since posting a critique of the video "911 in plane site", from dave von kleist and joyce riley of 'powerhour', to my site (questionsquestions.net), i've been informed by a few people about a controversy over their role in gulf war vets' issues and gulf war illness. they have been facing accusations of being disinfo agents for some time, and the evidence seems pretty strong. the main person pursuing this is a lawyer named linda kennedy, who actually used to be a personal assistant to riley and von kleist, but then came out with an exposé earlier this year after splitting with them and making some ugly discoveries. it looks like the two have connections to FBI, possibly MI, and an openly admitted connection to the southern poverty law center, which has well known connections to ADL and FBI. they have also been denounced by peter kawaja who accuses them of hijacking and covering up the gulf war illness info that he originally discovered. riley's background is particularly suspect. but this is not an area that i'm well informed on, so if anyone has been following this and knows the background, i'd welcome additional info & opinions. if kennedy's allegations hold up, it would seem to reveal some reasons why riley and von kleist whipped up their bogus 911 video to try and hijack a new issue...
-brian
a summary from linda kennedy, april 2004:
http://hometown.aol.com/wbflegal/jdPK-JRconnection.html
these are links to linda kennedy's info & evidence:
http://www.wbflegalreform.com/
http://hometown.aol.com/wbflegal/DaveJoycewebsitepage14.html
http://hometown.aol.com/wbflegal/JoyceDave2page14.html
http://hometown.aol.com/wbflegal/DaveandJoyce3page14.html
an interview with linda kennedy
http://www.sweetliberty.org/audio/meta/051004.ram
peter kawaja info
http://www.dswcc.com/HPK/final_post.htm
www.agwva.org
http://www.copi.com/articles/strmcrim.html
this is kennedy's personal account of her months-long stay living and working with the von kleists, for those with a morbid curiosity and some time to kill...
http://hometown.aol.com/wbflegal/jdpage1.html
http://hometown.aol.com/wbflegal/jdpage2.html
http://hometown.aol.com/wbflegal/jdpage3.html
quoted from first link above:
When Dessert Storm finally started (invasion of Kuwaitby “coalition forces), in 1/91, another silent raid was also occurring. While we were busy watching the war on CNN, Kawajawas being raided by federal agents, by gun point. All the evidence at his home was confiscatedand sealed under the War Powers Act. Fortunately, Kawaja had enough evidence elsewhere to still hold thegovernment accountable for war crimes, if someone would listen (of course the courts would not).
Not satisfied that they confiscated all Kawaja’s evidence, the government triedfooling Kawaja into thinking they were going to prosecute Barbouti. They would hold phony grand jury proceedings,with Kawaja as their “star witness,” further trying to get Kawaja’s remain ingevidence. They still could not getit. By about 1994, Kawaja was still seton holding these criminals accountable for their actions against the Americanpeople and our Veterans. He filed alawsuit against the government trying to expose these atrocities, which of course the governmentwanted to get dismissed quickly and quietly (page two). The Department of Defense also started itsown suit in Kawaja’s name to try to stop this evidence from getting to Americans, and attempted to control the “prosecution”to make sure this case was never actually heard. In March of 1995, the government claimed thatthe litigation that Kawaja brought against it was improper claiming that, Kawaja "apparently wants to direct the course of the criminal investigation. Rather, the AUSA and agents should bepermitted to continue their investigation into these important matters, withoutthe constraint of pressure of this litigation. . .” in spite of theiractually being no real ongoing investigation (documented elsewhere).
By now, theGulf War Illness was breaking, with many sick and dying Vets suffering, and withthe government denying there was such a thing as a Gulf War Illness. Of course, this is with the U.S. Government being fully aware that they caused the illness to occur through their actionsand foreknowledge. In addition to goingthrough these governmental abuses, Kawaja also suffered through his wife beingkilled, his house being burned down, and the IRS coming after him to make surehe would never have any money to pursue any further action against them. Finally, he had been pursuing the “hardfiles” which were the 400,000-700,000 missing files of sick gulf warveterans. When the Murrah building wentdown, so did the files, which were housed there. Of course, the government could not get ridof that building fast enough, nor could it put McVeigh, the government patsy,to death quickly enough. Case closed.
The government also gave Kawaja another very important warning: If Kawaja continued to bring forth this litigation and exposure, the government would bring forth “credible witnesses”who would discredit and neutralize him. And from the dust of the Murrah building, enter Joyce Riley and Dr. Garth Nicholson . . .
In summary, Joyce Riley claims that she was in the military in the 1970’s and then was out of the military by time Gulf War I was about to start in 1991. She claims she wanted to be a part of helping veterans so she reenlisted, but when she did, Gulf War I had already ended. So she spent a few months doing evacuation missions in the states (noting the Persian Gulf), and then her work was completed. But then she claims she got very sick and did not know why. She claims at different times that she either started researching Gulf War Illness immediately, or that she did not research it until 1995 for several hours, and there are some other stories in between these two extremes. She claims that an informant contacted her (why would an informant contact some nurse?), and told her about a lady named Linda Thompson who then put her in touch with Peter Kawaja. In July 1995, Joyce tells Kawaja on a love-tape recording that she had no idea about any of this until she met him in June of 1995, but somehow, she had the Government-issued Reigal Report under her arm and Dr. Garth Nicholson in her back pocket before she interviewed Kawaja in June. In regard to her alleged illness, she also claims that she went from doctor to doctor and could not find a cure. And Riley’s Dr. Nicholson states that there is no cure for Gulf War Illness, but somehow, in spite of this, Riley claims to have been healed (there are also reports in papers where she said she was not healed). She tells some that she was healed using doxycylcine, she tells some that it was ozone therapy that cured her, and yet, she tells others (like me), that nothing worked so she cried out to God and then was miraculous healed one night by God. There is more to this ozone issue addressed later.
Riley lived in Houston, Texas, where the Barbouti headquarters was located, and of course in the same state of Texas, as George Bush Sr., where Riley boasts of her inside connections to George and the family, hanging framed letters from George and from Barbara on her wall even as late as this year (2004).
