answer that you did not discuss these matters with the president, and to the best of your knowledge he was not involved, is going to make some nervous at the White House because it seriously undercuts his claim of executive privilege if he was not involved.”
If these “4 pages” referred to in the agreement are presidential briefings of some kind, then it casts fresh doubt on the claim that Bush was never briefed on the firings.
In an email responding to a request for more information about the agreement and/or Mr. Rove’s testimony, Rove’s attorney Robert Luskin explained that he could not discuss either his client’s testimony or the agreement under which the testimony was provided.
“As I’ve said publicly, the agreement setting up the interviews contemplated that they would remain confidential until all are completed, at which time we expect the house judiciary committee will release the transcript,” Mr. Luskin stated. “Until that time, we’re respecting the confidentiality provision and not commenting about any aspect of the interview.”
Neither Miers nor her attorney were reachable for comment
The post March 8, 2007 documents
Another troubling clause in the agreement has to do with documents dated after March 8, 2007, which was when the House Judiciary Committee first asked the Department of Justice to turn over materials related to the US Attorney firings. That clause states, “As to documents post-dating March 8, 2007, the following will be made available for Committee review only and a copy will not be produced to the Committee.”
The documents in question include:
* The final draft of the Scudder Memorandum;
* Any factual chronology prepared by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel in the possession of the White House; and
* Any documents showing White House inputs or edits to Congressional testimony of Department of Justice officials on the subject of the U.S. Attorneys matter.
The Scudder memorandum is a chronological summary of events related to the firings, compiled by Associate White House Counsel Michael Scudder in March 2007 for use by the Office of Legal Counsel and then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
A DOJ inspector general’s report last fall complained that the Office of Legal Counsel had first refused to provide it with a copy of this memorandum or any earlier drafts and then released only a heavily redacted version.
It is unclear why access to Department of Justice documents such as timelines would be restricted or why the House Judiciary Committee would be allowed to view them but not retain copies of them or make them public.
Again, the House Judiciary Committee would not comment when asked about the reason for such secrecy.
Horton does not find this particular stipulation entirely uncommon, but he believes it means that information contained within the documents may never come out.
“This is a not unusual compromise, ” Horton explained. “Of course this means that questions can be presented on the basis of the documents, but not turning them over makes it less likely that the documents will ever leak.”
The involvement of the White House and closed-door testimony
Legal scholars consulted for this article have also expressed concern about the involvement of current White House Counsel Greg Craig last March in brokering a deal between Rove and Miers, on one hand, and the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Democratic Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), on the other. It was that deal which led to Miers’ testimony on June 15 and Rove’s on July 7.
Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean — who had previously served as chief minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee — told Raw Story, “This is not a deal that could have pleased the Obama White House or the House Judiciary Committee and if anyone got the better of the deal it was Rove and Miers.”
Dean also explained that the probable reason the White House stepped in to help broker the agreement was “because the Obama White House and the Judiciary committee were worried that the federal judge would rule against them so they got the best deal they could get.”
Horton is less diplomatic when asked about the reason for Craig’s involvement.
“That’s a question for Greg Craig, since he has personally put himself on the line in this matter,” Horton said. “My sense is that they have a legitimate interest in privilege issues, but also that they have been far more deferential to Rove and Miers than the circumstances warrant. And in the background we have the troubling fact that Rove is a former client of Craig’s. Which explains why he should never have involved himself in this.”
Raw Story has been unable to confirm the widely-reported allegation that Craig served as Rove’s representative when he was with the law firm of Williams & Connolly, although an associate of Craig’s there did act as Rove’s agent in the sale of his memoir in 2007. However, a January 2009 New York Times article describes Mr. Craig as a friend of Mr. Rove’s:
“Yet in the time-honored way of Washington, Mr. Craig, who will quit his partnership in the upscale law firm Williams & Connolly for the $172,200-a-year White House job, has found a way to make friends with the other side. He counts Karl Rove, Mr. Bush’s political guru, as a friend; Mr. Rove said Mr. Craig would ‘serve the new president and the country with great integrity.’”
Back-room testimony
Both Dean and Horton are concerned, too, about the other concessions made to Rove and Miers in order to gain their cooperation.
Dean, who testified in public and under oath about his conversations with President Nixon, takes exception to the fact that that both Mr. Rove and Ms. Miers testified without being sworn in.
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tommy:
ONLY A FUCKING DEMOCRATIC DUMBFUCKING PUSSY could ever, ever, ever...TAKE AND NEGOTIATE TESTIMONY that IS NOT UNDER FUCKING OATH?
WHY COME MORONS do not want to take an oath?
“What I find most troubling about the agreement is that neither Rove nor Meir will be required to testify under oath,” Dean said. He does point out, however, that “the House Judiciary Committee did not waive its right to call Rove and Miers as live, sworn witnesses after these interviews, if they feel it necessary.”
Horton points to Rove’s extreme measures to avoid testifying in this investigation as indicating that he may be trying to avoid revealing some very damaging information:
“Rove has a long track record of making false statements under oath and always wiggling his way out of being prosecuted for it,” Horton stated. “In this case his efforts to avoid testimony have been extraordinary, which points to there being very damaging facts he wants to avoid. Now it will be up to Congress to get to the bottom of the matter.”
Legal experts raise questions about Rove testimony deal
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By Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
Published: July 27, 2009
Updated 3 days ago
A deal brokered by the Obama White House to obtain Karl Rove’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee contains a number of unusual provisions, prominent legal scholars say.
Rove testified before the Judiciary Committee on July 7 concerning his alleged involvement in the December 2006 firings of seven US Attorneys and the prosecution of Don Siegelman. The Committee is being extremely tight-mouthed about the result, and Rove himself has also declined to comment.
The secrecy is in line with the agreement (pdf) worked out last March to secure testimony from Rove and from former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, which guaranteed that no information would be released until the completion of all interviews. However, under the terms of that agreement it appears likely that certain crucial facts, especially about the US Attorney firings, may never come out.
Legal experts consulted for this article are also concerned about the role played by current White House Council Greg Craig, who negotiated the arrangement made by Miers and Rove with the House Judiciary Committee.
The US Attorney firings
A central question in the US Attorney firings has always been whether President Bush was aware of them at the time. No White House official has ever confirmed whether or not Bush was informed of the plans by Rove or by anyone else.
A few days after the scandal broke in March 2007, an email exchange among White House officials was revealed which showed that Rove had been one of the first people to raise the idea in January 2005 of replacing all 93 US Attorneys.
A Senate Judiciary Committee report released last fall also indicated that “the list for firings was compiled with participation from the highest political ranks in the White House, including former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove.”
The firings are alleged to have been deeply political in nature. David Iglesias, who was fired as the US Attorney for New Mexico, has charged that he was forced out because of his refusal to prosecute Democrats.
Observers have also suggested that John McKay was fired in Washington after he decided that there was no reason to bring conspiracy charges in that state’s 2004 gubernatorial election and that several of the firings – including that of Igelsias – may have stemmed from a refusal to pursue dubious allegations of voter fraud.
The Four Pages
Perhaps the most mysterious clause in the agreement is a reference to four pages of material which Congress will not be allowed to see but will only have described to them: “With the exception of 4 pages of particularly sensitive privileged material (which will be described for Committee staff by a representative of the former President), Committee staff (majority and minority) will be allowed to review the documents for the period December 2004 through March 8, 2007.”
The House Judiciary Committee refused to comment or elaborate on this question.
However, Scott Horton, a Columbia Law School professor and contributor to Harper’s Magazine, believes the “4 pages” may relate to briefings of the former president on either the US Attorney firings or the Siegelman prosecution.
“My bet is that these four pages touch in some way on communications with the president and thus are close to the heart of the legitimate claim of executive privilege,” Horton explained in an email exchange. “The process of ‘describing’ [and] withhold has a legitimate basis [if these were presidential briefings.]”
There are two forms of executive privilege. The weaker, known as the deliberative privilege, covers policy-making discussions among presidential advisors. The presidential communications privilege, which is much stronger and less likely to be challenged, is restricted to communications made directly to the president.
If those four pages are being kept secret under the presidential communications privilege, it could imply that Rove may have discussed one of the two scandals with President Bush at the time of its occurrence. Rove has denied (pdf) having played any role in the Siegelman case, and the Bush administration has never claimed executive privilege in that area, but it has done so repeatedly with regard to the US Attorney firings.
The claim of executive privilege was first raised when Rove, Miers, and White House political aide Sara Taylor were subpoenaed in June 2007 by the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. When the most recent subpoena was issued to Rove last winter, Bush again attempted to invoke executive privilege in regard to the firings, even though he was no longer president.
This executive privilege question was raised explicitly by Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy when Sara Taylor testified before his committee in July 2007.
Leahy asked Taylor repeatedly, “Did you speak with President Bush about replacing U.S. attorneys? Taylor at first responded by claiming that for her even to admit whether or not such a conversation had occurred would violate the president’s claim of executive privilege, but she finally said she had not discussed the firings with the president or been at any meetings with Bush where the issue was mentioned.
Leahy responded to that admission by saying, “I do note your answer that you did not discuss these matters with the president, and to the best of your knowledge he was not involved, is going to make some nervous at the White House because it seriously undercuts his claim of executive privilege if he was not involved.”
If these “4 pages” referred to in the agreement are presidential briefings of some kind, then it casts fresh doubt on the claim that Bush was never briefed on the firings.
In an email responding to a request for more information about the agreement and/or Mr. Rove’s testimony, Rove’s attorney Robert Luskin explained that he could not discuss either his client’s testimony or the agreement under which the testimony was provided.
“As I’ve said publicly, the agreement setting up the interviews contemplated that they would remain confidential until all are completed, at which time we expect the house judiciary committee will release the transcript,” Mr. Luskin stated. “Until that time, we’re respecting the confidentiality provision and not commenting about any aspect of the interview.”
Neither Miers nor her attorney were reachable for comment
The post March 8, 2007 documents
Another troubling clause in the agreement has to do with documents dated after March 8, 2007, which was when the House Judiciary Committee first asked the Department of Justice to turn over materials related to the US Attorney firings. That clause states, “As to documents post-dating March 8, 2007, the following will be made available for Committee review only and a copy will not be produced to the Committee.”
The documents in question include:
* The final draft of the Scudder Memorandum;
* Any factual chronology prepared by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel in the possession of the White House; and
* Any documents showing White House inputs or edits to Congressional testimony of Department of Justice officials on the subject of the U.S. Attorneys matter.
The Scudder memorandum is a chronological summary of events related to the firings, compiled by Associate White House Counsel Michael Scudder in March 2007 for use by the Office of Legal Counsel and then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
A DOJ inspector general’s report last fall complained that the Office of Legal Counsel had first refused to provide it with a copy of this memorandum or any earlier drafts and then released only a heavily redacted version.
It is unclear why access to Department of Justice documents such as timelines would be restricted or why the House Judiciary Committee would be allowed to view them but not retain copies of them or make them public.
Again, the House Judiciary Committee would not comment when asked about the reason for such secrecy.
Horton does not find this particular stipulation entirely uncommon, but he believes it means that information contained within the documents may never come out.
“This is a not unusual compromise, ” Horton explained. “Of course this means that questions can be presented on the basis of the documents, but not turning them over makes it less likely that the documents will ever leak.”
The involvement of the White House and closed-door testimony
Legal scholars consulted for this article have also expressed concern about the involvement of current White House Counsel Greg Craig last March in brokering a deal between Rove and Miers, on one hand, and the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Democratic Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), on the other. It was that deal which led to Miers’ testimony on June 15 and Rove’s on July 7.
Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean — who had previously served as chief minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee — told Raw Story, “This is not a deal that could have pleased the Obama White House or the House Judiciary Committee and if anyone got the better of the deal it was Rove and Miers.”
Dean also explained that the probable reason the White House stepped in to help broker the agreement was “because the Obama White House and the Judiciary committee were worried that the federal judge would rule against them so they got the best deal they could get.”
Horton is less diplomatic when asked about the reason for Craig’s involvement.
“That’s a question for Greg Craig, since he has personally put himself on the line in this matter,” Horton said. “My sense is that they have a legitimate interest in privilege issues, but also that they have been far more deferential to Rove and Miers than the circumstances warrant. And in the background we have the troubling fact that Rove is a former client of Craig’s. Which explains why he should never have involved himself in this.”
Raw Story has been unable to confirm the widely-reported allegation that Craig served as Rove’s representative when he was with the law firm of Williams & Connolly, although an associate of Craig’s there did act as Rove’s agent in the sale of his memoir in 2007. However, a January 2009 New York Times article describes Mr. Craig as a friend of Mr. Rove’s:
“Yet in the time-honored way of Washington, Mr. Craig, who will quit his partnership in the upscale law firm Williams & Connolly for the $172,200-a-year White House job, has found a way to make friends with the other side. He counts Karl Rove, Mr. Bush’s political guru, as a friend; Mr. Rove said Mr. Craig would ‘serve the new president and the country with great integrity.’”
Back-room testimony
Both Dean and Horton are concerned, too, about the other concessions made to Rove and Miers in order to gain their cooperation.
Dean, who testified in public and under oath about his conversations with President Nixon, takes exception to the fact that that both Mr. Rove and Ms. Miers testified without being sworn in.
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tommy:
ONLY A FUCKING DEMOCRATIC DUMBFUCKING PUSSY could ever, ever, ever...TAKE AND NEGOTIATE TESTIMONY that IS NOT UNDER FUCKING OATH?
WHY COME MORONS do not want to take an oath?
“What I find most troubling about the agreement is that neither Rove nor Meir will be required to testify under oath,” Dean said. He does point out, however, that “the House Judiciary Committee did not waive its right to call Rove and Miers as live, sworn witnesses after these interviews, if they feel it necessary.”
Horton points to Rove’s extreme measures to avoid testifying in this investigation as indicating that he may be trying to avoid revealing some very damaging information:
“Rove has a long track record of making false statements under oath and always wiggling his way out of being prosecuted for it,” Horton stated. “In this case his efforts to avoid testimony have been extraordinary, which points to there being very damaging facts he wants to avoid. Now it will be up to Congress to get to the bottom of the matter.”
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
How come WHISTLEBLOWERS and WITNESSES get destroyed? CIA HERO GETS WHACKED while HOLDER FIDDLES AROUND?
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/CIA-Code-Expert-Found-Dead-on-Palm-Springs-Trail.html
CIA Code Expert Found Dead on Palm Springs Trail
A Central Intelligence Agency employee who died on a trail near Palm Springs was identified Saturday as a 64-year-old Fort Collins, Colo., resident.
Robert Allen Liebler was found dead on a trail about 100 feet west of West Arenas Road and South Tahquitz Drive about 11 a.m. Sunday amid 100-degree-plus heat, according to a coroner's spokesman.
Liebler was a Colorado State University professor and CIA communications expert, who had been working in the Palm Springs area, the Desert Sun reported.
Liebler, who had a doctorate from the University of Michigan, specialized in discrete mathematics and did security work for the U.S. government, a friend and former colleague, Ben Manvel, told the newspaper.
Liebler worked for the "brains branch" of the CIA, developing secret codes for stealth communication, he said.
Liebler, reported missing Saturday, was in Palm Springs working with a local think tank, Manvel said. He began his hike up the Carl Lykken Trail with a friend about 3:45 a.m. Saturday. About three hours later, he told the friend he was cramping up and headed back.
Liebler and his hiking partner were going to meet a group of about 15 other people who had taken the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway up to the top of Mount San Jacinto, according to police.
Liebler's body was found about 75 feet off the nearest trail.
Another body was found along a trail in a same general vicinity about two hours earlier, but that man's has not been made public. His decomposing body was found west of Museum Drive and north of Belardo Road.
Though coroner's investigators think they know who he is, they have been unable to positively identify him yet through dental records or fingerprints.
"The state of the remains don't allow identification by photos," a deputy coroner said. "We're identifying him by other means."
In the past six months, four bodies have been recovered from the shadeless terrain above Palm Springs.
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TOMMY:
Isn't PALM SPRINGS very near the CABAZON INDIAN RESERVATION?
Weren't there alot of unsolved murders on this reservation?
Click blogpost title above to get linked to NEWSMAKINGNEWS...and look at archives...especially MAE BRUSSEL'S ARCHIVES...
_____________
THE 1981 FRED ALVAREZ TRIPLE EXECUTIONS
BACK IN THE HEADLINES
by Virginia McCullough © 12/15/08
On July 2, 1981 Indio, California Daily News staff reporter Paul Zalis had the sad duty of writing about the tragic murder of a man he had been speaking with for the past several weeks. The slain man, Cabazon Indian Fred Alvarez, had told the reporter, “as I speak with you I am a dead man”. The headline on the story told all that was known at the time: No leads, suspects:
PROBE CONTINUES IN TRIPLE SLAYING; VICTIMS NAMED.
(Dateline: Rancho Mirage) – The three bodies found in an apparent execution-style slaying Wednesday have been identified as Alfred “Fred” Alvarez, 32, Patricia Roberta Castro, 44, of Long Beach and Ralph Arthur Boger, 42, of San Bernardino.
All three had been shot in the head. Officials are estimating the shooting may have occurred sometime Monday.
Alvarez was a former vice-chairman and head of security for the Cabazon Indian band. He recently spoke with the Daily News about alleged mismanagement of tribal monies.
Cabazon officials denied the Alvarez allegations.
Alvarez lived with Ms. Castro, at his rented home on Bob Hope Drive. She was recently employed as a waitress in Palm Desert.
Ms. Castro and Boger were not Indians.
Joseph Benitez, 46, former chairman of the Cabazons and William Callaway, a tribal member, discovered the bodies at 6:40 a.m. Wednesday.
Deputy Coroner Robert Drake said his office still has not determined the caliber of the gun or the weapon used in the murders. He said that information would be released following an autopsy which was scheduled to begin today.
Riverside County Sheriff officials said the bodies were found fully clothed near the back veranda of a one-story concrete block building on Bob Hope Drive near Avenue 32.
The bodies were found in sitting and lying positions......
CIA Code Expert Found Dead on Palm Springs Trail
A Central Intelligence Agency employee who died on a trail near Palm Springs was identified Saturday as a 64-year-old Fort Collins, Colo., resident.
Robert Allen Liebler was found dead on a trail about 100 feet west of West Arenas Road and South Tahquitz Drive about 11 a.m. Sunday amid 100-degree-plus heat, according to a coroner's spokesman.
Liebler was a Colorado State University professor and CIA communications expert, who had been working in the Palm Springs area, the Desert Sun reported.
Liebler, who had a doctorate from the University of Michigan, specialized in discrete mathematics and did security work for the U.S. government, a friend and former colleague, Ben Manvel, told the newspaper.
Liebler worked for the "brains branch" of the CIA, developing secret codes for stealth communication, he said.
Liebler, reported missing Saturday, was in Palm Springs working with a local think tank, Manvel said. He began his hike up the Carl Lykken Trail with a friend about 3:45 a.m. Saturday. About three hours later, he told the friend he was cramping up and headed back.
Liebler and his hiking partner were going to meet a group of about 15 other people who had taken the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway up to the top of Mount San Jacinto, according to police.
Liebler's body was found about 75 feet off the nearest trail.
Another body was found along a trail in a same general vicinity about two hours earlier, but that man's has not been made public. His decomposing body was found west of Museum Drive and north of Belardo Road.
Though coroner's investigators think they know who he is, they have been unable to positively identify him yet through dental records or fingerprints.
"The state of the remains don't allow identification by photos," a deputy coroner said. "We're identifying him by other means."
In the past six months, four bodies have been recovered from the shadeless terrain above Palm Springs.
________________________
TOMMY:
Isn't PALM SPRINGS very near the CABAZON INDIAN RESERVATION?
Weren't there alot of unsolved murders on this reservation?
Click blogpost title above to get linked to NEWSMAKINGNEWS...and look at archives...especially MAE BRUSSEL'S ARCHIVES...
_____________
THE 1981 FRED ALVAREZ TRIPLE EXECUTIONS
BACK IN THE HEADLINES
by Virginia McCullough © 12/15/08
On July 2, 1981 Indio, California Daily News staff reporter Paul Zalis had the sad duty of writing about the tragic murder of a man he had been speaking with for the past several weeks. The slain man, Cabazon Indian Fred Alvarez, had told the reporter, “as I speak with you I am a dead man”. The headline on the story told all that was known at the time: No leads, suspects:
PROBE CONTINUES IN TRIPLE SLAYING; VICTIMS NAMED.
(Dateline: Rancho Mirage) – The three bodies found in an apparent execution-style slaying Wednesday have been identified as Alfred “Fred” Alvarez, 32, Patricia Roberta Castro, 44, of Long Beach and Ralph Arthur Boger, 42, of San Bernardino.
All three had been shot in the head. Officials are estimating the shooting may have occurred sometime Monday.
Alvarez was a former vice-chairman and head of security for the Cabazon Indian band. He recently spoke with the Daily News about alleged mismanagement of tribal monies.
Cabazon officials denied the Alvarez allegations.
Alvarez lived with Ms. Castro, at his rented home on Bob Hope Drive. She was recently employed as a waitress in Palm Desert.
Ms. Castro and Boger were not Indians.
Joseph Benitez, 46, former chairman of the Cabazons and William Callaway, a tribal member, discovered the bodies at 6:40 a.m. Wednesday.
Deputy Coroner Robert Drake said his office still has not determined the caliber of the gun or the weapon used in the murders. He said that information would be released following an autopsy which was scheduled to begin today.
Riverside County Sheriff officials said the bodies were found fully clothed near the back veranda of a one-story concrete block building on Bob Hope Drive near Avenue 32.
The bodies were found in sitting and lying positions......
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
New from MAD COW MORNING NEWS: MALNICK, SPOOKS, 9/11, and the Michael Jackson Murder?????
http://www.madcowprod.com/07272009.htm
note: CLICK BLOGPOST TITLE ABOVE TO GET LINKED TO THIS FANTASTIC SITE:
HUFFMAN AVIATION WAS "CONTINUEING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE"
July 27 2009
by Daniel Hopsicker
Art Nadel, the recent owner of Huffman Aviation accused of running a Ponzi scheme which allegedly stole almost $400 million from investors, is the only person so far charged with a crime.
However if authorities persist in claiming Nadel was a "lone-nut financial gunslinger" they will be ignoring the richly-documented history of criminal fraud involving the owners of Huffman Aviation that goes back for more than a decade.
At least four financial scams, each looting more than $100 million, have criminal roots in the fertile soil— the “Octo-Mom” fertile soil—of the Venice Municipal Airport.
Almost immediately after its purchase in the summer of 1999 by Wallace J. Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers, the aviation facility became the center of a series of financial scams that included Ponzi schemes, pension fraud, international stock swindles, and fraudulent bankruptcies which have altogether looted more than $1 billion from the American economy.
Huffman Aviation, the flight training facility which housed both of the terrorist pilots who crashed passenger jets into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, has been operating as a continuing criminal enterprise, as defined by the Federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act.
The Huffman Aviation Ponzi All-Stars
Far from being alone, Art Nadel isn’t even the first owner of Huffman Aviation to benefit from a huge Ponzi scheme...
He's just the most recent.
Huffman Aviation’s first Ponzi All-Star was Wallace J. Hilliard, the owner while Mohamed Atta practiced touch-and-go’s on the airport’s runway. Yet, somehow, this easily-verifiable fact surfaced nowhere in Southwest Florida’s anemic mainstream media. Moreover Hilliard is currently being sued by disgruntled investors in Green Bay Wisconsin for $100 million.
Criminal ventures involving Huffman Aviation will each be considered separately, and at length, in a coming series of stories. They have often been so spectacular as to earn “biggest ever” designations from authorities and the press.
Huffman's criminal highlight reel contains a number of criminal firsts:
The Sarasota Herald Tribune called Art Nadel’s $390 million swindle the biggest fraud in Southwest Florida history."
When Wally Hilliard’s Learjet was busted carrying 43 lbs. of heroin at Orlando Executive Airport on July 25, 2000, the Orlando Sentinel called it the "biggest bust of its kind in Central Florida history.”
Wally Hilliard’s partner in Florida Air, an airline with high visibility at the Venice airport, paid for the passenger planes the two used in their “airline” with loot from what the Securities & Exchange Commission later called “the biggest fraud by an investment manager in U.S. history.”
When a DC9 registered to a company which used as its address a hanger at Huffman Aviation was caught in Campeche, Mexico carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine, Mexican authorities called it the biggest drug seizure in an airplane in Yucatan history."
Participants in that escapade included Adnan Khashoggi.
Hilliard sent a Lear jet to support Khashoggi's plan to gain control of Rum Cay, a remote island in the Bahamas with a recently-lengthened 5000 foot runway, as well as a Khashoggi lieutenant from Saudi Arabia named Ramy el-Batrawi, both of whom were indicted three years ago in an international stock swindle known as Stockwalk, which Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge Victor B. Kenton said was responsible for “the largest failure of a U.S. brokerage in at least 30 years.”
Lady in Red
The first fact immediately and painfully obvious about accused Ponzi fraudster Art Nadel is that he’s clearly nobody’s idea of a financial “lone gunman.”
Nadel is a meek-looking Woody Allen look-alike who is overshadowed in local Sarasota society by his tall former model wife Peg.
In a pricey status-conscious city redolent with with the sweaty scent of social climbing 'yachtsmen' boasting waterfront mansions, Nadel lived in a $300,000 tract house, and drove around town in a Subaru.
Two other factors about Nadel may have some bearing on his case.
When Art and Peg Nadel first surfaced as financial gurus in 1998 for a black-box stock-picking “computer-based investment and trading system” called MicroStar Research, wife Peg was strongly front and center in interviews.
Yet another un unexamined history
A Sarasota Herald-Tribune company profile on Nov 18, 1997 headlined “INVESTORS STOCK UP ON DATA AT SARASOTA'S INSIDE SCOOP” quoted Peg Nadel:
"We feel we are really filling a void,'' (Peg) Quisenberry said, ''for people who just want to become more informed about the financial part of their lives.''
And a company Peg Nadel incorporated a decade earlier, well before meeting Piano & Ponzi Man Art, has a name which rings similar to Peg & Art's later joint ventures:
As Marguerite Quisenberry, Peg incorporated a Florida company called BUSINESS AND COMPUTER STRATEGIES, INC. Her fellow director in that venture was then-husband Clement Blake Quisenberry.
In mid-December of last year, just a few weeks before Art Nadel went on the lam in mid-January, Peg Nadel’s former husband, Clement Blake Quisenberry, filed for bankruptcy in Mulberry Florida.
We have no knowledge of any relationship Quisenberry may have had with his former wife and her current husband Nadel, but it is at the very least an interesting coincidence.
License to steal at the Venice Airport
Why disbarred New York lawyer Art Nadel, a man recently engaged playing show tunes in local lounges, found it so imperative that he used some of the earliest proceeds from the Ponzi scheme to buy both Huffman Aviation and a second aviation company in Georgia, is one of the enduring mysteries of the case.
Located at a tiny and out-of-the-way airport in a sleepy retirement community with the second oldest population in the entire United States, Huffman Aviation—save for its remarkable recent history of criminal activity—is an otherwise-insignificant aviation business, grossing just several million dollars annually.
Although the flight school was at the center of a firestorm of publicity after the 9/11 attack, no hint of the continuing criminal enterprise underway there made it into any mainstream media.
However dozens of stories published in this space have catalogued the variety of illegal activities which authorities and their aviation peers accuse Rudi Dekkers and Wally Hilliard of engaging in at the Venice and Naples Airports, both before and after the 9/11 attack.
After the first shock of the 9/11 attack faded, a certain officially-encouraged amnesia struggled—perhaps understandably—to take hold at the Venice Airport.
Huffman Aviation was re-named the Venice Jet Center. The facility received a complete face-lift and a new façade, clearly designed to obscure its identity as the American home of Mohamed Atta.
But all to naught. It was, to quote our current president, “like putting lipstick on a pig.”
Happy Secretary's Day!
Wally Hilliard was a grateful beneficiary of a huge Ponzi scheme run out of Portland Oregon which looted an estimated $300 million dollars, according to the Portland Oregonian. The money was looted—in a highly-organized and systematic fashion—from the pension funds of mostly-Mob-led unions.
Hardest hit ($60 million) by the pension looting were secretaries and laborers from the Laborers Union, called the biggest Mob-run union in America.
Analysts said that to receive the same retirement benefits they would have before their pension fund was looted, the unfortunate secretaries would have to spend an extra decade working.
A Gig-Harbor WA man named Richard Boehlke was part of the pension fraud.
Boehlke shoveled trunk-loads of cash—more than $12 million—into the back of whichever of his fleet of luxury cars he happened to be driving that day, and used the cash from the Ponzi scheme to purchase a half-dozen British-made Jetstream regional jets for a new “airline” he was starting up with his good pal Wallace J Hilliard.
There. He said the "M" word.
"Boehlke would do anything for money, he was so desperate," an aviation executive who had witnessed Boehlke's descent told us. "I’m surprised he hasn’t skipped the country by now, what with all the trouble he’s gotten himself into farting around with those Mafia boys down in Portland."
Alvin of Arabia
Another grateful beneficiary of the Portland Ponzi scheme money which disappeared from the retirement pension funds of laborer's and secretary's was a Miami Florida man whose complex web of international connections is legendary.
Alvin Malnik was first called "Meyer Lansky’s heir" in Readers' Digest, of all places, back in 1983. But it's not Malnick’s gangster ties that make your jaw drop: its his connection with the Saudi Royal Family.
Jewish lawyer and alleged 'gangster' Malnick’s son married the daughter of a leading Prince of Saudi Arabia's founding family.
"The Saudi Prince not only blessed the marriage, but regularly works with the US organized crime associates," states one report on the connection. "The Saudi King would frequently send his private 747 to Florida to pick up Malnik and his associates, so they could conduct business on the plane away from prying eyes."
Mr. Malnik, understandably, begs to differ.
“Contrary to popular belief, I (Al Malnik) never worked for Meyer Lanksy. I knew him, and he was a good friend who I spent a lot of time with, but I never represented him in legal matters. To me, Meyer was quite the grandfather type. If you knew him and talked to him, you could never imagine that any of the stories you heard about him had any veracity. You could never imagine that he was responsible for doing the things people said he did. He was not a person to give in to rage.”
"Phantom airline" had real planes, pilots
Although it flew virtually no scheduled flights, the suspiciously short-lived Florida Air thus was able to have a fleet of 19-passenger regional planes as well as a half-dozen pilots on stand-by at the Venice Airport, during the same time Mohamed Atta was supposedly taking flight lessons there.
The airline lost $800,000 in two months,” said Stuart Burchill, Hilliard’s former accountant. “All together, the airline ended up costing Wally almost $8 million.”
Florida Air itself became another scam, run concurrently with the pension looting in Oregon, stealing money from the airline’s investors, who are currently suing Hilliard for $100 million.
Hilliard was a “health insurance” executive from Green Bay, Wisconsin who “retired” to Florida, where he soon bought—not the usual set of golf clubs and matching sans-a-belt slacks and golf sweater combos in canary yellow & lime green—but two dozen luxury jets, and flight schools in Venice and Naples, FL.
Both of Hilliard’s flight schools (he also owned one in Naples, FL) enrolled an unknown but substantial number of Arab men who later were suspected of being terrorists.
"La plus ca change."
A Portland ABC News Reporter Eric Mason, who interviewed Boehlke, said, “The financing that had gone between Mr. Boehlke and Florida Air, which was a sister operation to the flight training center which trained Mohamed Atta, was murky.”
Murky’ is not a word you want to see applied to the business affairs of the people who were doing business with Mohamed Atta.
Curiously, the same word was used to describe SkyWay Aircraft by Federal Judge Paul M. Glenn. While presiding over SkyWay’s bankruptcy proceedings, Judge Glen called the case "murky."
"I have a great deal of concern about this case," Judge Glenn said. "There's a great deal we don't know
Since then, very little appears to have changed.
While it may be small consolation to incarcerated (and reportedly forlorn) Art Nadel as he awaits trial, owning Huffman Aviation might be a lot like being head of the Teamsters Union:
“Going away for a while” may just be part of the job.
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from ALEX CONSTANTINE'S BLACK LIST (copy and paste URL below into google)
http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2009/07/michael-jackson-al-malnik-mafia.html
St. Louis connection to Michael Jackson: Attorney Alvin Malnik
By Deb Peterson
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TWO DEGREES OF SEPARATION: South Florida kingpin and St. Louis native, Alvin I. Malnik, 76, has been getting a lot of face time since Michael Jackson’s death.
Malnik — a product of Clark Elementary School, Soldan High and Wash U. — was a friend of Jackson’s for a long time and says the King of Pop asked him to become godfather and parent to Prince Michael II, “Blanket” if anything happened to Jackson.
Malnik has been interviewed about his connections to Jackson by NBC’s Today Show, CBS and the Palm Beach Post, among others. Malnik is an attorney who had close ties to mobster Meyer Lansky and was at one time considered Lansky’s “heir apparent.”
Malnik has said he signed a document in 2003 saying that he could take custody of Blanket if anything happened to Jackson and that he also agreed in writing to be the executor of Jackson’s estate. Malnik says that Jackson at the time became the godfather of Malnik’s then 11-year-old daughter, Spencer. Jackson and Malnik reportedly had a falling out in the past couple of years. The cause of the estrangement is unclear.
Jackson used to seek refuge in Malnik’s 15-bedroom, 35,000-square-foot Palm Beach County mansion in Ocean Ridge. He reportedly would stay there for months at a time with his children and an entourage. Malnik was Jackson’s attorney and said he helped him refinance his debt with Sony and the Bank of America. Malnik also was the owner of the exclusive Forge restaurant in Miami, which he sold to his son Shareef.
Jackson sat with Malnik at the head table during Malnik’s 70th birthday bash at the Forge in 2003, which was attended by my predecessor at the Post-Dispatch, Jerry Berger. Berger was a longtime friend of Malnik’s.
He wrote about the party that “the invitation to Florida itself was unique: a taped message from the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson. But the event lived up to its billing. Jackson, accompanied by a full phalanx of bodyguards, was on hand to welcome Malnik’s guests, including B.B. King, Smokey Robinson, F. Lee Bailey and celeb lawyer Roy Black.”
Berger included the names of some of Malnik’s St. Louis pals who were at the shindig: Attorney Martin Green, merger and acquisitions mogul Gilbert Kopolow and L.A.-based sales exec Barry Gelber. He said the Harbour Group’s Sam Fox and his wife, Marilyn, friends of Malnik’s since high school days, were no-shows but were represented by a magnificent floral masterpiece from the Fox den.
Malnik also turned up with a connection to St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley. His name was on a list of campaign contributors as having donated $2000 to Dooley’s unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000; Dooley was
a St. Louis County councilman at the time.
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/deb-petersons-breaking-schmooze/uncategorized/2009/07/st-louis-connection-to-michael-jackson-attorney-alvin-malnik/
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Excerpt of a sanitized whitewash: "Al Malnik Made Miami"
Al Malnik brought Miami to the main stage with style and sophistication, now he invites you home.
By Kamal Hotchandani & Megan O’Neil
www.hauteliving.com
Al Malnik knows Miami. And, it’s safe to say, Miami is a world-class city, in large part, because of him. A devoted businessman, family man and philanthropist, Malnik has left his mark on much of the Miami Beach landscape since he moved here in 1956. From his world-renowned restaurant, The Forge, his creation known in its heyday as the stomping grounds of the Rat Pack and other legendary characters, to his extremely generous support of local charitable organizations such as the Make-a-Wish Foundation, the Jackson Memorial Hospital and Mt. Sinai Hospital, it is obvious that Malnik likes to make things happen. And, when he does, no one can top him.
His success as a restaurateur, a major consumer loan lender and an entertainment lawyer to the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin and Jackie Gleason are well documented and testament to his unrivaled clout and reputation. But, few know that this prominent South Florida figure is a self-made, private, humble and deeply spiritual patriarch of an ever-growing family-his wife, Nancy, recently gave birth to twins rounding out his brood at 10-with an eye for design, a passion for art and a love for good home-cooked meals. ...
http://www.hauteliving.com/fl/novdec-2006-aby/al-malnik-made-miami/
Posted by Alex Constantine at 9:00 PM
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Monday, July 6, 2009
The C.I.A., Wally Hilliard, AirGyro and the Utah Heroin Problem
"According to the 2007 Monitoring the Future survey, there were no significant changes since 2006 in the proportion of students in 8th, 10th, and 12th grades reporting lifetime, past-year, and past-month use of heroin overall.
Heroin use has been steadily declining since the mid-1990s. Recent peaks in heroin use were observed in 1996 for 8th-graders, 1997–2000 for 10th-graders, and 2000 for 12th-graders. Annual prevalence of heroin use in 2007 dropped significantly, by between 38 percent and 40 percent, from these recent peak use years for each grade surveyed."
As you can see, the National trend for Heroin use among High Schoolers is heading in a hugely positive direction.
Utah, On the other hand:
"Heroin is increasingly available in Utah in ounce and multi-ounce quantities, primarily in the metropolitan areas. In 2002 the Cache/Rich Drug Task Force, Central Utah Narcotics Strike Force, Davis County Metro Drug Task Force, Salt Lake County Metro Narcotics Task Force, Utah County Major Crimes Strike Force, and Weber/Morgan Drug Task Force reported significant increases in the availability of Mexican black tar heroin and brown powdered heroin in their jurisdictions. Mexican black tar heroin and brown powdered heroin are the types most commonly available in the state; Southeast Asian heroin is available in very limited quantities.
It became public that heroin from Afghanistan was brought to this country and sold to our youth in order to buy the release of the hostages in Iran and fund the Contras in El Salvador. This covert operation was never dismantled and still exists to this day.
Even more intriging is Utah's connections to Wally Hilliard. Wally Hilliard has already been connected to Joseph Cannon, Spanish Fork Airport, Nate Oldham and Air-Gyro Aviation in Utah County. It has been reported that Wally Hilliard and the Nate Oldham family were purportedly bringing heroin into Utah through Spanish Fork airport. Here are a few instances that show just how involved Wally Hilliard is in Intelligence communities and Narcotics smuggling.
By the way, he is also a Mormon Bishop.
Which conversion took place around the time hijackers trained at the flight school he financed flew their planes into the World Trade Center.
Wally Hilliard also was reportedly involved with an attempt to buy a casino in the Bahamas. Casinos make great places to launder money from narcotics and other illegal drugs. Indian casinos are even better as they are exempt from many of our laws because they exist on Indian land.
Wally Hilliard was also an alleged friend of Osama Bin Laden's brother.
Jack Abramoff was the big Indian Casino guy and tied directly to Utah's Joe Cannon and his brother Chris Cannon. Another interesting link exists in that the hijackers were seen visiting Abramoff's Sun-Cruz Casino boats on the eve of 911. The same hijackers that were trained at Hilliard financed; Huffman Aviation.
The evidence seems to indicate that Joe Cannon was greatly responsible for the termination of Professor Jones from BYU for questioning the official 911 story.
Above is Wally Hilliard's Learjet, which was the target for the largest heroin bust in Central Florida History. 43 pounds of heroin were on board.
Huffman Aviation has also been linked to the massive 5+ tons of cocaine bust that occurred in Mexico.
It has been alleged that Air Gyro Aviation is a front company for smuggling Hilliard's CIA heroin into Utah via Spanish Fork airport. It states that it is a flight school (like Huffman Aviation?) Interestingly enough it is not licensed as such with the FAA.
Nate Oldham (see Kiplyn Davis Murder post on this blog) is purportedly part of an Illuminati family. He is also a minority owner and manager of Air Gyro aviation. Air Gyro has four experimental aircraft licensed with the FAA. Interestingly enough, two of them are up for sale.
When I was friends with Nate I visited his flight school and noted the thugs that called themselves pilots numbered at least 10 that I know of. So, how do these pilots make a living with only two experimental aircraft like those below?
Note that this aircraft could easily be used to smuggle heroin into Utah County from Florida or Mexico. It has a $600,000 pricetag and can fly intercontinental flights. Air Gyro claims it also sells aircraft like these. However we have been unable to verify that any transactions actually exist. So, how do they pay the bills?
This aircraft could easily be used to transport heroin to backwoods "drop-points"
Meet Don Oldham, the real owner of AirGyro Aviation.
Don Oldham owned and still manages Digital Technology International. A company that provides newspapers with their setup software. The company counts the Daily Herald, the Deseret News and other Utah newspapers as clients. Joe Cannon, as Board member, would have voted on the Oldham-DTI contract.
Riverside Company acquired DTI from Oldham and kept him on as the CEO of the company. Unusual, don't you think?
Even more unusual is that Riverside also reportedly bought Wally Hilliards business (which looks like it was then sold to Zurich/Farmers Insurance- who then entered into an aquisition agreement with Riverside.
What makes this even more questionable is the fact that Zurich has its own investment portfolio and investment funds that are similar to Riverside. Why would the company sell this important part of their business to an outsider, yet continue to manage it? Was this an indirect pay-off to Wally Hilliard through a third party??? If so, was Zurich involved with its Partner, British American Tobacco in other Hilliard activities???
Perhaps we can find some answers from British American Tobacco/Zurich owned Farmers Insurance Group. They were actively engaged with Jack Abramoff, David Safavian Chris Cannon and Joseph Cannon in an attempt to buy an Indian Casino.
Were they acting under the direction of British American Tobacco, one of the partners that owned them? If so, was this casino meant to be used as another drug money-laundering operation with Wally Hilliard and/or friends??
We will continue to "return and report"
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HUFFMAN AVIATION WAS "CONTINUEING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE"
July 27 2009
by Daniel Hopsicker
Art Nadel, the recent owner of Huffman Aviation accused of running a Ponzi scheme which allegedly stole almost $400 million from investors, is the only person so far charged with a crime.
However if authorities persist in claiming Nadel was a "lone-nut financial gunslinger" they will be ignoring the richly-documented history of criminal fraud involving the owners of Huffman Aviation that goes back for more than a decade.
At least four financial scams, each looting more than $100 million, have criminal roots in the fertile soil— the “Octo-Mom” fertile soil—of the Venice Municipal Airport.
Almost immediately after its purchase in the summer of 1999 by Wallace J. Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers, the aviation facility became the center of a series of financial scams that included Ponzi schemes, pension fraud, international stock swindles, and fraudulent bankruptcies which have altogether looted more than $1 billion from the American economy.
Huffman Aviation, the flight training facility which housed both of the terrorist pilots who crashed passenger jets into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, has been operating as a continuing criminal enterprise, as defined by the Federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act.
The Huffman Aviation Ponzi All-Stars
Far from being alone, Art Nadel isn’t even the first owner of Huffman Aviation to benefit from a huge Ponzi scheme...
He's just the most recent.
Huffman Aviation’s first Ponzi All-Star was Wallace J. Hilliard, the owner while Mohamed Atta practiced touch-and-go’s on the airport’s runway. Yet, somehow, this easily-verifiable fact surfaced nowhere in Southwest Florida’s anemic mainstream media. Moreover Hilliard is currently being sued by disgruntled investors in Green Bay Wisconsin for $100 million.
Criminal ventures involving Huffman Aviation will each be considered separately, and at length, in a coming series of stories. They have often been so spectacular as to earn “biggest ever” designations from authorities and the press.
Huffman's criminal highlight reel contains a number of criminal firsts:
The Sarasota Herald Tribune called Art Nadel’s $390 million swindle the biggest fraud in Southwest Florida history."
When Wally Hilliard’s Learjet was busted carrying 43 lbs. of heroin at Orlando Executive Airport on July 25, 2000, the Orlando Sentinel called it the "biggest bust of its kind in Central Florida history.”
Wally Hilliard’s partner in Florida Air, an airline with high visibility at the Venice airport, paid for the passenger planes the two used in their “airline” with loot from what the Securities & Exchange Commission later called “the biggest fraud by an investment manager in U.S. history.”
When a DC9 registered to a company which used as its address a hanger at Huffman Aviation was caught in Campeche, Mexico carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine, Mexican authorities called it the biggest drug seizure in an airplane in Yucatan history."
Participants in that escapade included Adnan Khashoggi.
Hilliard sent a Lear jet to support Khashoggi's plan to gain control of Rum Cay, a remote island in the Bahamas with a recently-lengthened 5000 foot runway, as well as a Khashoggi lieutenant from Saudi Arabia named Ramy el-Batrawi, both of whom were indicted three years ago in an international stock swindle known as Stockwalk, which Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge Victor B. Kenton said was responsible for “the largest failure of a U.S. brokerage in at least 30 years.”
Lady in Red
The first fact immediately and painfully obvious about accused Ponzi fraudster Art Nadel is that he’s clearly nobody’s idea of a financial “lone gunman.”
Nadel is a meek-looking Woody Allen look-alike who is overshadowed in local Sarasota society by his tall former model wife Peg.
In a pricey status-conscious city redolent with with the sweaty scent of social climbing 'yachtsmen' boasting waterfront mansions, Nadel lived in a $300,000 tract house, and drove around town in a Subaru.
Two other factors about Nadel may have some bearing on his case.
When Art and Peg Nadel first surfaced as financial gurus in 1998 for a black-box stock-picking “computer-based investment and trading system” called MicroStar Research, wife Peg was strongly front and center in interviews.
Yet another un unexamined history
A Sarasota Herald-Tribune company profile on Nov 18, 1997 headlined “INVESTORS STOCK UP ON DATA AT SARASOTA'S INSIDE SCOOP” quoted Peg Nadel:
"We feel we are really filling a void,'' (Peg) Quisenberry said, ''for people who just want to become more informed about the financial part of their lives.''
And a company Peg Nadel incorporated a decade earlier, well before meeting Piano & Ponzi Man Art, has a name which rings similar to Peg & Art's later joint ventures:
As Marguerite Quisenberry, Peg incorporated a Florida company called BUSINESS AND COMPUTER STRATEGIES, INC. Her fellow director in that venture was then-husband Clement Blake Quisenberry.
In mid-December of last year, just a few weeks before Art Nadel went on the lam in mid-January, Peg Nadel’s former husband, Clement Blake Quisenberry, filed for bankruptcy in Mulberry Florida.
We have no knowledge of any relationship Quisenberry may have had with his former wife and her current husband Nadel, but it is at the very least an interesting coincidence.
License to steal at the Venice Airport
Why disbarred New York lawyer Art Nadel, a man recently engaged playing show tunes in local lounges, found it so imperative that he used some of the earliest proceeds from the Ponzi scheme to buy both Huffman Aviation and a second aviation company in Georgia, is one of the enduring mysteries of the case.
Located at a tiny and out-of-the-way airport in a sleepy retirement community with the second oldest population in the entire United States, Huffman Aviation—save for its remarkable recent history of criminal activity—is an otherwise-insignificant aviation business, grossing just several million dollars annually.
Although the flight school was at the center of a firestorm of publicity after the 9/11 attack, no hint of the continuing criminal enterprise underway there made it into any mainstream media.
However dozens of stories published in this space have catalogued the variety of illegal activities which authorities and their aviation peers accuse Rudi Dekkers and Wally Hilliard of engaging in at the Venice and Naples Airports, both before and after the 9/11 attack.
After the first shock of the 9/11 attack faded, a certain officially-encouraged amnesia struggled—perhaps understandably—to take hold at the Venice Airport.
Huffman Aviation was re-named the Venice Jet Center. The facility received a complete face-lift and a new façade, clearly designed to obscure its identity as the American home of Mohamed Atta.
But all to naught. It was, to quote our current president, “like putting lipstick on a pig.”
Happy Secretary's Day!
Wally Hilliard was a grateful beneficiary of a huge Ponzi scheme run out of Portland Oregon which looted an estimated $300 million dollars, according to the Portland Oregonian. The money was looted—in a highly-organized and systematic fashion—from the pension funds of mostly-Mob-led unions.
Hardest hit ($60 million) by the pension looting were secretaries and laborers from the Laborers Union, called the biggest Mob-run union in America.
Analysts said that to receive the same retirement benefits they would have before their pension fund was looted, the unfortunate secretaries would have to spend an extra decade working.
A Gig-Harbor WA man named Richard Boehlke was part of the pension fraud.
Boehlke shoveled trunk-loads of cash—more than $12 million—into the back of whichever of his fleet of luxury cars he happened to be driving that day, and used the cash from the Ponzi scheme to purchase a half-dozen British-made Jetstream regional jets for a new “airline” he was starting up with his good pal Wallace J Hilliard.
There. He said the "M" word.
"Boehlke would do anything for money, he was so desperate," an aviation executive who had witnessed Boehlke's descent told us. "I’m surprised he hasn’t skipped the country by now, what with all the trouble he’s gotten himself into farting around with those Mafia boys down in Portland."
Alvin of Arabia
Another grateful beneficiary of the Portland Ponzi scheme money which disappeared from the retirement pension funds of laborer's and secretary's was a Miami Florida man whose complex web of international connections is legendary.
Alvin Malnik was first called "Meyer Lansky’s heir" in Readers' Digest, of all places, back in 1983. But it's not Malnick’s gangster ties that make your jaw drop: its his connection with the Saudi Royal Family.
Jewish lawyer and alleged 'gangster' Malnick’s son married the daughter of a leading Prince of Saudi Arabia's founding family.
"The Saudi Prince not only blessed the marriage, but regularly works with the US organized crime associates," states one report on the connection. "The Saudi King would frequently send his private 747 to Florida to pick up Malnik and his associates, so they could conduct business on the plane away from prying eyes."
Mr. Malnik, understandably, begs to differ.
“Contrary to popular belief, I (Al Malnik) never worked for Meyer Lanksy. I knew him, and he was a good friend who I spent a lot of time with, but I never represented him in legal matters. To me, Meyer was quite the grandfather type. If you knew him and talked to him, you could never imagine that any of the stories you heard about him had any veracity. You could never imagine that he was responsible for doing the things people said he did. He was not a person to give in to rage.”
"Phantom airline" had real planes, pilots
Although it flew virtually no scheduled flights, the suspiciously short-lived Florida Air thus was able to have a fleet of 19-passenger regional planes as well as a half-dozen pilots on stand-by at the Venice Airport, during the same time Mohamed Atta was supposedly taking flight lessons there.
The airline lost $800,000 in two months,” said Stuart Burchill, Hilliard’s former accountant. “All together, the airline ended up costing Wally almost $8 million.”
Florida Air itself became another scam, run concurrently with the pension looting in Oregon, stealing money from the airline’s investors, who are currently suing Hilliard for $100 million.
Hilliard was a “health insurance” executive from Green Bay, Wisconsin who “retired” to Florida, where he soon bought—not the usual set of golf clubs and matching sans-a-belt slacks and golf sweater combos in canary yellow & lime green—but two dozen luxury jets, and flight schools in Venice and Naples, FL.
Both of Hilliard’s flight schools (he also owned one in Naples, FL) enrolled an unknown but substantial number of Arab men who later were suspected of being terrorists.
"La plus ca change."
A Portland ABC News Reporter Eric Mason, who interviewed Boehlke, said, “The financing that had gone between Mr. Boehlke and Florida Air, which was a sister operation to the flight training center which trained Mohamed Atta, was murky.”
Murky’ is not a word you want to see applied to the business affairs of the people who were doing business with Mohamed Atta.
Curiously, the same word was used to describe SkyWay Aircraft by Federal Judge Paul M. Glenn. While presiding over SkyWay’s bankruptcy proceedings, Judge Glen called the case "murky."
"I have a great deal of concern about this case," Judge Glenn said. "There's a great deal we don't know
Since then, very little appears to have changed.
While it may be small consolation to incarcerated (and reportedly forlorn) Art Nadel as he awaits trial, owning Huffman Aviation might be a lot like being head of the Teamsters Union:
“Going away for a while” may just be part of the job.
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from ALEX CONSTANTINE'S BLACK LIST (copy and paste URL below into google)
http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2009/07/michael-jackson-al-malnik-mafia.html
St. Louis connection to Michael Jackson: Attorney Alvin Malnik
By Deb Peterson
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TWO DEGREES OF SEPARATION: South Florida kingpin and St. Louis native, Alvin I. Malnik, 76, has been getting a lot of face time since Michael Jackson’s death.
Malnik — a product of Clark Elementary School, Soldan High and Wash U. — was a friend of Jackson’s for a long time and says the King of Pop asked him to become godfather and parent to Prince Michael II, “Blanket” if anything happened to Jackson.
Malnik has been interviewed about his connections to Jackson by NBC’s Today Show, CBS and the Palm Beach Post, among others. Malnik is an attorney who had close ties to mobster Meyer Lansky and was at one time considered Lansky’s “heir apparent.”
Malnik has said he signed a document in 2003 saying that he could take custody of Blanket if anything happened to Jackson and that he also agreed in writing to be the executor of Jackson’s estate. Malnik says that Jackson at the time became the godfather of Malnik’s then 11-year-old daughter, Spencer. Jackson and Malnik reportedly had a falling out in the past couple of years. The cause of the estrangement is unclear.
Jackson used to seek refuge in Malnik’s 15-bedroom, 35,000-square-foot Palm Beach County mansion in Ocean Ridge. He reportedly would stay there for months at a time with his children and an entourage. Malnik was Jackson’s attorney and said he helped him refinance his debt with Sony and the Bank of America. Malnik also was the owner of the exclusive Forge restaurant in Miami, which he sold to his son Shareef.
Jackson sat with Malnik at the head table during Malnik’s 70th birthday bash at the Forge in 2003, which was attended by my predecessor at the Post-Dispatch, Jerry Berger. Berger was a longtime friend of Malnik’s.
He wrote about the party that “the invitation to Florida itself was unique: a taped message from the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson. But the event lived up to its billing. Jackson, accompanied by a full phalanx of bodyguards, was on hand to welcome Malnik’s guests, including B.B. King, Smokey Robinson, F. Lee Bailey and celeb lawyer Roy Black.”
Berger included the names of some of Malnik’s St. Louis pals who were at the shindig: Attorney Martin Green, merger and acquisitions mogul Gilbert Kopolow and L.A.-based sales exec Barry Gelber. He said the Harbour Group’s Sam Fox and his wife, Marilyn, friends of Malnik’s since high school days, were no-shows but were represented by a magnificent floral masterpiece from the Fox den.
Malnik also turned up with a connection to St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley. His name was on a list of campaign contributors as having donated $2000 to Dooley’s unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000; Dooley was
a St. Louis County councilman at the time.
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/deb-petersons-breaking-schmooze/uncategorized/2009/07/st-louis-connection-to-michael-jackson-attorney-alvin-malnik/
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Excerpt of a sanitized whitewash: "Al Malnik Made Miami"
Al Malnik brought Miami to the main stage with style and sophistication, now he invites you home.
By Kamal Hotchandani & Megan O’Neil
www.hauteliving.com
Al Malnik knows Miami. And, it’s safe to say, Miami is a world-class city, in large part, because of him. A devoted businessman, family man and philanthropist, Malnik has left his mark on much of the Miami Beach landscape since he moved here in 1956. From his world-renowned restaurant, The Forge, his creation known in its heyday as the stomping grounds of the Rat Pack and other legendary characters, to his extremely generous support of local charitable organizations such as the Make-a-Wish Foundation, the Jackson Memorial Hospital and Mt. Sinai Hospital, it is obvious that Malnik likes to make things happen. And, when he does, no one can top him.
His success as a restaurateur, a major consumer loan lender and an entertainment lawyer to the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin and Jackie Gleason are well documented and testament to his unrivaled clout and reputation. But, few know that this prominent South Florida figure is a self-made, private, humble and deeply spiritual patriarch of an ever-growing family-his wife, Nancy, recently gave birth to twins rounding out his brood at 10-with an eye for design, a passion for art and a love for good home-cooked meals. ...
http://www.hauteliving.com/fl/novdec-2006-aby/al-malnik-made-miami/
Posted by Alex Constantine at 9:00 PM
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http://deadmanmusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/cia-wally-hilliard-airgyro-and-utah.html
Monday, July 6, 2009
The C.I.A., Wally Hilliard, AirGyro and the Utah Heroin Problem
"According to the 2007 Monitoring the Future survey, there were no significant changes since 2006 in the proportion of students in 8th, 10th, and 12th grades reporting lifetime, past-year, and past-month use of heroin overall.
Heroin use has been steadily declining since the mid-1990s. Recent peaks in heroin use were observed in 1996 for 8th-graders, 1997–2000 for 10th-graders, and 2000 for 12th-graders. Annual prevalence of heroin use in 2007 dropped significantly, by between 38 percent and 40 percent, from these recent peak use years for each grade surveyed."
As you can see, the National trend for Heroin use among High Schoolers is heading in a hugely positive direction.
Utah, On the other hand:
"Heroin is increasingly available in Utah in ounce and multi-ounce quantities, primarily in the metropolitan areas. In 2002 the Cache/Rich Drug Task Force, Central Utah Narcotics Strike Force, Davis County Metro Drug Task Force, Salt Lake County Metro Narcotics Task Force, Utah County Major Crimes Strike Force, and Weber/Morgan Drug Task Force reported significant increases in the availability of Mexican black tar heroin and brown powdered heroin in their jurisdictions. Mexican black tar heroin and brown powdered heroin are the types most commonly available in the state; Southeast Asian heroin is available in very limited quantities.
It became public that heroin from Afghanistan was brought to this country and sold to our youth in order to buy the release of the hostages in Iran and fund the Contras in El Salvador. This covert operation was never dismantled and still exists to this day.
Even more intriging is Utah's connections to Wally Hilliard. Wally Hilliard has already been connected to Joseph Cannon, Spanish Fork Airport, Nate Oldham and Air-Gyro Aviation in Utah County. It has been reported that Wally Hilliard and the Nate Oldham family were purportedly bringing heroin into Utah through Spanish Fork airport. Here are a few instances that show just how involved Wally Hilliard is in Intelligence communities and Narcotics smuggling.
By the way, he is also a Mormon Bishop.
Which conversion took place around the time hijackers trained at the flight school he financed flew their planes into the World Trade Center.
Wally Hilliard also was reportedly involved with an attempt to buy a casino in the Bahamas. Casinos make great places to launder money from narcotics and other illegal drugs. Indian casinos are even better as they are exempt from many of our laws because they exist on Indian land.
Wally Hilliard was also an alleged friend of Osama Bin Laden's brother.
Jack Abramoff was the big Indian Casino guy and tied directly to Utah's Joe Cannon and his brother Chris Cannon. Another interesting link exists in that the hijackers were seen visiting Abramoff's Sun-Cruz Casino boats on the eve of 911. The same hijackers that were trained at Hilliard financed; Huffman Aviation.
The evidence seems to indicate that Joe Cannon was greatly responsible for the termination of Professor Jones from BYU for questioning the official 911 story.
Above is Wally Hilliard's Learjet, which was the target for the largest heroin bust in Central Florida History. 43 pounds of heroin were on board.
Huffman Aviation has also been linked to the massive 5+ tons of cocaine bust that occurred in Mexico.
It has been alleged that Air Gyro Aviation is a front company for smuggling Hilliard's CIA heroin into Utah via Spanish Fork airport. It states that it is a flight school (like Huffman Aviation?) Interestingly enough it is not licensed as such with the FAA.
Nate Oldham (see Kiplyn Davis Murder post on this blog) is purportedly part of an Illuminati family. He is also a minority owner and manager of Air Gyro aviation. Air Gyro has four experimental aircraft licensed with the FAA. Interestingly enough, two of them are up for sale.
When I was friends with Nate I visited his flight school and noted the thugs that called themselves pilots numbered at least 10 that I know of. So, how do these pilots make a living with only two experimental aircraft like those below?
Note that this aircraft could easily be used to smuggle heroin into Utah County from Florida or Mexico. It has a $600,000 pricetag and can fly intercontinental flights. Air Gyro claims it also sells aircraft like these. However we have been unable to verify that any transactions actually exist. So, how do they pay the bills?
This aircraft could easily be used to transport heroin to backwoods "drop-points"
Meet Don Oldham, the real owner of AirGyro Aviation.
Don Oldham owned and still manages Digital Technology International. A company that provides newspapers with their setup software. The company counts the Daily Herald, the Deseret News and other Utah newspapers as clients. Joe Cannon, as Board member, would have voted on the Oldham-DTI contract.
Riverside Company acquired DTI from Oldham and kept him on as the CEO of the company. Unusual, don't you think?
Even more unusual is that Riverside also reportedly bought Wally Hilliards business (which looks like it was then sold to Zurich/Farmers Insurance- who then entered into an aquisition agreement with Riverside.
What makes this even more questionable is the fact that Zurich has its own investment portfolio and investment funds that are similar to Riverside. Why would the company sell this important part of their business to an outsider, yet continue to manage it? Was this an indirect pay-off to Wally Hilliard through a third party??? If so, was Zurich involved with its Partner, British American Tobacco in other Hilliard activities???
Perhaps we can find some answers from British American Tobacco/Zurich owned Farmers Insurance Group. They were actively engaged with Jack Abramoff, David Safavian Chris Cannon and Joseph Cannon in an attempt to buy an Indian Casino.
Were they acting under the direction of British American Tobacco, one of the partners that owned them? If so, was this casino meant to be used as another drug money-laundering operation with Wally Hilliard and/or friends??
We will continue to "return and report"
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Monday, July 27, 2009
More gutless, sniveling, pussified faggot excuses from weeny ass DEM PUNKS: do it my way...and you all win...no?
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/rep_conyers_on_us_attorney_investigation_we_have_t.php#more
Rep. Conyers On U.S. Attorney Investigation: 'We Have To Keep The Process Working'
By Rachel Slajda - July 24, 2009, 5:16PM
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said today that he's still pushing to question Bush administration officials about the U.S. attorney firings.
"All the breadcrumbs, as we call them, go right to the White House," Conyers said in a speech to the National Press Club this afternoon.
"We have to keep the process working," he said.
____________________
tommy:
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE...YOU HAVE TO CALL A COOPERATING PRIMARY WITNESS NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN...and Conyers knows that...yet...WHERE ARE WE ON THE ROVE, MEIRS, BOLTEN testimony?
APPARENTLY CONYERS held hearings and has testimony...yet...CONYERS DOES NOT THINK THE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW WHAT WAS ASKED AND ANSWERED?
EXPOSURE is the only weapon...yet...Dems run scared from doing their job?
NO SUBPOENAed TESTIMONY OF SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN?
WHAT HAPPENED TO HER FED GRAND JURY? NO INDICTMENTS from a Fed Grand Jury that was OBSTRUCTED BY WHO, AND WHY DID SD AG LARRY LONG HARASS THE TAPKEN FAMILY with a bogus crim investigation, that was coincidental with TAPKEN'S GRAND JURY SHUTTING DOWN?
Wasn't Tapken working on the DASCHLE CAMPAIGN WIRETAPPING EVIDENCE (CALEA computerized wiretap records)?
WHAT ABOUT THREE MURDERED SOUTH DAKOTA CITIZENS...and other maimed known associates tied to THOMAS S. BEAN?
WHAT ABOUT THE ATTEMPTED MURDERS IN PORT ARANSAS, TEXAS?
NO INTEREST IN MINNESOTA US ATTY THOMAS HEFFLEFINGER and four ass. US ATTY who also resigned????????????????
How can anyone take Conyers seriously...anymore...when THE FUCKHEAD DOES NOT CALL COOPERATING WITNESSES WHO ACTUALLY WANT TO TESTIFY, NOT OBSTRUCT JUSTICE?
________________________
Conyers said he's pushing for a "blue ribbon panel" to investigate the firings, "a 9/11-type panel ... so that we can publicly go into what we talked about and have been doing," he said. No congressmen would sit on the panel, he said. It would operate in the public eye, as opposed to the special prosecutor he's been asking Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint.
