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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector-Is James Bamford Real?
by DCDave Carol Valentine's deduction that James Bamford is a false secret-government critic, I'm afraid, rings all too true. See http://www.public-action.com/911/northwds.html. Let me relate my brief experience with the man. A few years ago the Fund for Constitutional Government organized a panel discussion in a large room of the Capitol Building of a book whose late author they had partially funded. The book was "Secrets, the CIA's War at Home," by the deceased Angus MacKenzie and David Weir, who finished it up for him. On the panel were Bob Woodward of Watergate fame; Scott Armstrong, his co-author of "The Brethren" and founder of The National Security Archive; Tim Weiner, who writes on spook matters for The New York Times, and Bill Clinton's first National Security Adviser, Anthony Lake. I would estimate that 100 or so people were in attendance, virtually all of whom were spooks and/or "journalists." I had been given a heads-up about the program by its organizer and my friend at the Fund, Ernest Fitzgerald. (The days when regular citizens like me can just show up at a gathering in the Capitol Building, alas, appear to be long gone.) I was told later that when they opened the floor for questions, the first person recognized was the stooge standing next to me in the back of the room. I conveniently thought they were recognizing me and beat the stooge to the punch with my question. I asked Woodward why his Washington Post had never written anything about the unsolved murder of the young female security guard at the super secret National Reconnaissance Office complex shortly before the purpose of the new buildings was revealed. I'm sure the panel was made uncomfortable by the question, and Woodward looked more pained than usual. He pleaded ignorance and asked me to fill him in after the meeting. I did so, giving him by mail later the clipping that is excerpted as the "Tina Ricca Story" at http://www.thepacc.org/Tina.html .
I asked Woodward to alert me when The Post did its own story, but I'm still waiting. Interestingly, of the large number of writers and journalists present, the only one to approach me afterward and ask for more details was James Bamford. To my knowledge, he never wrote anything about the murder and apparent cover-up either. Now that I see what kind of person Bamford likely is, I think it's a very good thing for me that the only information I had about the Ricca case was already out in the public arena. It's pretty clear to me now that the role of these "investigative reporters" is not that of a watchdog on government corruption but that of a bird dog on the citizenry, pointing out to the corrupt authorities the ones they might have a problem with. After all, suppose I had some private information that pointed to, say, the CIA as the culprits. Who would I go to, the FBI, the local cops? Valentine speculates that convicted FBI agent Robert Hanssen might have gone to rotten FBI higher-ups with advance warning of 9-11. Maybe it was Bamford he went to, and that was his big mistake. The odd cozy relationship they had reminds me of the cozy relationship between the Washington Post's CIA-beat reporter, Walter Pincus, and the late Vincent Foster. Pincus' revelations about Foster, as I point out in part 1 of my "America's Dreyfus Affair, the Case of the Death of Vincent Foster," represented "the first instance of anyone publicly saying that he noticed any behavior in Foster that one might describe as, at most, agitated." As such, it played a very large role in planting in the public mind the notion that Foster had been "depressed" enough to commit suicide. These are the kinds of friends our journalists make these days.
David Martin
THE GREAT SPECKLED BIRDhttp://www.thebird.org/host/dcdave/article4/020520.html
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Operation Northwoods: The Counterfeit
http://www.public-action.com/911/northwds.html
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The great bulk of this 700+ page book focuses on the National Security Agency (NSA) itself, of course, and the information about Operation Northwoods is only a very small part of it. The reader needs to know that while the publisher’s hype portrays Body of Secrets as an exposé of the NSA, in fact the book was written with the full cooperation of the NSA — and they make no secret of it. On the “About the Author” page of the Random House website for this book, it states openly:
“...the NSA cooperated with Bamford. ...the director of the NSA, Lt. Gen Michael V. Hayden ... granted Bamford unprecedented access to Crypto City (the NSA campus in Ft. Meade, MD), senior NSA officials, and thousands of NSA documents while he researched Body of Secrets. The NSA even hosted a book signing for Bamford on the grounds of Crypto City. It lasted more than four hours as hundreds of NSA employees lined up to have their copies of Body of Secrets autographed.” http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/author.html
That should send a major warning signal to any reader who is actually interested in the truth, and nothing but the truth. You know there has to be a great deal of pro-government, pro-military, pro-NSA disinformation and propaganda in the book, artfully woven together with the truthful information.
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/9-11/BodyOfSecrets.html
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