[cia-drugs] F.B.I. Agent Testifies Superiors Didn't Pursue Moussaoui Case
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/national/nationalspecial3/21moussaoui.html?_r=1oref=sloginpagewanted=print It looks like Jamie had them all buffaloed. JR March 21, 2006 F.B.I. Agent Testifies Superiors Didn't Pursue Moussaoui Case By NEIL A. LEWIS ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 The F.B.I. agent who arrested and interrogated Zacarias Moussaoui just weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks told a jury on Monday how he had tried repeatedly to get his superiors in Washington to help confirm his certainty that Mr. Moussaoui was involved in an imminent terrorist airline hijacking plot. But, said the agent, Harry Samit, he was regularly thwarted by senior bureau officials whose obstructionism he later described to Justice Department investigators as "criminally negligent" and who were, he believed, motivated principally by a need to protect their careers. Mr. Samit's testimony added a wealth of detail to the notion that officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation played down, ignored and purposely mischaracterized the increasingly dire warnings from field agents in the Minneapolis office that they had a terrorist on their hands in Mr. Moussaoui. "I accused the people in F.B.I. headquarters of criminal negligence" in an interview after Sept. 11, Mr. Samit acknowledged under intense questioning by Edward B. MacMahon Jr., Mr. Moussaoui's chief court-appointed lawyer. Mr. Samit confirmed that he had told Justice Department investigators that the senior agents in Washington "took a calculated risk not to advance the investigation" by refusing to seek search warrants for Mr. Moussaoui's belongings and computer. He testified that he had come to believe that "the wager was a national tragedy." Mr. Samit was a witness for the prosecution, which is trying to have Mr. Moussaoui executed for the deaths that occurred on Sept. 11. In his direct testimony more than a week ago, he bolstered the prosecutors' case by saying that had Mr. Moussaoui answered his questions honestly when he arrested him for immigration violations, it would have set off a chain of inquiries that could have foiled the Sept. 11 plot. But under Mr. MacMahon's questions, Mr. Samit provided much new evidence and testimony suggesting strongly that the more significant factors in the failure to learn of the plot from Mr. Moussaoui involved the decisions of senior F.B.I. officials. Mr. Samit's testimony paralleled the complaints of Coleen Rowley, an agent and lawyer in the Minneapolis office who sent a letter on May 21, 2002, to the bureau director, Robert S. Mueller III, bitterly criticizing the performance of F.B.I. headquarters agents in handling the Moussaoui case. But unlike Ms. Rowley, who has since left the bureau, Mr. Samit remains an agent and tried on Monday to adopt a defensive posture on its behalf. Nonetheless, his testimony provided a vivid condemnation of the bureau, as he was obliged to confirm how he had told investigators of his belief that his superiors had tried to sidestep their responsibilities. Mr. Samit said two senior agents had declined to provide help in obtaining a search warrant, either through a special panel of judges that considers applications for foreign intelligence cases or through a normal application to any federal court for a criminal investigation. As a field agent in Minnesota, he said, he required help and approval from headquarters to continue his investigation. He acknowledged that he had asserted that Michael Maltbie, a supervisor in the bureau's Radical Fundamentalist Unit, had told him that applications for the special intelligence court warrants had proved troublesome for the bureau and that seeking one "was just the kind of thing that would get F.B.I. agents in trouble." ( with Jamie Gorelick?) Mr. Samit wrote that Mr. Maltbie had told him that "he was not about to let that happen to him." During that period, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had complained about improper applications from the bureau. Mr. Samit also acknowledged that he had asserted to investigators that David Frasca, Mr. Maltbie's superior, had similarly blocked him from seeking a search warrant under the more common route, a criminal investigation. Some of the special court's complaints dealt with the idea that law-enforcement officials were sometimes exploiting the lower standard required for warrants in intelligence investigations and then using the information that they obtained in criminal cases. Mr. Frasca, Mr. Samit explained, believed that once the Moussaoui investigation was opened as an intelligence inquiry, it would arouse suspicion that agents had been trying to abuse the intelligence law to get information for a case they now believed was a criminal one. Mr. Samit's comments, which were made to investigators for the Justice Department's inspector general and in a subsequent memorandum to the F.B.I., had not been made
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] — Utah Dirbold Voting Machines have Used-up Memory? — Touc h-Screen Reveals New Problems —