He also said the committee is trying to enforce the subpoenas against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and former Chief of Staff Josh Bolten.
"You get around to everyone saying I can't come, (citing) executive privilege, I can't answer these questions," Conyers said. "But wait a minute! You don't know what questions we're gonna ask. And besides, if we ask one that you think deserves to be challenged, we'll set it aside and see if we can work something out. But the blanket (argument that) anybody near the White House doesn't have to come to a hearing, that wouldn't wash in my son's freshman class...much less with me."
On Bolten, Conyers said, "He's got a lot of documents."
Rep. Conyers On U.S. Attorney Investigation: 'We Have To Keep The Process Working'
By Rachel Slajda - July 24, 2009, 5:16PM
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said today that he's still pushing to question Bush administration officials about the U.S. attorney firings.
"All the breadcrumbs, as we call them, go right to the White House," Conyers said in a speech to the National Press Club this afternoon.
"We have to keep the process working," he said.
____________________
tommy:
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE...YOU HAVE TO CALL A COOPERATING PRIMARY WITNESS NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN...and Conyers knows that...yet...WHERE ARE WE ON THE ROVE, MEIRS, BOLTEN testimony?
APPARENTLY CONYERS held hearings and has testimony...yet...CONYERS DOES NOT THINK THE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW WHAT WAS ASKED AND ANSWERED?
EXPOSURE is the only weapon...yet...Dems run scared from doing their job?
NO SUBPOENAed TESTIMONY OF SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN?
WHAT HAPPENED TO HER FED GRAND JURY? NO INDICTMENTS from a Fed Grand Jury that was OBSTRUCTED BY WHO, AND WHY DID SD AG LARRY LONG HARASS THE TAPKEN FAMILY with a bogus crim investigation, that was coincidental with TAPKEN'S GRAND JURY SHUTTING DOWN?
Wasn't Tapken working on the DASCHLE CAMPAIGN WIRETAPPING EVIDENCE (CALEA computerized wiretap records)?
WHAT ABOUT THREE MURDERED SOUTH DAKOTA CITIZENS...and other maimed known associates tied to THOMAS S. BEAN?
WHAT ABOUT THE ATTEMPTED MURDERS IN PORT ARANSAS, TEXAS?
NO INTEREST IN MINNESOTA US ATTY THOMAS HEFFLEFINGER and four ass. US ATTY who also resigned????????????????
How can anyone take Conyers seriously...anymore...when THE FUCKHEAD DOES NOT CALL COOPERATING WITNESSES WHO ACTUALLY WANT TO TESTIFY, NOT OBSTRUCT JUSTICE?
________________________
Conyers said he's pushing for a "blue ribbon panel" to investigate the firings, "a 9/11-type panel ... so that we can publicly go into what we talked about and have been doing," he said. No congressmen would sit on the panel, he said. It would operate in the public eye, as opposed to the special prosecutor he's been asking Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint.
He also said the committee is trying to enforce the subpoenas against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and former Chief of Staff Josh Bolten.
"You get around to everyone saying I can't come, (citing) executive privilege, I can't answer these questions," Conyers said. "But wait a minute! You don't know what questions we're gonna ask. And besides, if we ask one that you think deserves to be challenged, we'll set it aside and see if we can work something out. But the blanket (argument that) anybody near the White House doesn't have to come to a hearing, that wouldn't wash in my son's freshman class...much less with me."
On Bolten, Conyers said, "He's got a lot of documents."
Friday, July 24, 2009
What about SOTOMAYOR'S MONEY? The Bohemian Grove Satan worshipping spic...cannot account for 3.5 million dollars?
Evidence That Judge Sotomayor Withheld Self-Incriminating Financial
Information From the Senators
And What You Can Do To Require That
They And The Media Hold Her Contrary To How
She Holds Herself And Her Peers
UnEqual Before Justice: Above Law
By Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.
Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org
7-22-9
The evidence, with its sources cited in the linked files noted below, shows that Judge Sotomayor compromised her integrity and impartiality because she:
1. Withheld personal financial information that she was required to disclose by the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. Appendix), which imposed on her the duty to file an annual financial disclosure report, so that her failure to disclose began years before she was nominated, just as were nominated for high office Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, and Nancy Killefer, subsequently exposed as tax-evaders;
(In brief, she earned $3,773,824 since 1988 + received $381,775 in loans = $4,155,599 + her 1976-1987 earnings, yet disclosed assets worth only $543,903, thus leaving unaccounted for in her answers to the Committee $3,611,696 - taxes and the cost of her reportedly modest living.)
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/SCt_nominee/
JSotomayor_integrity/12table_JSotomayor-financials.pdf
2. Likewise, withheld from the Senate Judiciary Committee the incriminating DeLano case, 06-4780-bk-CA2, which reveals her participation in a cover-up of concealment of at least $673,657 of a 39-year veteran banker and bankruptcy officer, who pretended to go 'bankrupt' but who similarly did not disclose required financial information, as part of a bankruptcy fraud scheme run by bankruptcy system insiders and her peers below, whom she protected by upholding their denial and denying herself every single document in all creditor-requests, whereby she denied the creditor all discovery rights, denied herself the facts to which to apply the law, and thus denied the fundamental Constitutional guarantee of due process of law, while aggravating the misery of countless debtors, creditors, and the public at large to whom they must pass on their losses;
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/SCt_
nominee/JSotomayor_integrity/11DrCordero-SenJudCom.pdf
and
3. thus acted in keeping with her pattern of gross partiality toward the close-knit class of judges established by condoning her judicial colleagues' systematic dismissal of misconduct complaints against their peers and by participating as a member of the Second Circuit Judicial Council in the latter's denial of 100% of petitions to review complaint dismissals during the 1oct96-30sep08 12-year reported period, thus injuring all the complainants, litigants, and the public at large, whom she left at the mercy of her complained-against peers, prone to retaliate with assurance of impunity;
cf. reference 1 supra, at 7 of 40; and
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/JNinfo/25Committee/2DrCordero-petition_25feb9.pdf N:51¶¶1-4 & N:39;
4. a Follow the money! investigation of Judge Sotomayor's financial affairs and of the concealed assets in the DeLano case by the Senate, the media, and bloggers is necessary in order to give practical effect "without respect to persons" nominated to high public office or down on their luck while suffering the economic crisis to the fundamental principle of our democratic government of "Equal Justice Under Law".
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/SCt_nominee/
Senate/6DrCordero-SenJudCom_subpoena.pdf
You can help give effect to that principle of equality under law by calling the senators, particularly those on the Judiciary Committee, and bringing that evidence to their attention. To facilitate doing so, the following file contains as much contact information as I have gathered so far:
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/SCt_nominee/Senate/9SenJudCom_contact_info.pdf
Try to talk to the senators' chief counsel for judiciary matters, who is the staff member that deals with the matter in question. You may ask for his or her name and fax number so that you may fax them your statement or mine.
You should also leave a terse, well-rehearsed voice mail that goes to the point. For the sake of professionalism, leave your phone number, but do not even dream that they will call you back. Anyway, every call does make an impression by letting the senator know how the public feels about the issue.
Likewise, do not even consider mailing anything given that up to three weeks may go by from the moment your correspondence is delivered to the Senate mail security facility to the time it actually reaches your addressee.
If the receptionist tells you that you should call your senator instead of the one you are calling, you can tell him or her that you are not approaching that senator to ask for a passport, schedule a visit to Washington, or request a recommendation to the military academy.
Rather, the senator is acting on an issue that literally affects every person in the country. Hence, you are exercising your First Amendment right to petition a member of government to act in your and the public's interest.
Then you can ask, when a big company with a deep pocket ready to disburse a campaign contribution approaches the senator to lobby him on an issue, is it your response that it should go away and approach its state senator?
I encourage you to contact also local and national media as well as bloggers to share with them the summarizing numbered paragraphs above and their links to the evidence files.
Make the senators and the media aware that by pursuing that evidence so as to protect the integrity and impartiality of our judiciary, they can become the BobWoodward/CarlBernstein of our generation or the modern Senator Sam Ervin, who chaired the Watergate Committee and made famous two questions that he doggedly asked of witnesses and other deponents, which can be updated thus:
What did the senators know about Judge Sotomayor's withholding from them information about her financial affairs and the DeLano case, and when did they know it?
I welcome your comments on this article. Send it to Dr.Richard.Cordero.Esq@gmail.com and cantab.net. I will at least acknowledge receipt within 6 hours. If you do not receive such acknowledgment, then once more something or somebody prevented either your email or mine from reaching its addressee. If so, ask other people on your group or servelist if they had the same experience.
Dr.Richard.Cordero.Esq@gmail.com
Information From the Senators
And What You Can Do To Require That
They And The Media Hold Her Contrary To How
She Holds Herself And Her Peers
UnEqual Before Justice: Above Law
By Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.
Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org
7-22-9
The evidence, with its sources cited in the linked files noted below, shows that Judge Sotomayor compromised her integrity and impartiality because she:
1. Withheld personal financial information that she was required to disclose by the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. Appendix), which imposed on her the duty to file an annual financial disclosure report, so that her failure to disclose began years before she was nominated, just as were nominated for high office Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, and Nancy Killefer, subsequently exposed as tax-evaders;
(In brief, she earned $3,773,824 since 1988 + received $381,775 in loans = $4,155,599 + her 1976-1987 earnings, yet disclosed assets worth only $543,903, thus leaving unaccounted for in her answers to the Committee $3,611,696 - taxes and the cost of her reportedly modest living.)
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/SCt_nominee/
JSotomayor_integrity/12table_JSotomayor-financials.pdf
2. Likewise, withheld from the Senate Judiciary Committee the incriminating DeLano case, 06-4780-bk-CA2, which reveals her participation in a cover-up of concealment of at least $673,657 of a 39-year veteran banker and bankruptcy officer, who pretended to go 'bankrupt' but who similarly did not disclose required financial information, as part of a bankruptcy fraud scheme run by bankruptcy system insiders and her peers below, whom she protected by upholding their denial and denying herself every single document in all creditor-requests, whereby she denied the creditor all discovery rights, denied herself the facts to which to apply the law, and thus denied the fundamental Constitutional guarantee of due process of law, while aggravating the misery of countless debtors, creditors, and the public at large to whom they must pass on their losses;
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/SCt_
nominee/JSotomayor_integrity/11DrCordero-SenJudCom.pdf
and
3. thus acted in keeping with her pattern of gross partiality toward the close-knit class of judges established by condoning her judicial colleagues' systematic dismissal of misconduct complaints against their peers and by participating as a member of the Second Circuit Judicial Council in the latter's denial of 100% of petitions to review complaint dismissals during the 1oct96-30sep08 12-year reported period, thus injuring all the complainants, litigants, and the public at large, whom she left at the mercy of her complained-against peers, prone to retaliate with assurance of impunity;
cf. reference 1 supra, at 7 of 40; and
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/JNinfo/25Committee/2DrCordero-petition_25feb9.pdf N:51¶¶1-4 & N:39;
4. a Follow the money! investigation of Judge Sotomayor's financial affairs and of the concealed assets in the DeLano case by the Senate, the media, and bloggers is necessary in order to give practical effect "without respect to persons" nominated to high public office or down on their luck while suffering the economic crisis to the fundamental principle of our democratic government of "Equal Justice Under Law".
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/SCt_nominee/
Senate/6DrCordero-SenJudCom_subpoena.pdf
You can help give effect to that principle of equality under law by calling the senators, particularly those on the Judiciary Committee, and bringing that evidence to their attention. To facilitate doing so, the following file contains as much contact information as I have gathered so far:
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/SCt_nominee/Senate/9SenJudCom_contact_info.pdf
Try to talk to the senators' chief counsel for judiciary matters, who is the staff member that deals with the matter in question. You may ask for his or her name and fax number so that you may fax them your statement or mine.
You should also leave a terse, well-rehearsed voice mail that goes to the point. For the sake of professionalism, leave your phone number, but do not even dream that they will call you back. Anyway, every call does make an impression by letting the senator know how the public feels about the issue.
Likewise, do not even consider mailing anything given that up to three weeks may go by from the moment your correspondence is delivered to the Senate mail security facility to the time it actually reaches your addressee.
If the receptionist tells you that you should call your senator instead of the one you are calling, you can tell him or her that you are not approaching that senator to ask for a passport, schedule a visit to Washington, or request a recommendation to the military academy.
Rather, the senator is acting on an issue that literally affects every person in the country. Hence, you are exercising your First Amendment right to petition a member of government to act in your and the public's interest.
Then you can ask, when a big company with a deep pocket ready to disburse a campaign contribution approaches the senator to lobby him on an issue, is it your response that it should go away and approach its state senator?
I encourage you to contact also local and national media as well as bloggers to share with them the summarizing numbered paragraphs above and their links to the evidence files.
Make the senators and the media aware that by pursuing that evidence so as to protect the integrity and impartiality of our judiciary, they can become the BobWoodward/CarlBernstein of our generation or the modern Senator Sam Ervin, who chaired the Watergate Committee and made famous two questions that he doggedly asked of witnesses and other deponents, which can be updated thus:
What did the senators know about Judge Sotomayor's withholding from them information about her financial affairs and the DeLano case, and when did they know it?
I welcome your comments on this article. Send it to Dr.Richard.Cordero.Esq@gmail.com and cantab.net. I will at least acknowledge receipt within 6 hours. If you do not receive such acknowledgment, then once more something or somebody prevented either your email or mine from reaching its addressee. If so, ask other people on your group or servelist if they had the same experience.
Dr.Richard.Cordero.Esq@gmail.com
This is the only way...AMERICA WILL SURVIVE THE ILLUMINATI: seize our trillions to save our economy....no?
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1257.htm
July 24, 2009
Obama Forces Smash Israeli Spy Ring Responsible For 9/11, Massive Theft
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
NOTE: click blogpost title above to get linked
FSB reports circulating in the Kremlin today are reporting that forces loyal to President Barack Obama have begun their long awaited crackdown on the vast Israeli spy network operating in the United States that American Intelligence Officials have long blamed for the financing of the September 11, 2001 attacks upon their country and the massive theft of over $18 Trillion, and which we had previously reported on.
According to these reports, and which have been confirmed by Western news sources, US Federal Police Forces have arrested the leader of this vast Israeli spy ring who they have identified as Rabbi Saul J. Kassin [photo 3rd on left], and who is the 87-year-old leader of the Sephardic Jewish community in the United States.
These reports further state that along with Rabbi Kassin’s arrest, 5 of his subordinate Rabbi’s, and over 40 of their Jewish co-conspirators, many being firmly established as politicians and holding offices of public power, were also apprehended and arrested by those US Federal Police Forces loyal to Obama.
Interesting to note in these reports is that US Federal Police Forces were aided in their smashing of this Israeli spy ring by another Sephardic Jew named Solomon Dwek, whose actions as a “confidential informant” enabled the Americans to penetrate into the very heart of this most secret of Jewish sects leading to their destruction.
________________
tommy:
HAVE NOT HEARD FROM ALLAN DERSHOWITZ, the promoter of ZIONIST MURDER AND TREASON (9/11...Dancing Israelis?...half of first TARP went to 3 Israeli banks?)
_______________
Even more interesting to note about Solomon Dwek, these reports continue, was his financial backing for Dominick Suter who established in New Jersey a moving company named Urban Moving System which the FSB reports was a Mossad operation from which the 9/11 attacks on New York City were directed from, and which immediately after the attacks the FBI arrested 5 Israelis who were reported to have been cheering while watching the devastation being wrought upon the Americans on that fateful day.
Rabbi Kassin, also, according to these reports, was “directly responsible” for the vast Israeli spy ring put into place throughout the Untied States in the months prior to 9/11, and of which we can further read:
“In January, 2001, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Office of Security Programs (IS), began to receive reports of Israeli art students attempting to penetrate several DEA Field Offices in the continental United States. Additionally, there have been reports of Israeli art students visiting the homes of numerous DEA employees. These incidents have occurred since at least the beginning of 2000, and have continued to the present.
The number of reported incidents increased in November/December 2000, and has continued to date. These incidents have involved several other law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies, with contacts made at other agencies' facilities and the residences of their employees. Geographically, these incidents are very widespread, ranging from California to Florida. The majority of the incidents have occurred in the southern half of the continental U.S. with the most activity reported in the state of Florida. Since April 2001, the number of reported incidents has declined, however, the geographic spread of the incidents has increased to Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Los Angeles.”
Important to note about the Sephardic Jewish peoples is that their name derives from the Hebrew word for Spain, as opposed to the Ashkenazic Jewish peoples whose name is derived from the Hebrew word for Germany.
The Ashkenazic Jewish peoples now comprise the largest Jewish population in the World having risen in numbers from about 3% of the total number of Jewish peoples in the 11th Century to comprising over 80% of all the Jewish peoples in the World today, and with their largest population being centered in the United States.
The Sephardic Jewish people, however, though being smaller in number than their Ashkenazic cousins are the more powerful sect as since their forced relocation to the Netherlands in 1492 after their expulsion from Spain they fully integrated themselves into the Royal Houses of Europe through their connections with The House of Orange and established some of the largest banking empires known in history, and which they’ve successfully used to great effect to collapse our present Global banking system.
To the Sephardic Jewish peoples House of Orange backers in the Netherlands, Obama has also targeted, and as we had previously reported on in our April 30th report titled “Obama Forces Send “Deadly Message” To Netherlands’s Queen Beatrix”.
But to the most chilling part of these reports are the FSB documents stating that in late July, 2001, Rabbi Kassin placed an “urgent” phone call to President George Bush “warning” him that a massive new crop-circle that had formed on the Gog Magog Hill [photo bottom left] outside of Cambridge, England on July 11, 2001, was a “sign from God” that Bush was to lead the Western World against the Biblical enemies of God, Gog and Magog in the Middle East lands of Iraq and Iran, and if he didn’t attack these Nations in “5 months” God would “strike America down”, and which did happen on September 11, 2001.
_________________
TOMMY:
Well...it doesn't get any wierder than that?....Is there an NSA TAPE on this conversation?...how about a WHITE HOUSE LOG?
Don't ever, ever, ever....discount the ALIEN MENACE FROM OUTERSPACE.
The X Files...ARE TRUE?
_______________
To the astonishment of French President Jacques Chirac, Bush related this “warning” to him during a meeting between these two heads of state just prior to the United States unauthorized invasion of Iraq, and as we can read as reported by the Daily Kos News Service:
“Remember back in 2003 when it came out from French sources that President Bush, while having dinner with then French president Jacques Chirac mentioned Bible prohpecy - specifically 'Gog and Magog' - as reasons for invading Iraq?
Well, apparently the story is true... and has been confirmed by Chirac himself.
The story of the conversation emerged only because the Elyse Palace, baffled by Bush's words, sought advice from Thomas Romer, a professor of theology at the University of Lausanne. Four years later, Romer gave an account in the September 2007 issue of the university's review, Allez savoir. The article apparently went unnoticed, although it was referred to in a French newspaper.
The story has now been confirmed by Chirac himself in a new book, published in France in March, by journalist Jean Claude Maurice. Chirac is said to have been stupefied and disturbed by Bush's invocation of Biblical prophesy to justify the war in Iraq and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs.”
By his actions in striking back against these monsters, who have caused such needless destruction and death, Obama has showed that he is far from being as “superficial” and “fanatical” as his predecessor. What remains to be seen, though, is if he can actually defeat them….for our World’s sake we must all hope that he can.
© July 24, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
______________________
TOMMY:
If Pelosi and Reid would pass a law that makes the citizenship issue moot after 120 days...YOU WILL SEE WHO OBAMA IS WHEN HE IS NOT COERCED BY THE POWER CONTROL GROUP.
Without that law...OBAMA is an unhappy puppet...so...for the good of America, PELOSI AND REID need to pass that law as quickly as CHENEY'S ENABLING LAWS...no?
July 24, 2009
Obama Forces Smash Israeli Spy Ring Responsible For 9/11, Massive Theft
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
NOTE: click blogpost title above to get linked
FSB reports circulating in the Kremlin today are reporting that forces loyal to President Barack Obama have begun their long awaited crackdown on the vast Israeli spy network operating in the United States that American Intelligence Officials have long blamed for the financing of the September 11, 2001 attacks upon their country and the massive theft of over $18 Trillion, and which we had previously reported on.
According to these reports, and which have been confirmed by Western news sources, US Federal Police Forces have arrested the leader of this vast Israeli spy ring who they have identified as Rabbi Saul J. Kassin [photo 3rd on left], and who is the 87-year-old leader of the Sephardic Jewish community in the United States.
These reports further state that along with Rabbi Kassin’s arrest, 5 of his subordinate Rabbi’s, and over 40 of their Jewish co-conspirators, many being firmly established as politicians and holding offices of public power, were also apprehended and arrested by those US Federal Police Forces loyal to Obama.
Interesting to note in these reports is that US Federal Police Forces were aided in their smashing of this Israeli spy ring by another Sephardic Jew named Solomon Dwek, whose actions as a “confidential informant” enabled the Americans to penetrate into the very heart of this most secret of Jewish sects leading to their destruction.
________________
tommy:
HAVE NOT HEARD FROM ALLAN DERSHOWITZ, the promoter of ZIONIST MURDER AND TREASON (9/11...Dancing Israelis?...half of first TARP went to 3 Israeli banks?)
_______________
Even more interesting to note about Solomon Dwek, these reports continue, was his financial backing for Dominick Suter who established in New Jersey a moving company named Urban Moving System which the FSB reports was a Mossad operation from which the 9/11 attacks on New York City were directed from, and which immediately after the attacks the FBI arrested 5 Israelis who were reported to have been cheering while watching the devastation being wrought upon the Americans on that fateful day.
Rabbi Kassin, also, according to these reports, was “directly responsible” for the vast Israeli spy ring put into place throughout the Untied States in the months prior to 9/11, and of which we can further read:
“In January, 2001, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Office of Security Programs (IS), began to receive reports of Israeli art students attempting to penetrate several DEA Field Offices in the continental United States. Additionally, there have been reports of Israeli art students visiting the homes of numerous DEA employees. These incidents have occurred since at least the beginning of 2000, and have continued to the present.
The number of reported incidents increased in November/December 2000, and has continued to date. These incidents have involved several other law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies, with contacts made at other agencies' facilities and the residences of their employees. Geographically, these incidents are very widespread, ranging from California to Florida. The majority of the incidents have occurred in the southern half of the continental U.S. with the most activity reported in the state of Florida. Since April 2001, the number of reported incidents has declined, however, the geographic spread of the incidents has increased to Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Los Angeles.”
Important to note about the Sephardic Jewish peoples is that their name derives from the Hebrew word for Spain, as opposed to the Ashkenazic Jewish peoples whose name is derived from the Hebrew word for Germany.
The Ashkenazic Jewish peoples now comprise the largest Jewish population in the World having risen in numbers from about 3% of the total number of Jewish peoples in the 11th Century to comprising over 80% of all the Jewish peoples in the World today, and with their largest population being centered in the United States.
The Sephardic Jewish people, however, though being smaller in number than their Ashkenazic cousins are the more powerful sect as since their forced relocation to the Netherlands in 1492 after their expulsion from Spain they fully integrated themselves into the Royal Houses of Europe through their connections with The House of Orange and established some of the largest banking empires known in history, and which they’ve successfully used to great effect to collapse our present Global banking system.
To the Sephardic Jewish peoples House of Orange backers in the Netherlands, Obama has also targeted, and as we had previously reported on in our April 30th report titled “Obama Forces Send “Deadly Message” To Netherlands’s Queen Beatrix”.
But to the most chilling part of these reports are the FSB documents stating that in late July, 2001, Rabbi Kassin placed an “urgent” phone call to President George Bush “warning” him that a massive new crop-circle that had formed on the Gog Magog Hill [photo bottom left] outside of Cambridge, England on July 11, 2001, was a “sign from God” that Bush was to lead the Western World against the Biblical enemies of God, Gog and Magog in the Middle East lands of Iraq and Iran, and if he didn’t attack these Nations in “5 months” God would “strike America down”, and which did happen on September 11, 2001.
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TOMMY:
Well...it doesn't get any wierder than that?....Is there an NSA TAPE on this conversation?...how about a WHITE HOUSE LOG?
Don't ever, ever, ever....discount the ALIEN MENACE FROM OUTERSPACE.
The X Files...ARE TRUE?
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To the astonishment of French President Jacques Chirac, Bush related this “warning” to him during a meeting between these two heads of state just prior to the United States unauthorized invasion of Iraq, and as we can read as reported by the Daily Kos News Service:
“Remember back in 2003 when it came out from French sources that President Bush, while having dinner with then French president Jacques Chirac mentioned Bible prohpecy - specifically 'Gog and Magog' - as reasons for invading Iraq?
Well, apparently the story is true... and has been confirmed by Chirac himself.
The story of the conversation emerged only because the Elyse Palace, baffled by Bush's words, sought advice from Thomas Romer, a professor of theology at the University of Lausanne. Four years later, Romer gave an account in the September 2007 issue of the university's review, Allez savoir. The article apparently went unnoticed, although it was referred to in a French newspaper.
The story has now been confirmed by Chirac himself in a new book, published in France in March, by journalist Jean Claude Maurice. Chirac is said to have been stupefied and disturbed by Bush's invocation of Biblical prophesy to justify the war in Iraq and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs.”
By his actions in striking back against these monsters, who have caused such needless destruction and death, Obama has showed that he is far from being as “superficial” and “fanatical” as his predecessor. What remains to be seen, though, is if he can actually defeat them….for our World’s sake we must all hope that he can.
© July 24, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
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TOMMY:
If Pelosi and Reid would pass a law that makes the citizenship issue moot after 120 days...YOU WILL SEE WHO OBAMA IS WHEN HE IS NOT COERCED BY THE POWER CONTROL GROUP.
Without that law...OBAMA is an unhappy puppet...so...for the good of America, PELOSI AND REID need to pass that law as quickly as CHENEY'S ENABLING LAWS...no?
One thing about a KIKE-- "they will do anything for money": FBI finally GOES AFTER THE MISERABLE CHRIST KILLING MOSSAD KIKES
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/feds_brooklyn_man_trafficked_in_human_kidneys.php
Feds: Brooklyn Man Trafficked In Human Kidneys
By Zachary Roth - July 23, 2009, 1:10PM
There's a lot to dig into on this story about New Jersey mayors, lawmakers, and rabbis being charged in connection with a federal corruption and international money laundering probe.
But we've been focusing on one of the few New Yorkers: Issac Rosenbaum, a Brooklynite who works in real estate -- and has been charged with trafficking in human kidneys. It's not clear how or whether this case is tied to the public corruption probe. But with details like these, who cares, frankly...
The complaint put together by federal prosecutors lays out how an undercover witness approached Rosenbaum, telling him the witness's uncle urgently needed a kidney transplant. Rosenbaum then laid out a scheme by which he would procure a kidney from Israel, and explained how they would make it seem that the donor had a prior relationship with the witnesses' uncle, as required. "It's illegal to buy. It's illegal to sell," he said at one point.
According to the complaint, when the witness asked Rosenbaum whether the donor got a "good portion" of the money from the sale of his kidney, Rosenbaum replied: "Don't worry about it."
And at one point, Rosenbaum said he'd been in the kidney-trafficking game for ten years.
In one excerpt from the complaint, prosecutors write:
ROSENBAUM explained that he had an associate based in Borough Park (Brooklyn) who took blood samples on behalf of an insurance company for whom he worked. Defendant ROSENBAUM indicated that defendant ROSENBAUM paid this
individual in cash for handling blood samples of would-be recipients of organs.
And in another excerpt that can be described as particularly bad for the Jews, prosecutors write:
Defendant ROSENBAUM explained the process of finding a donor in Israel and stated that "[t]here are people over there hunting . . . One of the reasons it's so expensive is because you have to shmear (meaning pay various individuals for their assistance) all the time."
Putting cream cheese on our bagel will never be the same after this.
_______________________
TOMMY:
I said it before...IF THE FBI IS ALLOWED TO WORK BIG CASES free of political tampering...they will produce and they will protect this country.
Any criticism of MUELLER, must be interpreted by the facts (The Fact that FBI HQ is and always was CONTROLLED BY THE POWER ELITE SO THAT MAJOR CASES ARE REDUCED TO "DUMBFUCKERY" (the use of chicanery by two of more Dumbfucks to avoid responsibility for any embarassing act or omission).
NEXT ON THE FBI SCHEDULE:
----MUKASY AND CHERTOFF as COCONSPIRATORS TO THE CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE WHEN MOSSAD'S NEOCON DEMOLITION TEAM were arrested after getting a tip from DOD'S ABLE DANGER GROUP......"how come the murderers of 3,000 Americans did not get chipped, subliminally programmed as part of a FISA CT ORDERED COUNTERINTELIGENCE SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING????????
HOW COME THE DANCING ISRAELIS DID NOT GET FRIED WITH A DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON?
HOW COME HOMELAND SECURITY did not ENGAGE IN INTERSTATE STALKING to focus on America's major criminal slime?
_____________________________
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/mrs_panstreppon/2009/07/bernie-madoff-bernies-ties-to.php?ref=recmuck
Bernie Madoff: Bernie's ties to Ehud Olmert
July 24, 2009, 12:26PM
In today's NY Post, PageSix reports that the author of a new Bernie bio, Jerry Oppenheimer, thinks Bernie was doing business with organized crime including the Israeli mob.
LOL - I don't know about the Israeli mob but Bernie is definitely linked to Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister who resigned last year amid corruption charges. Among other things, Olmert was charged with accepting cash from one of Bernie's customers, Morris (Moshe) Talansky. (To be fair, the outcome of the war with Lebanon didn't help Olmert either.)
Talansky, a former rabbi with business interests in an Israeli satellite company, had been the executive director of the American Committee For Shaare Zedek Hospital. The committee which raised money for Shaare Hospital in Jerusalem had several Madoff accounts although it is not clear if the hospital lost money in the scandal. Talansky claimed he lost a million dollars.
The Olmert investigation was opened in January 2007. If the Israeli authorities investigated Talansky's finances, they may very well have looked into Bernie's business.
In July 14, 2008 post on NY Magazine's Intel blog, Steve Fishman wrote that he had read transcripts of secretly recorded meetings and phone calls in which Talansky participated. In one meeting, Talansky referred to "Bernie" who Talansky said was very unhappy about losing money in a business deal:
"Talansky, who one participant at the meetings described as a "wild man," also introduced a mysterious character named Bernie into discussions. Bernie, he said, had lost a lot of money in the deal. No one ever met Bernie. But Talansky, Bernie's confidant, let the rabbis know that Bernie was not someone to be trifled with. The transcripts make clear that the rabbis were afraid. For good reason: Bernie apparently wanted to kill one of the participants before Christmas."
"Bernie" as in Bernard L. Madoff?
Bernie had other, less direct, ties to Talansky and Olmert.
Leon Flax, a director of Bernie's London company, was a major donor to Shaare Hospital through Shaare Zedek UK. Flax's brother and sister-in-law, also Madoff customers, accompanied Bernie on a 2004 Swiss ski trip along with a dozen other of Bernie's friends and associates.
An August 2008 BMIS American Express bill provided by the bankruptcy trustee shows Peter Madoff and his wife booking round trip tickets from Italy to Israel in mid-September just as the proverbial shit hit the fan.
Hmm...
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tommy:
ONE THING ABOUT A KIKE, they will do anything to anybody to make a buck.
Why did CHRIST THROW THE MONEY CHANGERS(later day bankers?) out of the temple?
Feds: Brooklyn Man Trafficked In Human Kidneys
By Zachary Roth - July 23, 2009, 1:10PM
There's a lot to dig into on this story about New Jersey mayors, lawmakers, and rabbis being charged in connection with a federal corruption and international money laundering probe.
But we've been focusing on one of the few New Yorkers: Issac Rosenbaum, a Brooklynite who works in real estate -- and has been charged with trafficking in human kidneys. It's not clear how or whether this case is tied to the public corruption probe. But with details like these, who cares, frankly...
The complaint put together by federal prosecutors lays out how an undercover witness approached Rosenbaum, telling him the witness's uncle urgently needed a kidney transplant. Rosenbaum then laid out a scheme by which he would procure a kidney from Israel, and explained how they would make it seem that the donor had a prior relationship with the witnesses' uncle, as required. "It's illegal to buy. It's illegal to sell," he said at one point.
According to the complaint, when the witness asked Rosenbaum whether the donor got a "good portion" of the money from the sale of his kidney, Rosenbaum replied: "Don't worry about it."
And at one point, Rosenbaum said he'd been in the kidney-trafficking game for ten years.
In one excerpt from the complaint, prosecutors write:
ROSENBAUM explained that he had an associate based in Borough Park (Brooklyn) who took blood samples on behalf of an insurance company for whom he worked. Defendant ROSENBAUM indicated that defendant ROSENBAUM paid this
individual in cash for handling blood samples of would-be recipients of organs.
And in another excerpt that can be described as particularly bad for the Jews, prosecutors write:
Defendant ROSENBAUM explained the process of finding a donor in Israel and stated that "[t]here are people over there hunting . . . One of the reasons it's so expensive is because you have to shmear (meaning pay various individuals for their assistance) all the time."
Putting cream cheese on our bagel will never be the same after this.
_______________________
TOMMY:
I said it before...IF THE FBI IS ALLOWED TO WORK BIG CASES free of political tampering...they will produce and they will protect this country.
Any criticism of MUELLER, must be interpreted by the facts (The Fact that FBI HQ is and always was CONTROLLED BY THE POWER ELITE SO THAT MAJOR CASES ARE REDUCED TO "DUMBFUCKERY" (the use of chicanery by two of more Dumbfucks to avoid responsibility for any embarassing act or omission).
NEXT ON THE FBI SCHEDULE:
----MUKASY AND CHERTOFF as COCONSPIRATORS TO THE CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE WHEN MOSSAD'S NEOCON DEMOLITION TEAM were arrested after getting a tip from DOD'S ABLE DANGER GROUP......"how come the murderers of 3,000 Americans did not get chipped, subliminally programmed as part of a FISA CT ORDERED COUNTERINTELIGENCE SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING????????
HOW COME THE DANCING ISRAELIS DID NOT GET FRIED WITH A DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON?
HOW COME HOMELAND SECURITY did not ENGAGE IN INTERSTATE STALKING to focus on America's major criminal slime?
_____________________________
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/mrs_panstreppon/2009/07/bernie-madoff-bernies-ties-to.php?ref=recmuck
Bernie Madoff: Bernie's ties to Ehud Olmert
July 24, 2009, 12:26PM
In today's NY Post, PageSix reports that the author of a new Bernie bio, Jerry Oppenheimer, thinks Bernie was doing business with organized crime including the Israeli mob.
LOL - I don't know about the Israeli mob but Bernie is definitely linked to Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister who resigned last year amid corruption charges. Among other things, Olmert was charged with accepting cash from one of Bernie's customers, Morris (Moshe) Talansky. (To be fair, the outcome of the war with Lebanon didn't help Olmert either.)
Talansky, a former rabbi with business interests in an Israeli satellite company, had been the executive director of the American Committee For Shaare Zedek Hospital. The committee which raised money for Shaare Hospital in Jerusalem had several Madoff accounts although it is not clear if the hospital lost money in the scandal. Talansky claimed he lost a million dollars.
The Olmert investigation was opened in January 2007. If the Israeli authorities investigated Talansky's finances, they may very well have looked into Bernie's business.
In July 14, 2008 post on NY Magazine's Intel blog, Steve Fishman wrote that he had read transcripts of secretly recorded meetings and phone calls in which Talansky participated. In one meeting, Talansky referred to "Bernie" who Talansky said was very unhappy about losing money in a business deal:
"Talansky, who one participant at the meetings described as a "wild man," also introduced a mysterious character named Bernie into discussions. Bernie, he said, had lost a lot of money in the deal. No one ever met Bernie. But Talansky, Bernie's confidant, let the rabbis know that Bernie was not someone to be trifled with. The transcripts make clear that the rabbis were afraid. For good reason: Bernie apparently wanted to kill one of the participants before Christmas."
"Bernie" as in Bernard L. Madoff?
Bernie had other, less direct, ties to Talansky and Olmert.
Leon Flax, a director of Bernie's London company, was a major donor to Shaare Hospital through Shaare Zedek UK. Flax's brother and sister-in-law, also Madoff customers, accompanied Bernie on a 2004 Swiss ski trip along with a dozen other of Bernie's friends and associates.
An August 2008 BMIS American Express bill provided by the bankruptcy trustee shows Peter Madoff and his wife booking round trip tickets from Italy to Israel in mid-September just as the proverbial shit hit the fan.
Hmm...
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tommy:
ONE THING ABOUT A KIKE, they will do anything to anybody to make a buck.
Why did CHRIST THROW THE MONEY CHANGERS(later day bankers?) out of the temple?
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Game Plan: flip Cheney, seize BUSH CRIME FAMILY'S TRILLIONS held in Euros
http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a2961.htm
Bush's Key Men Face Grilling on Torture and Death Squads
Former vice-president Dick Cheney could be forced to testify to Congress over allegations that a secret hit squad was set up on his orders, as Democrats press for inquiries into the conduct of the 'war on terror'.
July 19, 2009
by Paul Harris in New York
The Observer/UK
America is bracing itself for a series of investigations that could see top officials from the administration of President George W Bush hauled in front of Congress, grilled by a special prosecutor and possibly facing criminal charges.
________________
tommy:
I'll be happy to help that US Attorney frame the issues and elicit the facts about CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER...CHENEY'S ARGUMENT WITH THE CUTOUT WHITTINGTON...and the police sketchs showing NSA TSP MERCS that were also sent after me, when I was a lawyer in Austin, Texas.
Big hearing...and...I GUARANTEE YOU THIS WILL NOT BE COVERED UP.
CHENEY GOES TO FED DEATH ROW...GETS FLIPPED TO TELL ALL ABOUT THE LEO WANTA TRUST FUND GIGA SCANDAL...AND DOJ SEIZES ALL BUSH CRIME FAMILY TRILLIONS AT DEUTSCHE BANK AND SWISS UBS.
MONEY PAYS OFF DEBT.
AMERICA IS SAVED.
We got about 3 weeks to save America...anybody game?
_________________________
Several investigations will now cast a spotlight on Bush-era torture policy and a secret CIA assassination program, examining the role played by big names such as the former vice-president Dick Cheney and the former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
In one investigation into the controversial firing of federal prosecutors, Bush's political guru, Karl Rove, has already been forced to appear before Congress and give testimony behind closed doors. Another investigation, by the House of Representatives' intelligence committee, has already asked for documents from the CIA and has now announced that it will examine the legality of keeping a secret CIA hit squad hidden from Congress, something alleged to have been ordered by Cheney himself.
"I intend to make this investigation fair and thorough," said the committee's chairman, Texas congressman Silvestre Reyes late on Friday.
The moves reveal a long-awaited desire by elements of the Obama administration and Democrat-controlled Congress to examine alleged abuses of power by Bush officials. They also raise the prospect of a bitter political fight with Republicans, who are likely to portray any attempt to investigate leading Bushites as a witch-hunt.
The inquiries also seem to go against the wishes of some in the White House, including Barack Obama. The president has said he does not want to be distracted by the past and instead intends to focus on economic recovery and healthcare reform. "The White House is more in the mood for going forward on the issues, such as healthcare, by which they want to define their presidency," said Gary Schmitt, a former intelligence official under Ronald Reagan and a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute.
But Obama may not have too much say in what could be the most explosive investigation: one set to be launched by the attorney-general, Eric Holder. Holder is mulling whether to appoint a special prosecutor to examine CIA activities since 2001, focusing on the use of torture in interrogation of terror suspects. Any such prosecutor could have the power to bring criminal charges.
Obama has made clear that the final decision is Holder's alone and news reports last week indicated that Holder was "leaning" towards making such a move. The prosecutor's mandate could be narrowly focused on minor officials or broadened to reach the top levels of Bush's cabinet.
Holder's decision will be influenced by the results of numerous reports on his desk. One, a survey on interrogation techniques, carried out by the CIA's inspector-general, is due to be made public at the end of this month. Holder spent two days reading the report and friends have said he was "shocked and saddened" by its contents.
Another report, to be released in the next two months, is being compiled about top officials in the Justice Department who drew up legal advice that justified the new interrogation techniques. That probe focuses on John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general and Jay Bybee, a federal judge.
Many insiders think public reaction to those two reports is likely to ensure that Holder eventually appoints a special prosecutor, similar to Kenneth Starr, who investigated Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. "I think it is likely that Holder will do that," said Larry Johnson, a former senior CIA official.
At the same time, other senior politicians in Congress are investigating the CIA's activities in the Bush era, especially allegations that it kept hidden a secret assassination squad aimed at top al-Qaida figures. The Senate could announce its own investigation alongside the House one already now going ahead. Both could subpoena officials, perhaps including Cheney.
One member of the House committee, New Jersey congressman Rush Holt, told his local newspaper that the inquiry should be as intense as the that of the committee which investigated Watergate. "I think any new investigation will produce revelations that are as jaw-dropping as those that were uncovered by the Church committee," Holt said.
These fresh investigations would add to some already under way. Rove is expected to be called again for further questioning later in the summer. Obama has ordered his national security officials to examine allegations that Bush officials resisted efforts to investigate a massacre of hundreds of Taliban prisoners in 2001 by an American-backed Afghan warlord. "I've asked my national security team ... to collect the facts for me that are known and we'll probably make a decision ... once we have all the facts," Obama said during his recent trip to Africa.
A series of hard-hitting investigations will be celebrated by many on the liberal wing of the Democratic party and human rights activists. "We have the right to be informed of our government's failed and egregious policies. Our recent history has taught us that the rule of law is meaningless if left unenforced," said Michael Macleod-Ball, a director at the American Civil Liberties Union.
However, there could also be a political price. Many former intelligence officials are furious that the CIA is being dragged into politics. "It is pure politics. It is just crazy," said Johnson.
Others say protracted investigations will sap Obama's political capital at a time when he faces a difficult battle over healthcare reform. Indeed, some conservatives might relish the prospect of rehashing old debates over anti-terror tactics. Cheney himself, who led a secretive life in office, has been a happily public voice defending Bush policy since he left office and he has strong support from the conservative media.
One parallel might be the Iran-Contra hearings of the 1980s, when a secret plan to ship arms to Iran to raise money for Nicaraguan rebels made Colonel Oliver North - who helped craft the scheme - a patriotic folk hero. "Republicans will be happy if Democrats want to go down this road. They are happy to have a debate about national security. You could easily see someone have another 'Oliver North moment'," said Schmitt.
Bush's Key Men Face Grilling on Torture and Death Squads
Former vice-president Dick Cheney could be forced to testify to Congress over allegations that a secret hit squad was set up on his orders, as Democrats press for inquiries into the conduct of the 'war on terror'.
July 19, 2009
by Paul Harris in New York
The Observer/UK
America is bracing itself for a series of investigations that could see top officials from the administration of President George W Bush hauled in front of Congress, grilled by a special prosecutor and possibly facing criminal charges.
________________
tommy:
I'll be happy to help that US Attorney frame the issues and elicit the facts about CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER...CHENEY'S ARGUMENT WITH THE CUTOUT WHITTINGTON...and the police sketchs showing NSA TSP MERCS that were also sent after me, when I was a lawyer in Austin, Texas.
Big hearing...and...I GUARANTEE YOU THIS WILL NOT BE COVERED UP.
CHENEY GOES TO FED DEATH ROW...GETS FLIPPED TO TELL ALL ABOUT THE LEO WANTA TRUST FUND GIGA SCANDAL...AND DOJ SEIZES ALL BUSH CRIME FAMILY TRILLIONS AT DEUTSCHE BANK AND SWISS UBS.
MONEY PAYS OFF DEBT.
AMERICA IS SAVED.
We got about 3 weeks to save America...anybody game?
_________________________
Several investigations will now cast a spotlight on Bush-era torture policy and a secret CIA assassination program, examining the role played by big names such as the former vice-president Dick Cheney and the former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
In one investigation into the controversial firing of federal prosecutors, Bush's political guru, Karl Rove, has already been forced to appear before Congress and give testimony behind closed doors. Another investigation, by the House of Representatives' intelligence committee, has already asked for documents from the CIA and has now announced that it will examine the legality of keeping a secret CIA hit squad hidden from Congress, something alleged to have been ordered by Cheney himself.
"I intend to make this investigation fair and thorough," said the committee's chairman, Texas congressman Silvestre Reyes late on Friday.
The moves reveal a long-awaited desire by elements of the Obama administration and Democrat-controlled Congress to examine alleged abuses of power by Bush officials. They also raise the prospect of a bitter political fight with Republicans, who are likely to portray any attempt to investigate leading Bushites as a witch-hunt.
The inquiries also seem to go against the wishes of some in the White House, including Barack Obama. The president has said he does not want to be distracted by the past and instead intends to focus on economic recovery and healthcare reform. "The White House is more in the mood for going forward on the issues, such as healthcare, by which they want to define their presidency," said Gary Schmitt, a former intelligence official under Ronald Reagan and a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute.
But Obama may not have too much say in what could be the most explosive investigation: one set to be launched by the attorney-general, Eric Holder. Holder is mulling whether to appoint a special prosecutor to examine CIA activities since 2001, focusing on the use of torture in interrogation of terror suspects. Any such prosecutor could have the power to bring criminal charges.
Obama has made clear that the final decision is Holder's alone and news reports last week indicated that Holder was "leaning" towards making such a move. The prosecutor's mandate could be narrowly focused on minor officials or broadened to reach the top levels of Bush's cabinet.
Holder's decision will be influenced by the results of numerous reports on his desk. One, a survey on interrogation techniques, carried out by the CIA's inspector-general, is due to be made public at the end of this month. Holder spent two days reading the report and friends have said he was "shocked and saddened" by its contents.
Another report, to be released in the next two months, is being compiled about top officials in the Justice Department who drew up legal advice that justified the new interrogation techniques. That probe focuses on John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general and Jay Bybee, a federal judge.
Many insiders think public reaction to those two reports is likely to ensure that Holder eventually appoints a special prosecutor, similar to Kenneth Starr, who investigated Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. "I think it is likely that Holder will do that," said Larry Johnson, a former senior CIA official.
At the same time, other senior politicians in Congress are investigating the CIA's activities in the Bush era, especially allegations that it kept hidden a secret assassination squad aimed at top al-Qaida figures. The Senate could announce its own investigation alongside the House one already now going ahead. Both could subpoena officials, perhaps including Cheney.
One member of the House committee, New Jersey congressman Rush Holt, told his local newspaper that the inquiry should be as intense as the that of the committee which investigated Watergate. "I think any new investigation will produce revelations that are as jaw-dropping as those that were uncovered by the Church committee," Holt said.
These fresh investigations would add to some already under way. Rove is expected to be called again for further questioning later in the summer. Obama has ordered his national security officials to examine allegations that Bush officials resisted efforts to investigate a massacre of hundreds of Taliban prisoners in 2001 by an American-backed Afghan warlord. "I've asked my national security team ... to collect the facts for me that are known and we'll probably make a decision ... once we have all the facts," Obama said during his recent trip to Africa.
A series of hard-hitting investigations will be celebrated by many on the liberal wing of the Democratic party and human rights activists. "We have the right to be informed of our government's failed and egregious policies. Our recent history has taught us that the rule of law is meaningless if left unenforced," said Michael Macleod-Ball, a director at the American Civil Liberties Union.
However, there could also be a political price. Many former intelligence officials are furious that the CIA is being dragged into politics. "It is pure politics. It is just crazy," said Johnson.
Others say protracted investigations will sap Obama's political capital at a time when he faces a difficult battle over healthcare reform. Indeed, some conservatives might relish the prospect of rehashing old debates over anti-terror tactics. Cheney himself, who led a secretive life in office, has been a happily public voice defending Bush policy since he left office and he has strong support from the conservative media.
One parallel might be the Iran-Contra hearings of the 1980s, when a secret plan to ship arms to Iran to raise money for Nicaraguan rebels made Colonel Oliver North - who helped craft the scheme - a patriotic folk hero. "Republicans will be happy if Democrats want to go down this road. They are happy to have a debate about national security. You could easily see someone have another 'Oliver North moment'," said Schmitt.
more US DOJ CORRUPTION: how to get rich without really trying? HOLDER WAS NOT VETTED BY PUNK LEAHY AND US SENATE?
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/21/buying-the-law/
The Department of Justice, Corporations, Buying the Law – Part II: Strange Bargains
Share on Facebook By Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
Published: July 21, 2009
Bush US Attorney arranged lenient plea deal with company paying terrorists; Lawyer who helped secure plea deal? Obama’s future Attorney General
When the US Justice Department announced in March 2007 that Chiquita Brands had pleaded guilty to “one count of engaging in transactions with a specially-designated global terrorist” and would be paying a $25 million fine, observers were astonished at the lightness of the sentence.
Between 1997 and February of 2004, Chiquita made $1.7 million in payments to a right-wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), in regions where it had banana-growing operations. During that period, AUC conducted a “dirty war” against Colombia’s left-wing FARC guerrillas, marked by widespread murders of union leaders and farmers, as well as trafficking in cocaine and heroin.
“Several American multinational corporations have been accused of essentially underwriting those criminal activities – in violation of U.S. law – by providing cash, vehicles and other financial assistance as insurance against attacks on their employees and facilities in the South American nation,” the Los Angeles Times wrote in July 2007. “But only one such company – Chiquita Brands International Inc. – has been charged criminally in the United States.”
“The plea agreement reached with Chiquita in March [2007] – in which it acknowledged making the illegal payments – has been criticized as far too lenient by many outside legal experts and some high-ranking Justice Department prosecutors,” the Times added.
Although the decision to let Chiquita off lightly was criticized as a case of the Bush administration favoring powerful corporations, it was not seen at the time in light of the deep-seated politicization of the Bush Justice Department, which only became fully apparent in the wake of the US Attorney scandal. That scandal – which involved the firing of nine US Attorneys, allegedly for political reasons – was just starting to break at the time of the plea agreement.
The US Attorney who arranged the plea agreement for Chiquita, Jeffery A. Taylor, had been sworn in just six months earlier, in September 2006, under a controversial provision of the Patriot Act which enabled him to hold that position until May of this year without ever being confirmed by the Senate.
Prior to that appointment, Taylor served in the Justice Department as a counselor to Attorney Generals John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales. In early 2006, he participated in discussions of the forthcoming attorney firings with Kyle Sampson, who was the chief coordinator of the firings and whose resignation Mar. 12, 2007 marked a major turning point in the scandal.
In 2005, Sampson had laid out the ideal of the type of Bush loyalist the administration wanted to have serving as US Attorneys, a profile which Taylor fit. Sampson proposed him in early 2006 to replace soon-to-be-fired Carol Lam as US Attorney in San Diego, but prior to Lam’s actual firing Taylor was appointed as US Attorney for Washington, DC.
Chiquita’s alleged complicity in human rights abuses
Chiquita’s indictment for “engaging in transactions with a specially-designated global terrorist” was based on its own admission of having continued to make payments to AUC even after the group was designated as a foreign terrorist organization on Sept. 10, 2001. However, the most serious human rights abuses by AUC had occurred prior to that date, during a period of particular turmoil in Colombia from 1997 to 1999.
According to the official government announcement of the plea agreement, “Chiquita made these payments through its wholly-owned Colombian subsidiary known as ‘Banadex.’ … Chiquita began paying the AUC following a meeting in 1997 between the then-leader of the AUC, Carlos Castaño, and a senior executive of Banadex. Castaño implied that failure to make the payments could result in physical harm to Banadex personnel and property. ”
AUC was established as an umbrella organization for about a dozen right-wing paramilitary groups in 1997, the same year that Chiquita’s payments began. Its founder, Carlos Castaño was a death squad leader who freely admitted to numerous murders and massacres both in interviews and in his 2001 autobiography. AUC’s victims ranged from a prominent left-wing politician, to a leading Colombian journalist – for whose murder Castaño was convicted in absentia in 2004 – to peasant farmers suspected of supporting the left-wing FARC guerrillas.
Chiquita has never been accused of direct involvement in any of AUC’s crimes and has consistently maintained that it was the victim of extortion. But Chiquita continued making the payments for almost seven years, went to elaborate pains to conceal them, and terminated them only when under threat of federal indictment.
Chiquita’s payments may have also helped preserve a stable business environment on its banana plantations during a period of labor unrest following the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in October 1998.
After the 2007 plea agreement, ten civil suits were brought against Chiquita in US courts, most of them by relatives of AUC victims who argued that Chiquita’s payments make it complicit in AUC’s war crimes.
Chiquita recognizes it has a problem
According to the announcement of the plea agreement, senior executives at Chiquita learned that AUC was being paid off by their Colombian subsidiary “no later than September 2000,” at which time “the payments were reviewed and approved by senior executives of the corporation, including high-ranking officers, directors and employees.”
In June 2002, after several years of paying AUC by checks sent through intermediaries, Chiquita switched to making direct cash payments, which were concealed by new procedures approved by Chiquita’s audit committee.
By that time, AUC had been designated by the US government as a foreign terrorist organization. Although the designation was widely publicized in both the US and Colombia, Chiquita officials allege that they were not aware of it until an employee brought it to their attention in February 2003.
They then consulted an outside lawyer, who advised them that the payments were illegal, since any claims of extortion had long since been invalidated by their “decision to stay in harm’s way,” and that they should be stopped immediately.
Instead of following this advice, a group of Chiquita executives paid a visit to the Department of Justice to explain the situation. There they were also informed that “the payments were illegal and could not continue.”
The leader of this delegation was the head of Chiquita’s audit committee, Roderick M. Hills, a well-connected Republican who had served in the 1970s as a legal counsel to the Ford administration and then as head of the SEC. His wife, Carla Hills, had been US Trade Representative in the George H.W. Bush administration, with primary responsibility for negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Among those present at the meeting was Michael Chertoff, who was then head of the Justice Department’s criminal division. He and Hills were longtime acquaintances, going back to the early 1980s when Chertoff was a junior attorney at the firm of Latham & Watkins, which Hills had joined after leaving the SEC.
Hills left the meeting allegedly believing that Chertoff had deferred making any final decision. As a result, Chiquita issued another 20 payments to AUC, totaling about $300,000, before a new CEO finally ordered them stopped in February 2004.
Chiquita replied to RAW STORY requests for comment but did not comment for this article.
The case drags on
According to the Los Angeles Times, Justice Department professionals were “incensed” by Chiquita’s continued payments but were told to back off by political appointees in the department.
For example, David Nahmias, a deputy assistant attorney general for counterterrorism, asked the US attorney for Washington, DC, who at that time was Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., not to issue search warrants for Chiquita headquarters, a request which Howard refused. Nahmias also wanted charges not to be filed until after Justice Department leadership could meet with Chiquita’s lawyer, former Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh.
Howard was replaced shortly thereafter as US Attorney for Washington, DC by Kenneth Wainstein, who was named to the post on an interim basis in May 2004, though not confirmed until a year later. Wainstein was described by Senator Patrick D. Leahy when he left the US Attorney position in 2006 to head the Justice Department’s anti-terror efforts as “a loyal official of this Administration.”
Nahmias, for his part, was nominated to be US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in September 2004. Despite questions raised by Senator Leahy concerning the degree of his involvement in the Bybee torture memo, he was confirmed in December 2004 and continues to serve to this day.
According to the Los Angeles Times, “the prosecutors handling the Chiquita case had wanted to bring charges of material support of terrorism against the banana company and to pursue charges against some of its top executives by early 2004, if not sooner.”
Yet the investigation dragged on for over three years and ended with a relatively modest fine of $25 million instead of a potential $180 million in legal costs. No charges were ever brought against any individual Chiquita executives, since the firm’s lawyer, Eric Holder – now the Obama administration’s attorney general – successfully argued that they had been the victims of extortion by AUC.
It is impossible at this point to know precisely why the Chiquita investigation and prosecution appear to have stalled out following Wainstein’s appointment in 2004, or why the investigation suddenly took on new life after Jeffrey A. Taylor replaced him as the US Attorney for Washington, DC in September 2006.
Taylor insists there was absolutely no outside influence on how he handled the case. “There was no interference from the Department or the [Bush] White House,” he said during a phone interview. “I worked at the Department for 15 years. I would have resigned if any interference of this nature occurred.”
Despite Taylor’s denials, however, a RAW STORY examination of the timing of the criminal charges against Chiquita and the plea agreement itself raises new and troubling questions.
There are two obvious factors that might have prompted an overly lenient resolution of the case: generous political donations to the Republican Party by the billionaire former head of Chiquita, Carl Lindner, Jr., and the desire of the Bush administration and its corporate supporters to obtain passage of a US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
Carl Lindner, Jr.
Following Chiquita’s plea agreement, Colombia’s Attorney General Mario Iguaran expressed skepticism of the claim that the payments had been protection money and scoffed at the decision of the US Justice Department not to press criminal charges against individual Chiquita executives.
“Who wouldn’t know what an illegal armed group like the AUC does … by exterminating and annihilating its enemies?” Iguaran said. “When you pay a group like this you are conscious of what they are doing.”
He described Chiquita as having been involved in “a criminal relationship” with AUC and sent a letter to the Justice Department asking for the names of those who had approved or participated in the payments so that he could seek extraditions.
No names were ever released and no extraditions took place. In April 2009, however, Chiquita’s own board of directors submitted a lengthy report as part of a motion to dismiss a suit filed against it by its shareholders. This report listed more than a dozen individuals who had either definitely or almost certainly known about the payments to AUC.
The most prominent names are those of the executives who ran Chiquita from the 1980s, when modest payments first began to be made to guerrilla groups, until Chiquita went through a bankruptcy and reorganization in 2002. Heading the list are Carl Lindner, Jr., who was Chiquita’s CEO and chairman of the board from 1984 to 2002; his son Keith Lindner, who was president and COO from 1981 to 2002; and Steven Warshaw, who served as CFO and then briefly as CEO from 1994 to 2002.
Carl Lindner, a billionaire whose family controls American Financial Group, has been an influential figure in US politics for decades and has a long history of advancing his interests through generous contributions to politicians. Though most of his donations have gone to conservative Republicans, he has also been known to contribute to Democrats.
In the 1990s, for example, Lindner lobbied the Clinton administration to take action against a European Union quota system which favored banana imports from former European colonies in Africa and the Caribbean over those produced by US firms in Latin America. In April 1996, President Clinton filed a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization, setting off a trade war that lasted for the next five years. The next day, Lindner donated $500,000 in soft money to nearly two dozen state Democratic parties.
Lindner has also been known to bully those who cast aspersions on his motives. In May 1998, the Cincinnati Inquirer published a multi-part investigation of Chiquita’s overseas business practices that included allegations of mistreating workers and preventing them from unionizing, dangerous use of pesticides, bribing foreign officials, and lax security that had allowed cocaine to be brought to the US on its ships.
Chiquita made no attempt to refute the accusations, but threatened to press criminal charges against the paper after discovering that the lead reporter had gained some of his information by hacking into Chiquita’s voicemail system. The paper agreed to pay Chiquita $14 million and run a front-page apology three days in a row. It was also forced to promise to keep its research materials secret, never use them as the basis for any further stories and destroy them after five years.
Other national papers were also scared off the story as a result. When the Justice Department began examining Chiquita’s business practices in 2004, any crimes or embarrassments that might have been covered up in 1998 were still ripe to be revealed.
By the time the Justice Department began investigating Chiquita, Lindner had lost control of the firm as a result of its bankruptcy. He stepped down as CEO on Mar. 19, 2002 and resigned from the board of directors that May.
Lindner’s political donations, however, continued apace. In 2002, he and his family gave $450,000 to Republican candidates. In the presidential election year of 2004, he gave over $2 million to the leading Republican 527’s – including $1.5 million to Progress for America, $350,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans, and $375,000 to the College Republicans. He also helped raise at least $200,000 for the Bush-Cheney campaign and donated another $200,000 to the Bush inauguration, half of it personally and half through his American Financial Group.
These donations began in June 2004, just a few weeks after the appointment of Kenneth Wainstein as US Attorney. That was at a time when – according to the Los Angeles Times – some of the Justice Department prosecutors involved in the case had already felt for months that there was enough information to bring the case to trial.
A Pattern of Case Mishandling
At the time of the Mar. 19, 2007 plea agreement, the US Attorney’s office in Washington, DC was under the direction of Jeffrey A. Taylor.
When Taylor was appointed in September 2006, the San Diego Union Tribune described him as looking forward to his new job, which would include overseeing the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal and the prosecution of Mitchell Wade, who had pleaded guilty the previous February to bribing former Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham.
By the following March, however, many observers had already begun to suggest that Taylor’s real job was, as one liberal commentator put it, “obstructing corruption cases in Washington DC.”
A poster at Talking Points Memo who had been following the Abramoff scandal noted, “I assume Taylor is overseeing the Abramoff, Wade and [Curt] Weldon investigations which all seem to be going nowhere. … Nobody to date seems to be paying much of a price in the Abramoff case. … It seems as if Mitchell Wade is taking more time cooperating with the Feds than the time he was in business.”
The Abramoff and Cunningham scandals were not the only cases Taylor faced questions over. In 2007, a judge threw out a plea agreement that Taylor’s office had negotiated because the agreement listed the wrong federal statute, costing taxpayers at least $100 million in restitution.
Taylor also played a role in the Bush administration’s stonewalling on the US Attorney firings. When President Bush announced in March 2007 that he would not allow White House staff to testify under oath about the firings unless they were subpoenaed by Congress, it was widely noted that a Congressional subpoena has force only to the extent that it is backed up by a citation for contempt and that the actual enforcement of any contempt citations would be up to the US Attorney for Washington, DC, Jeffrey A. Taylor. When Congress finally did pass a contempt citation the following year, the Justice Department ordered Taylor not to comply.
Taylor denies that there was anything unusual in the Chiquita plea bargain. “The Department came to the conclusion that the settlement was a just result. It is no slap on the wrist when a corporation pleads guilty to a felony. That does not happen every day.”
The US-Colombian Free Trade Agreement
Although the urge to protect a leading Republican donor might have had obvious political appeal, the final effort to dispose of the Chiquita case seems more likely to have been prompted by the Bush administration’s desire to pass a US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Talks on the FTA had begun in May 2004, the same month Kenneth Wainstein was appointed as US Attorney. At that point, it became a high priority for the Bush administration to downplay the true degree of paramilitary influence in Colombia.
In April 2005, for example, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Colombia and commented, “I’ve just had a very productive meeting with President Uribe. It was a meeting in which we could discuss the impressive progress that the Government of Colombia has made in improving security, in strengthening democracy, and indeed its commitment to protecting human rights. … Approximately 5,000 paramilitaries have already been demobilized. … We hope that good faith negotiations will soon produce a law that will effectively dismantle illegal armed groups, bring justice and reparation to victims, and punish those guilty of major crimes and atrocities.”
The negotiations proceeded smoothly, and in February 2006, it was announced that agreement had been reached on the FTA. However, events quickly demonstrated the hollowness of Rice’s claims about democracy and human rights in Colombia. The March 2006 Colombian elections, which immediately followed the final demobilization of AUC, were marked by widespread paramilitary intimidation and the election of a substantial number of AUC-linked politicians. Then, in October, the discovery of a laptop computer belonging to an AUC commander revealed that the demobilizations had been a sham and that AUC had continued to oversee murders, drug-trafficking and the bribery of police.
Despite these revelations, President Bush signed the FTA that November – but by then the Democrats had won control of Congress, and they quickly signaled their reluctance to approve the agreement because of human rights violations and murders directed against Colombian union leaders. Adding to Bush’s problems with the agreement, his “fast-track” authority to negotiate trade deals was due to expire June 30, 2007. This dilemma may have helped inspire Chiquita’s plea agreement that March, which was so hurried that it came less than a week after the prosecution was filed.
If the intention was to help pass the FTA, it was not successful. The deal continued to languish for another two years, despite being heavily promoted by the United States Chamber of Commerce and its corporate allies.
The agreement is now seen as likely to pass, however, thanks to the support of President Barack Obama, who had opposed it during the presidential campaign on human rights grounds. Eric Holder, the lawyer who helped negotiate Chiquita’s plea agreement, is now the US Attorney General.
On June 29, 2009, Colombia’s President Uribe visited the White House, and Obama announced that the most prominent topic of discussion had been “the interests of both countries in moving forward on a free trade agreement.”
“We look forward to cooperating with him to continue to improve both the rights of organized labor in Colombia and to protect both labor and civil rights leaders there,” Obama said of Uribe, echoing Rice’s words of four years earlier. “It is important that Colombia pursue a path of rule of law and transparency, and I know that that is something that President Uribe is committed to doing.”
The Department of Justice, Corporations, Buying the Law – Part II: Strange Bargains
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Published: July 21, 2009
Bush US Attorney arranged lenient plea deal with company paying terrorists; Lawyer who helped secure plea deal? Obama’s future Attorney General
When the US Justice Department announced in March 2007 that Chiquita Brands had pleaded guilty to “one count of engaging in transactions with a specially-designated global terrorist” and would be paying a $25 million fine, observers were astonished at the lightness of the sentence.
Between 1997 and February of 2004, Chiquita made $1.7 million in payments to a right-wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), in regions where it had banana-growing operations. During that period, AUC conducted a “dirty war” against Colombia’s left-wing FARC guerrillas, marked by widespread murders of union leaders and farmers, as well as trafficking in cocaine and heroin.
“Several American multinational corporations have been accused of essentially underwriting those criminal activities – in violation of U.S. law – by providing cash, vehicles and other financial assistance as insurance against attacks on their employees and facilities in the South American nation,” the Los Angeles Times wrote in July 2007. “But only one such company – Chiquita Brands International Inc. – has been charged criminally in the United States.”
“The plea agreement reached with Chiquita in March [2007] – in which it acknowledged making the illegal payments – has been criticized as far too lenient by many outside legal experts and some high-ranking Justice Department prosecutors,” the Times added.
Although the decision to let Chiquita off lightly was criticized as a case of the Bush administration favoring powerful corporations, it was not seen at the time in light of the deep-seated politicization of the Bush Justice Department, which only became fully apparent in the wake of the US Attorney scandal. That scandal – which involved the firing of nine US Attorneys, allegedly for political reasons – was just starting to break at the time of the plea agreement.
The US Attorney who arranged the plea agreement for Chiquita, Jeffery A. Taylor, had been sworn in just six months earlier, in September 2006, under a controversial provision of the Patriot Act which enabled him to hold that position until May of this year without ever being confirmed by the Senate.
Prior to that appointment, Taylor served in the Justice Department as a counselor to Attorney Generals John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales. In early 2006, he participated in discussions of the forthcoming attorney firings with Kyle Sampson, who was the chief coordinator of the firings and whose resignation Mar. 12, 2007 marked a major turning point in the scandal.
In 2005, Sampson had laid out the ideal of the type of Bush loyalist the administration wanted to have serving as US Attorneys, a profile which Taylor fit. Sampson proposed him in early 2006 to replace soon-to-be-fired Carol Lam as US Attorney in San Diego, but prior to Lam’s actual firing Taylor was appointed as US Attorney for Washington, DC.
Chiquita’s alleged complicity in human rights abuses
Chiquita’s indictment for “engaging in transactions with a specially-designated global terrorist” was based on its own admission of having continued to make payments to AUC even after the group was designated as a foreign terrorist organization on Sept. 10, 2001. However, the most serious human rights abuses by AUC had occurred prior to that date, during a period of particular turmoil in Colombia from 1997 to 1999.
According to the official government announcement of the plea agreement, “Chiquita made these payments through its wholly-owned Colombian subsidiary known as ‘Banadex.’ … Chiquita began paying the AUC following a meeting in 1997 between the then-leader of the AUC, Carlos Castaño, and a senior executive of Banadex. Castaño implied that failure to make the payments could result in physical harm to Banadex personnel and property. ”
AUC was established as an umbrella organization for about a dozen right-wing paramilitary groups in 1997, the same year that Chiquita’s payments began. Its founder, Carlos Castaño was a death squad leader who freely admitted to numerous murders and massacres both in interviews and in his 2001 autobiography. AUC’s victims ranged from a prominent left-wing politician, to a leading Colombian journalist – for whose murder Castaño was convicted in absentia in 2004 – to peasant farmers suspected of supporting the left-wing FARC guerrillas.
Chiquita has never been accused of direct involvement in any of AUC’s crimes and has consistently maintained that it was the victim of extortion. But Chiquita continued making the payments for almost seven years, went to elaborate pains to conceal them, and terminated them only when under threat of federal indictment.
Chiquita’s payments may have also helped preserve a stable business environment on its banana plantations during a period of labor unrest following the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in October 1998.
After the 2007 plea agreement, ten civil suits were brought against Chiquita in US courts, most of them by relatives of AUC victims who argued that Chiquita’s payments make it complicit in AUC’s war crimes.
Chiquita recognizes it has a problem
According to the announcement of the plea agreement, senior executives at Chiquita learned that AUC was being paid off by their Colombian subsidiary “no later than September 2000,” at which time “the payments were reviewed and approved by senior executives of the corporation, including high-ranking officers, directors and employees.”
In June 2002, after several years of paying AUC by checks sent through intermediaries, Chiquita switched to making direct cash payments, which were concealed by new procedures approved by Chiquita’s audit committee.
By that time, AUC had been designated by the US government as a foreign terrorist organization. Although the designation was widely publicized in both the US and Colombia, Chiquita officials allege that they were not aware of it until an employee brought it to their attention in February 2003.
They then consulted an outside lawyer, who advised them that the payments were illegal, since any claims of extortion had long since been invalidated by their “decision to stay in harm’s way,” and that they should be stopped immediately.
Instead of following this advice, a group of Chiquita executives paid a visit to the Department of Justice to explain the situation. There they were also informed that “the payments were illegal and could not continue.”
The leader of this delegation was the head of Chiquita’s audit committee, Roderick M. Hills, a well-connected Republican who had served in the 1970s as a legal counsel to the Ford administration and then as head of the SEC. His wife, Carla Hills, had been US Trade Representative in the George H.W. Bush administration, with primary responsibility for negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Among those present at the meeting was Michael Chertoff, who was then head of the Justice Department’s criminal division. He and Hills were longtime acquaintances, going back to the early 1980s when Chertoff was a junior attorney at the firm of Latham & Watkins, which Hills had joined after leaving the SEC.
Hills left the meeting allegedly believing that Chertoff had deferred making any final decision. As a result, Chiquita issued another 20 payments to AUC, totaling about $300,000, before a new CEO finally ordered them stopped in February 2004.
Chiquita replied to RAW STORY requests for comment but did not comment for this article.
The case drags on
According to the Los Angeles Times, Justice Department professionals were “incensed” by Chiquita’s continued payments but were told to back off by political appointees in the department.
For example, David Nahmias, a deputy assistant attorney general for counterterrorism, asked the US attorney for Washington, DC, who at that time was Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., not to issue search warrants for Chiquita headquarters, a request which Howard refused. Nahmias also wanted charges not to be filed until after Justice Department leadership could meet with Chiquita’s lawyer, former Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh.
Howard was replaced shortly thereafter as US Attorney for Washington, DC by Kenneth Wainstein, who was named to the post on an interim basis in May 2004, though not confirmed until a year later. Wainstein was described by Senator Patrick D. Leahy when he left the US Attorney position in 2006 to head the Justice Department’s anti-terror efforts as “a loyal official of this Administration.”
Nahmias, for his part, was nominated to be US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in September 2004. Despite questions raised by Senator Leahy concerning the degree of his involvement in the Bybee torture memo, he was confirmed in December 2004 and continues to serve to this day.
According to the Los Angeles Times, “the prosecutors handling the Chiquita case had wanted to bring charges of material support of terrorism against the banana company and to pursue charges against some of its top executives by early 2004, if not sooner.”
Yet the investigation dragged on for over three years and ended with a relatively modest fine of $25 million instead of a potential $180 million in legal costs. No charges were ever brought against any individual Chiquita executives, since the firm’s lawyer, Eric Holder – now the Obama administration’s attorney general – successfully argued that they had been the victims of extortion by AUC.
It is impossible at this point to know precisely why the Chiquita investigation and prosecution appear to have stalled out following Wainstein’s appointment in 2004, or why the investigation suddenly took on new life after Jeffrey A. Taylor replaced him as the US Attorney for Washington, DC in September 2006.
Taylor insists there was absolutely no outside influence on how he handled the case. “There was no interference from the Department or the [Bush] White House,” he said during a phone interview. “I worked at the Department for 15 years. I would have resigned if any interference of this nature occurred.”
Despite Taylor’s denials, however, a RAW STORY examination of the timing of the criminal charges against Chiquita and the plea agreement itself raises new and troubling questions.
There are two obvious factors that might have prompted an overly lenient resolution of the case: generous political donations to the Republican Party by the billionaire former head of Chiquita, Carl Lindner, Jr., and the desire of the Bush administration and its corporate supporters to obtain passage of a US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
Carl Lindner, Jr.
Following Chiquita’s plea agreement, Colombia’s Attorney General Mario Iguaran expressed skepticism of the claim that the payments had been protection money and scoffed at the decision of the US Justice Department not to press criminal charges against individual Chiquita executives.
“Who wouldn’t know what an illegal armed group like the AUC does … by exterminating and annihilating its enemies?” Iguaran said. “When you pay a group like this you are conscious of what they are doing.”
He described Chiquita as having been involved in “a criminal relationship” with AUC and sent a letter to the Justice Department asking for the names of those who had approved or participated in the payments so that he could seek extraditions.
No names were ever released and no extraditions took place. In April 2009, however, Chiquita’s own board of directors submitted a lengthy report as part of a motion to dismiss a suit filed against it by its shareholders. This report listed more than a dozen individuals who had either definitely or almost certainly known about the payments to AUC.
The most prominent names are those of the executives who ran Chiquita from the 1980s, when modest payments first began to be made to guerrilla groups, until Chiquita went through a bankruptcy and reorganization in 2002. Heading the list are Carl Lindner, Jr., who was Chiquita’s CEO and chairman of the board from 1984 to 2002; his son Keith Lindner, who was president and COO from 1981 to 2002; and Steven Warshaw, who served as CFO and then briefly as CEO from 1994 to 2002.
Carl Lindner, a billionaire whose family controls American Financial Group, has been an influential figure in US politics for decades and has a long history of advancing his interests through generous contributions to politicians. Though most of his donations have gone to conservative Republicans, he has also been known to contribute to Democrats.
In the 1990s, for example, Lindner lobbied the Clinton administration to take action against a European Union quota system which favored banana imports from former European colonies in Africa and the Caribbean over those produced by US firms in Latin America. In April 1996, President Clinton filed a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization, setting off a trade war that lasted for the next five years. The next day, Lindner donated $500,000 in soft money to nearly two dozen state Democratic parties.
Lindner has also been known to bully those who cast aspersions on his motives. In May 1998, the Cincinnati Inquirer published a multi-part investigation of Chiquita’s overseas business practices that included allegations of mistreating workers and preventing them from unionizing, dangerous use of pesticides, bribing foreign officials, and lax security that had allowed cocaine to be brought to the US on its ships.
Chiquita made no attempt to refute the accusations, but threatened to press criminal charges against the paper after discovering that the lead reporter had gained some of his information by hacking into Chiquita’s voicemail system. The paper agreed to pay Chiquita $14 million and run a front-page apology three days in a row. It was also forced to promise to keep its research materials secret, never use them as the basis for any further stories and destroy them after five years.
Other national papers were also scared off the story as a result. When the Justice Department began examining Chiquita’s business practices in 2004, any crimes or embarrassments that might have been covered up in 1998 were still ripe to be revealed.
By the time the Justice Department began investigating Chiquita, Lindner had lost control of the firm as a result of its bankruptcy. He stepped down as CEO on Mar. 19, 2002 and resigned from the board of directors that May.
Lindner’s political donations, however, continued apace. In 2002, he and his family gave $450,000 to Republican candidates. In the presidential election year of 2004, he gave over $2 million to the leading Republican 527’s – including $1.5 million to Progress for America, $350,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans, and $375,000 to the College Republicans. He also helped raise at least $200,000 for the Bush-Cheney campaign and donated another $200,000 to the Bush inauguration, half of it personally and half through his American Financial Group.
These donations began in June 2004, just a few weeks after the appointment of Kenneth Wainstein as US Attorney. That was at a time when – according to the Los Angeles Times – some of the Justice Department prosecutors involved in the case had already felt for months that there was enough information to bring the case to trial.
A Pattern of Case Mishandling
At the time of the Mar. 19, 2007 plea agreement, the US Attorney’s office in Washington, DC was under the direction of Jeffrey A. Taylor.
When Taylor was appointed in September 2006, the San Diego Union Tribune described him as looking forward to his new job, which would include overseeing the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal and the prosecution of Mitchell Wade, who had pleaded guilty the previous February to bribing former Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham.
By the following March, however, many observers had already begun to suggest that Taylor’s real job was, as one liberal commentator put it, “obstructing corruption cases in Washington DC.”
A poster at Talking Points Memo who had been following the Abramoff scandal noted, “I assume Taylor is overseeing the Abramoff, Wade and [Curt] Weldon investigations which all seem to be going nowhere. … Nobody to date seems to be paying much of a price in the Abramoff case. … It seems as if Mitchell Wade is taking more time cooperating with the Feds than the time he was in business.”
The Abramoff and Cunningham scandals were not the only cases Taylor faced questions over. In 2007, a judge threw out a plea agreement that Taylor’s office had negotiated because the agreement listed the wrong federal statute, costing taxpayers at least $100 million in restitution.
Taylor also played a role in the Bush administration’s stonewalling on the US Attorney firings. When President Bush announced in March 2007 that he would not allow White House staff to testify under oath about the firings unless they were subpoenaed by Congress, it was widely noted that a Congressional subpoena has force only to the extent that it is backed up by a citation for contempt and that the actual enforcement of any contempt citations would be up to the US Attorney for Washington, DC, Jeffrey A. Taylor. When Congress finally did pass a contempt citation the following year, the Justice Department ordered Taylor not to comply.
Taylor denies that there was anything unusual in the Chiquita plea bargain. “The Department came to the conclusion that the settlement was a just result. It is no slap on the wrist when a corporation pleads guilty to a felony. That does not happen every day.”
The US-Colombian Free Trade Agreement
Although the urge to protect a leading Republican donor might have had obvious political appeal, the final effort to dispose of the Chiquita case seems more likely to have been prompted by the Bush administration’s desire to pass a US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Talks on the FTA had begun in May 2004, the same month Kenneth Wainstein was appointed as US Attorney. At that point, it became a high priority for the Bush administration to downplay the true degree of paramilitary influence in Colombia.
In April 2005, for example, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Colombia and commented, “I’ve just had a very productive meeting with President Uribe. It was a meeting in which we could discuss the impressive progress that the Government of Colombia has made in improving security, in strengthening democracy, and indeed its commitment to protecting human rights. … Approximately 5,000 paramilitaries have already been demobilized. … We hope that good faith negotiations will soon produce a law that will effectively dismantle illegal armed groups, bring justice and reparation to victims, and punish those guilty of major crimes and atrocities.”
The negotiations proceeded smoothly, and in February 2006, it was announced that agreement had been reached on the FTA. However, events quickly demonstrated the hollowness of Rice’s claims about democracy and human rights in Colombia. The March 2006 Colombian elections, which immediately followed the final demobilization of AUC, were marked by widespread paramilitary intimidation and the election of a substantial number of AUC-linked politicians. Then, in October, the discovery of a laptop computer belonging to an AUC commander revealed that the demobilizations had been a sham and that AUC had continued to oversee murders, drug-trafficking and the bribery of police.
Despite these revelations, President Bush signed the FTA that November – but by then the Democrats had won control of Congress, and they quickly signaled their reluctance to approve the agreement because of human rights violations and murders directed against Colombian union leaders. Adding to Bush’s problems with the agreement, his “fast-track” authority to negotiate trade deals was due to expire June 30, 2007. This dilemma may have helped inspire Chiquita’s plea agreement that March, which was so hurried that it came less than a week after the prosecution was filed.
If the intention was to help pass the FTA, it was not successful. The deal continued to languish for another two years, despite being heavily promoted by the United States Chamber of Commerce and its corporate allies.
The agreement is now seen as likely to pass, however, thanks to the support of President Barack Obama, who had opposed it during the presidential campaign on human rights grounds. Eric Holder, the lawyer who helped negotiate Chiquita’s plea agreement, is now the US Attorney General.
On June 29, 2009, Colombia’s President Uribe visited the White House, and Obama announced that the most prominent topic of discussion had been “the interests of both countries in moving forward on a free trade agreement.”
“We look forward to cooperating with him to continue to improve both the rights of organized labor in Colombia and to protect both labor and civil rights leaders there,” Obama said of Uribe, echoing Rice’s words of four years earlier. “It is important that Colombia pursue a path of rule of law and transparency, and I know that that is something that President Uribe is committed to doing.”
Where was OPUS DEI FAGGOT, LOUIS FREEH on this...ten years ago? MOSSAD KIKES SWINDLE AMERICA with Immunity for ten years?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07162009/news/regionalnews/six_busted_for_47m_medicaid_scam_179618.htm
SIX BUSTED FOR $47M MEDICAID SCAM
By ADAM NICHOLS
July 16, 2009
It was one sick scam.
Six people have been busted for running a massive $47 million Medicaid scheme that involved filing bogus claims with the state, authorities announced today.
Over the past ten years, Alexander Levy, with the help of several accomplices, allegedly controlled a string of health care entities to illegally obtain payment for the treatment of Medicaid recipients and then launder the profits, authorities said.
According to the criminal charges filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court and a companion civil suit filed by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Levy was excluded from any participation in the Medicaid program by the New York State Department of Health in 1997 for submitting false claims to Medicaid for medically unnecessary services and for services that were never actually performed.
Despite that, he illegally continued to operate various health care facilities that billed the state for the treatment of Medicaid recipients, according to court papers.
"This individual is accused of cheating New York taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars through an elaborate money laundering scheme," said Cuomo. "But as we have done before, we 'followed the money,' which led us to today's serious charges."
A Brooklyn grand jury indicted Levy and his accomplices on several counts, including grand larceny and healthcare fraud.
Levy's accomplices included Alexander Levy, 54; Zona Castellano, 69; Aaron Bethea, 53; Leonid Sklyar, 30; Yelena Bogatyrov, 43; and Arthur Gutman, 42.
SIX BUSTED FOR $47M MEDICAID SCAM
By ADAM NICHOLS
July 16, 2009
It was one sick scam.
Six people have been busted for running a massive $47 million Medicaid scheme that involved filing bogus claims with the state, authorities announced today.
Over the past ten years, Alexander Levy, with the help of several accomplices, allegedly controlled a string of health care entities to illegally obtain payment for the treatment of Medicaid recipients and then launder the profits, authorities said.
According to the criminal charges filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court and a companion civil suit filed by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Levy was excluded from any participation in the Medicaid program by the New York State Department of Health in 1997 for submitting false claims to Medicaid for medically unnecessary services and for services that were never actually performed.
Despite that, he illegally continued to operate various health care facilities that billed the state for the treatment of Medicaid recipients, according to court papers.
"This individual is accused of cheating New York taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars through an elaborate money laundering scheme," said Cuomo. "But as we have done before, we 'followed the money,' which led us to today's serious charges."
A Brooklyn grand jury indicted Levy and his accomplices on several counts, including grand larceny and healthcare fraud.
Levy's accomplices included Alexander Levy, 54; Zona Castellano, 69; Aaron Bethea, 53; Leonid Sklyar, 30; Yelena Bogatyrov, 43; and Arthur Gutman, 42.
New evidence FEDS SUBORNED PERJURY in SIEGELMAN CASE: nothing new for DOJ AND FBI
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7313
By Brad Friedman on 7/21/2009 1:46PM
New Evidence Reveals Feds 'Coached, Cajoled, Threatened' Star Witness in Siegelman Case
Declarations filed in former AL Governor's request for new trial, describe government prosecutors manipulating key testimony, pressuring former aide in exchange for lighter sentence
Notes, communications and required FBI disclosures said illegally withheld from defense team...
How it's even possible that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman's bribery case and conviction has not long ago been dropped by the Dept. of Justice is beyond us. There is now so much evidence of clear conflicts of interest, overt partisan political prosecutorial targeting, failures to recuse by at least one conflicted prosecutor as well as the judge in the case, evidence withheld from the defense team, and now evidence of the coaching and strong-arming of witnesses in exchange for a lighter prison sentence and a promise to conceal embarrassing personal information, it all makes the prosecutorial misconduct in the case of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens --- a Republican whose case was dropped by Obama's Justice Dept. shortly after they came to power --- look like child's play.
Official declarations filed along with a recent motion by Siegelman, requesting a new trial in light of the new evidence, reveal what seems just the tip of the iceberg of a flagrant and wholly inappropriate case of wide-spread prosecutorial misconduct. The allegations (with much evidence to back them up) paint a compelling picture of an illegally targeted political prosecution/witch-hunt carried out by Karl Rove and his Alabama-based Dept. of Justice cronies in an attempt to remove Alabama's most popular Democrat from the political grid all together.
The scheme worked, as Siegelman is currently fighting his conviction on appeal and --- now armed with new evidence gathered by the defense team of fellow defendant Richard Scrushy, the man alleged to have "bribed" Siegelman --- is calling for a completely new trial. The government is to answer Siegelman's motion next week, and the decision will be made by the same federal U.S. District Court judge, Mark E. Fuller, reported to have severe conflicts of interest in the entire case, including a specific "grudge" against Siegelman.
The new declarations, believed to be posted here publicly in full for the first time ( PDF links follow below), reveal a startling case of inappropriate misconduct by federal investigators, as Siegelman's former aide Nick Bailey, the government's star witness against him, is revealed to have been "coached and cajoled and threatened", as Siegelman's late June motion for a new trial describes it, throughout some 70 interviews and phone calls. Bailey, the documents describe, was said to have been frightened for his life and facing a possible years-long sentence in federal prison, if he failed to testify precisely as investigators had required him to.
The investigators went so far as to require Bailey to write down his testimony after he had failed, time and again, to offer the same answers to prosecutors' questions during undisclosed interviews. Yet, evidence of that coaching was allegedly concealed from the defense, according to the new documents and testimony, in violation of federal law, and in what appears to directly parallel the precise reasons for the dismissal of the Stevens case in Alaska.
Siegelman tells The BRAD BLOG that after the years-long prosecution, this is the first time the information has come to light about coached witnesses, and undisclosed documentation of government interviews.
Star witness Bailey, who testified that he saw Siegelman in receipt of a $250,000 check alleged to have been a "bribe" from Scrushy --- a check that was actually dated several days later than the day Bailey testified he saw it in the hands of the Governor --- is said to have been so unable to remember the specific details prosecutors wanted him to testify to, that he was given written questions and instructions to write down his answers to practice for the actual trial. He was, according to the new documents, told quite specifically how to answer questions.
The hand-written notes from Bailey's attempts to memorize his testimony to the satisfaction of prosecutors is said, in the new affidavits, one from Baily himself, to have included a page in which he responded to the government's specific instructions by hand-writing "bullshit", in response, on one of the undisclosed pages.
A complete notebook of those hand-written documents and other records of interviews with Bailey, were apparently never given to the defense teams in either the Siegelman case or in Scrushy's, who also filed a motion for a new trail in late June...
Siegelman's 74-page brief [PDF], requesting the new trial, alleges a case of "selective prosecution" in violation of his Constitutional 5th Amendment right to "equal protection" under the law. Glynn Wilson, a former New York Times reporter smartly analyzed the brief in summary here in late June..........
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Goldman Sachs Fingered
Coup in Honduras
Obama vs Hillary
by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Saturday July 18, 2009
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We can now also divulge that Wilcox, along with Clinton stooge Lanny Davis, dysfunctional U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, Hillary's former White House confidant of the 1990s, wanted 7/7 London bombings terrorist suspect, fugitive Eva Telege aka Teleka aka Teleki, former BushFRAUD White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and former BushFRAUD U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez conspired to frame former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, concerning not only Siegelman's knowledge of the Bush-Clinton Iran-Contra operation that had stretched into Alabama, but Siegelman's support for American Patriot Ambassador Leo Wanta's authority over the Alabama toll company that would have produced thousands of jobs for Americans in the southeast portion of the United States during the latter part of the Clinton Administration.....
By Brad Friedman on 7/21/2009 1:46PM
New Evidence Reveals Feds 'Coached, Cajoled, Threatened' Star Witness in Siegelman Case
Declarations filed in former AL Governor's request for new trial, describe government prosecutors manipulating key testimony, pressuring former aide in exchange for lighter sentence
Notes, communications and required FBI disclosures said illegally withheld from defense team...
How it's even possible that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman's bribery case and conviction has not long ago been dropped by the Dept. of Justice is beyond us. There is now so much evidence of clear conflicts of interest, overt partisan political prosecutorial targeting, failures to recuse by at least one conflicted prosecutor as well as the judge in the case, evidence withheld from the defense team, and now evidence of the coaching and strong-arming of witnesses in exchange for a lighter prison sentence and a promise to conceal embarrassing personal information, it all makes the prosecutorial misconduct in the case of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens --- a Republican whose case was dropped by Obama's Justice Dept. shortly after they came to power --- look like child's play.
Official declarations filed along with a recent motion by Siegelman, requesting a new trial in light of the new evidence, reveal what seems just the tip of the iceberg of a flagrant and wholly inappropriate case of wide-spread prosecutorial misconduct. The allegations (with much evidence to back them up) paint a compelling picture of an illegally targeted political prosecution/witch-hunt carried out by Karl Rove and his Alabama-based Dept. of Justice cronies in an attempt to remove Alabama's most popular Democrat from the political grid all together.
The scheme worked, as Siegelman is currently fighting his conviction on appeal and --- now armed with new evidence gathered by the defense team of fellow defendant Richard Scrushy, the man alleged to have "bribed" Siegelman --- is calling for a completely new trial. The government is to answer Siegelman's motion next week, and the decision will be made by the same federal U.S. District Court judge, Mark E. Fuller, reported to have severe conflicts of interest in the entire case, including a specific "grudge" against Siegelman.
The new declarations, believed to be posted here publicly in full for the first time ( PDF links follow below), reveal a startling case of inappropriate misconduct by federal investigators, as Siegelman's former aide Nick Bailey, the government's star witness against him, is revealed to have been "coached and cajoled and threatened", as Siegelman's late June motion for a new trial describes it, throughout some 70 interviews and phone calls. Bailey, the documents describe, was said to have been frightened for his life and facing a possible years-long sentence in federal prison, if he failed to testify precisely as investigators had required him to.
The investigators went so far as to require Bailey to write down his testimony after he had failed, time and again, to offer the same answers to prosecutors' questions during undisclosed interviews. Yet, evidence of that coaching was allegedly concealed from the defense, according to the new documents and testimony, in violation of federal law, and in what appears to directly parallel the precise reasons for the dismissal of the Stevens case in Alaska.
Siegelman tells The BRAD BLOG that after the years-long prosecution, this is the first time the information has come to light about coached witnesses, and undisclosed documentation of government interviews.
Star witness Bailey, who testified that he saw Siegelman in receipt of a $250,000 check alleged to have been a "bribe" from Scrushy --- a check that was actually dated several days later than the day Bailey testified he saw it in the hands of the Governor --- is said to have been so unable to remember the specific details prosecutors wanted him to testify to, that he was given written questions and instructions to write down his answers to practice for the actual trial. He was, according to the new documents, told quite specifically how to answer questions.
The hand-written notes from Bailey's attempts to memorize his testimony to the satisfaction of prosecutors is said, in the new affidavits, one from Baily himself, to have included a page in which he responded to the government's specific instructions by hand-writing "bullshit", in response, on one of the undisclosed pages.
A complete notebook of those hand-written documents and other records of interviews with Bailey, were apparently never given to the defense teams in either the Siegelman case or in Scrushy's, who also filed a motion for a new trail in late June...
Siegelman's 74-page brief [PDF], requesting the new trial, alleges a case of "selective prosecution" in violation of his Constitutional 5th Amendment right to "equal protection" under the law. Glynn Wilson, a former New York Times reporter smartly analyzed the brief in summary here in late June..........
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Goldman Sachs Fingered
Coup in Honduras
Obama vs Hillary
by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Saturday July 18, 2009
.....
We can now also divulge that Wilcox, along with Clinton stooge Lanny Davis, dysfunctional U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, Hillary's former White House confidant of the 1990s, wanted 7/7 London bombings terrorist suspect, fugitive Eva Telege aka Teleka aka Teleki, former BushFRAUD White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and former BushFRAUD U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez conspired to frame former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, concerning not only Siegelman's knowledge of the Bush-Clinton Iran-Contra operation that had stretched into Alabama, but Siegelman's support for American Patriot Ambassador Leo Wanta's authority over the Alabama toll company that would have produced thousands of jobs for Americans in the southeast portion of the United States during the latter part of the Clinton Administration.....
BUSH CRIME FAMILY BANK ACCOUNTS: only way America can STEAL THEIR MONEY BACK TO PAY OFF DEFECIT...only way to save America
From CHRIS STORY AT INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY REVIEW (MI-5's blogger, supported by The Queen of England to Expose the NAZI BUSH ILLUMINATI SWINDLING SCUM).
click BLOG TITLE ABOVE TO GET LINKED:
http://worldreports.org/news/224_the_heading_for_this_report_is_censored_by_the_nsa
• SUNDAY, 19TH JULY UPDATE: IMPORTANT:
First, about the 'real bullets will fly' deadline, which is today, 19th July. This information came from CMKX 'victims'. However AFTER the information was posted, the Editor was informed by two other sources that this deadline emanates from a very senior level of a certain structure which we can't go into. It is very serious. There have been discussions for the past 24 hours in the undergrowth as to where this will start: 'At the top, surely'. NO! Apparently it is to be comprehensive....
But these criminal forces are different. The roof has caved in because the house is on fire and all the windows have been blown out: AND THEY ARE CARRYING ON SCAMMING REGARDLESS.
According to our information, THE STATES HAVE NOT BEEN PAID BECAUSE THE STIMULUS MONEY HAS NOT BEEN PAID BECAUSE THE SETTLEMENTS HAVE BEEN BLOCKED BY THESE MANIACS, who are intent upon protecting their own positions and, as has been the case all along, couldn't care less about ordinary American employees and their families.
Employees of certain States, get this, are going to work on the basis of an undertaking that they will be paid. WHAT DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF? Answer: The constant ying-yang 'promises' and broken promises and raised and lowered expectations which the 320,000 (390,000) ransacked, scammed and pillaged Ponzi 'Program' victims have suffered over the years.
• Only NOW, they are doing it to simple, straightforward, American workers and State employees. They expect these people, who have mortgages to pay, to go to work on a promise?
What is this, a deliberate attempt to trigger blood in the streets?
Our answer to that is: NO! These people are terrified of the likes of US: everyone who is standing up (including especially YOU, reader) against these criminals. It is TRUE that they are more scared of the likes of US than 'we' are of them. They are cornered. They have no idea what to do.....
...• 'REAL BULLETS START FLYING AFTER 19TH JULY': CMKX:
The Editor was advised at 2.15pm UK time on 18th July that CMKX people have a deadline of 19th July (Sunday) for 'satisfaction', after which quote 'real bullets will start flying' unquote.
The bullets in question will, we presume, not be fired by enforcement team operatives on the ground who are still, as far as we are aware, engaged in enforcing the World Court-issued Writ of Execution, but by other parties with an interest in the 'rectification of past wrongs'.
Certainly, one has the impression, too, that the giga-criminal operatives know that the game is up, and may be engaged in ransacking the accounts (or trying to), including reverting to their stealing from the Social Security Trust Fund accounts, which they were doing at least two years ago.....
And that might well help to explain why the STASI/DVD operative, Chancellor Angela Merkel, is currently painting herself 'whiter than white', demanding that Wall Street and the City of London are put in their place, while also conveniently papering over the uncomfortable reality, for public consumption purposes, that Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank are George H. W. Bush Sr.'s Fraudulent Finance hidey-holes, too (and that she, this 'financial reformer' is or has long been the recipient of Bush Sr.'s bribes, as previously reported).....
• NEW REPORT STARTS HERE:
• THE STENCH OF ROTTING HUMAN FLESH IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN
• THE INITIAL WANTA CAMPAIGN USING THE EDITOR’S PLATFORM
• DEEP LIES DISLODGED BY THE CAMPAIGN
• PAULSON SEIZES CONTROL OF THE ‘WANTA FUNDS’
• THE METHODOLOGY OF WADING THROUGH A DECEPTION MINEFIELD
• WANTA: ‘YOU ARE AN HONEST JOURNALIST, WHICH IS EXTREMELY RARE’
• ‘WALKING IN A STRAIGHT LINE’
• THE EDITOR ACCUMULATES A LARGE FILE OF DOCUMENTS
• THE ‘LINE’ THAT THE WANTA ACCOUNTS HELD SOVIET SPOIL
• REALITY: WANTA AS BUSH’S DE FACTO (DOUBLE-CROSSED) ‘BAGMAN’
• MARC RICH (HANS BRAND) AND GWENDOLYN WAYMARK
• THE EDITOR’S LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
• WANTA SUDDENLY TRAVELS TO CALIFORNIA
• WANTA AND MADOFF: OUTLETS FOR BUSH CRIME SYNDICATE MONIES
• INFORMATION IN THE PETITION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS
• GOODWIN DID NOT FORWARD COURT DOCUMENTS TO WANTA
• BUSH SR. WAS ‘UPSTAIRS’: SO WANTA’S PARTY WERE KICKED OUT
OF CITIBANK’S MIDTOWN OFFICES BY ARMED NYPD AGENTS
• THE ‘FUNNY BUSINESS’ AT THE ALEXANDRIA COURTHOUSE
• HOW THE PETITION WAS EXPLOITED FOR DECEPTION PURPOSES
• AN ‘ANOMALY’ IN THE TEXT OF THE PETITION
• DECEPTION EXPERT DOUBLE-CROSSED BY DECEPTION EXPERTS
• MONEY STOLEN FROM PETER IN ORDER NOT TO PAY PAUL
• CORRUPT U.S. GOVERNMENT RAPES, MURDERS AND PILLAGES ITS OWN PEOPLE
• CURIOUS ’INTERCHANGEABILITY’ OF U.S. ‘INTELLIGENCE’ ACCOUNTS
• WANTA RELEASED FROM JAIL IMMEDIATELY AFTER 9/11
• JAILED TO PREVENT WANTA FROM LEAKING 9/11 PLOT IN ADVANCE
• OUR DEDUCTION ABOUT THE ACCOUNTS IS CONFIRMED
• PROOF THAT 9/11 WAS MASS MURDER BY THREE PRESIDENTS
• VREELAND DID PREDICT THE 9/11 ABOMINATIONS
• OUR WARNING ABORTED A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION
• PLANNING A NUKE EXPLOSION TO AVOID PAYING WANTA?
• TWIN CITIES PREDICTION JUDGED TO BE ACCURATE, TOO
• CHENEY AND STRUCTURES WORKING OVERTIME TO STOP ‘IT ALL COMING OUT’
• NEW COORDINATED 9/11 LEAKS BY ‘LICENSED’ U.S. AGENTS
• BITTER FEUDING OVER THE MONEY BY RIVAL INTEL FACTIONS
• WHOEVER WINS ELECTIONS, THE CIA/NSC ALWAYS WINS
• THE RULE OF LAW SOLUTION WILL PREVAIL: ‘SET IN STONE’
• DEVELOPING U.S. MILITARY CRISIS OVER OBAMA’S STATUS
• BANKS REFUSE TO HONOUR CALIFORNIA I.O.U.s
• THE GHANA EPISODE, PLUS: OBAMA ‘WANTS HIS CUT’
• WARRING INTEL GROUPS FURIOUS BUT IMPOTENT
• OUR THINKING ON DERIVATIVES GOES ‘MAINSTREAM’
• WARNING BY WORLD BANK’S CHIEF ECONOMIST
• GEITHNER’S ‘STANDARDISED CONTRACT’ RED HERRING
• REARGUARD OPERATION TO ‘RESCUE’ FRAUDULENT FINANCE
• DISLOCATIONS ARE DUE EXCLUSIVELY TO CORRUPTION AND FRAUD
• AUTOMATON WHITE HOUSE KEEPS ON ‘KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS’
• PAYEE LIST REDEFINED TO INCLUDE A KEY ‘LINE ITEM PAYMENT’
• LAST-MINUTE SCAMMING OPERATIONS BY THE CROOKS
• EXCERPTS FROM A CRUCIAL AFFIDAVIT
• READ OUR SEPTEMBER 2006 PREDICTION OF THE PRESENT SITUATION IN NOTE (5) BELOW
....MARC RICH (HANS BRAND) AND GWENDOLYN WAYMARK
Most public and intelligence sector lies contain elements of truth: so to say that the bank accounts did not include the proceeds of the wholesale ransacking of the Soviet State economy would be completely untrue, especially given the known involvement of Zug, Switzerland-based intermediary Marc Rich, exposed by this service as the long-range German DVD operative Hans Brand [refer to International Currency Review, Volume 31, Numbers 3 & 4, pages 83-96, with facsimile documents (Fourth Quarter 2006)]: indeed we have ourselves deconstructed a number of such bank account transactions, having for instance identified the Bush operative Gwendolyn Ann Waymark as named beneficiary of a Pay Order fee instruction by a Mr Paul M. Bauer arising from currency exchange of 18.699 billion Soviet Roubles, of $4,721,969.70, for account of Gwendolyn Ann Waymark and Diane M. Waymark with Bank of Massachusetts, East Long Meadow Branch, associated with the forged Status-Credit-Bank, Moscow, documents referencing the Executive Order 12333 corporation Asian Europe Development Pte. Ltd., sent to us unsolicted by Fedex on 10th September 2007.
We were able to compare these documents with Status-Credit-Bank documents that we hold on file, proving the US forgery and thefts.
In the same batch, Daniel Reis was to receive a commission from the stolen Russian monies, of $20,237,012.99 [see International Currency Review, Volume 33, Numbers 3 & 4, pages 288-294 (Second Quarter 2008)], with facsimiles that prove out this forensic research.
However it is now clear that Leo Wanta was for a time THE guardian of ‘Bush Sr.’s accounts’, meaning offshore accounts holding stashes of stolen monies which Bush Sr. claimed belonged to him: which specifically explains why we have repeatedly heard, from the underground, that ‘Bush Sr. says the money is his’.....
WANTA AND MADOFF: OUTLETS FOR BUSH CRIME SYNDICATE MONIES
The Bush Crime Syndicate, of course, had multiple outlets for the stealing, placement, distribution, and laundering of the vast flow of hijacked funds that it handled, of which the Madoff enterprise was one – a point that needs to be borne in mind, so that the moribund Wanta situation is seen in its proper perspective. On 9th July 2009, it was reported that Irving Picard, the Trustee appointed by the Manhattan Court to take charge of identifying assets to compensate the victims, had stated that his investigations had ‘unearthed a labyrinth of interrelated international funds, institutions and entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth’.
Specifically, Mr Picard revealed that stolen assets had been identified in Britain, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Spain, Gibraltar, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. Mr Picard has despatched more than 230 subpoenas seeking overseas records and has received more than 15,400 claims against Madoff and his defunct Ponzi network.
As in the case of the ‘Wanta’ accounts, the funds that Mr Picard is chasing are in fact ‘Bush Crime Syndicate’ funds, as Madoff was used as a key conduit for the dispersion of stolen funds (in accordance with the classic Ponzi model).....
HOW THE PETITION WAS EXPLOITED FOR DECEPTION PURPOSES
Given the vast, rickety edifice of the fog of deception which is supposed to mask and obfuscate this corruption, do not be taken aback when we suggest to you that it seems highly probable that, accurate though the information contained in Wanta’s Petition for a Writ of Mandamus largely was (or else he would have been imprisoned for perjury), nevertheless, it formed a layer of a deeper ongoing deception, which had also been supported by Wanta’s instructed and accepted use of the Editor’s publishing and website platform (see above). That arrangement suited the Bush-CIA-DVD Crime Syndicate and the chief behind-the-scenes manipulator, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, because the Editor had promulgated, to the best of his knowledge and belief, that the colossal accruals stashed in the huge portfolio of offshore accounts ‘belonged’ to Wanta under the Reagan Executive Order 12333 arrangements (January 1981), which recklessly allowed US intelligence operatives to set up corporations and to own the shares thereof.
• These corporations would then ostensibly ‘contract’ with the CIA and its 16+ subsidiaries, to conduct Financial Warfare and other ‘Black’ financial operations on behalf (ostensibly) of Uncle Sam but in reality of the power-usurping US “State within the State’ directed by the key North American Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst, Dachau, operative George H. W. Bush Sr.
(We now believe that the German Jew Henry Kissinger, who persuaded President Ford to sack William Colby as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and to replace him with George Bush Sr., whose family is also of German Jewish extraction, is the supreme DVD manipulator and snake inside or associated with the corrupted US structures.
Kissinger appeared at the satanic mass held in the Chapel of St Peter and St Paul described by the Editor’s late friend Fr. Malachi Martin and reviewed in the Editor’s large book The New Underworld Order, and was excommunicated from his US Jewish congregation in 1974 by a Rabbinical Court presided over by Rabbi Marvin Antelman.
Of all the evil characters in this constellation of fiends, Kissinger is the most unpleasant. Following the 9/11 abomination, he appeared on a TV show and mocked the 9/11 dead in a high-pitched, squeaky voice (which identified him as being possessed, as it was not Kissinger himself who was speaking, but one of his ‘familiars’).
• On the very day of Princess Diana’s memorial service which this character attended, Kissinger was spotted that same evening in a night club, ogling at a belly-dancer).....
• But why was Wanta suddenly released from jail just over a week following 9/11? Clearly the two events were linked – a matter that had puzzled the Editor for a long time.
UNTIL, that is, the Editor finally realised that the so-called ‘Wanta’ accounts were/are some of the so-called ‘Bush Sr.’ accounts, which is why George Bush Sr. says ‘the money is mine’.
JAILED TO PREVENT WANTA FROM LEAKING 9/11 PLOT IN ADVANCE
On 14th July 2009, the Editor obtained specific confirmation from an impeccably knowledgeable US source of the accuracy of his deduction that the so-called ‘Wanta’ accounts were indeed some of (if not most of) the accounts then used by Bush to stash stolen and other monies arising not just from the Financial Warfare operations against the Soviet Union (which was also partly true) but, more generally, from endless criminal finance operations conducted under cover of Bush’s de facto control of the CIA-Intelligence Power: hence Langley’s formal designation as ‘the George Bush Center for Intelligence’.
• As we have stated previously, the word ‘Terrorism’ should be substituted for ‘Intelligence’ here – not least since money-laundering, the ongoing stealing of funds, and illicit ‘Black’ finance scams generally are TERRORISM as defined by the perpetrators’ own pre-prepared Patriot Act legislation.
Now, what had happened was that Bush Sr. and Clinton and the CIA conspired to remove Wanta, a difficult character, from access to the accounts by concocting the farrago of lies and diversionary claptrap that we have recounted at length in our ‘Wantagate’ reports.
The ‘falling out’ was in fact a standard ‘switch’ or double-cross perpetrated by the Godfather Bush against an operative who had originally been entrusted with certain tasks, including US Financial Warfare Operations against the Soviet Union, by President Reagan, who had called Wanta ‘my junkyard dog’.
Wanta himself told the Editor that Reagan used to brief him personally, and that George Bush Sr. (then Vice President and therefore in charge of the National Security Council) was usually not present at these briefings....
‘Why was Wanta released from jail almost immediately after 9/11?’ Wanta was suddenly collected from jail (see above) by Gerald Siechert, of Austrian extraction, and driven to his daughter’s home. WHY?
The authoritative answer to this question:
• Because Wanta knew about the planned 9/11 operation, and the Three Presidents (Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush) and their co-conspirators were concerned that Wanta, who had fallen out with Bush (and was deeply resentful of the way he had been treated) might reveal what he knew IN ADVANCE OF the atrocity. But after it had occurred, that was no longer a problem, so he was released’.
• Have you understood the significance of what has just been stated?
Recall that the former President of Italy, Francesco Cossiga, told Corriera della Sera, Italy’s most respected newspaper, on 5th December 2007, that ‘the disastrous 9/11 attack has been planned and realised by the CIA and Mossad’. There is no way that such a senior intelligence officer as a former Italian President would make such a statement, if it was not true: WHICH IT IS.
PROOF THAT 9/11 WAS MASS MURDER BY THREE PRESIDENTS
THREE Presidents of the United States, with the CIA and Mossad [see below] conspired to murder over 3,000 people in order to achieve their filthy, sordid objectives. Not only is this a case of mass murder, for which ALL OFFICIALS WHO HAVE STOOD IN THE WAY OF THE ARREST OF THESE THREE CRIMINAL MURDERERS stand likewise accused of aiding and abetting mass murder and likely breach of the Misprision of Felony Statute, but we are dealing with TREASON as well.....
VREELAND DID PREDICT THE 9/11 ABOMINATIONS
Office of Naval Intelligence operative Lt. Delmart Mark Vreeland, whom the Editor interviewed at length in Niagara Falls, Canada, in May 2003 [see timeline, Note (1)] DID reveal IN ADVANCE the intended atrocity, in his Prison Note, written from a jail cell in Canada, in August 2001. He managed to have his information transferred to Canadian intelligence contacts, who are therefore implicated in the atrocity if they did nothing. They certainly did not resort to the ONLY weapon that works: pre-emptive publicity. No, they preferred people to die en masse, rather than to stick their necks out.
Vreeland’s ‘Prison Note’, written in August 2001, contained the exclamations: ‘They will paint me crazy and call me a liar. Let one happen, stop the rest!!!’ Having interviewed Vreeland over a period of several days in May 2003, the Editor is certain that, while this operative was/is an induced MK-ULTRA-type ‘multiple personality disorder’ victim (whose various ‘alters’, including an ‘assassin alter’ can be activated by pre-programmed phrases delivered by handlers) – and despite his serial low-life criminal behaviour and that he scammed the Editor’s VISA card to the tune of £1,600, he told the truth in discussions about global issues.
In the course of a live interview on 5th June 2002, Vreeland said that he conveyed his warning about 9/11 in advance of the event, to Canadian intelligence. ‘Yes I did, most definitely. I told it to their face, my lawyers told them to their face, and they knew what was going on. As far as I know, Colonel Kispel and his partner informed the United States and Ottawa immediately, through the RCMP and NSIS and CSIS [Canadian intelligence organisations]. (4)
In March 2005, the Editor was informed by a Pentagon-linked operative that Vreeland (who had threatened the Editor with death while he was riding from Niagara Falls back to New York City in May 2003, in a bizarre ‘switch’ attempt) ‘is in solitary confinement for a very long time, his case is sealed, and he is no longer a threat to you’. However the fact that Vreeland has been ‘taken down’ does NOT invalidate the accuracy of his geopolitical information, of the information he conveyed to this Editor about the endless damage and evil that George Bush Sr. has inflicted upon the United States and the world, and of his ACCURATE prior warning about 9/11.
• MORE DETAILS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO VREELAND:
Correspondents have mined the prison data and have provided the Editor [17th July 2009] with the following information. After his arrest in Iowa in October 2004, Vreeland was convicted in 2006 of 13 felony charges, and was sentenced in October 2008 to 336 years in prison in Colorado. His current so-called 'facility assignment' is Buena Vista Correctional Complex. His estimated Parole Eligibility Date is 2nd June 2124. His Parole Hearing Date is 1st March 2124, when he will be 156 years old.
Vreeland was indeed a low-life criminal, but what is (deliberately) not understood is that the ONI recruits such personnel for some of its operations. This practice has the advantage that when the time comes to dispense with the operative's services, the ONI operative in question can easily be discredited because of their serial criminal behaviour, as in Vreeland's case. However as a multiple personality disorder MK-ULTRA-type victim, Vreeland was perfectly lucid (and was extremely well informed and intelligent) provided he was 'on his meds', and the right 'alter' was being consulted.
His knowledge of certain matters in the Soviet Union was accurate (which the Editor, who is also the Editor of Soviet Analyst, knew, because of his own special knowledge), and the details that he provided concerning the criminal international operations of George Bush Sr., conveyed to the Editor by Vreeland in May 2003, were subsequently found by the Editor to be true.
In the Editor's opinion, his undoubtedly necessary conviction on 13 of multiple felony charges was actually allowed to go forward because he had opened one of three diplomatic bags which he had couriered from Moscow, which is treason. Colin Powell, Secretary of State du jour, had issued a Warrant for his extradition from Canada, which the Canadian authorities had failed to execute.
• Moreover Vreeland’s exclamation ‘Let one happen, stop the rest!!!’ encapsulates what was intended with respect to 9/11 – which Wanta knew about ahead of the event, as well....
PLANNING A NUKE EXPLOSION TO AVOID PAYING WANTA?
Whether these fears were well founded or not, the ruthlessness of the cornered criminals that we have been having to deal with these past 18 months is undoubtedly such that they would be willing to go to any lengths to get their own way. After all, they were prepared to sacrifice the lives of more than 3,000 people on 9/11, inter alia to procure the destruction of the original copies of a mountain of derivatives contracts held by Cantor Fitzgerald that were falling due imminently for settlement in US dollars. The firm lost 658 of its staff in that abomination.
During the chaos, a huge volume of gold was stolen from the underground vaults of Bank of Nova Scotia. After getting away with those atrocities, the idea that a man like Cheney, a ‘former’ satanic MK-Ultra and Omega controller and operative with links into organised crime, would cringe at a rogue operation to indulge in nuclear blackmail on US soil in order to create conditions under which the stolen $4.5 trillion could be retained and not transferred to the corporate securities account with Morgan Stanley, New York, would be fanciful.
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• SUNDAY, 19TH JULY UPDATE: IMPORTANT:
First, about the 'real bullets will fly' deadline, which is today, 19th July. This information came from CMKX 'victims'. However AFTER the information was posted, the Editor was informed by two other sources that this deadline emanates from a very senior level of a certain structure which we can't go into. It is very serious. There have been discussions for the past 24 hours in the undergrowth as to where this will start: 'At the top, surely'. NO! Apparently it is to be comprehensive....
But these criminal forces are different. The roof has caved in because the house is on fire and all the windows have been blown out: AND THEY ARE CARRYING ON SCAMMING REGARDLESS.
According to our information, THE STATES HAVE NOT BEEN PAID BECAUSE THE STIMULUS MONEY HAS NOT BEEN PAID BECAUSE THE SETTLEMENTS HAVE BEEN BLOCKED BY THESE MANIACS, who are intent upon protecting their own positions and, as has been the case all along, couldn't care less about ordinary American employees and their families.
Employees of certain States, get this, are going to work on the basis of an undertaking that they will be paid. WHAT DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF? Answer: The constant ying-yang 'promises' and broken promises and raised and lowered expectations which the 320,000 (390,000) ransacked, scammed and pillaged Ponzi 'Program' victims have suffered over the years.
• Only NOW, they are doing it to simple, straightforward, American workers and State employees. They expect these people, who have mortgages to pay, to go to work on a promise?
What is this, a deliberate attempt to trigger blood in the streets?
Our answer to that is: NO! These people are terrified of the likes of US: everyone who is standing up (including especially YOU, reader) against these criminals. It is TRUE that they are more scared of the likes of US than 'we' are of them. They are cornered. They have no idea what to do.....
...• 'REAL BULLETS START FLYING AFTER 19TH JULY': CMKX:
The Editor was advised at 2.15pm UK time on 18th July that CMKX people have a deadline of 19th July (Sunday) for 'satisfaction', after which quote 'real bullets will start flying' unquote.
The bullets in question will, we presume, not be fired by enforcement team operatives on the ground who are still, as far as we are aware, engaged in enforcing the World Court-issued Writ of Execution, but by other parties with an interest in the 'rectification of past wrongs'.
Certainly, one has the impression, too, that the giga-criminal operatives know that the game is up, and may be engaged in ransacking the accounts (or trying to), including reverting to their stealing from the Social Security Trust Fund accounts, which they were doing at least two years ago.....
And that might well help to explain why the STASI/DVD operative, Chancellor Angela Merkel, is currently painting herself 'whiter than white', demanding that Wall Street and the City of London are put in their place, while also conveniently papering over the uncomfortable reality, for public consumption purposes, that Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank are George H. W. Bush Sr.'s Fraudulent Finance hidey-holes, too (and that she, this 'financial reformer' is or has long been the recipient of Bush Sr.'s bribes, as previously reported).....
• NEW REPORT STARTS HERE:
• THE STENCH OF ROTTING HUMAN FLESH IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN
• THE INITIAL WANTA CAMPAIGN USING THE EDITOR’S PLATFORM
• DEEP LIES DISLODGED BY THE CAMPAIGN
• PAULSON SEIZES CONTROL OF THE ‘WANTA FUNDS’
• THE METHODOLOGY OF WADING THROUGH A DECEPTION MINEFIELD
• WANTA: ‘YOU ARE AN HONEST JOURNALIST, WHICH IS EXTREMELY RARE’
• ‘WALKING IN A STRAIGHT LINE’
• THE EDITOR ACCUMULATES A LARGE FILE OF DOCUMENTS
• THE ‘LINE’ THAT THE WANTA ACCOUNTS HELD SOVIET SPOIL
• REALITY: WANTA AS BUSH’S DE FACTO (DOUBLE-CROSSED) ‘BAGMAN’
• MARC RICH (HANS BRAND) AND GWENDOLYN WAYMARK
• THE EDITOR’S LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
• WANTA SUDDENLY TRAVELS TO CALIFORNIA
• WANTA AND MADOFF: OUTLETS FOR BUSH CRIME SYNDICATE MONIES
• INFORMATION IN THE PETITION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS
• GOODWIN DID NOT FORWARD COURT DOCUMENTS TO WANTA
• BUSH SR. WAS ‘UPSTAIRS’: SO WANTA’S PARTY WERE KICKED OUT
OF CITIBANK’S MIDTOWN OFFICES BY ARMED NYPD AGENTS
• THE ‘FUNNY BUSINESS’ AT THE ALEXANDRIA COURTHOUSE
• HOW THE PETITION WAS EXPLOITED FOR DECEPTION PURPOSES
• AN ‘ANOMALY’ IN THE TEXT OF THE PETITION
• DECEPTION EXPERT DOUBLE-CROSSED BY DECEPTION EXPERTS
• MONEY STOLEN FROM PETER IN ORDER NOT TO PAY PAUL
• CORRUPT U.S. GOVERNMENT RAPES, MURDERS AND PILLAGES ITS OWN PEOPLE
• CURIOUS ’INTERCHANGEABILITY’ OF U.S. ‘INTELLIGENCE’ ACCOUNTS
• WANTA RELEASED FROM JAIL IMMEDIATELY AFTER 9/11
• JAILED TO PREVENT WANTA FROM LEAKING 9/11 PLOT IN ADVANCE
• OUR DEDUCTION ABOUT THE ACCOUNTS IS CONFIRMED
• PROOF THAT 9/11 WAS MASS MURDER BY THREE PRESIDENTS
• VREELAND DID PREDICT THE 9/11 ABOMINATIONS
• OUR WARNING ABORTED A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION
• PLANNING A NUKE EXPLOSION TO AVOID PAYING WANTA?
• TWIN CITIES PREDICTION JUDGED TO BE ACCURATE, TOO
• CHENEY AND STRUCTURES WORKING OVERTIME TO STOP ‘IT ALL COMING OUT’
• NEW COORDINATED 9/11 LEAKS BY ‘LICENSED’ U.S. AGENTS
• BITTER FEUDING OVER THE MONEY BY RIVAL INTEL FACTIONS
• WHOEVER WINS ELECTIONS, THE CIA/NSC ALWAYS WINS
• THE RULE OF LAW SOLUTION WILL PREVAIL: ‘SET IN STONE’
• DEVELOPING U.S. MILITARY CRISIS OVER OBAMA’S STATUS
• BANKS REFUSE TO HONOUR CALIFORNIA I.O.U.s
• THE GHANA EPISODE, PLUS: OBAMA ‘WANTS HIS CUT’
• WARRING INTEL GROUPS FURIOUS BUT IMPOTENT
• OUR THINKING ON DERIVATIVES GOES ‘MAINSTREAM’
• WARNING BY WORLD BANK’S CHIEF ECONOMIST
• GEITHNER’S ‘STANDARDISED CONTRACT’ RED HERRING
• REARGUARD OPERATION TO ‘RESCUE’ FRAUDULENT FINANCE
• DISLOCATIONS ARE DUE EXCLUSIVELY TO CORRUPTION AND FRAUD
• AUTOMATON WHITE HOUSE KEEPS ON ‘KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS’
• PAYEE LIST REDEFINED TO INCLUDE A KEY ‘LINE ITEM PAYMENT’
• LAST-MINUTE SCAMMING OPERATIONS BY THE CROOKS
• EXCERPTS FROM A CRUCIAL AFFIDAVIT
• READ OUR SEPTEMBER 2006 PREDICTION OF THE PRESENT SITUATION IN NOTE (5) BELOW
....MARC RICH (HANS BRAND) AND GWENDOLYN WAYMARK
Most public and intelligence sector lies contain elements of truth: so to say that the bank accounts did not include the proceeds of the wholesale ransacking of the Soviet State economy would be completely untrue, especially given the known involvement of Zug, Switzerland-based intermediary Marc Rich, exposed by this service as the long-range German DVD operative Hans Brand [refer to International Currency Review, Volume 31, Numbers 3 & 4, pages 83-96, with facsimile documents (Fourth Quarter 2006)]: indeed we have ourselves deconstructed a number of such bank account transactions, having for instance identified the Bush operative Gwendolyn Ann Waymark as named beneficiary of a Pay Order fee instruction by a Mr Paul M. Bauer arising from currency exchange of 18.699 billion Soviet Roubles, of $4,721,969.70, for account of Gwendolyn Ann Waymark and Diane M. Waymark with Bank of Massachusetts, East Long Meadow Branch, associated with the forged Status-Credit-Bank, Moscow, documents referencing the Executive Order 12333 corporation Asian Europe Development Pte. Ltd., sent to us unsolicted by Fedex on 10th September 2007.
We were able to compare these documents with Status-Credit-Bank documents that we hold on file, proving the US forgery and thefts.
In the same batch, Daniel Reis was to receive a commission from the stolen Russian monies, of $20,237,012.99 [see International Currency Review, Volume 33, Numbers 3 & 4, pages 288-294 (Second Quarter 2008)], with facsimiles that prove out this forensic research.
However it is now clear that Leo Wanta was for a time THE guardian of ‘Bush Sr.’s accounts’, meaning offshore accounts holding stashes of stolen monies which Bush Sr. claimed belonged to him: which specifically explains why we have repeatedly heard, from the underground, that ‘Bush Sr. says the money is his’.....
WANTA AND MADOFF: OUTLETS FOR BUSH CRIME SYNDICATE MONIES
The Bush Crime Syndicate, of course, had multiple outlets for the stealing, placement, distribution, and laundering of the vast flow of hijacked funds that it handled, of which the Madoff enterprise was one – a point that needs to be borne in mind, so that the moribund Wanta situation is seen in its proper perspective. On 9th July 2009, it was reported that Irving Picard, the Trustee appointed by the Manhattan Court to take charge of identifying assets to compensate the victims, had stated that his investigations had ‘unearthed a labyrinth of interrelated international funds, institutions and entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth’.
Specifically, Mr Picard revealed that stolen assets had been identified in Britain, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Spain, Gibraltar, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. Mr Picard has despatched more than 230 subpoenas seeking overseas records and has received more than 15,400 claims against Madoff and his defunct Ponzi network.
As in the case of the ‘Wanta’ accounts, the funds that Mr Picard is chasing are in fact ‘Bush Crime Syndicate’ funds, as Madoff was used as a key conduit for the dispersion of stolen funds (in accordance with the classic Ponzi model).....
HOW THE PETITION WAS EXPLOITED FOR DECEPTION PURPOSES
Given the vast, rickety edifice of the fog of deception which is supposed to mask and obfuscate this corruption, do not be taken aback when we suggest to you that it seems highly probable that, accurate though the information contained in Wanta’s Petition for a Writ of Mandamus largely was (or else he would have been imprisoned for perjury), nevertheless, it formed a layer of a deeper ongoing deception, which had also been supported by Wanta’s instructed and accepted use of the Editor’s publishing and website platform (see above). That arrangement suited the Bush-CIA-DVD Crime Syndicate and the chief behind-the-scenes manipulator, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, because the Editor had promulgated, to the best of his knowledge and belief, that the colossal accruals stashed in the huge portfolio of offshore accounts ‘belonged’ to Wanta under the Reagan Executive Order 12333 arrangements (January 1981), which recklessly allowed US intelligence operatives to set up corporations and to own the shares thereof.
• These corporations would then ostensibly ‘contract’ with the CIA and its 16+ subsidiaries, to conduct Financial Warfare and other ‘Black’ financial operations on behalf (ostensibly) of Uncle Sam but in reality of the power-usurping US “State within the State’ directed by the key North American Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst, Dachau, operative George H. W. Bush Sr.
(We now believe that the German Jew Henry Kissinger, who persuaded President Ford to sack William Colby as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and to replace him with George Bush Sr., whose family is also of German Jewish extraction, is the supreme DVD manipulator and snake inside or associated with the corrupted US structures.
Kissinger appeared at the satanic mass held in the Chapel of St Peter and St Paul described by the Editor’s late friend Fr. Malachi Martin and reviewed in the Editor’s large book The New Underworld Order, and was excommunicated from his US Jewish congregation in 1974 by a Rabbinical Court presided over by Rabbi Marvin Antelman.
Of all the evil characters in this constellation of fiends, Kissinger is the most unpleasant. Following the 9/11 abomination, he appeared on a TV show and mocked the 9/11 dead in a high-pitched, squeaky voice (which identified him as being possessed, as it was not Kissinger himself who was speaking, but one of his ‘familiars’).
• On the very day of Princess Diana’s memorial service which this character attended, Kissinger was spotted that same evening in a night club, ogling at a belly-dancer).....
• But why was Wanta suddenly released from jail just over a week following 9/11? Clearly the two events were linked – a matter that had puzzled the Editor for a long time.
UNTIL, that is, the Editor finally realised that the so-called ‘Wanta’ accounts were/are some of the so-called ‘Bush Sr.’ accounts, which is why George Bush Sr. says ‘the money is mine’.
JAILED TO PREVENT WANTA FROM LEAKING 9/11 PLOT IN ADVANCE
On 14th July 2009, the Editor obtained specific confirmation from an impeccably knowledgeable US source of the accuracy of his deduction that the so-called ‘Wanta’ accounts were indeed some of (if not most of) the accounts then used by Bush to stash stolen and other monies arising not just from the Financial Warfare operations against the Soviet Union (which was also partly true) but, more generally, from endless criminal finance operations conducted under cover of Bush’s de facto control of the CIA-Intelligence Power: hence Langley’s formal designation as ‘the George Bush Center for Intelligence’.