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- Please forward to your lists and blogs, must include link to http://www.blackboxvoting.org Utah testing of the Diebold Touch-Screen reveals New Problems Now would be an excellent time to express your support for Bruce Funk with a letter or email, to demonstrate to county officials that he has the support of the nation. Bruce C. Funk - Clerk/Auditor Fax: (435) 381-5183 95 East Main Castle Dale, Emery County Utah 84513 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emery County Clerk Bruce Funk has been running elections for 23 years. He was quite content with his optical scan system. The state of Utah thought otherwise: On Dec. 27, Funk took delivery on 40 Diebold TSx touch-screen machines, part of a statewide directive. I had concerns about Diebold, says Funk, but I thought, 'If the state is going to mandate it, then I guess they'll assume responsibility if anything goes wrong.' Not so. He soon learned that he will be responsible but the state will decide what election system will count the votes. YOU'RE GOING TO HATE MY GUTS ON ELECTION DAY Funk's concerns escalated when he heard a particularly unusual statement by Diebold sales rep Dana LaTour. Some of you are going to hate my guts on Election Day, she said to the assembly of elections officials. Later, another Diebold representative named Drew was asked what LaTour meant when she said Some of you are going to hate my guts... We're going to have problems on Election Day, and we're just going to have to work through them, he said. FAILURES RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE Shortly after Funk received his brand new TSx machines, Diebold helped him do acceptance testing. Two of the 40 machines promptly failed the test. Diebold arranged to take them away. The remaining machines showed several defects crooked paper feeds that jam, memory card bay doors that wouldn't close, parts getting stuck, coming loose, falling off. TAKING A CLOSER LOOK Funk thought it might be a good idea to take a closer inventory. He booted each machine up to check the battery. Some of the machines were marked with little yellow dots, and he got to wondering about that, too. He studied the screen messages, and noticed something very odd. Most machines had about 25 MB of memory available, but some had only 7 MB of free memory left. One had only 4 MB of available memory. For perspective, the backup election file generated by the Diebold TSx is about 7.9 MB. Now why would brand new voting machines have used-up memory? TIME TO GET A MORE IN DEPTH EVALUATION This prompted Funk to seek an evaluation. He asked Black Box Voting to help him analyze his voting system. After several consultations, Black Box Voting determined that the nature of the problems in Emery County might be systemic and might be national in scope. Therefore, we arranged for and underwrote the services of Harri Hursti and also Security Innovation, Inc. Neither Funk nor Black Box Voting were prepared for the depth and breadth of the problems discovered. Based on these discoveries we will begin with a series of articles followed by concise, but more formal reports. PART I Hursti quickly determined the three most likely causes of the low memory problem: 1. There might be completely different software in the machines with low memory. 2. Some machines might contain different external data 3. Or, some of the machines might have been delivered with natively different amounts of memory available. Hursti approached issue #2 first. If the used memory was due to external data or archived election files stored on the system, he reasoned, removing any such files would clear the memory. He discovered that some of the machines did contain test election data, and he deleted the extra data. This produced only a small improvement in available memory, however. As for issue #1, different programs on the machines - - or, the existence of something stored in memory which is hidden, such a
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Feingold, Kerry The Strategists y Robert Parry
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- Feingold, Kerry The Strategists By Robert Parry Years before Sen. John Kerry fell under the spell of national Democratic "strategists," he believed that a Democrat's best hope for winning the White House was to run as an insurgent. To overcome built-in Republican advantages, Kerry felt a Democrat had to show principle and challenge the status quo. But Kerry had that thinking beat out of him. In the late 1980s, he got pummeled by the mainstream news media and the political establishment for exposing cocaine trafficking by Nicaraguan contra rebels and for embarrassing their Reagan-Bush patrons. Respectable Washington didn't want to believe the ugly reality. Mocked by the big newspapers and branded a "randy conspiracy buff" by Newsweek, Kerry was persuaded by party insiders that his political future required him to trim his sails and dump his rebelliousness overboard. [See Consortiumnews.com's "Kerry's Contra-Cocaine Chapter."]So, by the time he ran for president in 2004, Kerry was silent about his heroic investigations of the 1980s. He presented himself instead as a careful politician who spoke in a fog of nuance. Whenever he seemed poised to crush the bumbling George W. Bush, Kerry retreated into poll-tested platitudes. As it turned out - as the younger Kerry would have understood - the greatest risk was to play it safe. Now, to hear Kerry tell it, he has relearned the lesson that he once knew. He has vowed to fight with clarity and passion. But the tragedy of John Kerry - like "The Natural" in Bernard Malamud's novel (not the movie) - may be that opportunity missed is often a chance lost for good. In life, you often don't get a second act. Except, of course, for Democratic "strategists," who always seem to get a second act, even a third and a fourth, no matter how often they lose. Strategist Bob Shrum, for instance, has been a chronic loser in presidential races but is still sought out by Democratic hopefuls, including John Kerry in 2004. Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/joinClick to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/join And, when they're not applying their cold hands to Democratic campaigns, the strategists can put a chill on any Democrat's principled behavior by whispering in the ears of journalists that a seemingly noble act is reckless, calculated or somehow both.Feingold Undermined That was the case when Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wisconsin, proposed censuring Bush for authorizing warrantless wiretaps of Americans outside the legal channels of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - and thus in violation of the Fourth Amendment's ban on searches and seizures without the government getting a court's approval. While Feingold's proposal could be viewed as a moderate step - expressing congressional disapproval short of impeachment - Washington Post reporter Charles Babington searched out unnamed "Democratic strategists" to make Feingold's plan look both craven and crazy. "Some party strategists," Babington wrote, "worried that voters will see the move as overreaching partisanship."Then, going in the opposite direction, Babington quoted the strategists worrying that the real problem with Feingold's initiative was that challenging Bush on abrogating the Fourth Amendment wasn't the smartest partisan move. "Several Democratic strategists said (illegal) surveillance issues are not Bush's most vulnerable spot, and they fear the party may appear extremist," Babington wrote. The Post reporter then quoted a strategist, identified only as a former aide to President Bill Clinton, as saying, "It is more likely that a big censure fight would have the effect of rallying folks to his (Bush's) side." The Clinton aide added, "While some in the Democratic base want retribution for what happened to Clinton, I think there is a larger reluctance to try to remove people from office."But the Clinton aide's assessment of motivation - that Democrats "want retribution" for the impeachment drive against Clinton - seems to have little evidentiary support. The grassroots pressure for holding Bush accountable has sprung from outrage over his "preemptive" war in Iraq, his lies and his violations of the Constitution. Without the unattributed quote from the Clinton aide, Babington would have been hard-pressed to find citations among grassroots bloggers or other Democratic activists who
[cia-drugs] Pakistan Lobbied (bribed) 9-11 Commission?
Could this possibly have anything to do with the wire transfer to Atta and Col. Moumaahds(sp?) presence in D.C. being scrubbed from the report? ISICIA911? Na! Send to, fax to, news sources if you think it'll help? Pakistan lobbyists in the US to get anti-Pakistan references dropped from the 9/11 inquiry commission report March 16, 2006 Telegraph India Email this article to a friend Print this article Pakistan weekly spills 9/11 beans New Delhi, March 12[2006]: The Pakistan foreign office had paid tens of thousands of dollars to lobbyists in the US to get anti-Pakistan references dropped from the 9/11 inquiry commission report, The Friday Times has claimed. The Pakistani weekly said its story is based on disclosures made by foreign service officials to the Public Accounts Committee at a secret meeting in Islamabad on Tuesday. It claimed that some of the commission members were also bribed to prevent them from including damaging information about Pakistan. The magazine said the PAC grilled officials in the presence of foreign secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan and special secretary Sher Afghan on the money paid to lobbyists. The disclosure sheds doubt on the integrity and honesty of the members of the 9/11 inquiry commission and, above all, the authenticity of the information in their final report, it said. The report quoted an officer as saying that dramatic changes were made in the final draft of the inquiry commission after the lobbyists got to work. The panel was formed to probe the September 11 terror attack and make suggestions to fight terrorism. After the commission tipped the lobbyists about the damaging revelations on Pakistans role in 9/11, they contacted the panel members and asked them to go soft on the country. The Friday Times claimed that a lot of money was used to silence these members. According to the report, the lobbyists also helped Pakistan win the sympathy of 75 US Congressmen as part of its strategy to guard Islamabads interests in Washington. US softened towards Pakistan only because of the efforts of the foreign office, an official was quoted as saying in the report. The Pakistan foreign office defended the decision to hire the lobbyists, saying it was an established practice in the US. An observer at the Islamabad meeting said money could play an important role in buying powerful people. The remark came in response to comments made by some US officials after 9/11 that Pakistanis will sell their mothers for a dollar. Pakistan had emerged as front-runner in the fight against terrorism unleashed by the US after the terror strikes. Washington pumped in billions of dollars to win President Pervez Musharrafs support in launching a crackdown on al Qaida network thriving on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [THS] Canada's Growing Marijuana Problem
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- Pubdate: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 Source: BBC News (UK Web) Copyright: 2006 BBC Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Author: Becky Branford, BBC News Cited: Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy http://www.cfdp.ca Cited: The Canadian Senate report http://www.cannabislink.ca/gov/senatesumm.htm Cited: The LeDain Commission report http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/ledain/ldctoc.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/testing.htm (Drug Test) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?199 (Mandatory Minimum Sentencing) CANADA'S GROWING MARIJUANA PROBLEM Frank proudly surveys the large log cabin he constructed himself, on a two-acre plot of aromatic evergreen forest he now owns. All this, he says, was built on marijuana. Over four years, Frank - not his real name - tended a patch of marijuana plants in a forest clearing about 45 minutes' walk from where his cabin now stands. He regularly pooled his harvests with those of several other growers in the small British Columbia (BC) town in which he lives, to sell wholesale to young men from just across the border in the US state of Idaho. Frank says he made hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars before hurriedly leaving the business when his American buyers were arrested. But tens of thousands of illegal grow-ops remain in Canada. Estimates suggest marijuana may generate up to C$7bn (UKP3.5bn; US$6.1bn) a year in BC, the sunny province thought to be at the heart of the industry. Canada's new Conservative government says people like Frank are a menace to society, putting drugs on the streets and fuelling organised crime - and it has vowed to get tough on them. But critics accuse the government of being wilfully blind to the historic failures of law enforcement, and ignoring public opinion and the findings of expert committees in favour of a policy of demonising marijuana - a policy they liken to the short-lived Prohibition of alcohol in 1920s and 30s America. Vietnam Roots Growing marijuana in BC's thinly populated and rugged interior, Frank was continuing a tradition - of sorts - said to have arrived with some 50,000 young American men seeking to avoid being drafted to fight in the Vietnam war. But over the intervening decades, the industry has changed. Most of today's grow-ops are indoors, using artificial light to produce stronger strains of cannabis. The industry has also grown. The Canadian statistics agency reports that in 2004 there were more than 8,000 cultivation offences recorded - up from 3,400 in 1994. Experts deduce that the true number of grow-ops is much greater, as even large seizures seem to have little effect on the price of marijuana. The federal police reported in 2002 that the cultivation industry had reached levels that could be deemed epidemic in the provinces of BC, Ontario, and Quebec - and they also warn that almost every large-scale operation these days is linked in varying degrees to organised crime. Cannabis is the biggest issue facing law enforcement now, says Inspector Paul Nadeau of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). He says smugglers have access to transport vehicles, planes, helicopters. The sky's the limit. He calls for greater deterrents, pointing out that in BC only about 10% of those convicted of growing marijuana face jail terms (the figure is higher in other provinces), with most offenders getting a fine or suspended sentence. He says judges facing a backlog of cases in the courts have to be given the means to deal with the problem... We are drowning in the numbers. In contrast to the previous Liberal administration, which sought unsuccessfully to reduce penalties for possession, the new Conservative government pledged in its election manifesto to steer Canada off the road to drug legalisation. It said it would ensure mandatory minimum prison sentences and large fines for serious drug offenders, including growers. Consumption Rises But critics of tougher law enforcement insist it is doomed to
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush Cult