• As we have stated previously, the word ‘Terrorism’ should be substituted for ‘Intelligence’ here – not least since money-laundering, the ongoing stealing of funds, and illicit ‘Black’ finance scams generally are TERRORISM as defined by the perpetrators’ own pre-prepared Patriot Act legislation.
Now, what had happened was that Bush Sr. and Clinton and the CIA conspired to remove Wanta, a difficult character, from access to the accounts by concocting the farrago of lies and diversionary claptrap that we have recounted at length in our ‘Wantagate’ reports.
The ‘falling out’ was in fact a standard ‘switch’ or double-cross perpetrated by the Godfather Bush against an operative who had originally been entrusted with certain tasks, including US Financial Warfare Operations against the Soviet Union, by President Reagan, who had called Wanta ‘my junkyard dog’.
Wanta himself told the Editor that Reagan used to brief him personally, and that George Bush Sr. (then Vice President and therefore in charge of the National Security Council) was usually not present at these briefings....
‘Why was Wanta released from jail almost immediately after 9/11?’ Wanta was suddenly collected from jail (see above) by Gerald Siechert, of Austrian extraction, and driven to his daughter’s home. WHY?
The authoritative answer to this question:
• Because Wanta knew about the planned 9/11 operation, and the Three Presidents (Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush) and their co-conspirators were concerned that Wanta, who had fallen out with Bush (and was deeply resentful of the way he had been treated) might reveal what he knew IN ADVANCE OF the atrocity. But after it had occurred, that was no longer a problem, so he was released’.
• Have you understood the significance of what has just been stated?
Recall that the former President of Italy, Francesco Cossiga, told Corriera della Sera, Italy’s most respected newspaper, on 5th December 2007, that ‘the disastrous 9/11 attack has been planned and realised by the CIA and Mossad’. There is no way that such a senior intelligence officer as a former Italian President would make such a statement, if it was not true: WHICH IT IS.
PROOF THAT 9/11 WAS MASS MURDER BY THREE PRESIDENTS
THREE Presidents of the United States, with the CIA and Mossad [see below] conspired to murder over 3,000 people in order to achieve their filthy, sordid objectives. Not only is this a case of mass murder, for which ALL OFFICIALS WHO HAVE STOOD IN THE WAY OF THE ARREST OF THESE THREE CRIMINAL MURDERERS stand likewise accused of aiding and abetting mass murder and likely breach of the Misprision of Felony Statute, but we are dealing with TREASON as well.....
VREELAND DID PREDICT THE 9/11 ABOMINATIONS
Office of Naval Intelligence operative Lt. Delmart Mark Vreeland, whom the Editor interviewed at length in Niagara Falls, Canada, in May 2003 [see timeline, Note (1)] DID reveal IN ADVANCE the intended atrocity, in his Prison Note, written from a jail cell in Canada, in August 2001. He managed to have his information transferred to Canadian intelligence contacts, who are therefore implicated in the atrocity if they did nothing. They certainly did not resort to the ONLY weapon that works: pre-emptive publicity. No, they preferred people to die en masse, rather than to stick their necks out.
Vreeland’s ‘Prison Note’, written in August 2001, contained the exclamations: ‘They will paint me crazy and call me a liar. Let one happen, stop the rest!!!’ Having interviewed Vreeland over a period of several days in May 2003, the Editor is certain that, while this operative was/is an induced MK-ULTRA-type ‘multiple personality disorder’ victim (whose various ‘alters’, including an ‘assassin alter’ can be activated by pre-programmed phrases delivered by handlers) – and despite his serial low-life criminal behaviour and that he scammed the Editor’s VISA card to the tune of £1,600, he told the truth in discussions about global issues.
In the course of a live interview on 5th June 2002, Vreeland said that he conveyed his warning about 9/11 in advance of the event, to Canadian intelligence. ‘Yes I did, most definitely. I told it to their face, my lawyers told them to their face, and they knew what was going on. As far as I know, Colonel Kispel and his partner informed the United States and Ottawa immediately, through the RCMP and NSIS and CSIS [Canadian intelligence organisations]. (4)
In March 2005, the Editor was informed by a Pentagon-linked operative that Vreeland (who had threatened the Editor with death while he was riding from Niagara Falls back to New York City in May 2003, in a bizarre ‘switch’ attempt) ‘is in solitary confinement for a very long time, his case is sealed, and he is no longer a threat to you’. However the fact that Vreeland has been ‘taken down’ does NOT invalidate the accuracy of his geopolitical information, of the information he conveyed to this Editor about the endless damage and evil that George Bush Sr. has inflicted upon the United States and the world, and of his ACCURATE prior warning about 9/11.
• MORE DETAILS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO VREELAND:
Correspondents have mined the prison data and have provided the Editor [17th July 2009] with the following information. After his arrest in Iowa in October 2004, Vreeland was convicted in 2006 of 13 felony charges, and was sentenced in October 2008 to 336 years in prison in Colorado. His current so-called 'facility assignment' is Buena Vista Correctional Complex. His estimated Parole Eligibility Date is 2nd June 2124. His Parole Hearing Date is 1st March 2124, when he will be 156 years old.
Vreeland was indeed a low-life criminal, but what is (deliberately) not understood is that the ONI recruits such personnel for some of its operations. This practice has the advantage that when the time comes to dispense with the operative's services, the ONI operative in question can easily be discredited because of their serial criminal behaviour, as in Vreeland's case. However as a multiple personality disorder MK-ULTRA-type victim, Vreeland was perfectly lucid (and was extremely well informed and intelligent) provided he was 'on his meds', and the right 'alter' was being consulted.
His knowledge of certain matters in the Soviet Union was accurate (which the Editor, who is also the Editor of Soviet Analyst, knew, because of his own special knowledge), and the details that he provided concerning the criminal international operations of George Bush Sr., conveyed to the Editor by Vreeland in May 2003, were subsequently found by the Editor to be true.
In the Editor's opinion, his undoubtedly necessary conviction on 13 of multiple felony charges was actually allowed to go forward because he had opened one of three diplomatic bags which he had couriered from Moscow, which is treason. Colin Powell, Secretary of State du jour, had issued a Warrant for his extradition from Canada, which the Canadian authorities had failed to execute.
• Moreover Vreeland’s exclamation ‘Let one happen, stop the rest!!!’ encapsulates what was intended with respect to 9/11 – which Wanta knew about ahead of the event, as well....
PLANNING A NUKE EXPLOSION TO AVOID PAYING WANTA?
Whether these fears were well founded or not, the ruthlessness of the cornered criminals that we have been having to deal with these past 18 months is undoubtedly such that they would be willing to go to any lengths to get their own way. After all, they were prepared to sacrifice the lives of more than 3,000 people on 9/11, inter alia to procure the destruction of the original copies of a mountain of derivatives contracts held by Cantor Fitzgerald that were falling due imminently for settlement in US dollars. The firm lost 658 of its staff in that abomination.
During the chaos, a huge volume of gold was stolen from the underground vaults of Bank of Nova Scotia. After getting away with those atrocities, the idea that a man like Cheney, a ‘former’ satanic MK-Ultra and Omega controller and operative with links into organised crime, would cringe at a rogue operation to indulge in nuclear blackmail on US soil in order to create conditions under which the stolen $4.5 trillion could be retained and not transferred to the corporate securities account with Morgan Stanley, New York, would be fanciful.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Do it my way MR PRESIDENT...or we are sunk in September...doncha know?
http://www.henrymakow.com/perhaps_we_should_prepare_for.html
Many Predict US Financial Collapse in September
July 18, 2009
depression.jpgby Charles (A Reader)
Let us contemplate the day in the near future when the consequences of financial chicanery finally outpace the ability of the governments, central banks and big media to cover up and obfuscate the truth. Many respected voices have now gone on record that September 30 or thereabouts will be that day.
--Bob Chapman [Internationalforecaster.com] revealed that the US State Dept has advised embassies worldwide to stock up on a year's worth of the local currency in anticipation of collapse of the US dollar. Look for a temporary banking shutdown timed for around September 2009. As under Roosevelt, some banks won't reopen.
96% of bank reserves are currently held with the Federal Reserve who tells the banks not to loan the money, but rather to save it for further banking acquisition and consolidation.
Chapman foresees a bank holiday lasting 4-5 days.
Chapman thinks this first bank holiday presages a much more significant bank holiday months to years later which will involve simultaneous devaluations of multiple currencies as well as other significant changes in the banking system.
--Harry Shultz [as quoted in marketwatch.com] says "Some U.S. embassies worldwide are being advised to purchase massive amounts of local currencies; enough to last them a year. Some embassies are being sent enormous amounts of U.S. cash to purchase currencies from those governments, quietly. But not pound sterling. Inside the State Dept., there is a sense of sadness and foreboding that 'something' is about to happen ... within 180 days, but could be 120-150 days."
--Benjamin Fulford [http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/benjaminfulford/] states that for almost a century the US Treasury Dept has been issuing specialized debt instruments to countries with which the US has had a trade surplus.
These complex debt instruments are tailored by complex treaties. Unfortunately, the recent US Treasury funding needs exceed the willingness of these creditor nations to extend additional credit. Fulford writes, "The problem is that after nearly a century of issuing these debt instruments, the chickens are coming home to roost. President Obama tried at the recent G8 plus 5 meeting in Italy to borrow more money than George Bush junior did in 8 years. He was told a resounding no. The result should be total economic chaos in the U.S. by September 30th . "
--Jim Willie [goldenjackass.com] writes of an Asian led initiative ending dollar hegemony beginning this weekend. Willie suspects that the Fed/Treasury is covertly loaning foreign central banks the money with which the central banks are now using to buy US debt. Increasingly, US debt is being bought by foreign central banks taking up the slack of investors abandoning US Treasury debt. Willie confirms Chapman's comments and says he solicited and received "multiple confirmations." He adds, "CHAOS WILL PREVAIL WITHIN SEVERAL MONTHS, PERHAPS A YEAR AT MOST{his emphasis}."
--Jim Sinclair [jsmineset.com] has recently visited China meeting with its leaders. He states that China is increasingly more willing to take on the United States in its apparent maneuvers to inflate its way out of its debt crisis. In early July Sinclair started a 120 day countdown till breakdown of the US dollar ends market manipulation and all those sour economic chickens come home to roost.
OUT OF TRICKS
Seemingly the Federal Reserve/US Treasury have exhausted their bag of tricks. The Fed is fighting rising interest rates, a difficult task given the hyperinflationary debt financing it is now doing.
Once rising pressure on interest rates become too much for the Fed to control, there will probably be several sudden economic and financial surprises cascading with currently known dilemmas:
--crashing dollar;
--increasing home mortgage defaults;
--commercial mortgage defaults reaching critical mass;
--falling bond and stock markets extending insolvency of pension funds; defaults on debt by state and local governments.
And don't forget derivatives and further exposure of corruption and criminality on Wall Street. Bernie Madoff may soon have lots of company.
Unable to produce any more financial wizardry, the cynical federal government is arrayed in full battle dress uniform:
--1] Mass forced swine flu vaccinations scheduled this fall performed under the specter of martial law;
--2] Rumblings of extending the wars in Asia into Iran and Pakistan;
--3] Rekindling the Korean conflict may also be in the cards.
Of course, don't forget that both Iran and North Korea are client states of the British World Order. All the recent saber rattling involving Iran and North Korea is wholly orchestrated. We need the distractions from the economic crisis, so our clients Ahmadinejad and Kim provide us with the necessary theater. So what will come first, further banner headlines of dollar collapse and market crashes or the distracting theater of more war or 911 type events?
What will this fall really bring? It is not too far away so we shall soon know. Unfortunately, it may make last fall look pretty tame. When the government answers economic distress by preparing for the worst, then the worst may very well be what happens.
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Related: "Western World Faces Fiscal Ruin"
Related: Pastor Lindsey Williams Details Economic Calamity Ahead
http://www.henrymakow.com/dear_friends_and_family.html
Many Predict US Financial Collapse in September
July 18, 2009
depression.jpgby Charles (A Reader)
Let us contemplate the day in the near future when the consequences of financial chicanery finally outpace the ability of the governments, central banks and big media to cover up and obfuscate the truth. Many respected voices have now gone on record that September 30 or thereabouts will be that day.
--Bob Chapman [Internationalforecaster.com] revealed that the US State Dept has advised embassies worldwide to stock up on a year's worth of the local currency in anticipation of collapse of the US dollar. Look for a temporary banking shutdown timed for around September 2009. As under Roosevelt, some banks won't reopen.
96% of bank reserves are currently held with the Federal Reserve who tells the banks not to loan the money, but rather to save it for further banking acquisition and consolidation.
Chapman foresees a bank holiday lasting 4-5 days.
Chapman thinks this first bank holiday presages a much more significant bank holiday months to years later which will involve simultaneous devaluations of multiple currencies as well as other significant changes in the banking system.
--Harry Shultz [as quoted in marketwatch.com] says "Some U.S. embassies worldwide are being advised to purchase massive amounts of local currencies; enough to last them a year. Some embassies are being sent enormous amounts of U.S. cash to purchase currencies from those governments, quietly. But not pound sterling. Inside the State Dept., there is a sense of sadness and foreboding that 'something' is about to happen ... within 180 days, but could be 120-150 days."
--Benjamin Fulford [http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/benjaminfulford/] states that for almost a century the US Treasury Dept has been issuing specialized debt instruments to countries with which the US has had a trade surplus.
These complex debt instruments are tailored by complex treaties. Unfortunately, the recent US Treasury funding needs exceed the willingness of these creditor nations to extend additional credit. Fulford writes, "The problem is that after nearly a century of issuing these debt instruments, the chickens are coming home to roost. President Obama tried at the recent G8 plus 5 meeting in Italy to borrow more money than George Bush junior did in 8 years. He was told a resounding no. The result should be total economic chaos in the U.S. by September 30th . "
--Jim Willie [goldenjackass.com] writes of an Asian led initiative ending dollar hegemony beginning this weekend. Willie suspects that the Fed/Treasury is covertly loaning foreign central banks the money with which the central banks are now using to buy US debt. Increasingly, US debt is being bought by foreign central banks taking up the slack of investors abandoning US Treasury debt. Willie confirms Chapman's comments and says he solicited and received "multiple confirmations." He adds, "CHAOS WILL PREVAIL WITHIN SEVERAL MONTHS, PERHAPS A YEAR AT MOST{his emphasis}."
--Jim Sinclair [jsmineset.com] has recently visited China meeting with its leaders. He states that China is increasingly more willing to take on the United States in its apparent maneuvers to inflate its way out of its debt crisis. In early July Sinclair started a 120 day countdown till breakdown of the US dollar ends market manipulation and all those sour economic chickens come home to roost.
OUT OF TRICKS
Seemingly the Federal Reserve/US Treasury have exhausted their bag of tricks. The Fed is fighting rising interest rates, a difficult task given the hyperinflationary debt financing it is now doing.
Once rising pressure on interest rates become too much for the Fed to control, there will probably be several sudden economic and financial surprises cascading with currently known dilemmas:
--crashing dollar;
--increasing home mortgage defaults;
--commercial mortgage defaults reaching critical mass;
--falling bond and stock markets extending insolvency of pension funds; defaults on debt by state and local governments.
And don't forget derivatives and further exposure of corruption and criminality on Wall Street. Bernie Madoff may soon have lots of company.
Unable to produce any more financial wizardry, the cynical federal government is arrayed in full battle dress uniform:
--1] Mass forced swine flu vaccinations scheduled this fall performed under the specter of martial law;
--2] Rumblings of extending the wars in Asia into Iran and Pakistan;
--3] Rekindling the Korean conflict may also be in the cards.
Of course, don't forget that both Iran and North Korea are client states of the British World Order. All the recent saber rattling involving Iran and North Korea is wholly orchestrated. We need the distractions from the economic crisis, so our clients Ahmadinejad and Kim provide us with the necessary theater. So what will come first, further banner headlines of dollar collapse and market crashes or the distracting theater of more war or 911 type events?
What will this fall really bring? It is not too far away so we shall soon know. Unfortunately, it may make last fall look pretty tame. When the government answers economic distress by preparing for the worst, then the worst may very well be what happens.
----
Related: "Western World Faces Fiscal Ruin"
Related: Pastor Lindsey Williams Details Economic Calamity Ahead
http://www.henrymakow.com/dear_friends_and_family.html
BEAN's TESTIMONY puts Cheney on Fed Death Row: my way or nothing...IT IS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO OBAMA AND DEMS problems
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/18/house-intel-probe-cia-plan-lead-showdown-cheney-democrats/
House Probe of CIA Plan Could Lead to Showdown Between Cheney, Democrats
House Probe of CIA Plan Could Lead to Showdown Between Cheney, Democrats
CIA Director Leon Panetta told the House committee that former Vice President Dick Cheney had directed the agency not to inform Congress about the plan to train teams to kill Al Qaeda leaders abroad, provoking an outcry among Democrats.
FOXNews.com
Saturday, July 18, 2009
March 15: Former Vice President Dick Cheney appears on CNN's "State of the Union" in Washington (AP).
Vice President Dick Cheney has long been a target of Democrats for his role in developing and implementing the Bush White House's anti-terror policies, and Democratic legislators soon may get a chance to hold his feet to the fire over a secret proposal for a CIA hit squad.
The proposal never got off the ground, and President Obama's CIA director, Leon Panetta, canceled the plan last month after learning of its existence.
__________________
tommy:
TOTAL UNADULTERATED LIES....THE DEATH SQUADS WERE AND ARE VERY ACTIVE, and always will be as long as the "Dems--Obama--Holder--Mueller" all engage in their usual pussified DUMBFUCKERY (a form of chicanery used by dumbfucks to avoid responsibility for any embarassing act or omission).
If Bean testifies, and the Dems "follow my foundation" to other CORROBORATING WITNESSES, then, and only then...WILL CHENEY PAY FOR THE SAVAGE TEXAS MURDER OF A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE.
My way...or fucking fawghetaboutit...THERE IS NO OTHER WAY FOR OBAMA TO EXTORT THE EXTORTIONISTS who have run him like a scared little clown puppet.
BY THE WAY: If you want to save America...you got to use CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE LAWS TO SEIZE THE BUSH CRIME FAMILIES TRILLIONS that they stole, and continue to retain in the infamous covert op called THE LEO WANTA TRUST FUND SWINDLE...aka THE GIGA SWINDLE.
Our Gold is stolen....but...uh....SENATOR LEAHY HAS NOT ASKED BOB MUELLER ABOUT FBI HQ ORDERING THE OPENING OF A PRE LIM INQUIRY INTO THE FORT KNOX AUDIT?
Where is the gold?
Let's not forget CHENEY ORDERING THE KOREAN SUPER BILL PRINTING PRESS to run off dollars...fiat dollars to pay off chinks?...NICE SCAM doncha think?
DIDN'T THE FED RESERVE ENGAGE IN A CONSPIRACY TO ENGAGE IN ECONOMIC TERRORISM against the United States and every FED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER who realized that..."getting paid salary in fiat dollars" IS ALOT LIKE GETTING HALF YOUR PAY FOR SAME WORK?
________________________
But Democrats in Congress have raised objections to the news that Cheney years ago reportedly directed the agency not to inform Congress about the proposal to train teams to kill Al Qaeda leaders abroad. The House Intelligence Committee announced Friday that it will launch an investigation to determine whether laws were broken.
Some congressional analysts, however, warn that if Democrats try to put Cheney on the hot seat, they risk blowback because of Americans' apparent ambivalence about Cheney's take-no-prisoners approach to fighting terrorism.
"I can't think of a situation better than to cross swords with congressional Democrats," Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University and a congressional scholar, told FOXNews.com. "As far as Cheney is concerned, his natural constituency is conservative Republicans, and they would rally to his side. This increases his stature."
And Cheney still would hold leverage if he defied an invitation or subpoena to appear, Baker said.
_____________
tommy:
FAILING TO APPEAR is an act of cowardice and weakness that proves his guilt?
FOX NEWS is very, very, very, afraid of these explosive facts.
If the pussified punk Dems "let Bean lay the foundation" ...they will win and succeed and save this country after "criminal leverage on Cheney" forces him to disclose the LEO WANTA TRUST FUND GIGA SCANDAL in which TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS (banked in Euros..so they are safe) is illegally retained by the BUSH CRIME FAMILY.
FLIP CHENEY, get to the TRILLIONS, AND SAVE THIS COUNTRY FROM BANKRUPTCY.
THAT IS A VERY VIABLE PLAN, and literally...the only way to save America.
My testimony leads to:
1)---- SD HIGHWAY PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT'S MURDER INVESTIGATIONS BEING OBSTRUCTED by CHENEY'S ORDERS TO "ASSERT STATE SECRETS" to stop Talbot.
I TALKED TO TALBOT before he resigned in disgust (you can find him in Sioux Falls, SD, where he teaches police science at ITT tech.
TALBOT's friend, YANKTON PD SGT MARK DEFENBaugh WAS MURDERED IN A STAGED CAR ACCIDENT ten days before...another of my recently visited associates (JOHN KABIESEMAN, US MARINE CORP, YANKTON ATTORNEY) was also...murdered in a staged car wreck.
I gave TALBOT THE INFO TO OPEN HIS PRE LIM INQUIRY.
SIOUX FALLS FBI JFLTTF has this tape recording.
IT'S ALL THERE...too bad Dems are too weak, too cowardly, and way to misdirected to ever once...TALK TO A PRIMARY WITNESS?
2)----CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER OBSTRUCTED WITH STATE SECRETS...Johnny Sutton, Bob Mueller, San Antonio FBI SAC Pat Paterson, Anthony Brown, John Bradley, RRPD Det Coombs CAN AND WILL CORROBORATE CHENEY'S CONSPIRACIES TO OBSTRUCT BY ASSERTING NATIONAL SECURITY (aka STATE SECRETS TO COVER UP DOMESTIC MURDERS BY CHENEY).
________________________
"It would put Cheney in the position of standing up to the bullies on Capitol Hill," he said.
Panetta told the House and Senate intelligence committees about the Bush-era CIA plan June 24, a day after he first learned of the operation and canceled it himself.
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Tex., chairman of the House committee, said in a statement Friday the probe "will focus on the core issue of how the congressional intelligence committees and Congress are kept fully and currently informed."
But Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill, added that if the investigation finds that Cheney ordered Congress not to be informed of the plan, "there is reason to believe that is a significant violation of the National Security Act."
"We'll follow that thread where it takes us and determine if there's reason to refer the issue to the Justice Department or clarify the laws regarding notification," she said.
The National Security Act requires, with rare exceptions, that Congress be informed of covert activities, though only the committee leaders and party leaders in the House and Senate are brought into the loop.
If lawmakers are considering inviting or serving a subpoena to the former vice president to discuss his role in the program, they would be wise to note that Cheney's approval ratings rose this year after sparring publicly with the Obama administration over its national security policies. Cheney has argued the new administration's policies are making the country less safe.
At a hearing, Cheney could make it a "moot court on whether or not the Obama administration is seriously interested in preventing terrorist attacks."
Baker said he doesn't believe that Democrats would be deterred by those risks because they're under pressure from their base to go after Cheney and other Bush administration officials. But they would go after Cheney at their own peril, he said.
"I think there's a serious danger they're overplaying their hand," he said, adding that he believes Cheney could win support among swing voters as a result of an investigation targeting him. "I see it as a situation that Cheney could exploit to his own advantage."
______________________________________
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Explosive Back Breaking News
Goldman Sachs Fingered
Coup in Honduras
Obama vs Hillary
by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Saturday July 18, 2009
...."We can now reveal that former CIA Director George Tenet has released "smoking gun" evidence to Congressional committees detailing the role of Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton in operating worldwide assassination teams that targeted political enemies of the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate.
The assassination teams also involved former CIA Director Porter Goss, noted neoNazi and former BushFRAUD CIA Director Michel Hayden and noted Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate black ops specialist neoNazi Colonel Dana Wilcox.
Item: Wilcox, along with his stooge Michael Cottrell, is currently smearing and libeling American Patriot Ambassador Leo Wanta and attempting to restrict the final implementation of the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols."
We can now also divulge that Wilcox, along with Clinton stooge Lanny Davis, ...Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, ...Eva Telege aka Teleka aka Teleki, ...Karl Rove and former BushFRAUD U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez conspired to frame former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, concerning not only Siegelman's knowledge of the Bush-Clinton Iran-Contra operation that had stretched into Alabama, but Siegelman's support for American Patriot Ambassador Leo Wanta's authority over the Alabama toll company that would have produced thousands of jobs for Americans in the southeast portion of the United States during the latter part of the Clinton Administration."......
______________________________________
http://www.prisonplanet.com/swiss-banks-running-out-of-storage-space-for-gold-bullion.html
Swiss banks running out of storage space for gold bullion
Mineweb
Friday, July 17, 2009
In a note entitled No more space for Gold Bars, Swiss news website 20 Minuten Online reports that Swiss banks are running out of secure storage space for gold bullion held by investors and institutions. Fears of hyperinflation, the economic downturn and the success of gold index funds (ETFs), which are supported by physical gold, has led to a run on precious metals investment – and in gold in particular, and in the necessary secure storage space in which to hold it..
One Swiss bank, earlier this year, reported that it was having to relocate some of its stored silver bullion to another site to make room for gold. The Zurich Kantonal bank put this down to the success of its gold ETF.
The website reports another Swiss investment banker despairing “We have the need to store more gold for our clients but are finding it difficult to find secure storage facilities”. Gold storage makes high demands on security which is what is making the gold holding task more difficult. Few banks will divulge exactly where their gold is stored for security reasons.
House Probe of CIA Plan Could Lead to Showdown Between Cheney, Democrats
House Probe of CIA Plan Could Lead to Showdown Between Cheney, Democrats
CIA Director Leon Panetta told the House committee that former Vice President Dick Cheney had directed the agency not to inform Congress about the plan to train teams to kill Al Qaeda leaders abroad, provoking an outcry among Democrats.
FOXNews.com
Saturday, July 18, 2009
March 15: Former Vice President Dick Cheney appears on CNN's "State of the Union" in Washington (AP).
Vice President Dick Cheney has long been a target of Democrats for his role in developing and implementing the Bush White House's anti-terror policies, and Democratic legislators soon may get a chance to hold his feet to the fire over a secret proposal for a CIA hit squad.
The proposal never got off the ground, and President Obama's CIA director, Leon Panetta, canceled the plan last month after learning of its existence.
__________________
tommy:
TOTAL UNADULTERATED LIES....THE DEATH SQUADS WERE AND ARE VERY ACTIVE, and always will be as long as the "Dems--Obama--Holder--Mueller" all engage in their usual pussified DUMBFUCKERY (a form of chicanery used by dumbfucks to avoid responsibility for any embarassing act or omission).
If Bean testifies, and the Dems "follow my foundation" to other CORROBORATING WITNESSES, then, and only then...WILL CHENEY PAY FOR THE SAVAGE TEXAS MURDER OF A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE.
My way...or fucking fawghetaboutit...THERE IS NO OTHER WAY FOR OBAMA TO EXTORT THE EXTORTIONISTS who have run him like a scared little clown puppet.
BY THE WAY: If you want to save America...you got to use CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE LAWS TO SEIZE THE BUSH CRIME FAMILIES TRILLIONS that they stole, and continue to retain in the infamous covert op called THE LEO WANTA TRUST FUND SWINDLE...aka THE GIGA SWINDLE.
Our Gold is stolen....but...uh....SENATOR LEAHY HAS NOT ASKED BOB MUELLER ABOUT FBI HQ ORDERING THE OPENING OF A PRE LIM INQUIRY INTO THE FORT KNOX AUDIT?
Where is the gold?
Let's not forget CHENEY ORDERING THE KOREAN SUPER BILL PRINTING PRESS to run off dollars...fiat dollars to pay off chinks?...NICE SCAM doncha think?
DIDN'T THE FED RESERVE ENGAGE IN A CONSPIRACY TO ENGAGE IN ECONOMIC TERRORISM against the United States and every FED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER who realized that..."getting paid salary in fiat dollars" IS ALOT LIKE GETTING HALF YOUR PAY FOR SAME WORK?
________________________
But Democrats in Congress have raised objections to the news that Cheney years ago reportedly directed the agency not to inform Congress about the proposal to train teams to kill Al Qaeda leaders abroad. The House Intelligence Committee announced Friday that it will launch an investigation to determine whether laws were broken.
Some congressional analysts, however, warn that if Democrats try to put Cheney on the hot seat, they risk blowback because of Americans' apparent ambivalence about Cheney's take-no-prisoners approach to fighting terrorism.
"I can't think of a situation better than to cross swords with congressional Democrats," Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University and a congressional scholar, told FOXNews.com. "As far as Cheney is concerned, his natural constituency is conservative Republicans, and they would rally to his side. This increases his stature."
And Cheney still would hold leverage if he defied an invitation or subpoena to appear, Baker said.
_____________
tommy:
FAILING TO APPEAR is an act of cowardice and weakness that proves his guilt?
FOX NEWS is very, very, very, afraid of these explosive facts.
If the pussified punk Dems "let Bean lay the foundation" ...they will win and succeed and save this country after "criminal leverage on Cheney" forces him to disclose the LEO WANTA TRUST FUND GIGA SCANDAL in which TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS (banked in Euros..so they are safe) is illegally retained by the BUSH CRIME FAMILY.
FLIP CHENEY, get to the TRILLIONS, AND SAVE THIS COUNTRY FROM BANKRUPTCY.
THAT IS A VERY VIABLE PLAN, and literally...the only way to save America.
My testimony leads to:
1)---- SD HIGHWAY PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT'S MURDER INVESTIGATIONS BEING OBSTRUCTED by CHENEY'S ORDERS TO "ASSERT STATE SECRETS" to stop Talbot.
I TALKED TO TALBOT before he resigned in disgust (you can find him in Sioux Falls, SD, where he teaches police science at ITT tech.
TALBOT's friend, YANKTON PD SGT MARK DEFENBaugh WAS MURDERED IN A STAGED CAR ACCIDENT ten days before...another of my recently visited associates (JOHN KABIESEMAN, US MARINE CORP, YANKTON ATTORNEY) was also...murdered in a staged car wreck.
I gave TALBOT THE INFO TO OPEN HIS PRE LIM INQUIRY.
SIOUX FALLS FBI JFLTTF has this tape recording.
IT'S ALL THERE...too bad Dems are too weak, too cowardly, and way to misdirected to ever once...TALK TO A PRIMARY WITNESS?
2)----CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER OBSTRUCTED WITH STATE SECRETS...Johnny Sutton, Bob Mueller, San Antonio FBI SAC Pat Paterson, Anthony Brown, John Bradley, RRPD Det Coombs CAN AND WILL CORROBORATE CHENEY'S CONSPIRACIES TO OBSTRUCT BY ASSERTING NATIONAL SECURITY (aka STATE SECRETS TO COVER UP DOMESTIC MURDERS BY CHENEY).
________________________
"It would put Cheney in the position of standing up to the bullies on Capitol Hill," he said.
Panetta told the House and Senate intelligence committees about the Bush-era CIA plan June 24, a day after he first learned of the operation and canceled it himself.
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Tex., chairman of the House committee, said in a statement Friday the probe "will focus on the core issue of how the congressional intelligence committees and Congress are kept fully and currently informed."
But Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill, added that if the investigation finds that Cheney ordered Congress not to be informed of the plan, "there is reason to believe that is a significant violation of the National Security Act."
"We'll follow that thread where it takes us and determine if there's reason to refer the issue to the Justice Department or clarify the laws regarding notification," she said.
The National Security Act requires, with rare exceptions, that Congress be informed of covert activities, though only the committee leaders and party leaders in the House and Senate are brought into the loop.
If lawmakers are considering inviting or serving a subpoena to the former vice president to discuss his role in the program, they would be wise to note that Cheney's approval ratings rose this year after sparring publicly with the Obama administration over its national security policies. Cheney has argued the new administration's policies are making the country less safe.
At a hearing, Cheney could make it a "moot court on whether or not the Obama administration is seriously interested in preventing terrorist attacks."
Baker said he doesn't believe that Democrats would be deterred by those risks because they're under pressure from their base to go after Cheney and other Bush administration officials. But they would go after Cheney at their own peril, he said.
"I think there's a serious danger they're overplaying their hand," he said, adding that he believes Cheney could win support among swing voters as a result of an investigation targeting him. "I see it as a situation that Cheney could exploit to his own advantage."
______________________________________
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Explosive Back Breaking News
Goldman Sachs Fingered
Coup in Honduras
Obama vs Hillary
by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Saturday July 18, 2009
...."We can now reveal that former CIA Director George Tenet has released "smoking gun" evidence to Congressional committees detailing the role of Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton in operating worldwide assassination teams that targeted political enemies of the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate.
The assassination teams also involved former CIA Director Porter Goss, noted neoNazi and former BushFRAUD CIA Director Michel Hayden and noted Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate black ops specialist neoNazi Colonel Dana Wilcox.
Item: Wilcox, along with his stooge Michael Cottrell, is currently smearing and libeling American Patriot Ambassador Leo Wanta and attempting to restrict the final implementation of the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols."
We can now also divulge that Wilcox, along with Clinton stooge Lanny Davis, ...Hillary Rodenhurst Clinton, ...Eva Telege aka Teleka aka Teleki, ...Karl Rove and former BushFRAUD U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez conspired to frame former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, concerning not only Siegelman's knowledge of the Bush-Clinton Iran-Contra operation that had stretched into Alabama, but Siegelman's support for American Patriot Ambassador Leo Wanta's authority over the Alabama toll company that would have produced thousands of jobs for Americans in the southeast portion of the United States during the latter part of the Clinton Administration."......
______________________________________
http://www.prisonplanet.com/swiss-banks-running-out-of-storage-space-for-gold-bullion.html
Swiss banks running out of storage space for gold bullion
Mineweb
Friday, July 17, 2009
In a note entitled No more space for Gold Bars, Swiss news website 20 Minuten Online reports that Swiss banks are running out of secure storage space for gold bullion held by investors and institutions. Fears of hyperinflation, the economic downturn and the success of gold index funds (ETFs), which are supported by physical gold, has led to a run on precious metals investment – and in gold in particular, and in the necessary secure storage space in which to hold it..
One Swiss bank, earlier this year, reported that it was having to relocate some of its stored silver bullion to another site to make room for gold. The Zurich Kantonal bank put this down to the success of its gold ETF.
The website reports another Swiss investment banker despairing “We have the need to store more gold for our clients but are finding it difficult to find secure storage facilities”. Gold storage makes high demands on security which is what is making the gold holding task more difficult. Few banks will divulge exactly where their gold is stored for security reasons.
Comments on the LEO WANTA TRUST FUND SWNDLE aka THE GIGA SCANDAL (Bush Crime Family's secret FELONIES)
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casper 7-19-09
Several days ago a representative of the World Court arrived to kick ass and get the deliveries out. He was involved in the movement of packages from Treasury to the Supreme Court late last week and the supposed overcoming of OBAMA's never ending blockages in the Supreme Court meetings Friday which were to result in deliveries this weekend.
OBAMA bribed this World Court Representative using real money not "if come" money.
It was this man's job to convince the World Court our deliveries had occurred this weekend so that the IMF countries could access at 7 a.m. Monday morning leaving we the recipients screwed.
The price for this fellows soul was 2 B up front in advance and 8 B more when OBAMA had his hands on our money.
The 2 B and much more was obtained from the VATICAN on his stop over there. Do you remember what the POPE had to say about our receiving when he was in the U.S. as WE reported at the time? "The peasants will never receive this money and they may as well understand that". The funds provided OBAMA are a portion of the Marshall Plan Funds which had been hidden at the VATICAN.
WE have been reporting the unbelievable levels of OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CORRUPTION from the beginning. WE barely scratched the surface.
ALL bribery funds actually paid have been seized, he is broke and unable to pay off on all his promises to his equally guilty helpers here and abroad. OBAMA, The Vatican and the World Court Rep. have been caught and now the poor fellow is on his way to the Hague with an empty bank account and OBAMA gets still another act of TREASON credited to himself. The Government Officials facilitating this payoff for OBAMA were JOHN ROBERTS and TINY TIM GEITHNER.
Needless to say OBAMA has again gone into a rage again claiming this money belongs to him, he must have it, he will get it and we will never receive. He is also claiming ownership, PERSONAL OWNERSHIP, of all the Gold stolen domestically and moved out of the U.S. even the Gold belonging to other Countries.
Having been caught again he is saying, as of 7 p.m. EST tonight, that the IMF countries may try a million times to access but never will and that hell will freeze over before we recipients will receive these packages.
The World Court has ordered the U.S. Military to deliver the FREEDOM PACKAGES tonight and the rest of us tomorrow.
OBAMA has responded to the Court by phone that he has ordered the Military not to deliver and has ordered Homeland Security to stop the deliveries whatever it takes.
The Military is capable of delivery tonight, the issue is whether they continue to be subservient to OBAMA'S Billion Dollar "if come" bribes to each of several Generals or whether they will follow the legally and morally correct orders of the World Court.
Remember, the Military has admitted that they are aware that OBAMA is in office illegally. OBAMA told the Court he has bought the World Court, The Pentagon and The Military and that he will stop these deliveries tonight.
In late breaking news the Military has agreed to deliver and OBAMA has ordered Homeland Security to stop them whatever it takes. He has threatened the Military and the recipients.
HOMELAND SECURITY is saying they are following OBAMAS orders and are prepared to use force. The Military has responded they are following legal World Court Orders and are also prepared to use force.
Now we wait.
It appears it could not be more intense.
All this to perpetuate himself in power illegally.
casper 7-19-09
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casper 7-20-09 #1
WE stayed up late last night looking for deliveries.
Military sources said they knew of three, World Court sources said they knew of a handful.
At that time WE viewed this as absolute confirmation deliveries were underway in spite of OBAMA'S threats.
This morning there is no follow through, no continuation.
Nor can WE truly verify the reported deliveries actually took place.
WE are checking and analyzing everything and concluding that the World Court Representative could not have pulled his "U.S. has been delivered scam" by himself.
OBAMA said he has bought the World Court, The Pentagon and the Military.
This morning there is no reaction to yesterdays update from the Court which is very unusual (they receive our updates direct).
WE sense that having caught the World Court Rep. in this latest bribery scandal higher ups in the Court are also involved and have thrown a blanket over things while they figure out what to tell the Countries next.
WE sense the Military may have been lying as well and if so this might put the Military, the Court and OBAMA back in bed together where they were previously.
Other explanations are possible, WE are working on it.
"Confirmed Deliveries" from last night can not be reconfirmed this morning.
It is time for the IMF Countries to take a close look at what is going on at the World Court.
More when possible,
casper 7-20-09
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casper 7-20-09 #2
WE have the following intell from two sources, one domestic, one in Europe.
WE DO NOT CONSIDER THIS VERIFIED AS YET.
WE hear OBAMA made a deal with the VATICAN.
They give him the unknown amount of funds reported in Sundays update, OBAMA gets all "settlements funds" by hook or crook.
The VATICAN gets all IMF and offshore funds and OBAMA gets all funds from the domestic programs.
Expenses associated with purchasing The World Court and all the others are shared equally.
Remember, the contractural terms for the return of the Marshall Plan Funds stashed at the VATICAN are that they can only be returned to the American people not to the Government (debt forgiveness).
Whether the above turns out to be completely true or partially true or not true at all does not change the fact that THE OBAMA SCAMMING ATTEMPTS ARE CONTINUING.
casper 7-20-09 #2
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casper 7-19-09
Several days ago a representative of the World Court arrived to kick ass and get the deliveries out. He was involved in the movement of packages from Treasury to the Supreme Court late last week and the supposed overcoming of OBAMA's never ending blockages in the Supreme Court meetings Friday which were to result in deliveries this weekend.
OBAMA bribed this World Court Representative using real money not "if come" money.
It was this man's job to convince the World Court our deliveries had occurred this weekend so that the IMF countries could access at 7 a.m. Monday morning leaving we the recipients screwed.
The price for this fellows soul was 2 B up front in advance and 8 B more when OBAMA had his hands on our money.
The 2 B and much more was obtained from the VATICAN on his stop over there. Do you remember what the POPE had to say about our receiving when he was in the U.S. as WE reported at the time? "The peasants will never receive this money and they may as well understand that". The funds provided OBAMA are a portion of the Marshall Plan Funds which had been hidden at the VATICAN.
WE have been reporting the unbelievable levels of OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CORRUPTION from the beginning. WE barely scratched the surface.
ALL bribery funds actually paid have been seized, he is broke and unable to pay off on all his promises to his equally guilty helpers here and abroad. OBAMA, The Vatican and the World Court Rep. have been caught and now the poor fellow is on his way to the Hague with an empty bank account and OBAMA gets still another act of TREASON credited to himself. The Government Officials facilitating this payoff for OBAMA were JOHN ROBERTS and TINY TIM GEITHNER.
Needless to say OBAMA has again gone into a rage again claiming this money belongs to him, he must have it, he will get it and we will never receive. He is also claiming ownership, PERSONAL OWNERSHIP, of all the Gold stolen domestically and moved out of the U.S. even the Gold belonging to other Countries.
Having been caught again he is saying, as of 7 p.m. EST tonight, that the IMF countries may try a million times to access but never will and that hell will freeze over before we recipients will receive these packages.
The World Court has ordered the U.S. Military to deliver the FREEDOM PACKAGES tonight and the rest of us tomorrow.
OBAMA has responded to the Court by phone that he has ordered the Military not to deliver and has ordered Homeland Security to stop the deliveries whatever it takes.
The Military is capable of delivery tonight, the issue is whether they continue to be subservient to OBAMA'S Billion Dollar "if come" bribes to each of several Generals or whether they will follow the legally and morally correct orders of the World Court.
Remember, the Military has admitted that they are aware that OBAMA is in office illegally. OBAMA told the Court he has bought the World Court, The Pentagon and The Military and that he will stop these deliveries tonight.
In late breaking news the Military has agreed to deliver and OBAMA has ordered Homeland Security to stop them whatever it takes. He has threatened the Military and the recipients.
HOMELAND SECURITY is saying they are following OBAMAS orders and are prepared to use force. The Military has responded they are following legal World Court Orders and are also prepared to use force.
Now we wait.
It appears it could not be more intense.
All this to perpetuate himself in power illegally.
casper 7-19-09
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http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/nesara/news/news.php?q=1248105924
casper 7-20-09 #1
WE stayed up late last night looking for deliveries.
Military sources said they knew of three, World Court sources said they knew of a handful.
At that time WE viewed this as absolute confirmation deliveries were underway in spite of OBAMA'S threats.
This morning there is no follow through, no continuation.
Nor can WE truly verify the reported deliveries actually took place.
WE are checking and analyzing everything and concluding that the World Court Representative could not have pulled his "U.S. has been delivered scam" by himself.
OBAMA said he has bought the World Court, The Pentagon and the Military.
This morning there is no reaction to yesterdays update from the Court which is very unusual (they receive our updates direct).
WE sense that having caught the World Court Rep. in this latest bribery scandal higher ups in the Court are also involved and have thrown a blanket over things while they figure out what to tell the Countries next.
WE sense the Military may have been lying as well and if so this might put the Military, the Court and OBAMA back in bed together where they were previously.
Other explanations are possible, WE are working on it.
"Confirmed Deliveries" from last night can not be reconfirmed this morning.
It is time for the IMF Countries to take a close look at what is going on at the World Court.
More when possible,
casper 7-20-09
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casper 7-20-09 #2
WE have the following intell from two sources, one domestic, one in Europe.
WE DO NOT CONSIDER THIS VERIFIED AS YET.
WE hear OBAMA made a deal with the VATICAN.
They give him the unknown amount of funds reported in Sundays update, OBAMA gets all "settlements funds" by hook or crook.
The VATICAN gets all IMF and offshore funds and OBAMA gets all funds from the domestic programs.
Expenses associated with purchasing The World Court and all the others are shared equally.
Remember, the contractural terms for the return of the Marshall Plan Funds stashed at the VATICAN are that they can only be returned to the American people not to the Government (debt forgiveness).
Whether the above turns out to be completely true or partially true or not true at all does not change the fact that THE OBAMA SCAMMING ATTEMPTS ARE CONTINUING.
casper 7-20-09 #2
Friday, July 17, 2009
HOW many dumbfucks know "DOMESTIC SPYING" links with "DOMESTIC TORTURE" in something called FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER aka SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF?
By Brad Friedman on 7/10/2009 5:33PM
Inspectors General Report on Bush Domestic Spy Program Finally Released
Unclassified version of Congressionally-mandated report indicates very few in Bush WH, DoJ knew about unprecedented surveillance of American citizens
Full extent of program still unknown...
Imagine --- just imagine --- the outrage we'd be hearing from every side of the Rightwing blogo-mediasphere if the report [PDF], just out today from the Inspectors General of five different U.S. intelligence agencies, found that President Obama was carrying out a clandestine "Presidential Surveillance Program" that only he, a handful in the White House, and just two or three officials at the DoJ were aware of.
They would, of course, be appropriately outraged (for a change), and even justified in calling for Obama's impeachment over an apparently unprecedented, illegal intrusion into the private lives of American citizens, justified only by a single "legal finding" of one low-level attorney at the DoJ's Office of Legal Counsel.
But will the wingnuts say a word about the report out today showing that Bush/Cheney's criminal outfit did exactly that? Will those who have found our site of late, having come here to justify crazy Sarah Palin's decision to abort in her first term, condemn Bush for any of this, as they surely would had it been found that Obama had been doing the exact same thing? We'll see.
Finally, we're beginning to receive some details on what former Deputy AG James Comey's incredibly dramatic Congressional testimony (video here, transcript here)-- describing his late-night sprint to Ashcroft's hospital bedside to intercept White House officials (Gonzalez and Card) coming over to strongarm him into signing an extension for the still not-fully-disclosed spying program --- was all about.
On the road for the moment, so you're on your own here for a bit. Dig in...
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TOMMY:
Nobody is better suited to testify about:
DOMESTIC SPYING...GOON WORK... TORTURE WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION WEAPONS CALLED DOD DARPA WEAPONS....NO INTERROGATION, ALL PUNITIVE TORTURE AS PART OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE....ABUSE OF SNITCHS IN VIOLATION OF DOJ GUIDELINES...THE CRIMES OF AUSTIN FBI AND AUSTIN PD...THE CRIMES OF DAVE NELSON AND SFPD...THE CRIMES OF SPECIAL LYING COCKSUCKERS DAVE "fuckface" HELLER and LITTLE TOUGH GUY FED PUNK DANNY "shithead" REYNALDS at SIOUX FALL FBI.....
FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER....CIA SPOOKS ABUSING FBI BADGES (See, Patriot Act SPECIAL SERVICE creating 100 FBI BADGES to take orders from the Cheney White House...working off paper outside FBI bureacracy...and BOB MUELLER AND HIS SPOOKS WROTE AND SIGNED OFF ON THE PATRIOT ACT before the ANTHRAX FALSE FLAG BY MOSSAD KIKE SPOOK DR ZACK who did the dirty on those murders.....
THE DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE is an off paper secret ORWELL MEETS KAFKA Probationary vigalante squad that fronted as NSA TSP (Leahy didn't want me to testify on the breadth and scope of this program?...LEAHY did not want to know about PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS IN HOMES to facilitate the MAXIMIZED INTRUSION as part of an FBI SANCTIONED STAR CHAMBER BLANKET PARTY targeting any "subjective enemy of the state" which included COOPERATING WITNESSES WHO OFFERED TO TAKE SFPD'S POLYGRAPH?).
FOLLOW THE MONEY ON ALL THE NO BID, FRONT LOADED SURVEILLANCE CONTRACTS.
KICKBACKS TO US ATTORNEYS, FBI SACS, FIELD AGENTS, COPS, PROSECUTORS....the police state makes money on scapegoating and COINTELPRO secret STALKING.
MUELLER KNOWS THAT...but...Bob does not testify unless he is in control of the script writing, before the Kabuki Theatre (ALL FACILITATED BY LEAHY AND US SEN JUD COMM, that literally "missed the boat" on so many scandals).
Remember that AN INNOCENT MEDICAL DOCTOR NAMED DR MARK GORDON, was destroyed by SIOUX FALLS FBI using illegally obtained info from NSA 902ND...and...MUELLER STOOD DOWN WITH EVIDENCE THAT CIA SPOOK CONTRACTORS (or was it BLACKWATER INC?...or was it NSA TSP MERCS?) were SLOWELY MURDERING GORDON IN HIS HOME WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION after GORDON TOOK POLYGRAPHS AT ST. PAUL FED BUILDING.
LEAHY will not grill Mueller on that?
ATTEMPTED MURDER, STALKING, CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE, AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE...all ignored by a punk, pretending, pussified, faggot, lowlife, sociopath named ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III??????????
The history on MUELLER, is something that the US SEN JUD COMM totally ignored long ago...but I didn't.
MUELLER is alot dirtier than you will ever know.
Too bad punk pussified faggot idiotic whores known as DEMOCRATIC OVERSIGHT refuse to talk to me, email, phone, or coordinate any sort of legitimate oversight?
Inspectors General Report on Bush Domestic Spy Program Finally Released
Unclassified version of Congressionally-mandated report indicates very few in Bush WH, DoJ knew about unprecedented surveillance of American citizens
Full extent of program still unknown...
Imagine --- just imagine --- the outrage we'd be hearing from every side of the Rightwing blogo-mediasphere if the report [PDF], just out today from the Inspectors General of five different U.S. intelligence agencies, found that President Obama was carrying out a clandestine "Presidential Surveillance Program" that only he, a handful in the White House, and just two or three officials at the DoJ were aware of.
They would, of course, be appropriately outraged (for a change), and even justified in calling for Obama's impeachment over an apparently unprecedented, illegal intrusion into the private lives of American citizens, justified only by a single "legal finding" of one low-level attorney at the DoJ's Office of Legal Counsel.
But will the wingnuts say a word about the report out today showing that Bush/Cheney's criminal outfit did exactly that? Will those who have found our site of late, having come here to justify crazy Sarah Palin's decision to abort in her first term, condemn Bush for any of this, as they surely would had it been found that Obama had been doing the exact same thing? We'll see.
Finally, we're beginning to receive some details on what former Deputy AG James Comey's incredibly dramatic Congressional testimony (video here, transcript here)-- describing his late-night sprint to Ashcroft's hospital bedside to intercept White House officials (Gonzalez and Card) coming over to strongarm him into signing an extension for the still not-fully-disclosed spying program --- was all about.
On the road for the moment, so you're on your own here for a bit. Dig in...
______________________
TOMMY:
Nobody is better suited to testify about:
DOMESTIC SPYING...GOON WORK... TORTURE WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION WEAPONS CALLED DOD DARPA WEAPONS....NO INTERROGATION, ALL PUNITIVE TORTURE AS PART OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE....ABUSE OF SNITCHS IN VIOLATION OF DOJ GUIDELINES...THE CRIMES OF AUSTIN FBI AND AUSTIN PD...THE CRIMES OF DAVE NELSON AND SFPD...THE CRIMES OF SPECIAL LYING COCKSUCKERS DAVE "fuckface" HELLER and LITTLE TOUGH GUY FED PUNK DANNY "shithead" REYNALDS at SIOUX FALL FBI.....
FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER....CIA SPOOKS ABUSING FBI BADGES (See, Patriot Act SPECIAL SERVICE creating 100 FBI BADGES to take orders from the Cheney White House...working off paper outside FBI bureacracy...and BOB MUELLER AND HIS SPOOKS WROTE AND SIGNED OFF ON THE PATRIOT ACT before the ANTHRAX FALSE FLAG BY MOSSAD KIKE SPOOK DR ZACK who did the dirty on those murders.....
THE DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE is an off paper secret ORWELL MEETS KAFKA Probationary vigalante squad that fronted as NSA TSP (Leahy didn't want me to testify on the breadth and scope of this program?...LEAHY did not want to know about PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS IN HOMES to facilitate the MAXIMIZED INTRUSION as part of an FBI SANCTIONED STAR CHAMBER BLANKET PARTY targeting any "subjective enemy of the state" which included COOPERATING WITNESSES WHO OFFERED TO TAKE SFPD'S POLYGRAPH?).
FOLLOW THE MONEY ON ALL THE NO BID, FRONT LOADED SURVEILLANCE CONTRACTS.
KICKBACKS TO US ATTORNEYS, FBI SACS, FIELD AGENTS, COPS, PROSECUTORS....the police state makes money on scapegoating and COINTELPRO secret STALKING.
MUELLER KNOWS THAT...but...Bob does not testify unless he is in control of the script writing, before the Kabuki Theatre (ALL FACILITATED BY LEAHY AND US SEN JUD COMM, that literally "missed the boat" on so many scandals).
Remember that AN INNOCENT MEDICAL DOCTOR NAMED DR MARK GORDON, was destroyed by SIOUX FALLS FBI using illegally obtained info from NSA 902ND...and...MUELLER STOOD DOWN WITH EVIDENCE THAT CIA SPOOK CONTRACTORS (or was it BLACKWATER INC?...or was it NSA TSP MERCS?) were SLOWELY MURDERING GORDON IN HIS HOME WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION after GORDON TOOK POLYGRAPHS AT ST. PAUL FED BUILDING.
LEAHY will not grill Mueller on that?
ATTEMPTED MURDER, STALKING, CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE, AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE...all ignored by a punk, pretending, pussified, faggot, lowlife, sociopath named ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III??????????
The history on MUELLER, is something that the US SEN JUD COMM totally ignored long ago...but I didn't.
MUELLER is alot dirtier than you will ever know.
Too bad punk pussified faggot idiotic whores known as DEMOCRATIC OVERSIGHT refuse to talk to me, email, phone, or coordinate any sort of legitimate oversight?
CONGRESS officially announces they are gonna PROBE AROUND (aka FUCK AROUND, AND COVER IT ALL UP with the usual WEAK PUNK POSEING BULLSHIT)
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/congress_to_probe_secret_cia_program.php
Congress To Probe Secret CIA Program
By Zachary Roth - July 17, 2009, 3:31PM
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, who chairs the House Intelligence committee, has announced an investigation into the secret CIA program that Leon Panetta recently ended, and which Dick Cheney reportedly ordered kept secret from Congress.
From Reyes's statement:
After careful consideration and consultation with the Ranking Minority Member and other members of the Committee, I am announcing an official Committee investigation into possible violations of federal law, including the National Security Act of 1974.
This investigation will focus on the core issues of how the congressional intelligence committees and Congress are kept fully and currently informed. To this end, the investigation will examine several issues, including the program discussed during Director Panetta's June 24th notification and whether there was any official decision or direction to withold (sic) information from the Committee.
_________________________
TOMMY:
MY THOUGHTS ON THIS recent, and all too typical, punk, poseing, faggot DEMOCRATIC CLOWN ACT:
I SAW THE WEAK LITTLE PUNKS AT SEN JUD COMM, always avoid the inflammatory and outrageous felonies committed by MUELLER'S FBI who always hide behind corporate fronts, snitchs, provocateurs...etc.
TO THIS DAY, HOUSE NIGGER PUNK HOLDER, refuses to dispatch an aide, to take my sworn statements implicating MUELLER'S FBI?...which means...FBI HAS CONTROL OF A PUNK UNCLE TOM FAGGOT NAMED ERIC HOLDER.
To this day HOUSE NIGGER STOOGE PUNK HOLDER will not, and cannot say, "...THAT A TITLE III FELONY, IS A CRIME WHEN THE POLICE STATE COMMITS THOSE CRIMES"?
House Nigger HOlder...has silently sanctioned PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS IN MY HOME, MY FATHERS' HOME, DR MARK GORDON'S HOME, and so many others working with FBI, NSA Q GROUP, NSA TSP, FBI'S INFRAGUARD, HOMELAND SECURITY, CIA mercs...etc.
WHY WOULD FBI CONSPIRE TO ALWAYS OBSTRUCT THOSE crimes committed by vigalantes?
MUELLER AND FBI committed overt acts in furtherance of those CONSPIRACIES TO OBSTRUCT, TAMPER, DEPRIVE CIVIL LIBERTIES, FED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE, TITLE III FELONIES....etc.
That's why...NO PROSECUTION by HOLDER LOOKING AT THOUSANDS OF TITLE III FELONIES COMMITTED BY NSA who work with FBI?
PELOSI, REID, HOYER all worked to pass the FISA SELLOUT LAW that immunized telecomm providers for FACILITATING TORTURE, STALKING, BRADY VIOLATIONS, TITLE III FELONIES, MURDERS, PATRIOT ACT MURDERS, FED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE....etc?
1) Dems know WELLSTONE, CARNEHAN, JFK JR were all whacked out for...being in the way of the police state hegemony.
They also know that SD US SEN TIM JOHNSON, SEN TED KENNEDY, NOVAK, RICH GORDON, DR MARK GORDON, PROFESSOR VAN PATTEN, THOMAS S. BEAN, GEROL SOSBEE, LEROY ROGERS... all got maimed with TORTURE WEAPONS CALLED DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS....manufactured by Raytheon who have their representative in Obama's cabinet.
TORTURE with no Interrogation to stop terrorism(?)...IS A FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE AND PATRIOT ACT VIOLATION...but...HOUSE NIGGER HOLDER is "...only considering appointing a controlled special prosecutor" to look at only a fraction of the crimes, while Big, Bad Bob Mueller and his spooks "avoid any sort of investigation" on WELLSTONE, RICH GORDON, DEFENBAUGH, KABIESEMAN, CHRISTINA MOORE, and so many other murdered and maimed enemies of CHENEY'S POLICE STATE.
It all goes to MUELLER obstructing justice when US ATTORNEYS GOT MURDERED...or OBSTRUCTED with LARRY LONG AT SD AG, MARK BARNETT, AND DON SRSTKA standing down with "quid pro quo" proven by the Obstructed testimony of ROVE--MEIERS-BOLTEN. SD AG helped OBSTRUCT MICHELLE TAPKEN'S FED GRAND JURY IN SOUTH DAKOTA?
LEAHY refuses to call witnesses or talk to them on the phone?
CONYERS and his staff, also refuse to call the witnesses they need to call...and...NEITHER LEAHY NOR CONYERS have a professional curiosity about JUST WHAT THE FUCK I AM TALKING ABOUT, AND WHAT SERVICES AND EVIDENCE I CAN PROVIDE?
Based on the past DUMBFUCKERY by CONYERS, LEAHY, FEINSTEIN, I assure you...this next hearing will be "much ado about nothing" and it "will actually make the spooks and Cheney look better" and more resonable.
So...this hearing...is actually a weapon against the truth.
How do I know...BECAUSE DEMS DON'T TALK TO PRIMARY WITNESSES, AND ARE AFRAID TO HOLD UNSCRIPTED HEARINGS TARGETING THE PEOPLE I TELL THEM TO GRILL TO SET UP THE PERJURY CHARGES ON MUELLER, PLUTA, JACKLEY, LONG, SUTTON, BROWN, MASPERO, MANNO, KNEE, CHAPMAN, EARLE, NELSON, etc.
Do it my way...do what I say...call the witnesses I tell you to call...AND WATCH THE FIREWORKS ERUPT as MUELLER IS FINALLY FORCED TO GET HIS FAT, GUTLESS, PUNK ASS OFF THE FENCE TO IMPLICATE HIS BUTT BUDDIES (Cheney, Rumsfield, Hayden, Goss).
DEMS still refuse to use my name in public...and refuse to talk to DR MARK GORDON?
That's how you know...THE DEMS ARE AGAIN BLOWING SMOKE AND FAGGING AROUND.
UNLESS I TESTIFY TO OPERATION SLAMMER USING MIND CONTROL CHIPPING AND TORTURE (no relationship to an interrogation...and...CIA BURNED ALL THE INTERROGATION TAPES which destroyed their keystone defence?)?!
2) DEMS know...FREEH AND MUELLER are implicated in those murders and other murders that always "benefitted the CIA Illuminati spook invested" Fed police state. They know, MUELLER is "...just following his punk protocol" while also refusing to "every appear under oath unless the hearing is scripted" to make Bob reasonable, and legitiamte while also AVOIDING ALL EMBARASSING DISCLOSURES AND OMISSIONS that effectively make CHENEY'S BOY (Mueller) as complicit as the murderers, stalkers, buggers, wiretappers, torturers...etc.
3) A US INTEL COMMUNITY WHISTLBLOWER named MCKINNEY has an FBI agent on tape admitting that the "FBI'S SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF PROGRAM" was named OPERATION SLAMMER when LOUIS "Opus Dei Illuminati Faggot punk" FREEH was the FBI Director.
Lots of dirt on Freeh, who now represents the House of Saud (coconspirators with Mossad, FBI, Neocons, GOP ON THE 9/11 FALSE FLAG TREASON).
4) DEMS know about FBI'S OPERATION BROWNSTONE that got PAT FITZGERALD DIRTY LONG AGO, AND how this extortion conspiracy can and will USE MIND CONTROL SUBLIMINAL PROGRAMMING to get literally, anybody dirty on tape.
SUBLIMINAL PROGRAMMING was used on Eliot Spitzer, Conyers wife, Miquel Rodriguez, Judge Peter Gregory, a US Attorney in Florida, ME, and anybody they need to extort, coerce, and discredit.
I CAN SUMMARIZE MCKINNEY'S FINDINGS, AND GIVE SOLID TESTIMONY ABOUT HOW THE SAME SCRIPT WAS RUN ON ME...as FBI TARGETED ME AS A MIND CONTROLLED, MK ULTRA, SCHOOL SHOOTER.
I CAN SHOW YOU HOW FBI HQ hides their punk ass behind corporate fronts so that vigalantes working for INFRAGUARD (Mueller's new NSA TSP mercs) can somehow spin their own FELONIES AS ACTS OF PATRIOTISM AND HEROISM (as Mueller's FBI once again...hides ALL THE EXCULPATORY INFO as part of what can only be seen as an EXTRAJUDICIAL STAR CHAMBER PUNITIVE ORWELL MEETS KAFKA SURVEILLANCE PROBATIONARY TERM.
PUNISHMENT AND SUSPICION is in the hands of the feds...who love harassing anybody because it is, and always was...NOTHING MORE THAN A POWER TRIP AS PART OF THE DYNAMICS OF SCAPEGOATING (aka PROJECTION AND DISPLACEMENT OF THE JUNGIAN SHADOW that comes from all the inconsistent hypocrisy and CORRUPTION WHEN PAYOFFS AND KICKBACKS COME FROM PIMPS, BOOKIES, AND TIER 1,2,3 DRUG DEALERS with the added bonus of CUTTING UP 67 BILLION DOLLARS IN FRONT LOADED, NO BID, SURVEILLANCE CONTRACTS all protected by every FBI SAC, US ATTY, STATE ATTY GEN, LOCAL PROSECUTORS AND COPS.
All you got to do...is appoint an out of state US ATTORNEY AS SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO REVIEW MY EVIDENCE ABOUT FED, STATE, LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENTS' CRONYISTIC CORRUPTION IN TWO CITIES I STUDIED: Sioux FAlls, South Dakota, and Austin, Texas.
Those two cities and the corrupt pigs...serve as examples and case studies that shed light on "...just how bad it is..." and "...HOW Fed, State, and Local Law Enforcement" all facilitate, protect, aid, abet, and benefit from THE CREATION OF MK ULTRA SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF.
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Congress To Probe Secret CIA Program
By Zachary Roth - July 17, 2009, 3:31PM
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, who chairs the House Intelligence committee, has announced an investigation into the secret CIA program that Leon Panetta recently ended, and which Dick Cheney reportedly ordered kept secret from Congress.
From Reyes's statement:
After careful consideration and consultation with the Ranking Minority Member and other members of the Committee, I am announcing an official Committee investigation into possible violations of federal law, including the National Security Act of 1974.
This investigation will focus on the core issues of how the congressional intelligence committees and Congress are kept fully and currently informed. To this end, the investigation will examine several issues, including the program discussed during Director Panetta's June 24th notification and whether there was any official decision or direction to withold (sic) information from the Committee.
_________________________
TOMMY:
MY THOUGHTS ON THIS recent, and all too typical, punk, poseing, faggot DEMOCRATIC CLOWN ACT:
I SAW THE WEAK LITTLE PUNKS AT SEN JUD COMM, always avoid the inflammatory and outrageous felonies committed by MUELLER'S FBI who always hide behind corporate fronts, snitchs, provocateurs...etc.
TO THIS DAY, HOUSE NIGGER PUNK HOLDER, refuses to dispatch an aide, to take my sworn statements implicating MUELLER'S FBI?...which means...FBI HAS CONTROL OF A PUNK UNCLE TOM FAGGOT NAMED ERIC HOLDER.
To this day HOUSE NIGGER STOOGE PUNK HOLDER will not, and cannot say, "...THAT A TITLE III FELONY, IS A CRIME WHEN THE POLICE STATE COMMITS THOSE CRIMES"?
House Nigger HOlder...has silently sanctioned PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS IN MY HOME, MY FATHERS' HOME, DR MARK GORDON'S HOME, and so many others working with FBI, NSA Q GROUP, NSA TSP, FBI'S INFRAGUARD, HOMELAND SECURITY, CIA mercs...etc.
WHY WOULD FBI CONSPIRE TO ALWAYS OBSTRUCT THOSE crimes committed by vigalantes?
MUELLER AND FBI committed overt acts in furtherance of those CONSPIRACIES TO OBSTRUCT, TAMPER, DEPRIVE CIVIL LIBERTIES, FED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE, TITLE III FELONIES....etc.
That's why...NO PROSECUTION by HOLDER LOOKING AT THOUSANDS OF TITLE III FELONIES COMMITTED BY NSA who work with FBI?
PELOSI, REID, HOYER all worked to pass the FISA SELLOUT LAW that immunized telecomm providers for FACILITATING TORTURE, STALKING, BRADY VIOLATIONS, TITLE III FELONIES, MURDERS, PATRIOT ACT MURDERS, FED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE....etc?
1) Dems know WELLSTONE, CARNEHAN, JFK JR were all whacked out for...being in the way of the police state hegemony.
They also know that SD US SEN TIM JOHNSON, SEN TED KENNEDY, NOVAK, RICH GORDON, DR MARK GORDON, PROFESSOR VAN PATTEN, THOMAS S. BEAN, GEROL SOSBEE, LEROY ROGERS... all got maimed with TORTURE WEAPONS CALLED DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS....manufactured by Raytheon who have their representative in Obama's cabinet.
TORTURE with no Interrogation to stop terrorism(?)...IS A FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE AND PATRIOT ACT VIOLATION...but...HOUSE NIGGER HOLDER is "...only considering appointing a controlled special prosecutor" to look at only a fraction of the crimes, while Big, Bad Bob Mueller and his spooks "avoid any sort of investigation" on WELLSTONE, RICH GORDON, DEFENBAUGH, KABIESEMAN, CHRISTINA MOORE, and so many other murdered and maimed enemies of CHENEY'S POLICE STATE.
It all goes to MUELLER obstructing justice when US ATTORNEYS GOT MURDERED...or OBSTRUCTED with LARRY LONG AT SD AG, MARK BARNETT, AND DON SRSTKA standing down with "quid pro quo" proven by the Obstructed testimony of ROVE--MEIERS-BOLTEN. SD AG helped OBSTRUCT MICHELLE TAPKEN'S FED GRAND JURY IN SOUTH DAKOTA?
LEAHY refuses to call witnesses or talk to them on the phone?
CONYERS and his staff, also refuse to call the witnesses they need to call...and...NEITHER LEAHY NOR CONYERS have a professional curiosity about JUST WHAT THE FUCK I AM TALKING ABOUT, AND WHAT SERVICES AND EVIDENCE I CAN PROVIDE?
Based on the past DUMBFUCKERY by CONYERS, LEAHY, FEINSTEIN, I assure you...this next hearing will be "much ado about nothing" and it "will actually make the spooks and Cheney look better" and more resonable.
So...this hearing...is actually a weapon against the truth.
How do I know...BECAUSE DEMS DON'T TALK TO PRIMARY WITNESSES, AND ARE AFRAID TO HOLD UNSCRIPTED HEARINGS TARGETING THE PEOPLE I TELL THEM TO GRILL TO SET UP THE PERJURY CHARGES ON MUELLER, PLUTA, JACKLEY, LONG, SUTTON, BROWN, MASPERO, MANNO, KNEE, CHAPMAN, EARLE, NELSON, etc.
Do it my way...do what I say...call the witnesses I tell you to call...AND WATCH THE FIREWORKS ERUPT as MUELLER IS FINALLY FORCED TO GET HIS FAT, GUTLESS, PUNK ASS OFF THE FENCE TO IMPLICATE HIS BUTT BUDDIES (Cheney, Rumsfield, Hayden, Goss).
DEMS still refuse to use my name in public...and refuse to talk to DR MARK GORDON?
That's how you know...THE DEMS ARE AGAIN BLOWING SMOKE AND FAGGING AROUND.
UNLESS I TESTIFY TO OPERATION SLAMMER USING MIND CONTROL CHIPPING AND TORTURE (no relationship to an interrogation...and...CIA BURNED ALL THE INTERROGATION TAPES which destroyed their keystone defence?)?!
2) DEMS know...FREEH AND MUELLER are implicated in those murders and other murders that always "benefitted the CIA Illuminati spook invested" Fed police state. They know, MUELLER is "...just following his punk protocol" while also refusing to "every appear under oath unless the hearing is scripted" to make Bob reasonable, and legitiamte while also AVOIDING ALL EMBARASSING DISCLOSURES AND OMISSIONS that effectively make CHENEY'S BOY (Mueller) as complicit as the murderers, stalkers, buggers, wiretappers, torturers...etc.
3) A US INTEL COMMUNITY WHISTLBLOWER named MCKINNEY has an FBI agent on tape admitting that the "FBI'S SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF PROGRAM" was named OPERATION SLAMMER when LOUIS "Opus Dei Illuminati Faggot punk" FREEH was the FBI Director.
Lots of dirt on Freeh, who now represents the House of Saud (coconspirators with Mossad, FBI, Neocons, GOP ON THE 9/11 FALSE FLAG TREASON).
4) DEMS know about FBI'S OPERATION BROWNSTONE that got PAT FITZGERALD DIRTY LONG AGO, AND how this extortion conspiracy can and will USE MIND CONTROL SUBLIMINAL PROGRAMMING to get literally, anybody dirty on tape.
SUBLIMINAL PROGRAMMING was used on Eliot Spitzer, Conyers wife, Miquel Rodriguez, Judge Peter Gregory, a US Attorney in Florida, ME, and anybody they need to extort, coerce, and discredit.
I CAN SUMMARIZE MCKINNEY'S FINDINGS, AND GIVE SOLID TESTIMONY ABOUT HOW THE SAME SCRIPT WAS RUN ON ME...as FBI TARGETED ME AS A MIND CONTROLLED, MK ULTRA, SCHOOL SHOOTER.
I CAN SHOW YOU HOW FBI HQ hides their punk ass behind corporate fronts so that vigalantes working for INFRAGUARD (Mueller's new NSA TSP mercs) can somehow spin their own FELONIES AS ACTS OF PATRIOTISM AND HEROISM (as Mueller's FBI once again...hides ALL THE EXCULPATORY INFO as part of what can only be seen as an EXTRAJUDICIAL STAR CHAMBER PUNITIVE ORWELL MEETS KAFKA SURVEILLANCE PROBATIONARY TERM.
PUNISHMENT AND SUSPICION is in the hands of the feds...who love harassing anybody because it is, and always was...NOTHING MORE THAN A POWER TRIP AS PART OF THE DYNAMICS OF SCAPEGOATING (aka PROJECTION AND DISPLACEMENT OF THE JUNGIAN SHADOW that comes from all the inconsistent hypocrisy and CORRUPTION WHEN PAYOFFS AND KICKBACKS COME FROM PIMPS, BOOKIES, AND TIER 1,2,3 DRUG DEALERS with the added bonus of CUTTING UP 67 BILLION DOLLARS IN FRONT LOADED, NO BID, SURVEILLANCE CONTRACTS all protected by every FBI SAC, US ATTY, STATE ATTY GEN, LOCAL PROSECUTORS AND COPS.
All you got to do...is appoint an out of state US ATTORNEY AS SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO REVIEW MY EVIDENCE ABOUT FED, STATE, LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENTS' CRONYISTIC CORRUPTION IN TWO CITIES I STUDIED: Sioux FAlls, South Dakota, and Austin, Texas.
Those two cities and the corrupt pigs...serve as examples and case studies that shed light on "...just how bad it is..." and "...HOW Fed, State, and Local Law Enforcement" all facilitate, protect, aid, abet, and benefit from THE CREATION OF MK ULTRA SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
MOSSAD KIKE BANKERS steal your money at GOLDMAN SACS....doncha know?
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uly 9, 2009
Russia Reports Massive $18 Trillion Theft Of US Funds By Israeli Backed Network
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
A stunning FSB report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the largest theft in World history has been engineered by the Israel Security Agency (ISA) under the direction of current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Australian media oligarch Rupert Murdoch and the US investment bank giant Goldman Sachs that has stolen from American mutual and pension fund account holders over $18 Trillion through a device known as “the Doomsday box”.
According to these reports, Israeli opposition leader, and former Mossad agent, Tzipi Livni [photo 2nd left next to Netanyahu] has turned over to the Obama administration the “complete dossier” of the ISA’s crimes against the American government and people after having the leadership of Israel “stolen” from her by Netanyahu, who through the ISA’s use of intimidation and massive bribes forced upon the Israelis the most right-wing government they have ever known.
These reports have come to light since last weeks arrest of a Mossad agent named Sergey Aleynikov by the United States, who these reports say stole from Goldman Sachs the most “complex and secretive stock manipulating programme ever created” and turned it over to Livni, and who in turn then gave copies of it to Russia, China and Germany.
Western news reports on the arrest of Aleynikov state that upon learning of the theft of their “Doomsday Programme”, Goldman Sacks ordered the US Government to arrest him, but as noted by the Bloomberg News Service, “what was Goldman doing with this programme to begin with”?
“Never let it be said that the Justice Department can’t move quickly when it gets a hot tip about an alleged crime at a Wall Street bank. It does help, though, if the party doing the complaining is the bank itself, and not merely an aggrieved customer.
Another plus is if the bank tells the feds the security of the U.S. financial markets is at stake. This brings us to the strange tale of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Sergey Aleynikov.
Aleynikov, 39, is the former Goldman computer programmer who was arrested on theft charges July 3 as he stepped off a flight at Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. That was two days after Goldman told the government he had stolen its secret, rapid-fire, stock- and commodities-trading software in early June during his last week as a Goldman employee. Prosecutors say Aleynikov uploaded the program code to an unidentified Web site server in Germany.
It wasn’t just Goldman that faced imminent harm if Aleynikov were to be released, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Facciponti told a federal magistrate judge at his July 4 bail hearing in New York. The 34-year-old prosecutor also dropped this bombshell: “The bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways.”
How could somebody do this?
The precise answer isn’t obvious -- we’re talking about a black-box trading system here.”
To the power that the ISA led Goldman Sachs bank has had over the US in allowing them to steal nearly the entire wealth of that Nation has been devastatingly detailed by the Rolling Stone Magazine News Service in their report titled “The Great American Bubble: How Goldman Sachs Has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since The Great Depression”.
Even worse for the witless American people is that their new President Barak Obama has so filled his administration with former Goldman Sachs executives and lobbyists that Russian economists are now calling Wall Street the “Fourth Branch Of The US Government”, and which includes their current Treasury Secretary, his Chief of Staff, the former Treasury Secretary under President Bush (who engineered the $700 Billion bailout of US banks), and the former Treasury Secretary under President Clinton (who allowed the deregulation of US banks allowing them to loot the American public of their wealth in the first place).
Most important to note in this report are the details describing how Goldman Sachs “Doomsday Programme” was “created” by ISA programmers working under the Chairman of the Israeli National Security Council, Dr. Uzi Arad, his wife, Dr. Ruth Arad, Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Bank Leumi, and Jacob Ezra Merkin, who bought the Bank Leumi from the Israeli government headed by then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and finance minister Ehud Olmert, who became Israel’s Prime Minister after Sharon but was forced to step down while under corruption charges allowing Netanyahu to steal the Premiership from Livni.
Now, what is really interesting in these reports is that Jacob Ezra Merkin allowed his longtime business partner Bernard Madoff the “personal use” of the “Doomsday Programme” which he then used to enrich himself, Dr. Arad and his wife, and Madoff to the tune of over $65 Billion they stole largely from the wealthiest Jewish Families in America, and who they knew would not testify against ISA agents in any US Court.
However, the outcry over the billions lost by America’s richest Jewish families necessitated the scapegoating of Madoff, who received a sentence of 150 years in exchange for the US not prosecuting Dr. Arad, his wife or Merkin, all who remain free and uncharged for their crimes. More astoundingly, Dr. Arad, who was banned from ever entering the United States due to the massive Israeli spy network he headed in that country, was granted a visa by Obama who sided with his Goldman Sachs allies against his own intelligence services.
Also interesting to note in these reports is the role played in the vast Israeli criminal network by the Australian media oligarch Rupert Murdoch, who these reports say has used his vast media holdings in the United States and Britain to collect personal data on “high government officials” which was then used by Dr. Arad’s ISA network to blackmail these officials against conducting any investigation into the crimes they have committed.
Though the United Kingdom has announced an investigation into Murdoch’s vast ISA spy network set up in their country, there remains no evidence of the United States doing the same.
To the utterly stupefying theft of the American people of their wealth by these criminals it is only eclipsed by the fact that those elements and forces that robbed these people blind have, literally, come out from the shadows and are now openly running the entire government of the United States.
But to the most incomprehensible fact about these Americans is that as these criminals now operate within their highest corridors of government they could not care less, as instead of seeing the truth of these things they have chosen to keep their attention upon the news reports about a 50-year-old self admitted pedophile rock singer who recently died of a massive self inflicted drug overdose.
Though the word idiot’s comes readily to mind in attempting to describe these Americans, there can be no other word than insane to describe what they’ve really become.
© July 9, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2jo3RK2_Aps
July 14 (Bloomberg) --
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. posted record earnings as revenue from trading and stock underwriting reached all-time highs less than a year after the firm took $10 billion in U.S. rescue funds.
Second-quarter net income was $3.44 billion, or $4.93 a share, the New York-based bank said today in a statement. That surpassed the $3.65 per-share average estimate of 22 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg and was 65 percent higher than last year’s second quarter.
Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, after repaying the government’s bailout money along with $426 million in dividends to taxpayers, is reverting to a business model analysts deemed irretrievably broken during the global credit crisis. While rivals including Morgan Stanley have pared risks, Goldman Sachs has increased them this year.
“The wind is at their back, so their earnings numbers are going to be very strong,” said Jon Fisher, a portfolio manager at Fifth Third Asset Management in Minneapolis, which oversees about $18 billion. “I think numbers are going up. I think they repeat this quarter next quarter and the quarter after that.” Fisher said Fifth Third doesn’t own the shares now and will probably buy them in the next few weeks.
Repaying Treasury
Last year’s credit freeze led Blankfein to convert the firm to a Federal Reserve-regulated bank, accept government funds and report the first quarterly loss as a public company. This year Goldman Sachs has issued new shares, repaid the U.S. Treasury and reaped higher fees from selling stocks and bonds.
It’s also paying its employees more money. The company set aside $6.65 billion for compensation and benefits in the period, or 48 percent of revenue, compared with $4.71 billion in the first quarter. The number of employees fell 1 percent to 29,400 from 29,800 at the end of March.
Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, said Goldman Sachs should “show some restraint” on compensation after criticism that outsized pay packages contributed to the financial crisis by encouraging excessive risk-taking.
James Reynolds, chief executive officer of Loop Capital Markets LLC in Chicago, said criticism of Goldman Sachs’s success was misplaced.
Government’s Intention
“This is what the government investment was meant to do,” Reynolds said in an interview. “I just don’t understand why the country, or a working person in Michigan, Ohio or Kansas, would cheer against Goldman doing well just because the government invested in Goldman at a time when the financial markets were in chaos.”
Goldman Sachs, the fifth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, climbed 77 percent in New York Stock Exchange trading this year. It gained 22 cents to $149.66 in composite trading at 4 p.m. Goldman Sachs has struggled to climb back above $150 since the stock fell below that level after Lehman’s bankruptcy in September.
The difference between the yield on Goldman Sachs’s bonds and U.S. Treasuries, known as the spread, has narrowed this year, indicating investors have regained comfort in lending to the company. The spread on $3.2 billion of 5.95 percent senior unsecured notes maturing in 2018 was 268 basis points yesterday, compared with 472 basis points on March 31. A basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point.
Government Backing
Chief Financial Officer David Viniar said on a conference call with analysts today that there are no call provisions on the $30 billion of government-guaranteed debt that Goldman issued between November and March so the firm isn’t able to buy it back.
“While markets remain fragile and we recognize the challenges the broader economy faces, our second-quarter results reflected the combination of improving financial market conditions and a deep and diverse client franchise,” Blankfein, 54, said in the statement.
The results follow the U.S. bank-rescue effort that funneled about $200 billion from taxpayers to financial firms, including $10 billion to Goldman Sachs, after the bankruptcy of Lehman and near-failure of American International Group Inc.
Revenue in the three months ended June 26 was $13.8 billion, compared with $9.43 billion in the first quarter and $9.42 billion in the second quarter a year earlier. The company’s second quarter ended in May until Goldman Sachs changed its fiscal year last quarter.
Book Value
Book value per share rose to $106.41 at the end of June compared with $98.82 at the end of March. Return on equity, a gauge of how effectively the firm invests earnings, was 23 percent in the second quarter compared with 14.3 percent in the first quarter and 20.4 percent in last year’s second quarter, the company said.
Revenue from fixed-income, currencies and commodities, the company’s biggest unit, was a record $6.8 billion in the second quarter, which compared with $6.56 billion in the first quarter and $2.38 billion in last year’s second quarter.
Goldman’s earnings included $1.4 billion of writedowns related to commercial real estate, including $700 million of fixed-income writedowns, $500 million lost on equity investments and $170 million of impairment charges, Viniar said in an interview with Bloomberg.
The figures also included about $300 million of writedowns related to the narrowing of the firm’s own credit spreads during the quarter, Viniar said. ...........
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1249.htm
uly 9, 2009
Russia Reports Massive $18 Trillion Theft Of US Funds By Israeli Backed Network
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
A stunning FSB report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the largest theft in World history has been engineered by the Israel Security Agency (ISA) under the direction of current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Australian media oligarch Rupert Murdoch and the US investment bank giant Goldman Sachs that has stolen from American mutual and pension fund account holders over $18 Trillion through a device known as “the Doomsday box”.
According to these reports, Israeli opposition leader, and former Mossad agent, Tzipi Livni [photo 2nd left next to Netanyahu] has turned over to the Obama administration the “complete dossier” of the ISA’s crimes against the American government and people after having the leadership of Israel “stolen” from her by Netanyahu, who through the ISA’s use of intimidation and massive bribes forced upon the Israelis the most right-wing government they have ever known.
These reports have come to light since last weeks arrest of a Mossad agent named Sergey Aleynikov by the United States, who these reports say stole from Goldman Sachs the most “complex and secretive stock manipulating programme ever created” and turned it over to Livni, and who in turn then gave copies of it to Russia, China and Germany.
Western news reports on the arrest of Aleynikov state that upon learning of the theft of their “Doomsday Programme”, Goldman Sacks ordered the US Government to arrest him, but as noted by the Bloomberg News Service, “what was Goldman doing with this programme to begin with”?
“Never let it be said that the Justice Department can’t move quickly when it gets a hot tip about an alleged crime at a Wall Street bank. It does help, though, if the party doing the complaining is the bank itself, and not merely an aggrieved customer.
Another plus is if the bank tells the feds the security of the U.S. financial markets is at stake. This brings us to the strange tale of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Sergey Aleynikov.
Aleynikov, 39, is the former Goldman computer programmer who was arrested on theft charges July 3 as he stepped off a flight at Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. That was two days after Goldman told the government he had stolen its secret, rapid-fire, stock- and commodities-trading software in early June during his last week as a Goldman employee. Prosecutors say Aleynikov uploaded the program code to an unidentified Web site server in Germany.
It wasn’t just Goldman that faced imminent harm if Aleynikov were to be released, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Facciponti told a federal magistrate judge at his July 4 bail hearing in New York. The 34-year-old prosecutor also dropped this bombshell: “The bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways.”
How could somebody do this?
The precise answer isn’t obvious -- we’re talking about a black-box trading system here.”
To the power that the ISA led Goldman Sachs bank has had over the US in allowing them to steal nearly the entire wealth of that Nation has been devastatingly detailed by the Rolling Stone Magazine News Service in their report titled “The Great American Bubble: How Goldman Sachs Has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since The Great Depression”.
Even worse for the witless American people is that their new President Barak Obama has so filled his administration with former Goldman Sachs executives and lobbyists that Russian economists are now calling Wall Street the “Fourth Branch Of The US Government”, and which includes their current Treasury Secretary, his Chief of Staff, the former Treasury Secretary under President Bush (who engineered the $700 Billion bailout of US banks), and the former Treasury Secretary under President Clinton (who allowed the deregulation of US banks allowing them to loot the American public of their wealth in the first place).
Most important to note in this report are the details describing how Goldman Sachs “Doomsday Programme” was “created” by ISA programmers working under the Chairman of the Israeli National Security Council, Dr. Uzi Arad, his wife, Dr. Ruth Arad, Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Bank Leumi, and Jacob Ezra Merkin, who bought the Bank Leumi from the Israeli government headed by then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and finance minister Ehud Olmert, who became Israel’s Prime Minister after Sharon but was forced to step down while under corruption charges allowing Netanyahu to steal the Premiership from Livni.
Now, what is really interesting in these reports is that Jacob Ezra Merkin allowed his longtime business partner Bernard Madoff the “personal use” of the “Doomsday Programme” which he then used to enrich himself, Dr. Arad and his wife, and Madoff to the tune of over $65 Billion they stole largely from the wealthiest Jewish Families in America, and who they knew would not testify against ISA agents in any US Court.
However, the outcry over the billions lost by America’s richest Jewish families necessitated the scapegoating of Madoff, who received a sentence of 150 years in exchange for the US not prosecuting Dr. Arad, his wife or Merkin, all who remain free and uncharged for their crimes. More astoundingly, Dr. Arad, who was banned from ever entering the United States due to the massive Israeli spy network he headed in that country, was granted a visa by Obama who sided with his Goldman Sachs allies against his own intelligence services.
Also interesting to note in these reports is the role played in the vast Israeli criminal network by the Australian media oligarch Rupert Murdoch, who these reports say has used his vast media holdings in the United States and Britain to collect personal data on “high government officials” which was then used by Dr. Arad’s ISA network to blackmail these officials against conducting any investigation into the crimes they have committed.
Though the United Kingdom has announced an investigation into Murdoch’s vast ISA spy network set up in their country, there remains no evidence of the United States doing the same.
To the utterly stupefying theft of the American people of their wealth by these criminals it is only eclipsed by the fact that those elements and forces that robbed these people blind have, literally, come out from the shadows and are now openly running the entire government of the United States.
But to the most incomprehensible fact about these Americans is that as these criminals now operate within their highest corridors of government they could not care less, as instead of seeing the truth of these things they have chosen to keep their attention upon the news reports about a 50-year-old self admitted pedophile rock singer who recently died of a massive self inflicted drug overdose.
Though the word idiot’s comes readily to mind in attempting to describe these Americans, there can be no other word than insane to describe what they’ve really become.
© July 9, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2jo3RK2_Aps
July 14 (Bloomberg) --
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. posted record earnings as revenue from trading and stock underwriting reached all-time highs less than a year after the firm took $10 billion in U.S. rescue funds.
Second-quarter net income was $3.44 billion, or $4.93 a share, the New York-based bank said today in a statement. That surpassed the $3.65 per-share average estimate of 22 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg and was 65 percent higher than last year’s second quarter.
Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, after repaying the government’s bailout money along with $426 million in dividends to taxpayers, is reverting to a business model analysts deemed irretrievably broken during the global credit crisis. While rivals including Morgan Stanley have pared risks, Goldman Sachs has increased them this year.
“The wind is at their back, so their earnings numbers are going to be very strong,” said Jon Fisher, a portfolio manager at Fifth Third Asset Management in Minneapolis, which oversees about $18 billion. “I think numbers are going up. I think they repeat this quarter next quarter and the quarter after that.” Fisher said Fifth Third doesn’t own the shares now and will probably buy them in the next few weeks.
Repaying Treasury
Last year’s credit freeze led Blankfein to convert the firm to a Federal Reserve-regulated bank, accept government funds and report the first quarterly loss as a public company. This year Goldman Sachs has issued new shares, repaid the U.S. Treasury and reaped higher fees from selling stocks and bonds.
It’s also paying its employees more money. The company set aside $6.65 billion for compensation and benefits in the period, or 48 percent of revenue, compared with $4.71 billion in the first quarter. The number of employees fell 1 percent to 29,400 from 29,800 at the end of March.
Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, said Goldman Sachs should “show some restraint” on compensation after criticism that outsized pay packages contributed to the financial crisis by encouraging excessive risk-taking.
James Reynolds, chief executive officer of Loop Capital Markets LLC in Chicago, said criticism of Goldman Sachs’s success was misplaced.
Government’s Intention
“This is what the government investment was meant to do,” Reynolds said in an interview. “I just don’t understand why the country, or a working person in Michigan, Ohio or Kansas, would cheer against Goldman doing well just because the government invested in Goldman at a time when the financial markets were in chaos.”
Goldman Sachs, the fifth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, climbed 77 percent in New York Stock Exchange trading this year. It gained 22 cents to $149.66 in composite trading at 4 p.m. Goldman Sachs has struggled to climb back above $150 since the stock fell below that level after Lehman’s bankruptcy in September.
The difference between the yield on Goldman Sachs’s bonds and U.S. Treasuries, known as the spread, has narrowed this year, indicating investors have regained comfort in lending to the company. The spread on $3.2 billion of 5.95 percent senior unsecured notes maturing in 2018 was 268 basis points yesterday, compared with 472 basis points on March 31. A basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point.
Government Backing
Chief Financial Officer David Viniar said on a conference call with analysts today that there are no call provisions on the $30 billion of government-guaranteed debt that Goldman issued between November and March so the firm isn’t able to buy it back.
“While markets remain fragile and we recognize the challenges the broader economy faces, our second-quarter results reflected the combination of improving financial market conditions and a deep and diverse client franchise,” Blankfein, 54, said in the statement.
The results follow the U.S. bank-rescue effort that funneled about $200 billion from taxpayers to financial firms, including $10 billion to Goldman Sachs, after the bankruptcy of Lehman and near-failure of American International Group Inc.
Revenue in the three months ended June 26 was $13.8 billion, compared with $9.43 billion in the first quarter and $9.42 billion in the second quarter a year earlier. The company’s second quarter ended in May until Goldman Sachs changed its fiscal year last quarter.
Book Value
Book value per share rose to $106.41 at the end of June compared with $98.82 at the end of March. Return on equity, a gauge of how effectively the firm invests earnings, was 23 percent in the second quarter compared with 14.3 percent in the first quarter and 20.4 percent in last year’s second quarter, the company said.
Revenue from fixed-income, currencies and commodities, the company’s biggest unit, was a record $6.8 billion in the second quarter, which compared with $6.56 billion in the first quarter and $2.38 billion in last year’s second quarter.
Goldman’s earnings included $1.4 billion of writedowns related to commercial real estate, including $700 million of fixed-income writedowns, $500 million lost on equity investments and $170 million of impairment charges, Viniar said in an interview with Bloomberg.
The figures also included about $300 million of writedowns related to the narrowing of the firm’s own credit spreads during the quarter, Viniar said. ...........
OBAMA--LOUIS FREEH (FBI) helps protect SAUDI--MOSSAD--GOP conspiracy to murder 3,000 Americans on 9/11
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/BT-CO-20090716-714898-kIyVDAtMEM5TzEtNjIxM
* JULY 16, 2009, 2:44 P.M. ET
Judge Denies Bid By Airlines To Question FBI In 9/11 Case
Chad Bray
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A U.S. judge has denied a motion by a group of airlines to depose several Federal Bureau of Investigation agents regarding the government's probes into the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
In an order Thursday, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan denied a motion by the airlines to question six current and former FBI agents, a potential setback for their defense.
The judge indicated the airline defendants hoped to show at trial that the government's failure to apprehend the terrorists and stop the attacks was so considerable that it mitigates and excuses any alleged faults of the airlines and the terrorists likely would have succeeded even if the defendants had exercised due care.
"The government's failures to detect and abort the terrorists' plots would not affect the aviation defendants' potential liability," the judge wrote. "Moreover, efforts to prove these propositions would cause confusion and prejudice, and burden court and jury with long delays and unduly lengthy trial proceedings."
The rulings relate to three wrongful death cases and 19 property-damage cases.
The defendants include units of UAL Corp. (UAUA), US Airways Group Inc. (LCC), Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL), Continental Airlines Inc. (CAL) and AirTran Holdings Inc. (AAI).
A lawyer for the airlines didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment Thursday.
The judge did allow some of the testimony of two of the FBI agents from the trial of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, who is serving a life sentence - namely what they learned in their investigations.
"Testimony as to what their superiors did or did not do is not relevant, and is not admissible," the judge said.
The judge also denied a motion to admit the 9/11 Commission report as a whole as evidence in the case, instead only admitting the chronology provided in the report.
-By Chad Bray, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-227-2017; chad.bray@dowjones.com
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http://www.infowars.com/obama-justice-dept-backs-saudi-royal-family-on-911-la
Obama Justice Dept. Backs Saudi Royal Family on 9/11 Lawsuit
ERIC LICHTBLAU
The New York Times
May 30, 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.......
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http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/apr/07/nation/chi-freeh_for_5sapr07
Archive for Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Former FBI director defends Saudi prince from bribery allegations
By Tom Hamburger and Josh Meyer
April 07, 2009
WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director Louis Freeh says $2 billion that flowed from Britain to bank accounts controlled by the Saudi ambassador in the U.S. were sent as part of a secret arms deal between the British and the Saudis that, among other things, made it easier for the Saudis to evade American weapons-sales restrictions.
Freeh’s comments were made to the Public Broadcasting Service for a ” Frontline” documentary to be broadcast Tuesday. They have drawn criticism in Washington, where the transfer of funds to the Saudis continues to be the subject of a Justice Department international corruption inquiry.
The bank accounts were controlled by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a member of the Saudi royal family who served as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States. The money was transferred as part of a complex deal between the British government, the British arms manufacturer BAE Systems and the Saudi government, in which Bandar also got use of an Airbus 340 plane.
Bandar, now a national security adviser to Saudi King Abdullah, has denied any wrongdoing, as have other Saudi officials.
Freeh, now a private lawyer and consultant representing Bandar, acknowledged to Frontline that close to $2 billion was sent to accounts at Washington’s former Riggs Bank from Britain. The funds were part of a complex “oil for planes” deal that allowed Saudi Arabia to purchase arms with “maximum flexibility” even if the purchases ran afoul of congressional restrictions, he said.
“U.S. arms could be purchased through BAE in a way that did not deal with the objection of the U.S. Congress to the selling of American equipment to the Saudis,” Freeh explains in the interview.
BAE has sold planes with American-made components to the Saudis. U.S. law requires Congressional review before such deals are completed. Congressional arms experts said that as far as they knew all such sales to the Saudis by BAE were reviewed and they could not explain Freeh’s comment.
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether bribes were paid to Saudi officials to secure the contract and whether the funds sent to Riggs bank were part of a bribery scheme.
U.S. government officials said the investigation was being conducted under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which has jurisdiction over business executives making bribes but not the government officials receiving them. As a result, someone like Bandar would not be the target of the investigation, but his role helping to manage the Riggs Bank accounts could make him central to the inquiry.
In a statement issued to Tribune Newspapers, Freeh’s consulting firm, Freeh Group International, dismissed the bribery allegations saying that “not only have both these reckless allegations not been proved in any court or fair factual forum, but neither has been the subject of any charge or official government accusation.” Freeh was FBI director from 1993 to 2001 and became known for his tough approach to white-collar crime and terrorism.
BAE confirmed that it is the subject on ongoing investigations.
BAE Systems’ view is that the interests of the company as well as of all its stakeholders, including the general public, are best served by allowing these investigations to run their course. The Company is working with regulators towards that end, with a view to achieving resolution of the ongoing investigations.”
Bandar, a close friend of the Bush family, has generated controversy following news reports that he played a key role getting the British government to quash its own corruption investigation into the $86 billion BAE contract with Riyadh, allegedly by threatening to stop cooperating on counter terrorism matters. In the press statement issued Monday, Freeh’s office said that “the claim that Prince Bandar attempted to interfere” with the British investigation is “refuted by the facts.”
Still, Bandar’s alleged role provokes anger.
“Someone who characterizes himself as a U.S. patriot and national security advocate ought not to be on the side of someone blackmailing people not to investigate crimes by threatening to withdraw a nation’s cooperation against terrorists,” said Richard Clarke, a top counter-terrorism adviser to former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Clarke and others say they have concerns about Freeh’s defense of Bandar because of the Saudi threats to withhold cooperation in terrorism investigations if British officials moved ahead with their own BAE bribery inquiry a few years ago.
Freeh declined to comment for this article but his office issued a lengthy statement Monday denying the bribery reports and kicking back at suggestions that the Prince played a role in quashing the British investigation.
On Frontline, Freeh tells correspondent Lowell Bergman that Bandar did not accept a bribe, either in the form of $2 billion to Riggs or a BAE-supplied aircraft.
“Allegations that my client received $2 billion in bribes and…an Airbus 340…those allegations are totally false,” Freeh says. He says that the Airbus, painted in the colors of Bandar’s favorite football team, the Dallas Cowboys, is in fact owned by the Saudi Air Force. If members of the Saudi royal family agree to distribute an airplane or anything else “what was personal or not personal is really none of the business of the United States.”
Actually, that question was important in the mind of an FBI official who originally investigated the Riggs accounts and Bandar’s expenditures.
thamburger@tribune.com
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http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/08/why-is-former-fbi-director-louis-freeh-no
Why Is Former FBI Director Louis Freeh Now Saudi Prince Bandar's Lawyer?
04/8/09
In case you missed it, last night Frontline aired a truly revealing look at the oligarchical state of the world. The subject was corporate bribery--both domestic and international--from the Watergate era to the present day. The unavoidable, if not very mind-blowing conclusion reached in the documentary is that justice works one way for the powerful, and another for the weak. Corporations and sneaky governments play by one set of rules, while the common citizenry are forced to live with another.
One aspect of the show that I woke up thinking about, however, was the revelation that our former FBI Director Louis Freeh is now working as legal council to Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar, defending him in a corruption investigation launched by the U.S. Department of Justice that accuses a British defense contractor of funneling billions of dollars in payments and gifts to Bandar so that he could buy himself an airplane (which he had painted in Dallas Cowboy colors) and refurbish his royal palaces. Watch Frontline's interview with Freeh here.
After leaving the FBI, Freeh--who was appointed by Bill Clinton, and stepped down shortly before the attacks on 9/11--has been a busy guy. A director at Fannie Mae and Bristol Myers, he also advises DuPont. His real day job, however, is his consulting firm, Freeh Group International. The company's website lists its "Areas of Service" as:
- Strategic Management of Complex and Sensitive Inquiries
-Corporate Governance and Ethics
-Corporate Monitorships
(Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act)
-Homeland Security Strategies
(Threat Assments and Mitigation)
-Global Security Planning
The DOJ is continuing to look into the Bandar bribes, as it should, to see whether or not the British defense contractors broke The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Though everyone, including members of the Saudi Royal Family are afforded legal protection in the American system, this sure is a tangled web of intrigue, with Freeh somewhere near its center.
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EXCLUSIVE-PART 5: Freeh Became "Defence Lawyer" for Saudis on Khobar*
By Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON, Jun 26 (IPS) - In early November 1998, Louis Freeh sent an FBI team off to observe Saudi secret police officials interviewing eight Shi’a detainees from behind a one-way mirror at the Riyadh detention centre. He planned to use the Shi’a testimony to show that Iran was behind the bombing.
As expected, the stories told by the detainees recapitulated the outlines of the Shi’a plot that had already been described by the Saudis two years earlier. Now there were even more tantalising details of direct Iranian involvement.
One of the detainees said Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps General Ahmad Sherifi had personally selected the Khobar barracks as a target. Another said the Saudi Hezbollah members had been not only trained but paid by the Iranians.
"We came away with solid evidence that Iran was behind it," says a former FBI agent.
There was one problem with the evidence the FBI team collected: the Saudi secret police had already had two and half years to coach the Saudi Hezbollah detainees on what to say about the case, with the ever-present threat of more torture to provide the incentive.
But Freeh was not about to let the torture issue interfere with his mission. "For Louis, if they would let us in the room, that was the important thing," one former high-ranking FBI official told IPS. "We would have gone over there and gotten the answers even if they had been propped up."
When Freeh took the accounts from the Shi’a detainees in interrogations witnessed by the FBI team, however, the Justice Department didn’t buy them as valid testimony. The department refused to go ahead with an indictment as Freeh had desired, evidently based on the same objection that had been raised two years earlier: the Shi’a had been subject to torture.
But in January 2001, President George W. Bush kept Freeh on as FBI director. Freeh told the new president that Iran had masterminded the Khobar bombing, according to his testimony before the 9/11 Commission, and the Justice Department then began collaborating with Freeh on an indictment of the Saudi Hezbollah which implicated Iran in the Khobar bombing.
The indictment was announced on Jun. 21, 2001 – Freeh’s last day as FBI director.
Highly credible evidence soon showed, however, that the Mabahith, the Saudi secret police, did indeed use torture and coercion to get detainees to tell the stories demanded by the Saudi regime - even in front of foreign observers - and that they did so to protect al Qaeda from investigation by the United States.
Three car bombings in Riyadh in November 2000 that had resulted in the death of a British citizen were generally believed to have been the work of al Qaeda. But four British citizens, one Canadian and one Belgian had confessed to the bombings, and their confessions had been broadcast on Saudi television.
After being released in 2003, however, the Canadian citizen, William Sampson, made public his dramatic account of beatings administered by the Mabahith while being hung upside down, including blows which made his testicles swell to the size of oranges. Sampson said the Saudis told him from the beginning what they wanted him to confess to, repeating it over and over while the beatings continued, and refined the story over time, constantly adding new details.
Six weeks into the interrogation, after Sampson began to tell them what they wanted, they started videotaping his confession, using a wall chart to help him remember in detail the movements he was supposed to have made.
The Saudis even coached Sampson on what to say when he was visited by Canadian embassy personnel, threatening him with further torture if he told the embassy officials the truth. When the embassy personnel came to talk with him, Sampson’s two torturers were present for the entire interview, just as they were presumably present at the questioning of the Shi’a detainees observed by the FBI team.
The other foreigners told similar stories of coerced confessions under torture. Sampson and the five foreigners were released only after a May 2003 suicide bombing by al Qaeda on a Riyadh compound housing 900 expatriates forced Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef to acknowledge al Qaeda as a terrorist threat in Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, once out of office, Freeh became virtually a defence lawyer for the Saudi regime on the Khobar Towers bombing.
Testifying before a joint hearing of the House and Senate Select Intelligence Committees on Oct. 9, 2002, he whitewashed the Saudi policy toward the FBI investigation. Omitting any mention of the Saudi deception over the explosives smuggling incident and refusal to allow the FBI to pursue essential investigatory tasks, Freeh suggested that the Saudis had done everything that could be expected of them.
"Fortunately, the FBI was able to forge an effective working relationship with the Saudi police and interior ministry," he said. Any "roadblock or legal obstacle" that "would occur", Freeh asserted, was because of the "marked difference between our legal and procedural systems".
Freeh paid tribute to Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador, as "critical in achieving the FBI’s investigative objectives in the Khobar case" and suggested that any such temporary problems "were always solved" by Bandar’s "personal intervention".
Freeh misrepresented the arrangement under which the FBI team had observed the interrogation as "making these witnesses directly available".
In an interview for a fawning biography of Prince Bandar, Freeh even went so far as to call the Saudi beheading of four jihadists who confessed to the OPM SANG bombing after refusing to allow the FBI to question them as "swift justice" on a "Saudi domestic matter".
The final chapter of Freeh’s connection with Bandar and the Saudis, however, was still to come. In April 2009, Freeh appeared as Bandar’s defence lawyer in a British court case in which Bandar is accused of illegally taking two billion dollars in graft on a Saudi-British arms deal.
n the context of Freeh’s straitened financial situation and his very close relationship with Prince Bandar, this sequence of developments in Freeh’s relationship with the Saudis, culminating in being put on Bandar’s payroll, should have raised eyebrows in Washington.
With a wife and six children to support, Freeh had been far more vulnerable to Saudi blandishments than most senior administration officials. And Bandar had made no secret that he was willing to use the promise of financial benefits to influence U.S. officials while they were still in office.
He once told an associate, according to a February 2002 article by Robert G. Kaiser and David Ottaway of the Washington Post, "If the reputation...builds that the Saudis take care of friends when they leave office, you’d be surprised how much better friends you have who are just coming into office."
Freeh declined to be interview for this series.
In light of the history of Freeh’s relations with Bandar, his conduct of the investigation of Khobar Towers deserves new scrutiny. Freeh effectively shut down a probe of a terror bombing in which bin Laden was clearly implicated when the Saudis had refused to cooperate; he refused to pursue any investigation of a bin Laden role in the bombing; and he pushed a seriously flawed Saudi account of the bombing despite the fact that it was tainted by the likelihood of torture.
The result of Freeh’s blatant pro-Saudi bias was that Osama bin Laden was allowed more years of unhindered freedom in which to plan terrorist actins against the United States. Had Freeh not become an advocate of the interests of the regime whose representative in Washington eventually put him on his payroll, U.S. policy would presumably have been focused like a laser on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda two years earlier.
And perhaps the disinterest of the George W. Bush administration’s national security team toward al Qaeda before 9/11 would have been impossible.
(This is the final installment of a five-part series, "Khobar Towers Investigated: How a Saudi Deception Protected Osama bin Laden". The work on this series was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.)
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
GOP TIES TO THREE 911 HIJACKERS
By Alex Constantine
Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman al-Hussayen was in the thick of it, all right. On Sept. 10, 2001, three of the 911 hijackers stayed in same hotel as the Saudi "Minister for the Holy Places," England's Telegraph reported three years after the event: "A senior Saudi Arabian official stayed at the same hotel as three September 11 hijackers the night before the suicide attacks. American investigators are trying to make sense of the disclosure that Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman al-Hussayen, who returned to Saudi Arabia shortly after the attacks, stayed at the Marriott Residence Inn in Herndon, Virginia."
David Nevin, his nephew's American attorney, denied "any sinister aspects to the older man's travels.... Mr Hussayen became president of the affairs of the Holy Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the two most sacred sites in Islam, five months after the attacks. Sources said he was already a prominent figure in the world of Saudi-funded charities."
Hussayen was questioned by the FBI after the air commando operations that levelled the World Trade Center ... and he "feigned a seizure," quaking and choking and "prompting the agents to take him to a hospital, where the attending physicians found nothing wrong with him..."1
The agents suggested that the Saudi "epileptic" should be detained and questioned, but "as soon as flights resumed on Sept 19, Mr Hussayen and his wife flew home." Oops. The FBI later learned that while touring in the States, Sheikh Hussayen "visited or contacted several Saudi-sponsored charities now accused of links to terrorist groups."
Prosecutors later maintained that Hussayen had financed the Islamic Assembly of North America, accused of distributing "the teachings of two Saudi clerics who advocate violence against the United States." .......................
* JULY 16, 2009, 2:44 P.M. ET
Judge Denies Bid By Airlines To Question FBI In 9/11 Case
Chad Bray
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A U.S. judge has denied a motion by a group of airlines to depose several Federal Bureau of Investigation agents regarding the government's probes into the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
In an order Thursday, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan denied a motion by the airlines to question six current and former FBI agents, a potential setback for their defense.
The judge indicated the airline defendants hoped to show at trial that the government's failure to apprehend the terrorists and stop the attacks was so considerable that it mitigates and excuses any alleged faults of the airlines and the terrorists likely would have succeeded even if the defendants had exercised due care.
"The government's failures to detect and abort the terrorists' plots would not affect the aviation defendants' potential liability," the judge wrote. "Moreover, efforts to prove these propositions would cause confusion and prejudice, and burden court and jury with long delays and unduly lengthy trial proceedings."
The rulings relate to three wrongful death cases and 19 property-damage cases.
The defendants include units of UAL Corp. (UAUA), US Airways Group Inc. (LCC), Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL), Continental Airlines Inc. (CAL) and AirTran Holdings Inc. (AAI).
A lawyer for the airlines didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment Thursday.
The judge did allow some of the testimony of two of the FBI agents from the trial of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, who is serving a life sentence - namely what they learned in their investigations.
"Testimony as to what their superiors did or did not do is not relevant, and is not admissible," the judge said.
The judge also denied a motion to admit the 9/11 Commission report as a whole as evidence in the case, instead only admitting the chronology provided in the report.
-By Chad Bray, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-227-2017; chad.bray@dowjones.com
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http://www.infowars.com/obama-justice-dept-backs-saudi-royal-family-on-911-la
Obama Justice Dept. Backs Saudi Royal Family on 9/11 Lawsuit
ERIC LICHTBLAU
The New York Times
May 30, 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.......
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http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/apr/07/nation/chi-freeh_for_5sapr07
Archive for Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Former FBI director defends Saudi prince from bribery allegations
By Tom Hamburger and Josh Meyer
April 07, 2009
WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director Louis Freeh says $2 billion that flowed from Britain to bank accounts controlled by the Saudi ambassador in the U.S. were sent as part of a secret arms deal between the British and the Saudis that, among other things, made it easier for the Saudis to evade American weapons-sales restrictions.
Freeh’s comments were made to the Public Broadcasting Service for a ” Frontline” documentary to be broadcast Tuesday. They have drawn criticism in Washington, where the transfer of funds to the Saudis continues to be the subject of a Justice Department international corruption inquiry.
The bank accounts were controlled by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a member of the Saudi royal family who served as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States. The money was transferred as part of a complex deal between the British government, the British arms manufacturer BAE Systems and the Saudi government, in which Bandar also got use of an Airbus 340 plane.
Bandar, now a national security adviser to Saudi King Abdullah, has denied any wrongdoing, as have other Saudi officials.
Freeh, now a private lawyer and consultant representing Bandar, acknowledged to Frontline that close to $2 billion was sent to accounts at Washington’s former Riggs Bank from Britain. The funds were part of a complex “oil for planes” deal that allowed Saudi Arabia to purchase arms with “maximum flexibility” even if the purchases ran afoul of congressional restrictions, he said.
“U.S. arms could be purchased through BAE in a way that did not deal with the objection of the U.S. Congress to the selling of American equipment to the Saudis,” Freeh explains in the interview.
BAE has sold planes with American-made components to the Saudis. U.S. law requires Congressional review before such deals are completed. Congressional arms experts said that as far as they knew all such sales to the Saudis by BAE were reviewed and they could not explain Freeh’s comment.
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether bribes were paid to Saudi officials to secure the contract and whether the funds sent to Riggs bank were part of a bribery scheme.
U.S. government officials said the investigation was being conducted under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which has jurisdiction over business executives making bribes but not the government officials receiving them. As a result, someone like Bandar would not be the target of the investigation, but his role helping to manage the Riggs Bank accounts could make him central to the inquiry.
In a statement issued to Tribune Newspapers, Freeh’s consulting firm, Freeh Group International, dismissed the bribery allegations saying that “not only have both these reckless allegations not been proved in any court or fair factual forum, but neither has been the subject of any charge or official government accusation.” Freeh was FBI director from 1993 to 2001 and became known for his tough approach to white-collar crime and terrorism.
BAE confirmed that it is the subject on ongoing investigations.
BAE Systems’ view is that the interests of the company as well as of all its stakeholders, including the general public, are best served by allowing these investigations to run their course. The Company is working with regulators towards that end, with a view to achieving resolution of the ongoing investigations.”
Bandar, a close friend of the Bush family, has generated controversy following news reports that he played a key role getting the British government to quash its own corruption investigation into the $86 billion BAE contract with Riyadh, allegedly by threatening to stop cooperating on counter terrorism matters. In the press statement issued Monday, Freeh’s office said that “the claim that Prince Bandar attempted to interfere” with the British investigation is “refuted by the facts.”
Still, Bandar’s alleged role provokes anger.
“Someone who characterizes himself as a U.S. patriot and national security advocate ought not to be on the side of someone blackmailing people not to investigate crimes by threatening to withdraw a nation’s cooperation against terrorists,” said Richard Clarke, a top counter-terrorism adviser to former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Clarke and others say they have concerns about Freeh’s defense of Bandar because of the Saudi threats to withhold cooperation in terrorism investigations if British officials moved ahead with their own BAE bribery inquiry a few years ago.
Freeh declined to comment for this article but his office issued a lengthy statement Monday denying the bribery reports and kicking back at suggestions that the Prince played a role in quashing the British investigation.
On Frontline, Freeh tells correspondent Lowell Bergman that Bandar did not accept a bribe, either in the form of $2 billion to Riggs or a BAE-supplied aircraft.
“Allegations that my client received $2 billion in bribes and…an Airbus 340…those allegations are totally false,” Freeh says. He says that the Airbus, painted in the colors of Bandar’s favorite football team, the Dallas Cowboys, is in fact owned by the Saudi Air Force. If members of the Saudi royal family agree to distribute an airplane or anything else “what was personal or not personal is really none of the business of the United States.”
Actually, that question was important in the mind of an FBI official who originally investigated the Riggs accounts and Bandar’s expenditures.
thamburger@tribune.com
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http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/08/why-is-former-fbi-director-louis-freeh-no
Why Is Former FBI Director Louis Freeh Now Saudi Prince Bandar's Lawyer?
04/8/09
In case you missed it, last night Frontline aired a truly revealing look at the oligarchical state of the world. The subject was corporate bribery--both domestic and international--from the Watergate era to the present day. The unavoidable, if not very mind-blowing conclusion reached in the documentary is that justice works one way for the powerful, and another for the weak. Corporations and sneaky governments play by one set of rules, while the common citizenry are forced to live with another.
One aspect of the show that I woke up thinking about, however, was the revelation that our former FBI Director Louis Freeh is now working as legal council to Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar, defending him in a corruption investigation launched by the U.S. Department of Justice that accuses a British defense contractor of funneling billions of dollars in payments and gifts to Bandar so that he could buy himself an airplane (which he had painted in Dallas Cowboy colors) and refurbish his royal palaces. Watch Frontline's interview with Freeh here.
After leaving the FBI, Freeh--who was appointed by Bill Clinton, and stepped down shortly before the attacks on 9/11--has been a busy guy. A director at Fannie Mae and Bristol Myers, he also advises DuPont. His real day job, however, is his consulting firm, Freeh Group International. The company's website lists its "Areas of Service" as:
- Strategic Management of Complex and Sensitive Inquiries
-Corporate Governance and Ethics
-Corporate Monitorships
(Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act)
-Homeland Security Strategies
(Threat Assments and Mitigation)
-Global Security Planning
The DOJ is continuing to look into the Bandar bribes, as it should, to see whether or not the British defense contractors broke The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Though everyone, including members of the Saudi Royal Family are afforded legal protection in the American system, this sure is a tangled web of intrigue, with Freeh somewhere near its center.
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EXCLUSIVE-PART 5: Freeh Became "Defence Lawyer" for Saudis on Khobar*
By Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON, Jun 26 (IPS) - In early November 1998, Louis Freeh sent an FBI team off to observe Saudi secret police officials interviewing eight Shi’a detainees from behind a one-way mirror at the Riyadh detention centre. He planned to use the Shi’a testimony to show that Iran was behind the bombing.
As expected, the stories told by the detainees recapitulated the outlines of the Shi’a plot that had already been described by the Saudis two years earlier. Now there were even more tantalising details of direct Iranian involvement.
One of the detainees said Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps General Ahmad Sherifi had personally selected the Khobar barracks as a target. Another said the Saudi Hezbollah members had been not only trained but paid by the Iranians.
"We came away with solid evidence that Iran was behind it," says a former FBI agent.
There was one problem with the evidence the FBI team collected: the Saudi secret police had already had two and half years to coach the Saudi Hezbollah detainees on what to say about the case, with the ever-present threat of more torture to provide the incentive.
But Freeh was not about to let the torture issue interfere with his mission. "For Louis, if they would let us in the room, that was the important thing," one former high-ranking FBI official told IPS. "We would have gone over there and gotten the answers even if they had been propped up."
When Freeh took the accounts from the Shi’a detainees in interrogations witnessed by the FBI team, however, the Justice Department didn’t buy them as valid testimony. The department refused to go ahead with an indictment as Freeh had desired, evidently based on the same objection that had been raised two years earlier: the Shi’a had been subject to torture.
But in January 2001, President George W. Bush kept Freeh on as FBI director. Freeh told the new president that Iran had masterminded the Khobar bombing, according to his testimony before the 9/11 Commission, and the Justice Department then began collaborating with Freeh on an indictment of the Saudi Hezbollah which implicated Iran in the Khobar bombing.
The indictment was announced on Jun. 21, 2001 – Freeh’s last day as FBI director.
Highly credible evidence soon showed, however, that the Mabahith, the Saudi secret police, did indeed use torture and coercion to get detainees to tell the stories demanded by the Saudi regime - even in front of foreign observers - and that they did so to protect al Qaeda from investigation by the United States.
Three car bombings in Riyadh in November 2000 that had resulted in the death of a British citizen were generally believed to have been the work of al Qaeda. But four British citizens, one Canadian and one Belgian had confessed to the bombings, and their confessions had been broadcast on Saudi television.
After being released in 2003, however, the Canadian citizen, William Sampson, made public his dramatic account of beatings administered by the Mabahith while being hung upside down, including blows which made his testicles swell to the size of oranges. Sampson said the Saudis told him from the beginning what they wanted him to confess to, repeating it over and over while the beatings continued, and refined the story over time, constantly adding new details.
Six weeks into the interrogation, after Sampson began to tell them what they wanted, they started videotaping his confession, using a wall chart to help him remember in detail the movements he was supposed to have made.
The Saudis even coached Sampson on what to say when he was visited by Canadian embassy personnel, threatening him with further torture if he told the embassy officials the truth. When the embassy personnel came to talk with him, Sampson’s two torturers were present for the entire interview, just as they were presumably present at the questioning of the Shi’a detainees observed by the FBI team.
The other foreigners told similar stories of coerced confessions under torture. Sampson and the five foreigners were released only after a May 2003 suicide bombing by al Qaeda on a Riyadh compound housing 900 expatriates forced Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef to acknowledge al Qaeda as a terrorist threat in Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, once out of office, Freeh became virtually a defence lawyer for the Saudi regime on the Khobar Towers bombing.
Testifying before a joint hearing of the House and Senate Select Intelligence Committees on Oct. 9, 2002, he whitewashed the Saudi policy toward the FBI investigation. Omitting any mention of the Saudi deception over the explosives smuggling incident and refusal to allow the FBI to pursue essential investigatory tasks, Freeh suggested that the Saudis had done everything that could be expected of them.
"Fortunately, the FBI was able to forge an effective working relationship with the Saudi police and interior ministry," he said. Any "roadblock or legal obstacle" that "would occur", Freeh asserted, was because of the "marked difference between our legal and procedural systems".
Freeh paid tribute to Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador, as "critical in achieving the FBI’s investigative objectives in the Khobar case" and suggested that any such temporary problems "were always solved" by Bandar’s "personal intervention".
Freeh misrepresented the arrangement under which the FBI team had observed the interrogation as "making these witnesses directly available".
In an interview for a fawning biography of Prince Bandar, Freeh even went so far as to call the Saudi beheading of four jihadists who confessed to the OPM SANG bombing after refusing to allow the FBI to question them as "swift justice" on a "Saudi domestic matter".
The final chapter of Freeh’s connection with Bandar and the Saudis, however, was still to come. In April 2009, Freeh appeared as Bandar’s defence lawyer in a British court case in which Bandar is accused of illegally taking two billion dollars in graft on a Saudi-British arms deal.
n the context of Freeh’s straitened financial situation and his very close relationship with Prince Bandar, this sequence of developments in Freeh’s relationship with the Saudis, culminating in being put on Bandar’s payroll, should have raised eyebrows in Washington.
With a wife and six children to support, Freeh had been far more vulnerable to Saudi blandishments than most senior administration officials. And Bandar had made no secret that he was willing to use the promise of financial benefits to influence U.S. officials while they were still in office.
He once told an associate, according to a February 2002 article by Robert G. Kaiser and David Ottaway of the Washington Post, "If the reputation...builds that the Saudis take care of friends when they leave office, you’d be surprised how much better friends you have who are just coming into office."
Freeh declined to be interview for this series.
In light of the history of Freeh’s relations with Bandar, his conduct of the investigation of Khobar Towers deserves new scrutiny. Freeh effectively shut down a probe of a terror bombing in which bin Laden was clearly implicated when the Saudis had refused to cooperate; he refused to pursue any investigation of a bin Laden role in the bombing; and he pushed a seriously flawed Saudi account of the bombing despite the fact that it was tainted by the likelihood of torture.
The result of Freeh’s blatant pro-Saudi bias was that Osama bin Laden was allowed more years of unhindered freedom in which to plan terrorist actins against the United States. Had Freeh not become an advocate of the interests of the regime whose representative in Washington eventually put him on his payroll, U.S. policy would presumably have been focused like a laser on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda two years earlier.
And perhaps the disinterest of the George W. Bush administration’s national security team toward al Qaeda before 9/11 would have been impossible.
(This is the final installment of a five-part series, "Khobar Towers Investigated: How a Saudi Deception Protected Osama bin Laden". The work on this series was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.)
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
GOP TIES TO THREE 911 HIJACKERS
By Alex Constantine
Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman al-Hussayen was in the thick of it, all right. On Sept. 10, 2001, three of the 911 hijackers stayed in same hotel as the Saudi "Minister for the Holy Places," England's Telegraph reported three years after the event: "A senior Saudi Arabian official stayed at the same hotel as three September 11 hijackers the night before the suicide attacks. American investigators are trying to make sense of the disclosure that Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman al-Hussayen, who returned to Saudi Arabia shortly after the attacks, stayed at the Marriott Residence Inn in Herndon, Virginia."
David Nevin, his nephew's American attorney, denied "any sinister aspects to the older man's travels.... Mr Hussayen became president of the affairs of the Holy Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the two most sacred sites in Islam, five months after the attacks. Sources said he was already a prominent figure in the world of Saudi-funded charities."
Hussayen was questioned by the FBI after the air commando operations that levelled the World Trade Center ... and he "feigned a seizure," quaking and choking and "prompting the agents to take him to a hospital, where the attending physicians found nothing wrong with him..."1
The agents suggested that the Saudi "epileptic" should be detained and questioned, but "as soon as flights resumed on Sept 19, Mr Hussayen and his wife flew home." Oops. The FBI later learned that while touring in the States, Sheikh Hussayen "visited or contacted several Saudi-sponsored charities now accused of links to terrorist groups."
Prosecutors later maintained that Hussayen had financed the Islamic Assembly of North America, accused of distributing "the teachings of two Saudi clerics who advocate violence against the United States." .......................
CHENEY'S DEATH CAMPS: what happened to the HOMELESS PEOPLE?
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4882.shtml
America’s ‘disappeared’: The homeless of the big cities
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jul 8, 2009, 00:18
(WMR) -- They were always seen by all who passed by, broke and idle in a number of Washington, DC, parks and grassy nooks. After 9/11, however, they began to disappear and in large numbers. “They” were the familiar faces of Washington’s homeless.
From Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, to Virginia Avenue across from the State Department, and Franklin Square, amid the city’s glass and steel towers housing DC’s power elite to tony Georgetown, many homeless people, both those truly down on their luck and those who were mentally ill, began to disappear.
As one Washington homeless advocate told this editor, “These people simply vanished.”
The disappearance of homeless people from the streets of Washington began under the administration of Mayor Anthony Williams and continues in force under that of Adrian Fenty. Both African-American mayors, Democrats but beholden to deep-pocketed land developers in a city that rarely elects Republicans to office, began to quietly make it tougher for the homeless to survive in the nation’s capital. Last year, Fenty announced that the Franklin School Shelter at 13th an K Streets would be phased out, leaving the homeless residents of that shelter little choice but to move to the streets.
Last August, a number of homeless activists picketed Fenty’s home over the plans to close the Franklin shelter. WMR was told by one spokesperson for the homeless that one of the protesters, John McDermott, has also now “vanished.” The spokesperson added that there are many cases of people known to live on the streets of Washington simply “disappearing” without a trace.
Some major cities, including New York and Atlanta, have been discovered to be “dumping” their homeless residents on other smaller towns and cities.
Others threaten their homeless with prison unless they leave town with usually a one-way bus ticket provided.
However, there is no evidence that Washington, DC, has been dumping homeless on other cities or paying their transportation out of town. The homeless spokesperson interviewed by WMR said that DC’s homeless are simply “vanishing” without a trace. DC officials in charge of the homeless are very tight-lipped when asked about the fate of unaccounted for homeless in the city.
Although the best-case scenario is that these unfortunate people have, in fact, been relocated to other areas, the spokesman ended the interview on a chilling note. He said with federal camps and a high demand for any usable body parts by the lucrative transplant industry, he feared the worst may have befallen some of DC’s “invisible residents.”
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
Copyright © 2009 WayneMadenReport.com
America’s ‘disappeared’: The homeless of the big cities
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jul 8, 2009, 00:18
(WMR) -- They were always seen by all who passed by, broke and idle in a number of Washington, DC, parks and grassy nooks. After 9/11, however, they began to disappear and in large numbers. “They” were the familiar faces of Washington’s homeless.
From Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, to Virginia Avenue across from the State Department, and Franklin Square, amid the city’s glass and steel towers housing DC’s power elite to tony Georgetown, many homeless people, both those truly down on their luck and those who were mentally ill, began to disappear.
As one Washington homeless advocate told this editor, “These people simply vanished.”
The disappearance of homeless people from the streets of Washington began under the administration of Mayor Anthony Williams and continues in force under that of Adrian Fenty. Both African-American mayors, Democrats but beholden to deep-pocketed land developers in a city that rarely elects Republicans to office, began to quietly make it tougher for the homeless to survive in the nation’s capital. Last year, Fenty announced that the Franklin School Shelter at 13th an K Streets would be phased out, leaving the homeless residents of that shelter little choice but to move to the streets.
Last August, a number of homeless activists picketed Fenty’s home over the plans to close the Franklin shelter. WMR was told by one spokesperson for the homeless that one of the protesters, John McDermott, has also now “vanished.” The spokesperson added that there are many cases of people known to live on the streets of Washington simply “disappearing” without a trace.
Some major cities, including New York and Atlanta, have been discovered to be “dumping” their homeless residents on other smaller towns and cities.
Others threaten their homeless with prison unless they leave town with usually a one-way bus ticket provided.