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- A CULT OF BUSH WORSHIPPERS HAS COMMANDEERED THE U.S. Posted by Jon Ponder | Mar. 19, 2006, 7:38 amhttp://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/03/19/buzzflash-agrees-a-cult-of-bush-worshippers-has-commandeered-the-us/ In an editorial up this morning headlined,”BuzzFlash Now Officially Declares Bushevism a Cult,” the editors of one of the most widely read liberal websites write: Let’s face it, there are only three segments left to the much-vaunted GOP Base: the corporate profiteers who wouldn’t care if Satan was president, as long as they got their pockets lined with taxpayer funded no-bid contracts; the Stepford Evangelicals; and the Bush cultists… After all, what is a cult? It’s a movement that is comprised of people who believe in a leader contrary to reality and the harm that the person does them. That sounds like people who support Bush alright, except for the corporate profiteers (who will always be hanging around for the money, no matter who is in power.) Last December, I had the same thought. It came to me while watching a glassy-eyed Ken Mehlman, the closeted gay chairman of the Republican Party, reciting GOP talking points on television. He reminded me of glassy-eyed defenders of the Unification Church back in the day when they were called “Moonies” — before they began publishing the rightwing Washington Times newspaper. In Is Bush Worship a Cult, I posted a list of the traits that experts use to define a cult. Here it is again: The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and … regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished. Mind-altering practices … are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s). The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel… The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar - or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity). The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society. The leader is not accountable to any authorities… The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members’ participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group… The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion. Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members. The group is preoccupied with making money. Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities. Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members. The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group. I don’t know about mind-altering practices or the preoccupation with bringing in new members but the rest of it is an uncanny description of the cabal that is running our country. ---End Message---
[cia-drugs] If I may ...
Please send far and wide: TrineDay needs your help. TrineDay stood up with Lt. Col. Daniel Marvin and his book Expendable Elite in Federal District Court in South Carolina. We defending our right to publish and your right to read our own history. The Special Forces Association financed the suit and has said they may continue with their activities to stop this and other books. The trial cost us over $150,000 with still a $90,000 debt owed to our attorneys. But most of all it took all of our resources to defend ourselves over the long protracted time of the suit which curtailed our advertising and printing of books. We have several great books coming out and need to raise money to help defray printing costs. This is something we did when TrineDay began. We have always delivered our books. Please help us by pre-ordering one of or several of our new books and/or any of our current books. We are bring out a new edition of Expendable Elite, Peter Levenda's Sinister Forces, Book 3-The Manson Secret and Wayne Madsen's Jaded Tasks. All books that the mainstream wouldn't publish. Madsen's book had even been stopped at another small press, by the refusal of the "money" person to finance. Please check out our books at: www.trineday.com Thanks, Peace, Kris Millegan Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Bundesbank gold snub to Merkel
merkel is a wall street/city of london finance oligarchy supporter/neocon. the bundesbank is refusing to sell substantial amounts of gold, which usually functions to 'covertly' suppress the price of gold. -vmann The cash-strapped Berlin government has stepped up pressure on the Bundesbank to sell gold, and for the interest on the proceeds to be used to fund research and education projects. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/686ce0a2-b908-11da-b57d-779e2340.html Bundesbank gold snub to MerkelBy Ralph Atkins and Kevin MorrisonPublished: March 21 2006 18:30 | Last updated: March 21 2006 18:31 The Bundesbank, the German central bank, on Tuesday rebuffed the Berlin government by announcing that it had decided against substantial gold sales before at least September. The decision, although widely-expected, marked a fresh assertion of independence by the bank, which has been under pressure to sell by the government of Angela Merkel, chancellor. Gold is an essential part of the currency reserves of the Bundesbank, said Axel Weber, Bundesbank president. Decisions on the manner and size of reserves are taken autonomously. Mr Weber said that the decision related to sales in the current year of its option of 600 tonnes permitted by the Central Bank Gold Agreement, which expires in September 2009. It excluded, however, the sale of up to eight tonnes for the manufacture of gold coins by the government. Mr Weber said no decisions had been taken about possible gold sales in future years. According to the Bundesbanks annual report, it held 3,427.8 tonnes of gold at the end of 2005 with just five tonnes sold for minting coins. The bank is the largest holder of gold among the 15 signatories to the gold agreement. The cash-strapped Berlin government has stepped up pressure on the Bundesbank to sell gold, and for the interest on the proceeds to be used to fund research and education projects. The government has also proposed substantial cuts in Bundesbank staff bonuses in an attempt, some observers believe, to increase its bargaining pressure. John Reade, precious metals strategist at UBS, said it was unclear when the Bundesbank would sell gold under the current pact because the Bundesbank and the German Finance Ministry have yet to agree on how future gold sale proceeds will be distributed. Until they reach an agreement, it is unlikely we will see any gold sales coming out of Germany, said Mr Reade. The impact of Tuesdays announcement by Berlin will have been softened by a strong increase in Bundesbank profits, which will be transferred to the government. The increase reflected higher interest payments and the effects of a weaker euro. The Bundesbanks decision came as no surprise to the gold market with the price of gold falling about $3 to $550.00/$550.90 a troy ounce. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
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[cia-drugs] Dog advocates seek answers for burned pup
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/crime/v-printer/story/5604534p-5036889c.html This is sick. The person who did this is probably the area's next serial killer. As usual, the police were less than helpful. They may be guilty of obstruction of justice by allowing the destruction of evidence by cremating the victim. JR Tacoma, WA - Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Back to Regular Story Page Dog advocates seek answers for burned pup ADAM LYNN; The News TribuneLast updated: March 21st, 2006 01:21 AM (PST)The case of a Federal Way puppy horribly burned with acid has inflamed the passions of animal welfare advocates across the globe and pitted them against the two local law enforcement agencies investigating what happened to Mooie. The 4-month-old pit bull was euphemized March 10 after being taken to an Auburn veterinary hospital with chemical burns over most of its body. Officials with Sultan-based Pasados Safe Haven, a private nonprofit animal rescue shelter, are convinced the dog was doused with acid intentionally and have accused the Federal Way Police Department and King County Animal Services of bungling the investigation a charge representatives from both agencies vehemently deny. It appears theyre not really doing anything, Pasado representative Larry Brothers said Monday. Officials from both agencies said they cant prove someone intentionally hurt the dog, not yet anyway, and its possible the dog got into the acid on its own. Al Dams, assistant manager for King County Animal Services, said he hopes a witness comes forward with information that can help his officers determine the truth. Dams said he also resents the attacks directed at his organization by Pasado and its supporters. Animal cruelty gets us more fired up than anything, he said. Felony animal cruelty is the highest offense we investigate, and we take it very seriously. Unsatisfied Pasado officials have launched a campaign to bombard both agencies and Puget Sound-area media outlets with letters and e-mails demanding action. The News Tribune alone has received several dozen e-mails from outraged dog lovers, some from as far away as Texas and Iowa, and Pasados Safe Haven has been contacted by people from Europe and Paraguay. In addition, private contributors have kicked in $5,000 in recent days to increase a reward for information offered by Pasado from $10,000 to $15,000, Brothers said. This is a particularly heinous case because of the way this little puppy suffered, he said. A passer-by found the dog in the yard of a house in the vicinity of the 28900 28th Place South. Mooie belonged to someone who lives down the street. Federal Way police spokeswoman Stacey Flores said Mooies owner didnt know the dog which had been Valentines Day present was missing until later contacted by authorities. The passer-by who found Mooie took the dog to the animal hospital in Auburn, where the pit bull was humanely killed after a veterinarian determined it could not be saved. Federal Way police were called but passed the case onto King County Animal Services, Flores said. Theyre the experts in such cases, Flores said. We dont have anyone who saw what happened. Right now, theres no one to investigate. Were left with nothing. Contacted by the animal hospital, Pasado launched its own investigation which included fishing through private trash cans and concluded the official query was lacking, Brothers said. Pasado investigators contend authorities cremated the dogs carcass before performing a necropsy on it and have been slow to obtain a warrant to search what animal welfare advocates believe to be the home of a potential suspect. A necropsy an autopsy on an animal could have provided significant clues to what kind of substance burned the dog, Brothers said. That information then could be used to identify a possible suspect, he said. Dams said his agency is conducting a thorough investigation and that a sergeant and another officer are assigned to the case. Investigators have pictures of Mooies body, her collar which was exposed to the acid and statements from those involved in the case, Dams said. We didnt need a necropsy. We know how she died. She was euthanized, he said. We have plenty of evidence. What we need now is for a witness to come forward and tell us what they saw. Or we need a suspect to come forward and confess. Call with tips Anyone with information on what