However, there is no evidence that Washington, DC, has been dumping homeless on other cities or paying their transportation out of town. The homeless spokesperson interviewed by WMR said that DC’s homeless are simply “vanishing” without a trace. DC officials in charge of the homeless are very tight-lipped when asked about the fate of unaccounted for homeless in the city.
Although the best-case scenario is that these unfortunate people have, in fact, been relocated to other areas, the spokesman ended the interview on a chilling note. He said with federal camps and a high demand for any usable body parts by the lucrative transplant industry, he feared the worst may have befallen some of DC’s “invisible residents.”
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
Copyright © 2009 WayneMadenReport.com
CHENEY'S MURDER INC: Benazir Bhutto? TENET and KAPPES getting even on DEAD EYE DICK for domestic murders
Cheney’s assassination squad run out of Pentagon; allegedly targeted Benazir Bhutto
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jul 16, 2009, 00:24
(WMR) -- WMR has learned from U.S. intelligence veterans that the secret intelligence operation run by Vice President Dick Cheney was not under the aegis of the Central Intelligence Agency but was a component of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Department of Defense.
The JSOC unit carried out assassinations of foreign individuals, including politicians in countries friendly to the United States, under the direct orders of Cheney. One former intelligence official described the operation as a new “Phoenix Program.”
During the Vietnam War, the CIA’s Phoenix program, carried out, with the cooperation of U.S. Special Operations forces, identified key Vietcong leaders in South Vietnamese villages and towns and later assassinated them. What the CIA was involved with from the days subsequent to the 9/11 attacks was a similar operation in Afghanistan and Pakistan that identified key leaders of “Al Qaeda” and the Taliban and planned their assassinations.
However, what the CIA abandoned was Cheney’s use of the operation, in part organized under then-CIA director George Tenet’s “Worldwide Attack Matrix” or “WAM,” to target real or perceived political enemies in other countries, possibly including individuals in the United States.
CIA director Leon Panetta officially terminated the CIA’s residual role in the assassination program after an eight-year involvement and informed Congress that they had been misled about the nature of the program.
The only actual part of the CIA that worked with the Pentagon’s assassination unit under JSOC was the Special Activities Division (SAD) of the CIA, itself largely comprised of former U.S. Special Operations personnel, including a number of former Delta Force members.
Far from being concerned about revelations about the program, WMR has learned that rank-and-file CIA officers are ecstatic about the revelations concerning Cheney’s operations. In knowing that most in the CIA, perhaps with the noted exceptions of deputy director of the CIA, Stephen Kappes, and acting CIA general counsel John Rizzo, were not involved in Cheney’s assassination ring, which is considered by many CIA officers to have been illegal, there is a certain amount of glee in realizing that Cheney may soon face the legal music on ordering illegal assassinations.
One retired CIA officer who was involved in the original clandestine targeting program before it was altered by Cheney, believes that the CIA has Cheney “by the balls” over the new revelations about the death squads.
WMR has been told by a U.S. intelligence source that the one person who poses the greatest threat to Cheney is former CIA director George Tenet, who claims that Cheney’s operation was so secretive he was not aware of its details.
Tenet has been described as having few friends from the Bush-Cheney administration and has nothing to lose by making public what he knows about Cheney’s role in the assassination operation.
Although the Cheney/JSOC operation continued under CIA directors Porter Goss and General Michael Hayden, neither are considered particularly vulnerable, except for their possible testimonies under oath before congressional committees.
The most high-profile target of the secret Cheney assassination squad, according to high-level CIA sources, allegedly was former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, assassinated on December 27, 2007, in Rawalpindi, the heart of Pakistan’s military and intelligence community.
WMR reported the assassination as follows on December 27, 2007:
“Bhutto was reportedly first shot in the neck and chest and then killed in a suicide bomb blast at a campaign rally. Bhutto’s closest advisers immediately suspected the involvement of Pakistan’s military and intelligence complex in the assassination, an event which is thought by many to strengthen the hand of Musharraf and Pakistan’s dictatorship. The global corporate media, in practical unison, began echoing the tired tripe that ‘Al Qaeda’ was responsible for Bhutto’s assassination. However, ‘Al Qaeda’ was fostered by Pakistan’s military and intelligence community with large amounts of funding from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.”
According to our CIA sources, Cheney decided that every effort should be made to ensure that his friend, Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, remain in power in Pakistan and not be replaced by Bhutto. Cheney allegedly authorized his secret assassination unit to hit Bhutto and then maximize his political gain by blaming the attack on “Al Qaeda.”
Cheney’s alleged hit on Bhutto also involved U.S. and Pakistani electronic surveillance of her communications. On February 21, 2008, WMR reported:
“The late former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto knew that all her phone conversations and e-mails were being monitored by Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and ‘other intelligence agencies,’ according to her long time friend and co-author Mark Siegel. Siegel made his comments last night in a speech at the National Press Club highlighting ‘Reconciliation,’ a book he co-authored with Bhutto shortly before her assassination.
Siegel said he and Bhutto were convinced that during her five years of exile in Dubai that all their phone calls between Washington, DC, and Dubai were being monitored by ISI. Since ISI does not possess its own significant eavesdropping capability in the United States, Bhutto’s reference to ‘other agencies’ is an indication that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was eavesdropping on Bhutto and passing some of the intelligence to the ISI and the government of Pakistani dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf.”
The House Intelligence Committee is promising to investigate the details of the program and on July 12, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said he believes there will be additional revelations forthcoming about the super-secret Cheney program.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
Copyright © 2009 WayneMadenReport.com
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071503856.html
CIA Assassin Program Was Nearing New Phase
Panetta Pulled Plug After Training Was Proposed
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said he supported the CIA chief's decision to cancel the program and inform Congress.
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 16, 2009
The plan to kill top al-Qaeda leaders, which had been on the agency's back burner for much of the past eight years, was suddenly thrust into the spotlight because of proposals to initiate what one intelligence official called a "somewhat more operational phase." Shortly after learning of the plan, Panetta terminated the program and then went to Capitol Hill to brief lawmakers, who had been kept in the dark since 2001.
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TOMMY:
This assumes the source is PANETTA...but..uh...CHENEY SAID THE PROGRAM WAS NOT OPERATIONAL...AND PANETTA SAID IT WAS? HE STOPPED IT, SO...UH...HOW DO YOU STOP A PROGRAM THAT IS NOT OPERATIONAL?
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The Obama administration's top intelligence official, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, yesterday defended Panetta's decision to cancel the program, which he said had raised serious questions among intelligence officials about its "effectiveness, maturity and the level of control."
But Blair broke with some Democrats in Congress by asserting that the CIA did not violate the law when it failed to inform lawmakers about the secret program until last month. Blair said agency officials may not have been required to notify Congress about the program, though he believes they should have done so.
"It was a judgment call," Blair said in an interview. "We believe in erring on the side of working with the Hill as a partner."
Democratic lawmakers have accused the CIA of deliberately misleading Congress by failing to disclose the program's existence until the briefing by Panetta on June 24. House Democrats, citing an account given by Panetta, say then-Vice President Richard B. Cheney personally ordered the CIA not to tell Congress about the initiative, which involved a series of intermittent plans to kill or capture Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaeda leaders using small teams of assassins.
Congressional Democrats this week formally requested documents about the program, and some have called for an investigation into whether the CIA improperly withheld information from oversight committees. Sen. Russell Feingold (Wis.), a member of the Senate intelligence committee, was among several prominent Democrats who have accused the CIA of violating the law.
He said he had "deep concerns about the program" and had conveyed them to President Obama in a classified letter.
Republicans say the allegations of CIA wrongdoing are false and harmful, and some accused Democrats of raising the issue to deflect attention from recent controversies surrounding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who was heavily criticized after accusing the agency of lying to Congress about its use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.
"We have lost valuable opportunities to improve oversight of the intelligence community because they got caught playing silly games," said Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.).
The plan to deploy small teams of assassins grew out of the CIA's early efforts to battle al-Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A secret document known as a "presidential finding" was signed by President George W. Bush that same month, granting the agency broad authority to use deadly force against bin Laden as well as other senior members of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
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tommy:
AL QAEDA is a false fronted Treasonous creation that was funded out of CITIBANK ACCORDING TO MI-5 blogger CHRIS STORY at INTERN. CURRENCY REVIEW.....so...uh....WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO MURDER YOUR PROVOCATEURS when CHENEY AND SECRET TEAM USES FEAR as the pretext to control the POLITICAL SOCIAL MILIEU?
Answer: AL QAEDA is a word for terrrorist...and...any political enemy of the CHENEY POLICE STATE IS A TERRORIST...so...ANY US CITIZEN IS AN AL QAEDA TERRORIST requiring murder.
THAT'S HOW SD US SEN TIM JOHNSON got fried with microwave radiation to create his brain stroke.
THAT'S HOW CHRISTINA MOORE got murdered by cheney.
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The finding imposed no geographical limitations on the agency's actions, and intelligence officials have said that they were not obliged to notify Congress of each operation envisaged under the directive.
The CIA declined to reveal specifics of the terminated program. But agency spokesman George Little said it was "never fully operational and never took a single terrorist off the battlefield." Since his appointment, Panetta has been "aggressively using the vast tools and tactics at our disposal -- those that actually work -- to take terrorists off the streets," Little said.
Some U.S. officials familiar with the program say it never progressed beyond concepts and feasibility studies, but others described more advanced preparations, including selection of teams and limited training. All of the attempts ultimately had to be scrapped, often because of logistical difficulties or because the risks were deemed too great, said several officials who served in counterterrorism units or had access to top-secret files.
The program was active in fits and starts, and it was essentially killed in 2004 because it was deemed ineffective, former and current intelligence officials said. It reemerged briefly in 2005 but remained largely dormant until this year. Two U.S. officials with detailed knowledge of current CIA operations said the agency presented Panetta last month with new plans for moving forward with training for potential members of the assassination teams -- activities that would have involved "crossing international boundaries," in the words of a former counterterrorism official briefed on the matter.
"When a CIA unit brought the program to Panetta's attention, it came with a recommendation to brief Congress since there was some thought being given to moving toward a somewhat more operational phase -- that is, a little training," said an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the events.
Despite the new activity surrounding the program, there were "concerns about its feasibility," the official said. "If the country ever needs a capability like this going forward, smart minds will figure out a better way to do it."
Blair said that Panetta told him in advance of the decision to terminate the program and that he supported the action as well as the decision to inform Congress.
Panetta "felt it was urgent and appropriate to brief the Hill," Blair said. "You can make a judgment call on whether a briefing was necessary. We were on the side of 'Let's do it.' We're trying to reset our relations with Congress."
Blair also asserted that killing the program did not diminish U.S. options for battling al-Qaeda, including the possible use of insertion teams that could kill or capture terrorist leaders.
"This particular program didn't make the cut," he said. "But it is absolutely not true that we are doing less against al-Qaeda. Our primary criterion is effectiveness, and we will continue to do things that we think are effective to make terrorist lives miserable, and hopefully, short."
Staff writers R. Jeffrey Smith, Karen DeYoung and Ben Pershing and staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.
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tommy:
THE PROGRAM is not defined...and HOW MANY PROGRAMS WERE THERE?
The facts include:
DOMESTIC ENEMIES OF THE STATE (based on Cheney's subjective interpretation of the threat to EXPOSURE, IMPEACHMENT, FED INDICTMENTS) were FLIPPANTLY MURDERED, ILLEGALLY CHIPPED, MIND CONTROLLED, HARASSED, STALKED, SLANDERED AT JOB SITES, PREVENTED FROM TYPING CIVIL SUITS IN THEIR OWN HOME, PREVENTED FROM FINISHING AND FILING A MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF IN SIOUX FALLS FED COURT.....Stopped from invoking a MEDICAL COURSE OF CARE WITH X RAYS SHOWING THE CHIP....were fried IN THEIR OWN HOMES TO CREATE BRAIN TUMORS, BRAIN STROKES, HEART ATTACKS--TORTURE FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES WITH NO INTERROGATION seeking info to prevent violence( CHENEY CONSIDERS A MOTION FILING to be a TERRORISTIC ATTACK?
When the MOTION FILING AND CIVIL SUIT involves the facts concerning THE DASCHLE CAMPAIGN WIRETAPPING, CARNEHAN MURDER, JFK JR MURDER, WELLSTONE MURDER, CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER, RICH GORDON MURDER, DEFENBAUGH MURDER, KABIESEMAN MURDER.....TALBOT'S SD HW PATROL PRELIM INQUIRY INTO SD MURDERS OBSTRUCTED WITH BOGUS ASSERTION THAT IT WAS A "STATE SECRET"....
Notice how...the police state hides the facts...leading to what?
MENTAL MASTURBATION and unsourced stories by corrupt clown punks at MAINSTREAM MEDIA LAND/
Any reporter can call JEFF TALBOT IN SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, to ask him if he can ask questions, or WHETHER STATE SECRETS--NAT SECURITY was used to KEEP HIM QUIET.
I CAN FILE A MOTION IN SIOUX FALLS FED CT...SUBPOENAE TALBOT to open it all up...but...uh...FBI UNDER MUELLER DOES NOT WORK PATRIOT ACT MURDERS because he prefers to invoke his pussified faggot "protocol" to somehow rationalize OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE BY VIOLATING HIS OATH OF OFFICE while unilaterally RESCINDING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT AND THE PROHIBITIONS MURDER, STALKING, TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES, TORTURE, CHIPPING, MIND CONTROL....SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF....ETC.
What can you do...WHEN MUELLER HAS NOT BEEN FIRED AND REPLACED WITH COLLEEN ROWLEY AND KEN WILLIAMS?
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jul 16, 2009, 00:24
(WMR) -- WMR has learned from U.S. intelligence veterans that the secret intelligence operation run by Vice President Dick Cheney was not under the aegis of the Central Intelligence Agency but was a component of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Department of Defense.
The JSOC unit carried out assassinations of foreign individuals, including politicians in countries friendly to the United States, under the direct orders of Cheney. One former intelligence official described the operation as a new “Phoenix Program.”
During the Vietnam War, the CIA’s Phoenix program, carried out, with the cooperation of U.S. Special Operations forces, identified key Vietcong leaders in South Vietnamese villages and towns and later assassinated them. What the CIA was involved with from the days subsequent to the 9/11 attacks was a similar operation in Afghanistan and Pakistan that identified key leaders of “Al Qaeda” and the Taliban and planned their assassinations.
However, what the CIA abandoned was Cheney’s use of the operation, in part organized under then-CIA director George Tenet’s “Worldwide Attack Matrix” or “WAM,” to target real or perceived political enemies in other countries, possibly including individuals in the United States.
CIA director Leon Panetta officially terminated the CIA’s residual role in the assassination program after an eight-year involvement and informed Congress that they had been misled about the nature of the program.
The only actual part of the CIA that worked with the Pentagon’s assassination unit under JSOC was the Special Activities Division (SAD) of the CIA, itself largely comprised of former U.S. Special Operations personnel, including a number of former Delta Force members.
Far from being concerned about revelations about the program, WMR has learned that rank-and-file CIA officers are ecstatic about the revelations concerning Cheney’s operations. In knowing that most in the CIA, perhaps with the noted exceptions of deputy director of the CIA, Stephen Kappes, and acting CIA general counsel John Rizzo, were not involved in Cheney’s assassination ring, which is considered by many CIA officers to have been illegal, there is a certain amount of glee in realizing that Cheney may soon face the legal music on ordering illegal assassinations.
One retired CIA officer who was involved in the original clandestine targeting program before it was altered by Cheney, believes that the CIA has Cheney “by the balls” over the new revelations about the death squads.
WMR has been told by a U.S. intelligence source that the one person who poses the greatest threat to Cheney is former CIA director George Tenet, who claims that Cheney’s operation was so secretive he was not aware of its details.
Tenet has been described as having few friends from the Bush-Cheney administration and has nothing to lose by making public what he knows about Cheney’s role in the assassination operation.
Although the Cheney/JSOC operation continued under CIA directors Porter Goss and General Michael Hayden, neither are considered particularly vulnerable, except for their possible testimonies under oath before congressional committees.
The most high-profile target of the secret Cheney assassination squad, according to high-level CIA sources, allegedly was former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, assassinated on December 27, 2007, in Rawalpindi, the heart of Pakistan’s military and intelligence community.
WMR reported the assassination as follows on December 27, 2007:
“Bhutto was reportedly first shot in the neck and chest and then killed in a suicide bomb blast at a campaign rally. Bhutto’s closest advisers immediately suspected the involvement of Pakistan’s military and intelligence complex in the assassination, an event which is thought by many to strengthen the hand of Musharraf and Pakistan’s dictatorship. The global corporate media, in practical unison, began echoing the tired tripe that ‘Al Qaeda’ was responsible for Bhutto’s assassination. However, ‘Al Qaeda’ was fostered by Pakistan’s military and intelligence community with large amounts of funding from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.”
According to our CIA sources, Cheney decided that every effort should be made to ensure that his friend, Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, remain in power in Pakistan and not be replaced by Bhutto. Cheney allegedly authorized his secret assassination unit to hit Bhutto and then maximize his political gain by blaming the attack on “Al Qaeda.”
Cheney’s alleged hit on Bhutto also involved U.S. and Pakistani electronic surveillance of her communications. On February 21, 2008, WMR reported:
“The late former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto knew that all her phone conversations and e-mails were being monitored by Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and ‘other intelligence agencies,’ according to her long time friend and co-author Mark Siegel. Siegel made his comments last night in a speech at the National Press Club highlighting ‘Reconciliation,’ a book he co-authored with Bhutto shortly before her assassination.
Siegel said he and Bhutto were convinced that during her five years of exile in Dubai that all their phone calls between Washington, DC, and Dubai were being monitored by ISI. Since ISI does not possess its own significant eavesdropping capability in the United States, Bhutto’s reference to ‘other agencies’ is an indication that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was eavesdropping on Bhutto and passing some of the intelligence to the ISI and the government of Pakistani dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf.”
The House Intelligence Committee is promising to investigate the details of the program and on July 12, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said he believes there will be additional revelations forthcoming about the super-secret Cheney program.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
Copyright © 2009 WayneMadenReport.com
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071503856.html
CIA Assassin Program Was Nearing New Phase
Panetta Pulled Plug After Training Was Proposed
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said he supported the CIA chief's decision to cancel the program and inform Congress.
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 16, 2009
The plan to kill top al-Qaeda leaders, which had been on the agency's back burner for much of the past eight years, was suddenly thrust into the spotlight because of proposals to initiate what one intelligence official called a "somewhat more operational phase." Shortly after learning of the plan, Panetta terminated the program and then went to Capitol Hill to brief lawmakers, who had been kept in the dark since 2001.
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TOMMY:
This assumes the source is PANETTA...but..uh...CHENEY SAID THE PROGRAM WAS NOT OPERATIONAL...AND PANETTA SAID IT WAS? HE STOPPED IT, SO...UH...HOW DO YOU STOP A PROGRAM THAT IS NOT OPERATIONAL?
______________
The Obama administration's top intelligence official, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, yesterday defended Panetta's decision to cancel the program, which he said had raised serious questions among intelligence officials about its "effectiveness, maturity and the level of control."
But Blair broke with some Democrats in Congress by asserting that the CIA did not violate the law when it failed to inform lawmakers about the secret program until last month. Blair said agency officials may not have been required to notify Congress about the program, though he believes they should have done so.
"It was a judgment call," Blair said in an interview. "We believe in erring on the side of working with the Hill as a partner."
Democratic lawmakers have accused the CIA of deliberately misleading Congress by failing to disclose the program's existence until the briefing by Panetta on June 24. House Democrats, citing an account given by Panetta, say then-Vice President Richard B. Cheney personally ordered the CIA not to tell Congress about the initiative, which involved a series of intermittent plans to kill or capture Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaeda leaders using small teams of assassins.
Congressional Democrats this week formally requested documents about the program, and some have called for an investigation into whether the CIA improperly withheld information from oversight committees. Sen. Russell Feingold (Wis.), a member of the Senate intelligence committee, was among several prominent Democrats who have accused the CIA of violating the law.
He said he had "deep concerns about the program" and had conveyed them to President Obama in a classified letter.
Republicans say the allegations of CIA wrongdoing are false and harmful, and some accused Democrats of raising the issue to deflect attention from recent controversies surrounding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who was heavily criticized after accusing the agency of lying to Congress about its use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.
"We have lost valuable opportunities to improve oversight of the intelligence community because they got caught playing silly games," said Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.).
The plan to deploy small teams of assassins grew out of the CIA's early efforts to battle al-Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A secret document known as a "presidential finding" was signed by President George W. Bush that same month, granting the agency broad authority to use deadly force against bin Laden as well as other senior members of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
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tommy:
AL QAEDA is a false fronted Treasonous creation that was funded out of CITIBANK ACCORDING TO MI-5 blogger CHRIS STORY at INTERN. CURRENCY REVIEW.....so...uh....WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO MURDER YOUR PROVOCATEURS when CHENEY AND SECRET TEAM USES FEAR as the pretext to control the POLITICAL SOCIAL MILIEU?
Answer: AL QAEDA is a word for terrrorist...and...any political enemy of the CHENEY POLICE STATE IS A TERRORIST...so...ANY US CITIZEN IS AN AL QAEDA TERRORIST requiring murder.
THAT'S HOW SD US SEN TIM JOHNSON got fried with microwave radiation to create his brain stroke.
THAT'S HOW CHRISTINA MOORE got murdered by cheney.
_____________________
The finding imposed no geographical limitations on the agency's actions, and intelligence officials have said that they were not obliged to notify Congress of each operation envisaged under the directive.
The CIA declined to reveal specifics of the terminated program. But agency spokesman George Little said it was "never fully operational and never took a single terrorist off the battlefield." Since his appointment, Panetta has been "aggressively using the vast tools and tactics at our disposal -- those that actually work -- to take terrorists off the streets," Little said.
Some U.S. officials familiar with the program say it never progressed beyond concepts and feasibility studies, but others described more advanced preparations, including selection of teams and limited training. All of the attempts ultimately had to be scrapped, often because of logistical difficulties or because the risks were deemed too great, said several officials who served in counterterrorism units or had access to top-secret files.
The program was active in fits and starts, and it was essentially killed in 2004 because it was deemed ineffective, former and current intelligence officials said. It reemerged briefly in 2005 but remained largely dormant until this year. Two U.S. officials with detailed knowledge of current CIA operations said the agency presented Panetta last month with new plans for moving forward with training for potential members of the assassination teams -- activities that would have involved "crossing international boundaries," in the words of a former counterterrorism official briefed on the matter.
"When a CIA unit brought the program to Panetta's attention, it came with a recommendation to brief Congress since there was some thought being given to moving toward a somewhat more operational phase -- that is, a little training," said an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the events.
Despite the new activity surrounding the program, there were "concerns about its feasibility," the official said. "If the country ever needs a capability like this going forward, smart minds will figure out a better way to do it."
Blair said that Panetta told him in advance of the decision to terminate the program and that he supported the action as well as the decision to inform Congress.
Panetta "felt it was urgent and appropriate to brief the Hill," Blair said. "You can make a judgment call on whether a briefing was necessary. We were on the side of 'Let's do it.' We're trying to reset our relations with Congress."
Blair also asserted that killing the program did not diminish U.S. options for battling al-Qaeda, including the possible use of insertion teams that could kill or capture terrorist leaders.
"This particular program didn't make the cut," he said. "But it is absolutely not true that we are doing less against al-Qaeda. Our primary criterion is effectiveness, and we will continue to do things that we think are effective to make terrorist lives miserable, and hopefully, short."
Staff writers R. Jeffrey Smith, Karen DeYoung and Ben Pershing and staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.
______________________________
tommy:
THE PROGRAM is not defined...and HOW MANY PROGRAMS WERE THERE?
The facts include:
DOMESTIC ENEMIES OF THE STATE (based on Cheney's subjective interpretation of the threat to EXPOSURE, IMPEACHMENT, FED INDICTMENTS) were FLIPPANTLY MURDERED, ILLEGALLY CHIPPED, MIND CONTROLLED, HARASSED, STALKED, SLANDERED AT JOB SITES, PREVENTED FROM TYPING CIVIL SUITS IN THEIR OWN HOME, PREVENTED FROM FINISHING AND FILING A MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF IN SIOUX FALLS FED COURT.....Stopped from invoking a MEDICAL COURSE OF CARE WITH X RAYS SHOWING THE CHIP....were fried IN THEIR OWN HOMES TO CREATE BRAIN TUMORS, BRAIN STROKES, HEART ATTACKS--TORTURE FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES WITH NO INTERROGATION seeking info to prevent violence( CHENEY CONSIDERS A MOTION FILING to be a TERRORISTIC ATTACK?
When the MOTION FILING AND CIVIL SUIT involves the facts concerning THE DASCHLE CAMPAIGN WIRETAPPING, CARNEHAN MURDER, JFK JR MURDER, WELLSTONE MURDER, CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER, RICH GORDON MURDER, DEFENBAUGH MURDER, KABIESEMAN MURDER.....TALBOT'S SD HW PATROL PRELIM INQUIRY INTO SD MURDERS OBSTRUCTED WITH BOGUS ASSERTION THAT IT WAS A "STATE SECRET"....
Notice how...the police state hides the facts...leading to what?
MENTAL MASTURBATION and unsourced stories by corrupt clown punks at MAINSTREAM MEDIA LAND/
Any reporter can call JEFF TALBOT IN SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, to ask him if he can ask questions, or WHETHER STATE SECRETS--NAT SECURITY was used to KEEP HIM QUIET.
I CAN FILE A MOTION IN SIOUX FALLS FED CT...SUBPOENAE TALBOT to open it all up...but...uh...FBI UNDER MUELLER DOES NOT WORK PATRIOT ACT MURDERS because he prefers to invoke his pussified faggot "protocol" to somehow rationalize OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE BY VIOLATING HIS OATH OF OFFICE while unilaterally RESCINDING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT AND THE PROHIBITIONS MURDER, STALKING, TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES, TORTURE, CHIPPING, MIND CONTROL....SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF....ETC.
What can you do...WHEN MUELLER HAS NOT BEEN FIRED AND REPLACED WITH COLLEEN ROWLEY AND KEN WILLIAMS?
CIA MURDERS targeting WITNESSES, COMPLAINANTS, DEMOCRATS, US SENATORS...etc, etc, etc.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/report_cia_assassin_progra
Report: CIA Assassin Program Could Operate Anywhere -- Even Inside U.S.
By Zachary Roth - July 16, 2009, 11:31AM
Since the news broke (sub. req.) at the start of the week that CIA director Leon Panetta had pulled the plug on a secret program to assassinate or capture al Qaeda leaders, we've been raising questions about one key aspect of the story. In particular, what was it about the program that was so shocking that Dick Cheney reportedly ordered it kept secret from Congress, Panetta quashed it as soon as he heard about it, and Congressional Democrats risked being painted as soft on terror by shrieking about being kept in the dark?
We may have gotten a good piece of the answer here: The Washington Post reports today on how the program had been revived and then put on hold several times since 2001. But it also says, referring to the "presidential finding" with which President Bush authorized the program in 2001:
The finding imposed no geographical limitations on the agency's actions, and intelligence officials have said that they were not obliged to notify Congress of each operation envisaged under the directive.
"No geographical limitations" presumably means that operations could potentially be carried out in countries, friendly or unfriendly, that are far from any war zone -- including even the US itself. And it seems likely that they would be carried out without notifying the foreign country in question.
Of course, we've frequently, and quite openly, used the military to carry out attacks on specific Qaeda leaders -- even before 9/11. But using the CIA to do so, and with such broad authority to operate anywhere in the world, as this program seems to have given the agency, would appear to take things into a different realm.
If some Congressional Democrats get their way, there'll be an actual investigation into whether the CIA withheld information from Congress. That would mean we wouldn't have to rely on piecing together news reports, sourced to insiders who likely have their own agendas, to get to the bottom of another crucial national security and separation of powers issue, which would be nice.
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tommy:
DON'T forget DUMSFIELD'S DOD CIFA UNIT violating the POSSE COMITATUS ACT...leading to obvious "red flag analysis" of VIOLATIONS OF TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242, 1512. 1513, all facilitated by VIOLATIONS OF TITLE III...Pin Hole spy cameras in A COOPERATING MINNEAPOLIS FBI WITNESS'S HOME? (Dr Mark Gordon INTERSTATE STALKING CAMPAIGN BY FBI HQ, SIOUX FALLS FBI AGENTS DAVE HELLER, DAN REYNALDS, SAC DEB PEIRCE, OK CITY FBI...etc...etc...etc.)
DON'T FORGET WHY I GOT CHIPPED AS A COOPERATING WITNESS WHO AGREED TO TAKE SFPD'S POLYGRAPH as proven by SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKENS' FED GRAND JURY IN SIOUX FALLS:
----RCMP ARREST WARRANT FOR CIA--FBI SPOOK TERRY NELSON'S MONTANA DRUG PIPELINE...money laundering by RACICOT INTO GOP CAMPAIGNS....
----AUSTIN FBI AGENT MICHAEL D. MANNO'S SEX CRIMES (1996-97) committed in WILLIAMSON AND TRAVIS COUNTIES...all obstructed by FBI AGENT JOHN "pissing in the street" MASPERO, BYRON "the Waco lying babyburner" SAGE (RSSA in Austin), AUSTIN PD, AUSTIN SEX CRIMES UNIT COMMANDER, STAN KNEE, JIMMY CHAPMAN....
----OK CITY BOMB AS FALSE FLAG run by FBI HOTDOG LARRY POTTS (Freeh's tough guy stooge who Freeh tried to promote?);
----CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER USING NSA SIGINT FROM NSA 902ND COUNTERINTEL GROUP..."cutout" was Austin lawyer WHITTINGTON who Cheney shot after getting drunk, and "arguing about some woman" (Secret Service Memo)....
----3 SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS OF MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES...ONE MURDER OF BOB NELSON OF NORTH DAKOTA WHOSE AIRPLANE still has not been located?....ATTEMPTED MURDERS OF TWO ATTORNEY CONTACTS OF MINE USING DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW....
[NOTE: I contacted SD US ATTORNEYS TEN TIMES TO DISCUSS THIS MATTER AS A CIVIL SUIT SETTLEMENT, AND OR A CRIMINAL MATTER?????????
CHENEY AND ADDINGTON were tough guys...and left the FBI OUT TO DRY....when MUELLER WAS THE ONLY RATIONAL NEOCON who knew what was best...but...alas...CHENEY THOUGHT HE COULD CHIP, MIND CONTROL, OPERATION SLAMMER, TORTURE, AND MURDER BEAN?
CHENEY totally fucked up...and is...responsible for bringing everyone down on SCHOOL SHOOTERS, DRUG SMUGGLING USING CIA RENDITION AIRPLANES, DOMESTIC MURDERS...CONSPRACIES TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE (especially SD HW PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT'S PRE INQUIRY INTO THE DEFENBAUGH AND KABIESEMAN MURDERS after I talked to TALBOT ON MY WIRETAPPED PHONE...TAPE RECORDINGS ARCHIVED BY PLUTA'S JOINI FED LOCAL TERR TASK FORCE]
Report: CIA Assassin Program Could Operate Anywhere -- Even Inside U.S.
By Zachary Roth - July 16, 2009, 11:31AM
Since the news broke (sub. req.) at the start of the week that CIA director Leon Panetta had pulled the plug on a secret program to assassinate or capture al Qaeda leaders, we've been raising questions about one key aspect of the story. In particular, what was it about the program that was so shocking that Dick Cheney reportedly ordered it kept secret from Congress, Panetta quashed it as soon as he heard about it, and Congressional Democrats risked being painted as soft on terror by shrieking about being kept in the dark?
We may have gotten a good piece of the answer here: The Washington Post reports today on how the program had been revived and then put on hold several times since 2001. But it also says, referring to the "presidential finding" with which President Bush authorized the program in 2001:
The finding imposed no geographical limitations on the agency's actions, and intelligence officials have said that they were not obliged to notify Congress of each operation envisaged under the directive.
"No geographical limitations" presumably means that operations could potentially be carried out in countries, friendly or unfriendly, that are far from any war zone -- including even the US itself. And it seems likely that they would be carried out without notifying the foreign country in question.
Of course, we've frequently, and quite openly, used the military to carry out attacks on specific Qaeda leaders -- even before 9/11. But using the CIA to do so, and with such broad authority to operate anywhere in the world, as this program seems to have given the agency, would appear to take things into a different realm.
If some Congressional Democrats get their way, there'll be an actual investigation into whether the CIA withheld information from Congress. That would mean we wouldn't have to rely on piecing together news reports, sourced to insiders who likely have their own agendas, to get to the bottom of another crucial national security and separation of powers issue, which would be nice.
_____________________________________
tommy:
DON'T forget DUMSFIELD'S DOD CIFA UNIT violating the POSSE COMITATUS ACT...leading to obvious "red flag analysis" of VIOLATIONS OF TITLE 18 USC SECTIONS 241, 242, 1512. 1513, all facilitated by VIOLATIONS OF TITLE III...Pin Hole spy cameras in A COOPERATING MINNEAPOLIS FBI WITNESS'S HOME? (Dr Mark Gordon INTERSTATE STALKING CAMPAIGN BY FBI HQ, SIOUX FALLS FBI AGENTS DAVE HELLER, DAN REYNALDS, SAC DEB PEIRCE, OK CITY FBI...etc...etc...etc.)
DON'T FORGET WHY I GOT CHIPPED AS A COOPERATING WITNESS WHO AGREED TO TAKE SFPD'S POLYGRAPH as proven by SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKENS' FED GRAND JURY IN SIOUX FALLS:
----RCMP ARREST WARRANT FOR CIA--FBI SPOOK TERRY NELSON'S MONTANA DRUG PIPELINE...money laundering by RACICOT INTO GOP CAMPAIGNS....
----AUSTIN FBI AGENT MICHAEL D. MANNO'S SEX CRIMES (1996-97) committed in WILLIAMSON AND TRAVIS COUNTIES...all obstructed by FBI AGENT JOHN "pissing in the street" MASPERO, BYRON "the Waco lying babyburner" SAGE (RSSA in Austin), AUSTIN PD, AUSTIN SEX CRIMES UNIT COMMANDER, STAN KNEE, JIMMY CHAPMAN....
----OK CITY BOMB AS FALSE FLAG run by FBI HOTDOG LARRY POTTS (Freeh's tough guy stooge who Freeh tried to promote?);
----CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER USING NSA SIGINT FROM NSA 902ND COUNTERINTEL GROUP..."cutout" was Austin lawyer WHITTINGTON who Cheney shot after getting drunk, and "arguing about some woman" (Secret Service Memo)....
----3 SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS OF MY KNOWN ASSOCIATES...ONE MURDER OF BOB NELSON OF NORTH DAKOTA WHOSE AIRPLANE still has not been located?....ATTEMPTED MURDERS OF TWO ATTORNEY CONTACTS OF MINE USING DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW....
[NOTE: I contacted SD US ATTORNEYS TEN TIMES TO DISCUSS THIS MATTER AS A CIVIL SUIT SETTLEMENT, AND OR A CRIMINAL MATTER?????????
CHENEY AND ADDINGTON were tough guys...and left the FBI OUT TO DRY....when MUELLER WAS THE ONLY RATIONAL NEOCON who knew what was best...but...alas...CHENEY THOUGHT HE COULD CHIP, MIND CONTROL, OPERATION SLAMMER, TORTURE, AND MURDER BEAN?
CHENEY totally fucked up...and is...responsible for bringing everyone down on SCHOOL SHOOTERS, DRUG SMUGGLING USING CIA RENDITION AIRPLANES, DOMESTIC MURDERS...CONSPRACIES TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE (especially SD HW PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT'S PRE INQUIRY INTO THE DEFENBAUGH AND KABIESEMAN MURDERS after I talked to TALBOT ON MY WIRETAPPED PHONE...TAPE RECORDINGS ARCHIVED BY PLUTA'S JOINI FED LOCAL TERR TASK FORCE]
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
KEN TICE talks about NSA--FBI using HAND OFF METHOD OF VIOLATING TITLE III
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/n...histlebl-2.html
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Q: Presuming that the NSA is collecting data in San Francisco or data mining, what happens to the data after it's collected? If they find actionable material in the data does the NSA pass it on to the FBI?
Tice: The NSA avoids sending anything to the FBI if they can help it. If there is a criminal element or activity in the data it has to be determined whether it's passed to the FBI, or Homeland Security, as it happens to be these days. When I was in the business, we all knew that the FBI leaked like a sieve. So we were very hesitant to take advantage of the FBI on anything because you were liable to see it on the news the next day. The FBI will compromise anything to get a conviction. But in the intelligence community you don't think that way. We're more than willing to let a criminal go to protect classified information. . . .
Q: But would the info be passed to the FBI if it involved terrorists and national security?
Tice: Yes, they would. And if it's some big mob thing, they would also give it to the FBI, but tell them to come up with some other way as to how they got the information.
Q: Why would the agency need to be so secretive about the AT&T rooms?
Tice: The big reason why they would put the San Francisco operation at such a high classification level is to hide the fact that they're breaking the law and to hide the fact that they're breaking the NSA's own policy. It should be [the sort of project] that any NSA analyst should be able to walk in and have access to. But to cloister it away where only a few people know about it means that it's something they don't want anyone to know about. ...
Say we're doing that same sort of deal overseas against a foreigner. ... More than likely anyone in NSA could potentially have access to that information. It wouldn't be compartmentalized. So if we set up that same scenario, even covertly in some frame room in Bucharest or something, anyone at NSA with a TSOCI clearance could potentially look at intelligence reports from information garnered from that particular collection point. So all of a sudden that same thing is being used here in the states and it's being put into a special SAP program -- Special Access Program. ... They're extremely closely held programs that are super-duper clearance nonsense. It's what I specialized for the last eleven years or whatever.
Q: So you're saying that San Francisco and this other room [in Bridgeton] reek of "super-duper" secrecy?
Tice: Yes, it reeks of SAP. Potentially. For NSA to do what they did ... it means that they knew that it was illegal and the reason they put this super high clearance on it was because they were protecting their own hides to keep anyone within NSA from finding out that it was going on. ...
Let me tell you, the biggest sweat that happened at NSA happened when John Kerry almost got elected president [in 2004], because they were concerned they were all going to be thrown in jail. They were all wiping sweat off their forehead when he lost. That's the scuttlebutt.
Q: Is it correct to say that, if the NSA is doing what Mark Klein says they are doing, that this would be a departure from the NSAs mission? Meaning that this would be the first time since 1978 or so when FISA was passed that it was engaging in this kind of activity?
Tice: That's correct. This would be an entirely new business for them, especially since FISA.
If you look at USSID 18, the NSA's bible on how it operates, the number one commandment of the NSAs ten commandments is You Shall Not Spy on Americans. So when this was brought up, I assume by [former NSA Director Michael] Hayden, he knew that what he was proposing was a violation of the fourth amendment and of USSID 18. And everyone at NSA knows this, too, because it's drilled into our heads over and over again.
To get at what's really going on here, the CEOs of these telecom companies, and also of the banking and credit card companies and any other company where you have big databases, those are the people you have to haul in to Congress and tell them you better tell the truth. Because anyone in the government is going to claim executive privilege.
...
I just hope in the long run that ... at some point that the American people wake up and that this stuff is dealt with. Right now ... do you know the adage about the frog in the water? That's what we're dealing with here. The American people are the frog in the tepid water, and the temperature is slowly being turned up. And we're about to become frog soup, and the American people don't know what's happening.
Aristotle said that the biggest danger to democracy is not insurgency, it's apathy. And I think that's what we're seeing right now. To a large extent it's politicians doing CYA and doing everything they can to make sure that people don't know what's going on. But to another extent, it's the populace who is more concerned about Janet Jackson's breast jumping out of her dress at the Super Bowl as opposed to what's really important in this world. Who cares about Britney Spears having her baby on her lap or all that nonsense that you see on TV?
I've done my constitutional duty. I've done what I had to do. That's all I'll say. Let the chips fall where they may. I'm out of the game. I've fallen on my sword.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/n...histlebl-2.html
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Q: Presuming that the NSA is collecting data in San Francisco or data mining, what happens to the data after it's collected? If they find actionable material in the data does the NSA pass it on to the FBI?
Tice: The NSA avoids sending anything to the FBI if they can help it. If there is a criminal element or activity in the data it has to be determined whether it's passed to the FBI, or Homeland Security, as it happens to be these days. When I was in the business, we all knew that the FBI leaked like a sieve. So we were very hesitant to take advantage of the FBI on anything because you were liable to see it on the news the next day. The FBI will compromise anything to get a conviction. But in the intelligence community you don't think that way. We're more than willing to let a criminal go to protect classified information. . . .
Q: But would the info be passed to the FBI if it involved terrorists and national security?
Tice: Yes, they would. And if it's some big mob thing, they would also give it to the FBI, but tell them to come up with some other way as to how they got the information.
Q: Why would the agency need to be so secretive about the AT&T rooms?
Tice: The big reason why they would put the San Francisco operation at such a high classification level is to hide the fact that they're breaking the law and to hide the fact that they're breaking the NSA's own policy. It should be [the sort of project] that any NSA analyst should be able to walk in and have access to. But to cloister it away where only a few people know about it means that it's something they don't want anyone to know about. ...
Say we're doing that same sort of deal overseas against a foreigner. ... More than likely anyone in NSA could potentially have access to that information. It wouldn't be compartmentalized. So if we set up that same scenario, even covertly in some frame room in Bucharest or something, anyone at NSA with a TSOCI clearance could potentially look at intelligence reports from information garnered from that particular collection point. So all of a sudden that same thing is being used here in the states and it's being put into a special SAP program -- Special Access Program. ... They're extremely closely held programs that are super-duper clearance nonsense. It's what I specialized for the last eleven years or whatever.
Q: So you're saying that San Francisco and this other room [in Bridgeton] reek of "super-duper" secrecy?
Tice: Yes, it reeks of SAP. Potentially. For NSA to do what they did ... it means that they knew that it was illegal and the reason they put this super high clearance on it was because they were protecting their own hides to keep anyone within NSA from finding out that it was going on. ...
Let me tell you, the biggest sweat that happened at NSA happened when John Kerry almost got elected president [in 2004], because they were concerned they were all going to be thrown in jail. They were all wiping sweat off their forehead when he lost. That's the scuttlebutt.
Q: Is it correct to say that, if the NSA is doing what Mark Klein says they are doing, that this would be a departure from the NSAs mission? Meaning that this would be the first time since 1978 or so when FISA was passed that it was engaging in this kind of activity?
Tice: That's correct. This would be an entirely new business for them, especially since FISA.
If you look at USSID 18, the NSA's bible on how it operates, the number one commandment of the NSAs ten commandments is You Shall Not Spy on Americans. So when this was brought up, I assume by [former NSA Director Michael] Hayden, he knew that what he was proposing was a violation of the fourth amendment and of USSID 18. And everyone at NSA knows this, too, because it's drilled into our heads over and over again.
To get at what's really going on here, the CEOs of these telecom companies, and also of the banking and credit card companies and any other company where you have big databases, those are the people you have to haul in to Congress and tell them you better tell the truth. Because anyone in the government is going to claim executive privilege.
...
I just hope in the long run that ... at some point that the American people wake up and that this stuff is dealt with. Right now ... do you know the adage about the frog in the water? That's what we're dealing with here. The American people are the frog in the tepid water, and the temperature is slowly being turned up. And we're about to become frog soup, and the American people don't know what's happening.
Aristotle said that the biggest danger to democracy is not insurgency, it's apathy. And I think that's what we're seeing right now. To a large extent it's politicians doing CYA and doing everything they can to make sure that people don't know what's going on. But to another extent, it's the populace who is more concerned about Janet Jackson's breast jumping out of her dress at the Super Bowl as opposed to what's really important in this world. Who cares about Britney Spears having her baby on her lap or all that nonsense that you see on TV?
I've done my constitutional duty. I've done what I had to do. That's all I'll say. Let the chips fall where they may. I'm out of the game. I've fallen on my sword.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/n...histlebl-2.html
"TRENTADUES AND TRENTADON'TS" memo (HOLDER)-- CIA SECRET Program used FBI BADGES TO COVER UP FALSE FLAG OPERATIONS
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/220207okcrevelations.htm
New OKC Revelations Spotlight FBI Involvement In Bombing
Nichols' claim that McVeigh had government handlers supported by huge weight of known evidence
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet
Thursday, February 22, 2007
New claims by Oklahoma City Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that Timothy McVeigh was being steered by a high-level FBI official are supported by a plethora of evidence that proves McVeigh did not act alone and that authorities had prior warnings and were complicit in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday,
Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah.
The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.
Documents that supposedly help back up his allegations have been sealed to protect information in them, such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah had no comment on the allegations. The FBI and Justice Department in Washington, D.C., also declined comment.
In another report, the Deseret Morning News named the FBI agent at Larry Potts, but that information has now been sealed by the court.
Potts was no stranger to anti-government confrontations, having been the lead FBI agent at Ruby Ridge in 1992, which led to the shooting death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of separatist Randy Weaver.
Potts also was reportedly involved in the 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993, which resulted in a fire that killed 81 Branch Davidian followers.
Potts retired from the FBI under intense pressure and criticism for the cover-up of an order to allow agents to shoot anyone seen leaving the Weaver cabin at Ruby Ridge.
"McVeigh said he believed Potts was manipulating him and forcing him to 'go off script,' which I understood meant to change the target of the bombing," Nichols stated.
The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by attorney Jesse Trentadue, whose brother Kenneth was tortured and beaten to death in an Oklahoma City federal prison in 1995. Authorities claimed Trentadue had committed suicide but he was being held in a suicide proof cell at the time and autopsy photos of his body showed he had been shocked with a stun gun, bruised, burned, sliced and then hung.
Jesse Trentadue has amassed evidence that his brother was mistaken for one of Timothy McVeigh's alleged bombing accomplices and in attempting to get him to talk Federal agents went too far and then tried to instigate a cover-up of the murder.
Just like 9/11, the official story of the Oklahoma City Bombing, that McVeigh alone carried out the attack using a fertilizer truck bomb, is contradicted by a plethora of eyewitness account as well as physical and circumstantial evidence.
- In early April 1995 a Ryder truck identical to the one used in the bombing was filmed by a pilot during an overflight of of an area near Camp Gruber-Braggs, Oklahoma. A June 17th, 1997 Washington Post article authenticates the photos as being exactly what they appear to be, photos of a Ryder truck in a clandestine base at Camp Gruber-Braggs. Why were the military in possession of a Ryder truck housed in a remote clandestine army base days before the Alfred P. Murrah bombing?
- In a 1993 letter to his sister, McVeigh claimed that he was approached by military intelligence and had joined an "elite squad of government paid assassins." McVeigh often contradicted himself and changed his story on a whim to fit in with the latest government version of events. Is the Camp Grafton footage evidence of McVeigh's enrollment in such a clandestine program?
Multiple reports of Arabs at the scene assisting McVeigh were ignored and surveillance tapes were withheld under national security. The likely reason for this was the fact that Bush senior and Clinton were responsible for bringing in nearly 1,000 Iraqi soldiers captured by U.S. forces during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, some of whom were involved in the bombing.
- The FBI claimed McVeigh scouted the Alfred P. Murrah building weeks before the bombing and yet on the morning of the attack he stopped at a local gas station to ask directions, lending credibility to the new claims that he was being controlled by other conspirators and that the target of the bombing had been changed.
- Original reports of two explosions and several failed devices being defused by bomb squads were buried by the establishment as the official explanation that McVeigh acted alone was pushed. Scientific analysis conducted by General Benton K. Partin revealed core columns were blown out from within the building and the extensive damage to the Alfred P. Murrah building was completely inconsistent with the explanation of a single and relatively weak fertilizer truck bomb.
- Many eyewitnesses reported that bomb squads in full reaction gear were seen around the building immediately before the blast. Police officer Terence Yeakey, who helped save dozens of victims, was one such witness. Yeakey compiled extensive files on his observations but was later found with his throat and wrists slashed having also been shot in the head after he had told friends he was being followed by authorities.
- Several individuals received prior warning that the bombing was about to take place. Bruce Shaw, who rushed to the Murrah building to find his wife who was employed there with the Federal Credit Union, testified that an ATF agent told him that ATF staff had been warned on their pagers not to come to work that day.
- The aftermath of the bombing led to the passage of the Omnibus Crime Bill and the demonization of the 'Patriot Movement', which was spreading like wildfire as opposition to federal government abuse grew following the events at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The consequences of the Oklahoma City Bombing effectively dismantled the Patriot Movement before the turn of the century.
In December, we reported on a video that shows McVeigh at a U.S. military base that specialized in explosives and demolition training over a year after he supposedly left the army. The tape, released by film producer Bill Bean, was the subject of a Hustler Magazine feature story.
Appearing last night on George Noory's Coast to Coast broadcast, America's biggest late night radio show, Alex Jones said he expected to talk to Jesse Trentadue imminently and it was further suggested by Noory that he and Jones should travel to Nichols' prison to interview him in person.
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/220207gaggednichols.htm
Attorney: Ashcroft Gagged Nichols From Exposing McVeigh's OKC Bombing Conspirators
Trentadue drops new bombshell on Alex Jones Show
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue dropped more bombshells on the U.S. government's involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing and its cover-up today, including the revelation that Timothy McVeigh's co-conspirator Terry Nichols was gagged from talking to the media years ago by John Ashcroft, in an attempt to silence Nichols from exposing the men who were directing McVeigh's attack on the Alfred P. Murrah building.
Trentadue joined talk show host Alex Jones to discuss Terry Nichols' declaration that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was being directed by a high-level FBI agent. The filing was quickly sealed by a Utah district court, but not before the Deseret Morning News identified the accused FBI provocateur as Larry Potts.
Trentadue dropped the bombshell that Attorney General's Ashcroft's office gagged Nichols from speaking to the media after it became apparent that McVeigh's accomplices and government ties to the bombing were in danger of leaking.
"Apparently before he had contacted me several years ago he had written to Attorney General Ashcroft, volunteering to tell everything about the bombing and the others involved," said Trentadue.
"Not only did no one from Attorney General Ashcroft's office follow up with Nichols, they actually apparently issued an order barring him from all contact with the media - it was thereafter that he reached out to me and I was able to get in to see him to spend a day and half with him."
Click here for the MP3 of the interview.
Look out for an extensive report on this new bombshell tomorrow morning.
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New OKC Revelations Spotlight FBI Involvement In Bombing
Nichols' claim that McVeigh had government handlers supported by huge weight of known evidence
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet
Thursday, February 22, 2007
New claims by Oklahoma City Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that Timothy McVeigh was being steered by a high-level FBI official are supported by a plethora of evidence that proves McVeigh did not act alone and that authorities had prior warnings and were complicit in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday,
Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah.
The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.
Documents that supposedly help back up his allegations have been sealed to protect information in them, such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah had no comment on the allegations. The FBI and Justice Department in Washington, D.C., also declined comment.
In another report, the Deseret Morning News named the FBI agent at Larry Potts, but that information has now been sealed by the court.
Potts was no stranger to anti-government confrontations, having been the lead FBI agent at Ruby Ridge in 1992, which led to the shooting death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of separatist Randy Weaver.
Potts also was reportedly involved in the 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993, which resulted in a fire that killed 81 Branch Davidian followers.
Potts retired from the FBI under intense pressure and criticism for the cover-up of an order to allow agents to shoot anyone seen leaving the Weaver cabin at Ruby Ridge.
"McVeigh said he believed Potts was manipulating him and forcing him to 'go off script,' which I understood meant to change the target of the bombing," Nichols stated.
The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by attorney Jesse Trentadue, whose brother Kenneth was tortured and beaten to death in an Oklahoma City federal prison in 1995. Authorities claimed Trentadue had committed suicide but he was being held in a suicide proof cell at the time and autopsy photos of his body showed he had been shocked with a stun gun, bruised, burned, sliced and then hung.
Jesse Trentadue has amassed evidence that his brother was mistaken for one of Timothy McVeigh's alleged bombing accomplices and in attempting to get him to talk Federal agents went too far and then tried to instigate a cover-up of the murder.
Just like 9/11, the official story of the Oklahoma City Bombing, that McVeigh alone carried out the attack using a fertilizer truck bomb, is contradicted by a plethora of eyewitness account as well as physical and circumstantial evidence.
- In early April 1995 a Ryder truck identical to the one used in the bombing was filmed by a pilot during an overflight of of an area near Camp Gruber-Braggs, Oklahoma. A June 17th, 1997 Washington Post article authenticates the photos as being exactly what they appear to be, photos of a Ryder truck in a clandestine base at Camp Gruber-Braggs. Why were the military in possession of a Ryder truck housed in a remote clandestine army base days before the Alfred P. Murrah bombing?
- In a 1993 letter to his sister, McVeigh claimed that he was approached by military intelligence and had joined an "elite squad of government paid assassins." McVeigh often contradicted himself and changed his story on a whim to fit in with the latest government version of events. Is the Camp Grafton footage evidence of McVeigh's enrollment in such a clandestine program?
Multiple reports of Arabs at the scene assisting McVeigh were ignored and surveillance tapes were withheld under national security. The likely reason for this was the fact that Bush senior and Clinton were responsible for bringing in nearly 1,000 Iraqi soldiers captured by U.S. forces during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, some of whom were involved in the bombing.
- The FBI claimed McVeigh scouted the Alfred P. Murrah building weeks before the bombing and yet on the morning of the attack he stopped at a local gas station to ask directions, lending credibility to the new claims that he was being controlled by other conspirators and that the target of the bombing had been changed.
- Original reports of two explosions and several failed devices being defused by bomb squads were buried by the establishment as the official explanation that McVeigh acted alone was pushed. Scientific analysis conducted by General Benton K. Partin revealed core columns were blown out from within the building and the extensive damage to the Alfred P. Murrah building was completely inconsistent with the explanation of a single and relatively weak fertilizer truck bomb.
- Many eyewitnesses reported that bomb squads in full reaction gear were seen around the building immediately before the blast. Police officer Terence Yeakey, who helped save dozens of victims, was one such witness. Yeakey compiled extensive files on his observations but was later found with his throat and wrists slashed having also been shot in the head after he had told friends he was being followed by authorities.
- Several individuals received prior warning that the bombing was about to take place. Bruce Shaw, who rushed to the Murrah building to find his wife who was employed there with the Federal Credit Union, testified that an ATF agent told him that ATF staff had been warned on their pagers not to come to work that day.
- The aftermath of the bombing led to the passage of the Omnibus Crime Bill and the demonization of the 'Patriot Movement', which was spreading like wildfire as opposition to federal government abuse grew following the events at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The consequences of the Oklahoma City Bombing effectively dismantled the Patriot Movement before the turn of the century.
In December, we reported on a video that shows McVeigh at a U.S. military base that specialized in explosives and demolition training over a year after he supposedly left the army. The tape, released by film producer Bill Bean, was the subject of a Hustler Magazine feature story.
Appearing last night on George Noory's Coast to Coast broadcast, America's biggest late night radio show, Alex Jones said he expected to talk to Jesse Trentadue imminently and it was further suggested by Noory that he and Jones should travel to Nichols' prison to interview him in person.
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/220207gaggednichols.htm
Attorney: Ashcroft Gagged Nichols From Exposing McVeigh's OKC Bombing Conspirators
Trentadue drops new bombshell on Alex Jones Show
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue dropped more bombshells on the U.S. government's involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing and its cover-up today, including the revelation that Timothy McVeigh's co-conspirator Terry Nichols was gagged from talking to the media years ago by John Ashcroft, in an attempt to silence Nichols from exposing the men who were directing McVeigh's attack on the Alfred P. Murrah building.
Trentadue joined talk show host Alex Jones to discuss Terry Nichols' declaration that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was being directed by a high-level FBI agent. The filing was quickly sealed by a Utah district court, but not before the Deseret Morning News identified the accused FBI provocateur as Larry Potts.
Trentadue dropped the bombshell that Attorney General's Ashcroft's office gagged Nichols from speaking to the media after it became apparent that McVeigh's accomplices and government ties to the bombing were in danger of leaking.
"Apparently before he had contacted me several years ago he had written to Attorney General Ashcroft, volunteering to tell everything about the bombing and the others involved," said Trentadue.
"Not only did no one from Attorney General Ashcroft's office follow up with Nichols, they actually apparently issued an order barring him from all contact with the media - it was thereafter that he reached out to me and I was able to get in to see him to spend a day and half with him."
Click here for the MP3 of the interview.
Look out for an extensive report on this new bombshell tomorrow morning.
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CIA stalls exposure on MIND CONTROL, POSSE COMITATUS ACT VIOLATIONS, and DOMESTIC MURDERS of political enemies
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/cia_gets_extension_until_aug_24_on_torture_report.php#more
CIA Gets Extension Until Aug 24 On Torture Report
By Zachary Roth - July 15, 2009, 12:31PM
The Obama administration's request to delay releasing a key report on torture has reportedly been granted.
According to Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent, a judge has said the CIA can have until August 24 to release the declassified version of a 2004 inspector general's report on the Bush administration's interrogations program. The report's release has already been delayed several times.
Opponents of torture who have seen the unredacted report have said it vindicates their position that the tactic is ineffective. As Spencer notes, it has been credited with shifting Attorney General Eric Holder towards strongly considering initiating a criminal probe in connection with the torture program.
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tommy:
I ASSURE this is...much ado about nothing.
All incriminating documents were burned in arson fires ordered by CHENEY, and protected by MUELLER AT FBI HQ.
The list OF ARSON FIRES USED TO BURN AND OBSTRUCT JUSTICE INCLUDES:
----NSA 902nd COUNTERINTEL GROUP AT FORT MEADE;
----CHENEY's OEB office when the arsonist cut off his escape and was seen hanging out the frigging window? LET'S SEE MUELLER'S FBI 302, AND HAVE MUELLER TESTIFY UNDER OATH to get him on PERJURY, SUBORNING PERJURY, OBSTRUCTION, CONSPIRACY, MISPRISION OF A FELONY;
----BUSH HISTORICAL HOME in Midland, Texas...storage of documents going back to IRAN CONTRA, OCTOBER SURPRISE, LEHDER, and the drug smuggling aided and abetted by WHAT IS CALLED THE POWER CONTROL GROUP that has infiltrated FBI HQ with Bob Mueller as the punk stooge clown pretending that his bogus efforts are good enough to fill his buckets of credibility, that ran dry along time ago;
----FBI HQ BASEMENT FIRE...push Mueller on this one...check videotapes, interview guards...polygraph and get sworn statements...IT ALL GOES TO MUELLER AND FBI HQ INFILTRATED BY THE CIA SPOOK NAZI POWER CONTROL GROUP (School Shooters, LYING TO FISA CT TO PUT A CHIP IN MY HEAD, TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, PATRIOT ACT MURDERS including WELLSTONE, CARNEHAN, JFK JR, RICH GORDON, CHRISTINA MOORE, so many others...INCLUDING THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF ONE OF MY CONGRESSIONAL CONTACTS FROM SOUTH DAKOTA, US SEN TIM JOHNSON who was BRAINSTROKED BY CIA?...DOD CIFA UNIT?...NSA Q GROUP...with MUELLER OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE BY INVOKING HIS "pussified fagboy protocol".
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http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/secret-program-cant-be-foreign.html
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The Secret Program CAN'T Be Foreign Assassinations, Because Congress Was Briefed on that in 2001 and the New York Times Wrote About it in 2002
Government officials have claimed that the "secret program" CIA director Panetta recently disclosed to Congress involved foreign assassinations.
But on December 15, 2002, the New York Times published a story entitled "Bush Has Widened Authority of C.I.A. to Kill Terrorists".
As the Times pointed out:
The Bush administration has prepared a list of terrorist leaders the Central Intelligence Agency is authorized to kill, if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized, senior military and intelligence officials said...
President Bush has provided written legal authority to the C.I.A. to hunt down and kill the terrorists without seeking further approval each time the agency is about to stage an operation...
Mr. Bush issued a presidential finding last year, after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, providing the basic executive and legal authority for the C.I.A. to either kill or capture terrorist leaders...
The president has given broad authority to the C.I.A. to kill or capture operatives of Al Qaeda around the world, the officials said...
The administration must notify Congressional leaders of any covert action finding signed by the president. In the case of the presidential finding authorizing the use of lethal force against members of Al Qaeda, Congressional leaders have been notified as required, the officials said.
The Times article makes clear that Congress was notified about the program sometime between September 11th and the date the article was published in December 2002.
And as Citizens for Legitimate Government writes:
This can't be the 'secret program,' since the NYT published the 'secrets' in 2002.
Therefore, the secret program must have involved something more than foreign assassinations, or something else entirely.
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tommy:
SECRET PROGRAM includes MIND CONTROL CHIPPING (spun as an Enhanced Interrogation Technique to prevent TERRORISTIC ATTACK).
SECRET PROGRAMS include FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER ran by DENVER FBI PUNK DWAYNE FUSILIER on Eric Harris and Dylan Kleboldt.
SECRET PROGRAMS include FBI HQ when MUELLER IS, AND ALWAYS WAS...A CIA SPOOK WORKING FOR CHENEY AND THE SECRET TEAM while FBI FIELD AGENTS CANNOT FIGURE OUT WHY ALL THEIR BEST CASES ARE OBSTRUCTED BY BIG, BAD, BOB FUCKHEAD MUELLER?
Secret Programs include DOMESTIC MURDERS, MAIMINGS, TORTURE....all CONSPIRACIES TO COMMIT FED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE that only helps MUELLER AND HIS PALS avoid any exposure on so many crimes...that...to this day...THE FOLLOWING COCKSUCKING PUSSIES REFUSE TO INVESTIGATE: Leahy, Conyers, Feinstein, Holder, Obama, SD US Attorneys, US atttorney for WEST DIST OF TEXAS...etc.
SECRET PROGRAMS include MUELLER-PLUTA-CIA-GOSS-CHENEY using ILLEGAL COUNTERINTELIGENCE SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING using the chip in my skull...TO LOCATE ALL MY CACHED EVIDENCE PROVING MURDERS OF JFK JR, CARNEHAN, WELLSTONE, CHRISTINA MOORE, RICH GORDON, DEFENBAUGH, KABIESEMAN, etc..........
EVIDENCE CACHED INCLUDE THE DISPOSITIVE CALEA WIRETAP EVIDENCE archived on every hard disc, and main frame computer of telecomm providers (GIVEN CIVIL IMMUNITY BY PELOSI, REID, HOYER and those BOUGHT OFF WITH SWISS UBS BANK ACCOUNTS).
In truth, my testimony shows that THE MIND CONTROL CHIPPING, FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER, and FRYING US CITIZENS IN THEIR HOMES WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION is really just "a way to neutralize dissent" and stop THE FILING OF ANY MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF IN A FED COURT.
It is a way to...uh...MAKE SURE EXPOSURE DOES NOT OCCUR IN FED COURT:
----Canadian warrant for CIA--FBI DRUG SMUGGLER TERRY NELSON...Murders by CIA--FBI HITMAN MIKE "chuckie" PETERS (sent after me by MUELLER USING GPS IN VEHICLE)...DRUG MONEY LAUNDERING INTO GOP CAMPAIGNS...See, WAXMAN'S SUBPOENAE OF RACICOT'S EMAILS....
----OK CITY AS FALSE FLAG by CIA--FBI SPOOK running MCVEIGH AND NICHOLS AS MK ULTRA PATSIES...See, TRENTADUE DEPOSITION OF NICHOLS that Eric HOLDER worked to Obstruct in his infamous "Trentadues and Trentadon'ts" memo....HOLDER'S PUNK STATEMENTS ABOUT MAYBE DOING HIS JOB AND INVESTIGATING THE APRIL 11TH, 2009, TORTURE OF BEAN IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA, is all poseing bullshit from an UNCLE TOM PUNK CLOWN PUSSY who is extorted by the power control group.
Holder is...a fucking joke.
Holder has never once...TALKED ABOUT PROTECTING COOPERATING WITNESSES WHO ACTUALLY SIGN US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINTS?
Holder has never once TALKED ABOUT OPENING THE CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER BY CHENEY?
Holder has never talked about OPENING UP AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF ONE OF MY CONTACTS AT THE US SENATE, SD US SEN TIM JOHNSON fried with DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON to create a brain stroke (anybody want me to testify about this Raytheon weapons' capability and the number of known associates of mine who were neutralized with BRAIN STROKES, TUMORS, HEART ATTACKS, MURDERS, ATTEMPTED MURDERS?????
HOLDER also "does not talk about" PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS IN MY HOME, MY FATHER'S HOME, DR MARK GORDON'S HOME (while Gordon was a cooperating witness for Minneapolis FBI?....BIG BAD FUCKHEAD PUNK DRUG DEALINNG LOWLIFE BOB MUELLER does not "protect his own investigation while also protecting his own witness"?
HOLDER PUNK cannot say, "...THAT TITLE III FELONIES, are crimes when FBI-INFRAGUARD-NSA Q GROUP-DOD CIFA UNIT-CIA" violates the fed laws?????
THIS ALL GOES TO THE WEAKNESS, CORRUPTION, AND SHAMELESS MONEY MAKING ABILITY OF THE BOGUS PUNK CLOWN IDIOTS KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP (Conyers, Leahy, Pelosiwhore, Reidfaggot, Holder, Obama).
CIA Gets Extension Until Aug 24 On Torture Report
By Zachary Roth - July 15, 2009, 12:31PM
The Obama administration's request to delay releasing a key report on torture has reportedly been granted.
According to Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent, a judge has said the CIA can have until August 24 to release the declassified version of a 2004 inspector general's report on the Bush administration's interrogations program. The report's release has already been delayed several times.
Opponents of torture who have seen the unredacted report have said it vindicates their position that the tactic is ineffective. As Spencer notes, it has been credited with shifting Attorney General Eric Holder towards strongly considering initiating a criminal probe in connection with the torture program.
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tommy:
I ASSURE this is...much ado about nothing.
All incriminating documents were burned in arson fires ordered by CHENEY, and protected by MUELLER AT FBI HQ.
The list OF ARSON FIRES USED TO BURN AND OBSTRUCT JUSTICE INCLUDES:
----NSA 902nd COUNTERINTEL GROUP AT FORT MEADE;
----CHENEY's OEB office when the arsonist cut off his escape and was seen hanging out the frigging window? LET'S SEE MUELLER'S FBI 302, AND HAVE MUELLER TESTIFY UNDER OATH to get him on PERJURY, SUBORNING PERJURY, OBSTRUCTION, CONSPIRACY, MISPRISION OF A FELONY;
----BUSH HISTORICAL HOME in Midland, Texas...storage of documents going back to IRAN CONTRA, OCTOBER SURPRISE, LEHDER, and the drug smuggling aided and abetted by WHAT IS CALLED THE POWER CONTROL GROUP that has infiltrated FBI HQ with Bob Mueller as the punk stooge clown pretending that his bogus efforts are good enough to fill his buckets of credibility, that ran dry along time ago;
----FBI HQ BASEMENT FIRE...push Mueller on this one...check videotapes, interview guards...polygraph and get sworn statements...IT ALL GOES TO MUELLER AND FBI HQ INFILTRATED BY THE CIA SPOOK NAZI POWER CONTROL GROUP (School Shooters, LYING TO FISA CT TO PUT A CHIP IN MY HEAD, TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, PATRIOT ACT MURDERS including WELLSTONE, CARNEHAN, JFK JR, RICH GORDON, CHRISTINA MOORE, so many others...INCLUDING THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF ONE OF MY CONGRESSIONAL CONTACTS FROM SOUTH DAKOTA, US SEN TIM JOHNSON who was BRAINSTROKED BY CIA?...DOD CIFA UNIT?...NSA Q GROUP...with MUELLER OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE BY INVOKING HIS "pussified fagboy protocol".
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http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/secret-program-cant-be-foreign.html
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The Secret Program CAN'T Be Foreign Assassinations, Because Congress Was Briefed on that in 2001 and the New York Times Wrote About it in 2002
Government officials have claimed that the "secret program" CIA director Panetta recently disclosed to Congress involved foreign assassinations.
But on December 15, 2002, the New York Times published a story entitled "Bush Has Widened Authority of C.I.A. to Kill Terrorists".
As the Times pointed out:
The Bush administration has prepared a list of terrorist leaders the Central Intelligence Agency is authorized to kill, if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized, senior military and intelligence officials said...
President Bush has provided written legal authority to the C.I.A. to hunt down and kill the terrorists without seeking further approval each time the agency is about to stage an operation...
Mr. Bush issued a presidential finding last year, after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, providing the basic executive and legal authority for the C.I.A. to either kill or capture terrorist leaders...
The president has given broad authority to the C.I.A. to kill or capture operatives of Al Qaeda around the world, the officials said...
The administration must notify Congressional leaders of any covert action finding signed by the president. In the case of the presidential finding authorizing the use of lethal force against members of Al Qaeda, Congressional leaders have been notified as required, the officials said.
The Times article makes clear that Congress was notified about the program sometime between September 11th and the date the article was published in December 2002.
And as Citizens for Legitimate Government writes:
This can't be the 'secret program,' since the NYT published the 'secrets' in 2002.
Therefore, the secret program must have involved something more than foreign assassinations, or something else entirely.
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tommy:
SECRET PROGRAM includes MIND CONTROL CHIPPING (spun as an Enhanced Interrogation Technique to prevent TERRORISTIC ATTACK).
SECRET PROGRAMS include FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER ran by DENVER FBI PUNK DWAYNE FUSILIER on Eric Harris and Dylan Kleboldt.
SECRET PROGRAMS include FBI HQ when MUELLER IS, AND ALWAYS WAS...A CIA SPOOK WORKING FOR CHENEY AND THE SECRET TEAM while FBI FIELD AGENTS CANNOT FIGURE OUT WHY ALL THEIR BEST CASES ARE OBSTRUCTED BY BIG, BAD, BOB FUCKHEAD MUELLER?
Secret Programs include DOMESTIC MURDERS, MAIMINGS, TORTURE....all CONSPIRACIES TO COMMIT FED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE that only helps MUELLER AND HIS PALS avoid any exposure on so many crimes...that...to this day...THE FOLLOWING COCKSUCKING PUSSIES REFUSE TO INVESTIGATE: Leahy, Conyers, Feinstein, Holder, Obama, SD US Attorneys, US atttorney for WEST DIST OF TEXAS...etc.
SECRET PROGRAMS include MUELLER-PLUTA-CIA-GOSS-CHENEY using ILLEGAL COUNTERINTELIGENCE SUBLIMINAL DEBRIEFING using the chip in my skull...TO LOCATE ALL MY CACHED EVIDENCE PROVING MURDERS OF JFK JR, CARNEHAN, WELLSTONE, CHRISTINA MOORE, RICH GORDON, DEFENBAUGH, KABIESEMAN, etc..........
EVIDENCE CACHED INCLUDE THE DISPOSITIVE CALEA WIRETAP EVIDENCE archived on every hard disc, and main frame computer of telecomm providers (GIVEN CIVIL IMMUNITY BY PELOSI, REID, HOYER and those BOUGHT OFF WITH SWISS UBS BANK ACCOUNTS).
In truth, my testimony shows that THE MIND CONTROL CHIPPING, FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER, and FRYING US CITIZENS IN THEIR HOMES WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION is really just "a way to neutralize dissent" and stop THE FILING OF ANY MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF IN A FED COURT.
It is a way to...uh...MAKE SURE EXPOSURE DOES NOT OCCUR IN FED COURT:
----Canadian warrant for CIA--FBI DRUG SMUGGLER TERRY NELSON...Murders by CIA--FBI HITMAN MIKE "chuckie" PETERS (sent after me by MUELLER USING GPS IN VEHICLE)...DRUG MONEY LAUNDERING INTO GOP CAMPAIGNS...See, WAXMAN'S SUBPOENAE OF RACICOT'S EMAILS....
----OK CITY AS FALSE FLAG by CIA--FBI SPOOK running MCVEIGH AND NICHOLS AS MK ULTRA PATSIES...See, TRENTADUE DEPOSITION OF NICHOLS that Eric HOLDER worked to Obstruct in his infamous "Trentadues and Trentadon'ts" memo....HOLDER'S PUNK STATEMENTS ABOUT MAYBE DOING HIS JOB AND INVESTIGATING THE APRIL 11TH, 2009, TORTURE OF BEAN IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA, is all poseing bullshit from an UNCLE TOM PUNK CLOWN PUSSY who is extorted by the power control group.
Holder is...a fucking joke.
Holder has never once...TALKED ABOUT PROTECTING COOPERATING WITNESSES WHO ACTUALLY SIGN US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINTS?
Holder has never once TALKED ABOUT OPENING THE CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER BY CHENEY?
Holder has never talked about OPENING UP AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF ONE OF MY CONTACTS AT THE US SENATE, SD US SEN TIM JOHNSON fried with DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON to create a brain stroke (anybody want me to testify about this Raytheon weapons' capability and the number of known associates of mine who were neutralized with BRAIN STROKES, TUMORS, HEART ATTACKS, MURDERS, ATTEMPTED MURDERS?????
HOLDER also "does not talk about" PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS IN MY HOME, MY FATHER'S HOME, DR MARK GORDON'S HOME (while Gordon was a cooperating witness for Minneapolis FBI?....BIG BAD FUCKHEAD PUNK DRUG DEALINNG LOWLIFE BOB MUELLER does not "protect his own investigation while also protecting his own witness"?
HOLDER PUNK cannot say, "...THAT TITLE III FELONIES, are crimes when FBI-INFRAGUARD-NSA Q GROUP-DOD CIFA UNIT-CIA" violates the fed laws?????
THIS ALL GOES TO THE WEAKNESS, CORRUPTION, AND SHAMELESS MONEY MAKING ABILITY OF THE BOGUS PUNK CLOWN IDIOTS KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP (Conyers, Leahy, Pelosiwhore, Reidfaggot, Holder, Obama).
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Incompetent, corrupt, posing pussies (DEMOCRATS) PRETEND TO DO OVERSIGHT?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/house-cia-investigation-i_n_232059.html
HOUSE CIA INVESTIGATION: INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR FULL BLOWN PROBE
WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee has asked the CIA to provide documents about the now-canceled program to target al-Qaida leaders, congressional officials said Tuesday. The move is a precursor to what will almost certainly become a full-blown investigation into the secret operation and why the program was not disclosed to Congress, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
CIA Director Leon Panetta told Congress on June 24 that he had canceled the effort to kill al-Qaida leaders with hit teams soon after learning about the operation. Panetta also told lawmakers that former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA not to inform Congress of the specifics of the secret program.
Intelligence officials say the operation never progressed passed a planning stage and therefore didn't merit congressional notification.
President George W. Bush authorized the killing of al-Qaida leaders in 2001. Congress was aware of that notification.
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TOMMY:
Notice the DUMBFUCK COWARDLY, CORRUPT, CLOWN FAGS KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC OVERSIGHT are already "carrying the water for the CHENEY MURDER INC?"
DOMESTIC MURDERS, TORTURES, MAIMINGS...all targeted US CITIZENS, LAWYERS, KNOWN ASSOCIATES OF MINE.
THOSE ARE THE FACTS...not AL QAEDA HOBGOBLINS that America has no empathy for?
So Dems...prove all I said, "...THEY ARE WEAK, STUPID, CORRUPT, AND SHAMELESSLY FAGGING AROUND" SO they can use "this new scandal to get paid off again".
Every scandal I brought to the Dems...resulted in "quid pro quo" and money in Dems SWISS UBS BANK ACCOUNTS.
FISA BILL SELLOUT.
PATRIOT ACT, AND RENEWAL with no PRIMARY WITNESSES TESTIFYING AGAINST THE PATRIOT ACT?
WAR COMMISSIONS ACT makes OPERATION SLAMMER, MIND CONTROL, AND DIRECTED ENERGY ATTACKS somewhat legal...and good CONGRESSIONAL COVER FOR ALL MY ALLEGATIONS?
PELOSI already SAID SHE WOULD RATHER HAVE THE COURTS DECIDE THE LEGALITY OF THE WAR COMMISSIONS ACT ?
In effect Pelosi could have said (if she wanted the info) that , "...we'll pass Enabling laws to give Cheney cover on the Moore murder, and....let the courts deal with the constitutional issues...".
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A congressional official said the secret CIA program was meant to carry out ground attacks. Most attempts to kill al-Qaida's leaders, believed to be hiding in Pakistan's troubled western border region, have used armed drone aircraft because it is difficult terrain controlled by sometimes hostile tribes. But those strikes have sometimes killed and injured innocent civilians and caused outrage in Pakistan.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, is expected to decide as early as Tuesday whether to press ahead with a full investigation into the CIA operation.
The House Intelligence Committee will try to establish how much was spent on the effort, whether any training was conducted, and whether there was any officials traveled in associated with the program, a committee official said.
Those factors would determine whether the program had progressed enough to warrant congressional notification, the official said.
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., said Monday that the CIA's failure to brief congress violated the law.
Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., the senior GOP member of the committee, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he would support an investigation. But from what he knows now, Hoekstra said, he does not believe the effort merited congressional notification.
Like many other Republicans, Hoekstra believes the Democratic anger about not being notified of the program sooner is meant to bolster House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who came under an avalanche of GOP criticism in May for saying she believes the CIA lied to her about its harsh interrogation program in 2002.
The House has delayed floor debate on an intelligence bill that would require the president to expand the number of members of Congress briefed on covert operations_ that is, secret missions undertaken in foreign countries to affect their political, military or economic situation.
The White House has threatened to veto that bill if it includes the notification requirement. Current law allows the president to notify top members in the House and Senate and on the intelligence committees on the most sensitive operations.
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/12/holder/index.html
Sunday July 12, 2009 08:13 EDT
The Holder trial balloon: Abu Ghraib redux
(updated below - Update II - Update III)
Yesterday, I treated this new Newsweek report that Eric Holder is "leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices" as something to celebrate. But new facts about what that investigation would entail and, more importantly, would exclude -- facts added by today's Washington Post -- strongly suggest it's the opposite.
At least if that article is to be believed -- and it seems clear that Holder dispatched his allies to leak his plans in order to gauge reaction -- the investigation will only target "rogue" CIA interrogators who exceeded the limits of what John Yoo authorized, and would not include high-level policy makers who authorized the torture tactics and implemented America's torture regime:
Any criminal inquiry could face challenges, including potent legal defenses by CIA employees who could argue that attorneys in the Bush Justice Department authorized a wide range of harsh conduct. But the sources said an inquiry would apply only to activities by interrogators, working in bad faith, that fell outside the "four corners" of the legal memos. . . . The actions of higher-level Bush policymakers are not under consideration for possible investigation.
Balloon-Juice's Tim F. is absolutely right that such an approach -- targeting low-level interrogators while shielding high-level policy-makers from prosecution -- would be "something close to the worst of both worlds." That's true not only because it would replicate the disgraceful whitewashing of the Abu Ghraib prosecutions. It would do that, but even worse, it would bolster the principal instrument of executive lawlessness -- the Beltway orthodoxy that any time a President can find a low-level DOJ functionary to authorize what he wants to do, then it is, by definition, "legal" and he's immune from prosecution when he does it, no matter how blatantly criminal it is.
As Tim put it:
Hard to believe as it may seem, Holder’s probe will take John Yoo’s work . . . and treat them as the settled law of the time. Already clear and public evidence that DOJ lawyers drafted those memos entirely in bad faith, on orders from Bush officials who literally dictated what they wanted the memos to say, will be similarly ignored.
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TOMMY:
Holder is already...carrying the water for CHENEY.
HE HAS ALL HE NEEDS FROM ME, MY SOURCES, MY TAPES, AND FBI HQ especially SIOUX FALLS SPECIAL AGENT AND COUNTERINTEL SPECIALIST STEVEN PLUTA.
DID HOLDER READ MY AFFADAVITS and complaints?
a)--CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT signed under penalty of prosecution;
b)--YOGURT SHOP MURDERS PROBABLE CAUSE MEMO (APD Commander SHAUNA JACOBSON murdered...no arrest from FBI HQ or JOHNNY SUTTON?);
c)--MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS IN AUSTIN (facilitated by bought off cops and FBI slime);
d)--SIX SOUTH DAKOTA STATE BAR ETHICS COMPLAINTS naming RANDY SAMPLE, HOPE MATCHAN, JOHN PETERSON, JASON ADAMS, THOMAS BARNETT, JUDGE DOYLE SAGE;
e) SD BD OF MED AND OSTEO EXAMINERS naming DR CHAD CARDA AND JENNIFER BURGER (Mind Control chip on x rays, x rays stolen by FBI, Doctors flipped to falsely report medical test results...THIS IS THE FACT PATTERN THAT THE GERRY SPENCE LAW FIRM IN Jackson, Wyoming, would not touch?????!!!!!!! (Who got to Spence?)
[ERIC, like I told SPECIAL AGENTS VAN LANCKER AND MONTE CASSON AT DENVER AND DALLAS US DOJ OIG...you got to "have my copy of the complaints" to make sure NO PAGES OR INFO WAS LEFT OUT AS PART OF FBI--CIA'S ONGOING CONSPIRACIES TO MISLEAD, DISCREDIT, AND PROVIDE FRAUDULENT INFO TO 'WIN AT ALL COSTS".
ERIC...you don't know what is at stake.
How do you know...YOU HAVE MY CORRECT COPIES OF THE COMPLAINTS?]
SF FBI office shared with DOD at The Shriver building.
How did they get a copy of the FBI'S 302 INTERVIEW FORM after talking to my father (DR DAVID W. BEAN)?
THAT INFO WAS USED TO TARGET ALL MY KNOWN LAWYER ASSOCIATES.
LEROY ROGERS, got targeted and fried with microwave radiation...by whom?
Who is the prosecutor in South Dakota?
SD US SENATOR TIM JOHNSON'S SON?
SD US SENATOR TIM JOHNSON also...got brain stroked...just like LEROY ROGERS, and RICH GORDON died from a brain tumor.
TIME TO ANALYZE JUST HOW DANGEROUS THOSE DOD DARPA WEAPONS ARE....doncha think?
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It's worth emphasizing here that all of these reports are preliminary and from anonymous DOJ sources, so it's a bit premature to get too worked up over a prosecution approach which Holder hasn't even announced yet. Still, given how many DOJ sources went to multiple newspapers at the same time to disclose Holder's plans, it seems clear that this was a coordinated, approved effort to disseminate Holder's intentions as a "trial balloon" to gauge public reaction. If this is the approach Holder takes -- one that, yet again, shields high-level Bush officials while targeting low-level "rogue" agents -- one can make a strong argument that it is worse than doing nothing, that this will actually further subvert the rule of law rather than strengthen it.
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tommy:
I smell bullshit from Holder's mouth when he opens it...doncha think?
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Yesterday, in the context of discussing John Yoo's painfully frivolous justifications for Bush's illegal surveillance programs, I wrote at length of the dangers of this prevailing view that a President is free to do whatever he wants as long he finds some DOJ employee somewhere willing to say it's legal (see point 4). Digby elaborated yesterday on that point:
If it is the case that the president can designate an Office of Legal Counsel functionary to immunize government officials and employees against criminal behavior, then it is true, to all intents and purposes, that "if the president does it it's not illegal."
One could make the argument that the political fallout would be so huge if it were ever revealed that no president would ever attempt it, but we are proving right now that this is a very remote possibility. Ever since Nixon, the political class has reaffirmed the idea that anything the president does as a political leader or in his official capacity is unpunishable. And more recently we've seen that anyone who carries out his orders is also immune, which wasn't always the case. Nixon's people did do time.
If that was the intention of the revolutionaries who broke away from despotic monarchical rule, they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble. At this point, both political parties agree that if the president has a low level lawyer in the Justice Department write a secret memo authorizing him to break the law then all those who broke those laws are legally immunized from any punishment . . . .
All other things being equal, individual CIA agents who brutalized detainees, using unapproved methods, ought to be prosecuted. If nothing else, our treaty obligations compel that. Even for a country that has rejected the idea of accountability as resoundingly as we have, it seems inconceivable to decide to prosecute nobody in the face of scores of detainee deaths. How can we know that we tortured to death numerous detainees and do nothing? If you were Eric Holder, would you want that decision attached to your name by history?
But just as was true for the Abu Ghraib abuses, many of the worst instances of detainee abuse cannot be extricated from -- but rather are directly attributable to -- the torture policies authorized at the highest levels of the government. To target low-level interrogators while shielding high-level policy makers would further bolster America's two-tiered system of justice, in which ordinary Americans are subjected to merciless punishment while the most powerful elites are vested with virtual immunity from the consequences of their lawbreaking.
As Hilzoy put it:
I'd give up all hope of any prosecutions of CIA officials for prosecution of the people who set policy -- people like Cheney and Addington. They created the Bush administration's interrogation policy. They decided to set aside law, morality, and basic humanity. They should bear the consequences.
Prosecuting only obscure "rogue" interrogators while immunizing powerful, high-level officials would not be an act of courage but of cowardice.
It would not strengthen the rule of law but would pervert it further.
And rather than deter future lawbreaking, it would signal -- yet again -- that our most powerful political officials are free to break the law with impunity.
If Holder is too frightened to include the parties truly responsible for America's torture regime in the scope of the investigation he orders, then he ought simply to appoint a strong and independent prosecutor with the mandate to investigate anyone and everyone who might have broken our nation's torture laws, and leave it to the prosecutor to make all decisions without interference (and if a well-regarded prosecutor decided based on standard factors of prosecutorial discretion, rather than as a matter of pre-ordained DOJ "fairness" policy, that the DOJ memos made prosecution too difficult as a practical matter, then so be it).
But whatever else is true, the tactics authorized by George Bush and Dick Cheney were patently criminal regardless of how many memos they directed John Yoo to write.
UPDATE: Harper's Scott Horton, who has been working on this story for a couple of weeks using DOJ sources of his, now reports at The Daily Beast that Holder's investigation would be broader than suggested by other reports today:
As he read through the latter two documents, my sources said, Holder came to realize the focal and instrumental role that Department of Justice lawyers had played in constructing the torture regime and in pushing it through when career lawyers raised objection. He also took note of how the entire process was orchestrated from within the Bush White House—so that more-senior lawyers in Justice, sometimes even the attorney general, did not know what was being done. And he noted the fact that the United Nations Convention Against Torture, to which the United States is a party, requires that a criminal inquiry be undertaken whenever credible allegations of torture are presented. . . .
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tommy:
I got tortured just like a known associate of mine, GEROL SOSBEE, did...and Sosbee was a former FBI AGENT who BLEW THE WHISTLE.
I GOT TORTURED IN APRIL OF 2009...UNDER OBAMA?
So...uh...NOT ONE MAINSTREAM MEDIA FAGGOT has asked for confirmation from THE KIKE CLOWN RAHMBO (who probabely got Obama to sign off on it...or...he went around Obama?...or OBAMA IS THE NEW SECRET DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON TORTURER IN CHIEF?
ALEX CONSTANTINE wrote a book...and also...got tortured with directed energy weapons...but...HOLDER AND DEMS don't like primary witnesses who are US CITIZENS?
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For now, however, it appears that Holder’s current decision focuses only on the development of new interrogation techniques and their use at the direction of the Bush administration.
Under these terms, the prosecutor would be tasked to look at the role played by Justice Department figures and other government lawyers at various stages of the process; but criminal investigations usually target specific crimes, not individuals, and this would be no exception.
The regulations require a "specific factual statement” concerning the matter to be investigated, but drafting such a statement may be difficult.
One major issue would be whether the ultimate policy-making echelons in the White House would be affected.
One source told me that he would be surprised if Holder “set blinders” on the special prosecutor.
Still, the scope of the investigation would clearly be limited to the authorization and use of Bush-era “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as waterboarding, longtime standing, stress positions, and prolonged sleep deprivation.
Moreover, President Obama’s assurance to CIA officials who relied on the opinions of government lawyers in implementing these programs, an assurance that Holder himself repeated, would have to be worked in. That suggests that the focus would likely be on the lawyers and policymakers who authorized use of the new techniques.
That is virtually the opposite of the reports today suggesting that the DOJ lawyers and policymakers would be excluded from the investigation, which would focus only on rogue interrogators.
That's why I cautioned that these preliminary, anonymous reports not be assumed to be the final truth (and the conflicting reports could reflect that the scope of the investigation is still unclear and could be shaped by public reaction).
Still, given our political culture, I'll believe that there is a real criminal investigation underway that includes high-level, lawbreaking political leaders only when I see it.
UPDATE II: The New York Times article on this topic is in line with the Post that the investigation Holder is contemplating would be confined to "rogue" interrogators, and would not extend to policy-makers or DOJ lawyers:
The Justice Department official who confirmed the likelihood of an inquiry said it was not likely to focus on those legal opinions, the lawyers who wrote them or anyone who acted within the boundaries they set, even though the ground rules for interrogations have shifted.
If an inquiry moves forward, it will attempt mainly to determine whether any interrogators acted outside the rules that were in place, and if so, whether they should be prosecuted.
Some such excesses are thought to have occurred.
It should go without saying that I have no sympathy for CIA agents who tortured detainees, but prosecutions aimed at them, while immunizing the high-level officials who implemented the torture regime, would be -- in addition to the harms described above -- grotesquely unfair.
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TOMMY:
MR GREENWALD...uh...don't assume that TORTURE IS CONFINED TO NON US CITIZENS from a battlefield.
Nope.
TORTURE WITH DEW is a murder conspiracy...and it was very effective in South Dakota.
HOLDER is way, way, way....too dirty and corrupt...to ever...do a damn thing other than the bogus posing faggot act that WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR.
BELIEVE ME...HOLDER cannot carry the load.
BELIEVE ME...HOLDER is a good SECRET TEAM PLAYER who is no threat to nobody and...this latest crap is ALL PART OF THE SCAM AND CON when an "offical corrupt investigation" arrives at PRE ORDAINED CONCLUSIONS to cover it all up.
If I am wrong...then...HOLDER WOULD HAVE DISPATCHED A DUMBFUCK to get my statement...no?
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UPDATE III: Digby notes:
Stephanopoulos reported on This Week that the possible Holder investigation is going to be very narrow and will not pursue policy makers or anyone who took orders directly from the policymakers. He's going after "rogue interrogators" who inflicted more torture than was strictly allowed.
So it seems to be a consensus (i.e., most everyone reporting it other than Scott Horton) that Holder's plan, at least at the moment, is -- from the start -- to confine the prosecutors' authority to investigate to CIA agents who went beyond what John Yoo and George Bush decreed could be done ("he used more water than Yoo said he could"; "he tied him up for longer than Yoo authorized"; "the room was colder and the freezing water icier than Yoo allowed").
At least if these reports are accurate (and, for several reasons, that's unclear), anyone who "merely" did what John Yoo said was legal -- meaning everyone who matters -- will be shielded and immunized.
Digby's description of how Stephanopoulos' fresh and vibrant panel -- Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, Bob Woodward, George Will and Donna Brazile -- discussed the Holder report is well worth reading, as it reflects how establishment media figures view accountability for lawbreaking by political elites. That's a major reason why we have such a depraved and lawless political class.
Along those lines, CNN's Ed Henry today twittered this piece of banal Beltway conventional wisdom on the topic: "If Attorney General Holder launches criminal probe of Bush torture allegations, it seems likely to complicate Obama agenda big time."
Aside from the irrelevance of this observation -- partisan advantage is obviously not a legitimate basis for making prosecutorial decisions in an apoliticized justice system (that was supposedly the whole lesson of the Gonzales era) -- I'd really like to know the mechanism by which this is supposed to happen.
How -- exactly -- would Holder's decision to prosecute torture "complicate Obama's agenda big time"?
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tommy:
OBAMA was extorted and coerced by CIA in Hawaii BEFORE HE WAS SWORN IN. PELOSI, REID, LEAHY, CONYERS, HOYER, GOP...have all made it well known that NO TRUE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT is gonna get anything done, unless THE POWER CONTROL GROUP sanctions it.
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With a filibuster-proof Senate majority, a huge Democratic House majority, and a GOP that is always angry and obstructionist anyway, what -- specifically -- will happen in the event of those prosecutions that won't happen in their absence that will "complicate Obama's agenda big time"?
-- Glenn Greenwald
HOUSE CIA INVESTIGATION: INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR FULL BLOWN PROBE
WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee has asked the CIA to provide documents about the now-canceled program to target al-Qaida leaders, congressional officials said Tuesday. The move is a precursor to what will almost certainly become a full-blown investigation into the secret operation and why the program was not disclosed to Congress, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
CIA Director Leon Panetta told Congress on June 24 that he had canceled the effort to kill al-Qaida leaders with hit teams soon after learning about the operation. Panetta also told lawmakers that former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA not to inform Congress of the specifics of the secret program.
Intelligence officials say the operation never progressed passed a planning stage and therefore didn't merit congressional notification.
President George W. Bush authorized the killing of al-Qaida leaders in 2001. Congress was aware of that notification.
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TOMMY:
Notice the DUMBFUCK COWARDLY, CORRUPT, CLOWN FAGS KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC OVERSIGHT are already "carrying the water for the CHENEY MURDER INC?"
DOMESTIC MURDERS, TORTURES, MAIMINGS...all targeted US CITIZENS, LAWYERS, KNOWN ASSOCIATES OF MINE.
THOSE ARE THE FACTS...not AL QAEDA HOBGOBLINS that America has no empathy for?
So Dems...prove all I said, "...THEY ARE WEAK, STUPID, CORRUPT, AND SHAMELESSLY FAGGING AROUND" SO they can use "this new scandal to get paid off again".
Every scandal I brought to the Dems...resulted in "quid pro quo" and money in Dems SWISS UBS BANK ACCOUNTS.
FISA BILL SELLOUT.
PATRIOT ACT, AND RENEWAL with no PRIMARY WITNESSES TESTIFYING AGAINST THE PATRIOT ACT?
WAR COMMISSIONS ACT makes OPERATION SLAMMER, MIND CONTROL, AND DIRECTED ENERGY ATTACKS somewhat legal...and good CONGRESSIONAL COVER FOR ALL MY ALLEGATIONS?
PELOSI already SAID SHE WOULD RATHER HAVE THE COURTS DECIDE THE LEGALITY OF THE WAR COMMISSIONS ACT ?
In effect Pelosi could have said (if she wanted the info) that , "...we'll pass Enabling laws to give Cheney cover on the Moore murder, and....let the courts deal with the constitutional issues...".
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A congressional official said the secret CIA program was meant to carry out ground attacks. Most attempts to kill al-Qaida's leaders, believed to be hiding in Pakistan's troubled western border region, have used armed drone aircraft because it is difficult terrain controlled by sometimes hostile tribes. But those strikes have sometimes killed and injured innocent civilians and caused outrage in Pakistan.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, is expected to decide as early as Tuesday whether to press ahead with a full investigation into the CIA operation.
The House Intelligence Committee will try to establish how much was spent on the effort, whether any training was conducted, and whether there was any officials traveled in associated with the program, a committee official said.
Those factors would determine whether the program had progressed enough to warrant congressional notification, the official said.
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., said Monday that the CIA's failure to brief congress violated the law.
Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., the senior GOP member of the committee, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he would support an investigation. But from what he knows now, Hoekstra said, he does not believe the effort merited congressional notification.
Like many other Republicans, Hoekstra believes the Democratic anger about not being notified of the program sooner is meant to bolster House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who came under an avalanche of GOP criticism in May for saying she believes the CIA lied to her about its harsh interrogation program in 2002.
The House has delayed floor debate on an intelligence bill that would require the president to expand the number of members of Congress briefed on covert operations_ that is, secret missions undertaken in foreign countries to affect their political, military or economic situation.
The White House has threatened to veto that bill if it includes the notification requirement. Current law allows the president to notify top members in the House and Senate and on the intelligence committees on the most sensitive operations.
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/12/holder/index.html
Sunday July 12, 2009 08:13 EDT
The Holder trial balloon: Abu Ghraib redux
(updated below - Update II - Update III)
Yesterday, I treated this new Newsweek report that Eric Holder is "leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices" as something to celebrate. But new facts about what that investigation would entail and, more importantly, would exclude -- facts added by today's Washington Post -- strongly suggest it's the opposite.
At least if that article is to be believed -- and it seems clear that Holder dispatched his allies to leak his plans in order to gauge reaction -- the investigation will only target "rogue" CIA interrogators who exceeded the limits of what John Yoo authorized, and would not include high-level policy makers who authorized the torture tactics and implemented America's torture regime:
Any criminal inquiry could face challenges, including potent legal defenses by CIA employees who could argue that attorneys in the Bush Justice Department authorized a wide range of harsh conduct. But the sources said an inquiry would apply only to activities by interrogators, working in bad faith, that fell outside the "four corners" of the legal memos. . . . The actions of higher-level Bush policymakers are not under consideration for possible investigation.
Balloon-Juice's Tim F. is absolutely right that such an approach -- targeting low-level interrogators while shielding high-level policy-makers from prosecution -- would be "something close to the worst of both worlds." That's true not only because it would replicate the disgraceful whitewashing of the Abu Ghraib prosecutions. It would do that, but even worse, it would bolster the principal instrument of executive lawlessness -- the Beltway orthodoxy that any time a President can find a low-level DOJ functionary to authorize what he wants to do, then it is, by definition, "legal" and he's immune from prosecution when he does it, no matter how blatantly criminal it is.
As Tim put it:
Hard to believe as it may seem, Holder’s probe will take John Yoo’s work . . . and treat them as the settled law of the time. Already clear and public evidence that DOJ lawyers drafted those memos entirely in bad faith, on orders from Bush officials who literally dictated what they wanted the memos to say, will be similarly ignored.
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TOMMY:
Holder is already...carrying the water for CHENEY.
HE HAS ALL HE NEEDS FROM ME, MY SOURCES, MY TAPES, AND FBI HQ especially SIOUX FALLS SPECIAL AGENT AND COUNTERINTEL SPECIALIST STEVEN PLUTA.
DID HOLDER READ MY AFFADAVITS and complaints?
a)--CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT signed under penalty of prosecution;
b)--YOGURT SHOP MURDERS PROBABLE CAUSE MEMO (APD Commander SHAUNA JACOBSON murdered...no arrest from FBI HQ or JOHNNY SUTTON?);
c)--MEXICAN MAFIA MURDERS IN AUSTIN (facilitated by bought off cops and FBI slime);
d)--SIX SOUTH DAKOTA STATE BAR ETHICS COMPLAINTS naming RANDY SAMPLE, HOPE MATCHAN, JOHN PETERSON, JASON ADAMS, THOMAS BARNETT, JUDGE DOYLE SAGE;
e) SD BD OF MED AND OSTEO EXAMINERS naming DR CHAD CARDA AND JENNIFER BURGER (Mind Control chip on x rays, x rays stolen by FBI, Doctors flipped to falsely report medical test results...THIS IS THE FACT PATTERN THAT THE GERRY SPENCE LAW FIRM IN Jackson, Wyoming, would not touch?????!!!!!!! (Who got to Spence?)
[ERIC, like I told SPECIAL AGENTS VAN LANCKER AND MONTE CASSON AT DENVER AND DALLAS US DOJ OIG...you got to "have my copy of the complaints" to make sure NO PAGES OR INFO WAS LEFT OUT AS PART OF FBI--CIA'S ONGOING CONSPIRACIES TO MISLEAD, DISCREDIT, AND PROVIDE FRAUDULENT INFO TO 'WIN AT ALL COSTS".
ERIC...you don't know what is at stake.
How do you know...YOU HAVE MY CORRECT COPIES OF THE COMPLAINTS?]
SF FBI office shared with DOD at The Shriver building.
How did they get a copy of the FBI'S 302 INTERVIEW FORM after talking to my father (DR DAVID W. BEAN)?
THAT INFO WAS USED TO TARGET ALL MY KNOWN LAWYER ASSOCIATES.
LEROY ROGERS, got targeted and fried with microwave radiation...by whom?
Who is the prosecutor in South Dakota?
SD US SENATOR TIM JOHNSON'S SON?
SD US SENATOR TIM JOHNSON also...got brain stroked...just like LEROY ROGERS, and RICH GORDON died from a brain tumor.
TIME TO ANALYZE JUST HOW DANGEROUS THOSE DOD DARPA WEAPONS ARE....doncha think?
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It's worth emphasizing here that all of these reports are preliminary and from anonymous DOJ sources, so it's a bit premature to get too worked up over a prosecution approach which Holder hasn't even announced yet. Still, given how many DOJ sources went to multiple newspapers at the same time to disclose Holder's plans, it seems clear that this was a coordinated, approved effort to disseminate Holder's intentions as a "trial balloon" to gauge public reaction. If this is the approach Holder takes -- one that, yet again, shields high-level Bush officials while targeting low-level "rogue" agents -- one can make a strong argument that it is worse than doing nothing, that this will actually further subvert the rule of law rather than strengthen it.
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tommy:
I smell bullshit from Holder's mouth when he opens it...doncha think?
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Yesterday, in the context of discussing John Yoo's painfully frivolous justifications for Bush's illegal surveillance programs, I wrote at length of the dangers of this prevailing view that a President is free to do whatever he wants as long he finds some DOJ employee somewhere willing to say it's legal (see point 4). Digby elaborated yesterday on that point:
If it is the case that the president can designate an Office of Legal Counsel functionary to immunize government officials and employees against criminal behavior, then it is true, to all intents and purposes, that "if the president does it it's not illegal."
One could make the argument that the political fallout would be so huge if it were ever revealed that no president would ever attempt it, but we are proving right now that this is a very remote possibility. Ever since Nixon, the political class has reaffirmed the idea that anything the president does as a political leader or in his official capacity is unpunishable. And more recently we've seen that anyone who carries out his orders is also immune, which wasn't always the case. Nixon's people did do time.
If that was the intention of the revolutionaries who broke away from despotic monarchical rule, they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble. At this point, both political parties agree that if the president has a low level lawyer in the Justice Department write a secret memo authorizing him to break the law then all those who broke those laws are legally immunized from any punishment . . . .
All other things being equal, individual CIA agents who brutalized detainees, using unapproved methods, ought to be prosecuted. If nothing else, our treaty obligations compel that. Even for a country that has rejected the idea of accountability as resoundingly as we have, it seems inconceivable to decide to prosecute nobody in the face of scores of detainee deaths. How can we know that we tortured to death numerous detainees and do nothing? If you were Eric Holder, would you want that decision attached to your name by history?
But just as was true for the Abu Ghraib abuses, many of the worst instances of detainee abuse cannot be extricated from -- but rather are directly attributable to -- the torture policies authorized at the highest levels of the government. To target low-level interrogators while shielding high-level policy makers would further bolster America's two-tiered system of justice, in which ordinary Americans are subjected to merciless punishment while the most powerful elites are vested with virtual immunity from the consequences of their lawbreaking.
As Hilzoy put it:
I'd give up all hope of any prosecutions of CIA officials for prosecution of the people who set policy -- people like Cheney and Addington. They created the Bush administration's interrogation policy. They decided to set aside law, morality, and basic humanity. They should bear the consequences.
Prosecuting only obscure "rogue" interrogators while immunizing powerful, high-level officials would not be an act of courage but of cowardice.
It would not strengthen the rule of law but would pervert it further.
And rather than deter future lawbreaking, it would signal -- yet again -- that our most powerful political officials are free to break the law with impunity.
If Holder is too frightened to include the parties truly responsible for America's torture regime in the scope of the investigation he orders, then he ought simply to appoint a strong and independent prosecutor with the mandate to investigate anyone and everyone who might have broken our nation's torture laws, and leave it to the prosecutor to make all decisions without interference (and if a well-regarded prosecutor decided based on standard factors of prosecutorial discretion, rather than as a matter of pre-ordained DOJ "fairness" policy, that the DOJ memos made prosecution too difficult as a practical matter, then so be it).
But whatever else is true, the tactics authorized by George Bush and Dick Cheney were patently criminal regardless of how many memos they directed John Yoo to write.
UPDATE: Harper's Scott Horton, who has been working on this story for a couple of weeks using DOJ sources of his, now reports at The Daily Beast that Holder's investigation would be broader than suggested by other reports today:
As he read through the latter two documents, my sources said, Holder came to realize the focal and instrumental role that Department of Justice lawyers had played in constructing the torture regime and in pushing it through when career lawyers raised objection. He also took note of how the entire process was orchestrated from within the Bush White House—so that more-senior lawyers in Justice, sometimes even the attorney general, did not know what was being done. And he noted the fact that the United Nations Convention Against Torture, to which the United States is a party, requires that a criminal inquiry be undertaken whenever credible allegations of torture are presented. . . .
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tommy:
I got tortured just like a known associate of mine, GEROL SOSBEE, did...and Sosbee was a former FBI AGENT who BLEW THE WHISTLE.
I GOT TORTURED IN APRIL OF 2009...UNDER OBAMA?
So...uh...NOT ONE MAINSTREAM MEDIA FAGGOT has asked for confirmation from THE KIKE CLOWN RAHMBO (who probabely got Obama to sign off on it...or...he went around Obama?...or OBAMA IS THE NEW SECRET DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON TORTURER IN CHIEF?
ALEX CONSTANTINE wrote a book...and also...got tortured with directed energy weapons...but...HOLDER AND DEMS don't like primary witnesses who are US CITIZENS?
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For now, however, it appears that Holder’s current decision focuses only on the development of new interrogation techniques and their use at the direction of the Bush administration.
Under these terms, the prosecutor would be tasked to look at the role played by Justice Department figures and other government lawyers at various stages of the process; but criminal investigations usually target specific crimes, not individuals, and this would be no exception.
The regulations require a "specific factual statement” concerning the matter to be investigated, but drafting such a statement may be difficult.
One major issue would be whether the ultimate policy-making echelons in the White House would be affected.
One source told me that he would be surprised if Holder “set blinders” on the special prosecutor.
Still, the scope of the investigation would clearly be limited to the authorization and use of Bush-era “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as waterboarding, longtime standing, stress positions, and prolonged sleep deprivation.
Moreover, President Obama’s assurance to CIA officials who relied on the opinions of government lawyers in implementing these programs, an assurance that Holder himself repeated, would have to be worked in. That suggests that the focus would likely be on the lawyers and policymakers who authorized use of the new techniques.
That is virtually the opposite of the reports today suggesting that the DOJ lawyers and policymakers would be excluded from the investigation, which would focus only on rogue interrogators.
That's why I cautioned that these preliminary, anonymous reports not be assumed to be the final truth (and the conflicting reports could reflect that the scope of the investigation is still unclear and could be shaped by public reaction).
Still, given our political culture, I'll believe that there is a real criminal investigation underway that includes high-level, lawbreaking political leaders only when I see it.
UPDATE II: The New York Times article on this topic is in line with the Post that the investigation Holder is contemplating would be confined to "rogue" interrogators, and would not extend to policy-makers or DOJ lawyers:
The Justice Department official who confirmed the likelihood of an inquiry said it was not likely to focus on those legal opinions, the lawyers who wrote them or anyone who acted within the boundaries they set, even though the ground rules for interrogations have shifted.
If an inquiry moves forward, it will attempt mainly to determine whether any interrogators acted outside the rules that were in place, and if so, whether they should be prosecuted.
Some such excesses are thought to have occurred.
It should go without saying that I have no sympathy for CIA agents who tortured detainees, but prosecutions aimed at them, while immunizing the high-level officials who implemented the torture regime, would be -- in addition to the harms described above -- grotesquely unfair.
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TOMMY:
MR GREENWALD...uh...don't assume that TORTURE IS CONFINED TO NON US CITIZENS from a battlefield.
Nope.
TORTURE WITH DEW is a murder conspiracy...and it was very effective in South Dakota.
HOLDER is way, way, way....too dirty and corrupt...to ever...do a damn thing other than the bogus posing faggot act that WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR.
BELIEVE ME...HOLDER cannot carry the load.
BELIEVE ME...HOLDER is a good SECRET TEAM PLAYER who is no threat to nobody and...this latest crap is ALL PART OF THE SCAM AND CON when an "offical corrupt investigation" arrives at PRE ORDAINED CONCLUSIONS to cover it all up.
If I am wrong...then...HOLDER WOULD HAVE DISPATCHED A DUMBFUCK to get my statement...no?
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UPDATE III: Digby notes:
Stephanopoulos reported on This Week that the possible Holder investigation is going to be very narrow and will not pursue policy makers or anyone who took orders directly from the policymakers. He's going after "rogue interrogators" who inflicted more torture than was strictly allowed.
So it seems to be a consensus (i.e., most everyone reporting it other than Scott Horton) that Holder's plan, at least at the moment, is -- from the start -- to confine the prosecutors' authority to investigate to CIA agents who went beyond what John Yoo and George Bush decreed could be done ("he used more water than Yoo said he could"; "he tied him up for longer than Yoo authorized"; "the room was colder and the freezing water icier than Yoo allowed").
At least if these reports are accurate (and, for several reasons, that's unclear), anyone who "merely" did what John Yoo said was legal -- meaning everyone who matters -- will be shielded and immunized.
Digby's description of how Stephanopoulos' fresh and vibrant panel -- Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, Bob Woodward, George Will and Donna Brazile -- discussed the Holder report is well worth reading, as it reflects how establishment media figures view accountability for lawbreaking by political elites. That's a major reason why we have such a depraved and lawless political class.
Along those lines, CNN's Ed Henry today twittered this piece of banal Beltway conventional wisdom on the topic: "If Attorney General Holder launches criminal probe of Bush torture allegations, it seems likely to complicate Obama agenda big time."
Aside from the irrelevance of this observation -- partisan advantage is obviously not a legitimate basis for making prosecutorial decisions in an apoliticized justice system (that was supposedly the whole lesson of the Gonzales era) -- I'd really like to know the mechanism by which this is supposed to happen.
How -- exactly -- would Holder's decision to prosecute torture "complicate Obama's agenda big time"?
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tommy:
OBAMA was extorted and coerced by CIA in Hawaii BEFORE HE WAS SWORN IN. PELOSI, REID, LEAHY, CONYERS, HOYER, GOP...have all made it well known that NO TRUE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT is gonna get anything done, unless THE POWER CONTROL GROUP sanctions it.
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With a filibuster-proof Senate majority, a huge Democratic House majority, and a GOP that is always angry and obstructionist anyway, what -- specifically -- will happen in the event of those prosecutions that won't happen in their absence that will "complicate Obama's agenda big time"?
-- Glenn Greenwald
PELOSI DIPSHIT...is right...but is backing down, like the APPEASING, EXTORTED, MAFIA PRINCESS THAT SHE IS.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24869.html
CIA inquiry raises stakes for Nancy Pelosi
By ALEX ISENSTADT | 7/13/09 2:58 PM EDT
Updated: 7/14/09 5:15 AM EDT
The House intelligence committee’s pursuit of a full-scale investigation into whether the CIA misled Congress raises the stakes dramatically for Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
If the inquiry shows the CIA concealed information about a covert antiterrorist program, Pelosi may be vindicated for her accusations that the CIA lied to Congress. But the fresh publicity surrounding this CIA program — reportedly designed to assassinate terrorists — has given Republicans yet another chance to paint Pelosi as a weak-kneed Democrat who lets her politics hamper the ability of intelligence agencies in the war on terror.
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tommy:
Political enemies, COMPLAINANT'S WHO ACTUALLY SIGNED US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINTS, INNOCENT MEDICAL DOCTORS, pregnant christian houswives, Daschle democrats, lawyers...etc...WERE ALL MURDERED OR MAIMED DURING ATTEMPTED MURDERS USING DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS.
RIGHT WING MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS are being spun as COUNTERTERRORISM?
ONLY Terrorism is by the secret DOD--CIA--NSA contractors.
We all know that...but ERIC HOLDER, LEAHY, CONYERS, FEINSTEIN, PELOSI, REID,OBAMA are just too weak to allow THE FACTS AND WITNESSES TO TESTIFY?
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House intelligence committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) took a major step toward the launch of a formal investigation Monday, sending a letter to Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the committee’s top Republican, asking him for his opinion on whether there should be an investigation.
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TOMMY:
Why the fuck would you ask a GOP SLOB PUNK to sign off on investigating DEAD EYE DICK'S MURDER OF CHRISTINA MOORE?
Why waste time...when there is no time on the clock?
THE FOLLOWING COCKSUCKING PUSSIES all "stood behind their faggot badge" while silently sanctioning the murder of an Enron/Cheney Energy Task Force witness named CHRISTINA MOORE (murder facilitated by telecomms and NSA 902nd COUNTERINTEL GROUP):
--Bob "punk spook" Mueller;
--PAT PATERSON (lying FBI San Antonio SAC pussy);
--DET COOMBS at RRPD (a guy I talked to on wiretapped phone, a guy who tried to stop me from talking to JAN BOEL whose daughter and granddaughter were murdered...Coombs did not like me telling Jan Boel that RRPD WAS OBSTRUCTINT JUSTICE...RRPD did not let me see the other police sketchs of the other NSA TSP MERCS who AUSTIN LAWYER WHITTINGTON was feeding NSA SIGINT to as "the cut out" who got shot by Cheney ten days after CHENEY GOT BRIEFED ON MY POST FINGERING CHENEY FOR THE MURDER);
--JOHN BRADLEY, Williamson Cty punk faggot...known for writing the definitive text on Plea Bargaining in Texas...DID NOT FLIP COOPERATING PATSY MICHAEL KEITH MOORE, AND DID NOT INDICT ALL UNINDICTED COCONSPIRATORS;
--Johnny "house of death" SUTTON, US ATTY FOR WEST DIST OF TEXAS who quickly curried favor with GOP NAZI TRASH, and ended up working with airplane terrorist JOHN ASHCROFT as he helped SWINDLE 53 MILLION as a court monitor as part of a deferral of a fed crim prosecution...gee...WONDER IF MUELLER WORKS THIS KIND OF SWINDLE BY FOLLOWING THE KICKBACKS TO THE BUSH APPOINTED US ATTY who facilitated the fraud?...IS JUSTICE FOR SALE IN THE AMOUNT OF 53 MILLION DOLLARS?;
--Alberto GONZALEZ, smiling, lying, corrupt, lowlife faggot spic idiot...who helped the little punk drug dealing spooks murder a PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE WHO FED INFO TO HER HUSBAND, ROBERT MOORE, who broke ENERGY TASK FORCE STORIES AT THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY...to this day...not ONE BLOGGER HAS FOLLOWED THAT STORY?;
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Across the board, Republicans say they intend to revisit questions they raised earlier this year about what and when Pelosi knew about the CIA’s use of waterboarding tactics.
“The Democrats are the ones who made it their mission to attack the CIA in 2009,” Hoekstra told POLITICO on Monday. “I don’t have to revisit these things. Democrats are revisiting these things.”
Republicans pounced on news of the Reyes investigation, believing it could backfire on Democrats.
“The speaker’s liberal allies are keeping her accusations against the CIA front and center by trying to score political points on intelligence-related issues — which does nothing to make the American people safer,” said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner.
Pelosi herself has been muted in her response to the revelations that the agency had misled Congress. Last week, CIA Director Leon Panetta told House intelligence committee members that the CIA had misled Congress for eight years about the program in question. Then, in an article posted to its website on Saturday, The New York Times reported that Panetta notified House and Senate intelligence committee members in June that former Vice President Dick Cheney had ordered the concealment of a surveillance program from Congress.
In her weekly news conference with reporters on Thursday, Pelosi kept her distance: “I know what you know. ... The intelligence committee has the oversight responsibility for intelligence in the House, and its equivalent committee in the Senate. I’m sure they will be pursuing this in their regular committee process, and that’s the way that it will go.”
Pelosi didn’t say whether she thought there should be a full-fledged investigation into the charges on Thursday. But she certainly sounded open to the idea.
“I think that it behooves the committee to take whatever actions they believe are necessary to get more information on that subject as to whether the intelligence community was directed by the vice president to create a program and intentionally withhold that information from Congress,” she said Monday.
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tommy:
THEN HOW COME BEAN HAS NOT BEEN CALLED TO TESTIFY OR TALK TO THE PUNK FAGGOT IDIOTIC COCKSUCKERS aka THE CLOWN DEMOCRATS?
HOW COME FORMER SD HWPATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT has not been subpoenaed to talk about STATE SECRETS BEING USED BY FBI, DOJ, to stop a SD HW PATROL MURDER INVESTIGATION OF TALBOT'S FRIEND, YPD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH, who Talbot talked to, hours before Defenbaugh was murdered?
A SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MURDER INVESTIGATION WAS OBSTRUCTED, AND...PUNK, LYING, SHITBRAIN FAGGOT LARRY LONG AT SD AG...has not been subpoenaed...yet?
LONG negotiated the "quid pro quo" to go after SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN'S SON, when SD AG abused their descretion by opening a bogus harassment campaign on DAN NELSON AUTO LOAN BUSINESS that employed Michelle Tapken's son?
WHAT DOES HOLDER have to say about POLYGRAPHING THE IOWA US ATTY who has not dropped those charges in Iowa Fed Court?
Bogus charges...and HOLDER HAS NOT IMMEDIATLY WEEDED OUT THE NEO CON GOP TRASH AT EVERY US ATTORNEY'S OFFICE?
POLYGRAPH EXAMS lead to corrupt US ATTORNEYS RUNNING FOR COVER after resigning. That's how Holder got JOHNNY SUTTON out of San Antonio...doncha know?
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Democrats say they get the politics on this one and don’t want to give Republicans an opportunity to hammer Pelosi on an issue where she already fumbled earlier this year.
“If she engaged in this, it would overpoliticize the situation,” said a Democratic aide familiar with the intelligence committee’s work. “It’s an easy shot for [Republicans].”
“The speaker has been pretty clear that these decisions are going to be made at the committee level,” said another Democratic aide familiar with the workings of the intelligence panel. “She doesn’t need to involve herself in this. The Republicans want to make this about her — and it’s not about her.”
But Pelosi is getting peppered with questions about the intelligence flap — on Monday, she was asked about the matter in a news conference intended to discuss House Democrats’ long-awaited health care reform plan — and the momentum for investigations in both chambers is gaining force.
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tommy:
THE DAY THE FAG, PUNK, CORRUPT, LOWLIFE, POSEING FERRIES AT THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE AND SENATE do their job...is they day that pigs fly, and shit sandwiches start to taste good.
Not one punk Democratic staffer...has ever...ever...once...wanted info on the WELLSTONE MURDER, THE JFK JR MURDER, THE CARNEHAN MURDER, THE MOORE MURDER, THE GORDON MURDER, THE BOB NELSON MURDER, and numerous ATTEMPTED MURDERS ALL KNOWN TO PUNK, DRUG DEALING, PEDERAST PROTECTING, LOWLIFE FAGGOT KNOWN AS ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III...a guy dirty on the CONSPIRACY TO MURDER OMAHA ATTORNEY LEROY ROGERS USING INFO FROM MY FATHER'S FBI 302.
MUELLER USES FBI PEROGATIVES to set up murders?
Yup.
WELLSTONE MURDER...FBI HAD PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AS PROVEN BY THEIR ABUSE OF SNEAK AND PEAK WHEN THEY STOLE SMOKING GUN EVIDENCE aka DULUTH, MN, AIRPORT LOGS....showing prior knowledge.
DEMS...don't want to know about ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SD US SEN TIM JOHNSON, whose son...is now...the US ATTORNEY IN SIOUX FALLS, SD.
I BETTER GET A CALL...doncha think?
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24869.html#ixzz0LGnYwTf0&C
CIA inquiry raises stakes for Nancy Pelosi
By ALEX ISENSTADT | 7/13/09 2:58 PM EDT
Updated: 7/14/09 5:15 AM EDT
The House intelligence committee’s pursuit of a full-scale investigation into whether the CIA misled Congress raises the stakes dramatically for Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
If the inquiry shows the CIA concealed information about a covert antiterrorist program, Pelosi may be vindicated for her accusations that the CIA lied to Congress. But the fresh publicity surrounding this CIA program — reportedly designed to assassinate terrorists — has given Republicans yet another chance to paint Pelosi as a weak-kneed Democrat who lets her politics hamper the ability of intelligence agencies in the war on terror.
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tommy:
Political enemies, COMPLAINANT'S WHO ACTUALLY SIGNED US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINTS, INNOCENT MEDICAL DOCTORS, pregnant christian houswives, Daschle democrats, lawyers...etc...WERE ALL MURDERED OR MAIMED DURING ATTEMPTED MURDERS USING DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS.
RIGHT WING MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS are being spun as COUNTERTERRORISM?
ONLY Terrorism is by the secret DOD--CIA--NSA contractors.
We all know that...but ERIC HOLDER, LEAHY, CONYERS, FEINSTEIN, PELOSI, REID,OBAMA are just too weak to allow THE FACTS AND WITNESSES TO TESTIFY?
______________________
House intelligence committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) took a major step toward the launch of a formal investigation Monday, sending a letter to Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the committee’s top Republican, asking him for his opinion on whether there should be an investigation.
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TOMMY:
Why the fuck would you ask a GOP SLOB PUNK to sign off on investigating DEAD EYE DICK'S MURDER OF CHRISTINA MOORE?
Why waste time...when there is no time on the clock?
THE FOLLOWING COCKSUCKING PUSSIES all "stood behind their faggot badge" while silently sanctioning the murder of an Enron/Cheney Energy Task Force witness named CHRISTINA MOORE (murder facilitated by telecomms and NSA 902nd COUNTERINTEL GROUP):
--Bob "punk spook" Mueller;
--PAT PATERSON (lying FBI San Antonio SAC pussy);
--DET COOMBS at RRPD (a guy I talked to on wiretapped phone, a guy who tried to stop me from talking to JAN BOEL whose daughter and granddaughter were murdered...Coombs did not like me telling Jan Boel that RRPD WAS OBSTRUCTINT JUSTICE...RRPD did not let me see the other police sketchs of the other NSA TSP MERCS who AUSTIN LAWYER WHITTINGTON was feeding NSA SIGINT to as "the cut out" who got shot by Cheney ten days after CHENEY GOT BRIEFED ON MY POST FINGERING CHENEY FOR THE MURDER);
--JOHN BRADLEY, Williamson Cty punk faggot...known for writing the definitive text on Plea Bargaining in Texas...DID NOT FLIP COOPERATING PATSY MICHAEL KEITH MOORE, AND DID NOT INDICT ALL UNINDICTED COCONSPIRATORS;
--Johnny "house of death" SUTTON, US ATTY FOR WEST DIST OF TEXAS who quickly curried favor with GOP NAZI TRASH, and ended up working with airplane terrorist JOHN ASHCROFT as he helped SWINDLE 53 MILLION as a court monitor as part of a deferral of a fed crim prosecution...gee...WONDER IF MUELLER WORKS THIS KIND OF SWINDLE BY FOLLOWING THE KICKBACKS TO THE BUSH APPOINTED US ATTY who facilitated the fraud?...IS JUSTICE FOR SALE IN THE AMOUNT OF 53 MILLION DOLLARS?;
--Alberto GONZALEZ, smiling, lying, corrupt, lowlife faggot spic idiot...who helped the little punk drug dealing spooks murder a PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE WHO FED INFO TO HER HUSBAND, ROBERT MOORE, who broke ENERGY TASK FORCE STORIES AT THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY...to this day...not ONE BLOGGER HAS FOLLOWED THAT STORY?;
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Across the board, Republicans say they intend to revisit questions they raised earlier this year about what and when Pelosi knew about the CIA’s use of waterboarding tactics.
“The Democrats are the ones who made it their mission to attack the CIA in 2009,” Hoekstra told POLITICO on Monday. “I don’t have to revisit these things. Democrats are revisiting these things.”
Republicans pounced on news of the Reyes investigation, believing it could backfire on Democrats.
“The speaker’s liberal allies are keeping her accusations against the CIA front and center by trying to score political points on intelligence-related issues — which does nothing to make the American people safer,” said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner.
Pelosi herself has been muted in her response to the revelations that the agency had misled Congress. Last week, CIA Director Leon Panetta told House intelligence committee members that the CIA had misled Congress for eight years about the program in question. Then, in an article posted to its website on Saturday, The New York Times reported that Panetta notified House and Senate intelligence committee members in June that former Vice President Dick Cheney had ordered the concealment of a surveillance program from Congress.
In her weekly news conference with reporters on Thursday, Pelosi kept her distance: “I know what you know. ... The intelligence committee has the oversight responsibility for intelligence in the House, and its equivalent committee in the Senate. I’m sure they will be pursuing this in their regular committee process, and that’s the way that it will go.”
Pelosi didn’t say whether she thought there should be a full-fledged investigation into the charges on Thursday. But she certainly sounded open to the idea.
“I think that it behooves the committee to take whatever actions they believe are necessary to get more information on that subject as to whether the intelligence community was directed by the vice president to create a program and intentionally withhold that information from Congress,” she said Monday.
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tommy:
THEN HOW COME BEAN HAS NOT BEEN CALLED TO TESTIFY OR TALK TO THE PUNK FAGGOT IDIOTIC COCKSUCKERS aka THE CLOWN DEMOCRATS?
HOW COME FORMER SD HWPATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT has not been subpoenaed to talk about STATE SECRETS BEING USED BY FBI, DOJ, to stop a SD HW PATROL MURDER INVESTIGATION OF TALBOT'S FRIEND, YPD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH, who Talbot talked to, hours before Defenbaugh was murdered?
A SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MURDER INVESTIGATION WAS OBSTRUCTED, AND...PUNK, LYING, SHITBRAIN FAGGOT LARRY LONG AT SD AG...has not been subpoenaed...yet?
LONG negotiated the "quid pro quo" to go after SD US ATTY MICHELLE TAPKEN'S SON, when SD AG abused their descretion by opening a bogus harassment campaign on DAN NELSON AUTO LOAN BUSINESS that employed Michelle Tapken's son?
WHAT DOES HOLDER have to say about POLYGRAPHING THE IOWA US ATTY who has not dropped those charges in Iowa Fed Court?
Bogus charges...and HOLDER HAS NOT IMMEDIATLY WEEDED OUT THE NEO CON GOP TRASH AT EVERY US ATTORNEY'S OFFICE?
POLYGRAPH EXAMS lead to corrupt US ATTORNEYS RUNNING FOR COVER after resigning. That's how Holder got JOHNNY SUTTON out of San Antonio...doncha know?
____________________________
Democrats say they get the politics on this one and don’t want to give Republicans an opportunity to hammer Pelosi on an issue where she already fumbled earlier this year.
“If she engaged in this, it would overpoliticize the situation,” said a Democratic aide familiar with the intelligence committee’s work. “It’s an easy shot for [Republicans].”
“The speaker has been pretty clear that these decisions are going to be made at the committee level,” said another Democratic aide familiar with the workings of the intelligence panel. “She doesn’t need to involve herself in this. The Republicans want to make this about her — and it’s not about her.”
But Pelosi is getting peppered with questions about the intelligence flap — on Monday, she was asked about the matter in a news conference intended to discuss House Democrats’ long-awaited health care reform plan — and the momentum for investigations in both chambers is gaining force.
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tommy:
THE DAY THE FAG, PUNK, CORRUPT, LOWLIFE, POSEING FERRIES AT THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE AND SENATE do their job...is they day that pigs fly, and shit sandwiches start to taste good.
Not one punk Democratic staffer...has ever...ever...once...wanted info on the WELLSTONE MURDER, THE JFK JR MURDER, THE CARNEHAN MURDER, THE MOORE MURDER, THE GORDON MURDER, THE BOB NELSON MURDER, and numerous ATTEMPTED MURDERS ALL KNOWN TO PUNK, DRUG DEALING, PEDERAST PROTECTING, LOWLIFE FAGGOT KNOWN AS ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III...a guy dirty on the CONSPIRACY TO MURDER OMAHA ATTORNEY LEROY ROGERS USING INFO FROM MY FATHER'S FBI 302.
MUELLER USES FBI PEROGATIVES to set up murders?
Yup.
WELLSTONE MURDER...FBI HAD PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AS PROVEN BY THEIR ABUSE OF SNEAK AND PEAK WHEN THEY STOLE SMOKING GUN EVIDENCE aka DULUTH, MN, AIRPORT LOGS....showing prior knowledge.
DEMS...don't want to know about ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SD US SEN TIM JOHNSON, whose son...is now...the US ATTORNEY IN SIOUX FALLS, SD.
I BETTER GET A CALL...doncha think?
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24869.html#ixzz0LGnYwTf0&C
CIA SPOOK OBAMA...just lost Congress and the left
President Obama Threatens to Veto Intelligence Bill
July 08, 2009 8:49 PM
President Obama threatened to veto the Intelligence Authorization Act Wednesday, asserting that Congress was unconstitutionally pursuing information about executive branch deliberations.
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tommy:
Why is murdering fuckhead...DEAD EYE DICK, running the White House behind a KIKE FRONT known as Rahmbo (MOSSAD AGENT FBI COUNTERINTEL FILES...ran LEWINSKI while stabbing CLINTON'S IN BACK for whose benefit? Al Gore benefitted from LEWINSKI, so what isn't big Al telling us?
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It was the third veto threat the president had issued since being elected last November. The first, made before he was sworn in, was to those lawmakers who wanted to block release of the second $350 billion in TARP funds to bail out financial institutions.
Currently, the White House is required to report on certain covert actions to the "Gang of Eight" - the Speaker of the House, the House Minority Leader, the Senate Democratic and Republican Leaders, and the top Democrat and top Republican in both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
The legislation being debated would amend the National Security Act of 1947 in ways, the Obama administration asserted, "that would raise significant executive privilege concerns" by requiring the disclosure to the Gang of Eight "internal Executive branch legal advice and deliberations. Administrations of both political parties have long recognized the importance of protecting the confidentiality of the Executive Branch's legal advice and deliberations."
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tommy:
OBAMA ORDERED THE DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON TORTURE OF THOMAS S. BEAN, ON APRIL 11TH, 2009, IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA.
THERE WAS NO INTERROGATION TO PREVENT A TERRORIST ATTACK (from a witness who tried to stop CIA--FBI SPOOKS FROM BLOWING UP THE CHILDREN AT THE MURRAY BUILDING)???
Obama got paid off.
8 billion dollars.
SOME ONE STOLE THE MONEY BACK?
OBAMA must be seen for what he is: CHENEY'S PULLMAN CAR PORTER delivering a service, after getting stiffed out of 8 billion?
TIME TO GET PELOSI, REID, HOYER out of the way...to IMPEACH THIS SPEAR CHUCKING PUNK WHO IS RUN BY THE POWER CONTROL GROUP.
NO CHANGE WITH OBAMA.
THIS GUY DOES NOT HAVE A BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
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The new legislative language would run "afoul of tradition by restricting an important established means by which the President protects the most sensitive intelligence activities that are carried out in the Nation's vital national security interests," said the statement, issued by the Office of Management and Budget. "If the final bill presented to the President contains this provision, the President's senior advisors would recommend a veto."
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tommy:
OBAMA has now agreed to COVER THE POWER CONTROL GROUP WHO COMMITTED SO MANY MURDERS, AND MAIMINGS as part of "sensitive intelligence activities" (ALSO KNOWN AS PATRIOT ACT MURDERS, MIND CONTROL, TORTURE FOR PUNITIVE REASONS NOT TO GATHER INFO AS PART OF AN INTERROGATION).
MR PRESIDENT...who ordered the attempted murder of THOMAS S. BEAN IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA, ON APRIL 11, 2009?
WHY HASN'T ERIC HOLDER TAKEN MY SWORN STATEMENT OR POLYGRAPHED ME ON THAT?
ONLY THE PRESIDENT CAN INVOKE THE WAR COMMISSIONS ACT TO TORTURE US CITIZENS...SO....MR PRESIDENT DID YOU ORDER THAT PUNITIVE TORTURE with absolutely no evidence that there was a rational, reasonable relationship to INTERROGATION SEEKING INFO TO PREVENT A CRIME OF VIOLENCE????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/07/14/2009-07-14_president_obamas_car_czar_steven_rattner_drives_off_under_cloud.html
President Obama's car czar Steven Rattner drives off under cloud
By Kenneth Lovett and Kenneth R. Bazinet
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, July 14th 2009, 4:00 AM
WASHINGTON - Steven Rattner, who led the Obama administration's auto task force, is leaving that post as a probe into his New York pension dealings heats up.
The Treasury Department said Monday that Rattner, an investment banker, wanted to return to private life and his family in New York after overseeing efforts to lift General Motors and Chrysler from bankruptcy.
However, sources said ongoing federal and state investigations into pension-business kickbacks made it difficult for Rattner to remain in the job.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office has been intensifying its scrutiny of Rattner and Quadrangle Group, the firm he co-founded, in recent weeks, an official familiar with the investigation said. But there is no indication charges are looming from Cuomo's office or the Securities and Exchange Commission, the source said.
The Daily News first reported in February Rattner's links to the pension fund and Hank Morris, a top political consultant tied to the investigation.
Rattner's investment firm, Quadrangle Group, won $150 million in pension business in 2005 with the help of Morris, political guru to the disgraced former state Controller Alan Hevesi.
Rattner will be replaced on the auto task force by Ron Bloom, an ex-steelworkers' union official.
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http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/776335.html
Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president
Says he shouldn’t have to go to Afghanistan because Obama is not a U.S. citizen
By Lily Gordon
U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, set to deploy to Afghanistan, says he shouldn’t have to go.
His reason?
Barack Obama was never eligible to be president because he wasn’t born in the United States.
Cook’s lawyer, Orly Taitz, who has also challenged the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency in other courts, filed a request last week in federal court seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector for his client.
In the 20-page document — filed July 8 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia — the California-based Taitz asks the court to consider granting his client’s request based upon Cook’s belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Cook further states he “would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President’s command. ... simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties.”
Cook, a reservist, received the orders mobilizing him to active duty on June 9.
According to this document, which accompanies Cook’s July 8 application for a temporary restraining order, he has been ordered to report to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday. From there, the Florida resident would go to Fort Benning before deploying overseas.
Documents show Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, two years after it became a state.
A hearing to discuss Cook’s requests will take place in federal court here Thursday at 9:30 a.m.
July 08, 2009 8:49 PM
President Obama threatened to veto the Intelligence Authorization Act Wednesday, asserting that Congress was unconstitutionally pursuing information about executive branch deliberations.
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tommy:
Why is murdering fuckhead...DEAD EYE DICK, running the White House behind a KIKE FRONT known as Rahmbo (MOSSAD AGENT FBI COUNTERINTEL FILES...ran LEWINSKI while stabbing CLINTON'S IN BACK for whose benefit? Al Gore benefitted from LEWINSKI, so what isn't big Al telling us?
____________________
It was the third veto threat the president had issued since being elected last November. The first, made before he was sworn in, was to those lawmakers who wanted to block release of the second $350 billion in TARP funds to bail out financial institutions.
Currently, the White House is required to report on certain covert actions to the "Gang of Eight" - the Speaker of the House, the House Minority Leader, the Senate Democratic and Republican Leaders, and the top Democrat and top Republican in both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
The legislation being debated would amend the National Security Act of 1947 in ways, the Obama administration asserted, "that would raise significant executive privilege concerns" by requiring the disclosure to the Gang of Eight "internal Executive branch legal advice and deliberations. Administrations of both political parties have long recognized the importance of protecting the confidentiality of the Executive Branch's legal advice and deliberations."
_________________
tommy:
OBAMA ORDERED THE DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON TORTURE OF THOMAS S. BEAN, ON APRIL 11TH, 2009, IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA.
THERE WAS NO INTERROGATION TO PREVENT A TERRORIST ATTACK (from a witness who tried to stop CIA--FBI SPOOKS FROM BLOWING UP THE CHILDREN AT THE MURRAY BUILDING)???
Obama got paid off.
8 billion dollars.
SOME ONE STOLE THE MONEY BACK?
OBAMA must be seen for what he is: CHENEY'S PULLMAN CAR PORTER delivering a service, after getting stiffed out of 8 billion?
TIME TO GET PELOSI, REID, HOYER out of the way...to IMPEACH THIS SPEAR CHUCKING PUNK WHO IS RUN BY THE POWER CONTROL GROUP.
NO CHANGE WITH OBAMA.
THIS GUY DOES NOT HAVE A BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
____________________
The new legislative language would run "afoul of tradition by restricting an important established means by which the President protects the most sensitive intelligence activities that are carried out in the Nation's vital national security interests," said the statement, issued by the Office of Management and Budget. "If the final bill presented to the President contains this provision, the President's senior advisors would recommend a veto."
______________________
tommy:
OBAMA has now agreed to COVER THE POWER CONTROL GROUP WHO COMMITTED SO MANY MURDERS, AND MAIMINGS as part of "sensitive intelligence activities" (ALSO KNOWN AS PATRIOT ACT MURDERS, MIND CONTROL, TORTURE FOR PUNITIVE REASONS NOT TO GATHER INFO AS PART OF AN INTERROGATION).
MR PRESIDENT...who ordered the attempted murder of THOMAS S. BEAN IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA, ON APRIL 11, 2009?
WHY HASN'T ERIC HOLDER TAKEN MY SWORN STATEMENT OR POLYGRAPHED ME ON THAT?
ONLY THE PRESIDENT CAN INVOKE THE WAR COMMISSIONS ACT TO TORTURE US CITIZENS...SO....MR PRESIDENT DID YOU ORDER THAT PUNITIVE TORTURE with absolutely no evidence that there was a rational, reasonable relationship to INTERROGATION SEEKING INFO TO PREVENT A CRIME OF VIOLENCE????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/07/14/2009-07-14_president_obamas_car_czar_steven_rattner_drives_off_under_cloud.html
President Obama's car czar Steven Rattner drives off under cloud
By Kenneth Lovett and Kenneth R. Bazinet
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, July 14th 2009, 4:00 AM
WASHINGTON - Steven Rattner, who led the Obama administration's auto task force, is leaving that post as a probe into his New York pension dealings heats up.
The Treasury Department said Monday that Rattner, an investment banker, wanted to return to private life and his family in New York after overseeing efforts to lift General Motors and Chrysler from bankruptcy.
However, sources said ongoing federal and state investigations into pension-business kickbacks made it difficult for Rattner to remain in the job.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office has been intensifying its scrutiny of Rattner and Quadrangle Group, the firm he co-founded, in recent weeks, an official familiar with the investigation said. But there is no indication charges are looming from Cuomo's office or the Securities and Exchange Commission, the source said.
The Daily News first reported in February Rattner's links to the pension fund and Hank Morris, a top political consultant tied to the investigation.
Rattner's investment firm, Quadrangle Group, won $150 million in pension business in 2005 with the help of Morris, political guru to the disgraced former state Controller Alan Hevesi.
Rattner will be replaced on the auto task force by Ron Bloom, an ex-steelworkers' union official.
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http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/776335.html
Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president
Says he shouldn’t have to go to Afghanistan because Obama is not a U.S. citizen
By Lily Gordon
U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, set to deploy to Afghanistan, says he shouldn’t have to go.
His reason?
Barack Obama was never eligible to be president because he wasn’t born in the United States.
Cook’s lawyer, Orly Taitz, who has also challenged the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency in other courts, filed a request last week in federal court seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector for his client.
In the 20-page document — filed July 8 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia — the California-based Taitz asks the court to consider granting his client’s request based upon Cook’s belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Cook further states he “would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President’s command. ... simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties.”
Cook, a reservist, received the orders mobilizing him to active duty on June 9.
According to this document, which accompanies Cook’s July 8 application for a temporary restraining order, he has been ordered to report to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday. From there, the Florida resident would go to Fort Benning before deploying overseas.
Documents show Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, two years after it became a state.
A hearing to discuss Cook’s requests will take place in federal court here Thursday at 9:30 a.m.
If CHENEY is getting a bum rap...then PANETTA IS A BUM?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-14/the-man-who-knew-cheneys-secret/
The Man Who Knew Cheney's Secret?
by Benjamin Sarlin
The New York Times' Seymour Hersh was mocked in March when he referred to Dick Cheney’s secret squad of CIA assassins. Now, he talks to The Daily Beast about the next shoe to drop.
Reporting legend Seymour Hersh raised eyebrows back in March when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that Dick Cheney ran a secret hit squad that he kept hidden from Congressional oversight.
"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on," Hersh said at the time. He added: "Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us."
"I said what I said, they can always say what they say," Hersh told The Daily Beast. "The last time they said the government doesn’t torture, this time it's the government doesn’t assassinate."
Some observers accused him of rumor-mongering and a top former military official threw cold water on the story, but with the recent news that the CIA allegedly kept Congress in the dark on a covert program, Hersh's words suddenly look more and more prescient. Yesterday, the New York Times reported the hidden program in question was a death squad authorized by Dick Cheney without Congressional approval.
Now, there are key differences between Hersh's reporting and the Times' latest piece. Hersh suggested that the assassination ring was conducted out of the Joint Special Operations Command rather than the CIA. Moreover, according to Hersh's sources the program was operational, leaving a trail of bodies, while The Times cited officials saying that the CIA hit squad never actually carried out a mission. The Times and Hersh could conceivably be reporting two distinct squads.
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tommy:
WAS IT DUMSFIELD USING DOD CIFA UNIT (office sharing at Shriver Building with SIOUX FALLS FBI) to whack out my known associates?...or was it GOSS using BLACKWATER INC, (now called Xe)?...
NSA HQ knows, they do all THE SIGINT that facilitates it all, and...THANK PELOSIWHORE AND REIDFAGGOT for passing the telecomm immunity law after they got paid off (using my info, creates scandal, Enabling laws passed after DEMS GET OFFSHORE PAYMENTS AT SWISS UBS IRS SCANDAL?).
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The Daily Beast tracked down Hersh in South Asia, where he says he has not been able to read the New York Times piece but has received calls buzzing about the report. Asked about the officials quoted in the Times' report who claimed that Cheney's assassination ring never became operational, Hersh offered a skeptical response.
"I said what I said, they can always say what they say," Hersh told The Daily Beast. "The last time they said the government doesn’t torture; this time it's the government doesn’t assassinate."
Hersh said that his words in Minnesota were exaggerated in the press, since he had already previously reported on covert operations that he alleged were out of Congress' view. In February 2005, he published a report the President had authorized Donald Rumsfeld to organize special operations in South Asia and the Middle East without going through the CIA, and thus having to report them to Congress. In July 2005, he wrote that the White House circumvented Nancy Pelosi to organize covert operations led by retired CIA officers and non-government personnel to influence the Iraqi elections.
"In my reporting for this story, one theme that emerged was the Bush administration’s increasing tendency to turn to off-the-books covert actions to accomplish its goals," he wrote in the July 2005 piece. "This allowed the Administration to avoid the kind of stumbling blocks it encountered in the debate about how to handle the elections: bureaucratic infighting, congressional second-guessing, complaints from outsiders."
As recently as July 2008, Hersh published a report that the White House was exploiting technical differences between defense and intelligence operations in order to get around briefing Congress on pursuing "high value targets" in Iran through covert action.
"There is a growing realization among some legislators that the Bush administration, in recent years, has conflated what is an intelligence operation and what is a military one in order to avoid fully informing Congress about what it is doing," he wrote then.
Beyond his own reporting, Hersh said President Bush's own speeches provided evidence of secret assassinations.
"Go read George Bush's January 2003 State of the Union speech," he said. "He's talking and he says we've captured and detained 3,000 Al Qaeda members and other terrorists—crazy numbers—and said some of them will never bother us any more. And Congress cheers."
Bush's full quote then was:
"All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. And many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way: They are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies."
This article was updated to reflect differences between Hersh’s story and The New York Times’.
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/13/cheney.surveillance/index.html
Cheney getting 'bum rap' on CIA program, ex-officials sayStory Highlights
Operation wasn't implemented, two ex-intelligence officials say
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney is getting a "bum rap" over reports that he ordered the CIA to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress, two former U.S. intelligence officials told CNN Monday.
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TOMMY:
PANETTA KNOWS ABOUT THE CONSPIRACY TO TAMPER WITH A COOPERATING WITNESS NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN.
MUELLER KNOWS ABOUT THAT.
MUELLER IS A REAL FUCKING PROBLEM as CHENEY'S FENCE SITTER WHO STANDS DOWN ON NUMEROUS PATRIOT ACT MURDERS...including the ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A STALKED, COERCED, COOPERATING INNOCENT MEDICAL DOCTOR NAMED DR MARK GORDON?
FISA CT CUNT KNOWS ABOUT THE FBI FELONIES, and...uh....has not reported the felonies to HOLDER?.
HOLDER KNOWS ABOUT THAT....doesn't he?
HOLDER does not like having all the info before making decisions...because he is a controlled puppet...doncha know?
Some how...the punk, mafia, GOP, DOD, CIA, FBI stooges are now in defensive mode using the following successful tactics:
----DENY, DENY, DENY;
----OBSTRUCT COMPLAINTS;
----TAMPER WITH COOPERATING WITNESSES WHO ACTUALLY "fight terrorism" when they give rock solid crime tips to the fuckheads who blew up the children at OK CITY;
----FALSELY ACCUSE THE WITNESS OF BEING A TERRORIST;
----FALSELY ACCUSE AND MURDER AND MAIM ALL KNOWN ASSOCIATES OF THE WITNESS;
----FORCE THOSE MAKING CHARGES TO PROVE CHARGES WHEN only the US Atty and FBI can prove those charges;
----IGNORE all other circumstantial evidence (CHENEY GETS DRUNK, FLIES INTO RAGE, SHOOTS AUSTIN LAWYER WHITTINGTON after "...arguing about some woman..." (Secret Service at South Texas Quail hunt)....LOCAL SHERIFF OBSTRUCTED BY SECRET SERVICE WHO WAIT FOR ALCOHOL TO WASH OUT OF CHENEY'S HEAD before meeting with The Sheriff?
----Ignore TIMELINE EVIDENCE FROM FBI AND THOMAS S. BEAN showing cause that "BEAN SIGNED HIS CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT" before being MIND CONTROLLED, TORTURED, HARASSED, ASSAULTED, FRIED WITH DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW.
I GOT tortured for tipping off RRPD, JOHN BRADLEY, JOHNNY SUTTON, SAN ANTONIO FBI SAC PAT PATERSON, FBI working Christina Moore murder...("THEY MIGHT WANT TO SEARCH THE CALEA WIRETAP RECORDS AT THE TELECOMM PROVIDER").
Bean identified the police sketch "bearded suspect" as PHIL THE NARC who worked with the dewrag boy aka NATHAN GRIFFITH working with the tall black haired man ROBERT MCNAUGHTON.
Same mercs...sent after me.
Same m.o.
Same CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE BY FUCKHEAD PUNK BOB MUELLER, the infamous "protocol punk" who always.....LIES AT ALL COSTS, TO COVER UP AT ALL COSTS.
LARRY BROWNING did not get subpoenaed yet?....uh....WHAT IS MUELLER DOING AND NOT DOING AND WHY DOES THIS MAN HAVE A FREE LUNCH after covering CHENEY'S FAT ASS ON NUMEROUS MURDERS INCLUDING THE DEAD US ATTORNEYS IN FLORIDA, TEXAS, and LUNA in Maryland?
(Remember PELOSIWHORE AND HARRY FAGGOT REID colluding to grant civil immunity to telecomm companies without "anybody subpoenaeing Bean to testify?)
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Former Vice President Cheney reportedly told the CIA to withhold information about a counterterrorism program.
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tommy:
CHENEY USES "COUNTERTERRORISM" as cover for A SECRET ORWELL MEETS KAFKA EXECUTIVE BRANCH MURDER INCORPORATED.
COUNTERTERRORISM is always used as cover for the right wing to violate the rule of law:
----INTERSTATE STALKING;
----CONSPIRACY;
----TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS;
----FED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE;
----PATRIOT ACT MURDERS of lawyers?;
----TITLE III FELONIES, see, TITLE 18 USC SECTION 2517;
----PERJURY;
----SUBORNING PERJURY (FBI offers to bribe Dr Ivins son with 2.3 million dollars, and...US SEN APP gives Mueller more money?);
----OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE;
----MISPRISION OF A FELONY;
So much more...too bad the pussies at US SENATE JUD COMM, AND US HOUSE JUD COMM have not and will not LET THOMAS S. BEAN TESTIFY before and after taking a polygraph?
IF CHENEY IS INNOCENT AND GETTING A BUM RAP...THEN...UH...HE WANTS TO TESTIFY...RIGHT?
CHENEY, like me, has nothing to hide...right?...So CHENEY WANTS TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH JUST LIKE ME...RIGHT?
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According to both officials, any intelligence program of "great sensitivity" is first approved by the White House after a series of meetings. In any such situation, once the administration decides to pursue a covert program, there is discussion on whether Congress needs to be briefed, the officials said.
President George W. Bush "delegated" then-Vice President Cheney to chair many of the meetings that followed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the officials said.
At issue is CIA Director Leon Panetta's testimony last month to a congressional committee that he was told Cheney ordered the intelligence agency to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California and chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told "Fox News Sunday" that Panetta testified "he was told that the vice president had ordered that the program not be briefed to the Congress."
"I think this is a problem, obviously," Feinstein said, adding that the law requires full disclosure of such operations to Congress.
The disclosure by Panetta to both the Senate and House intelligence committees about Cheney's involvement was first reported in The New York Times.
Neither of the former officials who spoke to CNN would discuss the details of the program in question, but both said the CIA was developing a certain post-9/11 counterterrorism capacity.
As one official put it, "It should come as no surprise that we would go after the bad guys, the terrorists."
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TOMMY:
Explain how FORMER SD US SEN TOM DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF, RICHARD GORDON is a "bad guy" and how his brother, DR MARK GORDON is a terrorist?
DR GORDON AND ME REPEATED THE DIALOGUE FROM THE JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM.
EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE FROM MINN. FBI'S COERCED POLYGRAPH SESSIONS AT THE ST. PAUL FED BUILDING.
FBI did not brief HOLDER ON THAT...WHICH IS WHY....HOLDER NEEDS TO TALK TO ME.
[DR GORDON (once a cooperating, coerced, stalked, intimidated FBI WITNESS FOR SIOUX FALLS AND MINNEAPOLIS FBI)...forced to pass polygraph exams while FBI PLAYED ILLEGALLY TAPED PHONE CALLS that showed cause that FBI AND NSA got caught in my JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM STING OPERATION that caused BOB MUELLER TO ORDER THE ILLEGAL USE OF SNEAK AND PEAK TO STEAL MY COPIES OF MY PHONE CALLS that MUELLER KNEW I WOULD COMPARE TO HIS BOGUS EX PARTE WARRANT APPLICATIONS to show cause that FBI USES ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM NSA, and lies about it...much like CIA LIES BY OMISSION (called a BRADY VIOLATION...prime facie case for CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE IN FISA CT, AND 2ND CIRCUIT COURT IN SIOUX FALLS, SD).]
Some how...ERIC HOLDER does not want me to testify or talk to his SPECIAL PROSECUTOR?
ERIC HOLDER also does not want to negotiate a civil suit settlement?
MUELLER has the money, he likes pushing it, to stall so he can steal the interest on 150, 000, 000$?
NOW, that deal is gone.
IT'S TOO LATE....NOW THAT I GOT TORTURED AGAIN IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA, after Obama was president?
ERIC HOLDER also does not want to promote an "INTERSTATE STALKING--TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS--FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE Conspiracy" by BOB MUELLER'S INFRAGUARD STALKERS?
Somehow...ERIC IS NOT IN CONTROL OF DOJ HQ?
LOOKS LIKE CHENEY'S FENCE SITTING TOUGH GUY, BOB MUELLER is running Holder like an Uncle Tom Pussy...doncha think?
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Both sources said the program that Panetta discussed fell under a presidential finding that broadly authorized covert counterterrorism activities. They said Congress had been briefed on that finding in the fall of 2001, and there was no requirement to brief lawmakers on a program that had not been implemented.
"When it goes operational, then you brief them," one of the former officials said.
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TOMMY:
The PROGRAM was operational.
LIST OF DEAD KNOWN ASSOCIATES OF THOMAS S. BEAN:
--JOHN KABIESEMAN
--YPD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH;
--BOB NELSON of North Dakota (plane crash);
--RICHARD GORDON (brain tumor).
LIST OF MAIMED KNOWN ASSOCIATES FRIED WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION FROM A RAYTHEON DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW:
--Omaha attorney LEROY ROGERS (info to target came from SIOUX FALLS FBI 302 INTERVIEW OF MY FATHER, DR DAVID W. BEAN);
--VERMILLION, SD, CON LAW PROFESSOR JON VAN PATTEN (wheeled out of Sioux Valley hospital with misdiagnosed symptomology similiar to MARK GORDONS' SYMPTOMS);
--DR MARK GORDON (Minneapolis FBI's coerced cooperating witness);
--THOMAS S. BEAN (Fried and tortured after signing a US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT, CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT, TEN PAGE MEMO TO US SEN CHARLES GRASSLEY tipping the NY TIMES TO PRINT STORY ON NSA TSP SCANDAL.
--Known associates in PORT ARANSAS, TEXAS, when auto mechanic got burned after gas tank exploded above the mechanic;
--FOUR TEXAS TECH ALUMNI fishing the oil rigs...boat capsized after exploding?
MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MORE...BUT BOB MUELLER IS FOLLOWING HIS FAGGOT LITTLE PUNK "Protocol" AS A form of OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE BY DOING NOTHING FOR AMERICA.
THE PROGRAM?
THE PROGRAM: Murder using NSA 902ND COUNTERINTEL GROUP'S SIGINT WITHOUT WARRANTS, using MIND CONTROL facilitated by NSA SATELITES, use of DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS, PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS IN DR GORDON'S HOME, SPY CAMERAS IN MY HOME monitored by ROBERT DALE LILLY IN SIOUX FALLS, SD,....SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF PROGRAM USED BY CHENEY TO SHOOT UP 3 SCHOOLS IN 7 DAYS BEFORE THE CONG ELECTIONS IN 2006?)
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The sources said the program was canceled several years ago -- but for reasons unknown to them, it was put back on the table though still not implemented. Panetta terminated the program when he found out about it last month.
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TOMMY:
How can PANETTA TERMINATE A PROGRAM (after finding out) that WAS NOT OPERATIONAL?
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Panetta briefed lawmakers on June 24 on an unspecified counterterrorism program, according to a letter from seven House Democrats to Panetta made public last Wednesday.
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TOMMY:
"COUNTERTERRORISM PROGRAM"?
Nope.
Nope.
No.
COUNTERINTELPRO MURDER INCORPORATED AND MIND CONTROL TO GET DIRT ON CERTAIN ENEMIES OF THE STATE like SIOUX FALLS CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE PETER GREGORY who refused to join CIA--FBI CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE when COUNTERINTELIGENCE SPECIAL FUCKHEAD STEVEN PLUTA "stood down" and or "facilitated the MIND CONTROL NEUTRALIZATION OF PETER GREGORY" SO THAT....the FBI could LEVERAGE THEIR WAY TO FORCE GREGORY TO COUGH UP HIS JUDICIAL COPY OF DAVE NELSON'S BOGUS WIRETAP AFFADAVITS AS PART OF HIS BOGUS APPLICATION containing "obvious errors and falsifications" in which....FBI USES ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO and launders it under the name of some snitch, who...uh....never was in the vicinity of the phone call?
MY TAPES SHOW DATES...that confuse and obstructs the FBI'S CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE WITH SWORN PERJURED STATEMENTS as part of MUELLER'S ONGOING CONSPIRACY TO WIN AT ALL COSTS because the ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS.
Doesn't the punk ferry ass Democrats....WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM STING OPERATION that was proven by DR MARK GORDON'S COERCED POLYGRAPH SESSIONS?
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The June 26 letter characterized Panetta as testifying that the CIA "concealed significant actions from all members of Congress, and misled members for a number of years from 2001 to this week."
The letter contained no details about what information the CIA officials allegedly concealed or how they purportedly misled members of Congress.
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TOMMY:
Gee...AREN'T WE LUCKY TO HAVE "THE FAGGOT ASS FERRY FUCKS" known as DEMOCRATS DOING OVERSIGHT (?) while also...not calling PRIMARY WITNESSES WHO ACTUALLY SIGN DOJ COMPLAINTSS?
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http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/14/big-trouble-for-dick-cheney/
July 14, 2009
Big Trouble for Dick Cheney
(Brent Budowsky)
While I hope the CIA can be removed from partisan politics, the bottom line is that on the really big question, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was right and former Vice President Dick Cheney was terribly wrong.
Public reports suggest there may have been some form of assassination program that was run from the Office of the Vice President under Cheney and not disclosed, as required by law, to Congress. It also appears that when CIA Director Leon Panetta found out about this program he terminated it immediately and briefed Congress immediately.
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tommy:
FATBOY ROVE and bullshit clown idiot (Ted Knight from Mary Tyler Moore Show?) BILL "luffa boy jackoff" O'REILLY have already covered up claiming that "...the program was never operational...".
OKAY...THEN HOW COME THREE SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF, somehow...managed to stun criminalologists at FBI BSU when..."for the first time in MK ULTRA HISTORY, three, yes three"...."MANCHURIAN MIND CONTROLLED AND CIA CHIPPED WACKOS" MANAGED TO SHOOT UP THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS IN SEVEN, yes...seven fucking days...and....RIGHT BEFORE THE 2006 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS when ROVE AND CHENEY KNEW THEY WOULD LOSE THE HOUSE TO PELOSI IDIOT, and might lose the SENATE TO THEMSELVES UNDER HARRY "the corrupt lying faggot" REID (a pathetic corrupt lowlife punk GOP stooge)?
GOP thought that...HYSTERIA AND FEAR FROM SCHOOL SHOOTERS...would sway the public to vote for the AUTHORITARIAN LAW AND ORDER PARTY (that always breaks the law secretly...like the LEO WANTA TRUST FUND GIGA SCANDAL)??????????
MOST FBI PROFILERS are trying to read tea leaves in a failed attempt at "targeting MK ULTRA MIND CONTROL SCHOOL SHOOTERS" as part of what MCKINNEY found out from an FBI agent--that the FBI CALLS THEIR SCHOOL SHOOTER PROGRAM "OPERATION SLAMMER" aka "OPERATION HEAVONS GATE" in San Diego....where one crew of 9/11 TERRORISTS WERE AIDED AND ABETTED BY AN FBI INFORMANT???????????????????????????
MUELLER HAS A JOB???????????????????????????????????????????????
HOW MUCH BLOOD FROM COLLEGE KIDS AND GRADE SCHOOL KIDS...DOES BOB MUELLER AND FBI HQ have on their hands?
BOB WAS FOLLOWING HIS FAGGOT PUNK "protocol" ("FBISPEAK" FOR BOB'S LAME ASS EXCUSE WHEN OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE BY STANDING DOWN ON PATRIOT ACT MURDERS KNOWN TO ME, AND SD HW PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT???).
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First, we must have more information before making major judgments.
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TOMMY: TIP FOR MORE INFO: read this blog, interview Bean, and turn off FOX News.
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If there was an assassination program aimed at bin Laden and other terrorist leaders, that is fine and there is precedent. To the degree any form of assassination program was expanded too widely, or involved assassinations in sovereign nations with their own laws on these matters, the wider this gets, the bigger the problems.
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tommy:
NOTICE THIS COCKSUCKING PUSSY is doing the same thing HERSH DID?
He limits CHENEY'S MURDERS TO OVERSEAS, WHEN IN FACT....COUNTERTERRORISM is used to RATIONALIZE and coverup a DOMESTIC ASSASINATION PROGRAM TARGETING WITNESS LIKE DR MARK GORDON who had already taken MINNEAPOLIS FBI'S POLYGRAPH EXAM AT ST. PAUL FED BUILDING (across street from Gordon's apartment).
THE MURDER OF A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE WAS COVERED UP BY A PUNK LOWLIFE NAMED ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III (Cheney's boy...doncha know?).
JOHNNY SUTTON (recently run out of his US ATTY POSITION AT WEST. DIST. OF TEXAS after Holder offered him a polygraph exam) also benefitted (like SD AG LARRY LONG, MARK BARNETT, DON SRSTKA) for standing down and obstructing justice?
BOB MUELLER AT FBI HQ (poster child for HANNAH AREHNDT'S "BANALITY OF EVIL THESIS") was STANDING DOWN WHILE FOLLOWING his FED FAG BOY PROTOCOL? (See, Leahy's last soft punk grilling of Mueller in 2007?).
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Second, it is inexcusable and very possibly outright illegal for the former vice president, or anyone in any administration, to keep these programs secret from congressional leaders and oversight committees in Congress.
We don’t have monarchs in this country, we have elected officials who operate under the rule of law and take an oath to faithfully execute the laws of the land. No branch of government can unilaterally abrogate the rule of law. No official can unilaterally change the law, or evade the law, or make personal and unilateral decisions about what is legal and what is not, or unilaterally destroy the checks and balances that are essential to the American form of government.
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tommy:
WANT TO BET ABOUT TYRANNY UNDER BOB MUELLER'S FAG BOY PROTOCOL that protected Cheney and others?.
FBI HQ Facilitated CHENEY'S LATER CRIME: MARSHALL LAW EXTORTIONATE SWINDLE OF THE FIRST BAILOUT BILLIONS that went...where?
THE HOUSE RALLIED, but...calls to OBAMA (the future president) showed cause that BARACK IS A PUNK WHO ROLLED OVER, AND TOLD DEM HOLD OUT VOTES to "vote for this swindle" ...and...the hold out Dems...followed OBAMA OVER THE FUCKING CLIFF?
Three KIKE BANKS GOT HALF.
THREE KIKE BANKS GOT HALF.
TALK TO BARNEY 'faggot lying punk' FRANK about that.
AM I AN ANTISEMITE...for accusing the KIKES AND FBI AND CIA AND NEOCONS of murdering 3,000 americans on 9/11 and......also stealing our money?
MUELLER'S THE KEY ON ALL THIS.
MUELLER COST THIS COUNTRY ALOT OF JUSTICE AND ALOT OF MONEY.?
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Dick Cheney has caused big trouble.
Dick Cheney is in big trouble.
This is not about "whether we put this behind us" to win votes on the floor of the House or Senate for unrelated legislation.
This is about the rule of law in the United States of America and whether our highest officials honor their oath and their obligation to faithfully execute the laws of the land.
We can and should keep the CIA out of politics while pursuing the truth, based on the law, to ensure our laws are indeed faithfully executed.
No president, no administration, no vice president, of either party, at any time, is above the law. This core American principle must be upheld at all times, now and forever.
Archived under: The Administration
The Man Who Knew Cheney's Secret?
by Benjamin Sarlin
The New York Times' Seymour Hersh was mocked in March when he referred to Dick Cheney’s secret squad of CIA assassins. Now, he talks to The Daily Beast about the next shoe to drop.
Reporting legend Seymour Hersh raised eyebrows back in March when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that Dick Cheney ran a secret hit squad that he kept hidden from Congressional oversight.
"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on," Hersh said at the time. He added: "Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us."
"I said what I said, they can always say what they say," Hersh told The Daily Beast. "The last time they said the government doesn’t torture, this time it's the government doesn’t assassinate."
Some observers accused him of rumor-mongering and a top former military official threw cold water on the story, but with the recent news that the CIA allegedly kept Congress in the dark on a covert program, Hersh's words suddenly look more and more prescient. Yesterday, the New York Times reported the hidden program in question was a death squad authorized by Dick Cheney without Congressional approval.
Now, there are key differences between Hersh's reporting and the Times' latest piece. Hersh suggested that the assassination ring was conducted out of the Joint Special Operations Command rather than the CIA. Moreover, according to Hersh's sources the program was operational, leaving a trail of bodies, while The Times cited officials saying that the CIA hit squad never actually carried out a mission. The Times and Hersh could conceivably be reporting two distinct squads.
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tommy:
WAS IT DUMSFIELD USING DOD CIFA UNIT (office sharing at Shriver Building with SIOUX FALLS FBI) to whack out my known associates?...or was it GOSS using BLACKWATER INC, (now called Xe)?...
NSA HQ knows, they do all THE SIGINT that facilitates it all, and...THANK PELOSIWHORE AND REIDFAGGOT for passing the telecomm immunity law after they got paid off (using my info, creates scandal, Enabling laws passed after DEMS GET OFFSHORE PAYMENTS AT SWISS UBS IRS SCANDAL?).
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The Daily Beast tracked down Hersh in South Asia, where he says he has not been able to read the New York Times piece but has received calls buzzing about the report. Asked about the officials quoted in the Times' report who claimed that Cheney's assassination ring never became operational, Hersh offered a skeptical response.
"I said what I said, they can always say what they say," Hersh told The Daily Beast. "The last time they said the government doesn’t torture; this time it's the government doesn’t assassinate."
Hersh said that his words in Minnesota were exaggerated in the press, since he had already previously reported on covert operations that he alleged were out of Congress' view. In February 2005, he published a report the President had authorized Donald Rumsfeld to organize special operations in South Asia and the Middle East without going through the CIA, and thus having to report them to Congress. In July 2005, he wrote that the White House circumvented Nancy Pelosi to organize covert operations led by retired CIA officers and non-government personnel to influence the Iraqi elections.
"In my reporting for this story, one theme that emerged was the Bush administration’s increasing tendency to turn to off-the-books covert actions to accomplish its goals," he wrote in the July 2005 piece. "This allowed the Administration to avoid the kind of stumbling blocks it encountered in the debate about how to handle the elections: bureaucratic infighting, congressional second-guessing, complaints from outsiders."
As recently as July 2008, Hersh published a report that the White House was exploiting technical differences between defense and intelligence operations in order to get around briefing Congress on pursuing "high value targets" in Iran through covert action.
"There is a growing realization among some legislators that the Bush administration, in recent years, has conflated what is an intelligence operation and what is a military one in order to avoid fully informing Congress about what it is doing," he wrote then.
Beyond his own reporting, Hersh said President Bush's own speeches provided evidence of secret assassinations.
"Go read George Bush's January 2003 State of the Union speech," he said. "He's talking and he says we've captured and detained 3,000 Al Qaeda members and other terrorists—crazy numbers—and said some of them will never bother us any more. And Congress cheers."
Bush's full quote then was:
"All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. And many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way: They are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies."
This article was updated to reflect differences between Hersh’s story and The New York Times’.
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/13/cheney.surveillance/index.html
Cheney getting 'bum rap' on CIA program, ex-officials sayStory Highlights
Operation wasn't implemented, two ex-intelligence officials say
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney is getting a "bum rap" over reports that he ordered the CIA to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress, two former U.S. intelligence officials told CNN Monday.
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TOMMY:
PANETTA KNOWS ABOUT THE CONSPIRACY TO TAMPER WITH A COOPERATING WITNESS NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN.
MUELLER KNOWS ABOUT THAT.
MUELLER IS A REAL FUCKING PROBLEM as CHENEY'S FENCE SITTER WHO STANDS DOWN ON NUMEROUS PATRIOT ACT MURDERS...including the ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A STALKED, COERCED, COOPERATING INNOCENT MEDICAL DOCTOR NAMED DR MARK GORDON?
FISA CT CUNT KNOWS ABOUT THE FBI FELONIES, and...uh....has not reported the felonies to HOLDER?.
HOLDER KNOWS ABOUT THAT....doesn't he?
HOLDER does not like having all the info before making decisions...because he is a controlled puppet...doncha know?
Some how...the punk, mafia, GOP, DOD, CIA, FBI stooges are now in defensive mode using the following successful tactics:
----DENY, DENY, DENY;
----OBSTRUCT COMPLAINTS;
----TAMPER WITH COOPERATING WITNESSES WHO ACTUALLY "fight terrorism" when they give rock solid crime tips to the fuckheads who blew up the children at OK CITY;
----FALSELY ACCUSE THE WITNESS OF BEING A TERRORIST;
----FALSELY ACCUSE AND MURDER AND MAIM ALL KNOWN ASSOCIATES OF THE WITNESS;
----FORCE THOSE MAKING CHARGES TO PROVE CHARGES WHEN only the US Atty and FBI can prove those charges;
----IGNORE all other circumstantial evidence (CHENEY GETS DRUNK, FLIES INTO RAGE, SHOOTS AUSTIN LAWYER WHITTINGTON after "...arguing about some woman..." (Secret Service at South Texas Quail hunt)....LOCAL SHERIFF OBSTRUCTED BY SECRET SERVICE WHO WAIT FOR ALCOHOL TO WASH OUT OF CHENEY'S HEAD before meeting with The Sheriff?
----Ignore TIMELINE EVIDENCE FROM FBI AND THOMAS S. BEAN showing cause that "BEAN SIGNED HIS CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT" before being MIND CONTROLLED, TORTURED, HARASSED, ASSAULTED, FRIED WITH DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW.
I GOT tortured for tipping off RRPD, JOHN BRADLEY, JOHNNY SUTTON, SAN ANTONIO FBI SAC PAT PATERSON, FBI working Christina Moore murder...("THEY MIGHT WANT TO SEARCH THE CALEA WIRETAP RECORDS AT THE TELECOMM PROVIDER").
Bean identified the police sketch "bearded suspect" as PHIL THE NARC who worked with the dewrag boy aka NATHAN GRIFFITH working with the tall black haired man ROBERT MCNAUGHTON.
Same mercs...sent after me.
Same m.o.
Same CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE BY FUCKHEAD PUNK BOB MUELLER, the infamous "protocol punk" who always.....LIES AT ALL COSTS, TO COVER UP AT ALL COSTS.
LARRY BROWNING did not get subpoenaed yet?....uh....WHAT IS MUELLER DOING AND NOT DOING AND WHY DOES THIS MAN HAVE A FREE LUNCH after covering CHENEY'S FAT ASS ON NUMEROUS MURDERS INCLUDING THE DEAD US ATTORNEYS IN FLORIDA, TEXAS, and LUNA in Maryland?
(Remember PELOSIWHORE AND HARRY FAGGOT REID colluding to grant civil immunity to telecomm companies without "anybody subpoenaeing Bean to testify?)
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Former Vice President Cheney reportedly told the CIA to withhold information about a counterterrorism program.
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tommy:
CHENEY USES "COUNTERTERRORISM" as cover for A SECRET ORWELL MEETS KAFKA EXECUTIVE BRANCH MURDER INCORPORATED.
COUNTERTERRORISM is always used as cover for the right wing to violate the rule of law:
----INTERSTATE STALKING;
----CONSPIRACY;
----TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS;
----FED CRIMES OF VIOLENCE;
----PATRIOT ACT MURDERS of lawyers?;
----TITLE III FELONIES, see, TITLE 18 USC SECTION 2517;
----PERJURY;
----SUBORNING PERJURY (FBI offers to bribe Dr Ivins son with 2.3 million dollars, and...US SEN APP gives Mueller more money?);
----OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE;
----MISPRISION OF A FELONY;
So much more...too bad the pussies at US SENATE JUD COMM, AND US HOUSE JUD COMM have not and will not LET THOMAS S. BEAN TESTIFY before and after taking a polygraph?
IF CHENEY IS INNOCENT AND GETTING A BUM RAP...THEN...UH...HE WANTS TO TESTIFY...RIGHT?
CHENEY, like me, has nothing to hide...right?...So CHENEY WANTS TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH JUST LIKE ME...RIGHT?
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According to both officials, any intelligence program of "great sensitivity" is first approved by the White House after a series of meetings. In any such situation, once the administration decides to pursue a covert program, there is discussion on whether Congress needs to be briefed, the officials said.
President George W. Bush "delegated" then-Vice President Cheney to chair many of the meetings that followed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the officials said.
At issue is CIA Director Leon Panetta's testimony last month to a congressional committee that he was told Cheney ordered the intelligence agency to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California and chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told "Fox News Sunday" that Panetta testified "he was told that the vice president had ordered that the program not be briefed to the Congress."
"I think this is a problem, obviously," Feinstein said, adding that the law requires full disclosure of such operations to Congress.
The disclosure by Panetta to both the Senate and House intelligence committees about Cheney's involvement was first reported in The New York Times.
Neither of the former officials who spoke to CNN would discuss the details of the program in question, but both said the CIA was developing a certain post-9/11 counterterrorism capacity.
As one official put it, "It should come as no surprise that we would go after the bad guys, the terrorists."
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TOMMY:
Explain how FORMER SD US SEN TOM DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF, RICHARD GORDON is a "bad guy" and how his brother, DR MARK GORDON is a terrorist?
DR GORDON AND ME REPEATED THE DIALOGUE FROM THE JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM.
EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE FROM MINN. FBI'S COERCED POLYGRAPH SESSIONS AT THE ST. PAUL FED BUILDING.
FBI did not brief HOLDER ON THAT...WHICH IS WHY....HOLDER NEEDS TO TALK TO ME.
[DR GORDON (once a cooperating, coerced, stalked, intimidated FBI WITNESS FOR SIOUX FALLS AND MINNEAPOLIS FBI)...forced to pass polygraph exams while FBI PLAYED ILLEGALLY TAPED PHONE CALLS that showed cause that FBI AND NSA got caught in my JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM STING OPERATION that caused BOB MUELLER TO ORDER THE ILLEGAL USE OF SNEAK AND PEAK TO STEAL MY COPIES OF MY PHONE CALLS that MUELLER KNEW I WOULD COMPARE TO HIS BOGUS EX PARTE WARRANT APPLICATIONS to show cause that FBI USES ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO FROM NSA, and lies about it...much like CIA LIES BY OMISSION (called a BRADY VIOLATION...prime facie case for CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE IN FISA CT, AND 2ND CIRCUIT COURT IN SIOUX FALLS, SD).]
Some how...ERIC HOLDER does not want me to testify or talk to his SPECIAL PROSECUTOR?
ERIC HOLDER also does not want to negotiate a civil suit settlement?
MUELLER has the money, he likes pushing it, to stall so he can steal the interest on 150, 000, 000$?
NOW, that deal is gone.
IT'S TOO LATE....NOW THAT I GOT TORTURED AGAIN IN BOULDER CITY, NEVADA, after Obama was president?
ERIC HOLDER also does not want to promote an "INTERSTATE STALKING--TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS--FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE Conspiracy" by BOB MUELLER'S INFRAGUARD STALKERS?
Somehow...ERIC IS NOT IN CONTROL OF DOJ HQ?
LOOKS LIKE CHENEY'S FENCE SITTING TOUGH GUY, BOB MUELLER is running Holder like an Uncle Tom Pussy...doncha think?
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Both sources said the program that Panetta discussed fell under a presidential finding that broadly authorized covert counterterrorism activities. They said Congress had been briefed on that finding in the fall of 2001, and there was no requirement to brief lawmakers on a program that had not been implemented.
"When it goes operational, then you brief them," one of the former officials said.
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TOMMY:
The PROGRAM was operational.
LIST OF DEAD KNOWN ASSOCIATES OF THOMAS S. BEAN:
--JOHN KABIESEMAN
--YPD SGT MARK DEFENBAUGH;
--BOB NELSON of North Dakota (plane crash);
--RICHARD GORDON (brain tumor).
LIST OF MAIMED KNOWN ASSOCIATES FRIED WITH MICROWAVE RADIATION FROM A RAYTHEON DOD DARPA WEAPON CALLED DEW:
--Omaha attorney LEROY ROGERS (info to target came from SIOUX FALLS FBI 302 INTERVIEW OF MY FATHER, DR DAVID W. BEAN);
--VERMILLION, SD, CON LAW PROFESSOR JON VAN PATTEN (wheeled out of Sioux Valley hospital with misdiagnosed symptomology similiar to MARK GORDONS' SYMPTOMS);
--DR MARK GORDON (Minneapolis FBI's coerced cooperating witness);
--THOMAS S. BEAN (Fried and tortured after signing a US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT, CHRISTINA MOORE MURDER AFFADAVIT, TEN PAGE MEMO TO US SEN CHARLES GRASSLEY tipping the NY TIMES TO PRINT STORY ON NSA TSP SCANDAL.
--Known associates in PORT ARANSAS, TEXAS, when auto mechanic got burned after gas tank exploded above the mechanic;
--FOUR TEXAS TECH ALUMNI fishing the oil rigs...boat capsized after exploding?
MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MORE...BUT BOB MUELLER IS FOLLOWING HIS FAGGOT LITTLE PUNK "Protocol" AS A form of OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE BY DOING NOTHING FOR AMERICA.
THE PROGRAM?
THE PROGRAM: Murder using NSA 902ND COUNTERINTEL GROUP'S SIGINT WITHOUT WARRANTS, using MIND CONTROL facilitated by NSA SATELITES, use of DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS, PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS IN DR GORDON'S HOME, SPY CAMERAS IN MY HOME monitored by ROBERT DALE LILLY IN SIOUX FALLS, SD,....SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF PROGRAM USED BY CHENEY TO SHOOT UP 3 SCHOOLS IN 7 DAYS BEFORE THE CONG ELECTIONS IN 2006?)
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The sources said the program was canceled several years ago -- but for reasons unknown to them, it was put back on the table though still not implemented. Panetta terminated the program when he found out about it last month.
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TOMMY:
How can PANETTA TERMINATE A PROGRAM (after finding out) that WAS NOT OPERATIONAL?
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Panetta briefed lawmakers on June 24 on an unspecified counterterrorism program, according to a letter from seven House Democrats to Panetta made public last Wednesday.
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TOMMY:
"COUNTERTERRORISM PROGRAM"?
Nope.
Nope.
No.
COUNTERINTELPRO MURDER INCORPORATED AND MIND CONTROL TO GET DIRT ON CERTAIN ENEMIES OF THE STATE like SIOUX FALLS CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE PETER GREGORY who refused to join CIA--FBI CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE when COUNTERINTELIGENCE SPECIAL FUCKHEAD STEVEN PLUTA "stood down" and or "facilitated the MIND CONTROL NEUTRALIZATION OF PETER GREGORY" SO THAT....the FBI could LEVERAGE THEIR WAY TO FORCE GREGORY TO COUGH UP HIS JUDICIAL COPY OF DAVE NELSON'S BOGUS WIRETAP AFFADAVITS AS PART OF HIS BOGUS APPLICATION containing "obvious errors and falsifications" in which....FBI USES ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFO and launders it under the name of some snitch, who...uh....never was in the vicinity of the phone call?
MY TAPES SHOW DATES...that confuse and obstructs the FBI'S CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE WITH SWORN PERJURED STATEMENTS as part of MUELLER'S ONGOING CONSPIRACY TO WIN AT ALL COSTS because the ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS.
Doesn't the punk ferry ass Democrats....WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM STING OPERATION that was proven by DR MARK GORDON'S COERCED POLYGRAPH SESSIONS?
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The June 26 letter characterized Panetta as testifying that the CIA "concealed significant actions from all members of Congress, and misled members for a number of years from 2001 to this week."
The letter contained no details about what information the CIA officials allegedly concealed or how they purportedly misled members of Congress.
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TOMMY:
Gee...AREN'T WE LUCKY TO HAVE "THE FAGGOT ASS FERRY FUCKS" known as DEMOCRATS DOING OVERSIGHT (?) while also...not calling PRIMARY WITNESSES WHO ACTUALLY SIGN DOJ COMPLAINTSS?
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http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/14/big-trouble-for-dick-cheney/
July 14, 2009
Big Trouble for Dick Cheney
(Brent Budowsky)
While I hope the CIA can be removed from partisan politics, the bottom line is that on the really big question, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was right and former Vice President Dick Cheney was terribly wrong.
Public reports suggest there may have been some form of assassination program that was run from the Office of the Vice President under Cheney and not disclosed, as required by law, to Congress. It also appears that when CIA Director Leon Panetta found out about this program he terminated it immediately and briefed Congress immediately.
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tommy:
FATBOY ROVE and bullshit clown idiot (Ted Knight from Mary Tyler Moore Show?) BILL "luffa boy jackoff" O'REILLY have already covered up claiming that "...the program was never operational...".
OKAY...THEN HOW COME THREE SCHOOL SHOOTERS ON A SHELF, somehow...managed to stun criminalologists at FBI BSU when..."for the first time in MK ULTRA HISTORY, three, yes three"...."MANCHURIAN MIND CONTROLLED AND CIA CHIPPED WACKOS" MANAGED TO SHOOT UP THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS IN SEVEN, yes...seven fucking days...and....RIGHT BEFORE THE 2006 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS when ROVE AND CHENEY KNEW THEY WOULD LOSE THE HOUSE TO PELOSI IDIOT, and might lose the SENATE TO THEMSELVES UNDER HARRY "the corrupt lying faggot" REID (a pathetic corrupt lowlife punk GOP stooge)?
GOP thought that...HYSTERIA AND FEAR FROM SCHOOL SHOOTERS...would sway the public to vote for the AUTHORITARIAN LAW AND ORDER PARTY (that always breaks the law secretly...like the LEO WANTA TRUST FUND GIGA SCANDAL)??????????
MOST FBI PROFILERS are trying to read tea leaves in a failed attempt at "targeting MK ULTRA MIND CONTROL SCHOOL SHOOTERS" as part of what MCKINNEY found out from an FBI agent--that the FBI CALLS THEIR SCHOOL SHOOTER PROGRAM "OPERATION SLAMMER" aka "OPERATION HEAVONS GATE" in San Diego....where one crew of 9/11 TERRORISTS WERE AIDED AND ABETTED BY AN FBI INFORMANT???????????????????????????
MUELLER HAS A JOB???????????????????????????????????????????????
HOW MUCH BLOOD FROM COLLEGE KIDS AND GRADE SCHOOL KIDS...DOES BOB MUELLER AND FBI HQ have on their hands?
BOB WAS FOLLOWING HIS FAGGOT PUNK "protocol" ("FBISPEAK" FOR BOB'S LAME ASS EXCUSE WHEN OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE BY STANDING DOWN ON PATRIOT ACT MURDERS KNOWN TO ME, AND SD HW PATROL CAPT JEFF TALBOT???).
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First, we must have more information before making major judgments.
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TOMMY: TIP FOR MORE INFO: read this blog, interview Bean, and turn off FOX News.
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If there was an assassination program aimed at bin Laden and other terrorist leaders, that is fine and there is precedent. To the degree any form of assassination program was expanded too widely, or involved assassinations in sovereign nations with their own laws on these matters, the wider this gets, the bigger the problems.
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tommy:
NOTICE THIS COCKSUCKING PUSSY is doing the same thing HERSH DID?
He limits CHENEY'S MURDERS TO OVERSEAS, WHEN IN FACT....COUNTERTERRORISM is used to RATIONALIZE and coverup a DOMESTIC ASSASINATION PROGRAM TARGETING WITNESS LIKE DR MARK GORDON who had already taken MINNEAPOLIS FBI'S POLYGRAPH EXAM AT ST. PAUL FED BUILDING (across street from Gordon's apartment).
THE MURDER OF A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE WAS COVERED UP BY A PUNK LOWLIFE NAMED ROBERT SWAN MUELLER, III (Cheney's boy...doncha know?).
JOHNNY SUTTON (recently run out of his US ATTY POSITION AT WEST. DIST. OF TEXAS after Holder offered him a polygraph exam) also benefitted (like SD AG LARRY LONG, MARK BARNETT, DON SRSTKA) for standing down and obstructing justice?
BOB MUELLER AT FBI HQ (poster child for HANNAH AREHNDT'S "BANALITY OF EVIL THESIS") was STANDING DOWN WHILE FOLLOWING his FED FAG BOY PROTOCOL? (See, Leahy's last soft punk grilling of Mueller in 2007?).
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Second, it is inexcusable and very possibly outright illegal for the former vice president, or anyone in any administration, to keep these programs secret from congressional leaders and oversight committees in Congress.
We don’t have monarchs in this country, we have elected officials who operate under the rule of law and take an oath to faithfully execute the laws of the land. No branch of government can unilaterally abrogate the rule of law. No official can unilaterally change the law, or evade the law, or make personal and unilateral decisions about what is legal and what is not, or unilaterally destroy the checks and balances that are essential to the American form of government.
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tommy:
WANT TO BET ABOUT TYRANNY UNDER BOB MUELLER'S FAG BOY PROTOCOL that protected Cheney and others?.
FBI HQ Facilitated CHENEY'S LATER CRIME: MARSHALL LAW EXTORTIONATE SWINDLE OF THE FIRST BAILOUT BILLIONS that went...where?
THE HOUSE RALLIED, but...calls to OBAMA (the future president) showed cause that BARACK IS A PUNK WHO ROLLED OVER, AND TOLD DEM HOLD OUT VOTES to "vote for this swindle" ...and...the hold out Dems...followed OBAMA OVER THE FUCKING CLIFF?
Three KIKE BANKS GOT HALF.
THREE KIKE BANKS GOT HALF.
TALK TO BARNEY 'faggot lying punk' FRANK about that.
AM I AN ANTISEMITE...for accusing the KIKES AND FBI AND CIA AND NEOCONS of murdering 3,000 americans on 9/11 and......also stealing our money?
MUELLER'S THE KEY ON ALL THIS.
MUELLER COST THIS COUNTRY ALOT OF JUSTICE AND ALOT OF MONEY.?
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Dick Cheney has caused big trouble.
Dick Cheney is in big trouble.
This is not about "whether we put this behind us" to win votes on the floor of the House or Senate for unrelated legislation.
This is about the rule of law in the United States of America and whether our highest officials honor their oath and their obligation to faithfully execute the laws of the land.
We can and should keep the CIA out of politics while pursuing the truth, based on the law, to ensure our laws are indeed faithfully executed.
No president, no administration, no vice president, of either party, at any time, is above the law. This core American principle must be upheld at all times, now and forever.
Archived under: The Administration
Lying, overrated, coconspirator to ELECTION THEFT VICTORIES, KARL ROVE (the fatboy clown punk) hates it when his GOP MURDERS ARE EXPOSED?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/rove-dangerous-congress-information/
Rove: It’s ‘dangerous to give Congress information.’
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal revealed that the secret CIA program that Vice President Cheney allegedly ordered hidden from Congressional oversight involved plans to kill or capture al-Qaeda operatives. Last night on Fox News, top Bush adviser Karl Rove refused to comment when asked by host Bill O’Reilly if he knew anything about the program. “I want to limit my comments to what I’ve read in the newspapers and observations,” he said. Rove then appeared to make the argument that executive branch should not inform Congress of what it is doing:
ROVE: Look, it’s interesting. The CIA briefed Congress to this, I guess, in June. And the Congress immediately leaks it. That, itself is, a violation, I think, of several statutes and indicative of why it is so dangerous to give Congress information.
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TOMMY:
So...Pelosi is wrong and PANETTA did not lie recently?
PANETTA said (during the Pelosi Chicanery aka DUMBFUCKERY) that the CIA DOES NOT MISLEAD CONGRESS...and "by the way some of our factual dates may be wrong"???
DID CIA TELL CONGRESS THAT THEY PUT PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS WITHOUT WARRANTS IN THOMAS S BEAN'S HOME? DID THEY SAY THAT THEY ALSO FRIED A COOPERATING MINNEAPOLIS FBI WITNESS (Dr Mark Gordon) with a directed energy weapon to induce a fatal brain tumor or a maiming also known as a brain stroke?
RICH GORDON was murdered with microwave radiation while BOB MUELLER WAS FOLLOWING HIS PROTOCOL?
Then, MINNEAPOLIS FBI found out that DR GORDON (FBI's stalking victim...see, 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT that was obstructed by FBI HQ) WAS being tortured after he passed several polygraph exams that gave SIOUX FALLS FBI AND MINNEAPOLIS FBI all the Brady material...that was not passed to DAVE NELSON IN SIOUX FALLS.
Then, FBI--CIA used MIND CONTROL PROGRAMMING to get local JUDGE PETER GREGORY to join their new and improved CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, when GREGORY WAS FORCED TO COUGH UP HIS JUDICIAL COPY OF THE BOGUS EX PARTE WARRANT APPLICATION sworn to by lying witnesses?
THEN, FBI AND SD US ATTY investigated NELSON AND MAYOR MUNSON when they stole 2.3 million dollars from the city of Sioux Falls (using the old COST OVERRUN ON A PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACT). Money was laundered by Sioux Falls GOP who put the money into HOPE MATCHAN'S JUDICIAL CAMPAIGN AND MAYOR MUNSON'S JUDICIAL CAMPAIGN?
No charges.
Nothing from MART
Rove: It’s ‘dangerous to give Congress information.’
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal revealed that the secret CIA program that Vice President Cheney allegedly ordered hidden from Congressional oversight involved plans to kill or capture al-Qaeda operatives. Last night on Fox News, top Bush adviser Karl Rove refused to comment when asked by host Bill O’Reilly if he knew anything about the program. “I want to limit my comments to what I’ve read in the newspapers and observations,” he said. Rove then appeared to make the argument that executive branch should not inform Congress of what it is doing:
ROVE: Look, it’s interesting. The CIA briefed Congress to this, I guess, in June. And the Congress immediately leaks it. That, itself is, a violation, I think, of several statutes and indicative of why it is so dangerous to give Congress information.
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TOMMY:
So...Pelosi is wrong and PANETTA did not lie recently?
PANETTA said (during the Pelosi Chicanery aka DUMBFUCKERY) that the CIA DOES NOT MISLEAD CONGRESS...and "by the way some of our factual dates may be wrong"???
DID CIA TELL CONGRESS THAT THEY PUT PIN HOLE SPY CAMERAS WITHOUT WARRANTS IN THOMAS S BEAN'S HOME? DID THEY SAY THAT THEY ALSO FRIED A COOPERATING MINNEAPOLIS FBI WITNESS (Dr Mark Gordon) with a directed energy weapon to induce a fatal brain tumor or a maiming also known as a brain stroke?
RICH GORDON was murdered with microwave radiation while BOB MUELLER WAS FOLLOWING HIS PROTOCOL?
Then, MINNEAPOLIS FBI found out that DR GORDON (FBI's stalking victim...see, 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT that was obstructed by FBI HQ) WAS being tortured after he passed several polygraph exams that gave SIOUX FALLS FBI AND MINNEAPOLIS FBI all the Brady material...that was not passed to DAVE NELSON IN SIOUX FALLS.
Then, FBI--CIA used MIND CONTROL PROGRAMMING to get local JUDGE PETER GREGORY to join their new and improved CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, when GREGORY WAS FORCED TO COUGH UP HIS JUDICIAL COPY OF THE BOGUS EX PARTE WARRANT APPLICATION sworn to by lying witnesses?
THEN, FBI AND SD US ATTY investigated NELSON AND MAYOR MUNSON when they stole 2.3 million dollars from the city of Sioux Falls (using the old COST OVERRUN ON A PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACT). Money was laundered by Sioux Falls GOP who put the money into HOPE MATCHAN'S JUDICIAL CAMPAIGN AND MAYOR MUNSON'S JUDICIAL CAMPAIGN?
No charges.
Nothing from MART